Struggle in the Steam Age

"Considering the terrible situation we are facing now, I suggest that everyone mobilize immediately and gather all the forces that can be mobilized to launch a large-scale offensive, causing enough casualties to the current attackers."

Angst, the mistress of the dark elves, stood up and said loudly. "Who supports it!? Who opposes it!?"

Obviously, after realizing that the situation is very tense now, and a discussion like this may not be able to discuss a result in a short period of time.

Angst intends to use her identity and deterrence to forcefully push forward her plan again, and recruit people for her last fight.

"Your Excellency, I would like to ask how the human beings are deployed on the front line?" A mistress of the first family from another dark elf city-state stood up and asked.

"My subordinates told me that now the attacking force of those outsiders has shrunk, and they can't even get much accurate information."

"Uh—actually, no one can obtain the specific situation of the group of attackers now." After being stunned by the same family. Angst replied somewhat helplessly.

After all, the mistress on the opposite side is the master of Razor City, and not only belongs to the spellcaster who is second only to herself among the sitting ones in terms of extraordinary power. Her city is also a very powerful force.

Therefore, Angst must give her the corresponding respect, and it is not appropriate to be vague in this place.

"Although I know this is important, after our base was blocked by the attackers, the opponent chose to completely shrink their forces and mobilized some troops who were also good at fighting in caves and mountains to start clearing the rear and blocking the battlefield. Therefore, our scouts almost Unable to successfully penetrate the opposing line and bring the news back alive."

"As for all kinds of divine spells and magic methods, we have tried all of them, and even organized two blood sacrifices. But because the other party also has a large number of gods to protect them, the spellcasters we organized couldn't see their specific situation at all— —”

Unlike the dark elves, who fight on their own after entering the battlefield, the coalition of intelligent races headed by humans can achieve general coordination under the command of the general headquarters, and at the same time can obtain the blessings of the gods of their own camp.

Therefore, the defense formed by the alliance of multiple forces is far from being able to break through by those wilderness race city-states or tribes alone.

This also caused this group of guys to have no idea that after the strategic contraction of the civilized race, human beings not only concentrated their forces to pull out the nails left by the wilderness races behind their own front and nearby, but also strengthened the construction of defense facilities. .

For example, at the cost of reducing some weapons, ammunition and supplies, a batch of explosives and reinforced concrete were urgently transported to build some semi-permanent and permanent fortifications in many important places throughout the valley, not just wilderness populations at the contact points of the two sides. The batch I saw.

"Lord Angst, if we don't have specific information, then we won't be able to deduce the current size of the entire coalition army and the focus of defense." Dunif, the gray dwarf city lord, said at this time.

"Although I don't want to admit it, I still want to say that in the face of the current battle situation, we need to plan for some worse results. Therefore, when I don't know the specific situation of the enemy, I prefer more conservative tactics."

Angst felt that the blood vessels in her head were throbbing and hurting after Duniff slapped her like this. If it weren't for her current skin itself being black, maybe her face would be as red as a tomato.

After these leaders each expressed their opinions, some other leaders also expressed their attitudes.

"The full mobilization during this period has delayed many of our affairs and consumed a lot of our supplies. Not to mention the huge loss of personnel. Under this situation, I don't see the difference between resisting here and leaving here to find another way of life." Somewhere better than anything."

"And the group of invaders outside just wanted to establish a line of communication, not a large-scale development. I don't understand why those of us who were originally a distance from this valley area would choose to join this war."

The speaker came from several other big forces, so he wasn't very afraid of these dark elves. In particular, everyone had had a lot of conflicts before, so after the previous fiascos, they were naturally not afraid to speculate on the intentions of Angst and the dark elf city-state behind them with the greatest malice.

Especially when everyone got together, through communication, these people realized that the people who suffered the most damage in the previous wars were marginal races like gnolls or goblins, even as one of the two giants of the Underdark. The gray dwarves also lost many armed teams that could be called core pillars.

It should be said that the least affected in this war is the dark elves who jumped up and down to gather everyone together. Except for the loss of the elite of the second family of the Shadow Corner City where Angest belonged, the entire dark elves suffered in this war. There is basically no loss of organized troops.

But if considering the dark elves' long tradition of infighting, it is difficult for others to judge whether the loss of the dark elves was really caused by some kind of accident or Angst wanted to borrow a knife to kill people.

At least in the eyes of the controllers of the various tribes and city-states present, the suspicion of killing with a knife is naturally inescapable.

In fact, the truth of the matter is more or less the same. According to the tradition of the dark elves, it was only natural that Angst, the mistress of the first family, wanted to use this war to weaken the power of the second family.

It's just that according to the traditional level of conspiracy and tricks of the dark elves, most of the power of the second family will go through several fierce battles in this war with the army of civilized races. It would feel like this ending is somewhere between reasonable and unreasonable.

Instead of being caught off guard by Nora's assault due to an accident like this, and finally wiped out the entire family's elite army.

As a result, this directly led to the direct exposure of a conspiracy that was originally difficult to be detected by most people, and after putting on a label that would kill people with a knife in this war.

Every decision Angst makes now will be understood by those present as she has come up with a new way to kill with a knife.

After all, for these evil creatures, it is too difficult to be willing to contribute to others like the kind or neutral creatures of the civilized races outside.

For extremely selfish beings like them, how could they miss the opportunity to trick their old opponents. It will not take into account the problem of foreign enemies pressing the border.

If it weren't for the fact that it was hard for them to give up everything in this area and that their gods had issued some requirements to them behind their backs, in fact, at least half of the people present would have chosen to leave their homes and directly give up this land. After all, for those nomadic races, moving is not too difficult.

But even so, the gods behind these races were discouraged by repeated failures and painful losses.

At least for these gods, they just hope that they can teach the gods behind that group of civilized races a lesson through their subordinates, and they don't want their believers to stay here like this.

With their own plans, it was naturally difficult for the coalition forces of the wilderness race to reach a consensus. Fortunately, these disputes were ended after the last few priests who served the gods of various races entered the cave hall.

These priests brought the oracle of the gods, and after listening to the oracle, Angst felt a little sad and happy. The happy side is that the gods have decided to let her take the lead in this direction for the time being.

The bad side is that Rose warns her that this is her last chance, if she fails again, she and her family will be completely expelled, and she herself will be deprived of everything and transformed into a spider elf.