Chapter 783 772. Assassination
The ant colony retreated to the middle of the Dodan Canyon, nearly five kilometers away from the northern city wall.
The guards on the city wall finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least during the day, they could lean against the warm wall and close their eyes to rest.
While cleaning the battlefield, the city defense guards transported the military supplies from the warehouse to the city wall, including arrows, kerosene, rolling stones, etc.
Except for the city guards on duty on the city wall, everyone else walked down the city wall to rest.
At the entrance of the small building where the barracks was stationed, Adams and Gallatin pushed open the wooden door, stepped into the living room of the small building, and found that the room was full of people. Without exception, all these knights were officers from the cavalry battalion of Baron Suldak's direct line. Including several squadron leaders were all present.
Andrew, Samira, Gulitham, Selina, and a woman in a black robe with a mithril mask on her face stood behind Suldak. Suldak looked up at the wall in casual clothes. The map of Dodan Canyon is telling you about the approximate distribution of ant colonies in detail.
As followers of Suldak, Andrew, Samira, and Gulitham had firm and fiery eyes.
Having experienced more than a dozen battles on the city wall these days, Adams and Gallatin are already very familiar with them, and they are very familiar with the fighting styles of these three people.
Adams saw Aphrodite for the first time, seeing her with a mithril mask on her face and wearing a black robe, guessing that she might be a mage.
Selena was standing beside her, which surprised Adams slightly...
As the person in charge of the logistics management of the military camp, Adams is no stranger to her, and his first impression is that she is a beautiful and shrewd woman.
Regarding Selena, Adams also heard a little bit of rumors in the barracks. I heard that this is the lover of Commander Suldak. Black Mage.
There are a large number of black magicians in many parts of the Grimm Empire, and even necromancers and wizards live in some places. Although the magic union regards these people as heretics, the magic union even set up a law enforcement team to investigate and eliminate them. These magical heretics.
But in fact, as long as these people don't do some outrageous things and hide in the territory of noble lords, the law enforcement team of the Magic Union will have no way to investigate.
This kind of thing is not uncommon in the Green Empire, so Adams didn't pay much attention to it.
Now these guys are all together...
Adams and Gallatin glanced at each other, and Anna was puzzled.
Some things are not so clear, which is a good thing for them.
Adams just didn't expect that Baron Suldak's last cards were actually two women. Seeing their frail bodies, they obviously had some attainments in magic.
The six squadron leaders of the cavalry battalion stood on one side of the room wall, silently staring at the map.
Everyone has a serious expression on their faces. It is obvious that Suerdak is introducing the situation in the canyon to them.
Seeing Adams and Gallatin walking in, Suldak quickly motioned them to get closer.
Holding a riding whip in his hand, he said to the two: "You have come just in time, and the next part happens to be yours. I will try to keep it simple."
"We have a plan to attack the rear of the ant colony. This time, we plan to sneak into the middle of the canyon to kill their ant queens, so as to take some initiative in the war of beast hordes in Dodan Canyon." Pointing to the long and narrow Dodan on the map Canyon, Suldak said standing by the wall.
Adams thought he heard it wrong, and didn't pay much attention at first. It took five seconds to react, and asked Suldak, "Commander, do you want to organize people to assassinate the queen behind the ant colony?"
"It's almost like this, but this time the personnel have been fixed, you stay in Dodan Town!" Suldak said to the two: "You two need to continue to stand firm on the city wall until we come back. During this period, you must Stand on the walls, for I have no replacements for you."
Adams opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
His eyes fell on the map full of thin lines on the wall. He didn't expect Suldak to have such a bold plan, to lead a group of people to assassinate the queen.
"Commander, in fact, we have been guarding the city wall all the time. If we consume their strength like this, they will naturally disperse after holding on for a while. It is too risky for you to do so." Adams felt that since the north city wall could block the ants Qun, there is really no need to venture out of town.
