Chapter 2209 The crumbling mountain city
Back in the villa, Scar told everyone about the invitation to the Holy Garden. Everyone was happy. Although most people could not go to the Holy Garden, they also had self-awareness. , if the team can get better, to be honest, at least my income can increase. If it really gets stronger in the future, I may become a team leader or something. The older I am, the more I can find a job in the team easily. Logistics work and pension.
Scar can't decide on the number of personnel. He thinks that this matter has to be decided by the group leader Ba Naoqian, so he is not in a hurry at this moment. In the afternoon, he called the backbone of the team in Ten Star City to discuss how to develop the mercenary group in the future. After all, with the recognition of the Holy Garden, the future would be bright, how to unite the backbone of the members, especially what he thought would be He felt that it was necessary to consider in advance whether the personnel going to the Holy Garden would stay with the group and work alone when they became famous in the future, or they would be poached by the big mercenary group.
After chatting for a while, everyone talked about the important task of saving the world that was announced in the mercenary union and around the world at noon today, including looking for ghosts, looking for the Abyss of Light, Oumuamua, and Sunspot, regardless of If you do any of these things, the Disaster Relief Committee will give you a generous reward. These are the events that attract the most attention to the world now. It is necessary for the Bloody Mercenary Group to participate. If it can be done, it will become world-famous in the future.
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While the world's three major powers, Desman, are discussing how to save the world from the disaster, the other two major powers, Demon Moon and Saint Bikoa, are experiencing a national war other than the disaster.
Outside Bell Mountain City, the Royal First Army, led by Fried, did not take much time to surround the strongest fortress in northern San Vicoia. The reason why the battle progressed so quickly was because of the Reed used to be an imperial general and marshal, and he also had a powerful siege weapon owned by Songun. He used the liquid source limit device twice in a row, causing the two counterattacks of Saint Vicoia to gather superior forces to fail. The general was captured. Since the royal army marched into Enarivo, it has been advancing at a rapid pace, and in a short period of time, the city of Bell Mountain was in danger.
There is another reason why the northwest defense zone of Saint Vicoia fell so quickly, and that is if there are negative factors in the commander of Bell Mountain City, the former commander of the Black Feather Battalion, Kuroba Palles. . Since Palles took charge of the Northern Command, he has lost his restraint and has become extremely mentally unstable. Although there are times when he is awake, he spends most of his time in an elusive state. Sometimes he is as timid as a rat, sometimes as crazy as a demon. Many military affairs issues that should be decided by the commander-in-chief cannot be handled normally. Since the beginning of the war, there has been no complete strategic plan for a long time. It was not until the generals unanimously signed that the power to control the war situation was obtained from the king.
In fact, it is not that King Zarbog of St. Bikea has not thought about replacing Pales, just because the northern border is an important town, he has not been able to find a satisfactory replacement. In addition, he He has only been in power for a short period of time and has been busy with many things, so this matter has been postponed until now.
Although he removed Pales' commanding power, he still ordered him to stay in Bell Mountain City for no other reason. No matter how mentally unstable Pales is, the strength of the eighth-level Dark Demon Dancer is at stake. There, having him there is at least a guarantee. And although he is mentally unstable, he is not completely out of control yet and will not mess up the mountain city. It's just that Zalberg didn't expect the invading royal army to advance so fast, nor did he expect Fried to go up from the west to the north to attack the mountain city that was the least likely to be broken. When he was about to seek a new commander to be stationed on the front line, the mountain city was already besieged before the candidate was chosen.
At this time, the mountain city had a strong sense of imminent rain. Coincidentally, the flood season in the north was approaching, so that the sky above the mountain city was affected, and the clouds were thick, just like the mood of the defenders in the city. Magic Knight Artimit has temporarily taken over the position of commander, but he is not happy at all. The two tactics he planned to endure the enemy's fatigue and then counterattack failed, and the reason for the failure was that It was the same both times. The army, including the generals and officers, suddenly suffered the impact of some mysterious force. The magic power in everyone's body instantly lost the ability to flow and run, and all magic-related facilities were destroyed.
With such impact and shock, it is natural that he cannot win the battle, but he and his staff still have not figured out what his enemy used to do all this. of.
