The brave man opened the coffin and rose

There is an enemy behind the door, so Abes chooses to use underground warfare.

In siege warfare, tunnel warfare is a very effective tactic.

The ultimate goal is usually to dig tunnels underground to directly destroy the enemy's city walls, or to bypass the city walls to enter the city and launch a surprise attack.

but……

Is this really suitable for Abes and his friends' current situation?

Regarding the implementation details of the tunnel, it is necessary to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the enemy's city wall structure, geological topography, surface hydrology, groundwater level and other information at the very beginning.

Finally, we can choose a suitable location to start excavation.

Usually, digging begins outside the weak area of ​​the enemy's wall;

Furthermore, the geology must not have a large number of stone layers, nor can it be the kind of geology that collapses as soon as it is dug, like sand and gravel, and has no adhesion;

Generally speaking, it is difficult to use this method in cities near rivers or cities with abundant underground water reserves.

Moreover, the soldiers are not ants and gophers after all. In the process of digging tunnels, in addition to shovels, pickaxes, and bags for transporting soil, they usually use wood to support the tunnel to prevent collapse.

The material consumption of excavation work is no less than that of charging into battle.

Therefore, tunnel warfare is not a tactic that can be used when one has nothing. Instead, it requires certain material support.

If the chosen distance is very long, the wood can even be used to build several siege ladders.

Furthermore, once the tunnel is built, the problem of ventilation needs to be solved.

Even if the soil is not the kind that will produce water as soon as it is dug, certain drainage preparations must be made to prevent the engineers from suffocating or drowning in the tunnel.

Moreover, the excavation work was actually a secret operation that required cover and concealment. The closer to the city wall, the slower the progress would be, and the work would have to be carried out at night to avoid being discovered by the local authorities.

For the same purpose, in order to cover the tactics of digging tunnels, it is actually necessary to have frontal combat to attract the enemy.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, tunnel warfare is not a method suitable for them now.

"The number of people is insufficient..."

Tunnel warfare requires experienced engineers and miners to dig tunnels; it also requires combat troops who can attack head-on to attract attention.

"And it looks like we are also short of materials."

Digging tools, wood, explosives, etc., only the magic grenade encapsulated in the Abes armor can be used as an explosive to support the situation.

“There is absolutely no logistical support.”

During the excavation process, food, water, medical care and other guarantees are extremely important.

If there is any advantage, it is that there is a druid among Abes and his group, who can more or less determine the soil, hydrology and groundwater conditions.

If they could really succeed, they would just have to dig under the city wall, load a large amount of explosives at the end of the tunnel, ignite it and detonate it to destroy the foundation of the city wall, causing it to collapse.

It sounds like a sound arrangement, but if possible, why not just blast through the city wall and get in now?

"This move can be used in siege warfare because the enemies inside the city wall are ordinary people. They will have time to rest and carry things. If the city wall suddenly collapses, or there is a passage directly leading to the inside of the city wall, it will cause a sudden attack that catches them off guard."

"But the situation of the Breland family is different. The enemy is the undead, so we don't have such an opportunity. Even if the underground warfare is successful, it will not create an advantage."

Everyone was talking about their opinions.

Soon, the method proposed by Abes seemed to be rejected by them in terms of number of people, materials, logistical support, and the inability to create advantages after completion.

But Abesi just smiled.

"Who said I have to dig the whole way by myself?"

The best way to apply water to sandy soil is through drip irrigation;

As for the unusually rich magical power in the farmlands near these castles, Abes guessed that they had a similar structure.

"There should be a ready-made passage under the castle, transporting magic power to the fields."

"All we have to do is open a small gap and find the entrance to the existing passage."

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Abes led them to a cultivated field a little further away from the castle.

Here, even if the enemy suddenly feels something is wrong and wants to check from the city wall or the peepholes in the rooms, it is difficult for them to see this blind spot that is mostly cleverly blocked.

