Chapter 471: The Rescuer On January 26, 3049, the third day after the fall of the imperial capital, although the fire had been extinguished, the entire imperial capital had been reduced to a ruin, and there was no longer any value for repair, and the beast angels who finally disappeared into the sea of fire were now gone.
However, a large number of troops urgently brought in by the Empire remained around the ruins to prevent the reappearance of the enemy from underground.
There has been no movement under the Earth Tower, which has collapsed for three consecutive days, after all, it is a depth measured in kilometers, and it will take a long time for even the demons to dig a path that can attack humans.
However, only a few people know that there is still an army fighting in the underground of the imperial capital, and the demons are advancing much faster than they thought.
On the eighth basement floor, the most precious magic books of the magicians were piled up and lit into a fire, and many soldiers who had taken off their power armor were gathering around the fire to rest.
Some small monsters resembling rats were being skinned and roasted on the fire, but the soldiers tried not to look at the food that was already starting to smell good.
The Royal Guard and the Duke of Fury have been trapped underground for three days, and although thanks to the huge underground space of the Earth Tower, thousands of people are not in danger of running out of air in a short period of time, but food and drinking water have become a very deadly problem.
Without food or water for three whole days, the soldiers were already beginning to become weak, and the only food they had at such times was given priority to the wounded, and the little food that remained was given priority to those who were still fighting.
If it weren't for the heat from the burning fires, I'm afraid these soldiers would have already begun to have physical problems, but even this expedient measure would not last long, because the demons have now opened the passage to the eighth layer again, and are constantly trying to invade this level.
Duke Thunder was now pale and leading a group of heavily armed soldiers to patrol the area that had not collapsed, and every distance he had to lie on the ground and listen with his ears for the sound of demons.
Although each layer of the Earth Tower has a metal support layer several meters thick in the middle, after losing the energy supply, it is no longer a single type of demon, and it is easy to dissolve holes with their magic.
In the last day, this hole has appeared three times.
Each time, the Duke of Raging Thunder and the soldiers had to pay a lot of money to be able to drive the demons back again.
On average, after a battle, about 200 soldiers are disarmed from starvation, and the energy hedrons on their power armor have been temporarily converted into bombs by the mages to reseal the hole.
Everyone knew that they didn't have much time left, and if no one came to rescue them within twelve hours, I was afraid that everyone present would eventually be torn to pieces by those low-level demons they called gargoyles, and no one wanted to accept this result, but now they had no strength to think except waiting.
"Lord Duke, a few more soldiers have fainted from hunger."
Harold Hale, the Earth Archmage who played an important role in this battle, walked over and whispered after Duke Thunder had completed a round.
This earth archmage not only has a very outstanding achievement in the research and use of defensive magic, but also has an extremely rich knowledge in the study of the earth tower itself, it is because of his relationship that the Duke of Angry Thunder was able to detect in advance when the demons dissolved the metal layer and find a way to re-blockade, and it is precisely because of this archmage's excellent performance in the battle that the vast majority of the royal guards survived.
"I see, Master Harold, how long our warriors will be able to hold out."
Duke Thunder looked at the archmage standing in front of him, since the mage already possessed a lot of power beyond mortals after becoming a great mage, a mage was far better in this realm than a warrior who was very dependent on food and water.
The Grand Magus still maintained a relatively normal face at the moment, and if you didn't look at his already chapped lips, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to notice it at all, in fact, he hadn't drunk a drop of water for several days.
"Hold out for another twelve hours at most, and then our warriors will have a collective physical and mental breakdown, and if no one comes to our rescue before then, I'm afraid we will all die here."
Harold Archmagister said worriedly, although the perseverance of the warriors at this moment has made him extremely admired, but some things cannot be persevered by perseverance.
"How's the spatial stability restored?
I think the Empire will come to our rescue as soon as the space stabilizes.
"Duke Angry Thunder can only pin his hopes on the space-time dragon Elaine now, although he does not regret his decision, but after staying and seeing these soldiers gradually dying, he is still very uncomfortable.
