Chapter 276: Time to spill the beans? (1/2)

Chapter 276: Time to spill the beans?

“Halt! Identify yourself”

“It’soutside of the wall, didn’t you hear the city bell?”

“I was a bit busy… can you open the gate? The city Lord wants to speak with me”

Roland had arrived at Albrook, the usual road that was filled with ates were closed The first thing he noticed when getting closer was the piles of white bones everywhere There were no soldiers patrolling outside which could have been due to his direct e to Arthur about the existence of tier 3 monsters outside

It looked like so piled up in several locations The monster materials could still be used so it was understandable to take this in to pay for the daate were riddled with claw ers They had cleary tried to scale the walls but had been unsuccessful

‘The turrets need a bit of servicing’

These defensive structures that fired off concentrated h to contend with a few hours of continued assault but if it started taking days or weeks they would becoed to function This could of course be alleviated by building the a runesed runic traces This would probably fall to hian this job he needed to visit the Lord

“Open the gate!”

The guard went away for a rant hiate here consisted of two slabs ofhe could hear thewhich probably rease

They left hi theh alert and when he was on the inside all eyes were on hiical bombs onto his head In his world, they used hot oil or soical traps, they could just thron soical scrolls instead

‘They turned on the divine scanner’

When walking through he felt the flow of divine mana in this place He was the one that ies they would not be concentrated enough to kill a tier 2 skeleton These were only enough to affect tiny creatures like the abyssal worms but for more powerful undead some more juice would be needed

At the end of the road, there was a ate that needed to be hoisted up The sharp bolts it wasinto the earth and would be the last part of the defense The spaces between this gate were great for poking spears through but this approach would be less effective against skeletal monsters Instead, it would be more hile to have a priest cast so copious amounts of holy water on them could also do the trick

“Wayland, the Lord will see you now”

When on the other side he was greeted by one of the knights that the city lord arrived with Norether but this tireeted him The other one could have been either at Arthur’s side or perhaps he was giving orders to the soldiers This city was a bit understaffed and this ht academy just like his brother did He ated to the 5th son with no actual power

He noticed quickly that they weren’t going to the uard tower This one was situated on the other end of the city in the southwest corner The construction of this one had been finished first while the three others that made up the four corners of Albrook haven’t quite been done

The northern gate was the one that he usually went through and the one that he arrived through today On the sides were two large towers and the walls stretched out to them and towards the south Albrook didn’t have any natural defenses like large e bodies of water It had to be sealed up frouard towers

These weren’t just h space in theuards to live in and one of thenated prison for some special prisoners Then another one had a whole armory that had not yet been assembled This was the southeastern one where he also visited to deliver sooods Probably if he didn’t have his oorkshop then this would be his place of e up with Arthur Valerian

Further south past the gate was Arthurs'swalled up from all sides In the future, it would be turned into a proper castle or perhaps a full-fledged fortress where the lord could reside For the ti it was actually better for hiuard tower that had better defenses

‘They really did clean out the place, the roads are all eh the streets he could see people peeking out fro Most of the people there were either city guards or adventurers The former were probably forcefully conscripted by the noble Closing down the city like this wouldn’t allow them to just leave While they wouldn’t be directly forced to defend the citizens they could be given deuild if they were of silver rank and up

Though norh to interest the adventurers in the city defense They were all going against uild was uild members just fled at a point like this

‘I bet they are foreon but first, they’ll wait for the backup to arrive fro will that take?’

What they didn’t knohat the Lich was up to The dungeon break had happened but it went against the old records What usually happened was a burst of monsters with no end to them Thethey saw, they didn’t just send a forward force and then go back to their dungeon

This was indeed a unique occurrence that neededinto and he kind of knehy this actually happened On the surface, it looked like a dungeon break but it wasn’t one Instead, oneup an areon the better The more they waited the more skeletal monsters would be created

‘But if that Lich stays in the dungeon then it’s better to wait for the platinu as the city can defend itself it will be better to wait it out’

He was not sure what to do, there were a feays of taking care of this situation but they would need a large force and the help of the guild master to lead them Roland would probably need to join the early coical canon and array of spells were capable of killing the tier 3 hter would he have enough tie up

“Please follow uard tower He had never been to this place that had been built from scratch It was a bit over thirty uard captain's quarters From the outside, a person could see tinted s on the top floor and that area here he was going

During his walk, he also arrived at the e wall Each other tower could be traveled on foot when following the walls and had an iron gate that could be lowered to block the path as well When he arrived on the top floor there was a small ladder that led to a lookout spot and another closed door that had Arthur’s other knight guarding it

‘I guess this is it…’

The buildup of butterflies in his sto to bother him but with the help of his stress resistance skill, it was eable Theclean about the Lich wasn’t the best idea It was likely that everyone would point their fingers at hiet over to the other dungeon He was partially responsible for the whole debacle, if the reigning city lord decided that all the responsibility lay on his shoulders, then getting thrown in prison or to the galloould be his fate

“Excuse me”