Chapter 166: The Collapse of the Empire
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In the following time, Lin Lei rarely relaxed and devoted himself to the study of magic knowledge.
Lin Lei stayed in Noah Academy for a short time, and the huge collection of books in the Central Library was only a drop in the ocean, even if he understood them all, his understanding of magic was still far from enough.
If it is based on Raleigh's logo, Lin Lei is also a "tool that can release magic", although he invented the "Ao Dai Light", but this is completely the credit of the "Babel Sphere" and Nina who have not been used a few times and do not know the specific mystery, the only thing Lin Lei has done is to provide spiritual support.
Three months passed in a blink of an eye, Lin Lei read magic books during the day, stayed in the cultivation room at night and worked hard for magic promotion, occasionally visited various magic shops to spend a little money, and lived a simple and peaceful life.
In these three months, the expansion of Lei Cheng has begun to take shape, the entire urban area has been ten times larger, in three months, the number of people who come to work for Lei Cheng has reached 30,000, but everyone is still very busy, Lei Cheng is growing rapidly at a speed that makes people unprepared.
Everything looks delightful. However, an unprecedented riot is sweeping in.
In the third month after Lin Lei left Ancheng, the Mercenary Guild released official news from the empire that Heidelberg, a large city that had only been built by the Andriol family for three years, had been captured by the demon dwarf army.
Garrisoned with 60,000 mercenaries, three seventh-level high-level warriors, one eighth-level peak warrior, and a seventh-level great magician, Heidelberg was destroyed in just three hours, and only the city lord, that is, the seventh-level great magician, escaped with serious injuries.
On the night of Heidelberg's destruction, within twenty miles behind him, three medium-sized cities that had lost Heidelberg's protection were also attacked by the demon dwarf army that followed.
Subsequently, the demon dwarves drove straight into the city and attacked a large city belonging to the Ogilvy family.
Fortunately, the Ogilvy family had foreseen it, and when Heidelberg was attacked, they had already sent a space magician to carry the "Gift of the Moonlight Goddess" to the death, and finally arrived before the demon dwarves attacked the city, and scared off the demon dwarves with their scepters.
Overnight, four cities, belonging to four different families, and more than a million people were swallowed up by the Talisman Forest, but this was just the beginning.
The seventh-level archmage who escaped from serious injuries brought a key piece of confusing news - as the main force stationed in the city, the three seventh-level warriors, one eighth-level warrior, and one sixth-level archmage all disappeared before the demon dwarves attacked, and they did not participate in the defense of the city at all.
In the face of Heidelberg, which lacks the main combat power, the troll war slaves of the demon dwarves are unstoppable, and the human defense line is about to collapse at the touch of a button, which makes a large city armed to the teeth be wiped out in just three hours.
If, if the five main forces were not missing together, Heidelberg would be able to hold on twice as long even if it still couldn't hold it in the end, and it wouldn't take until dawn for the space magicians of the Ogilvy family to arrive with the "Gift of the Moonlight Goddess", and Heidelberg would still be standing, and the three medium-sized cities behind it would not have to suffer.
The news of the fall of the four cities is like the last straw that crushes the camel - in fact, it is not a straw, it is a mountain peak that has fallen down, and the Western Regions, which was already panicked, has completely triggered a tide of migration, and almost all the cities near the border, when the city gate is opened every day, there are countless merchants and residents with their families, who can't wait to leave the city.
Most of them carry their accumulated wealth on the road, however, many do not reach their destination - mercenaries are not just mercenaries, when they are not on a mission, they can take off their armor, they can also kill and rob, and everything that can be done by their force.
On the long journey to the interior, the missing mercenaries, in addition to the merchants, there are many mercenaries, who have "earned" enough wealth to no longer need to engage in the profession of mercenaries.
In addition, the sudden influx of a large number of migrants also brought heavy pressure to the cities in the rear, and most of the cities had vicious public order incidents skyrocketed, and even local riots occurred.
On the fifth day after the fall of Heidelberg, the Imperial Palace finally stopped sitting idly by, and ordered the Western Regions Military Department to send an army of one million Magines to the nearby cities to assist in garrisoning.
