What did you do with the dice?

Although the darkness was blinding, their glasses seemed to allow them to see through it, so the night naturally became a protective barrier that concealed their figures.

Most of the elven archers who were originally happily shooting at moving targets suddenly lost their composure. Only two or three of them were still aiming, but their shooting frequency had dropped significantly. It seemed that it took them longer to aim at these "invisible" prey.

"It's completely invisible."

"Stupid, wouldn't it be better to just sense the air flow?"

"Wow, this method is so unpopular. It hasn't been used for decades. It's completely returned to the teacher."

"Poor student!"

When the elves were powerless, they used the cover of the dark area to quickly fly across the city battlefield from the air.

A large number of flat alchemical props kept falling in the black area. After hitting the ground, they automatically unfolded and began to spray magical ink materials on the ground. Finally, a triggered fire spell rune was drawn on the spot.

The structure of these crimson runes is extremely unstable. Once they are trampled, damaged, or interfered with by magic, they will explode, blowing the unlucky people in the range into the sky. This greatly restricts the movement of the Pearl Tear soldiers, especially those in the formation. They are unaware of the explosion range and can only see continuous explosions all around them. They can only hide in the bunkers and dare not easily run to the open area.

Rusalka felt that this scene looked familiar: (Aren’t these landmines? Look, I’ll let Weishas flush them down!)

Sani Tower: (It is different, and it is very big. However, you don’t have to do it, I can do it.)

Chapter 381 Twin Towers Free Communication War (12)

Before activating the function of the detonator, Sanita gave Rushaka a brief introduction to the origins of the force they were facing.

The Battle Mage Corps and the Dragon Hunter Corps are the same, both of them belong to Estron's special elite forces.

However, as the name suggests, the Dragon Hunters are specialized in providing support on airships and targeting the dragon species in order to dominate the entire airspace.

The battle mage troops focus on "defeating the majority with the minority". They have alchemical items with range-destroying effects and mobile magic specifically for the legion, as well as a large number of self-protection methods, specifically targeting phalanx cluster tactics such as those of Snidi, Esdi, and the El Empire. The more people there are, the higher their killing efficiency is, and they are good at destroying formations and enemy morale.

Of course, like the Hobbits, they don't have any ability to attack strongholds, so Estelon has a special force called "Wall Breakers" that specializes in attacking large military buildings such as city walls, watchtowers, and magic towers.

But now we can’t see the “wall breakers” anymore, and today it’s their turn to fight a defensive battle, otherwise Rusalka would definitely say to them, “Hello everyone, I’m Luo Ji, and today I’m going to show you something you want to see.”

From a certain perspective, the reason why Estern has advanced mage technology is also due to the "Twin Towers". People are trying their best to enter the Twin Towers, and the basic requirements for entering the Twin Towers are "alchemy" and "mage". The mage levels here are divided into more detailed levels, unlike the wizard levels of Sinidi, which seem to be made up by the Supreme Arcane Mage. The four levels of elementary, intermediate, advanced, and archmage are gone. The Sani Iron Tower directly let that group of colleagues know what it means that there are also high and low levels among the same level, and the difference between levels is like heaven and earth.

Learning magic in Snidi costs money, and people are unwilling to spend it, and the lords are also unwilling to pay. However, in Estelon, magic education is popularized, and the Twin Towers pay to support people to go to school to learn magic. If the people who have learned magic are not talented enough, they cannot enter the Twin Towers, nor can they go to the local arbitration court. If they cannot find a job, they can at least go to school to teach and make a living, forming a virtuous circle.

From a certain perspective, their policy is a bit like the policy of the elves, and it works very well. Without the elves who have nothing to do every day and a small population, it is actually a great feat to be able to encourage the people to popularize magic and alchemy and incorporate them into the civilian system.

You have to know that they were the poorest when they split up, and the development of magic and alchemy came later. It can be seen that Sinidi's problem is not that they have no money, but that the nobles have too much money. When Rusalka had the Silver City, it had basically achieved military freedom and could even form a heavy armored infantry team, but the nobles were unwilling to invest the money in the basic education and public facilities construction of the subjects.

The funds are allocated in vain. Even if they are from another time and have a lot of advanced ideas in their heads, the execution nodes below have no such concept. After the small officials under them get the money, let alone execute it, they may just put it in their own refrigerator and not spend a penny. This is already a moral role model for Sinidi.

