Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 492 “Metal Gear Solid”…

Federal Private Fred Saltpeter sat on a wooden box on the top of the wall of Thorn City, staring blankly at the stars in the sky.

"Hey! What are you looking at!" the captain shouted.

Fred woke up with a start and touched his smooth green head with his hand:

"Captain, it's okay... I was just thinking about something..."

"What are you thinking about? Tell us!" The captain came over with a smile and sat down on the wooden box next to Fred with a loud bang.

Logically, both of them were night sentries responsible for patrolling the city walls, and they were required to strictly obey military discipline. However, the Federal Blood Council had already asserted that the Imperials would not attack so early, and it was also dawn, so they were not so serious while standing guard, and were quite relaxed.

What's more, the demon totem pole standing on the ground beside the two of them, which was emitting colorful glow all the time, was enough to keep out any threats approaching the city wall.

"Captain, I was just thinking..." Fred Nitrate stammered, "Look, there are so many stars in the sky. Are there many, many worlds outside Haven..."

"That's what the shaman masters said." The captain scratched his head, showing the lack of cultural literacy of the lower-class orcs vividly, "...It seems to be called 'plane' or something, I'm not sure."

"If I have the chance, I really want to go somewhere else and have a look..." Fred frowned in distress.

The captain patted the orc boy on the shoulder encouragingly:

"Don't worry, when the war is over, we can take some time off to travel around the Empire."

As soon as these words came out, both of them felt a little conflicted: because no one knew when the "war would end".

"Actually, what I want to see most is Frost Maple Ridge..." Fred sighed, "I read in those Dongbingku novels that the people in Frost Maple Ridge are very happy. 'Earning 2,000 silver coins in Frost Maple Ridge is much more comfortable than earning 3,000 gold coins in the Empire'... I really want to see it with my own eyes..."

"There will be a chance to go." The captain muttered to comfort Fred, "I heard that Lord Elliot Igor is very friendly to people of all races, and the Soul Shattering Land is also developing tourism... There will be a chance."

  Fred Nitrate was silent for a moment, then raised his head again and said melancholy to the starry sky:

"Captain, we orcs will not stay on Haven Continent forever, right? One day, we will spread the glory of the God of War to other worlds... Our journey is to the sea of ​​stars!"

The captain burst into laughter, attracting the attention of several orc sentinels in the distance:

"God of War! 'Sea of ​​Stars'! Little Fred! I didn't expect you to have such a 'great' ambition! Incredible! Incredible!"

  The sarcasm and disdain in his laughter were too obvious. Fred blushed and held back for a long time before blurting out:

"Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river, don't bully young people into poverty!"

The captain was bent over with laughter and kept wiping his tears with his fingers.

  Fred stood up depressedly, and was about to leave the captain who was laughing wildly and continue patrolling, when he heard an Eagle Eyed Shaman who was accompanying the army not far away shout:

"Hey! Do you guys feel anything wrong?"

"What's wrong, Master?" Fred hurriedly ran to the Eagle Eyed Shaman: whether in the federal army or in the orc society, the status of the shaman is extremely transcendent and cannot be neglected in the slightest.

"I don't know either. I just feel that the elemental fluctuations in the air have suddenly become thinner..." The Eagle Eyed Shaman glanced at Fred, knowing that it would be useless to tell these mortals who had no elemental power, "...In short, it seems that-"

The darkness swallowed up the two of them in an instant.

It took Fred two full seconds to realize the source of the darkness:

The glow of the Annihilation Totem Poles that had originally illuminated this section of the City of Thorns wall suddenly went out for some unknown reason, and everyone on the wall was once again embraced by the darkness of dawn.

"The totem pole seems to be ineffective! How come—"

——Before the Eagle Eyed Shaman finished his words, the Demon Annihilation Totem Pillars lit up again, and the warm colorful glow enveloped the city walls again.

The entire "lights-out" process lasted less than five seconds and was over, as if nothing had happened.

