CH 122

The black crystal is a spiritual item that can store a large amount of spiritual energy. It is generally used as a source of energy for various instruments, devices, or rituals.

It has many advantages, the only drawback being that it is not easy to preserve. The spiritual energy within it will gradually dissipate over time, eventually turning into an ordinary crystal.

But this is not a problem for Rode.

The dream world itself has a strong preservation effect, and the storage space under the stone platform is almost like time standing still. Any material can be preserved as if it was just put in.

He bought the black crystal purely for practicing spiritual energy.

An empty black crystal is just the object for inputting spiritual energy. Rode only needs to squeeze two black crystals while studying the knowledge book in the dream world.

Besides, his spiritual energy recovers quickly.

And, the price of a full black crystal is much higher than an empty one.

Buy empty ones and sell full ones.

It's like studying knowledge while making money.

The abacus was played well, but he didn't expect that these guys here would be short of black crystals again.

Rode sighed softly, forget it, it will be reimbursed anyway. The Wang City is a big family, they wouldn't be stingy with this amount of money, right?

"I have."

Mina asked, "How many?"

"Probably about a hundred."

Steel Hand hesitated for a moment, "Is your sleeve that big?"

Rode glanced at him, "Can't I have luggage? These black crystals are all in my clothes."

Mina became anxious, "Black crystals need special preservation. If you keep them in your clothes, their spiritual energy will be completely lost in a few days! Hurry, take them out!"

Rode snorted, "How do you know my clothes are ordinary? Can't I wear something high-end? Clothes that have a preservation effect?"

He turned and returned to the room, leaving everyone looking at each other in disbelief.

"There are clothes like this?"

In the room, Rode quickly entered and exited the dream world, stuffing the black crystals into his luggage.

The black crystals were not large in size, about the size of half a thumb.

But a hundred of them required entering and exiting the dream world ten times.

Rode once again felt the inconvenience of transporting supplies. Frequent entry and exit of the dream world made him feel dizzy and mentally exhausted.

It would be best to find a solution.

While thinking, Rode carried his luggage and went to the basement.

Mina rushed up with one stride and snatched the luggage from his hand, opened it and took a look.

A pile of black crystals was wrapped in the clothes!

She took one out and held it in her hand, her big eyes filled with incredulous surprise.

"This, this is just like new, and some of them are full of energy!"

She immediately turned her gaze to Rode's clothes.

"Your clothes are not ordinary?"

Mina took out a pair of underwear and observed it repeatedly, but found no abnormalities.

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Rode pulled it back, "You sniffed it, and the spiritual energy disappeared."

Mina's eyebrows immediately stood up, "What do you mean?"

A logistics personnel shouted, "Sister Mina! Put it in here quickly! The energy of the full black crystals dissipates quickly!"

Mina finally woke up like a dream and quickly transferred the black crystals to a dedicated storage box with the help of her assistant.

Then, she lightly wiped her slender fingers, leaving some translucent substance on the surface of the storage box, wrapping it up.

"This is my spiritual energy. As long as I stay here, this batch of black crystals can be preserved for more than fifteen days."

Fifteen days, no matter what, the supplies from the Giant Fortress would have arrived.

Everyone in the basement breathed a sigh of relief, and Steel Hand was too excited to speak, "Brother Rode, I really don't know how to thank you..."

Humanity +51.

Yes, your gratitude has been received.

Rode smiled, but immediately retracted his smile and said seriously, "The money still needs to be paid."

Steel Hand repeatedly said, "Of course, of course!"

Mina muttered, "Money, money, money, all you care about is money."

Rode glanced at her, "What do I want if not money? Do you want to give yourself to me?"

Humanity +1.

"No! Go back to your daydreams!"

Mina really drove everyone out. She was alone in the basement, tinkering with the cracked spiritual energy generator on the crystal, trying to figure out the most efficient way to use it.

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With sufficient energy in the spiritual energy generator, Steel Hand and the others felt relieved.

The subsequent battles became smoother—they no longer had to face the harsh conditions and forcibly kill the monsters that posed a great threat to the fortress. Instead, they followed the established tactics and eliminated the monsters that posed the greatest threat to the personnel one by one.

The battle gradually turned in their favor. The terrain of Sword Pass was excellent, with towering dead mountains on both sides. The monsters generally wouldn't touch these dead objects that had been dormant in the black mist for countless years.

Only a few monsters would climb over the dead mountains, but they generally wouldn't launch a surprise attack on Sword Pass from the mountaintop.

