531 Black Lord
Title!
This thing is very tempting for players, because once they have a knighthood, in the aboriginal world of "Endless", they have a high social status, whether it is to get tasks from the aborigines, or to recruit the aborigines to join their forces and teams, they have a great advantage, and even have a path to the upper class of the aboriginal society.
But the title is too difficult to promote, in addition to the caster's natural advantage in this regard, the only way for a warfighter to obtain a knighthood is to join the aboriginal forces and rely on military merits and battle medals to improve.
The clergy are not part of the secular hierarchy, and they have another system of clerics and can also receive similar fiefs, but in the religious system, they are called "dioceses" rather than "territories".
As a player, especially the belief in "rather be the head of the chicken, not the queen of the cow." The vast majority of Asian American players are reluctant to be controlled and commanded by the aborigines, preferring to develop their own forces.
Therefore, it is very difficult for warlord players to improve their social status, except for those high-level players who have the means and resources, the leaders of the vast majority of small and medium-sized player teams only have very low titles, and the highest ones only obtain the status of [high-level nobles], and stop outside the circle of [second-class nobles].
Even players of the level of Super Players, non-spell-casting classes can only obtain [Inferior Noble] titles such as [Sir ], [Quasi-Lord], and [Lord], and the watershed between [Inferior Noble] and [High Noble] [Inferior Baron] is like a threshold that firmly blocks them from the noble circle.
Even if the caster's profession is super playful, except for the sycamore, the highest known title is only [Inferior Baron], and if there is no special opportunity, I am afraid that they will never be able to break through this [quasi-baron] title and truly enter the upper circle of the nobility.
After players enter the big world as adventurers, the default identity is [inferior Shu], that is, the status of [poor], through hard work, you can cross the two levels of [Shu] and [High Shu], and enter the identity that players most often have [Shi], that is, the symbol of "propertied people, consumers, rich people", with the ability of players to obtain gold coins, which is not difficult to do.
However, if you want to enter the [wang clan] class, you must not only have money, but also have an industry, be rich, and have enough fame, if you want to cross the threshold of the [wang clan] and enter the class of inferior nobles, it is a big difficulty, after all, it is not so easy to accumulate fame.
In this case, how shocking should it be for Sycamore to suddenly tell these player leaders that they are loyal to the Obsidian Lords and can easily obtain the knighthood?
It is too fake that they have been working hard for so long to get the title, but they can get it so easily, but with Her Royal Highness the princess to testify, they can't be allowed to believe it, which causes them to be stunned and don't know how to choose.
Compared to the hard-to-obtain titles, the cost of allegiance to the Obsidian Lords and obtaining the Harvest is somewhat insignificant, which also makes the player leaders who originally only planned to rent land hesitate and begin to seriously consider how to choose.
"Wait!"
Elven mage of the Holy Knight, Isad. Brado suddenly questioned: "Is the obsidian collar a 'political collar' or a 'religious collar'?" If we are allegiance, are we considered to be the centaurs over there? ”
As soon as he reminded him, the player leaders also reacted, and they all cast their eyes on Sycamore.