"Master! What...what's going on?" Fred asked with a stutter.

“Maybe the totem pole is broken, or it’s been disturbed by some kind of magic tide…” The Eagle Eyed Shaman was also puzzled, and finally gave up on investigating. “Forget it, everything is normal now. I just had a feeling that I was under pressure from some powerful existence…”

"Maybe it's the magic tide." Fred repeated the shaman's inference, looked up at the vast sky, and was once again shocked by the majestic power of nature.

——Of course, none of the soldiers and shamans on the city wall noticed that in those five seconds of darkness, a figure wearing an invisible cloak quietly climbed over the top of the city wall.

……

The structure of Thorn City is different from that of ordinary mainland cities.

The height of the walls of various cities on the current Haven Continent is less than 20 meters. Even in the capitals such as the Imperial City, Rose City, and Redstone, the highest point of the fortress walls is only about 30 meters, and this is to prevent possible long-range magic firepower. - If it were placed on the Earth in the Middle Ages, this height would actually be quite scary: the wall alone is more than 20 meters high, which means that the scale of buildings such as towers and castles will be even larger, basically exceeding any existing military buildings on Earth.

This small difference perfectly highlights the huge difference between the construction technology and war firepower between Haven and Earth.

  However, even the most majestic city in Haven Continent pales in comparison to the City of Thorns located in the center of the continent, because the height of the latter's city walls is not thirty meters or forty meters, but a solid and majestic two hundred meters!

A height that even Eren Yeager couldn't reach by launching the Rumbling!

If the city wall collapsed, it would be enough to bury all of Isayama Hajime's ancestors into the ground with some height left over!

If you look at the City of Thorns from a distance, any viewer would mistakenly think that it is a tall tower standing on the ground, rather than a city for people to live, trade and consume.

In order to match the towering walls of the City of Thorns, this ancient city has also developed a unique form over the long years.

It is not like an ordinary Haven metropolis that spreads out on the ground like a pancake, but forms a three-dimensional structure with each layer higher than the previous one and overlapping each other.

At the end of the "War of the Gods" 1,200 years ago, the entire Thorn City was destroyed, leaving only a circle of God-cast white walls standing on the ground. Subsequent city occupiers, whether human or orc, all chose to rely on this circle of unbreakable walls and built various buildings at different heights.

  This architectural planning method has been maintained to this day, and has turned Thorn City into a three-story funnel from top to bottom:

Looking down at the entire city from the sky, the outermost moonstone wall is the commanding height of the entire city, and the closer you get to the city center, the lower the altitude of the buildings - this is because the supporting force provided by the wall structure becomes gradually insufficient in the central area and cannot support excessively high suspended structures.

At the same time, the high, medium and low layers of the structure exist in the Thorn City in an orderly manner:

The lowest buildings in the city are built directly on the solid mud ground. Together they form the oldest lower city area of ​​Thorn City, the slums;

  Above the Lower City, there is the Middle City, which is supported in mid-air by a steel and rivet frame. This is a new city that was built in modern times with the development of industrial technology and construction technology. It is filled with merchants, peddlers, travelers and mysterious forces from all over the continent. It has always been famous for its black market transactions and carnival activities.

As for the Upper City, located at the highest level of Thorn City, it has long existed in history: the ancient sages used the solid structure of the Thorn City wall to build a whole layer of suspended stone foundations, and then set up solemn religious places and cold military buildings on it. To this day, the Upper City, located at a high altitude, is still a private land belonging to the federal nobles, shamans and the military.

The three urban areas are arranged vertically in space and do not interfere with each other. Countless passages, stairs and magic rail cars are retained between the upper and lower levels for residents to travel between.

This complex city structure is no less than a huge three-dimensional maze, enough to make any newcomer dizzy - even an octogenarian who has lived in Thorn City all his life would not dare to say that he knows every corner of this city.