The tall Sword Pass fortress was blocked in the canyon, and the defenders only needed to deal with flying monsters or monsters with climbing instincts first, then deal with monsters with long-range attack abilities, and finally clean up the monsters that posed the greatest threat to Sword Pass. The battle became much easier.

And once a group of flying monsters appeared, Steel Hand would immediately mobilize everyone to support and quickly eliminate them at the lowest cost.

As long as there were no flying creatures, the other monsters posed little threat to the combat personnel on the city wall and could be dealt with slowly under the illumination of fire.

This was the best way.

With such a reasonable tactical arrangement, the situation temporarily stabilized.

The combat personnel took turns to fight on the city wall, while the logistics personnel were responsible for taking care of the wounded, cleaning the battlefield, and other activities.

Mina took care of the spiritual energy generator in the basement.

Mole guarded the Guardian Fire, adding fuel and adjusting the fire according to the situation, and managing the personnel who came to the fire to restore their spiritual energy.

Steel Hand and his deputy took turns guarding the command room, monitoring the situation, regularly reporting information to their superior, Li Guang Fortress, and requesting supplies from the Giant Fortress.

They usually used spiritual raven messengers to deliver messages because spiritual communication could not cross the black mist and could only be used locally.But the spirit crow messenger cannot be used frequently, because it consumes a red tearstone every time, otherwise it will be eroded.

In addition to this method, people can also be used to deliver messages.

But unless it is the most important letter, there will be no messenger coming.

The Li Guang Fortress rarely replies, but every few days there will be a war zone intelligence sent.

Steel Hand and others learned from this intelligence that the scale of this black tide exceeded expectations. Part of the front line swept over the outer defense line, causing great pressure. The outer defense circle has been completely disabled and can only defend itself. The middle defense circle has taken over the responsibility of the outer defense circle and is responsible for clearing major threats in the black tide.

The inner defense circle has become the main force, responsible for resisting the majority of monsters.

The royal city has mobilized various district battle groups, formed combat clusters, defended the core area, and supported the front line.

The defense pressure in the seventh defense zone is very high. The guardian Snow admitted that the Li Guang Fortress encountered great difficulties. They were forced to lure out more monsters to reduce the pressure on the Li Guang Fortress, and at the same time, they asked everyone to do their best to hold on. As long as the royal city's combat clusters reach the front line, everything will be fine.

The intelligence from the Li Guang Fortress made Steel Hand both worried and proud. He was worried about the overall situation, but proud of the stability of Jian Guan.

But he also knew that this was all thanks to the reinforcement team from the royal city.

The strength of this team has repeatedly exceeded his expectations. Among them, Mole, the fire protector, is simply the person who knows the monsters the best. He always adds the most suitable fuel to the fire at the most appropriate time, reasonably enhancing the firepower and causing the most accurate damage to the monsters.

Efficiency is their only evaluation of him.

And Moonlight Bach has become their defensive core. Whenever this powerful moon archer stands on the city wall, nothing can threaten the people on the wall.

Dark Leaf is also an extremely strong close-range killer, both offensive and defensive, agile and swift. Whenever a flyer falls on the wall, he fights the monsters at the forefront, greatly reducing the pressure on other personnel.

In addition, there are outstanding close combatants like Beowood, Raisin, Annabel, top control players like Aig, excellent healers like Karamon, and so on.

Of course, the most unusual among them is Rode.

This guy's paper data seems very low, and the names of the fire seeds seem ridiculous, but in fact, he is the most unexpected and unpredictable guy.

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In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the personnel, Steel Hand stipulated that the continuous combat time of each combatant should not exceed six hours, and the intense combat time should not exceed three hours.

But generally speaking, most people can't support it for that long. They have to come down and meditate in the fire protection sacrificial field for recovery after about five hours.

But this guy wants to stay on the city wall for sixteen hours a day, throwing out true silver bullets and thunderstones as if they were free.

What's even more outrageous is that there is clearly no storage of such supplies in Jian Guan, but he always uses them without end, and no one knows where they come from.

But whenever asked, his answer is always "You don't understand" "Did you see it?" "Is it strange for fire seed users to have some strange abilities?" "I'm spending my own money!".

No one can argue with him.

Originally, this guy had some restraint, until the regular supplies from the Giant Fortress arrived, and there were actually many true silver bullets and thunderstones among them.

He immediately unceremoniously claimed them all, claiming that they were all reimbursed for him.

