Black Rock Town was one of the ten towns under Giant Stone City's jurisdiction. The area around Black Rock Town had little arable land and many mountains, and most of the land was unsuitable for farming.
However, several large iron ore veins lay around Black Rock Town.
Baron Kirov of Black Rock Town had relied on those large iron ore veins to turn the entire town into a small center for steelmaking and weapons manufacturing. The weapons produced in Black Rock Town supplied countless nobles of the Fein Deluo Principality, earning Baron Kirov enormous wealth.
Black Rock Town's prosperity far surpassed that of Red Leaf Town. The entire population of Red Leaf Town was less than a thousand, while Black Rock Town already had a population as high as thirty thousand. It was also the wealthiest of the ten towns under Giant Stone City's jurisdiction.
Black Rock Town's sole weakness was that it could not produce its own food and had to purchase vast quantities of grain from all over every year. That was precisely why Baron Kirov had set his sights on the Zhao Family's Red Leaf Town. As long as he could get his hands on fertile Red Leaf Town, Baron Kirov would never lack food again.
On a small hill two kilometers outside Black Rock Town.
Yang Feng stood atop the hill, looking down at Black Rock Town in the distance. Behind him stood fifty Level-4 Blade Soldiers, fifty Level-4 Spearmen, ten artillery units, and two Level-5 Liquid Metal Robots. Every robot wore a pitch-black battle robe, imposing and brimming with murderous intent.
Yang Feng pointed at Black Rock Town and ordered, "I want Black Rock Town! Move out and seize it for me! Kill all who resist!"
"Yes, Master!" the 112 robots answered in unison in loud synthesized voices.
As soon as the words fell, thirty Blade Soldiers, thirty Spearmen, five artillery units, and one Level-5 Liquid Metal Robot charged straight down the hill, rushing toward Black Rock Town to kill.
Yang Feng took out a metal helmet and put it on.
That metal helmet was called the Consciousness Transmission Helmet. It could transmit and link Yang Feng's consciousness to any robot loaded with a receiving chip within a five-kilometer radius, allowing Yang Feng to directly control those Combat Robots equipped with receiving chips.
On the Durando Subcontinent, there were Knights with incomparably powerful physical strength, as well as Warlocks with strange and terrifying methods. Many Warlocks wielded dreadful powers that could silently kill a person without leaving a trace. Yang Feng did not dare go to the battlefield himself, or he might not even know how he died.
Before he fused with the inheritance robot No. 3796, Yang Feng's original body had been extremely frail. Even an ordinary person could kill him. A powerful Warlock only needed to make the slightest move to finish him off.
In an instant, Yang Feng's consciousness linked with the Level-5 Liquid Metal Robot. The robot's body twisted, rapidly changing into Yang Feng's form.
"This is the ability of a Western Tribe powerhouse: freely moving through the bodies of robots under one's command and completely controlling any robot. As long as the soul is not destroyed, one can be reborn inside any robot body. If one is about to die of old age and still cannot find a method to extend one's lifespan, becoming a robot is not a bad choice either."
Yang Feng moved his body and discovered that the body transformed from the Liquid Metal Robot was no worse than his own flesh-and-blood body. It was completely like another body of his own.
"Unfortunately, this body has no sensation!"
Yang Feng ruthlessly squeezed his own right hand with all his strength, nearly deforming it. Even so, his right hand felt nothing at all.
No. 3796's voice suddenly rang out in Yang Feng's mind. "Master, it is not as though there is no solution if you want sensation! As long as you build a Level-3 Mobile Fortress Base, you can manufacture Flesh-and-Blood Liquid Metal Robots. Those Flesh-and-Blood Liquid Metal Robots can give you every sensation of a human body. You can even perfectly experience the sensations of the mating activities humans enjoy."
"Shut up!" Yang Feng cursed angrily.
No. 3796's voice immediately vanished.
Black Rock Town already had the rudiments of a city. A six-meter-high wall surrounded it, and six soldiers stood guard at the entrance.
When they saw more than sixty robots clad head to toe in black robes and radiating murderous intent racing toward them, the six soldiers immediately sounded the alarm.
A shrill alarm echoed through Black Rock Town.
The solid steel gate was immediately lowered, sealing the entrance shut.
More than thirty well-trained, fully armed archers rushed onto the wall and watched Yang Feng's forces with extreme vigilance.
"Attack the city!"
At Yang Feng's command, five artillery units stepped forward, their 120-millimeter heavy cannons aiming directly at the city gate.
Boom!!
Amid five earth-shattering explosions, the solid steel gate was blasted into pieces. The terrifying shockwave even knocked several archers off the wall.
"Warlocks, Alchemists!! They're Warlocks!!" A squad leader on the wall saw the scene, and his courage shattered as he muttered in utter terror.
The archers, too, turned ashen-faced and trembled uncontrollably.
Warlocks were the most powerful beings in this world. Some powerful Warlocks were comparable to gods in the eyes of mortals. Now that the city gate had been breached, those soldiers had lost all confidence in opposing the legendary Warlocks.
Only the most elite and powerful armies, forged through grueling training, had the courage to fight Warlocks. The troops of a small place like Black Rock Town simply had no courage to confront a powerful Warlock.
"Those who kneel, disarm, and surrender will not be killed! Kill all who resist!" A Blade Soldier stepped out from the ranks and roared.
The archers on the wall shuddered and hesitated. One archer was the first to throw down his weapon and kneel. As though setting off a chain reaction, the remaining soldiers also tossed aside their weapons one by one and fell to their knees.
After Yang Feng sent five Blade Soldiers to take custody of the prisoners, he continued leading the main force deeper into Black Rock Town.
At that moment, Black Rock Town had fallen completely silent. All the townspeople had hidden inside their homes, watching Yang Feng's group with terrified eyes.
The walls of Black Rock Stronghold stood ten meters high, with a diameter of one kilometer. Its entire structure was built from black rock as hard as steel. Even a Knight-level expert could not leap over a ten-meter-high wall in a single bound, while even a Grand Knight would need to remove his heavy armor before he could possibly jump onto such a high wall.
More than two hundred soldiers stood atop Black Rock Stronghold's walls. They wore leather armor, held various weapons, and remained at their posts. Their bearing and spirit were clearly several times stronger than those of the soldiers at Red Leaf Fort.
Two heavy ballistae had been placed atop the wall. Each was seven meters long, and even their bolts were seven meters long. It took five or six people working together to draw a single heavy ballista. Their power was boundless; even a Grand Knight-level powerhouse would be killed if struck head-on by one bolt.
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