Section 18 Present Crises and Future Crises
"You're going with the coalition forces?"
When they learned that Annan was going to follow him to the Great Wall in the north, the officials of the Imperial Military Department showed a trace of consternation.
"I watched them go from youth to maturity...... I don't want to worry about leaving them on the Great Wall. β
Behind Annan, those resolute and bloody young warriors who were basically a head taller than Annan suddenly had red eyes.
The officials knew it and thought that this was Annan's entire net worth.
"Hmm...... You can follow, but we need to report back to the palace. β
"Of course."
Annan asked Blom and Fermi to form a team, and led the team to follow the officials to the center of the camp.
Several epic mages have set up a massive arched portal in the clearing, and the ripples on the door are like ripples in the lake.
The Black Watch of the Taturn Empire was the first to enter the portal.
Annan looked enviously from a distance at this ruthless army with a thirst for killing.
The Black Watch is one of the Empire's eight Praetorian Guard legions, with a total of 5,000 men. It is different from the 5,000 people like Annan, who were pulled out in a few months...... They are not only full-fledged professionals, but also four thousand elite ordinary soldiers......
and a large mage corps composed of 500 officers above the master level and 500 mages.
This is the essence of one of the Thirteen Supreme Kings, and a single legion can almost wipe out the current Rikanr Kingdom.
The only thing Annan could think of to get closer to the empire was the first coalition army with a total of 50,000 men, with himself and the empire accounting for one-tenth each.
In any case, the stronger the empire, the harder it will be for this catastrophe to affect Middle-earth.
The second to set off was Annam.
The order of departure seems to be based on the number of troopsβnot always according to favorability.
Annan greeted the nobles who had reached friendly relations with the succubus, and walked into the portal with a hundred elite troops, five hundred members of the Fourth Legion, and five thousand members of the Hellfire Legion.
The moment he stepped out of the portal, Annan sensitively sensed the changes in his surroundings.
Compared to Montreal in Middle-earth, the northern edge is cooler and ......
Annan looked up at the towering Great Wall of the North.
The Great Wall, more than 50 meters high, is like a wall of sighs, between the North and Middle-earth.
The Black Watch Corps at the front resembles a swarm of ants.
"Keep up."
Annan said back, walking behind the Imperial Legion.
The shock of looking at it from a distance comes from the exclamation of human creation, while looking up from a close distance is pure shock at the behemoth.
The standard height of a small mage tower is about fifty meters, so can you imagine that there is a mage tower that stretches for hundreds of miles in front of you?
Annan couldn't help but pick up the Philosopher's Stone and filmed this scene, ready to be used as material for Evelyn.
The official of the Imperial Military Department glanced at him, but did not refuse, maybe he was still a little happy.
Climb the steps along the edge to the top of the wall, where the rocky ground resembles a plain and the houses built confirm Annan's suspicion that the Great Wall of the North is a rocky mountain through and through......
If the nezumi want to dig through here, wait for the teeth to be polished.
"Legend has it that the legendary fortress of the dwarves, the 'Giant's Wall' is just that. They built a wall as wide as a city at the edge of the world, built the wall for generations, lived on it, and it is said that the wall has reached the clouds, and the passage in the wall alone can live hundreds of millions of people......" Blom told a story that everyone knows but Annan does not know.
"Really?"
"Of course it's fake." Blom refuted the rumors, "How did the dwarves give birth to so many? β
"So who is Fortress Legend defending against?"
"Who knows, nezumi, demons, zerg, greenskins...... There are all kinds of rumors. Blom shrugged, "Otherwise, so many dwarves can't have built tens of thousands of years of walls there for nothing." β
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Annan, who had just felt a sense of security due to the appearance of Blackwatch, suddenly felt that the world was precarious again.
The Great Wall of the North is currently 100 miles long, and it is placed on the 30 forces that make up the coalition army, that is, each force is responsible for the three-mile long defense line.
While they were stationed here, the east and west were still spreading to both sides. The Empire extravagantly infused the walls with archmages and earth elemental elders, extending at a rate of tens of meters per day.
Annan came to the edge of the city walls, and in the distance was a vast area of mixed forest and grassland, but it would not be long before this beautiful woodland would be covered with death and pestilence......
It's a wall of despair for the nezumi.
"No attack can break this wall!" The imperial officials who followed Annan said proudly.
"Oh damn ......"
Annan suddenly felt that something was going to happen.
So much so that when the officials of the Imperial Military Department assigned them a defensive line, which was next to the Imperial troops, Annan immediately took the goblins to knock around the foundation, looking for possible problems, and even checked the station with the Black Watch next door.
Of course, the Black Watch Legion knew about the relationship between this little warlock and the Empire, and let Annan check around, and even sent a team of soldiers and mages to take the initiative to help Annan investigate.
To Annan's relief, the walls were still very solid.
It's night after a busy circle. Annan returned to his house.
In addition to the torches and magic lamps planted everywhere, the city wall stretched with bright light, and the front and back were dead silent, which made Annan see the sea of stars for the first time in a long time.
What woke Annan from his admiration was the long convoy of supplies that appeared like a train.
In addition to food and daily necessities, there are also some magic scrolls. Annan thinks it's a little early, but who would dislike too many good things?
At this time, Annan found that the food they had distributed was very small, far from enough for the consumption of 5,600 people......
"There is too little food given, and we have a lot of people." Annan stopped the supply officer.
"That's how everyone else is assigned."
"Including Blackwatch?"
The material officer was silent for a moment, and finally only said that he had no right to give Annan more.
"I thought he was going to look at my face at the very least." Annan was helpless, after all, she was not a woman.
"People here don't have much chance to see magical images, so it's normal not to know you," Blom said.
The convoy that had finished distributing the supplies continued to move forward. Watching them leave, Annan frowned and said, "We have to find a way to get supplies." β
As for letting Liberty City pay out of pocket...... How can it be!
"Shall we talk to the Black Watch?" Blom proposed.
"Complaint? That will only make others look down on you. Fermi said.
"If you can ask for supplies, it doesn't matter if you can afford it or not." Annan shrugged, "But you're right, we have to make a name for ourselves, so we must avoid showing weakness." β
"Do you have a solution?"
"I knew a quartermaster at that party in Montreal Mountain, and that man should be able to help me!"
With that, Annan hurried to his quarters.
Blom and Fermi looked at each other.
"I think it must be a woman."
(End of chapter)