"Have you ever heard of 'theocracy'? Everyone should know the purpose of the Obsidian Collar's existence, right? Whether it is the Obsidian Sect or the "Cult of the Underfire", it was established by Andel in order to resist the power of Kanas and Serene, so the status of the Obsidian Lord and the Pope of the "Cult of the Underworld" can be said to be equal. ”
Wutong unhurriedly turned on the [bluffing] and [negotiation] abilities, under the influence of these two abilities, what he said would be more convincing: "The lord of the Obsidian Lord, His Excellency Viscount Obsidian, is in charge of the "Obsidian Knights" and "Obsidian Legion", including the "Law Enforcement Knights" and "Guardian Legion" that will protect the Obsidian Lord, and the main targets are Cannas's "Emerald Claw Knights", "Royal Sword Guard Legion" and a large number of "Undead Legions", as well as Seren's Knights of Serein" and other official troops, as well as internal affairs, civil affairs, trade... and so on, all of them belong to Viscount Obsidian, and they are in charge of it. ”
After a pause, Wutong's gaze shot out from under the hood and landed on Isad's face: "And the "Cult of the Underfire" has the same rights as the lord, and the "Knights of the Underfire" and "The Legion of the Underworld" include a series of religious violent armed institutions that may be created in the future, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the "Cult of the Underworld", and the main targets are the "Wall Cult" of Kannas and the "Silver Flame Sect" of Serene, politics against politics, religion against religion, is it difficult to understand?" ”
After another pause, Sycamore's gaze sharpened as he stared at Isad, and he had nothing to be polite to this future competitor: "This... Who's that? What are you questioning? Suspect that our "Secret Shadow" is playing ghost and falsely spreading information? And then take advantage of the close relationship with the obsidian collar to inflate the profit tax and enrich his own pockets to make a profit? ”
Sycamore's sentence "who is that" almost didn't take Isad. Brado is angry, he is also a superplayer with a high ranking, the style of "Holy Knight" has never been low-key, and his exposure rate is also high, ordinary players don't know him, even if the boss of an organization like "Secret Shadow" doesn't know him? Deliberately, right?
All the player leaders were a little sneering, they didn't have the mind to question, Lao Bei of "Asian Alliance" also wanted to ease the atmosphere, but Wutong didn't give him a chance to be a peacemaker at all, and said directly: "That's right, you guessed it right, our "Secret Shadow" can make too much oil and water in this matter, otherwise you think I will have nothing to do to help you find out the news, and do volunteers to inform you?" If I don't tell you the details, we will make more money in "Secret Shadow", right? Will any of you be able to contact the Obsidian Lord or the Pope of the Cult of the Underworld? ”
The "frankness" of the boss of the secret shadow choked everyone to death, and now the player leaders are a little ugly on their faces, these words can be said to be quite unkind, but they hit their death hole, that's right, why should people help you irrelevant people to run errands and find out information with all their hearts? Speaking of which, any of the player forces present are competitors to each other, right?
But he couldn't get angry at the boss of the secret shadow, and they all threw their complaining eyes on Essad, which made the handsome elven mage's face very ugly.
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that, in addition to what I just told you, the military power of the Obsidian Territory will be affected by Mishas. Angstrom. Her Royal Highness Princess Wiener, in addition to acting for Her Majesty the Queen, the Obsidian Territory is still a 'Dominion' under the governance of Viscount Obsidian! ”
Wutong slowly ripped off the hood on his head, and said with a smile: "What do these two pieces of news mean, I won't explain in detail, you know!" Just to remind everyone that you can't use Adele's regular conventions to judge the various rules of the Obsidian Collar. ”
Everyone was dazed for a while, looking at each other in confusion, what do we understand? What do these two messages mean?
Of course, Wutong wouldn't tell the player leaders, he didn't know what these two news meant, he just smiled and continued: "It's true that the Obsidian Territory is now in the early stage of establishment, and everything is very simple, so everything is basically managed by the Knights of the Stygian Flame that has been formed. But I believe that it won't be long before the corresponding institutions will be perfected, and if you want to have such a good opportunity at that time, you may not have a big surname, and how to choose, you will consider for yourself. ”
Stretched out his finger and pointed in the direction of the bulletin board in the Blood City Market: "Including the ones I just said, the relevant detailed information, I have asked people to post it on the bulletin board, if there are friends who are not clear, you can go and check it yourself, I will not repeat it, if there is no doubt, then please go to the conference hall of the market with our Secret Shadow staff, the Obsidian Lord's butler group and the Grand Knight Captain of the Knights of the Underworld, waiting for you there!" ”
While Sycamore explained to the player leaders, the Secret Shadow staff had already copied the detailed conditions and rules on a large piece of parchment and posted them on a notice board at the entrance to the Blood City Marketplace for small teams that were not large factions to see.
And the big forces present, naturally, didn't need Wutong to repeat what had been explained very clearly, and followed the staff of "Secret Shadow" in a swarm to a large conference hall built in the Blood City Market.
