Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

The two pig beastmen obeyed Lind's orders unconditionally. Even if the Son of God ordered them to die now, they would think it was an opportunity to be loyal to the Son of God. After receiving the order, the two pig beastmen walked up and easily lifted up the puppet.

From its material and size, it can be seen that this puppet is not light, but for the pig beastman, it can still be lifted easily.

After picking up the puppet, the group returned the same way. Before leaving the room, Lind carefully observed the hieroglyphs at the entrance and engraved them deeply in his mind. He planned to ask others after returning if they knew anything, especially Ilfa, Sal and Fran.

Since there was no fork in the road when they came in, they walked along one road, so there was no risk of getting lost when they returned. Walking along the way they came, especially when they saw the light at the entrance, everyone was obviously relieved.

This is normal. After all, this is a cave of unknown origin, and there have been encounters with demons in this mountain. When entering, except for the two heartless sows, everyone was a little nervous, as if they were going to encounter some demon king.

Now the adventure is over, everyone comes out and brings back a puppet that looks like a trash can...

As they got closer to the exit, the light ball controlled by Alisa flickered. As she said, her magic power was running out.

Looking at the ball of light that looked like a light bulb with poor contact, Lind suddenly thought of something.

"Eliza."

"Ok?"

"Is there anything abnormal about the magic concentration here?" Lind remembered the drop in magic concentration he and Elisa's mother had experienced when they entered from another location.

"No." Alyssa shook her head and denied it, then she realized, "No, there is something abnormal."

"What's abnormal?"

"It's just that the concentration of magic power is the same as outside." Alisa analyzed. "Normally, in a place like a cave, especially a cave this deep, due to the lack of air circulation, the magic power other than earth magic power should be reduced, but the concentration of magic power inside is the same as outside."

"No, it's still not right." Before Linde could speak, Elisa overturned her own statement again. "The density of magic in the air in that room is lower than that of normal places. It's as if... as if a magician had used magic there not long ago."

"In other words, we have passed by a magician who lives in seclusion here?" Lind said, touching his chin.

"Maybe." Elisa narrowed her eyes. "Given the character of the reclusive magician, if you take his things away, he will probably come to trouble you."

"Eh? Aren't you just afraid of talking to people?"

“…That’s right.” Alisa thought about it and nodded.

Linde was stunned. He just casually complained that these magicians who lived in seclusion in remote places were socially anxious otakus, but Alisa's reaction... was it really possible! ?

According to Elisa, there is no low-magic environment here like the other place. As for why there is so little free magic in the air there, Ilufa doesn't know, but he speculates that it may be due to the long time of sealing and the consumption of magic, which caused the magic concentration to be too low.

In addition to the low concentration of magic power, remember that it can also block communication with God.

(Mom~) To verify this, Lind called upon the Mother Earth in his mind.

(Hey~ good son, what's the matter with you calling mom~) Soon, the energetic voice of Mother Earth Amora rang out.

(It's okay, I'm just yelling for fun.)

(...)

After confirming that the connection with God here had not been cut off, Lind had two guesses about the situation here. This place was not the same building as the previous one, or it was a different functional area in the same building and was relatively independent.

After walking for a while, the group arrived near the exit. Fran was standing at the entrance of the cave, waiting anxiously for Lind and his group to return.

"Master, you are finally back!" After seeing Linde coming out of the darkness, Fran immediately shouted to Linde. "Come out quickly! Something is happening!"

"What happened?" Upon hearing what happened, Linde immediately quickened his pace and walked towards the cave entrance.

"It can't be explained in a few words. You'll know if you come and see." Fran said anxiously.

Seeing Fran's anxious look, Linde quickened his pace and walked out of the cave.

Soon, Linde and his party walked out of the cave. Outside the cave, the pig beasts had been waiting for a long time. It turned out that pigs were also a kind of beast. The long wait made these fat pig beasts restless.

When these pig beastmen saw that their master finally came out, they immediately showed a smile like Ding Zhen.

"What is this?" Fran also saw the puppet that was brought out.

"It's said to be something called a puppet," Lind explained. "We took such a big risk, but we came out with nothing. That's not right, right?"

