the last king of darkness

Chapter 206 Sun Moon Star

For the next few days, Rhodes spent in the Supreme War Department.

Dalin intentionally took him by his side, let him touch the affairs of the Military War Department, and appointed dispatcher Molly as his assistant to help him understand many affairs.

Molly is very beautiful, tall and curvy, but has a serious face and a cold expression. She wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and her cold eyes always make people shy away.

She is very familiar with the affairs of the War Department and has a high professional level. With her help, Rhodes quickly understood the Trorian defense system.

Also saw the map of this world for the first time.

It was a huge black painting that filled the combat command room.

In the center of the giant painting, there is a huge partition, which is the giant mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles, the real umbrella of Trorian——

Dead Ember Mountains.

Wangcheng is located in a corner of the mountain range.

To the east of the royal city, the red soil plain nearly [-] miles away is the core area controlled by Trorian humans.

The Ember Mountains blocked the north and east of the entire kingdom with a very small angle for itself.

The arc of Trorian's defensive circle blocked all threats from the south.

Molly told Rhodes.

"The north and east of Trorian have been blocked, and the expansion to the south has reached its limit. Fortress of Courage is the farthest we have reached."

"Expanding further will be very expensive. Not only will the Swamp of Despair full of evil be cleaned up, but the defense line will also be separated from the cover of the Dead Ember Mountains, increasing the defensive pressure on the east."

Snapped.

She hit the wall with a pointer, her exquisite appearance and serious expression made her look like some kind of teacher.

"So, our only expansion direction is the West."

"Here is the stronghold we are expanding, the City of Stars."

"More than one-fifth of our power is gathered in the city. While defending against external threats, we are also cleaning up the filth accumulated in the city for thousands of years."

Rhodes looked at the map and quickly understood the strategic intentions of Wangcheng.

Instead of going south, it is better to expand westward along the mountains, so that the pressure on humans is much less.

However, even so, the human defense line collapsed several times.

Expanding outward is an extremely difficult thing, it will take up a lot of manpower, material and combat power, and make the entire defense line vulnerable.

During this period of expansion, it happened to catch up with the Kuroshio.

Wang Cheng was almost roasted on the fire, and even the students who were still in the academy were mobilized, and they used all their thoughts to deploy their combat power.

This also caused quite a few people in the royal city to oppose the expansion.

They believed that if Wangcheng had not occupied Star City, the Kuroshio would not have suffered such a big loss this time.

Molly said coldly: "This is a rather wrong perception. Expansion is the only way out for human beings, and persistence is waiting for death."

Rhodes asked curiously, "Why?"

"In the past history, Trorian has encountered countless disasters, several of which almost led to the destruction of Trorian, and the history of Trorian has also been faulted."

"Those disasters, we call them mass extinctions."

"We still don't know the reasons for the mass extinction, but we can deduce from some clues that Trorian when the mass extinction occurred was far stronger than us today."

"Such a powerful human country is still heading for destruction, so why should we be spared?"

"We don't know when the next mass extinction will come. All we can do is to move forward with all our strength, move forward, and move forward by any means."

There was no expression on Molly's delicate face, and her voice was as indifferent as ever, but the heat contained in it was unimaginable.

"We just want to survive, and we will pay any price for this goal."

But another dispatcher, holding a basket of flowers, disagreed.

"Then what's the point of living for such a person? Endless pain, endless torture, and silent death."

Molly said coldly: "Life is meaningless, but only by living can you find interesting things, just like you found this flower, just like I found him."

The cold female assistant pointed her fingers at Rhodes.

Rhodes scratched his head: "Am I funny?"

"Correct."

The dispatcher lays out the flower baskets for the upcoming celebration.

"Molly."

he said softly.

"I admire you."

There was no expression on Molly's face, and she continued pointing at the map.

"So, we need a bigger site and more resources."

"What restricts the development of Trorian as a whole is resources. We need sunstones, spirit crystal raw ore, more phlogiston and firewood, and more fire. If we don't expand into the darkness, we don't have any of these."

