After the meeting ended, all the representatives could not wait to leave the room and spread the good news back to their countries. Lilith reminded Rob to pay attention to Merlin, and then quietly left with the people from the Magic Association, leaving the room for the two of them.
"When do you plan to leave?" After everyone had left, Luo Luo leaned her head against a certain someone's chest and closed her eyes. As the situation continued to worsen, the two of them had their own missions to fulfill, and the time they could spend together was getting shorter and shorter. Thus, Luo Luo now treasured every time they met.
"Two days later." Rob stroked the girl's hair and said softly, "I have a hunch that the final battle is coming soon. Before that, I need to be prepared."
"I told President Lilith the cultivation method of the Force, but the others are different from me. They don't have the Force Virus, and it will take at least a few years for them to comprehend the Force. President Lilith has already started to select qualified children, but I'm afraid they won't be of much help in a short period of time." Lolo sighed. "I thought I've become stronger, and I can no longer stand by and worry about you like before, but in the end, I still can't help you."
"What you're doing now is already amazing. If you didn't find a way to close those Abyssal Cracks, the casualties on the human side would increase by at least a million, and I wouldn't be able to spare my hands to prepare for the next battle."
"They … Will they really come? Didn't you say that President Da Vinci and Steins killing that guy called Pargos can serve as a deterrent to those things? The more they have endless life, the more they fear death. "Lolo repeated half of someone's sentence.
"That's right, those things are cautious by nature, so the next time they appear in front of us, it won't be just one enemy, but a group of enemies."
"A … group?!" Lolo thought of the hundreds of light pillars in the world of the secret treasure, and her scalp went numb. She couldn't imagine who could fight against so many gods with their own strength.
However, the man in front of her seemed to be able to read her thoughts, and he said softly, "Don't worry, everything will be fine." After saying that, Rob lowered his head and kissed the corner of the girl's eye.
…
Lilith walked out of the conference room and bumped into Prime Minister Pushkin. The latter was standing by the door and seemed to be waiting for her.
It had only been a few minutes, but Pushkin's expression had changed drastically. He used all his strength to stop his body from trembling, but the beads of sweat on his forehead betrayed his inner panic.
Lilith's heart sank. Pushkin had been the Prime Minister of the Lionheart Empire for more than 20 years. He was a very mature politician, and it was reasonable for him to remain calm in the face of chaos. In other words, his current state meant that he had encountered a very difficult problem.
Lilith closed the door behind her. "Don't disturb His Holiness. Let's talk on the other side."
Pushkin nodded. Suppressing the fear in his heart, he followed Lilith down to a lounge on the second floor.
As soon as Pushkin entered the room, he said, "I just received some bad news. Armored Rock City has been captured by those monsters."
"What?" Lilith was shocked. Armored Rock City was the largest city in the north, and was once the capital of the Black Dragon Dynasty. It was known as an impregnable fortress, and its walls were even stronger than New Tyrus's. Apart from that, there were 40,000 soldiers stationed in the city. In addition to the two squads that were patrolling nearby to clear out the monsters, they could quickly mobilize an armed force of more than 150,000 people in half a day.
No matter how one looked at it, this level of defense shouldn't have fallen, but Pushkin didn't seem to be joking.
"Because I'm worried about food security, I started mobilizing two months ago. The northern towns were only left with a month's worth of rations, and the rest of the food was sent to Armored Rock City. Even the supplies that were prepared to support the Sacred Alliance have been burned to ashes." Pushkin smiled bitterly.
"What?!" Lilith cried out. She finally understood why Pushkin was so out of his wits.
Because Armored Rock City was sufficiently sturdy and safe, Pushkin had chosen it as a granary. Who would have thought that something would happen in the least likely place? The attack on Armored Rock City reeked of a conspiracy from head to toe. The monsters had always given up on the big cities and focused on harassing the smaller towns and villages, killing as many humans as possible and destroying production. But this time, it was completely out of the norm. No one had expected them to target Armored Rock City.
"How did they know that the northern rations were all concentrated in Armored Rock City?" This was the question that Lilith couldn't understand.
"The Church of Patience." Pushkin practically squeezed out these four words through gritted teeth. "The attack this time has a lot to do with them. The scattered monsters suddenly gathered in Armored Rock City and took less than a quarter of an hour to take down the southern gate. They're definitely behind this. "
Lilith sighed. The situation that she was most worried about had still happened. After the Church stood on the side of the humans, some other people took over the work of the Church and willingly became the lackeys of the gods. With these spies infiltrating and gathering information, the monsters no longer attacked blindly. Instead, they became organized and had a purpose, which made them even more difficult to deal with.
But those monsters were a matter for another time. Right now, there was an even more serious problem in front of the two. The northern towns only had a month's worth of rations left, and the famine in the Sacred Alliance had already begun to spread. Large numbers of victims had collapsed, and their only hope of survival rested on this batch of supplies. But just now, all of these supplies had been burned to ashes.
"I've sent two floating forts over. We'll be able to retake the city in a day."
"It's useless. Even if we can retake it, it'll just be an empty city." Lilith tried her best to calm down, but there was nothing she could do about the current situation. The issue of rations was a common topic. Everyone knew what those monsters wanted to do, but there was nothing they could do about it. This was also the most powerless aspect of the situation. The food problem was getting more and more serious. In the past, they still had time to think of a solution, but this time, they had truly run out of supplies.
No wonder even the old prime minister, Pushkin, had lost his composure.
"Weren't you collecting rations from the elves and dwarves? How did it go?"
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