What did you do with the dice?

However, his luck seemed to be of no use for the time being. At this meeting, Capricorn and Theresa jointly announced an unfortunate news: the El Empire had taken advantage of the winter to conquer the United Kingdom, and a large number of refugees had fled into the territory of Esdi. Esdi had also begun to send troops to the northern defense line to prepare for battle against the El Empire's army. Therefore, the investment in the Kingdom of Sinidi might be greatly reduced.

Even Theresa had no choice. As the Grand Saint, she had to stand on that side. Regardless of the threat of the second most powerful enemy, the El Empire, which was right in front of her, it didn't make sense for her to throw herself into fighting the Church of the Seven Sins, which was so far away. In order to appease the people and comply with public opinion, she could only send most of her knights to the north.

"Snidy, I can only rely on you here. Come on, Gemini! My reinforcements may not arrive for a while, but I think they are more than enough for you. Use them to take down Alice City!"

No way? This kind of thing is so difficult, even if you are wearing a bikini beast girl costume today...

Rusalka: "No problem, leave it to me."

Sanita: (Our combined forces, totaling just over 3 men, are no problem fighting one Marquis, and two at once is not impossible, but that's about the limit. I'm just curious where your confidence in wanting to take over Alice City comes from?)

Rusalka: (Since I was little, I wanted to try and see if I could be as tough as my little brother. As a man, you can't say no in front of the person you like.)

Theresa: "Well, there's one more thing. The two-way portal at the border has been opened. Mr. Gemini, could you spare some time to come to Esdi and have afternoon tea with me?"

Rusalka decisively chose to chew up what she had just said and swallow it: "No."

He and Sanitta suspected that Theresa could not leave the cathedral for some reason, so it would be better not to go to her territory when they were not sure whether she had murderous intentions towards them.

After occupying the coastline, the seafood tribe quickly spread their troops all over the coastline like the Zerg, destroying many small countries and tribes along the way. Now they have reached the border of Estron, a large united guild state established by the God of Contract and Law, and are now confronting it.

The above information comes from Libra and Aquarius.

According to Taurus: The Church of the Goddess of Wealth is the only survivor of a coastal country. Even with the powerful human wave tactics and strength of the sea tribe, they are powerless to fight back against the giant dragon breathing in the air.

However, the main bases of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth are islands and pan-believers. The territory of that part of the country on the mainland is relatively small. For the sea people who have unrivaled control of the sea, it is just a few ports and a piece of land in a corner. It doesn't matter if they don't want it.

However, the advancement of the sea clan is estimated to stop here. The power of the God of the Ocean should not be endless. Although the sea clan's sacrifices can make the coastline shrouded in a stormy environment for a long time, and even cause tsunamis in coastal areas, they have now advanced to inland areas, and this method is no longer effective.

Without the nourishment of rain and the power of the sea, the army of the sea clan is no longer invincible. Most of the sea clan can hardly move on land without water.

If the army cannot move, there is no need to talk about occupying land. The sea people probably realized this problem, so the army's pace came to a halt across the board, and even gave up a large area of ​​land that had been conquered. Instead, they chose to shrink into a few cities and concentrate the power of bringing down the storm within the scope of these cities.

Therefore, if the sea people are dead and can only bite lighters next, then Rusalka's dream of shaking hands with the mermaids in this world will probably have to be pursued alone.

In addition, Theresa also brought a piece of news. When the El Empire conquered the United Kingdom and began to directly threaten the border of Esdi, the long-silent Church of the Seven Sins and Grand Duke Oaks of the North finally stopped passively defending and chose to take the initiative to attack.

Then why was this news put last by Theresa and said in an ordinary tone?

Because ever since Grand Duke Oaks took the initiative to attack, sent out his troops, and adopted the method of focusing on attacking the supply lines, he forced the other two dukes to confront him head-on.

The idea is good, force a team fight at the dragon pit.

As a result, his army fought three encounters with the armies of the two dukes and was defeated all three times.

After the battle, not only was Grand Duke Oaks confused, but even Grand Duke Delei and Grand Duke Gode couldn't figure out what the other side was doing after seeing the battle report. They finally concluded that "this might be a strategy of the Church of the Seven Sins to make them complacent." So this victory news that could be widely publicized was suppressed by the two grand dukes.

