Heart of the Castle

Chapter 383 Secret Rhyme Knight, Great Idea

"Leader Four, why are you here?" Li Wei asked in surprise. "Did something happen to the mine?"

"The mine is fine, but it's Lord Li Wei's territory." Si'er, the leader of the little monsters, said with a hint of accusation in his voice, "The army of demons is gathering at the border and will soon launch an attack on your territory. The knights you are loyal to are obliged to take up arms, gather soldiers, and fight bravely for you. But I, the fourth son of the secret rhyme knight, have been forgotten in the corner of your memory, if I was not trading with the villagers of the small mining village I was kept in the dark when I heard the news at the time of food delivery.”

"Leader Si'er, I remember that I promised you in the mine that I would never use little monsters as cannon fodder for war." Li Wei said seriously, "I keep this promise in mind until now, and I will never forget it in the future. Please You can rest assured that no matter how difficult this battle is, I will not break my promise."

"Now it's not the little elves fighting for the human lord, but the secret rhyme knight is fighting for the lord he is loyal to." Si'er said loudly, and at the same time hit the black pot on his chest again. "To protect the Griffin flag is to protect the Secret Rhythm Tribe. Little spirits definitely lack courage, let alone wisdom."

Li Wei pressed his forehead with some headaches. The courage of the little ghost is indeed impressive, especially when defending his homeland, he has a tenacious spirit of fighting to the end.But when he thought of the frighteningly high chance of self-injury of the ghost musketeer, Li Wei felt at a loss for a while.

Seeing the hesitation on Li Wei's face, Master Sujiad said with a smile. "My lord, you don't have to worry about this matter. Of course, the little ghosts are not qualified as soldiers, but as a logistics construction force, the level they display can definitely surprise you."

"Logistics building power?" Li Wei looked suspiciously at Si'er's thin body, pulled Master Sugad aside, and asked the old scholar in a low voice, "They look like a child, and their strength is not much stronger than a child. What can they do?" Logistics construction?"

"My lord, this is why you underestimate these little guys. The little spirits are originally a race researched by alchemists to serve as assistants. They have great advantages in manufacturing low-level alchemy items and precision machinery." Master Sugard said He sighed in admiration, then pointed to the towering ice wall in front of him. "This ice castle was built by the elves. They created a kind of alchemy powder, which can quickly freeze water into ice under low temperature conditions. It is as hard as steel and not easy to melt."

"Moreover, the Miyun tribe has researched many sharp weapons for attack and defense! It will definitely help the human lord defeat the cruel and evil demons!" Si'er raised his face proudly, "Which one should the human lord look at first? It is a super giant thunderbolt!" Thunderbolt, black smoke, pa, bang, or the invincible hurricane, dead rock, scattered flowers, whizzing, bang?"

Both of these names sound creepy, with the exaggerated language of a sprite.Li Wei vaguely remembered the so-called thunder, thunder, black smoke, and crackling. It was an earthen musket researched by the little monsters themselves. The safety was extremely poor. Feeling uneasy.

"Leader Si'er, where is the super-giant musket you mentioned? Where is it placed now? Was the test shot successful?"

"Not yet, the super-giant thunder, thunderbolt, black smoke, pa, pa, pa, bang are the little monsters of the secret rhyme tribe. They gathered everyone's wisdom and genius ideas to create a great killer against the magic army. Of course, when the lord comes back, he will personally Just a test shot." Si'er threw his head back vigorously, then pointed to the back of the blacksmith shop and said, "My lord, look, that is the mobilization of all the little spirits of the Miyun tribe, and it took a month to make it. Super secret weapon!"

Li Wei looked towards the back of the blacksmith shop. There stood an iron pillar more than ten meters long. The body of the pillar was iron blue made of fine steel. After being polished by skillful hands, it was almost smooth. According to the figure.This pillar is inlaid with three mithril rings from the beginning to the end, and many small characters are etched on it. Even after Mr. Dish's alchemy literacy, Li Wei can only barely recognize that these are the ones used by alchemists. This kind of secret language, as for understanding the difficult meaning expressed in it, it is beyond his ability.

