Chapter 283 Deep underground

In the original world, Leon once started a huge family business from nothing. His means and ideas are absolutely not comparable to these local aristocratic merchants. With a few moves, the 37 alliances of Iron Furnace Castle completely collapsed.

Under great pressure, most of them chose to sign a new contract with Corinne, becoming a subsidiary of the new Salling, preserving their wealth and industry.

There are also some people who can't swallow this breath and use the forces behind them, but Leon's dignified behavior is completely a good way, occupying the lord's authority and the support of the temple. It is impossible for those forces to cause trouble for one or two small local industries, and finally let these naked guys swallow the bitter fruit.

After completing the integration of the Iron Furnace Fort, Leon personally led 7,000 thunder beast warriors into the dark land to encircle and suppress the flood of underground monsters and dark elves to prevent the outbreak of the magic tide.

The dark place in the mountain forest in the west of the Iron Furnace Castle has a long history. The kingdom even built a fortress to garrison to guard it, and also used the dark place as a trial place for the beast soul warriors, which is regularly cleared every year.

With most of the area of the Iron Furnace Castle under the ownership of New Sal, this responsibility naturally falls on Leon.

Of course, Leon is not unfamiliar with the dark place, and he is fully prepared before doing it.

6,000 newly trained thunder beast warriors, led by several warriors such as Rock Hammer, were divided into a fierce team and carried out operations with each mining area as the center.

And Leon himself took a thousand of the most elite warriors deep into the core area of the dark place.

His team also includes Xiling and ten temple knights.

In the depths of the mountains, the summer forest is extremely lush and dense. This should have been a vibrant green world, but because of the long-term immersion of dark magic, it has become a gloomy place.

The black vines are wrapped around the towering trees, covering the sun and interweaving suffocating nets. Countless fallen leaves rot silently on the woodland, and you may accidentally step into the mud pit.

There are colorful flowers in the dark bushes, and the sweet fragrance of the petals and the rotten smell in the forest make people dizzy.

But the most terrible thing is the monsters lurking in the dark. Once they smell the human breath, they immediately rushed over like flies and launched an endless attack on the invaders.

If they are ordinary mercenary adventurers, sooner or later, they will collapse in the face of almost endless attacks by dark monsters, but they meet the most elite thunder beast warriors under Leon.

This thousand soldiers took the old warriors who had experienced the test of life and death as the core and were equipped with the best weapons and armor. They took the leadership of Leon to fight steadily and did not give the dark monsters any chance to attack.

The standard crossbow in their hands is extremely powerful. Those monsters have just appeared, and they must be greeted by a stormy baptism of arrows.

Even a three- or four-level warcraft can't withstand such an attack. He didn't even touch the edge of the thunder beast warrior and fell under the rain of arrows.

Such a one-sided play made the temple knights surprised and despised at first, but later they had more admiration and enlightenment.

Ten temple knights are the followers of the Xiling priest. During the period of Salin, they also helped Leon train warriors, but they have never come into contact with ordinary thunder beast warriors.

This thousand thunder beast guard was trained by Leon himself. He was elite, strong and disciplined. In the complex environment of the dark place, they meticulously carried out Leon's orders and cooperated very tacitly with each other.

In the continuous deepening and battle, the experienced temple knights saw that Leon was to take this thousand elite warriors as the core to attract dark monsters and dark elves to kill them.

And the thousands of soldiers on the periphery are completely cleaned up, and the inside and outside should be flattened with overflowing monsters.

The use of heavy crossbow is undoubtedly the most labor-saving, the least loss and the most powerful attack method. All soldiers have the strength to be an elite crossbowman.

Of course, there are also powerful dark monsters and cunning dark elves in the dark place. They will not rush up to death like low-level monsters.

At this time, the powerful temple knight and Xiling, who exists as a tester, played a role.

The light war song drives away the darkness, and the sacred halo destroys evil. Under the protection of Leon and the temple knights, Xiling can give full play to her strengths and use her magic and halo spells to destroy the enemy and inspire and heal her comrades-in-arms.

Such a battle is of great help to her. In the mystery of the temple of Bemon, only by constantly fighting can she win the favor of the beast god, and this beautiful swan priestess actually touched the top of the level when she killed all the way to the core area of the dark place.

