PFC Chapter 1178: The Lord's Deployment and the Creeping Shadow
Chapter 1178: The Lord's Deployment and the Creeping Shadow
Chapter 1178: The Lord's Deployment and the Creeping Shadow
As soon as Bert said this, everyone else looked over with a serious expression, waiting for Lei Xiao's order.
“That couldn’t be more obvious.”
Lei Xiao nodded to everyone and said seriously: "From all the signs, the other party has officially launched the dark plan that has been brewing for a long time. This means that we don't have much time left."
"Since the other party has taken the initiative to turn this place into a cage in an attempt to trap us, it means that the core location of their plan is not in this Huangyao City."
A hint of coldness flashed across Lei Xiao's eyes, and he continued, "So we only have one target left."
"The other party's home base, the Holy City of Radiant Light?"
Catherine crossed her arms and frowned, saying, "Although the final goal is exactly the same as the planned, the current situation is unexpected."
After Catherine finished speaking, everyone clenched their fists tightly, with solemn expressions on their faces.
"The current situation is indeed unexpected, but it will only increase our determination to deal with the enemy."
Lei Xiao nodded to everyone and encouraged them, "Since the other party has trapped us here, it means they are not sure of defeating us completely."
"In other words, as long as we don't give up, the dawn of victory is still ahead."
After hearing Lei Xiao's words, the solemnity on everyone's faces eased a little, which obviously played a significant role.
However, despite saying this on the surface, Lei Xiao understood it clearly in his heart.
Judging from the current situation, the combat power invested by the opponent this time is actually quite limited. The "rebels" and those ancient monsters did not even appear on the field. They only used the hidden dungeons to divide our combat power in an attempt to defeat them one by one.
This resulted in 50 normal legions and 30 summoned legions being caught in the opponent's trap one after another.
What's more, Huangyao City is not the opponent's base camp, and the target Huiguang City has been closed for a hundred years. No one knows what the mysterious existence has done in it during this period of time.
"But in any case, as I have always said, we have no way out."
Thinking of this in his heart, Lei Xiao spoke again: "Well, it's time for us to completely put an end to the huge threat to the human world."
"Your Highness is right. Now we are the only hope to stop this."
Catherine agreed with Lei Xiao without hesitation and echoed: "My soldiers and I will always stand with His Royal Highness!"
"Me too!"
Lawrence immediately stood up and said solemnly, "As long as His Royal Highness gives the order, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Grim who are devoted to light will never sit still and wait for death!"
After Lawrence finished speaking, veteran White stood behind him and nodded heavily.
Seeing that the determination of the two allies was not shaken in the slightest, our generals were excited and were gearing up for battle.
"But Your Highness, there are more than 20 affiliated cities of the Holy Temple of Light guarding the Radiant City. According to intelligence, these cities are all covered by absolute defense barriers. The morale of these cities is high and they are as solid as a rock. They are completely different from the fragile defense line of the Kingdom of Grimm."
Ju Bai stepped forward, touched his chest and saluted, saying, "If we attack them one by one, it will probably take a long time. After all, not only are they guarded by the Holy Knights of the Temple of Light, but they are also bewitched by a large number of residents who can easily become puppets controlled by the enemy."
Upon hearing this, all the generals frowned. This was indeed a big problem, which would undoubtedly greatly slow down our progress.
While we are entangled with these cities, I am afraid that the opponent's dark plan has already been completed.
"Who said we have to take care of these trash?"
Lei Xiao smiled faintly, his eyes were sharp as torches as he said, "We need to directly descend upon the enemy's lair and catch them off guard."
Needless to say, what Lei Xiao meant by direct descent was naturally the use of the "Ice Stone City" for instant teleportation.
As long as the Ice Stone City stands directly in front of the Glowing City, everything will naturally be solved.
After hearing Lei Xiao's words, although most of the people present did not know what means Lei Xiao would use, they were still excited and nodded heavily.
"But before that, we still have a few things to do."
Lei Xiao snapped his fingers lightly and began to deploy.
The first thing is to completely control the Huangyao City in front of him.
