At the center of the enormous manor stood a three-story Wizard Tower, sixty meters tall in all. The entire Wizard Tower had been built from Steel Rock, a material as hard as iron.
Steel Rock was one of the common materials used to build Wizard Towers. It was as hard as iron, and after being enhanced by a Warlock's spells, it gained extraordinary power. Even a brick-sized piece of Steel Rock cost more than one Gold Coin. The Steel Rock alone for that sixty-meter-tall Wizard Tower had cost several million Gold Coins. Together with all the other materials, building the Wizard Tower had likely cost over ten million Gold Coins.
Although Wizard Towers were incomparably expensive to construct, they possessed all kinds of wondrous uses. A Level-1 Warlock within a Wizard Tower, supported by enough Wizard Apprentices, could even contend against a Level-2 Warlock. Furthermore, the Wizard Tower could gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, allowing the experts within to cultivate faster. Some powerful Warlocks could even use a Wizard Tower to control the weather within its range.
Some wandering Level-2 Warlocks who had not joined any major faction did not even possess Wizard Towers of their own. Black Hut had been able to own a Wizard Tower because it had taken root in the Fein Deluo Principality and gained immense wealth every year.
A man in a gray Warlock's robe stood in the garden beside the Wizard Tower, watering a strange flower with a cat-like face. Three copper lines were embroidered on his cuffs, and he appeared to be around thirty-five or thirty-six years old.
The gray Warlock's robe indicated that the man in his thirties was a Wizard Apprentice. The three copper lines embroidered on his cuffs indicated that he was a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice. Above a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice stood an official Level-1 Warlock.
However, there was a vast chasm between a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice and a Level-1 Warlock. Level-3 Warlock Apprentices were not particularly rare in Black Hut, but there was only one Level-1 Warlock: the master of Black Hut.
"Suo Luo, today's water is too bland! I want honey water! Don't try to fob me off with sugar water!" The Cat-Face Flower with the cat-like face swayed its body and waved its branches and claws.
Suo Luo smiled. "We're out of honey! I'll go buy some this afternoon!"
"No, go now! I'm dying of thirst! Without honey, I'll die!" the Cat-Face Flower argued with Suo Luo.
"Wait, the White Raven is back!"
Suo Luo looked up at the sky. A White Raven descended from above and landed directly on his right arm.
"Suo Luo, Giant Stone City is in trouble!" The White Raven had barely landed on Suo Luo's arm before it chirped and poured out Viscount Helu's words in one breath.
Suo Luo listened calmly to everything before turning and walking toward the Wizard Tower.
Suo Luo arrived on the third floor of the Wizard Tower and stopped before a room at the very end. He knocked on the door. "Teacher, it's Suo Luo."
"Come in!" A somewhat aged voice came from inside the room.
Only then did Suo Luo push open the door.
Inside the room, an old man with white hair and beard was writing furiously at a table. He wore a black robe with a silver line embroidered on its cuffs.
This black-robed old man was Boni, the official Level-1 Warlock and master of Black Hut. He was the ruler of Black City. The fates of Black City's two hundred thousand residents were all held in his hands.
Without looking up, Boni said somewhat impatiently, "What is it? Speak quickly!"
"Teacher! Black Rock Town has been occupied by a Warlock faction..." Suo Luo respectfully reported every piece of information he had heard from the White Raven to Boni, not missing a single word.
Boni said impatiently, "Have Lu Ni, Bo Ke, and Zhan Mu take a few Level-2 Apprentices to Giant Stone City as reinforcements."
Lu Ni, Bo Ke, and Zhan Mu were all Level-3 Warlock Apprentices. Together with several Level-2 Warlock Apprentices, they could easily defeat an army of a thousand ordinary men.
"Yes, Teacher!" Suo Luo answered respectfully and withdrew. Before leaving, he carefully closed the door.
Not long afterward, a mounted troop set out from Black City and headed toward Giant Stone City.
Three days later, that mounted troop entered Giant Stone City.
That night, a grand banquet was held in Giant Stone City's city lord's mansion to welcome the Wizard Apprentices from Black Hut.
After a night of revelry, the Wizard Apprentices from Black Hut rested for another day.
On the third day, an elite army of two thousand men departed from Giant Stone City and moved toward Black Rock Town.
"Is this Giant Stone City's main force? That's a lot of people!"
Yang Feng had launched four miniature satellites to monitor Giant Stone City's movements at all times. The moment Giant Stone City's army set out, he received the news. Sitting inside the newly established command center in Black Rock Town, he watched the movements of Giant Stone City's main force through the large screen.
This time, Giant Stone City had deployed two thousand elite soldiers. In addition, five thousand auxiliary troops carried vast amounts of supplies as they marched along, stretching for several miles in a spectacular procession.
To ensure the capture of Black Rock Town, Giant Stone City had assembled many heavy siege weapons, intending to deliver a fatal blow and reclaim this important mining town. Among the two thousand elite soldiers were fifty heavily armored Knights clad from head to toe in heavy knight armor. If those fifty heavily armored Knights attacked together, they could even kill a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice.
Beside a military officer at the center of the heavily guarded army stood more than a dozen young men and women in gray robes, their cuffs embroidered with copper lines. They were Wizard Apprentices from Black Hut.
"So these are Wizard Apprentices? Let me see what you can do!" Yang Feng put on the Consciousness Transmission Helmet.
In the next instant, inside a military camp, a Liquid Metal Robot suddenly opened its eyes. Red light flickered in its eyes, and its body twisted before transforming into Zhao Jiang's appearance.
The moment Yang Feng stepped out of the military camp, he saw that it was already filled with Level-4 Blade Soldiers, Level-4 Spearmen, and Level-4 Artillerymen.
The densely packed Level-4 Robots numbered more than three thousand. During this period, Yang Feng had also transformed Red Leaf Town and Black Rock Town into two enormous Arsenals. As long as he had enough iron ore, they could produce more than one thousand Level-4 Robots in a single day. This terrifying force could easily destroy Giant Stone City. If not for his wariness of the Black Hut Warlock Group behind Giant Stone City, Yang Feng would have long since dispatched his army and captured Giant Stone City.
"Move out!"
Following Yang Feng's command, the three thousand Level-4 Combat Robots immediately flickered into motion, closely following behind him as they rapidly swept toward the direction from which Giant Stone City's army had come.
Unlike humans, the three thousand Combat Robots could move at speeds of up to one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour. As long as they had sufficient energy, they could maintain that speed indefinitely. This was the gap between robots and humans.
The roads around Black Rock Town were not flat, limiting the Combat Robots' movement speed. Even so, the Mechanical Swordsman Robots could still maintain the terrifying speed of eighty kilometers per hour.
Half an hour later, Yang Feng led the three thousand Combat Robots to a small hill forty kilometers north of Black Rock Town, where they lay in ambush.
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