In this way, although Oaks had lost three games in a row, from the perspective of public opinion, it seemed as if they had not lost a single game, or even had not fought a single game. If Theresa hadn't said it, Rusalka probably wouldn't have known that the Central Committee had already fought three games face to face.

After listening to Theresa's intelligence analysis and summarizing the reasons, Rusalka and Sanitta agreed that there was something wrong with the way the Church of the Seven Sins fought - not only did they hold the Horn of Corruption but didn't blow it, they didn't even send elite troops to follow the army to the front lines to perform anything that suited their status, such as soul sacrifice, desecration of the dead, and other rituals that sounded as evil as possible. Instead, they stayed in the rear and did nothing, which was simply a betrayal of their teammates.

Considering the inherent combat power of Alice City's royal inner city, and the speed at which the agent eliminated high-end combat power, Sanita made the following conclusion: (The agent will kill them all.)

Rusalka: (Miracle Agent is still farming!)

To be honest, they captured Alice City in a lightning-fast manner, and directly instigated the rebellion of the North to catch the two dukes off guard. It was such a perfect start to the war, and they had such a decisive and excellent commander, the Seven Sins Agents, but in the end, the war ended up being so anticlimactic. Sanita couldn't understand it at all.

Without worrying about being accused of bragging, Sanitieta felt that if he were to take command after this opening battle, the kingdom would probably have a completely changed owner within three years.

Rusalka: (Look at it this way. Maybe he had a brain hemorrhage while playing, and his level plummeted from King to Silver. That's good news. The worse he is, the better it is for us.)

Sunita poured a basin of cold water on him: (Even if he is made of foam plastic, it is not our turn to take Alice City.)

Everyone in the council was quite active this time. Even a few constellations that usually only spoke during transactions began to share their information. Aries told everyone that the high priestess of the goddess of joy had made a prophecy of destruction, and she would lead the remaining believers to find the predicted shelter.

Only then did Rusalka realize that Aries was a believer in the goddess of pleasure, but hadn't the belief in the goddess of pleasure been extinguished? How come she kept growing like leeks, never to be harvested?

Look at how tough the Shadow Lady next door is. She is really in decline. There is only one cat left, Phoenix, and she almost turned into a cat biscuit last time. If the Shadow Lady does not intend to accept new believers, her faith will be completely gone.

Sagittarius said that the Elf Queen has recently been gathering the elven troops and has issued secret orders to the Ranger Team to assassinate important figures of Sinidi. She should be preparing to officially intervene in the war in Sinidi.

Cancer, who has always been mysterious but provided the most rare materials at the meeting, said that according to the latest information from his side, the function of the "key" in Alice's city may indeed contain the secret of becoming a god, but its essential function is to "open a door that is not in the physical sense."

Moreover, it can only be used after certain conditions are met. The specific conditions and what the "gate" is are unknown secrets. It must be related to Sinidi's royal bloodline, which means that members of the royal family may know about it.

It’s useless even if the royal family knows about it, because the Grand Duke is taking good care of him.

Rusalka chose to play bad and curry favor: Almighty Theresa, I hope you can bring this secret back to the next meeting.

Seeing everyone in the council speaking so enthusiastically and revealing such exciting information, Rusalka, who didn't have much knowledge and couldn't say that her cat was the Shadow Lady's last believer, asked Theresa for no reason, "Is the El Empire so powerful? They can fight in winter."

With a Luoyang shovel, he was brought back to the original topic.

Theresa: "The El Empire doesn't care about the lives of those cannon fodder. Furthermore, their ruling class, the Rhine Clan, is currently in a highly centralized and unified state. Therefore, any policy can be quickly issued and implemented. This is also related to the thunderous methods used by their royal family to unify the empire. As a result, almost all tribes dare not disobey their orders. Even if the winter march will increase non-combat casualties, everyone has no choice but to obey."

Sanitita: (The historical records on this point are all one-sided. I've always believed that official history may not be completely accurate, but unofficial history is definitely unofficial. Therefore, I don't trust the highly subjective content in these books that record the current imperial family of the Ai'er Empire. You should find a way to get her to give you a serious explanation.)

