lizard lord

Chapter 195 The Magician

[Forget it, I can't control the affairs of you Oran people now.As long as you can successfully become the lord of Yintao City, just tell me what you need, and bring your bid along the way, I don't want to be a white job. 】

"Then how about this, I give the Hermes Chamber of Commerce preferential treatment in Yintao City, you guys help me one last time. Help me clean up the mess, and help me guard against the Castei family, they may do something wrong again Such a sensible move."

[Military? 】

"That's right, according to the information that my Vulture Knight went to investigate before, after you took force actions in Yintao City, a large number of troops gathered near Yintao City."

Tang Zhao looked at Julia quite unexpectedly. After all, the royal family of Oran is still strong and its prestige still exists, especially after the failure of the nobles' rebellion war, the prestige of the royal family has reached its peak in decades. It stands to reason Now the Castei family absolutely has no guts to fight against the royal family.

"It can be regarded as our internal problem. In short, before the appointment documents are completely finalized, they may really attack the city."

[The power of this city has been mobilized before, and its fighting ability is acceptable. The Church of Haim and the Church of Losander do not participate in the power struggle between humans. You can't rely on them. I still have so much strength Hundreds of people can help from the side, but I want to ask if you still have military power? 】

"There will be, but I came out in a hurry, and they are not around, and they will arrive soon. Before that, you have to find a way to delay it."

[This is no problem, but the food in Yintao City can't last long. It's hard to say whether the demon believers have been killed or not. At the same time, the sahuagin still have a lot of power left, and the situation is not good. 】

"It's okay, you can find a way to arouse the anger of those sahuagin, let them make a tentative attack on Yintao City, or let them wander around Yintao City, the Kasdey family dare not face the huge The pressure of public opinion sieges the city."

[Understood, I will send an adjutant to discuss specific matters with your subordinates later. If you have any questions, you can go to my residence to find me, but there is no guarantee that they will be resolved. 】
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Julia arranged for Tang Zhao to solve the problems of the Castei family, and Tang Zhao's solution to this was also very simple - he put on a full set of armor and equipment, lay on the gate of the city with big thorns, his eyes fixed on Those human soldiers.

It is true that Tang Zhao had a secret agreement with Norton Castei before, but it was limited to this. His cooperation with Julia obviously needs to be more in-depth, and it would be more beneficial for him to let Julia master the city, and he will say in the future There may be unexpected surprises.

However, he was still reasonable. When he had a chance later, Tang Zhao would return all the gold coins he received from Norton and would not owe the other party.

Tang Zhao was lying in front of the gate of Yintao City, on guard against the possible attack of the Casdeil family. At the same time, there were a large number of militiamen standing on the gate, all of which were equipped with good-looking armor. It's like that, and it looks very bluffing anyway.

There is a delay in the information of the Castei family. They don't know that both the Church of Helm and the Church of Losander have decided not to participate in the dispute between Yintao City and them. The attitudes of these two churches must be taken into consideration. Serious deficiencies have not yet been exposed.

The city magistrate is still actively preparing for the war, working overtime to train the army. After the incident of the devil and the sahuagin, the residents of Yintao City have been more active in cooperating, but even so, the training is not something that can be done in a few days , the mayor can only teach the soldiers how to use long spears to stab forward, what kind of thing is called formation, and the rest depends on the comprehension of the militiamen themselves. Once the war starts, the militiamen will definitely suffer huge losses.

All in all, the Castei family still didn't dare to send troops, and instead continued the siege. Those soldiers were nominally helping to defend Yintao City and strictly preventing the entry of demon believers.The reason can also be a fool, which can be regarded as a fig leaf for the future.

In addition, the food problem has not been properly dealt with. Yintao City is still short of food. The Castei family has discovered Tang Zhao's reselling behavior and no longer sells them food. Hermes Chamber of Commerce and Merchant ships from other chambers of commerce have to drive all the way to the vicinity of the capital, buy grain from there at a relatively high price, and then sell it to Yintao City. During this period, they have to carefully avoid the patrols of the Castei family for fear of being detained. food.

