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After the main force of the orcs was slaughtered, all the surviving orcs retreated back to the northern hills, and this almost half-destroyed and dilapidated fortress was naturally snatched back by humans.

The fortress is divided into three levels, and is named after the founder of the fortress, the first general stationed in the fortress, and later the founding emperor of the Ji'an Empire, Anthony Maregian, from the outside to the miles, respectively, 'Antony's Gate', 'Antony's Shield' and 'Antony's Sigh'.

Although the Rock Gate Fortress is the only barrier for mankind, in fact, because the high-level human beings in modern times have gradually become decayed and faint because of their comfortable lives, even if there is an agreement of the ancestors to guard this place, in fact, except for some thorny motley armies, other countries will basically not send any decent troops to help garrison them, especially now that the danger of orcs has almost been eliminated.

The only thing to be thankful for is that because the Ji'an Empire needs to guard the gate of the Eastern Plains, and the national territory is not large, even comparable to some principalities of the most powerful empire, the Horngolat Empire, the vast majority of countries don't want to get into such trouble because of such a big place, so there are almost no external worries in the east of the Ji'an Empire, and the hard life close to the northern hills and the perennial conquest with the orcs have also led to the country's extraordinary unity- You must know that almost every generation of the royal family of the Ji'an Empire has a prince who died in the battle of the Yanfen Fortress, and this kind of situation of living and dying with soldiers is almost impossible in other empires, and even if the princes of the vast majority of empires die, they generally die either from terminal illness or from dirty court struggles.

It is precisely because of this that the royal family of the Ji'an Empire is widely supported by the people.

Because of the lack of troops, the garrison of the Ji'an Empire for the Yanmen Fortress naturally cannot be compared with the heyday of the empire.

Only behind the 'Anthony's Sigh' are the elite forces of the Ji'an Empire, and the current fourth prince of the Ji'an Empire, Fao Maregian, leads an elite guard of more than 2,500 people stationed here.

Behind the 'Anthony Shield' are the motley troops sent by various countries, although they generally do not obey discipline, but under the threat of the life of the spears of the strongest army of the Ji'an Empire in the rear, they can only be obediently stationed there.

But they were lucky, and the most unfortunate were the mercenaries, slaves, or some other messy stragglers behind the 'Anthony's Gate' in the outermost layer of the Rock Fortress.

Combined, these three levels of soldiers are the famous 'border guards' in the Eastern Plains.

Regardless of the rest, in terms of equipment alone, there is a considerable gap between these stragglers and the soldiers of the Ji'an Empire - the soldiers of the Ji'an Empire have a simple cuirass made of all steel, and the cage hands and shoulder armor are also full of materials, wearing a red and blue uniform woven of Minnie Mouse gauze, and the helmet covered on the head is not only excellent in protection, but also decorated with the long tail feathers of the peacock, which looks majestic and full of spirit; On the other hand, the miscellaneous fish behind Anthony's Gate were just dressed in ordinary linen clothes, and even some people just took three holes in the bag of flour and put a set of clothes on themselves, and everyone looked dirty......

Not to mention the weapons aspect.

Every soldier in the Ji'an Empire had a long sword made of stainless steel, a talisman short sword, a spear, and even a throwing knife in his boot that could be used as a dagger. Some soldiers of special classes are equipped with special equipment, such as a large iron shield that is one person high, a war hammer that is almost thickened with a mace, and a lock claw that can climb walls and hook people.

The stragglers, on the other hand, were more likely to carry sticks tied to stones, or some other similar 'weapon', which at first glance looked as if they were still in the Stone Age...... Occasionally, one or two with daggers would be the envy of the others, and only those wandering mercenaries who had made up their minds to make a difference would use better weapons.

To put it bluntly, almost all the people behind Anthony's Gate are cannon fodder.

However, not everyone behind Anthony's Gate looks like this, and there are occasional exceptions.

Take Jonia, for example.

He used to be a knight's squire, but then the knight accidentally fell off his horse in a jealous battle between the lords, and was trampled into meat by a group of mud legs, and the knight's family thought that Jonia, as a squire, did not protect the knight and wanted him to be buried.

Fortunately, the lord of that place was quite merciful, and after learning about this, he let Jonia act as a member of the cannon fodder sent to the Ji'an Empire, so that he would not be killed by a group of helpless women and children because of the dignity of knights (even knight squires have pride in this), and he would be ruined after death.

Because of this, Jonia is one of the few people behind Anthony's Gate who has a full set of equipment no less than that of the soldiers of the Ji'an Empire.

Although he hasn't been on the battlefield many times, as an experienced person, even if he has only been on the battlefield once, he is far better than ninety percent of cannon fodder - what is even more worthy of the respect of those cannon fodder is that Joniah is one of the few survivors after the last time the orcs breached the rock fortress!

