Chapter 1307 Surprise

For the past seven centuries, the Sentinel Tower has been a place of avoidance for monsters wandering the wasteland - even irrational aberrations and wandering spirits bred from discarded mana are instinctive. Stay away from these dangerous facilities that are full of huge energy and release purification beams at any time. It is rare for groups of monsters to approach the Sentinel Tower, and it is unprecedented to launch an attack actively.

Today, however, most of the defensive functions of the Sentinel Tower have been offline, and the remaining ancient warning devices around the tower will no longer be able to resist the assembled aberration body legion, and the order from the upper command node has dispelled the monsters entrenched Instinctive resistance in the mind of chaos——At one command, tens of thousands of aberrations and fel spirits began to turn in the wasteland, pointing their fearsome arrows to the magnificent land on the wasteland highlands. giant tower.

At the same time, a large number of aberrations are still pouring in from the depths of the wasteland, replenishing the battle zone on the border of the barrier, and continuously creating pressure on the human army on the defense line, making these stubborn mortals powerless to stop the aberrations the actions of the bodies.

Looking down from a high altitude, the entire wasteland border has been filled with countless layers of dirty waves, and the almost endless number of aberrations trapped in the majestic wall for seven centuries have been constantly under the control of "command signals" Inspiration is continuously added to the "legions" that hit the border. The high walls that once blocked them are being extinguished section by section, and gaps are constantly appearing on the shimmering energy barrier. The mortal army is in those gaps. Before that, he fought hard and tried desperately to plug the loopholes in the defense line, but the scale of the loopholes became larger and larger, gradually becoming an unmanageable situation.

A half-man, half-tree monster stood on the former northern border of Gondor, overlooking the distant scene from a high hill. The army was like a tide, hitting the gap at the end of the barrier, and also hitting the magnificent, still Floating in the mid-air sentinel tower, he saw a sharp arrow of the mutant legion finally approaching the base of the tower, and a giant mutant body almost as large as the city gate stopped on the plain in front of the base Surrounded by countless cannon fodder, those giant "beasts" with filthy flesh and blood bent down and fixed themselves on the ground with deformed hands and feet. tower--

The bony spurs on the back of the "giant beast" were filled with bright electric light, and the highly compressed magic energy caused a sharp whistling in the air. After a moment of power accumulation, the attack like a beam cannon pierced through the air, violently bombarding the magnificent on the tower.

The surface of the tower quickly rippled with layers of ripples. The energy shield of the tower body blocked the high-energy beams released by the giant distortion body. Then, some magic organs installed on the base of the tower began to counterattack sparsely. Arcane missiles and electric arcs swept across the wilderness - the only remaining automatic defensive firepower killed some aberrations that were too close, but more "behemoths" gathered on the plain, and one after another high-energy beams began to bombard the sentinels The superstructure of the tower.

The roar of artillery fire from afar shook the earth, and the more and more pungent smell in the air stimulated the nerves of the soldiers, and the ground under their feet trembled.

The clouds in the sky are burning, but in the eyes of the young communications commander, the most important thing in the whole world is only one thing, that is, a signal relay hub that has stopped working in a half-buried bunker not far away.

Fendil Wilde led the remaining four soldiers through the poisonous wasteland covered with jagged rocks and flying pungent dust. His short silver hair was disheveled, his neat military uniform was now full of dirt and damage, and bleeding wounds could be seen in the ripped sleeves. He crossed a low natural stone wall, an unresponsive communication relay. The bunker appeared a few hundred meters away, and the half-buried concrete vault seemed to be intact.

"There is no sign of being attacked. It may be that the energy released during the out-of-control process of the Great Wall destroyed some structure of the repeater. It is a blessing in misfortune."

Fendil quickly made a judgment in his heart, and stepped forward while secretly relieved, but at this moment, a soldier who had been following him suddenly pointed to the sky not far away and shouted: "Sir! Look over there!"

"Over there..." Fendil yelled subconsciously, but when he raised his head and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, the second half of the sentence in his throat was directly swallowed back.

He saw clusters of bright electric arcs constantly blooming on the surface of the Sentinel Tower floating in mid-air, and the energy clusters filled with dirty red bombarded the middle of the tower one after another. The remaining energy at the top of the Sentinel Tower was originally It has become weaker and weaker, and under the continuous attacks, the light curtains that barely extended on both sides of the tower began to collapse at an accelerated rate, and the thinner energy barrier was crumbling like a candle in the wind.

"Those monsters want to completely destroy the tower!" Another soldier shouted in horror, "Once that tower is completely destroyed, even if the elves restart the barrier, the gap on our side will never be closed Already!"

