28. Heavy burden

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"Boom"

At the moment when the gnomes' sticky bombs exploded, the bombs made the whole city tremble, but thanks to the steel frame structure of the gnome city of Nomorigen, the explosion under the stratum only caused the urban area at the center of the explosion to collapse, while the rest of the city, although crumbling, still stood firm to protect the little men hiding below.

The catastrophe came so suddenly that the little men were caught off guard, and after witnessing the ruthless slaughter of their fellow citizens by the Stone-Palate Monsters, many gnomes who had never left Nomorigen were even more demoralized.

These little men, who were already timid in character, gathered in the steam hall at this time, watching their hometown in a dark green mist with concern, this scene made many gnomes cry loudly, and they were really frightened.

But that doesn't include Ella.

Ella has seen too many big scenes, she has seen with her own eyes how the tens of thousands of undead awakened in Oakington walked silently to the battlefield, and how those rampaging tigermen struggled desperately under the merciless siege of the undead, and it is no exaggeration to say that the lives that died in front of her eyes add up to more than the number of dwarves hiding here.

At this moment, the dwarf warlock stood on the platform of the steam hall, looking at the distant city that had fallen in the explosion with a cold gaze, and as an engineer, she keenly sensed that something was not quite right in the explosion.

"The scope of the explosion is too large, and the radiation dust will directly envelop two-thirds of the city, even those compatriots hiding in the mechanical path will not be spared, is Mekatok crazy? Or is it... Are there any plans that I don't know? ”

Ella frowned tightly, she had already made up her mind that she would leave Nomorigen when it was all over, but what happened at this time made her have some bad premonitions in her heart, and it also made her smell very familiar.

The smell of conspiracy... After serving the king of the outer lands for several years, Ella already has a very keen sense of conspiracy, after realizing that things have changed, the warlock with a black hood looked left and right, found a no-man's corner, accompanied by a low hoarse voice, a moment later, a dark green eyeball appeared in front of Ella's eyes, and then under the control of the warlock, he quickly entered a state of concealment, flying all the way towards the closed road ahead.

The Eye of Kilrog, the detection spell of the Warlocks, is a magic created by the Orc Warlock of the Blood Ring, and the first spell Ella learned in the Dark Temple.

She manipulated the Magic Eyeball, connecting her senses with the Magic Eye, silently advancing through the darkness, the shared senses entering Ella's vision, and as the Eye of Kirrog progressed, Ella's expression became more and more ugly.

The empty city was littered with signs of radioactive dust contamination, the dark green mist of filth, and the corpses of gnomes lying in the filth, the twisted forms that represented the terrible torture they had suffered before they died, and after entering the radiation zone, Ella had discovered something even worse, the stone palatinous monsters!

It is true that many stone palatinous monsters were killed in the first wave of explosions and radiation, but there are still monsters who stubbornly survive this hellish environment, and they are infected by the radiation, changing their shapes, and their already ugly bodies have become even larger, and their whole bodies are stained with radiation dust, reflecting a strange fluorescence under the light.

They are modified in radiation! Damn it...

Ella removed the Eye of Kilrog and walked down the stairs briskly to find the temporary head of the steam hall, a member of the Council of Gnome Craftsmen, who was sweating profusely, because both Mecatok and McNeil had lost contact with each other after the explosion just now, and even their compatriots hiding in the mechanical path could no longer be contacted.

"The monsters are coming!"

Ella was not polite and said straight to the point:

"The radiation didn't kill them, and they rushed towards the steam hall."

"How is this possible?"

The dwarf councillor let out a scream, and he looked at Ella suspiciously, left and right, and then whispered:

"I'm not suspicious of you, Major Ella, but the calculations of the Great Craftsman and the Advisors show..."

"Now is not the time to pull data!"

Ella rudely interrupted the councillor's explanation, her voice becoming even colder:

"Let me tell you, there are 70,000 people in the steam hall, if the warning I told you is true, being rushed in here by those monsters with radiation will only kill more people, can you afford this responsibility?"

"I... I..."

The gnome councillors were overwhelmed by this rebuke, the society of the gnomes is a very democratic society, they do not have a nominal king, and the council of craftsmen is not so much a ruling body as a governing body, and the great craftsmen are only nominal representatives of the gnomes, and many decisions about the race are decided by everyone's vote, just like once supporting the alliance to fight the orcs, which is also the result of a referendum.

This kind of system is not a problem in normal times, but in the event of a large-scale disaster such as the current one, a civilization without authoritative leadership will become extremely fragile.

As it was now, the dwarf councillor couldn't make up his mind at all, though he knew what was right.

"Rubbish!"

Ella scolded very unceremoniously, snatched the communicator from the councilor's hand, and the next moment, her cold voice sounded over the hall through the loudspeakers installed around the hall:

"Gnomes! The unfortunate news is that our radiation bombs failed to kill all of the monsters, and they were driven by the radiation towards the steam hall, where they could be there in ten minutes! ”

The news stunned all the gnomes, and some of the timid even began to tremble, and the sounds of screaming and crying swelled throughout the hall, like boiling water, tumbling endlessly.

"Shut up! Shut your mouths! Crying and screaming won't solve the problem! Now you're either going to die as an ostrich or you're going to take up arms to defend yourselves! ”

Ella's scolding sounded, and the cold aura emanating from her body at this time made the dwarf councilors around her subconsciously take a few steps away from her.

