Chapter 47 The Black Magician's Invitation
When Joyce Andre, wearing the armor of a church knight, caught up with him, Yang Qiu knew that the gentlemen of Camorre had a deep hatred for him and were extremely vigilant . Their attitude was completely different from that of the Weavers' Guild, which only wanted to "send away the plague god" and they really wanted to give him a couple of blows.
This is understandable. After all, Yang Qiu was not very polite to gentlemen during his more than 100 years of travel...
Anyway, after using his mouth cannon to force Andre back, Yang Qiu had already been thinking about dividing up the battlefield and not letting the players face the real tough enemies - after all, the Scourge were still just a bunch of newbies with only half of them having completed their job transfer. They could probably fight against a mob of former thieves like the Holy Crow, but if they fought against a legitimate army, they would probably be wiped out after two rounds of attacks.
The subsequent development was not unexpected to Yang Qiu. The gentleman from Camor actually invited the cavalry of the Holy Priest Corps of the Principality of Shiga.
The Goddess of Prosperity, the righteous deity in the deep house, is quite powerful, and her priests are indeed capable of fighting. This army of priests, with an unknown total number of people, is rumored to be between 8,000 and 14,000. Even if it is placed in the entire Nabarron continent, it can be considered a first-class strong army.
This definition of a strong army must be limited to the southwest of the Napalm continent, and it will not work if it is further away.
The reason is that the financial situation of the Principality of Shiga is quite bad, and it is unable to launch a large-scale expedition. Even if this legion of holy priests is on the expedition for half a year, it will be enough to bring down the finances of the Principality of Shiga...
Second, influenced by the goddess of prosperity, a otaku goddess with a serious peasant economy ideology, the believers of this goddess tend to stay at home, and the more devout the believers, the more they stay at home...
However, no matter how much of a stay-at-home or how financially strapped he was, it wouldn't be a big problem to go to war against Tarantin, which was right outside his home. So for the sake of long-term development, Yang Qiu definitely couldn't really get into a fight with these priests. He had to justify his actions first, and then try to flirt with them...
The black-robed inspector Lowell stared in amazement at the group of undeads arguing for a while. One of the undead took out a handful of exquisite-looking coins and handed them to another undead. He then waved happily at the other skeletons and pulled up a few dejected private soldiers and put them aside.
Lowell stopped, turned around and looked at Yang Qiu suspiciously.
"Don't get me wrong, Mr. Inspector, what the undead are auctioning is not the ownership of these private soldiers, but the right to capture them." Yang Qiu said calmly.
Lowell said nothing, his eyes were very deep.
"I am different from ordinary black magicians." Yang Qiu boasted shamelessly, "The undead I summoned are naturally different from ordinary undead. You should have discovered that these undead unique to Tarantan are not as dull and stupid as ordinary creatures from the dimensional demon world. They have wisdom that is not inferior to that of ordinary people, and they know how to cherish life better than living humans. You can see that they not only protect the unarmed old, weak, sick and disabled, but also are reluctant to harm the brutal private soldiers of the nobles."
The priests really couldn't refute this statement. They looked at each other, and Lowell also seemed a little hesitant.
Yang Qiu had no intention of letting these priests leave too quickly. If they left now, they might incite someone and come back again after receiving the military funds. He said calmly, "I know that the undead are as evil as a black magician like me in people's eyes, but it's hard for people to believe the noble character of these Tarantan undead with such pale words. If you don't mind, why don't you come with us for two days and witness it with your own eyes?"
Seeing that Lowell seemed to be interested, Yang Qiu immediately patted his chest and said, "To show my hospitality, I will cover your expenses in Tarantan."
——Only meals are provided. There are no shopping malls or hotels in Tarantino, so what if you still want to go shopping?
He pointed at the undead who were noisily auctioning off the captives and said righteously, "The noble undead of Tarantan have already prepared the supplies needed by the living to meet the civilians who have come to Tarantan."
Lowell & the priests: "..."
I don't believe you!
...Of course, the apologists would not say this.
Lowell was unable to respond for a moment because he was worried that the longer he came into contact with this black magician, the more likely he would be influenced by his dangerous remarks. When Yang Qiu proposed the theory that "the difference between justice and evil lies only in how it is defined and who defines it", Lowell did not even argue with him because he was worried that he would be contaminated by this seemingly logically self-consistent crazy idea.
Yang Qiu didn't know if he could see the black-robed inspector's concerns. He smiled and said, "Please agree to my request, Inspector Lowell. I really hope that you can give these Tarantan Undead a chance to prove themselves. Although they were born from chaos and evil, they have a noble spirit that yearns for order and light. They will never harm civilians and prisoners."
——As long as the identification spell cannot find the equipment and cannot attack, the Fourth Calamity will be very friendly!
Lowell did not express his opinion immediately, but first looked at his deputy, Captain Andre.