"What are the functions of these three mithril rings?" Li Wei asked a little strangely, because he knew very well that there was no such design on the small elf's homemade musket.

Si'er smiled very proudly, walked to the iron pillar and explained, "My lord, you have also seen that the weapons made by our little spirits are not safe..."

"It's too unsafe..." Li Wei opened and closed his mouth silently.

"... Ordinary muskets will blow up if they blow up. If something goes wrong with this super giant thunderbolt, it will be a very big explosion." Si'er made a "very big explosion." Big, big" gesture made Li Wei and the others turn pale. "So, the little spirits of the Miyun tribe used their collective wisdom to develop these three explosion-proof rings, which effectively solved the safety problem."

"Explosion-proof ring..." Li Wei looked up suspiciously, "After adding these three mithril rings, is this thing safe?"

"Of course! It must be safe!" Si'er's answer was very decisive and forceful, with the unquestionable flavor of a professional when talking about his field of expertise. "The point is not the mithril ring itself, but the magic secrets engraved on it! These secrets are spells passed down from generation to generation by the alchemists of the Tower of Secret Rhymes. Say this several times. Si'er's clever grandfather memorized these spells silently, and they became the most precious treasures of the secret rhyme tribe's elves!"

"So it's like this, the curse inherited from the Tower of Secret Rhythm..." Li Wei said, looking at the three exquisite mithril rings with admiration. "I don't know what these spells really mean."

"Si'er doesn't know, neither does Si'er's grandfather, and no one in the entire secret rhyme tribe knows." Si'er shook his head and said, "But no matter what it means, the magic spell can ensure safety. Isn't that the best result?"

Just as Li Wei was about to nod his head in agreement, there was a sudden coughing sound in his ears, followed by Mr. Dish's voice, which was different from his usual calmness. When Mr. Dish spoke this time, he seemed to be trying to endure something.

"Li Wei, judging from my experience in alchemy...ahem...you'd better use that giant musket as a log." The old magician suggested, "That thing just magnifies the ghost musket hundreds of times, The structure has not changed, the charge has increased hundreds of times, but the material itself has not improved much, if it is tested..."

"What will happen, Mr. Dish?"

"...You may be lucky enough to see the most magnificent fireworks on this continent." Mr. Dish said firmly.

"But, isn't there a magic spell engraved on the mithril explosion-proof ring?"

"Spell?" There was a trace of surprise in Mr. Dish's voice, "What spell?" Then he quickly realized and said with a smile, "Oh, you mean engraved on a few mithril rings Those Biolamic words. That's not a spell, that's what it means—Gods be blessed, don't blow it up—the poor alchemist who usually ventures to use a goblin as an assistant always asks Say something about this."

Li Wei suddenly felt in a trance. Perhaps this is the reason why the little ghost started as an alchemist's assistant, gradually declined in status, and finally became an experimental material?Seeing Si'er dancing in front of the giant musket explaining, Li Wei couldn't bear to discourage him, but when Si'er stretched out his hand and was about to push the trigger of the giant musket, the young lord felt his back As if being touched by ice fingers, the whole body was terrified.

"Wait a minute, Si'er leader!" Li Wei rushed to Si'er's side in three steps at a time, and firmly blocked his attempt to touch the musket with one hand, while shaking the other hand at Master Sujiad and others, Signal them to stay away. "This weapon is so powerful, I think it's better not to experiment here. After all, there is no target that can show the power of the weapon."

Si'er patted his broad forehead, "My lord, thank you for your reminder." He nodded repeatedly and said, "Although I haven't tried firing the super giant thunderbolt and black smoke, I just imagined it." The power of it makes me, the designer, feel scared! We must choose the best target for it... what is it?"

The leader of the goblins rubbed their hands and fell into deep thought. Li Wei didn't even have the slightest thought of disturbing him. He pulled the old scholar in red to the side and asked him in a low voice, "Master Sugard, how many goblins did the leader of the four bring?"