On the same day, the Andriol family sent the great elder of the family, a ninth-level great magician, to come to Thunder City, forcibly "borrowed" the scepter, not only threatened to destroy Thunder City, but also injured Alyssa, the furious Alyssa gave him a knife without saying a word, and the great elder was seriously injured and fled.
On the sixth day, the demon dwarf reappeared, this time, the vigilant humans found it early, the demon dwarf had just emerged from the ground, and it was still dozens of miles away from the city before it was detected by the great magician of the wind system who went out of the city to reconnoitre, so he ...... This newly rising family abandoned their only city and directly led the garrison to abandon the city and flee.
But there were nearly 300,000 inhabitants in the city, some of whom planned to wait for the Empire's rescue, some who had not yet thought about which city they should go to continue their livelihood, and those who were too many to give up for a while, and for whatever reason, they were abandoned and then ...... There is no then.
On the seventh day, the Andriol family announced the abandonment of Andriol Fort, and all the inhabitants were to be evacuated to the rear city under the protection of the mercenaries stationed in the city. On the same day, several insignificant small and medium-sized cities also announced their evacuations.
On the eighth day, the demon dwarves attacked again, destroying three cities, but the million-strong army of the empire, which should have arrived, had not even completed half of the journey at this time—the crowd of migrants rushing all the way to the rear firmly blocked all the roads to the border.
Wilhelm the Great has always been in line with the predatory strategy of letting go and nourishing the country by war, creating one after another aggressive cities in the Western Regions, the empire does not spend a penny in vain and takes endless taxes, but does not even need to garrison into the forest, until the destruction of Citizen, the imperial palace began to face up to this problem, however, this involves too many levels of interests.
Three months have passed, and the military department is still arguing over the location, and the demon dwarves have come to their nests.
On the ninth day, the Ogilvy family announced the evacuation of three cities. These three cities are not on the border, but relatively close, and at the same time, the city under construction behind the fortress of Obier has completely stopped work and withdrawn to the base camp of the Ogilvy family, Ogilvy Century City, and the fortress of Obiel has been evacuated for three days.
On the tenth day, the Western Regions ushered in a greater migration wave, all the borderline cities announced their withdrawal on this day, and the Imperial Palace also issued an emergency imperial decree at a later time, requiring all cities below the first level of security to fully evacuate, and at the same time, the Imperial Palace sent ten "Royal Venerables" to cooperate with the mercenaries to protect the evacuation along the way.
On the eleventh day, the demon dwarves gathered countless armies and slaughtered the fleeing humans along the abandoned life passage between the cities, and the life passage became a desperate path overnight, ten royal venerables, four of them died suddenly, and the remaining six, one fell, and five fled in panic.
On the twelfth day, the southern, northern, and eastern regions suddenly came with bad news at the same time, nearly three hundred seventh-level and above solidified warriors, and more than two hundred great magicians died one after another, including three tenth-level great magicians, six ninth-level magicians, and eleven eighth-level great magicians.
In the following time, Lin Lei rarely relaxed and devoted himself to the study of magic knowledge.
Lin Lei stayed in Noah Academy for a short time, and the huge collection of books in the Central Library was only a drop in the ocean, even if he understood them all, his understanding of magic was still far from enough.
If it is based on Raleigh's logo, Lin Lei is also a "tool that can release magic", although he invented the "Ao Dai Light", but this is completely the credit of the "Babel Sphere" and Nina who have not been used a few times and do not know the specific mystery, the only thing Lin Lei has done is to provide spiritual support.
Three months passed in a blink of an eye, Lin Lei read magic books during the day, stayed in the cultivation room at night and worked hard for magic promotion, occasionally visited various magic shops to spend a little money, and lived a simple and peaceful life.
In these three months, the expansion of Lei Cheng has begun to take shape, the entire urban area has been ten times larger, in three months, the number of people who come to work for Lei Cheng has reached 30,000, but everyone is still very busy, Lei Cheng is growing rapidly at a speed that makes people unprepared.
Everything looks delightful. However, an unprecedented riot is sweeping in.
In the third month after Lin Lei left Ancheng, the Mercenary Guild released official news from the empire that Heidelberg, a large city that had only been built by the Andriol family for three years, had been captured by the demon dwarf army.
