Chapter 294: Untitled (3)
(Copy the top of the chapter, correct it the day after tomorrow)
More also needed to return to the stronghold to recuperate, and Unas said goodbye to the newly recruited little brother and returned to the front to supervise the construction of the fortifications. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After an afternoon's hard work, the dead, wounded, and booty were all transported back to the stronghold, and a foundation four meters wide and two meters high was laid next to the ice wall.
Unas's goal is to build a five- to six-meter-high earthen wall before the ice wall melts, and then to take a defensive position to defend against possible attacks by the spider swarm.
It was getting late, and the whole army was stationed in place under his orders, and the people who had fought and worked for a day soon fell asleep, Unas stood on the foundation of the earthen wall and looked up at the sky, the stars were shining tonight, and it seemed that tomorrow would be a good day, but I don't know if the spider swarm will make a comeback?
Unlike Unas's fears, the next three days were peaceful, although the sentinels sometimes spotted spiders snooping in the distance, but more than three of them never appeared, and the elven rangers went out over the wall to expel each other was the biggest military operation in the past few days.
According to the news brought back by the trolls, the Overlord Spider team led by him and Rosebine has been regarded as traitors, and is now the public enemy of the giant spiders, and will be besieged from time to time.
Fortunately, there were no enemies who could threaten the overlord spider for the time being, and Rose Byrne fought with war, and subdued three spiders who were not bad.
While fighting guerrillas, while expanding the team, this is the basic strategy of the final victory of the revolution, according to this route, Unas can sit back and relax, the only problem is that Rosebyne's mental power is only enough to subdue two ordinary giant spiders a day, and the more ferocious ones must fight until they are dying, so many opportunities are missed.
But this thing is like a snowball, it is difficult at first, the bigger the snowball, the easier it is, if Rose has a hundred giant spiders under her hands, she can walk sideways in the canyon.
Regarding how to quickly improve his spiritual power, Unas asked the spiritual master Fear Demon King, the demon gave a lot of evil methods, what abandoned physical restraints, sucked a large number of souls, etc., it was very inapplicable, and Unas would never use evil energy again in the short term.
In desperation, he could only ask Huoye for a mage's meditation notes, and let the troll pass it to Rose, although the mage's spiritual cultivation method is slow, but it is better to be stable and safe.
The ice wall melted to only half the original size, and the earthen wall more than five meters high stood behind it, of course, it is a bit exaggerated to say that the city wall is a bit of an exaggeration, and the mound of earth is more appropriate, and it still needs to be continuously reinforced, and the red stone tablet is transplanted to the center of the earthen wall, hoping that the giant spiders can understand that this is the new frontier.
Whitemayne came to her senses the next day, Natasha's methods were so powerful that she couldn't remember why she fainted, or because of the concussion sequelae of her head injury or the side effects of memory blockade, the silver-haired priestess became a little demented and fooled by Natasha's random lies.
Unas secretly applauded in his heart, hoping that she could slowly become a fool according to this trend, and honestly follow her as a military priest, and the healing ability of a high-level priest is still very valuable.
After the most dangerous three days had passed, and all the people who had come to the aid of the monastery had withdrawn, Erigor patted his chest and promised that he would make a big deal about the victory, and Una had no doubt about his propaganda skills, and that the bard would have a new subject and his fame would be even greater.
After confirming the benefits he deserved to Unas again, Duane also left with his apprentices and Fire Leaf, and the lease of the chief mage of the blood elves was the condition agreed to Duane at that time, and Unas could not shirk it.
Helen didn't follow them back to the monastery in the end, and the petite arcane advisor and other blood elf mages who had recovered their mana were transferred to the front line by Unas to guard the walls, and Count Garnis and several of his bodyguards followed, much to Unas's distress as to how to get rid of this annoying daughter.
In the next few days, nothing major happened, the reports brought back by the scouts were all safe, depending on the situation, the spiders would not attack again in the near future, the city wall was almost built, it was a waste for the whole army to defend here, and the stronghold also needed to be guarded by garrisons, so Unas transferred the alien army and the two human hundred-man teams back.
The transfer of foreign troops back is not to let them rest, the logging and mushroom hole digging are much less efficient, the fate of the captives is indeed tragic, the charge in wartime, and the hard work in peacetime, so oppressing their Unas can't help but produce a sense of guilt of the ruling class.
