Chapter 273: A Prosperous Business Town Outside the Outpost【Subscribe

Chapter 273 A prosperous business shop outside the sentinel point [Subscribe]

Since we are here, we should make the best of it.

Since we are here, there is no need to leave in a hurry.

[Wanyuan Order] is the "locator" of the Blasphemous Charm Oga.

It can guide her to find herself.

By making good use of this, Chen Xuan can easily control her.

Isn't the demon general very arrogant?

He wants to see if the Blasphemous Charm Oga dares to attack the Black Leaf sentinel point.

If this place is besieged by monsters.

The giant city can send reinforcements through the teleportation array in a minute.

Whether it is defensive buildings or defensive equipment, it is very complete here.

Enough to deal with a protracted tug-of-war.

And the energy level of the long-distance teleportation array is very high, and it is definitely not isolated by conventional means.

If the reinforcements can arrive at any time, the Black Leaf sentinel point is still very capable.

If the demon disaster around Magtan City breaks out here, it will be nothing at all.

The number of monsters refreshed in each round is more than 100,000, which is not enough for the legions stationed at the outpost to kill.

In the war, soldiers can get a part of the magic cores of the monsters killed as an additional reward.

This ratio is about 10%~15% of the total, of course, the specific distribution is determined according to the merit.

For the soldiers at the outposts and the battle fortress, war not only means death, but also means getting rich.

Walking on the road, Chen Xuan watched the black group disappear at the end of his sight.

The alarm has not been lifted, and the melodious horn blows every half a minute.

When the situation is urgent, the frequency of the horn being blown will also be shortened.

Chen Xuan took off the [Wanyuan Order] hanging on his waist to prevent someone who knows the goods from recognizing it.

He stuffed the [Wanyuan Order] into the inner lining pocket of the leather armor.

As long as the blasphemous charm Oga can continue to sense the existence of the token, Chen Xuan doesn't believe that she won't be tempted.

Taking this opportunity, he plans to observe the situation of the Black Leaf Outpost.

At the same time, he will go into the city to take a look.

If he could take this opportunity to purchase a batch of supplies, it would be a two-birds-with-one-stone deal.

Most importantly, he planned to study the deployment of the Black Leaf Outpost.

This is the first gateway to the east of Magtan City.

Its status is equivalent to a local transportation hub in Blue Star.

The long-distance teleportation array anchored four spatial teleportation coordinates, plus a solid and impact-resistant defense outpost.

All of the above factors give this place irreplaceable strategic value.

If this place can be taken, it can be mutually supported with Magtan City, which is no less than widening the portal.

Magtan is in the western corner of the Kingdom of Duroya.

It is equivalent to a small place sandwiched in a corner. If you want to expand outward, you must take this node.

Of course, the easiest way is probably to directly pick the giant city.

But this goal is too difficult and it is difficult to gain anything in a short period of time.

From a pragmatic point of view, taking the Black Leaf Outpost is the best choice.

Then, Magtan City and the Black Leaf Outpost form a big pocket.

The sentinel point is the mouth of the bag, controlling the inside and outside, while Magtan City is the bottom of the bag.

At this time, Chen Xuan only needs to take down all the settlements and cities between the sentinel point and Magtan City.

It is equivalent to unknowingly eating away about one twelfth of the territory of the giant city of Attucks.

The most important thing is that it can make the forces connected.

As he walked, Chen Xuan coveted the Black Leaf sentinel point.

But this is also normal. He always looks at the Naroa continent from the perspective of a pioneer.

Grabbing territory, grabbing population, and grabbing resources are all routine operations.

Especially in this world facing the invasion of monsters, if you don’t have a piece of land that belongs to you, you really can’t sleep well.

Shaking his head, temporarily putting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind.

It’s a bit too hasty to want to plot the Black Leaf sentinel point now.

The most urgent task is to manage the territory of Magtan City first and make it a solid piece of iron.

After the full outbreak of the magic disaster, there will be plenty of opportunities to pick up the spoils.

As a hacker, as long as he can survive, there will be opportunities.

And he has to train a few more gold-level backbones for Magtan City.

There are a lot of "old wastes" in the city who have been in the silver level for many years, all of whom are the best gold-level reserves.

The premise is that he has to get more pure [magic source] as food.

Ten kilometers outside the Black Leaf Outpost, there are defense nodes one after another.

