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Volume 2 [Dark Tide] Chapter 517 Prelude to War

The original relaxed atmosphere in the room disappeared. After hearing Camilla's report, Rody frowned more and more. Not only was there anger in his heart, but also an indescribable sense of crisis.

Just like what he said to Merlinsera when he was drunk before, it will be a matter of time to settle accounts with the undead. He is not only studying spells these days, all the research projects of the magic tower are not only aimed at artificial rainfall and other benefits to the people's livelihood, large-scale research and development for war is the main theme of Elson City. However, although Rody put the research and development on the undead on the agenda early, it does not mean that he has the power to attack the undead at any time - if there are another three years, Rody is confident that the undead will never come back.

But when the orcs were clearly preparing to attack, if the undead entered the battle at the same time, Roddy would be at an absolute disadvantage now.

Thinking of this, Rody inquired carefully: Take the cavalry to investigate carefully, and don't miss any clues. It's best to meet the opponent's troops and test them out. I want to know their intentions.

Although the undead and the Karen Kingdom have always been no offense to the river, local small-scale wars are one of the best ways to test the intentions of high-level people. This is true for the orcs, and the same is true for the undead.

Camilla knew that this might be the alarm bell that the war was about to start, so she quickly wrote down Rody's order and prepared to execute it, but Rody stopped her just two steps away: Did you just get this news?

Yes, the intelligence information has not passed through other hands.

This is the characteristic of Elson City - the Guardian has absolute monitoring rights over the city, eliminating most of the redundant procedures that may lead to leaks.

So... Rody frowned and pondered for a few seconds, and added: Block all news, execute orders and try to hide them as much as possible. Don't let those Rahiman mages see the problem.

After a little thought, Camilla understood the reason, turned around and left. On the other hand, Melintha, who was still wearing high heels, said, I am also a mage going to Laximan,

Are you not afraid of me saying it casually? Shall I be imprisoned?

With experience in the glacier plain, she has strong confidence in Rody, and she doesn't think he will encounter any difficulties at this time, so she said this in a joking tone. But Luo Di didn't have time to joke at this time, he waved his hands and sighed: Things are a bit troublesome, I have to think about countermeasures first.

He didn't worry about whether Merlinsera would leak the news. The latter squinted his eyes in satisfaction with this trust, then leaned up on the tree seemingly casually, stretched out his hand and cast Hand of the Mage, from the next bookcase She picked up a copy of Monsters and Their Origins, flipped through them and said, Then think about it slowly, I'll just wait for dinner.

The dress that had just been transfigured disappeared, revealing her original red robe. However, because her posture of lying on her back was too casual, Rody felt that his eyes were suddenly a little dazzling—there was no stockings or safety pants these days, and he looked up, only to realize that it was the long legs that Melinthra had accidentally exposed .

With a tall figure and high-heeled shoes buff, Merlinsera can be called buried as a supermodel... But she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this posture. While flipping through the book with relish, she reached out and lifted her long hair behind her back. Changed to a more paralyzed posture and leaned on the collapse.

For no reason, Rody felt a little parched, but the news Camilla's report weighed on his chest like a mountain, making him unable to appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of him, so he coughed lightly and turned his head to the desk beside him.

But he certainly didn't know that Melinthra's ears were red at the moment, and she stared at the catalog of Monsters and Their Origins for two minutes without reading a single word.

People sometimes do things that are unbelievable to themselves. Although Merlinsera is a dragon, she also experienced some inexplicable entanglements at this time - she didn't know why she did this, but she couldn't control her heart Stop, but after doing it, she was shy and regretful, but she couldn't take her legs back now... But when she saw Roddy turned and left, she couldn't help but call Roddy a jerk in her heart, angry that he didn't dare to look more Take a look and say it.

It's all Roddy's fault anyway!

But Luo Di couldn't take care of her emotions at the moment, because the current situation made him really anxious.

He looked at the series of preliminary agreements written by Houdini before he left on the desk, his brows completely wrinkled into the word Chuan. This pile of agreements includes not only magical technologies such as scroll circles, but also plans for the construction of a new deep-water port in the southwest of Efta, and the joint development of multiple projects.

In other words, the value of these letters of intent is worth hundreds of thousands, or even millions of gold coins.

Although Elson City has high-tech magic technology, the most important problem at present is that it does not have a deep population and wealth foundation. This is like a village in a poor mountainous area discovering a gold mine. A simple mine vein cannot make the village rich immediately. Only after a series of investment promotion, infrastructure construction and access to electricity can the per capita wealth here be improved.

In other words, this joint venture construction of the Rahiman Kingdom largely determines whether Elson City can gain a firm foothold and develop rapidly in the next few years. And the key to the harmonious cooperation between the two parties happens to be on the cobalt gold mine!

If it was in other places, it might have given up strategically, but here... I really can't take a step back.

Rody stared at the marked mineral veins on the outskirts of the Gondola Mountains, silently opened the urban construction column, and began to search for the research results of his various R\u0026D departments during this period of time - he needed to count the number of resources he currently has. How many hole cards are there to see if they can fight against the possible undead troops.

