A crow landed on the wall of the castle, looking around with its dark eyes, and saw several fishing poles and flower pots propped up on the arrow stacks.
A lich swordsman wearing soul armor sat there concentrating on fishing, pulling the rod from time to time.
Kong, who was so angry that he was cursing, must be the Mayor Locke that the townspeople were talking about.
This is a quiet and remote town. Listen to the conversations of the townspeople. This place has been under the rule of Mayor Locke a long time ago. The townspeople live and work in peace and contentment, with stable security and economic prosperity.
Some time ago, Mayor Locke also found someone to build a central teleportation array to strengthen the connection with Beifeng City. This move was unanimously considered to be a waste of money.
Why does a remote town need a central teleportation array? Look, it's deserted there now, and the usage rate is not high. Instead of spending several magic crystals to activate the teleportation array, the townspeople might as well walk to Beifeng City.
But prodigality is good, and prodigal lichs are real lichs. Only those races with limited life spans who need to eat, drink, and drink will live their lives carefully.
The Lich, if he loses, he loses. He's hungry anyway, so building something that's useless is more in line with Mayor Locke's character.
The crow noticed something moving out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a cute and pink little girl walking towards it from the wall. She reached forward with both hands, as if she was about to pounce on her.
When the crow turned its head, the little girl knew that she had been discovered. She immediately roared, "Ouch!" with her teeth and claws spread out, obviously to scare the crow.
The crow sighed helplessly, and flew up in a cooperative manner, showing a frightened posture. The crow must also conform to the "bird" design. If a crow cannot be scared away, is it still a bird?
An undead creature wearing a coir raincoat-like soul armor came out and shouted to the little girl: "Ouch!"
The little girl yelled and ran back.
Another undead creature wearing soul armor dragged an undead war horse out. While dragging it, he said: "You dead horse, let me ride it, let me ride it."
Another undead creature wearing soul armor formed a shovel in one hand and turned over the soil in the flowerbed in the corner.
An alchemist wearing a magician's high collar, hat, cape, gloves, and mask came back with a bunch of alchemical prosthetics. After spotting the crow in the sky, he suddenly stopped and looked at the crow thoughtfully.
Crow only felt a thought sweep over his body.
Discovered? The crow was not in a hurry, and slowly flew up, then turned around and flew in another direction. The alchemist kept watching it during the whole process.
It's normal to be discovered, but it's strange not to be discovered. That means the undead creatures in this town are too weak.
Although it has a hostile relationship with the Warlock Alliance, the Undead Empire has no objection to warlocks, because undead creatures can also learn various warlock spells, and because of their longevity, their foundations are often stronger than humans.
However, warlocks are more about creativity and have never been the mainstream among undead creatures. Now this warlock is already quite powerful.
From the mayor to the residents, even the warlocks are undead, there is absolutely no way this town is a hiding place for the lackeys of the light.
After coming to this conclusion, a large group of crows flew up from all over the town and flew quietly to the next village.
Seeing the crows leaving, a small yellow book flew up from Ange's body and opened its pages.
On the page of the book, a giant brass dragon's big claws patted the head of a corpse dragon that was a few circles smaller: "Did you see it? Did you see it? The Dream Banshee was also deceived by us. Did you see it?"
The body of Negris is more than 50 meters, while the body of Dracolich is only 18 meters. The gap is as big as a monitor lizard and a chameleon. Dracolich was slapped by it and shrank into a ball: "I know, I know, you are really amazing." , who are you?"
Nigris curled his lips: "You might not believe it even if I tell you, but we are the people of the immortal god."
"Believe it, believe it, you are the people of the Immortal God, and you are also the Pope of the Church of Light. You are so powerful. You combine light and darkness. You are like a knight. You are really good at blowing." Dragon Lich said with a sarcastic look.
It can only be said that this dracolich is not very tactful in character. Under such circumstances, he dared to act strangely and was stepped on by Nigris. In the Book of Brass, Nigris is the master.
After it was 'convinced', Negris asked: "What is the identity of this Eommon Banshee? Why was it sent here? Does it have any special abilities?"
"It can make people have nightmares and then steal information from dreams. It was just observing you just now, but in fact, the collection of information has long been completed in ordinary people's dreams. It may have just left because it found nothing. "Dragon Lich said.
Anthony frowned: "Ai Guli! No, if the Emen Banshee is so powerful, why do some villages with all light believers exist? Let the Banshee go around and dig out all those villages."
