rune hunter

Chapter 56
The former Hongshiling mining field has been completely occupied by the huge Keta wormhole, and the purple-black connective tissue spreads from the junction of the wormhole and the ground, forming a large thick and soft moss moss in the surrounding area.The agile figure of the swift wolf shuttled endlessly through the forest, transporting the prey caught in the forest here, and then tore open their throats, allowing the blood to seep quickly onto the moss-covered ground.

These prey include beasts, humans, and even corpses, but the worm moss never refuses anyone who comes, constantly secreting an acidic solution, decomposing all prey into nutrients and energy for the wormhole at a speed visible to the naked eye.Although all this seems to be in an orderly manner, in fact, the energy obtained can only maintain the basic operation of the wormhole.

The location of Red Stone Ridge is quite embarrassing for the invaders from the underground. It is located in the southern border area of ​​Yunlu Mountains. There are neither rich forest resources for hunting, nor dense and prosperous human settlements—Istar Every once in a while, the Lun people clear out the threats in the nearby forest, while they themselves hide in the stone castle ten miles away.

Not only El, but even the landwalker himself thinks that this thing is too big, and the bigger the wormhole, the higher the energy consumption.According to the reconnaissance information sent back by the flying cockroaches, the vanguard of the legion organized a surprise attack on the human city. Unexpectedly, the other party not only responded in a timely manner, but was also a hedgehog that was hard to eat.Without enough energy replenishment, the evolutionary completion of the wormhole stagnated like this.

As long as he thought of the anger of Her Royal Highness at the other end of the wormhole, Cuomo's head would be in cold sweat.If the wormhole channel cannot be opened before dawn, the offensive and defensive posture of the landwalkers and humans will be reversed.The combat power of the vanguard troops will be gradually depleted due to the rising temperature. I am afraid that even the defense line will be unable to maintain. The human knights under the blessing of the sun will recover their combat power and trample everything here under the iron hoof.

Human beings in the surface world are plagued by the spreading plague, and the situation in the underground world is also not optimistic.

After the eruption of the underground volcano Sumira, the Kurenstein Empire established by the drow was swallowed by the rushing magma, leaving only one-third of the territory lingering.Losing the biggest external threat, the elf empire, the royal princesses on the frontier of Chen Bing immediately targeted their sisters.

The royal civil war is one of the iconic ancient customs of the Landwalker tribe. It was once regarded as a symbol of uncivilized barbarism by other civilized races.In the eyes of outsiders, these bugs have a paranoid love for cannibalism. Just like now, the princesses turn a blind eye to the drastic changes in the natural environment, and fight each other in the lava field full of fire and rain, even if the entire army is wiped out.

The Langa tribe was originally just a branch of the royal family that migrated from the Northern Underground Empire, or it could be said that they were the losers of the civil war of the previous generation of the royal family. However, the failure of the civil war and their escape also meant that the princess leading this legion was extremely powerful.The princess back then, and now Queen Langamir, Her Majesty Langamir immediately left her hometown after losing the civil war, and led the legion to the southern underground world, forcibly opening up a world.

Although the indigenous races in the underground world tend to be chaotic and evil, they also have the protection of the evil gods, and they are very hostile to unbelieving landwalkers.Princess Langamir is not afraid of difficulties. On the one hand, she maintains an offensive posture and threatens many surrounding dungeons; The South stood its ground, got the land for its tribe to thrive, and was crowned king at last.

Thirty years ago, Her Majesty the Queen seized the resource-rich Mushroom Plain from the Drow Empire, thereby solving the food crisis that hindered the development of the tribe in one fell swoop.After getting rid of the plight of lack of food, the Langa tribe immediately developed at a terrifying speed.Before the eruption of the Sumira Volcano, the Langa tribe had given birth to hundreds of princesses. Although only nine His Royal Highnesses had grown up and formed a legion in the end, it was enough to make other races in the southern underground world terrified.

The landwalker royal family has powerful blood power, and this power can be enhanced by devouring blood relatives.So the first thing after every princess is born is to kill her own blood sisters.To eat or be eaten is both nature and reality.In fact, in the recorded history, there are only a handful of cases where there are nine adult princesses in the tribe at the same time.

In addition to nature, the limited resource quota within the tribe and the unlimited need to expand the legion are also one of the important reasons for the royal civil war.The seemingly harmonious coexistence of the nine princesses is actually entirely out of fear of Queen Langamir.