A week passed quickly, and Unas spent most of his time on the front line, his tent set up under an earthen wall, and he could get up and fight back as soon as the enemy attacked.
On this day, Pereira came to the door and urged him to transfer people to open the mine, and according to the original schedule, the first layer of the mushroom cave had been completed, just in time to free up a group of dwarves to dig crystal mines.
However, the first layer was not completed as planned, and a dwarf who made a mistake in the exploration data dug down a cave, and even blocked the passages in the other two directions, greatly delaying the construction period.
Pereira is not a person who messes around, but just asks Unas to give her another deadline, looking at the female elf's complaining eyes, Unas doesn't want to lie to her, "Shi Mei said that it is estimated that it will take another week, you probably heard him say it." ”
"Yes, but it's not just dwarves who can dig holes, now that the situation has stabilized, the new borders are very safe, and my rangers can go and mine."
The High Elf Ranger plays the role of scout in the army, and this time thanks to their prior reconnaissance, they were able to carry out targeted killings of spiders, which can be said to be a great achievement.
Most of the rangers are now sent out by Unas to spy on the enemy, which is a dangerous job, but for the time being, there is no one to replace them with the title of King of the Jungle.
The Ranger Captain actually wanted to withdraw them, but Unas could not agree, "I hope this is just your angry words, Pereira, no commander will accept such a stupid suggestion." ”
A moment of peace doesn't mean anything, and Unas doesn't believe that the spiders will honestly accept defeat, so reconnaissance is the first priority now, and knowing the enemy's movements can make a good defense.
Pereira's previous dedication to cooperate with the battle was because of Unas's promise, and the disappointment of the wish led to the gaffe just now, and she also knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly remedied: "It's okay to squeeze out some people from somewhere else, no matter how much you can dig, I hope to at least start construction." ”
Of course, Unas can be squeezed out, and it is no problem to draw a few sappers or prisoners of Silver Dawn, but mining is not a simple hard work, and it is easy to cause all kinds of accidents without the command of experts, and Pereira's request is just to ask for psychological comfort, this kind of inefficient thing Unas is very reluctant to do, but it is not good to hit the mood of the female elf.
In the midst of the distress, a sharp voice suddenly came from the distance, two little green-skinned monsters were arguing with the guards, and vaguely heard words such as "I want to see Lord Demon Slayer".
The goblin came to him just in time, and Unas didn't have to respond to Pereira's question immediately, he dropped the phrase "Let's go over and have a look" and walked towards the goblin.
The female elf reluctantly followed, Unas muttered in his heart as he walked, the goblins came to the door for nothing more than two things, begging for food or making explosives, I hope this time it's the latter.
When the guards who blocked the goblins saw the two adults coming, they hurriedly greeted them and saluted: "I've disturbed the discussion of the two adults, and my subordinates will immediately drive the two annoying goblins away." ”
"No, let them come," Unas said, "You can't discriminate against goblins because they're short, ugly, and noisy, we have to be good at accepting the opinions of any race." ”
The guards didn't dare to talk back, and retreated again and again to let the goblins goblin, and the lame goblin led by him quickly ran to the two of them, bowed deeply to Unas, and then screamed: "Congratulations on your great victory!" ”
Unas smiled and nodded, "General Manager Kraz, I haven't seen you for a few days, how are you and your employees doing?" ”
There was a light of surprise in Kraz's eyes, but he didn't expect the garrison to remember his name, Unas was indeed impressed by the lame goblin, and the general manager's business card was still in his bag.
"Thanks to the gifts of the adults, we can eat a few full meals, and there are no goblins starving to death." Kraz bowed again in thanks.
"So, how did I do with what I told you?"
"I'm here today to report to your lords," the goblin exclaimed exaggeratedly, "the explosives experiment has been a success!" ”
"Really? I want to see your experiments with my own eyes. "Unas doesn't trust this braggart profiteer, he wants to see is believing.
"Of course it's no problem, I'll be able to arrange it for the adults tomorrow," Kratz rubbed his hands, "It's just that we've already finished eating the food and want to ask the adults to ...... again"
"As long as your explosives are really useful, I will cancel all goblins from captivity, and Silver Dawn's food aid to the refugees will also be your share," Unas said sharply, "but if you dare to lie to me......"
