Chapter 136, Golden Magic Array Base and Active Dryad Soul

Knight Crow climbed over from the shooting hole on the top of the arrow tower.

This time, he did not hide his movements, so the sound of his clothes scraping against the edge of the building and his feet landing heavily on the wooden floor of the attic immediately attracted the attention of the guards on guard in the arrow tower.

This guard is not the one Kiel saw last night. Of course, it is impossible to keep watch at night and then during the day. It is a terrible labor. When Knight Crow came in, the guard happened to be holding a wheat cake rolled in meat and put it into his mouth to chew.

When he saw someone suddenly appear and come in from the outside, he didn't react. He looked at the open observation window behind him in confusion, with a look of wonder on his face. This was the top of an arrow tower tens of meters high. In front of him was How on earth did this person appear?

Can it fly?

The guard had such doubts, and was immediately knocked unconscious by a punch from Knight Crow who rushed in front of him. He couldn't even send out a warning message before falling to the ground.

"Overestimating them."

Knight Crow shook his head, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with the carelessness of these guards. After all, I haven't seen anything before, so I naturally won't be wary of people like him.

If there were local knight lords to manage it, the results would definitely be different.

After all, most knights are very aware of how superior their abilities are to ordinary people. As knights, they can do many things that ordinary people find unbelievable.

Such as now.

After Knight Crow defeated the careless guard, he quickly walked to the stairs in the room without dealing with the magic ballista beside him, and walked down quickly.

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In the arrow tower on the lower floor, three guards who had just taken turns chatting and eating together.

In the past two years, because the harpies no longer asked for trouble to attack Monster Wind Town, the defensive work of the arrow tower, which had been very dangerous before, has turned into the favorite lazy and leisure work of the guards.

Although Arrow Tower is a bit boring and lonely here, the duty work will be rotated anyway. What's wrong with chatting and laughing here all day long and getting more wages?

Moreover, it is easier to defend the magic ballista arrow tower than the other three arrow towers.

Because many parts of the magic ballista are integrated into the ballista body, it is easy to maintain. You can even just wipe it with a dry cloth.

At most, it is enough to apply some animal oil to the base rotating mechanism every day, wipe it, and test the operation.

The energy supply parts of the ballista do not need to be replaced for a year. When replacing them, you only need to ensure that the magic energy supply parts that supply energy are not lost when the Chamber of Commerce comes.

Therefore, this job is easy, pays well, and does not involve any danger. The guards really like it.

Therefore, when Knight Crow walked down the stairs quickly, the three guards on this floor did not have any vigilance and were still eating, drinking and laughing.

"snort."

Knight Crow snorted coldly, feeling angry and helpless at the laziness of these guards.

When he emerged from the spiral staircase, his whole body started to move faster.

The three guards in the room did not see the figure of Knight Crow at all, and were punched three times in an instant by Knight Crow who rushed in at high speed, hitting the three guards on the forehead with appropriate force.

Bang bang bang.

Because of the speed, it looked as if Knight Crow had punched with both his left and right hands in an instant, and then added an extra hand to knock down a guard.

The three guards simply rolled their eyes and fell backwards to the ground, fainting.

Knight Crow didn't need to kill anyone. He just had to knock these people unconscious and make sure that after they woke up from the coma, they would also lose the memory of the moment before they fell unconscious due to the heavy blow.

However, the weight of this amnesia is difficult to grasp, and sometimes it is more. It is also very possible that these guards may lose their memories of the last few days after waking up.

But this has nothing to do with Knight Crow. Anyway, he is in the army now and has never been to this arrow tower. This is the answer to anyone who asks.

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In an instant, he punched down three more lax arrow tower guards. Knight Crow ignored the others and directly took out the contents of the backpack behind him.

It was a large bundle of strong rope, and a piece of netting that Kiel had bought at Nanguanguan.

This net is very strong. It is said that it is the net used by hunters in the central province to hunt monsters in swamp rivers. He had tried it himself and had to work very hard to break the ropes that made up the net.

After taking out the things and placing them on the ground, Knight Crow came to the middle of the room located on the lower floor of the magic ballista.

There is a huge stone pillar connected to the upper floor. The energy supply for the magic ballista above comes from the magic light-emitting mechanism in the center of the pillar.

Behind the metal railing, which is more than one meter high and suitable for human beings to open and close, is a gold square plate inlaid on the surface of the stone pillar.

Gold and silver are common magic transmission media, and these precious metals are easy to shape. As far as Knight Crow knows, most of them are cheap. Yes, the magic array substrate made of gold is one of the cheapest. .

