This terrible chase seemed to soon consume the small team, whether it was the knights from the royal capital, the soldiers who had been drafted, and the life that was picked up from the walls of Boulder City finally gradually approached the arms of death after a short delay - Mitchell looked at the distant scene through the observation port at the back of the carriage, and saw hundreds of crystal giants getting closer and closer, and the momentum of these huge humanoid creatures with a height of three meters even surpassed that of the royal knights, Their unleashing of arcane lightning spanned the battlefield and struck the chariot's shields......

In the distance, there were large patches of rising smoke, each of which signaled that a new wave of pursuers was rapidly approaching.

Then, a strange flash of light fell from the sky.

It was some kind of extremely fast flying object, barely able to catch a trace with the eyes of the transcendents, and it flew from the direction of the Gorgon River with a pale green shimmer, skimming over the hills and wilderness, and crashing into the smoke and dust in the distance.

In the next second, a terrible flash of explosion and an even more terrifying roar of thunder almost tore through the eardrums of Mitchell and the soldiers.

Countless shattered limbs and crystals were thrown into the sky in the flash of the explosion, and the terrifying shock wave even flattened all the surface bulges within a radius of nearly a hundred meters, and the earth trembled violently, even from such a distance, Mitchell could clearly see the shield outside the chariot with subtle ripples.

Immediately afterward, more flashes of light appeared in the sky, accompanied by some kind of sharp sound, and one after another fell in the distance.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The explosion of the earth collapse mountain rang out one after another, every flash, every explosion, it was as if a meteorite had fallen in the middle of the crystal cluster army, I don't know how many monsters turned into dust under this terrible attack, Mitchell could only be sure of one thing - the pursuit of the crystal cluster army was disintegrating.

The Cecil soldiers who were driving the vehicle and controlling the weapons obviously knew that this amazing "Skyfire" would appear, and they did not panic in the slightest, and at the same time as the first big explosion fell, the soldiers tacitly cooperated and entered the next stage of getting rid of the pursuit, and they began to use the weapons installed on the vehicle to sweep away the Crystal Giants, dropping a large number of explosive magic items called crystal grenades behind the vehicle, and began to move in the direction of the Gron River.

Throughout this process, Mitchell's greatest fear was that the attacks that fell from the sky would fall on his head - they were so powerful that Mr. Knight was sure that if even one attack landed next to the convoy, his corpse would be instantly distributed in a random area within a radius of 100 meters, but it turned out that his worries were unfounded: the attacks were apparently deliberately deliberately separated from the convoy, the most recent of which was hundreds of meters away.

Everything seems to have been rehearsed countless times.

Even the Crystal Giants, who were fearless of pain and lacked human feelings, would retreat under such an attack - the battle of pursuit and breakthrough finally ended with a beam of energy swept from the direction of the Gorgon River, and the terrifying beam cut through the battlefield, scorching the earth with a buzzing sound, and finally left a trench tens of meters wide and almost molten, and the Crystal Giants who were afraid of the heat had to retreat in all directions.

After that, there were no waves.

……

On the 35th of the month of recovery, the river warship "Trailblazer", which had gone to the north first, successfully completed the rendezvous with the advance team of the Steel Rangers, relying on the support of powerful naval guns, the Byron knights eliminated a group of crystal giants moving south from the Giant Wood Crossing, and then the fleet temporarily docked on the banks of the rich woodlands north of Pompeii, and after using the close defense artillery to open up a safe landing ground, the landing force and the Iron Ranger advance team established a base in the Lenburg area on the west side of the rich woodlands.

At the same time, the ground forces led by Gawain and Philip also advanced from the land to the rich woodlands, and after assisting the advance team to clear the remnants of the Crystal Cluster Corps on the periphery, the ground passage from the southern border to the war zone was opened, and at this point, the river and surface roads from the Rock Fortress to Lenburg were finally unobstructed, and the supply line was officially established.

The temporary fence with the "Iron Ambassador" as the node, connected by prefabricated concrete barricades and steel barricades, meanders near the riverbank, heavily armed soldiers keep an eye on the north from the sentry, a large number of reinforced tents and prefabricated houses are arranged in an orderly manner in the base, and vehicles transporting materials and personnel are constantly coming and going inside and outside this front-line base, sending weapons, equipment, and personnel supplies from the south to this place. Pollution samples collected from the front line and some of the rescued refugees were continuously sent to temporary laboratories and refugee camps in the rear.

