Chapter 415 The Lich King's Terrible Card

"I know that rooster-like mountain!" Cayman pointed to a rooster-like mountain in the distance and said, "That is one of the most eye-catching signs on this road! When we see it, we can judge our current location!"

"That's great!" The eldest princess Catherine left and said excitedly: "So, we are not lost yet. Tell me how far we are from the destination now!"

"This!" Cayman left and lowered his head in depression, and then said in extreme embarrassment: "Your Highness Princess, from this road sign, we have already walked halfway!"

"What? Half?" Catherine suddenly said furiously: "I only walked halfway in 20 days? What kind of shit do you bring? Even if it's a very long way, it's time to arrive now!"

"I'm sorry, your highness, it's all my fault. I'm confused and honestly pointing out the wrong way!" Cayman left and lowered his head and apologized.

"Hey!" Catherine sighed, and then said helplessly: "Forget it, it's not your fault. Who is so sicker than you! But this time you delayed the military plane, so I still have to punish you if I turn back!"

The rest of the country was gloating and said, "Oh, Katherine, you are a typical 'hazard will lead to failure'!"

"Why do I listen to you seem to be gloating?" Catherine said immediately unkindly.

"Am I that kind of person?" Lao Xie immediately protested.

"It's weird if not!" Catherine gave Lao Xie a blank look, and then said, "Oh, it's too late to say anything. It seems that we can only move forward slowly, hoping not to miss the military opportunity. Then we will lose our lord!"

"Don't worry, it won't be delayed." Lao Xie said with a smile, and added a sentence in his heart, it would be strange!

Since Cayman was the only guide, his illness was still lingering, and it was useless for others to be anxious. Therefore, no matter how anxious Catherine was, the army could not move faster.

As time goes by, Lao Xie also vaguely felt a strange aura in his heart. This is not a specific cognition, but a kind of intuition or premonition accumulated by Lao Xie over the years of war. This kind of hazy thing is often the most accurate, so Lao Xie dare not neglect and is in a high state of alert every day.

Finally, on that night, something bad that Lao Xie had foresaw happened.

Just as the soldiers were sleeping soundly, a trembling sound suddenly came from the earth. Lao Xie was the first to wake up from his dream. Almost in an instant, he jumped out of the tent and looked carefully in the moonlight. He saw the earth trembling, countless gravel rolling down from the mountain, and the trees fell collectively, and the world was filled with a terrifying atmosphere.

"Damn it. It's an earthquake. Get up for me!" Lao Xie roared, and rushed to the tent where the little princess was, and then hugged the little princess who was still sleeping in a daze. At this time, it was obvious that the champion knights had good training. Although they did not respond so quickly, they all rushed out of their tents after Lao Xie carried out the little princess, and they were all wearing clothes, even armor, and all the weapons in their hands were missing.

There was no need for anyone to give any instructions. They rushed towards their respective mounts and comforted the frightened horses. You must know that if they lost their mounts in this wilderness, they would have to go out, which would obviously delay major events.

Fortunately, Lao Xie and his team chose to camp in a relatively wide place, and there were no steep mountain walls around them. So no huge rocks fell down to cause casualties. After the earthquake passed, everyone hurriedly counted the losses. Fortunately, there were almost no major losses. Only two soldiers accidentally fell into the cracks of the earthquake and cracked the ground. However, they all had a body of fighting spirit protection, and the cracks were not very deep, so they were only frightened and had some skin trauma, and they did not lose their combat effectiveness.

After the earthquake, the little princess woke up from her sleep. Then she found that Lao Xie was holding her who was still wearing pajamas. Then she couldn't help but exclaim, and then said, "You hate it so much. Even if you want to have an affair with someone, don't be on your side!" Hearing her tone, it seemed that it was nothing to have an affair with Contact, but she just wanted to avoid Catherine.

Lao Xie naturally heard what she meant, and then he was stunned. Most of the people around him were sharp-eyed guys, so he could hear it clearly and couldn't laugh. Of course, Catherine heard it too, and she was so angry that she flew over and said to Lan Snow: "If you really like having an affair with him, it doesn't matter if you lower your eyes!"

"Ah, hate, sister, why are you here?" Only then did she realize that the situation around her was wrong, she looked around, then frowned and asked, "Strange, why are you running out for the night without sleeping? "

"You are such a pig, you're sleeping too hard, right?" Lao Xie couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There was a big earthquake just now, and it seems that things are not good!"

"What's wrong?" Catherine frowned, "Isn't it just an earthquake? Is it normal to be in the mountains?"

"You don't understand!" Lao Xie shook his head, "I felt the strong magic fluctuations in this earthquake. If I was not wrong, this earthquake may have been caused by man. And the area affected by the earthquake is quite terrible."

"What? It's caused by man?" Catherine immediately said incrediblely: "How is it possible? Such a large-scale earthquake is almost a forbidden curse, and even a legendary master cannot release it alone!"

"But it doesn't mean others can't do it!" Lao Xie said lightly: "At least the Lich King will come out!"

Speaking of this, Lao Xie suddenly remembered something, his face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "God, can't this be done by the Lich King? If this is true, then the second defense line is probably over."

