Since the unsettling news came from the north, the situation in the south seemed to be suddenly covered by clouds and became chaotic. The atmosphere of the Rock Fortress became tense day by day. This fortress, which was responsible for the southern gate, was the most majestic fortress standing at the southern end of the Holy Spirit Plain. Everyone was proud of it. But now this fortress suddenly became an isolated island sandwiched between two storms. All the nobles in the southern region suddenly lost contact. The Cecil family, who had been silent for a hundred years, seemed to be planning something big, but the messenger sent to the north to seek support could only bring frustrating news.

As the situation in the capital deteriorates and the clouds of civil war are shrouded in the clouds, the two regents and the princes of the king have begun to call on nobles from all over the country to send troops to deal with the rebels in the eastern territory. The kings have no extra energy to support the Fortress, especially when the Fortress has not yet suffered substantial attacks: the great figures in the capital seem far from realizing the speed at which the situation in the southern territory is deteriorating. In their eyes, there is a prince and a rebels in the eastern territory led by a forceful duke are obviously much more serious than the "chaos" in the south.

Under this tense and delicate situation, the Rock Fortress could only close the city gates and began to impose the strictest retreat ban. In addition to merchants holding passes issued by Count Pompeii and extraordinary people in the surrounding areas of the fortress, everyone was prohibited from passing through. In fact, even without these bans, the number of merchants and travelers in the Rock Fortress has dropped sharply to the lowest point in the near future.

The merchants with keen sense of smell have a sense of crisis early on. At this sensitive moment, no one dares to risk being arrested by the noble lord as a spy and travel through the fortress at will. In recent days, the fewest merchants passed by the fortress gate every day were even less than double digits. Not to mention that compared with the peak of last autumn and winter, this is also a very small number compared with previous years.

Today, the Rock Fortress finally ushered in a large number of "guests" who were defeated in the southern region and were expelled.

When he saw nearly a thousand ragged, pale and thin but armed teams, the entire fortress almost entered a state of war. The soldiers could not see that this was a noble team, but they thought that all the down-and-out mercenaries and robbers in the southern territory were gathered together to rob the city. After a tense confrontation and complicated identity verification, the fortress commander Sir Maryland finally confirmed that the team in front of him, which looked like a combination of bandits and beggars, was really the nobles in the southern territory who were in trouble.

He will never forget this scene in his life.

The fortress was closed, and the door covered with purple steel rivets and fine gold lining was opened. It was tall and strong. Sir Maryland, with black curly hair, led the Knights out of the city to meet these invading gentlemen and ladies. He looked incredibly at the young man in the ragged coat, greasy and wispy hair, and a waxy face. It took a lot of effort to recognize that this was the closest distance between the Viscount of Carroll's Viscount Carroll's Viscount Carroll's Fortress and the Rock Fortress. Viscount Carroll had met more than one time with Maryland, but it was the first time they met in this situation.

"Once upon you! My Viscount! What have you experienced?!" Sir Maryland looked at the troubled people in front of him in shock, and saw several familiar faces in the team. "It seems that those terrible rumors are true?"

"Disaster, a disaster, a terrible, ruthless, cruel and without classical etiquette destroyed everything," Viscount Carroll couldn't help but tremble slightly, "and respectful sir, don't sigh that some ancestors are here... I will have nightmares when I hear these words."

Viscount Consco was next to him covering his forehead, his tone full of pain: "We were beaten by our ancestors..."

"... Gods bless you, everything will be fine," Sir Maryland has seen many ups and downs in his life, but he has never seen the situation before him. He didn't know how to take this strange topic, so he had to quickly bring these incoming gentlemen and ladies into the city. "I have prepared hot water for you, and it must be a terrible trekking in the muddy wilderness."

