Chapter 163: The Arnous War
"Hadi's temple ......" Shen Sen muttered these words silently, not knowing what to think again.
"Are we going?" Lori asked with a hesitant expression.
"Maybe go, but not now." Shen Sen shook his head.
"I'm more worried about the swarms that may continue to appear in the Forest of Schulz than the so-called gods, or the black fog that has a high chance of being at a higher latitude."
After all, according to the current intelligence, the gods of the fantasy world are not omnipotent, and there are no unaware means of attack.
For example, taking people's lives thousands of miles away, or summoning meteorites to descend into the world to attack the enemy, otherwise their group of people would have been gone for a long time.
In this way, it is not so urgent to solve the other party, and if he is not very sure, Shen Sen will not rashly challenge the other party.
On the one hand, it is because of the lack of information on the other side, and on the other hand, it is due to the consideration of the large number of believers on the other side.
Shen Sen was not afraid of killing, but he also did not want to abuse killing.
If he could, he wanted to use softer means to disintegrate the opponent's power and strengthen his own strength.
Looks like we'll have to figure out how to solve this problem first.
Shen Sen stood up, walked out of the command car, looked at the forest that had almost become bare, and had some plans in his heart.
The "empire" itself, as the hegemonic state of the fantasy world, does not have a name.
Names are a tool used to distinguish oneself from others. The emperor refers to the king of kings who rules over various nations and tribes and reigns over kingdoms.
The country is unparalleled, the military is invincible, and no one can match the unique existence, so the arrogant idea that it doesn't need a name.
The river that flows from the Ice and Snow Mountains to the blue sea is called Luochuan, and it takes about two days to walk inland from the sea to reach the imperial capital.
The ships that carry out the sea transport smoothly go back and forth between Luochuan and the blue sea.
The palace is located on the easternmost of the five hills of the imperial capital, and there is a vast flat area in the middle of the hill called Satirai.
To the east, west, south, and north of it sat a beautiful white and sub-colored building, and then they were surrounded by a wider forest without any gaps.
This beautiful deep green is the hue that dominates the palace.
It was under such circumstances that the activities of the imperial capital began.
For the fantasy world, the current policy is to establish local forces under Itarica's control, with them as the main force, responsible for the mission of driving out the neon and liberating the fantasy world.
In the past, in order to assist various nobles to help him recruit troops, Shen Sen sent troops to set up activity bases in several places in the imperial capital.
For example, the warehouse of the Imperial Capital branch of the Itarica Cargo Center, or the izakaya on the street, is a place where people can enter and leave without suspicion.
Now they have added another task, that is, while accelerating the expansion of their troops, they will increase the tasks of investigation, division, and absorption of god believers.
Although the number of troops increased greatly after an expansion, with the opening of the new battlefield in Schulz, even with the support of advanced equipment, the personnel began to appear to be somewhat stretched.
The insect swarm plus the unknown gods must not be underestimated, and they must be 100% prepared.
And the three battlefields of the Fantasy World Empire, Neon, and Blue Star Non-Southern Alliance, which may break out at any time, as well as the small branches attached to them, also need a well-armed team to deal with them.
Therefore, Shen Sen must once again enhance the strength of the army, both in quantity and quality, and must ensure that there is a substantial improvement.
At the same time, it would have been better if, in the process, the Church of the Spirits had been dismantled, modern ideas had been disseminated, and the conscripted soldiers had been modernized.
Among the many areas, one of the most brilliant is the slum Modong detached house on the border of the south east gate of the imperial capital.
Although this place is also within the scope of the imperial capital, it is mixed with various races, ethnicities, orcs, etc., and good people will never approach here.
After a few steps, a pickpocket will reach over, and someone will sneak in behind.
Of the rows of storefronts, few are reliable.
I don't know how to use obscene props, all kinds of forbidden drugs, and slaves taken from all over the place are auctioned.
