.Chapter 431 The unfortunate news (III)

A communication without any result ended in a silence. When the morning came, the whole city was awakened not anything else, but the melodious and urgent alarm. //*.lzh.----*//The whole city woke up in panic in a hurry amid the rapid but continuous bells. The first thing that appeared on the road was no longer those who went out to buy breakfast or get up early to beg, but teams of new soldiers wearing armor. These soldiers who had just put on soldiers' armor had no idea what kind of situation they were about to face. Fortunately, there were some veterans among them, but compared with the huge number of new soldiers, the number of veterans was too small. The most important point is that even veterans were all veterans who had not participated in the war, and their strength and combat effectiveness were only stronger than those new soldiers.

In fact, many of these new recruits and veterans were farmers who had just been recruited from the farmland by the lord. Their strength was only about twenty levels. Even wearing armor, they might not be able to withstand the claws of the ghouls. They were just low-level cannon fodder. But even cannon fodder had important combat power. At least they could still shoot crossbow machines and shoot crossbow arrows, which was enough when defending the city. As for those high-level soldiers with strength of level 4 or above, they were rushed into the reserve force by the lord, and then they began to set up defenses in the west of Sanorass, and at the same time they also responded to the soldiers and the Templar Knights who retreated from the front line.

The soldiers who retreated from the front line were lucky because they were followed by the Knights of the Temple. Although they were defeated, a large number of Templar Knights ensured the safety of the injured soldiers. At least these soldiers who had experienced the battle did not turn into ghouls, which invisibly added a large group of veterans who had experienced war. However, no matter how many veterans were, they could not compete with the army with tens of thousands of ghouls. What made the residents of Sanoras feel most hopeless was that the army they had high hopes failed in the early stage. If it were not for the protection and restraint of the travelers, all soldiers would turn into ghoul food or their kind.

Therefore, after receiving the news of the failure of the first battle, the well-informed merchants and nobles in the city had long sent their families away. Because the lord would close the city gate at the first time to prevent panic from spreading, which was obviously a bit late. When Chen Kai opened the door and prepared to go out for breakfast, and then left the city to go to the holy mountain, what he saw outside the door he opened was not the owner of the hotel but the messenger of the lord.

"Sorry to disturb you, Lord Berkner. Lord Lord sent me to invite you to the assembly in the castle. Of course, there are three Knight Lord Lords who are also invited. Lord Lords hope that you will gather enough troops of travelers to participate in the battle surrounding the city. If the battle is won, Lord Lord and the Temple will not be stingy with rewards." After the envoy who knocked on the gate of Chen Kai's residence, he handed an invitation to Chen Kai, and there were three player lords who had just woken up from the chair and the table beside Chen Kai's back.

"...Okay I will attend," Chen Kai sighed and said. He knew that his plan to leave Sanolaser was completely interrupted. Now he could only pray that the battle would end soon and then he could go to the Holy Mountain earlier. Because as time went by, he was getting closer and closer to the deadline, and it was only more than a month before Anlu's funeral.

After seeing Chen Kai agree and accept the invitation, the messenger left respectfully. Although his strength is much stronger than Chen Kai, he probably only needs one attack to defeat Chen Kai when he reaches the seventh level, but that must be without Chen Kai noticed it. If Chen Kai had a sense of defense, he would probably not be defeated so easily. Of course, Chen Kai's counterattack would not have much effect. The seventh level existence is not so easy to be killed by Chen Kai, who is only at the fifth level, and the opponent is obviously an elite knight who protects the lord, and his strength is stronger than ordinary soldiers.

When Chen Kai walked towards the lobby of the hotel, he saw the panicked merchants and the hotel owner full of sorrow. In fact, he had no choice but to worry because the entire hotel was spreading bad news. All the merchants could not leave. Not only did the road covered with heavy snow not melted, but also because the lord did not open the door and asked people to leave, but chose to close the entire city. The most important thing was that he ordered the recruitment of all mercenaries and professions located in the city to form the defensive forces in the city. This recruitment was the most correct way for the lord. After all, there were not enough soldiers and guards in the entire city. Compared with those with a large number and those who could turn corpses into similar types, the number of ghouls that were in the entire Nocobe has been continuously increased. The most important thing is that even ordinary poverty

After the civilians transform into ghouls, their strength will increase by two to three times, becoming third-level or even fourth-level existences. If they are powerful soldiers or mercenaries, their strength will be even stronger after the transformation. The most powerful force of the entire ghoul are those ghouls transformed by originally Nocobe, with strength at least above level 6. If they are just the strength of the new recruits in the city, not to mention fighting against the ghouls transformed by high-level soldiers, just those ghouls who change in the poor can tear the entire defense line in a flash. Although humans have terrible guardian weapons, no matter how good the weapons are, they must be controlled by powerful soldiers to truly exert the strength of those weapons. A large group of new recruits who have never been on the battlefield will probably be better than letting a large group of players who have truly killed people control them.