Afterwards, the druid Anivia, who was highly anticipated by everyone, also began to sense the situation underground.

As the power of nature stirred, the soil gradually became transparent in her vision, and the magic and natural classification of the underground structure gradually emerged.

"Here," Anivia pointed to a patch of ground, "there are traces of magic gathering underneath. It's probably where some passage converges. It should be easy to enter."

Abes nodded and signaled everyone to start digging.

The development of the situation was beyond initial expectations, as no one present was carrying a shovel.

Fortunately, with the presence of extraordinary people, tools are not a problem.

He casually chopped down two huge trees, and with the precise cutting of Abe's sharp weapon, he could turn them into a rough shape on the spot.

It was then carbonized and hardened by the Crimson flames, and the joints were reinforced by Anivia using vines.

One by one, barely usable carbonized wooden shovels were fashioned.

They dug carefully into the ground.

The soil in cultivated land is naturally soft, so digging is not difficult.

In addition, each of them had a physique and strength far superior to that of ordinary people, so in a short while, they dug a deep pit that was so large that only half of their heads were exposed.

Suddenly, it was Soran's shovel that first hit something hard.

Abes squatted down and gently brushed away the dirt, revealing a stone lid.

Connected below is a whole passage made of stone and mud.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like traces of artificial construction.

The worst case scenario did not happen. From the distance measurement with the naked eye, it can be known that this passage is definitely large enough for people to walk through, and it is not like the water pipe in reality that is only as thick as a finger.

The reason why Abes dared to boldly determine that the passage below must be huge was simply because of his profound understanding of the materials science of this world.

To put it bluntly, with their current level of material science, they are still unable to produce seamless metal pipes or PVC plastic pipes that can be buried underground for wiring and water transportation.

"This is it!"

Abes let go of the wooden shovel in his hand, then squatted down and half-pried and half-lifted the lid-shaped stone away by himself.

Then, a faint magical light shone from it.

Abes climbed in first, followed by the others.

The passage was narrow, but wide enough for them to stand through.

At least it doesn't have to be as awkward and cramped as in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

And after entering it, Abes finally understood where the entire method of charging magic power came from.

The walls are inlaid with glowing natural crystals, lighting the way forward.

Bai Renchou and Sauron naturally didn't know about this.

Crimson may have seen it, but he may not have paid much attention to it.

But Abes and Anivia are all too familiar with this.

Isn’t this familiar crystal and fractal shape the magic crystal?

Sister Agatha, through her years of research, has made the difference in magical power between arcane magic and divine magic, and created a free clean energy source from the gods - materialized magic.

It is this thing that supports the magic industrial system that Abes relies on.

It is precisely the various creations of the magic industrial system that have enabled Abes to go from being penniless to completely controlling the capital region.

But how do we explain the current situation?

Could it be that the materialized magic power exists from natural minerals?

If so, then Sister Agatha's half-life research results are a joke.

It's as abstract as going through so much trouble to fuse atomic nuclei all the way to iron, only to discover that there's plenty of iron ore in the planet's crust.

And if not, does it mean that the Breland family has already figured out a method to mass-produce magic crystals before Sister Agatha?

The impact of this situation even temporarily overwhelmed the idea of ​​moving forward.

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It's not that Abes has not considered the third scenario.

That is, it is neither a naturally occurring ore, nor is it because the Breland family has mastered the method of mass-producing magic crystals.

It is simply because this place serves as a channel for forcibly injecting magic power into the farmland, and the concentration of magic power inside is high enough, so spontaneous crystallization occurs.

Indeed, in reality, there is a purification method called crystallization.

For example, the heating crystallization method is to evaporate a large amount of solvent to make the dissolved substance reach saturation and crystallize out;

The cooling crystallization method is used to deal with substances whose solubility is greatly affected by temperature. It allows the dissolved product to reach saturation and crystallize out by drastically reducing the maximum amount of substance that can be dissolved per unit solvent.

But no matter which one it is, a basic condition is that saturation is reached.