"All male gnomes over the age of 150 assemble at the front of the hall, and the weapons officer opens the warehouse in the steam hall and distributes weapons and armor to each of them! All the craftsmen began to set up the defenses, and the gates of the steam hall could temporarily defend against the attack of monsters, but it could not protect us forever! Women who can still move, who volunteered to participate in the self-rescue operation, I need you to go around the hall to collect corpses! Don't ask why! Just do it. ”

"Remember, men! Behind you are your wives and loved ones, fighting like a man and dying like a hero! ”

Speaking of which, Ella is a little short of words, she can't copy all the words of Tyrion to inspire the death knights, in fact, those necromancers don't need to be motivated, Ella hopes that she can have even 100 junior knights in her hands, the necromancers who will not be cowardly and fearful, in this situation, they are definitely the best and most trustworthy soldiers.

So at the end, Ella concludes with a phrase that Tyrion often uses to joke about her:

"We're gnomes, yes! We are short, weak, timid like rats... That's all true, but remember, a small man can have a giant-like soul, and no one can help us... Throw away all unnecessary hope, and now it's time for us to save ourselves! ”

"Smack"

The communication ended, and the gnomes in the hall looked at you, and they didn't know whether to act according to the orders of the unfamiliar voice, but in the end, some of the old gnomes separated the crowd and stood at the front of the hall, which encouraged the chaotic gnomes, and soon, the rudimentary order was established, and the latest muskets, these weapons that should have been sent to Ironforge were distributed to each of the gnomes, as well as the heavy armor used by the dwarves.

The gnomes couldn't afford the weight, but they had the ingenuity to attach the armor to the bodies of some of the sweeping robots, making the mechanical creations the best line of defense for mobility.

Women and children watched with fear and reluctance as their husbands and fathers stepped onto the battlefield for the first time as warriors, and although the courage of the little men was somewhat comical, at least for this moment, there was still a sense of tragedy in the hall.

"And then you guys!"

Ella grabbed her sister's staff, the Dalaran staff was not suitable for warlocks, but at least it could give Ella a little more mana, she pulled her black hood and said to the dwarf councillors beside her:

"I want you to take the master to deal with the steam elevator, don't tell me it's locked! Let me put it this way, fighting here is only a stopgap measure, relying on untrained civilians, we can't defeat those monsters, so all our compatriots must be sent to the ground before the battle line collapses! I'm not asking you to do that, you know? ”

"We'll figure it out."

The dwarf councillors looked at each other a few times, then gritted their teeth and said to Ella:

"Then Major Ella, the battle here, just..."

"Buzz"

As she spoke, a strange whistling sound rang out above the steam hall, and Ella looked up to see an out-of-control flying machine spinning towards the hall's gates, and in the screams of the councillors, the runaway flying machine slammed into the sturdy metal gates, causing an explosion.

Between the flames and the metal parts, a large hole was blown open in the sturdy gates, and the tremors found new directions for the running stone palatines, and worst of all, a strange creature crawled out of the ruins of the flying machine.

The guy looked like a dwarf, but his skin was a disgustingly dark green with blisters and sores, and he looked sane, with a sleek metal goggle on his eyes, and from the robes he was wearing, the gnomes recognized him.

"It's Advisor McNeil!"

Screams rang out on the front lines, and the eerie gnome was drawn in, and he staggered through the flames, the smile on his face growing more and more eerie as he got closer and closer to the nervous gun-wielding gnomes.

"Oh my lovely compatriot, let me... Let me hug you! ”

With a terrible scream, the monster gnome that had been transformed by radiation dust rushed towards the helpless gnome warriors at the front, and just as he was about to approach the battle line, a scorching sulfur fire slammed down on his body, smashing him back into the flames.

"Kill him!"

Ella's cold voice sounded behind the battle line, and the dwarf with the musket closest to McNeil swallowed, and he looked at Ella with some difficulty:

"But, but that's Advisor McNeil..."

"He's already a monster!"

Ella's eyes narrowed, she stared at the cowardly dwarf, and she said in a deep voice:

"I said, kill him!"

This strong persecution made the male dwarf very entangled, and he hesitated for several seconds, until Ella shook her head in disappointment, and the dwarf warlock took the musket in his hand, stepped forward, and pressed the muzzle of the gun against the forehead of the leper dwarf who was constantly struggling and screaming in the flames, and she looked back at the gnome recruits who were staring at her, and she whispered:

"You don't need weapons... What you need is courage, and let me give you courage. ”

"Bang"

Insurgent McNeill. Sema Prag's radiation-altered deformed head resembled a watermelon, red and white liquid scattered everywhere along with twisted bones between bullet piercings.

And just after this shot fell, the radiant stone palatins that rushed wildly also appeared in the passage at the front of the steam hall, and under the light of the flashing warning lights, the fluorescent monsters looked even more hideous.

"They're coming!"

Ella walked back into the position, standing at the front of the position, at this moment, she was very similar to the Death Lord Luminas who commanded the Death Knights to charge towards the demons, and her experience would undoubtedly change a person... Until it turns you into a powerful figure that you don't even recognize.

The dwarf warlock, already strong enough, raised her left hand, and her arm slammed down the moment the hideous stone palatins rushed into the firing distance.

"Take these monsters... Send to hell! Fire! ”

"Bang Bang"

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