The colony retreated to the middle of the Dodan Gorge, nearly five kilometers from the northern city wall.

The guards on the walls finally breathed a sigh of relief, at least during the day, and could rest against the warm battlements with their eyes closed.

While cleaning up the battlefield, the city guards transported the armaments and supplies from the warehouses to the city walls, including arrows, fire oil, rolling stones, and so on.

Except for the city guards who were on duty on the city walls, everyone else walked down the city walls to rest.

At the door of the small building where the barracks was stationed, Adams and Gallatin pushed open the wooden door and walked into the living room of the small building, and found that the room was full of people, all of whom were officers of the cavalry battalion of Baron Surdak's lineage, including several squadron leaders.

Andrew, Samira, Gulitham, Selena, and a black-robed woman in a Mithril mask stood behind Surdak, who was dressed in civilian clothes and looked up at the map of the Dodan Gorge on the wall, detailing the general distribution of the ant colony.

Andrew and Samira and Gulit are followers of Surdak with a determined and fiery gaze.

Having fought more than a dozen times on the city walls these days, Adams and Gallatin were already familiar with them, and they knew their fighting styles very well.

Adams first meets Aphrodite and sees her wearing a Mithril mask on her face and a black robe, and speculates that she may be a mage.

Selena was also standing beside her, which surprised Adams slightly......

As the head of the logistics of the barracks station, Adams was no stranger to her, and his first impression was that she was a beautiful and shrewd woman.

Regarding Selena, Adams also heard a little rumor in the barracks, and heard that this is the love of Commander Surdak. Man, in addition to being in charge of logistics for Surdak, is also a very mysterious black magician.

There are a large number of dark mages in many parts of the Grimm Empire, and there are even necromancers and sorcerers living in some places, although the Magic Guild regards these people as heretics, and the Magic Guild has even set up a law enforcement team to investigate and eliminate these magical heretics.

But in fact as long as these people don't make some days. The angry things are hidden in the territory of the noble lords, and the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild is impossible to investigate.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the Grimm Empire, so Adams didn't pay much attention to it.

Now these people are all gathered together......

Adams and Gallatin looked at each other, and Annai held the doubt in his heart.

Some things are not so clear, but it is a good thing for them.

Adams just didn't expect that Baron Surdak's last hole cards were actually two women, looking at their weak bodies, they obviously had some attainments in magic.

The six squadron leaders of the cavalry battalion stood on one side of the wall of the room, silently staring at the map.

Everyone's expressions were serious, and it was clear that Surdak was briefing them on the inside of the canyon.

Seeing Adams and Gallatin walk in, Surdak hurriedly motioned for them to come closer.

With a whip in his hand, he said to the two, "You have come just in time, and the rest of the part happens to be yours, so I will try to keep it simple." ”

"We have a plan to sneak up on the rear of the ant colony, and this time we plan to sneak into the middle of the canyon to kill their queen ants and gain some initiative for the beast tide battle in the Dodan Canyon." Pointing to the narrow Dodan Gorge on the map, Surdak said as he stood by the wall.

Adams thought he had misheard, so he didn't pay much attention to it at first, but it took five seconds for him to react and ask Surdak, "Lord Commander, do you want to organize people to go to the rear of the ant colony to assassinate the queen ant?" ”

"That's pretty much it, but this time the personnel have been decided, and you stay in Dodan Town!" Surdak said to them, "You two need to stay on the wall until we return, and in the meantime you must stay on the wall, for I have no one in my hands to replace you." ”

Adams opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

His eyes fell on the map on the wall full of thin lines, he didn't expect Surdak to have such a bold plan, he actually wanted to lead a group of people to assassinate the queen ant.

"Commander, in fact, we have been guarding the city walls all along, so we will consume their forces like this, and they will naturally disperse after holding on for a while, it is too risky for you to do so." Adams felt that since he could use the north wall to stop the ant colony, there was really no need to venture out of the city.