Andre frowned, and it was obvious that he was very conflicted about the proposal of the black magician Yang; when he saw Lowell looking at him, he hesitated and nodded reluctantly.
"Thank you for your patience, Yang." Lowell finally agreed.
This was not just out of curiosity, but Lowell felt that this might be a good opportunity to expose the black magician Yang's mask of "even though I won't say it, I think I'm always right" - after all, looking at the crazy energy of these undead in stripping other people's clothes and capturing prisoners, Lowell instinctively felt that Yang Qiu was bragging.
Anyway, Lowell didn't see any sign that these unique undead had any desire for order.
So the group of priests did not rush to leave. They got off their horses one by one to stretch their limbs which were stiff and uncomfortable from being immobilized for such a long time, and looked curiously at the noisy undead around them.
The players who were busy shooting down the captives who were about to be "handed in" also threw identification spells at the priests...
"It's a green name, not a BOSS." A player said with regret, "What a pity, these NPCs are all at a high level, it would be a profit if we could defeat one or two of them."
"Only those who can defeat them are called BOSS, my friend. The lowest one is level 6, which is higher than the high-level NPCs in Exile Town. What's the point of beating them?" Some players are very satisfied with the income and don't care whether there are more BOSSes to defeat. "These NPCs may be characters in the dynamic plot. Did you see the pretty boy in black robe standing close to Lao Yang? The modeling is so delicate, maybe he will be a big character in the future plot."
"This NPC is really handsome, more handsome than Old Yang, and seems to be of a high level. I can't identify anything. For other NPCs, at least I can see their level, but this one is just like Old Yang, with all question marks."
"Damn, it's going to be a long way back, and I can't take the screenshots back to the save point and log off..."
The black-robed inspector Lowell felt that these undeads that Yang Qiu shamelessly praised for a long time were completely disorderly. In fact... if Ji Tang hadn't come online in time, and Entropy hadn't come up with a way to solve the chaos caused by the players' fight for prisoners, they would have seen an even more disorderly scene...
After Yang Qiu trapped the priests with traps, he issued the "Emergency Rescue" mission to the players, asking the players to run more than ten kilometers with a small amount of supplies and rush over to take over the civilians.
The group of weavers came out to look for it once and then stopped running around, precisely because the players arrived.
A large group of lively skeletons frightened even the brave and aggressive private soldiers of the nobles, and Orito was naturally in a tough situation too; it was thanks to the food brought by the players that these old, weak and sick people were able to stabilize themselves - the lower classes in any world are very easy to satisfy, and a few fair words spoken in the right place, or a bite of food when necessary, can quickly win the favor of the lower classes.
Next, the players who have distributed food according to the task requirements can just squat in the valley and wait for the "little monsters" to deliver it to their door...
The noble private soldiers, who had no fighting spirit, screamed and fled without even engaging in battle, almost messing up the players' steps; however, after identifying the equipment of each "little monster" from head to toe, the players' steps were quickly put back in order.
Players who have had the experience of "controlling NPCs will get equipment" don't need to command En Bu Zeng to shout hard, and they attack in small groups in a very organized and disciplined manner, knocking down one and grabbing one, and then tying up one after grabbing one...
That’s right, the solution to resolve the dispute proposed by Entropy Does Not Increase is: this operation will no longer follow the previous large-group distribution model to centrally auction the “captured goods”, but will be calculated by small teams!
Whichever team grabs the equipment will consume it internally, and the team leader and other teams have no right to interfere!
The team is also responsible for handling captured NPC prisoners on their own. They can exchange them for reputation or auction them off to other people or team members to share the money. It’s all up to them!
After playing the game for more than half a month, many players have formed the habit of teaming up with fixed teammates to kill monsters. These teams, which usually have good internal cooperation, are of course very willing to "eat alone", and they all raise their four legs to support the team allocation, and no one can reason with them!
Under the open conspiracy, La Hongge & Qin Guan secretly planned to arrange people to interfere with Ji Tang's plan, but it failed in the womb - it was fine for a large group battle, but in the small team group battle, there was a group of people who did not stick to their own team, but ran around in other teams. The people of the Entropy No Increase team did not need to protest themselves, the saliva of other players was enough to spray these people who wanted to make trouble.
The auction of "captive NPCs" lasted for more than twenty minutes, and most of the captive NPCs captured by each team were concentrated in the hands of Lahongge, Qin Guan and Enbudzeng.
En Bu Zeng clicked on the number of captives who were sitting in a pile with their heads down on his side, smiled proudly at the two player bosses, and the whole team went out to help "lead" the captives, letting Ji Tang go up first to hand in the task to Lord Yang.
"... Damn it!" Brother Lahong and Qin Guan pinched their thigh bones silently.
As expected, the teams of individual players were more willing to give face to En Bu Zeng. In addition, the number of prisoners captured by En Bu Zeng’s team was more than the total number of prisoners they had...
