Lord Harland.

Elena is a decisive person. After realizing that the secret base was exposed, regardless of whether they fight this battle or not, the Venus family has become a loser. After some weighing, she immediately chose to leave with the members of the Venus family, instead of fighting this inevitable war.

Although Elena left, there are still many lizardmen in the ruins.

The Lizardman is a warcraft combat unit raised by ancient wizards in the floating city. After the fall of the floating city, it survived by chance, and gradually multiplied in the swamp, adapting to the environment in the northern border.

During the Kingdom of Venus, the lizard people near the swamps also formed a very large tribe and controlled part of the Eagle Mountains.

But the lizard tribe was defeated by the orc empire, and the ruins of the floating city fell into the control of the orc empire.

The Orc Empire's magic level was lagging behind, and they rashly studied the energy control area of ​​the floating city. As a result, a serious explosion occurred. Even two legends of the Orc Empire lost their lives. The ruins of the floating city were also abandoned by the Orc Empire.

The remaining lizardmen after the defeat returned to the ruins of the floating city once again and became the owners of the ruins.

The explosion caused by the Orc Empire in the ruins of the floating city was very loud.

The demon hunting team organized by the Venus family happened to be active in the Eagle Mountain Range. After noticing the abnormality, they reported it to the capital.

The Venus family is a discerning person. After discovering the ruins of the floating city, they immediately silenced those who knew about it. Only the core layer of the Venus family has detailed information about the ruins of the floating city.

For hundreds of years since then, the Venus family has been secretly developing the ruins and almost collecting all the magic materials left behind in the floating city.

This floating city ruins has always been a hidden base of the Venus family.

Hundreds of years later, the rule of the Venus family was overthrown by the Grant family. This hidden base has not been leaked and is still under the control of the Venus family.

As for the lizard people in the ruins, they have actually become the test subjects of the Venus family.

Earl Cloverde, who died in the Eagle Mountain Range, was lured to the vicinity of the floating city by the Venus family.

It's just that the Venus family didn't expect that Earl Cloverford actually had a very powerful one-time magic item to summon meteors.Relying on the power of the magic props, Clover escaped from the battlefield by chance. Unexpectedly, his contracted monster was affected by the dark magic used by Elena's magic, and devoured its master alive.

This incident alarmed the high-level officials of the royal capital at the time.

Pansy Grant led the team into the Eagle Mountains several times, trying to find clues, but unfortunately they found nothing.

After all, the Eagle Mountain Range is 1,500 kilometers from east to west and more than 300 kilometers from north to south. With such a vast area, even if Pansy Grant had a hundred or a thousand times more manpower, it would still be impossible to discover the fallen floating city.

The reason why the Tower of Death built the mage tower here was also from the sporadic information handed down from ancient times, and it was noticed that there was a fallen floating city nearby.

Before the members of the Tower of Death could discover the secret base of the Venus family, Richard and the pastor of the Dawn Church knocked on the door. After an encounter, the Tower of Death was destroyed, and only one high-ranking member, Savio, escaped with his life.

The secret base built by the Venus family is very hidden, and it would be difficult to be discovered if the Harland family did not want to develop the swamp basin.

In fact, the exposure of this secret base is a matter of course.The most important reason why this secret base has not been leaked is that it is far away from human habitation.

During the Venus Dynasty, there were no people here at all, and only some monster hunters were active in the Eagle Mountain Range.

During the period of the Grant Dynasty, the Duke of Brenner fought a key victory at the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range, severely damaged the Orc Empire, and gained control of this area. The Kingdom of Grant began to develop the southern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range.

As personnel activities approached this hidden base, it became a natural thing for them to be exposed.

The Venus family controls the ruins of the floating city. Not only must they guard against outsiders, they are also wary of the lizard people inside the floating city.

After all, the lizardmen are intelligent beings. In order to prevent the lizardmen population from growing and revealing their traces, and to prevent the lizardmen from becoming hostile, the Venus family has been strictly controlling the number of lizardmen, keeping the number of lizardmen within a few hundred people.

In the past two years, because Elena was severely injured by Duke Brenner, the Venus family also slaughtered some lizard people, strengthening their control over the lizard people.

In order to prevent the lizard people from getting out of control, the Venus family also uses a special alchemy tool to control more than 300 lizard people in the secret base.