Fendil stared, the exclamation of the soldiers under him echoed in his ears, and the light on the tower in the distance kept shining in his eyes. A low-level officer on the vast battlefield, he suddenly found that he was powerless to prevent this from happening.

But in the next second, his eyes fell on the communication relay point not far away. The howling cold wind on the wasteland woke him up. He ignored the meaningless personal sentimentality in his mind and brought The only remaining fighters on the road rushed towards the bunker.

The outside of the bunker was not destroyed, and Fendil quickly rushed into the fortification of this half-buried structure with his soldiers. At first glance, he saw the extinguished magic net terminal in the center of the artificial pit , and two Cecil soldiers who fell dead near the terminal.

There are no traces of enemy attack around the dead soldiers, but shocking burning and penetrating wounds can be seen near the chest of the corpse, and traces of high-temperature roasting can be seen on the ground next to the magic net terminal, which should have been set nearby The energy amplification array and spare magic storage crystals have all been turned into scorched black wreckage fragments.

During the process of losing control, the Great Wall randomly released energy pulses to the surroundings. One of the energy pulses probably just swept across this communication base, causing the key equipment to be overloaded and out of control. The soldiers stationed here may have tried to rescue the most important magic network terminal. They fell on the equipment in the center of the fortification, and were subsequently killed by the sudden detonation of the power device-which would explain why their fatal wounds were located in the chest.

Fendil's eyes quickly swept over the dead, and he roughly judged what had happened here. At this time, he had no time to bury his comrades in arms. He ordered his soldiers to move the remains of the dead to one side to make room for the dead. After repairing the space for the equipment, he immediately went to the side of the magic network terminal and began to replace the structure that had been overloaded and burned.

And after he started to get busy, a soldier who was helping suddenly frowned, and whispered with some unease: "Sir, do you feel... the vibrations under our bodies have been?"

"The entire ribbon plain is shaking," Fendil said without raising his head, "That's the artillery fire in the distance, and the movement of those monsters attacking the Sentinel Tower—don't talk nonsense, if the time wasted here is too much Many, then you have to face more than just this shock!"

"Yes, sir," the soldier hurriedly agreed loudly after hearing the lesson, but after a while he couldn't help muttering, "It seems that the vibration is getting stronger... as if something is approaching..."

Fendil ignored the chanting of his subordinates, he just quickly installed the new components into the empty slots of the communication device, and directly used his own magic power to depict completely burned runes on some structures in the terminal While busy with the operation of the base plate, he raised his head quickly and looked worriedly at the narrow window facing the wasteland of Gondor in the fortification—through the narrow air window, he saw the building floating in mid-air. The shield on the surface of the Sentinel Tower flickered, and the entire tower began to vibrate violently, and an extremely disturbing piercing whistling sound continued to come from the direction of the plain, disturbing everyone's mind.

And at this moment, a low buzzing sound suddenly came from the base of the magic net terminal in front of him, and the extinguished and damaged device finally came back to life in his hands, and the communication with the distant place was also connected.

The focusing crystal barely lit up, projecting a blurry phantom. Fendil couldn't care less about continuing to debug the system. He suppressed his rapid heartbeat, and while switching the device to emergency forwarding mode, he talked to all the people he could contact here. The terminal issued a call: "This is Cecil Communications Sergeant Fendil Wilder, emergency situation, the aberrations are attacking Sentinel Tower 98! The aberrations are attacking Sentinel Tower 98! I can see their assembly here The location, the main offensive force is roughly in the southwest of the black hills..."

A loud bang sounded at this moment, interrupting Fendil's continuous calls and broadcasts, and also interrupting the movements of all the soldiers in the communication bunker—even interrupting the roaring artillery fire on the battlefield at one point, interrupting A chaotic wind howling and reeling between monsters and humans.

Then there was a second loud bang, and a series of piercing whistling and roaring.

The last shield radiance on the surface of the Sentinel Tower in the distance extinguished amidst the whistling sound, and a powerful beam cannon destroyed a main energy pipeline in the tower, and a loud noise came from the sky, and the explosion started from inside the tower—— The fissures filled with flames filled the tower in an instant, and then the out-of-control energy produced a deadly resonance between the base of the tower and the anti-gravity mechanism of the tower.

Numerous chain explosions began to occur on the surface of the sentinel tower that guarded this line of defense for seven hundred years. The tough ancient alloy frame prevented the main body of the tower from being completely torn apart in these explosions, but all the functions of the tower have irretrievably come to an end , after a moment of shaking (this shaking was more like the last struggle of a dying giant), the huge tower floating in the sky landed, first smashing its own base, then crushing the hill below, and finally with Slowly but fearfully, it fell towards the hills to the southeast.

