Chapter 1519 A Series of Accidents
Someone's bold words never came true. It's not that he can't do it, but that the other old man has more important things to do. Go make tea or something next to the Gate of the Abyss, don't be in a hurry.
Almost in the afternoon after the conversation ended, the headquarters in Risa Territory began to prepare for the commander's temporary departure. In addition to the power of protection, many things must be prepared in advance.
But the entire preparation work cannot come to a standstill just because of one person's absence. It is necessary to prepare or arrange the work content for the next few days in advance.
The old man left to return to the imperial city to discuss matters with his old friend, the man sitting on the throne. The news I got from the magician was not safe or instantaneous through any other channels. He had to go there in person.
And because the Gwana Empire is still in the preparation stage. Therefore, the work or preparation of building a defense line is not the business of a certain magician. After talking to the old man, he left.
Lin did not return directly to the holy city of Estali, but took a trip to the Wind Emperor Mountain Range.
Originally, I wanted to find that boy Ezio. But since he returned the ring, Lin has lost the ability to appear scary at any time. If asked through Kaya, as long as the other party is not at a life-or-death moment, he will probably get an answer.
But this kind of thing couldn't be done immediately, and the thing itself was not very important, so Lin simply gave up. Instead, we climbed a mountain.
Before, the Fengdi Mountain Range only existed in someone's knowledge, but they had never walked through it personally. Lin is still interested in the curse on the mountain.
At least Lin had never seen this kind of large-scale terrain level curse before and didn't know how it worked. Or maybe it's just a climatic phenomenon that has been misrepresented and treated as a curse. No matter what the reason is, it is necessary to take a trip.
Why we need to take this trip starts from a certain war in someone's mind: during the Roman Republic in his hometown in Europe, the gladiator Spartacus crossed the Alps and attacked Rome.
The high mountains and severe cold climate are a challenge, but they are not insurmountable. Old Kawei Gong's first line of defense layout was completely designed around several passes in the Fengdi Mountain Range.
If the coalition of demons and orcs relied on their physical strength and lack of fear of sacrifice to force their way over the mountains, they could attack the human camp from the weak point behind the defense line. It was another disastrous defeat that caught people off guard.
Considering that the current goal is to unite the human camp, and the leading defender is an old acquaintance, it is not easy to continue to ignore it. So Lin decided to take a walk and take a look at the parts that he had doubts about.
Forget it if there's nothing wrong with it. If there is a problem, at least give a warning first. As for stepping in to turn the tide, although it is not impossible, after a long time, it becomes one's own responsibility. No one wants to get involved with this kind of superhero shit.
If there really was a Superman, then police officers and firefighters would be out of work. If someone really eliminates the police and firefighters without thinking, and Superman suddenly disappears, the world will be in chaos. Even if they can barely maintain their establishment, how should the police or firefighters deal with themselves if they have Superman to protect them? Will the people desperately create in a more desperate direction?
Therefore, superheroes are the biggest scourge that destroys the order of the world. Apart from satisfying their own vanity, they do no good to society as a whole.
Therefore, in order to promote social progress and improve people's consciousness and quality, instead of leaving problems to superhuman beings to solve without any brains. Someone would never end up in that thankless position, and it's not due to laziness!
However, after using the flash technique and personally traveling to the Fengdi Mountains, Lin realized that his previous thoughts were too self-righteous.
Not to mention how an army would cross the mountains at this time of winter, in the wind and snow. Just talk about the eight rioting powers that permeate the air. When a normal magician casts a spell in this environment, it will either lose control or backlash. It can be said to be the worst environment.
Conclusion: The Fengdi Mountain Range is a cursed terrain. After seeing this rumor on site, Lin really felt that it was somewhat credible. At least the climate I experienced didn't look like it was formed naturally.
And because of the power riot, it is difficult for someone to maintain the levitation technique and float in mid-air. Even the environmental adaptation magic used to protect the body was melted and disintegrated in the wind and snow.
Normally, this type of environmental adaptation magic can be maintained in the vacuum environment of the earth elemental plane for several hours. On the Fengdi Mountain Range, I am afraid that in less than half an hour at most, I will have to rely on my own physical strength to hold on.
In such an environment, is it possible for the alliance of demons and orcs to overpower them?
Someone thinks carefully and still feels that it is not impossible.
Even if you don't take the lawful evil and armed demon army you saw as an example. As for the strong orc branch of the orcs, it seems that they are the team that can overcome this violent weather with physical fitness.
Besides, this is not to station the troops in such a cold place, they just need to pass through quickly. So compared to the weather, whether there is a passable path is the most important thing.
Even if we don't talk about European war cases, there is also an example in our own history of the Three Kingdoms period, when Deng Ai took the Yinping Trail to attack Fucheng, accelerating the demise of the Shu Han. Natural danger is a difficulty, but it is not a foolproof guarantee.