Of course, humans also want to live here, so there are also stores that sell food-grade clothing, but in this place, there are all problems with the provenance of the goods.
The clothes in the clothing store were either stained with blood or had traces of battle.
In the grocery store, even the weeds on the side of the road are sold, and in the case of the butcher shop, the first thing to suspect is what kind of meat is, for fear that one accidentally buys human flesh cheaply.
Because it is a dark street, it is full of men who exude a tense atmosphere, with a murderous and crazy aura like a sword on their bodies, wolves or hexapods. You can also see Oak and Goblins.
The remnants of the Coalition Army of the Kingdoms will flow here to do the work of theft, intimidation, and violence, in short, all of them are outlaws.
If you are a woman, you look at the girls around you with a graceful gaze, or you can look at the woman in the distance in a daze with the smell of cigarettes characteristic of the fantasy world wafting in the air with a decadent atmosphere.
Because no one is doing any normal work, this is also a famous flower willow street.
Races include humans, hybrids, and cat-people, as well as races with canine ears, snakes, horns, or winged banshees and winged people.
Big fish eat little fish. It's a matter of course here. So the inhabitants here did not care about the corpses on the road.
It's a day to be able to mix for a day, and no one cares about this kind of thing that happens every day, and that's the attitude of the people who live here.
"Green Sword Fairy"
This is not Itarica, which has absorbed the sediment of the defeated army of the Imperial Capital and continues to develop in a negative and dark direction.
One of the new strongholds was chosen in the Black Street for a simple reason, on the one hand, the Black Street has the largest number of sub-humans, and on the other hand, there are the most battles and deaths, which means that there are a large number of Pluto believers here.
In fact, no matter what happens in this dark street, it will not spread to the outside. In this sense, the street also has a strong hidden effect.
However, to some extent, there is also a certain negative meaning, there are several famous characters in the black street.
Compared to the people on the streets, the people who came from the wasteland or the blue star to participate in the recruitment mission were quite good in terms of bearing, and they were also very generous in paying.
When entrusting work, they always pay twice as much as the corner on this side.
And to the corners, who have ruled the street for a long time, they are an eyesore.
The guy from somewhere else bought a house and swaggered every day to promote the Star Empire to those sub-people.
He didn't know how to greet the horns, ignoring the order on the street and the authority of the bosses.
And because they always pay such a high salary, it seriously undermines the market order they have formulated, and many people are cautious.
These subtle events piled up and made the corners who ruled the street angry.
Seeing that the other party was so rich, they then planned to make a fortune and threaten the other party, gathered their men and ran with the gangsters on the street to attack the recruitment office in Itarica's Black Street.
Then, they should be greeted by the baptism of modern firearms.
In the face of these guys, the rules of engagement are very simple. Kill the enemy when you find it, and you don't care about the others at all.
In this way, the team of the Black Street Recruitment Office, using overwhelming combat power, killed all of the hornheads' men, and the corpses were piled up on the road into a hill.
Moreover, in the case of a clear contrast in numbers, the entire battle took less than half an hour.
Several of the horns who came to attack not only lost all their subordinates, but their residences were also exposed.
Losing his house and his subordinates, and losing the force and authority to protect himself, he paid the price for his lawlessness so far.
Seeing their miserable corpses, the people on the street secretly talked: they couldn't do anything to those people.
For the underdog of the Black Street, the mysterious group from the so-called Empire of the Stars is a rather benevolent and powerful force.
They treat everyone equally, promoting ideas that at first sound shocking but make perfect sense when you think about it.
At the same time, what is even more shocking is that they seem to have the divine power to predict the future.
Because one night, the emperor was struck by an earthquake, just as they had warned everyone in advance.
As soon as I heard the sound of the earth in the distance, it suddenly began to shake violently from front to back, left and right.
I had never experienced such a violent shaking, and I didn't think about earthquake resistance at all, but the buildings were made of stones and the ones with the less strength easily collapsed.
