"Very good, I have three flying dragons, eight earth crystals, and eight horn-winged monsters here." Gavin couldn't help but smile. His risky move was worth it.
In this situation, he will not need to face the opponent's flying army single-handedly next time, although he still does not have an advantage in terms of numbers.
But they can fight in groups, and the enemy will definitely not dare, because they will definitely be afraid of Gavin's three previous range attacks.
As for what he said, they were naturally drowned by his shadow army in the shadow duel and dragged to the Vizeme Manor. Their bodies were all dragged away by the power of shadow, so naturally they were not there. Shanobah and their inventory.
"That's great. After the lord's skills are restored, we can go poaching again tomorrow." Shanoba suggested enthusiastically.
She is now a bit addicted to ready-made food, and she wants to immediately make all the flying dragons of the Cloud Giant her own.
"My success before was entirely based on surprise. The next time I appear in front of them, they will definitely disperse immediately. Neither the cloud giant nor the revenge priestess is a good person. After they return, they will definitely Think of ways to restrain me right away. If you use the same trick again, I might be the one who falls into the trap." Gavin said very rationally.
Why doesn't he covet the opponent's remaining flying dragons, but he will not despise his enemies, especially those spellcasters with many methods.
"I thought I could steal all the opponent's flying dragons! If the Storm King saw that all his flying dragons had turned around and aimed at them, I believe their faces would not look good." Shanobah regretted it again. Full of expectations.
"Sooner or later, this situation will occur one day. Your current task is to completely tame them as soon as possible, arm them, and arrange suitable knights for them as soon as possible." This air battle did not and did not open up ideas for Gavin.
The Dragon's Breath flutter bomb only allows these flying units to have air-to-ground combat methods. In air-to-air, this kind of bomb is difficult to work.
Either they rely on the special abilities of these mounts, like the horn-winged monsters, or they rely on their own melee combat capabilities, like the flying dragon.
Most of the flying dragons have lost the ability to breathe dragon breath. Even the black-winged flying dragons strengthened with the help of Sanobalon Dogs do not have the ability to activate dragon breath. After all, they have been cursed by the Dragon God for tens of thousands of years and have become extremely weak. It cannot be made up overnight.
Whether they are flying dragons or horn-winged monsters, they are not truly intelligent creatures after all, and their growth limit is relatively limited. Even with the help of Sanoba's dragon and dog, in a short period of time, they will only become stronger than their peers. If you want It's probably not an easy task to rival the ancient flying dragons. After all, it took tens of thousands of years for them to weaken to their current state.
If you want to quickly improve their combat effectiveness, you have to start with their knights.
When an ordinary person and an extraordinary mage ride them to fight, the combat power they unleash is completely different.
Not only do knights need to be carefully selected, but the fighting methods of those knights also need to be innovated.
This was an urgent matter, for not only was it needed to fight the Storm King, but it was also needed on the front lines of the Tukan Nomads' great invasion.
It's not that Faerun doesn't have an air force, it's just that the small and medium-sized forces can't afford to support it, and even if there are a few occasionally, they can't show their power, but the big forces basically support their own air force.
Not to mention, the Zhentarim will have their own Sky Mage, which is not only a special advanced spellcasting profession, but also their sky arms. They can perform various tasks individually, and can also fight in large groups. Many of them are of a slightly larger scale. The caravans will be equipped with sky mages, which is a symbol of them.
The Kingdom of Cormyr has a group of hippogriff cavalry, and those riding these hippogriffs are all professionally trained battle mages.
The Kingdom of Ser has the Griffin Corps, the Tukan Army has the Tukan Eagle Knights, and the Leatherman Kingdom has an army of flying monsters led by birds transformed from totem spirits.
The two sides have been fighting on the front line for several rounds, with each winning or losing. Currently, those Tukan Eagle Knights have the strongest air combat capabilities, because compared to the first two, they are specially trained for air combat, and they are extreme enough and sufficient. Abnormality is powerful enough.
Therefore, it is not enough to just build a powerful ultra-long-range bomber. You also need to have air fighters that are sharp enough and capable of escorting. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the Yunray's air-to-ground capabilities are, it will be in vain if it cannot reach the enemy's ground troops. .
"Lord, please leave them to me, don't worry." Shanoba said, patting her bulging chest.
"I always feel at ease when you do things." Gavin's words were not purely complimentary. Statue City can develop rapidly, and as the city owner, she plays an indispensable role.
Ambition is often a negative word, but under the right circumstances, it can play a positive role, especially when you have matching abilities.
"How is the restart of the mining area going? Is the progress going smoothly?" Gavin had to pay attention to the situation in Statue City. He also urgently needed to dig out the treasures of the Shatana dwarves there to strengthen his army.
"It's going very smoothly." Shanobah said with joy. "The first batch of dwarves from the Iron Clan settled in three days ago. There are five hundred of them. They are doing their best to repair the dungeon's gas supply pipes and inspect all the dwarves. Pipeline maintenance.
