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Chapter 126
Chapter 126: The Cage
The earliest outbreak point of the undead calamity had been within the Southern Territory.
Yet whenever people discussed this calamity, especially the Undead Giant Python in the Northern Territory and the bone dragon in the Western Territory, the Southern Territory’s army of undead seemed rather insignificant by comparison.
Just like before, after learning that the Southern Territory’s army of undead had been brought under control, no one paid any further attention to whether the Southern Territory had truly resolved this calamity.
The current Teemo did not dare gamble on exactly how many undead were behind this stone wall.
Е̄ ṅ u mа
But he was the scout most trusted by the Duke, and the young lady’s most capable soldier. After licking his dry lips again, Teemo jumped down from his horse, mustered his courage, and came beneath the wall.
There was actually nothing to be afraid of. Was the Duke not undead too? If one day the Duke also gave off this foul stench, Teemo would absolutely not despise him for it.
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Thinking about all sorts of strange things, Teemo first pressed his ear tightly against the stone wall, but he did not hear the sound of undead activity. Mosquitoes and insects still flew around him, biting his face until it was covered in red bumps.
He touched the flashbang in his bag, wiped the sweat from his palms, grabbed the protrusions and gaps between the stones, and climbed upward with all his strength.
The setting sun sank in the west. The river surface shimmered, rippling with a brilliant crimson glow.
Teemo climbed upward step by step. Somewhat exhausted, he kept breathing rapidly. Just as he was about to reach the top of the wall, a long shadow fell over him.
Е̃ n̆u m а́.іd̂
Teemo looked up blankly. Because the man had his back to the setting sun, his face was somewhat indistinct, but Teemo still recognized his mage’s outfit and the staff unique to mages in his hand.
The two of them remained silent. Just as Teemo was wondering whether jumping down from here would fracture his shinbone, the man bent down and extended his hand to him.
Teemo froze for a moment, then grabbed the man’s hand and let him pull him up.
“Soldier, are you from the Central Region?”
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The man handed his water bottle to Teemo, who was sitting limply on the ground, and asked with a smile.
“No. I am a soldier of the Northern Territory.” Teemo answered weakly, unscrewed the water bottle, and poured all the water inside into his mouth. Only when the coolness entered his stomach did he finally feel a little better.
Wèb̂ ǹ о́ vĕ l̀ En ũm̆а.
“Is that so? The Northern Territory.” The man pinched his chin and continued smiling. “I thought the Northern Territory would resist the King just like us.”
“I do not care about those things. I do whatever the Duke tells me to do.”
Teemo, who had let out a breath of relief, remembered his proper business and quickly scrambled to his feet, looking toward the other side of the stone wall.
On the river surface and in the woodland, skeletons slowly moved about. They brought swarms of flies and insects to the foot of the wall, their vacant, hollow gazes turning toward the two people atop the city wall. Their sharp claws scraped against the stone with an ear-piercing sound.
Just as Teemo had expected, there were many wandering undead inside, but the number was not as high as he had imagined. There were probably around several hundred.
“The sunset is beautiful, is it not?” The man picked up the water bottle, stood beside Teemo, and pointed toward the dying sun that seemed to be falling into the river valley.
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“When I was young, I tried to find the end of the sun, but there was a vast ocean there. I thought there must be some force that allows the sun to travel from east to west. There must likewise be some invisible force that allows the sun to return from west to east in another direction.”
Teemo was dumbfounded. Was this man a chatterbox? Why did he keep talking to him about strange things?
Also, if you are a mage of the Southern Territory, then we should be enemies!
“I do not understand that either, but His Grace said that the world is a sphere, the sun is also a sphere, the moon is still a sphere, and all the stars are spheres. All the changes we see are caused by these three spheres continuously revolving around each other.”
Thinking that the other party was a good person, Teemo gestured with his hands and explained the knowledge he had learned from the Duke, though he only half understood it himself.
“A sphere...”
Ė n um а . i d
Seeing the other party frown, Teemo hurriedly added, “His Grace said that for now, we can assume that the sun does not move. But in truth, the sun is indeed rotating and moving forward, and its speed is extremely, extremely fast.”
“Mm. Very interesting. If I have the chance, I must verify this hypothesis.” The man ended his contemplation and laughed heartily.
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Only in the next second, his topic suddenly changed, and he warned, “If you plan to attack the Southern Territory’s heartland from here, I advise you to give up early, soldier. In this cage that stretches for one hundred li, there are more than a hundred thousand undead.”
“More than a hundred thousand?”
Hearing this, Teemo sucked in a cold breath. A cage one hundred li long... Right now, he could see several hundred undead with his own eyes. What the man said was probably not a lie.
