.Chapter 258 The Scepter of the Earth----Success or failure is always only between the front lines (two)

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"It's a little rougher, but it should be useful." Chen Kai looked at the trap of his own production. Of course, compared to professional thieves, the things Chen Kai made with simple mechanism equipment is really rough. But for a knight, it's already good for Chen Kai to use such mechanisms.

After carefully checking the mechanism in the room, Chen Kai slowly opened the door and walked out of the room. When he left, he stuffed most of the valuable things into his backpack. Of course, he could actually lock the things in the box in the room. But after feeling the flash of evil aura, Chen Kai gave up on the plan to lock the things in the box.

Although the hotel box is said to be unable to pry it even if you find the right key, it still cannot prevent the hotel from being patronized by thieves. After all, for professionals, those wooden boxes with copper and iron locks really do not have much anti-theft ability. So Chen Kai still feels safer to put things in his backpack and space equipment, at least Chen Kai will feel more at ease in his heart.

In the hotel corridor, Chen Kai could see the sunlight outside shining through the windows near the corridor, and the golden light shone on the wooden floor to embellish the mottled shape. The entire corridor seemed unusually empty and lonely, and of course, the music and speaking sounds from the hotel lobby had to be excluded.

At the end of the corridor is the lobby of the hotel. It is half a football field, with a large number of merchants and travelers and adventurers gathered. They not only stayed in this hotel, but also ate and inquire about news. After all, in terms of well-informed information, there is no more well-informed place than a hotel except for the major guilds that sell information. Most people often can't keep their mouths shut after drinking some wine, especially those mercenaries who have been licking blood on the edge of the knife for many years will reveal some important news after getting drunk.

Of course, the most common people living and communicating in the hotel are merchants, so what Chen Kai heard was information about business. However, some information related to him was collected into his ears. For example, the Great Rift Valley leading to the north was still in a cut-off state, and Hugodi in the north fought with the travelers even if the imperial emperor ordered it to stop it, it would be useless.

After listening carefully for a while, Chen Kai finally sorted out some things. The battle in the Rift Valley was not over yet, because a large number of Mobiks fled into the wilderness and attacked the troops from time to time. At the same time, Hugodi from the north fought with the players who came to reinforce the Rift Valley, which resulted in the end the player could only slowly advance north through Altinis.

As for Hugodi's war with the player, it was even simpler. After suffering a great loss and was killed by nearly 10,000 people at one time, the player began to call on his friends to prepare for a big revenge. Although the empire did not allow civilians or nobles to attack the lord at will, it was not allowed to revenge the lower nobles. As a result, the players who obtained the title of knight nobles gathered together and submitted a request for revenge to the Senate. Without waiting for the Senate to approve the Senate, they gathered 100,000 troops and rushed towards Hugodi.

This time, more than 100,000 people were very organized and disciplined. More than 100,000 people gathered at the border for two days and then entered Hugodi from different directions. As a result, on the first day of entering, a thousand-person team of the Knights that had hunted Chen Kai and others. Thousands of high-level heavy knights made the players die by using the sea of ​​people tactics.

This is not the case that the large player troops who came to win directly pushed the front line to the outside of Hugodi's city wall, blocking the remaining cavalry regiments that rushed out to support back to the city. They even directly set up catapults and simple crossbows to shoot at the city area, launching two siege battles.

Although they were almost repelled before they could even touch the edge of the city wall in the two siege battles, the players also achieved the purpose of fighting. They completely blocked Hugodi's troops in the city. The sphere of influence of Hugodi's lord was only one city, and the many surrounding territories were illegally occupied by players.

If it weren't for the fact that the lord could not build a city privately, it was estimated that the player would build another city wall outside the Hugodi City to completely encircle Hugodi. Of course, although it was impossible to build a city privately, the player still built a large number of high defense towers and posts outside the Hugodi City. Hundreds of posts and defensive arrow towers completely encircle Hugodi, and also reduced the pressure of players to siege the city.

Of course, these sentries and towers are also illegal buildings because they have not been allowed by the local lord, the lord of Hugo. However, the players outside will not care. Even the Emperor of the Imperial Empire sent someone to ask the two sides to cease the war. These players did not agree because they caught the lower nobles who could avenge the superior nobles. As long as the Senate did not think that their affairs were illegal, they would have the reason to continue to build arrow towers and occupy Hugodi's outer territory. As for what the Senate is doing now? According to the information Chen Kai got from the chats of several merchants, they were quarreling about the reduction of military expenditures of the Imperial Empire, and at the same time they were fighting for the newly vacant Senate seats.

However, there is little news about the rebellion of the Hugodi City Lord, which Chen Kai is most concerned about. Because it is said that the elders of the Senate did not believe that the Hugodi City Lord would rebel, and the emperor of the empire did not believe that the Hugodi City Lord would rebel, otherwise there would not have been any player fighting with the Hugodi City Lord and the Emperor would stand on the side of the city lord.

