Chapter 627 Monsters and Machines

Red Maple's city-level shields are closed.

A dense and thin energy barrier shrouded the plain city, and the powerful magic power was drawn from the magic focus of the city's underground, and channeled and projected through the rune array, turning it into a barrier stronger than rocks. At the same time as the barrier closed, artillery fire from the plains also rained down on the city walls.

The piercing screams were like the screams of the mourning banshee at midnight. The metal warheads wrapped in light cyan air formed bright arcs in the air, and bombed continuously on the shield of the Red Maple City. The explosion flashes continued to light up on the surface of the shield, like a sky-fire 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 no matter what, the shield still succeeded ground to defend against the first wave of the Cecil attack.

It stood above the city, blocking all the shelling, and a low hum reverberated in the outer city, which was the sound of the full activation of the underground magic facilities.

On the city wall, a crystal cluster commander showed an expression like the rest of his life, looking at the shield that was blooming with large flashes of light, and exhaled: "Block it!"

However, Heaton glared at the commander: "Idiot, the battle has just begun!"

The Dark Priest did not relax in the slightest because the red maple shield blocked the "Sky Fire" of the Cecil people. On the contrary, he knew that the battle had just begun - he even knew that the fall of the Rock Fortress, It started when their city-level shields blocked the Cecil attack.

After this period of understanding, he has mastered many characteristics of the Southern Frontier Corps. He knows that those devices that can project explosions and beams are not like traditional magic props. They do not require the help of a mage to recharge, and they can operate continuously. Their cost seems to be so cheap that damaged equipment can be replaced and replenished in a very short time. Their disadvantage is that they are rigid and can only cast fixed spells. The device makes up for this shortcoming...

In the face of such an enemy, the traditional "fortress tactics" is a dead end.

The red maple shield blocked the first round of the Cecil attack. For Heaton, its greatest significance was to give him the opportunity to continue fighting.

"Call the Legion of God's Evil in the south immediately, and let them return to the Red Maple to attack the rear of the Cecil people," Heaton turned to his subordinates and said, "Let Clod come back immediately and destroy Cecil from the east. Er's position..."

Heaton quickly arranged the order, but before he could finish speaking, a few more strange screams suddenly came from the sky on the west side—

The scream was louder than the ordinary "Sky Fire",

There was some kind of creepy humming in the middle, and in a brief moment of stunned, he felt that there were several times of extraordinarily strong impact hitting the barrier on the west side of Hongfeng! !

Boom, boom, boom! !

The shield over the west side of the city instantly burst into a dazzling glare, and the entire city wall trembled in front of this powerful impact. The frightening low humming sound, as if some powerful energy flow is concentrating, washing away the barrier on the west side of the city.

It's the battleships of the Cecilians! !

They even secretly moved to Hongfeng? What time is it!

Heaton was furious, because he clearly remembered that when the last information came in, the warships were still in the fertile woodland area. How fast did those ships sail? !

"Inform Grimm immediately and let him find a way to stop those ships! Even if he uses his own head to stuff the 'magic guns' of those ships!"

"Yes!"

After the new order was issued, Heaton did not feel relieved at all, because he suddenly realized that the Cecil army seemed to be completely different from what he expected.

This army is not the Royal Army, nor the noble corps of the eastern border. It has no plans to follow any rules of war at all - those chariots are attacking Hongfeng from the front, and the artillery bombardment from the Gorgon River is constantly bombarding the barrier on the west side, This attack from land and water at the same time has never been imagined, and it is like a pincer that is constantly tightening, and it has strangled the neck of the city.

This was not a tentative attack, the Cecil's goal was to completely destroy the city in a short period of time.

...

In the eastern part of Hongfeng, in the huge stone city that has been completely reduced to ruins, the blood has been dyed red and the collapsed city wall.

