adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 99 Defending a city is a skill!

After taking a shower in the restroom and leaving her work clothes for Nora to wash, Dana silently went to the yard to practice her swordplay.

In order to kill as many monsters as possible at night, she didn't even have time to go out to buy groceries.

Tasks such as buying new swords and magic crystals were assigned to Louis.

In addition, Louis also had to go and buy potions for his teammates.

Potions are special elixirs whose formulas are controlled by various associations and used to enhance various physical attributes, such as stamina potions, strength potions, life potions—and the most precious intelligence potions.

These potions are extremely potent, and only professionals can withstand them. Their purpose is to accelerate the growth of the user's relevant attributes.

However, even for professionals, taking one potion a day is the limit; taking multiple doses in a row will damage the body.

A potion suitable for a level 1 professional usually costs between 30 and 50 silver coins. Intelligence potions are much more expensive, costing 1 gold coin per serving.

But there's no other way; to deal with both overt and covert enemies, we have to buy it even if it's expensive.

If it can increase the speed of becoming stronger even a little bit, then it's worth it.

Louis made two trips to the Mage Guild and the Warrior Guild, buying back all the potions his teammates needed.

He himself didn't need it, which saved him a lot of money.

With only income and no expenditure, Louis's savings have now reached 21 gold coins.

This is an amount that an average family in the Kingdom of Lortheran could never achieve in their lifetime; this amount of money is enough to buy a very nice house in the heart of the outer city.

By the afternoon, everyone had slept for about four hours and their energy had been restored.

We had a nice meal at a restaurant, and it was already evening. Night was about to fall, and the restaurant's clock showed that it was 6:40 pm.

They set off for the meeting place they had arranged with Ruan.

Upon arriving at their destination, Louis's team indeed encountered Ruan, who had been waiting there for some time.

"Mr. Lu An, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Let's go down now."

Louis greeted him with a smile, as if he were talking to a new friend.

Ruan nodded calmly and followed behind Louis's team.

Upon reaching the manhole cover closest to the sewage outlet outside the city, Louis's team tacitly took out bird-beak masks, put them on, lifted the manhole cover, and climbed down.

Ruan clearly didn't receive such treatment; he only prepared a mask for himself, which was better than nothing.

Before long, Louis arrived at the sewage outlet he had been guarding the day before.

By this time, the monster corpses in this area had been mostly cleared away, leaving only a few monster furs and bits of flesh stuck in the cement ground.

Add to that the bloodstains that couldn't be washed away with water, and even though Louis was wearing a gas mask, he could already imagine how pungent the smell was.

For the various insects, these scraps of meat on the ground are nothing short of a feast, which leads to the ground being crawling with insects, who do not shy away from people.

Moreover, most of these worms are small fleshy worms. When you step on them, instead of a crisp "crunch," you get a sticky feeling like popping boba, which is disgusting.

In a sense, what humans fear is not the corpse itself.

What humans fear is the deformation of a corpse after it rots, the stench released by the corpse that can cause plagues, and the ecological environment dominated by maggots that grows on the soil of the corpse.

Louis felt nauseous watching this scene, let alone Dinah and Merry, who hadn't experienced it many times before.

Fortunately, they were able to hold it in and didn't vomit.

Only Nora could remain calm. Perhaps for necromancers, witnessing all the appearances of corpses after death is also part of their training.

Aside from the terrible environment, there are more soldiers stationed here, including some elite semi-professionals, making them a usable fighting force.

Upon seeing Louis and his party arrive, a soldier they had rescued the day before rushed up to greet them.

"Greetings, esteemed professionals."

Louis nodded to the soldier and asked, "How many troops are stationed in the sewers tonight?"

The soldier replied, "The troops guarding the sewage outlets at various points along the underground pipelines number five thousand, and are overseen by twelve professional officers from within the legion."

"In addition, there are 3,000 soldiers waiting for rotation on the ground."

"During the day, we try our best to eliminate the monsters that have invaded the underground passages, and at night we gather at various sewage outlets to fight the enemy."

Louis was somewhat surprised to hear this.

Yesterday, a small force of 500 men was sent to guard the sewers, but today the force has been increased to 5,000 main force troops and 3,000 reserve troops.

Isn't this an excessive number of people?

Seeing Louis's puzzled expression, the soldier explained, "In just one day, the demonic tide has spread and completely surrounded the four walls of Blackrock City—not only has the pressure on the city's defenses increased significantly, but all the sewage outlets leading out of the city are also at risk of being invaded."

"To avoid repeating the same mistake, the Corps replenished the number of soldiers guarding the underground passage in one go."

Louis nodded in realization.

As a metropolis with a population of one million, Blackrock City is not only vast in area, but also riddled with drafts.

Take these small sewage outlets for example. There are so many of them that even if many unnecessary outlets are sealed off, it would still take a huge amount of manpower and resources to guard the remaining areas.

As for completely blocking the sewage outlet?

In just a few days, Blackrock City will be filled with a stench.

Sewage could overflow manhole covers, pollute the city's water sources, and could even cause an outbreak of plague.

Thinking about all this, Louis couldn't help but sigh that defending a city is truly a technical job. Without professionals to grasp the overall direction, the city would fall on the very first day of the demonic invasion.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he asked, "By the way, how many soldiers from the unit guarding the sewers were killed last night?"

The soldier fell silent for a moment before whispering, "Four hundred and ninety men killed in action."

In other words, apart from the ten soldiers who were escorted out by Dina and the others, all the other soldiers died.

The casualty rate was much higher than that of the soldiers defending the city.

Louis sighed.

He opened his mouth, wanting to ask if the higher-ups in Blackrock City had planned any assassination operations against the demons.

If the demons outside the city who can summon the native monsters of the Blackrock City sewers are not eliminated, then every night, the monsters roaming in the sewers will rush out, and the monsters from the outside world will also crowd in.

It's difficult to hold out when attacked from both sides.

Once a sewage outlet is breached, even more monsters will crawl into the sewers.

If this cycle continues for several days, Blackrock City's military strength will be continuously depleted, eventually leading to its inability to hold the city.

However, in the end, Louis did not ask the question.

Because this is clearly not something an ordinary soldier should know.

He suppressed these thoughts and prepared to keep watch at the sewage outlet, but just then, Louis suddenly felt a loud roar above his head.

The ceiling of the sewer shook violently, and a lot of dust fell, making people wonder if it was about to collapse.

"W-what's going on?"

Louis frowned.

Boom boom boom—

The roaring sound above the sewers continued, like a towering giant hammering against the city wall.

Just then, Nora's voice rang out softly: "Could it be—that black-armored female demon has come again?"

Louis's expression immediately changed.

The performance of the woman in black armor last night had a huge impact on him.

The memory of Karenno's death is still fresh in my mind.

During the day, Nora was still fiddling with the knight's head, trying to turn it into a necromancer's weapon.

Is another level 3 professional going to be killed today?