Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

Chapter 73: It's less martial arts and more dance

"I originally thought that place called Longmen was crowded enough."

Skadi could never understand why the cities of the land dwellers were always so crowded and always accompanied by extremely severe light pollution.

"Land dwellers' cities are always incredibly expensive, Hunter."

“Ordinary land residents cannot apply for a piece of land in the public area to repeatedly design a statue.”

The prosperity of the Great Knights Territory, like that of Lungmen, belongs only to a select few.

"This is probably one of the most boring places in the world."

Loting grew increasingly agitated. Even if he defeated these attention-seeking knights, it probably wouldn't be considered a true "honor," but the system indicated that these people were still within its judgment range.

Lotin wasn't particularly interested in the cityscape and entertainment of the Great Knight Territory, but since the system explained the [Defeat Mechanism], he thought that participating in the Knights' Arena periodically was a good way to gain experience points and gold coins.

Furthermore, in this process, you can naturally accumulate the tithe, or "honor," under the [Light Knight] skin, which is obtained by defeating knights.

However, if Lotin really participates, he's probably aiming to destroy the Commercial Knights Arena League.

Using the funds obtained from dismantling the Third Army's flagship and killing the fleet commander, Lotin purchased the [Demon Codex], another crafting material for the [Riftmaker], and paid the additional 900 crafting points required to craft it. Lotin even had a large surplus of funds; the gains from defeating the Third Army were considerable.

[Spell Power: 80]

【HP: 350】

[Skill Speed: 15]

[Void Corruption: When dealing damage to enemy heroes, deal an additional 2% damage every second, up to a maximum of 10%. At maximum strength, gain (10% for melee wearers | 6% for ranged wearers) Omniv.]

Void Infusion: Gain spell power equal to 2% of your bonus health.

[Note: Omnipotent Lifesteal restores health equal to a percentage of the damage you deal, with its effect reduced to 20% against minions and monsters. Additionally, Omnipotent Lifesteal restores health equal to the full amount of pet damage or area-of-effect damage.]

When the items [Riftmaker] and [Heartsteel] are combined, the extra health will be converted into ability power. Lothar's item build is not affected by the game pace in League of Legends, and his item build plan is definitely based on maximizing his potential.

While Lotin in its normal state is powerful enough to inflict devastating magical damage on infantry units, it is still somewhat ineffective against large and giant vehicles that are designed to protect against heavy artillery and large Originium Arts generators.

However, from a mechanics perspective, Lotin possesses the means to enlarge these vehicles, enabling him to structurally destroy them.

In terms of numerical growth, the accumulation of [Gathering Storm] layers and the theoretical infinite increase in spell power brought by [Heart Steel] and [Rift Maker] also theoretically make it possible for Lotin to penetrate the spell protection of heavy vehicles under normal circumstances.

On the streets of the Great Knights Territory, it is not uncommon for fans of different knight orders to gather and fight, or for some veteran knightly arena enthusiasts to go all-in on a particular knight order and lose everything, then get drunk and passed out on the street.

Some unfortunate drunkards, in their dazed state, wander into the middle of the road and leave a pool of blood behind; such an act doesn't even qualify them to be featured in the Grand Knight's newspaper.

Do they enjoy games filled with blood?

On the huge screen, a promotional video showing so-called "knights" fighting in the arena caught Laurentina's attention.

This way of finding amusement in watching her fellow countrymen fight triggered Laurentina's inner obsession with violence.

“Sister, most of the time, these boring ‘competitions’ are just a show.”

Lotin still remembers those famous gladiator knights as more like merchandise displays than actual fighters, which dispelled Laurentina's unrealistic fantasies about the Kazimierz knightly competition.

You won't see scenes of short limbs flying around there.

"It's more like a dance than a martial art."

The fighting skills of gladiators are far removed from actual killing techniques, but this is understandable, since they are performers who make a living by performing.

The next problem to solve is how to get to Waterdrop Village.

"We still need to head north; Waterdrop Village is located in the mountains of northern Kazimir."

Skadi held the latest version of the Kazimierz map in her hand; compared to the 60-year-old map found in the fortress, many settlements had changed locations.

"So you're going to ride in a truck again this time?"

Skadi's last experience with this mode of transport did not leave a good impression; the flimsy vehicle could only accommodate one person.

The only reasonable mode of transportation that Lotin could think of was by truck. Teleportation had already helped them avoid the long international journey, and the Rhodes Island office, as a teleportation point, had saved him a lot of time.

However, in places like Waterdrop Village, which is not even small enough to be considered a town, Luo Ting can only travel by normal means of transportation.

Long-distance passenger land-going ships are still not a viable option, and they can only reach settlements on the outer edge of the mountains.

Due to natural disasters, there are vast uninhabited areas in Terra, making it virtually impossible to build permanent transportation infrastructure in these areas, let alone carve tunnels through the mountains.