"Don't dare," the goblin was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground, the name of the executioner paladin was not for fun, and there was an indescribable spiritual coercion that made it difficult for him to breathe, "I'll go back now and arrange a test explosion for the adults, and I will be ready before noon." ”
"Very well, then I'm here waiting for your good news." Threats are more useful than good words against these cunning guys.
The goblin flew away, and Pereira asked, "So you're asking them to make gunpowder, we don't have dwarven guns and cannons, and gunpowder is not very useful." ”
"It doesn't have to be used in warfare, for example, you have a mining problem, you can use explosives much faster than manpower."
Hearing this, Pereira's eyes lit up, and Unas added: "The premise is that there is enough power, in short, it depends on the situation first." ”
"I'd like to follow him to see it." The Ranger Captain seemed to feel that there was a lot to be done, and he eagerly asked the garrison officer for advice.
"Then I'll leave this matter to you, carefully observe their test explosion process for me, if the power is enough, the explosives they make can be used in mining first."
Pereira nodded and hurried after the goblin in the distance.
What a woman who listens to the wind and rain, Unas shook his head, in fact, he has always been suspicious of the goblins extracting explosives from the dung, and it would be good to have a female elf to supervise it, in case the goblins cheat just had an excuse to expel them.
As soon as he had lunch, Pereira came back with a happy face, and Unas knew that there was a play at a glance, and asked urgently: "How is it, how powerful is it?" ”
"It's very good, their daily output is enough to blow up a three-meter-deep hole in the general mountain wall, the general manager of that gram said that the larger the amount of concentration, the stronger the blasting power, I want to take them to the crystal cave to see, maybe they can blow up that crack, now only a dozen reluctant gnomes can go into mining, it's really inefficient."
With Pereira's shrewdness, he shouldn't be fooled by the goblins, the explosives seem to be really good, Unas thought about it and nodded in agreement, "Go ahead and do it, tell the goblins that if it is done well, I will immediately fulfill the promise to them." ”
"Thank you for your support." Pereira covered her heart and thanked her, turned her head and hurried away.
Unas watched her rapidly disappearing back, and another plan came to mind: if enough explosives could be stored to blow up the narrow bluerock mouth, it would be a huge sky pass that would split the spider in half.
However, it is too early to think about this, and the problem of the crystal mine must be solved first, Unas thought as he gathered the guards, and this afternoon he also had an important task - to welcome the visiting Tairossos himself.
His subordinates won the battle, and his boss came to inspect him, which was nothing more than a commendation, but Unas was a little uneasy, remembering that the one-eyed baron had given him a secret mission before taking office - to investigate the cause of Horia's death.
Although Unas knew the truth, he never reported it, because this matter was related to the kidnapped Emily, and Erimie was related to his prison escape, and the prison escape was related to the purchase of death row prisoners.
How to pass this level, so far he has not thought of a perfect statement, with a feeling of unease, Unas and his guards ride all the way to the mouth of the canyon to wait.
As soon as he arrived at the appointed time, a small group of people appeared on the mountain road in the direction of Yuanshan County, and Unas hurriedly beat his horse to meet him, only to see that the middle-aged man led by him was surrounded by several strong figures, and he also sped up to meet him.
The two sides met for a while at first, this time the person who followed Tairossos was very familiar even if he didn't know the name, they had all fought together in the Cheshui Lake, only a bald man in a blue robe was very strange, not like the person of Silver Dawn.
Eregor took the opportunity to introduce him: "This is Sir Thomas of the Headquarters, and the abbey will be entrusted by him after our expedition, and I have come to meet you this time. ”
This bald man looked like a very serious person, and his thick razor-like eyebrows made his face seem to be pregnant with murderous aura at all times, and when he saw that he was introduced, he barely raised the corners of his mouth and bowed slightly to Unas.
Unas returned the salute respectfully on the surface, and secretly said in his heart: The people in the headquarters have been entrusted with the important task of staying behind, and eighty percent of them have been controlled by Banazal, that is to say, they are "their own people".
He took everyone to the stronghold to inspect around, of course, the focus was on the mushroom hole that the dwarves were digging overtime, and everyone was very interested in the yellow banana mushroom, which is the best emergency food for a short-cycle and high-yield crop.
Sir Thomas immediately said that he wanted to send a group of people to learn the mushroom cultivation method, and Unas agreed without hesitation, free labor should not be in vain, and he never thought of keeping the mushroom cultivation secret, but hoped to spread it so that everyone could eat.
