Long Rock Canyon.

The first line of defense crumbled under the onslaught of countless monsters.

What made Hugo and the others feel palpitations was that the dozen or so ugly and huge devouring demons had not attacked, but patiently stayed outside the valley, as if they had eaten enough, but it was more like they were looking for an appropriate opportunity. The monsters that are constantly attacking the first line of defense of the stone wall are instead the thorn-backed demon dogs, flower-backed spiders, rock-skinned stone lizards, and other unknown monsters of all sizes.

"I dare say they were driven by people, not spontaneously!" Hugo struck a thornback demon dog with a steel shield, wiped the blood splashed on his face, and shouted at Cardinal Chino beside him, "Is there any other way to drive them away?"

"Nope. Chino shook his head.

"Will you keep going until Mr. Wood leads the team to come to support?" Hugo didn't think the Guardian Knight had the stamina to support him that long.

"Just now there was news that the second line of defense is being built, maybe we can retreat to the second line of defense, in that case, because of the narrow terrain, the number of enemies we face at the same time will be reduced to a certain number!"

There's really no better way for Chino.

Retreat to the second line of defense.

It can reduce a certain amount of stress.

However, it must be established under the condition that the second line of defense can be built in time.

In addition, there will be a problem with retreating to the second line of defense, that is, if Mr. Wood leads the team to support, without the first line of defense, it will be very difficult to connect.

If the response doesn't go well, it will add a lot of unknown variables to the battle, which is not the result that Chino wants to see.

The problem is that if you don't retreat to the second line of defense, the guardian knight is almost unable to hold on.

So it's really a dilemma.

No matter how you choose.

None of the best options.

"Stand back, we'll defend it!" Amon and Virgil on the ascetic's side let the exhausted guardian knights retreat, and the ascetics who also insisted on fighting gritted their teeth and took on the errand to defend to the end, their willpower far superior to that of the guardian knights.

"Nero, you take the cardinal deacon back to take the second line of defense, and we must protect the last line of defense before we can move on to the next step. "Illario, one of the two leading leaders of the Salesian Order, sent Cardinal Nero back with more than thirty cardinal deacons, and he had decided to abandon the first line of defense, but certainly not now, but when the second line of defense was completely constructed.

"Arius, stay!" Nero asked the mighty Arius to stay: "If John brings back reinforcements in time, he must be kept safe!"

"Understood!" Arius nodded solemnly.

The Guardian Knights retreated.

The pressure on the remaining staff of the ascetic and the hermit increased greatly, and Hugo on the other side was even more free to speak, and the surface of the steel shield in his hand became pitted and stained with blood due to too many blows.

Cardinal Nero, who had withdrawn to the second line of defense, found that the situation here was not optimistic either.

The second line of defense was not fully constructed.

But on the other side of the canyon.

But there are countless monsters approaching, forming a situation of flanking back and forth.

Josiah, who had rushed to build a second line of defense here, was in a hurry, and he and David of the Plantagenet Dynasty were at the forefront to drive away the approaching monsters, but due to the lack of sufficient manpower and materials, the second line of defense was far from being closed. Cardinal Nero saw that there were no less than thousands of monsters emerging in the canyon, and his heart sank suddenly.

Even if the second line of defense is closed.

Nor could the expedition team rely on a single line of defense to deal with a flanking attack from both directions.

If you stick to the first line of defense.

Seems like the best option.

The problem was that the first line of defense against the stone wall could not last long, and once the massive devourers attacked, and the extremely exhausted ascetics were likely to slaughter them and the stone wall was lost, the expedition team trapped between the first and second lines of defense would have no way to escape.

Escaping the rock walls on both sides of the canyon is one option, but it's too passive.

"You have to make a choice as soon as possible, or we're all going to die here!" Bird rushed back from the front and found Nero: "We don't have time!"

"We are now carrying out the third set of action plans, the leader leads the team, resists the pressure in the direction of the canyon, the expedition team quickly climbs the rock walls on both sides of the canyon according to the appropriate location found before, and uses the terrain to defend, the first people with combat strength below ten points will act, build a defense line according to the terrain, and use all the stones that can be used! The second line of defense, we only hold on for half an hour!" Nero knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and he had to make a decision.

It's better to be passive than to be wiped out.

So he chose Illario's third option.

As soon as this order came out.

The Legion of Eden, the Eye of God, and the explorers of the Plantagenet Dynasty immediately rushed to the mountain walls on both sides, running towards the positions they had already found, and for a moment, hundreds of people climbed on the rock walls like ants......

Without this group of scum, Josiah and David breathed a sigh of relief, and the battle was easier.

After all, don't worry about leaking.