"We need to eat something first, cheese, meat steak, wine, my god, you can put the bathing stuff together!" said Viscount Marioran hurriedly, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Of course, when I came out, I had already ordered the city to prepare food. The Rock Fortress was sufficient," Sir Maryland nodded immediately, but as a high-level knight guarding the fortress, he could not help but look at the team of nearly a thousand people with a warning. "But I am cautious that it is dangerous to put so many people into the fortress at once. I must conduct necessary inspections on them to prevent enemy spies from mixing in it. This situation is easy to happen."

Viscount Consco looked back at the soldiers and knights who followed him through the entire war zone and said loudly to Sir Maryland: "Dear Sir, these people follow us through life and death, loyal and respectable, of course, I understand the rules of the fortress, so I just hope that you can complete the inspection as soon as possible so that these brave warriors can enter the city to have a meal and rest as soon as possible."

Hearing these upright and generous words, all the soldiers were moved, and Viscount Consco drove the horse quietly to Sir Maryland, and whispered in a low voice: "However you check, take us to eat first."

The nobles and knights in the team, accompanied by Sir Maryland and the Fort Knights, walked towards the city, while the others began to be inspected by the fortress soldiers. Viscount Roppenni just glanced at the soldiers who were carrying out the inspection indifferently, and followed the pace of the other nobles.

She knew what this inspection was, so she was not worried at all that without improving the personnel registration and identity identification system, the so-called inspection was just to ask other people in the same team to see if everyone could prove their identity. Perhaps this kind of inspection method was useful when a few spies were mixed into the army, but who would have thought that the entire team led by a noble was full of spies from top to bottom?

She looked up and watched the towering gate of the Rock Fortress get closer and closer in front of her, and then stepped into it.

"Gentlemen, ladies, you are safe," Sir Maryland rode on his horse, and when he stepped over the fortress gate, he turned his head with a smile and looked at the nobles who were showing a relaxed look. "This fortress is indestructible."

Viscount Carroll raised his head and looked at the black city wall that emitted a slight magic halo. This famous city wall did calm his heart a lot, but he couldn't help but say: "Dear Sir, let me say that the danger of Govin Cecil is unimaginable! He used some unknown method to build a terrifying legion. We almost failed to confront that legion head-on and then defeated. Now he is afraid that he is gathering people in the south and accumulating strength. He may be eyeing this place..."

Sir Maryland couldn't help but turn around: "But I heard that he was not the one who took the initiative to start the war?"

"...It is true, it is us who took the initiative to start the war," Viscount Carroll showed a hint of pain, "but now I want to say that this was a trap from the beginning! We were induced! Duke Cecil was ready for war from the beginning, and passive response was just a cover. He was an offensive jazz from the beginning. Don't be deceived by the illusion that he did not attack the Rock Fortress for the time being, he will definitely come!"

"I will consider your warning carefully, Mr. Viscount," Sir Maryland glanced at Viscount Carroll with a deep look, "and I will report your experience to the capital as soon as possible. But I am forbidden to say that the help you can get is probably limited, and even the Rock Fortress can only give you a place to stay."

"Just, the Cecil family is back! They want to get back everything they have lost in this century! You forgot the original intention of the establishment of the Rock Fortress..."

"Mr. Viscount, of course I remember the original intention of the establishment of the Rock Fortress, but remember that you who betrayed the Cecil family or divided the land of Cecil are you, not us, not any surname on the Holy Spirit Plain," Maryland raised his hand slightly, interrupted Carroll, and then sighed softly, "And it is not that I cannot realize the crisis in the south. From you, I can see the threat of the Cecil family, but I can do quite limited."

Seeing the complicated look on Sir Maryland's face, Carroll and the aristocrats around him finally realized that the atmosphere was wrong. Viscount Consco couldn't help but hesitate and asked: "Sir, what happened?"

"Don't you know?" Sir Maryland shook his head and said softly, "The King is dead."

...

Cecil, the commercial area, "Balance Square", a new large-scale facility is being established.

