A robber rushed into the reconstructed front hall of Lord Hongye''s house.
"No, Lord, boss!"
"Is it the dead?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"Well, it seems not. I see two human Knights leading the way..."
Li Shuyi said, "could it be a special envoy sent by the Empire to interfere in the affairs of Hongye city?"
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said, "it''s reasonable not to be so fast. I think those two knights may be people like Ian and Jericho. Let''s go and have a look. Even if they are enemies, we can deal with them."
Many residents of Hongye City stood at the gate of the city, looking at a team of people in the distance with curiosity and vigilance.
Led by two knights side by side, there is no difference in status. One of the strong knights, like an iron tower, shouted, "is the Lord of the red leaf collar here?"
"March is dead. Now I''m in charge of the red leaf city!" Bai Xiaowen appeared on the head of the city and shouted, "I''m the Lord of Baishi town. You can call me Dior. Who are you?"
The two knights rode slowly and came under the gate.
"We are the Knights of the Holy See. You can call me job, Lord. The one next to me is Ferdinand," said the stout knight, looking up. "We have received the news that there has been a serious undead riot in red leaf city. Follow the order of Prince Nicholas to destroy the undead."
Job took out a stone with a mysterious Rune: "this is a messenger rune. You can contact Prince Nicholas through it. Lord Dior, Prince Nicholas has a lot of questions to ask you."
With a flash of light, a large amount of color fog evaporated from the messenger stone. Soon, the color fog condensed and turned into an illusory image of a person.
This is a young man, handsome, tall, with dazzling blond hair, wearing blue knight armor, with a fierce lion design cloak of Sao Bao behind him. The Silver Hammer in his hand swims away from time to time. His strength can be seen from the illusory image.
The residents of Red Leaf City knelt down one after another and cheered the name of Prince Nicholas.
"This little white face seems to be much more popular than me. He looks good and almost caught up with me." Bai Xiaowen muttered to Li Shuyi.
When the prince''s image appeared, Bai Xiaowen of course had to show due respect. He walked down the city head, came out of the city gate, gently tapped his right fist on his left chest, and bent down to perform the general visiting etiquette of Kane in the world.
"It''s a pleasure to meet you, your Highness Prince Nicholas."
The image of Prince Nicholas nodded and said, "who are you?"
Bai Xiaowen introduced himself.
"Lord of Baishi town? I remember that Baishi town is a small territory. It''s hard to believe that you have the strength to conquer the red leaf collar." Prince Nicholas showed a thought-provoking expression on his face.
Bai Xiaowen said, "Your Highness should know that there are many robbers in Baishi Town, all of whom are pathetic people who have gone astray. I have incorporated them separately, so that I have an army with good combat effectiveness. They have made great efforts in purifying the red leaf collar."
Bai Xiaowen deliberately used the words "purification" rather than "Conquest".
"Reorganize robbers?" job suddenly asked, "there is a blackwind robber group in Whitestone. You have also incorporated it? Where is their leader Ian?"
Bai Xiaowen replied, "Ian is dead."
When hearing the news that Ian had been killed, Prince Nicholas frowned slightly, while job and Ferdinand showed an indescribable sadness on their faces. There was also a trace of imperceptible resentment in their eyes at Bai Xiaowen.
After all, Ian is their comrade in arms.
However, Bai Xiaowen was not stupid enough to tell Ian''s true identity. He continued to describe, passing through the discovery of the clue of the plague of the dead, focusing on the battle results. March, Jericho and the Lich ebizer were mentioned again.
"In other words, you pulled out an important lair of the plague of the dead for the Empire. Well done," Prince Nicholas nodded. "In addition, I saw your contribution to the imperial conscription order. Now you have a good army under your command. Take it to the black rock defense line and fight for the fate of the Empire and mankind."
The prompt message of spirit world rules came:
"Heroic branch task step 1: the truth of the plague has been submitted. Evaluation: excellent."
"Main task: the recruitment of your army has been submitted. Evaluation: perfect."
Prince Nicholas continued: "Your army is enough to serve as the main force of the 17th infantry phalanx of the black rock defense line. Based on this, I grant you the position of commander of the 17th infantry phalanx. This is an important military position of the human coalition army, and you must not slack off. If you make enough military honors in the war, I will ask your majesty to upgrade your title to suit your military position."
Bai Xiaowen nodded: "I will prove my loyalty to the Empire and the people, your highness."
He knew very well that the position of "commander of the 17th infantry phalanx" was generally held at the Viscount level, but it was because Bai Xiaowen recruited enough soldiers, more than 10 times more than the ordinary Baron level Lord, that he was exceptionally awarded an important military position.
The spirit world rule prompt message sounded: "you have completed the main task. In the next 9 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes and 31 seconds, you can explore freely, leave Kane''s plane world at any time in combat, and the power points, equipment and props won''t be lost."
"[main task step 2: Battle of black rock] open."
"Mission objective: guard Heiyan fortress for 10 days until the arrival of imperial reinforcements."
"Task difficulty: s."
"Mission duration: 15 days."
After this task, there is a special prompt: "the countdown to the attack of the remnant: 9 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes and 31 seconds. Please rush to Heiyan fortress before the countdown is over. If it is overdue, it will be regarded as a task failure."
"If [mainline task 2: the fire of black rock] fails, all power points, equipment or props you gain during the mainline task will disappear. The gains you gain during [mainline task 1: call up your army] will not be affected."
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi shared the prompt information. They looked at each other and could see a trace of excitement from each other''s eyes.
[mainline task 2: Battle of black rock] what does it mean?
A full 15 days of extra stay in Kane''s plane world! Almost equivalent to another spiritual world ticket!
