But now it’s different… Hutot Khan has placed his chips on the “bomb” carried by the Harpy—
These crude bombs did not have the power to blow up the Metal Golems of the United Nations, but they were definitely capable of blowing through ordinary rubble roofs!
Once the roof of the baggage warehouse is blown through, torches or new bombs will be thrown into the hole in the roof to ignite the food inside...
Yes, Hutot Khan had allies behind him and his own grasslands, so he certainly didn’t have to worry about baggage problems.
So, what about the Roman Empire
The front line has lost its baggage. Given the current state of the Roman Empire, how long can they hold out? As long as their army starts to starve, their military operations will be much easier...
The only problem is.
"How can we confirm which house is the enemy's baggage warehouse? You have to know that the enemy's general is one of the very few "smart people" in the Roman Empire today...
He has even been covering up the movements of his main force until now, and their main force is still constantly shifting in the fog behind them - in this case, how can we find their warehouses?"
A Qiexue raised the question that everyone was most worried about. How could they confirm the location of the warehouse
After all, flying in the sky is not the same as running on the ground. Looking at the almost identical houses on the ground, who knows whether it is a toilet or a kitchen
We can't let the harpies take the risk of landing, can we
Facing the doubts of the Qiexue people, Hutot Khan pondered for a long time and just said this:
"It's simple... before dinner."
"Before dinner?"
"Children. Just like we need to ask the cook to take food out of the food warehouse to cook before we eat, the Romans will definitely not let their cooks carry rations for hundreds of people when they are stationed...
One day they would have to go to the warehouse to take out food, and the two places they carried the food back and forth were either the kitchen or the warehouse.
We just need to have the harpies harass one of the most frequented places -
After all, there may be many kitchens, but there are only a few warehouses that can supply the large amount of food consumed by the kitchens at the same time.
Now we need to worry about the weather... Sunny days are fine, but rainy days may interfere with the activities of the Harpies. We can only pray that the weather will be fine in the future. That's all."
Khutot Khan confirmed the next plan and stationed his army not far in front of the defense line built by General Dreshuka.
He knew that he could no longer take advantage of the nomads, so stopping to test the feasibility of new tactics became his best option.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, tunnelling work in Isgard was progressing smoothly.
Before noon, they had successfully excavated about 20 meters into the mountain wall.
The excavated flesh and blood was directly stored in the rear and turned into emergency rations or griffin feed. The entire tunnel looked abnormally smooth due to the effect of flesh and blood magic, to the point where one could even feel the lubricity when touching the rock wall with one's hand.
In a sense, this can be regarded as a major characteristic of flesh and blood magic - the parts corroded by flesh and blood can be easily peeled off, and the parts that have not been corroded will leave a smooth cross-section.
The only problem this brought was that the soldiers in the rear had to make it rough when doing the reinforcement work to increase friction and stability, but all this had nothing to do with the Sirens.
After finishing their heavy work, they are now resting in the back. According to their progress of less than an hour in the morning, they expect to be able to dig a tunnel through the first mountain in two days - but they are not sure whether the magic power of the entire area is enough to support their consumption at this stage...
What Chino was most worried about was the embarrassment of running out of magic power. But after careful research, she found that not only was the magic power reserve higher in Elucia than in Isurgard, but the speed of magic power recovery was also faster than in Isurgard.
"Perhaps this is the aftertaste of the magically rich continent. I now understand why Miss Margarita must invade this continent."
Miss Kino curled her lips and sat on the stone bench eroded by flesh and blood magic, muttering something while eating noodles in the bowl.
"If the old guys at home come here, they will probably be so excited that they will use magic to create life-size dolls for fun... But then again, did you really not find any problems during your work?"
Kino's question made the sirens who were eating shake their heads: "No, not at all. It's much smoother than in Isgard."
"The only problem might be that there isn't a man who can reach behind me and rub me while I'm working—"
"Shut up! This isn't the right time to be so naughty! But seriously... isn't it great that there's enough mana here? I almost used up too much mana to cover the rotten meat in front of me, and it went against my plan..."
"But the magic here doesn't seem to be as strong as that in the United Nations? If I can turn an entire house into rotten meat there, here I can only turn a small room into rotten meat..."
The Sirens chattered and laughed, and apart from the occasional waving statement from a little girl who longed for a love as fierce as a beast, the others more or less gave their own opinions.
