Chapter 424 The War of Collapse of the Empire
The moment Enlightenment appeared, Ji Xun felt violent spatial fluctuations.
Looking up at the sky full of cobweb cracks like a thunderstorm, he realized that an unimaginable fierce battle had just occurred in a hidden space.
That is the battle that cannon fodder can only look up to.
Immediately, a mechanical angel covered in metallic silver light flew out of the crack in the void and turned into a stream of light and flew away towards the northeast.
The speed was so fast that even Ji Xun only saw an afterimage, and murmured in his heart: "It turns out that the mechanical angel was destroyed here."
He had seen it before in Tailong Machinery City. An ancient mechanical angel with missing arms.
The appearance is exactly the same as the one I just glanced at.
When Ji Xun saw this, his mind became more active.
Based on the plot of the previous mission, it is not difficult to guess what happened.
This mechanical angel has been killing high-ranking rebels in the middle of the battlefield. In this situation, it seems that it came to hunt down the defectors and was ambushed.
But for Ji Xun, fighting at this level is like playing a background version of the game, just watch it.
It can trap a mechanical angel in the void and severely injure it. It requires breaking off an arm to escape. 80% of those who take action are god-level.
At the same time, Ji Xun was also looking forward to it.
You cannot participate in the battle. What you can participate in is the B-level task just mentioned: collecting angel mechanical fragments.
As long as there is contact in the extra-dimensional space, theoretically speaking, it is possible to draw cards at settlement.
This is a good opportunity.
The reality did not give him time to think too much.
The sound of breaking wind roared in the ears, and the orcs in the forest all looked up at the sky.
The fragments of flowing fire in the sky fell rapidly like meteors, and instantly crashed into the dense forest with a radius of dozens of miles.
Looking at the lingering black light on the fragments, Ji Xun's expression suddenly changed: "Not good!"
Others may not know what it is, but he knows very well that it is a "lightless day" The strange energy formed.
Just one look made Ji Xun feel like the hair on his body was in danger of exploding.
He quickly judged the trajectory of the hundreds of fragments in his mind, transformed into a werewolf, and ran away from the place.
Almost the next moment.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom".
There was a dense sound like artillery blasting against the ground.
The hundreds of fragments smashed into the ground and were silent for a moment, and then the energy contained violently exploded out.
Like hundreds of volcanoes erupting at the same time, the ground shook violently.
Suddenly, as if some giant beast was about to rise out of the ground, black light exploded everywhere on the hills within a radius of dozens of miles.
In just an instant, the giant tree a hundred meters high, the hard rock, and the orcs who had not yet figured out what happened
Any matter that touched the black light disappeared instantly.
In a mountain col, Ji Xun, who had just teleported over, and dozens of dumbfounded orcs nearby, all froze on the spot, looking at the beam of fire that emerged from the ground a hundred meters away. The black light instantly annihilated everything in front of them, and everyone was stunned, not daring to move.
The corners of Ji Xun's eyes suddenly twitched, and he thought to himself: "No wonder picking up garbage is a B task, and if you don't do it, you will be smashed to death."
Fortunately, this terrifying movement is point to point, The shock wave did little damage and lasted only for a moment. After several nearby hills were destroyed, it stopped.
When Ji Xun saw this, he immediately ran to the nearest pothole and saw at a glance a metal fragment the size of a silver coin in the pit a hundred meters deep.
"[Angel Alloy]."
Ji Xun stretched out his hand to grab it, and put the fragment into his bag when no one else saw it.
Enlightenment reminds you that this fragment can be exchanged for military exploits in the imperial city, or it can be taken out of space.
Ji Xun has no intention of redeeming his military exploits.
After all, this metal cannot be found anywhere in the outside world.
In the other-dimensional space of "Hive of Horror", Ji Xun drew a card and obtained an unprocessed alloy.
After research, he determined that this was the strongest, toughest, and most magical metal he had ever seen, and no outside source had heard of it.
