1058. The Altar in the Town
The 20,000 infantry of the Heavy Infantry Corps left the town of Samp on the shores of Lake Belanoma and entered the eastern plateau.
The land here is vast and sparsely populated, and the vast land is covered with green grass, which can be walked dozens of kilometers away from the east of Samp Town.
This can be said to be the big grassland where Lord MacDonnell once raised war horses, but now there is not a single living creature on the grassland, not to mention horses, cattle and sheep.
In addition to the green grass, there are only the vultures in the sky that do not want to fall.
But the white hellhound feces have not yet melted into the dirt.
The rabbit holes in the meadow seem to have been dug by the cavemen, and there are even traces of rabbit fur left at the entrances, apparently hunted by the cavemen and hellhounds.
The mages rode magic handles and circled around the infantry regiment.
Soon a herd of hellhounds was found behind a mound in the deep grass, and Surdak ordered the hoplite regiment to proceed as usual, sending only a light cavalry regiment of the Luthor Regiment to clear the hellhounds.
Fearing that there were three hellhounds hiding in the pack, he sent Samira out with the hussars on this hunt.
With the second-turn powerhouse mixed in the team, the light cavalry regiment successfully completed the hunting mission.
The hussars also knew that there was a merit exchange list in the legion, and as long as they had merit, they could exchange it for a lot of valuable goodies, even if they didn't want those precious magic items, they could exchange it for some gold coins at worst.
It is precisely because of this welfare that the cavalry in the light cavalry regiment is like being beaten with chicken blood when they perform their tasks.
They were very brave in battle, mainly because the cavalry were not afraid of being wounded, and as long as they were not killed on the spot, they could be revived by Surdak when they returned to the barracks.
The light cavalry are very good archers, and it can be said that they come and go like the wind in the steppe with their excellent endurance Gubolai war horses.
All low-level demons who try to sneak close to the heavy infantry regiment will be directly exposed to the eyes of the mages who are scouting in the sky.
The mages had been spotting the low-level demons all day, and then had the hussars rush to clean them up, and when the hussars returned, each of them had a bloody linen bag hanging from their saddle, which was almost full of hellhound heads.
The hussars harvested many hellhound heads along the way, much to the envy of the rest of the legion.
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The Great Swordsman of Quintas brought a message of 'Come to Acre Town', and Surdak did not want to delay on the way.
Every day before dawn would set out, basically when it was completely dark before camping on the spot, three meals a day were dry food eaten in the case of marching, the conditions were very difficult, Surdak even gave up his green scale horse, carrying the supplies carried by the legion.
He mixed in with the infantry regiment and ate and lived with everyone, and hurried all the way to Acre Town.
Since the top commanders of the legions have set an example in this way, the soldiers have no complaints.
The march was not slow, and after seven days of continuous walking, the heavy infantry regiment stepped into the edge of the boundary monument of Acre Town, and a huge boulder more than seven meters high stood on the side of the road, without any words written on it, and a huge rune was engraved in the center of the boulder.
The marks of the rune had become a little blurry over the years, but the first time Surdak saw the rune, he recognized it as a symbol in the language of runes.
The army hurried past the front of Runeterra, and walked along a large road that did not grow grass for more than a day, and finally reached the town of Acre at the foot of the eastern mountains of the Great Snow Mountain.
The flat plateau came to an abrupt end here in the town of Acre, and the terrain to the north suddenly turned into a steep snow-capped ridge, and even the east side was a majestic and steep snow-capped mountain.
Along the way, the light cavalry regiment hunted at least a few dozen small groups of hellhounds, and they were the most profitable team in the legion.
When I entered the town of Acre, two magicians happened to come out of the town to greet them, and I didn't see the Archswordsmen of Quintas and Chester.
Although Surdak knew that this place had been wiped out by the Constructed Swordsman Regiment, he did not expect that the Constructed Swordsman Regiment had completely occupied the town of Acre, and the hell demons here were dying and running, and the town was very quiet.
After inquiring with the two magicians, he learned that the Archswordsman of Quintas and the Archswordsman of Chester each entered the Great Snow Mountain with a group of constructed swordsmen to clear the stronghold of the Dark Arts Hermitage in the snowy mountains.
This time, the Constructed Swordsmen Regiment gathered more than 1,500 Constructed Swordsmen, and the two Great Swordsmen each took 500 Swordsmen.
There are only 500 constructed swordsmen left who cannot fully control the entire town of Acre, and only guard the most important magical area in the town.
Although the constructed swordsmen occasionally took the time to hunt down those low-level demons in the town, forcing them to hide everywhere, the constructed swordsmen have never been able to completely eradicate these low-level demons.