The fierce battles of the day and night made this ancient city stained with blood. The knights and warriors of the Mountain Legion built a temporary defense line relying on the only remaining city walls and the main fort in the castle area, repelling another attack by the enemy. .

Countless twisted and swollen monsters fell on the courtyard and stairs of the boulder castle, and countless brave and fearless knights also fell in front of the shrinking defense lines. The land is getting narrower and narrower, and now, even the most heroic warriors are on the verge of their limits.

The screams of killing in the castle area gradually faded, and the surviving soldiers and the last knights were relying on the broken wall to guard the defense line of the inner courtyard of the castle. Arrow's shooters have already picked up their protective swords and are ready for the final hand-to-hand fight, and Victoria, who has a small amount of mana remaining at the end, is standing in the center of the inner court, watching the situation outside the wall through the eyes of the mage.

Countless huge shadows are lingering among the ruins, and those distorted and mutated monsters are regrouping their manpower and preparing to launch the next round of attack-maybe the last round of attack, and her tired warriors have reached the human physiological structure. limit.

She even saw the commander of those monsters, an extraordinarily tall cluster monster - the monster had never been on the battlefield before, showing complete caution and caution, but now it appears in the castle area, which is A confident performance.

Those monsters have decided that victory belongs to them...and that seems to be the case.

Victoria squeezed the platinum staff in her handshake, slowly calming the turbulent aura caused by excessive spellcasting, and seized the time to recover a little mana. She calculated that those monsters would attack in a few minutes, and calculated that she would be in this short period of time. You can regain some strength in a few minutes.

But suddenly, an unexpected chaos spread from among the monsters.

Victoria saw the swollen and twisted giants start restless at the same time, shoving each other in the chaos, and then raised her head at the same time, looking in a certain direction outside the city, the extraordinarily tall monster with a startled expression ( Although it was incredible, those monsters really kept their human-like expressions), and, surrounded by a group of subordinates, climbed a certain section of the nearby city wall and looked in the direction of the Gorgon River.

After a few seconds, those monsters gathered so quickly and retreated from the castle area! !

The movement outside the inner court also quickly attracted the attention of the knights. A knight who was on guard on the tower watched in astonishment at the movement between the inner court and the outer wall of the fortress, and suddenly shouted: "Those monsters have retreated!! "

The same shout soon came from another post: "Those monsters have retreated, they have really retreated!"

Victoria walked out of the crowd in a daze, wondering what was going on for a while, but after a short thought, she suddenly woke up——

Someone is attacking Hongfeng!

Apart from this reason, she couldn't think of why those monsters would abandon the castle that was about to be captured at such a critical moment.

After realizing this possibility, what rose in Victoria's heart was not only the peace of mind waiting for reinforcements, but she also thought of one thing she should do:

She can't let these monsters from Boulder City return to help Hongfeng - she must find a way to keep these monsters, at least the most elite of them, even if it is temporarily delayed.

She didn't know who successfully entered the polluted area, who was attacking Hongfeng, and she didn't even know whether the other party was a reinforcement, but when she had no choice, she had to believe that it was a reinforcement, and then Under this premise, do everything possible to cooperate with each other's actions.

Victoria held her platinum staff, and then took out a unique pale gold snowflake-shaped amulet from the closet.

A layer of light streamer floated on the surface of the amulet, and the light and shadow flickered, as if a frozen world was bound on the surface of the amulet.

She originally thought that she would not be able to use this, but she did not expect an unexpected turning point. In order to seize this small turning point, she thought that she had to use the power of her ancestors——

The sharp horns of the talisman pierced the palm of the hand, and the blood of the Wilder family soaked the surface of the pale golden snowflake. Victoria sighed softly and spit out a word:

"Cold disaster."

Outside the castle area, Clod was gathering its crystal cluster army. The urgent order from the Red Maple City and the shattering aura from telepathy made the transformer upset - just a little bit, maybe it only took a few hours, In no more than a day, it can take down that little castle, crush the stubborn "Queen of the North" and her poor mountain legion, but at this moment, he has to give up the easy victory, even Dare not to delay.

