The stronghold of the unknown forest is only about an hour away from the cliff.

And this distance is far enough for most players. After all, running for an hour to fight wild monsters is impossible if it is not true love.

In fact, for players of the dungeon game, running for half an hour to defeat monsters and complete tasks is a common occurrence, and most players are already used to this kind of thing.

Of course, if they encounter a situation that requires them to travel for half a day, such as taking an airship to a mission location or using a beetle beast to go to a mission location, they will usually choose to board the airship or beetle beast first, and then log off to do other things.

, such as learning to consolidate knowledge and so on.

When the airship or beetle arrives at the target location, players will remind them using chat software such as this.

But walking for an hour directly is still too far for players. Fortunately, there is such a thing as a portal.

The academic master built the rune magic portal very quickly. After all, he had done it so many times and his proficiency was already very high. Less than two hours after the academic master arrived in the unknown forest, a brand new teleportation rune was created.

The magic circle has been established in the valley of the unknown forest.

Sherlock still attaches great importance to the underground forest. He bought all the magic rune materials used in one go, and the price was very high.

With the establishment of the portal, more and more players came out of the portal and participated in the activities of building strongholds.

Originally used as a means of transportation between the unknown forest and the eternal kingdom dungeon, the beetle beast was directly teleported to the valley and used as a means of transport for those players to the unknown stronghold.

It's just that before the first batch of players who arrived at the stronghold by transportation arrived, Arthur, along with his union members and some other union members, had already arrived at the designated place, not only them, but also others.

Players, including guild players or individual players, obviously couldn't wait for the official game to update portals and transportation vehicles, so they chose to walk around the stronghold and conduct the first wave of exploration.

The beastmen and goblins in the stronghold obviously noticed this group of unexpected guests who suddenly appeared.

They closed the door of the stronghold tightly and took a defensive posture. Then they sent a goblin who was probably called a diplomat and walked out of the stronghold. The goblin shouted to the players around him.

:

"Warriors of the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon! We are people from the Northern Office of the Eternal Fire Dungeon. We came here with peace and friendship. This underground forest has not been developed and occupied by anyone. If you

If you are willing, we can cooperate with you in development."

But just as the goblin finished speaking, a Goblin stood up in the crowd and shouted loudly:

"Fart, you just killed me not long ago, how can you still call this peace and friendship?"

The goblin who stood up and shouted was of course Marco Polo, who was killed by them before.

The goblin obviously didn't expect that the people in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon would directly reject his words. He was a little embarrassed, but he still said shamelessly:

"I think there must be some misunderstanding. We have never controlled anyone in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon. If it is a conflict between our second and third heirs and the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon, then what is the conflict with the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon?

Our Eternal Fire has absolutely nothing to do with it. After all, they are just heirs, not the city lords of the Eternal Fire Dungeon. Please be clear on this point. Our Dungeon’s position is that we will never do anything that harms the underground city.

World peace thing. Like I said, we are here for peace and prosperity."

Although what this goblin said was high-sounding, the players had already determined that these guys were the villains, not to mention that they had brutally injured Marco Polo before. This was an ironclad fact. No matter how much they said, it would not matter.

The most important thing is that their names are red names.

As long as the name is red, even if God speaks, it will be of no use, because the only ones that can attack are wild monsters.

This is indeed the case. While they were talking, a player had already rushed towards the goblin who came out to negotiate. After all, in the eyes of that player, this goblin had a red name and was wearing a very beautiful long cloth.

clothing.

This is fashion.

There is no official mall fashion for sale in the game, and fashion is definitely indispensable for players. Many NPCs wear pretty good clothes. As long as they are not damaged, they are considered fashion for players.

, and there is another very conscientious thing about this game, that is, all the equipment in the game has no time limit.

Including good-looking clothes, this is not like some of those online games that are so deceptive that fashion not only requires money, but also has time constraints.

In order to ensure that the quality of the clothes was intact, the player did not hold a long sword or any sharp weapon, but held an iron rod and rushed towards the goblin diplomat in front of him. The earth diplomat had not even

When he reacted, he was hit on the head with a stick by the player and fell to the ground.

"Wow, this reaction is too fast. If I had known I would have hit him with a stick instead of listening to his nonsense."

"I regret it so much. If I had known it, I wouldn't have listened to his nonsense. Oh my god."

Those players beat their chests in regret, but it was of no use. After the goblin was knocked to the ground by the player, his clothes naturally belonged to the player who defeated him.

The only pity is that the clothes are in goblin size and can only be sold to goblin players. After all, the player who came out to attack him is a beastman, and he cannot wear goblin clothes with such a large body.

The battle started from this moment. After all, the diplomats were beaten to death by the other side. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to live in peace and friendship, right?