Theresa seemed to predict that Rusalka wanted to hear a story, so she continued, "As for the details, well... I said my storytelling skills are very poor. You can ask my lovely assistant for the specific story. She knows it in great detail, and it would be a great bedtime story."

It's hard for Rusalka not to think about it: (Bedtime story? Is she hinting that I should let Rewi Alley join in? Although this is not nice, I can still bear with it a little...)

Sanitieta sighed: (You're almost hooked into a black carp, even the straight hook is biting? She must have said that on purpose.)

This concludes the discussion session of this meeting.

During the transaction, Rusalka was incredibly assertive. He slammed the table and spoke first, revealing a piece of solid crimson metal the size of a shoebox. "This is a piece of perfect blazing steel, with excellent adaptability and toughness for fire enchantments. It's perfect for crafting any equipment. It's already been forged. If your conditions allow, simply melt it and use a mold to shape and enchant it."

This is something from Sanitahe, and it is specially brought here to exchange things.

Capricorn glanced at the metal and reached out his hand. Guided by the black mist, the metal flew in front of him. He touched the metal block and immediately asked, "What do you want? I'll accept a portion of it as forging fee. I can make you a set of armor the size of an arm armor at most, or I can exchange it for other equipment."

Sanita: (The entire shield is yours.)

Rusalka: (Brother, you almost moved me to tears, is that true? I can’t believe it.)

Sanita: (Then don't believe it. Give me some magic props in exchange, and I'll go to the front line myself.)

Rusalka: (Hehe, no, no, you're so fragile, how dangerous is it to go to the front line? I'd better use a shield to attract fire.)

Sunny Tower: (Then why are you asking? You're not happy if you don't say anything, right?)

Rusalka: "A shield would be best."

Capricorn: "Shield... maybe in a month?"

Rusalka thought about it and realized that he would probably be at the front in a month: "No."

Theresa: "I have a silver enchanted shield forged with Radiant Fire. It's extremely resistant to dark, flame, and light elements. Although it's not very hard, the metal is very malleable, so it's easy to repair if it's broken."

Capricorn: "As for spot goods, I have an ancient shield that I dug out from the ruins, but the runes on it are unrecognizable. The forging technique is very ancient, and the material is probably star steel mixed with some attributeless broken crystals. It is very hard and has certain magic resistance properties, but the effect of the runes is unknown, so I can't guarantee what will happen after inputting magic power. If you have ancient rune identification technology, maybe you can bet on a good treasure, right?"

Aquarius: "Speaking of shields, I have one made from the shell of an ancient monster. Its hardness and magic resistance are both top-notch. It won't break even if it's hit by high-level magic."

Capricorn and Aquarius's remarks stunned Rusalka, who was originally shouting "My wife has sent a new dowry" in the private chat channel.

It feels like traveling through time and space to become the protagonist in a fantasy novel, and the name of this chapter is "xx Auction". Aquarius and Capricorn are those classic bosses who don't know the value of things. Click to get a broken version of an ancient artifact.

As for Capricorn, Rusalka thought about it and decided not to consider it. The thing that the evil camp brought out was too unreliable. Rusalka was not afraid of the curse on it. She was just afraid that the shield would explode while being used. The God's Council was only responsible for pre-sales and in-sales, not after-sales. Without a three-year warranty, it would be unbearable if the shield exploded as soon as it was used.

As for Aquarius, let’s not talk about her faction for now, but Rusalka had the impression that she should be a timid older sister. So even if the Holy Slash dealt double damage to her, in Rusalka’s heart, she was still a good person.

Sanita was a little confused about what Rusalka was talking about when she said "dowry": (Is selling Teresa to you also considered a dowry?)

Rusalka: (This piece of steel is a gift.)

Sanitita: (Well, I spent my time and magic power using alchemy to melt this thing for you as a betrothal gift. So I must be half your father, right?)

Rusalka: (Godfather, please accept my obeisance. I have already done that. I want to ask, if I bow a little more, can you give me some more gold coins so that I can change my secondary weapon?)

Sanita: (Get lost.)

