Chapter 776: Inventory of Harvest

"Very good, I still have three flying dragons, eight earth crystal people and eight horn-winged monsters." Gavin couldn't help but smile. His risky action this time was worth it.

In this situation, he won't need to face the opponent's flying army alone next time, although he still doesn't have the advantage in numbers.

But they can fight in groups, and the enemy will never dare to do so, because they must be afraid of Gavin's previous three range attacks.

As for the ones he mentioned, they were naturally drowned by his shadow army in the shadow duel and dragged to the Vizeme Manor. Their bodies were dragged away by the power of the shadow, so they were naturally not on the inventory list of Sanoba and others.

"That's great. When the lord's skills are restored, we will go poaching again tomorrow." Sanoba suggested enthusiastically.

She is now a little addicted to eating ready-made things, and she can't wait to turn all the flying dragons of the cloud giant into her own immediately.

"I was able to succeed before because I took them by surprise. The next time I appear in front of them, they will definitely scatter immediately. Neither the cloud giant nor the priestess of revenge is a good person. After they go back, they will definitely think of ways to restrain me. If they use the same trick again, I might fall into the trap." Gavin said very rationally.

He coveted the remaining dragons of the other side, but he would not underestimate his enemies, especially those spellcasters with many means.

"I thought I could steal all the dragons of the other side! If the Storm King saw that all his dragons turned around and aimed at them, I believe they would not look good." Sanoba was full of regret and expectation.

"Sooner or later, this situation will happen one day. Your current task is to tame them completely and arm them as soon as possible. Arranging suitable knights for them should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible." This air battle may also open up ideas for Gavin.

The dragon breath vibration bomb only allows these flying arms to have air-to-ground combat means. In air-to-air, this kind of bomb is difficult to play a role.

Either rely on the special abilities of these mounts, like the horned-winged beasts, or rely on their own melee abilities, like the flying dragons.

Most flying dragons have lost the ability to spit dragon breath. Even the black-winged flying dragons strengthened by the help of the dragon dogs of Shanoba do not have the ability to open the dragon breath. After all, they have been cursed by the dragon god for tens of thousands of years and have been extremely weakened. They cannot be made up overnight.

Whether it is a flying dragon or a horned-winged beast, they are not truly intelligent creatures after all, and their growth limit is relatively limited. Even with the help of the dragon dogs of Shanoba, in a short period of time, they can only become stronger than their peers. It is not an easy task to match the ancient flying dragons. After all, it took them tens of thousands of years to weaken to their current state.

If you want to quickly improve their combat effectiveness, you have to start with their knights.

The combat power that an ordinary person and an extraordinary wizard can burst out when riding them to fight is completely different.

Not only do knights need to be carefully selected, but the combat methods of those knights also need to be innovated.

This is an urgent matter, because it is not only needed to fight against the Storm King, but also needed on the front line of the Tukan nomadic invasion.

It is not that Faerun does not have an air force, but those small and medium-sized forces cannot afford it. Occasionally, there are a few, but they cannot show their power, but those big forces basically support their own air forces.

Let alone the distant ones, Zhentarim will have their own sky magician, which is not only a special advanced spellcasting profession, but also their sky soldiers. It can perform various tasks alone, but also fight in large-scale groups. Many caravans with a slightly larger scale will be equipped with sky magicians, which is considered a symbol of them.

The Kingdom of Cormyr has a hippogriff cavalry regiment, and all those who ride these hippogriffs are professionally trained battle mages.

The Kingdom of Sel has a griffin corps, the Tukan army has a Tukan eagle knight, and the Kingdom of Leatherman has a flying monster army led by birds transformed from totem spirits.

The two sides have fought several rounds on the front line, with both sides winning and losing. At present, the air combat capabilities of the Tukan Eagle Knights are the strongest, because compared with the first two, they are specially trained for air combat. They are extreme enough, perverted enough, and strong enough.

Therefore, it is not enough to just build a powerful ultra-long-range bomber. It is also necessary to have a sharp enough air fighter that can escort. Otherwise, no matter how strong the air-to-ground capabilities of the Cloud Ray are, it will be useless if it cannot reach the sky above the enemy's ground forces.

"Lord, leave them to me, don't worry." Shanoba patted her bulging chest and said.

"I always trust you to do things." Gavin's words are not purely compliments. As the lord of the city, she has made an indispensable contribution to the rapid development of the Statue City.

Ambition is often a negative word, but if it is under the right circumstances, it can play a positive role, especially when it has the ability to match it.

"How is the restart of the mining area going? Is it going smoothly?" Gavin had to pay attention to the situation in the Statue City. He also urgently needed to dig up the treasures of the Shatana dwarves there to strengthen the strength of his army.

