Chapter 232: Flame Tower

Irina was a decisive person. After realizing that the secret base was exposed, she knew that the Venus family had become the loser regardless of whether they fought this battle or not. After weighing the pros and cons, she immediately chose to leave with the members of the Venus family and did not fight this war that was bound to fail.

Although Irina left, there were still many lizardmen in the ruins.

Lizardmen were the Warcraft combat units raised by ancient wizards in the floating city. They survived the fall of the floating city by chance, and gradually multiplied in the swamp and adapted to the environment of the northern border.

During the Venus Kingdom period, the lizardmen near the swamp also formed a very large tribe and controlled part of the Eagle Mountains.

However, the lizardman tribe was defeated by the Orc Empire, and the ruins of the floating city fell into the control of the Orc Empire.

The Orc Empire's magic level was backward, and it rashly studied the energy control area of ​​the floating city, resulting in a serious explosion. Even the two legends of the Orc Empire lost their lives, and the ruins of the floating city were also abandoned by the Orc Empire.

After the defeat, the remaining lizardmen returned to the ruins of the floating city and became the masters of the ruins.

The explosion caused by the Orc Empire in the ruins of the floating city was very loud.

The demon hunting team organized by the Venus family happened to be active in the Eagle Mountains. After noticing the abnormality, they reported it to the capital.

The Venus family was a person of knowledge. After discovering the ruins of the floating city, they immediately killed the insider. Only the core layer of the Venus family had detailed information about the ruins of the floating city.

For hundreds of years, the Venus family has been secretly developing the ruins and almost collected all the magic materials left in the floating city.

This floating city ruins has always been a hidden base of the Venus family.

Hundreds of years later, the rule of the Venus family was overthrown by the Grant family. This hidden base has never been leaked and is still under the control of the Venus family.

As for the lizardmen in the ruins, they have actually become experimental subjects of the Venus family.

Count Cloverd, who died in the Eagle Mountains, was lured to the vicinity of the floating city by the Venus family.

However, the Venus family did not expect that Count Cloverd actually had a very powerful one-time magic item to summon meteors. Relying on the power of the magic item, Cloverd escaped from the battlefield by chance, but he did not expect that his contracted monster was affected by the dark magic used by Elena Magic and devoured its master alive.

This incident also alarmed the high-level officials of the capital at the time.

Pansy Grant led the team into the Eagle Mountains several times to find clues, but unfortunately found nothing.

After all, the Eagle Mountains are 1,500 kilometers from east to west and more than 300 kilometers from north to south. With such a vast area, even if Pansy Grant is given a hundred or a thousand times more manpower, it is still impossible to find the fallen floating city.

The reason why the Death Tower built the Mage Tower here is that it was also from the scattered information handed down from ancient times that there was a fallen floating city nearby.

Before the members of the Death Tower could find the secret base of the Venus family, Richard and the priests of the Dawn Church came to the door. After a battle, the Death Tower was wiped out, and only one high-level member, Savio, escaped.

The secret base built by the Venus family was very hidden. If it weren't for the Harland family's development of the swamp basin, it would be difficult to find.

In fact, it was natural for this secret base to be exposed. The most critical reason why this secret base was not leaked was that it was far away from human habitation.

During the Venus Dynasty, there were no people here at all, and only some Warcraft hunters were active in the Eagle Mountains.

During the Grant Dynasty, Duke Brener won a key victory in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, severely damaged the Orc Empire, and took control of this area. The Grant Kingdom began to develop the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains.

As people moved closer to this secret base, it became natural to expose their traces.

The Venus family controlled the ruins of the floating city. Not only did they have to guard against outsiders, they also had a fear of the lizardmen inside the floating city.

After all, the lizardmen are intelligent life. In order to prevent the lizardmen from growing and revealing their traces, and to prevent the lizardmen from becoming the host, the Venus family has always strictly controlled the number of lizardmen, keeping the scale of the lizardmen within a few hundred people.

In the past two years, because Elena was severely injured by Duke Brena, the Venus family also slaughtered some lizardmen and strengthened their control over the lizardmen.

In order to prevent the lizardmen from getting out of control, the Venus family also used a special alchemical prop to control more than 300 lizardmen in the secret base.

The combat effectiveness of the lizardmen is not weak, especially in the jungle, they are very flexible and are natural jungle special forces.