Steel Hand tried to explain that these were supply materials, but there was no reimbursement, and even if there was, it would not be sent at this time.

"Then consider it as reimbursement! If anyone disagrees, I'll compare shooting pistols with them. If they win, I'll give them all."

After saying this, he moved all the things into his own room.

Rode knew very well that the only person in Jian Guan who was stronger than him in shooting pistols was Mina, but she was guarding the basement and couldn't compete with him, so it must be his.

No one really cared about it. He was the most efficient in making use of them.

Anyway, this guy sleeps on the city wall almost every day, and he can't be pulled down. If someone tries to pull him down forcefully, he will say, "Do you know what grass is?" and choke them speechless.

This "grass" fire seed is indeed very strong, making everyone envy.

Only after using the "Instant Shot" fire seed of the spiritual energy cannon, Rode will come down from the city wall to rest.

Originally, everyone had reserved a position for him in the fire protection sacrificial field, but he unexpectedly went back to his room to sleep.

His explanation for this was, "I don't like having a man by my side when I close my eyes."

This kind of provocative statement made everyone speechless. Even though Steel Hand managed to gather nine female combatants to meditate and recover with him, there was still Mole, the fire protector, in the fire protection sacrificial field, and he couldn't leave.

So everyone had to reluctantly accept his kindness.

But no one knows that Rode can still continue fighting after using the "Quartet of Spiritual Energy" technique.

It's just that once he uses "Awakening", there will be strong aftereffects, disrupting his combat rhythm, and it will not be worth it.

It's better to come back and rest well, and sort out the gains in the dream.

And the monsters are not crowded in front of Jian Guan like the tide for them to slaughter. They come in groups, each group consisting of about three to four hundred, with varying intervals, sometimes short and sometimes slightly longer.

Most of the monsters that come to Jian Guan are at the unranked level, which means they are not fully formed.

There are not many fully formed ranked monsters.

There are even fewer monsters above the ranked level.

Except for very few situations, the efficiency of cleaning decreases after using the "Quartet of Spiritual Energy" technique, and there is no need to continue fighting by forcefully using "Awakening".

It's hard to find an excuse.

Efficiency is the most important thing. Although there are many reserves of true silver bullets and thunderstones, they are not unlimited.

However, even so, during this period of time, Rode can obtain about ten thousand soulless souls every day. If there are strong monsters, and the "Quartet of Spiritual Energy" technique is used, it can reach more than twenty thousand.

This efficiency is already explosive.If anyone could see Rode's true expression, they would find him grinning from ear to ear.

This journey was undoubtedly his best decision, and joining the secret branch was the most important step in his life.

Here, he experienced a leap in growth.

He finally understood why he seemed so weak before, because he was indeed weak.

Looking back now, his initial delusion of defeating the dream invaders with his spirit spear and thunderstone was as ridiculous as a shrimp trying to kill him.

Unless the invaders were to let him win, victory was impossible.

Rode's soul strength was growing every day, but most people didn't notice it, as the spirit spear and thunderstone couldn't display this change.

Only when he used the "Spiritual Quartet" did stronger fighters like Dark Leaf and Steel Hand feel that he seemed to have become stronger.

To this, Rode's explanation was: "There are no paths in this world. The more you shoot, the more familiar the path becomes."

Dark Leaf and Steel Hand understood this as him having a better grasp of the fire seed.

This was, of course, a good thing.

Rode's presence greatly alleviated the pressure of defending the Sword Pass, allowing more fighters to have more time to rest and recover, indirectly reducing the risk of injury, and preventing the vicious cycle of long-term fatigue leading to more injuries and a worse situation.

Without this reinforcement squad, the current situation would be unimaginable.

Steel Hand had made up his mind that no matter what, after the war, he would strive for the greatest benefits for them.

In this way, with everyone's efforts, the situation at the Sword Pass quickly improved.

If nothing went wrong, the Sword Pass could become the best-performing stronghold in this black tide.

Everyone became optimistic, and laughter once again filled the heavily pressured Sword Pass fortress.

The squad leader, Black Fish, was already planning his wedding. After this battle, he planned to return to the royal city to propose to his fiancée.

He was so excited about this that he couldn't sleep for several days, constantly describing his dream life to his teammates on the city wall, and sincerely inviting his favorite little brother Rode to be their witness.

Upon hearing this, Rode furrowed his brows.

What are you doing?

Is this a taboo topic you can talk about?