"By the way, what's the urgent matter?" Linde looked at Fran.

Fran didn't say anything, but pointed in a direction. Following Fran's finger, Linde saw a cooked sheep.

Benio, the tribal leader of the sheep-beastmen.

"Hello again, Your Highness." The tall sheep lady Benio waved at Lind. "I didn't expect to see you here."

"Hello, hello." Linde nodded. "What can I do for you?"

"It's like this. My people and I have been monitoring the movements of the Lion King Mara. They are about to pass through the central mountain range and reach our side."

Chapter 197 The Final Battle is Coming

Aivozhen Island is located in the northwest of the Old Continent. It covers an area of ​​about four Tongliao. To the east, it faces the Albion Island of similar size across the sea. Apart from that, it is surrounded by the sea on all sides.

As it is basically isolated overseas, there has been no civilization on Aiwozhen Island until about twenty years ago, when the first group of human immigrants landed on the island.

Before the arrival of human immigrants, Aiwozhen Island was the territory of the Beastmen. Since the Great War, when Chaos was defeated, the Beastmen, who were originally Chaos servants, were divided into two. The Mother Earth was awakened and born in the faith of some Beastmen who were unwilling to continue to die for the evil god. Since then, new Beastmen were born and parted ways with the Chaos Beastmen.

It sounds like the Earth Mother Goddess is very powerful, but in fact, the Earth Mother Goddess's followers are only half of the island. The range of activities of the new beastmen is limited to the southern half of Aiwozhen Island. The vast majority of the beastmen in the world are still Chaos Beastmen who believe in the Chaos Evil God.

Over the past five hundred years, after a series of migrations and conflicts, the small island of Aiwozhen was divided into two parts by the central mountain range in the middle of the island, with the New Beastmen and the Chaos Beastmen living in the south and the Chaos Beastmen gathering in the north. Although there were occasional frictions between the two sides, overall they were still peaceful and could barely be considered neighbors who never interacted with each other.

But temporary peace does not mean eternal peace. Although there has not been any large-scale conflict between the New Beastmen and the Chaos Beastmen, there has been internal fighting among the Chaos Beastmen. In the internal fighting, many weak Chaos Beastmen tribes were swallowed up by stronger tribes. As time went on, one tribe of Chaos Beastmen stood out and had the tendency to become the Beast King of Iwojin Island.

The leader of this tribe is the lion king Mara.

The Beastmen are half human and half beast. Due to the hatred of civilization engraved in their genes, the social level of the Chaos Beastmen is at most a tribal level. To call them a tribe is a bit of an exaggeration. With the sudden appearance of Lion King Mara, the power balance on the island of Ivozhen gradually tilted towards the Chaos Beastmen. Before long, Lion King Mara may attack the new Beastmen with the goal of unifying the entire island of Ivozhen.

Then this opportunity came ahead of time.

According to tradition, Lion King Mara should have unified all the Chaos Beastmen tribes in the north before heading south. However, because a certain Godson humiliated the Blood God, Lion King Mara set off ahead of schedule. To make matters worse, the situation of the New Beastmen was not much better. The New Beastmen were originally in a state of tribes fighting each other, which was even more holy than the Holy Empire. In addition, they were attacked by Zexi, a human who could control Chaos Beastmen not long ago, so the New Beastmen were in a very bad state at the moment.

If it weren't for Lind, the son of Mother Earth, as a banner, the new beastman alliance could not be established.

"According to the order of the Son of God, we, the Sheep Tribe, have been monitoring the movements of the Lion King Mara in the north." The Sheep Tribe's leader, Benio, respectfully reported the current situation to Linde. "According to our surveillance, the Lion King Mara's troops are about to reach the mountain pass east of the Central Mountain Range and pass through the Central Mountain Range."

"Once they pass through the central mountain range, Lion King Mara's team will only need about fourteen days to reach the camp where the Son of God is."

Using sheep as scouts may sound very strange, but it is a reasonable arrangement made based on actual conditions and circumstances.

The sheep-new beastmen, led by Benio, are very good at mountain activities. They can climb up steep cliffs that others cannot climb without much effort.