In the eyes of the Emperor of the Empire, players are outsiders. Although what they do is permitted by the imperial law, and secretly receives the support of several lords from the surrounding city and states. However, in essence, the Emperor of the Empire still believes that the player's behavior is not much different from rebellion, because no matter what, the player is attacking a higher territorial noble.

But the Emperor of the Empire could not just invade the players into the ranks of rebels. After all, they submitted a request for revenge according to the imperial decree, and did not completely kill Hugodi's city lord. They only eliminated some of their enemies, namely Hugodi's cavalry troops, and their current purpose was to eliminate the remaining cavalry. At least from the request submitted by the player, the Emperor of the Empire could not see any conflict with the revenge decree, so he could only expect the Senate to refute the player's request. At least that's how those merchants think, and Chen Kai guessed so too.

In addition to inquiring about this information, Chen Kai also inquire about the safety issues on the roads next. For example, which road to take from Kesala Fort to get to the imperial capital is the fastest, and what is the safest road to take. Even the more powerful horse thieves and robbers were active on these roads, Chen Kai could inquire clearly.

The only thing Chen Kai was happy about after inquiring about it was that he would never encounter horse thieves on the road ahead, because there had never been any examples of merchants robbed by horse thieves in the entire Golden Plain. However, although he would not encounter horse thieves, he still had to be careful. If he met a tax collector or a nobleman who liked to force buying and selling, it would be even more miserable than meeting a horse thieves.

Of course, the former is no big deal for Chen Kai. As a law-abiding traveler, even in reality, he is a good citizen who pays full taxes. But for merchants, tax collectors are their biggest enemy of profits, and no merchant is willing to put the gold coins in his pockets into someone else's pockets. Therefore, most merchants in the game hate and even hate tax collectors.

As for those great nobles who like to force buying and selling, both the indigenous people and the players have no good impression of them. In the eyes of the indigenous businessmen, this kind of nobles is the scum in the aristocratic world, the borer of the kingdom, and the natural garbage. In the eyes of the players, this kind of nobles is the object to be eliminated in the future. Whether it is the mission or the plot, players have the opportunity to kill these guys. Of course, that is based on the speculation in the old games in the past. After all, those nobles have already brought a red hostile light that can be attacked in the eyes of the players.

In addition to these, Chen Kai also heard a strange news from the merchant. According to a relatively well-informed businessman, he heard in the imperial capital that the temple was cultivating a new flying dragon, which is said to be a flying dragon with the blood of the golden dragon. Of course, the merchant was just heard of it. After all, although the flying dragon occupies an important dominant position among the sub-dragon beasts, in fact, the bloodline and the dragon are just close relatives.

You should know that dragons are intelligent creatures. Whether they are giant dragons with wings that can fly or earthly dragons without wings, they all have a distinctive sign that they have wisdom that is no less than humans or even higher than humans. This wisdom allows dragons to stand at the top of the biological world, and occupy the tip of the biological pyramid with their natural power talents.

However, although the flying dragon, a creature with similar shape to the dragon, is classified into a dragon subject, it has never been recognized by the dragon family. After all, the flying dragon has no wisdom. Only through enlightenment spells can the flying dragon have the same intelligence as a child of four or five years old, because this has led to the flying dragon being despised and despised by the dragon. In the eyes of the dragon clan, even the old flying dragon is still as intelligent as a human being at the age of four or five. How can such a creature be included in the dragon family? As a result, the flying dragon was kicked out of the genealogy of the dragon clan and turned from a dragon to a sub-dragon.

Although the flying dragons are not recognized by the dragon clan as a member of the family, at least they are a little nobler than those wild dragons or low-level dragon beasts, and at the same time they are a little stronger in power. Even if most flying dragons do not have dragon breathing, they do not know any dragon clan spells, but their melee combat is no less than any dragon beast or low-level dragon.

Therefore, the flying dragon is the best mount for the dragon knight and the easiest mount to tame. The cost of raising the flying dragon is much lower than that of the giant dragon raising the head. Their IQ with only children allows them to understand simple instructions, and at the same time they do not have the habit of wild beasts. The most important thing is that the flying dragon is the only dragon that can be spawned by spells. As long as it has enough life energy, the flying dragon can grow into a state that can be ridden in just one year or even half a year.

Chen Kai didn't know if what the businessman said was true, but the possibility of truth from the information he learned was relatively high. After all, Su Wan's teacher, Charles' daughter, once had the idea of ​​Amway Filke. Chen Kai was sure that if the legendary dragon with the golden dragon bloodline was true, it would be very likely to be Amway Filke's species. Of course, all this is Chen Kai's guess. After all, whether there is such a flying dragon is still a different story. You should know that the accuracy of the news of the merchant is often frightening. Because many times the news may be the opposite. After all, in order to deceive competitors, merchants often spread some fake news, and sometimes these fake news will deceive them themselves.

