Esmalfania on the other hand, managed to suppress various attacks on some fronts of the northern regions, and its army managed to stop Al Maghrib’s army at the pillars of their Great Bridge, which couldn’t be reached even by the heavy weaponry of Al Maghrib.
Beneath the desert…
The explorers were going everyday deeper, and by that time they had encountered many powerful armies of grotesque creatures that were to defend their home in the underground mazes.
It was a huge city down there, and yet the Smiling Man and his army could find the hallways that would drive them to the mazes beneath the foundations of the prison, but even if they could find it, they truly managed to start up advanced bases and setting much of their infrastructure down there, and their armies continued being deployed.
Al Maghrib has shown the world all of their power, which in only one moth they have deployed more than 4 million men all over the wastelands, destroying absolutely everything that dared to step in their way, which by now was basically Esmalfania.
They were quite near to McDallen territories, but he refused to fight anymore after seeing how destructive the Fürer’s armies were, even if this was against his King’s orders, he was between the sword and the wall, but a secret communication from Esmeralda, his Queen, who ordered him to keep things at calm and decided that he didn’t need to fight, but only to care that Al Maghrib didn’t attack civilians in his occupied territories.
-Don’t worry McDallen… We will send out help, but please try not to engage on them… Please don’t fight; we need to figure out a way to stop this…
With Dullahan taken out of the way temporary all the decisions were in hands of the Queen herself, who, pacifist as his brave warrior McDallen, wanted to avoid the conflict by the only mean of giving up the territories necessaries for Al Maghrib to expand peacefully.
They were indeed protecting something, but they didn’t realize that it all began with the attack on Rundara; the Queen thought they were planning a strategy to take over all the wastelands and the other three countries…
In the underground mazes…
The Smiling Man and huge battalion reached the deepest part of the maze, almost at 3 kilometers beneath the surface, where they had to fight against the ancient creatures that had been asleep during centuries.
The army was ordered to search every centimeter around the maze and exterminate all and everything that would suppose a threat for them, as they kept moving to a huge black gate which obviously was the entrance to the hallways.
The deepest part of the maze and this gates were the sign, they had to open the gate to move forward.
The Smiling Man, in another show out of his extreme strength cut by half the huge gate, making it explode into pieces, everyone feel back upon it, but he immediately ordered that all the army continue moving forward…
The night finally reached the continent, and from the center of the wastelands everyone could see the night lights of all the four countries and all the lights from the armies of Al Maghrib moving around the place.
In Madanbelle everything was quiet and calm, and they clearly had no idea that the Fürer’s army was reaching them from beneath, in the underground mazes.
Rubik finally got a response from his father, who seemed to have calmed down considerably since that day the young prince left his kingdom years ago.
According to their laws, any citizen who left the country at once and more than two years would lose their nationality rights, simply a common strategy to say everyone who did it was practically an exiled one.
The man surprisingly read his entire son’s information and specially that where he said that, with all these prisoners he could ensure military presence from Landia inside the prison, but if needed to do it, he had to wait until Al Maghrib attacked the prison…
So in a familiar conference along with his wife and daughters, they discussed this important matter.
-I merely wasn’t thinking about this, but what indeed worries me it’s the prison itself, the APB’s are being held in there, and we cannot allow Al Maghrib to cause any damage to it… The King placed those informs in the table of the royal dining room.
The Queen on the other had come up with a simple idea.
-Rubik said there are almost 50 thousand prisoners in Madanbelle and they could be useful to prevent the Fürer’s armies to reach the APB’s but…-She was interrupted.
-There is no sign they are after the APB’s; but if what Rubik says it is true, the Brionac is in the prison, or somewhere near to it, this is a double risk…- Valentine said.
After this, the Queen continued.
-I know it says that, but the first matter is what to do with the prisoners, I have an idea to guarantee their cooperation, but it would involve breaking one of our laws… We could ensure their participation and loyalty if they fight and we ensure them they will regain nationality and freedom if they survive…
As the King as both girls stared at the Queen, who seemed pretty convinced that this was an effective plan, but there was a problem: They couldn’t go there, for this only depended on Rubik himself. And this was the answer the King sent to his son.
-If he can convince them and they manage to prevent a world disaster to happen, we will give them all the support we can…
Rubik was honored when he received this answer; he was willing to reform the army out of all those prisoners, and he was about to do it when suddenly the prison suffered from a powerful shake.
It lasted at least four seconds, and everyone got to their positions expecting an attack from the outside, but the outpost reported no presence from al Maghrib’s army.
In the lowest levels, the impact provoked internal damage to the structure of the prison, and inside the APB’s cell clock, these creatures saw something that resolved many questions they had about their enclosure in that place.
When the cell block was stroke by that earthquake, the APB’s and the red eye monster saw some kind of powerful energy shield stuck to the floor, walls and ceiling of the cell block.