"It's three hundred, and it is said that there are five hundred more on the way with a large amount of supplies, and they will arrive tomorrow morning. When the leader of the four sons appeared near the camp with a group of elves, the patrol team thought it was a group What about the goblin bandit. He claimed that he was a Rhyme Knight bestowed by you, but no one believed him. Fortunately, the Riat Knights recognized them, so there was no conflict." Master Sugard replied, "Your Majesty Li Wei, you really should see it with your own eyes. Look at the way those little guys are working. The alchemy workshop built with wooden boards is rumbling and rumbling non-stop, black smoke is rising up, and the ground is trembling a few times. People who live nearby don’t want to fall asleep , and many people were hit by little monsters and wooden boards falling from the sky."

"No... No one was injured, right?" Li Wei felt that cold sweat had started to flow down his back.

"That's not true..." Master Sujiad recalled, shaking his head and said, "But a knight's horse ran away accidentally, and finally broke into a little monster's alchemy workshop, that was the scariest thing I've ever heard After the loud noise, many people's ears couldn't hear other sounds for several days."

"It seems that the citizens must be warned that it is best to stay away from the workplace of the little monsters." Li Wei shook his head with a wry smile.

"However, the efficiency of these little guys is really high enough. It takes two or three days from the deployment of alchemy potions to the completion of the main construction of this ice city." Master Sujiad changed the topic and began to introduce the city to Li Wei A castle built of solid ice comes.

"A castle of such a large scale was built in two or three days?" Li Wei's eyes widened in surprise, "Doesn't that mean that hundreds of meters of ice walls have to be built every day?"

"The speed is indeed astonishing. If the surface of the nearby rivers were not frozen, maybe they could build faster." Master Sugad admitted, "But it is not easy for them to repeat this speed again, because the tool has already been built. It was dismantled by them and turned into a weird thing."

"That's the invincible hurricane Dead Rock Scattering Blow!" Si'er's voice sounded from beside him, and it seemed that the leader of the little elves finally woke up from the entanglement and thinking, with a somewhat helpless expression on his face, looking at the The giant musket stands behind the smithy. "I'm afraid the weapon test will be postponed for a while, Mr. Li Wei." He said sadly to Li Wei, "The next thing we need to study is how to move this masterpiece out of the city. It may take a while..."

"Leader Si'er, let's put aside the matter of test shooting first." Li Wei's eyes fell on the ice wall. After Master Sugad mentioned the amazing construction efficiency of the little monsters, there seemed to be something very important in his mind Thoughts popped up, but I couldn't catch them all at once.And when Si'er's voice came, a light suddenly flashed in Li Wei's eyes.

He already knew what the thought he had been trying to grasp was.

"Leader Si'er, there is one thing I want to ask you...no, the entire Miyun tribe to help me." Li Wei said seriously.

"Really?" The body of the little elf leader couldn't help trembling slightly because of excitement, his eyes sparkled, "Is this true, the little elves can be of great help to human lords? That's great, Secret Rhythm Tribe Follow your orders! What do you want the elves to create for you? A lot of boom boom? Or something else? If you need fighters, the Miyun tribe can also dispatch fifty death squads from the tower..."

While wiping the cold sweat from his head, Li Wei raised his hand to stop Si'er from continuing. "No, leader Si'er, what I need is to build a bigger ice city, and only you can help me."

"No problem, Your Excellency Li Wei, the Secret Rhythm Tribe is willing to help." Si'er patted the black pot on his chest and said, "Building an ice city is not troublesome. The little spirits have prepared a lot of alchemy materials, and it only takes a few days to build it." Create an ice city twice the size of this place."

"Twice as big is not enough..." Li Wei shook his head, and his next sentence made everyone, including Master Sugard, stare wide-eyed and couldn't believe their ears.

"... What I want to build is an ice city that can protect the entire territory. I want the shadow threatened by the evil disaster to leave this land forever!"

Li Wei's voice was sonorous and powerful, without any intention of joking, which made everyone feel incredible for a while.After a long time, Master Sugad opened his mouth slowly, choosing the slightest objection tone and said, "Master Li Wei, your idea is good, but your territory is so vast, it is not a task to build a large enough ice city." Easy stuff."