Ji Xun is not sure what the use of these metals is, but an empire as powerful as Talen has only managed to produce one mechanical angel.
It is always right to keep it in your hands.
Ji Xun picked up all the fragments from the nearby hills, but only found three.
More of them fell into the hands of other orcs.
But the good news is that before long, the orc commander also ordered the collection of fragments.
It looks like the fragments will be gathered together soon.
Ji Xun also quietly informed Nan Jing and Chu Jiu who were lurking nearby, asking them to pay more attention to the whereabouts of the fragments.
Wait for the opportunity to intercept a wave and get rid of it once and for all.
The sudden change ended in the death and injury of tens of thousands of orcs.
However, the orc army was not affected much and continued to march towards Behemoth, the imperial capital in the east.
In the eyes of the outer gods, the meaning of these low-level rebel soldiers is just cannon fodder.
Ji Xun once disdained that kind of superiority, but now as his rank gradually increases, he seems to be able to understand that kind of godly feeling.
There is an essential difference between higher beings and lower beings.
Beings who are unable to understand the truth of the world are like grass and grass.
Ji Xun followed the large army and also inquired about the whereabouts of the "defectors".
After all, this involves an important A-level plot mission.
“According to the historical trend, Behemoth destroyed the city and the surrounding areas were smashed into pieces. The defectors in history should not have been found? That’s why the artifact that stabilizes space failed to work. .”
As Ji Xun walked, he deduced the situation through known intelligence, "That's right, the Mechanical Angel was almost ambushed because of this. Talen will definitely not easily send people to ambush defectors again."
< br>"Speaking of which, since the [Space Stone] can activate the artifact, it is probably a treasure. If you want to get it, you have to do it as soon as possible. The defector has not yet contacted the top rebels. But if you want to complete the mission, you must not As for the difficulty, at least we have to find the 'defector' first."
"But since the will of space is judged to be an A-level plot, there should be an opportunity to take advantage of it since it is the 'bait' to ambush the angel. , it is possible to find it by following this line."
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Ji Xunyi also frowned for a moment.
He thought he was lucky.
It just so happens that the "defectors" are in this direction of the fleeing orc army.
But there are hundreds of orcs in the army, and the defectors have no words on their heads, so it is not easy to find them.
Ji Xun felt that if he concentrated on completing this A-level task, it would be possible to spend more time.
But now he has more important things to do.
Thinking of this, Ji Xun originally thought that he could only try his luck.
But when he was suddenly sorting out his thoughts, he discovered a bright spot: "Hey, is the [raw space stone] a space treasure?"
It is difficult to find someone in an army of millions, but another one The idea suddenly became clear.
Since the defectors fled with the rough space stones, as long as they find the rough stones, won’t they also find the person?
Ji Xun thought of something and patted Ivan who was sleeping soundly in his pocket.
The little Loli rubbed her sleepy eyes and muttered: "Is it time to eat, Mr. Ji Xun?" To: "Not yet. It's time to work."
Ivan pouted, "Oh, it's not dinner."
Ji Xun fed a large piece of dessert and asked directly Said: "Ivan, I am looking for a [raw space stone] now. Can you sense where it is?"
Ivan looked confused. Her limited knowledge of the world made it impossible for her to understand something. Some human nouns: "What stone?"
Ji Xun himself didn't know.
If it weren’t for the mission prompted by Enlightenment, he wouldn’t have even heard of this kind of treasure.
Thinking about what it should be, he took out a space crystal core and showed it as a reference: "It is a special energy stone. Well, it is many times stronger than the space law fluctuations of this [space crystal]. "
"Oh. Let me feel it."
Ivan blinked in understanding, then tilted his head as if in meditation.
Soon she sensed something and said: "There are a lot of space cracks around here. There is also a broken space bubble, and there are bugs, big bugs."