The players copied the guy and launched an attack on the stronghold.

A series of arrow rains were fired from behind the stone wall of the stronghold, as well as some black and red magic missiles. Various elements were poured on the heads of the players. The number of players who came here first was also

There weren't many, only five or six hundred people. Now they were hit by a wave of long-range attacks and suffered heavy casualties, and most of the uninjured players began to run away immediately.

After all, they are just here to act as scouts, to inquire about information, inspect the terrain, and see if there are any opportunities that can be exploited. If the door of the opponent's stronghold is open, wouldn't it be better not to go in and rob it directly?

Of course, such an opportunity cannot be left to them.

And just after the first wave of players were defeated by people from the northern branch of the Eternal Fire Dungeon.

In the stronghold of the Eternal Fire Dungeon, several commanders wearing fine armor were surrounding a table. There was a huge sand table in front of them. Judging from the shape of the sand table, this

It should be a map of where the unknown forest is located, and the valley in it is where the forest is located.

"Who can tell me how the news leaked out, why did the people in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon find this place, and how did they discover this secret underground forest?"

One of the beastman commanders standing in the middle looked at the people around him with a serious face. His mood looked very bad.

But no one around him dared to speak, or even take a breath.

It took a long time before a goblin appeared and said tremblingly:

"Commander, I feel that now is not the time to pursue these matters. We should quickly solve the problem at hand. We have already had a conflict with the Eternal Kingdom dungeon. We must quickly resolve this problem through diplomatic channels. That dungeon is nothing.

They are easy to mess with, and Lord Morgan and Lord Andrew were both sent to prison by the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon."

After the goblin finished speaking, the remaining members nodded, obviously agreeing with what he said.

The commander also fell into deep thought, and it was obvious that what he was talking about was indeed a problem that must be solved first.

"I think as long as we send a diplomat to explain the situation to Lord Sherlock, Lord Sherlock will definitely reply and understand our self-defense actions. After all, it was the people in the Eternal Kingdom dungeon who attacked us first, not us.

Their attack."

Another beastman said this.

"Yes, as long as we ask Sherlock to give him all the resources in the underground forest, I believe Sir Sherlock will not make things difficult for us. After all, I heard that he is a very generous devil."

"The Demon of Generosity? Are you kidding? I have never heard of that demon worthy of the title of Generosity. Do you know how much magic the demon named Sherlock earned from the Merchant Alliance and the Eternal Fire?

What about stones and supplies?”

The commander had a terrifying expression on his face, and then said in silence:

"According to what I heard, the total adds up to 50 million magic stones. This is the profit that the upper-level demon has squeezed from us and the merchant alliance."

"But that's not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that these magic stones were obtained with the lives of the people in the underground city of his eternal kingdom. Can you believe it? Most of this is their pension! You can

Can you imagine how many people died in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon?”

After the commander finished speaking, the person next to him continued:

"Ah, speaking of this, I seem to have heard that the soldiers in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon are all people who are not afraid of death."

"Not only are they not afraid of death, I heard that they are also a little perverted and even have a death-seeking mentality!"

"What's even more terrifying is that they were laughing even when they died. Rather than fighting to save their companions, they were more concerned about whether their weapons and equipment were intact. For equipment and weapons to encounter this kind of situation again,

I have never seen a warrior of this level."

"I even heard that in the middle of the battle, many of them were new soldiers. They didn't have any weapons and equipment, so they went to the battlefield naked to pick up equipment, and then rushed to fight."

"It's really scary, such a scary dungeon!"

A group of people around the table were chattering, and then the commander in the center knocked on the table with a bang, and then drank loudly:

"That's enough. I already know the awesomeness of the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon. You don't need to repeat it again. I will report this matter to the Eternal Fire Dungeon immediately and send special personnel to the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon.

We are negotiating with Lord Sherlock. No matter how those people in the eternal kingdom dungeon provoke you, do not resist or fight back. You only need to defend and prevent them from rushing into our stronghold. As long as

By occupying this stronghold, we will have a certain say in this underground forest."

After the commander finished speaking, everyone below fell silent. After all, the order he mentioned was basically impossible to achieve.

How could you not fight back? If you didn't fight back, based on the current level of defense, wouldn't the opponent just rush over?

But orders are orders, and they don't want to obey them, and they have no other choice but to hope that they can successfully communicate with the other party's lord as soon as possible.

As for communicating with the other lord...

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"Please take a seat."

Sherlock pointed to the chair in front of him and said to the werewolf coming over.

The werewolf in front of me is a diplomat from the Eternal Fire Dungeon. As for why this diplomat came to the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon, he came through the portal of Winterfell. Of course, it went through Sherlock.

Allowed, otherwise they would not be able to enter the Eternal Kingdom dungeon through the portal.
To be continued...