Chapter 404 Blood Road

After a lapse of twenty days, Allen saw the top of Storm City again, with mixed feelings in his heart.

This expedition to the barren highlands can be described as extremely thrilling, if one is not careful, the entire army may be wiped out. The key point is that the queen lurking deep in the ground is already very weak. If it hits it in its heyday, Alan can hardly imagine the ending.

At that time, he and others had already buried their corpses in the dark and cold underground, if they were digested as food in the queen's body. How can I still feel the blazing sunshine outside, and see those partners who are waiting for their return again?

When the soldiers at the top of the city saw that they were walking on foot and their clothes were not much better than those of homeless people, they thought they were people who had escaped from somewhere. It wasn't until he saw Alan's signature silver gray hair that he realized that the city lord had returned.

Allen was quite secretive when he left, but after twenty days there, he was discovered a few days ago. When I came back at this time, the news spread like the wind throughout the streets and alleys, so that those who originally wanted to do something while the city lord was away, could only sigh secretly and say no to me.

Walking into the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Alan was immediately hugged by a blink of an eye. With Xiangyu in his arms, he began to see clearly that it was Adele who was hugging him tightly. The girl still had time to make a proud grimace at Lucy in the back, and then let go of Alan, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I thought you were killed by something, and you haven't come back for so long."

Allen and the few people behind looked at each other with a wry smile, and said, "I'm really telling you, we almost couldn't come back."

Adele was taken aback: "What the hell did you encounter?"

"It's hard to say." Alan glanced at his tattered clothes and said, "Compared to this, I think we would rather clean it up first."

Adele nodded in agreement and said, "Indeed, you all have some strange smells."

After a while, Allen took a shower and put on clean clothes, which made him feel like a human being in two lifetimes. He came to the study and was notified by Adele. Not only did Roy and Broy arrive, but even Reg, the head of the Knights, rushed over upon hearing the news. Seeing them, Allen nodded and said, "You guys came just in time. I just got a new batch of equipment, and I need to readjust the army."

The weapons obtained from the King Snake Base are basically Yuanli weapons, such as the Yuanli rifle, which requires level 5 Yuanli to be used. Origin force weapons are different from mana equipment. Although both are activated by origin force, the latter can form a directional ability, while the former just transforms source force into bullets and shoots them out. That's why the usage restrictions of the source force rifles are so low. As Lucy said, their power is actually very limited.

But if the number is enough, and the military civilization of this world is still relatively low. Here, the Yuanli Rifle has a lot to offer.

In order to make this batch of equipment work, the army needs to conduct a screening and adjustment. Soldiers above level 5 and below level 10 are all screened out, and they form a rifle team, which is uniformly equipped with source force rifles, so as to enhance the army's long-range firepower.

In addition, the cavalry of the Thunder Knights, and even the standard knights, were also replaced with source force rifles. In this way, the overall combat power of the Thunder Knights has been raised to a higher level. Even if it still doesn't reach the level of Black Cloud Knight, it's almost the same.

As for other weapons and equipment, some of them are allocated to the Mountain King and Dark Blade, and the rest are temporarily put into storage. It will be distributed after the army expands.

Now that Storm City has the equipment, the only thing missing is the soldiers. The soldiers came from the people, which made Allen feel the urgency of expanding the territory. Now a small border land can no longer meet his needs.

Coming out of the study, Reg strode forward. Now he is glad that he finally chose the right one. Alan, the new city lord, not only found an ancient ruin, but also brought back a lot of ancient equipment. From Alan's words, Reg saw the blueprint for the expansion of Storm City. And the ones who benefited were naturally their followers. Thinking of this, Knight Leader's heart became hot.

Soon, the army took action. Soldiers who met the requirements were selected, but the number was quite small, only about twenty. However, the batch of rifles that Allen got was more than 300, so through the Adventurers Association, Allen recruited another 20 qualified adventurers. Most of them are unsatisfactory people. Instead of continuing to mess around, it is more promising to join the army.

What's more, now that Storm City is ready to go, many people are optimistic about Alan, the new city lord. Therefore, as soon as the recruitment information of the Adventurer's Association came out, the places were almost sold out.

In this way, there will be an organized team. As for the remaining guns, we can only wait for the expansion of the army in the future.

