Lord of War

A team walked slowly from the Angroda Mountain Range to the Viscount Shaofu of the original Dabion Kingdom. The team was not fast, but they did not make a detour. Instead, they chose to cross the entire black reef grassland and enter. Viscount Shaofu leads the Black Swan Castle in the northwest corner.

This old castle is located in the southwest of the Angroda Mountain Range. It is built at an altitude of about 500 meters above sea level. The castle is built on the mountain and has six floors. The bottom two floors are only after the mountain is hollowed out. In order to make the foundation of the castle stronger, the hollowed out mountain body was covered with special materials called black asphalt and mountain **** ash. The castle on the mountain is made of large blocks of black steel rock.

  Because the castle is built on the mountain, the fourth floor of the castle is connected with a lake on the Angroda Mountains. The lake is about hundreds of square meters wide. It is said that since a long time ago, every autumn in this lake, a large number of black swans will rest here, so this old castle is also named Black Swan Castle. Only when the war between Asuna and the Kingdom of Darbion broke out, there was no black swan in this castle.

When Tonys Fortress was being built, Asuna lived in this castle. She actually came here to watch the black swan, but unfortunately she didn’t see it, and Asuna only found out afterwards. The black swan hasn't looked after here for a long time. The Kingdom of Darbion claimed that these black swans were the servants of the gods, and Asuna's act of launching war angered the gods, so the black swans would not take care of this place.

Of course, Asuna would not pay attention to this kind of claim of the defeated. Only after being annoyed, did she respond with "Then, in the name of the gods, let us fight another war to see who is the victim." God’s favor, and who will be abandoned by the gods". In the face of Asuna's arrogant declaration, the entire kingdom of Darbion fell into silence for an instant, and never mentioned the Black Swan Castle anymore.

  And Asuna, never paid any attention to the Black Swan Castle again, as if the two sides had reached a tacit understanding.

  It wasn't until Sean mentioned the castle again that Asuna remembered such a thing. Of course, Asuna would give this castle directly to Sean so readily. In fact, it was not because of the reason that he had not seen the black swan before. Otherwise, the black swan castle was on the miraculous continent. Asuna would certainly not send out the rare castle that can integrate fortifications and beauty.

  The team, have been moving forward to this castle before stopping.

  At that time, Black Swan Castle was one of the five most famous castles in the south of the entire continent. Now that it has been abandoned for many years, the walls of the castle are mottled and the cracks are deep and interlaced. You can even see many traces of collapse left by the siege. Green plants spread all over the outer walls of most of the castle, and weeds grow wild. These extremely vigorous plants even pierced their rhizomes into the walls, destroying many basic structures of the castle.

  When Asuna lived here for a short time, she didn’t even think about restoring the castle.

But about this point, Cecilia and William can understand, after all, the Black Swan Castle is not just an ornamental castle, its location also has a certain degree of strategic value-to the south is In the Barbaric Land, to the east is the Kingdom of Darbion, and to the north is the Fortress of Tonis. If this castle is not completely occupied, and with this castle as a stronghold, any army that passes by Shaofu will be attacked, and even completely cut off to retreat.

And if Asuna invests in the maintenance and use of the castle after the war, it will inevitably need to consume more funds. Later, in order to defend the castle, it will also need to send thousands of troops to station. This is all for Asuna. A big burden. Therefore, Asuna gave up this ancient castle and left it to be completely abandoned, which is an understandable thing-or that people who knew about it would only feel sorry, and no one would accuse Asuna of doing it wrong.

  "Did you already know this would happen?" When William and Cecilia saw this dilapidated castle, William finally couldn't help but ask.

  Sean made a big deal in the trading capital. If he does not pursue the quality of armaments and supplies, but only equips the troops with ordinary quality equipment, he can even arm a cavalry force with a size of 3,000. Although it is only a light cavalry unit, the value of such an army is definitely higher than that of a steel wing. If William chooses, he will definitely let the steel wing go to farming, and then reconfigure and train a light cavalry unit. .

  But after seeing this black swan castle, William finally knew why Sean insisted on keeping this money unused.

The refurbishment of a castle and a series of subsequent maintenance are all expensive expenses, especially for castles like Black Swan Castle. If you want to renovate to the same scale as before, William thinks this Two million gold coins is not enough?

   "The situation is much worse than I thought." Sean gave a wry smile.

  For the Black Swan Castle, he had only heard others mention it in the game at the beginning, and the most impressive thing was that the renovation of the entire castle had invested a total of about two million Pan-Continent gold coins. It is precisely because of this that Sean has not dared to spend money lavishly after selling the book of the devil, but he did not expect that according to the current situation, the renovation cost of the Black Swan Castle is definitely more than that. A little money.

  Of course, this refers to the money needed to completely renovate and complete the Black Swan Castle.

