Chapter 5 of the text is the Crucible

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After seeing Akram lead the puppet army towards the Whispering Forest, Ling Xiao also led his men to the Hellforge in the center of the Whispering Forest.

The Hellforge is a kilometer-long lava lake filled with dark red lava that bursts and emits black smoke. This is the passage from Hell to the Continent, and at this time an army of demons has gathered under the furnace, and they will kill it in one fell swoop when the invisible seal above it is removed.

Around the Hellforge has been built by the elves and the Guardian Knights a ring of tall walls, reinforced for 3,000 years, the walls of this wall are 100 meters wide and 40 meters high, and at intervals there is a protruding rhomb, covered with heavy bed crossbows and a small mage tower. The wall has a drop of nearly fifty meters from the surface of the lake, and if it weren't for the high temperature, which makes it difficult for plants to survive, the elves would have planted a layer of thorns on the walls. But even so, this wall is also the strongest city defense in the entire continent, it prevents the demons who are sealed and exposed from time to time from breaking into the continent, and guards the peaceful life of the continent for 3,000 years. And now it will also become the first line of defense for the continental races to fight the demons.

Grand Duke Edward had arrived with a coalition of 300,000 troops, knowing that the walls would give the mainland race the last advantage they could retain in the war against the demons. If the city defenses are lost, then the coalition forces will have to use their ** to fight the much more powerful demons of the individual. The Grand Duke knew how powerful the demons were, even the lowest-level Flame Demon was not something that a singular Terran soldier could fight against, and although he had the elite of the entire continent, it was not enough to fight a regular war with the demons.

At this time, the soldiers of the coalition army had already climbed the city wall, and the 100-meter-wide wall made the space above very spacious, not only could it be equipped with heavy city defense equipment, but also the cavalry could gallop on it in the mode of a squad. Thanks to the joint efforts of the Grand Duke and his generals, the soldiers of the various clans have been combined and have begun to take charge of the defense of their areas. The number of demons that have been revealed from the seals has increased significantly, but it is just the right time for the coalition soldiers to become familiar with how to fight demons with the help of elves and guardian knights.

With such great walls, the morale of the coalition soldiers was very high after the battle to slay the demons, and they praised the High King for seeing so far ahead, leaving the continent with a fortress that would never fall 3,000 years after his death.

The commanders, on the other hand, were not as optimistic as the soldiers at the bottom, as they had to consider the threat from outside the walls.

Although the continent is now unprecedentedly united in the face of the threat of hell, it may not be without fallen souls who have been deceived by demons like the beasts. In fact, there is a great deal of information that the Fallen have invaded the Whispering Forest and are lurking nearby. The demonic threat left the elves with insufficient manpower to patrol the Whispering Forest, which had previously been firmly controlled by them, and the betrayal of the fallen elves also deprived the elves of the environmental advantage they had always had.

"There won't be many of those Fallen, and those who can be tempted by the demons are definitely not strong-willed, in fact, most of them are wandering creatures in the wild, they won't make a big move until the demons have an advantage, all they can do is make a small move in our battle with the demons, and now that the Hellforge Guardian Knights and the elves have formed a patrol force, we can ensure the safety of the coalition's food routes. I think as long as we are careful, the Fallen will not bother us too much. ”

The one who spoke was a knight wrapped in full-body armor, who was the current leader of the Knights of the Hellforge Guardian. The members of the Hellforge Guardian Knights, all for life, have been established by the High King to guard the Crucible Fortress for the rest of their lives, and his descendants will continue to carry on the mission and become qualified Guardian Knights through hard training.

The Knights of the Hellforge Guardian Order has a strength of 5,000 people, and if they don't reach this number, they will ask the ancient guardian families outside through the guò elves for additional manpower, and those ancient guardian families will send some orphans over. Therefore, the Guardian Knights have always maintained a strong fighting power during these 3,000 years.

No one knows the Whispering Forest better than the Guardian Knights and Elves, so Archduke Edward is very relieved to hand over the food routes of the coalition forces to them. But the Grand Duke was not just worried about the degenerate, but ......

"I'm more worried about the Black Dragons than the Fallen. In the Ruby Wars, it was clear that the Black Dragons were in the service of the demons, and if they attacked us from the air while we were at war with the demons, the coalition would not be able to fend off both the upper and lower sides at the same time. Although we humans have griffins, you should know that griffons will never compete with dragons for the sky. ”

Archduke Edward voiced his concerns, and the old Elven Speaker said, "I heard that you defeated the Black Dragon in Ruby City, and the legendary Hell Warriors are the descendants of the Hell Alliance who followed the High King on their expedition to the Hell Alliance, and they are extremely powerful and can drive the Iron Giant. The dragon breath of the black dragon is a flame that is blown out at will in front of them, the power of the black dragon is like a nursing child in front of them, and the descendant of the elf royal family, Princess Fengyu, is even more light to subdue a black dragon. Where are they now? We need them to help us defend ourselves against the threat of demons and black dragons, and the elves need our royal family to re-establish our kingdom. ”

"I don't know," Grand Duke Edward replied respectfully to the words of the Elven Speaker, every Elf is a strong man, and this Speaker who has led the Elves for nearly a thousand years has a formidable power, "Your Excellency Ling Xiao left with the Hell Warriors after the Ruby War, and when they left, they said that they would return to Hell to continue the battle against the demons, but he also promised to come back before the demons broke the seal and fight side by side with us. ”

Without waiting for the elven speaker to speak, the dwarves on the other side preemptively said: "I don't believe in any hell braves, our dwarven heroes also participated in the coalition army attacking hell during the period of the High King, why are there five human races and one elf among the hell warriors who appeared, but there are no dwarves?" This must have been made up by you Terrans and elves to inspire the determination of your soldiers to fight the demons. This is a good idea, but we dwarves have joined in, so there should be a dwarf place among the warriors of hell, and the brave man with the shield is very much in line with the image of our dwarves, what is his name? ”

The troll also said: "Yes, we trolls should also have Hell Warriors, a hero will make our warriors more combative, and there is a woman in Hell Brave who wields powerful ranged weapons, which is very much in line with the image of our Troll Pitcher......"