Chapter 888 (2/2)
The left elder asked the high priest, ”are you sure this is not the right way?”
An aide general also said: ”there is no fork in the road. It is unreasonable for us to go down the same road. Will we go wrong?”
Homer shook his head and said, ”I don't know what's going on, but we must have gone the wrong way. When we came here, we only walked for more than four hours. At that time, it was still because our people were short of food, so the speed was not fast. Now the army is so fast that it has walked for seven or eight hours and still hasn't gone out. Is there any problem? ”
”But it doesn't make sense.”
A general said, ”either way, we may be near the exit. We should march for two hours first. If we don't go out again, it means that we are on the wrong way.”
”That seems to be the only way.”
The army continued to advance, but at a much faster pace. Two hours later, the soldier who was at the front of the line suddenly found something moving in front of him, so he reported to his superiors, and several generals immediately ran over. When Constantine, commander in chief of the temple of light, galloped all the way, he found that there was an army in front of him, and there seemed to be a large number of them, because the marks on the ground were very obvious, and some of them were left by heavy carriages. It seems that the number of people on the other side must be very large.
Constantine quickly organized a shock team, because he was more anxious, Constantine himself joined the team. With a wave of Constantine's hand, the assault team immediately touched it. Most of them were knights, and they even carried the flag of the temple of light. One of Constantine's soldiers said, ”commander, those people dare to impersonate us!”
Constantine himself was not very angry, so he rushed up immediately and planned to put down two of them. But as soon as he ran behind the others, the knight heard the sound, and suddenly turned to hold his weapon.
”Carl?”
”Marshal?”
Both the attacker and the victim were stunned. Constantine's attacker was still an acquaintance of his. This was one of his cronies, because the team was advancing in the forest and affected by the road, the team was relatively long. Constantine was afraid that someone would fall behind, so he let his trusted subordinates go to the last side of the team to watch. He did not expect to catch up with him from behind.
The confidant, named Carl, was also puzzled. ”Marshal, aren't you in front? What's up from the back? And attack me? ”
One of Constantine's generals preemptively asked, ”we have to ask you, how did you get ahead of us?”
Carl looks aggrieved. ”When did I run ahead of you? It was the marshal who asked me to watch at the end of the team. I was always at the back of the team. When did you fall behind? Why didn't I see you
Constantine caught both men. ”Wait, wait! So you haven't been absent without permission, which means that we are catching up with the rear team of our army? ”
The people next to me also heard the problem. ”Shit, then we're not going to be the circle team?”
Constantine nodded and said, ”I can't get out of here! It turns out that we have been running around in a closed circle. Just now, it must be because I ordered the team to speed up, but our team is too long, and it takes time for the rear team to receive the order. Therefore, with the order passed back, the team was gradually lengthened, which made us the best of our own. Shit, what's all this about? ”
Discontentedly, Constantine ordered the whole army to rest. He himself returned to the commander's assembly point. As soon as Zuo Changlao saw him coming back, he immediately asked, ”what's the matter? Are those people ahead who are trapped like us or enemies who set traps? ”
”Ah Don't mention it Constantine found a big stone and sat down. ”In front of us is our back team. Fortunately, the one who walks at the back is my close friend. Otherwise, he will become an idiot snake There is a kind of greedy idiot snake in European legend. He often takes his tail as food. As a result, he starts swallowing it from his tail. Finally, he swallows himself into a small circle. Only when he finds out that he is eating his own tail, he slowly spits it out. If Constantine had an impulse to fight with his own rear team, he would have become the head and tail of an idiot snake.
After listening to Constantine's explanation, the left elder looked at the right elder. The two of them were in the highest position in the army this time. Of course, they had to discuss things with each other first. The right elder thought for a while and said, ”I think we are in the magic. It is clear that there is an entrance when we enter the forest, and the high priest of cohuma also goes through this road, that is to say, the road is open at both ends, but some kind of magic has forced us to create chaos and make us circle around the same place all the time. ”
Elder Zuo immediately went on: ”in that case, we should immediately ask the priest who can detect magic to search the magic area along the way. As long as we find the intersection, we can certainly go out.””That's right. I'll arrange it right away. We have so many priests that we'll be finished in one night.” Constantine got up excitedly and ran to arrange the men to explore the magic.
