Chapter 316: The Power of the Artifact

The existence of the ancient artifacts, that is, people in the wilderness like Xiao En and those farmers are not aware of them. Every lord family with a bit of historical heritage knows their existence.

To be more precise, those ordinary Byrons are also very aware of their existence, and they have heard the legends about them.

For example, the sword of courage of the Lancelot royal family, the oracle scepter of the Holy See of Saint Ether, the guardian battle flag of the Strachey family, the Thor's hammer of the witches' conclave, the lucky crown of the Black family, etc.

According to legend, the eight great prince families of the Byron Alliance all had their own ancient artifacts when they joined the alliance.

The first article of the covenant is not to launch a full-scale war against one's allies, especially not to use ancient artifacts against one's allies.

The ancient artifacts can only be used when dealing with foreign enemies.

The latest news of using an ancient artifact was also half a century ago. It used the guardian battle flag of the Strachey family, the guardians of the entire Byron Alliance. Odin Empire army.

Time changes many things.

Over time, reality becomes history, history becomes legend, and legend becomes myth.

The ancient artifact is somewhat similar to this situation. Most of the time it only exists in legends, and it is difficult for people to think of its actual power.

With the in-depth study of the power of spells, Xiao En became more aware of the real reason why the ancient artifacts rarely appeared.

The magic power in the entire environment becomes thinner, which will make the magic power of these ancient artifacts recover very slowly.

Of course, there is an energy circuit on the ancient artifact that self-condenses the magical power. Even if no one controls it, the still condensed magical energy is the best sign.

This kind of energy circuit should be the minimum standard for high-level enchanting equipment, and it is also the most fundamental factor that can survive until now and can still be used.

Without this energy circuit, it would have become a pile of scrap metal, just like the enchanted equipment excavated by the leader of the Eternal Night Army from the underwater ruins of the ancient Andes Empire, let alone use it.

This energy circuit is also the core of the current research institute of the Eternal Night Army's leading art research institute. Once they master this energy circuit, it not only means that they can create more powerful enchanting equipment, but also means that they can build their own energy reaction chamber.

At that time, many things that only exist in Xiao En's mind will have the possibility to become reality, and the leader of Yongye will also open a brand new door.

Even if the ancient artifact has a magic circuit that automatically gathers energy, the speed of gathering energy will definitely not be too fast.

The soul beast card in Sean's hand is the most obvious sign. If there is no energy reaction chamber or artificially charged for it, Sean can use them once a year or so, which is the limit.

Compared with the energy contained in the soul beast card, the magic energy fluctuations emitted by this golden armor are so huge that it cannot be recharged by manpower.

Unless those grand dukes are warlocks themselves and charge themselves, they will never allow other warlocks to charge. After all, other people will leave a spell mark on it and turn it into exclusive equipment, which is called equipment binding. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course, it cannot be completely ruled out that these forces hold an existence similar to an energy reaction chamber.

Sean has corrected his attitude, he would rather overestimate the strength of these grand duke families than underestimate, especially when the mysterious veil about this world is being revealed bit by bit.

Years are their greatest heritage, who knows how many good things they have accumulated over the years.

But even assuming that they also hold the existence of energy reaction chambers in their hands, the charging speed will not be too fast.

After all, like the energy reaction chamber in my hands, it is because no one has used it for more than three hundred years that it has accumulated such terrifying spell energy.

If the energy reaction chamber is always in use, it is usually used and consumed a lot, and it is also limited by the environment.

In other words, once the ancient artifact consumes too much energy, it will be unable to be used for a long time.

Sean's speculation is close to the truth.

All kinds of chaotic information flashed in his mind, but his movements were not idle at all.

After blowing up the big fish, Duke Buck, Sean didn't care about attacking other targets, and all the black powder cluster bombs were directed at him.

Not only is he coveting the ancient artifact on his body, but also because of the value of Duke Buck himself.

The Man Yu army leader back then was a lesson from the past.

Without the leader, Duke Buck, the Kingsley family will immediately fall into an internal struggle for power.

Not to mention, the position of Marshal of the Expeditionary Force, Ake Messer, might not be stable.

No matter which new grand duke takes over, half of the military power of the entire military leader is in the hands of a person who also has the right to inherit.

But will Ake Messer hand over the military power so easily? Wouldn't he have any idea about the Grand Duke's position?

I'm afraid it's hard to say.

This glass of poisoned wine of rights, once drunk, will make people want to stop.

Sean's idea is indeed very beautiful, but the difficulty of execution is not a bit high.

