A huge tremor reverberated through the empty base and debris began to fall overhead. The situation was so severe that Alan had to retreat into the corner of the room. Alan did not dare to leave until there was a pause in the noise, but the sight of the road was a great surprise to him!
The entrance collapsed.
The surrounding rubble collapsed in one piece, completely sealing the entrance to the underground palace or base. Most of the room where Alan landed has been covered up, and the top of the room is slowly permeated with cyan bacteria. If the base begins to collapse further, the bacteria from outside will pour in!
Alan crouched down and tried to peel away the rockfall. But every time Alan pulled away a little, the rock above would continue to collapse, burying the original piece again.
"It won't work..." Alan dusted himself off and abandoned his impractical plan.
Even if he were willing to take the time to remove the fallen rock and dust, the young Arcane would still have to pass through tunnels several meters deep and a bed of fungus a meter deep outside the palace breach. Even with the support of the wind, Alan would still be at risk of suffocation. What's more, he couldn't dig out before he ran out of energy in his current state, and food and water didn't support it at all.
"The Tumens will soon find their posts under attack too..." On the ground, in the Sellsword regiment, Alan was trapped in a confined space, in a dilemma.
...
The contaminated drug flowed down the river into the mine. Faced with a network of dark rivers that permeated the bed of bacteria, the Tumen tried in vain to stop the flow of water. The potion infiltrated the entire diamond mine along the tangled underground river, causing one explosion after another!
At last, the largest gem mine in the Macabaw Forest was overwhelmed and exploded from the inside out into a cloud of flying dust! On the rock under the bacteria bed, cracks appeared out of thin strata. The cracks changed from narrow to wide, and from short to long. With the mineral point as the center, the cracks gradually spread to the surrounding areas and soon came to the edge of the canyon...
"General! The soldier with the red rose on his breast saluted the great man in front of him. General Andric simply returned the salute and walked in, throwing the saluting officer behind him, with a stride that showed the imperial general's busy work. In recent months, the situation in Levitzk has been changing, and the battle-hardened general has felt powerless under the influence of many forces. Levitzk is too important to the Empire, and the eyes of the whole archipelago are fixed on it for him to let up.
Seeing General Andric enter, Lieutenant Andy, who had arrived the day before, saluted.
"Adjutant, what is the situation?" General Andric is straight to the point. He's in no mood for civility.
"A series of smaller earthquakes preceded the big one that triggered the landslide." Adjutant Andy opened his notes. "But McCabe is not an earthquake-prone area. It's very rare. We don't have the manpower to send a large party in, and the conditions are too complicated and arcane. Our scouts haven't responded yet."
"How long has the scout been inside?"
"I went in two hours after the earthquake. It's been six hours now."
Andric rubbed his chin and said, "Twenty kilometers of canyons and six hours in?"
Indeed, the adjutant expressed his frustration but gave the general another explanation. Our scouts included not only our men, but also some Levies and hired local guides, and the personnel did not mix so quickly.
The general did not answer or deny, but thought for a moment and said, "When they come back, adjutant, you must take the men into the mountain at once, and make sure you find out what is going on inside."
"Yes, General! Our men are waiting at the pass, ready to go."
"How many forces are there now?" The other thing that worried the general was how many people were there, and what kind of trouble it would make for the situation in the mountains. The Arcane city-states and Rogombos, the enemies of the Empire, are so many that they are sure to get in the way of it, and the Holy Island of the Half Moon is not so good with them. When you get into the mountains, it will be a mess!
"Well... Most of them are here, but Sekwibo hasn't arrived yet." The adjutant's voice was hesitant as if he were puzzled by this fact.
"Is Nurkogin gone?" I think not only the adjutant, but General Andric's eyes widened when he heard the news. Sekwibo has been fighting the Empire for months, causing them a lot of trouble, and at the most critical moment... Went away instead?
"I should say the minister never came."
General Andric continued to rub the skin off his slightly shaven chin. He could not think of a reason why Sequoway would not be involved. Even if it seemed unimportant, even if it had been taken by surprise, would he at least send two men to see what was going on?
And the adjutant gave a message, directly let the general begin to become alarmed: Arsorcery city people hire ships in the harbor these days, it seems to want to go back north.
Did you pull it?
A whiff of intrigue.
Before the general could say anything, he saw the table in front of him begin to shake up and down, almost instantly from side to side!
Another earthquake! And even more so than last time! There is almost no gap between vibrations in different directions, and the source is near the surface!
Almost instantly, the makeshift camp roof gave way, and a huge piece of wood fell flat on the heads of Lieutenant Andy and General Andric!
"General be careful! The adjutant's reaction was quick. The tiger, which had been on his hand, burst into a fine blow and smashed the falling beam into powder with a single blow.
General Andric, unimpressed, patted the sawdust from his armor with the shock, as if Lieutenant Andy's immense strength were so common, and said calmly, "Lieutenant, slow to react."
"It will be faster next time, General." In the face of the general's lukewarm evaluation, the adjutant is also an emotionless reply. He is also an Owu, great strength is not uncommon, and he is slow to move.
As the shaking slowly stopped, the entrance to the Levi County end of the canyon was in chaos.
"Two officers! A soldier rushed into the ruins of Andric's camp. "The valley has collapsed!" he said in a frantic voice.
Startled, the adjutant rushed out of the camp, only to see that the canyon was not spacious at both ends of the entrance, mountains and stones fell in succession, piled on the road to the only way to the forest!
"General, we seem... Stuck out!"