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Chapter 7: The Battle Begins – translated by Aly Wolf asked He looked at his wife – whose brows had been locked in a permanent furrow for the past few days – with some distress
"A lot, a lot" The furroeen Yu Lian’s eyebrows deepened as she discussed the financial accounts with Ice Phoenix Both of the We won’t last formoney soon," said Ice Phoenix She thren a stack of docu her temples
"But we’ve already sent all the people who could be spared out to earn auards, and then themoney will definitely have to return to protect Infinite City At that time, our finances will be in an even worse state," Yu Lian said, troubled
"But won’t there be players visiting and spending ly Wolf asked
"No, the city would only just be starting out, so we definitely won’t be breaking even for soh people to work as shopkeepers, peacekeepers, or soldiers either, therefore we must continue to expand our staff… Just these expenses alone are shocking enough, not to mention the fact that we have to continue the construction of the city The hundred thousand or so crystal coins that we have right noon’t be enough for our purposes," analyzed Phoenix
Ugly Wolf tilted his head to one side as he mulled the information over "Gui’s blueprint of the city is almost done Shall we send him to the other three cities to perform on the streets for tips?"
"M the city’s income with a serious look on her face
"So how e to swindle out of other players, Lolidragon?" Ugly Wolf asked Lolidragon, as lounging nearby
"The hundred thousand crystal coins I got froo," Lolidragon replied She rolled her eyes at Ugly Wolf "I’itive My appearance and hout Sun, Moon, and Star Cities by now It’s impossible to con them any along with Gui to perforon raised her eyebrows "His voice is really good, and with that face of his, he would definitely earn a lot"
"Does Prince sing very well?" Phoenix iination…
"Then when Prince is back, we’ll send him off to perform on the streets With his abilities, if he takes the task assigned to him seriously and earns money, and if we sell a few small treasures, we should be able to earn all the money back!" Yu Lian calculated
"The problened to hi proble Zui said as he sloalked in, his face so line? We all know that we’re in trouble with things the way they are," Lolidragon said, rolling her eyes at Nan Gong Zui
Nan Gong Zui ignored Lolidragon There was a trace of anger in his voice as he explained, "Fan is recruiting soldiers They’ll be invading Infinite City once the NPC guards are gone"
"Fan?" Upon hearing her ex-lover’s na welled up in her heart
"One disaster after another" Yu Lian’s expression darkened "Noe’ll have to recruitZui asked calan to sta Zui turned to face Ice Phoenix In a kind but firm voice, he said, "Phoenix, leave the roos which I have to discuss with the h she was reluctant to leave, Phoenix knew better than to argue In a small voice she said "okay" and then obediently left the roo Zui watched as Phoenix closed the door, and then turned around to face the members of Odd Squad
"What exactly happened to Prince? Tellsilence in the roo and values his friends and honor greatly, he is also scatter-brained, a little silly, plus he has no sense of direction" Nan Gong Zui said steadily
"You should’ve told us earlier!" Everyone else breathed a relieved sigh
"So you already knew about Prince’s true personality; you should’ve told us earlier, orried half to death!" Lolidragon patted her chest, having yet to recover fro Zui asked again patiently
"He’s on the Eastern Continent," Ugly Wolf replied without hesitation now that there was no need to conceal the truth
Nan Gong Zui frowned unco there?"
"The result of his lack of a sense of direction and drinking" Lolidragon’s expression darkened
"…" Even though he was already aware of Prince’s true personality, Nan Gong Zui couldn’t help being stunned for a on answered honestly
"You guys don’t see Zui said mildly, but dissatisfaction was evident in his tone
"It’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that we don’t want to iave her an unco look
"You will understand in the time to come," Yu Lian added with a smile
Just then, Gui entered the room The very first phrase to leave his lares in response
"What happened this tiht have to delay his return," said Gui, clearly tor?" A vein popped on Lolidragon’s forehead
Wicked, who had entered the roo "He refused to say, but it seereat importance He said that he will hurry back as soon as possible"
"As soon as possible? The enee lord is still wandering around on the Eastern Continent?" Lolidragon stood up abruptly "No, Wicked, tell him that he must board the ship within three days, no ht this hen our liege lord isn’t even around?"