After rounding the colony, the group returned to the tent, and Terosus took the throne, praised Unas, and announced his commendation: the word "acting" was removed from the rank of acting garrison, and the rank was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant.
Sounding completely false, Unas boldly asked, "Lord Baron, is there a real reward?" What about the manpower or food for the support points, I promise you won't regret it, and soon the entire Spider Canyon will be the territory of Silver Dawn. ”
"Hehe, I'm sure you can do it, but I don't have any extra manpower and supplies in my hands," Tyrosus began to cry out, "Silver Dawn's first task now is to expedition to the Eastern Plague Lands, and in two days I will lead the army to set off, it's good that you have an enterprising heart, but it's your duty to hold this place firmly for now." ”
Unas completely disagrees with the guidance of his boss, offense is the best defense, and he won't stop killing monsters in order to upgrade, but it's not good to face to face, so he can only nod silently.
Seeing that his mood was a little low, Tairosos stood up and shouted, "Go!" Take us to the front lines, and by the way, see the new territory you've laid for us. ”
Unas wanted to excuse himself so that they could leave early, but anyway, the rewards were given, who has time to take you big men on an autumn tour? But Tairosos raised his eyebrows slightly, as if there was no other hint, and he had to nod his head in agreement.
As soon as the group left the stronghold, a loud noise was heard in the distance from the direction of the canyon, and a mount was frightened and almost threw its owner to the ground.
Unas soon as he heard it, he knew what was going on - the goblins were blowing up the mines, and he thought he would have to wait a few more days to stock up some explosives, but he didn't expect Pereira to be in such a hurry.
Looking at everyone's suspicious eyes, he hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, it's just normal construction!" ”
"What kind of construction would make such a big move?" Someone looked incredulous, "Let's go, take us to see." ”
Unas knew that he couldn't hide it, so he had no choice but to lead everyone to the mine, reporting the crystal mine and explosives to Tairossos along the way.
The one-eyed baron was not too surprised by the matter of the crystal mine, he must have received the news a long time ago, but the explosives slightly aroused his interest.
The mine was very close to the stronghold, and soon everyone saw the smoke billowing from the mountain wall not far away, and the rumbling sound was constantly coming from the mountain wall.
Everyone ran closer, and several rangers suddenly came down from the mountain wall, and the captain of the ranger was among them, and when they looked closely, they all carried one or two dirty goblins in their hands.
Unas stopped abruptly, and when the rangers landed, they asked in a loud voice, "Pereira, what's going on?" ”
"Get out of here, the farther away the better!" Pereira landed on the ground and took a step, rushing over and climbing onto the Guard's mount.
She also carried a goblin in her hand, and Unas looked back and saw that it was the general manager, Kraz, the little green-skinned monster with a frightened look on his face, and muttered, "Blow-up, blow-up"
Pereira urged behind her, "Hurry up!" ”
Unas didn't have time to ask, the continuous muffled sound in the mountain wall made people smell a dangerous breath, he turned his horse's head and shouted "retreat", Tairosos and the others were not stupid, they all realized that the momentum was not right, and they all turned around and ran out together.
Desperately fleeing far enough, the imaginary explosion of the mine did not happen, and everyone stopped in an open space to catch their breath, Pereira jumped off their horses with the goblins in her hand, and the other rangers jumped off their horses.
"What the hell is going on?" Unas frowned, the elves should be the ones who don't want anything to happen to the crystal mine, and he is so ugly in front of his boss.
Pereira slammed the goblin to the ground, and Kraz's shrill scream stung everyone's eardrums, "I've been tricked by this stinky goblin!" ”
It turned out that after the field investigation, the goblins had enough explosives to blow up the crack in the mine, but Kraz came up with a clever plan: to strengthen the power of the explosives with fire elemental crystals.
The fire element crystals that can be naturally formed in the mountains are relatively stable and generally do not explode automatically, but the mage can activate the energy in them to make the fire crystal extremely unstable, and then after the detonation of the goblin explosive, it is a strong explosive.
Eager to be moved by the goblin's words, Pereira ordered the mages in the clan to activate all the fire crystals that they had not had time to use, and handed them over to the goblins to combine into a dozen high-explosive bombs and lay them all the way down the gap.
Everything went according to plan, but the result was very different from what I imagined, after all the bombs made by the goblins were blown up, the explosions did not stop, and the explosions continued to be heard from the ground.