The dwarves in Shanata are very craftsmanlike. They maintain their gas supply pipes very well. According to the dwarves, the other party had maintained all the pipes before using the mineral vein sealing technique. So far, no discovery has been made. any problem.
Don't worry, Lord, we will restore the gas supply and open all the mining area gates before the army arrives at the Land of Three Rivers, so as to ensure that your plan will not be delayed. "
"What about the research on Cloud Ray's special armed platform and flying dragon armor?"
"Master Jihalin and Chief Yuriu have already started the design. I believe that after they come up with the preliminary draft, they will definitely give it to the lord for review."
"Supervise them and let them pay more attention to this matter. The importance of this matter is not inferior to the mining area."
"Understood, what to do with those earth crystals and horn-winged monsters?"
"Their situation is different from those of the flying dragons. Their focus is not on those horn-winged monsters, but on those soil crystal people. As long as they control those soil crystal people, they are equivalent to controlling those horn-winged monsters, but the opponent has so many The Soil Crystal People mean that the other party controls at least one large Soil Crystal People village. If we want them to be of use to us, we must solve their worries." Gavin pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go over and see them. "
Gavin attached great importance to the earth crystal people.
This is a kind of humanoid creature from the earth elemental plane. They are very similar to dwarves in appearance. They have a strong feeling all over their bodies. However, they have no blood relationship with dwarves. On the contrary, the relationship between the two is not good. Overlapping living spaces lead to wars. Some earth crystal rangers will even choose dwarves as their old enemies to enhance their lethality against them.
The height of the earth crystal man is also not comparable to that of dwarves. He is taller than most humans and can look at Gavin's level.
It's just that Gavin's thighs are not as thick as the opponent's arms. The most unique thing is that the opponent's body does not have any hair. Instead, there are clusters of crystals that look like hair and beards, shoulder armor, knees, soles of feet, backs of hands, etc. These are There are crystal clusters of different numbers and shapes everywhere.
Crystal exoskeleton is the innate ability of earth crystal people.
It's just that if you want to grow this kind of exoskeleton, you have to eat a lot of crystals.
This crystal gives them powerful defenses, and they are extraordinary beings, all adults with extraordinary Hit Dice.
They are both excellent warriors and the best crystal miners. Their sonic pulses can easily shatter those crystal ores and screen them out from impurities.
"Who among you has the most say in your tribe?" Gavin asked the Earth Crystal captives straight to the point.
The earth crystal captive just looked at Gavin with a dull expression, showing no emotion.
"It seems that even if you are proficient in languages, you are not omnipotent." Gavin couldn't help complaining.
It's not that these earth crystal captives are cold and unwilling to pay attention to him, but that they use a low-pitched sonic language. Being proficient in language only allows the person to understand the other party's language, but if they can't even hear clearly, then How to understand?
Gavin turned around and ordered: "Find me a spell caster who can connect Larry's mind."
Larry's Mind Connection is a fifth-level spell, and Gavin himself can already cast this level of spell.
However, this spell is relatively partial and is rarely used in daily life. Gavin, who is quite partial, hasn't had time to learn it yet.
This spell allows an invisible psychic connection to be established between the caster and the target creature. The intelligence value of these creatures must be above 3.
The minds of all target creatures will be connected to each other, and all creatures that receive the connection can communicate directly with their hearts without using language.
Apart from this, the psychic connection will have no other effects or effects. Once the connection is completed, it is valid no matter how far apart they are (but not across different planes).
Before casting the spell, the caster can choose whether to include themselves in the psychic connection.
The most powerful thing is that this spell can be permanently effective in conjunction with the magic constancy spell. It can only establish a connection between two creatures at a time. A creature can be constancy multiple times to establish this kind of spiritual connection with multiple creatures.
This is also the reason why many spellcasters who stay at home and do research in the mage tower are extremely well-informed.
Why does no one among the Seven Sisters dare to provoke them easily?
In addition to being powerful enough, it is also because they all have similar communication methods. If one of them is provoked, the others will basically know about it and can reach the battlefield in minutes.
Gavin, Zalanda, and Catherine fixed this spell separately. Many times, when they discussed issues, they didn't need to teleport to meet each other, they only needed to make a mental call.
Whether the other party responds or not is another matter, and it can also be cut off or blocked unilaterally.
The world of extraordinary mages is completely different from the world of ordinary people. What hinders the popularization of practical spells is their high price.
For two people to establish a spiritual connection, two fifth-level spells are required, including the casting fee and material cost. It starts with at least 20,000 gold coins, which is simply not something ordinary people can afford.
But those countries and large chambers of commerce can still afford it, and there is no problem in placing their own loudspeakers everywhere.
This is why those countries and large chambers of commerce are extremely well-informed. Tukan’s nomadic army is still thousands of kilometers away from Faerûn, and King Asan has already received accurate information.
The instant messaging network established by the Conqueror Chamber of Commerce using the ghost messengers only has an advantage over those small and medium-sized chambers of commerce, but does not benefit much from those large chambers of commerce. They also have their own instant messaging network.
