Chapter 465: The Army Arrives
In Icestone City, the Dwarf King stood in front of the frozen camp. Other rune mechas and the dwarf soldiers who were mobilized again were working hard to destroy the iceberg in front of them.

However, the effect of destruction is not very obvious. It is difficult for both dwarf soldiers and rune mechas to leave permanent wounds on the iceberg. As soon as some ice is chiseled off, the iceberg will quickly grow again and fill the gap.

At the same time, the surface of the huge iceberg was constantly melting, continuously releasing endless cold air and water elements to the surroundings.

The temperature of the entire Ice Stone City began to drop.

The Dwarf King looked at the iceberg in front of him, feeling the growing power deep within the iceberg, and his expression became increasingly ugly.

He looked at the rune mecha driven by a trusted dwarf guard nearby. The sound was secretly transmitted to his ears through the rune array of the rune mecha.

“Return to the palace and be prepared to wake up the Ice Guards. Once I lose any signs of life or receive my order, wake up all the Ice Guards immediately.”

After hearing the words of the dwarf king, the dwarf guard nodded slightly, then took a few steps back, disappeared on the spot, and quickly ran towards the direction of the palace.

After he left, the Dwarf King looked back at the iceberg and stood there calmly.

The dwarf soldiers who had entered the camp before had been wiped out and were frozen in the iceberg in front of them. The dwarf army suffered heavy losses.

In this situation, as the dwarf king, he needs to stay here to calm people’s hearts.

On the eaves of the camp, Hela appeared next to Gray Crow. Then, after saying a few words, she leaped away.

“Gray Crow, keep an eye on this camp. If there are any signs that the passage is open, notify me immediately.”

After saying that, Hela moved quickly on the roof and finally landed in a corner not far from the camp, and quickly set up a simple space door.

After quickly setting up a crude but stable and safe space gate, Hela took a look at the communication device and began to prepare means to suppress the camp passage while the soldiers were still gathering.

As a spellcaster proficient in necromancy, Hela also has her advantages.

Compared to Roland, who is proficient in all spells and therefore does not like to use necromancy, Hela does not have so many choices. She is only proficient in necromancy, dark element spells, life spells, and positive and negative energy spells.

Due to Hela’s own talent and the feedback and blessing after the contract with the Gray Crow, as well as Hela’s authority over death, her current highest attainments are necromancy, dark element spells, and negative energy spells.

In addition, with the presence of Gray Crow, it was easier for Hela to enter and exit the Dark Elemental Realm after she was promoted to a high-level ring. Therefore, Hela launched a heavy attack in the Dark Elemental Realm. Including the high-level undead she controlled before, Hela now controls a total of ten high-level undead.

Hela immediately began to set up an undead summoning array, preparing to pull these ten high-level undead into the material world to help in the battle.

After quickly completing the undead summoning array, Hela saw that there was no news on the communication device and began to cast a spell.

This was the advanced spellcasting technique that Roland had passed on to her. She could prepare the spells in advance and store them in her body. When needed, she could skip the casting time and cast the spell quickly.

When Hela was preparing the eleventh high-level spell in her body, news finally came from the communication device.

Hela stopped what she was doing, stretched out her hand, injected magic power into the space gate and opened it. Then, a legion commander led a team of a thousand people and quickly passed through the space gate.

Of course, the small corner was not big enough to accommodate the thousand people, so the legion commander and the soldiers walked out of the street directly and gathered in an empty space outside the street.

The legion commander saluted Hela and asked.

“Commissioner Hela.”

Hela returned the greeting, then she looked up at the iceberg in the camp and asked directly.

“The passage to the water elemental world in Ice Stone City is about to open. Be clear about your mission.”

“Understood. After the space channel is opened, clean up all elemental life forms born in Ice Stone City.”

The legion commander replied quickly.

Hela nodded slightly and said.

“Time is running out. The rest of Icestone City is left to you. I won’t micromanage it. Let’s move.”

The legion commander saluted, then turned and ran towards the team of a thousand men on the open space and quickly completed the distribution. Afterwards, this team of a thousand men was divided into several hundred teams of two or three people each and quickly dispersed to various parts of Ice Stone City.

