Twenty Sided Dice

Hope the energy focus lens blew up everything and covered up all traces of the spell. Siegel dodged aside while throwing the flame soul crystal, so the last wave of impact did not hurt him.

Moore was not far in front of him, rolled over and stood up from the ground. He drew his longbow full, and the floating shield flew beside him. The young attendant looked around alertly, and suddenly realized that he was in the open space outside the city of Myr, and there was no danger around him.

Siegel stood up and patted the dirt off his body. The wand in his hand was slightly hot, causing some tingling in part of his fingers. This is the discomfort caused by the forced use of magic, and it is not a big problem. The elemental concentration of Heim's collar has been very stable, and it can quickly supplement the feeling of lack of energy in the body.

"Safe?" Moore asked cautiously.

"Yes for now," Siegel said. "Let's go back to town."

The lord's return made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't seem to be in high spirits. Aside from a warm smile in front of Isaac, his face was always terrifyingly serious. Janet came to ask, but got no answer. The mage lord locked himself in the study, not allowing anyone to disturb him, claiming that he needed to clear his mind.

All day and night, the study has been lit with lights. Siegel spread out the map of the New World on the large square table, and set up a formation with chess pieces of various colors. The picture isn't precise, but it's good enough for him.

Strange news came one after another, some within Siegel's expectations, and some without warning. Among them, the disappearance of the ghost fog swamp was the first to come.

The thick fog dissipated, the black water retreated, and the Ghost Mist Swamp, which had existed in the New World for more than 600 years, disappeared overnight, leaving only a large area of ​​fertile land. The surrounding peasants were ecstatic. More land meant more food and a better life. They entered the area faster than the adventurers.

Then they met the elves, and their army of tree giants.

Only a very few escaped, and the others were all killed or imprisoned, all accused of "invading" the elves' borders. "The area where the rune tree is located is the kingdom of the elves," the elves claimed. The agreement of the three tribes hundreds of years ago was based on the situation at the time. Rune trees could only grow near the Elf Holy Land Forest, and could not survive in other places, much less they could walk everywhere. Therefore, the three tribes agreed to use this method to determine the boundary.

Originally thought that the elves would still be like their compatriots in the old continent, immersed in the glory of the past, unable to extricate themselves, cherishing and commemorating all day long, living a tragic and romantic life. But they didn't expect them to find a way to improve the rune trees over hundreds of years. Pushing the magic level of the elf family to a new level. The mages, druids, and priests of the Moon Temple worked together to turn the rune tree into a tree giant.

According to the latest intelligence, the elves call these tree giants the ancient trees of war, to commemorate the combat weapons they used against dragons in ancient times. The place where all the ancient trees exist is the territory of the elves, and the other races either surrender and leave immediately, or they are ruthlessly destroyed.

The sudden war has burned every human territory, and the Cloak Avenue was the first to be annexed. From Brookwood to the west to the hub, now all under the control of the elves. The ancient trees of war rumbled and walked through the hills, fields, and rivers. All the villages were easily trampled by them. The peasants fled to the castle in horror. Some lords opened the gates to protect their people, while others closed the gates in fear, hiding in the stone towers and shivering.

So far, the elves have not started to attack the castle, but have surrounded it with ancient trees. According to the news from the occupied area, the elves believed that in the agreement of the three tribes, the human lords at least kept the territory enclosed by the castle walls, because there was no ancient war tree in it. But outside the city walls, since the trees are growing well. Then the elves should take over.

After hearing about this, Siegel immediately ordered that all the residents acted and began to build the wall. With the help of the earth element. A low city wall was built around the original Heim Territory. Although it was shaky and did not meet the standard of defensive siege weapons, it was finally possible to see it.

Siegel knew that he was fooling himself by doing so—the tree of war could break the wall with a single push—but he still had to. The news of the war in many places made Heim panic, and rumors spread. The farmers no longer dared to work in the fields, and the fields began to fall into disrepair. The cloud of war hangs over. Only by keeping everyone busy and thinking with their hands and feet instead of their heads, can the atmosphere of territorial panic be gradually eliminated.

The elves know that the forte of human lords is castle defense, so their tactics are very simple. The ancient trees of war control the countryside, and only human cavalry can strike and pose a threat. But the ancient trees rely on each other, and the loss of the cavalry will not be small, so in the end, humans can only be trapped in the castle, like an isolated island. But without fields and villages, without peasants, what do people in castles eat? Hunger will eventually help the elves overcome all enemies, and humans will eventually lose to time, land and everything.

Siegel thinks about it carefully, in fact, human beings have really lost to time.

Elves have a long lifespan. As long as they identify their goals, they can develop a technology in one hundred, two hundred, or even five hundred years, and then deploy it in another five hundred years. When they took out a thousand years of savings, what was there on the human side?

Come to think of it, although humans are more creative and progress faster, humans have shorter lifespans than elves and are "eliminated" faster. With continuous learning and re-accumulation, only a few people can become the top, and it will not last long. In terms of mages alone, the number of apprentices and apprentice mages is a thousand times that of elves, and formal mages also have dozens of times the advantage, but at the level of mages, humans are far less than elves.

