With that, Natasha drank the last mouthful of wine in the silver bottle. Looking at the exquisite silver bottle in her hand, she let out a long sigh and threw the bottle to Feng Chou. She said faintly, "Thank you for the wine." Then she got up and returned to her tent.
Feng Chou looked at the empty bottle in his hand. After a while, he also sighed slightly and muttered, "So it's the Countess who's down and out …"
Speaking of this, he smiled slightly. "That territory should be enough to move her …"
Feng Chou threw away the bottle and walked back to his tent with a happy expression.
After returning to the tent, Qiankun Pagoda suddenly showed him a scene. In a tent, Phil was lying on his stomach and looking outside through the gap of the tent. His eyes were flashing with the flames of anger.
Seeing this scene, Feng Chou's happy expression became gloomy. He was doing something serious and had no time to be jealous of some random person.
He thought for a while and ordered Qiankun Pagoda to list this person as a key target to monitor.
In the next few days, the Sword of Salma mercenary group's advance became slower and slower. The frequency of them encountering ghouls and ghoul groups became higher and higher.
Fortunately, Feng Chou's rifle was firing at full power. The powerful flintlock combined with the high-grade "enchanted weapon" bullets had the ability to kill ghouls in one shot. Even ghoul commanders would have their soulfire scattered if they were hit in the head.
Natasha's full power also gave the mercenary group another powerful fighter. In a head-on battle, Shi Douhua and Natasha could completely suppress a ghoul commander.
Even so, the battles over the next few days were extremely difficult. The consumption of magic scrolls was far beyond Shi Douhua's expectations. He had to ask Feng Chou for another batch of scrolls to distribute.
Fortunately, there would not be two commanders in a ghoul group. Moreover, each group had their own territory, so there was no situation of encountering two commanders at once. Otherwise, it was really unknown whether they could complete this mission.
By the time the squad arrived at the Ruined Tower Town, two-thirds of the scrolls provided by Feng Chou had already been used up, causing Shi Duhua to feel extremely pained.
The Sword of Salma mercenary group was the fifth team to arrive at the Ruined Tower Town.
When they arrived at the town, they found that the Benedict Pioneering Committee had opened a forward base in the town.
The location of the base surprised Feng Chou. It was located on the first floor of the Arcane Tower.
However, when he thought about it carefully, the arcane tower was indeed the only safe zone in this area. As long as the doors to the arcane tower were shut, the ghouls would be kept out.
When Feng Chou and the Sword of Samar approached the arcane tower, he did not hesitate to take the risk and turned Qiankun Pagoda's scanning function to the maximum.
However, the results were disappointing. Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that the interior of the arcane tower was filled with powerful energy. Qiankun Pagoda's scan could only detect powerful energy, but not anything specific.
This result made Feng Chou extremely disappointed.
After the absent-minded Feng Chou walked through the doors of the arcane tower, he was immediately awakened by the strong changes in the environment. He paid attention to the surroundings and found that the hall had been completely purified.
The hall was filled with comfortable and uplifting positive energy, which was simply a different world from the gloomy feeling outside.
The walls around the hall were hung with wall lamps emitting positive energy, which could prevent the inside of the arcane tower from being eroded by the negative energy outside.
According to the staff of the base, the rooms around the hall had also been purified, and part of them could be used as a base for mercenary groups qualified to enter this place.
The members of the Sword of Salma were also informed that as the first exploration team, they would be given two free dormitories as a base.
At present, this forward base only issued one mission, which was to clean up the undead.
The rewards for this mission were quite generous. A normal Ghoul was worth three silver merit coins, which was the right to develop two acres of farmland. A Ghoul Commander was worth fifty silver merit coins, and a Ghoul Horde was worth the right to develop hundreds of acres of farmland.
The Sword of Salma mercenary group almost unanimously agreed to stay in the town without hesitation.
Feng Chou found that there were large piles of supplies in the hall, and some servants were cleaning the hall and the surrounding rooms.
What puzzled Feng Chou was how the development committee had sent the supplies and these ordinary people here.
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The Sword of Salma mercenary group was given two apprentice dormitories. In fact, all mercenary groups were given apprentice dormitories.
The apprentice dormitories only took up two of the dozen or so rooms around the hall on the first floor of the arcane tower.
Behind the door of the apprentice dormitory was a two-meter-wide corridor. There were ten small doors on both sides of the corridor, and each door was a dormitory. The dormitories were not big, about twenty square meters, and were divided into two rooms. The outer room was the guest room, living room, and dining room, and the inner room was the bedroom.
There were no windows in the dormitory, but there was an alchemical device for ventilation. It had stopped operating long ago, but it had been repaired by the development committee mages.
The entire apprentice dormitory had been purified by the development committee priests, and magic lamps that could emit positive energy were left in each dormitory to prevent it from being polluted by the negative energy in the environment. Therefore, the rooms could be lived in without worry.
Because of the erosion of negative energy, the things in the dormitory were either decayed or turned into negative energy, and could not be used.
On the first day of the Sword of Salma's arrival at the mage tower, their task was to clean the dormitory.
In fact, it was not difficult to clean. There was not much dust in the mage tower, and they only needed to clear out all the furniture inside and throw it away.
Feng Chou was the patron, so of course, he did not need to clean. He was not in the mood to pretend at this time, so he left the dormitory sullenly.
Walking out of the dormitory, Feng Chou immediately understood how the development committee had transported the supplies here.
He saw a gate made of dark blue light in the center of the arcane tower's hall. The gate was about four meters high and four meters wide, and there were steel golems carrying huge wooden boxes coming out of the gate.
Although he had never seen it before, Feng Chou still recognized it at a glance. This was the legendary level-9 spell "Teleportation Gate". Teleportation Gate was an improved version of the traditional level-9 spell "Teleportation Array". It was a spell invented during the Arcane Empire, and this kind of teleportation spell was more efficient than "Teleportation Array".
Steel golems came out of the Teleportation Gate one after another, and the steel golems that put down the boxes lined up next to the Teleportation Gate. When the tenth steel golem came out, the steel golems in the line began to return to the other side through the Teleportation Gate.
In this way, ten golems used three trips to deliver thirty large boxes that weighed tons. Next were people, three at a time. In just a few minutes, over a hundred people came out of the Teleportation Gate.
Not long after the last three people came out of the Teleportation Gate, the Teleportation Gate suddenly dissipated.