Chapter 542 Initial Sweep
The plan to capture the Cains Courtyard was somewhat different from Mu Hua's original idea. After many calculations, he could not find a permanent solution.

A fortress city would not have much impact, but judging from the pace of development in recent years, without five to ten years of stable development, the population and order in the Caines Courtyard would not be enough to build a normal social system.

If it leaves people with an impression of being overbearing and strong, and if there are some negative rumors such as adventurers withdrawing from the courtyard, then the land where more monsters have been driven out may become a place where bandits are rampant, chaos is unbearable, and monsters frequently appear.

After all, it was an emerging courtyard that lacked a human foundation. In order to stabilize the adventurers in the courtyard, Mu Hua finally chose an area as his main development foundation and formed a cooperative relationship with the major forces in the courtyard.

The convection of hot and cold air creates gusts of wind that stir up the gravel.

Snow Ridge Ranch is not an area completely covered by ice and snow. Half of the area is free of snow and wind, but the temperature here is still below normal.

The fire magic that erupted everywhere brought about a temperature difference, causing hurricanes to mix on this fertile land without wind and snow, gradually converging into a storm.

Hellhounds, groups of three or five hellhounds are very fierce, but the monsters in the Snow Ridge Ranch in the front half of the courtyard are of high standard. Even if it is a hellhound, if it breaks into the monster camp that has been warned, it is likely to fall into the ambush of the monsters.

But if even the hellhounds could easily burst out scarlet new stars, and the hellhounds could occasionally spit out explosive flames, then when these bullies from hell gathered together, I'm afraid that even heaven would be painted with the color of hell.

There are three thousand hellhounds, these villains in hell, all evolved from hybrid monsters. Because this method of evolution and enslavement is very successful, Mu Hua has begun to think about getting other hybrid monsters.

Mu Hua dare not let his guard down when it comes to the demons. After layers of contracts, the final contract master of these hellhounds is Monday. The biggest disadvantage is that no matter whether Monday or Mu Hua dies, this litter of hellhounds will naturally be destroyed.

This is also the fundamental reason why Mu Hua was thinking about creating a hybrid of demons and monsters, but was not keen on it.

These hellhounds were under Monday's direct command. They spread out along the east-west line of the Snow Ridge Ranch, exploring the gathering places of monsters while indiscriminately attacking any monsters they encountered.

But the Snow Ridge Ranch is too large after all. When these hellhounds, which are mainly used for harassment and reconnaissance, are everywhere, they are more like harmful beasts that cause trouble everywhere, and it is difficult for them to form an offensive force.

They bite, tear, spit magic when encountering a group of enemies and run away, barking and roaring. After a while, more hellhounds gather and fight back. When they encounter a concealed gathering place of monsters, they do not attack forcefully, but wander around, waiting for reinforcements, just like cunning and insidious jackals.

Originally, Mu Hua planned to invest all his combat power to push the front half of Kanes Courtyard. Although it was impossible, when he concentrated more of his strength on a certain area, the battle was no longer urgent and fishing on the Abyss Island could continue safely.

At this time, a huge monster was floating in the sky. Mu Hua could even watch the battles everywhere while lying on Si Si's back to earn the Hundred Refined Secret Stone.

The stable battle situation was much more reassuring than his original large-scale plan. Moreover, victory in reality did not seem to have much direct relationship with hardship and torture. The current combat mode seemed to be more stable.

"Stop! Surrender! We are willing to pay the ransom!" In a monster gathering place with a bunker castle, a roaring demon on the city wall shouted loudly.

At this time, hundreds of headless knights were riding their horses around the city. At the main gate of the city, a large group of skeleton generals wearing lich robes were holding formed magic in their hands.

Because of the hood covering their eyes, the Howling Devil couldn't tell whether they were liches or skeletons. But when a large group of spellcasters were brewing magic, dozens of monsters with strange shapes floated in the air, driving a large number of summoned beasts of various races to attack the magic traps outside the city.

This is a monster castle located in a hidden place. The defensive magic outside the castle has not been destroyed yet, but thick smoke has risen inside the castle. Looking down from a high place, you can see a large area of ​​bloodstained land inside the castle.

Civil unrest in the walled city?

No, the main function of Snow Ridge Ranch in this courtyard is to train relatively cheap manpower for the owner of the courtyard.

At this stage, this area has more real monsters than other areas, which is one of the reasons why Mu Hua turned his attention here.

As for the origin of those original monsters? The so-called cultivation of monsters cannot be created out of nothing. It is similar to raising them. In addition to the monsters and orcs captured from hell, the monsters here will also use some equipment, magic arrays and other things to catalyze the devil eggs.

It involves hatching and also reproduction, and then those monsters will be screened, trained, and cultivated in relatively safe places. If they are really disobedient, they can be killed and eaten, or released into the wild to become wild monsters.

However, because most places where monsters are raised have a certain degree of defensive force, it is not as safe as in places like Eternal Night Ridge and Crater to get demon corpses here.