"What? You said the earthquake was initiated by the Lich King?" Catherine exclaimed, "Oh, no, how is this possible?"

"How is it impossible?" Lao Xie said solemnly: "You think, with the wisdom of the Lich King, how could it be possible for the Lich King to suddenly give up the good situation and let humans accumulate strength when they first gained the advantage? In fact, many people who had fought with the Lich King before thought it was a conspiracy. My old man even came here to tell me to be careful, but it was definitely not groundless. Combined with this earthquake, it was obvious that the Lich King had planned it. Although the second line of defense is hundreds of miles long and has been reinforced repeatedly, it can only be used to resist the undead troops, but it still cannot compete with the natural power of earthquakes. I guess that the second line of defense today should have disappeared in the earthquake. The millions of human troops inside will definitely suffer heavy losses! I am afraid that the second line of defense is already pulled by the objects in the palm of the undead!"

"Ah!" After hearing this, Catherine's face changed drastically, and everyone else around her shivered in fear.

"Stephen!" Catherine suddenly said to Lao Xie very seriously: "I want to know, how sure are your speculation?"

"More than 90%!" Lao Xie immediately said affirmatively.

"So high? What is your basis?" Catherine hurriedly asked, "I mean, apart from the Lich King's command factors."

"Intuition, my intuition tells me that the second line of defense is over!" Lao Xie said directly.

"Can you say something real? Don't always use illusory things like speculation and intuition to perfunctory us?" General Lanse finally couldn't help protesting: "You know, your remarks are too alarmist. If you are not sure, don't talk nonsense, as they will affect the morale of the army!"

"Of course I'm sure!" Lao Xie then turned his face to Heidi and said, "Teacher, what do you think?"

Heidi frowned, and then said helplessly: "I dare not say anything else, but I can be sure that this earthquake was not caused by nature, but the result of the release of the forbidden seismic technique!"

"Ah!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise when they heard this, because Heidi Shi's words almost affirmed Lao Xie's words. How could they not be shocked?

Catherine knew that Heidi's poem was mysterious and powerful. She naturally believed in her words, but General Lanser was not so. He had to continue asking questions. However, Catherine directly reached out and interrupted, "Don't say more, I believe Heidi's poem. So what we have to do now is how to deal with this situation, whether to continue to move forward according to the order, or to withdraw against the order?"

"Your Highness Princess, I don't think we should just withdraw. The honor of the champion Knight does not allow any flaws. If the second line of defense is not occupied, our withdrawal will undoubtedly become a laughing stock for the entire continent. You can't do such things randomly?" Lan Se said anxiously.

"But if you continue to move forward, if you are hit by the undead who is charging, no one of these people will escape back. Bao Zhun will be chased to death by the Death Knight!" Lao Xie sneered: "The chance of hitting the undead is as high as more than 90%, and the chance of the second defense line being unhindered is pitifully low. At this time, only an idiot will die!"

"For the honor of the Champion Cavaliers, I would rather be this idiot!" Lanser then shouted: "There is still that idiot willing to go with me?"

Although Zhizhi's front is full of crises, the thousand champions present shouted in unison without exception, "I!"

Seeing this situation, Lan Se was very excited, and then looked at Lao Xie provocatively.

"Ha!" Lao Xie shrugged indifferently: "It seems that there are quite a lot of idiots. Maybe it's because this disease can be contagious!"

"Okay!" Catherine finally woke up from the shock and said, "Don't argue in vain, I came up with a solution that was the best of both worlds."

"Little sister, can you lend me the flying shoes?" Catherine then said to the little princess, "I want to fly over to investigate the situation first, and then make further plans!"

"Good place!" Of course the little princess would not be unwilling, so she happily took out her flying shoes and handed them over.

But before Catherine could take it, General Lanse immediately reached out to snatch it, and then he immediately said: "Your Highness, your position as the chief official, how can you take risks at will? Leave it to me for such a small matter of investigation!" As he said that, he put on his flying shoes first.

Catherine thought about it and agreed to the other party's request and said, "Well, then you go, remember to go and go back quickly, just investigate it for a little. Never expose yourself!"

But Lao Xie said, "If the deceased is really broken through the defense line, then you'd better bring back the heads of a few undead warriors, I'm of use!"

Lanser didn't ask anything, but simply agreed, "Okay!" and then set off.

Lao Xie predicted that even with the power of the flying shoes, Lanse would take half a day to fly, plus the time to come back. In just one day, it would take a day to delay in. So everyone then started to set up the camp again under Lao Xie's command.

Due to the urgent situation, everyone was not in the mood to sort out the camp. They cleaned up randomly and finished it, and they devoted their main energy to defense.

A day passed in a blink of an eye. With everyone's eager expectation, Lanse finally came back at noon. At this time, blue eyes were red and there was a package behind her back. She looked extremely embarrassed.

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly surrounded him. Just as Catherine was about to ask something, but before her mouth was opened, Lanse knelt down and cried: "Your Highness. The second defense line is indeed over. A major earthquake killed most of the reinforcements of all races, and the two legions of our griffin kingdom were 200,000. First, most of them were killed by the earthquake, and then they were chased by the undead army. Now they were almost wiped out!"

