Volume 4: Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 24: The Crisis in Nanhai Town (2)

Hillsbrad Hills, 3:15 a.m., the east wall of Southsea Town.

Tadraal's face was darkened by the light of the torches, the archpriest hadn't had a good rest since the werewolf plague broke out, either worried about the situation in South Sea Town, or studying the werewolf's corpse to find a way to get rid of the infection.

He had warned Tibest through a magical projection, and it seemed like a wise decision now. This toxin, which infects civilians and turns them into werewolves, apparently has a good effect on soldiers with better physique. In fact, soldiers who are able to survive the toxin's infestation for longer periods of time without dying have a better chance of becoming werewolves. Thanks to Tadlar's reminder, Tibest spotted the sign in time, and did not hesitate to control the infected soldiers, and escorted them back to the kingdom by the Ashwood Kingdom border guard, seeking possible treatment.

This is also the reason why Tibest has to give up his newly established outpost, he cannot draw enough strength to monitor every wounded soldier while resisting the werewolf attack, and the only way is to retreat, shorten his supply lines, and reduce the frequency of fighting with werewolves until he finds a cure or stop the toxin.

Therefore, the progress of Tadrar's research is very crucial.

But just when the archpriest was racing against time to find a way to get rid of this toxin, those werewolves might have apparently realized this, and even sent a heroic werewolf to increase the pressure on Nanhai Town's defenses and prevent him from continuing his research.

At this time, the hero-level werewolf was standing hundreds of meters away from the wall where Tadelal was, although the darkness of the night blocked the view, the two still firmly locked on each other's breath, and neither dared to let such an enemy run around at will outside their sight.

If Yu Bin was here, he would definitely be able to see at a glance that this werewolf who was confronting Tadelal was none other than the Wolf King Nandus!

At this time, the wolf king Nandus had successfully reshaped a body in order to better adapt to the main plane, although this caused him to be unable to turn himself into a pool of shadows as freely as before, but it also restored his strength to seventy or eighty, and if he wanted to fully recover, it would take another year or two. Arugao obviously couldn't let such a useful subordinate stay in Shadowfang Castle for a year or two, so he was sent to the Hillsbrad Hills to further restrict the humans in Southsea Town, while keeping an eye on the orcs and trolls to prevent them from stabbing him in the back.

The wolf king Nandus also stood beside two very different characters, an orc from Dunhold Castle and a troll from Shattered Ridge. The former's left eye is not the usual eyeball, but a lilac crystal, which is the hallmark of the Bloodcave Clan, which can obtain the Eye of Shadow after sacrificing an eyeball, and it is clear that this orc is also a well-known figure in the Bloodcave Clan, Dugan Darkpupil is his name, and he is also one of the four Overseers of the Bloodcave Clan.

The trolls next to them were much more low-key, their mottled skin mixed with blood-red patches of skin was the biggest feature of the dark pine trolls, and since they became servants of the blood god Haka, their bodies began to change significantly. Dussi Bloodfang is the best of them all, and few trolls have as much blood-colored skin as he does.

The wolf king Nandus waved his hand, and another group of werewolves rushed forward. The strong physical fitness made them rush under the city wall at a small price, and the werewolves, who were more like beasts than people, fearlessly grabbed the gaps in the city wall and climbed up, only need to climb a meter or two, they can use their strong jumping power to jump directly to the city wall, causing damage to those human soldiers.

"See? That's our power! These weak people are simply looking for death! "Although less than half of the nearly 100 werewolves managed to jump onto the wall, they still caused a lot of trouble for the defending humans. The individual strength is far inferior to that of the werewolves, and the soldiers can only rely on numerical superiority to defend, but the temporarily reinforced and expanded city walls simply do not have much space for them to fight, which allows the werewolves to better exert their strength.

"Why don't you rush in all at once? Aren't these werewolves your people? "Dugan doesn't understand what these werewolves are doing, according to what he has seen and heard in the past few days, there are at least nearly four thousand werewolves under the wolf king Nandus, even if they attack, as long as they are willing to pay the price of killing half of the werewolves in battle, it is impossible for those humans in Nanhai Town to hold on to the present. However, these werewolves chose this way to slowly consume the power of Nanhai Town.

