The aberrations did leave a lot of traces of pollution during their wandering. Although the atmosphere of chaotic magic power has dissipated rapidly, due to the timely discovery, there are still many traces left.
Following the pollution that appeared from time to time, Gao Wen and his party continued to advance in the dark mountains, and gradually approached a gap in the mountain southwest of the camp, and this gap made Gao Wen vigilant.
This is the lower part of the Dark Mountain Range, and it is also the easiest pass to cross. If those monsters came in through this gap...then they will soon be able to sense the human breath of the camp, and rush down from the mountain and drive straight into the ground Attack the camp.
A group of three people climbed up a boulder and looked at the gap in the mountain ahead from a distance. The rock there was not covered by many plants. The exposed gray-white rock was as lifeless as a broken bone, and the whole terrain was like a sharp axe. It was formed, and below the gap, a disturbing gray-black mist can already be clearly seen rising.
Gawain immediately asked Hetty to use spells to cover up all kinds of breaths including magic power on the three of them. Of course, the ability of third-level mages in this area is limited. This kind of breath cover can't be hidden from any middle-level or above professional, but Gawain is well aware of the shortcomings of aberrations: after leaving the environment of the magic tide, their perception will become very slow, and their thinking ability will be low. As long as they do not clearly feel the magic power or the breath of intelligent creatures, they will not respond.
After completing the covert work, the three of them moved forward cautiously, and before halfway there, a rotten breath came from the front.
"Ugh..." Hetty retched in a low voice, and at the same time, she grasped the staff slightly with her fingers: she was too familiar with this breath, and this breath even appeared in her nightmares more than once, waking her up from the dream for several days. A few months ago, the entire Old Cecil Territory was destroyed in this breath.
Knowing that those monsters could perceive magic fluctuations, and her occlusion spells had limited effects, Hetty restrained the urge to release the breeze shield, and followed Gawain carefully, bypassing the rocks and ancient trees blocking the way ahead.
Gao Wen, who was walking ahead, suddenly made a gesture: "Hide and stay ahead."
A group of three people hid among the jagged rocks, Amber boldly poked her head out from under Gawain's shoulders, and goose bumps appeared all over her body in the next second.
The mountain road below was shrouded in a layer of gray-black mist. The plants there withered and mutated, and hideous spikes and tentacles grew out of the rocks and soil. Countless clumps that looked like some kind of mollusk were among the rocks. Wriggling, rolling, and disgusting to look at, crowds of flesh and blood giants are staggering forward on this mountain road that looks like a road to hell, with muddy flesh and blood flowing on their chaotic faces, profane and low Whispering sounds emanated from their chests and formed a buzzing resonance in the air.
What is even more chilling is that many of these flesh and blood giants have decayed ancient weapons stuck on their bodies. Amber even saw an empty human skeleton stuck in the abdomen of one of the giants, which is disgusting. The evidence proved Gao Wen's judgment:
This is an army of demons from hell that wandered from the wasteland of Gondor.
Amber immediately grabbed Gawain's arm, and expressed her clearest thoughts at the moment in the lowest and lowest voice of her life: "Boss, I don't want my salary, you let me go..."
"Hush" Gawain pressed Amber's head, but his eyes scanned among those monsters. He confirmed over and over again, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it's not the worst situation."
"Isn't that bad?!" Amber looked at Gao Wen like he was watching a lunatic, "Such a large group is enough to tear down the entire camp three times!"
"Don't be intimidated by the appearance. In fact, there are not as many of them as you imagined." Gao Wen knew what kind of misunderstanding ordinary people would have when they saw the aberrant army for the first time, so he patiently explained, "Those mist and The growths surging on the ground will give you the illusion that there are a lot of them, but if you count carefully, the number may actually be less than a thousand... "
Amber was stunned, and carefully estimated the number of flesh and blood giants shaking in her sight: "It seems that there are really only a few hundred..."
But then she realized: "But there are only 800 people in our entire camp, and 700 of them still don't know how to fight!"
"But it's already much better than my worst expectation," Gao Wen said in a low voice. "My biggest worry at the beginning was that their number exceeded that 'line' too much, and then they would increase rapidly, as if from the air. It looks like it grows out. We suffered a lot on it back then. The 2,000 enemies in the report may multiply to 3,000 or even 4,000 when we meet... But look at these, there are no new distortions coming from the air. It grows out of the inside, which means that their number just doesn't exceed that line, or exceeds a little bit, but not to the extent that they will grow naturally... "
"But even if there are such a large number, the current camp cannot handle it," Heti whispered worriedly, "Ancestor, they are now moving towards the north of the mountain, and sooner or later they will reach the camp. Once the camp exposed to their range of perception...”