Dragon Lich curled his lips: "What you said is just like 'you can buy a manor after working hard for five hundred years'. It's all bullshit. Do you know how many villages there are in the entire plane? Even if you check one per month, check them all. It will take thousands of years to finish, do you want to exhaust the banshee to death?"
Anthony frowned: "Why do you have to check one item a month, one item a day, and it takes more than thirty years to complete the investigation?"
"...You humans are so terrible. It's cruel to work just one or two days a month. You actually want them to work every day for more than thirty years?" Dracolich couldn't help but curse.
The number of Banshees of Doom is too small, only a few, and it is not easy to steal information in dreams. If you want to conduct a large-scale investigation, it will be impossible to investigate the villages in the entire plane without tens or even hundreds of years. This is what I want to do. I want the banshee’s life.
If the investigation takes too long, such as three to five hundred years, the population will have been updated for how many generations, which is completely meaningless.
Besides villages, what about cities? How to investigate a city with a population of tens of thousands?
When the time comes to force believers of light to sneak into the city, it would be better to let them live in their own settlements, as long as they don't cause a big trouble.
Anthony nodded in agreement: "That's right. The reason for the desert is that there are few villages and towns. It only takes a few days to scan it. Mr. Naig, please give it a good beating."
Dragon Lich was shocked: "What? By the way, you also want to beat me?"
Anthony nodded: "It's a matter of attitude, beat him up."
After being beaten severely, Anthony said: "You can find someone to protect you, so that you don't have to be beaten at any time."
Anthony has almost finished asking all the questions he wants to know, and he can either kill him or establish a soul connection.
Ange has no interest in adding new soul connections, and the Dracolich can only choose to dedicate his soul to the little zombie.
"Alas - alas - alas -" After stuffing the soul that had established a soul connection back into the body, the Dracolich Gadrigo lay there and sighed.
It was too shameful for a dignified Dracolich to dedicate his soul to an unknown person. Its last owner was at least the speaker of the Parliament of the Undead, one of the top figures in the Undead Empire.
But it miscalculated, and something even worse happened. The little zombie dragged a large wooden frame over and put it on Gadrigo's body.
"What do you want to do?" Gadrigo suddenly had an ominous premonition.
The little zombie set up the wooden frame, then pointed to the plow next to it: "Ouch!"
The Lich Dragon, which is almost twenty meters long, is not used to pull plows to plow the fields. What a waste.
Ange has fully activated its body, and there are no traces of the former dracolich on its appearance. Even if someone sees it now, they will not associate it with the corpse that Ange robbed.
So around Shenyun Town and in the dam irrigation area, you can see a twenty-meter-long dragon from time to time, dragging a row of plow birches and crawling past with a sigh.
Because of its size, it can drag twelve plows at a time, working twenty-four hours a day, thirty days a month, all year round, and successfully leads a "cruel" life.
Now it doesn't say that humans are cruel, the little zombies are even crueler than humans.
The only advantage is that the little zombie will share its soul energy with it through soul connection, so that it can devote itself to work full of energy. After a period of time, its soul has solidified a lot.
…
A month passed, and the last crow left Beifeng City, and the Banshee found nothing.
After investigating the town of Shenyun, the Emeng Banshee investigated all the places in the entire desert. Even Abbott in the Stone Chamber Cemetery had seen crows.
However, the lonely Abbott failed to attract the attention of the crow and did not stay there. It was looking for the stronghold of the Church of Light, not a homeless man in the desert.
Finally, all the crows gathered in Beifeng City. In the next period of time, the people in Beifeng City were more likely to have nightmares.
Unfortunately, Emeng Banshee could not find any information about the stronghold of the Church of Light, nor did she find any suspicious traces. In the end, she could only infer that the two six-winged archangels and the Pope were just passing by.
After the last crow left, Feiwo and Yin Coin relaxed their tense hearts.
…
Underground in Shenyun Town, Ange, who had taken the opportunity to reclaim all the land in Shenyun Town and the dam irrigation area, was about to extend into the desert when he was called back for a meeting and listened to Yin Coin and Feiwo's work report in boredom.
"The Warlock Ladder in North Wind City has now risen to an altitude of 10,000 meters and is hovering there. The Dracolich harasses them from time to time, but there is nothing that can be done about it. The current situation is that the two sides have fallen into a strategic stalemate, and the focus of the competition is Turned to the people.”
"The warlock ladder comes down during the day to distribute food and exchange materials, and goes up at night to guard against sneak attacks."
"The Council of the Undead also dispatched a large number of undead creatures to suppress bandits at various transportation thoroughfares and disaster areas to maintain order and take away the jobs of the former Warlock Alliance." Silver Coin reported.