"Ah!" When everyone heard this, they all took a breath of air, their eyes turned red and tears fell.

You should know that most of the champions present were elite selected from the lower-level troops. Many of them came from two annihilated legions. The annihilation of the entire army means that the friends they knew were also in danger.

As for Catherine, she was even more sad because this was a 200,000 army! They were not farmers who were temporarily captured, but serious elites, not only well-trained, but also well-equipped. For such a unit, there were only about 500,000 in the entire Griffin Kingdom. Now half of them were lost in a flash. Who wouldn't feel sorry for her if she hadn't?

The most important thing is that this kind of elite troops cannot be trained casually. They are all selected warriors. After years of training, they can form an army. Such an army is very difficult to replenish. Even if they try their best, it will take at least three to five years to replenish 200,000 people, and it will cost a lot of money. This means that in the next three to five years, the military power of the Griffon Empire will be greatly reduced.

But now the undead army is in full swing, and if they are attacked, it will be difficult to deal with!

When Catherine thought of this, she was anxious and wished she could have the power to turn the world back. Unfortunately, this wish was destined to not be realized, and in desperation, she had no choice but to retreat first.

"Everyone, although we are very unwilling to give up, we have no choice. Now I announce that we should retreat immediately. I hope we can return to the third line of defense in front of the undead." Catherine said helplessly: "Operation!"

With Catherine's order, the soldiers began to disperse one after another. Although they were affected to a certain extent, their movements were still so smooth and skillful, and they were not affected by the news of the defeat.

Only Lao Xie did not rush to leave, but said to Lanse: "Where is the thing I want?"

"Here!" Lanse hurriedly handed over the package behind him, and then said, "Because I was afraid of alarming the snake, I didn't dare to move too much, so I only cut six in total. I wonder if it was enough?"

"Enough!" After Lao Xie took the package, he did not talk nonsense, and went straight to his tent.

After ordering Swen to guard his tent and not allow anyone to disturb him, Lao Xie reached out to take out a skull and began to read its memory using evil methods.

It turns out that the reason why Lao Xie wants a skull is this. He has an evil technique that can use a skull to read the memories of its experience. It’s just that this kind of thing is too evil and hurts others and yourself. Lao Xie generally doesn’t need it. Now he is forced to do nothing, so he takes it out.

The first skeleton that Lao Xie took out was transformed by the soldiers on the first line of defense. There was no useful memory inside, I only remember that he was killed by the undead in his confused sleep. Obviously, the reason why the undead appeared in his barracks without knowing it was definitely related to the Cardinal Traitor. As for those recent memories, it was more intriguing. It was first ordered to station somewhere, and it took several days to stand. Then, that night, the earth suddenly shook violently, and the second line of defense turned into ruins almost instantly. He immediately received the order to attack, but when he went in, he saw that the ground was covered with rubble, corpses and wailing wounded people, and those who could move had already seen that the situation was not good.

Lao Xie shook his head, then threw away the skeleton, and changed it to another one. This time, he got the memory of a soldier on the second line of defense. He remembered that he was standing guard that day, but the sudden earthquake buried him directly in the ruins of the city wall. If the undead had not dug him out the bodies, he would have been buried in it until now.

The memory of this skeleton is not very useful, so Lao Xie threw it away casually. The memories of the three skeletons that followed were similar to the previous two, and they were of no value. It was not until the last skeleton that Lao Xie was surprised to find some useful things.

It turned out that the last skeleton was actually a skeleton mage, and it was brought by the Lich King from the Undead Island, and participated in the Lich King's battle throughout the whole process. After careful sorting, Lao Xie finally got two useful messages.

The first is that the earthquake was indeed done by the Lich King himself. Of course, he could not activate such a powerful forbidden spell out of thin air, so he not only found a real map of the magic array of earthquake art forbidden spells, but also mobilized more than 5,000 level six necromancers to assist him, and finally barely released this extremely powerful forbidden spell.

The second is that after the Lich King won, he had a good mentality and could not wait to take this opportunity to break through the capital of Light. So he was impatient to walk the main roads on both sides and also chose to take a straight line, which almost coincided with Catherine's marching route.

Catherine chose this path because she had the help of powerful warriors and little princesses, while the Lich King was completely confident in her own strength, so she decided so.

After receiving these two news, Lao Xie fell into deep thought, and he woke up until Catherine's impatient urging sound came from outside. It turned out that all the champion knights were ready to go, but only Lao Xie's barbarian troops did not move at all because they did not receive the order from the letter. When Katherine saw it, she was naturally extremely impatient and came to urging, but was blocked by her loyal gentleman, so she was impatient to shout Lao Xie outside.

"Come in by yourself!" Lao Xie did not go out, but said to Catherine: "I have something important to say to you!"

Although Catherine was very strange, she still walked in alone as Lao Xie asked, and then asked in confusion: "Didn't you clamoring to go back before? Why are you so delaying now?"

Lao Xie did not answer Catherine's words, but said directly: "Catherine, I want to know, do you want to be a hero who saves the world?"

"What does it mean?" Catherine asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!