Chapter 1346： capture

In the face of endless stars and colors, Bertram feels that his consciousness is gradually disintegrating, and some "things" that should not belong to him are rapidly pouring into his soul, and undergoing rapid erosion and replacement— For a moment, he still remembered his name, but in the next moment, all his knowledge of himself was submerged in the depths of a vast sea of ​​information. After another moment, he realized his own The body that had not been occupied for a long time had already begun to get out of control.

He spawned new organs, and the body surface that had been lignified many years ago regained the traces of flesh and blood. He opened a pair of eyes, and each pair of eyes seemed to have an independent consciousness behind them-countless. His voice was noisy and yelling in his mind, and finally turned into a magnificent but chaotic whistling sound, and in this whistling sound, he saw a huge beacon-like figure descending.

The figure stood in front of the hill and leaned down towards this side. She stretched out her hand to grab the ground, like a giant picking up roadside stones. Bertram’s last thought was to escape, but his body took the initiative to plunge into the shrouded one. The palm in the purple haze, and then... he could no longer support his spirit, and temporarily lost consciousness like an embrace of a gift.

Milmina stretched out her hand and grabbed the creature that resembled a tree and a human. She lowered her head and looked at Ta's body with some curiosity. The weird shape of this thing made her very interested, but she knew that she could not take this. The creature stays in its own laboratory—according to the information transmitted by the neural network, this should be the dark priest who escaped from Bertila’s "predation"—as an important source of intelligence, this is the property of the empire.

So the master of all laws could only sigh regretfully. Her tower-like body stood upright in a rotating cloud. At this moment, it began to shrink and fade rapidly, and then there was a large-scale rune array behind her. After opening, in a series of complex transformations, the runes are reconnected into chains and rings, suppressing and sealing back those forces that are enough to drive mortals crazy. In just ten seconds, the huge body standing in the vortex of clouds disappears. At the end, only Milmina.zip stood at the gate of the mansion, which was over two meters high, and Bertram, who had become unrecognizable at her feet.

This former dark patriarch is now like a cylinder made up of vines, blocks of wood and soft and rotten meat. A terrifying face is inlaid on top of it, and the middle part is his first. Two faces—and the third and fourth faces.

"...I just took a look, as for this..." Milmina murmured bitterly, then sketched a few runes in the air and connected to the magic net terminal set in the mansion." Hello? Hello...Yes, this is the frontline researcher Mina. I just caught the dark priest who ran away...Yes, yes, I just ran away from Bertila and told her not to chase. Huh? Here The anti-divine barrier fluctuated just now? It was during the arrest...Yes, the surrounding area was confirmed in advance and there was no leakage. I know I know, I will write a report later, I have determined the process before, I understand..."

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Billowing heat waves are rising in the forest, and the "purification road" created by the magic cannon and heavy burner extends from the Farm Fortress to the northern end of the forest barrier, accompanied by the squeaking of the movement of the large wooden limbs. With a creaking sound, the "new tree guard" wearing heavy armor and armed with heavy firepower stepped out of the forest, while continuing to pour terrible firepower on the heads of the deformed bodies and biochemical monsters running around in the scorched earth. Push the front steadily on one side.

"Boom!"

A bright ball of light swept across the sky, and an exceptionally deafening explosion came from a distance. The "Arcane Star" summoned by the Elf Queen Belsetia herself fell on the horizon of the forest border, destroying the last one that was still launching. The distorted form of the energy light bombs shelled the position, and with the complete misfire of the enemy's heavy long-range firepower, the armored tree guards also stood firm at the front of the line.

They opened the branches around the canopy and lowered the bud-like alloy armor. Vines fell from the canopy. A large number of stubborn and sharp rangers fell from above along the ropes and began to harvest the remaining scorched earth. The enemy and the engineering troops behind to cover the fortifications and fortifications were built.

An extraordinarily tall, extraordinarily heavy armor, and carrying a variety of auxiliary combat equipment on the trekking guard stalked to the middle of the position. This awesome guardian opened the alloy armor around the canopy, and a petite figure peeked out of it. In her early days—she has long golden hair and fair to almost transparent skin. Many mysterious runes flicker on her surface, and the brilliance of magic wanders on the surface of her skin. She looks at the surface and sees standing Belcetia, among the several golden golems, had a bright smile on her face: "Your Majesty the Queen! Are we good at fighting?"

