Chapter1003 The Battle of Ishokon (4)
"Agulal, you say, when is this day coming?"
"You ask me, how can I know, if you want me to say, I can live one day is one day."
"You're such a nobody, alas, I don't know what happened to Ellie."
After the main meal, Tayana had nothing else to do, the ban on going out was still in effect, and there was nothing to do at home, which almost drove the woman crazy, so the woman had to talk to her husband.
Annoyed by his wife's noise, Agulal, who no longer needed to go to work, stood in front of the window and smoked a cigarette, staring at the sky of Egooken with a frown, hoping that he could see something different.
Unfortunately, there is still no sunlight in the sky today, the whole sky is covered with black-green mist, and there are many ghosts in the clouds, as if the whole world is swallowed up by darkness, and there is no hope and light in sight.
Even through the protective light of the tower of Yuen, he could feel the horror hidden in the darkness.
He had almost forgotten the last time he had seen a bright sky.
If there is really an end of the world in this world, then the end of the world is probably like this, and for ordinary people like him, they can only wait for death in the face of such a disaster.
He wasn't dead now because someone was blocking those horrible things where he couldn't see.
"Knock knock, Kingdom City Guard, open the door!"
The sudden and rough knock on the door attracted the attention of the husband and wife, and after glancing at Tayana, who was hesitant, Agulal carefully opened the door, only to see three soldiers of the Ishtar Kingdom standing outside the door, led by three soldiers of the Ishtar Kingdom in armor and guns, led by middle-aged men with fierce faces and burly figures, who did not look like people who could be provoked.
With a flattering look on his face, Agulal asked in a whisper.
"A few military masters, is there anything wrong?"
The leading soldier first glanced at the inside of the room, paused slightly on the body of the still charming Tayana, and then looked at the slightly humble male host, and grinned.
"You're Agoural of Omta?"
With a faint premonition in his heart, Agulal nodded.
"Yes, I'm Agoural of Omta, and I've been involved in the construction of the Tower of the Great Flying Gate before, and I know a lot of Noxians......"
"That's right, let's go, you've been drafted."
Agulal stiffened and took a step back, a forced smile on his face.
"Is there a mistake in the military master, my daughter with a talent for magic has been drafted into the army, how can it be my turn to be a useless old guy like me, and I still have to take care of my frail wife, it's really inconvenient......"
"Yes, are the adults mistaken, no matter how you say it, it won't be my husband's turn to go to war?"
Tayana also stood up to speak, but the soldier smiled coldly and didn't eat it at all.
"Don't tell me about those useless things, listen, this is an order from above, every family has to have someone, if you don't want to go, let your wife go, I'll give you a minute to think about it, and one of the people in this house has to go."
At this point, Agoural had no choice but to follow the soldiers away.
As Tayana watched Agulal's back disappear into the end of the street, the panic in her heart was stronger than ever, but there was nothing she could do.
"Master Jun, where are we going?"
"Shut your mouth and just follow it, where is so much nonsense."
Agoral, who had been reprimanded, did not dare to say anything more, and walked through two streets, four troikas parked on the carriage lane, two by two, and a dozen people sitting on the back board.
Bringing Agulal to the second carriage, the soldier pointed to the empty space on the rear carriage.
"What are you doing? Go up yourself, I still have to ask you? ”
Apprehensive, Agulal climbed into the carriage and sat silently with the other men who had been drafted.
"Obey the arrangement honestly, don't be a deserter, otherwise, hehe......"
The soldier turned to leave, and Agoural wanted to say a few words to the other people in the carriage, but a few sharp eyes swept over, and Agoural could only swallow the words back into his stomach.
When the troika was full of twenty-four people, the carriage drove in the direction of the outer city, and the four knights who accompanied him stood guard at the head and end of the convoy, ignoring the passengers of the carriage who began to whisper, and Agoural finally had a chance to speak.
"Brothers, how did you get drafted?"
"How else can you be drafted, of course, you are called up."
The tall, thin man who spoke glanced at Agoural with a foolish gaze, and then glanced at the other four people in the same car, taking in the expressions of several people.
