No soldier who held on to St. Sophie could have imagined that disaster would strike so suddenly. While Hillshan was in his tent warning the crowd of possible disasters, the unexpected was already happening.

At this moment, stationed at the southwest gate is a hundred-man squad under Xueying, another elite unit of the kingdom, consisting of more than ten archers and more than eighty ordinary sergeants. This detachment was the detachment of Viren's team that recaptured the walls after the rout, followed by Sterls's Guards. And since the rout of Katena took place in this direction, the weapons discarded by the apostles continued outside the city, so almost all the soldiers in this squad had already exchanged their weapons for these powerful apostolic weapons. Shortly after Hill entered Sterls' camp, some changes occurred among the sergeants of this squad for no apparent reason. If there were other normal soldiers here at this time, they would be surprised to find that the sergeants in this group had all undergone significant changes in body shape without exception, some of the thinner soldiers became stronger, and the bodies of those who were already strong soldiers were further expanded, and the originally well-fitting uniforms were stretched out. Next, a trace of black lines gradually emerges from the bare skin. The thinner soldiers burst into pieces of corpses because they couldn't bear the tremendous pressure, and the eyes of the soldiers who resisted gradually turned red, almost exactly the same as those of the apostle soldiers. Eventually, more than 30 of the nearly 100-strong garrison had turned into the monster with blood-red glasses, while the rest of the soldiers had been reduced to pieces of minced meat. Without any orders from anyone, the thirty-odd monsters gathered into a detachment and headed towards the position of the nearest garrison.

Thirty-seven-year-old Mai was just a small merchant in St. Sophie before the war. Living in what is known as the strongest and most indomitable city in the world, Lao Mai feels that life is very indifferent. After the war, Lao Mai could not have imagined that the already powerful Kingdom of Magellan would fall to all the lands except the indomitable city of St. Sophie in just a few days. During the three months that the capital was under siege, Lao Mai's mood experienced many twists and turns. From the initial ignorance and fear of these invaders, to the despair of the lack of supplies in the city due to the siege, to the current numbness, until Katena is repelled by a young man named Viren, Lao Mai suddenly wonders if he can do something. So during the safe period of these few days, the not old old Mai made a decision. He's going to join the army.

Many people who knew him well did not understand his decision, believing that it was no different from suicide. Facing the puzzled eyes around him, Lao Mai smiled faintly. I'm afraid that there are only a few people who understand him, and even if he is likely to die under the sword of these invaders, it is better than being gathered and slaughtered after the city is broken. Magellan's former lands, desolate by the fall, are constantly reminding the survivors that the apostles did not need to be taken prisoner. But the survivors of these capitals have chosen to ignore this. Rather than being slaughtered without resistance, it is better to take up arms and die on the battlefield. As a result, the young Mai joined the kingdom garrison and became part of the first reserve army to be drafted.

Reserve soldiers could not go to the battlefield immediately, and after urgent training, the reserve sergeant to which Lao Mai belonged was transferred to an area far from the city wall to do some logistics work. Unable to get close to the battlefield, the soldiers were lucky enough not to come into contact with the weapons that the apostle said they had left behind. But unfortunately, they are right on the path of the corrupted monsters.

Lao Mai was the first to sense the danger. When he saw a group of tall and sturdy sergeants rushing towards them with weapons they had never seen before, Lao Mai was somewhat relieved that this should be the elite army sent by the king to reinforce them. However, when several long arrows completely different from the bows and arrows used by the Shoucheng army nailed some of the reservists who were still watching the excitement to the ground, Lao Mai was a little shocked to think that these so-called elite targets were actually them. There was no chance of resistance at all, and the more than 100 reservists were slaughtered by the corrupted army in a moment, and only Lao Mai, who was a little farther away, and the remaining less than ten people retreated in panic under the leadership of the temporary commander. Yes, there is only retreat, and in the face of these monsters, the reserve sergeants who do not have any combat experience do not have any thoughts of fighting a fight.

I don't know how long I ran, but Lao Mai was completely tired. In the process of escaping, Lao Mai witnessed teams of defending the city being slaughtered by monsters that suddenly appeared. Along the way, many sergeants joined the fleeing team, some of them were gradually left behind and killed by monsters due to physical exhaustion, and some regained the courage to resist, these people Lao Mai knew that they would not come back. No one had time to stop the fleeing soldiers, as these corrupted monsters appeared in almost every unit defending the city, and the elite ones were the hardest hit.

Fleeing to a remote place, Lao Mai finally did not feel the danger again. Exhausted, he sat down on the ground, looking at the seven or eight people who had fled here with him, Lao Mai felt a deep confusion. Looks like I'm a commander now. As if he was having fun in the midst of suffering, Lao Mai smiled. But he was surrounded by a deep burst of self-blame. "Why did I do this? Why did I run away? Was it because the enemy was terrible? But I knew it from the beginning! Is running away now worthy of my original intention when I decided to join the army? Once the city is broken, everything will be over, so what is the use of me running away?"

Then, Lao Mai, who had calmed down, clenched the weapon in his hand. "Let's go back. ”

Although two or three men scoffed at this, the other sergeants followed suit, picking up their weapons and running back after Lao Mai. Lao Mai is actually not old, at least he is quite fast.

At this moment, in the indomitable city of St. Sophie, every inch of land is staged with disasters.

Stells felt nothing but despair, at least a sixth of his troops had been reduced to puddles of minced meat or monsters by the Apostles' weapons, and the rest of his troops were struggling to cope with their former comrades, who had become exceptionally robust after being corroded. Viren and Hill had already gone to support with five or five mages, but what good was that? it wasn't just Hitels' royal guards who had such trouble, but almost all the human sergeants were facing this.

God, save St. Sophie. Desperate, Stells sat in his tent in a dejected state, at a loss for what to do.