Grand Duke Buck wouldn't just stand there waiting to die. He was also a great knight himself, and he couldn't run slowly at all.

What's more, he was surrounded by a champion knight, Yada, who carried two people and scrambled through the camp.

Before the black powder cluster bomb hit the ground, they jumped more than ten meters away, and when they detonated, they ran even further.

Even if there were a few detonations, within ten meters of them, it was just a waste of part of the magic power on the golden armor, and did not cause substantial damage to it.

Because this time he came prepared, the energy shield formed by the golden armor is thicker, and there is no need for a control-level warlock to check and fill in the gaps.

What caught Xiao En the most was that the energy shield of the golden armor was not limited to Duke Buck himself, it even appeared on the champion knights and control-level warlocks around him, although compared to the one on Duke Buck, it was weakened, wasn't it? A little bit, but they do exist.

When exchanging information with the Princess Regent, the other party only gave public information about the ancient artifact, not to mention the ancient artifact of the royal family, the Sword of Courage, Sean never had a chance to see it, even about the true effect of the ancient artifact, he was vague .

After all, this is the core secret of the major families, and the Princess Regent will not hand it over so easily.

However, after the incident, the Yongye military leader sent a special person to spy and collect information in this area, but most of the information he got was hearsay and legends.

When legends are no longer pure legends, useful things can really be collected from them.

For example, it is not the increase in personal strength that makes the ancient artifacts famous in the world, but the miraculous changes it brings to the entire army. The sword of courage of the royal family of Lancelot can give farmers who have not received much training no worse than elite soldiers. courage.

If the entire Kingsley family army was covered with this kind of energy shield and launched a charge, just thinking about it would make Xiao En's scalp tingle, it would be a fearless army, and it would be caught off guard In this case, even the three major armies led by the Yongye army will suffer a lot.

At the end of the bombing, Sean no longer expected to take down Duke Buck or take away the golden armor.

Consuming the energy of the golden armor as much as possible has become his sole purpose.

Even this goal cannot be easily achieved.

The spell energy on the ancient artifact is a terrifying existence that can bless the army. It is used for the defense of several people, and the consumption is not as serious as imagined.

After a round of bombing, the energy consumed is probably less than one-thousandth.

On the contrary, the entire camp was thrown off their feet by those who were incidentally bombed.

At this time, Grand Duke Buck could not care about the casualties of ordinary soldiers, and scrambled around to avoid this unprecedented attack.

It wasn't until the explosion disappeared for half an hour that Duke Buck and the others dared to tentatively stop from that high-speed movement.

Grand Duke Buck's face was so gloomy that it was about to drip, and he said through gritted teeth, "Who can tell me what happened to the attack just now? How did the enemy attack from the air? How did they know I was here?"

No wonder he had such doubts. Duke Buck's appearance here was entirely a temporary decision.

The top assassin he sent was almost taken over by the Yong Ye army, and captured two champion knights, and appeared with equipment suspected of being an ancient artifact.

The more Duke Buck thought about it, the more worried he became about the Kingsley family's military operations in the Swamp of Despair.

Who knows if the leader of the Yongye army has a real ancient artifact in his hands?

After all, most of the ancient artifacts in the hands of the Byron Alliance originated from the ancient Andes Empire, and the Andes people have always been known as the most orthodox survivors of the ancient Andes Empire. The ruling core circle of the Andes Empire.

You might hold a hidden treasure in your hands.

For the understanding and cognition of ancient artifacts, Duke Buck is far above Sean. The use of ancient artifacts may not necessarily win the final victory of the war, but it definitely has the magical power to reverse local wars.

The Swamp of Despair is related to the future of the Kingsley family. What else is more important than this?

If you don't use your own ancient artifact at this time, when will you wait?

After a night of tossing and turning, Grand Duke Buck finally made up his mind to activate the golden armor, an ancient artifact of the Kingsley family.

Even if it is not activated, it can be used as a major killer of the Kingsley family if it is transported to the front line. No, it can have the effect of finalizing the decision when necessary, and it may not necessarily consume all the energy of the golden armor.

As long as the Swamp of Despair can be taken smoothly, even if all the energy of the Golden Armor is exhausted, it will be worth it.

Grand Duke Buck was a man of swift action. He made a decision on his front foot, and then took a bodyguard on his back foot. He went on the road in simple clothes, and then mixed into the material transportation team. Even Ake Messer, the supreme commander of the Kingsley family's Eastern Army, would No notice.

