As a result, due to the embezzlement behavior of low-level city defense officials, some of the inscription arrays that have not been replaced and refurbished for many years have long since expired and remain in the state of a Schrödinger protective array.
No one knows whether it can still function properly until it is actually activated.
There may indeed be no need for a defense system to deal with ordinary beast tides, but when the rebels come to the city and storm the city lord's mansion, this becomes a fatal problem.
Unfortunately, the miracle did not happen in the end.
When the resistance professionals who had sneaked into the city suddenly broke out and launched an attack, the city guard officials immediately activated the defensive array.
But the magic shield only lit up for a moment, and then went out again due to the aging and overload of some of the inscription materials.
So, realizing that something was wrong, the city guard arranged for the lower-level city guards to resist desperately and delay the rebels' offensive, while he himself passed through the secret passage directly, his soles greased with grease.
Unfortunately, he failed to escape in the end. Instead, he ran into a siege net deployed by the rebels outside the city to prevent important figures in the city from escaping. After losing a fierce battle, he was captured on the spot.
This was a very serious provocation to the rule of the empire. Everyone who got the news immediately was shocked by the ignorance and fearlessness of the [Spark] organization.
The province of Frei is the territory of the Aslade family.
Under normal circumstances, even if the energy of the Gloria Empire is seriously affected by "friendly countries", the Aslade family's own strength alone is enough to easily wipe out these rebels.
Like a group of ants united to resist a fighting giant.
Maybe the giant is currently busy fighting with another giant and has no time to pay attention to it. But even if he frees up a little finger in his busy schedule, it is enough to kill these ragtag civilian resistance forces.
But unfortunately, neither the Gloria Empire royal family nor the Aslade family can spare a little finger.
Compared with the rebels, another more serious matter involved all their energy.
On the evening of the first day of the new moon, an unprecedented huge wave of dark beasts suddenly broke out in the empire!
The Wailing Cave in the Frey Province, the Whispering Abyss in the Palawani Province, the Great Chasm of Kalko in the Kalras Province, etc...
Distributed throughout the empire, the passages and cracks leading to the underground world, as well as some brand new holes opened by dark creatures, are now frantically pouring out all kinds of strange and weird black beasts.
Dark three-headed python, sea dragon beast, shadow reaper...
Countless dark creatures gathered into a massive and destructive beast tide. It carried everything in its path and headed eastward with an unstoppable terrifying momentum.
Head straight towards the direction where the meteorite fell in Magnar Province, and the Endless Sea further east.
It was as if something was calling them there——
Initially, although several high-level prophets gave a warning one day in advance, the empire was still caught off guard.
Several medium-sized cities were completely destroyed by the surging beast tide due to the lack of defensive power and the aging and failure of the defense arrays.
But after experiencing the first wave of tragic losses, facing the menacing tide of dark beasts, the nobles of the Gloria Empire immediately reacted and began to defend their territory with all their strength.
After all, not all city defense officers were cheating. The ones who cheated the most ruthlessly had disappeared into the vast tide of beasts along with the city where the entire defense array had failed.
The more city defense officers had less deductions, so that the defense array would not be completely inoperable, which allowed them to sustain until the arrival of support manpower.
In less than two days, all high-level professionals spread out to defend large and medium-sized cities across the empire to resist the destructive tide of dark beasts and prevent the city from being trampled into nothingness by the tide of beasts.
As for the small towns attached to major cities, their residents have already taken refuge in the main city under the cover of the city guards and high-level professionals.
But those villagers in some remote small villages that are too far away from the city can only hope for their own blessings.
Under such a serious situation, the Aslade family has no intention of causing trouble with the rebels for the time being.
The beast tide doesn't care what alignment you are in, they treat everything that stands in their way equally.
Seizing two cities at this time can of course temporarily avoid the sanctions of the Aslade family, but they also need to resist the impact of the terrifying tide of dark beasts.
At this point, no matter how easy it was for the rebels to attack, they are now facing much trouble.
Although spellcasters have been arranged to urgently repair the defensive array, it is still too late.
Moreover, at the end of the repair, the leader of the Spark Organization discovered that the value of the rare resources required to completely repair the city's defensive array was greater than the total resources obtained from capturing the city!
In other words, one plus and one minus, not only did the resistance fail to obtain resources, but even if they wanted to defend the city, they also needed to invest their own resources to repair the magic circle, otherwise they would have to use human lives to fill it.
After learning about this situation, the Spark leader gritted his teeth and asked the spell casters to continue repairing it, and had the original city defense officer immediately dragged out and killed with a stick!
The soul is extracted and given to the necromancer as material, and the corpse is discarded to feed the dark creatures!
It was under this chaotic situation that Avis, who chose to stay at Pamir College with Fiona, finally received news from Duke Carlot.
After activating the crystal ball on the desktop, Duke Carrot's image appears from the crystal ball.
Anvis could tell that the Duke's environment seemed to be in a temporary alchemy house.
"Excellent! Anvis, your prediction came very timely!"
In the crystal ball, the Duke's expression looked very satisfied.
"You should have already heard about the news that His Majesty the Emperor has held accountable the Saint Mecia Empire for the unknown attack at zero o'clock of the new moon.
And I can tell you now that the location where the sacred light pillar was hit was the temporary headquarters of the ruins exploration, and its power was approximately equivalent to a ninth-level extreme blow."
"A total of three ninth-level people in the empire were injured in this incident. A ninth-level elder from the Magna family and the Marquis of Enrita were slightly injured.
A ninth-level member of the Aslade family was seriously injured and could only go back to recuperate temporarily. Speaking of which, that guy was responsible for the safety of your entrance examination for the True Knowledge Society last time, but it was a pity that it was not very useful."
As he spoke, the Duke couldn't help but have a smile in his blue eyes.
"Due to your news, the ninth level of the Alfred family and I left temporarily to investigate the surrounding hidden dangers, and we just happened to avoid the attack in the core area of the light beam.
You did a great job, Anvis! Some information still requires a blood-related seer to predict it as early as possible.
After this attack, the family’s prophet urgently sent me news.”