Chapter 317 Dark Beast Tide
As a result, due to the embezzlement of the lower-level city defense officials, some of the inscription arrays that had not been replaced and refurbished for many years had already become ineffective, remaining in the state of a Schrodinger's protective array.
Until it is actually activated, no one knows whether it can still function normally.
To deal with ordinary beast tides, perhaps there is no need for a defense system, but when the rebels are at the gates of the city and attack the city lord's mansion, this becomes a fatal problem.
Unfortunately, the miracle did not happen in the end.
When the professional rebels who had infiltrated the city suddenly launched an attack, the city guards immediately activated the defense array.
But the magic shield only lit up for a moment, and then went out again due to the aging and overload of some inscription materials.
Therefore, realizing that something was not right, the city guard officer arranged for the lower-level city guards to fight desperately to slow down the rebels' offensive pace, while he himself slipped away directly through the secret passage.
Unfortunately, he was unable to escape in the end, but ran into the encirclement network set up by the rebels outside the city to prevent important figures in the city from escaping. He was captured on the spot after being defeated in a fierce battle.
This was a serious provocation to the empire's rule. All those who received the news at the first time were shocked at the ignorance and fearlessness of the Spark Organization.
The province of Frey is the territory of the Aslade family.
Under normal circumstances, even if the Gloria Empire's energy was seriously involved due to the "friendly countries", the Aslade family's own strength alone was enough to easily wipe out these rebels.
Like a group of ants uniting to resist a fighting giant.
Perhaps the giant was busy fighting another giant and had no time to care about other things. But even if he spared a little finger in his busy schedule, it would be enough to crush these ragtag civilian rebels to death.
But unfortunately, neither the royal family of the Gloria Empire nor the Aslade family can spare even a little finger now.
Compared to the resistance, another more serious matter occupied all their attention.
On the evening of the first day of the New Moon, an unprecedented super-large tide of dark beasts suddenly broke out across the empire! The Howling Cave in Frey Province, the Whispering Abyss of the Dead Souls in Paravani Province, the Kalko Great Rift in Kalras Province, etc.
The passages and cracks leading to the underground world distributed throughout the empire, as well as some new holes opened up by dark creatures, are now madly pouring out all kinds of strange and bizarre black beasts.
Dark Three-Headed Python, Dark Sea Dragon, Shadow Harvester...
Countless dark creatures gathered into a massive destructive beast tide, dragging everything in their path with them, heading eastward with an unstoppable terrifying momentum.
Head straight to the location where the meteorite fell in Magna Province, and the endless sea further east.
It was as if something was calling them.
Initially, although several high-level prophets issued a warning a day in advance, the Empire was still caught off guard.
Several medium-sized cities were completely destroyed by the surging tide of beasts due to their lack of defensive forces and aging and dysfunctional defense arrays.
But after experiencing the first wave of tragic losses, facing the menacing tide of dark beasts, the nobles of the Gloria Empire immediately reacted and began to defend their territories with all their might.
After all, not all city defense officers were cutting corners. Those who cut corners the most had disappeared in the vast beast tide along with the city's entire defense array failing.
However, more city defense officers withheld less money, so the defense array was not completely inoperable, which allowed them to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements.
In less than two days, all high-level professionals spread out and defended large and medium-sized cities throughout the empire, resisting the devastating dark beast tide and preventing the cities from being trampled into a white land by the beast tide.
As for the small towns near the major cities, the residents had already taken refuge in the main city under the protection of the city guards and high-level professionals.
But the villagers in some remote small villages that are too far away from the city can only fend for themselves.
In this serious situation, the Aslade family has no intention of causing trouble for the rebels for the time being.
The beast tide doesn't care what camp you are in. They treat everything that stands in their way equally.
Seizing two cities at this point in time can certainly temporarily avoid sanctions from the Aslade family, but it will also require resisting the impact of the terrifying dark beast tide.
At this point, as easy as it was for the rebels to attack, as much trouble they are facing now.
Although spellcasters had been arranged to urgently repair the defensive array, it was still too late.
Moreover, at the end of the repair, the leader of the Spark Organization discovered that the value of the rare resources needed to completely repair the city’s defense array was more than the total amount of resources obtained from capturing the city!
In other words, after adding one and subtracting one, not only did the rebels fail to obtain any resources, but if they wanted to defend the city, they had to pay for the repair of the magic circle out of their own pockets, otherwise they would have to pay with human lives.
After learning of this situation, Leader Xinghuo gritted his teeth, ordered the spellcasters to continue with the repairs, and had the original city defense officer dragged out and beaten to death immediately!
The soul is extracted and given to the necromancer as material, and the corpse is discarded to feed the dark creatures!
It was in this chaotic situation that Anvis, who chose to stay at Pamir College with Fiona, finally received news from Duke Carrot.
After activating the crystal ball on the table, the image of Duke Carrot appeared from the crystal ball.
Anvis could see that the Duke seemed to be in a makeshift alchemy house.
"Very good! Anvis, your prediction came at a very timely moment!"
In the crystal ball, the Duke looked very satisfied.
"You should have heard that His Majesty the Emperor has held the Saint Mercia Empire accountable for the unknown attack at midnight on the new moon.
And I can tell you now that the location that was hit by the holy light column was exactly the temporary headquarters for the ruins exploration, and its power was roughly equivalent to a ninth-order ultimate attack."
“In this incident, a total of three ninth-rank people in the empire were injured, a ninth-rank elder from the Enoch family, and Marquis Anrita were slightly injured.
A ninth-rank member of the Aslaide family was seriously injured and had to go back to recuperate temporarily. Speaking of which, that guy was responsible for the safety of your Zhenzhi Society's entrance examination last time, but it was a pity that he was not very useful. "
As he spoke, a hint of smile appeared in the Duke's blue eyes.
“Due to your information, I and the ninth-rank of the Alfred family temporarily left to investigate the hidden dangers in the surrounding area, and just happened to avoid the attack in the core area of the light column.
You did a great job, Anvis! Some information still requires a blood-related prophet to predict it as early as possible.
After the attack, the family's fortune teller sent me urgent news."
(End of this chapter)
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