Constantine and the elders did not sleep well that night, because they were very nervous about the results of the investigation. Whether the army can leave safely or not depends on whether the exploration work works. The members of the command group, including the high priest Homer, have been so much trapped these days that they instinctively believe that this is not a simple cover up. It turned out that they were right. The next day, in the morning of the 23rd, all the priests came back, and no one found any trace of magic.
Constantine said excitedly, ”how could it not be? Did you miss something? ”
The leader of the priestly regiment said: ”we use coverage detection by a three person team. Each person covers half of the magic power of the nearby people. In this way, every inch of land is detected twice by magic. It can't be missed.”
”Is it possible that the other side's illusion is relatively high, and you are not powerful enough to detect it?”
The priest said with a sad face: ”detecting illusions is not breaking illusions. There is no relationship between power levels. It is just to find the traces of illusions. Even the illusions arranged by high gods should be detected. If there is no reaction, it means that there is no magic and there will be no mistakes.”
In fact, the high priest was right in saying that the circle road was the real road, and it was not magic at all. In fact, this is a staged strategy of the army God. The first step was to flush out the large instruments of the temple Legion. We know that those instruments are just wooden siege hammers and stone throwers. The real high-level magic weapons are all in space items, so destroying those equipment is not the main purpose of the army God. The army God calculated that although these things were not very important, they could not be absent. This place happens to be a forest, and all the equipment is made of wood. When the temple of light finds out that these things have been washed away, they will immediately use local materials to rebuild. What the military God wants is the day when the other party delayed building these things.
When the people in the temple of light were building those instruments, we had already used a lot of labor and construction machinery to cut down a circular road in the forest. And then we started cutting down a path from this circular road to the road to the entrance of the forest. After that is the part of confusing the enemy. Because one person in the other party's team has already walked the road, they will immediately realize that there is a problem if they find a fork in the road. The magic can deal with ordinary people. The priest is the magic elixir. Although it may not be broken, it can be found out. Therefore, magic can't be used.
Our method is to use the tree demon as the big tree. In the protection of our guild, there are tree demons presented by demon clan. These creatures are originally big trees. As long as they show their own body and then stand on the road to seal the real road, people in the temple of light will only find the branch road leading to the circle road we have dug, while the other real road is blocked by the tree demon. Although tree demons are magic creatures, they are originally big trees. At most, they are older trees. Since it's not a mirage in the first place, it certainly won't work. As long as the tree demons do not move, no one can tell the difference between them and ordinary trees.
With the cooperation of the tree demon, the army of light turned on the branch road leading to the circle road. At the same time, the connection between the circle road and the branch road was also disguised, and this side was blocked by the tree demon. The temple of light could not see that there was a fork in the road, so they directly entered the circle road. When all the troops went in, the tree demons immediately changed their positions, let out the interface of the ring road, and turned to block the fork in the temple of light where the army entered. When the army of light passed by again, the fork in was blocked, and they had to follow the road. But this road is a closed loop, no matter how long they run in it, they don't want to go to the end.
When the army of light ran circles on the road we built, we used this time to plant real seedlings on the approach road, and then let the nature mages use their magic power to catalyze the growth of seedlings. Soon when the seedlings grow to be the same as the surrounding trees, they really become a part of the forest, and there is no flaw. The circular runway inside was forged in this way. We cut down some big trees blocking the road, planted some common plants, and then promoted the formation of roadside plants. Anyway, those plants are genuine forest plants, but we have transplanted them from other places. After the real trees grow well, the tree demons gradually withdraw from the crossroads and replace them with real trees to form a real forest. Thus, a completely closed circular road appears.
In fact, the army of light can run a circle in two hours. They ran four or five times in the woods from noon to night. They thought that the forest was bigger. It is estimated that if the high priest Homer had not passed by once, they would have gone around until tomorrow to find out that there was a problem with the road. But we are not afraid. Even if we find that there is a problem with the road, it is not so easy for them to come up with it. We threw a lot of magnets in the woods, so the compass couldn't be used. The real road and their circular road are two or three kilometers away from the dense forest. If they can't determine the direction, they can't find this road. As for the way out of the forest directly, this method is exactly what the army God hopes. In any case, the army God is to consume the morale, food, physical strength and patience of the other party's personnel. When they open a way out, these things will probably be gone. (to be continued, please visit , more chapters, support authors, support legitimate reading! )