Moreover, the significance is much greater than a spiritual ticket. The two can start from the current situation, dig deep into branch tasks and plan more benefits.
Many awakened people believe that the stay time (10 days) for each time entering the spiritual world is too short, just like a project that has just started. Because of time constraints, they must return. They can only do some short-term small projects and can''t carry out long-term layout.
Therefore, the value of tickets that can stay for 15 days is much higher than that of tickets for 10 days, which should be doubled at least.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi can stay in Kane''s plane world for 30 days. How many derivative benefits can Bai Xiaowen, who is good at layout, have? It''s hard to say. At least from the perspective of Bai Xiaowen, he was unwilling to give him 10 spiritual world tickets below level C for these 30 days.
Bai Xiaowen won the qualification for the additional 15 days.
In general, the awakened person completes the main task 1, and the maximum number of troops recruited is only a dozen. Even if it exceeds the task conditions, it is impossible to exceed too many. The small team of more than a dozen people is very insignificant in the black rock defense line. They can''t get important military posts at all. Of course, they can''t get extra stay time.
However, Bai Xiaowen recruited 20 times as many people and even captured the red leaf collar, which means that Lord March completed the recruitment task originally shouldered by him - which led him to command the whole infantry array and play an important role in the human coalition army.
After calculation, the spirit world rules judge that the role played by Bai Xiaowen, Lord Dior skelbum of Baishi Town, has an important position affecting the balance of the situation and cannot be kicked away casually. Therefore, there is the opening of main task 2.
This is also what Bai Xiaowen vaguely imagined when he first entered Kane''s plane world and came into contact with main task 1 - there was a hint at that time, "the stronger the army you recruit, the higher your position in the Terran joint army".
If you don''t have more time to stay, what''s the point of getting a higher position in the Terran coalition? Spiritual rules don''t give meaningless hints. Therefore, Bai Xiaowen will spend a lot of time to incorporate robbers and form an army.
"But before the official appointment is made, I need to verify one thing," cried Prince Nicholas, "Ferdinand."
"Yes, your highness."
Next to job, another knight named Ferdinand took out a monocle, put it on, and then looked at Bai Xiaowen carefully.
"Lord Dior is not a dead, not infected by the plague."
The monocle is the Shengguang plague detector.
Job looked relieved. Prince Nicholas nodded, "very good."
However, Ferdinand frowned when his eyes turned to others, especially the residents of red leaf city.
"Wait a minute. Your highness... Lord Dior and his guards are not infected by the plague, but other residents of red leaf city have latent viruses... No healthy people exist."
"What?" Knight job exclaimed, and then looked at the residents of red leaf city with compassionate eyes.
Bai Xiaowen felt a little bad: "what''s the matter?"
The image of Prince Nicholas waved his arm.
"Clear it all. This work is left to Lord Dior and his guards. Job and Ferdinand, you are responsible for supervising the implementation. No infected people in red leaf city can escape."
"Yes, your highness." job and Ferdinand sighed. "Lord Dior, give orders."
"Wait, what''s going on?" Bai Xiaowen was stunned.
This inexplicably familiar picture feeling
In another space-time, isn''t there such a plot in a game? Civilians infected by the plague, princes who follow the path of light since childhood, and stansom''s butcher''s knife
Is Prince Nicholas the Kane version of "Arthas"?
"Didn''t you hear your Highness''s order to remove all the civilians infected with the plague of the dead? They have no hope!" job''s voice was loud and did not care about many residents of red leaf city around him.
Ferdinand: "Lord, please carry out the prince''s order as soon as possible!"
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said unequivocally, "I refuse."
"You refuse my order?" Prince Nicholas frowned and looked unhappy. "You have to think about it! It''s my decision!"
"The duty of the army is to defend the people. If the order I received was to wave a knife at the unarmed civilians, I would never accept it." Bai Xiaowen appropriately painted a wave of justice image. The residents of Hongye city who were in a state of panic looked at Bai Xiaowen with hope.
Prince Nicholas was not angry. Job and Ferdinand were not surprised by Bai Xiaowen''s words.
Because the values of the Plantagenet Dynasty are like this. The knight''s Creed pays attention to kindness and cannot bully the weak. If Bai Xiaowen readily agrees to Prince Nicholas''s order to kill the city, the three people will have to weigh whether Bai Xiaowen is naturally cold-blooded.
"Lord, believe me, your Highness''s orders are cold, but they are the wisest decision!" job advised. "Red leaf city is not the first town infected by the plague of the dead. There was a similar town before. Your highness didn''t make up his mind to kill the city. Eventually, the whole city was full of dead, and it cost the empire a lot to destroy it."
"Yes, the prince''s order is more painful than you think. But as a leader, he can''t show his pain. Lord Dior, if you don''t have the heart to do it or don''t want to bear the curse, let''s come."
Bai Xiaowen saw that the play was almost done, so he opened his mouth and told the truth.
"I understand that the plague of the dead is terrible, but it can''t be solved by indiscriminate killing. We must find an antidote to the plague of the dead! I believe there must be some way to save these innocent people."
"You have a way?" Prince Nicholas stared at Bai Xiaowen with sharp eyes.
"In fact, one of my Erudites is studying the antidote to the plague of the dead," Bai Xiaowen said.
"The Holy See of light doesn''t know how many scholars are trying to study the plague of the dead. Even Archbishop Arlo is helpless. I don''t think your erudite can do what so many scholars can''t do."
"However, I''ll always try," Bai Xiaowen said. "Your Highness, I won''t report to the black rock defense line for the time being. My guards will control the red leaf city and keep the patients with severe infection in isolation. Once they have the tendency of undead, they will be removed immediately to ensure that there will be no consequences of full city undead."