After accidentally awakening the ancient old king, the dungeon below is actually under our control. With the cooperation of the old king, we naturally don't have to worry about sudden disappearance.
After Lei Xiao's deployment, Lawrence, White and other Grimm's surrendered generals quickly started the action. In addition, the old king teleported the soldiers and the remaining residents up one after another, and everything went very smoothly.
The only unexpected thing was that Lei Xiao originally planned to let Lawrence and White persuade the remaining 20 legions left behind in the palace to surrender. However, when Lawrence and others hurriedly arrived, they made an unexpected discovery.
These 20 legions had also disappeared long ago, leaving only the nobles and their families who stayed behind, huddled in the corner and shivering.
Apart from this, it didn't take long before the entire city of Grimm, including the palace in the center of the city, became Lei Xiao's possession.
Surrounded by Grimm generals such as White, and Lawrence's nobles and confidants, and with the instruction of Lei Xiao, Prince Yaoguang Lawrence was formally crowned as king without delay and became the new generation of Holy King of the Kingdom of Grimm.
At this point, Lei Xiao fulfilled his promise, the plan to support Lawrence came to a perfect end, and the entire Kingdom of Grimm was successfully incorporated into Lei Xiao's sphere of influence.
Because he was busy with other things, Lei Xiao hardly participated in the whole process. He just let a few main subordinates assist Lawrence in controlling everything.
During this process, Lei Xiao also notified Qin Qian and others to start preparing to gather lords with the talent for territory teleportation, so as to transfer the trapped lords to safe lord gathering places such as Tel Town as soon as possible.
Of course, before officially starting the transfer, Lei Xiao will also work on lifting the curse of the trapped lords, provided that he can successfully defeat the mysterious existence.
The second thing is to regroup the troops at hand.
目前，我方在煌耀城还有50个军团、分别是凯瑟琳30个军团与我方20个主力军团（其中主力军团30个，普通军团20个）以及新归顺的10个格里姆军团。
Add to that the 10 half-elf main legions and 10 half-elf reserve legions of the Moon Clan of "Ice Stone City", there are only 80 legions in total, which is obviously still a bit stretched.
Therefore, the first force that Lei Xiao assembled was the 20 main legions of our side that remained in Liuguang Fortress.
This part of the army is mainly composed of the Yorkman family and includes the strongest cavalry force of the Cold Flame Kingdom, so its combat effectiveness is naturally quite impressive.
The second force that Lei Xiao assembled was the 50 legions of the Cangcui Kingdom, including 30 main legions and 20 ordinary legions.
During this period of time, with Lei Xiao's full support and Eckhart's efforts, this country of horses and eagles has basically stabilized, and the dimensional storm has been greatly controlled.
Under Eckhart's leadership, the Verdant Kingdom quickly assembled a huge fighting force. Together with the remaining troops that had previously invaded the Grimm Kingdom, they eventually obtained 50 legions of fresh troops.
With the stealth and teleportation functions of "Ice Stone City", it is easy to quietly gather these forces together.
In this way, the available troops in Lei Xiao's hands returned to the scale of 150 legions.
As for the third thing, Lei Xiao personally went to gather some neutral forces. Since it is not certain whether these forces can become friendly forces, we will not discuss them for now.
In short, after Lei Xiao's series of operations, our strength quickly returned to an extremely impressive level.
Just as Lei Xiao was preparing for the decisive battle.
At the other end of the vast Grimm Plain, the faint holy light of the huge ancient capital of Glowing City was quietly dissipating, replaced by an imperceptible and inexplicable hostility.
Under the pitch-black night, this holy place known as the light in the night, which represents holiness and purity, is now slowly merging with the darkness.
Thick fog still shrouds every corner of the city, covering everything tightly, mysterious and weird, like a giant beast about to erupt in the dark.
In the foggy core area of the holy city, where the main hall of the Temple of Light is located, the filth that was originally difficult to detect seems to have completely revealed its true face and is covering the entire city.
In the deepest part of the dark hall, eerie and frantic laughter was echoing unscrupulously.
The candles lit everywhere on the ground swayed wildly, reflecting a series of bizarre and powerful figures exuding majestic momentum.