But Rusalka, who felt that Theresa's thing was a bit solid and wanted to give it a try, asked Aquarius: "The shield in your hand sounds so powerful, why do you want to exchange it?"

Aquarius was silent for a moment, then hesitantly spoke, "It does have a minor flaw. It's very useful in the sea, but a little heavy on land. We sea creatures don't have the habit of equipping heavy equipment, so our warriors can't use this kind of shield on land."

Apart from this, there are no other flaws, and I can swear that everything I just said is not an exaggeration.

The reason I recommend this to you is because I think you, Gemini, probably have a very powerful knight under your command. Although most warriors in the world can't use the power of this shield, that powerful knight should be able to use it. Buying it for him is just right!"

Aquarius's main trick is a half-true and half-false lie. She didn't know that Rusalka was "the powerful knight" and thought that Rusalka was a wizard. She wanted to take advantage of the cognitive gap between wizards and knights to sell the shield in her hand, which sounded very suspicious.

But in the end, it didn't make a difference, because Rusalka was very happy with the big sister's praise, and after hearing the side effects, she felt very confident. It's just strength, isn't it? With 20 strength, are you afraid that you can't lift it? The only thing is the shield that only a brave man can pull out: "Then trade with Aquarius!"

Sanita: (Huh?)

Forget it, it was agreed that this thing would be given to Rusalka in exchange for a shield. It would be his own business to exchange it for a piece of junk. Sanita decided to respect the blessing.

So, after the meeting, Rusalka used the power of the gods' transaction to teleport and obtain a shield.

This side is uh... a shield. How should I put it? The moment she got it, no matter whether Sanita smiled or not, Rusalka couldn't smile.

It’s not necessary to return the product, but is it too late to ask Capricorn if he can help with the processing?

Chapter 137 New Equipment

Although this shield has no name and its appearance is a bit primitive, and its handmade work is mainly about being a nature's porter, Rusalka determined its name at first sight, which is called "Bengbu Shell".

When you grab the built-in handle and hold the shield in your hand, it will give you the feeling of eating garlic scallops in a restaurant, stacking two leftover shells together and gluing them together, then enlarging them about ten times to the size of a round shield, and then nailing a handle inside and holding it in your hand.

The mermaids in Yu-Gi-Oh don't look like soldiers of the sea. Apart from the fins, hands and feet and scaly helmets, the weapons and equipment of those mermaids don't look like those of sea creatures at all. They are pure cosplay, selling their wives and data strength to cheat otakus out of their money.

But this thing is different. The moment you hold it in your hand, no matter what you look like, no one will mistake you for a soldier on the shore. No one will believe you if you say you are not a sea creature. Now you can get a household registration for free when you buy a shield. It's worth the money!

Isn't this a pure clam shell? Rusalka would want to live in Bengbu after seeing it.

The only two processing steps are to glue the upper and lower surfaces of the two shells together to make them super thicker, and to grind the outer shell to make it smoother. No matter how Rusalka looks at it, this thing does not contain any other craftsmanship. It feels like a university graduation project would be made with more care than this thing.

This shell, no, this shield, is just as Aquarius said, it is indeed a good shell. As soon as you hold it in your hand, the weight and the thickness make Rusalka's fighting spirit come up all at once.

According to Aquarius' additional information after the transaction, the shield was made of the hard shell of a thousand-year-old giant clam monster, which was captured at the cost of the sacrifice of many sea troops.

The pearls and magic cores were the main targets, and they were taken away directly as gifts to the Mermaid Queen. The clam shells were cut by craftsmen, and the two sides were rubbed and glued together to form a double-layer clam shell shield, which was given to Aquarius.

Aquarius is a Naga mage, and she can't use this thing. Not only are the servants around her not very good at using shields, but after the shield was made, they found that it was indeed a very good tower shield in the water, but as soon as it left the sea, it would not only shrink a circle, but would even become "a little heavy" and "not very suitable for sea creatures and species that are only accustomed to light armor or natural scale armor after coming ashore."

Rusalka grabbed the shield and felt it. If she used it to hit someone, and the Giant Weapon Master didn't trigger, she'd definitely think it was a system bug, not the type of equipment. It's a little heavy, isn't it? It's much heavier than her own giant sword!