"What do you really mean to say that I am whimsical, right? Master Sugard." Li Wei pointed out with a smile, "If this ice castle is not used as an example, this idea is indeed crazy, but in just three days, three hundred little elves An ice wall that is thousands of meters long can be built. Building a Great Wall of Ice along the south bank of the Heihe River that is strong enough to stop the demon army from going south may not be whimsical."

"This is really an amazing idea, Si'er likes it very much!" The leader of the goblins was the first to jump up to express his approval, and Tang Na also nodded heavily, "I can't wait to see a Great Wall of Ice that protects the northern border of the kingdom. The way it looks!"

Master Sugard's two snow-white eyebrows frowned, and the red-robed old scholar put forward different opinions while thinking. "Master Li Wei, things are not as simple as you imagine." His fingers subconsciously moved the scholar necklace on his chest, and every gemstone was shining in the sun, "This idea sounds reasonable, but in reality But there are many difficulties. First of all, the Heihe River stretches for hundreds of kilometers, how long will this ice wall be built? It must also be hundreds of kilometers, this is simply an unimaginably huge project!"

"All adult goblins can participate in the construction, and the Miyun tribe can provide a total of [-] goblins... Three months, only three months, the Miyun tribe can build this ice wall." Leader Si'er Counting with fingers, and then replied.

"Three months is indeed an astonishing speed." Master Sugard sighed, "But we don't have three months, the demon army can't wait that long, right, Master Li Wei?"

"Yes, there is still one and a half months at most." Li Wei replied, "And once they find out that we are building an ice wall, I am afraid that this time will be brought forward. But what if the people in the entire territory are mobilized to come together? Now in this territory The population of China is more than [-], and I think at least [-] people can be mobilized to do this. In that case, an ice wall of hundreds of kilometers can be built in a week or two."

"Humans are more powerful than elves, but their minds are much weaker." Si'er tapped the water bottle on his head and said, "However, it is more convenient to get water from Heihe. If there are 6000 humans, it can be completed in two weeks. .”

"Then what about the guards?" Master Sugard asked the next question, "No matter how high the ice wall is, it can't stop the demons, just like the rushing black river can't stop it. We still need to send guards."

Master Sugard's question made Li Wei silent. The old scholar was right. Without an ice wall to guard the army, at most it would only cause some trouble to the demon army, but it could not stop it.

At present, about 200 well-trained militiamen can be assembled in the territory, as well as more than [-] professional soldiers and more than [-] knights. If the defense of other places is not considered at all, the number of militiamen and soldiers can be increased by about one-third one.This force is gathered together, relying on solid city defenses, it is not a big problem to resist the demon army three to five times the number, but if it is scattered on the Great Wall of Frost hundreds of kilometers, it will be very embarrassing.

Castle Heart has been accumulating strength during this time. The number of pikemen and archers as the main force has increased to about 100, the number of griffins is close to 30, and there are more than [-] swordsmen who can compete with low-level knights.Adding this force, the military strength in Li Wei's territory is more than twice as strong as that of Viscount Ryan.

However, the strength of the enemy has increased by more than ten times. Not only demons, but also the dead are involved. The overall situation is even worse than before.

"If it's a fixed defense, we really can't gather enough troops." Donna's voice suddenly joined in. The experienced former adventurer's eyes sparkled, obviously thinking of a solution. "But the power of the devil is not enough to attack thousands of miles of defense at the same time, right? There are not many places suitable for swimming in the Heihe River. We can build beacon towers in every place that may be attacked and station elite teams to guard them. At the same time, in the cold Behind the Ice Great Wall, there are several gathering places for troops. Once the demons attack and the beacon fires are lit, the troops closest to there will immediately go to support them. Griffons and big crows provide eyes in the sky and transmit information, and other troops can follow the instructions. Choose to go to support the situation, or stand on guard and stick to it."

"You have convinced me." Master Sujiad continued to think for a while, then spread his hands and said, "It is indeed a good idea, let's mobilize immediately!" As he said, the face of the red-robed old scholar shone with excitement . "If this matter can be successful, Lord Li Wei, you will definitely leave a strong mark in the history of the Kingdom of Arthur!"

(End of this chapter)