Doomsday Totem

Chapter 317 Castle
After cleaning the battlefield, the convoy rested for another half an hour, and then continued their journey, heading towards the Fortress of the Thinker.

But in the following journey, the situation was surprisingly smooth, and everyone's mood relaxed accordingly.Although the haze of losing teammates still persists after the war, everyone's mental outlook has improved a lot.Along the way, they lost forever [-] teammates who once fought side by side and shared life and death together.This pain can only be diluted slowly with time.

about an hour later...

The road ahead gradually turned into a two-way four-lane asphalt road, and street lights were installed on both sides.Under the orange-red light, the road surface looks clean and tidy, in stark contrast to the dark, gloomy and gravel along the way.Seeing that the end of this journey is approaching, the team members cheered one after another.

At this time, on the armored vehicle at the front of the convoy, Marcus was staring intently at the front, maintaining a rigorous and serious attitude.He is the eyes of the team, and he must not relax in the slightest until he reaches the destination.

After turning a big bend, the outline of a man-made object gradually appeared on the cliff in the distance.As the vehicle moved forward, the outlines of the man-made objects gradually became clearer.

This is a fortress built on a steep cliff.From a distance, it looks like an ancient Gothic castle half embedded in the stone wall. In the middle is a rectangular main building. Towers, while the outer perimeter of the castle is composed of a dozen watchtowers and thick walls between the towers.

From the perspective of architectural style and location alone, the manpower and material resources required to build this fortress are unimaginable.Before coming here, Marcus had studied relevant materials.This fortress named "The Thinker" took 37 years to build the temple, during which seven leaders were changed. It is also the northern garrison point of the First Army of the Dawn Expeditionary Army in the bottomless abyss.

Since the establishment of the Dawn Expeditionary Army, the First Army has always been a special existence.Different from the Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Armies, the First Army is further divided into three units. They are the "Chinese Army" troops stationed in the Morning Fortress, marked by a broken shield; stationed in the southern part of the abyss, marked by a broken shield. Sword's "Sky Fury" troops, and the "Kingfisher" troops stationed in the northern part of the abyss, marked by a blue bird.

The first army of the Dawn Expeditionary Army is also called the "Holy Knights", and its combat power is said to be comparable to that of another army in the Temple, the Templar Crusaders.

But in fact, the strength of the Templar Crusaders is far more than that simple on the surface. Compared with the Dawn Expeditionary Army, which was established only a hundred years ago, they have a foundation of 3000 years and their internal structure is extremely stable.The popes of all dynasties have regarded the Templar Crusades as the last line of defense for the belief in the true God.

Different from the other two major beliefs, the belief in the true god is based on martial arts, and the apostolic army is the source and carrier of the belief.

The destruction of the Temple Crusade means the fall of the true God.

The belief in the gods of Notre Dame is based on the trust and support of the people, and is carried by the organization and spiritual services of practitioners.

Losing the hearts of the people and disintegrating the organization is the twilight of the gods.

As for the belief in the temple, the ancient lineage is a system of separation of church and state, which provides the people with spiritual sustenance and the guidance of traditional moral values ​​in the Far East. The concept is the source, and the inheritance and obsession are the carriers.

People's hearts are not ancient, and morality is degraded, which means that the ancient sacred flame is extinguished.

No successors, all glory is lost, that is, the flame of glory is extinguished.

After entering the detection range of The Thinker Fortress, Marcus soon received a communication broadcast from the fortress.

"Visitor, I am one of the temporary leaders of the Fortress of the Thinker, the deputy captain of the Princess Guard, the captain of the first team, Oliver Bart, please identify yourself." A slightly hoarse, old-looking voice came from the speaker.

Marcus immediately leaned down and said to the voice receiver: "I am Marcus, a member of the Wolf Clan Legion, greetings to you."

"Great! You are finally here!" said the other side in surprise, then cleared his throat, and said solemnly, "Please also convey my greetings to the respected Lord Wilderness Knight for me, we will open the fortress later The gate welcomes you."

"Thank you," Marcus replied.

After about a quarter of an hour...

The team slowly drove up a steep slope and came to the open space in front of the fortress.This open space is not big and can only accommodate five to six large trucks at the same time.Therefore, only half of the convoy of the Wolf Clan Legion drove up, and the remaining half remained in line on the steep slope.

At this time, the steel gate of the fortress had been lowered and covered the moat in front, forming a small suspension bridge.Bai Xiaoyun lightly stepped on the accelerator and drove the jeep slowly across the suspension bridge.When he was crossing the bridge, out of the corner of his eye, he accidentally saw that there was still running water in the moat under the bridge.And not only that, the speed of the water flow was also very fast, stirring up a few splashes on the shore from time to time.It is unimaginable that there is such a landscape on this cliff.