Because the situation of Hongfeng is critical, even critical to the extent that the city may be broken at any time.

If Hongfeng falls, if all the high-ranking priests in the city are killed, Clod and his subordinates will inevitably lose their minds-the plan at the headquarters of the order has not been completed, and the "final disobedience" of the Grand Master "The ceremony is still in progress, and all the gods, including Krood, can only be regarded as unfinished products. If there is no upper node to share the pollution from the will of the gods, transformed individuals like it cannot survive independently at all. .

So it had to rescue Hongfeng, to rescue the dean Heaton who didn't know how to fight at all.

"To give you a breath," Cloade glanced back at the castle angrily, "I'll soon..."

Its movements and thoughts are still at this moment of turning back.

A pale white halo spread silently along the castle district, and wherever the halo went, everything quietly froze.

Including the Mountain Corps, including Victoria, including Stone Castle, including Clorod and its Cluster Corps.

The entire castle district turned into a piece of ice crystals.

...

The main force of the Cecilians was fully on the field - there were more chariots than expected.

One after another, they appeared on the horizon like a swarm of steel worms. They were arranged in a loose offensive array, firing continuously as they marched, steadily approaching the city wall of Hongfeng City.

The artillery bombardment from the Gorgon River had been temporarily suspended, but it had resumed ten minutes ago, and the men and horses ordered to stop the warships had obviously failed, and in a loud bang after another, the high-ranking priest of the Society of the End of All Things. We gazed upon this hellish spectacle—

The chariots were advancing. There were no knights screaming and charging, no infantry phalanxes ordered to die, and no chaotic slave corps. Heaton could not see any of the battlefield elements he knew, he could only see Until those icy steels are advancing - march, shoot, keep marching, keep firing...

The three troops that came out of the city to meet have all been wiped out, falling under the continuous shooting and burning of flames, and the Cecil offensive is still maintaining a steady advance.

They are like some kind of machine, like some kind of cogwheels that are tightly fitted and unshakable, they move, move forward, crush everything that stands in front of this machine, have nothing to do with glory, no matter what aristocratic righteousness and blood mission, The only reason this machine moves forward is because "propulsion" is its mission.

Heaton suddenly remembered what he once said--

Sins of God are cold weapons of war.

However, compared with the steel released by the Cecils, this weapon is probably too mild.

"Master," a priest exclaimed loudly, his voice almost drowned in the continuous explosions, "the shield is about to stop!!"

"Use all the magic reserves and hold on, Clod will arrive soon," Heaton said quickly, "When Clod and his elite arrive, everything will be fine, they will attack the plug from the east. The flanks of the Cyre..."

"Master, Cloade he..." Another priest holding a crystal ball said hesitantly, "Clode's mind has disappeared..."

"Damn!" Heaton cursed in a low voice, he felt his voice tremble a little, but he still tried to maintain rational thinking, "Don't worry, the shield can still hold up, let all spellcasters charge the shield-- We can hold out until the legions in the south come back and they will attack the Cecils from the rear..."

That's right, the situation is still turning around. Although the "Sky Fire" of the Cecil people is powerful, it cannot destroy the city shield in a short time, including those three powerful warships, which seem to only be able to attack the Xicheng District of Hongfeng. You can simply abandon that area and shrink the shield projection range to the main city... In this way, Red Maple City can last for a long time, enough to last until the army of Gods and Sins in the south returns to help...

Heaton reassured himself in his heart, but suddenly, an indescribable palpitation came to his heart, interrupting all his thoughts.

Along with the palpitations, there was a low, terrifying voice coming from high up in the sky.

"The courier will pick it up-"

Heaton raised his head in astonishment and saw a huge shadow passing over the clouds in the distance, and countless black things were falling from the sky with a sharp whistling sound...