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After ten days of trekking through mountains and rivers, I led the troops to finally arrive at the Andler area, and under the leadership of Shen Xiang, we came to the foot of a mountain surrounded by cliffs.
"Oh! I'm so tired. Along the way, apart from passing by a few small mountain villages occasionally, there is not even a slightly larger village or town... By the way, how long will it take us to get there?" Princess Marit, who was so excited when she set out, was finally exhausted after riding for a long time.
"We're here... Matthew, let our princess see the greatest masterpiece in the world!" Under Princess Marit's surprised eyes, the former Flame Legion warriors jumped off their horses one after another and rushed to the cliff with cheers.
Following my instructions, Matthew immediately took out a crystal rod and led the way to the cliff. At the same time, when Matthew's crystal rod touched the cliff wall, a slope of 100 meters wide and sloping upward suddenly appeared on the cliff wall. On that slope of hundreds of meters, a towering castle emitting a black and shiny metallic light stood there. Countless magic cannons were stacked on the wall in a ladder-like manner, emitting endless pressure.
Walking on this slope which is more than 1 kilometer long, looking at the visible and hidden forts on both sides of the slope and the crossbows neatly arranged on the slope, except for the first group of soldiers who followed me, everyone became trembling with fear after seeing this situation, and didn't even dare to take big steps.
"Oh! How is this possible? Is this a miracle that can be created by human power? No wonder Yiya said that as long as we get here, we will be safe... I really can't believe that who would have the courage to attack a castle like this? Not to mention those cliffs that are nearly 100 meters high, this passage alone is not something that flesh and blood can dare to pass through."
When we climbed the last step of the slope, Mariette finally couldn't stand the pressure from the thousands of magic towers on the cliff, and the look in her eyes when she looked at me changed from lover to monster.
It can be imagined that even in a holy city, in order to maintain the magic shield and offensive weapons of the magic temple, the entire holy city only erected 24 magic towers. But here, on the platforms on both sides of the castle on the entire slope, the magic towers were erected as if they didn't need time and money, and they were neatly and orderly standing there like a forest, emitting various colors of light.
"My princess, this is the super fortress that your dear husband spent two years and tens of thousands of craftsmen to build. In my original design, only a few thousand people were needed to fight against hundreds of thousands of troops... The magic shield here can even withstand an attack from a forbidden spell...
Do you see the platform over there? That is our most remarkable invention recently. Through the magic tower, we gather a lot of magic power, and then through the transformation of the magic circle, finally form a series of magic similar to explosive bombs for continuous launch. If we only talk about the launch speed, such a magic attack fortress can be equivalent to the continuous and uninterrupted attack of dozens of magicians.
Look over there, that's the impeller-type continuous projectile machine. Its working principle is very simple, just like the impeller of a shot blasting machine... Uh! It means that during the battle, the thing keeps running at high speed like a windmill, and then uses a transmission device to drop the projectiles from the flywheel, and then is ejected outward by the high-speed running impeller.
The advantages of this thing are its fast firing speed, wide attack area, and average power, but one can be equivalent to dozens of ordinary catapults.
However, they do have disadvantages, which is that their accuracy is relatively poor, their range is relatively short, and their power is temporarily limited by the lake on our mountain. If we have too little water storage, then they will not be able to exert any power.
But generally speaking, our princess is absolutely safe here."
Seeing Princess Mariette's horrified expression, I felt a little proud, but soon became worried. After all, my magic tower and other things all rely on magic crystals.
On this continent, the only places that produce the most magic crystals are the Senke Federation and the Yan Kingdom. But anyone who knows a little about magic knows that although the Senke Federation has the most magic crystal veins in the world, due to the purity of the crystals, they can generally only be used to replenish magic power, such as restoring magic power for magicians or as a consumable magic power replenishment source for magic arrays.
The best magic crystals that can be used to make magic equipment and reused are only those produced by the Kingdom of Yan. Not only is the magic transmission loss rate extremely low, the magic transmission speed is fast, but it also has a great advantage in reuse.
Therefore, Princess Marit, who was carefully observing the magic tower, would definitely know that the magic crystals used in the magic tower of this scale must have come from the Kingdom of Yan. In order to build this super fortress, I not only took control of the various large-scale mineral veins in the Kingdom of Yan, but also used the original facilities and manpower to mine as much as possible, and also stuffed a large number of civilians from the Mokast Empire into it, and at the same time used the crude mining technology that I could design to speed up the mining of minerals.
In the end, I used nearly half of the crystal mines mined in the various mines of the Kingdom of Yan and the past few years on such a castle. Therefore, I really have no idea how Mariette will react after receiving this news.
"I say... Your Highness is really generous! I wonder how many magic crystals are needed to build such a forest of towers and such a castle?" To my surprise, Princess Mariette, who seemed to have understood a little, did not react much, and even had a teasing smile on her face.
"This... is okay! Your Highness, don't you want to go take a look inside the castle? There are still many good things inside!" With a cold sweat on my head, I was trying to divert Princess Mariette's attention from those magic crystals. Although I am no longer worried about whether the Kingdom of Yann will accept us, I am very worried that Queen Yann and I will settle the accounts of the crystal mines I embezzled from various mines in the Kingdom of Yann. If they want to track down the crystal mines I embezzled... Not to mention asking me to pay for the original ore, even if they ask me to compensate for the crystal mines at a discount, I am afraid that my fate will be to lose everything I have. (To be continued)