The Ferdoci Gorge, located in the northwest of the Lionheart Empire, is home to a city built on a cliff - Miral.

Long before Lehart VII set foot on the land of the Holy Alliance, two special guests had already entered the rocky city.

Rob and Lolo were teleported directly from them using the Wizards' Guild's teleportation array.

Baron Rosita, the lord of Miral, and Barcaus, the commander of the Fourth Royal Infantry Regiment of the Empire, received the news in advance and waited in the magicians' guild in the city.

Rosita spoke first, "The Abyssal Rift is about seventy miles west of Milal, and it was discovered by my men while patrolling three years ago, and I have been keeping an eye on it since then, and there has been no movement over there in recent times. ”

Buckhouse focused on the deployment situation, and the old general looked grim, "Now we are seriously understaffed, originally this is the main defense of the Third Royal Knights, but the Third Royal Knights were ordered to leave half a month ago, and now only my Fourth Royal Infantry Regiment remains, a total of 90,000 people, but there are nearly half of them recruits, and there are also two thousand city defense troops, but with all due respect, the combat effectiveness of these city defense troops can only maintain law and order in the lower city." ”

Rosita looked embarrassed, the city defense army was naturally formed by him, the city lord, and Buckhouse's evaluation was not an exaggeration, Miral has a special terrain, there is a natural risk in the Ferdogci Gorge, and the distance from the front line is relatively far, therefore, the usual task of the city defense army is also very leisurely, in addition to maintaining law and order, at most, it is to go to the vicinity to suppress bandits, and it is inevitable that they will be slack in training, so after discovering the abyss crack, the empire immediately transferred the most elite third knight regiment and the fourth infantry regiment to garrison, and the two thousand people of Rosita basically did what they should do。

"In that case, why don't you think about evacuating civilians?" asked Lolo.

"It has to do with the topography of Miral. Rosita replied, and a wry smile appeared on the baron's face. As you can see, Miral is a city built between cliffs, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the vast majority of the inhabitants of the city do not believe that this place will be breached, and in any case, there are nearly 100,000 imperial garrisons here, and now the defenders everywhere are facing the problem of manpower shortage, and retreating to Yarkos, which is 140 miles away, is also an option, but there is a flat river, there are only 5,000 defenders, or it is still a patchwork of local troops and the private armies of the nobles, it is better to stay in Milal...... However, there are also people who are willing to leave, most of them have relatives in other places to take refuge, but it is still the previous problem, the special terrain of Miral, even if it is evacuated, the number of people who can be evacuated every day is limited, in fact, I have been organizing the evacuation as early as half a month ago, but now less than one-tenth of the people have been evacuated. ”

Buckhouse, who hadn't spoken for a long time, also spoke at this time, "I personally don't advocate giving up Miral, this city is the only place in the vicinity that can be defended, and it will be more difficult to defend against those monsters if you lose it." ”

Luo Luo felt the pressure on his shoulders, the abyssal crack in the Phildorcian Canyon was the first to be discovered in the Lionheart Empire, and it was also the most dangerous of all the abyssal cracks, and it had grown to a diameter of more than 1.9 miles now, and it was about to break through the medium-sized and evolve to a large one, such a size was enough for many huge monsters to pass through, so it was even more tricky than the one in Seta City.

What's worse is that not far away is the city of Milal, which has a population of 170,000, but since it has been promised to Lehart VII, it will be defended no matter what.

Rosita said, "That's the general situation, I've prepared a luncheon for the two of you, why don't you move over there and let's talk while we eat?"

The city lord of Milal was obviously quite sociable, but the girl shook her head, "Time is pressing, please ask the city lord of Rosita to prepare supplies for me, let's go and see the crack first." ”

The two did not stop in the city of Miral, and refused Buckhouse's offer of escort to accompany them, and arrived at the end of the trip just before sunset, where the abyssal rift, according to Rosita's information, was in a small valley not far ahead.

From the outside, it seemed to be quiet, and it would have been difficult to associate it with the legendary Abyssal Rift if it hadn't been informed in advance, but the future Ultra Magister stopped after taking less than two steps.

"Huh?" Lolo cast an inquiring look.

Rob bent down, reached out and plucked a stalk of withered grass, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a moment, and then said, "Wait a minute, be careful, I'm afraid there is something very powerful in this valley." ”

Without waiting for the girl to ask the future Ultra Magister, His Excellency took the initiative to explain, "The abyssal rift will change the natural environment of an area, making the creatures in this area extinct, but it can't do so to this extent. Rob said as he handed the stalk of grass in his hand to Lolo.

The latter took it, and at first glance it did not notice anything unusual, until the second glance it noticed that there was a dark red liquid flowing slowly in the dry veins, as if it were the blood vessels of a human body, growing on plants, and it was a withered plant, which looked disgusting and strange.

"What's going on?"

"It's unclear, but there's no mention of this in the Wizards' Guild's books. Rob paused, "The abyssal rift in this valley is likely to have mutated, and what we're going to face this time is different from what we've been dealing with before.

"Will it be more powerful than the Abyss Lord?" asked Lolo.

Humans don't know enough about the abyss, and Rob and Lolo are the only two people who have returned from there, but they don't go deep to find out how to close the rift in the abyss. Among the currently known monsters, only the Abyss Lord has the strength of the ninth order, representing the highest combat power of the Abyss, but it is only the Abyss Lord's words, Rob's expression is unreasonable to be so solemn.

Neither Rosita nor Buckhouse's sentinels could enter the valley, so all they collected was the surrounding situation, which was why the girl was in such a hurry to come and see for herself, after the events in Seta City, Lolo realized that it was different from the past, and the knowledge accumulated about the abyssal rift was gradually changing.

This is not good news for the human side.

It's unclear what the connection between the gods and the abyss is, but it seems that their control over the abyss is probably not limited to opening the rifts of the abyss and restraining the monsters' movements.

"We'll find out soon. Rob unleashed a stealth spell on himself and Lolo, and then walked towards the valley.

(End of chapter)