The aberrations did leave a lot of traces of pollution during their wandering process - although the breath of chaotic magic has dissipated rapidly, there are still many clues remaining due to the timely discovery.
Following the smell of pollution that appeared from time to time, Gawain and his party continued to advance in the dark mountains, and gradually approached a gap in the mountain southwest of the camp, and this gap made Gawain wary. .
This is a low-lying place in the Dark Mountains, and it is also the easiest pass to cross. If those monsters come in through this gap... then they will soon be able to sense the human aura of the camp. , and rushed down from the mountain and drove straight into the ground to attack the camp.
A group of three people climbed up a huge boulder and looked at the gap in the mountain ahead from a distance. The rocks there were not covered with many plants, and the exposed gray-white rocks were as lifeless as broken bones. The entire terrain was just like a broken bone. It looked as if it had been chopped with a sharp axe, and below the gap, a disturbing gray-black mist could clearly be seen rising.
Gawain immediately asked Hetty to use magic to cover all kinds of auras on the three people, including magic. Of course, the ability of a third-level mage is limited in this regard, and this kind of aura masking cannot be hidden from any one of them. Intermediate or above professionals, but Gawain is very aware of the shortcomings of aberrations: after leaving the magic tide environment, their perception will become very slow, and their thinking ability will be low. As long as they do not clearly feel the magic power or the influence of intelligent creatures, breath, they won't react.
After completing the concealment work, the three of them cautiously moved forward. Before they were halfway there, a rotten smell came from the front.
"Ugh..." Hetty retched in a low voice, and at the same time, her fingers tightened slightly on the staff: she was too familiar with this breath, and this breath even appeared in her nightmares more than once, Awakening her from her dream—a few months ago, the entire old Cecil Territory was destroyed by this breath.
Knowing that those monsters could sense magic fluctuations, and the effect of his own shielding spell was limited, Hetty resisted the urge to release the breeze shield, and carefully followed Gawain, bypassing the road ahead. rocks and old trees.
Gawain, who was walking in front, suddenly made a gesture: "Hide - in front."
A group of three people were hidden in the rugged rocks, and Amber was bold. He poked his head out from under Gawain's shoulder, and the next second he got goosebumps all over his body.
The mountain road below was shrouded in a layer of gray-black mist. The plants there withered and mutated, and hideous spikes and tentacles grew out of the rocks and soil. Countless creatures seemed to be some kind of soft-bodied creatures. The lumps were squirming and rolling between the soil and rocks, which was disgusting to look at. Groups of flesh-and-blood giants were stumbling forward on this mountain road like a road to hell, with mud flowing on their chaotic faces. of flesh and blood, blasphemous and low murmurs emitted from their chests and formed a buzzing resonance in the air.
What is even more chilling is that many of these flesh and blood giants have rotten and tattered ancient weapons stuck in their bodies. Kohaku even saw that one of the giants actually had a hollow human skeleton stuck in his abdomen. This was disgusting. The evidence proves Gawain's judgment:
This is an army of devils wandering from the wasteland of Gondor and originating from hell.
Amber immediately grabbed Gawain's arm and said her clearest thought at the moment in the lowest voice in her life: "Boss, I don't want the salary, please let me go..."
p>"Shh-" Gawain pressed Amber's head, but his eyes scanned among the monsters. He confirmed over and over again, and finally relaxed a little, "Fortunately, it's not the worst situation."
“Isn’t this bad?!” Amber looked at Gawain as if he were looking at a madman, “Such a large group is enough to demolish the entire camp three times!”
"Don't be frightened by the appearance. In fact, there are not as many of them as you think." Gawain knew what kind of misunderstanding ordinary people would have when seeing the aberrant army for the first time, so he patiently explained, "Those mist And the growths surging on the ground will give you the illusion that there are a lot of them, but if you count carefully, in fact, the number is probably less than a thousand..."
Amber was stunned and carefully estimated it. The number of flesh and blood giants swaying in her sight: "It seems that there are really only a few hundred..." But then she realized: "But there are only 800 people in our entire camp - 700 of them." They still can't fight!"
"But it's much better than my worst expectations," Gawain said in a low voice. "What I was most worried about at the beginning was that their number exceeded that 'line'. Too many - in that case they will increase rapidly, just like growing out of the air. We suffered a lot from this back then. The two thousand enemies in the report may have multiplied to three thousand by the time we meet. Even four thousand... But if you look at these, there are no new aberrations growing out of the air, which means that their number just does not exceed that line, or it exceeds a little, but it is not enough to grow naturally. ..."
"But even if there are only this many, the current camp cannot handle them," Hetty whispered worriedly, "Ancestor, their current direction of action is towards the north of the mountain. Sooner or later, they will arrive near the camp. Once the camp is exposed to their perception range..."