In the afternoon, Nata, who was riding a Kodak, just rushed back to Elson City.

Returning sooner rather than later, Rody was worried that he could not confirm the specific movements of the undead, and Nata's arrival couldn't have been more timely for him. However, when the dusty Nata stated the news he had observed, the little luck he had originally had disappeared...

The undead are preparing for war. Although some obstacles and obstacles can be seen, the signs of gathering here, here and here are very obvious...

I saw these on the way back—including the patrolling undead army here. They have begun to extend their tentacles outward, and they seem to be preparing to establish an outpost outside the Gondola Mountains.

Nata didn't know about the attack on the cobalt-gold mine, but simply told what she saw and heard, and took out a hand-drawn map to explain in detail to Rody. This is also one of the compulsory courses for Ranger. Detecting and locating the enemy's movements and judging the enemy's intentions are well-founded. Rody has carefully taught Nata this knowledge, and now her judgment results are also very consistent with these common sense.

It seems that Augustine is going to be tough this time.

Rody originally thought that the other party would be delayed by the parliament for a period of time due to the setback of his plan, but he did not expect that he would push the war so forcefully. No matter how much Augustine suffered in the deal with the parliament, Roddy must now face a fact: If the army of undead came straight to Efta, what should he do as the Cabinet Prime Minister?

The situation is not optimistic, he wrote down the key information on the parchment, and then asked, What about the orcs?

I'm afraid it's worse.

Nata glanced at Melinsera, who was already sitting upright, nodded and continued: More than 20,000 vanguard troops have gathered and set off, followed by more than 30,000 baggage trains.

Their direction...is facing Efta.

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Sound the alarm! Go! Light the beacon! Quick! Quick! Quick!

A team of scouts who had just returned from the edge of the grassland broke the tranquility of the village. Although there were only five scouts in this team, the horses they were riding on were all tall, and they could be seen at a glance to be expensive and excellent war horses. The sound of kicking and tapping reverberated in the village, startling a crowd of birds.

Dang! Dang!

The metal alarm bell brought from Houlier City three months ago is not big, but the bell's sound floats far away along the wind. Within two minutes, the beacon fire specially set up in the center of the village was ignited, and the blazing flames caused a black smoke to slowly rise, as if it had been wiped heavily on the clear blue sky.

Soon, one after another black smoke ignited. Not long after, similar beacons ignited in all the villages across the border.

After the initial panic, the villagers quickly began to evacuate under the orders of the lieutenant on duty. They moved very quickly. It was obvious that most people were mentally prepared for today's scene. Whether they were old people, women or children, they tried their best to keep their mouths shut and remained silent, and there was no chaos that often occurs when fleeing.

The standard team of scouts in the village has increased from eight to twenty-five within half a year, and more than half of them are veterans brought here from nearby fortresses. While the villagers began to slowly retreat to the fortress, all twenty-five scouts and captain lieutenants had already equipped combat leather armor and war blades, checked the standard hard crossbows in their hands one by one, and got on their horses.

Whether it's alarm bells, beacon fires, war horses or their sophisticated equipment, everything began to gradually change after the Duke of Angmar realized the threat of the orcs. When all the nobles laughed at Angmar for spending money indiscriminately, the duke withstood the tremendous pressure, pressed the objections of the nobles in the territory, and sent a series of resources to the border villages.

This kind of transportation continued until the Duke of Angmar died and Sally inherited the title, and the magnitude was even greater. More and more farmers have become professional soldiers with military pay, and more senior veterans have been promoted from the bottom to replace those moths who occupy their positions—and all these efforts have finally begun to pay off today...

Except for a scout who reported the news on a fast horse and ran towards the fortress, the rest of the scouts galloped towards the prairie without hesitation. Another village seven kilometers away also dispatched a scout team of 20 people after receiving the warning, and gathered at the designated place and moved forward.

Twenty minutes later, on the vast grassland, the 15-person orc advance team encountered a total of 45 scout troops. The howling orc wolf cavalry charged excitedly—they had always accepted the concept that human beings are very weak and they didn't think that these human cavalry could threaten them at all.

So the wave of crossbow arrows shot at them made them directly experience the horror of equipment suppression.

The four unlucky orcs were shot through their bodies on the spot and fell directly under the worg.

The rest of the orcs, who were stagnant, started a hand-to-hand battle - although the scout team could not form a neat charge formation, but with the impact of the tall horses and the fine iron long blade in their hands, they shouted slogans and tore apart in the roar. The orc team in front of me was smashed...

For the homeland!

Guard Efta!

With blood splashing, the war of aggression of the orcs against Efta and even the entire Karen Kingdom kicked off.

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Originally, I finished writing this afternoon, but I was called out to do other things by a phone call, so I am only updating it now. Tomorrow, my father-in-law will be discharged from the hospital, and he will get up at five o'clock to go to the hospital. It is estimated that the discharge procedures will be completed in the afternoon, and then he will be placed in a nearby hotel for post-operative examination, so the update will be the day after tomorrow. After four days of checking and confirming that everything is fine, I can fully focus on this, but I will write some when I am free these days, trying to slowly adapt to the rhythm of daily updates.