Many lizardmen have a special skill, chameleon, which can change their own color and make themselves perfectly integrated into the jungle environment.

Even professional soldiers are easily attacked by ordinary lizardmen in the jungle and lose their lives.

Because they are good at jungle warfare, even the powerful Holy Glorious Empire still finds it difficult to defeat the Lizardmen in the jungle.

On the contrary, the elves of the East Continent, because they have lived in the jungle since childhood, are good at jungle warfare, and their five senses are better than humans. They can always see through the disguise of the Lizardmen in advance and restrain the Lizardmen very much.

Although the number of elves is small, they continue to compress the living environment of the Lizardmen. The Lizardmen of the East Continent can only hide in areas with harsh environments and bow down to the elves in order to survive humbly.

In the winter in the north, everything is bare, and with the swampy terrain and no trees to block the view, the lizardmen's color-changing skills have lost most of their effectiveness. Facing the elite soldiers of the Harland Territory who have entered the ruins, the lizardmen can only fight hard.

Lizardmen are good at using blow darts, which are coated with poison. In jungle warfare, the blow darts of lizardmen are weapons that human soldiers are afraid of.

But in the real battle of positional warfare, the range of blow darts is far inferior to that of strong bows and crossbows.

The soldiers of the first brigade shot and killed hundreds of lizardmen with two rounds of feather arrows.

Lizardmen are intelligent creatures, and fear of death is the nature of intelligent creatures.

After only two rounds of feather arrows, the lizardmen completely collapsed and fled back to the ruins of the floating city ruins.

There were no casualties in the defeat of the lizardmen, but during the dragnet search, the lizardmen's unexpected attack caused some trouble for the soldiers of the Harland Territory.

These more than 300 lizardmen actually kept four giant lizards in captivity.

The monitors are simple-minded, but very strong. They rely on genes to identify their own kind. Except for lizardmen with the same genes, they regard other creatures as enemies.

Even the people of the Venus family were accidentally attacked by monitors and lost their lives.

Each adult monitor is as powerful as a high-level monster, but it is a pity that this monster cannot be tamed and cannot communicate.

Although the monitors are not weak in combat, they are far from being opponents compared with the army of the same scale. Only a dozen casualties, four monitors died at the hands of the elite soldiers of the Harland Territory.

In the past, the army of the Harland Territory hunted the wyvern and suffered more than 30 casualties.

Now the quality of the army of the Harland Territory has been greatly improved. A squadron has at least five professionals. The backbone unit of the first squadron has more than 20 professionals, and the weapons and equipment have been comprehensively improved.

Alchemical bombs, enchanted armor, and a large number of equipped armies, even high-level knights can hardly compete with a squadron alone.

Although the monitor lizards are very powerful, they cannot defeat the elite human soldiers without a scale advantage.

Soon, the four monitor lizards were killed by the soldiers, and the materials on their bodies became high-level trophies.

The monitor lizards' teeth are very sharp, and like their claws, they are high-level magic materials and can be made into enchanted weapons.

Although the monitor lizard's skin is not as good as the dragon's skin, it can also be made into enchanted armor. Because of the special material of the monitor lizard's skin, a ring of magic can be drawn to change the color, making special magic equipment color-changing armor for scouts entering the jungle.

Because the monitor lizard is very large, the skin of a monitor lizard can be made into more than 20 pieces of armor, and the skin of four monitor lizards is enough to arm a squadron of soldiers.

The monitor lizard's internal organs can be used to refine Tenghui potions, and its blood can be used as medicine to treat diseases.

In short, not counting the portal that the floating city accidentally gained, just hunting four monitor lizards is worth the trip.

Richard led the soldiers to the vicinity of the portal. He carefully studied the runes of the portal and commanded the soldiers to completely dismantle the portal and prepare to install it in the wizard tower after modification.

As for the lizardmen kept by the Venus family, because they had been controlled by the Venus family for many years and had signed magic contracts, Richard did not dare to trust them at all, and they were all slaughtered by the soldiers.

After killing the lizardmen, Richard still felt threatened, but the degree of threat had been reduced.

Because the enemy left in a hurry, many supplies were not collected in time.

Richard searched roughly and found sixty boxes of silver coins, fifteen boxes of gold coins, and two boxes of standard magic crystals.