The wolf king Nandus let out a breath and waved his hand to let those werewolves continue to attack, while saying contemptuously, "People? No, these wastes are nothing more than humans who have been transformed into werewolves! They don't deserve to be my people! They're just slaves! ”

In the eyes of the wolf king Nandus, only those Shadow Werewolves who have been summoned to the main plane are his true subjects, and they are the forces that need to be used carefully, and the growth and expansion of the race must be based on these Shadow Werewolves, so only a small number of Shadow Werewolves followed him to the Hillsbrad Hills, and most of the Shadow Werewolves stayed in the Silverpine Forest, searching for those hidden humans while establishing their own settlements and hunting grounds.

"Wonderful cannibalism!" As a Dark Pine Troll, Dussi Bloodfang is naturally hostile to humans who occupy the most fertile areas of the Hillsbrad Hills, and in his opinion, the more humans die, the better, and it is better to die all. And now, whether it's those humans on the defensive or the werewolves on offense, it's actually the humans themselves who are killing each other. What could be better than that?

Through this battle, the wolf king Nandus demonstrated his strength to the representatives sent by the orcs and trolls, and succeeded in convincing them that the werewolves were capable of destroying the humans entrenched in the town of Nanhai. This strengthened their determination to participate in this war. Soon, Dagen Darkpupil and Dusi Bloodfang took their leave of Nandus, saying that they should return to their clan as soon as possible, and have their people prepare their weapons and food, and set out immediately to seize the fertile lands and resources occupied by humans.

"Hmph, greedy creature!" Nandus watched the two leave, her eyes full of sarcasm. These guys have been aroused by greedy desires for the benefits at their fingertips, and the reason why they sent these two people is nothing more than to see with their own eyes whether the werewolf is acting. It wasn't until I saw the number and combat effectiveness of the werewolves that I realized that if I didn't make a move, I was afraid that all the benefits would be wiped out by the werewolves.

In fact, the werewolves who came to the Hills Bled Hills were not as powerful as Nandus had shown. The werewolves' greatest focus was still on the Tirisfal Glade, and while preventing Tibest from entering the Silver Pines Forest, there were also many werewolves who were pinned down there, including many Shadow Werewolves. Most of the werewolves sent to the Hillsbrad Hills are transformed from old, weak, sick and disabled humans, who have little combat ability themselves, and even after becoming werewolves, they can't become qualified werewolf soldiers overnight.

In order to deter Dagen and Duxi, he sent to attack the elite of these four thousand werewolves, which could cause such an obvious gap in combat power, and even so, those humans did not show any flaws under such an attack. As for the rush to the top, the battle is decided, Nandus will not take such a risk. As the wolf king of the Shadow Werewolves, he is more cruel and cunning than the average Shadow Werewolf!

He glanced in the direction of Tadelal, if it wasn't for the priest's early appearance on the wall, maybe he would have had a chance to tear through the defenses of this human town tonight and give the weak humans a greeting. And now, he can only stop this senseless attack for the time being, hoping that those orcs and trolls will put enough weight on the balance of this war.

"We'll meet again!" He roared hatefully in the direction of Nanhai Town, and disappeared into the darkness of the night with the remaining werewolves.

"Looks like this night passed safely!" Sensing that the aura had disappeared from his perception, Tadelar finally let go of his tense mind and said to Morey Stone Tower beside him, "Thanks to you, there could have been very serious consequences tonight. ”

When the wolf king Nandus launched his first attack, it was the help of Morey Stone Tower and the dwarves that prevented the werewolves selected by Nandus from breaking through the walls and breaking into the town, and finally held out until Tadelal arrived. For this, the dwarves paid the price of ten wounded and three killed.

"Don't worry, Your Excellency! We are the children of the rocks, the offspring of the earth, and every dwarf will choose to retreat in that situation! ”

"Thank you again for your sacrifice! I'm afraid you'll need to stay here for the rest of the day, and those werewolves will probably attack again before the sun rises. Come to me at the town hall as soon as you need to! Having defeated the werewolves, Tadelal looked in the direction of the town hall, he knew very well how the appearance of a heroic werewolf would change the situation in Nanhai Town, presumably a chaotic quarrel was breaking out there, "I want to rush back immediately, those civilians can't stay in Nanhai Town anymore!" ”

However, when Tadelal rushed back to the town hall, what he saw was not the expected quarrel and chaos, but the orderly heralds.