In this sense, the infrastructure side by side on Imperial Capital Street has not been completely destroyed. But the hurt in people's hearts is quite profound.
The earthquake warning issued by the Itarica Research Office is about 5 magnitude.
It happened in the middle of the night, and the people of the imperial capital were perfectly raided.
Before he was surprised to be kicked out of bed by an earthquake in his deep sleep and suddenly shattered his restful sleep, all kinds of things poured down, and the shelves and ceilings fell to the ground one after another.
The closet had collapsed, cut by fragments of pottery, utensils, and vases that had fallen to the bed, and there were so many fragments scattered on the floor that there was no place to stand.
The people of the imperial capital have the impression that the earth is absolutely immovable, and it is also a symbol of rock solidity.
Water will stay, wind will blow, fire will burn, and trees will grow. Then the earth will not move. This is the law of the world.
At this moment when this law is broken, people even feel that the world is about to end. This kind of terror and despair has carved deep spiritual trauma on people's souls.
The only way to foresee such a natural disaster is a god or an animal with a perception far superior to that of humans.
However, the mysterious group did it.
Even if they had told them that the earth would shake, they couldn't imagine what would happen.
Therefore, the moment the earthquake occurred, they were shocked quite strongly.
First of all, there is a slight shaking from the initial shock.
The length of the initial vibration is proportional to the distance of the hypocenter. Then, when the distance of the hypocenter is determined, the stronger the initial tremor, the larger the magnitude of the earthquake.
Then the real shaking began.
Starting with a strong impact, the earth began to shake violently.
About thirty or forty seconds passed until the end. But for the people of the imperial capital, who had encountered an earthquake for the first time since their birth, it was as if they had spent eternity.
The sound of the trees shaking as they swayed as they took root in the ground, and the sound of the branches and leaves scraping was like the sound of a giant monster running through it.
Both men and women were shouting wildly, except for the group of mysterious people.
They are reliable, like gods.
After the shaking stopped, they participated in the relief work in an orderly manner, and thanks to this, the work progress of the enlistment offices in the districts was greatly improved.
In the days following the repulsion of the swarm, a total of three major events took place.
First, Shen Sen captured Giselle, the apostle of the god of the underworld, and learned from the bits and pieces of information she revealed that the disaster that occurred in the Shulz Forest was not a natural disaster but a divine disaster.
Second, there was an urgent communication from personnel in Itarica, reporting that earthquakes had occurred in several cities within the empire.
Third, researchers stationed in the Forest of Schulz found that the arrangement of stars in the sky of the fantasy world had been significantly deflected in a short period of time.
Although the three things seem to be unrelated, at this time, people have to associate their successive appearances.
Overall, the situation in the fantasy world does not seem to be optimistic, on the premise that accidents cannot be ruled out. It's hard not to think that if left unchecked, it could lead to a more serious situation.
Make bold assumptions and be careful to verify!
After a large number of scholars' discussions, they suggested that perhaps there was a factor in the fantasy world that caused these things to happen.
Analysis and analysis, the focus of the fantasy world once again returned to the Hill of Arnus and the gates of time and space that existed there.
The disease must be eradicated!
If the many anomalies that appear in the fantasy world are related to the space-time gate on the hill of Arnous, then the primary goal at the moment must be to find a way to investigate it from a quiet distance.
It's a pity that the gate of time and space is in the hands of Neon, and it is impossible for them to let them out, and the only way seems to be war is left.
A few days after this decision was made, the soldiers from the fantasy world who had arrived in Itarica, from all regions, formed a long line and marched on the gravel road that led to the hill of Arnus.
The heavy tires of the heavy armored transporter kicked up a cloud of dust, and the landscape of Arnous was veiled.
Tens of thousands of soldiers, with guns in their hands, looked forward and straightened their muscles, the heels of their half-boots walked with broad steps, and the members were full of vitality.
Everyone knew that the next challenge would be their first battle. The Hill of Arnous seemed to be covered in the heat of this hot blood.
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