Chapter 141 Monster Crimson Tide
The closer you get to the kingdom border dividing line where [Past Glory] falls, the more you can feel the greatness of this super-level magical miracle.
The eastern border of Leyak Kingdom is thousands of kilometers long. If it wants to face the attack of massive monsters, it will be impossible to defend such an exaggerated territory.
The light curtain itself has no concept of "entity", but it does have the effect of blocking and isolating.
The monsters will become confused when approaching this wall of light, and will no longer focus on charging into the kingdom where mortals gather.
Even if you happen to hit the light curtain, it will be blocked and bounced away by an invisible force, making it impossible to cross.
The monsters that could not find their "direction" gradually gathered and took up residence in the dark forest.
Among other things, if you want to feed such a large population in the kingdom, the area of cultivated land required is a huge amount.
If the wilderness is occupied by monsters, you can only retreat to the city, which means you cannot farm.
Not to mention persisting for more than 500 years after the arrival of the evil god.
In just a few years or even a few months, there should be a famine disaster sweeping across Reyak.
With [Past Glory] blocking the impact of various monsters, the kingdom has returned to the safe and stable environment that existed in the first five centuries of the New Hui Calendar without the pollution and interference of evil gods.
Moreover, compared with the Kingdom of Reyak, the situation of other mortal races with a small population is even worse.
The dwarves had to abandon most of the Lingwing Wetland where their ancestors once lived, hollowed out the nearby mountains, and built a huge castle in it - the Stone Castle.
Goblins spread all over the world, and finally, after Caron Lalrod established Greenport in the southern part of the continent, a goblin city emerged in a reluctant sense.
The climate in the Northern Kingdom is cold, and the activity and aggressiveness of monsters will be reduced. The humans there have joined forces with the ant-men in the snowy mountains, and can maintain their defense by relying on the underground transportation network and shelters that extend in all directions.
Races such as gray dwarves and dark elves simply fled deep underground.
To this day, the Kingdom of Reyak is still the largest and most important food-producing place on the entire Prentice continent.
Nothing else.
Nowhere else is suitable for farming!
The Kingdom of Leyak produces food, and then transports the food to all parts of the continent through a total of four transportation channels, including land, sea, air and underground, alleviating the problem of food shortages for other mortal races and maintaining a balanced situation against monsters.
However, the effect of [Past Glory] does not last forever.
It is recorded in the scriptures that at that time, the papal organization of the Glow Divine Religion launched this super-level magical surgery given by the gods, which reminded King Leyak at that time.
Every other year, the effect of the light wall will be temporarily weakened for a few days, and it needs to wait for it to replenish more radiant power to maintain the best effect of the magic.
As the Pope described it.
One year after the advent of this super-level magic, some irregular "gaps" appeared on the miraculous light wall.
These gaps can be large or small.
The largest one is dozens or hundreds of meters wide, with a height ranging from ten to thirty meters.
The small ones may only be a few meters in size.
Each time a gap appears in the light wall, it will take anywhere from 3 to 5 days to as long as half a month before it closes again.
There will be an obvious sign before the light wall repairs itself.
The rising sun will no longer emit a golden glow, but will turn into a dangerous red. During this period, it will always hang high above the red sky and never set again. As the gap briefly appears, the originally disoriented and confused monsters will rediscover the civilization and order that exists in the Kingdom of Reyak, and launch a fierce attack again.
This is the catastrophic cycle known as the "Monster Red Tide."
The larger "gap" is at a fixed location and is also the main direction of the monsters' attack. The kingdom has built a defense line at the border line under the light curtain.
During the red tide, the King's Army and the Crusaders will take turns to fight to stop the attacks of monsters.
However, there is no regular pattern for the occurrence of smaller gaps, making it difficult to organize defenses in advance.
Therefore, every time the red tide breaks out, sporadic monsters will take the opportunity to rush into the kingdom through these small openings.
Attack towns and villages and bring pollution to the land.
Most of the refugees outside the city of Ceylon were caused by the monsters that poured into the kingdom during the red tide and destroyed their fields and homes. In order to save their lives, they left their homes and became refugees.
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On the border belonging to the Ceylon Territory, there are three large gaps in the [Past Glory] magic that will appear regularly, and strict defense facilities have been built in these three places.
Three city wall defense lines rise from the ground relying on the light curtain.
When there is a gap in the light wall, this place will take over the blocking task of divine magic and intercept the endless influx of monsters.
The daily garrison site of the Royal Army is set up behind the city wall. Similarly, the Crusaders also set up a fairly large training camp here.
Those new Crusaders who are still undergoing intensive training, such as Miranda in the past few years, will be brought to the rear of such a defense line. They practice in peacetime and become temporary logistics personnel and reserve teams when the monster red tide breaks out.
The stationed troops had to eat and drink, and adventurers and mercenaries took the initiative to cross [Past Glory] to hunt monsters on the outskirts of the wilderness. Over time, a lot of people gathered near these defense lines, and there were even small-scale attacks. Markets, hotels and other facilities.
Compared with randomly finding a location to pass through the light curtain, the density of monsters near the defense line will be much lower, making it less likely to encounter the unlucky situation of bumping into groups of monsters just after stepping into the outer reaches of the wilderness.
Therefore, most of the defense lines open to adventurers and mercenaries gradually became the "entrances and exits" between the kingdom and the wilderness by convention.
Pet and the others set out from Qim Town, intending to pass through the nearest defense line and enter the outskirts of the dark forest.
The name of this defense line is very simple, it is called "Ceylon Defense Line 3".
This name is for the convenience of overall planning and scheduling.
After all, during the monster red tide, every location in the kingdom is facing the impact of monsters. If you let the names be used casually, it will be easy to get confused and problems may arise.
Traveling in the wild is very time-consuming. When Peter and his team arrived, it was almost dusk.
"Let's take a short rest here tonight. The visibility at night is too poor. I'm afraid it's not suitable for us to continue on our way." Peter suggested.
Although they had the map in hand and the mission guidance sent down by the God of Knowledge, the five of them had never set foot in a truly dangerous wilderness before and lacked experience, so they naturally had to focus on stability.
Others naturally had no objections.
There are some simple buildings behind the defense line. A rough wooden signboard is erected outside the gate of one of them: "Hotel, providing clean hot water, food, beds, blankets, room 4 silver coins per night!"
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(End of chapter)