Volume 5 The Return of the King: The Nest of 300 Wormmen
This reluctance made me mumble, and Gavin Rad also said that this guy was unreliable. Whether it is reliable or not is impossible to say now, he promised to give blessings, but this matter is so reluctant. I don't know what the orcs think, and I didn't ask, but I can still see something in their eyes.
I found Vandal again to understand the situation, even if I can't get any useful news, it's good to enlighten him, after all, he is the boss, and the tribe may not do it at any time, he can only stare dryly, but our people can't die in vain, right?
Vandal was in a bad mood, and I persuaded him, but it didn't seem to have a very obvious effect, and he didn't seem to have much information. Now the dragon doesn't want to say too much, is this pushing us into the fire pit? Whether his performance was intentional or unspeakable, we can't guess. This situation can be said to be harmful to the next war. But instead of being in the camp that night, the dragon flew away, and the next day it reappeared. And after his appearance, he directly expressed his desire to bless our soldiers.
The term blessing makes me feel very uncomfortable, to put it mildly, with such an attitude, do we use you to bless? Bao Buqi is trying to trap us.
The blessing ceremony was very simple, it didn't take a few minutes to end, I didn't see any change, I secretly asked Gavinrad next to me how he felt, and he said he didn't feel anything. I squinted at the dragon and then at Vandal to the side, and I had to ask him when there was no one.
After the ceremony, the army marched to the temple again, and this time our soldiers simply demolished the wall. When the cannon was being erected, I secretly asked Vandal if he felt anything, and he just snorted.
Although his attitude was not very good, the power of the cannon seemed to have increased, and the entrance to the temple was directly destroyed by the artillery. It didn't take long for the collapse to come out of it, and those bugs were very similar to the ones I saw yesterday, but they were much smaller, the artillery didn't stop, the bows and arrows didn't stop, those bugs couldn't rush in front of us, and the musketeers in front of the artillery didn't eat dry food.
After the artillery bombardment, the big guy finally appeared yesterday, but immediately after this appearance, its body changed to three, and the extra two doppelgangers directly startled me. This one is ruthless enough, but now it's three, how can you play?
If it weren't for the abundance of ammo, I'd be worried about repeating what happened yesterday, this time with everyone who could shoot from a distance, desperately beckoning to the big guy. The fire elementals and stone men summoned by the shamans also pounced on the big monster. The vines summoned by the druids have finally worked. The thing was killed in the face of powerful and sustained artillery fire. Even though it was trying to add a magical barrier-like thing around its body before it died, the cannonball pierced it.
Such a victory greatly boosted morale, and the dwarves were once again proud of their weapons.
The swarming soldiers demolished the temple directly, and the roof above was removed, revealing the huge cave entrance below. It was unknown how deep the cave was, and Vandal immediately demanded that the things underneath be dug out anyway. As a result, tens of thousands of soldiers, turned into laborers, and began to excavate around the entrance of the cave.
Either that there are many people and great strength, the hole was completely dug in a few hours. After finding the direction, the soldiers began to dig from the top down, and the amount of work was very large, but the large number of people was the good work. But after digging 100 meters, I found that the cave began to go down more and more. Digging from the top down is very difficult. The excavated area was large enough that Van Dahl sent a reconnaissance team after settling his position.
It didn't take long for the reconnaissance team to run out, very embarrassed, and two dead, and they reported that the bottom was unbelievably big, and not only were there many bugs, but there were also too many forks in the road, and it was difficult to figure out the estimate for a while, and if you wanted to figure it out, you had to send troops directly to step on it, and this kind of team couldn't get in at all.
Vandal immediately agreed to this suggestion, and after regrouping the army drove in, Vandal left no room for him, he sent as many men as he could. The orcs hit the front, the dwarves behind the hall, and then the elves, I thought that after entering, the crowd would not move, but the space inside was really unexpected, and because there were many forks in the road, there was no one after being sent in.
In fact, I'm still a little worried, although this kind of place is relatively large, but after all, this is still the territory of insects, and the more forks in the road, the more likely it is that insects will circle with us...... When I thought of this, I quickly reminded Vandal, but Vandal was not worried, he said that if it was poison, the druid would have a way to defend it.
That being said, Vandal's subsequent order to march was to proceed cautiously and ensure that the fork in the road was made to communicate with the follow-up troops. Not only that, but there are also scouts who keep marking along the way, because the inside of the cave is dark, so the place you walk through is not only manned, but also has torches and other illuminations to indicate directions.
Caution is right, and Van Dahl is right to take an all-out gamble. When the army marches in, it doesn't matter what bugs or monsters crowd into such a place, it's either you or I'm dead, so what I hear in my ears is always the roar of anger and the cheers of victory.
