Chapter 235 Discovery of the Rangers
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In the territory of the Holy Glory Empire, Xun sealed the city and the vast land controlled outside the city, on the land outside the city, the abyss breath has completely spread.
The abyss breath and abyss creatures devoured most of the people and animals, and many people became monsters with distorted consciousness.
Countless Abyss Biological City with twisted consciousness are gathering, forming a disaster that spreads like fire. As long as there have been people, a terrible Abyss Biological Legion will gather. Generally, the most massive and twisted monsters are the commanders of these legions. Under the leadership of these commanders, the abyss creatures occupied all villages and towns in just a few hours, and then began to spread towards the Xunfeng City.
As one of the important strongholds on the border of the Holy Glory Empire, the city wall is under attack at this time. This city, known for its thick walls, is facing the greatest test in history.
"Defend the defense line! Keep the defense line!! Heavy shield hand holds it!"
"More tin oil is needed here! More stones are needed!"
"The casters' magic power is exhausted and they are on the top of the catapult! The Holy Light Mage of the Temple is about to arrive!"
The oil buns burning with raging flames and the stones etched with inscriptions rose into the air and flew into the distance from the city wall. The huge crossbow arrows blew through the air with the thundering of the strings, smashing the air among the abyss creatures in the distance. The knights and the Holy Light Knight officers who supervised the battle ran around the city wall, commanding the battle at the top of their lungs, using various magic to strengthen the city wall, and boosting the soldiers' morale that was almost shaking. However, under the city wall, the monsters were still gathering more and more.
These are the abyss creatures transformed from all the population in the entire region, as well as the originally authentic abyss monsters. In the face of this number that can cause qualitative change, mere stone bullets, tincture oil, and even the fireballs and lightning of the mages seem weak and powerless. These attacks fall on the heads of those monsters, just like a stone thrown into the sea, and it is difficult to make too big waves.
An Archbishop in charge of the city in the Temple of Holy Light, wearing a white robe and holding a magic scepter, stood on the city wall, watching more and more abyss monsters coming from afar. Those monsters not only rely on powerful bodies to fight, but also have terrifying magic resistance, and have very powerful Austrian bodies. The places where monsters are most densely populated can often rely on their bodies to burst out terrifying power. After each impact, there will be a terrifying crack on the wall of Xunfeng City, or soldiers who are shaking to death. If the situation develops like this, it will only be a matter of time before the fall of the city.
"How much tincture and stone bombs do we have?" The archbishop of the temple turned his head and stared at a nearby noble officer.
"I can hold on for two days, the Bishop, but I'm afraid there are still not enough monsters, and there are countless others behind it!"
Grease is the most effective way to fight against those monsters, but the oil bundle thrown by the catapult cannot stop the tide-like attack at all. The mages who can continuously release large-scale flame spells...they have too few and all their magic power has been exhausted!
The noble officer's face was gloomy. He heard a loud noise from the west wall, followed by screams and noises.
A large number of soldiers on the verge of collapse fell into chaos. From the attacked area, the defending troops began to show obvious wavering and retreat.
The Holy Light Knight who was supervising the battle stepped forward as soon as possible and used his morale-boosting fighting skills to forcibly maintain the defense line. The soldiers affected by the advanced knights returned to the city wall under the influence of hormones and nerves. However, their eyes were already bloodshot, their behavior was unbalanced, and their inner consciousness was approaching collapse. It was completely unknown how many times they could control the catapult.
What's even more terrifying is that even the Holy Light Knights who were supervising the battle behind the soldiers... had already appeared on their faces.
These are already the elite troops of the temple. They can fight head-on with the powerful Frost Moon Empire knights on the battlefield all day, but that is just a war against "people". Now, they are facing monsters.
This is beyond the limit of human willpower.
Another Holy Light Knight ran up to the city wall with horror on his face and his tone was shaken: "Sir, the Bishop, it has been confirmed that many monsters carry the clothes and armor fragments of the third, fifth and sixth Holy Light Knights and the army soldiers. They... they are transformed from our soldiers!!"
The bishop stared: "How many people know the news?!"
"All the defending troops saw it..."
It's over.
The Holy Light Knights and the army corps stationed on the city gate line are all over, and the city should be over soon.
But before the bishop could sigh, a nightmare shout suddenly came from a distance:
"Marquis Tiemu died in battle!!"