Little Lolita's Ji Xun can now basically understand the vocabulary.
Light Chaser Fano said before that there are a large number of irregular space cracks near the imperial city, and it seems that these are them; if the space bubbles are there, should they be traps where angels were ambushed before?
Big Insect. Mysterious Insect Mother Kalakta? It was pretty much what Ji Xun thought.
This is an extradimensional space. Ivan is not part of the space plot, so there is no need to worry about touching anything.
Ji Xun is not looking for trouble with the outer gods, but looking for treasures, and he has accurately determined the prompt range: "If you feel it, it should be near the big bubble."
The bait is What is put in the trap is like the cheese that is placed on the trigger of the mousetrap.
From the place where the previous battle broke out, he roughly deduced the possible locations of several baits.
Because the description was precise enough, the surprise came suddenly.
Not long after waiting, Ivan suddenly had something to gain: "I found it! Over there, there are two stones with large spatial energy fluctuations!"
Ji Xun was also overjoyed when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Really found it?"
He asked: "Where exactly?"
Ivan said: "Fifteen degrees east by north, twenty kilometers."
< br>For distance, this little loli has extraordinary precision.
When Ji Xun heard this, his mind immediately matched the coordinates on the map.
The location happened to be within the same range as Fano said, so he walked towards the target direction without much hesitation.
The rebels are indisciplined, especially the orcs with low intelligence and high wildness. There are wounded and stragglers all over the mountains and plains.
Everyone was heading towards the battlefield anyway, and no one cared about the lost werewolf who seemed to be unable to find his team.
However, not long after walking, Ji Xun climbed over a large mountain and came to a pass, and his vision suddenly became clearer.
A big sun in the sky illuminated the huge basin in front of us, making it lush and green.
At the end of the field of vision, a majestic and exaggerated city came into view.
Under the sunlight, the outline of the city burst into view like a giant object.
The hundred-meter-high white stone city wall is like a winding white jade belt, surrounding the entire city.
Like the horizon, there is no end in sight.
The magic crystal stones on the wall sparkled under the sunlight, and the layers of barriers were like flowing circles of light, covering the entire city.
Ji Xun's location was very high, and he could just see the city's intricate Gothic spiers, with their colorful glass shining brightly.
The most exaggerated thing is that there is a palace floating in the sky above this city.
The waterfall flows down from the palace in the sky, and a seven-color rainbow wraps around the water curtain like a ribbon; even from such a distance, you can see the beautiful gardens in the palace.
This is the legendary Talon Imperial Capital, a city with the same name as a certain mythical beast - Behemoth!
No matter from the artistic level or the strategic level, this is the most shocking building Ji Xun has ever seen.
Especially the palace floating in the clouds, a scene that may only appear in many people's dreams.
“It’s really an exaggeration.”
Ji Xun looked at the city from a distance, and his heart was shocked for a long time.
In his eyes, this city is like a beauty lying on its side, it is truly perfect to the extreme.
It was because he knew that this city and the nearby void had collapsed into pieces in history that Ji Xun felt a pity.
However, it is majestic, and the current situation of the city is not optimistic.
Rebels were besieging the city from all sides, and the city was in fierce fighting all the time.
The sun in the sky illuminated the entire field of vision. From the pass, Ji Xun could see the battle on the west side of the city wall, as if watching a sand table, with a panoramic view of the overall situation.
The rebels have been besieging the city for nearly a month. The outside of the city is devastated, and the ground outside the city is full of holes blasted by magic artillery.
Just when Ji Xun looked over, a new round of charge started again. Orcs, as dense as ants, were running towards the city on the plain, just as another volley of artillery fired from the tall white stone wall.
Magic energy cannonballs of various colors exploded into a gorgeous magic shock wave in the siege team in the distance.
In the blink of an eye as Ji Xun watched, thousands of orcs Ping died, and countless more continued to charge.
