Chapter 302: The Northern Wall
Roland and Hela were flying high in the sky.

Below them was a dark place of death that disgusted and terrified all intelligent life forms.

On this land that has been drained of everything, there are only black, lifeless loose clods of earth, and no other colors can be seen.

When it was first drained and turned into a dead land, there were still some weeds, trees, or corpses of wild animals on this black land, but now, all these things have disappeared completely.

Hela looked at the deadly place below, and even she felt a little uncomfortable.

Although Hela's talent for dark elements is extremely high, the Death Land is not formed due to the high concentration of dark elements, but is created after being squeezed dry.

Therefore, the elemental environment of the dead land is similar to the normal environment.

Moreover, even the undead will be affected by the Death Land. Unless they are undead without bodies, undead with bodies, even skeletons, will be absorbed by the Death Land, their bodies will age rapidly, and then they will die at the speed of light due to the loss of their bodies.

Therefore, Hela doesn't like death either.

However, this discomfort did not last long. In less than a day, Roland and Hela, flying at high speed, passed through the long dead land and saw greenery again.

In the distance, at the border between the green land and the dead land, the two saw some weeds and trees that were being eroded rapidly.

Under Hela's gaze, a tree with eroded roots fell from the green land and fell straight into the range of the death zone.

When the tree was close to the death point, before it fell completely, in mid-air, the brown-green trees turned gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the hard trees became soft.

By the time they landed, the tall trees had silently turned into piles of gray sand on the ground.

Watching all this, Hela had a new understanding of the danger of the death zone.

After passing through the death zone, the two did not land immediately, but flew a few hundred meters towards the green zone, found a place without green skins, and then slowly landed.

After landing on the ground again, Hela looked at Roland and asked.

"Should we find a location first, or go to the northern wall first?"

"Let's go to the northern wall first, and see if there are any suitable places along the way. If there are any, write them down along the way."

Roland looked at a greenskin tribe not far away and added.

"We are sneaking in this time. Try to avoid the green-skinned orcs and don't alarm them."

"clear."

Hela nodded.

After deciding on the action plan for the target, Roland and Hela rested for a while, and then set out again.

However, this time they did not fly directly at high altitudes. Although the green-skinned orcs did not have the ability to fly, some green-skinned warriors were quite proficient in throwing.

Don't be afraid of being shot down by them while flying.

Moreover, the green-skinned orcs have the ability to detect life forces, so it is not easy to be discovered when they are on the ground, but when they are flying in the sky, the presence of Roland and Hela becomes particularly conspicuous.

It is easy to be discovered and cause trouble.

Therefore, after escaping from the dangerous situation, Roland and Hela mainly focused on traveling by land.

Fortunately, Roland and Hela's physical fitness is not bad, so their speed of traveling on land is not slow.

Moreover, thanks to the map provided by the border faction members who originally lived in this area, Roland and Hela could also run directly towards the northern wall.

Not to mention, the two of them had a luck that was both good and bad this time.

On the way to the northern wall, Roland discovered several good places for setting up magic formations. On the other hand, Roland had to pass through the core areas of several greenskin warlords along the way.

In order not to alert these green-skinned warlords, Roland and Hela took several detours.

Moreover, once when they took a detour, Roland and Hela ended up in an even worse place, a battlefield where two greenskin warlords were fighting.

If Roland had not had a keen sense and discovered these two green-skinned warlords who looked like low-level transcendents in his perception, both Roland and Hela would have passed through the battlefield.

If the two of them did this, they would definitely be discovered by the two greenskin warlords.

However, after Roland discovered it, the two of them still took a detour to avoid the battlefield where the two greenskin warlords were fighting.

The reason why it was not discovered at first was mainly because this kind of thing is so common.

Previously, the greenskin warlords who were close to the rebels or the coalition forces could still fight with them, but if these greenskin warlords who were inside wanted to fight, they could only fight with other greenskin warlords.

Moreover, due to the greenskin orcs' ability to plunder vitality, not only will the greenskin warlords fight for each other's vitality, but the greenskin tribes under their command will also constantly fight against each other.

On average, Roland and Hela encounter dozens of battles every day. If they want to avoid all of them, who knows how much time they will waste.

So, in some small-scale greenskin battles, the two would choose to go straight across the battlefield.

However, despite some troubles, after spending several days, Roland and Hela successfully reached the location of the northern wall.

Roland and Hela arrived at the corner of the northern wall exhausted.

The two men raised their heads and looked at the high wall in front of them.

Although the high wall in front of us is currently just an ordinary high wall due to lack of maintenance and energy.

However, the extremely tall and thick city walls still demonstrate its strong defensive capabilities.

As a solid line of defense that the Central Kingdom once used to fight against the beast tide, the construction of the northern wall almost concentrated a large amount of manpower and material resources of the Central Kingdom at that time.

