Chapter VI The Beginning of the War
Unlike the treasure houses of ordinary noble families, the warehouse of the Seven Gods Church is as literally a real warehouse. .
In the huge square underground space, there are many steel containers densely placed. Simple wooden shelves divide different kinds of things, just like the most ordinary port warehouse.
The leader of the church knight activated the magic array, and suddenly the light of white pyroxene lit up in the dark warehouse. Pyroxene is an extremely common translucent crystal on the Mycrov continent. It seems ordinary, but as long as a slight energy is injected, it can emit extremely bright cold light, so it is commonly used by all races as a lighting tool. Because it is really very common, even the poor people's homes occasionally have one or two irregular pyroxene, which is placed under the sun on weekdays to accumulate energy, and can be used as a light when taken out in the middle of the night.
The pyroxene used by the church to build underground fortresses is naturally not the ordinary product. The white light that illuminates the warehouse is bright and not dazzling, because there are some holy runes flashing around it, which highlights a sacred smell.
Since before that, Joshua had already said that he was going to Area 3, the knight who led the way did not stop and walked along the way, and the soldiers also glanced around at will.
On the way, the middle-aged knight suddenly spoke, "My Lord Earl, although it is a bit rude, I have to admit that there are indeed some people in our church that have caused you trouble."
Wearing a semi-closed helmet, the knight's voice was muffled and even brought a hint of echo in the closed warehouse. However, Joshua could hear it. The other party's tone was very sincere. He couldn't help but turn his head and asked curiously: "What trouble? The hospitality of the Seven Gods Church has always been worthy of praise, and I think it feels good here."
This sentence is a big truth. Although the priests in the church are occasionally a little unkind or act strangely because of their doctrine, they can definitely be called good people. If they are not kind and upright people in the general sense, they will never be able to understand the power of the holy light and the lives of such a group of good people, they will not be bad.
Hearing the warrior's words, the church knight's waist was a little bit unfaithful, but then he shook his head and said embarrassedly: "It's not in this regard... Lord Earl, there are things about rumors."
"Leave a message?" Joshua raised his brow and waited for the other party to answer.
"It's so. Recently, some rumors about you have appeared in the circle of middle-class priests." When the middle-aged knight said this, he paused for a moment, as if he was sorting out his language. Soon after, he said in a deep voice: "Many people have begun to declare that you came to the Holy Mountain simply to satisfy your bloodthirsty*."
"Wait." Joshua blinked, and he frowned and said, "What did you say?"
"I'm sorry! However, many people believe that if it weren't for this reason, no matter how big the interests are, it would be impossible for an imperial noble to risk his death and cross the entire continent to come to the Holy Mountain, the battlefield at the forefront of the dragon disaster."
When he said this, the knight stopped. He turned his head and bowed deeply to Joshua: "It is our dereliction of duty to let this message appear and spread, and I am very sorry!"
"Ah...well." The warrior didn't know what to say, and his face looked strange: "Okay, although I'm a little unhappy, they didn't..."
And at this moment, the middle-aged knight suddenly straightened his back and said seriously: "But I know that they are talking nonsense!"
When he said this, the knight clenched his right fist and stood on his chest, as if he was really angry about it. He said in a low and clear voice: "My lord, although you really look like a real evil man, you are actually extremely kind when you get along with each other, without the aristocratic aura, and your every move is in line with the way of the Holy Light."
Joshua: "No, please stop."
"There is no doubt that you are a person who is truly out of the low-level interest! He is a noble person!" Although the expression was not clear because of the helmet, the middle-aged knight was undoubtedly very excited. He shouted: "You must have left your hometown for the sake of the innocent people in the south and came to the holy mountain to block the mad dragon. Those who spread rumors did not understand this and slandered you wantonly..."
Next, Joshua didn't listen. Occasionally, there were one or two words such as "faith the Holy Light", "just model", and "a role model for nobles and lords" floating over. He pretended that he didn't hear it. After the middle-aged knight calmed down a little, the warrior slowly spoke: "Put all these aside... Take me to Area No. 3 first."
"yes!"