Gawain and Amber drove smoothly into the base, and through the window on one side, they saw a half-collapsed castle not far away still emitting smoke and dust, and part of the castle's broken walls was connected to the walls of the base, and on the castle's uncollapsed structure, the towering crystal relay tower could be seen erected, and the signal gain device was slowly rotating under the drive of the mechanical platform, sweeping across the gray sky.

The half-collapsed castle is "Lenburg", the full name should be Rumbel-Krieburg, it is the royal family's direct fiefdom in the Whitsunday Plain, the castle and the entire surrounding rich woodland was once one of the important economic sources of the Moen family, although after the "Foggy Moon Civil Strife", the fortress and the surrounding territory were reduced due to destruction, but it is still the richest land in the southeast of the Whitsunday Plains.

But that was once and again.

By the time the troops arrived, the Crystal Cluster Contamination had spread into the fertile woodlands, and the lords here had most likely died on the battlefields in the north, leaving the knights and soldiers stationed at the castle to symbolically resist for several hours before scattering in all directions, and some of the civilians on the land were contaminated by the Crystal Clusters, and some fled into the nearby wasteland - in the process of establishing the landing ground, the Pioneer's shelling destroyed the lost castle and burned the polluted woodland, Now this rich area has become one of the symbols of this catastrophe, reminding visitors of the arrival of war with the crumbling walls and the smell of burnt burnt that still lingers in the air.

As the vehicle passed through the quarantine area on the east side of the base, across a row of fences, a dozen or so ragged civilians were staring wide-eyed at the "steel monsters" passing by, unkempt, and even a little frightened by the barbed wire fence on the fence, while not far behind them, more civilians were lining up under the command of soldiers to receive food and medicine—maintaining an order based on numbness.

Amber's gaze swept over the civilians waiting behind the fence to receive food and medicine, with sympathy on her face: "I'm afraid these people still don't know what happened......

"The knights in the castle fled without saying anything, leaving the whole area behind," Gawain said, "Philip has sent people to the neighborhood to find survivors and establish a quarantine zone, but the social order in this area has been severely damaged, and it may be difficult to recover in a few years." ”

Amber pursed her lips, but she knew that it was a lucky place compared to the worse north—the Crystal Cluster infected who had entered the Lenburg area were just a few wandering stragglers, and the damage was not enough to completely destroy the entire area, and the fall of the town and the large number of refugees were mainly due to the premature flight of the knights in the castle, which caused the monsters that entered the area to swagger into the city with little resistance—but correspondingly, there were also a large number of civilians who escaped from the city, Towns in the eastern part of Lemberg were also not badly damaged.

As long as the crystal clusters are annihilated and the refugees are gathered, there is at least hope for reconstruction.

After sighing, Amber said: "After blood and divine examination, it has been found that nearly a hundred infection carriers have been found, they are still maintaining human bodies, but they have the energy reaction of gods on their bodies, according to your orders, these people have been sent to the quarantine camp in the Pompeii region. ”

"Let the person in charge over there keep a close watch, and take care of them as much as possible to make sure that the infection doesn't spread," Gao Wen explained earnestly, and finally exhaled slightly, "As long as they haven't turned into monsters, they can't give up treatment." ”

Amber glanced at Gawain, "To be honest, I was quite worried about what to do if you ordered all the infected to be killed......

Gawain glanced at the half-elf: "You think I look like someone who would give such orders?" ”

"It doesn't feel like it, but you've also said that it's about maximizing value – killing all infected people should be the most 'cost-effective' from a cost and safety perspective......

"If you really have to do this, you can't calculate," Gawain shook his head, "Even if we don't consider human lives and people's hearts, those infected people who have carried the infection of the gods, but have not mutated, are also valuable samples, they can make the technicians understand the means by which all things will die, and our hope for understanding this disaster and ending this disaster may lie in those who are infected." Pitman and Carmel have arrived in Pompeii, and it may not be long before they find the secret of the Death Society in those infected. ”

Amber raised an eyebrow, "You're really more calculating than I am." ”

Gawain smiled and didn't say anything more.