For Lotin, acquiring a truck with sufficient load capacity was not difficult; everything in the Grand Knights' territory was clearly priced, and the one thing he had no shortage of was gold.

In the desolate and dangerous Iberian region, Iberian gold coins that fell to the ground because of the inconvenience of storing them in Skati still gleam on the damp and moldy roads.

Construction machinery is not a product category with a purchase threshold, and besides, that threshold itself can be overcome with gold.

Much of Casimir's technology was plagiarized from Colombia, and there were indeed serious patent disputes between the two countries. But that was clearly not what Lotin needed to consider; what she needed to consider was whether the vehicle could carry both his and Skadi's weight at the same time.

The tracked transport vehicle successfully met Lotin's requirements.

"So, should we hire a messenger of natural disasters and a guide, just like last time?"

Judging from the results, the messenger of the natural disaster last time did not play a significant role, but this was also related to the strange and unusual nature of that natural disaster itself.

However, the hunter and the nun shook their heads in unison. Although they did not communicate verbally, they still reached a certain consensus.

They seemed to want their trip to be disturbed by other people.

"Now is not the time to be willful."

How should the driver's problem be resolved?

Since the entire trip was within the territory of Kazimierz, the Kazimierz Disaster Management Agency's broadcasts were sufficient to prevent and avoid normal natural disasters. However, there still needed to be a suitable person to drive the vehicle.

"Leave the salvage crew to me."

"I already understood how to operate this land vehicle during my previous convoy trip to Letania."

Miss Hunter seems to be planning to drive the special vehicle without a license, and according to her, she mastered how to drive it simply by observing it.

The lights thinned out, and unfinished buildings replaced the skyscrapers that shimmered with dazzling lights. The tall silver knight arrived at the quarantine checkpoint.

Clearly, the employee on duty wasn't working diligently, but was watching a local qualifying match of a knightly competition, so much so that he didn't even notice Lotin's appearance until the boiling water in the cup on his desk splashed onto his leg due to the vibration.

When Lotin first met with Grand Inquisitor Dario in Iberia, he presciently requested legal documents concerning Kazimir, issued by the Iberian Foreign Affairs Bureau.

The employee noticed the magnificent knight's armor worn by Lotin and the exquisite clothing of the accompanying Agorians. He immediately became cautious. In addition, the three documents obtained through Dario's connections at the Great Tribunal made the employee suspect that these three were foreign guests from Iberia.

The employee opening the gate wore a professional smile. Although Iberia was incredibly mysterious to the outside world because of its closed borders, he thought that the dignitaries of all countries should have similar manners.

Even though the other party chose to leave the city through such a remote quarantine checkpoint at this time, the employee did not dare to indulge his curiosity and ask too many questions.

The Great Knightshold clearly has no shortage of secrets that would never be published in any newspaper, and prying into these secrets does not meet the requirements of Kazimierz for its "model citizens".

Unbeknownst to him, these three people, traveling in a brand-new tracked transport vehicle, sped across the wilderness of Kazimierz, and apart from a few unfortunate rock crabs being crushed by the tracks, there were no other victims.

Lotin can assume that Skadi has mastered its driving style, perhaps.

Chapter 74: Left Foot Steps on Right Foot to Ascend to Heaven

On the speeding tracked vehicle, Lotin fell into deep thought again. While resting on Rhodes Island, he had already planned how to use some of the funds he had earned, and now he would also consider how to use the remaining funds after purchasing large equipment.

He did indeed reap unprecedented benefits by defeating the Third Army; the defeat of the Third Army alone brought him around 2100 gold coins.

The funds earned from defeating Mephisto and Faust were converted into an Amplification Tome, while the funds earned from defeating Shadowguard were converted into Tears of the Goddess. Crushing the Sarkaz Mercenary and defeating Bozokasti allowed Lotin to synthesize a Ghost Mask worth 1300 coins.

The 700+ coins earned from Black Serpent and Talulah, combined with previous miscellaneous surpluses, gave Lotin enough funds to synthesize a total of 800 [Demon Codexes].

Crushing the Third Army allowed Lotin to finally raise the funds to purchase the Rift Creator, along with a surplus of around 1200 gold coins. This surplus was enough for him to buy another Burning Gem, the same item he had used to craft the Heart Steel.

The funds provided by those sergeants seemed to be at the level of artillery vehicles or even lower-level monsters, but were definitely higher than those of ordinary gray beasts. The greatest contribution of these Ursus soldiers was providing a huge number of layers to [Overgrowth].

One incident gave Loting the funds for a whole major item: [Tear of the Goddess] + [Rift Maker] + a surplus of around 1200 gold. His development speed was indeed far greater than in the Iberian Wasteland, and his total gain reached around 5000 gold, which was indeed a huge sum of money.