Just like what Sean thought before, how could a weapon of such a level as an ancient artifact be easily entrusted to other people for escort and use?

Holding it firmly in your own hands is the most correct choice.

As for whether he secretly inspected the Zhengdong Army, only Duke Buck knew it in his heart.

His trip this time was not imprecise, but he was still intercepted halfway, and it was an unimaginable interception. If he hadn't been cautious and noticed that there was a strange feeling, he put the golden armor on himself at the first time. I'm afraid they have become a pile of minced meat now.

Grand Duke Buck broke out in a cold sweat, and it was not simply a matter of personal safety.

If he died here, it would not be just his own dreams and ambitions that would be emptied.

The centuries-old dream of the Kingsley family will also be in vain. His personal image of Duke Buck will undergo a 180-degree turn, and he will always be nailed to the pillar of shame of the Kingsley family. Can he enter gold? The family vaults of the Sly family are all a problem.

Various possibilities flashed in Duke Buck's mind, including the suspicion of Ake Messer.

The only thing I didn't expect was that this might just be a coincidence, their camp's previous conservative stance betrayed him.

After all, the material guard army exists to protect the material.

Half of the supply team had been burned, and they were sticking to the camp, and anyone could sense that there was something wrong with it.

"The explosives just now should be the legendary alchemy bombs." Needham is worthy of being a well-informed control-level warlock. He immediately connected the real objects with the things in the book. Although he missed it, he was not far away. , "Those alchemy bombs all fell from the sky, and they should have been thrown in."

The latter sentence makes no sense.

Sean used high-altitude throws from beginning to end, and did not perform low-altitude operations in order to increase his hit rate.

After all, there is not only a champion knight and a control-level warlock below, but also an ancient artifact that he doesn't know the details of.

Now it is the darkest dawn of the day, and they are in a state of panic, avoiding everywhere. Few people have noticed Xiao En flying in the air. Aerial bombing, this is something that has never been heard of throughout hundreds of years of history.

But when it came to the catapult, Needham himself didn't quite believe it, let alone how the enemy quietly transported the large catapult outside their camp.

What kind of trebuchet, like having eyes, throws so accurately? Stay within ten meters of them every time?

And the movement trajectory is not right, it is not the parabola that normal trebuchets should have, some seem to go straight, unless the trebuchet is installed on the top of the mountain, but the problem is that their camp is located, surrounded by a flat river, there is no such terrain at all.

Needham couldn't even convince himself, so how could he convince Grand Duke Buck.

The champion knight Yada frequently looked at the surrounding night sky, and said a little uncertainly: "Just now I seem to see that those alchemy bombs were thrown directly from the sky?"

"Thrown directly from the sky?" Grand Duke Buck and Needham looked up at the sky at the same time, as if they wanted to find the embarrassing enemy who forced them.

At this time, the sky had already turned white, and there was nothing there, only the fire in the camp that had not been completely extinguished, and the smoke from insufficient combustion, and the air was filled with the unique smell of gunpowder smoke.

Compared with Needham's speculation, Yada's was even more unreliable, but the three of them believed it a little bit, because they had a similar glimpse just now, but it was too unimaginable to say it.

Until it is determined that the alchemy bomb in the enemy's hands has been completely consumed and gone.

Duke Buck and the others just began to organize manpower to fight the fire and treat the wounded soldiers, but from the beginning to the end, the three of them got together together, and the golden armor on Duke Buck's body was not taken off.

Who knows if the other party will suddenly turn back.

Without the golden armor, even humanoid monsters like champion knights and control-level warlocks would not be able to withstand that level of bombing.

At the same time, it also confirmed the identities of Sir Kleist and his party outside, and let them in.

Grand Duke Buck immediately summoned Sir Clester. After all, they had just been outside and had a better understanding of the situation outside.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?" Sir Kleist's surprise when he saw the supreme ruler of the Kingsley family appear in front of him can be imagined.

At the same time, I also understood why Grand Duke Buck specifically ordered Ake Messer to be the coach of the welcoming team.

Grand Duke Buck wanted to learn about the situation of the Kingsley Family Expeditionary Army through himself before meeting Ake Messer.

The miserable appearance in the temporary camp also made Sir Kleist's eyes widen.

Could this be caused by those terrifying loud noises before?

What happened here?

Was it struck by thunder?

Miserable into this virtue.

But last night when the sky was clear and there were loud noises, they didn't see half of the thunder and lightning?

Could it be that hordes of champion knights and control-level warlocks rushed in?