After crossing the bridge, Bai Xiaoyun stopped the car and followed Tie Slag into the fortress.At this moment, both sides of the gate are full of people. On the left are three rows of expeditionary knights in silver Holy Light power armor, on the right are two rows of princess guard psyker warriors in gray Holy Light power armor and a row of power warriors. A Psyker Warrior of the Academy Legion in a variety of styles.

After entering the door, three people in power armor greeted him.The one in the middle is a vigorous old man, about five or sixty years old, with a typical western poker face, gray beard and short crew cut, and an obvious scar on his right eye.Before coming here, Bai Xiaoyun had read the old man's information.His name is Oliver Bart. He is a vassal nobleman of the North Lombard family in Fengxin City (No. 60 Silver City) in the Northern Wilderness Continent. He is also an eighth-level psyker. He is 16 years old this year.Since ancient times, the Bart family has been a vassal family of the Lombard family, and later when the family was divided, it was assigned to Northern Lombard.

On Oliver's left is a Templar knight in silver scorching sun power armor with an iron cross inlaid on his chest.His name is Kyle Larkin, and he is a vassal noble of the Mordleton family in Dragon City (No. 2 Silver City) on the western mainland.Kyle is a seventh-level psychic, 38 years old this year, and was the deputy captain of the Kingfisher Troop of the First Army of the Dawn Expeditionary Army.

And on Oliver's right is a young student wearing crimson first-generation psionic power armor.His name is Hildebrand Suja, and he is the head of the "Spartan Warriors" of the Central Silver City Military Academy. His team ranks eighth in the honor list. From the information, he is a sixth-level of psykers.

At this moment, Bai Xiaoyun suddenly noticed that Hildebrand looked somewhat similar to Tie Slag.If you look closely, you can see that they are somewhat similar in terms of eyebrows, eyes, body shape, even standing posture and temperament.If he hadn't read the former's information, he would have thought that even if they weren't brothers, they were cousins ​​or cousins.

"Master Tie Zha, you are welcome." Oliver stepped forward first, saluted Tie Zha with aristocratic salute, and then stretched out his hand and said.The latter immediately held the hand of the former, and nodded in return.Next, Kyle and Hildebrand stepped forward to shake hands with Iron Slag in turn, expressing their greetings.

And when Iron Slag and Hildebrand shook hands, both of them involuntarily looked at each other, and at the same time showed a look of astonishment.Although Iron Slag seldom looked in the mirror, he still remembered his appearance.But he didn't think much about it. After all, the world is so big and there are so many people. It's not uncommon to meet one or two people with similar looks occasionally.And the same is true for the latter.

After the simple welcome ceremony, Iron Slag followed Oliver and others to visit the main castle of the fortress.

During the period, Oliver introduced that The Thinker Fortress covers an area of ​​about 660 square meters, a radius of about 3000 meters, a perimeter of the city wall of about 400 meters, and a total construction area of ​​about 600 square meters. With a building area of ​​600 square meters, it can accommodate [-] to [-] people at the same time.However, if it is full of people, it may appear crowded.At present, there are about [-] defenders in the fortress, and about [-] logistics personnel. Adding investors, transportation teams and mining workers, there are more than [-] people in total.

At this time, people were coming and going in the castle, and many logistics personnel came in and out, which seemed very busy.

Then, Oliver said that due to the limited building conditions in the abyss and the fact that it is on the edge of the human-controlled area, it is a remote area.Therefore, the design of the main castle of the fortress is relatively small, and there are few places for people to live.Under normal circumstances, a single room of [-] square meters needs to accommodate six logistics personnel, transportation personnel, and mining workers, or four hurried marines from the academy, knights from the Dawn Expeditionary Army, or two power armor soldiers, low-level officer.However, although the living environment here is small, there is a good advantage, that is, there is plenty of water.In addition to daily drinking water, it can also supply bathing.This is a rare benefit for most of the fortresses in the abyss.

Afterwards, Oliver took Iron Slag and others to the elevator and came to the highest point of the castle, which was the top of the tallest tower in the center of the castle that Marcus had just seen in the distance.

As soon as the elevator door opened, the front suddenly opened up.This is a circular hall with a visual measurement of about [-] square meters. The outer wall is only half the height of a person, and the rest are full of large glass windows.Looking carefully, the inner part of the outer wall is made of sliced ​​stone, which looks like a stone masonry, but the middle part is made of thick steel plates and "I"-shaped thick steel bars, which are both beautiful and reliable.Standing in front of the window and looking out, the entire fortress can be seen at a glance.

"Commander, this will be your office and rest area from now on." Oliver said with a slight bow.

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work." Tie Slag nodded to the old man in return and said.

(End of this chapter)