Garrisoned with 60,000 mercenaries, three seventh-level high-level warriors, one eighth-level peak warrior, and a seventh-level great magician, Heidelberg was destroyed in just three hours, and only the city lord, that is, the seventh-level great magician, escaped with serious injuries.
On the night of Heidelberg's destruction, within twenty miles behind him, three medium-sized cities that had lost Heidelberg's protection were also attacked by the demon dwarf army that followed.
Subsequently, the demon dwarves drove straight into the city and attacked a large city belonging to the Ogilvy family.
Fortunately, the Ogilvy family had foreseen it, and when Heidelberg was attacked, they had already sent a space magician to carry the "Gift of the Moonlight Goddess" to the death, and finally arrived before the demon dwarves attacked the city, and scared off the demon dwarves with their scepters.
Overnight, four cities, belonging to four different families, and more than a million people were swallowed up by the Talisman Forest, but this was just the beginning.
The seventh-level archmage who escaped from serious injuries brought a key piece of confusing news - as the main force stationed in the city, the three seventh-level warriors, one eighth-level warrior, and one sixth-level archmage all disappeared before the demon dwarves attacked, and they did not participate in the defense of the city at all.
In the face of Heidelberg, which lacks the main combat power, the troll war slaves of the demon dwarves are unstoppable, and the human defense line is about to collapse at the touch of a button, which makes a large city armed to the teeth be wiped out in just three hours.
If, if the five main forces were not missing together, Heidelberg would be able to hold on twice as long even if it still couldn't hold it in the end, and it wouldn't take until dawn for the space magicians of the Ogilvy family to arrive with the "Gift of the Moonlight Goddess", and Heidelberg would still be standing, and the three medium-sized cities behind it would not have to suffer.
The news of the fall of the four cities is like the last straw that crushes the camel - in fact, it is not a straw, it is a mountain peak that has fallen down, and the Western Regions, which was already panicked, has completely triggered a tide of migration, and almost all the cities near the border, when the city gate is opened every day, there are countless merchants and residents with their families, who can't wait to leave the city.
Most of them carry their accumulated wealth on the road, however, many do not reach their destination - mercenaries are not just mercenaries, when they are not on a mission, they can take off their armor, they can also kill and rob, and everything that can be done by their force.
On the long journey to the interior, the missing mercenaries, in addition to the merchants, there are many mercenaries, who have "earned" enough wealth to no longer need to engage in the profession of mercenaries.
In addition, the sudden influx of a large number of migrants also brought heavy pressure to the cities in the rear, and most of the cities had vicious public order incidents skyrocketed, and even local riots occurred.
On the fifth day after the fall of Heidelberg, the Imperial Palace finally stopped sitting idly by, and ordered the Western Regions Military Department to send an army of one million Magines to the nearby cities to assist in garrisoning.
On the same day, the Andriol family sent the great elder of the family, a ninth-level great magician, to come to Thunder City, forcibly "borrowed" the scepter, not only threatened to destroy Thunder City, but also injured Alyssa, the furious Alyssa gave him a knife without saying a word, and the great elder was seriously injured and fled.
On the sixth day, the demon dwarf reappeared, this time, the vigilant humans found it early, the demon dwarf had just emerged from the ground, and it was still dozens of miles away from the city before it was detected by the great magician of the wind system who went out of the city to reconnoitre, so he ...... This newly rising family abandoned their only city and directly led the garrison to abandon the city and flee.
But there were nearly 300,000 inhabitants in the city, some of whom planned to wait for the Empire's rescue, some who had not yet thought about which city they should go to continue their livelihood, and those who were too many to give up for a while, and for whatever reason, they were abandoned and then ...... There is no then.
On the seventh day, the Andriol family announced the abandonment of Andriol Fort, and all the inhabitants were to be evacuated to the rear city under the protection of the mercenaries stationed in the city. On the same day, several insignificant small and medium-sized cities also announced their evacuations.
On the eighth day, the demon dwarves attacked again, destroying three cities, but the million-strong army of the empire, which should have arrived, had not even completed half of the journey at this time—the crowd of migrants rushing all the way to the rear firmly blocked all the roads to the border. (To be continued.) )