The Maginot Line of World War II was also bypassed. Therefore, stubbornly believing that the enemy must act according to one's own ideas is quite dangerous in itself.
Let's talk about the Fengdi Mountains. In fact, the average height of the mountains is not high. According to the standards of someone's hometown, it is only nearly three thousand meters. Several main peaks are above 3,000 meters. The slope is not too steep and most of the terrain can be traversed on foot without requiring rock climbing skills.
It can be said that if we were to have such a mountain range in our hometown, we would not have to set up a forest farm or plant fruit trees on the mountainside, but we could also open a large area of terraced fields. There is water flowing down from the mountain, so there is no need to find a way to divert water from the foot of the mountain. Make some ditches and all the farming on this mountain will be done.
But if there is a curse, there is no way to find some god-level farmers. Just the wind and snow on the Fengdi Mountains started to show signs at a height of almost one thousand meters. At an altitude of about two thousand meters, the wind and snow reached maximum intensity. Further up, the situation is similar.
But at such a height, even if the Fengdi Mountain Range is located north of the latitude, this level of wind and snow is still quite abnormal. And I heard that it is like this all year round regardless of season. To say that there is no supernatural force involved, someone himself does not believe it.
Fortunately, the use of Blink is instantaneous and mainly operated by self-produced subdimensional towers, so it is not affected by such a terrain curse. Lin took advantage of the flash technique to take a rough look at the terrain of the Fengdi Mountains from a high altitude and confirmed several gentle slopes that were conducive to marching through.
But after reading it, I realized that I had really underestimated the great people in the world. In the Fengdi Mountain Range, where there was an opportunity to directly climb over, the old Grand Duke had placed beacon posts. As soon as they see the enemy's situation, the defenders stationed here can report it as soon as possible.
And the defense system of the entire defense line does not completely ignore the arrangement of these terrains. Although defensive positions are not directly deployed, nearby defenders can quickly support them within a day.
It can be said that people who are better at fighting have already considered the part of my concerns, but the focus is still on those passes. After figuring this out, I no longer care about this line of defense.
Lin flashed again and came to the north of the mountain, the devil's fallen area.
On this land, the human army is still holding on with difficulty, guarding the retreat of ordinary people. Although many people have been evacuated to the other side of the mountain, there are still many people who are unable to evacuate in time or who are unable to move. The disposal of these people is the most troublesome.
It's not right to abandon them, nor is it right to keep the army in order to protect them. There were even several places where the troops were deeply entrapped and had no time to retreat, all because they missed the opportunity to protect people like this.
Once caught in the siege of the demon alliance, these people were abandoned by default. Because humans at this stage do not yet have the strength to break into enemy lines and rescue people.
The demon coalition will not immediately attack these small groups of troops and people who have been separated and isolated. Instead, they will be kept in captivity, just like cattle and horses on a farm. The difference is that the cows and horses here will fight among themselves and eat each other.
Maybe it's not 'eating' in the literal sense. But if you are deeply surrounded and lose backup supplies, then with limited food, even if the scene of people cannibalism has not happened yet, examples of people dying for food are happening every day.
Amidst all this ugliness, the only thing that makes someone happy is that no child from an elementary school is trapped in this siege.
Maybe they have learned their own essence, they can fight but they can't lose, and they can't lose when they run away. As long as the soles of your feet are oiled, even if you can't escape the first place, you can't stay behind.
Not seeing Ezio and others being stupid and falling into the devil's circle, Lin left the trapped area and headed towards the occupied area. This time, he did not stay at the Gate of the Abyss, but looked around.
The old man had mentioned before that he hoped to find out what was going on inside the demon-occupied area by himself. Whether those words were mentioned deliberately or just casually said. Now that I've said it, someone was thinking about something that was somewhat overlapping, and that's why he took this trip.
But I didn’t know it until I took this trip, and I was shocked when I left. Everything seems to be going wrong today, and many things are not as expected.
It's like the curse of the Wind Emperor Mountain Range was originally thought to be a manifestation of natural climate, but I didn't expect that there was really a supernatural power in it.
Then on this trip, I thought it was just a casual walk around, but I didn't expect to see something not so good.
If you want to run an occupied area well, of course you need to start various infrastructure construction and transform the place into a form that suits you. So what’s a step up from this approach?
That is to move the 'home' directly. This doesn't mean buying some furniture, moving to a different place to live, or anything like that. Instead, they boldly moved the entire main building of the 'home' here!
If this method were applied to demons, it would be to design teleportation magic circles with very strange purposes everywhere. These magic circles are not a whole used alone, but a small part that is separated.
If you just look at one or two, you may not be able to see the reason. But someone used the flash technique to find the first few, and quickly calculated the locations of the remaining magic circles and confirmed them one by one.
The function of this teleportation magic circle can be calculated based on the effect that the spell model can produce. The demons intend to directly teleport a city-level plot of land to the mysterious land!
I x! Play so big!