These defense nodes vary in size and have different positions in the war.

Among them are nodes responsible for blocking the advancement of monsters.

These nodes are often composed of 2 to 4 defense towers, supplemented by interconnected city walls.

There are also trap areas on the periphery, mainly various types of actively activated magic arrays.

These defense towers are equipped with rune catapults.

They do not throw stones, but rune bombs.

They are mainly divided into rune impact bombs and rune annihilation bombs, which are essentially a kind of magic shells.

The cost is not cheap, and the cost of a single bullet is more than 100 crowns.

It often costs thousands of crowns to fire a round of projections.

There is a circular design hole on the tower with no blind spots, and a special city crossbow is deployed.

The long-distance [Insight] shows [Level 3 Storm Crossbow].

The bow arms of these [Storm Crossbows] are shorter and use a reciprocating string machine.

A box is mounted behind the crossbow chamber, which can hold 120 thumb-thick rune crossbow arrows.

When necessary, the [Storm Crossbow] can shoot all 120 crossbow arrows in the crossbow box in one minute.

In other words, it has a firing rate of 2 rounds per second.

Each tower is equipped with 12 [Level 3 Storm Crossbow].

Theoretically, 1440 crossbow arrows can be fired in one minute, and the most important thing is that the crossbow box can be quickly replaced.

This design idea is somewhat similar to the automatic firearms of Blue Star.

But in the final analysis, it has not yet escaped the category of cold weapons.

Sitting on the mysterious treasure house of magic, the natives of Naroa have not been able to develop the corresponding magic civilization.

In addition to using magic to practice, other aspects are almost just some superficial applications.

For example, alchemy potions, alchemy mechanical engineering, magic pattern studies, rune forging technology, etc.

In fact, the potential of magic technology has not been tapped yet.

This made Chen Xuan sigh.

However, the [Storm Crossbow] that adapts to local conditions can be regarded as a small innovation of the natives.

Compared with the powerful but slow-firing giant crossbow, this thing is already a rapid-fire weapon native to Naroa.

Other than that, there is nothing new.

Each defense tower has about 120 garrisons, of which 80 are crossbow shooters.

Of the remaining 40 people, 36 are heavy infantrymen wearing heavy armor and holding chain hook guns and square shields.

In addition, there are four spellcasters of different systems.

Most of the garrison's strength level is bronze, supplemented by 10 silver-level squad leaders.

In this way, there are more than 400 garrisons in one defense node and four towers.

As a defense position deployed outside the city to slow down the advancement of monsters, it is enough.

Such defense nodes are called "consumption points" by Chen Xuan.

In addition, there are other defense nodes with different functions.

For example, the "detection point" guarding the magic tower, and the "sniper point" built based on the [fourth-level magic cannon].

There are also "killing points" that can strangle the front line of the defense line.

Many defense nodes with different functional definitions eventually constitute the outer defense line of the Black Leaf Outpost.

These defense nodes in the outer defense line are like spikes on the armored dragon turtle.

The real shell part is the two towers of the outpost.

The construction of towers is very common in the Kingdom of Duroya.

As the name suggests, towers have the characteristics of walls and the functions of towers.

The width is usually 12 to 16 meters.

The middle building is hollowed out and can be used as an armory warehouse and a temporary resting place for soldiers.

The main garrison area is on the top of the tower, where two or three carriages can run in parallel, which can fully meet the requirements of deploying various city defense equipment and wall guards.

Moreover, the surface of the tower can be rune-enhanced or magic arrays can be arranged.

Its advantage is that the defense effect is excellent, and its disadvantage is that the construction cost is much higher than that of the city wall.

Magtan City also built towers, so it can achieve relatively good defensive results in the magic disaster.

At the most critical moment of the magic disaster, the fire magic trap engraved on the tower played an important role.

It hindered the continuous attack of the black-backed pigs and delayed the time for the city wall to be breached.

For a defensive war, the timeline is the lifeline.

You know, Magtan's tower was finally formed after years of construction.

After all, Magtan City also has hundreds of Naroya years of history.

However, even if they are the same towers, there are differences in specifications.

The tower of the Black Leaf Outpost is much thicker and stronger than that of Magtan.

Following the main road, Chen Xuan soon came to the first pass before entering the city with the flow of people.