The tower-shaped skeleton made of alloy stands in the center of the square like a strange monument. The outer cladding for decoration and lighting at night is lightly and accurately covered on the surface of the tower after weight reduction treatment. The magic technicians use lifting devices and safety ropes to climb to various key positions on the tower, and use scorching energy beams to firmly weld the cladding and skeleton of the tower together. At the top of the tower, there is a large obelisk suspended in mid-air and radiating bright light.

This facility is close to completion and is currently only doing the final decoration work. The magical obelisk on the top of the tower is the core device of the facility, and it also provides energy for various magical devices on the scene. Below the obelisk, the alloy pillars connecting the underground magic net are being covered bit by bit by bit by the cover plate of the tower. Those shining magic runes are extracting the surging energy from the magic net and injecting it into the base of the obelisk at the top, and finally released from the obelisk to form a magic field that is enough to cover the entire city.

Gao Wen stood near the construction site, watching the runes and magic crystal lanterns on the tower lit up and then extinguished one by one with the magic technician's test, and felt a little moved.

After the completion of this tower, the westernmost block of the commercial district and the newly established Xicheng District were completely covered by the new magic network.

At the same time, this also means that Cecil City will be completely within the signal coverage of "Magic Network Communication". Wait for a while in the future, and when several Magic Obelisk relay towers on North and South Avenue are completed, you can have a call with Kantling at any corner of Cecil City.

Of course, the premise is that the output of communication equipment must keep up.

Gao Wen glanced at a short distance, where several soldiers were guarding a large cart, which placed several large devices with triangular bases and crystal structures. Those were the "public magic network communication terminals" made by General Nicholas Egg when the production line was not yet running. They are now waiting to be installed.

Rebecca stood beside Gao Wen, and the girl was full of pride, because the idea of ​​putting the magical obelisk on the tower was that she proposed that it was due to her continuous tracking and monitoring of the actual operation of each magical obelisk in the territory: "Placeing the magical obelisk on a special 'tower' can effectively improve the stability and transmission range of signal transmission. Of course, this will also make it conspicuous and easily become a living target for long-range magical attacks, so I set up a magical shield rune group in the tower body. Anyway, the magical obelisk has a lot of redundant energy, so it is still more than enough to bring a set of shields."

"Is it just a set of shields?" Gao Wen turned his head and glanced at the girl, "Why did I hear that you planned to bury a 300-pound magic crystal bomb under the tower?"

"Uh... Didn't you say you would set up a relay tower in the wilderness to ensure full coverage of signals?" Rebecca suddenly scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "How dangerous is it in the wild, what if the enemy comes to destroy it..."

"This is an energy broadcast tower and a signal relay tower, not a front-line bunker," Gao Wen knocked Rebecca's head, "It's enough to be strong enough. You still expect a signal tower to annihilate 8,000 enemies during the war."

Rebecca giggled and tried to get through cutely, but after teaching the child a lesson, Gao Wen couldn't help but touch his chin and fell into thinking.

Rebecca's idea of ​​burying bombs under the Magic Obelisk Relay Tower was indeed a bad idea. It was very dangerous and not worth the effort, but her considerations made some sense in this world, which is really not peaceful.

The wilderness of this world is full of dangers, and humans are far from being filled with civilization in the wilderness. Moreover, it is still a war-torn era, so the self-protection ability of those relay towers set outside major cities is really something to consider...

It doesn't work for self-destruction, it seems that it's okay to get an Omni Explosion...

Seeing that the ancestor suddenly fell into a state of thought, Rebecca couldn't help but stand on tiptoe and waved in front of Gao Wen: "Sir, why do I think you have begun to approve of my words?"

"I'm just thinking about the defense issues of various outdoor facilities..." Gao Wenba pulled Rebecca's hand and was about to say something else, but from the corner of his eyes he saw Amber running quickly towards this side.

After Amber arrived in front of him, he asked curiously: "What happened?"
Chapter completed!