On the whole, Tang Zhao didn't get much money, and he was even selling grain at a loss, but Julia promised to compensate him after the matter was over. Tang Zhao knew very well that Julia was not short of money, at least he had There are more than a dozen wineries and countless more industries.

In addition, the mayor raided Earl Stirling's mansion again, and the demons had been preparing for their actions before, so they hoarded a lot of food and money in the mansion.

Let the Erwin family be the mascots and distribute food to the civilians. On the one hand, it is to gain prestige and declare itself harmless. The fact of hoarding food.

For Yintao City, which has 10 people, the food is not much, but it is enough to sustain the civilians in the city for another three or two days. At this time, three or two days are also very precious.

During this period, Tang Zhao used the caravan ships to go out to sea continuously to harass the sahuagin. Ningfu's ability in the sea is no less than that of the sahuagin. It is not difficult to have them help in small-scale raids. The people of Zhao can always launch attacks from the most critical places when the sahuagin are most vulnerable, and they can't win the battle, but they definitely angered the sahuagin.

The sahuagin also responded by attacking the coast.

Apparently they don't know about the current situation of the Castell family and Yintao City, or they don't care if they know it. Their attacks on the coastline are crazy and indiscriminate, and there are many places in the Castell family's territory Suffering, after all, the two are adjacent.

Considering various factors, the Castei family launched a fierce counterattack against the Sahuagin. The family's private fleet plus the fleet recruited from the Chamber of Commerce, and finally plus the warships from the commercial city-state, The three parties joined forces to attack the outside world.

Even without the help of the mermaid, the Castei family still won a lot of victory thanks to their huge size advantage. The intensity and frequency of sahuagin attacks on Yintao City have been significantly reduced—they are busy following up When people from Kasdey exchanged opinions, they naturally couldn't take Yintao City into consideration.

The other side wants to use the war with the murlocs as a means of publicizing themselves, of course it is profitable, but it is also the same for Tang Zhao and others.

After several days of delay in various ways, the reinforcements promised by Princess Julia finally arrived.

It was not the Royal Guards that Tang Zhao had guessed before, nor was it a brigade of mercenaries, but a small group of magicians, which was quite rare in Oran.

The strength of Oran is the soldiers and the regular army. The power of mages is not strong. In comparison, the Principality of Vilia in the west of the mainland is based on mages. Its area is only one-third of Oran, and its population is only half of Oran. There are more than ten middle and high-level mage academies, and there are only three in the territory of Oran, and one of them was built with the help of the elves.

It seems that Julia has found the suppressed mage as her helper. It is hard for Tang Zhao to say whether this is good or bad, but it is always good to have a mage to help out now.

The leader is an old man with beard and hair, wearing a very typical mage robe. The mage robe is blue and embroidered with a strong griffin, which shows that the other party is a fifth-level spellcaster. A spellcaster of this level Quite rare in Oran.

[Mage Oran, fifth-level strength, Julia, Cangguan Forest.]

Tang Zhao recalled that when he first traveled through time, he persuaded Pickle and the goblins to set fire to the forest. In the end, the fire was extinguished by a mage. It happened that Julia had some relationship with Cangguan Forest. Maybe this person in front of him was the one who was released at that time. Mage of rain magic.

When Tang Zhao was observing these mages, the mages were also observing Tang Zhao, and the restless young mages behind him had already started talking behind their backs.

"A dragon?"

"I don't think it looks like it. Carlos already has intelligence, but it is said that he doesn't have dragon power, which is not the performance of a dragon. You can see that it has no horns and eyes on its head."

Several mages spoke clearly and logically, and Tang Zhao didn't bother to pay attention to each other, so he moved his body slightly to clear the way for the opponent.

【Princess Julia has been waiting for you, so if you go in directly, someone will welcome you. 】

It was said that most of the people entered Yintao City, only the white-haired magician with the highest status did not enter, and he didn't even intend to move his footsteps.

"Carlos, the direct leader of the multiracial city Karak Solma, the Mage Council seems to be quite interested in you."