"It's going very smoothly." Shanoba said happily, "The first batch of dwarves from the Iron Clan moved in three days ago. There are 500 of them. They are doing their best to repair the gas supply pipeline in the dungeon and inspect all the pipelines.

The dwarves of Shanata are very craftsmen. They maintain their gas pipelines very well. According to the dwarves, they have maintained all the pipelines before using the vein sealing technique. So far, no problems have been found.

Don't worry, lord. We will restore the gas supply and open all the gates of the mining area before the army arrives at the Three Rivers Land to ensure that your plan will not be delayed. "

"What about the research on the cloud ray special armed platform and flying dragon armor?"

"Master Jihalin and Chief Yuliu 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. "

"Encourage them to pay more attention to this matter. The importance of this matter is not less than that of the mining area. "

"Understood, how to deal with those earth crystal people and horned winged monsters? "

"Their situation is different from those flying dragons. Their focus is not on those horned-winged monsters, but on those earth crystal people. As long as they control those earth crystal people, they will control those horned-winged monsters. However, the other party has so many earth crystal people, which means that the other party controls at least a large earth crystal village. If we want to use them for our own benefit, we must solve their worries." Gavin hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's go and see them. ”

Gavin attached great importance to the Earth Crystal Man.

This is a humanoid creature from the Earth Elemental Plane. It looks very similar to the Dwarves and has a strong body. However, they have no blood relationship with the Dwarves. On the contrary, the relationship between the two is not good. Wars often occur due to overlapping living spaces. Some Earth Crystal Rangers even choose the Dwarves as their nemesis to increase their lethality against them.

The height of the Earth Crystal Man is also not comparable to that of the Dwarves. It is taller than most humans and can be at eye level with Gavin.

However, Gavin's thigh is not as thick as the other's arm. The most unique thing is that the other has no hair on his body. Instead, Instead, there are clusters of crystals shaped like hair and beards. There are crystal clusters of different numbers and shapes on the shoulder armor, knees, soles of feet, backs of hands, etc.

Crystal exoskeleton is an innate ability of the Earth Crystal People.

However, in order to grow this exoskeleton, you must eat a lot of crystals.

This crystal will give them strong defensive capabilities. They are extraordinary creatures, and all adults have extraordinary life dice.

They are both excellent warriors and the best crystal miners. Their sound wave pulses can easily shatter those crystal ores and select them 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 captives just looked at Gavin deeply, with a dull expression, and no emotion could be seen.

"It seems that even if you know the language, it is not omnipotent. "Gavin couldn't help but complain.

It's not that these Earth Crystal captives are too cold and don't want to pay attention to him, but they use a low-frequency sound wave language. Knowing the language only gives the person concerned the ability to understand the other party's language, but if he can't even hear it clearly, how can he understand it?

Gavin turned around and ordered: "Find me a spellcaster who can use Larry's telepathic connection. ”

Larry Telepathy is a fifth-ring spell, and Gavin himself can already cast spells of this level.

However, this spell is relatively niche and is rarely used. Gavin, who is more biased in his studies, has not had time to learn it.

This spell allows the caster to establish an invisible telepathy with the target creatures, and the intelligence of these creatures must be above 3.

The minds of all target creatures will be connected to each other, and all creatures that accept the connection can communicate directly with their minds without language.

In addition, the telepathy will not cause any other influence or effect. Once the connection is completed, it is effective no matter how far apart they are (but it cannot cross different planes).

Before casting the spell, the caster can choose whether to include himself in the telepathy.

The most powerful thing is that this spell can be used with the magic permanence spell to take effect permanently. Only two creatures can be connected each time, and a creature can be constant multiple times to establish this kind of telepathy with multiple creatures.

This is also the reason why many spellcasters who stay at home and stay in the wizard tower to do research are extremely well-informed.

Why didn't the seven sisters... Who dares to provoke them easily?

In addition to the fact that they are strong enough, they all have similar ways of communication. If one is provoked, the others will basically know and can arrive at the battlefield in minutes.

Gavin, Zalanda and Catherine have fixed this spell respectively. Many times, when they discuss problems, they don’t need to teleport to meet, they just need to make a mental call.

Whether the other party responds or not is another matter, and it can also be unilaterally cut off or blocked.

The world of extraordinary wizards is completely different from the mundane world. What hinders the popularization of those practical spells is their high price.

To establish a mental connection between two people, two five-ring spells are required, including the casting fee and the material cost, at least 20,000 gold coins, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

But those countries and large chambers of commerce can still afford it, and it is no problem to set up their own megaphones everywhere.

This is why those countries and large chambers of commerce are extremely well-informed. King Yasang has already received accurate information when the Tukan nomadic army is still thousands of kilometers away from the continent of Faerun.

