Chapter 60: The Imperial Civil War
The former Redstone Ridge mining site has been completely occupied by the huge Kota wormhole, and purple-black connective tissue spreads from the site where the wormhole meets the ground, forming a large area of thick and soft worm moss in the surrounding area. The swift wolf's agile figure weaves through the forest, transporting prey caught in the forest to the area, then tearing open their throats and letting the blood seep into the moss-covered ground.
These prey include beasts and humans, and even corpses, but the insects and mosses do not refuse to come, constantly secreting acidic solutions that break down all the prey into nutrients and energy that feed the wormholes at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although it all seems to be in order, the energy obtained is actually only enough to maintain the basic operation of the wormhole.
The location of Red Rock Ridge was awkward for invaders from underground, on the southern edge of the Yunlu Mountains, with no abundant forest resources for hunting or dense and thriving human settlements, with the Isttalon clearing the nearby forests every once in a while they themselves hid in stone castles ten miles away.
Not only El, but even the Landwalker himself felt that this thing was too big, and the bigger the wormhole, the higher the energy consumption. According to the reconnaissance information sent back by the cockroach, the vanguard of the legion organized a sneak attack on the human city, but the other party not only reacted in time, but also a hedgehog that was difficult to mouth, and the meat was not eaten into a riot. Without enough energy to replenish it, the completion of the wormhole's evolution stagnated.
As long as he thought of the anger of Her Royal Highness the princess on the other side of the wormhole, the cold sweat on Kumo's head kept flowing. If the wormhole passage cannot be opened before dawn, the offensive and defensive posture of the Earthwalker and the human will be reversed. The combat effectiveness of the vanguard will gradually wear out due to the rising temperature, and I am afraid that even the defense line will not be maintained, and the human knights under the protection of the sun will recover their combat strength and trample everything here under the iron hooves.
Humanity in the underworld is plagued by a spreading plague, and the situation in the underworld is similarly bleak.
After the eruption of the underground volcano Sumila, the Kurenstan Empire founded by the Drow Elves was swallowed up by the rushing lava, leaving only a third of the territory to survive. Having lost the elven empire, the biggest external threat, the royal princesses on the border of Chen Bing immediately targeted their sisters.
The Royal Civil War is one of the iconic ancient customs of the Landwalker tribe, once considered a symbol of uncivilized barbarism by other civilizations. In the eyes of outsiders, these bugs have a paranoid love of cannibalism, and as they do now, the princesses turn a blind eye to the drastic changes in the natural environment, and fight each other in the hot and rainy lava fields, even if the whole army is wiped out.
The Langa tribe was originally just a branch of the royal family that migrated from the Northern Underground Empire, or it can be said that it was the loser of the previous generation of royal civil wars, but the fact that the civil war was defeated and still able to escape also means that the princess who led this army is extremely powerful. After the defeat in the civil war, Her Majesty Rangamir, the princess of the year and the current queen, immediately decided to leave the country and led the legion to the southern underground world, and forcibly carved out a world.
Although the indigenous races of the underworld are biased towards the chaotic evil camp, they also have the protection of the evil gods, and are very hostile to the unbelieving earthwalkers. Princess Rangamir was not afraid of difficulties, on the one hand, she maintained an offensive posture and threatened the surrounding dungeons, on the other hand, she secretly sold biological weapons such as royal insect eggs and war king insects, sowing discord between the various tribes, and finally gained a foothold in the south, obtained the land where her tribe thrived, and was finally crowned king.
Thirty years ago, Her Majesty took the resource-rich Mushroom Plains from the Drow Empire, thus solving the food crisis that was hindering the development of the tribe. Freed from the plight of lack of food, the Langa tribe immediately grew at a terrifying rate. By the time of the eruption of Mount Sumila, the Langa tribe had already given birth to hundreds of princesses, and although only nine of them had reached adulthood and established legions, it was enough to terrify the other races in the southern underworld.
The Earthwalker royal family has a powerful bloodline power, and this power can be enhanced by devouring blood relatives. So the first thing every princess does when she is born is to kill her blood sisters. Eating or being eaten is both a natural and a real compulsion. In fact, in recorded history, there are only a handful of examples of the existence of nine adult princesses in the clan at the same time.
In addition to nature, the limited resource quota within the clan and the unlimited need to expand the legion are also important reasons for the royal civil war. The apparent harmony between the nine princesses is actually out of fear of Queen Langamir.