Therefore, Mo Wujue did nothing wrong. Looking at the development history of thousands of years, Esterlen has been able to achieve this level, and it is obvious that his merits outweigh his faults. At least his residents will not starve to death like Snidi, nor will they farm and learn nothing like Esdi because they have no talent for holy light. Everyone has a future.

He just couldn't achieve the perfection that he and Basu wanted, so Basu wanted to tear this place down and start over. In fact, putting aside personal interests, Sani Tieta felt very sorry about this matter as a neutral history enthusiast and observer of the eternal plane.

However, it is different if Sanitta joins the game himself. He only wants the power of faith. If Basu asks him to give him the power of faith and hopes that he can help rebuild the Twin Towers, it is no problem even if he asks Sanitta to help him build another one to make a pair.

Again, what does it have to do with him whether the NPCs in this world live well or not? Anyway, they are not as good as Earth.

Rusalka listened to the whole thing, his mind a bit overwhelmed. He wasn't particularly impressed by this system or institution. He had only one thought in his mind: (A mage force + Esterlen's special forces + a purpose designed for special offensive operations = a... a Falenian attack?)

Every time Sanita finished explaining to him, he felt really regretful: (I beg you, you can keep your opinion to yourself, please don’t let us get shot when we return to Earth.)

But if I don't tell them, I feel like I've read the book in vain. If I tell these to my good brother, he will at least give me some feedback, no matter if the feedback is history or a bad joke, there will be more or less a sense of interaction; if you tell someone else, for example, you tell these two elves, the elves will listen to you very obediently, nod and say "oh" after listening, and then immediately start asking you what you played/ate today, or talk about some topics of their own, and they don't care about what you said at all.

After explaining to Rusalka, the preliminary preparations for the guided bomb were completed, and Sanita took action to command the mages above to jointly activate a wide-area formation.

As the pitch-black rune on the broad base of the guided bomb began to flicker, a powerful gravity descended directly towards the entire city area, suppressing all the flying dust and gravel on the ground. Even a large number of green plants could not help but bend down, and the new fragile branches were directly broken.

Almost all the soldiers in the city felt their bodies become extremely heavy, and their legs felt like they were filled with lead, making it difficult for them to move forward even a single step.

Even the cat's ears were crushed by this brutal force, sticking tightly to her little head. Of course, a prompt popped up on Rusalka's side.

[You are affected by "Strategic Gravity," an area-of-effect spell that cannot be exempted. [Eel Shifter] can only help you remove the effect for 10 seconds. Within this range, you will receive a 2-point penalty on [Strength] and [Dexterity] checks, and your movement speed will be reduced by 10 feet.]

But the ones who suffered the most were not the friendly forces, but the enemy's mage teams. The black force field around them was crushed from the air by this brutal gravity, and they themselves fell directly from the air to the ground.

It wouldn't be a problem if everything turned black, but the problem was the runes they had just set up. The runes themselves were very fragile, and because they were affected and squeezed by the rich attributeless magic power that formed the gravity field, they exploded one after another.

The location of these runes was closest to these battle mages, and for a moment they became the biggest victims of their weapons that were specifically aimed at the group army.

The generals of the Pearl Tears Territory will not miss this opportunity. On the battlefield where both the enemy and us are affected by gravity, the most advantageous unit is of course the one with the lightest weight.

"Light infantry attack! Kill those mages falling from the sky! A bounty of 2 silver coins for each kill!"

Rusalka pulled out the small loudspeaker badge and yelled, "I'll add six!"

All the soldiers of the Pearl Tear Territory rushed forward howling. Some of them simply threw away their shields and swords, drew their daggers and pounced like hungry wolves at the battle mages who were like drowned dogs, unable to support their spells under the gravity field, and could only draw the magic spikes at their waists to engage in close combat.

12 silver coins = 1 gold coin, killing two enemies is equivalent to half a year's income for an ordinary family (the living standards of the people in the Pearl Tear Territory are much higher now than before). The opponent is a guest melee mage, and I am a professional melee soldier. Anyone would want to try this.

But you will die if you try. Battle mages are named "battle" and are naturally not to be trifled with. The magic spears in their hands are magic devices specially made by Estelon. You only need to infuse magic power into them to automatically form an enchanted sword of the corresponding element. The armor of light infantry is no different from paper to this kind of magic sword. It is like a laser sword cutting butter. If you are careless during the fight, you will be chopped into the dust by the opponent.

