Chapter 14: After the War
【Seven Birds City - Main Tower】
After hours of hard work by the guards, control of all the towers in the city has been retaken by the Wood Clan. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Only four of the seven towers in the original Seven Bird City are still in operation, and all the teleportation circles are still in a state where they can only be transmitted out but cannot be transmitted, and are currently being urgently repaired. The swarm stopped its endless frenzied attack, but still gathered around the Seven Birds City, refusing to disperse.
The guards were reassigned to various urban districts, and the city lord Lin Qifowl also rarely invited the four spirit birds of [Fire Phoenix], [Ben Thunder], [Swift Shadow], and [Rock Dragon] to assist in the defense, always keeping an eye on the movements of the insect swarm. Except for those who were killed and captured by the guards, some of the black-robed people still had time to evacuate in the future, and they were still lurking all over the city, and the guards were searching for them with all their might. The order of the entire city has basically returned to normal, but for security reasons, most of the people still choose to evacuate the Seven Birds City through the teleportation array. There are also those who are bold enough to simply return to their residences, as if nothing has happened, and some merchants have even opened their doors again and started business.
Lin Xin cast a space spell in the Fire Clan's temple and brought Lin Qifowl and the others back to the Seven Fowl City. At this moment, the people of the Mu Clan, led by the Wood Clan Patriarch Sen, and Jiao Er were all sitting in the conference hall of the main tower.
"Early in noon today, just two hours after Lord Lin Seven Birds City left Seven Birds City, Seven Birds City was attacked by a superior enemy launched by an unknown enemy. It was later confirmed that this siege operation was initiated by the [Hades Temple]. The guards of each city immediately reported the attack, opened the city protection circle according to the procedure, and asked for reinforcements at the same time. However, the operation of the [Directional Teleportation Array] of the seven towers has all failed, and it can only be transmitted out but not in, resulting in reinforcements not being able to arrive so far. "The opening is a young woman, this woman has sword eyebrows and starry eyes, her skin is like condensed fat, her face is like a peach blossom, although she is wearing a Luo shirt and a jade hairpin in her temples, she is still difficult to hide her heroic arrogance. She is Lin Xia, who is known as the Wind Chaser [Deer Messenger], and is the youngest daughter of the patriarch of the Mu clan today.
"The enemy attacked from outside the city and inside the city simultaneously, and the enemy outside the city attacked the city with swarms of sandworms and flying ants, attracting the attention of most of our defenders. The enemy's actions in the city are divided into two lines, and some elite teams directly teleport to the vicinity of the main tower through space spells and raid the main tower. The guards of the main tower headquarters were still broken through by the enemy's elite team with the [Fire Phoenix] in charge, and successfully took away the [Wood Spirit Bead], and the [Fire Phoenix] was also wounded. Through the detection of spatial power fluctuations near the main tower, we have found the approximate location of the group of people teleporting into the city.
"What is the approximate number of people in this squad?" Lin Qiyu asked.
"According to my calculation of spatial fluctuations, it should be around ten. The mana of the person who casts this spatial spell should not be underestimated, but the time to learn the space spell should still be short, so although the range of spatial fluctuations is not small, it is extremely unstable. Lin Xin replied directly, the prototype of the Wood Clan's [Directional Teleportation Array] was from him, and he had the most say in this issue.
After hearing this, Lin Qiyu fell into deep thought, and Lin Xia continued: "In addition to this elite squad, there is another team of enemies, and the other team of enemies is the point I want to talk about. It was they who quickly captured the two towers in the east, subsequently reinforced the main tower, and continued to attack the remaining towers. If it hadn't been for their sudden retreat for some reason, even if we had arrived in time, Seven Fowl City might have been out of danger by now. Unlike the squads in the main tower, there are hundreds of enemies, and we don't know that so many of them have appeared out of thin air right under our noses. If you don't rely on external forces, relying on your own ability to send hundreds of people at the same time, this kind of thing is simply unheard of and impossible. And if the enemy teleported into the Seven Birds City with the help of a magic circle or other means, then we should be able to find a second waypoint in the city, but we searched the entire Seven Birds City and couldn't find it. I think this group of enemies must have entered the Seven Birds City in a way we didn't expect. ”
What Lin Xia said was indeed true, the difficulty of spatial teleportation increased by orders of magnitude with the increase of volume. There are very few people in the world who practice space spells, and Lin Xin is the best in this. However, this kind of teleportation of hundreds of people, even Lin Xin, who was recognized as the first person in the world's space spells, could not do it at all.
