Chapter 207: 207, Battle of Aphi (Part 2)_1
Translator: 549690339
Upon observing Su Yu’s actions, Tina, floating in the sky, understood immediately.
She also took out the gemstone ring given to her by Evan Goldsparrow and loudly announced to the army of Falling Moon Town:
“This is the ring conferred upon me by the defender deity of the Empire, Lord Evan Goldsparrow. I can vouch for Nemesis’ words as the captain of the Unicorn Knights. And I will ensure he keeps his promise.”
Hearing this, the soldiers of Falling Moon Town exchanged glances, their initially gathered will to fight instantly waned.
Moreover, Su Yu took advantage of the situation, adding: “The resettlement benefits are not only for dock workers but also apply to everyone here!
If any of you wish to relocate to my land, my domain welcomes you all. Furthermore, I can provide each family with 80,000 spiritual energy coins as relocation allowance, doubled for the second-order powerful ones, and five times for the third-order ones. I will not break my word!”
“80,000 spiritual energy coins?!” Disturbance occurred among the Falling Moon Town army.
The wages of the soldiers of Falling Moon Town were slightly higher than those of the dock workers, but it ranged only between 800 and 1000 spiritual energy coins per month.
80,000 spiritual energy coins were basically equivalent to their total earnings of seven years!
Moreover, “soldier” was a high-risk job; one might be alive and bouncing today but could turn up dead tomorrow. Nobody dared to wish for an eight-year future.
Therefore, upon hearing Su Yu’s promise, many soldiers started to wonder: “Shall I find a way to move to this city?”
“80,000 spiritual energy coins is quite a lot! I must figure out a way to get it.”
“Shall I slack off when the city is under attack later? If Boss Ke sees me fiercely killing a lot of people, will he reject my relocation proposal?”
“Shall I feign death somewhere once the siege starts?”
The soldiers started thinking along these lines, and naturally, the will and morale of the Falling Moon Town army plunged.
In all the major live broadcast rooms offline.
Watching Su Yu’s performance, the barrage of messages started to flood the screen:
“Boss Ke is squandering money again!”
“If I were the opposing foot soldier, I might be tempted!”
“Boss Ke is seriously spending money like there’s no tomorrow. With 80,000 spiritual energy coins per person, if all these two thousand people immigrate, wouldn’t he have to spend 1 billion and 600 million spiritual energy coins?!”
“Do you think Boss Ke is dumb! He must have added some migration restrictions. He wouldn’t just let anyone move.”
“And maybe he’ll pay the relocation allowance in installments, like 1,000 a month for 8 years, Boss Ke didn’t say that he will pay it all at once. This crappy game might even be closed down after 8 years.”
“Regardless, Count Razor should be dumbfounded by now, how could he run into such a wealthy opponent?”
Just as the netizens had thought, in the game, Baron Philip looked incredibly displeased.
Su Yu’s words drastically lowered the morale and fighting spirit of his troops, but he had no means of counteracting this.
Spend money against Su Yu?
No, he couldn’t afford it. He couldn’t extract such a sum of spiritual energy coins.
So what could be done? Baron Philip felt somewhat helpless.
However, he was aware that he couldn’t wait any longer. While the fighting spirit of the army hadn’t hit rock bottom yet, he must declare war now!
Therefore, he gave his deputy an order: “Sound the drum, march forward!”
“Yes, sir!” The deputy immediately relayed the order.
The order to attack was swiftly conveyed to the entire army.
The soldiers of Falling Moon Town mechanically picked up their weapons, started marching, and prepared for the siege.
In the back ranks of the army, catapults were being assembled, and large stones were hurled toward the walls of Aphi City.
Under the soldiers’ push, siege hammers slowly approached the gates of Aphi City.
However, due to the promise of “80,000 spiritual energy coins” made by Su Yu, the actions of nearly all soldiers became delayed to varying degrees, becoming lacklustre, completely losing their sharpness.
Four guards had been following Count Philip all along.
After the start of the war, the Count turned to these four guards and said, “It’s your turn now. Capture Tina Garcia, there will be a huge reward!”
“Yes, Count Philip.” The four guards responded at the same time.
Then they simultaneously tore off their disguises, with their high-ranking armor and magic robes revealed.
Next, they leaped from horseback, four powerful beings flew high into the sky together.
These four were actually all fifth-ranked powerhouses!
In addition to the Pyro Mage of the fifth rank from just now, Tina was facing five by herself, the surrounding environment suddenly became extremely dangerous.
“Captain, be careful!” A beautiful silver figure quickly flew over from the nearby city wall, holding a noble short sword in a defensive position next to Tina, it was Fiona who came along with Tina.
Tina nodded at Fiona, looking solemnly at the approaching five powerhouses.
Among these five powerhouses, two were mages, two were warriors, and the last one was an archer. Based only on her and Fiona, they may not be their match.
“Nemesis, catch!” Tina executed the skill [Tina Garcia’s Blessing]. A faint golden halo flew from her hand and blessed Su Yu.
With the halo’s blessing, Su Yu quickly attained the same level as Tina, becoming a temporary fifth-ranked powerhouse.
“Fiona, you and Nemesis each handle one, leave the rest to me!” Tina looked at the five foes in front of her, and her fighting spirit flared.
As heaven’s favored daughter, Tina had never experienced one against three before. Today, it would be granted, and she prepared to strike them all down!
The long sword in Tina’s hand was emitting a dazzling golden light as she actively approached the five powerful foes. It was as if she wasn’t surrounded by these five powerhouses, but rather she was surrounding them.
Regarding the five fifth-ranked opponents, they exchanged glances, then the two mages began to recite spells preparing to release their magic.
The archer also raised his longbow, aiming at the rising Su Yu, and prepared to take him out with a swift attack.
But Su Yu didn’t panic, a disdainful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
“Why are you smiling?” Seeing Su Yu’s smile, Count Philip suddenly had a bad feeling.
“You sent five fifth-ranked powerhouses this time to outnumber us, correct?”
“What a coincidence! We have the same idea!”
Su Yu sneered, opened his private chat interface to message Swift, “Have Kathy bring five fifth-ranked powerhouses here.”
“Understood!” Swift replied.
Swift’s current location wasn’t Aphi City, but Goldsparrow City’s Scholar’s Temple.
Having received Su Yu’s message, she quickly looked at Kathy and the person in charge of the Scholar’s Temple—Haimleke, “Kathy, Lord Haimleke, Nemesis needs the support of five fifth-ranked powerhouses!”
“Understood!” Kathy crisply replied.
During these nine days, Kathy and her father Moke often spent their time leveling diligently in various large wilderness areas. In addition to the large amount of experience gained during the Bandit Invasion, Kathy’s level had now reached level 54 and was a genuine third-ranked mage.
Upon hearing Swift’s words, Kathy didn’t hesitate to start casting the [Teleportation Portal] spell.
Hum
Accompanied by a faint hum, a tranquil blue teleportation portal appeared in front of her, with faint blue rays of magic light filling the entire room.