The second is silver, and because the silver magic array substrate is twice lighter than gold, it is more widely used.

It's just that in the magic array substrate where a large amount of magic power flows fixedly, more gold is used because the magic power of gold circulates better.

On this golden magic array substrate connected to the magic pipeline inside the stone pillar, dozens of magic gems are three-dimensionally inlaid according to the complicated magic array on the surface of the substrate.

The source of magic power for the entire weapon system is these dozens of gems that store magic power.

These gems were shining brightly, and it was obvious that the Kendall people came at the right time. In the early spring, the Chamber of Commerce in Strange Wind Town raised money to fully charge the magic power in these magic gems. What is left to Knight Crow now is a magic ballista filled with magic power.

During last night's investigation, Knight Crow was confident after seeing this.

Now, the only thing standing in front of Knight Crow was a set of metal railings.

Tapping the metal railing with his index finger, Knight Crow raised his eyebrows.

when--

Not an ordinary steel railing.

"Sure enough, it's not that easy." He shook his head, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and slammed the blade on the metal railing. Green sparks emitted from the place where the metal met.

"The railings with magic materials, let me tell you, it won't be that easy."

Although Knight Crow couldn't identify what kind of magic material was added, he could see that it was not easy to destroy the metal railing.

Especially since there is no metal hammer on hand to use as a violent demolition tool.

But he looked at the stone pillars that fixed the metal railings, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

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Soon, he carefully placed a heavy and sturdy metal railing with padlocks made of magic material against the wall.

If I can't do anything about the metal railing, why can't I do anything about the stone pillars next to the railing?

This is where magical abilities exceed the expectations of those who designed the device to protect the magical power supply.

If you are a powerful noble, you will most likely choose to use magic-resistant stone to build a safe house or shelter. Your valuables will be placed in a metal safe made of all magic materials. Even this metal safe must be made of metal. Pour it on the building structure to ensure that it will not be taken away entirely.

Similar to the security protection in front of Knight Crow, it is enough to protect against people with ordinary means. If Knight Rumi comes to take action, Knight Rumi will probably have no other choice but to compete with the magic material metal lock.

But that would waste too much time.

And he directly used the transformed life energy of the elements to control the stone pillars around the magical metal railings to move away, and everything became easily accessible.

"Haha." He had to smile and shake his head. I really don't know what the expressions of the people who came to check later would be when they saw that the metal railings were intact and the locks were intact, but the golden magic array base behind them disappeared. .

He must be suspecting that there is a traitor inside, because if there are no signs of damage, it can only mean that he most likely used the key adapted to the magic material lock to open the place.

The valuables inside were easily removed.

"The locals must be suspicious, right?"

With a chuckle, Knight Crow used his dagger to pry on the golden magic array base plate, and quickly removed the vertical energy supply base plate.

He reached out to grab it and carefully put it into the sturdy backpack he was carrying behind him.

You have to be careful, this thing doesn't look big, only 30 centimeters wide, 20 centimeters high, and 5 centimeters thick. But excluding the magic gems inlaid on it, as well as the magic materials of other magic circles formed by internal connections, the entire weight is It weighs fifty kilograms.

Ordinary leather bags could not hold such a heavy and small thing, so he specially asked the army blacksmith to make a double-layered cowhide leather backpack overnight.

After the things were installed, Knight Crow picked up the metal railing weighing hundreds of kilograms of magic material, pressed the thing back into place, and then urged the surrounding stones to move back to their original positions.

Knight Crow took two steps back and took a look, then stepped forward and made slight adjustments to ensure that it was exactly the same as before he came.

"Very good, all that's left is the magic ballista itself."

After exhaling, Knight Crow carefully checked the three unconscious guards lying on the ground to ensure that they would not wake up for most of the day, then turned and walked up the stairs.

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Kil rolled over and got through the small wooden window. Instead of landing on the water board in the patio below, he stuck himself on the wooden window and took out the water-crossing head two-handed ax from the bag behind him.

"Come on, get ready to chop hard!"

Kil chuckled and said to the axe.

The ax shook, seeming to be quite expectant.

But then Kil swung the heavy ax with one hand, slashing horizontally across the surface of the thick vines next to the wooden window.

ax:?

What if I was promised to make big cuts? Is this what you were doing?

At this time, not to mention the axe, even the souls of the many monsters detained in the ax withered. Only the soul of the tree spirit, which had been inactive before, was greatly inspired, and its branches spread its teeth and danced wildly, cheering up the master Kil.

The sap in the huge vine stuck to the axe, and the energy inside was absorbed by the tree spirit in the axe. Then the sap quickly turned into dry ashes and fell down.