The Central Mountain Range is a natural barrier that a small unit can pass through, but if the team has thousands of troops, they must take a relatively low mountain pass to pass through. This is also why the Yangxin Beast people can detect the movements of the local area in a timely manner.

"In fifteen days at most, the enemy will attack!?" Lind was shocked when he heard the news.

"No." Benio shook his head. "It will probably take about twenty-four or twenty-five days. It will take Lion King Mara's team about eight or nine days to reach Dongshankou."

Fifteen days plus nine days, which is about twenty-four days later.

This is about the same time as Fran mentioned at the beginning.

"Am I right?" When Benio told her a more accurate time, Fran supported her waist with both hands and made a proud gesture as if to say, "Are you envious of my figure?"

"Well, you are right." Linde complimented Fran first, then continued to ask Benio, "How many people are there in Lion King Mara's team? Is it the same as before?"

When forming an alliance with the various tribes of the new beastmen, Lion King Mara's team had already exceeded eight thousand.

"No, according to our observation, Lion King Mara's team has exceeded ten thousand." Benio said with a wry smile.

Linde's eyes widened. It had only been a short while, and the amount had increased from eight thousand to ten thousand! ?

What kind of explosion speed is this? Open it! ?

As soon as the number of enemy troops came out, Elisa's beautiful little face turned pale instantly, and she felt dizzy and almost couldn't stand. If Efit hadn't supported her in time, Elisa would have really fainted.

"How come there are so many more all of a sudden?" Lind asked with a frown. As a knight's squire, Lind also knew a little about marching and fighting. Increasing the number from 8,000 to 10,000 in such a short time was too exaggerated and unscientific.

"Because they annexed other Chaos Beastmen tribes." Benio said helplessly. "According to our investigation, Lion King Mara did not lead his troops across the Central Mountains immediately, but first went to deal with those Chaos Beastmen tribes that had not yet surrendered to him. And those newly surrendered tribes all joined the army, so the army grew so fast."

"According to our observations, all the Chaos Beastmen tribes in the north have surrendered to Lion King Mara. Lion King Mara has become the true Beast King. His next target is you."

"I was originally planning to go directly to your camp to report to you, Shenzi, but I didn't expect to meet you on the way."

The Lion King Mara has become the King of Chaos Beastmen, which means that he can monopolize the mating of the tribe... No, his next target is the Son of God Linde.

In order to avoid the possibility of strategic errors, when forming an alliance, Lind frankly stated that Lion King Mara's target was himself.

"Sister Benio." After listening to Benio's report, Lind said seriously. "Please help me notify all my allies to gather their troops as quickly as possible and meet up at my camp."

Chapter 198 Madam, You Are So Beautiful

Having received the news from Benio, Linde did not stay here for long. He planned to return immediately after filling the pig cart.

Lind was mentally prepared for the physical strength and power of the pig beasts, but after actually working, he was still surprised by their efficiency. When Lind ordered to hurry up and fill up the cars as soon as possible, the pig beasts burst out with great enthusiasm for work, and soon filled up all the cars.

This efficiency is really exaggerated. If all the labor force is at this level, Linde even feels that there is no need to develop a universal power device like the steam engine to carry out the Industrial Revolution.

In addition to the Industrial Revolution, the large-scale use of animal power is also a productivity revolution in human history. Lind believed this sentence he had read in a book before traveling through time.

Before it was completely dark, the eight carriages that Lind brought were all filled with iron ore. Assuming that one carriage could smelt 600 kilograms of iron, these eight carriages could probably produce nearly 5,000 kilograms of iron.

Although it still cannot be compared with the number before the time travel, it is still a considerable number.

As they were in a hurry, when the carts pulled by pigs were all full and they had a short rest, the team set out on their return journey without losing a moment.

Elisa's plan to see the entrance rune had to be put on hold for the time being, and Efit's plan to find vanilla and other spices had to be put on hold as well. After all, the military situation was urgent, and if they couldn't even defend the camp, then there was no point in talking about anything else.