As one of the most competitive heirs to the empire, Her Majesty has never given up on plans to return home. In order to accumulate strength, she forcibly stopped the fight between the princesses and asked them to work together. However, forced repression could not solve the most basic problem of profit distribution, and when the queen left the clan to seek a solution to the environmental problem, the princesses' decades-old resentment immediately erupted like a volcano beneath their feet.
Originally, the cause of the incident was just a daily quarrel between the two highnesses, but due to the lack of the queen's deterrence, the sesame-sized mess soon snowballed and became uncontrollable, and eventually evolved into an indiscriminate melee of nine legions.
Until now, Cuomo didn't know which Highness he was fighting against, he was originally just a small commander who relied on his aristocratic status to eat in the legion, but he didn't expect to be suddenly promoted to the commander of the vanguard unit by the line of fire. After taking office, he learned that in the past few months, twelve unlucky ghosts who had sat in this seat had died in the line of duty. His Highness Rangalia's command style is cautious, and he has always been willing to use small vanguard troops to test the depth of his opponents, even if they are all dead.
I have to say that Kumo's luck is not bad, when he took office, he happened to meet two highnesses in the royal city to fight the sky and shatter, and His Royal Highness Rangalia shrank his army all the way, intending to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. As a result, the reconnaissance troops, who were read as cannon fodder by the pioneer writers, finally had plenty of time to recuperate.
Benefiting from her patience, a troop carrying booty from the royal city broke into an ambush and was swallowed in one bite. A certain highness seems to have red eyes, and even Her Majesty's strategic reserve warehouse dared to ransack, but he didn't expect that in the end, it was all cheaper.
The Kota wormhole that has been built now is one of the Queen's inventory, and judging from the scale, it is obvious that His Majesty Rangamir is preparing to return to the north, but now it is being squandered by the princesses. Her Royal Highness Rangalia is even more with the mentality of breaking the jar, anyway, the royal city was not looted by her own hands. As the lava gradually engulfs the remnants of the underworld, the pressure to survive will force the princesses to wage a more brutal war, and instead of fighting for the remaining food resources, it is better to take this vote and leave the country.
It just so happened that the secret passage dug up by the kobold was discovered due to the loss of the shielding perception of the eggs of the insects, which strengthened Rangalia's desire to escape. Although the terrestrial world is not very suitable for the survival of the landwalkers, it is better than staying and waiting to die.
When Kumo climbed up from the tunnel, he still thanked the kobold for their hard work, if they hadn't been for themselves, they might have been sent to the front line at any time, and this pathfinding work would have been much safer. But now he wants to suck these filthy little brutes to death, and you can't dig anywhere, but dig next to the human fortress.
In the evening skirmish, Cuomo lost a third of his troops and five junior officers, the troops could be replenished, but the officers were all of noble origin, and in the current situation it can be said that one died one less than one. The human knights on the other side seemed to be endless, only to be hindered by the darkness of the night.
The Night is home to the Earthwalkers, as they live underground all year round and do not need a light source to fight. If there are enough troops, Cuomo will surely launch a sneak attack to drive the human army back to their castle. But because the original passage was used to build the Kota wormhole, not only could he not be replenished by troops, but he also had to occupy most of his manpower and material resources.
How much energy does it take for this thing to kick in?
Cuomo scolded in his heart, but his face could only remain silent. The surviving junior officers were already visibly uneasy, and he had to remain calm and confident now, or he would inevitably be stabbed in the back by these bastards. Cannibalism is not unique to the royal family, and the aristocracy may even be even more aggressive at times, as it is now.
Perhaps it was his constant prayers and curses that finally took effect, and as the flesh poured out, the sleeping behemoth slowly squirmed.
"Your Excellency, the wormhole is operational, and we have made contact with the other side. A junior officer ran over and reported loudly.
"Very well, tell the troops to get out of the way. Cuomo nodded, waved his hand, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. As soon as the follow-up troops arrive through the wormhole, his mission will be over. As for the next battle with humans, he doesn't need to worry about it.
He looked up at the sky, where the silver moon and the red moon had already staggered, which meant that most of the night had passed, according to the tribal tradition of the terrestrial world. The stars in the night sky were shining brightly, and the light shimmered like a long silver river flowing slowly, which was a wonderful and gorgeous scenery that he had only heard of in the underground world but had never seen before.
"Presumably Her Royal Highness will like it too, right?" a thought suddenly flashed through Kumo's mind.
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