Chapter 2041 - 2034: Am I Qualified Now?
"City Lord, this time our Ice King City has lost over 2 million warriors, of which more than 1.5 million were adventurers. Because some of the Insect Clan infiltrated the city, a great number of buildings were destroyed, and our direct economic loss is also astronomical."
"Significant economic losses are not a big deal!" The City Lord shook his head. After all, after Zhang Menglong purchased those lands, he brought tremendous wealth to the entire Ice King City. Compared to that Supreme Crystal, these economic losses are not much.
However, the loss of these Ice Demon Race warriors is truly their great sorrow. After all, the populations of every race grow very slowly. These 2 million people might take at least a thousand years to replenish.
"City Lord, the southern wall defended by the Ice Throne has held, with very few casualties and little economic loss. This is simply a miracle!"
"What did you say? It held?" The City Lord was more surprised than pleased.
One must know that the City Lord’s legion is much stronger than these adventurers. Otherwise, how could he have established absolute authority? If the strength was insufficient, he would have long been replaced by the Royal Tribe of the Ice Demon Race. After all, the resources a city can acquire are absolutely astronomical.
Zhang Menglong, though he recruited a group of elites, should be a little inferior in overall strength compared to other Royal Tribes, not to mention compared to his legion.
But even his legion could not hold this section of the wall, suffering heavy losses. If it were not for the timely arrival of the Ice Wing Dragon Bat, his elites would have been further reduced.
Such attacking pressure, even with ten times more defenders, it would be wishful thinking to hold, not to mention with just Zhang Menglong’s few people. How did they manage it?
"It is said that in the Ice Throne, adventurers with Dao Realm limits each equipped with a Supreme Weapon and Supreme Armor, even the Emperor Realm insectoid warcrafts could not harm them. Attacks below emperor grade could be largely ignored. Before tiring out, they pushed the defensive line to fifty kilometers away from the wall."
"Everyone equipped with Supreme gear?" Even the City Lord couldn’t help but gasp, for among his Imperial Guards, those with Supreme equipment could be counted on one hand. An adventurer being richer than these rulers is already shocking, but even having stronger equipment is even more surprising!
"But their stamina couldn’t be endless, right?" the City Lord continued to ask.
"This has to do with Zhang Menglong, the leader of the Ice Throne," the subordinate said. "Zhang Menglong somehow learned a skill, gathering the power of all the military and civilians in the southern area into a powerful attack, which allegedly annihilated tens of billions, or even more, of the insectoid warcrafts in one blow!"
"One attack! Tens of billions?" The City Lord’s jaw almost dropped. "How is this possible?"
"Many witnessed it firsthand," the subordinate said. "I sought confirmation from many people. Even those in the city’s center saw a massive light ball in the south, and there’s now a huge pit. You can go confirm it..."
"An attack wiping out tens of billions of insectoid warcrafts, such power is something not even the Royal Tribe with Dao Realm limits can achieve. I heard other races have many skills. Being a lost member of the Rift Royal Tribe, perhaps during this period, he learned other races’ abilities, allowing him to turn the tides!"
"That’s not even the most important part," the subordinate said. "Guess what’s most important?"
The City Lord glared at his subordinate, who realized he might be teasing the City Lord, a behavior that usually doesn’t end well.
"The warcrafts Zhang Menglong killed had an almost 100% drop rate for rule items!"
"What did you say!?"
Indeed, compared to the previous pieces of information, this one was the most shocking!
In this place, the most important things are those rule items, Supreme Crystals, Supreme Weapons, etc. But the drop rate for these things is even smaller than a lottery. The world’s rules are fair, never heard of anyone having a 100% drop rate for rule items. Having such a capability would be heaven-defying!
"In this battle, at least tens of billions of Supreme Crystals were collected, with millions, if not tens of millions, of Supreme Weapons. We have no way to verify the exact number yet, probably only he knows."
"Tens of billions of Supreme Crystals..." The City Lord finally understood why, as an adventurer, Zhang Menglong could be so obscenely wealthy. He opened a cheat mode!
"City Lord, from now on, the prestige of the Ice Throne will overshadow our City Lord’s Mansion!"
"No worries," the City Lord smiled. "At least the Ice Wing Dragon Bat will listen only to the City Lord’s Mansion’s advice. No matter how strong he is, unless he can kill the Ice Wing Dragon Bat, no one can shake the foundations of our City Lord’s Mansion."
"Indeed!"
"Let people start preparing to repair the walls!" the City Lord said. "Let’s hope those damned insects don’t come back; otherwise, Ice King City will face another calamity. You handle things here!"
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Other Tribe leaders also heard about the Ice Throne’s affair. After delegating the wall repairs to the City Lord’s Mansion, they headed immediately to the southern wall!
Sure enough, in the south of Ice King City, there was a massive crater, its edge not even visible to the eye, extending beyond the horizon. What kind of power could cause such destruction?
Local residents are praising the Ice Throne’s contributions. When they heard the other three walls had been breached, they actually felt fortunate. If not for the Ice Throne’s defense, many more of them might have perished!
"Everyone, thank you for defending the city with such dedication," Zhang Menglong said to the battered leaders. "Victory and defeat are common in warfare. Don’t be too discouraged. If it weren’t for you, the entire Ice King City’s damage would have been more severe!"
Zhang Menglong’s words, though sounded comforting, carried an undertone of mocking their incompetence, though every leader felt displeased, they couldn’t refute, as the stark reality was before them.
They believed that if they intended any harm to Zhang Menglong, the first to rise against them would be the residents and adventurers of the Ice King City’s southern area. To them, Zhang Menglong and his Ice Throne were their Saviors! Had they not tenaciously held that area, it would not have fared any better than the rest of the city.
"Oh! By the way, there’s one more thing," Zhang Menglong smiled, "You mentioned before that to contend for the Ice Demon Flower, one must make great contributions to Ice King City or even the entire Ice Demon Race. I wonder if my contributions count? Shouldn’t I qualify for a share?"