The victory in the Battle of Kurast Harbor marked a complete shift between the offensive and defensive positions of humans and hell in the rainforest, and with the help of the swarm and the reinforcements that arrived one after another, many of the previously destroyed surveillance posts in the rainforest were the first to be reclaimed.

The council then gave General Hodge the temporary role of Governor of the Harbor, and after accepting this responsibility, General Hodge's first order was to send troops to the ruins of Jikul, not far from the seaport of Kurast, turning the city, which had been abandoned a hundred years ago, into a legion camp for the army.

The brutality and danger of this siege was far beyond all expectations, and the two main legions defending the walls, the Demon Slayer Legion and the Council Guard Legion, were almost crippled in the battle.

Even the 2,000 Storm Valkyrie Guards from the Howorth Islands lost more than 600 men, and the Demon Slayer Legion and the Council Guard Legion lost a staggering 7,000 in battle.

This number is already half of the total number of the two major armies combined, and the losses are not insignificant.

So, despite the fact that the forces of Hell in Trivank were now at the bottom of the war, General Hodge was in no hurry to attack.

He issued several military orders in succession, asking those reinforcements from other countries to set up monitoring posts around Cui Vanke, and asked Xue Hua to send a swarm to gradually clear the remnants of the demon legion in the rainforest.

After accepting General Hodge's request, Xue Hua quickly began to gather all the swarm forces in the rainforest, and let the mother worms lead these troops to quickly sweep away the surrounding rainforest with Cui Vanke as the center.

At the same time, Zagara, the mother of the hives, is responsible for expanding the size of all the hidden nests in the rainforest, so that these nests form a tight network from all sides, and firmly encircle Trivank in the center.

At this point, the evil pact and the forces of Hell in Trivank are completely trapped in a lonely city, and in the absence of enough human corpses for sacrifice, even the demon god Mephisto cannot summon enough Hell Cultists to build a new Hell portal.

However, the Lord of Hate unexpectedly did not seem to be worried about this series of powerful military operations by the swarm and the humans, and since the fox wolf led the remnants of the demon legion to retreat into Trivank, this demon fortress has been completely and completely closed in all directions.

The Evil Pact managed to find a way to take advantage of the Gildebin, the protective relic of the Kurast Harbor, which enveloped the entire city with a powerful shield.

However, Mephisto, who was in the underground hatred prison of Trivank, had no intention of expanding the Divine Celestial Sphere to further strengthen the fortress's defenses.

On the contrary, this demon god also retracted all the protective power of the Divine Celestial Sphere back to the bottom of the Prison of Hatred, looking strange as if he was ready to close the city for a long time and keep himself from caring about the world.

No one knew what Mephisto was thinking, and even the fox wolf and the others who had retreated to Cui Vank were blocked from the prison of hatred by the power of the Divine Celestial Sphere.

From the moment they retreated into the city of Trivank, their Demon God had completely cut off all contact with them, and no matter how much they tried to contact it, they received no response.

The fox wolf had no choice but to use all the power at hand to defend the city of Trivank, but even with the addition of some of the remaining remnants of the demon army in the city, the number of legions that could fight in his hands was only less than 100,000.

Moreover, the total annihilation of the air force also made Cui Vanke's sky completely in the hands of the insect swarm, if it weren't for the power of Ji Debin to shield the detection of the monitoring king worm, I am afraid that all the defense arrangements and troop deployments in Cui Vanke City have already been thoroughly understood by the insect swarm.

After the swarm completed the deployment of the blockade line, the command of the front line of the Cui Vank battlefield was completely handed over to Zagala by Xue Hua, and he still had a series of to-do items to solve.

First of all, the first thing was the five jade statues that Omars had handed over to Torresander before.

The serpentine statue of the Plague Python lost all its power due to the Plague Python itself being slashed by the Thunder Beast and the Prowler.

Omars had left a message asking him to give these things to Kane, saying that Kane would know what they were for.

Kane hadn't come with them since he wasn't a combatant, so he kept the jade statues in his inventory.

However, with the Battle of the Harbor Defending ending in victory on the human side, Dika Kane the Wise finally arrived at the port of Kurast with the second convoy of supply ships that arrived.

When Xue Hua got the news, he immediately went to the port area to meet the old Hradik mage who had helped him a lot in Lu Gaoin, and handed him the five jade statues in his inventory.

"Ahh It is the ancestral totem of the dwarfs! I haven't seen these things in years since the entire dwarf clan was corrupted by Hell......"

In the harbor water district, in a hut specially arranged by Hodge for Xue Hua, after the two exchanged pleasantries, Kane took the white cloth package handed by Xue Hua and opened it, and then sighed.

"Are these things precious?" Xue Hua asked with some confusion.

He had all of them studied by the Star Spirit Phase Technician Kellers, the Swarm Evolution Master Abbathhar, and the new high-level Zerg, the Biological Environment Improvement Master, Zuzad, but none of them saw anything special about them.

Keles, who is highly knowledgeable in energy and matter tectonics, told him that these things seem to have strict requirements for the type of energy disturbance emitted by the user, and that the type of energy disturbance that they specify will not trigger the special power of these statues at all.

Therefore, Xue Hua once thought that unless these things were in the hands of the dwarfs, they were just a few good-looking but useless crafts for human beings, and the actual value was probably not as great as a bottle of rejuvenation elixir.

"Of course it's precious... But not ...... for us."

Kane nodded solemnly, then got up from his chair, walked over to the pile of books in the corner of the room covered with a tarpaulin, and pulled a large green tome from the pile with great skill.

On the cover of the book, a green dye is crookedly printed with several lingua franca words - "Ancient Rituals in the Rainforest".

Kane took the book and put it back in his chair, spread out the book with one hand and gently flipped through a few pages, then handed the book to Xue Hua, pointed to one of the passages and said to him: "Read this, you will understand the value of these statues. ”

"Forehead ......" Xue Hua frowned and fanned the front of his nose with his hand, the book exuded a strong and strange smell of herbs, and the edges of the parchment of the pages were mixed with dots of mildew.

This made him feel a little strange, given Kane's book-loving personality, the quality of this book should not be worse than this in any way.

However, out of trust in Kane's wisdom, he patiently read along with Kane's instructions......