[There are many places that are of interest to me, not even the Mage Council.You and I are now comrades-in-arms on the same front. If you have any questions, you can ask them directly. 】

"Well," the old man said rudely, "It is said that every time you pass, you will grow explosively in size, and you will even suddenly have additional body organs and special abilities. How do you do this?"

[Molting, normal physiological activity, is far less exaggerated than what you said. 】

Tang Zhao said lightly, no matter whether the other party believes it or not, that's what he said anyway.

Sooner or later you will meet a high-level mage, and it is inevitable that the other party will be curious about your body, just deny it.

"Is that so?" The old man shook his head slightly, "Maybe, it doesn't have much to do with me. I'm not familiar with the people in the Mage Association, and I don't have much interest in you. It's just a kind reminder, I hope you be careful about the people in the Mage Association." Besides, I heard that the dwarves of Karak Solma have resumed the production of black arrows, is it true?"

At this time, the old man revealed his true intentions. He was very interested in the weapon named Black Arrow.

The so-called black arrow is a kind of black technology weapon made by dwarves in the golden age to deal with elves. The general anti-magic metal is soft and cannot be used to make weapons such as arrows. Hard metal suitable for processing is not available. The characteristics of anti-magic, it is difficult to integrate the two, you can only choose one, and Black Arrow combined the two into one, contrary to common sense.

It not only has the hardness of dwarf traditional metals, but also has the characteristics of anti-magic metals. It is a very tricky weapon for elves who are equipped with exquisite armor and powerful magical abilities.

After the longbeard war between the elves and the dwarves, the power of the dwarves declined, and many technologies were lost. The technology of making black arrows is one of them. Now even the dwarf high king does not have the technology to make such arrows. Rare stuff with a little less.

Tang Zhao's publicity to the outside world was the result of the joint efforts of the dwarves and the elves. Based on the knowledge recorded in ancient times, the two parties successfully restored the Black Arrow, and now it has initially resumed production.

In fact, this is the traditional dwarf arrowhead mixed with Tangzhao's scale powder. The effect is really similar to the legendary black arrow. Both the dwarf and the elves have received some real objects, and they have excellent evaluation of this arrow. ——There are very few spellcasters above Tier [-]. Usually, Tier [-] spellcasters are the highest level existence on the battlefield, but now such a powerful existence can be directly shot to death with a crossbow arrow.

[We do have the ability to produce black arrows, but black arrows are extremely precious strategic resources, we will not sell them to outsiders casually, I hope you can understand this. 】

"What if I only want one or two and use them for experimentation?"

It's funny to say, except for the black arrow, almost all anti-magic props are developed and produced by the casters themselves, and mages are very reliable when dealing with their own people.

[This. No problem, but you can't resell it again, and at the same time, you have to share the research results with us. 】

The elves were also surprised by Tang Zhao's physique, and even asked the sixth-level court mage to study it for a while, but of course they found nothing. It stands to reason that these human magicians are even less likely to find clues. They are capable.

The magician nodded happily and accepted: "No problem, our bid will be very generous. Where can I get the black arrow?"

【We don't have this special weapon, but I will report to Karak Solma, and the next batch of cargo ships that arrive will have black arrows. 】

"No problem. By the way, Mr. Carlos, you seem to be seriously injured. Do you need me to help you heal with recovery magic?"

[Forget it, I can solve it myself, I don't want to accept charity from outsiders, I appreciate it with kindness. 】

Tang Zhao chose to refuse without even thinking about it. His magic resistance is very strong. When he is healed by magic, the other party will naturally find it difficult. Tang Zhao doesn't want all his abilities to be exposed to everyone so early.

After being shut down, the old mage was not annoyed, but walked slowly into the city wall, and began to prepare the magic circle for defending the city.
The equipment is not dominant, and the number and training are not superior. Fortunately, terrain and magic can be used to make up for it. After the magic circle is arranged, it will be very difficult for the soldiers of the Castei family to attack.

(End of this chapter)