Rushaka was unfazed by the gravity field. With one blow, the black giant sword in her hand shattered a flaming sword that shimmered with red magic, severing it along with its owner. She then turned and kicked a battle mage in the chest, shattering his protective barrier with three bursts of magic energy. After watching him being stabbed to death by the soldiers, she said to Sanita: "Oh my god, I'm not kidding, they have Jedi!"

Sanita: (So?)

Rusalka enveloped the dark giant sword in his hand with the light of the Holy Slash. After defeating a battle mage, he said in a deep voice, "The Force does not favor you, because I am the original god. Activate!"

Although the battle mage troops are indeed very strong, their equipment is also very sophisticated, and they can use magic shields that ordinary soldiers cannot use to hold on for a while, but their number is a fatal flaw, and 300 people are still too few.

The soldiers on the side of Pearl Tear Territory were all seasoned veterans. After learning from the experience of their companions being hacked to death by the magic sword, the desire to survive suddenly overwhelmed their enthusiasm for the bounty, making them even more difficult to deal with.

Having money is good, but having a life to spend it is even better. So everyone quickly formed a team, and several soldiers from the same dormitory formed a group to surround and kill one person. Afterwards, everyone shared the bounty equally. Those battle mages were suppressed by the gravity runes to the ground for close combat, and could not use spells with greater power but longer preparation time. They were also surrounded by those warriors who had good coordination, superb combat skills, and better physical fitness than themselves.

There was also a man wearing blue armor on the battlefield. When their eyes met, Rusalka, unaffected by gravity, rushed forward and slashed with a sword.

Wherever the black fog appears, there must be a white Filin clan with a dried-up corpse fallen.

Well, a mermaid who was using a water jet to lift people up against the gravity spell, being lifted up meant that she would be killed and turned into a hedgehog by the elves who were competing outside the range of the gravity spell.

After only about 5 minutes of this harsh situation, the battle mage troops' death and capture rate reached 70%. Only about 100 people were left, still using houses or indoor shelters to avoid being surrounded, and still trying to resist stubbornly.

"Tsk, air supremacy, we need air supremacy! We have to shoot down that square airship in the sky before we can fight. Even if it's only partially repaired, the wide-area spells it carries are too powerful for the army."

"What is the Council President doing? Why hasn't he taken action yet?"

There is no fairness in war, and the soldiers' wails and complaints cannot be heard on the quiet third floor.

Basu did not actively interfere with the development of all this. He just stood with his hands behind his back, looking down from the top floor silently as the second floor turned into a sea of ​​red fire, burning fiercely.

He recorded it in the data stream: If there are surplus resources, then invest them in key locations to deploy a more complete defense system. Even if the probability of use is less than 1%, it needs to be built. Otherwise, once a small probability risk occurs, the entire system will be paralyzed, making all construction investments go to waste.

However, the twin towers had no air defense facilities, no large permanent troops, no high walls and anti-military weapons, which led to their crushing defeat in front of the Pearl Tears Army. Does this mean that its design was really a huge failure?

Of course not. This question is like Rusalka asking why some people don't wear helmets when playing chess. It is better to ask the opposite question: why do some people wear helmets when playing chess?

But now that it has actually happened, proving that the probability of occurrence is not zero, then in the future, if you cannot prevent your opponent from picking up the chessboard and launching a 6400-point direct attack, it is indeed time for chess players to wear helmets.

This is the logic behind human history's progress through countless attempts to "mend the fence after the sheep have been lost", and it is also what Basu wants to see.

Rusalka swung his greatsword and looked at the enemy troops who had completely lost their will to fight, as well as the Pearl Tear troops who were cleaning up the mess and preparing their troops for another attack. He asked: (That's it? No more reinforcements?)

Sani Iron Tower: (Shut up, little mouth! The second floor is almost completely suppressed now. We can finish it within a day. The ritual nodes in the tower are also almost destroyed, enough to block its integrity. Now we should split up. Soldiers will guard the ascent passage, while we go to the third floor to kill that Basu and take the power of faith.)

Rusalka: (Shouldn't we go to the first floor and open the tower again? Isn't it true that in a magic tower game, you have to defeat the monsters at the beginning before fighting the final boss?)

Sanita: (You just like bullying weaklings, don’t you?)

Rusalka raised her voice in the private chat channel, using a tone that said, "I've seen through this." (Hey, provocation? Do you think Yuyu is being tricked?)

Sanita asked calmly: (What is your answer, Teacher Daxiao?)

(You're such a good judge of character! I'm going to the third floor right now to kill the boss for you. By the way, how do I get to the third floor? Can you fly me up there?)