Compared to Roland’s side, the Frost Forge had a position prepared in advance. Before the position was destroyed, it was impossible for the water elemental life forms to enter the real world.

But it was different in Ice Stone City. Since there were no positions arranged in advance, Hela could not block all the elemental life forms even if it was just a small passage.

At most, Hela could block the middle and high-level elemental life forms and most of the low-level elemental life forms, but there would definitely be a few low-level elemental life forms that would escape.

Moreover, under conditions of high elemental concentrations, under the power of the rules of the water elemental world, new low-level elemental life forms may be born in various parts of Ice Stone City.

Hela would not have the energy to deal with these elemental life forms, so the soldiers would have to do it.

And before that.

The Far North Gate. As the new order was issued, the space mages in the territory opened the space gate from the foot of the mountain to the Far North Gate. More than 30,000 soldiers quickly gathered at the Far North Gate through the space gate.

More than 30,000 soldiers stood in an orderly and uniform manner on the open space of the Far North Gate according to their respective organizations. The 30,000 pieces of strange armor flashed sharp cold light under the strange lights, like a connected Great Wall of cold steel.

Scattered snowflakes fell from the sky. More than 30,000 extraordinary soldiers were like furnaces. The snowflakes melted continuously as they fell. When they landed lightly on the strange armor, they turned into cold ice water and flowed through the surface of the armor.

The soldiers stood motionless, while officers of all ranks shuttled back and forth in the array, patrolling the military formation with clanging steps.

The air was filled with the tense atmosphere before the war, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers reflected a sharp light under the lights. They looked at each other, exchanging glances, their eyes were full of fearlessness of life and death, and desire for victory.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. Every breath the soldiers took was filled with the breath of war, and every heartbeat was preparing for the upcoming battle.

In this silent and tense atmosphere, a dwarf legion commander climbed onto a hastily built platform and stood in front of the team. He looked at the more than 30,000 soldiers eager to fight. “Citizens! This is a dangerous operation. A quarter of you may die before you see the enemy. Death is not pleasant. Tell me, are you afraid?”

“Not afraid!”

More than 30,000 soldiers roared in unison.

“it is good.”

The legion commander nodded with satisfaction, raised the spear in his hand and shouted loudly.

“There is no backup and no supply stations along the way for this operation. Although you are all extraordinary people who have received professional training and have physical fitness beyond that of ordinary people, this operation is still full of difficulties. Here, I require you to take the central camp as the center and head towards Ice Stone City from different directions. If there is a road, walk on it. If there is no road, blast one for me. Even if there is a cliff ahead, you must find a way to get through it. Even if you die, you must head towards the direction of Ice Stone City!

Underground, there are nearly 10,000 compatriots waiting for rescue, and behind us is the north where nearly one million citizens live. Our enemies want to destroy all of this, but we will never allow it.

Even if our enemy is the entire water elemental world, we must contain the cold disaster until subsequent reinforcements arrive.

This is a difficult test, but we will prevail!
Glory and honor await us.

All information has been entered into your communication devices.

Now, for the Chairman! For the Committee! For all the citizens!
Set off! “

The soldiers then shouted in unison, their voices shaking the sky. Their voices contained unspeakable determination and conviction. The scattered voices conveyed this determination to every corner and resounded through the sky.

Immediately, the war drums sounded, and thirty thousand armored soldiers began to surge like a tide. They moved in unison and with firm steps, they advanced towards the space vortex opened by dozens of space spellcasters on the other side.

Under the bright light of the strange machine, this torrent is rapidly rushing towards the whirlpool of fate.

Underground, next to the lighthouse camp built by explorers, a dozen space spellcasters were maintaining a space vortex outside the camp.

Under the gaze of the explorers, one by one the legionnaires walked out of the space vortex.

After walking out of the space vortex, the legion soldiers did not hesitate and quickly took inventory based on teams of 100.

After counting the number of people in the team, each hundred-man team quickly ran towards the depths of darkness amid the sacred sounds of countless frost dwarves chanting doctrines in unison in the camp.

