arcane emperor

Chapter 469: Put it up (1 update)
Boom!

Whoosh!

Wild flames spread wantonly among the orc army.

Elio stared closely at the approaching orc scout and shouted without thinking:
"Shoot! Kill them!"

The crossbow arrows flew away with a sound of breaking through the air, covering the orc scouts from a few hundred meters away.

Even the elite orcs cannot withstand the poisoned crossbow arrows.

After being hit by an arrow, they could not run a few steps before they fell to the ground screaming and died from the poison.

Elio recalled the poison production factory outside the Druid greenhouse in his mind, and a little anticipation flashed in his eyes.

In the future, the development of the Gulf Territory will be faster and faster, and its strength will become stronger and stronger!
The smaller number of orc scouts chose to retreat and escape after nearly half of them were killed or injured.

Despite this, Elio still did not let down his guard and ordered the sentry to observe carefully, silently calculating in his heart.

"You can still fire three more rounds!"

call!call!call!
After watching the last piece of fierce fire oil fly over, causing the raging fire to expand again, spread wantonly around, and swallow more orcs, Elio decisively gave the order to retreat.

After removing the most valuable core components, all trebuchets were abandoned in place.

As the operator left, the fire oil placed on top shattered and was ignited by a large fire, completely engulfing the trebuchet.

Everyone has arrived at the excavated underground space under Elio's order.

Here, the slightly shining teleportation array teleported everyone away directly.

As their vision returned, everyone who knew the emergency plan ran away as quickly as possible.

Wall after wall was built in all directions.

Above the wall, there are racks of crossbows.

Feili, who was waiting on this side, breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Elio return safely and asked:
"how is the situation?"

Turning around and looking at the teleportation area where there was no movement, Elio recalled the scene just now and replied without thinking:

"With luck, I should have eliminated about 2000 orcs and delayed them for about two hours."

Blinking in surprise, Feili asked excitedly: "The efficiency is pretty good! We can still arrange two rounds."

Unexpectedly, Alio shook his head, hesitated for a while and then said:

"While the efficiency is good, it is too dangerous to be worth continuing to try."

"Moreover, the caltrops cost a total of 2 gold coins. One trebuchet was worth 200 gold coins, and a jar of fierce fire oil was worth 5 gold coins. A total of 20 trebuchets were destroyed, 20 rounds were consumed, 4000 jars of fierce fire oil, and a total cost of 4.4 gold."

"If 4.4 gold coins alone can kill more than 2000 orcs, it's still a good deal."

"But including the destroyed small teleportation array, even after Blood Moon City's discount, it is still as high as 4 gold coins. This is a loss."

"..."

Regarding the "economic" war that Elio called, Feili noticed many contradictions.

If it is really to save gold coins, there is no need for the Gulf Territory to limit the ability and number of adventurers.

After all, there are adventurers who risk their lives for the reward of 10 gold coins for killing an orc.

The Gulf Territory not only limited the strength of the adventurers, but also sent its own soldiers to fight the orcs.

This consumes more gold coins!
However, the Gulf Territory attaches great importance to life, whether it is a soldier or an adventurer.

For this reason, the Gulf Territory is willing to pay an extra huge amount of gold coins to ensure this.

Seemingly aware of Feili's "doubts", Elio ordered the soldiers to be on strict guard. He looked at Jifan who was entangled with the wolf cavalry on the far side of the city wall, and explained to her with a smile:
"Safety first, victory second, efficiency third."

The wealth of the Gulf Territory is created and accumulated by the joint efforts of everyone in the Gulf Territory.They are too precious to be wasted.

In addition to deploying caltrops on a large scale, the Gulf Territory has many other ways to block the enemy.

For example, Macaron dispatched engineering golems to dig deep pits and then re-cover the traps.

Even if a strong orc soldier steps on it, there will be no reaction. Only when heavy siege equipment passes by will it burst open.

As a result, one after another siege equipment that was a great threat to the city wall suddenly fell into the trap.

In addition, the orc army also encountered various traps on its way forward.

A small, hidden pit filled with poisonous spikes.

Poisoned kettles, automatically triggered killing traps, spell traps with astonishing destructive power...

The orc army suffered a lot, and after seeing the miserable state of those who stepped into the trap, even if they were not afraid of death, their advance was inevitably much slower.

Originally half a day's journey, the orcs waited until the sun had set before they saw the towering Bloody Pass.

Along the way, 5000 orcs fell into the trap.

Frustrated and angry, all the orcs were furious. They stared at the bloody pass and roared one after another.

Matthew looked at these angry orcs and looked at the confident Angela, who issued an order:

"Call them up!"

Several adventurers with loud voices, with the help of amplification technology, shouted in loud orc language:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, why are you here now?"

"They must have been scared and were dragging their feet along the way."

"Orcs are like this. They are very big but very timid."

"You bunch of trash, come up and die!!"

"..."

Loud shouts reached the orc army, and the red eyes of most of the orc soldiers immediately turned blood red.

But to Matthew's expectation, these orcs did not rush up recklessly like most of the orcs they encountered before.

Although they were very angry, they were quite restrained and did not launch an attack. Instead, they began to prepare siege equipment and build camps at the same time.

"As expected of the red-eyed orc in the fourth largest tribe, his fighting ability is different."

Among the orcs encountered in the Gulf Territory, only the Blackstone orcs could rival them.

Matthew knew the Red-Eyed Orcs quite well and had “dealt” with them for several months when he was a player in his previous life.

Many players think they are very "tricky".

The red-eyed orcs have strong individual combat capabilities, and their group combat capabilities are comparable to many regular armies.

It can be regarded as one of the most threatening orc tribes among the top ten orc tribes.

Some clues can be seen from the fact that they can make various siege equipment such as "lantern chariots", "ram chariots" and "cloud ladders".

Precisely because of their strong combat capabilities, Matthew wanted to encounter them "in advance".

He needs a lot of destiny power and meritorious deeds, the Gulf Territory army needs the "baptism" of war, the orcs need to complete the deal with the mastermind, and the mastermind wants to deal with Matthew.

Various purposes came together to form this battle!

(End of this chapter)