The only pity is that the flagship of the Third Army Group did not have a coating.

However, experience gain remains a major drawback. After reaching level 8 with the help of the Staff of Time, although the experience gained at level 7 was retained, it was still a little short of reaching level 9.

The higher you go, the more experience points you need, but Lotin's leveling speed is not much slower than when he was at a lower level, which is enough to show that the resources deep in the land are abundant.

While resting on Rhodes Island, Lotin also invested this skill point into his ultimate skill, "Level 8 Not Big," which is a playstyle focused on disconnecting enemies.

If development continues at this pace, Lotin has a chance to acquire his fourth major item in the Kazimierz region. The rate at which experience points are gained is slower than that of gold, a phenomenon that Lotin has always faced.

At this point, the support item seems a bit wasteful to discard, but also rather pointless to use.

If we could find a new way to use it, that would be even better. Loting was actually a little reluctant to sell it just like that.

You can spend extra gold to reforge equipment, turning it into a usable tool.

The recasting cost is half the overall price of the equipment.

Reforging equipment does not allow unique passive effects to stack.

The system then provided a prompt, implying that this method could be used to save six valuable equipment slots.

Theoretically, shoes could also be used in this way, but the benefits of shoes in the PC game League of Legends are not very significant. If the shoes in the mobile game had stats equivalent to two-thirds of a major item, then Loting would consider it.

However, it's clearly not time to reforge equipment yet, since there are still 6 equipment slots available.

At least this notification dispelled Loting's idea of ​​selling the auxiliary equipment [Mountain Barrier]. It won't be too late to prepare to reforge the equipment when he has excess gold.

With the bonus from [Riftmaker], Lothing's spell power has reached around 287, and [Heartsteel] will further increase this number.

However, the news of the Third Army's destruction in the rain was ultimately not completely contained within Ursus by the Ursus Imperial Council.

Most people who learned of this news believed it to be a natural disaster, and only a very few people with more sophisticated intelligence networks gleaned some of the truth from it.

The Business Federation wields nearly half of the power in Kazimierz and is adept at uncovering the slightest clues.

In a secret room in the Great Knight's territory, a spokesperson named McKee was respectfully holding the telephone receiver with both hands, waiting for the person on the other end of the line to issue an order.

Being a spokesperson for the business federation is considered a very prestigious job by the average Qasim person.

But those who actually sit in this position know that they are really just "spokespersons," merely tools for the business tycoons who are listed in the business federation to relay messages and handle trivial matters.

On the other end of the receiver came the voice of a middle-aged Kuranta man who controlled the largest media industry in Casimir, and whose influence was even enough to compete with Colombia's advanced news industry.

“That wasn’t a natural disaster, it couldn’t be, McGee.”

Fortunately, the spokesperson on the other end of the phone was none other than McKee's father, making him special even as a spokesperson for a business association.

"Is the timing really that coincidental? Is the extent of the natural disaster that it affected really that precise?"

"The beauty of modern times is that it has kept us away from those decadent and absurd legends. For the people of Kazimierz today, debating which gladiator was more powerful is far more important than verifying whether The Last Knight exists."

The voice on the other end of the phone clearly scoffed at the views shared by some of his colleagues.

"A terrifying presence is roaming this land. A real, terrifying creature, or a terrifying weapon being tested by the Yan people or Ursus."

“This is a potential threat, but Kazimir is not afraid of it.”

In his view, Ursus, though powerful, was also painfully ignorant. What would have happened if the Third Army had been equipped with several times more advanced high-speed warships than it currently possessed?

"It is said that he only dedicates his efforts to those who are able to collect all the offerings."

Spokesperson McKee added his own comment.

"Child, do you still harbor any illusions about those absurd legends?"

"I want to see who he's extorting 'tribute' for. Someone capable of crushing an Ursus army group, yet not belonging to any Terran nation. That argument is utterly and unequivocally absurd."

"The modern Terran Wars are no longer something that can be saved by six heroes, kid."

Spokesperson McKee dared not doubt the judgment on the other end of the phone, even though it was his father.

"Then what would you like me to do?"

“Investigate any legends about the ‘bronze ghost’ that have appeared in Kazimierz. Come, my child, tear off his charlatanry.”

"The Ursus's clumsy lies cannot fool us."

However, the business association at this time did not know that they were doing something as futile as trying to find a sword by marking the boat where it was moored.

They will never find the Brass Ghost in Casimir.

Chapter 75: The No Man's Land

The Terran nation has very limited control over some remote settlements, and it is already remarkable that they have been able to maintain communication for a long time.

For the residents of Waterdrop Village, the knights' sole purpose in visiting was to collect taxes, and the knights of Kazimierz had not been able to come to this small mountain village for decades.