"Veron, you're reading that book again."

Jonia said to the boy not far away as she wiped her sword with a not-so-clean linen cloth.

Veren is the child he picked up after the previous battle at Rock Fortress.

According to Veron, he is also one of the cannon fodder behind Anthony's Gate, and he just entered the industry not long before the orc invasion, but he didn't expect to be seriously injured due to the orc invasion not long after entering the industry.

Fortunately, it was picked up by Jonia, otherwise this kind of orphan would generally have only died after being so seriously injured.

It is worth mentioning that Jonia himself did not have any savings, so after picking up Veron, he did not have the money to hire a priest or doctor for Veron, and once thought that Veron would die if he couldn't survive, but he didn't expect Velen to come back to life.

The book that Wei Lun was reading was a notebook with a black cover and no title, and it was written in two different handwritings, one of which was Wei Lun's own handwriting, but the other was unknown.

Jonia had studied writing with his knight master for a period of time, but unfortunately because Jonia had no talent in that area, his short period of study did not allow him to master much writing, and he could only read and write some relatively simple words now, and the words in that notebook were out of his knowledge, almost to the extent that he couldn't understand a word......

"Uncle Jonia...... I'm just waiting......" Velen gave Jonia a stiff smile.

Jonia was relieved: although the smile was still ugly, it was a far improvement from the dead face that seemed to have no hope in life at the beginning.

"Waiting for the book to come out of nowhere?" Jonia sighed: "Don't joke about Veron, how is this kind of thing possible, it's better for you to be realistic." ”

It wasn't the first time he had said this to Velon, but every time Velen seemed a little stubborn at such times.

Jonia had read that notebook too, and almost every page was full of words.

Only the last page was still empty, white and bright, and not a word had been written.

Jonia had seen several times that Veron wanted to write on it, but hesitated for a long time and didn't write anything.

"If you want to talk about me, this book may be a demonic creation, you may have been deceived by this thing!" Jonia babbled: "Next time I have the chance, I will definitely take you to the church to exorcise evil spirits......"

For Jonia's chattering appearance, Veron did not show an impatient look, closed the notebook, but showed some nostalgia.

Once upon a time, his parents also nagged him like this...... Pity......

Thinking of this, his originally calm and waveless mind fluctuated a little, and then came a feeling of emptiness that made him a little unbearable—as if something had hollowed out his heart.

"Hey, Veron, are you alright?" Seeing that Velen's face turned pale, as if he was going to faint at any time, Jonia couldn't help but ask a little anxiously.

Although the relationship has not really been established, but the middle-aged Jonia has long regarded Veron as his son and nephew, and Velen also respects Jonia, although they have not been together for a long time, but there has already been a tacit understanding between the two, maybe the so-called fate is this feeling.

"It's okay, Uncle Jonia, I'm just a little dizzy as usual." Wei Lun calmed down and replied.

Ever since the end of the last orc invasion war, I've been suffering from this strange illness, and I don't know what's going on.

Glancing at his notebook, he had been writing down everything in detail since he had joined the Frontier Guards, sometimes responding to them and occasionally teaching him simple magic that had allowed Veron to survive the last time the orcs breached the Rock Fortress.

But as time passed, the other party's answers became shorter and shorter, and the interval between answers became longer and longer, which made Wei Lun even a little worried about whether the other party had forgotten about him.

But that's fine. After all, the other side is now a great magician who is famous for all mankind, and he is just an insignificant little shrimp that the other party has encountered in the training, and even vainly trying to hurt the other party with the artifact left by his predecessors, it is not unacceptable that he will be forgotten by the other party......

If he had been more sensible and mature at that time, if he had been able to become his student at that time, maybe everything would be different today, right?

Occasionally, Veron would think the same way.

"Don't think about it anymore, Wei Lun, you go and rest first."

Jonia stroked Velon's head and whispered.

"But today is my night shift......" replied Vilun in a whisper.

"It's okay, just let the others rest a little," Jonia patted the long sword that had been inserted back into his waist, and used the sword to make him agree if the other party disagreed, "Besides, the power of the orcs has been weakened by the strength of that Lord Sivi Edric, and there is no strength left to invade here." Even if you're a little lazy, no one will show up, I promise! ”

"Then trouble Uncle Jonia."

Wei Lun originally wanted to be strong, but the strange feeling of emptiness made him a little dizzy, and he couldn't even stand on his feet, so naturally he couldn't keep vigil.

In this way, instead of grinding foreign workers over there, it is indeed better to take a break with other people.

It was night, and Velen suddenly opened his eyes.

It was still dark outside the tent, but because he had slept enough, Velon's current mood was not sleepy.

"Let's go to the bathroom......"

After standing up and slowly walking out of the tent, Wei Lun subconsciously felt a sense of disobedience.