(What a mess! Weren't you just taken to the third floor a few days ago?)

Rusalka was incredibly stubborn and shamelessly replied, "I had a guide with me at the time, and as you know, when I heard the name of the towers, all I could think of was crashing them down with a plane. Do the best pilots in the Middle East have to memorize the location of every elevator in the Twin Towers? It's not my fault; it's the planes' fault for not being strong enough. Even if I'm 99% responsible, don't you, the mechanic who didn't fix the missile launcher so that everything it hits is crushed, forcing us to fight inside, have the 1% responsibility?"

(I really am... Oh, forget it, it's my fault. Okay, go fight those remaining soldiers for a while while I search for the location of the ascending teleportation node.)

Chapter 382 Twin Towers Free Communication War (13)

Hermosi Hernandez, the most senior mage in the School of Knowledge.

Of course, although he and Sanshui Xinyu have the same surname, their blood relationship is very weak. In fact, Sanshui Xinyu is just the daughter of a branch of the Hemorosi family, and can be understood as an illegitimate daughter.

She did not have a close relationship with Hernandez, her cousin, which was why she worked so hard to enter the parliament. After entering the parliament, she was the one who handled basically all the chores and affairs, big and small, because her background was not noble enough.

But even so, many people who worked harder than her did not receive such treatment, and could not even enter the Twin Towers. It was precisely the family name of Hemorosi that gave her the opportunity to be born in the Twin Towers, the opportunity to travel outside (in fact, her family wanted to take the opportunity to squeeze her out), and it was precisely this family name that allowed her to join the School of Knowledge with her magical talent and return to the Twin Towers.

Then, relying on her own hard work and some talent, as well as the surname Hermorosi, she was finally discovered by Hernandez, who supported her to become one of the top seven people in Esterlen.

As for why she thought Mo Wujue was wrong even though she had already achieved success in the Council of the God of Truth, and wanted to assist Rusalka to destroy the system that had made her, a person with opportunities, talent and hard work, the winner, the reason she gave at the time was that "she wanted to see the truth", but Sanitieta believed that it was entirely possible for Mo Wujue to say this, because Mo Wujue was definitely absolutely neutral, but she was definitely just bragging.

There are 13 gods in the Black Mist Council, and if you put aside the other twelve people in Rusalka, even if you put all the kindness in their hearts together, it is estimated that they cannot even form half of the good camp. Not to mention that she is a good person, if she is not in the evil camp, Sanita said that she would put earrings on the two elves with her own hands without hesitation.

The specific motives of Hemorosi Sanshui Xinyu are unknown.

Rusalka didn't believe it at first, but his brother's oath was too poisonous. Even if he really had no intention of going back on his word, he would only dare to swear to the Twelve Gods and his own noble honor. Now he had to believe it.

He thought that if one day he also swore: I will obey Phoenix in the next 24 hours and never tell any jokes to tease her.

Then the credibility of my oath must be as high as 99%.

If his oath is: If I lie, I promise not to tell a single bad joke or play abstract things in the next 24 hours.

Then the credibility of my oath is absolutely 0% - because it is absolutely impossible. If I swear by something impossible and have no integrity in my heart, how can it be useful?

It's probably the same principle.

Sanita: (Stop reading it now! You almost killed me! I almost got the teleportation coordinates wrong. If I got stuck in the wall, you're to blame?)

Rusalka: (Everyone is playing the game of B-building. Just make do with it. It's fine. It's just stuck in the wall. What a fuss. Can this be called a bug?)

This Hernandez is completely different from Sanshui Xinyu, who only cares about worldly affairs and works around the clock every day. He is usually immersed in magic research. Apart from asking the school for some magic materials, he basically doesn't care about worldly affairs and leaves all things to his apprentices and other people. Even major decisions like the parliament are left to others, and Sanshui Xinyu is one of them.

However, all mages in the school have to address him as "Teacher" if they see him. And the fact that there are three members of the School of Knowledge and one guest of the School of Knowledge in the parliament, which accounts for more than half of the members of the parliament, shows how great his influence is in Esterlon.

At this moment, his real body came to the top of the twin towers in person and found "Mo Wujue". This was the first time in more than ten years that his real body came out of the tower, which shows his attitude towards this matter.

Hernandez looked at Mo Wujue, who seemed to have become a stranger after not seeing him in person for over a decade. He knew in his heart that this change was not caused by time, but a change at the level of his soul. He put away his arrogance and previous contempt, and said with a little respect, "Your Majesty, the Chief Judge."

