Hongfeng’s city-level shield closed.
A dense and thin energy barrier shrouds the sky over this plain city. The powerful magic power is extracted from the magic focus underground in the city, and is channeled and projected by the rune array, turning it into something larger than rock. A solid barrier was needed, and while the barrier was closed, artillery fire from the plains also rained down on the city wall.
The ear-piercing screams were like the howls of a banshee at midnight, and the metal warheads wrapped in light blue air masses drew bright arcs in the air, continuously bombarding the people in Red Maple City. On the shield, large exploding flashes lit up continuously on the surface of the shield, like a skyfire storm - the city's shield trembled violently in the impact of the explosion, and layers of ripples continued to spread from the attack point, but Regardless, the shields still managed to withstand the first wave of Cecil attacks.
It stands high above the city, blocking all bombardment. A low buzzing sound echoes in the outer city. It is the sound made after the underground magic facilities are fully activated.
On the city wall, a crystal cluster commander showed an expression as if he was surviving a disaster. Looking at the shield that was blooming with large swaths of light, he exhaled: "Blocked!"
However, Heaton glared at the commander: "Idiot, the battle has just begun!"
The dark priest did not block the Cecil people at all because of the red maple shield. "Sky Fire" did not relax at all. On the contrary, he knew that this battle had just begun - he even knew that the fall of Rock Fortress started when their city-level shield blocked the Cecil people's attack.
After this period of understanding, he has mastered many characteristics of the Southern Legion. He knows that the devices that can project explosions and beams are not like traditional magic props. They do not require the help of mages to charge. They can operate continuously, and their cost seems to be quite low, so that damaged equipment can be replaced and replenished in a short time. Their disadvantage is that they are rigid and single and can only release fixed spells, but the Cecil people This shortcoming is made up for by manufacturing a large number of different types of devices...
Faced with such an enemy, the traditional "fortress tactics" are a dead end.
The red maple shield blocked the first round of the Cecil people's attack. For Heaton, its greatest significance was that it gave him a chance to continue fighting.
“Immediately summon the Southern Legion of Gods and ask them to return to support Hongfeng and attack the rear of the Cecil people,” Heaton turned to the subordinates beside him and said, “Have Clorod come back immediately. , destroy the Cecil people's position from the east side..."
Heaton quickly arranged the order, but before he could finish speaking, several other particularly weird screams suddenly came from the west side. From the sky——
The scream was louder than the ordinary "sky fire", and there was also some kind of creepy buzzing in the middle. In a brief moment of daze, he felt Several particularly strong impacts hit the barrier on the west side of Hong Maple! !
Boom, boom, boom! !
The shield over the west side of the city instantly erupted with dazzling light, and the entire city wall trembled in the face of this powerful impact. After these several powerful impacts, there was another loud bang. There was a continuous, frightening low hum, as if some powerful energy flow was focusing and washing away the barrier on the west side of the city.
These are the Cecil warships! !
They also secretly moved to Hongfeng? When exactly is it!
Hiton was shocked and angry, because he clearly remembered that when the last intelligence came, those warships were still in the fertile woodland area. How fast were those ships driving? !
"Notify Greem immediately and ask him to find a way to stop those ships! Even if it means stuffing his own head into the 'magic cannons' of those ships!"
"Yes!"
After the new order was issued, Heaton did not feel relaxed at all, because he suddenly realized that the Cecil army seemed completely different from what he expected.
This army is not a royal army, it is not a noble regiment from the east. It has no intention of following any war rules at all - those chariots are attacking Hongfeng from the front, and the artillery fire from the Gorgon River It is constantly bombarding the barrier on the west side. This attack from land and water at the same time is something no one has ever thought of. It is like a clamp that is constantly tightening and has strangled the city's neck.
This was not a probing attack, the Cecils' goal was to completely destroy the city in a short time.
......
To the east of Hongfeng, in the boulder city that has been completely reduced to ruins, blood has stained the collapsed city walls red.
