Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 367: Sulun's Temple
Levi naturally couldn't hear the female vampire's shouting, because under Bill's teleportation technique, they left the forest directly.
However, the landing point after teleportation was slightly off, and they were almost hung on the tree.
Although this magic can take away some people who are willing to follow it, it is only a 5th-level magic after all, and it still has its flaws. There may be certain errors in the transmission.
In other words, there are only trees here. If we were to be teleported to the sea or a volcano, this small error would be fatal.
Through contact with Inspector Yakong and others, Levi easily reunited with the main force. Virginia was also very happy to see his return.
But when she looked at the burning forest behind her again, she frowned slightly, not only because of the possible damage the fire might cause to the forest, but also because the wood elves had just told her that they had not given up.
"Levi, we can't relax until we reach the temple."
Levi nodded gently: "Of course, the plan remains unchanged, speed up the march."
If it was just an elite team led by himself, he would have plenty of ways to continue playing with the opponent.
Even through constant attacks and harassment, theoretically, given enough time, he could single-handedly annihilate this undead army of tens of thousands. This is the terrifying aspect of a high-level mage.
But he still has so many subordinates. Except for Donna and others who are still hanging high in the sky and hiding behind the clouds, others still need to be taken care of.
Of course, if things get really bad, Levi has a backup plan.
That is to directly summon the bear-headed gods with the battle flag, and then let them cast the teleportation spell and run away collectively.
An ordinary 5th-level bear-headed divine messenger can teleport up to 100 miles at a time and can carry 2 people each time. There are dozens of bear-headed divine messengers in total to take care of their current army of less than a thousand people, and they will not be used many times in total.
However, if possible, Levi would not use this trick.
Apart from anything else, the time wasted is also a huge cost.
The war is so urgent now. If I spend half a day running over here, maybe the other party has successfully carried out some conspiracy.
Following Virginia, after walking for about ten miles, Virginia told Levi with some surprise that there were no pursuers behind them and the other party seemed to have given up.
The result of the monitoring of Yakong's feedback was the same, but Levi had concerns and always felt that it would not be that simple.
But no matter what, their marching speed did not slow down at all, but continued to move forward. After a certain amount of time, a lonely temple finally appeared in the distance.
It is located in the middle of nowhere, with no village in front and no shop behind. Its biggest advantage may be its high terrain, right on top of a high mountain.
There are even a few rock platforms protruding outward at the back, which can usually be used as lookout towers, but now it is just the right place for Donna to land with the Sky Slayer.
But Levi still couldn't understand why they built the temple here, after all, there were not many villagers nearby.
But when he looked at the dense forest in the distance, he changed his mind and felt that he could understand it.
It is very likely that from the very beginning, the target of this temple was not humans, but the beastmen in the forest.
Except for the magical forest occupied by wood elves, beastmen exist in almost all forests of a certain size.
But no matter what, the scale of the temple is still very large. For the Moon Girl - Su Lun, the scale of this temple should be ranked among the best in her church.
Not only was it large enough to accommodate their large army, there was also ample space for the griffins, war eagles, winged leopards, and huntresses' companions to rest.
No wonder Virginia had enough confidence before.
When they were still some distance away, someone from the temple came to greet them. As expected, Levi discovered some beastmen. There were no tigermen, but there were some bearmen, monkeymen and crowmen.
The Bear God and the Tiger Goddess are siblings. They have both been educated by the God of Nature, and Lilith believes that the Bear God, Balado, is much wiser.
The bears affected by it usually remain calm, and are accustomed to fishing and slacking off (in a double sense) all day long. They are also more easily recruited by the good camp because they are basically from the chaotic good camp.
Monkey people are rare in the vicinity, for their advantage over other beastmen is their intelligence.
But most beastmen fight with brute strength and anger, not wisdom.
In addition, when beastmen from different tribes meet, they often engage in crazy battles to determine each other's status, so the monkey people have disappeared in most places in the main world.
Currently, the largest group of monkey people in the main world is probably the Monkey Kingdom located in the mountains between the Zhendan Dynasty, the Inda Kingdom, and the Snake Kingdom of Horus.
Unlike monkey people in other places, they have been fully developed, and their weapons, equipment and even training are far superior to ordinary beast people.
They even had various official positions, such as the two marshals Ma and Liu, the two generals Beng and Ba, the eight great generals and so on.
Apart from their different appearances, there is essentially not much difference between them and ordinary human armies or kingdoms.
