owlsbooks Chapter 1502: The Lord's Inquiry and Deployment
Chapter 1502: The Lord's Inquiry and Deployment
"Your Excellency the City Lord, please feel free to speak."
Lei Xiao withdrew his gaze from the brand new stone tablet in front of him and looked at Booker again.
"To be honest, Your Excellency, the first two groups of heroes were summoned by the gods in the Great Temple. Only Your Excellency and the others were summoned directly to the block. This is also the reason why General Curry initially regarded the phantoms of Your Excellency and the others as a conspiracy of "Eclipse", because this kind of situation has never been encountered before."
Old Booker nodded to Lei Xiao and continued, "Moreover, when the first two groups of heroes were summoned, they were extremely well prepared and knew that the enemy they needed to deal with was the Eclipse."
"Ah? But we were teleported here inexplicably, and we were not prepared at all!"
Jasmine pouted her lips and frowned, saying, "This Lord God is obviously biased! Very biased!"
After saying that, Jasmine shrank her neck again and subconsciously hid behind Lei Xiao, as if she was afraid of angering the gods and being punished by them.
"Your Majesty, why did this happen?"
Although Gray Old Man did not show any dissatisfaction, he still frowned slightly.
"It doesn't matter. I'd rather not have this kind of partiality. After all, grass is growing on the stone tablets of the first two batches of lords."
Lei Xiao smiled helplessly and responded: "In my opinion, it's not so much bias as it is extremely hasty. After all, the first two batches of lords died too quickly, especially the beauty trap in the second batch, which was simply a bit inexplicable."
"Perhaps the gods only prepared two groups of lords to participate in the defense of the city, and they never thought that they would last so short a time."
After hearing Lei Xiao's words, everyone suddenly understood.
Your Excellency is right. Compared with the first two groups of lords who were well prepared, we were obviously more like those who were temporarily pulled in and were a backup plan among backup plans.
This can be seen from the outline scene produced when the space overlapping transmission was started.
The gods obviously saw us entering the ancient ruins and prepared the space teleportation and space barriers. If they had been prepared from the beginning, we would have been teleported here as soon as we stepped into the ruins.
Looking at everyone's suddenly enlightened expressions, Lei Xiao did not feel relaxed in his heart.
In fact, there is another possibility, that is, this time the prompt sound is used to deliberately increase the difficulty.
If I had been informed in advance, I could at least have mobilized some strong men from the Rainforest Fortress Alliance, the Desert Alliance and the Broken Valley Alliance, as well as Wu who had been guarding the Lion City.
Just as Lei Xiao was thinking about this, Old Booker nodded repeatedly, echoing the former's words, "Your Excellency the Brave is right. The divine revelation I received last night was that as long as a specific magic communication is sent out, coupled with devout prayers, a new hero can be summoned, and today Your Excellency the Brave was really summoned."
After saying this, Old Booker lightly touched his staff, and while reciting a prayer, a special magical communication wave surged out.
"Your Majesty, this is exactly the magic communication I received earlier!"
Calvin and other powerful men who stayed behind came forward under the guidance of several priests, and saluted Lei Xiao by touching their chests.
"So it was a magical communication sent by the Lord of the City? It seems that the whole story is clear now."
Lei Xiao nodded slightly, having figured out the whole thing.
"My Lord, don't forget about the dwarven teleportation array at the entrance to the ruins, and the dwarven soldiers we just saw."
Broy commanded the alchemical puppet to pick him up and whispered to Lei Xiao. As a fellow dwarf, he was obviously very concerned about these things.
"Yes, this is our last question."
Lei Xiao nodded and immediately asked the question.
"Sir Brave, this is what happened. Before the Blank Age, Watchtower was a city built by dwarves and humans. At that time, the dwarves and humans awakened together in various places in the city."
Old Booker did not hide anything and responded, "According to records, although the city was intact, the number of survivors was extremely limited. Everyone's mind was blank. It felt like in a trance, everything had changed. People lost their loved ones, but they didn't know what had happened."
