1.42 million corpses in the canyon
The next day, Ankka stepped out of the carriage to find that the entire bridge had been remade.
Because it was a bridge built in a hurry with iron chains and wooden planks, Anka stood on the side, hesitantly wandering left and right.
The craftsmen stopped Anka and said, "Your Majesty, please allow us to inspect our work. ”
Then, several craftsmen strode back and forth on the bridge holding hands and carrying wooden boxes on their backs.
After seeing that the bridge was fine, Ankha began to have the carriages go to the opposite side in batches.
As the artisans took the money and prepared to leave, Ankh gave them a few silver coins.
The craftsman asked, "What does this mean?" ”
"This is a deposit, I need you to build this bridge better and stronger, and when I come back, if you do make it, I will pay you more times the wages."
The craftsmen leaned over gratefully and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, and we'll get to work." ”
Anka's party made their way north, and soon came to the front of a large canyon with two entrances, one of which was a sunny avenue of light, and the other was a rocky ground full of canine-toothed rocks, and there were a lot of red eyes around the darkness.
The soldier said, "The avenue of light on your Majesty's left is filled with dazzling floating balls of light, which will turn into ashes if anyone approaches, and the path on the right is a half-human-like flying monster that is half a human high. ”
"So where is it safer?"
"It's safer on the right."
Ankh nodded and said, "Then go to the right!" ”
After that, the soldiers hung bells and oil lamps on the carriages.
Ankh asked, "Won't this go unnoticed?" ”
"Your Majesty, the monsters here are very timid, and when they hear the sound and see the light, they will treat the carriage as a bigger monster and dare not approach."
Then several carriages galloped rapidly, and the monsters lurking on the cliff were all frightened by the neighing of horses and the shaking of several oil lamps.
As the convoy drove out of the darkness, the landscape changed to a huge canyon of corpses.
The chest carcass of an unidentified monster fell to the ground and became a bridge to the front, and countless other corpses piled up on the crater and cliff face below.
As the carriage was about to leave the canyon, a terrifying screeching sound suddenly sounded from the cliff walls of the surrounding corpses.
Soldiers gathered with guns and prepared to deal with a possible enemy.
Suddenly, terrifying monsters of corpses appeared on the ground and on the cliffs, dragging their fragile bodies and making gurgling noises to keep approaching the crowd.
One of the soldiers launched the first attack with a swing of a hammer that smashed its head to pieces, but soon found new limbs from the ground and attached them to the severed limbs.
There were more and more monsters making strange noises around, and the soldiers were starting to be a little overwhelmed.
Alancy stood on top of the carriage and helped with his own breath.
The ice wall made by Alan Xi effectively blocked the advancing monsters, but instead of destroying the ice wall, they killed each other, using each other's limbs as ladders.
Suddenly, a group of monsters armed with bows and crossbows shot a large number of bone arrows from the surrounding cliff walls.
Elancy flailed her wings to cover the ice mist over the ice wall, blocking the arrows from her incoming fire.
Ankh got up and said, "These monsters can get back on their feet because there are mages around who manipulate them, and I went to look for them." ”
After saying that, Ankh jumped into the monster pile with the magic sword in hand.
Kajudil appeared with the flames on the sword and said, "The manipulator behind it is in the smallest cave in the cliff face. ”
The flames unleashed by the magic sword seemed to effectively prevent the monsters from resurrecting, and Ankka made it to the cliff with little hindrance.
As Ankka stepped onto a raised rock on the cliff face, the shooters present inside the surrounding cliff face suddenly fired at Ankka.
Ankka dodged while pursuing the manipulator inside.
Kajudir reached out his flaming tentacles into the cavern and pursued Ankka in pursuit.
Kajudil suddenly shouted, "I caught it!" ”
Ankka smashed open the fragile pile of rocks and went inside, finding a beastman trapped in the flames.
The beastman was strange, for some unknown reason it had lost an eye and its legs were twisted and coiled on the ground like snakes, and he seemed to be moving quickly with his thick arms.
Ankha asked, "Why did you attack us?" ”
"Knowingly, you and the Black Fang have destroyed our kingdom, after I escaped from the dungeon of the Black Fang, I heard that you were going north, so I led people to destroy the drawbridge and have been ambushing near the exit of this canyon, although those compatriots who were ambushed near the drawbridge did not complete the task, but even if I am the only one, I will kill you."
With that, it lunged at Ankka with sharpened bones, and Ankka easily dodged backwards, causing it to fall to the ground.
Ankka stepped on it and asked, "Why don't you say how many human cities you have destroyed?" ”
"Hmph, it's just the law of nature."
"So now that humans are stronger than you, so we can destroy your cities as well?"
"You didn't destroy us head-on, I don't accept it! You are using trickery to win, and if it weren't for the traitors between us, you wouldn't have been able to defeat us. ”
"Isn't the law of the jungle the strong the strong dominating the weak? But we are better than you, and you don't admit this truth, but think that we are winning by trickery, what a strange idea you think. ”
Ankh raised his magic sword and said, "In that case, I don't need to say anything more to you. ”
With the death of the manipulator, all the skeleton golems outside lose control and become skeletons again.
After resting for a while, the group began to head back towards the Jagged Shore.
During the night, for unknown reasons, the group arrived at a new tribe of beastmen.
Ankka looked at the markings on the map and said, "Be careful, this should be the city of the Giant Horn Tribe, they love all kinds of buildings, they shouldn't know about our existence now, let's just go around." ”
Alan Xi gazed at the huge tower in the middle of the city, and found that it was filled with countless enslaved dragons with chains wrapped around them.
The sound of whips came with the wind, and the flames of Elanci's anger burned in her heart.
Alan Hi grabbed Anka and said, "Please wait. ”
"What's wrong?"
"I want to save my people."
Ankh looked at the Tower of Babel on the other side and said, "We can't conduct another large-scale military operation with our current forces, and being hostile to another tribe of beastmen will affect our existing plans. ”
"But do you think so much when you save your own people? My brethren are wailing, and if I give up saving them because of the so-called grand plan, my soul will be tormented forever. ”
Ankh thought for a moment and said, "All the soldiers withdrew to the other side of the river to prepare for their garrison. ”
Ankh then turned to Elanshi and said, "You only have seven days, and after seven days we have to leave, and we can't afford to waste time." ”
"Yes."