LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 739 - 739: Mountain Giant
Chapter 739: Chapter 739: Mountain Giant
The urban mercenary system is a function of the City Lord seal. It allows city lord to hire mercenaries from other cities. Moreover, if the City of Hope is successfully established, a Mercenary Hall can be created. Song Jian will also be able to open his unique mercenaries through the Mercenary Hall, to be employed by other city lords.
It’s worth mentioning that this hiring system only exists between city lords, and other people can’t see it. Only those who own a City Lord seal can use this function.
Many city lords, who are not strong, like to hire powerful mercenaries, either to fight monsters and level up for themselves or to ensure their protection. The cost is just some insignificant Doomsday Coins.
Song Jian clicked to hire city mercenaries, then swiftly started searching through the mercenary list.
The mercenary list is detailed and spans more than a hundred pages. Depending on the star level, the hiring price varies. The highest is five stars, and the lowest only one star. The five-star mercenaries are the most expensive, requiring at least a million Doomsday Coins for one day. The one-star mercenaries are the cheapest, costing at least a few hundred or at most a few thousand Doomsday Coins per day.
Furthermore, a mercenary’s star level doesn’t necessarily correspond to their strength. Five-star mercenaries have only completed many tasks, while one-star mercenaries have completed only a few tasks; that’s all there is to it.
Sometimes, spending as little as a one-star mercenary’s fee can hire a mercenary with second-tier combat power. However, this kind of thing wholly depends on luck.
Song Jian rapidly flipped through the list, hoping to pick the one with the best price-performance ratio. After a short time, he identified the mercenary he wanted to hire.
“Mountain Giants! One million Doomsday Coins each if they bring their own weapons, and only one-hundred thousand each if they don’t! This is such a good deal!” An excited expression appeared on Song Jian’s face.
Mountain Giants are a unique race with the lineage of the earth element but do not belong to elemental beings. They prefer to use ancient trees aged over a hundred years as their weapons. The older the trees are, the stronger the Mountain Giants are. They are the only race that can derive power from their weapons.
Mountain Giants with weapons, and those without, are entirely different in terms of power.
After a while, Song Jian spent more than a million Doomsday Coins to hire a dozen Mountain Giants. Each of these giants was over ten meters tall, standing inside the city walls, and towered over the walls by a considerable margin. With one wave of their hand, they could sweep out all the players within tens of meters on the city wall.
“Mountain Giant leader Gu Bo reports to the great City Lord Song Jian!” A burly Mountain Giant said in a deep voice to Song Jian.
The giants’ voices sounded like thunder, buzzing in people’s ears.
“Gu Bo, I hired you to assist us in defending the city. In a while, a massive number of monsters will attack this newly built city. We need your strength!” Song Jian shouted.
“Mountain Giants are never afraid of fighting. We will fight with you till the last moment!” Gu Bo roared.
These mercenaries were hired by Song Jian. As long as he didn’t withdraw, they would keep fighting, even if it meant risking their lives. Yet if Song Jian couldn’t withstand the attack and chose to escape, these mercenaries would also run away. This rule is clearly stated in the mercenaries’ manual.
Song Jian nodded his head and started directing the Mountain Giants, arranging for them to be distributed around the four city walls.
“Honorable city lord, there’s something I need to tell you!” Gu Bo said: “Mountain Giants have no ranged attack capabilities, and we can only fight at close range. Also, if you can provide us with ancient trees that are over a hundred years old, our combat power could at least double, and we can assist you in the fight better!”
“Don’t worry, I have already prepared weapons for you, and they will be delivered to you soon!” Song Jian laughed.
Soon enough, someone came carrying a bunch of Ancient Shadow Trees, each several dozens of meters long;
Seeing these Ancient Shadow Trees, the Mountain Giants immediately became excited, showing a strong desire to test their power. The Mountain Giants can only use ancient trees as weapons during fights, and they can draw strength from these trees and level up.
The higher the quality of an ancient tree and the longer its age, the stronger the power the giants can draw and the easier they can level up. Therefore, employers who can provide ancient trees as weapons will always be favoured by Mountain Giants.
“These are your weapons. Feel free to choose!” Song Jian laughed.
Gu Bo was the first to choose the bulkiest Ancient Shadow Tree, which he held high above his head. Roaring joyfully, he said, “An Ancient Shadow Tree of over five hundred years old, I can feel the tremendous power. After this battle, I will definitely be able to level up again!”
“Fight!” The other Mountain Giants also picked up the Ancient Shadow Trees one after another, and roared loudly.
Only through fighting can they draw power from the ancient trees faster. Therefore, the Mountain Giants, having obtained their weapons, crave the fight even more than the players of the City of Hope.
After hiring these Mountain Giants, Song Jian spent all of the last financial reserves of the City of Hope Alliance. All the remaining options in the City Lord seal were about complete control of the entire city.
Many more functions are yet to be developed. Song Jian can only take a cursory look at them now. Even the remaining three unsealed functions, he barely had time to check when thunderclaps suddenly echoed in the sky.
The already dark clouds in the sky seemed to have been stirred up by a gigantic hand, violently rolling about. Streaks of lightning crisscrossed the sky, with thunder booming. It was as if giant dragons were roaring in anger.
In the city wreckage outside of the City of Hope, a surge of monsters sprung up. Their eyes were blood red and full of rage as they gazed at the City of Hope. They wore expressions full of hatred, roaring and charging towards the city.
The sheer amount and variety of the monsters were simply terrifying. Some of the players who had been lurking outside the City of Hope Alliance’s territory, hoping to take advantage of the situation, were all scared out of their wits. Despite knowing that these monsters won’t attack them, most decided to temporarily flee from the place, including quite a few players from the Pantheon.
“This is… This is horrifying!” Craftsman God’s knees trembled as he watched a tens of meter-long python, the size of a tank, slide by just three meters away from him. He suddenly felt a chill running down his leg.
“A level 30 elite BOSS…”
“Lord-class! Look, there are so many Lord-class BOSSs. This is terrifying…”
“How can they defend against this? They are practically all BOSSs. This isn’t a monster siege, it’s a BOSS siege!”
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