I'm not that kind of orc

To arrange such a project in the fortress, manpower is not a big problem. After all, there are tens of thousands of idle soldiers in this fortress, as well as a large number of golems transferred from the mausoleum.

The problem lies in the materials. After all, no one would allocate hundreds of tons of mercury as a spare, and not everywhere is filled with treasures of legendary metals like the thrones of the Dragon Clan.

"In order to maintain the operation of the enchantment in the King's Mausoleum, there is a spare bank of mercury, and we can use it." Islinati replied calmly, "As for legendary metals, there are a lot of them for funerals in the Royal Tomb. The decorations placed on the tomb passage are made of mithril and fine gold, we can—"

"Nonsense!!" Mutafa suddenly tightened his brows, "The transfer of the army in the tomb was allowed by the past kings. But taking out the funeral objects from the king's tomb... Do you want to insult Helgia? royal family?"

As a veteran loyal to the royal family of Helgia, he must have insisted on some rules.If you compare your heart with your heart, for us orcs, the holy place where our great ancestors are buried is also sacred and inviolable.

"The most important thing now is to protect this country and the people living on this land. And if the fortress cannot be defended, the tombs of the former kings will not be safe either." Arsena raised her head in deep thought, as if doing something I made a major realization, "If someone needs to bear the infamy, let me, an unscrupulous descendant, take the burden. Go and take out the funerary objects from the mausoleum, and execute it in my name!"

After weighing the pros and cons, Arsena quickly came to her senses and chose to sacrifice her fame to save the country, even if it would be labeled as digging her own grave by future generations.

With such a heroic spirit, even I couldn't help but want to praise this girl for being a real hero—I mean spiritually.

"Your Highness..." Mu Tafa couldn't help being moved, "Your sacrifice is too great."

"I've already made up my mind. Failure to protect my country and people is the biggest disqualification for a leader." Arsena raised her head.

"I support Arsena!" Infected by Arsena's consciousness, I stepped behind Arsena to express my position, "If she wants to bear the blame for the right choice, then I choose to be her accomplice .”

"Mr. Bullock!" Althena looked back at me gratefully.

But Mutafa's reaction was completely different. As soon as he turned to me, his eyes became cold and stern: "If you dare to touch anything in the mausoleum, I will open your brains twice!"

"Open the head once and it will be gone!" I couldn't help complaining, "Speaking of which, your discriminatory treatment is too obvious!!"

At this time, Islinati, who has been looking back and forth at us, coughed dryly: "Although I really don't want to disturb your major awareness...but I still want to tell you that, in fact, regarding the funerary objects in the mausoleum, Helgia's The former kings have left a special edict, allowing future generations to use the funerary objects in the mausoleum when necessary."

"What?" We all froze in unison.

"I have always carried that will with me, please read it." Islinati took out a roll of parchment inlaid with gold thread and unfolded it in front of us, then pointed to the first line to explain, "I originally proposed this will Yes, the fourth king, who wrote the first paragraph of the will in his own hand."

I saw that it was written in a rather simple but neat font: "I feel that time is running out. When I was choosing a site for the mausoleum, I felt that many funeral treasures would follow me into the earth and become dead things. I will never see the sun again. I am deeply sorry, so I made this edict. If future generations need the treasures in the tomb, they can take them by themselves, except for the things in the coffin. Will the kings of future generations support it?"

Next to it is the king's signature and seal.

"The kings of later generations basically agreed to his proposal, and this will has been kept with me for future royal families who need it." Islinati explained to us.

We continued to look down and saw the replies from other kings——

The second paragraph: "You are my father, you ask me if I support it? Of course I support it." (stamped and signed);

The third paragraph: "Support, of course I support, anyway, after I die, I won't need those troubles." (Signed and stamped);

Fourth paragraph: "Second." (stamped and scribbled signature, seems like a lazy king);

The fifth paragraph: "Except for my collection of novel picture albums and character sculptures that cannot be moved, the others are up to you." (Sealed and signed);

……

I couldn't help but stare dumbfounded.

What's up with this relaxed vibe like chatting on message boards?

We need an Iron Curtain for protection (3)

In any case, thanks to the enlightenment of Hergia...or the heinously casual kings, we were able to retrieve spare mercury and legendary metal crafts from the mausoleum without any scruples to serve Create a defensive enchantment for the entire fortress.

During the construction of the barrier, Mutafa transferred all the high-ranking paladins of the First Knights to the walls of the fortress, and asked them to summon the holy light and iron walls to protect some key positions in the fortress.Although this impromptu defensive method not only requires the paladins to use their lives to carry it, and the effect is far from being comparable to the enchantment of the Iron Thorn Prison, but it is better than nothing for the time being.

Counting from the first attack, about half an hour later, the enemy's second attack landed in the outskirts several miles away from the fortress, and Black Flame's magic bullet blasted a huge deep pit in the field. , a huge mushroom-shaped black pillar of fire shot straight into the sky.