"Let the residents of the third block pack up what they need to take with them, and when the second block is over, it will be their turn!"

"Captain Mordir, please return to the camp and inform the Banster Royal Warband that in two hours, they must appear in the new camp!"

"Mona, you and Caroline try to convince those mages to help! I don't think His Highness Rasfir would be stingy with this little help, would he? ”

"Of course, I'll send my guards with me!" Rasfil motioned for one of the guards behind him to follow Mona and the others away.

"Sister Lana, go and count how much war supplies are left! Then find a way to clean out the general docks, and we're going to teach those fishmen a profound lesson! ”

"Lieutenant Piring, I hope you can take your people to find a way to find the fish-man settlement on the coast, they can't hide in the sea forever, there must be enough foothold for them to live for a short time somewhere on the coast!"

Pilin bowed to Raphael: "Your will! I won't let you down! ”

Raphael sat in the chair that Mayor Colin usually sits, and next to him stood Colin, who was beating his hands, and on the table were written documents that had been stamped with the seals of the mayor of Southsea and Tadelal, who had been left to Colin by Tadelal before, and had apparently been transferred to Raphael by the mayor of Southsea.

"Ah, Mr. Tadlar, you're back!" Raphael soon spotted Tadelal standing at the door of the town hall, and the girl rose from her chair with a little restraint, wanting to step forward to greet the high priest.

Tadelar raised his hand to stop Raphael's move and walked quickly to the girl's side: "Raphael, can you tell me what you're doing?" ”

He wasn't worried about the girl messing around, because Raphael had never done anything to worry about him, and Colin wasn't a fool who didn't move anything, and there was no way he could let this little girl go. And now, not only Colin, an old government official, was cooperating with him, but even Horbels was willingly sitting by and waiting for Raphael to give the order, and it was clear that the girl must have done something to convince them.

"Teacher Tadrar, I considered that the situation in Nanhai Town might change some times in the future, so I made a few decisions on my own initiative, and I have caused you trouble!"

"It doesn't matter, tell me, what orders did you give?" Tadelal became more and more interested in what the girl was doing.

"First of all, I divided the entire town of Nanhai into six blocks, three of which are close to the city wall and three are close to the coast, and the fighting may be more fierce in the future, so I let the three civilians near the city wall block move to the other three blocks, and the soldiers who were originally stationed there will be replaced, not only to reinforce the defense in front in time, but also to better manage those civilians."

"Secondly, I think you might let some of the civilians out first, so I've got someone to find a way to clear half of the dock so that they can leave on a transport ship at any time. In order to ensure the safety of the evacuation, I also asked Lieutenant Pirin to find a way to find the fishmen, and use the opportunity to clear the dock and use the trap to lure the fishmen out, so as not to disrupt the order of the evacuation. ”

"In the end, I wanted to get people back to the kingdom of Ashwood and find a way to attract more people to the battle, but now that you're back, you must have defeated the werewolf. This one is not necessary. ”

Raphael didn't say a word, and the smile on Tadelal's face became brighter: "I didn't defeat him, that werewolf just didn't want to risk it, and he has already left." How are you going to attract those civilians here to fight? ”

Tadelal knew that Raphael was talking about those players, but the players who had followed the expeditionary force to Nanhai Town had already disappointed Tadelral, in his opinion, although these civilians had courage, but they did not take responsibility, and always wanted to get something for nothing, and had no faith in fighting for the weak.

"It's easy! Just increase the rewards! "Raphael, or Yu Bin behind her, knows too much about the group of players, as long as there are enough interests, let alone a head-on confrontation with the werewolves, even if they attack Shadow Fang Castle, they will rush to it.

Tadelar frowned: "Didn't you already promise them that they could exchange their military merits for all kinds of supplies?" Isn't that enough? ”

"Not enough, I think the exchange ratio should be at least tripled, and the types of goods that can be used for rewards need to be expanded. At the same time, in exchange for supplies, military merit will no longer be needed, but the head of a werewolf! ”