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 the ones above were knocked down. Scattered gravel continued to fall on the stone wall.
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?"
A tall knight came to him immediately after coming out of the tent. 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! Ska! But I just heard it. The place where the sound came from must be in the canyon not far away! It should be those cultists who did it again What a good thing!”
“Are they crazy! If a series of collapses occur, they themselves will be the first to die!”
Next to them! A dwarf officer took over 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 abundant resources. As for the 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 think? 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. Not sure.”
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. .
"Enough! No more guessing! The shock 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 It will all collapse, and we have to consider this worst possibility."
"Send out scouts immediately to see what is happening over there, and the captains must also immediately notify their respective companies to gather their teams. , and then immediately retreat to the rear of the enemy's reinforced position to prevent our soldiers from dying in the opponent's crazy counterattack."
"Yes, Commander!"
Out of fear. Cherishing 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.
"Stop standing here, abandon this camp for the time being, retreat to a safe place and wait for the scouts' information."
Ska and Karak looked at each other, Then he nodded to the commander-in-chief, and at the same time grabbed the expressionless Mizola and led her to evacuate in an orderly manner with everyone. During the retreat, officers kept speaking around everyone.
“Hey, although I feel very honored to be able to participate in the battle against the murder cult, the environment in this hellish place is not suitable for ordinary soldiers to participate in combat. This incident has fully proved this. If anything happens, the soldiers will basically be unable to fight. ""I really don't want to admit what you said, but I have to admit that you are indeed right. If we hadn't brought enough troops with us in this operation. The mage reinforced the surrounding walls and set up a phantom barrier that enveloped the entire camp. It would be impossible for ordinary soldiers to even detect those elite assassins. Alas, it would be a massacre. "< br>
"Okay, shut up! Don't say such depressing words at this time!"
The commander-in-chief once again stopped the discussion of 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 word that the cultists used a large amount of smoke powder to blow up the canyon, and now the road leading to the Temple of Baal has been It is completely blocked by rubble. If we want to clear these stones, even if we rely on the power of magic, it will take a long time. During this time, we will not be able to launch a large-scale clearing operation against the murder believers. "
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 behavior, how should I put it, feels like it is to forcibly preserve the Temple of Baal, and is even willing to bury it with stones."< br>
Nohill’s guess is actually very reasonable. These murdering believers should know that their current strength alone cannot defend the temple. They probably don’t want the temple to suffer the same fate as the Iron Throne... After being discovered, it was completely destroyed, and even the temple itself was thrown into the Sea of Swords by powerful magic.
Well, the latter possibility is now unlikely. There should be no mage who can do this in Baldur's Gate at present, but the temple was completely destroyed. After the temple was breached, It's definitely a done deal.
In order to prevent the temple from being destroyed, these lunatics took this action. Nohir estimated that it was Shaflock who ordered them to do it. It’s not that Nohir looked down on these ordinary believers, but those ordinary believers Murdering believers are indeed brainless idiots. They are all completely paralyzed by the blessing given by Baal, that is, the pleasure of killing. They are all crazy and it is impossible not to think of such a method.
Because although the move of blowing up the canyon was reckless, it did preserve the Murder Temple, Baal's largest ritual place in the world, and as long as the temple did not fall, they did not have to worry about Baal punishing them for the time being. I believe this is also support important basis for their behavior.
"If these speculations are true, then I believe that it will not be long before the Murder Temple will be empty. Even if the actual leader of the Murder Temple has not returned yet, Shaflock still has the command of Barr. The assassin's power, he is not a fool, he will definitely leave this place of death with the only remaining vitality."
(End of this chapter)