The reason Jiang Hao was curious was because he didn't know how precious energy crystals really were, or rather, he didn't fully appreciate their value.
Twenty-four hours ago, after the city lord of Jinling City sent 2 million players to Youyue Pass via a teleportation array, he couldn't wait to launch an attack on Youyue Pass.
After the gnolls shut down the teleportation array in the Eastern Kingdom, the city lord of Jinling City, in order to quickly send the remaining million-plus players to Youyue Pass, specially took out a small bag of rice grain energy crystals and mobilized all the airships of the four legions. Only then were all the players sent to the battlefield within 6 hours.
The tens of thousands of sows deduced that the Eastern Kingdom must have an energy crystal mine based on the messenger's statement that the attack had been launched four hours earlier, and also on the fact that he casually took out an energy crystal.
It wasn't that he was particularly clever, but rather that he had spent a long time in the Spirit Ruins and seen a lot of things. He then combined some similar cases he had seen before with his own observations and came up with this deduction.
The airship sped through the air, and after about twenty minutes, Jiang Hao saw a main road nestled among the mountains, densely packed with players. After flying for a while longer, Jiang Hao finally saw the Youyue Pass.
Above the Youyue Pass, which had been blasted into a sloping hill, jackal cannonballs were constantly being fired at the players on the Zhenyuan Legion's side. Jiang Hao was about to check the enemy situation above the Youyue Pass when the airship braked sharply and came to a stop at the Zhenyuan Legion's aerial dock.
The city lord of Jinling City had been waiting there for some time. Upon seeing Jiang Hao, he beamed with joy and stretched out his arms, intending to give Jiang Hao a bear hug. Fortunately, Jiang Hao was agile enough to dodge in time.
The city lord of Jinling City awkwardly touched his nose, but still said enthusiastically, "Oh my, my Jiang Legion Commander has finally arrived. How's it going? How many gold coins have you earned? Don't worry, wait until you've done me this little favor, then you can go back and keep going."
Tens of thousands of sows stepped forward and said, "We've earned enough gold coins. Enough talk, what's the situation now?"
The city lord of Jinling City had somehow offended tens of thousands of sows, but he was too lazy to bother with them. With a flick of his left hand, he shoved the sows aside and said, "Are you really done beating them? So fast! You must beat them up more, there will be many places where you need money later. After you help me with this, you should hurry up and go to the northern ice plains to build a city."
The city lord of Jinling pointed to the area above Youyue Pass and said, "The artillery fire up there is too intense. Could you help me take care of the jackalmen's giant cannons and crossbows?"
Jiang Hao spread his hands and said, "But you have to let me see what I need to solve, right?"
"I was careless, I was careless. Come on, come on, follow me."
Next to the aerial dock was a stone staircase. The city lord of Jinling City stepped up the staircase. Jiang Hao looked up along the staircase and saw a platform on a high cliff in the distance. He quickly moved and swayed a few times before arriving on the cliff platform.
Looking ahead, he saw that the terrain of the Youyue Empire was extremely high, level with the cliff he stood on. It must have been over a thousand meters higher than the Eastern Kingdoms. This was clearly a vast plateau!
The plateau was teeming with gnolls, each wielding a variety of weapons, standing ready to defend the slope blasted out of Jinling City. Judging by their strength, they were probably level 30 monsters, some of ordinary quality, others of black iron, bronze, and silver, but the higher the quality, the fewer in number.
Among them were cannons and crossbows, just like the ones Jiang Hao had seen on the city wall at Qiongfeng Pass!
Hundreds of giant cannons occasionally fired a few shells at the slope and the Zhenyuan Legion, causing the players below to retreat in disarray.
Fortunately, they weren't firing energy crystal projectiles; otherwise, even players with a three-star killing intent would probably have been blasted into oblivion.
Jiang Hao realized the difficulty of capturing Youyue Pass. The giant cannons of Jinling City simply couldn't bombard it, and even if the cannons were mounted on the spaceship, the effect would probably be minimal.
Unless you use energy crystal projectiles.
It's hard to imagine how many gnolls there are on the entire plateau, given that there are so many at just one pass. I guess the city lord of Jinling City took this into consideration, and after blasting a slope with energy crystal cannonballs, he was reluctant to use them again.
Although there are quite a few players with three-star Killing Heart and three-star King Warrior here, if they are sent out now, they will definitely be targeted by the enemy's giant cannons. In addition, with the countless gnolls above, it is likely that not only will the effect be minimal, but the combat power will also be lost for nothing.
After all, there are only about five or six thousand players with the three-star Killing Heart and King of Warriors titles. Although they can be resurrected after death, there is still a weakness penalty.
Good steel should be used where it's most needed.
Having realized this, Jiang Hao had grasped the key point: all he needed to do was eliminate those giant cannons.
Jiang Hao stretched out his left hand, about to make a loose grasp and use his self-created Dragon-Capturing Hand technique to pull a cannon over, when he suddenly remembered a sentence from the chairman of the Lingxu Management Committee whom he had never met.
"If you encounter difficulties in the future, think more about your staff."
Jiang Hao then took out his staff, his left hand forming a claw, and his right hand swung down with the staff. A four-meter-tall giant cannon suddenly appeared in his left hand, and at the same time, a jackal monster emerged from beneath the staff.
Jiang Hao casually tossed it aside, and with a whoosh, the giant cannon was flung far through the air before crashing down with a deafening roar into the Zhenyuan Legion's camp. The surrounding players and soldiers jumped in fright.
The gnoll under the staff was the leader of a gnoll squad, a level 35 Black Iron monster. With Jiang Hao's extremely high talent damage bonus, its already low health was instantly depleted, and then it went limp and fell into the canyon outside the cliff.
This startled the surrounding players again.
"Player detected defeating an elite boss of level or higher. The effect of the talent [Stunning Mercy] is enhanced, increasing damage by 100 points. Current true damage points."
"Player detected killing a target of level 20 or higher. The effect of the talent [Heart of Immortality] is enhanced, increasing all attributes by 1 point. Current increase in all attributes: "
The long-awaited system notification sound rang out, and Jiang Hao's body trembled as if he had heard the most beautiful music in the world.
The attribute bonus from the Immortal Heart is still far from 50 million. If I don't hurry up and fight monsters, I don't know when I'll be able to learn that god-level skill book in my arms.
So Jiang Hao didn't even bother to pull the cannon, and directly swung his staff at maximum speed towards the gnolls in front of him.
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