Sometimes they had friction with Zhendan, sometimes they fought side by side, and sometimes they would even join the Zhendan army on a large scale to serve. If they were not considered two-faced, they could be considered wavering.
But the Zhendan Dragon Gods have not yet decided to completely wipe them out. On the one hand, they want these monkey people to serve as help to deal with the Inda Kingdom and the snake people.
On the other hand, it is also because of the existence of the Monkey God who calls himself the Monkey King.
The Zhendan Dragon Gods had previously successfully absorbed the Flying Feather Goddess of the Sea Dreamer - Saranata, the Qilin God - Corell, and several animal lords including the Panda Lord.
This Monkey God is a racial god and a being of Godhead 5, which makes him somewhat attractive to them.
The situation is similar with the Crow People .
Aside from their breasts, ordinary harpies are more like enlarged eagles in other aspects, while these crowmen are just humans with a pair of wings, except for their slightly pointed chins.
If we dye their wings white and tell them that they are angels, there will definitely be a lot of people willing to believe it.
Because of this, they received completely different treatment from the vast majority of beastmen.
Many churches are willing to let them serve as messengers, guards, killers, etc.
For example, there is a secret organization in Zhendan called the Agate Crow People, which specializes in investigating, tracking and hunting all kinds of evil.
Besides these, he noticed some wood elves among them.
Long ago, according to a deal between Lilith, Moonbow and Sulen, she was allowed to spread the faith among the elves, not just the high elves, but also the wood elves and so on.
Of course, allowing is allowing, but whether it can really make the other party have faith is another matter.
It now seems that the church of Sulen here is developing very well. No wonder Virginia often fights side by side with the wood elves and is almost inseparable.
After seeing them, Virginia was obviously relieved. She turned around and told Levi with a smile that the temple was protected by the goddess and would not be attacked by the undead. He could have a good rest and would meet again tomorrow with the wood elves to attack the black iron mine.
Of course, the wood elves will be responsible for standing guard. Even though they are very confident in the temple, they will not completely let their guard down.
But Levi didn't really think so. At this moment, he even slightly lowered his original evaluation of her.
Is she not as smart as she appears, or are devout believers blinded when it comes to God and faith?
Then she introduced Levi to the relevant priests and ministers in the temple.
Just as she had said before, regardless of the other party's identity and race, they were all exceptionally polite when treating Levi.
Lian said that they could rest safely here, resupply, etc.
If Levi is interested, they will select some volunteers to serve him later.
Levi naturally responded with a smile. No matter what the other party's ability was, his attitude was indeed very good.
Of course, after the polite exchanges, he did not completely rely on the other party. He immediately arranged his own plan.
The first step is to let the celestial creatures take turns on guard.
Well, the ones referring to here are the main supervisors and tiger masters. He specially created an opportunity for them to have private contact with the tigresses.
Next came the Legion Yakong led by Xiaotian. They were responsible for guarding those high platforms. It would be too bad if the Sky Slasher was attacked by the enemy before taking off .
Noticing their actions, Virginia took the initiative to suggest that she could use the power of the temple to cast a large-scale illusion magic for the Sky Slayer to cover it up.
This was naturally the best thing that could happen. To be on the safe side, Levi even asked Donna to take Avalon and other archers and druids to temporarily live in tents near the Sky Slayer, and be protected by the illusion together.
It's just one night anyway, it's not that bad.
Seeing this, Virginia knew that Levi was still worried about the defensive power of the temple, but she had almost led everyone into a dead end before, and now she couldn't say anything, but felt more and more apologetic.
Finally, use some small props to set up some trigger traps.
As for Luna's huntresses and dryads, they did not stay in the temple, but sneaked into the woods at the foot of the mountain.
Night elves are accustomed to living in the forest and can sleep directly on the trees at night.
The tree demons can even sleep standing up like horses and remain extremely vigilant. At the slightest sign of trouble, they will immediately start running or fighting.
With the two combined, they wouldn't be in much danger in the woods.
The other subordinates should rest in the temple as soon as possible.
Although strictly speaking, we only had a fight with the centaurs in the valley today, the travel and running really consumed a lot of physical energy.
Seeing that Levi had arranged his subordinates, Virginia came over with dozens of people, holding piles of magic scrolls, potions, and various fur products and elf ornaments as he expected.
Levi took a quick look and was quite satisfied because most of the units Virginia brought were magic units such as druids and priests.