The war room was lifeless. Some people were smoking cigarettes and frowning, while others were looking down at the enemy information in their hands. No one can come up with constructive suggestions to stop the enemy. All the measures that can be thought of are conventional defensive methods, but these methods are meaningless when all magic power fails. Once the entire city's defense and magic defense system fails, all the mages become ordinary people, and the strength of the knights is reduced by half, who will still have the confidence to fight the enemy?
Artimit was very unhappy. He looked at the heraldic flag of St. Picea hanging on the wall and glanced at the generals present: "Isn't there anyone who can make some good suggestions?"
No one said anything in the meeting. What can I say if there is no other way? Artimit turned his attention to the witness of the last battle, Eagle Doro.
Doro was originally stationed in Xizela Province. Since the invasion of the royal army, his defense area was the first area to be attacked. He had already had many battles with the royal army, from retreating to the last battle. , he is the one who knows the Royal Quan Army best.
Having attended the meeting injured, he shook his head. Seeing that Artimit wanted to say something by himself, he slowly said: "I met Nasha before I came here, and I heard her talk about her Red Shadow Knight Dragon. It seems that it is not affected by the loss of magic power.”
The term magic power loss was invented during these two battles. It means that the magic energy in the body is not lost, but the use of it is lost. power. "Won't the Dragon Clan be affected?" Artimit frowned and thought, and then said: "This is not enough. The enemy also has dragons, and Fried's three-headed dragon seems to be more powerful. Here... ..."
"The Dragon Clan may not be able to resist that magical power. Fogg's Green Crystal Dragon was affected in the last battle and briefly lost its magic power. Within a week, It was restored later,” a staff officer said.
"Well..." Artimit's expression became more solemn: "By the way, Doro, one of your generals named Pisian is a fire magician? She can elementalize, is she also affected? ? "
"Yes. She has now lost the ability to elementalize herself, and is still in the hospital for treatment," Doro replied.
Artimit shook his head: "Speaking of it this way, even if Admiral Palles can fight normally, he may lose his power completely. Damn it! Is there really no chance of winning at all?"< br>
What news did the staff officer receive at this moment? He said with a solemn expression: "Generals, the situation in the epidemic isolation area outside the city has been calculated. As many as 30,000 officers and soldiers were infected with the disease, and the total number of people infected in the army outside the mountain city reached 120,000. If you include the civilian population, the number of infected people exceeds 4 million, and this number is increasing every day. In addition, the number of deaths due to the epidemic every day reaches 3,000.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the war room took a breath. Tauren Guards General Kudo said: "If we continue like this, we won't be able to hold on ourselves without Fried's beating. Hey, how is the epidemic situation in the city now? Are there any infected people?"
"Yes, there are new cases every day, but they are still under control." The staff officer said: "However, the conditions of the three officers who were infected earlier are already very serious, and I am afraid they will not survive for long."
"Is there no treatment?"
"There is no particularly good treatment The only method is symptomatic treatment. "The staff officer said: "I asked several attending doctors, and they said that the condition of the infected people is more complicated, and some people have more than one disease, which is the most terrible infection. Crazy dance; there are also diseases that can cause bones to break, the joints will be sore and painful in the early stages, and colds will In the middle stage, the joints become inactive, and joints all over the body fall off; there is also the third type of schizophrenia, which doctors say is caused by white mold and is also called senile disease. These three types cause white mold to grow inside and outside the body and brain, and reduce intelligence to the level of infants and young children. Although there are clear treatments for the disease, the first two are incurable, and the cure rate for the disease is not very high. Those infected are still at risk of death and lifelong mental retardation. "< br>
"This is too scary. I don't want to be infected with such a disease." Someone said fearfully.
Artimit did not want to say anything, but he had already said this, and then continued what the staff officer said: "This is not the most terrifying thing. There are new unknown diseases in the epidemic, and there are also new ones. Patients suffering from scale rust... Damn it, isn't there any good news?" He couldn't say it anymore. The current situation is really terrible.
This indestructible Bell Mountain City, the officers and generals present now feel that they are unable to defend it, as if the city will be broken tomorrow, and they can only wait for that day to come.
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(End of this chapter)