Castle of Black Iron

Translator: WQL  Editor: Aleem

Zhang Tie didn"t leave that mountain range until 10 days later.

During this period, Zhang Tie joined more than 10 battles and chopped off dozens of heads in the mountain range. After ambus.h.i.+ng a team of fighters of Sacred Alliance Empire, Zhang Tie who disguised himself as Frederick suddenly found that he could light all the other surging points except those on his spine. After that, Zhang Tie exited that mountain range and prepared to go back to the camp at the order of the Sword of Brilliance.

The battles in the 10 days could be ignored as they were not even performances and far from risks. Given his realm as a sage-level knight, even being weak, he still didn"t have any sense of fulfillment by disguising as a LV 9 fighter and fighting demon lackeys at LV 9 or below LV 9. It was far from being satisfying.

There was only a relatively "risky" battle: Zhang Tie discovered a LV 11 battle master of Sacred Alliance Emperor in the mountain. After thinking twice, Zhang Tie felt it was too eye-catching if he killed him with the gap of two levels, therefore, Zhang Tie chose to "dodge" the battle master"s chase through jumping off the "cliff" with an "unyielding" will…

2 days later after that "survival", Zhang Tie found that he gained some breakthrough——he could finally light the surging points except those on his spine. Therefore, he finished the 10 days" "outing in the spring" in the mountain range and came to the next step.

费南距离冷水城230公里,护卫着冷水城的侧翼,和现在已经成为一片废墟的冷水城相比,费南现在还完全掌握在人族联军的手上,整个费南现在就是一个兵营,神圣联盟帝国的军队想要夺取费南,只有两条路,这两条路,一条是穿过费南北面的那一片崇山峻岭,把大军开到费南城下,还有一条,就是在彻底占领冷水城后,从冷水城挥师东进,才有威胁费南的可能.

Feinan was about 160 miles away from Coldwater City. Protecting a flank of Coldwater City, it was completely under the control of allied human forces compared to the deserted Coldwater City. Feinan was like a human camp. If the forces of Sacred Alliance Emperor wanted to occupy Feinan, they could only have two ways: pa.s.s the lofty mountains in the north of Feinan and came to the city gate of Feinan City or completely occupy Coldwater City and march eastward from Coldwater City so as to threaten Feinan.

As for Sacred Alliance Emperor, each of the two ways was difficult. They had to pay a great loss whenever they marched one step forward.

Coldwater City had already become ruins; however, humans and demon lackeys were still scrambling for it. Additionally, the demon army couldn"t move forward in the mountain range in the north of Feinan City as none of the heavy weapons could enter it. Therefore, that mountain range became another battlefield. Those who could fight in that region were all elites. They were mainly fighters above LV 6. Outside the mountain range, allied human forces were waiting for enemies in a series of defense line composed of battle fortresses. Even though the elites of Allied Sacred Emperor pa.s.sed that mountain range, they would also be badly battered by the b.l.o.o.d.y forces in the steel battle fortresses.

"Stop…"

在那片山岭南面的一个关隘处,一个灰色的高大的钢铁战堡耸立着,卡主了进出那片山岭的咽喉,7月29日的早上,天色大亮,太阳刚刚出来,一身露水,从树林之中钻出来的张铁,在距离那片关隘处500米之外,就引起了战堡守军的注意,战堡上几台威力巨大的蒸汽弩炮,已经悄然瞄准了张铁的身影,在张铁把野战披风的帽兜拉下来,露出自己胡子拉碴历经风霜的脸颊和面容之后,战堡上的守军稍微放松了一点,但仍然盯着朝着战堡走来的张铁.

A tall gray-colored steel battle fortress was standing at a pa.s.s in the south of that mountain range, controlling the main road accessing the mountain range. On the early morning of July 29, soon after the sun came out, Zhang Tie had caught the attention of the garrisons in the battle fortress. Some powerful steam crossbow cannons had already targeted at Zhang Tie silently. When Zhang Tie pulled off the hood of his field cape, revealing his bearded and experienced face, he caused the garrisons to be slightly relaxed. However, they were still gazing at Zhang Tie who was walking towards the battle fortress.

在张铁距离战堡70米左右的时候,地上有一条红线,随着战堡上的那个声音传来,张铁也就在那条红线之外停下了脚步. "报上部队番号,还有通行口令!"钢铁战堡之上,一个穿着暗红色军装的军官战在箭垛的后面,对着张铁喊了一声.

When Zhang Tie was about 70 m away from the battle fortress, he saw a red line on the ground. At this time, Zhang Tie heard a voice from the battle fortress, "Report the designation of your troop and your pa.s.scode!" from an officer in crimson military uniform hiding behind the arrow b.u.t.tress.

"圣光帝国光辉之剑军团希克斯半岛派遣兵团第三大队第76小队,通关口令,雾中之光…"张铁沉声回答道.

"No. 76 squad, the 3rd brigade, designated corps in Hicks Peninsula, Sword of Brilliance Army Group, Sacred Light Empire. Pa.s.scode, Light in Mist…" Zhang Tie answered in a m.u.f.fled voice.

战堡上的军官估计是去核对76小队留下的通关口令,足足过了半分钟,那个军官的声音才重新在战堡上面响了起来,"番号口令无误,准予通过…"

After that, the officer might go to check the pa.s.scode of No. 76 Squad. In half a minute, the officer finally responded in the battle fortress, "Correct designation and pa.s.scode. Permitted…"

After confirming Zhang Tie"s ident.i.ty, the crossbow cannon was moved upward, then changed to another direction. All the garrisons in the battle fortress were watching Zhang Tie with complex looks which contained a bit of respect.

3 weeks ago, No. 76 squad entering this mountain range contained 6 people. 3 weeks later, only one of them survived back. Needless to say, the other 5 had died. Now that Fred could come back, he must be fortunate and competent.

In others" eyes, Zhang Tie was a survivor on the battlefield as he was wounded; besides, they could almost hear battle calls given Zhang Tie"s look.

When Zhang Tie walked towards the battle fortress, no matter how poor he looked, he still stayed calm inside. As he walked, he squinted at those weapons in the battle fortress. Meanwhile, he sighed with emotions inside.

War was indeed the catalyzer of new technologies and achievements. Take this color-changing field cape being processed with mutated cuttlefish"s body fluid as an instance. When he left this world, this equipment didn"t exist among human troops, even troops in Taixia Country. Unexpectedly, more than 3 decades later, fighters of elite army groups in the frontier of the Western Continent had been equipped with it.

The weapons in the battle fortress were also much more powerful than that when he left. With the combination of new alloy materials and rune technologies, the pressure storage ability of the storage tanks of the steam weapons was one level higher than before, which meant great improvement in destructive capability. With the invention of fiery oil, this battle fortress got a reserved dynamic system and some awe-stricken fiery-oil inflammable weapons.

If not take the air supremacy in advance, it would take demons or demon lackeys two times more lives than that needed over 3 decades ago to eliminate this battle fortress. However, if they took the air supremacy, they only needed one 1-ton heavy inflammable bomb to turn this battle fortress into ruins and the battalion of soldiers in the battle fortress into ashes.

Air cavalries gradually became more and more important in wars.

Zhang Tie looked up at the sky…

As was imagined, a formation of "battle eagles" was hovering in the sky. Besides protecting the battle fortress, they were also monitoring the situation facing the air territory above the mountain range…