Looking up, there was nothing wrong with it—the torch of the watchtower on the city wall was blazing, and the two soldiers on night duty were standing on it meticulously, and the patrol did not relax, even when they saw themselves coming out to go to the toilet, they were only allowed to go after a little interrogation.

The next moment, Velen suddenly realized where the sense of disobedience he felt came from.

He jerked his head up and looked again at the watchtower of the city wall.

The two soldiers above were still standing straight, as if they were scanning the pitch-black world closely.

If this kind of scene is put behind Anthony's sigh, those elite soldiers of the Ji'an Empire may be normal, but this is Anthony's Gate! The soldiers here are cannon fodder who can't even master military knowledge!

Almost the vast majority of cannon fodder are living a passable life, thinking about mixing until the end of their service years, getting some money or land to live comfortably.

And how can a person who can get by be so motionless on the watchtower, checking the situation outside?

It happened that the leader of the patrol at this time was Jonia, so Wei Lun hurriedly ran to his side and whispered to the other party what he had noticed.

Jonia immediately understood that something was wrong.

"You two, go to the watchtower!" So he waved his hand and said to the soldiers of the two patrol teams.

The two soldiers didn't hear Veron's words, but they carried out the order for some reason and ran to the watchtower together.

After a short while, they returned.

However, seeing their appearance, Wei Lun frowned again.

Although that strange illness made Vilon's body much worse than before, it seemed to give Veren a powerful ability to observe and perceive.

Almost subconsciously, he sensed that something was not quite right with the two soldiers who had returned.

Although at first glance it seemed that nothing had changed, Wei Lun always felt that their movements were as if something was moving in the leather cases of the two soldiers, full of a strange sense of disobedience.

So Wei Lun quietly moved to the side, going around to the place behind the two of them.

"No, don't let them come close!"

The next moment, Velen understood why something was wrong with him—on the back of the necks of those two people, there was something like a mushroom growing on it.

Almost as soon as he gave his warning, both soldiers suddenly opened their mouths and spewed out-yellow smoke.

If you look closely, you can see that the smoke is actually made up of tiny particles of goose yellow.

Jonia, who had already been prepared, slapped the two people away with a sword, and then casually dragged the soldiers around him out of the range of the yellow mist.

"The Flame Star Formation has added the Flame Star Martyrdom!"

As soon as Wei Lun raised his hand, a series of fireballs the size of Buddha beads flew out and exploded on the two of them.

But it was too late, and the two men had already developed lesions - their bodies had turned brown in a visible degree, and something resembling branches had grown all over their bodies, and they had begun to keratinize, and finally their entire bodies were covered with a thick layer of cuticles, which looked like they had grown into tree people, and they were not very afraid of fire, and they had become extremely terrifying in terms of appearance.

Then, a cough was heard from the city walls.

Yellow soot began to fall from the sky.

"Retreat, everyone give me all the retreat to Antony's shield! Wake up the sleeping idiots on the way! ”

Jonia immediately understood that this place could no longer be held, and immediately shouted loudly.

The yellow smoke and dust were quite astonishing in their ability to spread the strange symptoms of the tree humanization, and it didn't take long for several people to be hit.

Fortunately, both Velen and Jonia are fine.

In fact, if it weren't for the half-magician of Wei Lun, the losses of the cannon fodder would be much greater than now.

"What the hell is going on with this horse!" Jonia also took the lead in standing in the way, trying not to be infected by that symptom while fending off the attack of the Tree Humanized Soldiers.

He slashed a humanized soldier who was about to attack Wei Lun with a single sword, and although he couldn't cut the opponent, the force on the long sword had already knocked the opponent out.

"This is not a normal situation, I'm afraid something happened to the orcs......"

Velons took the opportunity to catch his breath and replied with sweat on his forehead.

"I'll just ask one thing...... Veron, do you think Anthony's shield can hold against this kind of ghostly attack? ”

Even if Jonia was in the prime of life, this continuous battle had caused great pressure on his physical exertion, and he couldn't help but ask Velon.

"If you are prepared, you can probably hold it for three days, right?"

Veren watched as he watched as the number of enemies around him grew - each fallen soldier created a new one.

"Tsk, how can you be prepared in the face of such a ghost!" Jonia snorted on the ground, and then broke through with Velon: "There's no way, let's withdraw!" ”

Velun was also a little frustrated: "Can't we do anything......"

"I'm sorry, my child." Jonia also sighed: "It seems that the life of human beings who have managed to be a little calmer will soon be broken again......"

“……！”

Hearing him say this, Wei Lun's eyes suddenly lit up, he took out the notebook and a graphite pen he carried with him, turned to the last blank page, and began to write quickly.

To the great Dean, Sivi Edric—I think we're in trouble, a great trouble that is dangerous for all of humanity...... (To be continued.) )