Her halo spell can not only heal, but also has a powerful killing effect on dark monsters. A range of aura can fall down and put down batches of dark monsters.

Not to mention the temple knights, none of these ten knights are weak. Although their task is to protect Xiling, sometimes they don't mind rushing forward to show their skills.

"It's so cool!" The beautiful girl priest said something very unlady.

Her strength was close to the edge of exhaustion, and the sweat on her forehead wet her hair, but her bright eyes were bright, her white and jade-like face emitted a holy light, and her right hand held the scepter harder and harder.

Leon smiled and said, "It's getting dark. We'll camp here and go underground tomorrow morning."

He looked down at the map in his hand and pointed to the grass not far from the side: "Seventy steps, cover the attack!"

As soon as the voice fell, the trembling sound of the bowstrings was endless, and hundreds of crossbows shot in the direction pointed by Leon.

Squeak!

A creepy scream suddenly came from the tall grass over there, and more than a dozen black feather arrows flew out.

A team of thunder beast warriors were prepared for a long time and put up a shield to block the front.

The second wave of crossbows shot over again. After this wave of cover attack, there was no sound in the grass.

This kind of heavy crossbow cover is overwhelming. The dark elves hiding in the bushes can hardly fight back. Each thunder beast warrior carries enough crossbows, and the alternating attack does not give the enemy a chance to breathe and escape.

Leon looked at the map again, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Clean up the site and camp on the spot!"

The well-trained thunder beast warriors immediately took action, while Xiling leaned against Leon and looked curiously at the map in his hand: "What are you? Why can you find the enemy's position?"

I heard a pleasant voice in my ears, my nose smelled a faint fragrance of virginity, and my arms felt her soft body. Such close contact made Leon's heart flutter slightly, and he couldn't help twitching his nose.

This little action made the swan priestess find that she and Leon were too close. The abundance of her chest was close to Leon's arm, and her pretty face suddenly blushed.

But she didn't distance herself. Instead, she continued to stare at Leon's map as if she didn't know.

This little girl! Leon smiled bitterly in his heart.

Although Xiling has been coming to Salling for a long time, the two of them have not been together for a long time, and Corinna seems to be very wary of her. Generally, Corinna is present when they get along with each other.

For so many times, Leon vaguely saw something wrong. The pearl of the kingdom seemed to have some curiosity and interest in him, which made Corinna very **.

It's just that Leon really has no idea about her. Although the beauty of the other party is only seen in his life, he will marry Corinna and other women in a month or two, and he is really not interested in messing with flowers.

And Leon can also see that Xiling is not very interested in herself, but more like competing with Corinna.

Understanding this, Leon naturally doesn't want to be too close to each other, although this may be a good thing that countless noble knights dream of.

"This is the magic map that Corinne took for me at the auction. It can show the enemies within the area and is very useful in battle." Leon explained, quietly distancing a little from the other party.

This map was bought by Leon in the private auction of Count Magnus, which cost 200,000 gold coins. Later, he discovered a huge role through his aura of wisdom.

A thousand thunder beast warriors killed all the way here, killing countless monsters on the way, and there was no loss. This map that can show the enemy's position is indispensable. It makes Leon's combat command the enemy's first opportunity to add wings.

"So that's it..." Xiling curled her lips disdainfully and returned to the Lex Knight with her head held high.

Hundreds of thunder beast warriors shoveled and cut trees together, and cleared a large area of open space before it was completely dark. They erected a tent and lit a raging bonfire, and the bright and blazing fire drove the darkness aside.

not far away is the towering mountain peak, which is the entrance to the underground world and the source of the dark place.

Leon's team includes retired knights from the Iron Furnace Guard. He once followed Keane deep into the dark land to encircle and suppress the dark elves, so he is familiar with the terrain and environment of this area.

After joining the Sal, Keane was appointed by Leon to take charge of the New Sal City and the Iron Furnace Fort, directly in charge of a thousand thunder beast warriors, and some of his unsatisfied old subordinates came to join him after receiving the news and regained a new life.

Camping in the core area of this dark place is naturally very dangerous after night, but Leon has a magic map in hand, and monsters and dark elves can't sneak within a hundred steps around, so there is no danger overnight.

The next morning, the reorganized thunder beast warriors and advanced to the entrance of the underground world.

(to be continued)