"Since we can't run, we can only endure it, and we can do whatever we are told to do, heh, maybe we will have a chance to get ahead after this battle."
The young man sitting across from Agulal lowered his voice.
"Does my brother know something?"
The tall, thin middle-aged man nodded triumphantly.
"My brother is very smart, but my news will not be given away in vain."
In the expectant eyes of several other people, the tall and thin man stretched out his right hand and rubbed it, with a profiteer's smile, and everyone couldn't help but be a little stunned.
"If you don't want to say it, don't say it, you really don't want to be embarrassed to do business with things that have already been done."
Agulal looked at the bald man sitting with admiration, but the tall and thin man spoke with a dissatisfied expression.
"Dead bald, I didn't force me to buy and sell, I don't buy what I like to buy, what do you care about Lao Tzu?"
As he spoke, the young man pulled out three silver coins.
"I just have so much money, brother, have you seen enough?"
The tall and thin man put on a smiley face.
"That's enough, I'll tell you alone when I get out of the car."
Before arriving at the destination, a total of two people bought the exclusive news of the tall and thin man, and Agulal actually wanted to buy it, but he didn't have that much money, so he had to give up.
The carriage finally stopped at the gate of the barracks, which seemed to have just been built, and Agulal could even see the abandoned structures outside the barracks that had not yet been demolished.
Jumping out of the carriage, twenty-four people lined up in two rows, and out of the barracks came a Noxian officer, who held a roster and swept his eyes over the crowd like a torch.
"Now the roll call begins, the one who is called by name takes the initiative to shout, Kamsky!"
"Here!"
"Odvar!"
"Here!"
"Cockburn!"
"Here!"
"Agulal!"
Agulal subconsciously straightened up and shouted, and when he saw the soldier nodding to himself, Agulal breathed a sigh of relief.
After confirming that it was correct, the bearded soldier who was named handed the roster to his adjutant, his face sank, and a fierce momentum pressed on everyone.
"My name is Renteria! Rank Major! From the Noxian Empire! Set foot on this continent to protect you weak and incompetent strangers!
From now on, you must respectfully call me Instructor Rentria! You will be in this camp for fourteen days of military training with others! Then you'll step onto the battlefield and fight the enemy as a soldier! ”
"Remember! I'll just say it once! In the training camp you must obey all my orders unconditionally! When you receive an order, you must shout that you have received! Any violation of the order will be punished with the severest punishment! If you dare to escape from the training camp, you will be beheaded immediately if you are caught by the guards! ”
"Now, everyone, follow me into the camp!"
……
"Kill !!"
On the battlefield outside the city of Esioken, countless soldiers fought with the servants of the underworld at the junction of light and darkness, and their precious lives were reduced to cold battle losses, desperately trying to take one more enemy with them before they died, or to buy time for the Holy Light Legionnaires who accompanied the army to clear one more [Death Umbrella].
Lester looked down at the entire battlefield with Vidalian, his gaze fixed on the umbrella-like plants cultivated by the Legion of the Underworld, and his expression was extremely grim.
From the moment this plant appeared on the battlefield, Egooken became somewhat passive.
For the first time, the plant named "Umbrella of Death" by the Empire appeared in the material realm, and this plant is rooted in the battlefield and can spread all over the earth, and can reproduce itself endlessly.
The sporoid bubbles spewed out by the Umbrella of Death can form new plants, or they can merge with each other to form a black-green mist similar to the Soul Eclipse Mist, but far superior to the Soul Eclipse Mist.
It is strong enough to corrupt Vidalyan's Holy Light Barrier, making the Holy Light ineffective, if it is not neutralized by the Holy Light, the Death Mist will directly kill any flesh and blood creatures, and only the life and the undead in the underworld can operate in the Death Mist, which can be described as the natural enemy of life.
The invincible light was rapidly eroded by the fog of death, and the defenders of Ishukon could no longer rely on the walls to defend the rabbits, and were forced to fight the underworld servants who guarded the umbrella of death before the fog of death spread to the city walls.
