Chapter 1200

For the next few days, Gu Ding immersed himself in the various books in the library. After he was done with the magic books, Gu Ding moved on to the combat books, then the world books, then the biographies …

His knowledge was increasing to a new level almost every day.

Gu Ding was surprised to find that reading books actually helped increase his spirit. After half a month, his spirit went from a Level 5 sorcerer to a Level 6 sorcerer.

During this time, he also developed some new magic through the knowledge he had learned.

King Descends City was no longer peaceful after Lord Ed's arrival. Instead, it became turbulent.

The entire city began to prepare for war.

In fact, King Descends City was not the only city that was preparing for war. The other lords' cities were also preparing for war.

News of Lord Ed's defeat had spread. His opponent was a legendary creature from hundreds of years ago — the Deviant Ghoul Army. Although there were some gossipers, most of them were extremely respectful towards the Lord of the Northern Region.

King Robert trusted Ed and even gave him the position of Prime Minister.

During this time, Ed had been busy organizing various forces in preparation to fight against the Deviant Ghouls.

Unlike Winterfell, the people of King Descends City did not panic even though they heard about the arrival of the Deviant Ghouls.

The story of the Deviant Ghouls spread far and wide in the Northern Region. Every child knew about it. However, in King Descends City, it was more like a fairy tale. If not for King Robert's trust in Ed, many people would not have cared about the invasion of the Deviant Ghouls. To the people of King Descends City, the legendary witches who could kill with shadows were far more terrifying than the Deviant Ghouls.

However, after half a month of peace, Toron City, White Harbor, and Carlin Bay fell one after another. The three cities combined did not last more than ten days.

The fall of Carlin Bay had caused the southern countries to finally start to panic.

Carlin Bay was surrounded by swamps, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even with ten times the number of soldiers, it was difficult to pass through. This was why the southern countries were so fearless. However, now that Carlin Bay had fallen, it meant that the Deviant Ghouls could march straight south without any hindrance …

In less than ten days, Greywater Watch, Luanhe City, Haijiang City, and Barren Stone City were all taken.

After that, a letter asking for help came from the Eyrie.

Ed suggested a rescue mission, but the King and Queen rejected him outright.

To Ed, Ayrin Valley was a valley that was easy to defend but hard to attack. If he brought a large number of troops into Ayrin Valley, he might really be able to make the deviant army return empty-handed. Furthermore, there was another reason. The lady of Ayrin Valley, Lysa, was his wife's older sister. He couldn't just sit back and do nothing when Ayrin Valley was attacked.

However, the king and queen were worried that if the deviant army could not conquer Ayrin Valley, they might give up on Ayrin Valley and head south. If that happened, King Descent City would be in danger.

Ed tried to persuade the King many times, but in the end, the King only agreed to let Ed send a thousand soldiers from his Northern Army to Ayrin Valley to help.

Ai De had no choice but to agree.

Ayrin Valley was indeed a place that was easy to defend but hard to attack. The deviant ghosts spent close to two months to conquer it. The Eagle Nest and the other cities in Ayrin Valley had been reduced to ruins. Even the savages living in Ayrin Valley had been slaughtered by the deviant ghosts.

The fall of Ayrin Valley made the people of King Descent City realize how serious the situation was.

In close to three months, Gu Ding had finished reading all the books he needed in the library and the Scholar's Tower.

Gu Ding's spirit had also risen to the level of a Level Seven sorcerer. The real magic books in the Scholar's Tower had given him a better understanding and control of magic.

Not only did the tactics he created become more powerful, but he also had almost perfect control of some of the original magic in this world.

Apart from the four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, Gu Ding had also mastered thunder, light, and even some dark magic.

This world hated dark magic and thought it was evil, so there was very little information about it. Gu Ding had only seen a few introductory texts in the Scholar's Tower. It was through these few texts that he developed a few dark tactics.

Now that his mental strength had reached the seventh level, he was able to fly in the wind. Moreover, his spells were at least at the ninth level. It would not be a problem for him to destroy a city all by himself. To the people of this world, he was already an existence close to a god.

However, no one knew that such a terrifying power was hidden within the body of a six-year-old child.

While Gu Ding lived in King Descent City, he had a general understanding of the situation in the city. King Robert was not a bad person, but he was good at war and not good at ruling a country. He spent his days drinking, watching beautiful women dance, calling his friends to hunt, watching nobles duel on horseback … Anyway, he enjoyed himself in whatever way he could.

There was a place in King Descent City called Flea Nest, and it was the slum of the city. People starved to death here every day. Skinny children would fight over moldy black bread even if they saw it.

The first time he walked into Flea Nest, Gu Ding even thought that it might not be a bad thing to let the deviant ghosts cleanse the land.

Knowing that Ayrin Valley had fallen, Gu Ding knew that it would not be long before the flames of war spread to King Descent City.

At the same time, the higher-ups in King Descent City received another piece of bad news. On the Ursos continent, Daenerys of the Targaryen family had taken over the Free City with her three dragons and army, and had taken complete control of Pentos Port. They had completely cut off King Descent City's path of retreat.

One could imagine that the young lady of the Targaryen family could not wait to see King Descent City fall to the deviant ghosts. When that happened, she would probably cross the narrow sea with her dragons and use them to chase away the deviant ghosts and retake King Descent City.

Deviant ghosts were afraid of giant dragons. This was something many people knew. Hundreds of years ago, the deviant ghosts were suppressed by dragons.

Not long after, Gu Ding heard about Daenerys. He did not care about the conflicts between the families or the fight for the throne. He was more interested in the dragons.

"There really are dragons in this world!" Gu Ding had read about dragons in many books recently, and one of them mentioned that dragons were the nemesis of deviant ghosts. The dragon flames they spat out could burn deviant ghosts to death.

"Deviant ghosts are not afraid of fire, but they are afraid of dragon flames. This means that dragon flames have characteristics that other flames don't have … "Gu Ding's eyes began to shine." The three dragons have only been hatched for a little more than a year. They're still in their infancy. I can handle them. Why don't I catch one and experiment with it? I'm free anyway. "