Standing in place and watching the crowded player leaders, rushing into the hall that they were about to call the "Black Nest", Wutong couldn't help but touch his chin and smile, it was obviously impossible for him to pass the law of Andele with such a large-scale "selling official beard", and these "sold" titles were obviously impossible to be recognized by the royal family.
But this doesn't matter, the territory he "sold" is only within the scope of the Obsidian Territory, so the title treatment that these player leaders can enjoy is also limited to the scope of the Obsidian Territory, and it doesn't matter if the royal family admits it or not, it's good for him as a lord to "recognize" it.
Moreover, I am afraid that the rights that these player leaders can exercise are limited to their small one-third of an acre of land, and they can't get out of the "village" at all.
The so-called "butler group" led by Zhuo Ya is composed of the former nobles who currently serve Wutong and the real housekeepers of their family, in this kind of matter, they have rich experience, can easily understand Wutong's "intentions", and improve the layout of Wutong is not very detailed.
Wutong has planned it, and when the time comes, the "rent collector" will also let these nobles go, and in order to prevent rent resistance, he also plans to send out the thousand dragon eagle knights and a thousand griffin knights to act as thugs, and he doesn't believe that the rent can't be recovered!
His Excellency "Viscount Obsidian", is the land of the Black Lord so easy to rent?
A large group of player leaders were lined up in the conference hall of the Blood City Market, wearing luxurious aristocratic dresses, and the high-spirited butlers, second butlers, and third butlers... The butler group formed by the n butler was a shocking mess, what is the origin of this obsidian lord? Even the butlers under him are all composed entirely of nobles?
In terms of aristocratic temperament, these housekeepers can vividly interpret the arrogance of the nobility without makeup!
After learning the details of the allegiance and land lease from the stewards, they couldn't help but exclaim: "What? Not in the Obsidian? ”
Of course, it's not in the obsidian realm, and what the players see now is the obsidian lord composed of obsidian crystals, in fact, it should be regarded as the obsidian lord's mansion, is it possible for the lord who has his subordinates to build the mining in his "house"?
Although it is said that the location of the mining area that was divided into them is a bit tricky, lined up along the defense line..."Is there any mistake? Give a wasteland that doesn't even grass grow, even if it's a miner? Why don't you give me a house? All self-built? ”
To the house? Nima! When I built the Obsidian Collar, I didn't even have a brick!? We're not fooling you in this regard! Not only Andele, but the entire Kovare Continent is divided into feudal and mining provinces!
However, the benefits of the obsidian collar are better, and they will not let everyone sleep on the wasteland... Do you need a construction team for the construction of the Eup? As long as you pay money, the huge skeleton coolie group can help you do a good job of the infrastructure of the mining with lightning speed, but the fee standard is a little higher, but it is allowed to owe debts, and you are not afraid of not paying it back!
What the? No building materials? No supplies? "Secret Shadow" logistics team will serve you wholeheartedly, whether it is material transportation or logistics supply, "Secret Shadow" promises one-stop service for you to solve, group purchase is also 9.9% off!
The player leaders are collectively crazy, even if the mining is all on the front line, it is not so simple to get the mining estate, first of all, you must have a combat power team that meets the scale of the application for the mining estate, the second mining is 100 acres, you need to have 100 combatants with standard equipment, the low-level mining is 1,000 acres of 1,000 acres, and the intermediate mining is 3,000 acres... And so on!
At the same time, the rank, combat strength, and equipment status of the combatants owned by each force will affect the level of honors that can be obtained from the lord, and the level of the legion that can be joined.
Forget about the small power among the player leaders present, those who can't afford to lose this person, "Guard Legion" is equivalent to the level of the militia, and they do all the work of guarding the door and patrolling, don't forget, there are still 5 days of service every month, and when the time comes, they will be sent to guard the gate, not to mention the face, the inside will have to be lost.
But what if you don't have military standard equipment?