In the face of such a disaster, he really had to calculate carefully, but he couldn't simply count human life as a number. He also had to think about the future development after the war, the maintenance of social order, the gains and losses of people's hearts, the pen of the historian, and at the same time the means of countering the disaster from the infected, and how to save more people - a ruthless commander may only count heads, but a ruler has to count more than that.

He looked up and looked north through the crystal glass embedded in the door.

……

The Crystal Giant Korod withdrew his gaze to the south.

The troops that had entered the Lenburg area – albeit as skirmishers who had been improvised – were wiped out in such a short time.

Due to the distance limit, he couldn't clearly "see" what happened to the team responsible for expanding southward, but from the limited signals, he could still sense the high temperature and scorching heat that erupted on the hundreds of crystal cluster giants at that moment, as well as a burst of thunderous illusory loud noises, which may be some kind of extremely powerful spell attack, and there is a high probability that multiple legendary-level mages have entered the battlefield......

Whatever the reason, this is something to be wary of.

Remembering that not long ago, another team ordered to destroy the invaders had also suffered incomprehensible blows and suffered heavy losses in a short period of time, and Korod thought that the Cecilians who had wandered from the south were not easy to deal with, and that they were probably ready for this war.

Although the legion is strong, it is also necessary to be careful of strong enemies from behind.

At the end of this operation, it is necessary to return to Red Maple City to remind His Excellency the Imam from the core of the Church.

And for now, it is still time to focus on the battlefield in front of us.

Korod looked up, his crystal-turned eyes reflecting the scene inside Boulder City—the city had been almost destroyed by the Legions, and more than eighty percent of the area was in ruins, but a blizzard enveloped its last castle area, and the countless blade-like blades and deadly cold made it difficult for the Crystal Giants to move.

Sheikh Heaton ordered the Legion to take its castle district within three days.

Korod actually had a slight disdain for this order - although he recognized the absolute authority of the Imam, he knew that His Excellency the Imam did not understand military strategy, he was just a powerful dark druid, and his spells may be powerful, but he had never fought at all, and Korod himself was once one of the best noble officers of the Eastern Legion.

Of course, those days are over, but the experience accumulated from those days is still useful.

As a person who often deals with the battlefield, Korod knows that it is not enough to capture the castle in front of him, the last mountain army and the powerful "Queen of the North" occupy a geographical advantage, occupy the magic net of the castle area, and a legendary-level magician himself is very good at managing his own energy, in the case of a stable spell casting environment and a steady stream of external magic support, the "Queen of the North" relies on some auxiliary magic weapons, It could even make the blizzard around the castle last an entire month - and the castle was stocked with enough supplies for her and her legions to last longer than that.

But it doesn't matter, Korod has his own good way.

An excavation team had set out and was digging a tunnel along the dead end on the west side of the castle, and the leader of the excavation team was ...... It was the original lord of Boulder City.

Of course, that Mr. Lord has now embraced evolution and become a member of the New Age.

Led by the former lords, the excavation team will attack the fortress protected by a blizzard from underground.

But they certainly couldn't just break into the inner courtyard of the castle, kill Victoria Wilder or eliminate the mighty mountain army, and in fact they couldn't even get close to the inner walls of the castle - a legendary mage couldn't have set up an enchantment around his cast area, and as long as the tunnels dug near Victoria, the excavation team would be exposed in an instant.

Their real mission...... It is to destroy the magic net node under the outer area of the castle, destroy the integrity of the magic net, and cut off the magic power of the "Queen of the North".

Only the lord of Boulder City himself knows the location of each magic net node, because those magic nets are set up by the lord, and Victoria Wilder, although she is a regent duke, does not necessarily know what details are in the house of the lord of Boulder City......

Korod stared at the seemingly never-ending blizzard in the castle district, and a smile slowly appeared on his face.

In his vague mental perception, he could sense that the excavation team was still alive and digging deeper.

The former Earl of the Eastern Realm, today's giant commander turned around and casually ordered his subordinates beside him: "Attack when the blizzard stops." ”