Lord Harland.

Chapter 232 Tower of Flame
Elena is a decisive person. After realizing that the secret base was exposed, the Venus family has already become a loser no matter whether they fight this battle or not.After a little weighing, she immediately chose to leave with the members of the Venus family, instead of fighting this war that was bound to fail.

Although Elena left, there are still many lizardmen in the ruins.

The Lizardman is a warcraft combat unit raised by ancient wizards in the floating city. After the fall of the floating city, it survived by chance, and gradually multiplied in the swamp, adapting to the environment in the northern border.

During the period of the Kingdom of Venus, the Lizardmen near the swamp formed a very large tribe, controlling a part of the Eagle Mountain Range.

But the lizard tribe was defeated by the orc empire, and the ruins of the floating city fell into the control of the orc empire.

The magic level of the Orc Empire was backward, and they rashly researched the energy control area of ​​the floating city, resulting in a serious explosion. Even the two legends of the orc empire lost their lives, and the ruins of the floating city were also abandoned by the orc empire.

The remaining lizardmen after the defeat returned to the ruins of the floating city once again and became the owners of the ruins.

Back then, the orc empire's explosion in the ruins of the floating city was very powerful.

The demon hunting team organized by the Venus family happened to be active in the Eagle Mountain Range. After noticing the abnormality, they reported it to the capital.

The Venus family is a knowledgeable person, and immediately silenced those who knew the remains after discovering the remains of the floating city.Only the core layer of the Venus family has the detailed information on the ruins of the floating city.

For hundreds of years since then, the Venus family has been secretly developing the ruins, almost collecting all the magic materials left over from the floating city.

This floating city ruins has always been a hidden base of the Venus family.

Hundreds of years later, the rule of the Venus family was overthrown by the Grant family. This hidden base has not been leaked and is still under the control of the Venus family.

As for the lizardmen in the ruins, they have already been reduced to the test subjects of the Venus family.

Earl Cloverde, who died in the Eagle Mountain Range, was lured to the vicinity of the floating city by the Venus family.

It's just that the Venus family didn't expect that Earl Cloverford actually had a very powerful one-time magic item to summon meteors.Relying on the power of the magic props, Clover escaped from the battlefield by chance. Unexpectedly, his contracted monster was affected by the dark magic used by Elena's magic, and devoured its master alive.

This incident alarmed the high-level officials of the royal capital at the time.

Pansy Grant led a team into the Eagle Mountains several times, trying to find clues, but unfortunately they found nothing.

After all, the Eagle Mountain Range is 300 kilometers from east to west, and more than [-] kilometers from north to south. With such a vast area, even if Pansy Grant has a hundred or a thousand times more manpower, it is still impossible to find the fallen floating city.

The reason why the Tower of Death built the mage tower here was also from the sporadic information handed down from ancient times, and it was noticed that there was a fallen floating city nearby.

Before the members of the Tower of Death discovered the secret base of the Venus family, Li Cha led the priest of Dawn Church to open the door.After an encounter, the Tower of Death was destroyed, and only one high-ranking member, Savio, escaped with his life.

The secret base built by the Venus family is very hidden, and it would be difficult to be discovered if the Harland family did not want to develop the swamp basin.

In fact, the exposure of this secret base is a matter of course.The most important reason why this secret base has not been leaked is that it is far away from human habitation.

During the Venus Dynasty, there were no people here at all, and only some monster hunters were active in the Eagle Mountain Range.

During the period of the Grant Dynasty, the Duke of Brenner fought a key victory at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range, severely damaged the Orc Empire, and gained control of this area. The Kingdom of Grant began to develop the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range.

As personnel activities approached this hidden base, it became a natural thing for them to be exposed.

The Venus family controlled the ruins of the floating city, not only to guard against outsiders, but also to be afraid of the lizardmen inside the floating city.

After all, the lizardmen are intelligent beings. In order to prevent the lizardmen population from growing and revealing their traces, and to prevent the lizardmen from becoming hostile, the Venus family has been strictly controlling the number of lizardmen, keeping the number of lizardmen within a few hundred people.

In the past two years, because Elena was severely injured by Duke Brenner, the Venus family also slaughtered some lizard people, strengthening their control over the lizard people.

In order to prevent the lizardmen from getting out of control, the Venus family also used a special alchemy tool to control more than [-] lizardmen in the secret base.