"Very amazing firepower, now this forest is back in our hands," Bersetia did not stingy with her praise. She looked at the "Commander of the Thorin Expeditionary Force" who was riding on the Treant Guardian. "—This is Berna’s public identity in the southern coalition. "Do you need a break? You have been commanding this huge army alone..."

"No, I'm very energetic," Berna said with a bright smile, and waved her slender fist. "My body is specially'made', except for the necessary'rest', almost No need to rest."

"That's good," Bersetia nodded and said, and then her gaze involuntarily passed over the body of the Treant Guardian, and cast into the lofty shadow lying between the mountain and the plain not far away, "Finally... we return Here..."

"Here..." Berna couldn't help turning around, looking in the direction of the Elf Queen's line of sight. She also saw the lofty shadow, the broken and collapsed "mountain", and the collapsed palace buildings in the valley. , And the keel of the fortress pointing towards the sky like the remains of a giant beast, and the remains of the Temple of Stars reflected in the eyes of the elf like a broken mountain, making the girl who has been away for many years suddenly a little tranced, "I Last time I saw it, it still floated so majestic in the sky..."

"History has to turn to the next page. What we can do is not to let civilization be dusted or shame our ancestors in the process," Bersetia heard the elf's sigh, and she had a calm expression. Faintly said, "Although the Temple of the Stars has crashed, it still guards our civilization-next, we will build a new'outpost fortress' on the border of the wasteland based on the main remains of the Temple of the Stars.

"The alloy walls and keel of the temple will support our city walls and towers, and the usable structures in the collapsed area will be recast and recast. Valentian has already begun arranging domestic production facilities to work overtime to manufacture the components of the purification device. The wreckage area of ​​the Temple of the Stars stood firm, and we began to build the first'purification tower' that blocked the wall."

Berna quietly listened to the Queen of Silver telling her about the future deployment, as if it had already appeared in her mind that the coalition soldiers stepped back into the wreckage of the crashed temple, cleaned up the collapsed ruins, re-ignited the extinguished lights, and transformed the collapse. The slumped corridor, the scene of a new wall being built on the edge of the ruins, a kind of already strange throbbing in her heart gradually recovered, it took her a long time to slowly recall this feeling-this is hundreds of years Before, she crossed the Long Bridge of Returnees for the first time, faced the unknown northern world for the first time, and had the excitement and expectations when she embarked on an adventure for the first time.

She thought that she would never feel this way anymore, but now it seems...the life worth looking forward to seems to have just begun at this moment.

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"Milmina caught the dark priest named'Bertlem'," said Gawain, sitting behind her desk in the Supreme Council of Cecil City, to Hetty who had just stepped into the office. "Now it has been sent to Philip's base."

"Caught by Ms. Milmina?" Heidi was taken aback when he heard this, and quickly drew a rough map of the broad front of the southern area of ​​the living forest in his mind, and his expression became weird. "It's not that the dark priest came from Did Bertila run away in the'predation zone'? That place is some distance away from our frontline laboratory. How did he get caught by Ms. Mirmina?"

"...Probably because of amazing luck and excellent pathfinding talent," Gao Wen thought for a long time, but he could only give this answer, "and he also witnessed the mythical form of Milmina-without any protective device. Circumstances. According to the situation from the front, we don’t have to worry about that guy escaping at all this time. The rest probably only need to worry about how much useful Bertila can get from that guy’s thinking organs. information…"

Heidi's expression became more and more subtle, and after holding back for a long time, he whispered: "I don't want to know what the unlucky guy looks like now..."

As she said, she shook her head, put a few documents on Gawain’s desk, and said at the same time: “We just received news from the battlefields of the Eastern Front and the Southern Front—in the direction of the Eastern Front, Typhon The Magician Order and the National Knights Order have successfully cleared the Aberrant Corps near the dark hills, and the wolf general Andesa is building a large-scale advancement base. They are planning to use it as a starting point to start building a blocking wall that penetrates the wasteland horizontally. ."

"...Rosetta Augustus has begun to fulfill his promise," Gawain said in a deep voice, "So what's the situation on the southern route?"