Even though the Central Kingdom only controlled less than half of Donnar's land at the time, the Northern Wall remains an almost indestructible line of defense today due to the Central Kingdom's decades of construction at all costs.

Since its establishment, it has only been breached once, which was the only time more than ten years ago when the Green Tide Army breached the northern wall.

But this is not surprising. After humans went to Sinnar to open up new lands, the number of spellcasters in Donnar has been declining.

Although the main popular power in Dongnalan is knights, most talented extraordinary seeds will choose to embark on the path of knights. However, with so many people in Dongnalan and the needs of the ruling class, a group of spellcasters will eventually be born.

However, due to the customs of Donnar, although spellcasters are not excluded, their status is always inferior to that of knights. Moreover, a large number of knights occupy the noble positions in the Central Kingdom, and it is difficult for a few spellcaster families to join the circle of knights.

Therefore, a large number of spellcasters began to expand into Sinnar, trying to establish a kingdom belonging to spellcasters.

As for the current situation, those spellcasters who chose to leave Donnar were undoubtedly successful. They established countless spellcaster kingdoms in Xinar, and after Littorio established the Silver Empire, under the spellcaster policy they implemented, the human kingdoms in Xinar were clearly more inclined towards spellcasters.

Before the Silver Empire and the Central Kingdom became enemies, spellcasters born in East Nar would basically move to West Nar actively or passively.

Especially after the establishment of the Tower of Truth and the obvious improvement of the status of the Silver Empire's spellcasters, the scale of this transfer became even larger, to the point that the spellcaster heritage of Donnar was interrupted.

Spellcasters who gradually formed a system completely disappeared in Donnar, leaving only a small number of spellcasters with vague inheritance who were called wizards by the Donnar knights.

Most wizards are not even as reliable as any of Sinar's wild mages.

The result is that the maintenance level of the northern wall is getting lower and lower.

As the pinnacle work of countless spellcasting masters, how could the maintenance of the northern wall be done by a few low-level wizards?

The northern line of defense was the line of defense established by human spellcasters before they went to Sinalan in search of knowledge.

Although the core runes were relatively backward, the runes arranged by nearly a hundred high-level spellcasters were definitely not bad. Coupled with the material support of the entire human world at that time and the complex rune combinations that had been continuously superimposed for countless years, the complexity of the northern defense line was definitely not something that some low-level spellcasters could understand.

Therefore, after receiving the orders, the low-level spellcasters and wizards can only make repairs according to their own ideas.

As the Central Kingdom lost power, the central government gradually disintegrated, with nearly ten knight kingdoms each occupying part of the northern defense line. The northern defense line, which had previously been maintained in a unified manner, was now divided into sections by nearly ten knight kingdoms, each of which had to repair it separately.

This naturally made the situation on the northern defense line worse.

Even after hearing that the green tide was coming, the Knight Kingdom urgently strengthened maintenance and added defense personnel. The northern wall, once known as the "Wall of Sighs", was still easily penetrated by the green tide, and even Kan'ozu did not take any action.

Roland passed through the city wall and saw a huge mountain of shit inside the city wall, which was made up of countless runes folded together. When Roland saw this mountain of shit, he was numb.

This is not the easily modified shit pile of the cultists. After all, it is just a ritual that has been circulated among the cultists for only a few years.

However, the northern wall in front of us is a pile of shit formed after thousands of years of maintenance.

All the northern wall as far as the eye can see is this mountain of code shit.

Moreover, the worst thing is that the most important core rune was tampered with by some little genius and stuffed with a bunch of inexplicable, uh, spell runes, right?

Roland frowned as he looked at the strange-looking things in the core runes, wondering if they were spell runes.

These things disrupted the entire core rune, so that the core rune became messy.

Moreover, there are obvious traces of modification and cutting on the core runes. I don’t know which genius can delete the runes directly without changing them directly. And how can a whole spell rune be cut in half?

Roland became more and more annoyed the more he watched.

He took a deep breath and forced himself to look away from the core rune and towards the outer runes. Then, Roland became even more annoyed.

Grass!
Looking at the runes outside the core rune, Roland almost felt dizzy.

It's even more outrageous than the cult's sacrifice ceremony. Although there are many useless runes in the cult's sacrifice ceremony, the runes on the outside of the northern wall are far better than those of the cultists.

If the cultist is just a kettle with a few small holes, then the northern wall in front of us is a wooden barrel with countless big holes.

Looking around, nearly ten percent of the runes are of some incomprehensible nature, and only a few spell runes seem to be somewhat useful.

Well, Roland took a look and found that these runes were still useful. Their function was to emit light.