"So this is a city built by the dwarves and humans together? If so, it's not surprising that the teleportation array was built by the dwarves. It seems that the last mystery has been solved."
Lei Xiao stroked his chin lightly, and nodded thoughtfully.
But this is not the most important thing. What concerns me most is that the people here have obviously also experienced a blank era.
The only difference we can see now is that here, including this city, the Silver Fire Kingdom has not been completely destroyed, but has continued to exist, while on our side, the Silver Fire Kingdom has been completely destroyed and has completely disappeared in the dust of history.
"From this point of view, this is indeed more like a parallel world, and the divergence point is probably the blank era."
"Could it be that the parallel world was born during this blank period? Was this an accident or was it intentional by the prompt? And why did he do this?"
"It seems that we really need to understand the truth of the blank era to know the reason behind this."
Thinking of this, Lei Xiao gathered his thoughts and said again: "Your Excellency the City Lord, can you tell me more about the history of this place?"
"I will listen to you, brave hero. According to the attack pattern of Eclipse, it will not attack again today."
Old Booker made a "please" gesture, and while directing everyone to return to the Great Temple to rest, he began to describe the situation again.
Lei Xiao learned more through Old Booker's description.
After experiencing a blank era, the remaining powerful men of the Silver Fire Kingdom quickly restored the glory of the Silver Fire Kingdom, making the human race stand at the top of all races, on par with the elves and other forces. At that time, although there were constant frictions among the myriad races, no large-scale wars occurred.
However, the period of peace did not last long. With the emergence of "Eclipse", all races soon became exhausted, so that many small forces were destroyed one after another. Only first-class forces such as the human race remained standing, but because of mutual suspicion, they all chose to keep to themselves.
Until the [God's Stone] of each major force began to shatter one after another.
"It was when the remaining races abandoned their prejudices and chose to work together that the gods appeared and taught us many ways to resist the "eclipse". Many new sons of God also emerged. "
In the elegant lounge of the temple, Old Booker first ordered the servants to bring desserts and hot tea to Lei Xiao and his party, and then continued: "It is precisely because of this that we have persisted until today and are still holding on to the last piece of land that has not been eroded by the "Erosion". "
"So, the gods didn't appear at the beginning?"
Hearing the sound, Lei Xiao pondered and nodded.
"That's right. At the beginning, we were only able to hear divine revelations through the collection of the [Divine Stones]. If we had received guidance from the gods earlier, perhaps the situation would not be as passive as it is now."
Old Booker sighed heavily and responded.
"What about the dwarven soldiers in the fortress just now?"
Lei Xiao took a sip of tea and asked another question: "It seems that there is no trace of dwarf elves in this city."
"Your Excellency the Brave One is indeed very observant. In the beginning, the dwarves did live together with humans. This inevitably led to the emergence of many half-dwarves. Although the lifespan of half-dwarves is not as long as that of real dwarves, it is still much longer than that of ordinary humans."
Old Booker filled Lei Xiao's cup of tea and continued, "Originally, this isn't a bad thing, but as the war with Eclipse intensifies, the number of races has begun to decrease dramatically. Although the human race has a short lifespan, its reproduction speed far exceeds that of races with longer lifespans, so it goes without saying."
"Only by keeping the human race pure can we be more conducive to reproduction?"
Lei Xiao quickly understood the meaning of Old Nick's words, and his mind was filled with thoughts.
In the human world, every strong person is extremely envious of those alien strong people with long lifespans who can have more time to practice. Unexpectedly, here, this has become the biggest advantage of the human race.
"That's right, so the dwarves all voluntarily entered the fortress and chose to protect the safety of the human race, because only with more soldiers can they be invincible in the fight against the "Eclipse", and even the myriad races gave all their main resources to the human race."
Old Booker sighed heavily again. Although it seemed that the human race was respected and indeed respected by all races, the human race also shouldered the heaviest responsibility and had always stood at the forefront of the fight against "Eclipse".