Next came a dozen or so wood elves armed with bows and arrows, who looked quite powerful. It could be said that the other party did not fool him in this regard.
So after a brief communication, he took the opportunity to recruit them all under his command. There is never too many legal units.
As for the wood elves, they are some level 3 and 4 soldiers called Deep Forest Scouts.
In addition to walking through forests, adapting to woodlands, and shooting on the move, they also have forest stealth skills, which allow them to better camouflage themselves in the woods and avoid being discovered by the enemy.
Several of the advanced Tier 4 units even have the skill of double arrows, which allows them to shoot two arrows each time at the cost of weakening their attack power to a certain extent.
They are already considered a mid-level force among the wood elves, and combined with their tree people and various animal allies, their combat effectiveness in the forest will be very strong.
Although Levi has been using infantry to hold the line and bows and arrows as the main combat method for quite some time, the presence of Donna is really a great help.
In fact, the strongest archer clan recognized by the main world is the wood elves, not the high elves.
In any case, after the high elves, blood elves, night elves and drow elves, a new elven subrace joined his team.
The bonus his military rank as Marshal also halved for the Wood Elves, so as soon as they joined, they could display a certain combat effectiveness without any training.
As for supplies, he also bought a lot of them. Thanks to the generosity of the Church of Woking, he is not short of money at the moment.
But he didn't touch the elf ornaments at all.
On the one hand, it was because the villages and towns under his jurisdiction also produced a large amount of these things, and Lianhua purchased a lot of them from Bitao Village.
On the other hand, he felt that he had vaguely understood why everyone, from Virginia to the priests and pastors, were so polite to him.
In addition to the fact that his legendary level is high enough, perhaps it is also because they want to trade with him?
In this case, he naturally cannot be too proactive.
Virginia was delighted to see Levi so straightforward. Then she turned her head and saw the elf ornaments had not moved at all.
She immediately understood that perhaps her purpose had been discovered by the other party.
In this case, she didn't have to hide it anymore, so after a little hesitation, she said it out very happily.
In fact, they didn't have to do this, but because of the recent unrest around them, various evil forces have begun to become active.
Villagers from villages more than ten miles away can no longer come from far away to offer offerings, which reduces their income.
At the same time, the nearby forest was transformed into a magical forest by the wood elves.
Even though they have always had a good relationship, the wood elves will no longer allow them to freely obtain various resources in the forest.
Because this kind of magical forest is often transformed by the joint spells of wood elves and tree people, and tree people are more difficult to deal with than wood elves.
They give almost no face to anyone, and their foreign policies are more cruel. After all, the flesh and blood of all humanoid creatures can be transformed into nourishment for plants.
This caused some problems for the temple's finances, because apart from making some holy water and scrolls, and curing villagers' illnesses and eliminating disasters, they hardly did any production.
But now these strategic materials can no longer be sold, and they need to find new ways to make money.
Then after she happened to meet Levi, she immediately came up with an idea.
After listening to it, Levi thought about it for a moment and agreed.
Although the other party's things did not have much appeal to him, wood elves usually seldom traded with the outside world, so this was considered a rare commodity.
He could just leave it to Lotus to handle. That girl has always wanted to purchase all kinds of rare goods.
Besides, he was not short of this little money. Even though Virginia took out a lot of things, which could almost fill two small space rings, the total was less than 100 gold coins.
Is this just a small amount of money? The money he just spent on recruiting those pastors was far more than that.
Virginia was very happy to see that everything was going well. What she valued was not the gold coins in front of her, but the possibility of continuing trade.
The temple also has to find ways to make money on its own. If it relies entirely on offerings from believers, it will easily lead to embarrassing situations like the one we see today.
However, in order to thank Levi and express her apology, she still needs to do something more.
What is it that can attract a wizard? Of course, it is new magic or magic items!
After making up her mind secretly, Virginia asked Levi to go to bed early, and then she prepared to say goodbye and leave.
Levi agreed with a smile on the surface, but actually he had other ideas.
There is still some time before dark, and he wants to hold on a little longer. He always feels that the night will not be so peaceful.
The female vampires of the Lamia family have never been known for their open-mindedness. On the contrary, they are very vengeful.
In the past history, there were powerful knights who offended them, but they could do nothing about them, so they waited until they died of old age, and then killed all their descendants.
A lot of undead were just burned to death by Sally and I, how could they not react at all?
