Chapter 457 Crazy Journey

A loud noise suddenly spread throughout the temporary gathering place of the army, followed by violent shaking. Many torches erected around were knocked down, and scattered gravel continued to fall from the stone wall above.

This sudden vision instantly attracted the attention of all the soldiers, and the officers who were originally discussing strategies rushed out of the camp.

"What happened?! Karak! Where did that noise come from?"

After a tall knight came out of the camp, he immediately approached Karak and Mizola and asked her what happened?

The place where their army is stationed is under Baldur's Gate, not even close to the Temple of the God of Murder. If an earthquake or landslide occurs here, then their army will be finished and collapse. The rocks and mud will soon annihilate them all!

"I don't know what happened! Scar! But I just heard it. The place where the sound came from must be in the canyon not far away! It should be that those cultists have done something good again!"

"Are they crazy! Creating such an explosion underground? If it causes a series of collapses, they themselves will be the first to die!"

A dwarf officer next to him took up Karak's words. Dwarves have always regarded themselves as sons of the earth. Rocks are their castles and underground caves are their passages. In the long process of digging and developing underground minerals, the dwarves have accumulated With abundant knowledge of the underground environment, no one knows better than the dwarves how dangerous it is to casually set off an explosion of this magnitude underground!

"Who knows what those cult lunatics are thinking. Maybe they feel that they are surrounded by us and have no hope, so they want to do a big job at the end and die with us."

A human officer on the side took over the dwarf's words, and the conversation between the two of them also made the faces of the people around them look ugly, because this possibility really existed, but no one wanted to be buried with these damn lunatics. .

"That's enough! No more guessing! The vibration caused by the explosion has stopped, but now no one knows what the consequences of the outer field explosion just now will be. Maybe in the next moment, this place will completely collapse, and we have to Don’t consider the worst case scenario.”

"Now send out scouts immediately to see what happened over there. The captains must also immediately notify their respective companies, gather the team, and then immediately retreat to the rear mage's reinforced position to prevent our soldiers from dying on the opponent's side. Crazy counterattack."

"Yes! Commander!"

Out of cherishment of their own lives, the officer captains present immediately accepted the commander-in-chief's order and led their respective teams quickly towards the safe location prepared in advance.

You have to consider this possibility when fighting underground in the city. Thanks to the early preparations, everyone knew that there was a place to protect their safety, so they did not lose order due to this sudden accident.

"Don't stand here anymore. Abandon this camp for the time being and retreat to a safe place to wait for the scouts' information."

Scar and Karak looked at each other, and then nodded to the commander-in-chief. At the same time, they grabbed the expressionless Mizola and led her to evacuate in an orderly manner with everyone. During the retreat, everyone There were officers saying this from time to time.

"Hey, although I feel very honored to be able to participate in the battle against the murderous cult, the environment in this ghost place is not suitable for ordinary soldiers to participate in combat. This incident has fully proved this. If anything happens, soldier It’s basically impossible to fight.”

"I really don't want to admit what you said, but I have to admit that what you said is indeed right. If we hadn't brought enough military mages with us in this operation, reinforced the surrounding walls, and arranged a With the camp's shadow barrier, it would be impossible for ordinary soldiers to even detect those elite assassins. Alas, it would be a massacre."

"Okay, shut up! Don't say such depressing words at this time!"

The commander-in-chief once again stopped the discussion among the soldiers, and everyone remained silent for the rest. It only took less than ten minutes to retreat to a relatively safe assembly point in an orderly manner, and then waited for the scouts to pass on the information. .

During this process, Mizola neither spoke nor resisted. He just closed his eyes and continued to convey everything that happened to them to Nohir, who was far away in the Shadow Cursed Land...

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"...Master, the scouts have sent news that the cultists used a large amount of smoke powder to blow up the canyon. Now the road leading to the Temple of Baal has been completely blocked by rubble. If you want to clear these rocks, even if you rely on It is estimated that the power of magic will take a long time, and during this time we will not be able to launch a large-scale liquidation campaign against the murderers."

Mizola loyally reported all the situation there to Nohill. After learning what happened there, Nohill also suspended his actions and began to think carefully about the reason why those cult lunatics acted like this. What do you want to do?

"...Betting on the road to the Murder Temple, this kind of behavior, how should I put it, feels like he is even willing to bury it with stones in order to forcibly save the Temple of Baal."

Noshil's guess is actually very reasonable. These murder believers should know that they can't defend the temple with their current strength. They don't want the temple to suffer the same fate as the Iron Throne... After being discovered, it will be completely destroyed, and even the temple itself will be thrown into the sea of ​​swords by powerful magic.

Well, the latter possibility is unlikely now. There should be no wizards in Baldur's Gate who can do this. But the temple will be completely destroyed after it is breached.

In order to prevent the temple from being destroyed, these lunatics took this action. Noshil estimated that it was Shaflock who instructed them to do it. Noshil looked down on these ordinary believers, but those ordinary murder believers were indeed brainless idiots. They were all completely paralyzed by the blessing given by Baal, that is, the pleasure of killing. The whole person was crazy and it was impossible for them not to think of this method.

Because although the act of blowing up the canyon was reckless, it did preserve the Murder Temple, the largest ritual site of Baal in the world. As long as the temple did not fall, they would not have to worry about Baal punishing them for the time being. I believe this is also an important basis for supporting their actions.

"If these speculations are true, then it will not be long before the Murder Temple will be deserted. Even if the actual leader of the Murder Temple has not returned yet, Shaflock still has the power to command Baal assassins. He is not a fool and will definitely leave this deadly place with the remaining living forces."