But, has anyone heard of magic and saturation?

Whether it was the ancient dense forest full of magic, or the witch's lair that was assumed to exist on the rift between the two worlds, that kind of magic-rich point where any spellcaster would feel refreshed, Abes had never seen the appearance of magic crystals.

What's more, the current magical situation in the pipeline is definitely not excellent or top-notch, it can only be barely called upper-level.

Therefore, after ruling out the possibility of crystal precipitation, the remaining two situations made Abes feel extremely frustrated.

If natural ores exist, then the synthetic method becomes pure clown;

And if a family like the Breland family also has the ability to make magic crystals, then Sister Agatha's covenant under the abyss, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, will become a joke.

"We can only book it first, and then ask Grandma Agatha to come and take a look."

After deciding on the plan to entrust the research of the witch's lair to Hyogi and Kronos, Abes also assigned the research of the magic pipeline under the Breland family to Sister Agatha.

In fact, this is not some distant future.

Originally, Abes thought he needed to wait for a while until he had figured out the details in the west before taking any action.

But now, Nas, as a neighboring country, has launched a blatant invasion, which is an opportunity for the army to march out.

As long as the Gyeonggi region launches an attack, the subsequent research will be launched soon.

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Beauty and ugliness cannot be equated with visual perception.

Whether it is humans or other animals, few can be said to be beautiful when they are born.

Especially mammals, which have been immersed in amniotic fluid for a long time, and their skin is wrinkled and ugly like little old men.

There is also a layer of dirty, greasy white "vernix caseosa" on the body, which is hard to be associated with good looks.

If it is an animal with very strong hair, such as a cat or a dog, when it is just born, its hair is uneven, or even almost hairless. It may even be lacking in oxygen because its lungs have not yet opened, and it looks like a small purple ball of flesh.

At first glance, I thought it was an alien, not to mention how pretty it was.

However, even if it cannot be equated with conventional beautiful paintings, there are few people who dislike the scene of the birth of living things.

The scene of animals being born always makes people feel warm.

Seeing baby animals being born from their mother's body makes people feel the magic of nature and the power of life, and arouses people's thinking and awe of the essence of life.

Furthermore, in many images of animal birth, the care that the mother gives to the newborn can easily lead humans to project this sense of déjà vu onto their own mothers and family members.

Definitions such as a new beginning and a bright future are therefore linked to fertility and birth.

however--

Undead creatures are an absolute exception.

After reaching the threshold, they are created out of nothing.

And these are not the kind of void creations that can be spontaneously generated by feeding two individuals with food like in MC, but some more blasphemous and disgusting scenes.

Abes, who was the first to stick his head out, saw twisted and chaotic air currents wandering at the end of the passage, as if an invisible hand was controlling this dead space.

Bang!

I don't know if it was the sound of large chunks of flesh or fat dripping.

Then, the birth began.

Their shapes were blurry at first, as if made up of black smoke and distorted images, slowly emerging from the void in the corner of the castle.

The moment they appeared, it was as if wisps of distorted images were drawn out of the air, accompanied by low muttering sounds.

As they formed, the space around them distorted slightly, as if reality was vulnerable in their presence.

No matter which kind of undead creature they eventually become, at the beginning, their initial appearance is a vague human figure, with a dark luster on the body and a layer of sticky black liquid covering the surface.

Those things seemed to be somewhat similar to the black rain in the illusion created by the undead dead wood before. They flowed down drop by drop, leaving disturbing traces.

I don’t know if it’s because of the black liquid, but every newborn has a suffocating stench, like a mixture of rotting corpses and putrid mud, which is disgusting.

They are dead things, but the scene before them is clearly birth.

Such blasphemy is like mocking the boundary between life and death.

And those who observe these scenes feel absolutely no warmth or sympathy.

Some are just——

Roar!

The first to attack was Crimson, and the little red dragon's scorching flaming breath popped out from the pipe!

The battle inside the castle is about to begin!