Surdak shook his head firmly, the map that Marquis Luthor gave him at the beginning included a large area of Invercargill Forest, the two mines there, and the rich ironwood resources in the forest, all of which required him to at least control the Warcraft Forest around the Dodan Canyon.

Now that the ant tide has taken over almost the entire Invercargill Forest, Surdak wants to at least take back that land from them.

Surdak made a long circle of the vast meadows south of the town of Dodan with his horsewhip, and said to Adams:

"I don't want my army to be trapped in this canyon by this group of red ants, yesterday from the news from the logistics material supply group, some ghost red ants have crossed the thorny mountain range and sneaked into the grass behind us, although it is not only where they came in at present, but in the next time, we may have to search the grassland behind us on a large scale to clean up the ghost red ants in the occupied area......"

Adams was tempted to say that every town in the northern part of Wilkes had garrisons of the Luther Legion, and that the ghostly red ants that had leaked in couldn't be gathered together and would soon be hunted down by the adventurers.

Surdak walked up to Adams, reached out and patted Adams on the shoulder and said:

"I'll leave you a large bunch of firescale bombs and explosives, is there a problem?"

Seeing Surdak's resolute attitude, Adams immediately gave Surdak a military salute and said in a firm tone: "I will definitely do my best." ”

"Very good......

……

Adams and Gallatin walked out of the small building and ran non-stop to the material warehouse of the city guard brigade to arrange the materials for tonight's city defense.

By this time, the sun had set behind the mountains of the Thorny Mountains.

Although it was not yet safe to darken, the ant colonies hiding in the Dodan Gorge began to stir again.

A squadron leader knocked on the door and came in and reported to Surdak: "Your Excellency, all the soldiers of the cavalry battalion have arrived......

Surdak nodded, and took the lead in walking out of the small building, and the veterans in the cavalry camp were all descendants who followed him out of the barren land.

He stood on the steps of the small building, holding on to the railing with one hand, and said loudly to the cavalry in front of him: "This time everyone follow me out, I don't know how many people will come back alive, I won't say much about the benefits of being willing to go, those rewards at the top of the merit exchange list will no longer be a luxury for you, is anyone willing to follow me to fight?" ”

The cavalrymen stood in front of Xiaolou, looking at each other.

No one spoke either, and the scene became very quiet.

Andrew stared at the veterans in front of him, and couldn't help but want to scold, 'You cowards who have no eggs, you should hide in the cols of the barren land and eat dirt......

Before he could speak, the squad leader named Hudson in the cavalry battalion raised his hand and asked weakly, "Commander, if I die, can the merit points I have saved be left for my family to exchange for gold coins?" ”

Surdak said to him seriously: "Of course, the Warcraft materials harvested by our side should have arrived in Wall Village, and the merits of each warrior will be fulfilled truthfully!" I remember you, you exchanged a magic pattern for a leg injury. ”

"Yes, Commander!" Hudson shouted, "Then I'm willing to join ......"

"I'd like to join in!"

"And me!"

Almost all of the veterans in the cavalry battalion came forward, and this time Surdak chose the veterans who had been implanted with demonic colonization suits, because their combat effectiveness was obviously higher than the others.

Surdak, along with eight squadron leaders, selected a total of twenty cavalrymen to join the assassination plan.

The other cavalry also took turns guarding the northern wall.

Next, Surdak sacrificed the heads of six hundred and thirty ghost-patterned soldier ants, so that all the members of the assassination team had four divine blessings: 'Divine Blessed Body', 'Blessed Shield', 'Overlord Body' and 'Divine Shield', the first two primary blessings only consumed thirty primary sacrifices, and the later high-level blessings almost swallowed up all of Surdak's inventory in recent days.

Samira, Aphrodite, Andrew, and others gained additional 'insights'.

The sacrifice ceremony continued until dusk, when the group walked out of the small building, and Surdak felt the need to build an altar in the barracks.