The fierce fighting day and night stained this ancient city with a strong blood color. The knights and soldiers of the Mountain Legion built a temporary defense line relying on the remaining city walls and main castle in the castle area to attack. Repelled another enemy attack.
Countless twisted and swollen monsters fell dead on the courtyards and stairs of the giant stone castle, and countless brave and fearless knights also fell in front of the shrinking defense lines. The warring parties no longer cared about the losses in battle. Inch by inch, they fight for an increasingly narrow space in the castle, and now, even the bravest warriors are pushed to the limit.
The shouts of killing in the castle area are gradually fading. The surviving soldiers and the last knights are relying on the broken walls to guard the defense line in the inner courtyard of the castle. Inside their shaky defense line, their mana has long been exhausted. The mage group and the archers who have exhausted their arrows have picked up their protective swords and are ready for the final hand-to-hand fight. Victoria, who still has a small amount of mana left in the end, is standing in the center of the inner court, watching what is happening outside the wall through the eyes of the mage. Condition.
Countless huge shadows are wandering among the ruins, and those twisted and mutated monsters are regrouping their hands, preparing to launch the next round of attack - which may also be the last round of attack, and her tired warriors ,It has reached the limit of human physiological structure.
She even saw the commander of those monsters, an extraordinarily tall crystal cluster monster - that monster had never been on the battlefield before and showed full caution and caution, but now it appeared. In the castle area, this is a confident performance.
Those monsters have determined that victory belongs to them... and this seems to be the case.
Victoria firmly shook the platinum staff in her hand, slowly calmed down the disordered breath caused by over-casting spells, and took the time to recover a little mana. She calculated that the monsters would attack in a few minutes. Calculating how much strength he could regain in these few minutes.
But suddenly, an unexpected chaos spread among the monsters.
Victoria saw those swollen and twisted giants becoming restless at the same time, pushing each other in the chaos, and then they raised their heads at the same time, looking in a certain direction outside the city, where the extraordinarily tall monster was leading With expressions of shock and anger (although it was incredible, those monsters actually retained human-like expressions), surrounded by a group of subordinates, they climbed up a certain section of the nearby city wall and looked in the direction of the Gorgon River.
A few seconds later, those monsters gathered so quickly and retreated from the castle area! !
The movement outside the inner court soon attracted the attention of the knights. A knight on guard on the tower looked at the movement between the inner court and the outer wall of the fortress in amazement, and suddenly shouted: " Those monsters are retreating!"
The same shout came from another sentry post: "Those monsters are retreating, they are really retreating!"
Victoria walked out of the crowd in a daze. She couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, but after a brief moment of thinking, she suddenly woke up -
Someone was attacking Hongfeng!
Other than this reason, she could not imagine why those monsters would abandon the castle that was about to be captured at such a critical moment.
After realizing this possibility, Victoria felt more than just the peace of mind of waiting for reinforcements. She also thought of something she should do:
Can’t Let the monsters in Boulder City return to Hongfeng's aid - she must find a way to keep these monsters, at least the most elite among them, even if it is to delay them temporarily.
She doesn’t know who successfully broke into the contaminated area, she doesn’t know who is attacking Hongfeng, she doesn’t even know if the other party is reinforcements, but she has no choice but to believe It is a support force, and under this premise, it will do everything possible to cooperate with the opponent's actions.
Victoria shook her platinum staff, and then took out a unique light golden snowflake-shaped amulet from close to her body.
There is a faint layer of light floating on the surface of this amulet. Between the flickering light and shadow, it seems that there is a frozen world bound to the surface of the amulet.
She originally thought she would useShe didn't want to do this anymore, but she didn't expect an unexpected turning point. In order to seize this small turning point, she thought it was necessary to use the power of her ancestors -
The sharp corners of the talisman Pricking her palm, the blood of the Wilder family soaked the surface of the pale golden snowflakes. Victoria exhaled softly and uttered one word:
"Cold disaster."
