The fierce battle in the sky was still going on, but the army of golems on the ground had already rushed to the edge of the moat. Thanks to the artillery fire and the mages' containment and cover, Huang Zheng's assault troops did not suffer any losses when they rushed to the gate.
Following the golem, Glade and the elven wizard Maya took out two iron chains, a pile of wooden boards, two straight iron stakes and two T-shaped iron stakes from the storage ring.
Glade aimed at an area about half a meter below the opposite doorway and released a magic spell that turned fossils into mud, softening the rocks there.
Maya cast a Hit Spell on the Golem Gama, greatly increasing the hit rate of her long-range attacks.
The golem Gama lifted an iron stake and began to rotate her body. She used her great strength to throw the stake towards the rock opposite. The sharp end of the iron stake hit the softened wall heavily and poked into the rock. It was fixed to the wall like a hook. Then Gama picked up another iron stake and nailed it more than one meter away from the previous iron stake in the same way.
Glade cast the solidification spell on the rock again, and the softened soil turned into rock again, wrapping the iron stake tightly inside.
Maya handed one end of the iron chain to Qingluan, who grabbed the chain with her steel claws and flew towards an iron stake. When she reached the other side, she fixed herself on the wall with her sharp claws, then slowly circled the T-shaped iron stake twice, and then flew back to Maya's side again. With the help of Glade, Gama had already smashed the other two iron stakes into the ground. She took the iron chain from Qingluan's claws, wrapped it around the two pillars on this side, and then handed the iron chain back to Qingluan's claws. Qingluan flew again and wrapped the iron chain around another T-shaped stake. When the iron chain finally returned to the golem Gama's hands, it formed a cable bridge composed of four iron chains.
Then she summoned dozens of small mechanical spiders made by Maya from the ring. These spiders were only a few tenths the size of the Sky Spider Golem, but were extremely flexible. They worked in pairs of two, clamped a piece of wood, and began to press them onto the chains. The spiders would spit out metal threads that passed through the holes made in the wood in advance and fixed them on the iron chains.
It took less than ten minutes to build a simple iron bridge across the moat. The bridge deck was half a meter lower than the lowest point of the gate, but people crossing the bridge only needed to run to the other side and jump lightly to enter the gate of Heimu Pass.
Then the steel spider golems stepped onto the iron bridge and crawled to the other side. Their nimble limbs stepped on the wooden boards. One after another, they walked to the end of the cable bridge and jumped onto the doorway.
And Maya's little spiders rushed in with them.
"These little guys are still a little fragile. I should let them follow me." said Golem Gama.
Glade said, "We have done so many things, but no one from the Empire came to stop us. That can only mean one thing: this doorway is full of traps, and they can't get through it themselves. It's better to leave such risky things to these unconscious guys. Luo Ling told me that I should survive as a human being, and the same goes for you."
"But it's been too long since I lost my human body," said Gama.
"I have never had a human body, but when I get along with these people, I often feel like I am a human being." Glade smiled and said, "I heard that some wizards who practice Dream Tower magic will invite you to enter their meditation world to play. There, everything is the embodiment of the soul. You can always find some human feelings, right?"
Gama didn't answer, but the sharp light in her eyes now became a little softer.
At this time, Maya said: "My little spiders feel the power of magic. There are many magic arrays installed in this long doorway. The magic fluctuations of these magic arrays are very low. They should be some very hidden traps."
"Sure enough, can you sense what kind of magic it is?" Glade asked.
"Although the trap has been triggered and the curse has been released, it has no effect on my spiders. I guess it should be a magic that is effective only against life. It is difficult to understand just by looking at it from the outside." Maya felt the little spider's sensory feedback and said, "Maybe I should prepare a shield and go in to feel it, then I will know what it is."
Glade said, "There's no need to take such a risk. You know that shields can't stop some special curses. Look at the walls around you. There are always traces of magic circles."
Maya nodded and said, "Let me take a look."
In the passage, the Sky Spider Golem and the little spiders did not rush forward, but walked forward slowly.
Several small spiders opened their bodies, and a lighting crystal appeared from inside, illuminating the dark passage with a bright white light.
Under the light, the surrounding walls were still dark, with no obvious signs of magic array.
"It seems that I don't see any magic circle." Maya observed through the spider's vision.
Glade released a Mage's Eye, crossed the moat, flew into the passage, and came to the location where the Mayan spider was emitting light.
Glade said, "Don't you think these walls are unnaturally dark? I suspect the magic circle is hidden underneath. Let your spider scrape off a layer of the wall and see what's underneath."
"Yes!" Maya commanded several spiders to move to the wall of the passage. A pair of blades popped out from the spiders' raised legs, and then they began to scrape the wall.
"You guessed it right. The coating on top is soft and hasn't dried yet." The spider scraped the black substance off the wall a few times, revealing the traces of the formation behind it.
Glade said, "I saw a few runes. They should be magics like weakness, confusion, and slowness. In this case, let all the golems move and destroy all the walls here first."
This time, not only did Maya's little spiders begin to use their front limbs to cut the wall with all their strength, but the sky spider golems also started to move. The power in their legs and feet was much greater than that of the little spiders, and with one cut, a deep cut would appear on the wall.
Glade and Maya could hear the dense knocking sounds coming from the cave outside the moat.
"The magic fluctuations of those arrays are gradually weakening. It seems that it won't take long for us to clear this passage." Maya said.
But at this moment, an explosion suddenly sounded in the passage.
Glade's Mage's Eye was destroyed by the explosion, but in the moment before it was destroyed, Glade saw who launched the attack, "The Imperials can't sit still anymore, and finally started attacking us!" (To be continued)