The energy barrier extending from the two wings of the tower was finally completely extinguished, and a part of the structure of the magnificent wall finally disappeared permanently at this moment, turning into a terrifying gap extending from the southern border of Cecil to the northern defense line of Typhon.

Inside the communication bunker, a soldier stared dumbfounded at the terrifying scene in the distance. He watched the barrier that had stood on the border of the civilized world for hundreds of years, as if it was a natural phenomenon, completely collapsed before his eyes. It went off and disappeared, the huge impact even overwhelmed all the tension and fear, he just stared in that direction like the other soldiers, and it took a long time to squeeze out a voice from his throat: "Sir... the wall has collapsed... "

"I saw it," Fendil said almost gritted his teeth. Only in this way can he barely maintain his composure—even though he himself is a "non-commissioned officer graduate" who has just set foot on the battlefield, in front of his soldiers, he You must maintain your calm attitude, "We will transfer immediately to confirm the backup line. The energy shock just now may have damaged the communication between us and Typhon again. Now the magic net terminal is full of noise..."

While speaking quickly, Fendil stepped towards the outside of the bunker. He felt that he was calm enough, but he was almost caught by a green vine that came out of the nearby soil—he staggered forward After taking two steps, he managed to grab a pillar so as not to fall to the ground in embarrassment. He stood at the exit of the fortification, staring at the direction of the wasteland of Gondor in the rough and cold wind, feeling a little dazed for a while.

But in the next second, as if he suddenly realized something, he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction he was walking in just now, and looked at the thing that almost tripped him just now.

...

The Sentinel Tower fell, and the barrier that sealed the wasteland for seven hundred years and represented the stupidity and stubbornness of mortals was finally torn open a permanent gap.

The druid priest who was in charge of attacking the northern line of defense left the high ground where he was, and surrounded by the guards, readjusted the main force of the Aberration Corps, and began to concentrate the offensive pressure on the direction of the newly opened gap, and a surge of excitement His emotions filled his already heterogeneous nervous system, dispelling the depression and anger accumulated in his heart since the beginning of the war.

His annoyance has its own reasons—since the start of the war, all branches of the legion have been receiving information about smooth advances, and almost every troop that is advancing outwards has crushed the ridiculous "alliance" that was formed. The strong resistance force, the army rushing out of the wasteland took advantage of the sudden attack and large numbers, and there were frequent victories on all fronts-but he was the only exception.

The tenacious resistance of the Cecilians and their unreasonable, crazy firepower piled up as if they were neurotic made the Aberration Corps attacking the northern defense line suffer.

That firepower that blew up the entire land several times is simply not something that humans can do! Even the nerve signals fed back by the TM monsters felt that the group of humans on the opposite side were monsters!

But everything is better now, and the humiliation of the officer's thwarted attack has been redeemed the moment the sentinel tower fell.

No matter how tenacious the will of the Cecilians was, no matter how powerful their firepower was, they couldn't block a gap that could almost tear apart the Dark Mountains.

They could only watch as the tide of aberrations overran their defenses and rushed into their homes, tearing apart their siblings and friends.

"Give them a huge surprise!"

The dark druid, whose form resembled a combination of hideous trees and ugly humans, shouted loudly. Driven by his will, the aberrations merged into a black tide, rushing towards the mountain pass on the east side of the dark mountain.

Then, he felt a tremor in the depths of the earth——

At first, he thought it was the roar of artillery fire in the distance, and then he thought it was the army under his command shaking the scorched earth.

But then he discovered that it was neither, that the vibration came from deeper, from farther away.

It was as if some kind of incomparably huge giant creature was drilling deep in the soil, as if there was something terrifying...or some kind of structure deep in the earth was breaking through the ground.

"Master!!!" The terrified roar of the junior priest interrupted the thinking of the dark druid, "Something came out of the ground!!"

The dark druid in charge of commanding the legion raised his head subconsciously, looking towards the end of the legion ahead.

There, countless nightmarish and ferocious giant vines broke out from the depths of the earth, and reorganized into towering giant trees in an instant. The thorny thorny vines whipped the scorched earth that was once at the foot of the magnificent wall. Huge "behemoths", venomous biochemical synthetic beasts and mana monsters—these supposedly horrifying creatures were pierced through their bodies one after another, rolled up into the air, struggling desperately at high altitude, and writhing like flies. Grass catches flying insects.

An astonishingly large green forest barrier is penetrating the land bordering the Black Forest, taking shape in a very short period of time, and a vaguely familiar female voice somehow crossed this vast battlefield, crashing in the nervous system of the dark druid Blast:

"A surprise, my former compatriot, Dean Bertram."