346. Black Iron
The Northern Continent and the Western Continent, the two continents were originally in the game, and they were the favorite places for the game. Because many of the historical blank stages that have now been lost and faults have been created, in fact, some clues can be found in the boundaries of these two continents that can be inferred by the Refined Party.
For example, the Northern Lone Tower is actually separated from the overlooking spire, which is the inference that after a player found a clue in the Northern Continent, it took several months to finally connect the relevant complete history. However, even though the Northern Lonely Tower is separated from the Lookout Spire, in fact, the relationship between the two mage towers has never deteriorated in any way, and most of the time they maintain a spirit of mutual discussion.
However, the location of the spire is indeed very hidden, and those who want to go to the minaret must start from the northern lonely tower.
In addition, the Emilian Empire in the Western Continent is home to five of the oldest families on the continent today.
These are all beautiful things that belong to history.
It's a pity that there are too few people who can understand these beautiful histories.
Like Count Hecarrom's Black Iron City, most people will only think that the name of this city is vulgar, and even think that the name Black Iron Castle is just as bad, and Count Hecarrom's taste is really bad or something. However, in fact, only a very small number of people knew that in fact, before the Bronze Realm, there was a Black Iron Realm, which referred to the separate level of second-order strength.
In the words of the player, it is a probationary period from an apprentice to a full-time job.
The first order is apprenticeship, the second order is black iron, and the third order is bronze.
It's just a statement about black iron. With the end of the chaotic era, it was never used again. Now the claims on the mainland. All of them directly merge the second order into the ranks of apprentices, but the first order is a low-level apprentice. And the second order is a senior apprentice, nothing more.
Count Hecarom's Black Iron City, Black Iron Castle, since it uses such a "vulgar" name, then the only thing that can prove it is that these two places must be relics left over from before the Chaos Era. However, I don't know what the Count of Hecarrom did not change the names of these two places, but still adopted the old name "Black Iron".
When Sean arrived at Blackiron with Emily and Shawshank, it was the afternoon of the third day of departure from the town of Donma - in fact, it only took them a little over two days on the whole journey. However, the three of them did not stay in the city. After arriving, he hired three horses and galloped towards the Black Iron Castle, finally reaching the gates of the Black Iron Castle in the middle of the night.
This old fort was built on top of a mountain.
The mountain is called Broken Peak Mountain because there are no peaks on the whole mountain - at an altitude of about 300 meters, the peaks of the whole mountain are broken off at the waist, revealing an extremely flat platform. The Black Iron Castle was built directly here, and the entire platform on the top of the hill was full, leaving no gaps, so if you want to go up the mountain, you can only take the front mountain road. You can only climb the cliff on the other side of the mountain.
However, this steep cliff is not easy to climb, and the Count of Hekarom has arranged a twenty-four-hour guard here for a long time, and it is completely impossible to fool the sentry and successfully infiltrate the castle.
Stand at the gate of the castle. Sean looked up at the castle.
Not only are there hidden arrow holes and stacks, but the erection of the arrow tower is also very rigorous: there are a total of eight arrow towers facing the main entrance, and these eight arrow towers can cover the entire front of the mountaintop. Sean estimated. If you want to attack the castle, you can only hold about 300 people at most. However, a salvo attack from the arrow holes, arrow stacks, and arrow towers of this scale would basically kill two-thirds of the people.
And the siege ladder. Obviously, it is unlikely that we will be able to build the walls - if we have to build them, I am afraid that we will have to pay for this shortfall with my life. As for the cloud tower and the siege vehicle, Sean glanced back at the situation of the mountain road, and it was obviously impossible to transport it to the mountain, so these two siege tools naturally could not play a role.
This is a truly fortified fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
If you want to take this castle, even the most famous people who are good at siege, you can only honestly use two methods: either take your life and fill it, or besiege it.
But with Sean's understanding of the meaning of the word "black iron", it is clear that it is not easy to besiege it. He could even guess that most of the interior of the mountain must have been hollowed out, and that there must have been a large amount of food, arrows, and other armaments stored inside, and that there must have been other secret escape routes for the castle owner to escape in the event of a complete despair.
And when going up the mountain, Sean also keenly noticed that the situation on the mountain road was a little different, and many places felt that there were very obvious artificial traces. Sean guessed that the traces must have been buried with alchemical explosives or something that could collapse the mountain, and if necessary, they could also give the enemy a counterattack similar to the end of the world.
Not only is this an easy castle to defend, but it is also a very dangerous mountain.
