15. Borderlands
Sean followed the comprehensive clues given earlier in the Void Realm.
The scale of the Void Realm is now completely on the right track, and almost as long as the Void Principality's sphere of influence is covered, there will be intelligence personnel from the Void Realm stationed there. Previously, it was Ruby, one of the three small giants of the Void Realm, who was responsible for contacting Cecilia and the others who had penetrated into the territory of the Millennium Covenant Empire, but later because Cecilia and the others entered the Forest of Sighs, Ruby had no choice but to stop following.
However, as Sean and the others returned to the Savage Fortress and returned to control of the Savage Fortress, Ruby naturally got in touch with Sean and the others.
After the subsequent inquiry, Sean found out that as early as the opening of the Void Empire's plan, William had already begun to arrange for a group of personnel to enter the Savage Fortress, and even used it as a central base to radiate to the territory of the Millennium Covenant Empire. It's just that because the undead army's attack on the Savage Fortress came too suddenly, Ruby and the others didn't react at the first time, so that the information could not be transmitted and they were confined to live in the Savage Fortress.
And this battle did cause the Void Realm to suffer heavy losses in the stronghold of the Savage Fortress.
Similarly, due to the blockade of the communication roads in the southern part of the Millennium Covenant Empire by the army of the undead, all intelligence communication between the Void Realm and other places has now been cut off.
However, because after the battle was over, Hashas left with his group of men through the Savage Fortress, so this news was still noticed by the people in the Void Realm, so naturally they made a note. At this time, after learning that Sean needed it, Ruby took out this information, and analyzed it with Cecilia, Sean and others, and finally came up with two possible paths of action for Hasas.
Either way, the final meeting point of these two roads is at the transportation hub leading to the three southern provinces.
The Millennial Covenant Empire originally built a fortress here. As a fortification and front line. However, with the subsequent several wars of the Millennium Covenant Empire, the scope of the national border was finally opened to the south again, not only in the south of the empire to lay down the territory of almost thirteen provinces again, but even built a large fortress such as the Barbarian Fortress, but it has always been impossible to take the more extensive territory because of the black soil land.
In this way, this transportation hub naturally loses its defensive significance. Later, with several expansions and reforms, the fortress was finally transformed into a bustling trading city - thirteen provinces further south and three provinces that were originally known as food bases, as well as slaves and treasures from the wilderness, were continuously transported to the city.
At this time, Sean is walking on one of those routes.
The Millennium Covenant Empire called this route the "Golden Left Road".
When the Millennium Covenant Empire continued southward through the transportation hub "Mei'an Fortress", it took the Golden Left Road as the first route of advance, conquered a total of two large provinces equivalent to the marquisdom, and then built the Wild Fortress at the entrance and exit of the Barbarian Land. Since. The Mei'an Fortress was in a semi-deserted state, and it was precisely because of this road that the Mei'an Fortress laid the foundation of a prosperous trading city - which is now the commercial city of Mei'an.
After that, because the Savage Fortress completely gained a foothold and successfully blocked the threat from the Wild Lands, the Millennium Covenant Empire finally had the energy to move north, completely incorporate the larger territory of the southern part of the empire into the empire's territory, and form a horn trend with the eastern territory of the empire. Restrain the tide and deterioration of the black soil.
And this road that goes north and south at the same time is called the "Nugget Road".
It is a multi-lane corridor that crosses eleven provinces of various sizes south of the commercial metropolis of Mei'an. You can also go north from the wilderness fortress and cross the three and a half provinces and then take the road west to reach the commercial city of Mei'an.
The former is the famous gold digging road - it is said that it takes about six months to eight months to complete the journey, and there will be dangers such as robbery along the way, but if you carry a sufficient amount of goods, you can earn tens of thousands of gold coins at a time; The latter is known as the "Little Nugget Road" and "Golden Right Road", although the income is not as lucrative as the Nugget Road, but there are a large number of casinos, slave markets and salons.
In terms of itinerary. It takes about two months to walk on the Golden Left Road, and if you travel day and night, it will take almost a month. The Golden Right Road takes up to four and a half months, and even the day and night journey takes nearly three months to reach the commercial city of Mei'an.
According to normal logic. It is unlikely that Hashas will take the golden right. However, there is a legion around him that is evaluated by William as a rabble, and the golden right road happens to need to pass through a mercenary guild - according to the normal procedures, after the mercenary corps helps the employer complete the commission, the employer needs to return to the guild for relevant information registration and evaluation, so that it can be regarded as truly completing the commission.
After all, many mercenary legions will become a group of robbers and bandits, so relying only on their own words, the mercenary guild will naturally not accept it, and the employer himself must be present.
That's why Cecilia and Ruby thought Hashas would go this way. Because the number of members of that legion is really a lot, and William didn't mean to use them as cannon fodder to send them to death before, so the establishment is still relatively well preserved, and if all members use the teleportation array to teleport, this cost is not low.
Of course, even if you want to use the teleportation array, you can't do it in the Savage Fortress.
Because since the advent of the teleportation array technology, all border fortresses have no teleportation arrays, in order to prevent some unnecessary situations.
And the teleportation array closest to the Savage Fortress, whether it is the golden left path or the right path, has a journey of about ten days. In other words, if the Hashas had traveled a little faster, they would probably have been able to reach a city with a teleportation array and make their first teleportation. After that, due to the negative energy impact generated by the opening of the Bone Gate, the magic network in the south of the entire Millennium Covenant Empire will be destroyed, and all teleportation arrays will be in a state of strike.