……

Samira stood on the western side of the northern city wall on a bed crossbow console, which contained a large crossbow bolt with a rope tied to its end.

The half-elven archer aimed at a raised rock at the bottom of the mountain wall two hundred meters away, and shot the crossbow arrow with a rope, and the crossbow arrow with a long rope was firmly nailed to the raised rock.

As the rope tauted, Samira took out a hook and hung it on it, jumped over the wall, and her dexterous body slid down the rope.

In the twilight, only a faint figure could be seen streaking through the shadows of the mountain wall.

Sliding in front of the boulder, Samira leaped like an agile earth leopard into the grass, and then stood on the boulder a few steps and made all normal gestures to Surdak.

Surdak stood at the head of the city, and although the ant colony in the middle of the canyon had gathered under the northern city wall, the soldiers at the front were still at least a kilometer away.

One by one, the veterans of the cavalry battalion slid down from the top of the city under the reverent gaze of the city guards, and their trained occupation of the favorable terrain on the edge of the boulder and the hiding of their bodies in the barren grass.

The sun had completely set, and the surrounding light was rapidly dimming.

Selena lay on Surdak's back, her arms tightly wrapped around his neck, feeling the thrill of ziplining, the whirring wind ringing in her ears, and the excitement made her body feel an inexplicable numbness.

Smelling the familiar smell of Surdak's body made Selena's white face flush with a flush.

Surdak landed steadily on the grass.

Selena jumped off Surdak's back, she squatted in the grass beside Surdak, trying to calm the surging emotions in her body, she was a little ashamed, she couldn't imagine that she could be so excited when she was nervous.

Aphrodite followed Surdak and landed steadily on the grass.

……

Samira, who has 'insight', can see in the dark.

She walked in front, quietly shot a roaming ghost-patterned soldier ant, and led the team into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain not far away.

At this time, a large number of ant colonies have gathered under the northern city wall, and there are also many ghost worker ants burrowing into this forest.

Selena knelt in the glade, she folded her hands and whispered a prayer, only to see that the magic pattern circle under her feet was actually black, and as the prayer she recited ended, a beam of darkness enveloped Selena's body, and a powerful dark element poured into Selena's body.

When she opened her eyes, they were pitch black.

She slowly stood up, stretched out her hands, and stared at the backs of her palms, as if feeling her body.

Her eyes became extremely cold, without any emotion......

Looking at the trees around him, when his eyes fell on Surdak, there was a slight fluctuation in his eyes, and then he closed his eyes again, lowered his head, and put his hands on his chest. The front tense, the patio and the phantage of the Goddess of Darkness reappeared behind Selena.

The tide of darkness poured out from all sides, like a thick black mist enveloping the team.

Samira and Aphrodite were at the front of the group, Surdak and Selena were in the middle of the group, and Andrew and Gulitham were at the back of the group, a team of twenty-six men, almost every cavalryman wearing heavy armor.

The group walked a little ahead, and a pair of ghost-patterned worker ants encountered along the way broke into the mist, avoiding the team even if they made a detour.

These ghostly red ants crawl forward on the ground, their bodies a dark red color that is very inconspicuous in the dark, and their bellies bulge like ticks.

After walking like this for more than half an hour, the northern city wall in the Dodan Gorge almost disappeared from view, and the number of the army of ghost-patterned red ants gradually decreased.

……

Hidden in the darkness, Samira earnestly searches for the ghostly ant queen in the canyon.

There was a rumbling sound in the distance, and Samira retreated into the black fog alertly, ran to Surdak's side, pointed in the direction where the rumbling sound came from, and said to Surdak: "They are over there, and they will be surrounded by ghostly males in the middle, and I can't see a few ......"

"One, I can feel it!" Aphrodite, who was standing next to Samira, said. "They seem to have spotted something and are coming towards us."

Surdak didn't expect to encounter an ant queen so soon, and immediately led the team towards the dead forest on the right side of the canyon.

In the desolate and scorched land, a path leads to the dead woods......