Amber's two pointed ears trembled uneasily in the air: "Are you saying that these aberrations are not there? When they sense magic reactions or humans, will they wander randomly or simply stop in place? Maybe they won’t leave after a while and stay in place for eighteen hundred years..."
"Don't put your hope on this. Although their number will not increase, it has exceeded the critical point of natural extinction. Do you expect these nearly a thousand monsters to stay in the mountains forever and be our neighbors? Just dream," Gawain frowned. Eyebrow, "We must find a way to deal with them..."
Amber glanced at Gawain silently: "Then IThere is a plan..."
Gawain was a little surprised: "You have a plan? ”
“That’s it, I’ll sneak over and kill one first, and then you, the legendary knight, jump out in the god of heaven, and kill the remaining 990 or so with a war charge, you great beauty.” The great-granddaughter placed a few arcane fireworks nearby to add to the fun. When she got back, she said that the two of us defeated nearly a thousand monsters together. You continue to be your lord and farm with peace of mind. I'll find a tavern to brag about... eh Don't leave, I haven't finished my sentence yet..."
Gao Wen knew when this guy was halfway through her words that she was actually in a state of severe nervousness and random analysis again, so he didn't listen to her at all. What did he say in the next few sentences? Instead, he raised his head and paid attention to the surrounding terrain. At this time, he finally found a route that could avoid those monsters, so he pulled Lahti's robe and then carefully started to take a detour from the side.
Amber was stunned, stopped his random analysis, and obediently escaped into the shadows to follow Gawain's pace.
A group of three people followed the path of the slow-moving aberrations. Detouring, they found a path between the rocks. Following the direction indicated by the corrupted path, they approached the gap in the Dark Mountain Range, and finally found a place where they could look over the rocks and look out. Go to the high ground on the south side of the Dark Mountain.
Gawain climbed up the rock and looked far into the distance.
On the other side of the mountain... it was so dangerous that I accidentally thought of the Smurfs. < /p>
There is no group of cute Smurfs on the other side of the mountain. There are only ruins of civilization, only the remains of the world of order, and only the wasteland of Gondor shrouded in chaos and darkness.
< p>Although the real Wasteland of Gondor is still further away, the smell of that polluted land has already appeared in the sky on the other side of the Dark Mountains - after crossing a certain dividing line, the atmosphere on that side The sky was in a dark and chaotic state like eternal dusk. Large groups of dirty clouds hung down from the sky, showing a sense of oppression that almost swallowed the earth. Under this strange sky, the earth appeared It looked like it was twisted in another world.Starting from the southern foot of the Dark Mountains, an endless dark forest covered all the mountains and a small half of the strip plain. Even far away, Gawain. You can also see that in the twisted woodland called the "Black Forest", there are many mutated giant trees that reach into the sky, slowly swinging, and extending poisonous tentacles into branches towards the sky; and further away Thick mist rises from the strip of plains, and phantoms of past cities, fortresses, palaces, etc. are constantly appearing in the mist. Once you cross the phantom, you can see a barrier that looks like an aurora.
The aurora-like barrier is the only reassuring and pleasing thing in sight. From this distance, it looks like a hazy shimmering ribbon, but in fact it is extremely tall and majestic. A layer of "shimmer" connects the sky and the earth. It seems to be a fragile light curtain, but it is thicker and stronger than the mountains.And on the basis of that light curtain, you can see tall towers arranged neatly one after another.
The light curtain is maintained by the powerful energy released by the tower.
The light curtain is the magnificent wall, and the tall tower under the light curtain is the Sentinel Tower - this system seals off the entire wasteland of Gondor and prevents the destruction of all life on the continent.
Everyone knows that this barrier was built by the Elven Silver Empire, but in fact it is so unimaginable that the technology and resources required to build it have exceeded that of any intelligent race alone. Even the powerful Elf Silver Empire could not bear the limit of what it could bear. Therefore, in fact, the elves only took the lead in shouldering half of the resource pressure and provided all the technology. Then the mainland included the dwarf kingdom and the remnants of Gondor. All the forces included jointly shouldered the other half of the material task before building this barrier.
It was really an exciting time.
But it was also an era when terror shrouded the land and no one could sleep peacefully.
Amber's head swayed under Gawain's shoulders. She looked nervously at the polluted land on the south side of the mountain, and then looked at the barrier further away with wonder.
Even with the obstruction of the magnificent wall, the breath of the demonic tide still pollutes a large area outside the barrier, but compared to the inside of the barrier, even the dark forest is already a complete paradise.
Gawain shifted his sight away from the light curtain and breathed a sigh of relief: "The barrier is still there."