Hearing Joshua's instructions, the knight who had become a warrior admirer immediately began to lead the way without saying a word.
These people...
Walking on the path of the warehouse, Joshua couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Recently, he has indeed been helping the Seven Gods Church resist the Crazy Dragon. According to his bloody fighting techniques and negative charm, it is not surprising that such comments appear. Although believers of the Holy Light will not lie, their speculation is indeed well-founded. Joshua did not keep such comments that would disappear in a few days.
What really surprised the warrior was this middle-aged Paladin. He had admirers of his charm, which was incredible!
This is because Joshua himself is a bit self-deprecating. In the eyes of many knights in the church, an extremely Yi warrior under 30 years old can be called a genius among geniuses. Even the most proud person has to admit that this strength is enough to make most people feel inferior. However, this kind of genius, a real aristocrat of the Northern Empire and a legendary strongman who is destined to be, is willing to leave his territory and come to the Holy Mountain to help the church and help the entire far south to resist the mad dragon.
If this spirit is not noble, then no spirit can be considered noble. As the middle-aged knight said, this is the way of holy light.
As they thought about it, the two of them came to Area 3.
Most of the warehouse areas of the fortress are connected, and Area 3 is located in the area close to the center, and most of them are alchemy and divine creations developed by the Seven Gods Church.
The protection measures here are obviously much better than the food and ordinary weapons on the periphery. Although they are still steel giant cabinets and wooden frames, they are engraved with divine magic arrays that remove dust, waterproof and isolate elemental erosion. Runes flash, and there is a crystal-like translucent energy on the outer layer of the steel cabinet. Looming under the light of the pyroxene lamp.
The middle-aged knight was originally responsible for managing the warehouse and knew very well about the items in it. He slowed down and introduced the treasures stored in each cabinet to the warriors.
Located on the right side of Joshua is the energy core of twenty silver peak-level divine art puppets. The divine art puppets of the Seven Gods Church have always been more than the components of the Eastern Plains Masters, and are more than one step higher than similar puppets in the hands of other forces. At least the northern empire cannot mass-produce combat puppets of the same level on a large scale. The cores of these puppets are each priced over 8,000 far south gold coins, which is enough to buy a small manor in the border suburbs.
You should know that if ordinary silver-level warriors did not risk their lives to hunt monsters, they would only earn two or three hundred gold coins in a year of hard work in the city guards. This set of puppets is worth a total of 160,000 gold coins, which is enough to arm one or two thousand soldiers to their teeth.
However, Qiao Xiuya didn't care much. Not to mention that his territory already has the existence of a rune factory. With the help of Miss No. 3, sooner or later, he will also produce magic puppets. The strength of this peak silver is more embarrassing. The warriors are not short of the main combat power of the army now. What he lacks is a golden-level castle-pressing figure.
Because the four leaders of the entire northern land are close to the Black Forest of the Ice Field and accumulated over the years of combat, there are hundreds of silver knights. If the city guards and militias in each village are included, basically there are thousands of silver-level people in each territory. This is because the northern territory has a small population and insufficient resources, and there are many casualties under the dark tide.
There is too much silver, but there is no gold. It will probably take at least seven or eight years for the elites of the Winter Castle Academy to grow up. At that time, the warriors are all looking around, let alone the Dragon Knights. Even if it is a quick success, the time for the dragon to mature is enough for Joshu Adam Grandpa.
It was obvious that the warriors were not interested in this, so the church knight turned his head and introduced other alchemy products to Joshua.
The technical reserves of the Seven Gods Church are not inferior to any large force. Even the group of mages who are above the top in the eastern plains may not be able to surpass it everywhere. In fact, the church's alchemy level is firmly at the fortress in the world. They can even build water fortresses in the deep sea, and use divine magic to drive the fortress to explore under the sea and hunt marine giant beasts.
Unfortunately, the alchemy style of the church is far from that of the Eastern wizards. Most of their creations are giant war machines, which are extremely large and require the joint efforts of many clergy to drive them. Guantian Baita did develop and construct a war statue, but the overall style is miniaturized and popularized.