Shit! Just fixing the lights is considered maintenance, right? You little geniuses!!! I ****
No wonder the northern wall was so easily breached by the green tide. With the core runes and outer runes in such a terrible state, it was a miracle that the northern wall could hold out for a day.

As Roland's face darkened the more he looked, Hela, who was also looking at him, frowned more and more.

Although she was not a master of runes, she had received rune education from Roland and had learned a little on her own, so she knew a little about runes.

Even with her level of observation, Hela could see the incredible extent of the runes inside the northern wall in front of her.

Anyone who has some knowledge of runes will feel dizzy when faced with these miscellaneous external runes that are glued together.

Roland once said that no extraordinary person should be underestimated. Maybe this is some special rune design?

Looking at the dizzy Hela, she thought so and then she withdrew her gaze and turned to look at Roland.

Since Roland and Hela were the only people present, Roland did not manage his facial expression and his face turned dark.

Even a fool could see that Roland was in a very bad mood.

After seeing Roland's expression, Hela swallowed back the words she was about to say.

Well, it seems that these designs are really bad, really not good.

As all his attention was focused on the northern wall in front of him, Roland did not notice Hela's small movements.

After forcing himself to look through all these messy spell rune designs, Roland came to a conclusion.

Rather than rebuilding, it is better to tear it down and start over.

The spell runes on the northern wall have been piled up for who knows how many years and have undergone countless unreliable maintenances. Various runes have been deleted and reduced, and a few runes have been randomly added.

As for the current northern wall, even if we bring the founders over, they may not be able to understand the complexity of it.

Instead of wasting time figuring out how to repair it, it's better to keep some usable runes and start over with the rest.

As a great god in the field of runes, if Roland is given enough resources and time, he can build a stronger northern wall than the previous one.

However, Roland did not have sufficient resources and time, and because of the green tide, the reconstruction could not be too drastic.

Although Roland had many ideas for improvement, he could only choose the most cost-effective plan.

However, even so, Roland will have to mobilize many more resources and spellcasters than originally planned to assist him in rebuilding.

After looking at all the runes in front of him, Roland sighed with a little helplessness.

"Roland?"

Hela's voice sounded beside Roland.

Roland looked at Hela, and seeing Hela's worried eyes, Roland smiled bitterly.

"It's okay, but the situation of the northern wall is worse than I thought. I may be busy next."

"Go up and have a look."

After saying that, Roland slowly rose into the air and flew into the northern wall, while Hela followed behind Roland and flew in.

Passing through the unobstructed window, Roland and Hela entered the interior of the northern wall.

As soon as they entered, they smelled a foul odor, as if it was a mixture of rotting corpses, rust, excrement, blood, and other smells.

Roland floated slightly above the ground and did not land directly on the dusty ground.

He raised his head and looked into the distance along the passage.

Not far away, Roland saw several bodies torn in half.

Roland and Hela slowly floated over.

These were several rotten human corpses, which had been torn in half by some unknown weapon. There were obvious bite marks on the torn side of their bodies, and a lot of flesh and blood were obviously missing from their bodies.

In addition, their heads were torn open and their brains disappeared completely.

It goes without saying that they were killed by the green-skinned orcs, and the missing body parts were probably eaten by the green-skinned orcs as food.

Roland sighed, and black flames appeared on the fingers of his right hand.

Then, with a slight flick, he threw the flames onto the corpses.

The black flames quickly spread throughout the bodies, quickly burning them all to ashes.

After burning the bodies, Roland and Hela continued along the passage.

Along the way, Roland recorded all the runes of the Northern Wall that he saw, and took out a pen and paper to draw a large rune map of the Northern Wall based on the records.

He had to first record all the runes on the northern wall and draw a rune map. Then, he could prepare a reconstruction plan based on the rune map and calculate the resources and manpower required.

However, although he was mentally prepared, Roland still felt more and more dizzy the more he watched.

In the past, when the northern wall was repaired by the Central Kingdom, although the quality was not good, the style was relatively unified. However, in the past thousand years, the maintenance was divided among the various knight kingdoms. Therefore, the styles of the areas they were responsible for were completely inconsistent.

Although Roland was planning to tear down and rebuild, these spell runes could not be simply and roughly erased. He had to confirm the connection between the spell runes and be well prepared before starting the reconstruction work.

The lack of uniformity in style means that the connections between spell runes need to be carefully discerned.

This undoubtedly greatly increased Roland's workload and increased the difficulty of rebuilding the northern wall.

While Roland was trying hard to record and draw the rune diagram, Hela was there to help Roland record the runes and share his pressure.

At the same time, Hela, who didn't know much about runes, also took some time to clean up the various corpses and strange smells in the passage to prevent these things from affecting Roland's attention.

After all, Roland is still the main force in drawing the rune map, and Hela can only do some simple auxiliary work.

(End of this chapter)