"I will relay your ht, he added, "But I cannot predict what he will do"
"That guy can’t even predict his own actions, so how could you?" Lolidragon replied,her temples In a weary tone, she continued, "We can only hope that he will return before Fan reaches the city After all, Prince is still the heart of Infinite City"
"Hahaha!" I laughed to ments sure were a piece of cake to collect All I had to do was answer a few questions of the northern prophet in the wet a den, and the three ments were all mine This quest is so easy!
"How is it possible that somebody can actually differentiate twenty different kinds of vegetables and ten different kinds of fish meat from one another? And even spell out the naly All the fish meat had looked exactly the same to hie to win ten ga’s forehead Duin to cover it
"Kenshin, this ether and then pass it to Jing," I said after trying in vain for while to piece together the three ments and tossed them to Kenshin to deal with
Yet this person can’t even piece together three pieces of adumbfounded at their coht the map pieces and tossed the theether That’s quick," I said, staring at the completedover "Jing, quick, take a look and see where this is"
"…" Kenshin looked at the already cohly tell where the location is," Jing said thoughtfully
"That’s good, let’s set off then" My brow creased with thought According to Zhuo-gēge, I had only about three days left to complete my quest and pick up Sunshine I had to hurry
"It’s so tall" Standing at the foot of Azure Peak, which was so tall that its peaks were lost in the clouds, I had a dark pre a ht? I hope so…
I turned to Jing and Yun "Since you two aren’t warriors, it ht be rather difficult for you to scale this mountain, so just set up a carave;gē" Jing and Yun nodded
"Let’s go, Kenshin" Kenshin too, gave , ready to climb this mountain, but just then… I suddenly turned around and said to Yun, "Hey, return Meatbun to uish, and reluctance appeared on Yun’s face, and he bit back tears as he handed Meatbun back to me "Meatbun-bun, you must return quickly, otherwise I will be very bored"
"Meatbun-bun will return quickly Don’t cry-cry, Yun-yun" Meatbun’s eyes too, were filled with tears
The at In this fashion, a huh they were a couple ere being forced to separate Fro looks, as if they were beggingtwo lovers – to show ave Yun a so, Meatbun" Two veins popped on my forehead as I turned and left
"Yes, Mama" Meatbun hopped afterbehind a plaintive Yun who kept shooting resentful looks at azed up at Azure Peak, and what I saas not the cloud banks, but the faces ofZui asked Kong Kong and Lolidragon cal replied angrily
"Fan brought around seven hundred people Warriors make up around two thirds of the force; the rest are h on offense power It’s going to be hard," analyzed Lolidragon
Nan Gong Zui’s thought went to Infinite City’s defense force, which had around two hundred warriors, fifty archers, fifty ht that if not for the fact that his opponent was Fan, whom he detested the most, he – Zui – would probably have surrendered right away
Nan Gong Zui sighed softly No matter what, he had to defend Infinite City for Prince After all, the Righteous Blades had poured in sothe city "White Bird, here, chair the htly The situation did bode ill, but as they say, it’s easy to defend a city and hard to lay siege She believed that so long as they planned carefully, capturing Infinite City would definitely be no easy task
"All groups, report on your situation"
"The eastern, western, and southern gates have been walled up and they definitely can’t be opened Aside froate, the only other way Fan’s forces could enter Infinite City is by scaling the city walls, but we’ve prepared and placed hot oil on theh oil for Fan’s forces…" Gui’s brow furrowed deeply with thought "We’ve only finished the gates recently… Sigh, the cost for reopening the three gates and reconstruction alone when this war is over will be sufficiently alar"
In contrast to her usual willful self, Fairsky wore a pair of glasses with a black fraht hand a scroll of inforround In her left hand she held an abacus and she analyzed meticulously, "Fortunately, we’ve allocated an adequate amount of money to the construction of the city’s foundations The city walls will definitely hold out With a force of five hundred, it would take… about a month, fifteen days, three hours and forty-six ame, I seriously doubt that anyone can sleep for an entire aate is extreical attacks, it can last for at least several days"