"It's not encroachment, we're just taking back our heritage, the home we once had."

Her wonderful speech won a burst of applause.

A little man who was arranging the streamers called out, "Molly, you've said it so well, I love you!"

"I love you too! Let's get a room in the tavern tonight!"

Molly pushed her gold-rimmed glasses and ignored them.

Later, she introduced in detail the high-quality sunstone mines and primary crystal mines hidden under the Star City, as well as the items left by Trorian's predecessors in the city.

According to historians, the city of stars has been lost for about 600 years.

According to the underground remains, it was built earlier, at least 3000 years ago.

The expedition team found some places of worship for gods and traces of battles suspected of being gods in the city. Wangcheng is preparing to send more people to explore.

After talking about the city of stars, Molly began to talk about world geography.

Trorian has discovered a total of four continents so far, with the Ash Mountains as the dividing line, and the south is the Ashland, which is the continent where Trorian is located.

To the north is the continent of Dead Earth.

The out-of-bounds investigation team of the Survey Legion has reached the end of the Dead Ember Mountains, which is called the Cinder Continent.

And in the extreme north, in the dark depths farther away, there is also a land covered with ice, known as the Ice Continent.

This is the world that Trorian humans have discovered so far.

And beyond the cognitive world, what else?
What kind of terrifying existence is hidden in such a dark depth?
These are all unsolvable questions.

Rhode couldn't help asking: "Are there really no other humans besides us?"

Molly said lightly: "Yes, we found records of our contacts with multiple Fire King cities in the fragments of history. Trorian, who established our king city in the Dark Age, may not be the only human hero."

"But in the vast darkness, such contact has been interrupted for a long time. We are building a tower of the world, which can listen to the voice of the world. When it is completed, it may hear the voices of other surviving humans and find other Fire King City."

Rhodes couldn't help holding a glimmer of hope.

If there are other human beings, wouldn't the chances of survival be greatly improved if everyone united together?
Afterwards, Molly introduced in detail the functions of various departments and agencies in Trorian.

It was only then that Rhodes realized how complicated the composition of the royal city was.

Just the combat organization, there are three major legions (City Defense Legion, Conquest Legion, Investigation Legion), six special legions (Night Watchers Legion, Knights, Kalil's Secret Troops, Hunters, Holy Church's Battle Church, Forbidden Arms of the Silver Oath).

In addition, there are also some independent warbands, such as the King's Guard, the Conjurer's Guard (destroyed), the Holy Fire Defenders, and so on.

The Supreme War Department must take into account all these combat forces and distribute them to various regional strongholds in the most reasonable way.

This is an extremely complicated job. So far, the first defense, Dalin, has done it very well.

Therefore, Yolevi Dalin is also known as one of the four pillars of Wangcheng.

But the work of the Supreme War Department is more than that. The subordinate General Defense Department, General Armament Department, General Logistics Department, and General Command are in charge of everything related to combat, including logistics and production.

The Engineering Research Institute, Seamans Factory, which produces a large amount of standard equipment, and Byron Alchemy Pharmaceutical Factory, which refines most medicines, are also under their management.

Just listening, Rhodes felt dizzy, this is really something that very people can clarify.

Finally, Molly highlights an organization known as the "White Tower".

In the dark world, there are all kinds of disasters, and the Kuroshio is just one of countless disasters.

How to predict the occurrence of disasters and make corresponding preparations is a very important thing.

It is the responsibility of the White Tower.

The White Tower focuses on observing the spiritual world, and predicts disasters in the material world through disturbances in the spiritual world.

Many disasters were discovered by the White Tower in advance, and Trorian avoided a lot of losses.

The observatory on the White Pagoda is responsible for observing the phases of the sun, moon, and astrology, predicting the weather, and is responsible for major tasks such as date revision and forecasting.

Many actions can only be decided after knowing this information.

Meredith, the Lord of the White Tower, and Iyeta, the Great Prophet, are one of the pillars of the Royal City.

After listening, Rhode couldn't help asking: "What are our sun, moon, and stars like?"

(End of this chapter)