However, not all legion soldiers acted so quickly and hastily. A team of 1,000 men led by the legion commander himself and another team of 1,000 men responsible for stationing in the camp were not so anxious.

The former, led by the legion commander, walked to the other side of the open space, waiting for Hela’s space gate, while the latter, in addition to sending soldiers to the camp, other soldiers were cleaning around the space vortex.

Since the space vortex was affected by the space traps set up by the Frost Dwarves, quite a few legion soldiers were unlucky and were strangled in the space vortex and had to return to the Fountain of Life to be resurrected.

When their bodies came out, they were basically scattered here and there, and the same was true for their strange armor.

The corpses and wreckage of strange machines and armor scattered here and there were cleaned up by the legion soldiers and piled together.

The corpse of the former can be thrown into the Fountain of Life to feed the blood pool. Although it cannot replenish much vitality, it is better than nothing. The latter can be sent back to the Strange Machine Industrial Zone for re-smelting, mainly for the rare metals such as the Mithril and Tears of the Moon Goddess on these Strange Machine armors.

Although the committee is currently large and powerful, having inherited a large number of mines from the clan states in the Dragon Ridge Mountains, with a high output of various rare metals, it has also mined a large vein of Tears of the Moon, and has a stable output of Tears of the Moon.

But thousands of sets of strange mechanical armor is not a small number. Even for the committee that has completed the development plan, they would not be particularly sad if they were all lost, but they still have to be recycled if possible.

In addition, the reason why the Frost Dwarves are chanting doctrines now is not because the explorers want to add spiritual buffs to the legion soldiers, but because of these corpses scattered here and there.

More than six thousand corpses are already quite a lot. I wonder what the Frost Dwarves would think if they saw this.

Although the spellcasters among the explorers froze the corpse in time and used spells to create a breeze to blow the smell of blood deep into the cave, as long as the frost dwarves were managed well, they would most likely not be discovered.

However, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and accidents, the priests among the explorers found an excuse to organize a big prayer, and dragged all the frost dwarves to the other side of the camp to chant the doctrine together to ensure that there was no possibility of being discovered.

After more than 10,000 legion soldiers came underground through the space vortex, the space anchor point in front of the legion commander was also remotely activated, forming a space gate.

Looking at the ice and stone wall on the other side of the space gate, the legion commander led the team of a thousand people and quickly passed through the space gate.

After the last person in the thousand-man team passed through the space gate, the space gate quickly closed, and a crack appeared on the space anchor point, and it fell to the ground without any light.

The space problem in Ice Stone City is even more serious than that in the Dragon Ridge Passage. The water elemental realm has opened a passage in Ice Stone City.

Ice Stone City has become the place closest to the water elemental world and the material world. The two world spaces overlap and influence each other, causing the entire interior of Ice Stone City to be extremely chaotic and dangerous.

Although Hela is a high-level spellcaster, she was promoted not long ago. Her strength is sufficient, but her knowledge and spell levels have not yet caught up.

In a situation where most of the power needs to be retained to fight against the water elemental world, even Hela cannot open the space gate at will in this situation. Moreover, it is enough to open a short-term space gate and bring a team of a thousand people to be responsible for the early stability maintenance.

As for Roland, after the position was opened, Roland would not open any space gate unless he wanted to destroy the position.

Although Roland could open a space gate when the space was in chaos, the position he set up was itself a semi-independent space used to isolate the elemental world and the material world and act as a buffer zone. If the space gate was opened, it would easily affect and damage the position.

Therefore, sending an elite team of a thousand people to Ice Stone City first is the best option available.

After watching the legion commander lead his team through the space gate, Calvin quickly ran over, collected the broken space anchor point, and returned to the camp.

As the space vortex slowly disappeared, more than 30,000 legion soldiers all entered the underground. Afterwards, the space spellcasters also sat on the ground, sweating profusely. Beside them were more than 6,300 corpses.

Calvin watched the teams disappear into the darkness and prayed silently in his heart.

(End of this chapter)