Under the command and guidance of the two knights, the warriors and civilians of Cecil's frontier were finally mobilized.

News of the impending attack of the Aberrations had spread throughout the camp, but the panic and stress caused by the incident had been temporarily suppressed - or diverted, with the loot brought back and the name of Gawain Cecil playing a decisive role in this.

In this regard, Gawain himself is most satisfied with the fact that, at least until now, there have been no fugitives in the camp.

Serfs and civilians may be ignorant, but they are not stupid, just let them know that this is a barbaric place far from civilized society, and beyond the camp is either a mountain or a primeval jungle, and that monsters are roaming between the mountains, and that it will take at least three or four days to escape to the relative safety of Tanzanian Town, and that if the aberrant is already close, they will die faster if they run out - in this way, those who try to flee will naturally weigh their own life and death.

Gawain had already asked Heti to emphasize this to the people.

So despite the slight fear, and despite the fact that the burning fires and boundless monsters that Cecil had led a few months ago were still in the minds of these people, the people managed to muster up courage, and they heard that the hero lord from seven hundred years ago had a special way to deal with aberrations, and they saw Heti and Rebecca confidently directing their soldiers to prepare for battle, and they also gained a little confidence.

And the work assigned to them is also one of the driving forces for confidence.

Firing the "slag" that was said to be used as a weapon in the furnace area, making pedal traps, carving and trimming runes, these tasks can be done very well even by illiterate civilians, and while doing this, there are soldiers who keep emphasizing that these things can be used against those monsters, so those who work hard begin to feel that the "ancient duke" may be really capable, and work harder.

In fact, even the soldiers in charge of the "reading" were not quite sure what these things were for, they were just doing what they were ordered to do, and calling out what they had heard from Gawain to the civilians who were doing the work.

"Put the crushed stone on the lowest level, and then put the stone shards engraved with the circle! If the stone chips are broken, come here and replace them with new ones! ”

"Put the finished stuff here!"

"Remember to check if the crystal is lit, the crystal that doesn't shine can't be used, come here to change!"

"All these things you've made are weapons, and they're designed to deal with monsters - that's Duke Gawain's instructions! He's the nemesis of those freaks! ”

Gawain took Rebecca and Herty through the open field in the northeast of the camp, an open field dedicated to making "art", originally Gawain planned to name this place the Louvre or something, to represent the positioning of its art treasure trove, but no one understood this stalk, so he had to give up.

He bent down to inspect the things neatly stacked at the enumerator's feet: they were half-foot-square wooden containers, less than two inches high, filled with Rebecca crystal granules, and above them were black stone flakes depicted with detonation circles.

However, these structures alone cannot detonate these magical "mines", and they require a rune trigger to activate.

This last step could not be left to civilians or serfs, and due to the risk of accidental explosions, the rune triggers were left to the last step: the wooden boxes would be buried in the open space of the mountain pass southwest of the camp, and only when they were laid, would the soldiers and specialized trap craftsmen combine the rune triggers on the circle.

The rune trigger is a fairly simple structure, the pairs of runes that act as "trigger mechanisms" are separated by a thin stone shard with a layer of wood on top of it, and when the plank is stepped on, the stone flakes shatter, and the two runes come into contact to form a complete rune loop - which then activates the detonation circle, and eventually causes an explosion.

This is the otherworldly version of the mine, although the technical details are completely different from the distant relatives of the earth, but the idea has something in common, it obviously does not conform to the chivalry of this era, but Hetty and Rebecca's evaluation of this is - no matter what kind of chivalry he is, this thing looks so emotional!

And in this world where there is extraordinary power, there is a particularly convenient place to use "mines", that is, there is no need to worry about the problem of "laying mines for a while, demining crematoriums", Hetty will leave his own magic mark on each detonation circle, this kind of "mage trick" that is not even a first-level spell can ensure that every mine can be quickly located, and all undetonated mines can be easily found and eliminated after the battle.

Of course, there is a limit to the number of magic marks that Heti can support alone, but in this battle, her magic marks are more than enough.

After inspecting the work here, Gawain handed over the defense of the camp to the two House Knights and Rebecca, and he took Heti to the Dark Mountains.

On a rock wall in the north of the mountain, more "Rebecca crystals" are placed.

In fact, most of the crystals that the camp had accumulated over the past few days had been transported here, and in order to ensure that it could cause a collapse of the rock wall on a sufficient scale, Gawain did not dare to be stingy in the "equivalence".