Lizardman's fighting power is not weak, especially in the jungle, they are very flexible, and they are natural jungle special forces.

Many lizardmen have a special skill called Chameleon, which allows them to change their color and blend in perfectly with the jungle environment.

Even professional soldiers are easily attacked by ordinary lizardmen in the jungle and lose their lives.

Because they are good at jungle warfare, even the powerful Holy Radiance Empire still has a hard time defeating the Lizardmen in the jungle.

On the contrary, the elves in the Eastern Continent, because they lived in the jungle since they were young, are good at jungle warfare, and their five senses are better than humans. They can always see through the disguise of the lizardmen in advance, and they are very restrained against the lizardmen.

Although the number of elves is small, the living environment of the lizard people is still continuously compressed.The lizardmen of the Eastern Continent can only survive in a humble way by hiding in the harsh environment and bowing their heads to the elves.

In winter in the north, everywhere is bare, plus the swampy terrain, without trees to cover, the lizardman's color-changing skills have lost most of their effect. Facing the elite soldiers of Harland's territory who have entered the ruins, the lizardman can only fight recklessly.

The lizardmen are good at using blow darts, which are also highly poisonous. In jungle warfare, the lizard men's blow darts are weapons that human soldiers talk about.

But when it comes to positional combat with real swords and guns, the range of blowing arrows is far inferior to that of strong bows and crossbows.

The soldiers of the first brigade killed hundreds of lizardmen with two rounds of feather arrows.

Lizardmen are intelligent creatures, and it is the nature of intelligent creatures to fear death.

After just two rounds of arrows, the lizardmen completely collapsed and fled back to the ruins of the floating city.

There were no casualties in defeating the lizardmen, but during the search, the lizardmen's unexpected attack caused some trouble for the soldiers of the Harland Territory.

These more than three hundred lizardmen actually kept four giant lizards in captivity.

Monitor lizards have a simple mind, but they are very powerful. They rely on their genes to identify their own species, and they regard all creatures as enemies except for the lizardmen with the same genes.

Even members of the Venus family were accidentally attacked by giant lizards and lost their lives.

Every adult giant lizard has the combat power equivalent to a high-level monster, but unfortunately this kind of monster cannot be domesticated and cannot communicate.

Although the monitor lizards were not weak in combat power, they were far from being an opponent compared to a large-scale army. Only a dozen people were killed or injured, and four monitor lizards died in the hands of the elite soldiers in Harland's territory.

Back then, Harland's territorial army hunted and killed the wyvern, and more than people were killed or injured.

Now the quality of the army in the Harland Territory has been greatly improved. A squadron has at least five professionals. For a backbone unit like the First Squadron, the number of professionals exceeds 20, and the weapons and equipment have been comprehensively improved.

Alchemy bombs, enchanted armor, and a large number of equipped troops, even high-level knights, it is difficult to compete with a squadron alone.

Although the giant lizard is very powerful, it cannot defeat the elite human soldiers without a scale advantage.

The four monitor lizards were soon killed by the soldiers, and the materials on them were reduced to high-end trophies.

The monitor lizard's teeth are very sharp, and like sharp claws, they are high-level magic materials that can be used as enchanted weapons.

Although the skin of the giant lizard is not as good as that of the sub-dragon, it can also be made into enchanted armor.Because of the special material of the giant lizard's skin, a ring of magic can also be drawn to change the color, and it can be made into a special magic equipment color-changing armor for scouts entering the jungle.

Because the monitor lizard is so large, the skin of one monitor lizard can be made into more than twenty pieces of armor. The skin of four monitor lizards is enough to arm a squadron of soldiers.

The viscera of monitor lizards can be used to refine Tenghui potions, and the blood can be used to treat diseases.

In short, not counting the unexpected portals gained in the floating city, just hunting four giant lizards was a worthwhile trip.

Richard led the soldiers to the vicinity of the portal. He carefully studied the runes on the portal and ordered the soldiers to completely dismantle the portal and prepare to modify it and install it in the mage tower.

As for the lizardmen kept in captivity by the Venus family, because they had been controlled by the Venus family for many years and had signed magical contracts, Richard could not trust them at all, and they were all slaughtered by the soldiers.

After killing the Lizardman, Li Cha still felt threatened, but the degree of threat had been reduced.

Because the enemy left in a hurry, many supplies were too late to collect.

