Chapter 27: The Northern Campaign (6)
The effective reinforcements of the Children of Nature defused a vicious battle that could have caused countless casualties, and both the townspeople and the soldiers defending the city were grateful and sincerely hoped that the peace would last longer. The person had not been seen since the day he arrived, and the druids, who arrived later, had also earned a good reputation for the secluded child of nature.
Helping coalition soldiers strengthen fortifications, using land magic to increase the production of food for the local population, and building a temple of the soul that greatly increases the chances of survival, the arrival of the druids greatly improved the quality of Brenda's residence, and even Mario, who has always been outspoken and complaining, is full of praise. Of course, he still has a dislike attitude towards the Child of Nature, no way, who makes Link unlikable whether it is his true character or the false personality deliberately created, plus he has stayed at home since the first battle, and lives on the only tree of life in the valley all day long, and after a long time, people are almost forgetting what the Child of Nature looks like, but the Druid Jafar gets along well with all the departments of the Alliance, and even the mage group has a good reputation.
The people were immersed in the long-lost stable life, but the commanders did not relax their vigilance, and the training exercises and armament battles did not stop for a day, and everyone knew in their hearts that this 'peace' was just a flash in the pan, and once the undead found a way to deal with it, the undead empire would return with a more fierce offensive than before.
"Still the same?" Jafar asked his companions on the periphery of the Living Tree about Link's condition.
The man in charge of the guard nodded, his tone full of concern: "It's been a month, and he hasn't come down." ”
It's not that I'm worried about Befast's body. It's just that the children of nature are just huddled in the fortress. Although the Coalition Commanders didn't say a word, they all asked about the current situation of the Nature's children, and he couldn't guess what the other party was thinking. The apostle, known as the Pillar of the Earth, had a mind as erratic as the Pillar of the Wind, and always did something amazing.
After pacing back and forth several times, Jafar made up his mind to ask for clarification and took the initiative to step into the confines of the Tree of Life.
"Your Excellency, what are you waiting for?"
Link, who had been meditating, finally reacted, and he opened his eyes. What I saw was not the black wolf in human form, but the direction of the fortress.
"The important people are all together, and the turning point of fate has also arrived......" was finished. jumped down from the tree of life, and instantly turned into a white deer and went straight to the fortress.
It wasn't until Jafar followed him back to the fortress that he understood what he meant by 'important people'.
The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army's Northern Campaign, the fourth in rank among the royal nobles, Archduke Kolk, was on the front line. On his shoulder rested a bird with brilliant feathers. As a druid, Jafar recognized the identity of the Falcon at a glance - the Wind Elemental Lord Hel, and now that the Children of Wind Nature are vacant, as the Great Druid of the Wind Pillar, he is enough to represent the Wind Pillar.
There are three major theaters in the Northern Campaign, the Emerald Forest on the left is dominated by elves, the middle lane is the Imperial Army, the Dwarves and Mages, and the right flank is guarded by the Dawn Sect and the Wood Elves. Since the strength of the middle lane is the weakest, the first one is broken. The glow elves were then ambushed, losing two royalties in a row. Plus the rebellion of the princes, led by Kronberg. The coalition forces that had lost their right flank had to retreat to the last stronghold of the Emerald Forest, and had no time to care about the large areas of land that had been continuously lost in the center. Archduke Kolk, who had traveled all the way south and returned to the imperial capital for help, temporarily changed his route when he heard that the Children of Nature of the Pillars of the Earth had come to the front line, circumnavigating most of Mount Oracio and arriving at Brenda with the remnants of the army and the new soldiers recruited along the way.
The meeting between the two was purely accidental, originally he went to the guardian place of Horacio as the Grand Druid to celebrate the selection of a new apostle by the Pillars of the Earth, but he did not expect to hear the rumors of the Pillars of the Earth participating in the war in the middle of the way, so he came with the Grand Duke Kolk, who also rushed to the north.
Seeing Hull, Jafar, who had always been calm, couldn't help but change his face greatly.
Dawn plus the two pillars of earth and wind, more than half of the first generation has participated in the war, and the nature of this war has changed more naturally. The Pillar of the Earth is alive, and it is understandable that it wants to exorcise the undead, why does the Pillar of Wind also wade into troubled waters? It knows that there are still laws on top of the first generation......
At this moment, Jafar was still pondering the intentions of the Wind Pillar, and at that end, the white deer and the green falcon looked at each other for a moment before they both turned into human forms.
"Do you know what you're doing?!"
Hull's angry rebuke stunned the other commanders who came to greet him, and thought that the apostle of the Wind Pillar was here to support, so why did he scold him with a slash on his head and cover his face?
"As a druid, you should know that I couldn't have stood here without the permission of the pillar. "Link certainly knows why Hull is angry.
Since the Water Pillar was polluted in the Golden Age, the Earth Pillar, which originally belonged to the order, has assumed the responsibility of the neutrality of the Water Pillar, and its addition has even included the share of the Water Pillar, and the number of the first generation has been more than half, even if the Wind Pillar does not participate in the war, it will not help.