Suldak shook his head firmly. The map given to him by Marquis Luther at the beginning included a large area of Invercargill Forest, the two mines there, and the rich ironwood resources in the forest. He needs to at least control the World of Warcraft forest around Dodan Canyon.
Now that the ant swarm has almost occupied the entire Invercargill Forest, Suldak thought at least to take back that piece of land from them.
Suldak drew a large circle on the vast grassland in the south of Dodan Town with a horsewhip, and said to Adams:
"I don't want my army to be pinned down in this canyon by this group of red ants. Yesterday, news came from the logistics supply group that some ghost-striped red ants have crossed the Thorny Mountains and sneaked into the area behind us. A piece of grassland, although it is not clear where they came from, but in the next time, we may have to search the grassland behind us on a large scale to clean up the ghost-striped red ants in the occupied area..."
Adams really wanted to say that every small town in the northern part of Wilkes City had Luthor Legion garrisons. These ghost-striped red ants that leaked in could not gather together and would soon be hunted down by the adventure group.
Suldak walked up to Adams, reached out and patted Adams on the shoulder and said:
"I'll leave you with a large batch of fire scale bombs and explosives, is there any problem?"
Adams saw Suldak's resolute attitude, and immediately gave a military salute to Suldak, and said firmly: "I will definitely do my best."
"very good…"
…
Adams and Gallatin walked out of the small building and ran non-stop to the material warehouse of the City Defense Brigade to arrange the supplies for tonight's defense.
By this time, the sun had set behind the mountains of the Thorns.
Although the sky has not yet darkened safely, the ant colonies hiding in the Dodan Canyon are starting to move around again.
A squadron leader knocked on the door and came in, and reported to Suldak: "Master Commander, all first-rank soldiers of the cavalry battalion are here..."
Suldak nodded, and walked out of the small building first. These veterans in the cavalry battalion are all direct descendants who followed him from the barren land.
Standing on the steps of the small building, with one hand on the railing, he said loudly to the cavalry in front of him: "Everyone follow me out this time. I don't know how many people will come back alive. I don't have many benefits if you are willing to go." Said, those rewards at the top of the merit exchange list will no longer be a luxury for you, is anyone willing to fight with me?"
The cavalry stood in front of Xiaolou, looking at each other.
Andrew stared at the veterans in front of him, and couldn't help but want to yell, "You cowards without eggs, you should hide in the mountains of the barren land and eat dirt..."
Before he could open his mouth, the squad leader named Hudson in the cavalry battalion raised his hand and asked weakly: "Commander, if I die, can the merit points I saved be kept? Exchange it into gold coins for my family?"
Suldak said to him seriously: "Of course, the magic beast materials we harvested here should have arrived in Wall Village, and the achievements of every soldier will be honored truthfully! I remember you, you exchanged for a magic beast because of your leg injury. pattern."
"Yes, Commander!" Hudson shouted: "Then I am willing to join..."
"I would like to join too!"
"And I!"
Almost all of these veterans in the cavalry battalion stood up. This time, Suldak chose those veterans who had been implanted with magic-weave uniforms, because their combat effectiveness was obviously higher than others.
Suldak, together with the eight squadron leaders, selected a total of 20 cavalrymen to join the assassination plan.
Other cavalry will also take turns to garrison the northern city wall.
Next, Suldak sacrificed the heads of 630 ghost-patterned soldier ants, so that all members of the assassination team will have the 'Blessed Body', 'Shield of Blessing', 'Superior Body', and 'Holy Shield' four God's blessing, the first two primary blessings only consumed 30 primary sacrifices, and the latter advanced blessings almost swallowed up all of Suldak's inventory these days.
Samira, Aphrodite, Andrew and others gained additional ‘insight’.
The sacrificial ceremony lasted until dusk and it was announced that it was over. A group of people walked out of the small building, and it was only then that Suldak felt that it was really necessary to build an altar in the barracks.
…
Samira was standing on a bed crossbow console on the west side of the north city wall. Inside the bed crossbow slot was a giant crossbow with a rope tied at the end.