It seems that just as Mutafa had previously assumed, although the enemy has the ability to carry out long-range strikes, it does not yet have the technical conditions for precise strikes.This blow is just to try our luck and suppress our morale by the way.

This gives us a chance to breathe.

Due to the disparity in overall combat power, the troops assembled in Yinhui Fortress can only choose to defend tactics. The fortress is temporarily in a state of excess manpower, and it is easy to organize a project of more than 3 people just by mobilizing idle soldiers. Under Arsena's command, the golems returned to the mausoleum, pulling out the quicksilver and the funeral artifacts in batches.

Coupled with the assistance of Beishan Kingdom dwarves who are good at organizing excavation projects and metal smelting, the entire project was nearly completed in less than an hour from the time it was called.

"Money, it's all money!!"

When the dwarves were pouring the mercury into the ditch and pouring the molten legendary metal into the whole pot, a dwarf general came to our side, patting his protruding belly and sighing with grief.

"There are so many legendary metals, enough to buy a gold mine! If you mix them with mercury, you don't know how much you will lose if you want to refine them!"

"No amount of money can compare to human life. This fortress shoulders the safety of Helgia and the entire continent. We should be grateful for the opportunity to save the situation by spending a lot of money." Arsena said to him with her hands folded, "After all No matter how much money you have, you can earn it back, and if you lose people, you really lose them, don’t you think so, Mr. Uta.”

"I have to correct you, Your Highness. For most people, making money is not so easy." The dwarf general turned his thick neck and glanced up at her, "Like the pile of legendary metal that was poured in just now, I know You are probably the only one who can earn it back."

"You know each other?" I accidentally looked back and forth between the two who were talking like old friends.

"I went to Beishan Country for further study before. At that time, Mr. Uta was my instructor and mentor who arranged training for me. He and Mr. Mutafa were also old friends for many years." Arsena explained to me, "He is The general of Beishan Kingdom is known as the King of the Grottoes, and this time Beishan Kingdom's reinforcements are led by him."

"I really didn't expect that the boy I taught at that time was actually a girl." Uta said with emotion, "At that time, I wondered why this boy didn't grow a beard."

"No...Mr. Uta, even if I am a man, human beings will not grow beards when they are young like you dwarves." Arsena smiled calmly, "By the way, Mr. Uta, you used to Didn't you say that you would take me to the snowy mountains and ice fields in the north to hunt for treasure? I wonder when I will fulfill this promise?"

"Let's talk about it when my old cold legs get better..." Uta patted his knee hard, "I said, the thing you asked everyone to make is quite expensive, can it really be used? Before I was there when the mountain was blown up, and the power... tsk tsk, even putting a ton of explosives in the grotto can't compare to it."

"I don't know." Arsena shook her head, "Now we can only place our hopes on this."

While speaking, all the molten legendary metal had been poured into the ditch of the magic circle, completely fused with the mercury.A strange light emerged from the surface of the silver-gray mercury liquid, and the mercury in the entire ditch began to flow slowly.

Islinati was entrenched in the center of the magic circle, seeing the completion of the whole project, she began to drive the enchantment spell herself.

She raised her six arms up at the same time, chanting words.The mercury in the ditch responded quickly, flowing faster and faster.In just a few seconds, the flow of mercury became turbulent.Dots of fluorescent light began to gather around Islinati, and these lights gradually gathered and became brighter and brighter, and soon became dazzling.

A few minutes later, accompanied by a loud bang, a bright blue beam of light gushed out from the place where Islinati was entrenched like a fountain, straight into the sky.The beam of light rose in mid-air and suddenly spread out, gradually building a translucent barrier that slowly enveloped the entire fortress.

"Oh!"

Seeing such a magnificent scene, all the people present couldn't help admiring in unison—just judging from the magnificent momentum displayed by this technique, it really makes people feel that the strength of this enchantment is extraordinary.

"That snake demon is really capable, maybe this thing can really help us take that shot!" Uta grinned.

I stared intently at this enchantment technique with stunning visual effects, and a question suddenly popped up in my heart.

"Strange, where does the source of magic power come from for such a huge technique?" I frowned and said to myself.

"Blok..." Arsena touched me with her elbow at this moment, then pointed towards Islinati in the center of the magic circle, "Do you feel...she has become a little more transparent."

I took a closer look and found that the patrolling naga's body had really become a little more transparent, like a ghost.

I remember that Naga Patrol seemed to be created by some kind of secret method. Her body should be made of magic power to a certain extent. Could it be that...

"Hey, is this technique maintained by consuming your magic power?" I immediately shouted to Islinati to confirm.

"Yes, this technique requires a core that provides magic power—that is, me." Islinati replied calmly, "Don't worry, even if my body is completely consumed, I can regenerate in the magic circle in the mausoleum." Plastic."