On the second day after Alan's return, Regis led the Mountain King troops to set off to the wild highlands to retrieve the batch of equipment in the base. As for Allen, he was overwhelmed by a mountain of reports and documents. While he was away, the factory had already been capped, and it would be put into use soon after the equipment personnel arrived. With the steel factory and weapon workshop, Storm City can produce cold weapons and equipment by itself, without having to buy them from outsiders, which invisibly saves considerable military expenses.

Furthermore, Adele's fund-raising plan has achieved initial results. Under her impetus, not only wealthy businessmen and officials in the territory donated their pockets one after another, taking out part of their property for investment. Even Alan's collaborators in Violet Harbor showed considerable interest after hearing about it. Especially Roger, who is already making preparations to invest 100,000 gold coins in Allen, which is definitely not a small amount.

In the study, Adele said complacently: "If we continue like this, we will soon be able to raise about 300,000 gold coins. This fund can be used for the promotion of the church and the operation of the factory. Our shortened The cycle of capital accumulation, and investors can benefit from us, is killing two birds with one stone. The important thing is to tie them firmly to our chariot through fundraising. At that time, our enemies will also be their enemies , because through fundraising, we have formed a relationship of common interests with investors.”

Allen raised his head from the file mountain and said with a smile: "In this regard, you are still good at it."

"Of course, then, how do you reward me?" Adele asked pensively.

"What kind of reward do you want, or else, I'll give you a dividend too?"

"I do not want it."

"Then what do you want?"

"marry me!"

With a stroke of the pen in Allen's hand, a striking mark was drawn on the document. He sighed, raised his head and said, "Adele, marriage is not a child's play. Besides, you know the relationship between me and Lucy."

"Why, can I not compare to that double ponytail?" Adele raised her chin and asked.

"Regardless of appearance or ability, you are no worse than Lucy."

"So you don't like me?"

"You can't say that. It's just marriage. Don't you think it's too early for us? We still have so many things to do. If you just want to get rid of the family, you don't need to get married to achieve your goal. "Alan said seriously: "If one day, you clearly tell me to get rid of the family and use you as a bargaining chip. I am willing to help you with all my strength, Adele, no matter which side the pressure comes from. This is my promise!"

Adele calmed down, looked at Alan calmly, and clearly saw her appearance in those fiery red pupils. Finally, the corners of her mouth were raised slightly, and the girl smiled: "Then it's settled."

"Of course, I..." At the end of the sentence, Allen suddenly heard a heavy heartbeat, and the inexplicable throbbing caused the source power in his body to run at high speed with the flick of his fingers, making Allen suddenly enter the state of battle. It was an instinctive reaction to being threatened, but Allen's eyes became blank. It seems that the consciousness has left this space, and is betting in a certain void and distant time and space.

Allen's eyes were dark, as if he was in the deepest part of the universe. This place is dark and desolate, but in this pitch-black space, there is a sudden sound of war drums. The drumbeats went from slow to fast, from small to small, and finally resounded through the entire space, echoing continuously. Suddenly, the drumming stops abruptly, leaving a huge void. Then wisps of red light rose from under his feet, Allen lowered his head, and a pool of blood was melting away at his feet.

It was blood plasma that was constantly bubbling, and more and more plasma bubbled up, starting from Allen, spreading forward and backward, winding like a river in the dark, and like a blood road. The blood road can't see the beginning, let alone the end, it extends towards the dark ends of nothingness. It seems that it will span time and space, stretching one end to the beginning of the universe and the other end to the end, thus forming a complete reincarnation.

After the blood path was formed, a flame suddenly ignited from it, and the entire blood path was burning in an instant. In this burning blood road, different patterns floated up step by step. Allen felt his engravings emerge on their own, and each line radiated bright light, and the source force was resonated by a certain will, setting off a huge wave!

He suddenly realized that those patterns were engraved one by one. Since it is engraved, it will naturally have an owner. Behind each engraving represents a will, so where are these wills that appeared with him on this road of burning blood? What does it mean for them to appear here after being summoned by some kind?

At this moment, flames blazed in front of Allen. He walked as far as he could, as if at the end of the world, a majestic throne appeared at the end of the bloody road. The pedestal of the throne depicts the stars and the Milky Way, they flicker and flicker, and how many planets are born and die at the flick of a finger. On the abutment, two fierce beasts like dragons and beasts are the handrails. However, the fierce beasts have sharp eyes and spew fire-like breath from time to time, making them look like living things. And the back of the throne is a curtain of fire that keeps rising. In the curtain of fire, the fire flow will continue to outline pictures one by one.

Those pictures are all scenes of thousands of creatures screaming and killing!

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