Main Matter Plane, Northland, Minas Stirris.

It had been fifteen days since the most prosperous White City had been besieged by the tide of demons that had sprung up from the abyss.

And the hearts of the citizens in the White City have been hanging for fifteen days and nights...

If it is a war between ordinary human city-states placed on the main material plane, the siege war lasting half a month is just a very ordinary number, and it is often even the beginning of the battle.

But if the object of the siege is replaced by the demon of the bottomless abyss...

I'm afraid that in addition to the Mystrano and Yerlan Elven Empires who have disappeared in the dust of history one after another, and the Zelandia warriors who are fighting and guarding the front of the First City at this moment, they can feel so deeply how the terrifying pressure of the mountains and seas and the slowly suffocating blood seem to be drained bit by bit when fighting against the tide of demons...

Powerlessness and despair!

Yes, only despair can be described.

Because the demons of chaos, in this kind of battlefield, in the face of such an almost invincible situation, they themselves were born in the most cruel and vicious abyss, like a group of adrenaline, simply tireless, not afraid of pain and ignoring the potential threat of death.

They don't need to sleep, so the demonic offensive goes on day and night!

They also don't need logistics, and when people see these hungry demons picking up the dead bodies of their comrades on the battlefield and eating them with tears on their faces, it is itself a kind of deadliest spiritual erosion!

They are naturally powerful warriors with a killing instinct, and even human soldiers who have been trained for many years have no advantage over them, and once they come into contact with mid-to-high-level demon soldiers, it is the beginning of a nightmare.

They are nightmares in the shadows of the chaos of the multiverse, and for any threatened civilization, they are a swarm of locusts that engulf and devour everything, the beginning of the most chaos, the ultimate of destruction, and everywhere they pass, the stars die and everything turns to ashes.

This is simply not an ordinary creature on the main material plane, an enemy that can be matched...

What's more, there is also a group of drow elves led by Gerthon underground, who are also storming the Acropolis of Zeellandia at any cost, continuing to threaten the safety of the North Tunnel, which is the lifeline of military supplies.

In the eyes of some of the Northlanders, it was an incredible miracle that Zeelandia was able to resist on her own without falling in such a situation.

However, due to the fierce battle, there was no time to clean up the battlefield in time and count casualties.

So much so that officials have stopped daily casualty counts and obituaries.

In this regard, the citizens in the city have long been numb, and can only hide in the shelter between Minas Tilis and Zelandia and pray silently, praying that the soldiers on the front line will be able to hold on, pray for the protection of the gods, and persevere until the miracle comes, and persevere until the miracle happens.

But before they could wait for any miracles or miracles, they waited for the conscription and mobilization order.

A wolf cavalry covered in blood and torn armor pushed open the door of the underground shelter, exhaled a breath of hot air like mist, looked around, and then held a trumpet-like alchemy megaphone and announced:

"All gnolls over 10 years old, humans over 18 years old, dwarves, elves, drows, half-elves over 90 years old! Follow me!"

The next moment, all the young people who had already been mentally prepared for this moment stood up silently one after another, either stunned or staring.

Some people take a deep breath and look at each other without saying a word, and they can see a trace of apprehension, nervousness and fear in each other's eyes, but more importantly, it is a silent perseverance.

Almost all of them came here in the era of Zeellandia's best and fastest construction, and followed their parents to witness Minas Stirris's rise from scratch in the past few decades, from the Northland to become the crown of the Northland, and then fell into economic stagnation and hardship caused by natural disasters.

They are all beneficiaries of free and compulsory education in this city of wonders.

Their fates have changed with the increase in knowledge and knowledge.

They all want this new and powerful city that gives them hope...

Can... Stand forever!

Let your children and grandchildren, in this increasingly chaotic and noisy world, still have a place where they can fight for their dreams.

But at this moment, a haggard mother suddenly ran out in a state of collapse, hugged a young student whose cheeks were still immature, and cried bitterly:

"No! No! No, Adrian, you're back! You haven't graduated yet, and you're not officially eighteen! Your father has already gone up! If something happens to you... What are you going to do with me and your brother! You can't just leave us!"

This scene immediately made many people stop, showing empathetic pain.

The wolf cavalry also strode towards this place, looking inquiringly at the top student of Minas Stirris.

And the 'jurisprudence' apprentice named Adrian showed a struggle in his eyes, and he couldn't bear to break his mother's white hand holding him, but turned around and hugged his mother who was crying bitterly, and the low but firm voice of pain resounded in the ears of every companion:

"Mom, after my birthday this year, I am already an independent adult.

"I also have the rights and duties of being a citizen of Zeelandia.

"The city-state has cultivated me for so many years, and at this time when my family and country are in danger, I can't help it... Ignore it.

"If everybody, like me, prevaricates and shirks our duty for all sorts of reasons...

"So, who will be like my father, like those soldiers on the front line, who will fight against foreign enemies, protect my mother, and protect our homeland regardless of life and death?

"Mom, I'm sorry, I love you...