After a brief shock, the bishop immediately widened his eyes, trying to find out which extremely stupid messenger was shouting in front of the formation, but soon he realized that the sound came from under the city wall and among the monsters.
A broken corpse was thrown into the sky by the monsters, and the Marquis of Tiemu died with his head and just entered the sight of the soldiers guarding the city.
In the end, the marquis of this city failed to defend his territory and city.
The defense line on the city wall began to collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye, and began to retreat, and large sections of gaps and gaps began to appear. The defending troops fell into an irreversible retreat, and the Holy Light Knights supervised the battle were no longer able to reorganize the defense line.
Because even the morale of the knights has collapsed.
Hundreds of abyss monsters sprinted with all their might to hit the city wall at the same time. With the continuous sound of impact, the magnificent stone high wall shook violently, as if it was about to collapse in the next second.
This city is no longer possible to be defended.
The moment he realized this fact, the bishop and his Holy Light Knights heard a series of sharp whistling sounds coming from the sky. With the whistling sound, the entire sky was quickly covered by large shadows.
Countless winds and snowstorms swept across the battlefield with the whistling wind, as if the cold winter that had just ended returned to this world again. In this sudden ice storm, a new frozen barrier quickly blocked the city wall, and hundreds of monsters were nailed to the frozen cliffs by ice cones.
However, the next second, this line of defense formed by solid ice was subjected to continuous attacks, and about half of the monsters nailed to the ice began to struggle: this fatal damage for ordinary people could not completely kill them.
Accompanied by the sound of Kala, the entire ice wall cracked rapidly.
A majestic female voice came from the sky and resounded throughout the battlefield: "The Knight of the Holy Light was cut off with me, and the Imperial Legion and the Mercenary Corps took civilians to break out to the northwest!"
This is the voice of the Ice Holy Light Apostle, one of the only five Holy Light apostles in the empire.
The Knight of the Holy Light reminded him, "Master Bishop, it is the command of the Apostle to retreat."
The bishop glanced at the almost completely collapsed defense line and took a deep breath.
"retreat!!"
In the spring of the Fifth Anniversary of Nolan Road, the largest fortress on the southwestern border of the Holy Glory Empire, the largest city of Xunquan suddenly fell.
A huge army formed by monsters in the abyss began to spread towards the core of the Holy Glory Empire.
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A few days later, an elves team that had just crossed the Frost Moon Empire and was advancing to the southeastern Warcraft jungle area along the southwestern border of the Holy Light Empire discovered something very surprising here.
A human being distorted as if it was infected by something.
The earth burned by tinder oil and fireball techniques was filled with a strong burnt smell. A large number of completely carbonized corpses and scattered abyss creatures piled up into mountains on this former battlefield. The fully armed elves ranger team was on guard against the outside, and the captain Ferenalin and several high-level elves rangers were inspecting the strange corpses on the battlefield.
They were a ranger team that had finished their mission and prepared to return to the elves land. The high-level ranger Ferenalin frowned.
Something big seems to have happened in the Holy Glory Empire?
Ferenalin sent his ranger to the nearby area to check if there were more of these corpses...
The rangers who went to nearby to investigate the situation sent back everything they saw along the way, which allowed Ferenalin to learn about the abyss monsters that had encountered before the Holy Glory Empire.
To be honest, he hoped that he would never encounter these guys.
"Captain...We encountered those monsters in the hills in the northeast of this nearby... Humans who looked completely distorted in consciousness were left to kill, but they were stronger than humans. Their bodies seemed to be greatly enhanced, and they had a certain degree of magic resistance, but the specific combat power was not yet clear. At present, only the flames seemed to be very effective for them.
"According to the residual clues, the monsters should have wandered from the direction of the village further south... A village that was attacked was discovered, but the villagers showed no signs of infection, and the source of pollution should not be nearby...
"…The nearby lord and his troops from the Temple of Holy Light went to the front line, and it is said that no news has been heard back for a long time..."
The team members in charge of the investigation were meticulously reporting to Ferenalin about the situation nearby. Ferenalin could see a clear look of worry on the face of the high-level ranger.
There are no traces of human existence in the large area. The whereabouts of the lord and the people of the Temple of Holy Light are unknown. The strange monsters with distorted consciousness wander out of unknown areas nearby... No matter which feature points to the worst possibility.
After completing the report, the high-level ranger asked about the next order: "Captain, do we still need to continue to explore? I think we should return to the elves."
Chapter completed!