For this reason, the credibility of merchants often becomes very low. Indigenous people in many places will associate the word merchant with lies or liars. Of course, those are not common words in the mainland, but regional dialects.

After inquiring about the news, Chen Kai slowly walked out of the hotel to find products to purchase and check the commercial situation of Fort Kaisala. Although Fort Kaisala is a military city, it is located at the connection between the Golden Trade Road and the imperial capital, so the business here is extremely developed.

Although the monsters outside always cause trouble for merchants, they cannot stop those merchants who are full of dreams of making money from entering the imperial capital with a large number of goods. It is precisely because of this that the Kesala Fort, which originally had only one city, is now divided into two, one big and one small, two Kesala Forts represent two different focuses. The Big Kesala Fort focuses on business, where there are more merchants than the army, and the Little Kesala Fort is a more pure military fortress, with all the troops of Kesala Forts stationed in it.

However, due to the excessive number of troops in the Little Kaisala Fortress, it has become a military restricted area for players and merchants, and is not allowed to enter and exit at will. Even Chen Kai is a nobleman with the title of knight, unless Chen Kai can obtain military positions, that is, join the army of the indigenous people in the game. However, joining the indigenous people's army has too much constraints on players. In the absence of special circumstances, Chen Kai does not intend to join the indigenous people's army.

Of course, even if you don’t enter the Little Kaisala Fort, the shopping streets of the Big Kaisala Fort alone can make Chen Kai spend two days shopping. In addition to those merchants selling food, fruits, fabrics and other merchants buying and selling magic materials alone, there are no less than 300 merchants buying and selling magic products. The only few merchants are those who buy and sell armor and weapons. After all, as a military city, many weapons and equipment require franchise licenses.

Although the sheriff said that Fort Kaisala cannot have dangerous equipment or weapons, Chen Kai still saw a large amount of heavy equipment in the city shops, from heavy crossbows that are two meters long to heavy cavalry armor. At this moment, Chen Kai finally understood why businessmen can always find ways to exploit loopholes in the law. Chen Kai actually saw such a passage on the heavy crossbow. "This product is a power reduction version, which is only suitable for beginners. Please pay attention to safety during use."

After wandering around the commercial area for an afternoon, Chen Kai's backpack was filled with items purchased from the spell material merchants, including the materials that promised to buy for He Liwen to refine human bomb improvement potions, as well as armor protection oil purchased for others, and of course some whetstones and various drawings.

Most of these drawings are related to spell alchemy, of course, only for primary alchemy. For example, increasing the attack speed of a weapon or adding a single attribute, of course, this increase is very low, at most a few zero points, or 1 to 2 points. And this increase is still random. Sometimes, not only will it not enhance the attributes of the equipment, but it may destroy the equipment.

Therefore, Chen Kai planned to ask Xu Fei and the others to try their luck or practice more. Of course, the premise of all this is that Xu Fei and the others can understand the drawings, and then learn the alchemy recorded above before talking about it, otherwise it would be useless to hand it in front of them.

However, when buying things, what surprised Chen Kai the most was that he always felt that someone was following him. But no matter how many times he checked the game log, he didn't see any clues on it. In other words, the possibility of his feeling being hallucinated is as high as 70%, and only 30% may be that he really felt that someone was behind him but was not recorded by the system.

After staying in Kesala Fort, Chen Kai and his team set out on the road to the imperial capital again. This time there were many merchants and travelers around them. After all, many people's destinations were the same as them, all for going to the capital of Hans Court and to the city blessed by the God of Dawn.

But just after Chen Kai and the others left the city, the sheriff appeared at the city gate, and behind him was a stranger shrouded under a black cloak. The sheriff narrowed his eyes at the carriage where Chen Kai and the others were leaving, and then rubbed his stubborn chin.

"Corian, do you say that the fat pig in Trust is asking for trouble for the Berkner Knight for the earth scepter?" The sheriff's body did not rotate, but the man in the cloak behind him answered the question in a low voice.

"Yes, Sanchez, I feel that the scepter of the earth is on the boy, and it is inside the holy emblem he is carrying on his belt." The man named Corian's cloak was extremely low and gentle. If he didn't listen carefully, he wouldn't be able to hear what he said.

"Is that right? Then there is nothing to do. After all, there is no horse thief in the imperial capital. Even if I know that thing is on him, there is no way to deal with him, right?" Sheriff Sanchez said in a helpless tone, but the expression on his face was not helpless, but it was an abnormal average.

"That's right, Sanchez, but not being able to show horse thieves does not mean that there can be no thieves. You should know that even in the imperial capital, the seal of the Finance Minister was still stolen, and it has not been found yet, right?" Corian's eyes shrouded in the cloak slowly emitted light, and then he looked directly at the sheriff in front.
Chapter completed!