"But I also have a deep love for this city-state, this land.

"If I have an accident on this trip... The city-state and my brother will take care of you for me. ”

Speaking of this, Adrian, whose eyes were bloodshot, looked at his younger brother, who was still young:

"Yes, my brother, Asmead. ”

Asmid, who was also full of tears, nodded his head and hugged his mother's wrist tightly.

Looking at the unchangeable sparkle in her son's eyes, the mother finally let go of her holding hands tremblingly.

Adrian looked at his mother for the last time, nodded at his brother, and then resolutely followed the crowd towards the outside of the shelter.

Only the helpless figure of the mother was left crying in pain.

Seeing this scene, more young people in the underground shelter silently hugged their loved ones as if they were inspired and inspired, and then walked towards the war-torn world outside the shelter, which was already full of smoke and the smell of burning.

At the very bottom of the vault, the silver-haired Anthony sighed slowly, and threw down the spell casting materials and potion bottles in his hands under the puzzled eyes of the group of fellow mages of the Demon Research Institute, and also strode towards the outside of the Vault.

"Anthony!" a colleague from behind him called out to him.

Anthony stopped and looked back, and heard the scholar mage in the white coat say solemnly:

"As demon researchers, it means more to stay here and continue to work than on the battlefield. ”

Due to the invasion of the Drow in the underground Zelandia, in order to protect the 'brain' of Zelandia, on the first day of the war, they have been organized to move to this shelter one after another.

It is also thanks to the potions, enchantment bullet chains, and protective enchantments that they have been producing day and night that the front line has been able to support until now.

Anthony, who was full of sorrow, said in a low voice:

"It has reached the point where it is necessary for students to go to the front line to maintain logistics, and the 150,000 sergeants on the front line are afraid that more than half of them have been killed or wounded and are on the verge of collapse.

"If the city is gone, the so-called logistics will lose its meaning. ”

He seemed to see the flame lit in the originally haggard eyes of his colleagues, and quickly stopped them from impulsively saying:

"Don't come along, you can't get past the checkpoint, I... It was for my father to send the protective enchantment scroll.

"What if... If Zeellandia does fall, at least you can rebuild it. ”

The mages immediately lowered their heads, but when Anthony left, the group of scholars and mages of the Demon Research Institute behind him stopped their movements in unison, bowed to his back, and bowed in unison to pay the highest tribute to the mage.

Anthony seemed to feel the gaze of his colleagues behind him, and a free smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

......

On the other side, as Adrian and the others followed in the footsteps of the wolf cavalry through the narrow, closed emergency passage, opening the heavy gate and burrowing out of the shelter, the deafening sounds of battle and shouts of killing in the sky came like a hot wave.

Adrian, like most people, stared at the scene in disbelief with his tremor-filled pupils.

It seems unimaginable that after only half a month, the prosperous city and home they have lived in all their lives have been ruined into the mottled and dilapidated appearance in front of them.

It was supposed to be early morning, but the entire sky was dyed a dusk-like blood-red color by the flames of war and the smoke that burned in the endless countryside of the East.

And in the Gryphon Mountains, with the exception of Minas Stirris, the entire city-state is now almost at war on three sides under heavy siege!

The citizens of the city had already been evacuated to underground shelters, so at this time, the buildings in the relatively good geographical location near the outer heights had been artificially demolished, and in their place were replaced by heavy alchemy cannons, accompanied by a low roar of the barrels.

In the dim sky, there were constantly Flomo who broke through the fire defense and swooped down towards the firepower points in the city, most of them were shot into a sieve by the Sabot Launcher halfway, and the heavy corpses fell into the dilapidated buildings like meteorites, and occasionally the firepower points were exploded by huge fireballs and other spells shot from outside the city, making painful snorts and howls.

Outside the city, the lush countryside and harbor were long gone, replaced by a blood-colored wasteland ploughed by endless artillery craters and demonic corpses, and a dense swarm of demons that swarmed like locusts.

The Seblin River had long since been filled with demonic corpses, and after the river upstream had passed the 'dike' of corpses, the river downstream flowed out as if it were a bloody river of Styx.

Outside the walls, on the wasteland, nine dragons of different colors tirelessly slaughtered the invading demons like the reef of the mainstay of the Black Tide, but they still couldn't stop the rolling tide rushing down their gap towards the walls of Minas Tyris.

The gap between the originally tall city wall and the ground has long since disappeared, because the demon corpses outside have already piled up, and countless demons have stepped on these mountain roads piled up with corpses, like an endless flood, tirelessly charging towards the city wall full of cracks and gaps, and towards the human wall composed of dragon knights on it.

Almost all the time, people are hurting and dying.

Because at this moment, they are using their lives to make a simple and cold consumption formula with the demons.

The pale-faced Adrian resisted the urge to vomit due to excessive nervousness and fear, and took a cuirass, helmet, and sword that had been distributed to them by the gnoll warriors waiting outside, and listened to the gnolly officer's somewhat nagging reprimand:

"When you hear my slogan, you will rush after us!