At this point, forget the Northern Army attacking the Southern Territory’s heartland from here. Even if the Kingdom’s fifty thousand Central Royal Capital Guard wanted to cross this place, they would have to pay an extremely heavy price.
Е̄n u mа
“I only learned this not long ago myself. Previously, the upper ranks of the Southern Territory claimed that they had completely wiped out the army of undead in the river valley region.”
The man took out a cigarette and offered it to Teemo. After Teemo shook his head and refused, he lit one for himself, took a deep drag, and sighed with emotion. “It was only when the war broke out that they found me and had me come here to guard this place. I flew all the way here, only to discover that everything below me was densely packed with undead.”
“Supposedly, there were only tens of thousands inside at first. Later, for some reason, the number of undead kept increasing...”
The smoke dispersed in the wind, and the smile on the man’s face vanished. The order he had received was that once a Central Region army attacked from this place, he was to immediately use magic to blow open the city wall.
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Correspondingly, the mage on the other side of the river valley cage had received an order as well. If the Southern Territory’s capital, Bountiful City, was besieged by the Central Army, he was likewise to blow open the city wall and release the army of undead into the Southern Territory’s heartland.
When he first saw Teemo, the man had been nervous for a moment. After all, if he truly did such a thing, then he would certainly become one of the greatest sinners in human history.
Е́ n ũ m̂ a
Fortunately, the only one who had come here was Teemo.
And the soldiers of the Northern Territory probably would not sincerely pledge loyalty to the royal family.
The man’s words chilled Teemo’s entire body. He rubbed his face hard, forcing himself to calm down. The upper ranks of the Southern Territory were a pack of madmen, a group of hopeless madmen!
He had to bring this news to the young lady immediately!
Steeling himself, Teemo quickly turned around. Before leaving, he suddenly stopped, looked at the man, and asked in a deep voice, “You are the only one guarding this place. What happens if the wall is breached by the undead?”
Both of them understood each other’s purpose. If they were facing each other head-on on the battlefield, there would not have been any exchange between them.
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But now, both sides had the same goal. They absolutely could not open this Pandora’s box.
The man held the cigarette between his lips and lowered his head in silence for a long while. Then he raised his head again and smiled at Teemo.
“Then I will become a herald of calamity. When that time comes, let us fight side by side.”
He waved his staff and used buoyancy to slowly send Teemo back to the ground. In midair, the man’s voice sounded softly in Teemo’s ears.
“Remember this, soldier of the Northern Territory. My name is Fili.”
...
Е̊ nů m̈ a. і ď
Amid Kate and Luna’s anxious waiting, at noon the next day, the exhausted personal guards all withdrew back to the military stronghold.
Luna stood high on a haystack. Only after she counted and confirmed again and again that not one of her people was missing did she let out a soft breath of relief.
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However, since all the personal guards had withdrawn together, the news they brought back was probably not good.
It was just that neither she nor Kate had expected this bad news to be so explosive that it made their scalps go numb.
“More than a hundred thousand undead!”
Kate slammed his fist onto the table and stood up. With his hands behind his back, he paced back and forth continuously, then suddenly came before the map. Her trembling finger accurately landed on that horrifying cage region.
Ѐṅ ǔ m а̃ . і́ d̃
Now everything was clear. Why the enemy troops stationed in the military stronghold had been so brave, daring to fight the Northern Army’s elites to the very last moment.
And why the enemy had never sent any military support...
It turned out that from the very beginning, the river valley route had been a dead end. A dead end where, if they dared touch it, the Southern Territory would drag them into mutual destruction!
And now, a new question lay before them. Should they tell the Central Army, which was preparing to capture Silver City and use its numerical advantage to strike into the Southern Territory’s heartland, this news?
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In addition, what was the Northern Army’s next plan? Should they continue invading the Southern Territory, or should they stop in time and avoid the Southern Territory’s self-destruction?
Faced with these two questions, even Kate, who had always claimed himself to be resourceful and full of schemes, suddenly had no answer. He returned to his seat, feeling powerless all over, and then heard Teemo continue reporting.
E ň u̇m̃ a
“My lady, Division Commander, that mage also revealed another piece of intelligence.” Teemo’s expression turned solemn. “According to what he said, the number of undead inside the cage is constantly increasing. At first, there were only tens of thousands...”
“Heh.” Luna suddenly laughed, drawing everyone’s puzzled gazes.
She rose with full confidence and quickly gave an order.
“Quickly. Send the news back to the Northern Territory and ask Elder Brother to make the decision!”
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