As one of the most competitive heirs to the empire ever, Her Majesty has never given up her plan to return to her homeland.In order to accumulate strength, she forcibly stopped the fight between the princesses and asked them to work together.However, forcible suppression cannot solve the most basic problem of benefit distribution after all. When the queen left the tribe to seek solutions to environmental problems, the grievances accumulated by the princesses for decades immediately erupted like a volcano beneath their feet.

The cause of the incident was originally just a daily quarrel between the two Highnesses, but due to the lack of the queen's deterrence, the sesame-sized mess soon became bigger and bigger like a snowball, and eventually turned into an indiscriminate melee between the nine legions .

Until now, Cuomo has not figured out which highness he is fighting with. He was originally just a small commander who relied on his noble status to make a living in the legion, but he did not expect to be suddenly promoted to the commander of the vanguard by the front line.He didn't know until after taking office that twelve unlucky ghosts who sat in this position had died in the line of duty in the past few months.His Royal Highness Langaria's command style is cautious, and he is always willing to use a small vanguard to test the depth of the opponent. Even if they are all dead, they will not feel distressed.

I have to say that Cuomo's luck is not bad. When he took office, he happened to meet the two highnesses who were fighting in the royal city. His highness Langarlia shrank his army across the board, intending to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.Thus, the reconnaissance troops, whose writing pioneers were read as cannon fodder, finally had ample rest time.

Patiently waiting has benefited her a lot. A troop transporting spoils from Wangcheng broke into the ambush circle where they were waiting for work, and was immediately swallowed up.A certain Highness seemed to be red-eyed, and even dared to loot Her Majesty's strategic reserve warehouse, but he didn't expect that it would all be cheaper for Langaria in the end.

The Keta wormhole that is being built now is one of the queen's inventory. Judging from the scale, it is obvious that His Majesty Langamir is preparing for the return to the north, but now it is being squandered by the princesses.His Royal Highness Langaria is even more holding the mentality of breaking the jar, anyway, it is not she who looted the royal city with her own hands.As the magma gradually engulfs the remaining areas of the underground world, the pressure of survival will force the princesses to fight more tragic wars. Instead of working hard for the remaining food resources, it is better to get this ticket and go away.

It just so happened that the secret passage dug by the kobolds was discovered due to the loss of the shielding perception of the groundworm eggs, which further strengthened Langaria's idea of ​​fleeing.Although the ground world is not suitable for the survival of landwalkers, it is better than staying and waiting to die.

When climbing up from the tunnel, Cuomo still thanked the kobolds for their hard work. If it weren't for them, they might be sent to the front line at any time, and this job of exploring the road is much safer.But now he can't wait to kill these filthy little bastards. You can't dig anywhere, but you just dig next to the human fortress.

In the evening encounter, Cuomo lost one-third of his troops and five junior officers. The troops can be replenished, but the officers are all of noble origin. Under the current situation, it can be said that one died and one less.The human knights on the opposite side seemed endless, but their progress was hindered by the night.

The night is the home ground of the groundwalkers, because they live underground all year round and can fight without a light source.If there are enough troops, Cuomo will definitely launch a sneak attack and drive the human army back to their castle.But just because the original passage was used to build the Kota wormhole, not only could he not be supplemented by troops, on the contrary, most of his manpower and material resources would be taken up.

How much energy does this damn thing need to start?

Cuomo cursed in his heart, but his face could only remain calm.The surviving junior officers have clearly expressed uneasiness, and now he must maintain a calm and confident look, otherwise he will inevitably be stabbed in the back by these bastards.Cannibalism is not a unique nature of the royal family. Sometimes the nobles may even intensify, such as now.

Perhaps his constant prayers and curses finally had an effect. With the pouring of flesh and blood, the sleeping behemoth slowly wriggled.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the wormhole has started to function, and we have already contacted the other side." A junior officer ran over and reported loudly.

"Very good, tell the troops to get out of the transmission channel." Cuomo nodded, waved and said, a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.As soon as the follow-up troops arrive through the wormhole, his mission will end.As for the next battle with humans, he doesn't need to worry about it.

He raised his head and looked at the sky. The silver moon and the red moon had already crossed. According to the record of the ground world in the tribal inheritance, this meant that most of the night had passed.The stars in the night sky are shining brightly, like a long silver river flowing slowly. This is a wonderful and gorgeous scenery that he has only heard about but never seen in the underground world.

"Surely Her Royal Highness will also like it?" Cuomo suddenly had such a thought in his mind.

　Thank you Maoerbu, Mowanglou, rating authors, and Huanye, Cayenne, Sizhi, Zhanjian, the great gods and friends for their rewards.In order to express my gratitude, today I will add more... 500 words, the toothpaste is really a basketful ^-^
　　
　
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