"Don't look back, and don't be afraid when you see a fireball in the sky!

"Don't try to fight if you encounter scattered demons that have infiltrated the city!

"You're here to help with logistics, not to fight the demons, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Adrian replied as the crowd shouted, as if this was the only way to strengthen his courage.

A few seconds later, with the gnoll officer leaning up his neck and letting out a long, desolate howl, all the logistical reserves, including Adrian, began to move behind the group of gnolloll warriors.

At the same time, Adrian also noticed that they were not 'fighting alone', and at the entrances of the various shelters in the Seven Cities, logistics reserves that had been temporarily recruited like them were constantly popping up, like a trickle, towards the first city at the forefront.

It's just that compared to the others, their luck is undoubtedly very bad, almost just when they just crossed the alley where the fourth city and the third city meet, on the opposite side of the alley, there is a shadowy demon figure!

They've most likely been thrown in by the goddamn Flo from the sky.

Just being thrown down from a height of hundreds of feet and not dying is enough to prove the vigor of their vitality and the strength and difficulty of their physique!

"Little man, it's you! It's called Adrian, something is wrong, you take everyone down the other path, quick! It's an order. ”

"Yes!" said Adrian, who was pale.

The wolf cavalry officer led by him slowly lowered his armor, clenched the long knife in his hand, and ordered decisively.

"All wolf riders obey orders, wing-shaped, rush with me!"

And he stood at the forefront.

This is probably also the unique old tradition of Zelandia, since the city lord Tiberius, every time there is a great war, it must be the first!

And this characteristic was also inherited by the Jackal Commander Holtz, Sgard, Wren and other warriors.

As a glorious gnoll cavalryman, you must not allow yourself to retreat half a step at such a moment!

Even if the demon that appeared in front of him was most likely a mid- and high-level demon that he couldn't defeat.

With the order of the wolf rider officer, the wolf rider and their group of reserves immediately separated, and through the gap in the broken ruins, you could see the group of knights rushing towards the small group of demons without hesitation.

Just as everyone was nervously watching the magnificent scene, several fireballs suddenly exploded from the middle of the group of demons.

Immediately afterwards, a silver-haired mage nodded in response to the group of wolf riders who saluted him, and then landed in front of their group of recruits, encouraging:

"The wartime response is not bad, it is a group of good seedlings, let you take a ride. ”

Then he whispered to himself: "I just don't know if this trip leads to purgatory..."

Just as Adrian and the others were unclear, a magic circle quickly formed from under their feet, and as soon as they saw a flower, they staggered to another familiar and unfamiliar place.

[Crowd Teleportation].

They...'It's time to stop'.

Adrian didn't have time to shock the magic of this high-level spell, and the sound of moans came to their ears, and they saw that inside the city walls, there were soldiers who were constantly being carried off stretchers from the walls, and a group of 'forensic doctors' in white coats were performing battlefield emergency surgeries on them, and a group of church priests could be seen shuttling among the wounded.

"Don't be stunned, work with me!!"

Adrian nodded in a daze, and then lifted a box of alchemical ammunition that weighed more than he imagined with the other party, and moved towards the mottled city wall with some difficulty.

When you walk to the city wall, you can see rows of dragon knights holding high chainsaw swords full of meat residue like machines, constantly slashing, and every now and then there will be a sudden heavy blow by high-level demons all fly away from the place and fall to the city, but the knights behind them who close their eyes and catch their breath and seize the time to recover their strength will immediately fill the defensive position.

It was only a few trips back and forth, as if Adrian was not his own, and these warriors had long since gone back and forth to know how many times they had gone back and forth here.

As time passed, as Adrian crossed the line of weariness, he gradually lost the tension and fear, even as fireballs flew over his head and demons broke through the city defenses a few steps in front of him.

He only knew that at this moment, he had at least overcome his fears and was participating in the battle in his own way.

Just as his heels were rusty and a little stiff, a bright light and an earth-shattering shout of killing suddenly came from the southern sky.

And all the warriors in the city followed inexplicably.

Adrian couldn't help but forget about the past, and saw that at some point, the gate of the abyss actually killed a black tide!

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a dragon's head poked out of the door and was quickly dragged back.

As if ordered by something, the black tide began to spread rapidly to both sides.

A few seconds later, it was like a bright light that broke through the night, like a piercing spear, instantly piercing the battlefield wasteland in front of it, and countless demons were wiped out.

And then there was a terrible sound that drowned out all the deafening.

The entire battlefield fell silent.

The aftermath of this terrible explosion nearly cleared three-quarters of the demons on the wasteland.

"To... Victory?" Many people with Adrian burst into this ecstatic thought.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard the command of the Minotaur Wren Commander:

"Organize the evacuation of all civilians immediately!!!"

What's going on?

All civilians had the same thoughts as Adrian.

And at this moment, the sharp-eyed Adrian noticed that on the wasteland full of broken corpses, those corpses seemed to be slowly and strangely wriggling....