He felt like he'd grabbed the barrel of a magic cannon! Not only could it not be used by lightly armored units, even a casually armored infantryman wouldn't be able to use it at all! Furthermore, it was the size of a medium-sized knight's shield and couldn't be placed on the ground like a tower shield; it had to be held in the hand.

When other people fight with this thing in their hands, they can't block many attacks and their arms will be broken. It's better to throw it away and be more flexible.

It's easy to guess that after Aquarius discovered the characteristics of this thing, it was not easy to sell it to nearby acquaintances to cheat them, so she could only throw it in the warehouse. She originally wanted to find a chance to grind it into powder to see if it had other effects. Now that she heard Rusalka wanted a shield, this thing came to her mind first.

In fact, the piece of blazing steel was not what she needed, but she felt that it was definitely more useful than this clamshell shield, and at least it could be sold.

It’s a pity that Rusalka’s attention was not on the description of the shield, but on Aquarius’s words: (I’m so! Mermaid Queen!)

So, he just accepted it and regarded it as punishment for not trusting his concubine Theresa.

This imitation Ashbringer is so cool, and that silver shield must be even better looking. I have never seen an ugly Paladin's equipment. At the very least, it's better than a clam shell, right?

Oh well, forget it. A clamshell is a clamshell. As long as it's usable, a good shield is practical. A bit of ugliness is fine, though. After all, enemy corpses don't taunt you. But teammates... well, who are they supposed to be taunting at a friendly unit? Have you ever seen a game where a tank's taunts can actually taunt its own team?

The one who laughs must be the enemy wearing friendly clothes, and then he is turned into a corpse, closing the loop.

Fortunately, Aquarius was not that unscrupulous. With the attitude that everyone would meet each other sooner or later, after selling the shield, she still gave Rusalka, a commoner who always bargained at the vegetable market and asked for a bunch of green onions before leaving, a gift as "compensation".

According to Rusalka, if you sell me a defective product, you have to give me something in return. So, give me a whole instrument.

Aquarius didn't ask why the Shield on the opposite side had a strange request for a musical instrument, but he simply gave Rusalka a small pearl harp, a common item in the sea.

It's the kind of small musical instrument that mermaids often play and sing while sitting on the rocks in two-dimensional pictures. This one is pure white and transparent. When it's wet, the body and strings of the guitar sparkle in the sunlight, which looks very beautiful.

Rusalka gave this to Sanita, indicating that she would not need the flute anymore and that fashion should keep up with the times.

Sani Tieta said that if he picked up a leaf at random on the battlefield and blew it, it would be regarded as a wind instrument in the skill judgment, and could buff the whole team. Why did he have to hold an accordion in both hands to show off? Did he think he was not conspicuous enough?

Rusalka, believing in giving new equipment a try, hopes that Sanita will be able to wear this equipment: (What about using the accordion to hit people after the ring is empty? It fits the character image of the bard very well.)

Sanita refused indifferently: (I can use magic.)

Rusalka retorted: (You can only perform one trick in ten seconds. In the other nine seconds, you use the harp to hit people.)

Sanitta laughed. "I carry three crossbows, a bottle of poison, and several spell scrolls. If all else fails, I also carry two daggers at my waist. I'm curious, how desperate must the situation you describe be to require me to use these things to smash the opponent's head in?"

Rusalka was speechless.

More useless costumes! Seeing that the efficiency monster Sanita didn't want this beautiful instrument, Rusalka decided to give it to the cat to play with.

As a result, he met Ai Li on the way. When Ai Li saw the harp in his hand, she showed the same desire that every girl who likes beautiful things would show.

The sea people have a lot of these kinds of jewels, rare treasures and beautiful things, so they don’t mind receiving them as gifts, but just because they are used to them doesn’t mean that women on land are used to them.

After some illogical and unreasonable thinking, Rusalka decided to change his mind and gave it to Aili, who seemed to be very pleasing to the eye recently and could make him feel good during meals, in exchange for the story of "The Official History of the Aiel Empire".

Ai Li was very happy. Holding the harp, he thanked Rusalka repeatedly and said that he would cherish the gift and work hard.