Chino carefully recorded the key information that might be useful - especially the information about "magic power purity"... In her eyes, the magic power of the Elucia continent has obviously been divided into different levels.
The magic power of the United Nations is naturally the best. Using the metaphor of the younger generation of Sirens, it is like a young man in his twenties who goes to the gym every day. He is strong and powerful, and is the best in the eyes of the Sirens.
In addition, the magic power in most places of the Roman Empire is medium, and to the Sirens, they feel like ordinary, middle-aged male humans - although their bodies may be ruined in a year or two, it is better than nothing.
And the magic of Ishugard...
…
Not what Chino said.
The rotten things in her own country are so rotten that she doesn't know what to say.
But then he thought that after the Roman Empire became a colony of Isgard, his country would also gain a region with rich magic power production...
Well... it's not that bad actually
She muttered quietly. At this moment, a siren girl suddenly said that if the president's daughter had not established Isgard, perhaps the sirens would not have the possibility to go to this magical continent.
"If Miss Margarita hadn't founded Isurgard and was willing to accept us, a small number of foreigners who were "basically useless" in Isurgard's low magic environment... maybe we wouldn't have had the chance to run to this place and return to freedom? Of course, I read this from a book..."
"What's written in the book is correct. Don't forget what the old ladies said about Miss Margarita?" Kino shrugged. "After all, Miss Margarita is also a legendary character in a sense... Even in today's Ishugard, there is no other character like Miss Margarita, right?"
"Kino, what do you mean?"
“His convincing personality, his ability to execute and achieve real results, and his vision that was ahead of his time.”
"Oh, I understand. What anecdote is written in the book? It seems that a few decades ago, someone proposed the importance of "industry" and "standardized production". It was Miss Margarita who personally eliminated the dissatisfaction of those small workshop craftsmen, and then our country established the current standard industrialization process?"
"To be precise, the 'craftsmen' led a rebellion at that time - and then Miss Margarita used her personal charm to make the rebels surrender again, and made them the elite workers in today's industrial system..."
"I thought they were all killed?"
"How is that possible?"
Looking at the girl in front of him who rolled her eyes, Chino smiled, but in his heart he recalled all the deeds of Miss President Margarita.
As a vampire with a variety of shapes and forms, she had no fixed shape. When Chino first met Miss Margarita, she was a tall, noble, blonde beauty. When they met for the second time, she became a little girl with silver hair and red eyes.
Margarita's appearance was ever-changing, which made Isgard's government painters very painstaking when painting her portrait every year.
But compared to Margarita's ever-changing appearance, her personality is the symbol of the advancement of the entire Isgard.
As Chino said, Margarita's appearance in this era was an anomaly.
Who is the vampire president Margarita? This may be a question that confuses every traveler or foreign merchant.
But in the minds of the Isgardians, they can give a positive answer.
"During the hundreds of years of chaos, no one had managed to unify the continent and build a unified country, but she accomplished it."
"It allowed the originally isolated city-states to communicate with each other, allowed hostile ethnic groups to live in peace, and established a spider web capital for commercial exchanges on the dangerous coast. It brought a huge amount of resources to the country and promoted several reforms in the society that was still dominated by manual labor and knowledge monopolized by priests at that time."
"She was the one who spent a great deal of wealth and manpower to clear out the ogres and horrible aliens that were roaming the entire continent."
"But is she a good person?"
Definitely not...
Chino sighed.
"It was she who wiped out the entire village on the only mountain range on the continent where Isgard was located. In addition to the trafficked people, more than 8,000 people, regardless of gender, age or status, were burned to death in mass graves."
"Anyone who resists the Ishugard Constitution will be brutally slaughtered. In order to prevent a resurgence, she will even order her blood guards to kill all the relatives of the other party."
"In order to implement her own policies, she even dared to push down the statue of the gods in front of the believers, and then sent the believers and pastors to the execution ground together."
"Just like her ever-changing body... her emotions are ever-changing - one moment she's like a friend, the next moment she's ready to chop your head off.
But even so, Miss Margarita has countless loyal followers around her, and these followers are willing to believe in Miss Margarita's promises."
"Make the promise of Ishgard unbreakable."
In the eyes of the Isgardians, Margarita is an advanced and enlightened president, or monarch.
Because her number of votes each year far exceeds that of the second place by hundreds of times, the people of Isgard only accept the rule of Margarita and only the rule of Margarita.
