Game of the World Tree - Chapter 355

Chapter 353: Reinforcements from the Surface

If there is any difference between the war in the Segos world and the war in the cold weapon era of Blue Star, it is that the addition of extraordinary power makes the direction and changes of the war more complicated and unpredictable.

The existence of the teleportation array, which is like a bug, has completely changed the city war mode in the Segos world…

Unlike Blue Star, the war in the Segos world is often a large-scale battle of defending or attacking a city that can determine the trend of the entire war.

Among them, the most important reason is that the existence of the teleportation array makes long-distance support a reality.

Of course, the maintenance of the teleportation array requires magic stones. When teleporting, more magic stones will also be consumed according to the teleportation distance and the strength of the teleported object…

This consumption is very small in the early stage, but as the number of teleportation targets increases and the strength increases, it will soar at an exaggerated rate.

Therefore, for ordinary surface civilizations, using teleportation arrays to provide military support is a rather luxurious behavior.

They will not use teleportation arrays unless they have to fight a decisive battle.

However, for the underground world, it is different.

The underground world is extremely rich in minerals and has a huge reserve of magic stones.

Not only that, because the underground world is closer to the origin of the plane, the magic power consumed when using the teleportation array is much less than that of the surface world.

Therefore… for them, using the teleportation array to teleport the army is a very common operation.

If it weren’t for the fact that the underground city-states in the dark area have been fighting each other for many years, even if they are in the same city-state alliance, the trust between each other is generally not high, otherwise the teleportation array would have become a common way of travel.

In fact, it was this time that the Silent City-State Alliance encountered a real crisis, and the goddess they believed in issued an oracle, otherwise… they would never easily arrange such a super-long-distance teleportation array with high risks and benefits.

And it is precisely the existence of the teleportation array that makes the already fierce war in the underground world, once the battle is over, it will go to two extremes –

either the war will end quickly after a big battle.

Or, it will turn a siege into a protracted war, and sometimes it is not impossible to siege for more than ten years…

At this moment, the largest underground city in the Silent City-State Alliance, the City of Sharp Blades, known as the “Forging City”, is facing such a siege.

The City of Blades is located in the north-central part of the western region of the underground world, at the junction of the first and second layers of the Underdark, about 300 kilometers horizontally from the Deep Rift Caverns. It is the forefront of the Silent City-State Alliance against the Dark City-State Alliance.

The city consists of a large cave obtained by hollowing out stalagmites, and is close to the Underdark Sea.

The City of Blades has a large population, with a staggering 50,000 permanent residents… Among them, the main residents are dark dwarves and underground gnomes, accounting for more than 80% of the total population.

Don’t underestimate these 50,000 people. Cities with this population are already quite rare in the underground world.

Not only that, unlike human cities on the surface, the residents of the cities in the underground world are almost all extraordinary people. The number of extraordinary people who have reached the Black Iron level is at least one-quarter of the city’s population. In the most underground cities, even half of the population is above the Black Iron level…

In other words, there are at least 10,000 residents who have reached the Black Iron level in the City of Blades.

In this huge underground city, the dark dwarves used stone pillars as smelting centers, built their own houses and workshops, mines and alchemy workshops around them, and built a magnificent wall with solid iron ore outside the city.

The wall flashed coldly under the reflection of the fluorescent stone in the underground world, like a sharp blade, which is also the origin of the “Blade City”.

There is the largest magic stone mine in the entire western region, and the reserves of mithril, fine steel, and iron ore are also quite amazing.

As early as thousands of years ago, the dark dwarves made it a well-known forging city in the underground world. The various equipment produced by the Blade City are even as famous as the elves on the surface…

The rich mineral resources naturally created a huge amount of wealth in the Blade City, and the huge wealth will naturally attract the covetousness of other forces.

So, the first underground city chosen by the Dark City-State Alliance was here.

At this moment, the chief of the City of Blades, an underground dwarf named Brin, was standing on the city wall, looking at the dark army of illithids, dark dwarves (the name given by the dark dwarves to their fellow tribesmen who believed in the God of Darkness), undead, monsters and goblins outside, with a solemn expression.

The enemy’s attack came earlier than expected…

He never expected that before the envoys sent out for help returned, they would be besieged by the Dark Alliance.

So far, the City of Blades has repelled several sieges by the enemy.

The walls had long been stained black and red by the blood of the dwarves and gnomes, and looked particularly tragic in the flickering firelight.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Of the nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Lonely Alliance who had originally defended the city, 5,000 had returned to the kingdom of the goddess.

On the walls, the soldiers sat on the ground tiredly, and from time to time they could hear the groans of the wounded…

Brin’s mood became heavier and heavier.

The number of enemies far exceeded his imagination. The number of the Dark Alliance troops participating in the siege this time was probably over 100,000… If it weren’t

for the fact that the City of Sharp Blades was already strong, and the defensive core of the Temple of the God of Death in the city could perform defensive magic to resist the strong men in the enemy’s army, otherwise… the city would have been broken long ago.

But even so, if there were no more reinforcements, it would probably not last long.

It also takes manpower to operate defensive magic, and because Lord Huoxu, who can perform the divine descent, is not here, the City of Sharp Blades lacks high-end combat power and needs more power to maintain the operation of the magic.

In this situation, the number of soldiers on the city wall can only decrease with each fight…

What makes Brin feel even more depressed and frightened is that there are still high-level undead in the enemy’s army!

The enemy seems to have some kind of artifact that interferes with the power of the goddess . Once a soldier is killed by the enemy, he will turn into an undead and join the enemy’s army…

Of course, this is also because the Lord of Darkness and Shadow has stolen some of the authority of the goddess. Otherwise… How could he let these undead who betrayed the goddess bully him?

“Lord Huoxu… When can you bring reinforcements back?”

Thinking about the delegation to Black Rock City, Brin sighed deeply.

His originally short figure looked even more hunched at this moment.

The delegation has been away for many days…

If Brin guessed correctly, Lord Huoxu should have gone to the surface world through Black Rock City to seek help.

After all, in the oracle of the goddess, He asked the City of Sharp Blades to transform a large number of humanoid equipment in advance for the use of reinforcements.

Probably… the reinforcements should be human.

The human mercenary group is still very famous in the world of Segos. It is said that the most outstanding ones are even legendary strongmen!

If Lord Firebeard can return with such a powerful mercenary group… there will really be a turning point!

Just when Brin was thinking, suddenly, a dwarf warrior stumbled to the city wall, shouting excitedly as he rushed:

“Lord Firebeard is back! Lord Firebeard is back with reinforcements!”

Lord Firebeard is back? Reinforcements have arrived?

Hearing this news, Brin was refreshed.

He suddenly turned his body, looked up at the dwarf warrior who came in front of him, and asked excitedly:

“Reinforcements have arrived? Is it a human mercenary group?”

After hearing what Brin said, the dwarf was slightly stunned.

He said with a strange look on his face:

“No… not humans, but… elves.”

“Elves?”

Brin was stunned.

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