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Chapter 1615 Chapter 248. The Last Battle

"Go and have a rest. I'll watch over you for a while."

Annan didn't expect Olmedo to be serious and stayed up all night because he said he was busy with official business.

This won’t work. If Olmedo falls down from exhaustion, who will replace her?
You can't pull Cathy over here while she's still learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, right?

Olmedo's eyes were fixed on the sand table. With Lilith, the dynamics of each area on the sand table could be updated at any time, especially the key reconnaissance areas and the surrounding areas of the commercial streets, which could be updated almost in real time.

"Are you sure you understand?" She didn't even raise her head.

"After all, I am the mayor of Liberty City. It's not like I can't even read a map." Annan was indignant, thinking that Olmedo underestimated him.

"Where's Burwick?"

"exist……"

Annan's eyes wandered over the map.

Olmedo said, "In County Clare."

"No, that's right!"

"That's right, I made up the names of Bulwick and Clare."

Olmedo shook his head: "I drank the potion, so it's not a big problem."

"No."

Annan was very firm, as if the adventures of the Hellfire Legion made him feel insecure. He held Olmedo's shoulders and said, "I am twenty years old and I met you five years ago... To me, a quarter of my life belongs to you."

"I don't want you to ruin your health."

Olmedo was almost moved, almost, but she was not the naive Elimois.

"Don't use the same methods on me as you used on the blue dragon."

But seeing Annan's serious look, Olmedo smiled.

"But it's okay to take a break."

thump -- thump -- thump --

Before Annan had time to be happy, the muffled sound of boots stomping on the floor was heard outside the corridor, coming from far away and getting closer.

bang——

A herald pushed the door open, bringing with him the chill of the north.

"Any news from the outpost?" Olmedo asked quickly.

"Yes! Mr. Deputy City Lord, the scout knights found a group of survivors in the far north!"

Annan and Olmedo looked at each other.

They guessed it right, the Black Watch Legion is really in the Far North!

Only if the missing Blackwatch Legion was there would the demons have the luxury to create such a large magic-forbidden area.

"survivor?"

However, Olmedo noted the herald's choice of words.

"There were less than a hundred of them. They looked like a group of refugees..."

"Where do the refugees from the Far North come from? They are most likely the vanguard sent out to find a way out." Annan said.

Olmedo thought the same thing: "Have you made contact with them?"

"It's too late, because the ratmen have also discovered them, and the Hellfire Legion is approaching that way!"

This is really good news and bad news all at once.

Olmedo exhaled a breath and forced a smile at Annan.

"It seems that now is not a good time to rest."

……

At dawn, the smell of rot and sulfur permeated the ridges.

The sky was blood red, foreshadowing the approach of a snowstorm, and also seemed to foreshadow their final future as they trudged along. Annan's idea was not wrong.

Even the planner, Olmedo, did not recommend that the Hellfire Legion go to the front battlefield and engage in a head-on confrontation with the enemy.

Their role is to contain, rescue, and provide supplies.

From this point of view, there is actually no essential difference between the ideas of Annan and Olmedo: the one who can defeat the Imperial Legion must be another group of Imperial Legion, which is not something that Liberty City can afford to interfere with.

As long as the Hellfire Legion provides good support and logistics, and the Blackwatch Legion leads the way, they can hold out until reinforcements arrive.

After all, there is such a large forbidden magic area there. No one would believe it if they suddenly said that the Blackwatch Corps could not hold on.

As a result, Blackwatch is really at the end of its rope.

The elite rats surged towards them like a tide, forming a dense encirclement.

Without mage support and supplies, the weak soldiers had no chance of escaping.

But apart from the ratmen attacking them at the beginning, the ratmen then surrounded them without killing them, forcing them to move, as if they were going to drive them somewhere...

The soldiers, whose armor and weapons had long been discarded as burdens, were driven away by the rats.

Gary bit his lip, but his eyes were extremely confused and numb.

He felt like he was dreaming.

It was only an hour ago that they seemed to see a glimpse of hope...

The soldiers whose way was blocked by the new land formed by the flow of water into the sea continued to move outward, trying to bypass it, but they ran into a small group of ratmen.

No one knew why there was a group of ratmen on the ice, and no one knew why their first reaction when they saw these soldiers who were not much better than refugees was to run away.

The soldiers, seized by fear, chased after them madly, but the frozen ice prevented them from running, while the ratmen's claws were able to firmly grasp the ice.

They began to shout, curse and provoke like drunkards in a tavern. Not a single ratman turned back and the distance between them became larger and larger.

They finally gave up hope.

Avalanches are not formed directly. From the first snowfall, to a blizzard that lasts for several days, to the last slight sound that triggers a landslide...

The rat-man turning and fleeing was the sound that triggered the avalanche.

"Gary...Gary...wake up."

In the chaos, it seems like someone is talking to himself.

"See that huge rock in front of us, the one on the shore? When we get there, someone will climb up to attract the ratmen's attention. We'll get our feet covered in sand, turn around and run into the sea. Don't worry about anything..."

"Did you hear that?"

Gary gradually regained consciousness and saw the huge rock by the sea that Holden mentioned.

"Blackwatch must take no prisoners... We must fight back and fight our way through."

The dense rustling and grinding of the surrounding ratmen covered up their subtle movements.

Gary's almost frozen mind started to work again, and he thought back to what he had experienced along the way.

Stepping into a trap, being disrupted in teleportation, escaping from the warp, escaping from the Far North, encountering ratmen...

Any force's army would be in danger of being annihilated if it encountered one of them, but Blackwatch almost withstood all of them.

But...how could it be such a coincidence?

Traps were set on the road they had to take, disrupting their transmissions to find them...

Or... is there a spy?
At this moment, Gary figured out a lot of things that he had not noticed before. So did Albek notice this?

No... it can't be here, it can't be in the Legion...

The spy is in the empire, and most likely in a high position!
The ice under his feet turned into gravel, and Gary raised his head and looked around.

In front is the boulder that Holder mentioned.

The rats retreated on both sides of the boulder, some stamped their feet, some quickened their pace. Gary let the rough gravel and broken shells fill the soles of his shoes, exchanged glances with the surrounding soldiers, and tacitly formed a miniature military formation.

(End of this chapter)