Standard magic crystals are only the size of a thumb, about three millimeters thick, and oval in shape.

Magic crystals are crystals that gather magic energy. They have a very important status in magic civilization. Generally speaking, a standard magic crystal is worth about ten gold coins.

A box of standard magic crystals is worth 10,000 gold coins. Magic crystals plus gold and silver coins add up to 40,000 gold coins.

In addition to coins, Richard also found a batch of enchanted equipment in the ruins of the floating city, including swords, armor, and crossbows, which can equip two thousand elite soldiers.

This batch of weapons was put into the Starlight Bottle by Richard to arm the soldiers of the Harland Territory.

The more important harvest is the magic books and magic materials left by the Venus family.

This part of the magic books makes up for the shortcomings of the Harland Mage Association.

In particular, the Venus family's understanding of magic energy is quite unique.

The Venus family has occupied the ruins of the floating city for more than a thousand years. Although they cannot understand the ancient wizard texts, they have studied the ruins of the floating city energy control area and have made in-depth research on magic energy. They even used the materials left in the floating city energy area to build a small magic well.

For the magic civilization of the Dawn Plane, the magic well is the core of the magic civilization.

The vast majority of magic wells in the world are naturally generated by the surge of elemental tides.

Artificially made magic wells usually rely on the magic core of legendary monsters as the core. Due to the limitation of the total amount of magic energy stored in the magic core of legendary monsters, the magic well of the magic tower provides less magic energy, which is not as good as the naturally generated small magic well.

Normally, the magic energy stored in the magic tower can only release ten fourth-ring magic.

In the ruins of the floating city, the successive magicians of the Venus family have researched and innovated, and used the spare element furnace of the floating city to transform it into a magic well. The magic power provided by this magic well is much more than the magic core of the legendary fourth-level monster. The magic energy it can provide is comparable to the naturally generated magic well.

The manufacturing of the element furnace is very complicated, far beyond the level of magic civilization in the Dawn Plane.

The Venus family simply couldn't understand the structure inside the element furnace.

Even in the wizard era, floating cities were very high-end magical wonders. Only very powerful wizard organizations were capable of building interstellar fleets and floating cities.

The element furnace, the eternal furnace, and the energy furnace were the core of the interstellar fleet and floating city, representing the most advanced crystallization of civilization in the wizard era.

Without a strong foundation in magic science, even if the element furnace was given to the Venus family, it would be equivalent to giving the interstellar engine to primitive people.

The Venus family spent a thousand years, but only studied some superficial things. Without the great development of magic science, it would be impossible to create an element furnace and let the city take off.

After discovering the ruins of the floating city, Richard could not kill all the insiders like the Venus family to keep the secret of the ruins of the floating city.

First, Richard's three views were not so extreme that he was not allowed to do such a thing. Second, the Harland family was not strong enough, and it was difficult to rely on a few family members to develop the ruins. Third, there were too many people who discovered the ruins. Richard couldn't cut off his legs and kill the elite soldiers in the territory.

There were too many people and many mouths. Even if Richard repeatedly emphasized the discipline of confidentiality and issued a very serious military order to keep it secret.

The leakage of the ruins of this floating city was inevitable.

Fortunately, there was a strict ban on migration in the Harland territory, and there was almost no population movement.

The soldiers also knew the importance of confidentiality and would not tell outsiders casually. It should be kept secret for a few years.

The only thing Richard could do was to delay the leakage of the ruins of the floating city and try to strengthen his strength during this period.

Even if the secret was leaked at that time, as long as he had power in his hands, he could resist those who were spying on the territory, and at least get a share of the pie.

In the ruins of the floating city, the Venus family built a secret wizard tower.

This wizard tower is an underground wizard tower with a total of six floors.

Because it was built underground, this wizard tower is very secretive. Unless someone guides it, it is difficult to find the entrance gate of the wizard tower even if you are near the wizard tower.

Inside the Mage Tower, there is also a six-ring magic circle of Fire Storm engraved.

The lethality of the magic circle inside the Mage Tower mainly depends on the strength of the Mage Tower's energy.

If the energy inside the Mage Tower is strong, even if a group one-ring magic is emitted, the lethality is extremely amazing. If there is no energy, the legendary magic will not be lethal.