Game of the World Tree - Chapter 384

384. Chapter 382 Betrayal! Strategic Failure…

No one expected that Shanatar, which was rich in supplies and well-defended, would be breached.

In fact, this underground city was not forcibly breached by the army of the Dark Alliance from the outside, but fell from the inside of the city.

No one expected that the grandson of the current chief, the diplomat of the underground city, Dorulu, would collude with the forces of the Dark Alliance.

While the chief was sleeping on his sickbed, he stole the key to the core of the underground city held by the other party, thereby bypassing the defensive magic barrier of the Shanatar city-state and privately established a teleportation array connecting the outside and inside of the city…

So, before anyone could react, a large number of undead suddenly appeared in the city.

They destroyed the ultra-long-distance teleportation array in the city-state and destroyed the statue of the god of death in the temple of the god of death.

The statue of the god of death is the core that provides the source of power for the defensive magic. Once the statue is destroyed, the entire Shanatar defensive magic collapses.

The teleportation array was destroyed, and the elves who came to support could no longer teleport to support…

Therefore, the defenders and elf troops of the entire city were immediately isolated and helpless.

Therefore, the dark army that had been prepared outside the city, together with the internal support and the assault troops in the city, easily opened the city gate that had not been broken for several months.

The siege that should have been vigorous did not happen. The Dark Alliance quickly occupied the city wall of Shanatar, and the original defenders left a pile of corpses in the double-sided attack and retreated into the city with difficulty.

The war soon turned into a tragic street battle. The defenders in the city and the Dark Alliance army that entered the city fought fiercely in the city.

However, the Dark Alliance army had already made sufficient preparations.

They gathered a full 150,000 undead army and 80,000 ordinary troops, which can be called the strongest force in the western part of the underground world.

In comparison, the strength of the Silent Alliance army in Shanatar was too weak.

The city-state’s garrison totaled less than 20,000 people, and even the elves that remained in the city were limited in number, totaling less than 3,000.

In the attack of the Dark Alliance army, the army composed of the Dark Dwarves and the Underdwarves suffered heavy losses, and the elves died one after another. The streets of the entire city were stained with blood.

The remaining forces of the Silent Alliance were also forced step by step into the deepest mines in the city by the other side, relying on some solid fortifications to hold on…

In just less than two days, the Dark Alliance army occupied most of Shanatar, leaving only some mines deep in the city occupied by the Dark Dwarves, Underdwarves, and Elf mercenaries who retreated into them.

It was easy to defend there, but there was a shortage of supplies. As long as the Dark Alliance locked them up there, they had only two choices: surrender or starve to death…

It can be said that by this time, the Dark Alliance had actually occupied the entire Shanatar.

The original city residents were forcibly detained in their homes, the rebels were slaughtered, and Chief Katra was killed by the betrayer Dorulu, who was appointed as the new chief by the Dark City-State Alliance and announced that the Church of Darkness and Shadows would become the new official faith

of the city-state. At the same time, the Dark Alliance army also connected the statue of the Lord of Darkness and Shadows that had been prepared long ago to the original Temple of the God of Death, and reactivated the city’s defensive divine barrier.

But this time, the divine defense barrier had already reversed its target.

At this point, Shanatar was declared to have fallen.

When this news spread throughout the Silent City-State Alliance, all city-states were in an uproar.

No one expected that Shanatar would fall so suddenly…

and after the uproar, panic soon followed.

Doruru of the Shanatar city-state betrayed, and his betrayal directly led to the fall of the city. So… have other cities been infiltrated by the Dark Alliance like this city?

In addition, Shanatar and the City of Sharp Blades are both gateways from the Silent City-State Alliance to the Dark City-State Alliance, and their geographical locations are too sensitive.

From the map of the western part of the underground world, the overall topography of the western part of the underground world is like a gourd with its head facing north.

The mouth of the gourd is the passage to the Deep Crack Cave. The Silent City-State Alliance occupies the upper half of the gourd, while the Dark City-State Alliance occupies the lower half. The two underground city-states are located right in the center of the gourd, and are also the entrances to the second-level dark area…

In this case, the defensive battle between Shanatar and the City of Sharp Blades is the key to the entire war. The situation here can even determine the direction of the entire underground world war, and the decisive battle is likely to take place here.

With good defense, as long as the consumption continues, the victory in the secular war will definitely belong to the Silent Alliance.

But if any city-state is breached, it will lead to the opening of the gates of the Silent City-State Alliance, and the army of the Dark Alliance will be able to march straight in, and the situation will be bad in an instant…

However, now, a city-state has really been breached!

In a sense, it can be said that the Dark Alliance has won a decisive victory in this war.

After all, judging from the strength comparison between the two sides, if defending a single city, the Silent Alliance may be able to rely on the support of the elves to hold on, but when multiple city-states are attacked at the same time, it will be dangerous.

Not every city-state has tens of thousands of garrisons like these two cities. More of the Silent City-State Alliance’s underground cities have less than 10,000 troops.

Of course, this is also because the Dark Alliance has special means to make normal undead degenerate and corrupt, so that the Silent Alliance cannot use the undead army in the war with the Dark Alliance.

In this case, the Dark Alliance’s army can easily besiege at least five or more underground cities at the same time with a high probability, relying on its numerical advantage, and can easily break through.

It is worth mentioning that, considering the cost of establishing a super-long-distance teleportation array, although the Phantom Alliance decided to establish super-long-distance teleportation arrays in all cities when seeking support, this is not the case.

The real situation is that only the two key cities, the City of Sharp Blades and Shanatar, which are already rich, chose to establish super-long-distance teleportation arrays connecting Black Rock City.

Although the closer the other cities of the Phantom Alliance are to the Calabash Mouth, the closer they are to Black Rock City, the lower the cost of establishing super-long-distance teleportation arrays and maintaining the operation of the arrays… But the more remote they are, the poorer they are, and they cannot afford it even if the cost is low. At most, they have established ordinary teleportation arrays between each other.

Of course, this is also because the Phantom Alliance is at most a loose alliance of city-states, and it is impossible to effectively allocate and utilize the resources of each city-state.

In this case, even the players find it difficult to provide effective support.

Of course, in theory, players can also teleport to two key city-states first, and then teleport to other city-states through ordinary teleportation arrays.

But, the key to the problem lies here.

The City of Blades and Shanatar do have teleportation arrays connecting to other underground city-states, but these teleportation arrays are concentrated in the city-state of Shanatar. The City of Blades only has one teleportation array connecting to the city of Shanatar.

This means that once the city-state of Shanatar is breached, the City of Blades will be disconnected from other city-states of the Phantom Alliance.

The reason why the Phantom Alliance built a teleportation array in this way is that although both city-states are in key locations, the City of Blades is closer to the sphere of influence of the Dark City-State Alliance and is surrounded by enemies on three sides. It is too risky to build a large-scale teleportation array connecting to other city-states here…

After all, everyone estimated that if one of the two cities was bound to be breached, it would definitely be the City of Blades. If a teleportation array was built for support, the city-state of Shanatar would be enough.

But who knew that Shanatar was breached first.

After saying so much, in fact, if you want to summarize it, it is just one thing.

That is, the loss of Shanatar has already declared the failure of the Silent Alliance in terms of strategy. If they still want to win this war, they can’t just rely on secular power.

There will be no more tonight. The second update will be written early tomorrow morning. Everyone can read it tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)