"Although I'm not good at spatial magic, I can still feel the spatial turbulence in the vicinity because of the explosion, and it will be very dangerous for the caster to carry out large-scale spatial teleportation in a short period of time, and more importantly, I am afraid that if we build a large-scale spatial teleportation channel here, it will be discovered by demons......"
Harold Archmage hesitated after hearing Duke Thunder's question, but in the end he still told his thoughts truthfully.
"It's good to leave these things to smart people to think about, we just need to do our part."
After Duke Fury Thunder dropped these words, he took another group of soldiers who had changed into power armor and prepared to continue patrolling, but he didn't expect that just as he was about to leave, a familiar silver light suddenly appeared in the dark underground space.
Zhao Yannian took Elaine through the spatial passage into the underground space, and he breathed a sigh of relief after seeing those soldiers who were staggering but still alive.
"Blake!
You're back!?
Duke Nu Lei looked at Zhao Yannian who appeared not far from him in surprise, he never thought that the person who came to the rescue this time turned out to be this man known as a miracle worker.
"Lord Duke, it's great to see that you and the soldiers are safe and sound, I'm really sorry, I only came back on the evening of the 24th, but when I came back, I happened to encounter the Soul Eater assassinating Your Majesty, so I have been delayed in dealing with some affairs until now."
Zhao Yannian looked at the Duke of Angry Lei, whose face was a little pale, and said with some guilt.
From the soldiers who were also white and haggard, it was clear that they had probably not received any supplies in the past three days.
"Blake!
Can you take us out of this place now?
"Duke Fury's most urgent wish now is to get those prostrated soldiers back to the ground, so he can't care about the other things that Zhao Yannian said.
"I'm sorry, Lord Duke, the stability of the space is very bad at the moment, and large-scale spatial teleportation will be very dangerous, so it is impossible for us to bring you all back for the time being."
Zhao Yannian shook his head with some regret, and after this, he saw Duke Nulei angry for the first time in so many years.
"So what's the use of you coming!?
Do you want me to leave alone!?
As I said, I created the situation of these soldiers, and unless you can save them all, I won't leave here even if I die!
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The Duke of Fury, who had already exhausted all his patience and was furious, pointed his long sword at Zhao Yannian's chest, and the lightning shining on the long sword showed that the Duke was trying to strengthen his determination with his actions.
When he was threatened by force, a small magic wand had already appeared in Elaine's hand, but Zhao Yannian stretched out his hand to stop the actions of this dragon lady who loved dangerous magic.
"Don't be impulsive, Lord Duke, I naturally came here to solve the problem, although these soldiers can't leave here, but there is no problem in surviving here in a short time, the empire has prepared enough technology for war over the years, and it is not too much of a problem to build a defense line here that can last for a while."
Zhao Yannian calmly grabbed the blade of the Thunder Sword with his hand, and then at the moment when Duke Thunder was shocked, the Thunder Sword suddenly turned into a ball of light and dissipated instantly, and when it appeared again, the Thunder Sword was already in Zhao Yannian's other hand.
"Is what you said true!?"
At this time, Duke Thunder had no time to think about why his long sword was taken away so easily, and after hearing that the soldiers still had hope of survival, Duke Thunder's anger finally calmed down.
Subsequently, Zhao Yan began to conduct a simple examination among the soldiers who were about to collapse, and after making sure that they were not to the extent that they needed to be rescued immediately, he came to a relatively spacious area of the underground space and began to set up.
As a four-meter-tall six-meter-diameter mist power furnace was released from the space ring by Zhao Yannian, the white pillar of light generated in the center of the mist power furnace illuminated the entire underground space, and then several heavy metal boxes with a volume of about five or six cubic meters were also placed around the mist power furnace by Zhao Yannian.
Under Zhao Yannian's control, the metal boxes began to rapidly stretch and deform, and then buildings of different shapes appeared in the underground space.
Although Duke Fury Thunder knew about the Mist Power Furnace and War Buildings, he was usually busy coordinating the knight class, and he was not very clear about the functions of these things, but after seeing Zhao Yannian's confident demeanor, he could only pray that these steels could really feed his soldiers and let them survive here.