To this day, many of the town's houses are still home to Hellhounds, Gog, and Shadow Demons.
There are also many cavemen hiding in the underground tunnels.
They are probably afraid of being killed, and they will all hide during the day and only run out at night.
There are dark clouds over the town of Acre, and the snowy mountains are covered with snow only at the summit, and when you enter the town, you will be greeted by the wind that blows in front of you, and there is a biting coldness in it.
There was a dead silence over the entire town of Acre, and there were traces of battle everywhere, and only on the main street could you see the figures of the swordsmen, and Surdak seemed to feel the strong demonic aura of the town.
There are no walls in Acre Town, and the outermost part of the town is the courtyard wall of the town's residents' houses, the kind of courtyard walls made of bluestone are uneven, some courtyards are planted with trees, some courtyards have only simple walls, a main street road extends, and occasionally you can see the flame of Gege from the walls and windows of the houses, and there are also crypt people in some ditches.
They appear to be very alert, just showing their heads, and disappearing the next second.
The army did not immediately enter the town of Acre, and Surdak, Archmage Harper, Samira, Gullitham and others followed the two magicians to the magical area in the northwest corner of the town.
Along the way, Surdak found that Acre was much more dilapidated than Sampu, with many of the doors and windows of the buildings being badly damaged, and the wooden furniture in the room was covered with black blood, and there were messy and post-battle marks everywhere.
It's just that after a long time, there is a kind of decadence everywhere in the town.
It can be seen that when the low-level demons appeared in Acre Town, I am afraid that the residents of the entire town were not prepared.
The mottled bloodstains on the walls seemed to recreate the scene of that day, and the townspeople were unable to respond to the sudden turn of events, and almost everyone in the town was killed by the mouth of the hellhound, and some of the inhabitants became demonic servants here.
Some of the wooden buildings were left with only a little black frame, the masonry houses had collapsed badly, and some of the dark soil in the town had begun to grow some dark purple weeds, which were plants that only found in the hellish world.
Obviously, Ake Town has been seriously invaded by demons, and even the environment here has even suffered a certain degree of demonization.
The Enchanted Quarter was also badly damaged, with many of the shops seemingly on fire and now in ruins.
Surdak rode into Acre on a blue-scaled horse, and it could be seen that the town was also quite prosperous, and the central street of Acre Town was lined with shops, and if it weren't for the blood stains on the walls and glass, Surdak would even feel like he had entered an ancient city that had been sealed for a long time.
Many of the magic shops are open, the goods inside are long gone, and many of the shelves have collapsed.
Most of the street trees on both sides of the street have also died, and there are even some purple plants growing in the flower beds, and the purple leaves obviously do not need sunlight and rain to grow well.
Surdak looked up and saw the town's Magic Tower, a three-story stone circular building, not very tall, but round and flat like a three-story birthday cake, with an outer cloister and elaborate stone pillars carved in relief.
In front of the magic tower is a huge square, and in the middle there is a pool that no longer sprays, and the water in the pool is actually purple.
Seeing the pyramid-shaped altar made of huge skeletons in the square, Surdak's heart seemed to be struck by a heavy hammer, and his heart seemed to stop suddenly at this moment, it was an altar made of corpses, at least thousands of corpses could be built into such a large altar.
The corpses piled up on the altar were supposed to be sacrifices, their bodies devoid of blood, and their faces were hideous, looking like dried corpses.
The altar in the square was bound by silver chains, which were as thick as an arm, and connected from the top of the altar to all sides of the square.
At this time, Surdak noticed the square in front of the magic tower, which seemed to be a large magic circle spliced together by hundreds of magic rune boards, and there were magic lines drawn between these magic rune boards, which seemed to be the handwriting of a great magician.
Streams of mana were drawn from around the square, continuously pouring into the center of the altar.
Surdak turned his head to look at Archmage Harper at this time, and there was no surprise on his face, and it was immediately clear that he should be in the know.
Since it had always been the Mage Regiment that had passed on the news from the side of the Constructing Swordsman Regiment, Surdak didn't know that there was such a large magic array in Acre Town.
Surdak and Archmage Harper followed the two magicians to the edge of the square, and the two magicians said to Archmage Harper, "Teacher Harper, Teacher Morrison is on the altar!" ”
Archmage Harper nodded slightly, turned his head to Surdak and smiled and asked, "How is it, do you want to go up with me to have a look?" ”
Surdak touched his nose and said to Archmage Harper, "The Archswordsman of Quintas wrote to urge me to come to Acre Town, I'm afraid it's also for this matter, right?" ”
As he spoke, he gestured to the altar in front of him......
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