The victory in the Kurast Harbor Guard Battle marked the complete relocation of the offensive and defensive positions of humans and hell forces in the rainforest. With the help of the insect swarm and the reinforcements that arrived later, many previously destroyed surveillance posts in the rainforest were the first to be recovered.
Then, the parliament asked General Hodge to temporarily take over the duties of the harbor administrator. After accepting this responsibility, the first order General Hodge issued was to dispatch troops to the ruins of Jikul, not far from the Kurast harbor.
, turning this city that was abandoned a hundred years ago into a legion camp for the army.
The cruelty and danger of this city defense battle far exceeded everyone's expectations. The two main legions defending the city wall, the Demon Slayer Legion and the Parliament Guard Legion, were almost crippled in this battle.
Even the two thousand Storm Valkyrie Guard Amazons from the Haworth Islands lost more than 600 people. The final statistics of the battle losses between the Demon Slayer Legion and the Parliament Guard Legion were as high as an astonishing 7,000 people.
This number is already half of the total number of the two major legions combined, and the losses are not unbearable.
Therefore, although the hell forces in Cui Fanke are now at a disadvantage in this war, General Hodge is not in a hurry to launch an attack.
He issued several military orders in succession, asking the reinforcements from other countries to establish surveillance posts around Cui Fanke, and asked Xue Hua to send swarms of insects to gradually clean up the remnants of the demon army in the rainforest.
After accepting General Hoch's request, Xue Hua quickly began to gather all the insect swarms in the rainforest, and let the insect mothers lead these troops to quickly sweep away the surrounding rainforest with Cui Fanke as the center.
At the same time, Zagara, the mother of the insect nests, was responsible for expanding the size of all the hidden insect nests in the rainforest, so that these insect nests formed a tight blockade network from all directions, trapping Cui Fanke firmly in the center.
At this point, Cui Fanke's evil covenanters and hell forces were completely trapped in the isolated city. In the absence of enough human corpses for sacrifice, even the demon Mephisto could not summon enough hell cultists to build a new city.
The hell portal.
However, the King of Hatred unexpectedly seemed not to be worried about this series of powerful military actions by the swarm and humans. Since the fox wolf led the remnants of the demon army to retreat into Trevank, this demon fortress
It completely and completely fell into a state of all-round closure.
The Evil Contractors successfully found a way to use the city-protecting sacred object Gidebin at Kurast Harbor. The powerful shield formed by this sacred object enveloped the entire city.
But Mephisto, who was in Trevank's underground prison of hatred, had no idea of expanding the sacred celestial sphere to further strengthen the fortress's protection.
On the contrary, this demon god has also withdrawn all the protective power of the sacred celestial sphere into the lowest level of the prison of hatred, with a weird look of preparing to close the city for a long time and not care about the world.
No one knows what Mephisto is thinking. Even the foxwolf and others who returned to Trevank were blocked from the prison of hatred by the power of the sacred celestial sphere.
From the moment they retreated into Cui Fanke City, their Demon God completely severed all contact with them. No matter how they tried to contact it, they got no response at all.
The fox wolf had no choice but to use all the power at hand to defend Cui Fanke City, but even with the remaining demon army remnants in the city, he only had less than 100,000 legions left to fight.
Moreover, the total annihilation of the air force also made Cui Fanke's sky completely in the hands of the insect swarm. If Gidbin's power could not block the detection of the supervisory king insect, I am afraid that all the defense arrangements and troop deployments in Cui Fanke's city would have been made long ago.
It has been thoroughly explored by the insect swarm.
After the swarm completed the deployment of the blockade, Xue Hua completely handed over the command of Cui Fanke's frontline to Zagara. He still had a series of to-do items to solve.
First of all, the first thing is the five jade statues that Ormus gave to Torresander before.
Among them, the snake-shaped statue of the Plague Python lost all its power because the Plague Python itself was killed by the Thunder Beast and the Prowler.
Omas once left a message asking him to give these things to Kane, saying that Kane would know what these things do.
Kane did not come with them before because he was not a combatant, so he kept these jade statues in his inventory.
However, as the harbor guard battle ended with the victory of the human side, the wise man Deckard Cain finally arrived at the Kurast harbor along with the second batch of arriving supply fleets.
After receiving the news, Xue Hua immediately went to the port area to meet the old Horadric mage who had given him a lot of help in Lu Gaoyin, and handed him the five jade statues in his inventory.
"Ah! They are the ancestral totems of the dwarfs! I haven't seen these things for many years since the entire dwarf clan was eroded by hell..."
In the harbor water city area, in a small room specially arranged for Xue Hua by Huo Qi, after the two exchanged pleasantries, Kane took the white cloth package handed over by Xue Hua, opened it, and then sighed like this.
"Are these things precious?" Xue Hua asked with some confusion.
He had asked Keles, the protoss phase technician, Abathur, the master of swarm evolution, and Zuzad, the new high-level zerg master of biological environment improvement, to study these things, but none of them had learned from these things.
See what's special.
Kelless, who is knowledgeable in energy and material structure, told him that these things seemed to have strict requirements on the type of energy disturbance emitted by the user. If it was not the type of energy disturbance they specified, these statues would not be triggered at all.
of special power.
Therefore, Xue Hua once thought that unless these things were in the hands of dwarves, they would be nothing more than a few beautiful but useless handicrafts to humans, and their actual value might not be as great as a bottle of rejuvenation potion.
"Of course it's precious...but not to us..."
Kane nodded solemnly, then stood up from the chair, walked to the pile of books covered with a tarpaulin in the corner of the room, and pulled out a large green tome from the pile with very skillful movements.
Book.
The cover of the book is crookedly printed with a green dye in Common Chinese - "Ancient Ritual in the Rainforest".
After taking the book, Kane sat back on the chair, opened the book with one hand and flipped through a few pages, then handed the book to Xue Hua, pointed to one of the passages and said to him: "Read this, you will understand these statues
Where the value lies.”
"Um..." Xue Hua frowned and fanned his nose with his hand. The book exuded a strong and strange herbal smell, and there were dots of mold on the edges of the parchment.
spot.
This made him feel a little strange. With Kane's character of cherishing books, the preservation quality of this book should not be so bad anyway, right?
However, out of trust in Kane's wisdom, he still patiently read along with the sentences pointed out by Kane...