After climbing over the Moonstone City Wall, Xiahou Yan had already arrived at the upper city area of ​​Thorn City.

——This is also a big advantage of climbing over the wall directly: if you enter the City of Thorns through the city gate via the regular route, the first place you will arrive at will be the lower city area at the bottom, and you will have to find a way to pass through the dirty and chaotic slums before you can climb to the upper levels.

  At this moment, he was clearly in a federal military camp on the edge of the upper city, close to the city wall:

It was still dark, and the lights in the stone barracks in the distance were still off. They looked like giant beasts lurking in the light of dawn from the city walls. In the distance, the silhouette of a spire tower could be vaguely seen - it was obviously a religious building in the upper city.

Xiahou Yan speculated that the federal soldiers responsible for guarding the city walls usually lived in such barracks in the upper city area and could go to work just a few steps away.

A patrol of orc soldiers carrying magic lanterns passed by him.

After he made sure that the group of Federation greenskins had gone far away, he quickly ran to the shadow of the barracks and secretly buried a magic crystal in the soil. Then he carefully held up his "Meursault Invisible Satin" cloak and carefully put the Death's Skull back into his backpack.

Through previous experiments, he discovered that there was actually a ray of divine power stored in this dead head. With just a little bit of magic power to stimulate it, this ray of divine power would spread out with the Death's Skull as the center.

To put it simply, divine power is the unique deterrent power and aura of gods. It is not of much use except for scaring people, but all magic props affected by the divine power will be temporarily paralyzed within a few seconds.

——God is the source of all elemental power. We are just man-made creatures that "borrowed" this power. It is normal for us to be defeated by the pressure of God himself.

Just now, Xiahou Yan used the "EMP" function of the Death's Skull to temporarily paralyze the Demon Annihilation Totem Pole on the top of the city wall and successfully jumped over the hurdle to enter the city.

After putting away the Skull of Death, Xiahou Yan took out a mask and put it on his face.

A few years ago, I could show my true face in Thorn City - this is a huge city where people of all races live together, and there are quite a few human residents from the Federation. I don't have to worry about orc soldiers seeing my human skin and pinning me to the ground with their knees.

  However, the current Duke of Frost Maple Ridge, Elliot Igor, is too famous:

Whether it was the Imperial Capital or Redstone, whether it was in the dwarven bunker in the Frostbone Mountains of the Far North, or on the whaling ship hunting the Colorful-bearded Kun on the Misty Sea of ​​the Central South, the handsome portrait of the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge was hung everywhere on Haven Continent;

Not to mention the two major publishing organizations, Dongbingku and Biquge, which are constantly printing out face-slapping articles about Eliot Iger and distributing them across the mainland using winter pigeons...

Xiahou Yan guaranteed that if he dared to reveal his true identity in Thorn City for even a second, he would be immediately tied up by his fanatical fans... and enemies, and sent to the official agencies of the Glorious Federation for punishment.

Therefore, using a magic mask called "Posona", a specialty of Yongri City, to change one's appearance is absolutely necessary for the infiltration operation.

The next moment after putting on the magic mask, Xiahou Daguanren's handsome and pale face began to distort, and finally turned into the appearance of Leonardo Dicaprio, looking quite Titanic.

——The "Posona" magic mask can transform the user into any face, depending entirely on the controller's imagination.

Ever since he got this precious thing, a certain unscrupulous lord had more than once, on certain special occasions that were not to be told to outsiders, made Wilf, Lina and the others transform into some Earth movie stars that were not to be told to outsiders.

This time when sneaking into the City of Thorns, "Posona" also came in handy, allowing Master Xiahou to indulge in his Little Leo addiction.

It’s a pity that if it didn’t match the style of the other world, Xiahou Yan originally wanted to choose Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

After everything was packed up, he looked around in the shadow of the federal barracks.

Although there are still important matters to be dealt with in the upper city in the future, the current priority is to find a downward passage and go to the central city of Thorn City.