Amber's two pointed ears trembled uneasily in the air: "Didn't you say that these aberrants would wander around randomly or simply stop in place when they did not perceive magical reactions or humans? Don’t go away, stay where you are for a thousand or eight hundred years…”
"Don't put your hopes on this. Although their number will not increase, they have exceeded the critical point of natural extinction. Do you expect nearly a thousand monsters to stay in the mountains forever and be our neighbors? Just dream," Gao Wen frowned. Eyebrow, "We must find a way to get rid of them..."
Amber glanced at Gao Wen silently: "Then I have a plan..."
Gao Wen was a little surprised: "Do you have a plan?"
"It's like this, I'll sneak over and kill one first, and then you, a legendary knight, drive out of the sky, and kill the remaining 990 or so in a war charge. Art fireworks to add to the fun, and when we go back, we claim that the nearly one thousand monsters were defeated by the two of us. You can continue to be your lord and farm with peace of mind. "
Gao Wen knew that she was in a state of serious nervousness and random analysis when she was halfway through her mouth, so he didn't listen to what she said in the next few sentences, but raised his head to pay attention to the surrounding terrain. At this time, he finally found Finding a route that would bypass the monsters, he pulled Lahti's robes, and cautiously began to bypass them.
Amber was stunned, stopped random analysis, obediently escaped into the shadows and followed Gao Wen's pace.
A group of three detoured from the action routes of those slow-moving aberrations, found a path between the rocks, and followed the direction indicated by the corrupted path, they approached the gap in the dark mountain all the way, And finally found a high ground high enough to look over the rocks to the south side of the Dark Mountains.
Gao Wen climbed up the rock and looked into the distance.
On the other side of the mountain... It's so dangerous that I accidentally thought of the Smurfs.
There is no group of cute Smurfs on the other side of the mountain. There are only ruins of civilization on the other side of the mountain, only the remains of the orderly world, and only the wasteland of Gondor shrouded in chaos and darkness.
Although the real wasteland of Gondor is still further away, the breath of that polluted land has already appeared on the sky on the other side of the dark mountains. After crossing a certain dividing line, the sky on that side seems to be eternal It was in a state of darkness and chaos like dusk, and large groups of dirty clouds hung down from the sky, presenting a sense of oppression that almost swallowed the earth. Under this strange sky, the earth appeared as if it were from another world. Twisted weird posture.
Starting from the southern foot of the Dark Mountains, an endless dark forest covers all the mountains and a small half of the banded plain. Even if it is far away, Gawain can still see the twisted woodland called "Black Forest". There are many mutated giant trees that go straight into the sky and are slowly swaying, and stretch out their poisonous tentacled branches towards the sky; while the farther belt-shaped plains are rising dense mist, and the mist is constantly showing the past. The phantoms of cities, fortresses, palaces, etc., and then beyond that phantom, you can see a barrier that looks like an aurora.
The aurora-like barrier was the only reassuring and pleasing thing in sight. From this distance, it looked like a hazy shimmering ribbon, but in fact it was extremely tall and magnificent. A layer of "twilight" connects the sky and the earth. It seems to be a layer of fragile light curtains, but it is thicker and stronger than mountains. On the foundation of that layer of light curtains, one can see one after another neatly arranged. tall tower.
The light curtain is maintained by the powerful energy released by the tower.
The light curtain is the majestic wall, and the high tower under the light curtain is the tower of the sentinel. This system seals off the Gondor wasteland and prevents the death of all living things in the entire continent.
Everyone knows that this barrier was built by the Elven Silver Empire, but in fact it is so unimaginable that the technology and resources needed to build it have exceeded the limit that any intelligent race alone can afford. The powerful elven silver empire could not bear it independently, so in fact, the elves only took the lead in bearing half of the resource pressure and provided all the technology, and then all forces on the mainland, including the dwarf kingdom and the remnants of Gondor, shared the responsibility. The barrier was built only after completing the other half of the material tasks.
It was really an exciting time.
But it was also an era when terror enveloped the land and no one could sleep peacefully.
Amber's head was dangling under Gawain's shoulders. She looked nervously at the polluted land to the south of the mountain, and then looked at the farther barrier with wonder.
Even with the barrier of the majestic wall, the breath of the demon tide still pollutes a large area outside the barrier, but compared to the inside of the barrier, even the dark forest is already a complete paradise.
Gawain turned his gaze away from the light curtain, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The barrier is still there."