Lester tried to clear the Umbrella of Death and the Fog of Death early with a ranged attack, but the results were not satisfactory.
The most terrifying point of the Umbrella of Death is that if a plant is placed in the fog of death, the Umbrella of Death will be in a 'Shadow Projection State' that is not subject to physical attacks, whether it is a holy light attack or various shelling, the Umbrella of Death that is separated from the material realm will not suffer any damage.
If it weren't for the fact that every Death Umbrella could maintain a certain amount of Death Mist, and once it was destroyed, it could contain the spread of the Death Mist, and the Death Umbrella could simply be called a powerful and invincible existence.
At present, there is only one way to get the Death Umbrella out of the projection state, and that is to lure the Death Umbrella from the underworld with flesh and blood within a radius of 100 meters.
The Death Umbrella, eager to devour flesh, is itself an aggressive plant that emerges from its ethereal state when it senses the breath of a living person, and can then be killed by the Light or the Elemental of Magic.
This meant that the defenders of Ishokon had to go out of the city to fight and get close to the Death Umbrella's sensing range to clear the fog of death, and then maintain their position.
Naturally, the Underworld Legion would not let the Umbrella of Death be destroyed, so the most tragic battlefield appeared within 100 meters of the Umbrella of Death.
With skeletons, ghouls and ghosts as the main force, the soldiers of the undead legion were mixed in, and the defenders of Ishooken City who fought in the city brought huge casualties, but the defenders had to go out of the city to resist.
Even with a steady stream of new troops joining, he can't withstand such a battle, at least until Thea regroups the Empire's extraordinary combat power to defeat Omtar, and Seookon must not be defeated.
Like a balloon filled with water, the current city of Seooken can be punctured at the slightest poke, and if the fog of death is allowed to enter the city, it will only take less than half an hour for the city of Seooken to be reduced to death.
[The top priority is to find a way to crack the invincible characteristics of the Umbrella of Death as soon as possible, and strive to find a way to clear the blow from a distance,
Comparing the living with the dead, Ishokon could not afford to have another 10 million people, and the current city of Ishooken simply could not afford such huge casualties. 】
Lester pondered for a moment, and through Vidalion, he recruited Cassiopeia, who was in rotation.
Following a Yunthal, a slightly tired Cassiopeia made her way through the guards and up the suspended ladder at the seat of the Yunthal.
After a long and stressful period of time, Cassiopeia, who had carefully dressed herself, made it to the top of the tower and met the man standing at the top of the empire.
The girl quietly glanced at the man standing in front of the Vidalian elemental weaver with her back to her, and performed the mage ritual with reverence, and she had already understood the gold content of the strongest in the empire after experiencing the battlefield.
No one in this world can control Vidalian alone, and no one else can control Vidalian so precisely and persistently to sustain such a large war, not even her teacher, the Pale Witch.
The only person who can do this is the Emperor.
"Your Majesty is well."
"General Quekao's daughter, no need to be so polite, come here."
"Yes."
Pressing her pounding heart, Cassiopeia walked up to Lester very ladylike and covered her mouth in surprise.
In front of Lester, a miniaturized black-green umbrella-like plant was wrapped in layers of magical diaphragms, and Cassiopeia could see the umbrella-like plant opening and closing and spewing a visibly visible mist around the periphery, which was the fog of death that everyone feared so much.
"Your Majesty, is this the Umbrella of Death? I remember there was an order from above for us mages to get some research samples, but unfortunately it didn't work out. ”
Lester shook his head and said calmly.
"Of course, the enemy won't let us get this thing easily, but we can do it if we want to."
After a pause, Lester pointed to the Umbrella of Death.
"Cassiopeia, I remember that you majored in black magic and minored in soul magic and anomalous magic plants at the Black Rose Mage Academy, and I called you here this time to ask you to assist me in analyzing the botanical properties of this Death Umbrella."
"Your Majesty, little woman...... I can't help but be afraid. ”
"Next, I will use magic to simulate the growth environment of the Umbrella of Death, you will analyze and try to use your ideas to break the virtual state of the Umbrella of Death, you can talk to me while operating." (End of chapter)