The Conqueror Chamber of Commerce used the Ghost Messenger to establish an instant communication network, which only had advantages over those small and medium-sized chambers of commerce, and did not have much advantage over those large chambers of commerce, because they also had their own instant communication networks.

Gavin was limited by his knowledge of spells and had not yet fully understood the world of spellcasters in Faerun, and he underestimated many things in this world.

Fortunately, the Ghost Messenger still had its own advantages. It only needed to connect to the network to contact multiple people, unlike Larry's mind connection, which required repeated charges. Even those spellcasters could not afford the cost of establishing connections with multiple people.

Although Gavin could afford it, because there were Ghost Messengers, there was no need to use it on a large scale. He only needed to establish connections with those who were most necessary.

Soon, a sacred strategist who prepared Larry's mind connection was found. Among the captives of the Earth Crystal People, the druid established a mind connection with Gavin. No matter which race they were, spellcasters were special beings, and the possibility of their status being respected was very high.

"What's your name?" Gavin asked through telepathy.

"Lupo." The Earth Crystal Druid responded.

"Please tell your people that as long as they cooperate with us, we will not harm your lives. This is a war between us and the cloud giant. You don't have to risk your lives." Gavin made the first promise.

"Okay." Even though the communication was through the mind, the Earth Crystal's answer was concise and to the point, showing that he was not good at speaking.

The Earth Crystal Druid named Lupo was very cooperative and answered every question, especially the intelligence about the cloud giant. He did not hide anything. As Gavin speculated, they were enslaved by the other party and had no loyalty to the cloud giant. Naturally, they would not use their lives to protect the other party's secrets.

The cloud giant who proclaimed himself the King of Storms was named Nurudin. He was not a giant born and raised in the Thunder Peak Mountains, but an alien invader who arrived here five years ago on his flying throne with a gray snake dragon.

He first subdued an orc tribe called Flying Dragon in the Thunder Peak Mountains. There is no need to say more about the origin of the tribe's name, because they are good at taming and driving 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 Giant, the two tribes had been fighting for control of the central area of ​​the Thunder Peak Mountains. The war lasted for hundreds of years. For this reason, they both cultivated a large number of air cavalry, and each won and lost, forming a stalemate.

Until the arrival of the Cloud Giant, this balance was broken. In order to avoid the fate of being slaughtered, the Crystal Cliff Tribe had to swear allegiance to the Cloud Giant, open mines for him and provide troops.

This Cloud Giant is an out-and-out tyrant, and he is very crazy about gems. The reason why he chose to settle in the Thunder Peak Mountains is because there are a lot 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 crystal gem mining makes them very valued by the Cloud Giants, and their life is not too bad.

But even if they are valued, 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. Crystals are just necessities 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 the Cloud Giants.

Gavin secretly wrote this down. This may be an opportunity for him to find a way to turn them from the Cloud Giants.

However, this is not an easy thing. The Cloud Giants must be very cautious about them.

Gavin did not waste too much energy on lobbying the other party to be loyal to him, because their tribesmen and relatives are controlled by the Cloud Giants. They are afraid and will definitely not turn their guns against the Cloud Giants.

This battle brought great pressure and stimulation to the Cloud Giants, forcing him to adjust his previous style of doing things in order to better cope with challenges.

Since then, he began to expand his army crazily in the Thunder Peak Mountains, mainly with orcs and earth elves.

Once the army began to be raised on a large scale, it meant that the demand for food would increase significantly. The more than 1,000 tons of food that the drow priestess brought to him was only the starting military rations, and there was still a huge gap behind.

They adhered to the concept of the monster forces, and the first thing they thought of was to rob.

The four valleys adjacent to them, High Valley, Bow Valley, Deep Forest Valley and Misty Valley, were the best targets.

At the same time, he also sent his own envoys to deal with the Merchant Council and the Dark Intelligence Network of Sambia. The envoy was none other than the drow priestess Dilira.

In the matter of targeting the Conqueror Army, they hit it off immediately, especially the Sambian Merchant Council, who wished someone could contain the Conqueror Army that was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now that they took the initiative to deliver it to the door, they naturally welcomed it with both hands and began their usual means. Money, equipment, and food began to be sent in large quantities to the Thunder Peak Mountains.

The pace of the Conqueror Army was not affected at all, and it marched towards its destination with slow and firm steps.

According to the conqueror army's marching speed, it would only take them two days to cross the entire Misty Valley, but it took them five days.

It was not a new incident. On the contrary, under the deliberate promotion of Gavin and the seven councillors of Misty Valley, the residents of Misty Valley had a cordial and friendly interaction with the Conqueror Army.