Kil didn't pay attention to this. He swung the ax several times in succession, not only cutting gaps for climbing on the giant vines next to the wooden window, but also cutting off the spikes of the vines blocking the way. Also cut off the giant, weird flowers that blocked the view and let them fall to the water on the patio below.

At this time, as Kil was about to climb up the giant vine, he noticed that the mucus on the surface of the ax would quickly turn into fly ash, apparently absorbing the power.

He held the ax in front of his eyes and observed carefully, and found that the other Warcraft monsters looked listless. Only the ax itself was bursting with blue light, and a tree spirit inside was constantly changing its appearance.

He looked as if he was thirsty after a long drought.

"So, you still have this ability?"

The first thing that came to Kil's mind was not the appearance of this tree elf soul, but a guardian tree deep in the forest north of Doral Forest Village that originally guarded the ancient ruins of the elf, but has survived to this day.

Ms. Apolifina called the giant tree the Guardian Tree, but Kil felt that it was more appropriate to call it the Ancient War Tree.

He also remembered that the thing had killed his beloved horse, even though Keir had also suffered from setting the fire.

But people always see the mistakes of others and never reflect on their own mistakes.

He only remembered that his horse was killed by the big tree, so at this moment, when he saw that the tree spirit soul in his ax had a special effect on plants, he immediately wanted Yuoshui Head to find an opportunity to take revenge in the future. .

"Why do you have this kind of power now? When you were fighting the big tree and the werewolf, why didn't you explode? Maybe you could have taken down the big tree then."

As if sensing the owner's complaint, the tree spirit's soul swayed aggrievedly like a tentacle monster.

Keir couldn't understand, but he was just complaining, and there was no malice.

"Okay, forget about that, let me see what you are capable of in a minute."

After saying that, Keir inserted the two-handed ax weighing more than ten kilograms into his belt along the wooden handle. He carefully climbed up the giant vine with his hands and feet that had been cut with gaps on the side.

The wooden window on the second floor was originally close to the top floor of the building, so Kil climbed to the roof of the building with two climbs.

There is no place to set foot here. There are giant vines crowded everywhere, with protective spikes extending upward like a spear in a military formation. The huge, oddly colored flowers show that the giant vine is not of native plant origin.

It seemed that the vine at the bottom had been severely attacked. At this moment, in front of Kil, a large area of ​​giant vines stretched out from the vine under his feet. The giant vines in a fan-shaped area nervously closed their flowers quickly.

The flowers on other vines seemed to have heard the sound of wind coming from their companions, and some hesitantly closed their own flowers. Some gluttonous bees were drunk in the sweet flower hearts, but were shut up by the closing flowers.

Only then did they react, and they flew up drunkenly, striking in vain against the petals, which were weak for humans but tough for bees.

Keir took a deep breath, although the petals of the giant vine flower were colorful and weird, like a novice painter's palette, the colors were messy and disorderly. But the fragrance of the flowers is very sweet and pleasant.

"Spring, wow, it's quite nice. But I'm sorry, I can only respond with harm and violence to this fragrant reception."

With a self-deprecating smile, Kil took out his two-handed ax from the belt on his lower back and chopped hard at the vines on the roof in front of him.

He gathered his life energy into his arms and shoulders, swung the ax with great force, and struck down hard with one strike, boom! Not only were the giant vines as thick as a human waist cut open, but even the adobe bricks on the roof were slashed with deep slashes.

"Oops, too much force!"

He withdrew part of his life energy, carefully controlled the flow of life force in his body, and swung the ax again with a crisp click. This time, he only cut off the giant vines and did not damage the roof below.

"Just use this strength and speed up. I can't let Knight Crow wait for me."

Kil muttered to himself, swinging the ax vigorously and slashing away.

After cutting off a large section of the giant vine, Kil used the crescent-shaped lower half of the ax to knock the area, pulling the section backwards and falling into the patio.

Puff, puff, after a while, a large area of ​​giant, somewhat dry vines appeared on the water surface of the patio.

Now that Kil had some space to land on the roof, he jumped up. Instead of chopping down other giant vines, he held the ax in front of him and looked at it carefully.

"You are so active and want to absorb the power, no, the life of plants, then I will give you a chance to absorb all you can!"

Looking at the glistening blue surface of the blue ax and the excited tree spirit, Kil muttered something, and then with a heavy swing of one hand, he chopped the ax on the main branch of the giant vine on the patio.

It was the place where he climbed and sat just now.

