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“Have you found anything?”
After Hezakord came out of the Twisted Gate, an Ascendant lieutenant stepped forward and asked.
“No…” It opened its palm and looked at it for a while, “Maybe the Eye Warden made a mistake.”
“This is not a rare situation. You can rest in the Mayfly Pool and let your subordinates be on guard for you.” The lieutenant paused, “That… Valkyris often soaks in the pool. Your subordinates think… it wouldn’t hurt for you to relax occasionally.”
Good advice, it would like to soak in the pool from time to time, close its eyes and feel the mystery and vastness of the realm of consciousness. The problem is, once something goes wrong with the Western Front plan, the King won’t blame the Nightmare, he will only vent all his anger on its head.
The Lord of the Sky was silent for a moment, “For you, connecting to four Eye Wardens at the same time is still too difficult. Moreover, the plan has reached its most critical moment, so it is better for me to control it myself. This is the last stronghold on the Western Front, we must not disappoint the King again.”
As soon as the King was mentioned, the lieutenant’s expression immediately became solemn, “You are right! Your subordinate was negligent!”
No, the only one who is negligent is the one who soaks in the pool all day long.
Hezakord thought to himself with a blank expression.
Since Ursrook encountered human resistance in Taqila, and this place became the focus of the Western Front plan, it can be said that it has done its best and put a lot of effort into everything. It even tricked and abducted four precious Eye Wardens from the front line to ensure that the enemy could be sensed as soon as possible, no matter which direction they came from.
As the most sensitive observer, the Eye Warden's thousands of eyes are not restricted by size, distance, or brightness. As long as someone sees it, whether it is in a state of invisibility or separated by layers of barriers, it will be instantly exposed to the Eye Warden's consciousness. And the clansmen connected to it can also immediately detect it.
Because this process is extremely energy-consuming, generally only those who have become Ascendants are qualified to connect with the Eye Warden. However, even so, the world observed by the Eye Warden is particularly complex. If it is fully received, it can basically only stand still and do nothing. Therefore, the Eye Warden will make a preliminary screening in advance, judging each creature that sees itself. Only those targets that clearly pose a threat or whose behavior is abnormal will be submitted to the connector.
What Hezakord felt just now was the latter.
But as the lieutenant said, it is not uncommon for the Eye Warden to issue false alarms. After all, the behavior of creatures is ever-changing and difficult to understand. Good clans have unfathomable people like the King, and freaks like the Mask. It is normal for the Eye Warden, which lacks systematic thinking ability, to be unable to distinguish them one by one - in order to accommodate the pile of eyes that fill its head, they sacrifice too much in other places. As a result, even though they have magic power, not a single Eye Warden has been promoted to Grand Lord for thousands of years.
Of course, this does not prevent them from being an extremely rare type in the entire clan, with a birth rate of juveniles only higher than that of Hatchers and Soul Mothers.
After putting this matter aside for the time being, the Lord of the Sky changed the subject, "How is the recovery work of the Tower of Birth going?"
“The construction part has been completed, and everything is going smoothly so far.”
“Very good, come with me for an inspection.”
“Yes, Your Excellency!”
Affected by the Stone of Divine Punishment, it could not go directly to the bottom of the valley, but could only walk down the long ladder step by step.
As the altitude continued to decrease, the surrounding vision became scarlet – that was because the air was filled with life mayflies. The towering cliffs formed a natural container. As long as supplies were continuously injected, the mayflies could easily accumulate. After more than half a year of transformation, the fog concentration in the lower half of the rift valley has approached the city level, enough for tens of thousands of Newborns to use.
But this is by no means Hezakord’s ultimate goal.
Only when the Tower of Birth is erected on the Divine Stone vein can the clan get rid of the constraints of transportation and obtain a continuous supply, thereby truly gaining a foothold here.
When it descended to the bottom, blue-purple cold light replaced the sun. Under the illumination of the Divine Punishment Stone Pillar, a magnificent stone tower was impressively presented before it.
Even Hezakord felt a trace of shock from the bottom of his heart.
“No matter how many times I see it, I still find it a bit incredible,” the lieutenant sighed softly, “Originally, our clan only had the opportunity to witness its birth on the day when the Source of Magic arrived.”
“Indeed, but now is not the time of the Second War of Divine Will.” Hezakord nodded.
That’s right, this is a Tower of Birth that could not possibly appear here – it did not grow out of the Divine Stone vein, but a mature entity. Although it must now rely on a huge base to maintain its upright position, and the mottled gray-brown tower body is also like a dead thing, Hezakord knows that this is only temporary. When the time is ripe, it can rely on the Soul Mother to reconnect with the vein.
This is the evolution they obtained from the fragments of inheritance - in four hundred years, whether it is the understanding of magic or the application of magic stones, the clan has undergone earth-shattering changes. And the most significant of these is their step-by-step effort to get rid of the limitations of life mayflies.
However, it still had a sentence it didn't say, and that was that humans seemed to be doing the same.
Walking into the base of the tower, the Lord of the Sky saw the Soul Mother in a state of slumber.
It is the root of everything, and also the most important individual in the clan. Only when the Divine Will manifests and the magic power between heaven and earth is at its most abundant will it reach maturity and completely merge with the Divine Punishment Original Stone. After that, it takes several years to transform the vein from a stone pillar into a high tower, using magic to nurture life mayflies that cover the sky and the sun.
And when the new technology is realized, this long process no longer exists. A Tower of Birth that can be put into use quickly means that the clan's preparation time will be greatly shortened. As long as resources are sufficient, they can even use the mayflies as a weapon to quickly transform the enemy's territory into their own habitat.
Around the Soul Mother, nearly a hundred magicless inferior bodies were busy, carefully taking care of the mother, acting as cleaners and providers. And at the bottom of the entire Great Rift Valley, there are tens of millions of such inferior bodies - through the window of the tower base, Hezakord looked down at an extremely busy scene: Newborns and Tombstones were digging passages and transporting materials, Ascendants were riding Bogler Winged Beasts flying around, transmitting instructions. And in the center of the rift valley, a row of symbiotic bodies newly cultivated by Mask were standing, waiting for the order to be issued. This group of powerful war machines would swarm towards the enemy like a tide. For a moment, it had the illusion that this was the front line of the war.
But that’s not wrong to say, Hezakord thought, if the continental defense line collapses completely, their future will be bleak. Similarly, if they cannot defeat and devour humans here, the clan’s path forward will not usher in light either.
It must win this war for the King!