These figures were divided into two rows. One row was the strong men of the Black Abyss Brotherhood, wearing black robes and strange white masks, while the other row was the bishops, who were wearing luxurious robes with alternating crimson and white colors and controlled the authority of the Temple of Light.
These two people, who should have been irreconcilable, were now like close brothers, allowing each other's laughter to become more and more crazy and unbridled.
No matter whether it was the dark faces hidden behind the masks or the faces full of kindness, they were all distorted and deformed at this moment, looking extremely eerie and unpredictable.
At the top of the two rows of figures, a burly human figure was leaning on the throne, like a strange statue. It was the mysterious being wearing the appearance of Ganelon IX.
"As expected of the Supreme Lord, you easily activated the teleportation array and teleported us back!"
Gustav was still wearing the elegant bishop's attire, and said with a sneer on his face, "He also brought back some small offerings, which will surely speed up the progress of the 'Sacred Plan'."
"It's just connecting to the space beacon that was deployed before. It's no big deal."
The mysterious being waved his hand gently and said calmly, "Originally, I was planning to trap you there with those ants. If you hadn't successfully used illusion to control those ant soldiers, it would have been considered as making up for your mistake. I would never have kept you until now."
"Thank you for your kindness, Lord Supreme! Praise your kindness, Lord Supreme!"
Hearing this, Gustav was shocked in his heart and quickly knelt down and said, "Thanks to the Supreme Lord's personal intervention, those ants were trapped there. I'm afraid that the despicable scum from another world has peed his pants in anxiety, right? Hehehe!"
"You're right. That ancient underground city is impregnable. The alien actually fell into their trap in the end. It's simply hilarious!"
A Brotherhood warrior whose blood-marked mask did not have a number engraved on it, with a stern face full of mockery behind it, echoed: "By the time he realizes what's happening, we've already purified everything and are ready to welcome the new world. What a foolish fellow!"
"That's right. Those other alien ants struggling to survive in the dungeon are destined to suffer the same fate as him!"
"No, his end will be even worse. He will watch with his own eyes as everything he has becomes nutrients for us to enter a new world, and then he will be turned into dust by us in despair and fear!"
A group of bizarre figures echoed and laughed wildly again.
"We are currently at a critical stage in the implementation of the 'Divine Plan'. We must not let our guard down until the plan is fully completed."
The mysterious existence's voice sounded, and he said calmly: "Do you understand what I mean?"
As the mysterious being finished speaking, an extremely oppressive energy wave suddenly surged out, causing the hall to become quiet in an instant.
After a while, Gustav asked cautiously: "Supreme Lord, are you saying that those despicable scum from another world might come to interfere with our "Sacred Plan"? "
At this point, Gustav said in disbelief: "With the methods of those despicable aliens and blood-sucking bugs, it is impossible to break through the blockade of the underground city."
"Don't forget that ant has caused us a lot of trouble."
The mysterious being snorted coldly and said calmly: "Give orders to strengthen the defenses around Glowing City and don't give those ants any chance to take advantage."
"Strengthen the defenses around the Holy City? Even if he managed to escape the dungeon, he would never be able to reach here before the "Holy Plan" is completed."
Gustav looked puzzled and blurted out, "There are more than 20 heavily guarded cities surrounding the Holy City. Could it be that the ants from another world could fly over here?"
After Gustav finished speaking, the other black-robed men and priests all showed signs of confusion and began to look at each other.
It was not difficult to see from those confused yet contemptuous eyes that no one believed that Lei Xiao could arrive at the gates of Huiguang City and cause any trouble here.
"It's always better to be prepared."
The mysterious being's voice was calm, and he asked, "Do you want to disobey my orders?"
"The villain dare not!"
Upon hearing the sound, all the enemy warriors fell to their knees, their faces filled with fear. "
"Very good, go get ready."
The mysterious being's mouth curled up into a strange arc, and he said with an expectant look, "It's time for me to go check on the progress of the plan."
After saying that, accompanied by a flash of black light, the mysterious existence disappeared in an instant, leaving only an empty black and gold throne.
(End of this chapter)