Outside the castle area , Clorod is gathering its crystal cluster army. The urgent orders from Red Maple City and the constant aura of destruction from telepathy have made this converter upset - just a little bit, maybe only a few hours, at most no more than a few hours. In more than a day, it would be able to take over the small castle and crush the stubborn "Queen of the North" and her poor mountain legion. However, at this moment, he had to give up the easily obtained victory, and did not even dare to have any No delay at all.
Because the situation in Hongfeng is critical, even so critical that the city may be broken at any time.
If Hongfeng falls, if all the high-ranking priests in that city are killed, Cloade and his subordinates will not be able to escape the outcome of losing their minds - the plan of the sect headquarters has not yet been completed, The Grand Priest's "Final Disobedience" ritual is still in progress. All divine individuals, including Cloade, can now only be regarded as unfinished products. If there is no superior node to share the pollution from the will of the gods, like this The transformed individuals simply cannot survive independently.
So it must rescue Hongfeng and the Reverend Heaton who doesn’t know how to fight at all.
"Let you take a breath," Cloade looked back at the castle angrily, "I will soon..."
Its movements and thoughts stopped here. The moment of looking back.
A pale white halo spread quietly along the castle area. Wherever the halo went, everything froze quietly.
Including the Mountain Corps, including Victoria, including the Stone Castle, including Clorod and its Crystal Legion.
The entire castle area turned into a sheet of ice crystals.
......
The main force of the Cecil people has fully entered the battlefield - there are more tanks than expected.
They appeared on the horizon one after another like a swarm of steel worms. They were arranged in a loose attack array, firing continuously as they marched, steadily approaching the walls of Red Maple City.
The bombardment from the Gorgon River paused briefly, but exploded again ten minutes ago. The men and horses ordered to block the warships had obviously failed, and amid the loud bangs one after another, everything The high-ranking priests of the Death Society stared at this hellish scene——
The chariots were advancing. There were no regiments of knights shouting to charge, no infantry phalanx ordered to die, and no chaos. The unbearable slave regiment, Heaton could not see any battlefield elements he knew. He could only see the cold steel advancing - marching, firing, continuing to march, continuing to fire...
The three troops that came out of the city to attack have all been destroyed.Under the continuous shooting and flames, the Cecil offensive still maintained a steady advance.
They are like some kind of machine, like some kind of tight and unswerving gears. They are running and moving forward, crushing everything that stands in front of this machine, regardless of glory or anything. No matter what the noble righteousness and blood mission, the only reason why this machine moves forward is because "advance" is its mission.
Hiton suddenly remembered what he once said -
Gods are cold weapons of war.
However, compared with the steel released by the Cecil people, this weapon may be too mild.
"Priest," a priest exclaimed loudly, his voice almost drowned in the continuous explosions, "the shield can't hold anymore!!"
"Use all your magic power reserves and hold on a little longer. Clorod will arrive soon," Heaton said quickly. "When Clorod and his elite arrive, everything will be fine. They will attack from the east." The flanks of the Cecil people..."
"Priest, Cloade..." Another priest holding a crystal ball said hesitantly, "Claude's mind disappeared... "
"Damn it!" Heaton cursed in a low voice. He felt that his voice was shaking a little, but he still tried to maintain rational thinking. "Don't worry, the shield can still hold on, so that all casters can Go recharge the shield - we can hold out until the southern legions return to support, and they will attack the Cecil people from the rear..."
Yes, the situation can still turn around, the Cecil people's Although "Sky Fire" is powerful, it cannot destroy the city shield in a short time, including those three powerful battleships. They seem to be able to only attack the Xicheng District of Hongfeng. They can simply abandon that area and shrink the shield projection range to The main city... In this way, Red Maple City can still hold on for a long time, long enough to wait for the army of gods from the south to return for reinforcements...
Hiton comforted himself in his heart, but suddenly, An indescribable palpitation surged into his heart, interrupting all his thoughts.
Along with this heart palpitation, there was a low and terrifying voice coming from high altitude
"Come and pick it up by express——"
Hope Dun raised his head in shock and saw a huge shadow passing by the clouds in the distance, while countless black things were falling from the sky with sharp whistling sounds...