"Everything is going well, I'll pick up Hugo and them back!" Bird saw that the team members on the rock wall quickly arrived at the position they had found, entered the cracks in the rock wall of the mountain one by one, and continued to assemble heavy giant crossbows according to the terrain, and put the flame burner, Molotov cocktail, fuel drum, etc. in an obvious position, ready to block the monster's next climbing attack, he saw that the climbing process went smoothly, and his heart was secretly relieved, and the next thing was how to safely withdraw the people of the first stone wall defense line.

"Bird, put people first, forget it if you can't get the equipment back!" Nero hurriedly told Bird to put people first.

"Don't worry!" Bird naturally understood this truth, there was no one here, nothing here.

"I'm going to stay here forever!" Nero made another promise to Bird that he wouldn't give up the second line of defense until it was safely withdrawn, even if it hadn't been built yet and a steady stream of monsters looming on the other side of the canyon.

Bird quickly rushed to the first line of Stonewall.

After he conveyed the meaning.

Chino immediately made a decision: "The ascetics stay, Hugo leads the Knights Templar, the Plantagenet Dynasty, and the Visions of God to retreat!"

Hugo groaned slightly: "Mr. Bird, lead the team, I'll stay and see if Mr. Wood can arrive in time!"

"Let's go!"

Bird was also polite to Hugo.

Now, for every second of delay, there is a risk of adding a point of loss.

With the exception of the ascetics, the defenders retreated in waves, removing the stone walls and taking away the weapons that had been arranged on them, and smashing them with stones if they could not be removed, to prevent intelligent monsters from taking advantage of them. On the other side of the stone wall, the monster saw the humans retreating, and their arrogance became even more arrogant, and countless thorn-backed demon dogs roared and rushed up the stone wall......

"Spitfire!" Bird motioned to the Salesian retreat to breathe fire into the monster horde, helping the ascetics push back the enemy first.

Whew!

Dozens of flames erupted.

The thorn-backed demon dog who rushed over was so hot that it cried wolf and rolled all over the ground.

"Go, go, go!" Bird saw a few guys manipulating the flamethrower and strafing continuously, and immediately rushed over and slapped him on the shoulder: "Go, don't waste fuel!"

Even with the ascetics and many strong men holding out, the stone wall was still inevitably broken by the monsters that surged over again.

A dozen or so Thornback Dogs caught up with the slower Flamethrowers.

At the same time that they fought back with flames.

Part of the traction.

Divided into several troops, they dodged the flames from the side.

Throwing several people to the ground, the fangs and fangs were devouring the flamethrowers in a matter of seconds, tearing the firethrowers to pieces, and by the time Bird arrived from the other side, all that was left on the ground was a mess...... Bird had no choice but to leave after killing two thorny back demon dogs, and it was impossible to protect the safety of all the retreating personnel with just a few people.

Now, Bird's greatest concern is not this, but how the ascetics will retreat.

If the ascetics were all destroyed.

Then the situation will fall into an even worse dilemma.

"Hurry up, we can't hold it anymore!" Amon roared, waving his palm to sweep down all the monsters that rushed up the stone wall, but his eyes flashed, and he saw that the Devourer was slowly approaching, and immediately understood that the other party was about to attack: "Ugly beast, the Devourer is coming up, you all leave, Ilario, Hugo, you all go!"

"Amon!" Illario looked at Amun, whose hair was like a lion's mane, and knew that the silent ascetic had realized in his heart that he did not intend to leave alive, and even if he was not here, he would choose the Holy Land as his final destination.

"Get out of here, that's the only thing we can do for you. Amon nodded.

"Let's go!"

The last of the human elite jumped off the stone wall.

Hugo felt that his eyes were a little moist, and it was clear that it was not the rain.

He really didn't think that his rock-like heart would be touched by one person or a group of people, but now it turns out that he is not a hard-hearted person.

The Devourer rushed forward.

Launch a raid.

And the ascetic did not give an inch to meet the attack, and resisted with all his might.

An exhausted ascetic even leaps into the horde with a flamethrower, setting fire to the flamethrower that opened the fuel safety gate before the monster tears itself apart...... A deafening explosion rang out, and a large area of monsters around it disappeared in an instant, revealing a large blank area in the tide of enemies.

But within a few seconds, countless monsters rushed up.

They howled.

They rushed to the side of the stone wall, as if an invisible whip was whipping them from their backs, and if they dared to hesitate for the slightest minute, they would be punished with unbearable death.

"My lord is the greatest, the most holy!" another ascetic rushed into the enemy with a burning barrel and destroyed them.

Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions rang out.

Brute as the Devourer, he had to retreat from this madman who looked at death as he returned.

"Mentor Amun, Mentor Virgil, please leave!" a young ascetic stood in front of Amun: "You have a long way to go, leave with our blessings and wishes!"

"Children, you go first, and we will soon be together again!" Amon and Virgil bowed solemnly to the remaining ascetics, before turning to leave.

"All to my lord!" replied the remaining ascetics respectfully.