At this time, the abnormal situation in the city was probably caused by the demons here destroying valuable items in the city and killing some captive monsters.

On the one hand, it allows his soldiers to feast on blood, but on the other hand, he probably doesn't want the enemy to gain experience and flesh and blood from those monsters.

Thursday's huge body like a ray floated above the fortress. It was probably the fundamental reason why the demons in the fortress shouted surrender. Mu Hua stood on Thursday, looking down from a high place, observing the situation in the fortress, secretly unhappy. Capturing the courtyard is not a game of world destruction. If it is not necessary, humans will not randomly throw magic that is more destructive to nature.

The monster leaders in the courtyard also like to play tug-of-war with humans, so no matter whether they are humans or monsters, some powerful spellcasters are often positioned as the finale and deterrent, and generally will not easily come out to start a big move.

"Blast them for me." Mu Hua said in annoyance, stomping on Thursday's body.

"Buzz~!" The magic circle was slowly drawn, and the huge magic circle attracted the surrounding magic power to surge. When the giant beast was brewing magic, the terror riders running on the ground gathered in front of the city tacitly.

"Buzz~!" The aurora shot out. It took Thursday longer to brew the aurora than the conventional casting of this magic. However, the aurora was tens of meters in diameter. Even if Mu Hua was the one to cast it, it would probably take no less time than Thursday to cast the spell to produce such intensity.

"Boom~!" The demons in the fort seemed to still be shouting something, but unfortunately the aurora had already swept to the top of the city, and the high-energy charged particles condensed into a beam of light that seemed to cut the earth.

The lightning concealed the high temperature of the flames, and under the continuous impact of the aurora, the defensive magic covering the city collapsed.

A gap equivalent to the aurora was swept out in the vertical direction of the walled city. The gap with the color of lava was like a wide and straight road, a scorched road that destroyed the walled city and extended for thousands of meters behind the walled city.

Atonement? I have built a strong defense and cleared the countryside, so what is the point of talking about atonement?

In the war between monsters and humans, there is indeed the concept of redemption money. Some monsters do not want to lose the projection sacrifice after death, so they will pay redemption money slightly lower than the value of the sacrifice to buy their lives.

Because this situation often occurs when the battle between humans and monsters has not officially begun, monsters save money, and humans do not need to consider battle losses and casualties. Both sides make a profit, which is not unacceptable.

Unfortunately, Mu Hua didn't come here to take advantage of the situation this time. They came here to occupy the place. Not to mention killing all the monsters here, at least they wanted to kill them and make them lie down in the Bloody Hills.

The damage to the environment caused by Thursday's aurora was not small. Unless special treatment is given to the "road" swept by it, it is estimated that the strata will not be able to recover within a hundred years.

However, it is the early stage of regional attack and a full-scale war is about to break out, which will inevitably cause some damage to the land. The so-called trying one's best is more of a good idea. After all, Mu Hua is not that meticulous. If it doesn't work, just let the tree herders come to take care of the land.

The city defenses were breached, and the skeleton mages, whose size had increased several times compared to those in the early years, responded by launching a magical attack on the city.

War horses roared, and the headless knight brandished swords and spears as he rushed into the castle. The rear of the castle, which had formed a defensive area by taking advantage of the terrain, was met with a bloody massacre by the headless knight.

The headless knights are not Mu Hua's original summoned beasts. They are Mu Hua's derived followers, who can grow and can be purchased with krypton gold. All of them are engraved with the Mark of Corpse Accumulation, and are stronger than those summoned terror knights.

When they have the potential to grow, these headless knights may truly live up to their title of "Terrible Knights".

The headless knight charged in the front, followed by a large number of summoned beasts driven by monsters. These monsters were Thursday's followers. Although they could not approach the abyss, they would be Thursday's guards if Thursday was in the outside world.

The attributes of these monsters are generally stuck at the upper limit of two thousand, which is caused by the forced summoning orbs. Mu Hua basically did not train them and just let them grow naturally.

With a number of less than twenty, Thursday can control them all. Although he did not get the followers with attributes comparable to Thursday's as Mu Hua imagined, the monsters with two thousand attributes are probably not weaker than the demon generals in the courtyard, and they still have strong combat power.

Their numbers make up for their physical shortcomings to a certain extent, and they are qualified as Thursday's guards.

However, judging from the current battle, their summoned beasts are generally weak cannon fodder, basically low- and mid-level monsters that are not worthy of being on the stage.

They don't have powerful summoned beasts? No, their attributes are already 2,000, what summoned beasts are they still going to bring? All their powerful summoned beasts were given away at Mu Hua's request.

In fact, Thursday's family members originally included more than a dozen of them. What about the others?
Well, since those guys had some really outstanding summoned beasts, Mu Hua introduced his own Burning Source Furnace to them.

Poked and melted. First give the summoned beast away, then poked and melted it.

And it was precisely because of them that Mu Hua discovered that it seemed worthwhile to give the Forced Summoning Orb to Si Tzu and let it bring back some monsters. . .

(End of this chapter)