Previously, with the help of Hetty's magic spells such as Shaping Hand and Weight Loss, workers and supplies had already been delivered. With the help of simple ropes and scaffolding, the stonemasons had carved pits in the mountain wall and filled large amounts of crystal particles into the pits and between the original stone crevices in the mountain wall, but the task of carving the detonation circle had to be left to Hetty himself.

Hetty, who is only level three, can't use a mid-level mage skill like flying, and even a low-level levitation technique can't last too long, so she can only stand on the ground, use the Plastic Hand with the Mind Transference Spell to complete the work of drawing an explosion circle on the rock wall, and use the Mage's Eye to make adjustments. This kind of sophisticated control is actually beyond the capabilities of low-level mages, but fortunately, in addition to being a low-level mage, Hetty is also a devotee of the officially converted "Goddess of Magic", and she prays to the Goddess of Magic before her work and receives a brief blessing to carry on the work.

In order to ensure the normal operation of this extra-large detonation circle, Gawain made a lot of money this time - he took a large number of prefabricated powdered Mithril and amethyst dust from the treasure house in the mountain, and combined with the alchemical potion concocted by Pitman, he made it into the most expensive "pigment" ever, and Hetty could directly "paint" these magic guide materials on the rock wall, which saved a lot of carving and inlay work, and shortened the time.

Now, the most precious thing is time.

As Hetty drew the huge lines and runes one by one, Amber's figure emerged from the shadows of the nearby trees, and with a nervous expression on her face, she leaned over to Gawain and whispered, "Those monsters are already very close, half a day at most." ”

"I know, it's about the same," Gawain nodded slightly, "They came along the expected route?" ”

"I almost went down the other path in the middle," Amber said with obvious trepidation, "and then I had the audacity to break away from the shadows for a split second before I lured them back down the road - but they're getting more irritable now. ”

Gawain looked at Amber in surprise: "...... Why are you so courageous this time? ”

Amber pouted: "Hey, it's all come to this, what's the use of shrinking your head at this time - it's better to be reckless with you, maybe you can really live." ”

As she spoke, her gaze couldn't help but be on the mountain wall in front of her.

This high cliff is next to the mountain path where the four aberrants had been encountered, and below the cliff is the same road that they have walked before, it has been through the vicissitudes of wind and rain here, the rock wall itself is indeed in a very fragile state, and there is only one road below, and the aberrants will inevitably form a crowded and long queue when they pass by, and they will have absolutely no way to avoid when the mountain wall collapses - this is indeed a very good ambush place.

If there was a high-level magister here, he would definitely choose to blow up the mountain wall to kill those monsters, after all, for a powerful magister, making the rock wall collapse would only require a powerful fire blast or an earth elemental disintegration.

But what wants to do all this at this moment is a low-level mage who is a third-level mage who can't even hit an ice arrow, and a large group of stonemasons, people's husbands, and serfs who are ordinary people.

This makes Amber feel completely weird.

Translucent plastic hands moved across the rock walls, smearing alchemical potions mixed with mythril powder and amethyst dust as pigments on the surface of the stones, many runes had been formed, making the entire mountain wall look as strange as some kind of strange religious totem, and above the cliffs, you can also see the simple rope ladders and brackets used by the stonemasons before, which are all "construction traces" that have not had time to be dismantled and are not ready to be demolished.

It is a testament to the fact that ordinary people have participated in this incredible project.

Not far away, the stonemasons and their apprentices were resting, they had spent a lot of energy and courage - it was not easy to dig a hole in the mountain wall with a few ropes, especially when the time was tight and the work had to be carried out continuously, but they still completed the challenge, which even Gawain thought was a little incredible, he had thought that the work would take more time and could not be completed as much as he expected.

But Gawain soon understood that this was not because the craftsmen and apprentices were inspired to have any sense of honor, and most of it had nothing to do with the desire to survive, but because this was how the poor people of this era lived.

Is it difficult to dig a hole in the mountain wall with a rope on it? It's not much harder than tethering a rope to repair the spire of a lord's castle, or picking herbs from a cliff for a lord.

It is said that 400 years ago, in some mountainous areas in the western part of the kingdom, serfs were not even allowed to tie ropes to pick herbs, because at that time ropes were even more expensive than the lives of serfs.

And here, they have at least a rope tied to their bodies, and what they do is no longer just for the lord.