The arrival of the Warlock Alliance has objectively saved the order of the surface world. In the era of small peasant economy, as long as the order is maintained, large-scale disasters will not occur.
To maintain order, we need to have food, no disease, and no fighting.
There is still food, but because of the breakdown of order and local food shortages, places with food are hoarding and reluctant to sell due to panic, which has led to many tragedies.
The arrival of the Warlock Alliance has stabilized food prices and maintained order.
Their arrival also accelerated the slow and cumbersome Undead Empire.
If there was no threat from the Warlock Alliance, those high-level undead creatures who felt cruel even if they only had to work for one day a month would probably have to wait until all the living creatures died before they could react.
"In a sense, the two parties have reached a balanced cooperative relationship, working together to maintain the order of the surface world while competing for the support of the nobles and landowners."
"Both the Warlock Alliance and the Parliament of the Undead have sent people to come to us and are willing to provide all conveniences to help us resume production, as long as the materials produced are sold to them." Feiwo said.
Competing for people's hearts requires resources. If you can't even get food and everyone doesn't have enough to eat, who will obey your rule? Therefore, large landowners who can produce grain are the first targets of competition between the two sides.
Originally, Beifeng City had no advantage in this regard. The grain it produced was only a fraction of that of the main grain-producing areas in the south, and the grain it ate had to be transported from outside.
But both sides noticed the existence of the dam irrigation area. The location of the warlock's ladder can directly see the irrigation area, but it was abandoned some time ago.
So someone approached me, hoping that Feiwo could arrange manpower to resume planting in the irrigation area and sell the grain produced to them.
Feiwo couldn't make the decision, so he said he had to think about it. Just after discussing with Yin Coin, the second group of people came over and proposed more favorable conditions, and also asked for the grain produced to be sold to them.
Yin Coin rolled his eyes and immediately asked Feiwo to consider it, and sent the second group of people away with great fanfare.
Unexpectedly, just as the second group of people left, the first group of people came back, proposing more generous terms and saying that they could pay in advance.
Before Feiwo could agree, the second group of people also came back, and the two sides almost started fighting at the gate of the city lord's mansion.
Nigris said in shock: "So, you just use 'think about it' and ask them to raise the price of food to ten magic crystals per ton? You also have to pay a deposit of 20,000 magic crystals in advance and promise to underwrite all the food." , and provide all conveniences to help you resume production?"
Yin Coin nodded and said, "I didn't take the deposit, and I didn't agree to any other conditions. I just said I couldn't make the decision. I'll bid when the harvest comes. The one with the highest price will get it."
"Why not collect a deposit?" Nigris asked puzzledly.
"It can't be collected. What they need is not food. What they need is a monopoly supply. Even if the food is burned, the other party will not get it. Therefore, the deposit can only be collected from one family, but if one family collects it, the other family will definitely find ways to do so. Burn the crops," said Silver Coin.
Ange, who was bored and fiddling with the arrangement of magic circles with his hands, suddenly raised his head and stared at the silver coins.
Silver Coin quickly waved his hand: "I didn't burn it, they burned it."
Anthony added: "This is a battle for dominance of the plane. It is very cruel. If anyone accepts the deposit, his family will definitely not be able to harvest food next year. If many people accept the deposit, next year's food production will definitely be reduced on a large scale. Then there will be trouble.”
"This is too cruel, won't Your Majesty stop them?" Nigris said.
"His Majesty is trapped in the Barrier of Annihilation, and it should be the senior leaders of the Council of the Dead who are in charge of this now," Anthony said.
"What should we do?" Nigris asked.
Silver Coin said: "It's very simple. As long as everyone refuses to accept a deposit, insists on auctioning after harvest, and the highest bidder will wait, then at least the food will be safe while it is in the fields."
"Why do you want everyone to refuse to accept the deposit? Many people can't think this far. I was just wondering why you didn't accept the deposit." Negris said depressedly.
Silver Coin said: "There is only one channel through which everyone can receive our warning, which is the home of the deceased. We can analyze the situation to everyone through bounties, which will definitely make most people alert."
"However, the authority of the House of the Dead is in the hands of the Council of the Dead. I am afraid that it will be deleted by then. If we use the Supreme Power Seal, others with higher power will be exposed. So I would like to ask your Lord, can you use the Supreme Power Seal? Seal of power?”
Of course Ange needs to decide this kind of thing.
"Okay, but you can't burn the fields."