Lizardman's fighting power is not weak, especially in the jungle, they are very flexible, and they are natural jungle special forces.

Many lizardmen have a special skill chameleon, which can change their color and make them perfectly blend into the jungle environment.

Even professional soldiers are easily attacked by ordinary lizardmen in the jungle and lose their lives.

Because they are good at jungle warfare, even the mighty Holy Glory Empire is still very difficult to defeat the lizardmen in the jungle.

On the contrary, the elves in the Eastern Continent, because they lived in the jungle since they were young, are good at jungle warfare, and their five senses are better than humans. They can always see through the disguise of the lizardmen in advance, and they are very restrained against the lizardmen.

Although the number of elves is small, the living environment of the lizard people is still continuously compressed.The lizardmen of the Eastern Continent can only survive in a humble way by hiding in the harsh environment and bowing their heads to the elves.

In winter in the north, everywhere is bare, plus the swampy terrain, without trees to cover, the lizardman's color-changing skills have lost most of their effect. Facing the elite soldiers of Harland's territory who have entered the ruins, the lizardman can only fight recklessly.

The lizardmen are good at using blow darts, which are also highly poisonous. In jungle warfare, the lizard men's blow darts are weapons that human soldiers talk about.

But when it comes to positional warfare with real swords and guns, the range of blowing arrows is far inferior to that of strong bows and crossbows.

The soldiers of the first brigade killed hundreds of lizardmen with two rounds of feather arrows.

Lizardmen are intelligent creatures, and it is the nature of intelligent creatures to fear death.

After only firing two rounds of feather arrows, the lizardmen completely collapsed and fled back to the ruins of the floating city.

There were no casualties in defeating the lizardmen, but during the search, the unexpected attack of the lizardmen caused some trouble for the soldiers in Harland's territory.

These more than 300 lizard people actually raised four giant lizards in captivity.

Monitor lizards have a simple mind, but they are very powerful. They rely on their genes to identify their own species, and they regard all creatures as enemies except for the lizardmen with the same genes.

Even members of the Venus family were accidentally attacked by giant lizards and lost their lives.

Every adult giant lizard has the combat power equivalent to a high-level monster, but unfortunately this kind of monster cannot be domesticated and cannot communicate.

Although the monitor lizards were not weak in combat power, they were far from being an opponent compared to a large-scale army. Only a dozen people were killed or injured, and four monitor lizards died in the hands of the elite soldiers in Harland's territory.

Back then, Harland's territorial army hunted and killed the wyvern, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

Now the quality of the army in the Harland Territory has been greatly improved. A squadron has at least five professionals. For a backbone unit like the No. 20 Squadron, the number of professionals exceeds [-], and the weapons and equipment have been comprehensively improved.

Alchemy bombs, enchanted armor, and a large number of equipped troops, even high-level knights, it is difficult to compete with a squadron alone.

Although the monitor lizard is very powerful, it does not form a scale advantage, and it cannot beat human elite soldiers at all.

Soon the four giant lizards were killed by the soldiers, and the materials on their bodies were also reduced to high-level trophies.

The monitor lizard's teeth are very sharp, and like sharp claws, they are high-level magic materials that can be used as enchanted weapons.

Although the skin of the giant lizard is not as good as that of the sub-dragon, it can also be made into enchanted armor.Because of the special material of the giant lizard's skin, a ring of magic can also be drawn to change the color, and it can be made into a special magic equipment color-changing armor for scouts entering the jungle.

Because the monitor lizard is very large, the skin of a monitor lizard can be made into more than [-] pieces of armor, and the skins of four monitor lizards are enough to arm a squadron of soldiers.

The viscera of monitor lizards can be used to refine Tenghui potions, and the blood can be used to treat diseases.

In short, it is not a portal that Floating Void City gained by accident, just hunting and killing four monitor lizards is worthwhile.

Li Cha led the soldiers to the vicinity of the portal. He carefully studied the runes on the portal, and ordered the soldiers to completely dismantle the portal, and prepare to install it in the mage tower after remodeling.

As for the lizardmen kept in captivity by the Venus family, because they were controlled by the Venus family for many years, they all signed a magic contract. Richard couldn't trust them at all, and they were all slaughtered by the soldiers.

After killing the Lizardman, Li Cha still felt threatened, but the degree of threat had been reduced.

Because the enemy left in a hurry, many supplies were too late to collect.