  But in Sean’s inner vision, he cannot put all his money here, because he still has more than 7,000 northern barbarians and more than 1,000 soldiers of the White Wing Mercenary Corps to be placed. Although Black Swan Castle can accommodate nearly 500 soldiers, it is impossible for him to put all the soldiers in this castle. Who knows if there will be any accidents, so this also means that he needs to build at least one more. Stronghold, or directly build a new town, and this also means greater expenses.

  Two million gold coins, what should I do first?

  This multiple choice question is really difficult.

  Sean thought distressed: "Let’s go in and take a look inside the castle."

  After that, Sean walked towards the main entrance of the castle.

  It is a three-layer isolation door that needs to be activated by a wheel: the outermost layer is the most common grid-shaped iron door in castle buildings, the middle is a steel plate hanging door, and the last is two thick steel plate wooden doors. But now the first two floors of the castle gate have been completely destroyed-more than two-thirds of the grid-shaped iron bar door on the first floor has disappeared, and it is obviously melted from the point of the fracture. , And the hanging door in the middle was also smashed out with a huge perforation that could accommodate three people walking side by side.

  Only the last door is still intact, but only the one on the left, and the one on the right has collapsed to the ground.

  In Asuna’s army, there is only one person who can melt and destroy these steel plates and steels so easily.

  Lei Yao's Light. Simi.

It is not difficult to imagine that the five hundred defenders of the Black Swan Castle were forced to abandon all the fortifications of the castle and directly engage in hand-to-hand combat with Asuna’s wolf-like army. What a humiliation and panic. strong.

"It's really frantic." Sean walked through the gate of the castle and glanced at it with lingering fear. This was simply a useless display gate for magicians with special methods. He secretly made up his mind to the city of Black Swan Castle in the future. The door must be built with materials that can resist or invalidate magic, even if it is expensive.

  Then, the whole team filed in from the city gate.

  After passing through the gate of the castle, there is a vestibule about hundreds of square meters.

  It can be seen that the original scenery of the vestibule should be considered beautiful. There are two lawns on the left and right sides of the vestibule, but now there are weeds, full of dead branches and fallen leaves. There are four sculptures on each of the two lawns. The sculptures are of different shapes, either holding bows or holding swords, and even knights with their front feet off the ground. However, apart from two or three of which are still intact, the others are Has long collapsed.

  In the middle of the lawn is a black stone road leading directly to the Neiburg. In the middle of the stone road is a fountain about three meters high. The fountain is carved with four baby-height statues. They have wings on their backs, and they look like they are flying in mid-air and paying homage to something in the middle, but the thing they pay tribute to is gone, revealing a water pipe under the inner base. , And the fountain has dried up.

  No matter how you look at it, this is a dilapidated fort.

  Shaun pushed open the door of Neibo, and then the two doors collapsed in Shawn’s hands, raising a cloud of dust like sand and fog.

The castle hall is also very luxuriously built, with a height of seven meters, and in the middle is a huge statue of five meters high. The statue stands with a sword, as if the wind is blowing, and the cloak behind it rises like hunting, it looks like Abnormally mighty. It's just a pity that the head of this statue was cut off with a sword, and the cut was very smooth, so Xiao En did not know who the statue was carved everywhere.

  Behind the statue is a double-deck staircase-there are stairs on both the left and right sides to climb up the stairs, and then close together in the middle to form a prominent platform. Behind this platform is a twenty-three-step staircase, and then extend to the second floor in the opposite direction from the left and right sides. This kind of staircase is very common in the mansions of nobles.

  There should have been many decorations on the first floor of the castle, but now all of these decorations have disappeared, and it is obvious that they have been raided. But even so, the luxury and scale of this castle is still enough to make people feel shocked, especially the northern barbarians and those white-winged mercenaries who have never seen a big face.

  Shawn understands the psychological thoughts of these guys. When he first saw Utopia, he was so shocked. Therefore, he did not let these soldiers stay here, but let them move freely, as an expedition, to see if he could find anything usable in this castle-of course, he had no idea about it. What to look forward to, because Asuna lived in this castle for a while, and for her poor and white at that time, the valuables must have been emptied long ago.

  However, these soldiers didn't care about it, they just enjoyed this kind of adventure-like psychology like an expedition.

   Soon, all the soldiers ran away, leaving only William, Anno and Cecilia.

Xiao En didn’t say anything, and went straight to the wall under the platform at the double-deck stairs. Then he stretched his hand to the candlestick hanging on the left side of the wall. He only heard the clicking sound of the mechanism activation, followed by a roar, which seemed to be Because the agency has not been activated for a long time, it is somewhat rusty.

   Then in the eyes of everyone's astonishment, the statue in the middle began to slowly rise.

  As the statue rises, countless dust rises and falls like a gray waterfall. After the statue had been raised a full two meters in height, it finally stopped, and behind the foundation on which the statue was raised, a dark hole was exposed, and a staircase stepping down appeared here.