Sean walked briskly on the official road of the Golden Left Road, because he was alone on the road. Therefore, he didn't need to worry too much, he could travel day and night, and at his speed, it would only take him five days to reach the first city with a teleportation array. This is still because he can't fly through the air for a long time, if he can fly almost unrestricted like the powerhouse of the upper holy realm, he will probably be able to reach it in less than three days.
If you reach the realm of legends. He has mastered the relevant laws of space, and can even directly tear through space for ultra-long-distance teleportation like Alexis and Andrew.
Sean stood outside the city, staring indifferently at the first city he saw.
This city may have been very lively in the past, after all, it was the closest city with a teleportation array to the Savage Fortress on the Golden Left Path, and it was also the first supply point to take the Golden Left Road after leaving the Wild Fortress.
But at this moment, the four walls of the city have fallen on two and a half sides, the only one that has been preserved is the one on the north side, and the other half is the one half on the west side.
The army of the undead that broke out in the Dead Tide came from the southeast, so it is understandable to flank the southeast and southeast directions at the same time. As for the west side. Presumably, a large number of citizens were about to flee, but they were discovered by the undead army and intercepted, and a large-scale and tragic death battle ensued, which eventually caused the collapse of two-thirds of the western wall.
Sean just glanced at it a few times, and basically had a clear judgment about the battle situation that broke out here.
And judging from the situation of this city, it is estimated that there should not be many living people, after all, this is the first city to be attacked after the Savage Fortress, and the offensive of the undead army is definitely very fierce. So even if some people are lucky enough to escape, there won't be too many.
The entire area has been turned into a ghost dead land. There is an extremely strong dead air everywhere here, and even if the lost territory is regained in the future, it will not be easy to completely eradicate the dead air in this area. And if you can't completely eradicate the dead qi, ordinary people living in this environment will be easy to get sick and even go crazy, even if it is the bronze realm, it can only go crazy later than ordinary people, only the silver master with the fighting spirit. to be able to barely resist and ensure the health of the body.
And at this time, with such a strong dead atmosphere, Sean, a living person, has been here for a long time, which will definitely cause a chain reaction in the area, and maybe many undead will come out to pursue him at that time. Sean who understands these key factors. Naturally, he wouldn't stay here for long, and after making sure that there were no living people in the city, he immediately got up and hurried forward.
Sean was extremely fast, and barely stopped or rested, so he quickly left this extremely lifeless place.
After that, Sean drove for three days in a row, passing through many towns and villages along the way, and all he saw was a hellish misery - whether it was a city, a small town or a village, there were basically no living people, and most of the buildings were in tatters, as if this death wave was not a recent outbreak, but all places had been abandoned for hundreds of years.
Sean knew that if the death qi was too strong, it would indeed cause this kind of situation similar to decay, but he didn't expect that it had only been more than half a month, and it would have such an obvious effect, which was obviously not a normal phenomenon. Even, Sean felt a bit of power that did not belong to the order, as if these places had been completely transformed by the dark forces, and they were almost in the realm of chaos, with a trace of the black earth land.
All of this is from Sean's plane child induction, if it were an ordinary person, he would not be able to detect this so keenly.
Looking at the borderless land in front of him, Sean sighed with some emotion.
He knew that this time the Bone Calamity was extraordinary, but he didn't expect that the power of the Bone Calamity formed by the seven witch-level lichs was so terrifying, and it even had the meaning of breaking up the order. At this time, Sean was also glad that he and the others were not slow to act, and quickly took the Savage Fortress, otherwise if he really let that army of the undead enter the Savage Land, I am afraid that the entire Savage Land would be completely polluted.
Moreover, judging from the vastness of the Savage Land, it is estimated that it is impossible to defend, and I don't know how heavy the losses will be at that time.
However, even if he succeeded in blocking the army of the undead from moving south into the wilderness, but now looking at the borderless land in front of him, Sean's face is indeed not good-looking. Especially for the safety of Hashas, I am even less confident, because with William's evaluation of the mercenary army of Hasas, I am afraid that there is absolutely no way to resist the power of this undead army, and after sacrificing so many towns and villages, the size of this undead army may have swelled to a relatively alarming extent.
But anyway, since Sean had already set off, he naturally couldn't give up halfway until the matter got a clear answer, so he rested for a while, and then when he felt the death in the air, he immediately set off again, avoiding the crisis of being surrounded by the army of the undead.
In the next two days, Sean saw basically the same situation as he had seen before.
For a whole week, a province was almost crossed by Sean, but there was no warmth in what he saw except for the desolation of the Borderlands, and even gave him the feeling that the province was completely out of touch with the world.
Sean knew it was the forces of chaos that were consuming the area. Once the chaotic power is completely engulfed in this area, this province will completely become a land of black soil, and then it will need fire to be completely purified, and it is impossible to expel it with ordinary purification methods alone.
When crossing the first province, Sean of the four cities deliberately ran to take a look, and there was basically no trace of any living people.
In the case of Hasas, unless he used the teleportation magic array to leave first when he arrived in the first city, then it was possible that the magic teleportation array would leave the first province before the negative energy impact when the door of bones was opened, otherwise he would have become a member of the army of the undead.
Sean didn't even bother to think about what would happen to him, because it was simply impossible.
Eleven days after leaving the Savage Fortress, Sean crossed the first province and entered the border of the second province on the Golden Left Road.
But as soon as he stepped in, Sean had a little surprise on his face.
It's not that the situation here is worse than in the first province, although the dead air in the area is already extremely strong, and the flowers, trees, and everything else that you can see are completely rotten, and it still looks like a completely borderland. However, Sean felt a strong vitality in it that was still resisting strongly, although Sean couldn't say this feeling clearly, but his intuition was telling him that the province had not completely fallen.
In other words, there are places in this province where there are still living people resisting the army of the undead from the tide of death. (To be continued.) )