Therefore, Joshua's introduction to the church knights was not that those things were bad, but that they were not suitable. Whether it was the "elemental crystal resonance core" that could activate elements within dozens of kilometers and make people more likely to perceive magic, or the "clean ring" that could rely on sunlight and free energy to purify the environment within hundreds of kilometers is a real good thing, but these creatures are too huge, so huge that their core is more than ten meters high. The church needs to send hundreds of professional personnel to locally make parts, and then spend more than half a year assemble them.
The church knights seemed to know that these things were not reliable, so after a brief introduction, they didn't say much, and the warrior patiently glanced around.
Luckily, Joshua found something he was very interested in a few minutes.
"Floating ring..." Looking at the magical creation cast of steel and crystal in front of you, which showed a sense of science fiction, Joshua turned his head and looked at the middle-aged knight: "What are you making this kind of thing for?"
"This?" The church knight looked up and looked at the huge circle that occupied a large area of warehouse space and was more than ten meters long. Then he thought for a while: "It should be an auxiliary accessories placed on the giant steel golem. Most divine puppets do not have the ability to fly, and this is even more so for large puppets, so some people in the church want to create some flying puppets."
"What's the result?"
"It is better to engrave several floating arrays on the puppets than loading accessories, and save materials more... Of course, this floating ring actually has the ability to allow users to fly freely, which is too big and waste materials."
The church knight looked at Joshua strangely, and he kindly reminded: "Sir, you are a strong man of extreme intentions and you don't need this thing to fly. Even if you want a flying car, I would recommend you to inscribe the floating magic circle instead of using this... Its power is too great, enough to make your house fly. It is really useless to fly in carriages."
Joshua naturally knew that what the other party said was right. This floating ring was indeed something that was tasteless and a pity to discard. Ordinary carriages and even chariots and cannons could not use such a big thing. The floating fortress or warship itself had inscribed magic circles and did not require plug-ins.
But... there is a sea dragon in his family that cannot fly!
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help feeling depressed.
A domineering dragon as a mount in the air, but for any man, he tried his best to make Hei awaken his bloodline not to cultivate her into the current turret, but he knew that Hei's bloodline was a sea dragon. Although he had wings, he could not fly!
This time in the Abyss of Anos, Black performed very well in resisting sea beasts and detecting ocean currents, but not being able to fly is a real flaw. The reason why dragons are powerful is because they can pour dragon breath and magic condescendingly. For example, if it weren't for protecting the Chaos Rune, Mandagar could drag Joshuya to death by flying a kite alone.
The black dragon breath is terrifying. If you are not prepared, even Joshua doesn't want to take it head-on. The only disadvantage is that you can't fly.
But now, with this thing, Black might be able to fly?
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but write a note in his heart, and he included it on his list of alternatives.
And at this moment, a violent shaking came from the warrior's feet.
"What's going on?" The church knight next to him immediately showed a look of surprise and doubt. He looked up at the shaking pyroxene lamp above his head: "Earthquake?"
"No." Joshua shook his head, his expression calm, as if he had expected it: "It seems that it was ahead of time just as Pope Eagle guessed."
“What was ahead of time?”
"Observation." Replying faintly, Joshua turned his head and walked towards the exit of the warehouse: "The general attack of the Five Colored Dragon Clan is about to begin."
Accompanied by the sound of alarm, the two walked out of the warehouse and walked quickly towards the exit of the underground fortress along the solid stone passage. Many priests walked with them to the surface, and many pure clergy with no combat power stayed in the fortress with calm expressions, waiting for the next instructions. This was a step that had been practiced dozens of times long ago.
The underground fortress has been specially reinforced by the magic runes. As long as the holy mountain does not collapse, it will be impossible to collapse. Even an earthquake cannot destroy the structure of the fortress.
Joshua left the underground fortress and walked out of the temple which was the entrance and exit.
He looked up at the sky and the sea.
The clouds gathered, the wind swept, and huge waves followed one after another. The communication line between the sea and the sky was shrouded in darkness, and lightning spread across the sky, causing thunder.
Everything was not beyond his expectations.
The Star Falls on August 26, 833, a stormy night.
Chapter completed!