I draw a card first

Chapter 83 The troubled times are coming
Compared with the market being taken over, Ivan is actually more curious about who the other party is.

Like the undead, they can adapt to the special environment of the plane of death?
But it is a pity that the opponent's power is really huge, and it seems to be deeply rooted in the kingdom. Even though the newly established Seventh Intelligence Department has spent a lot of effort, it has not made any satisfactory progress.

It was only discovered that the other party seemed to be short of funds recently.

The selling price of various materials can be called a big sale, and some mages who are in need of this are crazy with joy!
Of course, there are not a few small businessmen who jump into the sea for this reason.
Putting aside the question about this faction for the time being, during this period of time, it can be said that Lion Leaders are really spending money like running water, and the purchased magic materials are piling up into mountains.

These are the necessary materials to expand the magic matrix of the main city and establish the magic nodes for identity card registration and message transmission in various places.

It's not that no one has thought of this idea before. After all, it doesn't involve any advanced magic technology. Many organizations like mercenary guilds have similar functions.

However, due to the high cost of materials, and the need for a large number of mages with relevant knowledge for construction and long-term maintenance, in the end, this method of communication has not been widely promoted in the true sense.

At least this is the case in the "villages" like the Lions' Land and even the Kingdom of Lotias.

It can only helplessly become a high-end, luxurious and secret foreign communication method that only individual nobles and mages are able to set up individually.

However, these two problems that are difficult for others to solve are not a problem at all if it is replaced by Aiwen's "trench".

A certain person who can pick up money while walking and walking recently, has become "rich as an enemy" in the true sense under the blood transfusion of massive gold coins from two trading channels. The valuation is comparable to that of Lothea simply because of the disposable wealth in his hands. The taxation of the Kingdom of Sri Lanka for more than a year!
And with such a large group of liches, there is no shortage of mage "builders". As long as the materials are in place, the work can be started!

It didn't take half a month to actually do it. The old lich in disguise led his men to complete the upgrade and transformation of the Lion City magic shield, and expanded a unit for message storage and transfer.

And the synchronous advancement of the magic nodes of various traffic arteries has almost been completed.

Only the follow-up goal of covering all major towns will be slower. After all, a group of liches headed by the old lich actually have a lot of research topics in their hands, and it is impossible to stay here as a worker for a long time.

Therefore, after completing the main construction, they quickly withdrew, and the Lich team selected by lottery will be responsible for subsequent network expansion.

Even without any disturbance, according to the plan, this will take at least one or two years.

Considering that the promotion of the ID card will take about so long, in fact, it will not have much impact, as long as the military communication is completed and the civilian use is completed, it does not matter.

But just when Aiwen was busy promoting the communication network, and even fantasized about the establishment of a magical version of the Internet in the future, and playing online games like Shenma.

A bad news suddenly came back from the newly built communication network
——The eldest prince is dead!
Hurrying to the core mage tower, Ivan couldn't believe his ears when he heard the slightly bad sound from the deep purple communication circle.

The candidate for the next king, who is favored by the vast majority of people, just died?

This is too childish, right?

But the news couldn't be false, because the other side of the magic circle was a paladin who voluntarily participated in the war against the orcs.

Because when the war was raging, the prince who was the commander-in-chief was assassinated by an assassin and died on the spot. The entire coalition army inevitably fell into chaos, which eventually led to a disastrous defeat on the human side, and even completely dispersed and lost all army formations!

This unlucky paladin hadn't fulfilled his belief in "revenge" before, so he had to find a way to escape among the chaotic army, and ran back after exhausting all kinds of hardships.

This is thanks to the hybrid desert dragonfly in his hand.

If there is no such thing to carry him to hide in the sky all the time, and successfully avoid the countless enemies chasing and killing, whether he can survive in that kind of chaos, it really depends on whether his fate is hard enough .

At least by looking at the other nine paladins who haven't heard anything yet, this is definitely not a high probability event...

"I see, take a good rest, don't think too much..."

To appease the paladin on the other side of the "telephone", Aiwen hung up the communication, his eyebrows frowned suddenly.

This result is really unexpected.

A fool can detect that there is a problem inside, but all the situations are like a mess, and people can't find the clues inside.

"I need a Sherlock Holmes"

Rubbing his temples, he glanced at Kachi, who was half a month away from the countdown, and let out a long breath.

Chaos is coming!

There is no doubt about it!
Nearly half of the kingdom's elite and at least one-tenth of the lord's army were gathered together. In this way, most of them were lost in one battle and they were completely defeated.

This means that the portals of the entire southern part of the kingdom will be wide open, as helpless as a little girl with all defenses removed!
As long as they are not stupid, the orcs will definitely take the opportunity to drive straight in, and as the territory closest to the southern region in the west, the lion territory will inevitably be affected, and will inevitably be involved in this disaster!
"No way, I can only modify the plan and start preparing for the battle!"

The ID card project, which consumes a lot of manpower, was urgently stopped by Aiwen, and the construction of information nodes also temporarily stalled.

In the direction where the orcs might come, several outer lines of defense formed by castles and city walls blocking the traffic arteries also began to step up construction.

Of course, the most important thing is the expansion of various materials and the army.

Aiwen simply moved the resident first army out of the city, completely emptied the training ground, and started the expansion of the second batch of troops.

Under the leadership of Aiwen, the Lion Leader already has complete and humane military benefits, so there is never a shortage of young people who are eager to join the army.

Three legions were easily recruited, with a total of 1 people. Under the leadership of the Paladin who already looked like a qualified officer, the recruits immediately threw themselves into intense assault training after the recruitment was completed.

The main content is to practice using bows and crossbows, learn how to defend the city, and how to protect yourself while facing the siege enemy while killing the enemy as much as possible.

Aiwen's plan is to defend the city and fight.

With the help of the terrifying efficiency of the interstellar-level construction machine [Claude Interstellar Federation El Star Engineering Special Excavator Type 2] in his hand, he built a steel defense line to protect the territory as soon as possible.

If it doesn't work, the [Intermediate Building Accelerator Card] can even be used.

The reason for paying such a large cost is because only by building a defense and stabilizing the rear can he safely gather all his strength to resist the invasion of the orcs.

It's not even certain whether they can win, after all, that is a powerful foreign enemy that has suppressed the entire kingdom for countless years.

In the worst case, the battle fails completely, and the orcs will enter the territory, so Aiwen has made up his mind to play "Undead Riot" directly at that time.

Using the countless undead army in the canyon to kill all the invading orcs in one wave, and with the excuse of defending the fort, the soldiers led by the lion survived the undead riot, at least it would not be too abrupt.

Of course, this is a last resort.

After all, large-scale undead mobilization will inevitably lead to the spread of death breath, and the eroded land will take a lot of effort to purify. Not only will it cost materials, but you will also have to ask the temple to help.
And it's prone to countless follow-up questions, so someone won't choose to do it until the last minute.

(End of this chapter)