The owner of the castle, Count Hecarrom, settled down. Seysmus quickly opened the middle door of the castle directly and walked out with a happy face.
The corners of Sean's mouth raised slightly: Open the middle door wide, this is a very high-level greeting etiquette.
It's just that he knows very well that this person is called Anton. The Earl of Seymis didn't come to greet them, and the only one who could really be seen by him was Shawshank, the God of War knight he had been unsuccessful in recruiting for a long time.
There is also a God of War Church in Black Iron City, but out of respect for the powerful earl of An, Black Iron City did not arrange for the God of War knights to be stationed, and the security of the entire city, including the security of the God of War Church, is the responsibility of Anton. Luofu City also has the God of War Church, and there are also God of War Knights, but the God of War Knights over there are stronger than Shawshank, and Count Anton has been in contact with them a few times, but he just looks at the other party's eyes above the top, and he estimates that even if he buys it, it will be a trouble, so he gave up the plan to buy the other party. Instead, he tried to woo Shawshank.
It has to be said that Count Hekarrom is a very consistent figure in ambition, strength, and mind.
Unlike most aristocrats. They all have empty ambitions but no strength, or they have ambition and strength but their brains are not very good.
"Welcome! Welcome! "The settlers have not yet arrived. The hearty laughter had already come from afar, and he still ran quickly in three steps and two steps, completely showing a virtuous appearance of thirst for talent.
Settled. Seysmys, although Sean had already heard some brief introductions from Shawshank on the way, but when he saw this person at this time, he found that Shawshank's introductions were not enough to truly describe this person's situation.
This is an earl with the power of high gold!
Sean's pupils shrank slightly.
He had long known that none of the nobles who could get the prefix "strength" in the Northern Duchy Federation were easy to match, but when he actually saw this Count Hecarrom, he was still a little surprised. It's no wonder that the other party dares to come out alone to greet them. There were no guards around him, and it was obvious that the Earl was still very confident in his strength.
"Your Excellency Shawshank, I have been looking forward to the day when you will be able to come to my castle, but I didn't expect that today's dream will finally come true!" An Dun walked quickly in front of Shawshank, and then looked unconcealed with joy, "When I received the report just now, I thought I heard it wrong!" Ha ha! ”
Sean glanced at the count with some amusement.
At this time, Shawshank was in a position half a position behind Emily and Sean, such an obvious distinction between dignity and inferiority. It was impossible for the Earl of Anton not to see it, but he greeted him as if he really didn't see anything, so that he stood side by side with Sean and Emily. This could have been explained by the fact that the other party was really eager to find talent, and did not notice this subtle difference at all. But Sean found that when the other party was talking to Shawshank, he had quickly swept over himself and Emily out of the corner of his eye.
This is an old fox.
Or an old fox with good ambition and brains.
Sean's favorite. It's dealing with old foxes, especially the very cunning old foxes. Because they know how to judge the situation better than anyone else. So the communication was very simple and crude -- at least for Sean, very simple and rude. In the absence of an absolute control between the powers. Old foxes like this don't turn their faces at will, because they are worried about showing some horse's feet and causing unnecessary trouble.
"Lord Earl, I'm not here today because I wanted to." Shawshank said lightly, not giving any face to settle this powerful earl.
But Anton's face was as usual, and there was no sense of annoyance at all - it was not that he was pretending to be good, but that there was really no anger and disgrace in his eyes, and it was obvious that he knew Shawshank's temperament very well.
That's a rare point.
But more than that, Sean also admired the God of War Church a little.
A knight directly under the church with a high rank of silver would dare to be so rude to a strong, but also a strong, and powerful count.
"That'...... Your Excellency Shawshank is ......," the old fox said knowingly.
"I'm here with Lord Shaun and Lord Emily." Shawshank said with a straight look, "It's these two adults who want to see you." ”
Hearing what Shawshank said, Antun turned around abruptly, looked at Sean and Emily, and then hurriedly said: "I'm really sorry, I ...... to see that I, who is an earl, can be so careless."
Sean stretched out a hand to stop Anton's continued performance, and then said indifferently: "Lord Earl, this kind of disguise and acting should be saved, let's not waste each other's time." …… Take us to your study, remember, the most secretive of kinds, and I hope that no fifth person will hear our next conversation. ”
Hearing Sean mercilessly expose his acting, settle down. Semys's brows furrowed slightly, and the momentum on his body also changed suddenly.
But in this regard, whether it is Sean, Emily, or Shawshank, they are not afraid, just calmly looking at this powerful earl, waiting for his next answer. (To be continued......)
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