Chapter 20: The Great War Is Approaching

A few days ago, the military of Longji City had made it clear that due to the rampant spirit beasts in the Longji Mountain Range recently, all mercenaries or adventurers who hunted spirit beasts for a living were prohibited from entering the Dragon Back Mountain Range, otherwise they would bear all the consequences. However, even though the military has issued a ban www.biquge.info, there are still some brave people who form a team and secretly go out through some dark market sales tunnels to try their luck on the outskirts of the Dragon's Back Mountains. Because after all, these people are all men who live on the edge of the knife, how can they be timid because of some changes. However, for all this, the military of Dragonspine City seemed to have heard of it, and let them go. Because in this way, without damaging a single soldier, they can probe the reactions of the spirit beasts of the Longji Mountain Range, so why not do it for the military. What's more, these secret channels were secretly disseminated by the military after they were disguised. And sell the secret passage out of the city in the direction of the Dragonspine Mountains to those mercenaries or adventurers who want to try their luck on the outskirts of the Dragonspine Mountains at the price of one gold coin per person per time. For mercenaries who can only be allocated a maximum of 3 gold coins for a single hunt, it is also a lot of money.

But within three days, there were already sporadic adventurers and mercenaries who began to frantically flee back to Longji City from the periphery of the Dragonspine Mountain Range. And these people who escaped back were all wounded, and there were even mercenaries who fell to the ground and cried after entering Dragonspine City. This made Dragon's Back City, which had already begun to panic, be overshadowed by this tragic situation, causing more undecided people to begin to move out of Dragon's Back City.

In the conference hall of Benlei Mansion, several commanders of the military were analyzing the latest current information, and looking at the sand table in front of them to discuss countermeasures from time to time.

"I feel that for this situation, in addition to ensuring sufficient equipment and supplies, we must also send more investigators out to investigate the movements of the Longji Mountains at all times. There is also to figure out what caused such a large scale of spirit beasts to gather here this time, if you don't know this, I'm afraid this war will be very hard, only by knowing the reason and attacking its weaknesses can we minimize the losses on our side. Listening to the sound's father, Scud Jace, who was also the chief of staff of Dragonspine City, said to the other commanders present.

"Well, that's what I thought, too. So when I first received the report, someone was sent to investigate. At first, I thought it was something that happened in the Dragonspine Mountain Range on the side of the Blue Beast Empire, which caused the spirit beasts over there to suddenly gather. However, according to the intelligence of the past few days, the many spirit beasts that gathered did not panic or riot, and they gathered in a very orderly manner towards the inner perimeter of the Longji Mountain Range. Therefore, it can be inferred that there have been no serious changes in the spirit beast mountain range on the side of the Blue Beast Empire or the expulsion of high-level spirit beasts. Lisa's father, General Ben Lei, also expressed his opinion on this moment.

At this time, a personal soldier came to the door of the council hall with a mercenary who had been wounded, and said loudly, "General Qiqi and the commanders, people have been brought and are waiting outside the door at this time." ”

After hearing the voice, several leaders in the council hall stopped their discussion and looked at the comer.

"Well, bring someone in." Chief of the General Staff Skaud said.

"Yes, sir." The guard led the mercenary into the hall and retreated.

The mercenary who was brought in looked to be about forty years old, with a burly build, with short fiery red hair and light red eyes, and a crimson beard growing straight out of his face. However, from the dirty appearance of his hair and beard, it can be seen that this person is now a little embarrassed. The right arm was bandaged and hung on his chest, and the wrist of his left hand was also wrapped with a bandage, but the bandage on the wrist was no longer white, but a dark red that had dried, and the man's left hand was gone. It can be seen from the blood stains about 20 centimeters long oozing from the abdominal bandage that the person's abdomen has also been severely injured.

"Villain Tosyan, please be happy to all the adults." The mercenary named Tosyan looked at the people in the hall a little nervously, and said after thinking for a moment.

"Hahaha, this friend, don't be nervous, we invited you here today, just to ask you a few questions." Scudder said as he looked at the mercenary.

"Yes, my lord, please ask." Tosyan replied respectfully.

"We want to know what happened to your team after they left the city and went to the Dragonspine Mountains, and we hope you can tell us more carefully." Scudder said, then glanced at Tosyan, who suddenly became a little nervous, and said, "Of course, we just want to ask you to come over this time to find out how the spirit beasts in the Dragonspine Mountain Range have been doing recently, and how you got your injuries. It's not about asking you how you got out of town, so you don't have to be nervous. ”

I heard that someone had already picked out the reason for calling him to the military center, so I was no longer very nervous.