Gavin is limited by his spell knowledge and has not fully understood the world of spellcasters in Faerûn, so he underestimates many things in this world.
Fortunately, the ghost messenger still has its own advantages. It only needs to be connected to the Internet to contact multiple people. Unlike Larry's psychic connection, which requires repeated charges, even those spell casters cannot afford to establish connections with multiple people. Contact costs.
Although Gavin could afford it, because of the ghost messengers, there was no need to use them on a large scale. He could only establish contact with those most necessary.
Soon a holy strategist who prepared Larry's spiritual connection was found. Among the captives of the earth crystal people, the druid established a spiritual connection with Gavin. No matter which race he was in, the caster was special. existence, the possibility of identity respect is high.
"What's the name?" Gavin asked via telepathy.
"Lupo." The Earth Crystal Druid responded.
"Please tell your tribe that as long as they are willing to cooperate with us, we will not harm your lives. This is a war between us and the cloud giant. There is no need for you to risk your lives in it." Gavin took the lead. Make a promise.
"Yes." Even if the connection was made through the mind, the Earth Crystal man's answer was concise and concise, showing that he was not good at words.
This earth crystal Druid named Lu Bo was very cooperative and answered all questions, especially the information about the Cloud Giant. The giant has no loyalty at all, and naturally he will not risk his own life to protect the other party's secrets.
This cloud giant who calls himself the Storm King is named Nurudin. He is not a giant native to the Thunder Peak Mountains, but an alien invader who arrived five years ago on his flying throne with the Gray Serpent Dragon. here.
He first surrendered an orc tribe called Feilong in the Thunder Peak Mountains. The origin of the tribe's name does not need to be explained, because they are good at taming and controlling flying dragons and have powerful orc flying dragon cavalry.
This orc tribe is the old enemy of the Crystal Cliff tribe. Before the arrival of the Cloud Giants, the two tribes had been fighting for control of the central area of the Thunder Peak Mountains. This war lasted for hundreds of years. For this reason, they both cultivated A large number of empty riders competed with each other, forming a deadlock.
Until the arrival of the Cloud Giant, this balance was broken. In order to avoid the fate of being massacred, the Jingya Tribe had to swear allegiance to the Cloud Giant, mine and provide troops for him.
This cloud giant is an out-and-out tyrant and is very fanatical about gems. The reason why he chose to settle in the Thunder Peak Mountains is because there are a large number of gem mines here.
Now most of the intelligent creatures in the Thunder Peak Mountains are his miner slaves, digging gems for him all over the world. The ability of the earth crystal people in mining crystal gems makes them very valued by the Cloud Giants, and they can live a good life. Not too bad.
But even if they are taken seriously, they are just high-level slaves. All the crystal gems mined have nothing to do with them, let alone eating crystals to strengthen themselves.
Fortunately, the earth crystal people are omnivorous animals, and crystals are only necessary for them to strengthen their own abilities, not for their survival, otherwise they would have rebelled long ago.
Therefore, it is normal for them to have complaints against Cloud Giant.
Gavin secretly wrote down this matter. This might be an opportunity for him to find a way to instigate them to rebel against the Cloud Giant.
But this is not an easy thing, and the Cloud Giant must be very careful against them.
Gavin did not waste too much energy on lobbying the other party to be loyal to him, because their clansmen and relatives were in the hands of the Cloud Giant, and they would definitely not turn their guns against the Cloud Giant out of fear.
This battle brought great pressure and excitement to Giant Cloud, forcing him to adjust his past behavior in order to better cope with the challenge.
Since then, he began to expand his army crazily in the Thunder Peak Mountains, mainly orcs and hobgoblins.
Once he began to raise troops on a large scale, it meant that the demand for food increased significantly. The more than a thousand tons of food brought by the drow priestess were only used as starting army rations, and there was still a huge gap in the future.
They adhere to the concept of monster power, and the first thing that comes to mind is to rob.
High Valley, Bow Valley, Deep Forest Valley and Misty Valley, these four adjacent valleys are the best targets.
At the same time, he also sent his own envoy to quarrel with the Merchant Council of Sembia and the dark intelligence network. The envoy was none other than the drow priestess Dilila.
On the matter of targeting the army of conquerors, they hit it off, especially the Sambia Business Council. They were eager for someone to contain the army of conquerors that was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now that they came to the door, they naturally welcomed it with both hands. Using their usual methods, money, equipment, and food began to be sent to the Thunder Peak Mountains in large quantities.
The footsteps of the conqueror's army were not affected in any way, and they moved towards their destination with slow but determined steps.
According to the marching speed of the conqueror's army, it only took them two days to cross the entire Misty Valley, but it took them five full days.
It was not an extraneous incident, on the contrary, under the deliberate promotion of Gavin and the seven councilors of Misty Valley, the residents of Misty Valley had cordial and friendly interactions with the army of conquerors.
(End of chapter)