When night fell, the team was still in the wild and had not reached the camp. Marching at night was too dangerous, so Lind had to order the troops to set up camp on the spot and set out again after dawn the next day.

At dinner time, everyone ate around the fire, eating black bread. Because it had been stored for a while, the black bread was very hard and it was unhealthy to bite it directly, so it was boiled into porridge with water.

"Linde." Sitting around the fire, Alyssa asked Linde with some concern. "Can we still win this time?"

"Of course." Linde said confidently.

"But the other side has an army of 10,000 beastmen!" Alisa was anxious. This was the first time Alisa had encountered a war involving tens of thousands of troops.

"Don't we have more than 7,000 new beastmen?" Linde consoled him. "Anyway, don't worry too much. We have fought many battles where the outnumbered defeated the larger force. We will win."

"...Hmm!" After hearing what Lind said, Elisa thought about it and it made sense. Since Lind came, the camp had fought several battles. There was not a single time when they had the advantage in numbers, but they won every time, and the casualty ratio was astonishingly high.

Although Lind looked confident and brave, he was actually worried. This was different from any previous battle. In any previous battle, the number of enemies and ours did not exceed three digits, but this time was completely different. Seven thousand versus ten thousand, this was already a large-scale battle.

As for large-scale troop operations, Lind knew nothing about it.

Commanding a dozen people to charge is a completely different concept from commanding thousands of people to fight. When commanding a small unit, you only need to consider the combat aspects, but if you are commanding a large unit to fight, the things you need to consider will increase exponentially. Not only the combat aspects, but also many other things related to the combat, such as logistics, marching routes, etc., must be considered.

Even though he knew nothing, Lind still had to appear confident, for no other reason than to not let the morale collapse.

Lind was very clear about his position in the camp and even in the coalition forces, which was the spiritual pillar. If he collapsed, then the morale would be gone.

When the number of troops, military science, and training levels of both sides are similar, morale will be the key factor in determining the outcome of the war. What Lind learned from playing Europa Universalis.

In order to ensure the morale of one's own team, one must appear confident even if one is unsure.

Nothing happened that night. Since Kitama and Katie were not there, and little Schnee was not there either, there was no chance that anyone or animal would come and trap Lind in the middle of the night.

Then Lind felt a little uncomfortable. Although he didn't say it, his body was still very obedient and he was used to sleeping with animals.

Linde didn't sleep well that night, because the one who attacked him this time was the long-lost Blood God. The Blood God's bronze body was blood red, and he sat on the Blood God throne piled with skulls, laughing at Linde with a tone that seemed to be mocking or pitying.

Linde had seen a lot of the evil god's dream harassment. He simply ignored the blood god's whispers and slept until dawn.

At dawn the next day, Lind found that he had been careless. The cow sisters and little Schnee were not there, but there were other beastmen. Fran didn't know when she held Lind in her arms like a child, and the pig beastmen also surrounded Lind in a strange formation, like some magic circle.

After pulling the black thread out of Fran's body, Lind woke up the others. After a simple breakfast, the team set out again.

Around nine o'clock in the morning, Linde and his group arrived at the camp. Since there was no prior notification, the people in the camp were not prepared for Linde's return so soon. After explaining to Winter, who was standing guard at the door, that he had summoned a new beastman coalition, Linde came to the blacksmith shop with eight carts full of ore.

Then I saw a dirty married woman.

"Madam!?" Linde's eyes widened in surprise, looking at the dirty figure in the open space next to the blacksmith shop. Judging from her hairstyle, it should be Madam Ilufa.

"You're back so soon!?" Ilfa, who was fiddling with something, looked at Lind and the others with surprise.

"Yes, something unexpected happened." Lind replied, and then looked curiously at the piles of mud-like things on the ground in front of Ilfa.

These black mud-like things are like rotten mud and look like... cement that has not completely dried yet?

Linde's heartbeat quickened involuntarily.

"Ma'am, what are these?" Lind asked with rapid breathing.

"Cement." Ilufa smiled. "I did as you said. I ground limestone and clay into powder and heated it. I mixed the product with iron slag and ground it into slag. Then I added sand and water to mix it."