"The undead have been deliberately arranging it for so long, just to use the law to rule over the first generation. If the war continues to expand, more land will fall, and once the Silver Empire collapses, the resentment accumulated from the massive human deaths, if not enough to shake the position of the first generation, can corrupt the flow of life on the outer side of the crystal wall, and eventually corrupt the entire planet. The difference between the two is only a matter of time, if we attack, we can control a little initiative, if we wait for the undead to make the ......first move," Link leaned closer to Hull and whispered softly, "You will appear here, isn't it also with Gathos's tacit approval." ”
"You-" Glancing at the onlookers, Hull swallowed into the question.
At this point, it's useless to say anything. It's important to figure out how to deal with the undead before the law intervenes.
Seeing that the two children of nature had stopped arguing, Archduke Kolk nodded to Mario and Bernardo, and the commanders walked into the command post located at the heart of the underground fortress.
Unlike the last time, this time, the long wooden table was devoid of celebratory melons, fruits, and drinks, and the holographic images projected by sophisticated magic instruments completely displayed the entire fortress and the mirror image of the tundra, from the hills to the grass, whether it was the alliance or the undead.
Link couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, if he did this with the power of magic alone, it was indeed commendable.
As the oracle of the natural forces, the apostles of the pillar and the elves sat in a row, opposite the imperial army, the mages and the Dawn sect were lined up on the left and right, and the magic projection showing the entire battlefield made the atmosphere very depressing. Compared to the last dispatch, the number of undead is even greater, except for the main gate near the fortress, surrounded by countless undead in the Valley of Life and the Emerald Forest in the rear, this time, the number of undead has not only increased, but even the establishment has changed. The low-level undead who took the lead in previous battles were still retained except for a small number of skeleton archers, and the others were replaced by middle-level undead with considerable IQ such as death knights, revenant banshees, stitching monsters, etc., and a large number of bone dragons were still soaring in the sky with constant blizzards, and gargoyles and vampire bats that covered the sky were already hazy as if they were late at night.
"The increase in personnel began three months ago, at first just wandering on the tundra, and in recent days has dared to enter the vicinity of the Valley of Life in a brazen manner. Romero's point is simple: the energy efficiency of the tree of life is fading, and it can no longer contain the dead spirits.
"Aren't you going to let the local population evacuate?" this is what Archduke is most puzzled about, since a big war is about to begin, isn't it the first to evacuate the incapable civilians? Why is there still a lot of traffic on the streets, there is no sign of evacuation, and there is a steady stream of caravans rushing to the fortress along the way.
The commanders glanced at each other, and Mario stood up and replied: "Grand Duke, not only can we not warn us about the current situation, let alone fire the cannon on everyone in the town, if they want to die, they can only die in Brenda." ”
"What are these words?!" the Grand Duke slammed the table, causing the magic instruments to tremble, and the holographic transmission to tremble.
This time, the person who slapped the table changed, and it was Mario's turn to cry and laugh.
"Grand Duke, there are blood slaves of the vampire lords in the fortress, and once they are released, they will infiltrate the interior of the empire. ”
"Blood slave, can't you find it with magic?" Archduke looked puzzled, he could not even find the infected spy with a panoramic view of the surrounding battlefield.
"That's where the tricky part is......" Bernardo continued to explain in place of Mario: "Dawn's magic can detect blood slaves infected by vampires, but it can only be cast on one person at a time, not counting soldiers, the population of the town alone is thousands, and the number of priests and priests in the fortress is limited, let alone one day, even three days can't be checked, how can we ensure that people who have been screened will not be infected? Blood poison does not have to be transmitted by vampires themselves, rats, bats, Insects can be the object of vampires' enslavement, while living beings are not exorcised by the Life Barrier and can move freely in strongholds and towns, which means that even if we pull out all the Blood Slaves, they can still be infected with new Blood Slaves at any time. ”
"Can't we have a one-time mass dispersal?" the Grand Duke glanced at the child of nature with an indifferent expression, he knew more or less some common sense, but that was all there was to it.
"You're laughing, the magic is limited by the caster's own ability, even if the group spell is only ten, twenty, fifty, the amount of the person, if you want to clear it at one time, it is a miracle, and only a high-level divine envoy like the Child of Nature can do it. And...... As I said before, even if we can get rid of all the blood slaves, the undead can create new blood slaves, even the elves are not immune, and the prince of Safin is killed by his infected compatriots and becomes an undead. Speaking of the current vampire lord, Bernardo's voice also unconsciously lowered, he had not worked with Safin, but he learned from Romero that it was an elven prince worthy of the word "brilliance", if it were not for the blood slave, he would not have been transformed into an undead, and raised the butcher knife against his former comrades.
The Grand Duke's gaze turned to the magic projection: "Okay, let's not talk about civilians, how do you plan to deal with this offensive?" The undead army is more numerous than any previous battle, and it is mainly mid-level, and ordinary soldiers are no match at all. ”
His question was exactly what the commanders were worried about. Once the mirror image is leaked, it will cause serious panic and even cause the soldiers at the bottom to flee, and in the face of an invincible enemy, flight is the only instinct.
Everyone pinned their hopes on the only child of nature who could perform high-level divine magic, and in the face of such a grim situation, instead of answering, Link asked a question that surprised everyone.
"What about Julian. (To be continued.) )