According to the Torthian mercenary, it was learned that their squad consisted of 6 martial artists and 2 elemental mages. Everyone was on the periphery of the Dragonspine Mountain Range, and they turned around for nearly three days in a row, during which they did not encounter any spirit beasts, as if the spirit beasts on the periphery had disappeared out of thin air.

The captain of the squad felt that the situation was a little bad at that time, and did not venture into the inner perimeter when there was nothing to gain from the periphery like other squads he had encountered, but prepared to rush back to Dragonspine City overnight. At this moment, a piece of wind and sand suddenly blew, accompanied by several arm-thick lightning bolts. After they woke up from the sudden change, they found that only five members of the team had survived, and they also found that they had been surrounded by a group of spirit beasts. They didn't even know how the spirit beast appeared in front of them, and it was able to approach them silently, and it was only after they had surrounded them that they were discovered. Of the remaining five, only the captain was largely unharmed, while the other three members of the team were slightly injured.

Therefore, the five of them took advantage of the fact that there were no greater losses, and immediately started a desperate struggle with the spirit beasts that surrounded them, striving for the opportunity to break through on the first line.

When one of the spirit beasts was injured by the captain and fell to the ground, the five members of the team began to rush out together from the gap formed by the injured spirit beast. But when they rushed out, they didn't feel the pursuit of the spirit beasts behind them, as if they weren't worried that they would be able to escape from the Dragonspine Mountain Range at all.

They thought they had escaped, but they didn't expect to enter the wolf's den just after they got out of the tiger pit. When there was no kilometer distance to escape, he suddenly found that tens of thousands of spirit beasts were at the junction of the inner and outer periphery of the Longji Mountain Range, walking towards the periphery in a very orderly manner. When they saw these spirit beast army, they were immediately frightened, how spectacular the scene of tens of thousands of spirit beasts was. What's even more terrifying is that these spirit beasts seem to be arranging in a certain order, and maintaining this order, slowly moving towards the direction of Dragonspine City.

They knew that the attack on the city by spirit beasts in the Dragonspine Mountains after a few years was finally about to begin, but this time the number was several times higher than before.

Of course, this only made them stunned for a moment, and then they began to turn around and run in the direction of Dragonspine City. Before they could run 50 meters, a loud cry like thunder thunder sounded, resounding through the heavens and the earth, as if they were the kings of these spirit beasts, driving these spirit beasts to keep moving forward in formation.

When they heard this voice, they were instantly overwhelmed by the sound, causing them to feel dizzy. Just as Tothitis was in a state of confusion, a sharp pain came from his abdomen and pulled him back from his dizziness. At this time, among the remaining five team members, he was the only one still alive. Except for the team leader, who was bitten off half of his body by some kind of spirit beast, the remaining three people all burst to death. The ground was full of their internal organs and minced meat, and there were even several low-level spirit beasts gnawing on the internal organs on the ground.

After quickly covering the wound on his abdomen with his two hands, and using his mental power to maintain the wound as little as possible not to leak blood, he got up and ran in the opposite direction of the spirit beast army. He hadn't gone far when he heard a loud bang behind him. Looking back, I saw that the several earth-level spirit beasts that were still trying to gnaw on the internal organs on the ground just now had been slapped into a huge pit by a bear-shaped giant beast with a fierce aura, and it was a giant pit with its front paws, which was the heaven-level level 1 spirit beast giant power beast.

After seeing that it was a heaven-level spirit beast, Tuo Siyan instantly gave up using his spiritual power to maintain the wound on his abdomen, and instead used his spiritual power to activate the artificial yuan stone on his shoes and activate the escape skill.

Later, on the way back, he also encountered many high-level spirit beasts blocking and attacking. Although there were no more Heaven-level spirit beasts, it also caused Tuo Siyan to lose his left hand, and finally fled back to Dragonspine City.

After listening to the mercenary's account, the leaders in the hall fell silent. Only Scud sent the mercenary out with him and rewarded him with 5 gold coins as a token of appreciation for the information he had provided.

"Old fellows, everyone has already heard what the mercenary said. This spirit beast attack on the city was very unusual, and in terms of number alone, it was already 5 times the maximum time before. So I'll write a letter to the palace in a moment to explain the situation here. And everyone, I want you to spend two hours working on things at home. See you on the city wall in two hours. After General Benlei finished speaking, he walked firmly and forcefully towards the core of Benlei Mansion.

After hearing this, the other commanders were silent for a while, and then they all turned and left. Only Scudder glanced at the soldiers in the direction of the barracks as he left, and they were all beginning to line up as the rallying call sounded.

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