Looking at old Booker's weathered face, everyone on our side fell silent for a moment.
I have to say that compared to our territory, the people here have indeed experienced unimaginable hardships.
And what is certain is that if a great catastrophe were to befall us, and if we were to act on our own, our fate would probably be no different from that of the enemy.
Thinking of this, all the strong men set their eyes on Lei Xiao again. Fortunately, the lord has been working together for all races, which allowed everyone to see a ray of light swaying in the darkness.
Among the crowd who were filled with emotion, Jasmine had a frown on her face and was biting her red lips tightly.
She was naturally well aware of the interests involved. If her forest elves and other first-class forces continued to choose to keep out of trouble, the outcome would be self-evident.
But even if she could return safely and tell the elders of the tribe everything, those self-righteous old stubborn people would probably not listen to a word. What could she change? She still couldn't change anything.
Lei Xiao felt the increasingly heavy atmosphere, drank the hot tea in the cup in one breath, and asked one last question: "Your Excellency City Lord, has a lord from another world ever descended on this land?"
"Your Excellency, no, the land outside has been largely eroded by the Eclipse. All races have built huge cities with humans as the core to fight against the Eclipse. Even the monsters have been mostly destroyed by the Eclipse. Where is there room for the lords of other worlds to survive?"
Old Booker shook his head and responded, "Regarding the lords of other worlds, I only learned about this from the first two batches of heroes not long ago."
"I see. It seems that the situation on the ground is much worse than expected."
After all the doubts in his mind were answered, Lei Xiao nodded to Old Booker with a serious expression and said, "Your Excellency the City Lord, if you really want to protect this city, then I have a few things I need you to do."
"Your Excellency, the Brave One, please feel free to speak. You and others were summoned by the Lord God, and you are the hope of this city. I will of course fully cooperate with you."
Old Booker nodded eagerly without hesitation.
"Very good, then I will speak frankly."
Lei Xiao put down the teacup and began to describe.
The first thing was to bring over the other generals who were carrying the magic stone weapons.
Only in this way can you take the opportunity to upgrade the opponent's weapons.
The second thing is to collect all the equipment in the city.
Of course, I won’t upgrade these equipment directly and return them, but will take out my own equipment to replace them.
After a series of previous battles, the reserves they carried with them were enough to upgrade the equipment of all the soldiers here to a higher level.
With higher-level equipment, the city's defense capabilities will undoubtedly be improved to a certain extent, and the collected equipment will further expand one's own equipment reserves.
The third thing is to collect potions, magic scrolls and other upgradeable items in the city. You will also further improve the opponent's equipment level by replacing them.
"I understand. I'll do it right away!"
After hearing Lei Xiao's instructions, Old Booker quickly gave all the instructions.
In the following day, Lei Xiao completed these three tasks one after another according to the planned schedule.
Not only did he upgrade the equipment, potions, magic scrolls and other reserves of the soldiers defending the city to at least one level, he also upgraded the other four divine stone weapons, bringing his own reserves of divine stone weapons to more than 600.
"The next step is to find a reason to distribute these divine stone equipment."
At the gate of the temple, Lei Xiao looked thoughtful.
Even if half of it is distributed, it can easily increase the ability of the soldiers defending the city to fight against "Eclipse" by dozens of times!
With such a huge improvement, it would be easy to resist the "Eclipse" attack of the previous scale! In other words, the difficulty of defending the city has been greatly reduced!
"Wait, something's wrong."
Lei Xiao's brows suddenly frowned and his face became more serious.
The prompting voice must have known where my talent lies long ago, and must have been able to guess that I would do this.
Under this premise, the other party still summoned me, which means that things are definitely not that simple.
After all, the first two times the warning sounded put him in danger and almost lost his life. Judging from the other party's character, this time must be full of dangers as well.
To be more precise, the prompt never thought that he would be able to defend the city easily!
"So, does Eclipse have another big move? What could it be?" (End of this chapter)