Not long after, the corpses of the dead orcs were driven by the necromancy spells, charging in groups, and then completely turned into ashes, becoming dust that covered history.
The battlefield is as brutal as a meat grinder.
Although this is a plot reenacted in a different dimension, this cruel war actually happened back then.
Ji Xun's eyes gradually became lost in thought.
He watched first as a bystander, and then as a rebel soldier
At a certain mysterious moment, he felt as if he was in the torrent of history.
In this war, individual power is like an insignificant fallen leaf, drifting with the tide.
Even if it is as strong as a god, it is just a thick piece of driftwood floating in the torrent.
At first, Ji Xun was shocked by the cruelty of war, but gradually, he felt that his soul was constantly rising, and then he looked down at the entire battlefield and gained a new understanding.
Like this war itself, it is a certain "rule" that is inevitable in the operation of the universe.
Unconsciously, Ji Xun fell into a mysterious state of enlightenment.
And he couldn't help but recall the conversation with Farlow the Light Chaser last night in his mind.
I had heard some words in the clouds before, but at this moment, I had another realization.
Ji Xun seemed to have caught something, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his heart: "So that's it. Is this the higher realm of the world that the light chaser said before? Only when you stand high enough can you Deducing the laws of the world's operation more accurately."
For a moment, Ji Xun saw something different in his eyes.
Every warrior on the battlefield has a destiny line of different colors.
The card segments of the fate line include various life stages from their birth, card master's employment, advancement, adventure, battlefield, and death.
Countless threads gathered together and gradually formed a torrent.
You can know autumn by looking at the fallen leaves. At this moment, Ji Xun seemed to see the thread of the universe.
Ji Xun gradually became lost in thought. Just as he was thinking about it, an orc behind him shouted: "Brother, are you scared to death? Don't be stunned, hurry up and gather!"
Ji Xun was shocked by this. A voice shouted, and then his thoughts came back to reality.
He responded with an awkward smile and walked down the pass.
The layout of the entire battlefield is already in his mind.
Ji Xun is certain that unless the resources in the imperial city are exhausted, it will be almost impossible to break through Behemoth just by relying on such a human wave tactic.
In contrast, the rebel camp is even less likely to fight for a long time.
The card masters have an astonishing appetite, and a large army sieging a city requires a large amount of food and resources.
Especially the bugs under the mysterious bug mother Kalakta, without enough food, they can eat up their teammates immediately.
If we really want to besiege the city, this kind of mob will definitely collapse first.
But historically, Behemoth finally broke the city.
Ji Xun is also curious as to what kind of strategy the rebels will use to break the city.
Judging from the current information on "defectors", it is most likely an "internal problem".
When a powerful empire collapses, it always falls apart internally first.
He learned from the mouth of Light Chaser Farrow that "Mad King" Alduin was now completely deformed and had killed many loyal ministers who were determined to hold on to the empire until the end. Everyone in the city was in danger.
Ji Xun suddenly had some thoughts in his mind: "If I want to break through the city, the best choice is to break through from the inside."
He immediately realized that the previous "defection" "" may be the key to breaking the city.
Not long after, Ji Xun quietly came to a mountain col.
There is an elite team of one hundred people stationed here.
Judging from the badges they had not yet taken off, they were an elite squad of the 11th Regiment of the Royal Guards.
When Ji Xun came, the sergeants who were still wearing the armor of the Talon Knights were plotting something.
"Lord Rodon, what should we do next?"
"Now that the [Space Stone] has been obtained, it is enough to build a large teleportation array that can pass through top powerhouses. The war is about to end Yes."
"But."
"There is no but. There will always be someone who has to bear the charge of 'defector'. No matter how our actions are recorded in future generations, as long as we have a clear conscience. What's more, even if we don't admit it, the collapse of the empire is irreversible. Your Majesty has been completely deformed, even if we If we don't do this, more people will die sooner or later. The only one we trust now is Nanda."
(End of this chapter)
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