The half-elf archer aimed at a raised rock at the lower part of the mountain wall 200 meters away, and shot out the crossbow with the rope, and the crossbow with the long rope was firmly nailed to the raised rock.
The rope was gradually tightened. Samira took out a hook and hung it on the rope first, stepped on the wall and jumped, and her dexterous body slid down the rope.
In the dusk, only a faint figure can be seen gliding across the shadow of the mountain wall.
Sliding in front of the huge boulder, Samira jumped forward, like a nimble female leopard leaping into the wild grass, and then stood on the boulder a few steps later, making all normal gestures to Suldak .
Suldak stood at the head of the city. Although the ant colony in the middle of the canyon had already gathered under the northern city wall, the frontmost soldier ants were still at least one kilometer away.
A group of veterans of the cavalry battalion slid down from the top of the city one by one under the admiring eyes of the city guards, well-trained to occupy the favorable terrain by the boulder, and then hid their bodies in the wild grass.
The setting sun had completely set, and the surrounding light quickly dimmed.
Selena lay on Suldak's back, with her arms tightly around his neck, feeling the excitement brought by the zipline downhill, and the whistling wind sounded in her ears, and that kind of excitement caused her body to There was an inexplicable numbness.
Smelling the familiar scent of Suldak made Selina's fair face flush with rosiness.
Suldak landed firmly on the grass.
Selena jumped off Suldak's back. She squatted in the grass beside Suldak, trying to calm down the surging emotions in her body. She was a little ashamed. She didn't expect that when she was nervous, she would will get so excited.
Aphrodite followed behind Suldak and landed firmly on the grass.
…
Samira with 'insight' can see in the dark.
She walked in front, quietly shot and killed a ghost pattern soldier ant wandering around, and led the team successfully into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain not far away.
At this time, a large number of ant colonies had already gathered under the north city wall, and many ghost pattern worker ants also entered the forest.
Selena knelt in the forest clearing, she folded her hands and prayed in a low voice, and saw that the magic pattern circle under her feet was actually black. After the prayer she recited ended, a beam of darkness shrouded Selina's body , a powerful dark element poured into Selena's body.
When she opened her eyes, those eyes became extremely dark.
She stood up slowly, stretched out her hands, stared at the palms and backs of her hands, as if she was feeling her own body.
Her eyes became extremely indifferent, without any emotion...
Looking at the surrounding trees, when his eyes fell on Suldak, there was a slight fluctuation in his eyes, then he closed his eyes again, lowered his head, folded his hands together in front of his chest, and the phantom of the patio and the dark goddess appeared again. Appeared behind Selena.
The tide of darkness poured out from all around, like a thick black mist enveloping everyone in the team.
Samira and Aphrodite walked at the front of the team, Suldak and Selena were in the middle of the team, and Andrew and Gulitham were at the back of the team. There were a total of twenty-six people in this team. People, almost every cavalryman wears thick heavy armor.
The group of people walked forward for a while, and the pairs of ghost pattern worker ants they met along the way broke into the fog, even if they took a detour, they would avoid the group and the group.
These red ants crawl on the ground prostrate and forward. Their bodies are dark red, very inconspicuous in the dark, and their abdomens are swollen like ticks.
After walking like this for more than half an hour, the northern city wall in Duodan Canyon almost disappeared from sight, and the number of ghost-striped red ants gradually decreased.
…
Samira, who was hiding in the dark, was looking for the ghost queen ant in the canyon seriously.
There was a rumbling sound in the distance, and Samira retreated into the black mist vigilantly, ran to Suldak, pointed to the direction of the rumbling sound, and said to Suldak: "They are over there, In the future, I will be surrounded by ghost-striped male ants, and I can't see how many of them..."
"One, I can feel it!" said Aphrodite standing beside Samira. "They seem to have discovered something and are rushing towards us."
Suldak didn't expect to encounter an ant queen so soon, so he immediately led the team towards the dry forest on the right side of the canyon.
On the desolate and scorched land, a small road continues towards the dry forest...
(end of this chapter)