"What's the matter?"

"I think we should execute him here and now, hang him atop the tower as a public display, and restore order in Estelon. Even though there have been some minor conflicts between the School of Knowledge and some other factions over the years, these are all internal issues within our country and can be resolved through optimization and adjustments. However, they are external enemies, and they must be eliminated first before we can continue to improve."

Basu clearly didn't care about his words at all: "But I've given you thousands of years. This is the truth. Without me, you wouldn't even be able to handle external enemies on yourselves. Is there any need to restore such order?"

Hernandez couldn't help but understand what he was saying. He stopped trying to hide his feelings and asked in disbelief, "You, want to destroy us? We've worked so hard to support successive Chief Judges, build the new Esterlon, provide order for it, research so much advanced magical technology, and decipher the knowledge left by the Chrono School one by one, transforming it into our own knowledge. You could say Esterlon is our life's work, and yet you want to destroy it?"

Basu smiled faintly. "Are 'you' worthy enough to represent Esterlun? If that's the case, then Esterlun will never be able to reach perfection. It's better to destroy it."

"Then why did you guide and establish Esterlen? Why did you lead us in construction? Why did you give us hope that we could dominate the entire world? Was all this just a whim of yours?"

"Is it difficult to understand?"

Basu's next words instantly made Hernandez feel like he was falling into an ice cellar and speechless.

He only used this one sentence to make Hernandez understand the difference between him and Him, and this difference could not be made up even if it spanned thousands or tens of thousands of years or even an infinite amount of time.

“Because next time, it will definitely be better.”

----

The ascending node was found quickly. Considering that there was no way to enter the shadow plane from here, and although Basu used a human body, the pilot was an orthodox god, Rusalka decided to leave the cat down there and go up alone to fight the monster.

But when he entered the teleportation alone, a question popped up in his mind:

(Before hitting the Twin Towers, I was singled out for this Basu. After hitting the Twin Towers, I was still singled out for Basu. So, wouldn't it be a waste of my hitting the Twin Towers?)

Sanita: (Just think of it as a hot pudding. I urgently weakened his teleportation ability to prevent the boss from escaping.)

Rusalka: (Excuse me? He, would he run away? This nerf patch you painstakingly put in for him is truly horrible. It's like giving him a fingernail clip, and it's incredibly reassuring. Look, little bro, if you don't nerf his Space Blade, no matter how many 5 Shakas you put in, they'll only end up as 2.5 Shakas. I think you're craving sashimi.)

(There was not even a moment of mourning for Yu Yu. The next one to arrive on the battlefield was... the resurrected Yu Yu! There was not even a moment of mourning for the resurrected Yu Yu. The next one to arrive on the battlefield was Yu Yu, who had been resurrected twice!)

Sanita: (I think if you resurrect dozens of times, the opponent won't have the energy to fight you anymore. And putting aside the support I will give you, don't think too much. Just use the anti-bead warrior to steal his build. You and his space blade will fight fiercely and kill him instantly. Whoever wins will have the right to call Sukuna. The loser will lie on the ground and say sorry. Isn't that the end of it?)

Rusalka pondered for a moment and smiled. "That's great! This method is so simple, I like it. It means I just stand there and get hit. If I let him hack me to death twelve times, I'll win, right? The more deaths, the faster we win. That's how we plan for the Eternal Plane. No matter how many deaths you have in a team fight, it's not called giving away heads. It's called taking damage with goodwill. Basu, the god of contracts and laws, will guarantee you victory."

(But if you surprise attack the Twin Towers and even steal the Yumobang Crystal, that won't work. The laws of Esterlun are clear, stealing is illegal. The God of Contract and Law will definitely not let you go, and will sentence you to intentional defeat.)

(So ​​this is why we have to fight so hard now, because we stole the Twin Towers. If I had known, I would have taken them by sending them twelve times in a row in the towers. It's all your fault for not understanding the Eternal Plane well enough.)

Sanita had already prepared the Guided Explosion to lock onto Rusalka's location and cast a space gate spell to go over and provide support: (Ah, yes, yes, yes, if that's what you want, then I have no choice but to obey you. I'm really impressed. Where the hell did you learn all this trash talk from?)

Rusalka: (Damn, I knew you were kidding me. Look! It's just a space blade! Watch me use the Holy Slash to break through it!)

After arriving, Rusalka punched his chest with a loud thumping sound, looked at the door in the center of the room, and shouted, "Charge!"