Unfortunately, players cannot interfere with the lord's decision. After all, compared with those players with strength, the lord believes that the lord's local soldiers are more convinced to be formed by the lord's local soldiers. This is not because the lord himself wants this, but because he is born as a pride in the indigenous people, he has to make such arrangements. Of course, the most important thing is that the players in the entire territory are not strong enough, and most players are still hovering between the third and fourth levels, and the total number of players at the fifth level is less than 500. For the lord, his way of distinguishing strength is only at the level level. Only the fifth level soldiers can fight against those ghouls, while the fourth level can only become cannon fodder.

When Chen Kai arrived at the Lord's Mansion, the senior officers and temple priests in the entire territory had arrived. In the entire territory, except for the officers who died in battle and the fleeing nobles, they had already gathered in the Lord's Mansion. Of course, the escaped nobles had been removed from the lord for desertion. After all, what the entire territory lacked most was not the nobles who occupied social wealth, but soldiers who could fight. Of course, it was precisely because of this that the lords of Sanorass could have enough bounty to pay to those soldiers who made meritorious service, and the nobles who had obtained enough merit but had no territory.

Chen Kai, who was sitting at the end of the entire council hall, was yawning. Except for the first time he greeted the knights and priests of the Temple of Morning Light, he had been staying in this corner. Chen Kai didn't care at all about what they discussed, and in fact he couldn't care, because the people involved in the discussion had soldiers and teams. Chen Kai was alone and basically acted as a soldier who charged forward, and at most he could only be a knight captain. In fact, the lord no longer remembered what he had invited. There were too many lords and knights in the entire council hall. The most defiant thing in this world was the landless nobles. Every large commercial city would gather a large number of lost land.

The nobles, they have seals to prove their identity, but who knows where they are. However, there are too many such nobles. They have no land, no territory, and no lords to rely on, but there will be no lack of such nobles in every town. However, at this time, these nobles may become nouveau riche, because they can quickly pass the lord's recognition as long as they have sufficient strength and gain enough military merits, and these wandering nobles are pawns systematically arranged in various cities to compete with players. They prevent the player's territory from expanding rapidly by dividing military merits, and keep the entire territory temporarily under most of the control of the indigenous nobles.

"Hey, don't sleep? Who of you can sleep in the council hall?" When Chen Kai woke up from the chair in a daze, he saw more than a dozen knights with beards and full-body armor, and of course the host of the entire council hall, that is, the lord.

"Sorry, I'm a traveler who passed by here to the Holy Mountain, but your servant told me that I needed to attend this meeting and I came here. It's just that it may be because I was too sleepy, so I accidentally fell asleep. Please forgive me if the rude places are rude." Chen Kai was a little embarrassed, because it was really a very rude thing for him to fall asleep in the council hall. If it were put in the years of ancient knights in the past, Chen Kai's behavior was not only a despise of the lord, but also a despise of the spirit of the knights. It was an act of despise of the knights, which could be directly removed from the knight status and derogatory to the civilians. Unfortunately, it is no longer the ancient knight era where the knight is king, so Chen Kai's behavior was at most a shame, and at most a reprimand.

"Knight? Templar Knight?" Sanolath's lord is a viscount, and behind him is a row of baron-level nobles. It is obvious that the entire top leaders of Sanolath are knights. This is rare in the entire game world. After all, no matter how much knight is paid attention to, there are many spellcaster professions as spell consultants in most lords' mansions.

"Yes, I'm really sorry, I'm rude." Chen Kai was absolutely ashamed. Being watched by such a large group of people was a very shameless thing. Unfortunately, no matter how ashamed he was, he couldn't change the fact that he was watched. But no matter how shameful Chen Kai was, he had to keep his face unchanged or he would be in trouble.

"It doesn't matter, I think you should be Lord Berkner. You are the only one of the traveler Lords who can be invited in the entire territory. But your performance is not good enough now. I hope you can perform better on the battlefield. Don't embarrass us, the ancient profession of Knight." The first baron knight standing on Lord Sanoras's lower left hand said with his long sword. His level is very high, at least above the eighth level. However, Chen Kai felt that his strength was definitely not as good as the Lord's wife who almost captured him. There was a huge gap in momentum between the two sides.

"What is my mission?" Chen Kai raised his head and asked the lord in front of him. Of course, at this time he completely recovered his spirit and no longer seemed sleepy. His whole spirit became much more energetic, at least it made people look much more comfortable.

"Yeah, let's take a look." The baron knight took out a long scroll from his pocket and spread it open, and then searched it on it. Finally, he saw Chen Kai's name, but he looked at Chen Kai's face a little strangely. The expression was incredible. Finally, when Chen Kai heard about his mission, his head was directly confused because he was leading a swordsman regiment to guard the West City Gate.