"This is likely to be a chain reaction caused by the explosion, the fierce fire elemental shock has also detonated the fire crystal in the depths of the gap, and now there is a powder keg below, and the explosion we hear is the fire crystal after it was ignited."
Pereira was extremely distressed, this was all the life-saving energy of the clan, because she was in such a hurry for quick success, which made her extremely self-reproachful, and of course, the abominable goblin on the ground, if he hadn't been constantly making noise in his ears, he wouldn't have been confused for a while.
Captain Ranger found the punching bag and wanted to step forward and kick him a few times, Unas saw her momentum and quickly reached out to stop it, now is not the time to blame each other, "How long will this chain explosion last, and what can we do to remedy it?" You can't just just do it. ”
"I don't know, we can't do anything," Pereira hugged her head, the first time she had seen her so gaffe, "If you're lucky, maybe you'll stop the next moment, bad luck... All the crystals will not stop until they have exploded, and there may be a big explosion in places where the crystals are dense! ”
The female elf's heart was completely disrupted, and Unas turned to the goblin: "General Manager Kraz, what is your opinion?" ”
The goblin staggered up from the ground, crying and spreading his hands, "I don't know what to do." ”
Damn it, if it weren't for the presence of the adults of Silver Dawn, Unas would have wanted to kick him a few times.
He had to turn his head to Tairosus and ask for help, "Is there anything you can do, Lord Baron?" ”
The one-eyed baron stroked the sapphire ring on his left index finger and said slowly: "The paladins can't deal with this kind of thing, so leave it to the mages to solve." ”
In the flash of blue light, a subtle and slightly warped phantom appeared in front of him, and everyone knew that it was Archmage Angela.
"Lord Tairosos, what summoned me?" The phantom bowed slightly, and was able to transmit the sound here.
"The problem is a bit complicated, I'm afraid I want you to come in person."
"My pleasure." The phantom leaned slightly, the blue light around him became more and more abundant, and the figure of the phantom became clearer and clearer, and after almost a minute, the light suddenly disappeared, and Archmage Angela stood alive in front of everyone.
Unas was envious in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup Tairossos had poured into Angela, and such a beautiful archmage was on call for him.
Before he even had time to say hello, Unas quickly told Angela in detail about the accident, and finally begged, "Please Miss Angela must help us." ”
"I feel that the fire elemental in the mountain is shaking very fiercely, don't worry," Angela waved her staff and shouted a few incantations, and three red humanoid lights and shadows appeared in front of everyone out of thin air, "Let my fire elemental go in and investigate first." ”
Although Angela is a water archmage, the small spells of the fire system can't make it difficult for her, the upper body of the fire element is a strong humanoid creature, the lower body has no legs, and a cloud of black smoke holds up the whole body and is suspended in the air one foot above the ground.
At Angela's command, the three Burning Men quickly moved towards the mine, and the mountain wall that was almost at right angles to the ground could not stop them, and soon disappeared into the smoke-filled cliff.
Angela waved her staff again, and a light blue water mirror appeared in front of everyone, and the picture in the mirror was shaking at high speed, which was the perspective of the fire element.
Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on the water mirror, and the light emitted by the fire elemental itself could make people see the cave looming in the thick smoke, and large and small gravel continued to fall from the top of the cave, each muffled sound would cause the picture to shake violently, and the mine was equivalent to a small earthquake.
The cracks in the stone on the ground were indeed widened, and the fire elementals entered one after another, and the gaps in the staggered teeth were the traces left by high-explosive shells, and after passing all the way down through the first wide section, the cracks in the ground suddenly became very narrow, and it seemed that even the dwarf goblins could not necessarily pass through.
Fortunately, elemental creatures do not have a fixed form, and the fire elemental is essentially a flame complex with a little intelligence, and no matter how narrow the terrain is, they can easily squeeze through.
Along the road, I saw a large crater that was blown out, and after walking down for more than a hundred meters, the momentum of the crack in the ground suddenly flattened, and a large amount of gravel was piled up here, leaving only a thigh-thick gap, from which a strong red light was transmitting.
Looking into the gap through the perspective of the fire element, I saw an empty hole filled with red light appear in front of me, countless red crystals hung on the walls of the cave around them, and five of them emitted light several times stronger than the others, there is no doubt that these are the crystals that are about to explode when they are activated.
(To be continued.) )