Constant advances bring constant victories, and constant victories bring higher and higher morale, and it should be no problem for the soldiers to be in a state of exuberance, and this state of euphoria reaches its peak after the confluence of the troops that have returned to the same place.
But somehow, even if the soldiers were excited and their morale was high, I always felt very worried, but now that they are all in, it will be difficult to control if there is a collapse.
The troops continued to advance, and countless insects were poked to death, hacked to death, trampled to death, and some insect hives were also destroyed by the way, and everything went well. Only one of the soldiers in the path encountered a space full of translucent and glowing green sputum-like monsters, and their handling was very simple and rude, directly blowing up the cave. The soldiers said that the cave was deep, but they didn't care what monsters were in the cave, they just blew it up and buried everything in it.
They succeeded, thankfully the destruction of the place did not cause a larger ripple effect, and the soldiers' experience was praised by Vandal, but it was forbidden to use this method at will.
In addition, there is an earthworm-like monster that costs the soldiers a lot. It was not easy to catch the bug that was burrowing in the sand in that huge black rumbling cavern, and in the end, if it hadn't been for the dead man holding the oil and dynamite and igniting the land, the bug might have been a big headache for us. However, it was not easy to kill it after forcing it out, the force of the two-meter-thick thing was very strong, and the winding body was simply terrifying when it was thrown up. The summons of the shamans were simply unable to parry in front of it, and they were directly thrown away.
The druids' spells worked, but in the end, it was dynamite and artillery that killed them. It began to toss and turn as soon as its stomach burst and took more attacks as soon as it began to slow down, and both sides paid a terrible price, but in the end it still won. This victory is not something to be proud of, and no one knows how long it will be. But in the current situation, there are already a lot of dead and wounded, but they have all come here, and they can't give up their efforts, so they can only grit their teeth and stand up.
The dragon says that the root of evil and darkness is imprisoned in it, and that if it is not removed, it will continue to influence everything around it, corrupting them and then enslaving them. What the dragon said was quite evil, but this path was indeed relatively smooth, so the dragon's admonition was temporarily forgotten.
But when the ground suddenly turned into a stone slab, we found that we had come out of the ground! It's just that this place is no longer in the sealed city, although they haven't gone far, but they definitely didn't expect that there is a tunnel leading to the city.
It was shocking, but it was not enough to be able to come out of it and make everyone's hearts happy. The soldiers didn't know what their goal was, but they knew that coming out of here would be the greatest victory, and the Zermen's lair was trampled to the ground.
But we all know what the hell is going on, and the source of evil that the dragon says is not in it. But the dragon said that it must be there, and that we need to continue looking. Vandal ignored him but did so, and I followed the scout back to the cave again, and the dragon followed. When I came in again, I realized that this place is not so simple! The moonlight shone in through the window that was almost hidden by sand, and I suddenly wondered if this could be a building that had been flooded by wind and sand.
Out of the cave, I looked around, the moon above my head shone the bright moonlight on the sand dunes, looking down on the surrounding sand dunes, I realized that this place is very high! The city of Angela is a little lower on the other side, and if you look at it this way, it would have been either a mountain or a castle.
I told the dragon about my discovery, and everyone started looking around for a breach, and we went back to the cave where we were afraid that something was missing, but we didn't find any other tunnels or caves. So I told Vandal what I thought, and the next day tens of thousands of people came to the side of the almost completely covered ruins of the building. Two days! The soldiers dug for two days, and a huge temple appeared in front of us. A huge structure hidden by wind and sand appeared in front of us.
Exactly as I expected, this is a building built against the mountain. We're still digging down, but we've found our way into the building.
The building is not a temple, but a palace! A palace that has been abandoned and buried for an unknown number of years. I was in a trance when the sun came through those windows again, how many years would it take to bury this place! It is possible to bury the source of darkness that the dragon said under such a palace.
I followed them down to continue to explore the castle, but I didn't find a monster that matched the dragon's theory, but I found two huge seats in a large hall, and on each of those seats sat a huge monster, and the giant sword in their hands was on the ground. I thought they were just statues, or dried corpses that had been dead for years, until they stood up from their seats.
"Ahh
This sudden sound made me shudder.
"Is it Vandal's man? Here they are again. A thick voice.
"The sheep is in the mouth of the tiger." Another slightly crisper sound.
"Their blood will nourish the land." A thick voice said.
"No, brother, their blood will first nourish my throat, which has been thirsty for thousands of years!" Said in a crisp voice.
"Yes!" The stout voice chimed in, "Let's ...... Drink the blood! ”