"I would like to ask if you are wrong. I, a Templar Knight, guarding the city gate with the swordsman regiment?" Chen Kai looked at the bearded knight talking in front of him with a little disbelief, because he really didn't believe it was heard by himself. Even if he was letting him become an ordinary cavalry and charge forward Chen Kai would feel very correct, but being a swordsman regiment commander, that is, an infantryman, would make Chen Kai a little difficult to understand.

"Yes, you heard it right, because I have seen your combat history, which has a history of guarding the fortress-level city wall for a week. This is much more powerful than those new recruits. I think leading those new recruits with your knowledge and strength should be enough to be competent for this position." After listening to this narrative that made Chen Kai collapse, Chen Kai really didn't know how to answer. What made him most depressed was that he didn't know where the other party knew this information from. In the end, he was led by the lord guard to his own swordsman order in a confused manner. Although he had the armband of the swordsman commander on his arm, he still felt very dizzy when he walked into the camp. However, after seeing the soldiers of the swordsman order, he immediately did not feel dizzy because he found that the entire swordsman order was actually composed of third and fourth indigenous soldiers, and there was not even a fifth in them.

"Okay, the miscellaneous army among the miscellaneous army. If this is placed on the Zera Fortress, it will definitely be a cannon fodder army~" Chen Kai sighed and said to himself. What made him most unhappy was that these soldiers were looking at him with a provocative look on their faces. However, when he pulled out his huge glow blade from his backpack and inserted it on the ground, all the provocations turned into silence.

"Okay, remember that from now on, I will be your head. My requirements for you are very simple. Try to save your life in battle. As for military merit rewards, wait for you to survive." Chen Kai left after he finished speaking. Naturally, he was not responsible for military training, because there were special officers in the camp who trained soldiers in charge.

Carrying his giant sword and walking on the street, Chen Kai's mood was absolutely complicated. He was not thinking about earning military merits or bounties, but how to survive the attacks of the ghouls. Because he was guarding the city gate, not the city wall on the city gate. Generally, it is not the turn of Chen Kai's swordsman order to start a stone caster, which is controlled by special soldiers. The only function of the swordsman order is to fight with the other party after the ghoul climbs onto the city wall. At this time, the casualties of the soldiers are definitely the most serious.

It's a heavy blow. The armor of ordinary soldiers will definitely not be able to stop the sharp claws of the ghouls, because the lord only configures ordinary chain armor and long swords for soldiers, and is not the standard armor configured by the Imperial Team. Of course, it is not that the lord does not spend money, but that even if the lord spends money, it is impossible for him to raise so many standard armor in a short time. Sanolaser is not the imperial capital. There is no imperial reserve that specializes in storing standard armor. Some are just ordinary arsenals and are prepared by the lord themselves.

"Hey, I'm really troublesome with these self-righteous cannon fodders. I hope there are enough supplies in the temple. Otherwise, I don't know how many people will become ghouls after death." Chen Kai sighed and walked towards the temple area in the west of the town, where a large number of poor people are gathered there. In fact, the temple area should be the closest to the combat area, but due to the existence of the temple, the number of poor people gathered in the entire area, and the guards are the best, so it is gradually becoming crowded here. Chen Kai almost finally relied on his strong body to squeeze into the temple from the large number of poor people. If the armor was not strong enough, Chen Kai would probably not be able to squeeze in.

"You are here." When Chen Kai walked into the sacrificial hall of the Temple of Morning Light, the great priest of the temple who was presiding the prayer ceremony nodded to him, and then signaled the auxiliary priests beside him to help him preside over the ceremony. Then he held the scepter and Chen Kai slowly walked towards the priest hall, where Chen Kai could see the high-rise in the Temple of Sanoras.

"I know why you came here and we are all sad about the death of Knight Anluo, but I hope you can continue fighting here until you dispel the evil and then continue to go to the Holy Mountain. I will help you apply for opening a portal to the Holy Mountain so that you can get there as soon as possible! However, I cannot meet your supply request. The temple has not much reserves in Sanoras, and even if you work overtime to make holy water, it will not be able to fully meet the needs of the battle. I can only send you five high priests, hoping that

It's enough to help you." In fact, Chen Kai was listening along the way, and the great priest said it alone. Until the priest's hall, Chen Kai had no chance to interrupt. As for whether those high-level priests are indigenous or players, they are not controlled by Chen Kai. Even if five player priests are really stuffed in, Chen Kai couldn't refuse. Of course, generally speaking, they would not be player priests, but more likely those indigenous priests who have lived in the temple for a long time and have many magical powers to display their abilities. Only such priests can heal the corpse poison of ghouls.

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Chapter completed!