Li Cha searched roughly and found sixty boxes of silver coins, fifteen boxes of gold coins, and two boxes of standard magic crystals.

A standard magic crystal is only the size of a thumb, about three millimeters thick, and oval in shape.

Magic crystals are crystals that gather magic energy, and they have a very important status in magic civilization. Generally speaking, a standard magic crystal is worth about ten gold coins.

A box of standard magic crystals is worth [-] gold coins. The magic crystals plus gold and silver coins add up to [-] gold coins.

In addition to coins, Li Cha also found a batch of enchanted equipment in the ruins of the floating city, including swords, armor, bows and crossbows, which can equip two thousand elite soldiers.

This batch of weapons was put into the bottle of starlight by Richard to arm the soldiers in Harland's territory.

The more important harvest is the magic books and magic materials left by the Venus family.

This part of the magic tome made up for the shortcomings of the Harland Mages Association.

In particular, the Venus family's understanding of magic energy is quite unique.

The Venus family has occupied the ruins of the floating city for more than a thousand years. Although they can't understand the ancient wizard's words, they have studied the magic energy very deeply by studying the ruins of the energy control area of ​​the floating city. materials, built a small magic well.

For the magic civilization on the Dawn plane, the magic well is the core of the magic civilization.

Most of the magic wells in the world are naturally generated by elemental tidal surges.

Man-made magic wells generally rely on the magic core of legendary monsters as the core. Due to the limitation of the total amount of magic energy stored in the magic core of legendary monsters, the magic power provided by the magic tower magic well is relatively small, and it is not as good as the naturally generated small magic wells. .

Normally, the magic energy stored in the magic tower can also release ten four-ring magic.

In the ruins of the floating city, the magicians of the Venus family have researched and innovated, using the spare elemental furnace of the floating city to transform it into a magic well. The magic power provided by this magic well is much more than the magic core of the legendary fourth-order monster.The magic energy that can be provided is comparable to the naturally generated magic well.

The manufacture of the element furnace is very complicated, far beyond the level of magic civilization on the Dawn plane.

The Venus family couldn't understand the internal structure of the element furnace.

Even in the age of wizards, floating cities are very high-end magical wonders. Only very powerful wizard organizations are capable of building star fleets and floating cities.

The elemental furnace, the eternal furnace, and the energy furnace are the cores of the star fleet and the floating city, representing the most advanced civilization crystallization in the wizard era.

Without a strong magical science foundation, even throwing the elemental furnace to the Venus family is equivalent to giving the interstellar engine to primitive people.

It took the Venus family 1000 years, but they have developed some fur. Without the great development of magic science, it would be impossible to create an elemental furnace and lift the city into the sky.

After discovering the ruins of the floating city, it is impossible for Richard to kill all the insiders like the Venus family and keep the secrets of the ruins of the floating city.

Firstly, Li Cha's three views are not that extreme, and he is not allowed to do such a thing. Second, the Grant family is not strong enough, and it is difficult to develop the ruins with a few family members.Thirdly, too many people found the ruins. It was impossible for Li Cha to cut off his legs and kill the elite soldiers in the territory.

There are too many people talking, even though Li Cha has repeatedly emphasized the discipline of secrecy and issued a very serious military order of secrecy.

It is inevitable that the ruins of this floating city will be leaked.

Fortunately, Harland Territory has a strict ban on migration, and there is almost no population movement.

Soldiers are also aware of the importance of secrecy, and will not casually tell outsiders that they should be able to keep it secret for a few years.

The only thing Richard can do is to postpone the leak of the floating city ruins and increase his strength as much as possible during this period.

Even if the secret is leaked at that time, as long as you have the strength in your hands, you can resist the peepers, and at least you can get a share of the pie.

In the ruins of the floating city, the Venus family built a secret mage tower.

This mage tower is an underground mage tower with a total of six floors.

Because it is built underground, this mage tower is very secretive. Unless someone guides it, it is difficult to find the entrance gate of the mage tower even if it is near the mage tower.

Inside the mage tower, the six-ring magic circle of flame storm is also inscribed.

The lethality of the magic circle inside the mage tower mainly depends on the strength of the mage tower's energy.

If the energy inside the mage tower is strong, even if it emits a mass ring of magic, the lethality will be extremely astonishing. If there is no energy, the legendary magic will not be lethal.

(End of this chapter)