Standing there, he was able to see the giant tower winding two kilometers away.

As the first tower facing the outside of the Black Leaf Outpost.

Its height is at least 90 meters, which is equivalent to a 30-story building in Blue Star.

The tower extends from north to south, and the whole body is blue-gray, and it does not shine even under the sun.

Looking down from the sky, the main part of the city of the Black Leaf Outpost is square.

The big square is nested in the small square, forming two tower defense lines.

After all, this is not a settlement. The sentinel has a clear functional positioning since the early stage of construction.

It is also a very novel experience to walk on the straight road outside the sentinel with the traveling merchants and farmers.

Chen Xuan is not only watching, but also observing and referring.

Trying to learn from the architectural layout of the Black Leaf sentinel and use it to feed back the construction of Magtan City.

As the Naroa continent has been invaded by monsters for a long time and faces the crisis of magic disaster.

The sentinel layout here is of great reference value.

They must have been tested by war.

In this regard, Chen Xuan has an attitude of humility and learning.

To be honest, in terms of resisting magic disasters, the so-called advanced architectural layout of Blue Star is not necessarily as effective as these indigenous layouts that have been tested in actual combat.

The four words "adapt to local conditions" are enough to explain this problem.

Silently looking at the layout and garrison of the sentinel, he followed a team of traveling merchants to line up to enter the outer pass.

From here, the entire periphery of the sentinel was surrounded by wooden fences.

Everyone must pass through the pass to enter the outer area of ​​the sentinel.

There are already more than ten large and small trade markets and open-air markets there.

Passing through the pass in an orderly manner, the process is very simple.

Just stand on a monitoring magic circle for a while.

This thing seems to be able to monitor chaotic magic and identify whether there are spies disguised as monsters.

You should know that there are many types of monsters.

Among them, there are many monsters with the ability of shapeshifting and possession.

Such monsters often disguise themselves as natives to sneak into sentinels and cities.

Therefore, the Black Leaf sentinel will have similar monitoring procedures.

There are three passes in each direction of the entire sentinel. Although there are only simple fences on the periphery, there are teams of heavily armored knights patrolling with threaded lances hanging on the side of their horses.

There are also elf archers with eagle eye talents on the towers standing around.

In terms of the strictness of the guard, Magtan City can't catch up.

After all, the Black Leaf sentinel was born for war, so it still has some reputation.

After passing through the monitoring magic circle safely, Chen Xuan officially entered the periphery of the Black Leaf sentinel.

There are several forks in the straight road here.

There are a city gate entrance leading to the sentinel and several nearby markets.

Chen Xuan didn't rush into the city, and continued to wander around.

He didn't forget that he was "fishing and walking the dog".

The seemingly fleeing blasphemous charm Oga might be hiding in some corner at this time, thinking about how to kill him.

The "bait" of [Wanyuan Order] continued to attract the guy's attention.

After standing there and watching for a while, he chose to walk towards an open-air shop next to him.

The Black Leaf Outpost has become a well-known material transfer point because of the existence of a long-distance teleportation array.

In the markets and shops here, the main thing is the handover and sale of bulk commodities.

The influence can cover the settlements within a radius of nearly 1,000 kilometers.

Therefore, the entire business environment is still very prosperous.

Especially in peacetime.

The shop that Chen Xuan entered is called Black Leaf No. 7 Shop.

Its name is just a code name, but it doesn't have any special meaning.

It also highlights the simple and straightforward style of the Black Leaf Outpost.

Although the name of the business shop is inconspicuous, it is very lively inside and covers a large area.

It is indeed comparable to those large commodity wholesale markets in Blue Star.

Walking into the business shop through the entrance, you will see a crowd of people.

The liveliness is far beyond that of Magtan City.

The business shop is planned according to the horizontal and vertical roads, like a chessboard.

The merchants here are not small street vendors.

Behind each merchant there is a temporary thatched warehouse or several heavy caravans full of goods.

It is worth mentioning that there is no one shouting in the business shop, and there is a sign in front of each merchant.

It says the main types of goods sold, the remaining quantity and the unit price.

The overall look is clear at a glance, simple and straightforward.

Those larger merchants even have their own emblems and signs.

The feeling that this place brings to Chen Xuan is that the commercial atmosphere is very strong, and the turnover of materials is huge.

It is not as underdeveloped as he thought.

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