"So, how long can you maintain this enchantment?" I couldn't help but worry about the timeliness of the enchantment.

"About a day and a half."

"Then...you should be able to reshape quickly, right?"

"Soon." Islinati nodded, "One year is enough."

"Then this can only be used once!?"

We need an Iron Curtain for protection (4)

We finally completed the enchantment in a hurry, but now we are facing a new problem - since the magic power of this huge enchantment is only supplied by Islinati as the core of the magic circle, the duration of the enchantment is longer than we expected Much shorter.

We originally planned to hold on to this fortress for a protracted war, and how long we were going to last.A day and a half—it hardly has much life-saving effect at the moment.

Fortunately, Helgia's airship flew from White Lake City to Silver Fortress that day, bringing the Third Knights and Saidian's troops as the first batch of reinforcements.

So I immediately went to find Roland and the others to see if Saidian's chief mage could handle it.

"So that's it. This is the enchantment spell from ancient times." Roland stood in the center of the magic circle, squinting his eyes to examine the composition of the magic circle. "Use the legendary metal to increase the magic conductivity of mercury, and at the same time reduce the toxicity of mercury. The whole The magic circle acts as an amplifier of the spell, transforming the core magic power into a defensive barrier...a clever idea."

"The efficiency of absorbing magic power is just like opening the gate to release water. If the core is an ordinary mage, it will be drained in an instant."

Feilan, who came to observe with her, also held her hands. This girl is not very serious about other things, but she is more concerned about the study of spells.

"Although I'm sorry to interrupt your esoteric academic discussion..." I couldn't help raising my hand and interjected, pointing to Islinati who was not far away, "but this guy has disappeared soon, do you have any questions?" Is there a way to solve the current problem?"

Because of the continuous extraction of magic power by the enchantment formula, the snake tail of Islinati's lower body has now turned into a transparent phantom state, looking like a floating ghost.

The patrol naga can rely on maintaining her magic circle to regenerate, so it doesn't matter if she disappears in place. The problem is that the enchantment protecting the fortress will also disappear.

"The spell can't be fully analyzed for a while, but I already understand the principle." Roland raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "If my understanding is correct, we may be able to improve the spell a little to extend the time limit."

"How exactly?" I asked eagerly.

"The first is to increase the magic conductance rate of the technique medium, which can increase the utilization rate of magic power and reduce loss." Roland raised his finger and pointed to the mercury flowing in the ditch.

"I thought the mages of this era would have any insight." Islinati, who was listening by the side, shrugged disdainfully when she heard Roland say this, "Mercury, which is fused with legendary metals, is even the most authoritative alchemist. Magicians have to admit that this is the material with the best magic conductivity, how do you plan to improve it?"

Obviously, this patrol naga from ancient times has a slight contemptuous attitude towards the mages of this era.

But Roland just smiled back: "No, in alchemy, there is a top-level material whose magic concentration and magic conductivity are beyond the reach of legendary metals."

"Of course, dragon blood, the most legendary alchemy material, anyone with a little alchemy knowledge should think of it." Islinati crossed a pair of arms in front of her chest, "Indeed, if you can mix a little dragon blood into the ditch , the efficiency of the magic circle can be doubled at least, but ah... you think you can get dragon blood if you want it? I don't believe you can pull out a giant dragon right now."

After hearing this, I couldn't help but stare and turned to look at her: "If dragon's blood is more useful, why didn't you say it earlier?"

"Ah?" Islinati was taken aback for a moment.

5 minutes later……

"You want to borrow my blood?" The queen who was brought here tilted her head towards me after hearing our request, "Brock, Brock, as my contractor, you should know best how precious the blood of the Dragon King is. existence?"

"I know, but this enchantment is related to the survival of everyone here." Knowing that this guy doesn't like to be looked down upon, I half-kneeled down in front of her and persuaded her seriously, "Please, if there is something that needs me to do, I will Do your best."

"Oh? Is that so?" The queen raised her brows, as if a little interested.She thought for a while, and then suddenly raised the corners of her mouth: "It's just right, my shoulders are a little tired recently..."

"I'll press it for you." Immediately understanding what she meant, I couldn't help sighing.

"My feet are a little sore..." She raised her foot again.

"Press for you too." I had no choice but to continue to agree.

This guy doesn't necessarily have a real backache and leg pain, but probably just thinks it's more interesting for me to serve her.

"This is what you said, don't break your word."

Seeing that I agreed, the queen nodded in satisfaction, then turned and walked towards the ditch of the magic circle.

"It happens to be mercury. If it is not mixed with legendary metals, it would be highly poisonous to our dragon clan." She wrinkled her nose slightly, then bit her finger with her fangs, and dripped a few drops into the ditch blood goes in.

In an instant, the light emitted by the flowing mercury turned a little crimson. As the king of dragons, even such a little bit of dragon blood is enough to affect the entire magic circle.