But in the minds of other people who had been purged, Margarita was undoubtedly a tyrant. In a sense, she was no longer considered a "human".
Even the most cruel murderer will inevitably feel compassion for a young baby.
But for Ishugard, Margarita can abandon all her dignity and emotions as a "human".
This is also an important reason why Miss President has such charm and a large number of followers.
After hundreds of years of chaos, the Isgardians have long recognized a fact: a country must have an advanced and enlightened ruler. They can no longer live better by relying on the rule of the nobles as in the past feudal period. They should not be separate individuals, but compatriots of "one country".
Of course, it's not that no one has considered possible conspiracies. Margarita made Ishugard so good, she must have had other intentions -
But then again, would you be willing to accept a saint who sincerely doesn't have any bad thoughts about you, but can only make do with eating bran
Or would you rather believe in a conspirator who might help you accomplish some conspiracy in the end, but who can make your life better and better and eventually allow you to eat meat
The vast majority of people would choose the latter.
So it wasn't just Miss Margarita who chose Isgard.
Isgard also chose Miss Margarita.
Just like the Sirens' current two-way choice - Margarita believes that the Sirens can bring good changes to Isgard, so now it is naturally the Sirens' turn to return the favor.
But coming back to the point.
(If the Regent of the United Kingdom was born in Isgard, he would have been turned into an immortal by Miss Margarita, right? They look so much alike... except that they started out differently?)
Kino muttered.
Thinking back to the history of the founding of the Roman Empire, it seems that it was indeed too smooth.
She just felt that the Romans deserved to not understand the importance of "a country".
…
Subsequently, until May 15, the Sirens worked to dig tunnels for the Isgardian colonial army through the mountainous heart of the Roman Empire.
Thanks to the efforts of the Sirens, they successfully dug through the first two mountains, allowing tens of thousands of troops to pass through the obstruction of two mountain ranges within one day. At the same time, they were about to completely dig through the third mountain range.
The Sirens not only dug tunnels, but the byproduct of their flesh magic, that pile of flesh, also really enriched the colonial army's food and supplies. Perhaps humans can't directly enjoy the delicious food from the Sirens, but the griffins can!
In a sense, the colonial army can be said to have had a good time before the battle. But for General Pease, their worries and problems have just begun...
"The only problem is... the dragons... eat too much."
Although the flesh and blood of the Sirens can fill the stomachs of the griffins, the dragons refuse to eat that kind of food.
After all, dragons are also human beings, and they have to eat human food - but in this case, the colonial army's food and supplies will really not be able to hold up...
Not every dragon can control its appetite like Lady Nia.
It could also be because not every dragon is like Lady Nia, who stays in human form for at least three hundred days a year.
The daily consumption of the dragons is really too high... dozens of cows today, dozens of pigs tomorrow, and if they eat flour, they may need dozens or hundreds of bags
General Piss really couldn't let the dragons eat endlessly, he had to launch an attack as soon as possible, otherwise the colonial army of Isgard might really encounter the problem of "lack of food" on the front line.
After all, the food stored in the warehouse is just a guarantee.
Whether or not food can be transported to the front line is another question.
Not to mention that the tunnel's current transportation capacity is a problem... Although it can accommodate carriages, General Piss is still prepared for the tunnel's insufficient transportation capacity as the wounded soldiers in the front also need to be transported to the rear through the mountain tunnel.
What's more... no one can guarantee that there is enough food in the Roman warehouses to support the colonial army to continue advancing.
…
General Pease's face was covered with cold sweat.
He looked with great difficulty at the magic mirror placed not far away, and then looked at the reports and statistics on food and supplies in his hand with great distress.
After thinking about it, it is better for me to be eaten alive by Lady Nia than for the soldiers to starve on the front line...
He gritted his teeth and decided to do something that might make Lady Nia extremely angry...
"Perhaps, we can ask Lady Nia to seek help from the United Nations..."
General Pease muttered, reaching out his hand toward the mirror.
At the same time, in the United Kingdom, in front of everyone's witness, after Lady Lalumia sent a ball of divine power towards St. Petersburg, the "poisoning" work on the part of the United Kingdom was completely completed.
They will have to wait a long time before getting a result, but before that, they also have a lot of work to do.
"Artificial magic reactors have been gradually laid out within the United Nations, and the underground network system is also being built in an orderly manner...
The "Magic Network" issue that we need to focus on next will become the top priority for future development - but before that, is the Colossus weapon ready for construction?"