Chapter 596: Waiting for the Empty City
Night had already fallen, and the sky was like a circle studded with sapphires, enveloping the fields endlessly, except for the southern sky, which was black and oppressive, and not a single star could be seen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Eliot knew it was the Wall of Middle-earth. During the day, this endless cliff casts a shadow tens of kilometers long on the Knight Continent, and at night, it becomes a curtain that blocks out the starlight.
There have been countless legends about the origin of this cliff for thousands of years.
Some say it was one of the countless steps from Heaven to Hell, others say it was a boundary drawn by the God of Courage with a great axe to limit his realm with the God of Light, and some say that it was a moat that the God of Light deliberately protected Middle-earth when he created the world.
Even in the Knights Continent, not everyone believes in the existence of the God of Courage. Compared to the detailed canons and unmistakable miracles of the Holy See of Light, the god who is said to live in the Far North, in the Wasteland of Courage, seems too ethereal.
However, Elliot preferred to believe that the legendary and powerful Faceless God did exist, and that he had actually cut through that line with his great axe. Because, in his heart, he didn't want to believe that those ants as weak as the Middle Earth species would be closer to heaven than the knights.
If we admit that the Wall of Middle-earth is a miracle performed by the gods of light to protect Middle-earth, doesn't it mean that the Middle-earth species are the people favored by the gods?
Elliot glanced back. Under the starlight, the mighty procession dragged to the end of the field of vision, and no one spoke, only the sound of footsteps and armor grinding was blown into the distance by the west wind of hunting along the walls of Middle-earth.
Elliot smiled with satisfaction. Whatever the legend, in two days he would be able to set foot on the surface of Middle-earth and see the weak and helpless expressions of the ants—just as he had seen in Salk and Doron.
In the past four years or so, under the guidance of the giant Jesse, Elliot's core of fighting qi has finally not been broken, and he can keep the cultivation of a level 12 knight. Although there was no possibility of further advancement, Elliot had no hope of advancing to the Holy Rank before that, and now this situation was the best outcome for him.
For a knight, especially a knight who was once extremely powerful, losing his cultivation is equivalent to losing everything.
The loss of dignity, the inability to earn a living, and the endless pursuit of his enemies - it was Jesse who saved him from such a miserable situation, and for this reason, Eliot did not hesitate to be the vanguard of Jesse's command. The direction that the Giant's banner pointed in was the direction that Eliot's sword pointed, and this time was no exception.
The glory of the giant city-state has evaporated with the city, and it will never be restored to its original glory. But the new Knights of the Giants swelled at an unimaginable rate.
Eliot felt that if it weren't for the greedy dwarves hoarding Juki for the grain they had earned from Middle-earth, Lord Jesse would not have been able to revive the Knights of the Giants so quickly.
It is precisely because the grudges against the dwarves have spread throughout the western part of the Knight Continent that Elliot can so easily gather the combat power of countless large and small city-states.
Over the past few years, the Far North seems to be on the verge of making a move, and it is rumored that there are signs of their frequent activity all over Middle-earth. Their distraction just provided space for the Knights of the Giants to revive in the shadows.
However, such a large-scale knightly activity finally did not hide from the sight of the Far North Country. Just as the giant Jesse decided to completely interrupt their north-south trade route, a secret letter from the Presbyterian Church of the Far North was placed in front of Jesse.
For three whole days, the giant Jesse read the secret letter, and after thinking about it for three whole days, he sent a knight with dwarfism to the location of Falling Rock City mentioned in the letter to have a secret meeting with the dwarf elder.
This is obviously a ruse, not to mention the giant Jesse, even Elliot smells of conspiracy. But this is another excellent opportunity for people to jump even if they know it's a trap.
The wind grew stronger, the air smelled of damp rocks, and Elliot stopped abruptly. The sky above him was already black, and the smooth cliffs covered with moss were just a step away from him, and a vast and majestic momentum in the darkness pressed towards Elliot.
The knights behind him stopped one after another, from near to far, and from time to time the sound of metal armor hitting was heard.
Elliot remained motionless. It took a few minutes of pause before his tense body gradually relaxed. There were no surprises, Elliot was just shocked by the momentum of the Wall of Middle-earth.
"All of you are close to the cliff, rest in place, and wait for orders......" he commanded, and the same voice was repeated over and over again for several kilometers.
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In the early morning, when the sun rose over the horizon east of Middle-earth, it was still dark dozens of kilometers of land on the Knight Continent close to the wall of Middle-earth.
As the sun rose, the darkness faded, and the myriad of armors of different colors and shapes glowed in the morning light, the owners of these armors lay or sit, all clinging to the damp cliffs and resting with their eyes, while others drew their long swords and sharpened their blades with stones they picked up—the rocks beneath the walls of Middle-earth were said to be extremely dense and the best material for sharpening swords.
At the top of the cliff nearly 70 kilometers high, even if someone pokes their entire upper body out of the cliff, they can only see a thin line that seems to be there and nothing, and they will never think that this is an army that is being repaired.
To the west of this army, more than 200 kilometers below Falling Rock City, the garrison of the dwarven army is escorting more than 40,000 dwarves and gnomes in the city to Fog City according to the orders of Elder Spike.
The dwarven generals and warriors in the army had no idea what the point was in doing this. Fog City already has 620,000 people, but the Falling Rock City that is still being expanded has a total of less than 50,000 people.
However, out of reverence for the Presbyterian Church, no one disputed Elder Spike's command.
Elder Spike looks lonely and lonely in the empty streets of Falling Rock, three of his students have followed the army to Foggy City, and when they arrive in Foggy City in six days, they will tell Cynthia and Grunada what happened here, and the Dwarven army will wave east to take over the city again.
By then, Jesse's army should have killed Donnaveen, and the entire Hulls continent was like a grassland with abundant water and grass, waiting for Grunada to conquer.
Spike stands on the edge of the cliff and leans on the railing to look out at the mighty army of dwarves drifting westward like a black cloud at an invisible speed to the naked eye.