Richard did a rough search and found sixty boxes of silver coins, fifteen boxes of gold coins, and two boxes of standard magic crystals.

A standard magic crystal is only the size of a thumb, about three millimeters thick, and oval in shape.

Magic crystals are crystals that gather magic energy, and they have a very important status in magic civilization. Generally speaking, a standard magic crystal is worth about ten gold coins.

A box of standard magic crystals is worth gold coins. The magic crystals plus gold and silver coins add up to gold coins.

In addition to coins, Richard also found a batch of enchanted equipment at the floating city ruins, including swords, armor, and bows and crossbows, which can equip two thousand elite soldiers.

This batch of weapons was put into the bottle of starlight by Richard to arm the soldiers in Harland's territory.

The more important harvest is the magic books and magic materials left by the Venus family.

This part of the magic books makes up for the shortcomings of the Harland Mage Association.

In particular, the Venus family's understanding of magic energy is quite unique.

The Venus family has occupied the ruins of the floating city for more than a thousand years. Although they can't understand the ancient wizard's words, they have studied the magic energy very deeply by studying the ruins of the energy control area of ​​the floating city. materials, built a small magic well.

For the magic civilization on the Dawn plane, the magic well is the core of the magic civilization.

Most of the magic wells in the world are naturally generated by elemental tidal surges.

Man-made magic wells generally rely on the magic core of legendary monsters as the core. Due to the limitation of the total amount of magic energy stored in the magic core of legendary monsters, the magic power provided by the magic tower magic well is relatively small, and it is not as good as the naturally generated small magic wells. .

Normally, the magic energy stored in the magic tower can also release ten four-ring magic.

In the ruins of the floating city, the magicians of the Venus family have researched and innovated, using the spare elemental furnace of the floating city to transform it into a magic well. The magic power provided by this magic well is much more than the magic core of the legendary fourth-order monster.The magic energy that can be provided is comparable to the naturally generated magic well.

The manufacture of the element furnace is very complicated, far beyond the level of magic civilization on the Dawn plane.

The Venus family simply cannot understand the internal structure of the elemental furnace.

Even in the age of wizards, floating cities are very high-end magical wonders. Only very powerful wizard organizations are capable of building star fleets and floating cities.

The Elemental Furnace, Eternal Furnace, and Energy Furnace are the core of the interstellar fleet and the floating city, and represent the most advanced civilization crystallization in the Wizarding Age.

Without a strong magical science foundation, even throwing the elemental furnace to the Venus family is equivalent to giving the interstellar engine to primitive people.

The Venus family spent a thousand years, but they could only develop some superficial research. Without the great development of magical science, it would have been impossible to create an elemental furnace and lift the city into the sky.

After discovering the ruins of the floating city, it is impossible for Richard to kill all the insiders like the Venus family and keep the secrets of the ruins of the floating city.

Firstly, Li Cha's three views are not that extreme, and he is not allowed to do such a thing. Second, the Grant family is not strong enough, and it is difficult to develop the ruins with a few family members.Thirdly, too many people found the ruins. It was impossible for Li Cha to cut off his legs and kill the elite soldiers in the territory.

There are too many people talking, even though Li Cha has repeatedly emphasized the discipline of secrecy and issued a very serious military order of secrecy.

It is inevitable that the ruins of this floating city will be leaked.

Fortunately, there is a strict no-migration order in the Harland Territory, so there is almost no population movement.

Soldiers are also aware of the importance of secrecy, and will not casually tell outsiders that they should be able to keep it secret for a few years.

The only thing Richard can do is to delay the leakage of the floating city ruins and try to increase his strength during this period.

Even if the secret is leaked by then, as long as you have the strength in your hands, you can resist those who peek into the territory, and you can at least get a share of the pie.

Among the ruins of the floating city, the Venus family built a secret mage tower.

This mage tower is an underground mage tower with a total of six floors.

Because it is built underground, this mage tower is very secretive. Unless someone guides you, it will be difficult to find the entrance gate of the mage tower even when you are near the mage tower.

Inside the mage tower, the six-ring magic circle of Fire Storm is also engraved.

The lethality of the magic circle inside the mage tower mainly depends on the strength of the mage tower's energy.

If the energy inside the mage tower is strong, even if it emits a mass ring of magic, the lethality will be extremely astonishing. If there is no energy, the legendary magic will not be lethal.