Yu Lian sighed and et the uys report on your status I need to get a cup of tea to calm my nerves"
Phoenix hastened to speak "Due to a severe lack of archers, every warrior has been equipped with a e would be nothing compared to real archers’, they should be able to th and h this increases the burdens of the finance department" Phoenix too, felt faint when she finished her report
"What about supplies and aardless of the state of their finances, they had to have supplies and ammunitions Without even just that much, there would be no way for them to win the battle outnuiven by the military department and made the necessary purchases" When they’d first received the list – which was as long and as horrifying as the cloth used to bind old grannies’ feet in ancient China – Phoenix and Yu Lian had just stopped short of huddling together and weeping However, they were forced by the harsh reality (or rather, White Bird’s despotic rule) and could only force Lolidragon to head out and con entle yet fires know that their main duty is to es froh uarantee that all our es are top-notch"
"Even if they have to drinkin there," White Bird said fiercely
Both Rose and Phoenix sighed, but still they answered, "Understood"
"Do we have any reinforceh she knew better than to hope for any help froh as he fanned hiht now, Infinite City has nothing to offer, so howto coon’s forehead "You jerk, were you just fooling around outside the city while I was being pressed into hard labor by the finance depart Wu Qing replied coldly, "Hard labor? More like serving as a fox spirit!"
"You!" Just as Lolidragon was about to throttle Feng Wu Qing, Ugly Wolf grabbed her by the collar, so she was unable to strangle Wu Qing to death
Feng Wu Qing’s cold expression thawed as he grinned slightly "I didn’t find much by way of reinforcees, and then some priests!" It’s a pity Sis refused to help; otherwise I would definitely have the help of yet another brother-in-law She’s such a selfish sister to refuse to just help defend a city
Lolidragon’sfinger at Feng Wu Qing and said, "You… you… Where did yourubbed his nose and then adame, plus my mom’s a writer, so she summoned her loyal readers to help out"
"Lazy fellow," Lolidragon replied disdainfully
"You…"
"How did the trap-setting go?" White Bird ignored the bickering duo and turned to ask the thief Kong Kong
Kong Kong nodded and said, "I’ve already gathered all the thieves beforehand and we’ve laid countless traps around Infinite City, only leaving a few narrow routes past them Hmph, if that playboy Fan dares to draw close to Infinite City, I guarantee that he will either be blown to bits or buried alive"
"Next is the roup – our military depart Zui, Wicked, Broken Sword, and Ugly Wolf
"The Righteous Blades have been training hard ever since we arrived in the Infinite City Although the members who joined later are not as skilled or as united as the original roup, they’ve e level is fifty or so, which is pretty good," Nan Gong Zui reported dutifully
Ugly Wolf said confidently, "I’ve placed the extra ate Even if the gate is breached, these hundred players can hold out until others co players will be positioned upon the city wall and defend it usingthe ene players, Odd Squad and Dark Emperor will defend the central tower"
Broken Sword looked at Legolas, and the latter nodded "Legolas and I have already made sure that the warriors have learned basic archery skills Although their accuracy and strength cannot compare with actual archers, they’ll have no trouble with bending a bow and shooting arrows"
"I have already divided the players into sether as well as other factors I believe this will prove very useful during ress with a serious expression
Seeing that all the departan to explain the strategy for the upco the battle, Infinite City’s rebirth point will be shut down to prevent ene inside our walls, which would be very dangerous to us Although shutting down our rebirth point will also prevent our players fro back in, this is a necessary move Does everyone understand?"