It doesn't matter, the military equipment hypermarket of "Secret Shadow" has just opened, selling a large number of Cannas's standard military equipment for His Excellency... When did it open, you ask? Well, just as you entered the conference hall... For the sake of future development, the player leaders gritted their teeth and could only admit that the gold coins in their pockets clanged into the pockets of the butlers at the same time, a small fortress-style mining area rose from the ground, and the modular architectural style made these mining towns look exactly the same, and they wanted to be a little more surnamed? Okay, the construction team under the name of the lord also undertakes the decoration, do you want simple or luxurious? Let's start with it, the city wall is charged by the meter for every time it is doubled!
A large number of players gathered around the Obsidian Collar were diverted behind the defensive line, which put an end to the congestion around the Obsidian Collar, and at the same time formed a new "defensive belt", in this defensive belt, densely packed with a large number of fortress-like small territories, if you want to break through the northern defense line and attack the Obsidian, you must first destroy these mining towns scattered in the defensive belt... Just when the players happily moved into their "new home" and finally had a territory that really "belonged" to them in "Endless", the "Knights of the Flame Flames", who were stationed in front of the defense belt, led the Obsidian Warrior Legion and retreated very unkindly!
And it was the kind of retreat mode that ran away with a "hula", and even the wall of bones that originally formed the defense line collapsed, and then turned into an incalculable huge tide of skeletons, and then ran to their rear, and then reformed a skeleton wall, pushing them naked in front of the undead army of Cannas, who had completed the construction of the defense line and started to move again!
Players are dumbfounded, this has just owned the territory, do they have to endure this level of "monster siege"?
Just when the players were almost in despair, a team of obsidian butlers appeared in their territory, selling them mercenary groups and city defense equipment:
Are there enough defenders? Do you need troops? Tier 1 [Corrupted Skeleton] 1 silver coin, [Gray Bone Skeleton] 5 silver coins, [White Bone Skeleton] 1 gold coin, [Enhanced Skeleton] 5 gold coins, [Elite Skeleton] 10 gold coins, [Silver Skeleton] 50 gold coins, [Golden Skull] 100 gold coins... Buy 100 at a time and get 1, buy 1,000 get 20 free, and buy a skeleton legion at a time and send 10 crossbows to the city!
Do these skeletons come with their own equipment, you ask? Nonsense! Bring your own equipment and don't die? The price of complete equipment is not included! If you want to have a Tier 2 skeleton, you can wear better equipment, it depends on whether you can afford the price... What the? No money? It doesn't matter, come on, come on, here's a loan contract, use it first, pay later, and spend it in advance!
To be honest, the "business" of the butler team was not good at the beginning, and there were no other players in the power, but there were many people! But when the huge Canas Skull Sea rushed over, the small forces that relied on the five-meter or ten-meter city walls to resist the Skull Sea finally realized that the problem was there, no matter how many people there were, could there be more skeletons?
And whenever they repel an attack, the benefits and battle medals that players can get are huge surprises to them, especially when I heard that some forces can even exchange titles from His Excellency the lord after accumulating enough battle medals, it is said that there is a guy who has been promoted from [Inferior Scholar] to [Senior Scholar] in a few days, and jumps two levels in a row!
Wealth is in danger, and everything that can be solved with gold coins is not a thing, and after a battle, the equipment obtained is enough to repay the loan!
As a result, the trend of buying skeleton soldiers on a large scale began, the more soldiers, the greater the results, and the greater the results, the greater the benefits!
But they may not realize that 20% of their loot belongs to the lord, and the troops, equipment, and supplies purchased are also the lord's, and in other words, 80% of the proceeds of each battle go into the pockets of the lord!
Although the obsidian collar does not have all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the terrible lord who has never shown up has designed too many "value-added services", and even has to charge for cleaning the battlefield after the war!
If you don't buy it, it's not okay, after a battle, the skeletons of both sides can pile up five or ten meters of the city wall for you!
But the problem is, those abominable "scavengers" go around your territory and come in through the back door to sell you skeletons... It's so exciting!
(To be continued)