The elf's actions are completely beyond the expectations of all "people", and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as being caught off guard and being defeated like a mountain. A race that used to be able to fight against dragons has shown great strength and shocked the world in one fell swoop.

Humanity responded immediately.

In their bones, human beings are actually the same as orcs, and there are factors of destruction. Now that the elves attacked with trees, the humans started setting fires. Burning fires can be seen everywhere in the New World, and black smoke and dust cover the sky. Sometimes the night sky is lit up with red flames.

Such a move slowed the progress of the Elf Tree, but it did not stop it. Elven mages and druids kept casting spells, raining down on the fires. One day when the fuel is always used up, the flames always go out. The elves also became more careful in battle. Their archers, under the cover of trees, would shoot anyone they saw trying to get close, and there was less and less chance of humans setting fires.

Siegel had also heard some news, such as the benevolent elves that would shoot wounds instead of dead ones. Especially for those unarmed civilians. Some see it as benevolence, others see it as nothing more than a ruse to create wounded and drain human supplies.

Hearing these remarks, Siegel banged the table hard to silence everyone. He said angrily: "Mercy is not to shoot that arrow. The enemy's tricks are the excuse for his failure. All the elves who approached the outer wall of Heimland, except those who were unarmed and carrying white flags, all shot me back with heavy crossbows. !"

"What about those ancient war trees? What do we use to resist?" Some people asked.

Siegel's gaze swept over all the knights present, and then asked, "What did your knight oath say about surrounding the homeland and the weak?"

The knights all stood up and recited aloud: "With my sword, honor and life!"

There's another reason for Siegel's tough, rare rage: Dwarves. The dwarves did nothing in this elf incident and let the incident happen. Their behavior of closing the country's door seems very suspicious at this time. And then there is no explanation. The dwarf Erint came to Myr without revealing the reason for their actions, which greatly hurt Siegel.

He also heard the news that there were many human refugees, including those who lived and farmed under the top of Mora, who climbed the city wall mountain under the threat of war and came to the door of Mora's top, hoping that the dwarves could open it The city gate, let them have a place of refuge. But the closed door and the constant repetition of "the country's door is closed" like a spell completely wiped out the hope of these people. There is no flame of hope. The cold of the snow-capped mountains gradually eroded, taking the fire of many lives.

He heard that many corpses had rolled from the top of Mora, shattered on ice and rocks. The blood of humans dyed the mountain of the dwarves red, and even the ghosts of death lingered on the road to the top.

The elves blocked the coast of the New World from east to west. The only one that can still communicate with the old continent is Waterdeep City. So from the map, the city wall mountains have really become a cage, and the humans in it have nowhere to escape. Some lords dared to negotiate with the elves. It is said that on the premise of surrendering and laying down their weapons, the lord can take his subjects through the elf-occupied area and take a boat to the sea. Return to the old continent where the mighty Star Kingdom is located.

It's just that these people didn't know when they got on the ship that the mighty Starry Kingdom was on the verge of civil war. The firewood was piled up and the kerosene poured on it, waiting for some king to stand on it and be lit by another.

Siegel didn't know the news of the Old World either. He just felt that this move of the elves could quickly disintegrate the fighting spirit of human beings and make victory come faster and better. The situation is so obvious, who still has the confidence to win?

No matter what others do, Siegel will never sit back and watch the elves attack and hurt his own people.

On the one hand, he has to think about the safety of his own people. He mobilized all his strength, rune materials, magic tools, elemental rune guards, and put them all into the work of digging the passage of the city wall mountain. This is a last resort, the only way to escape from prison. There were many attempts to cross the Walled Mountains to the other side of the New World. But they all failed, dying in various natural disasters: avalanches, ice cracks, cold and predators hiding under the vast white snow. But the dwarf Locke said that it was just the effect of the rune formation of the City Wall Mountains.

Only their passage can pass through the Walled Mountains, and only dwarves can deal with dwarves. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

The dwarves didn't help, but luckily they didn't fall into the trap. Seeing that the westward dwarves were still helping, the inhabitants of Heimland were able to remain united. For the sake of safety, all elves in the territory should either leave immediately or enter a state of surveillance. It is also something that must be done in war, at least far more merciful than executions in other territories.

Things in the territory can be resolved, but the two letters put Siegel in an extremely embarrassing situation.

The letters are from the Association of Mages, one is to the mages Siegel, and the other is to Siegel Baron Squid, the lord of Heimland.

As the spokesperson of the Mages Association, Kasper ** summoned all the mages to assist, defend the Three Peaks Tower, and repel the threat of the elves. At the same time, all the human lords are united, put aside the contradictions of the past in the face of the great right and wrong of the racial war, and unite to discuss the war for the sake of a place for mankind in the new world.

Fighting alongside Knox?

Siegel had never imagined such a situation. He sat in the study, feeling overwhelmed for the first time. The pipe had long since been extinguished, leaving only the gray residue and the faint bitter smell in the air, just like his mood. (To be continued.)