"The most incredible thing is that in this battle, the fighting in the rest of the city was extremely fierce, and all the war divisions suffered casualties of varying degrees, but no traces of large-scale fighting were found inside the two towers in the eastern city. In the post-war inventory, the defenders of the headquarters in the eastern city, from the main general Mu Wei to the ordinary soldiers, did not find a single body of them, and all of them disappeared collectively. The attack inside the city was the first to be launched by the eastern city, so I speculate that the enemy most likely entered the city directly through our Wood Clan's own two teleportation circles in the two eastern towers, and then attacked the other branch towers, and coordinated with the surprise attack of the main tower and the strong attack outside the city. Lin Xia said this bold assumption, which surprised everyone present. But after thinking about it, she couldn't refute it, because as she analyzed, according to the current situation, this was indeed the only way to enter the Seven Birds City on a large scale without leaving any traces.
"The enemy knows our whereabouts so well, and came to attack the Seven Birds City at such a critical moment as the Fire Clan Patriarch's inheritance, and can enter and exit the Seven Birds City openly through our teleportation array, as if entering a no-man's land, our own reinforcements are trapped thousands of miles away, this time we are defeated, this time we are a big defeat, this is the shame of our Wood Clan. Judging from the above information, we have reason to believe that the Chengdong War Department is likely to assist in the siege of the Hades Temple this time. This is the only way to explain why the two towers in the eastern part of the city were captured by a large number of enemies who appeared out of nowhere in less than twenty minutes, while the defenders of the eastern city disappeared en masse without resistance. Everyone was silent, although according to the situation described by Lin Xia earlier, it was not difficult for everyone to make the same inference, but the fact that the main general led the war department to mutiniate collectively was still too unbelievable.
Sen said unhurriedly: "Although Lin Xia's analysis is indeed very reasonable, it is unlikely that the entire war department will be captured without resistance, but it is not absolutely impossible. Until there is solid evidence, it is not yet certain whether the Chengdong War Department of General Mu Wei really defected in all its members, and it is too unfair for them to be convicted in such a hasty manner. For the time being, the Muwei War Department will deal with all the prisoners, and that's it. Lin Xia wanted to say something more, but was directly stopped by Sen.
Lin Qiyu took Sen's words and said, "Now that the insect swarm is waiting around us like this, this is also a big hidden danger, and we can't just leave them alone." The sandworm is a kind of giant creature that lurks in the desert on weekdays, and preys on passing prey by waiting for rabbits, it is slow by nature, and does not have strong aggression, even if there is prey passing by when it does not need to eat, it will not burrow out of the ground, let alone take the initiative to attack the city. There must be someone from the Hades Temple who is secretly manipulating them nearby, this is their usual trick. And the number of these flying ants is extremely large, after all, the magic power of human beings is limited, flying ants of this scale cannot be controlled simply by manpower, combined with the results of Jiao Er's previous investigation, it is very likely that the people of the [Hades Temple] have already controlled their queens, so as to achieve the effect of controlling the ant colony. If we don't get rid of the people behind these ants and sandworms, it will be impossible for the swarm to retreat. ”
Lin Xia was very puzzled: "But I don't particularly understand one thing, in fact, the strongest wave of attacks of the [Hades Temple] has ended. Control of the tower is firmly in our hands, and the two Lords and all of you are now assisting in the defense of the Seven Birds. Relying only on these swarms and the remnants of the city, it is impossible for the enemy to make any big moves against the Seven Birds City, why are they still reluctant to retreat. And I'm curious as to why their previous offensive in the city suddenly stopped. If they had controlled all the towers in their previous assault, it was unclear who would have held the Seven Birds City now. What kind of important thing is it that is worth giving up the Seven Birds City that they have at their fingertips. You must know that after this attack, all the rest of the cities will inevitably enter the highest level of martial law, and it will not be as easy to attack any city as it is today. Unless ......"
"Unless they didn't even think about successfully taking the Seven Bird City, it was just a front for them. Lin Xin's words woke everyone up, and a biting chill crawled all over everyone's backs.
"It's not good, it's [Empty Ant]!" Jiao Er was the first to react, and as soon as he left this sentence, he immediately jumped out of the window of the council hall, stepped on the fire and shot towards the south.
Only then did everyone react, if there was anything more important than the Seven Bird City at their fingertips, [Empty Ant] was indeed the most likely answer. I didn't expect that the [Hades Temple] would not hesitate to attract their attention by attacking the city in a big way, if the [Hades Temple] took advantage of this time to take the [Empty Ants] into the bag, the world might really be in chaos again.
"Hey, maybe I'm really old. Seven birds, you can stay in the city, with you in charge, I am more relieved. The patriarch of the Mu Clan, Sen, sighed, nodded to Lin Xin beside him, and signaled that he could go. Lin Xin was already ready, his hands were sealed, and the spherical purple and black light enveloped Sen, Lin Xia and him, and in the blink of an eye, the three of them disappeared.