"The addition of the Thorin Expeditionary Force stabilized the situation on the southern front. Now the southern coalition is able to mobilize troops to consolidate their northwestern border. The Aberrant Corps that has moved south from the Ogure tribe has been contained in the northern part of the Greta Fortress, but The fighting there is still fierce; on the other hand, the Silver Empire’s Millennium Legion is gradually regaining the land north of the forest barrier with the support of the Firepower of the Thorin Expeditionary Army, and has now advanced to the crash area of ​​the Temple of Stars. According to the Silver Queen. According to the news, her next step will be to recapture the remains of the Temple of the Stars and build a propulsion base based on it, which will serve as the southern starting point of the blocking wall."

"'Sorlin's Expeditionary Army'..." Gawain repeated the word softly, "Well, Bertila is right. The elf and the'bodyguards' she brought over seem to have performed far beyond expectations. However, it sounds like the situation over there is still not completely stabilized. The deformed body that went south from the Ogure area is now only temporarily contained on the northwest border of the Highmountain Kingdom. The southern coalition forces are not capable of completely eliminating those monsters..."

Speaking of this, he shook his head: "Where is the Western Front? Has the Duke Baldwin come over?"

"There are many enemy-occupied areas on the Western Front, and the tribes have suffered severe damage. In addition, the original border barrier of the Ogure tribe has been destroyed by the deformed army. The long border needs to be fortified everywhere, and Baldwin and Jinna take it. "The expeditionary force of China had to be held back," Heti said with a serious expression. "Now they have just completely blocked the gap in the barrier of the mountains, but there are still many out-of-control aberrations moving in the mountains and forests and instinctively. Driven to move down to the inland city of Ogure. The place is now full of refugees, and a large number of gathering areas lack protection. The "shelter" surrounded by a fence may suffer heavy losses even in the face of the deformed form of the order...Situation very complicated."

"It has become a long-term'bandit fighting'..." Gao Wen's brows gradually frowned, "Baldwin should be able to cope with this situation, but the key is that we can't wait... The blocking wall must be built as soon as possible, across the waste The soil part cannot be completed by the Tiphon Empire alone, the pressure and risk are too great...what is Rebecca doing?"

"Building more supercritical accelerators for the Earthly Dawn, as well as the Purgatory Incendiary Bomb Assembly Plant," Heidi said in a blunt tone when he said this. This is probably caused by the shaking and shaking hands of the signing of the budget. The sequelae, "created around the clock."

"Very good," Gawain suddenly smiled, "This is what she is good at, and it is urgently needed on the Western Front-if we can't quickly establish a'Western Advance Point' on the ground, then directly take the wasteland from the sky It is also an idea to blast a road in the west, and it will be much more convenient to build the western blocking wall at that time."

Then he let out a sigh of relief, leaning on the back of the chair, with a thoughtful expression: "Next, let's see how much useful Bertila can dig out of her'old compatriot' head. Information...If we can grasp the specific deployment of the dark priests and the true goals of the sentries, the balance may also have a chance to completely tilt towards us..."

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In a garden covered by countless pure white flowers, a middle-aged man wearing a gray cloth robe with a plain face suddenly opened his eyes.

In an instant, a large number of abstract, confusing, fragmented and fragmented impression fragments poured into his mind, impacting his spirit. He could not recall anything concrete from the fragmented information, but there was an incomparably deep "impression" of horror. Overwhelmingly crushed toward him, this feeling was as if he had forgotten some terrible facts, but only "fear" itself was deeply imprinted in the depths of his soul.

This terrible feeling is like some kind of long torture, even if it only lasts a few seconds, it is enough to make the middle-aged man hold his head and give out a series of vague and painful screams. He is rolling in the flower field, as if feeling his own mind. He was gradually dissolved by the strong acid, until the rustling and footsteps suddenly came from the side, and the pain in his head suddenly dissipated, he stopped convulsing all over, and raised his head with a blank gaze, looking towards the one who was heading here. The walking figure.

Bertila, wearing a pale green dress, stopped in the center of the garden.

She looked down at the middle-aged man curled up on the ground.

"Long years of absence, Bertlem.

"Welcome to your resting place."