The blue ax completely cut into the branches of the giant vine. Kil reached out and held the handle of the ax, hoping that this particularly magical two-handed ax would bring him some surprises.

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boom!

There was a chopping sound from the roof not far away.

Finley's eyes narrowed and he guessed that it must be the sound of Kiel starting to clear the vines on the roof of the building.

He swallowed and glanced at the person following them not far away from the corner of his eye.

Sure enough, no matter whether it was the person at the corner of the intersection in front or the person squatting far behind, their attention was attracted by this sudden sound. These people were confused, but they were not stupid either. They probably guessed what must have happened.

The man who was watching in front retracted his head, while the people behind were still staring at them, paying attention to every move of the two people on the carriage.

"Finley, just now?"

The driver next to him, Porlau, asked in a low voice.

"It came from the roof. It should be that Joe started to move. Well, it feels a bit slow. I hope he moves faster and makes less noise."

He was not afraid of the people following him, but he was particularly worried that the security militia station that Knight Crow had told him about before was in the same building in front of him.

Hope nothing happens.

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"what sound?"

The leader of the thieves group turned his head in the direction where the sound came from. As soon as he judged that it was in the direction of the chamber of commerce warehouse where luminous plants were grown, his face immediately showed a true expression.

"There must be something weird. Maybe breaking a secret room? Or a metal treasure chest? Hmm."

He guessed based on his own experience and learned knowledge. The men next to him were at a loss, but they listened carefully to the boss's words. After all, unlike ordinary pickpockets and thieves who were born and raised in the local area, the boss was an official thief recognized by the superiors. He is also a highly skilled thief who has studied in the Thieves Guild!

Once you learn a skill, you will have a skill you can rely on for the rest of your life.

Several companions have benefited from this.

After some people were given guidance and training by their bosses, their success rate in stealing money bags increased rapidly, and they have never been caught on the spot again.

After being taught valuable knowledge by the boss, some people no longer see anyone at home every time they enter a resident's home, and they succeed every time. For a time, it made the residents panic and uneasy, and also made the pickpockets and thieves in the town panic. They are extremely respectful.

Everyone knows that the boss really learned powerful skills there, so after the thief boss did a few big jobs, not only did the local big chamber of commerce compromise, but other theft gangs in the town also enthusiastically joined the thief who still had no name. group.

Regarding the lack of a name, some companions in the group were a little bit critical, but the boss quickly convinced everyone.

"There are only a dozen of us, two or three streets, and this is our strength." The boss said and raised his little thumb.

"So before you become big, it's best not to be so crazy and give yourself a resounding name. It's best not to even have a name. Anyway, we are the only family in Guifeng Town. When it comes to stealing, everyone will only think of it first. Us. Then it doesn’t matter if we have a name, right?"

"When all the villages and towns along the Strange Wind Grassland have our people and become famous, we will then reveal our name as a band of thieves and develop southward along the trade road to the Cavern Territory!"

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The thief boss became nervous. It was his first time to confront someone from above, so he was still very nervous.

"Has the person who inquired about the information come back?"

he turned and asked.

Immediately, some of his subordinates ran to inquire, and soon came back: "Boss, there is news, but I don't know if it is true."

"explain."

The thief boss stared at his subordinates, who immediately said: "An employee of the Chamber of Commerce who lives nearby had seen a large metal cage transported by the 'Magic Light Plant' Chamber of Commerce some time ago."

"Well, it's a bit suspicious. I'll investigate again and report again. Tell the person who gave the information and reward him with ten copper coins."

He ordered him to go down and explain to the person who inquired about the information.

Soon, the man in charge of intelligence news ran back excitedly: "Boss, that man saw the money and told important news."

This sentence attracted everyone's attention.

"Say it."

"That person saw with his own eyes a glowing colorful bird in a metal cage. It was being carefully waited upon by the stewards of the chamber of commerce and the waiters and hiding it in the territory of the chamber of commerce. The group of people also specially selected a day when there were few people to transport it. The source said that he found out after being delayed for a while in the chamber of commerce where he was working that day.”

"Okay, the glowing colorful bird has to be transported in a metal cage by the Chamber of Commerce steward himself when there are few people. Hmm, I guess the value of that thing is no less than this!"

He held up a finger.

The other thieves' men gasped and muttered to themselves: "One hundred gold coins?"

But the thief boss sneered disdainfully: "Can you have some potential, a thousand gold coins, otherwise the thieves sent from above can't steal a hundred gold coins no matter what they do?"

He rubbed his hands, but at this moment, he felt like flinching. Although the price was stated by himself, he himself was worried about whether he could get involved in something of this price.