It only reacted when the physical structure of the cell block twisted strong enough to touch the shield, and then they understood, they could escape from that place due to that shielding that sealed them from their source of power.
A second strike made the shield reacting, but this time since the impact was far stronger, the shield started to shriek slowly, as if it was about to break.
-Just a little more…-The red eyed monster said.
They didn’t know what was happening, but if this would release them they would not complain.
The two APB’s understood what was happening, and they easily could feel the presence of their power source if that shield would go down if only for a second.
Meanwhile, beneath the prison, a surprise enemy engaged with Al Maghrib’s army that had reached the foundations of the prison…
Three huge arachnid monsters engaged the invader army, causing heavy casualties and who forced them to retreat a couple kilometers off the center of the foundations, these huge creatures were hiding on the pillars of the foundations.
Black as the darkness that roamed in there, these creatures were fast and powerful enough to wipe out all the men they reached, the heavy artillery was too slow to hit them and instead they shots reached the upper base of the foundations, causing those destructive earthquakes over the prison.
The Smiling Man saw nothing close to the Brionac, but yet there was to explore a deepest place rather than the maze they were on in that moment, and to make things worse, these huge spiders released small arachnid creatures that engaged the men on the maze, which led to an unstoppable battle all the way to all corners of that enormous place.
The gun shots manage to stop the small spiders and to deal some damage on the bigger ones; the Smiling Man then tried to reach one of the bigger ones by jumping off of the platform and luckily fell on the back of one of these monsters.
In just a swing, he chopped off two legs of this monster when again it jumped out to the platform where his men kept fighting the small ones, and those that weren’t engaging the small spiders started firing at the huge spider down, that was being destroyed as the Smiling Man chopped off another pair of its legs and let it there to be shot to death by his men.
The spider squealed as it was being blown out by the powerful gunshot of those humans until it eventually fell down completely dead.
The other two huge spiders seeing the superiority of those small beings decided to flee away crawling up the ceiling and heading to the exit where they would only find dead in the hands of the entire army that was waiting outside.
The calm returned to the maze, the Smiling Man then ordered the rappel teams to prepare to go down while he and the rest of the army prepared that place as an advanced base for Al Maghrib.
But something was wrong, the rappel teams reported that there was another hall down there, but this was far greater than any other they found until then, that; by its size it easily was as big as Madanbelle itself.
More than a maze or a hall, it looked like a huge chamber designed to contain something that was unknown for everyone; it took a while to the explorers to call in the heavy equipment to cover the most distance as possible.
The Smiling Man jumped there and suffered no damage when he smashed the ground as a small meteor.
-What the hell is this place? -He asked.
The explorers were about to report when in that moment a powerful earthquake started shaking the entire chamber and all of the prison’s foundations.
They heard the sound of rocks breaking and falling into the platform, a second and most powerful shake ended up destroying one of the huge pillars from the foundations; that tore apart and fell violently on the platform destroying it with no warning and letting it fall down to the chamber, completely killing everything and everyone in there.
In the lowest levels of the prison.
A huge hole broke through the foundations and many hundreds of men fell into the nothingness of the chambers below the prison, and what worried the men the most was the cell block of the APB’s which was about to break because due to the earthquake, a huge amount of rocks were colliding with the locking shield of the cell block.
The shield was getting weaker and the three monsters sealed were ready to flee off…
The shakings made some of the prison structure to fall down and the guard teams in the cell block managed to see a golden plate with the name of that huge blue-skinned monster; a plate that had been hidden all this time and which read: “APB-0431 “Tronoss” and another two on the other cells which read: “APB-0032 “Blade Master”.
The shield was getting weaker, and knowing that, APB-0431 smashed the gate of its cell and destroyed it in one single hit. He had broken free and finally stepped outside the cell, and the humans finally could see its true form.
It was roaring slowly while it tracked humans despite its lack of eyes.
He put his huge hands together and with one smash on the floor, the shield finally broke down in a huge explosion which made the alarms sounding all over the prison…
In Landia…
-Great King!!!! Great King!!! Something is happening in the wastelands!!! Please come now!!! –A soldier shouted inside of the royal palace, and all the family followed the guard.
They went to the edge of the platform where they could see at its highest detail, powerful light beams were shot to the skies and powerful outer alarms started sounding all over the prison and an intense fire in the center of the facilities.
Everyone in the four Great Bridges could see what was happening…
Mudahash people were terrified for what was happening in the wastelands, but Skyla calmed them down and mobilized the army not to fight, but to keep order and evacuate the towns near the great lakes and the wastelands.
She was in her palace aside her maiden, Diana, who was clearly scared.
-The Fürer has made a terrible mistake… Now the cooperation of all four countries is needed to stop what is to come…
-Milady? –Diana asked scared.
-War… Has begun…
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