Chaos and Taking Action

Chapter 428: Chaos and Taking Action

After speaking with Wizard Artorius, Benjamin had remained alert for any problems that might arise.

But he had not expected the other side to act so quickly.

Barely a month later, the peaceful routine of research was shattered by an emergency order.

Commander Frost's voice spread through the entire army via the Magic Network Terminal, carrying an unusually grave tone:

[All units, attention. Effective immediately, enter the highest level of surface and underground alert. The Sickle-Skull Race has been detected conducting large-scale, high-precision excavation operations around the camp's perimeter and in the extremely deep strata beneath it. Their objective is suspected to be... severing the connection between the ley lines and geological structure of the region spanning ten million kilometers around our camp and the main continent. I repeat, highest alert!]

Part of the detection data was attached to the order.

Benjamin scanned it quickly, his heart turning cold.

The images showed countless specialized Burrower variants of the Sickle-Skull Race constructing a vast, complex underground network thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers beneath the camp.

Their purpose was not to dig attack tunnels, but to excavate ring after ring of "isolation belts" centered around the camp.

These isolation belts were gradually severing the mechanical connections in the earth's crust and draining away the ley line energy flowing through the area.

Because the operation was conducted deep enough underground, it had been extremely well concealed.

Only when the camp's large Protective Arrays began experiencing periodic fluctuations due to unstable energy supplies had the wizards followed the trail and uncovered this shocking conspiracy hidden beneath the earth.

"Trying to 'dig through' our foundations on both the physical and energy levels?" Benjamin frowned deeply.

The tactic seemed clumsy, but given the depth and