Chapter 25: The King of Despair
On the south side of the Purgatory Fortress, a huge dark figure was crisscrossing the city walls in a blood-red whirlwind.
Ten minutes earlier, Zagara had given the order for an all-out assault on the swarm, and under the frantic suppression of the swarm's long-range fire, the swarm units surrounded the Purgatory Fortress from all sides.
The demon army was urgently deployed, but because the reinforcements could not reach the city wall, they could only rely on the city defense organs to defend.
Lava waterfalls poured down from the four walls towards the swarm, but were stopped by the prepared swarm of insects that had been prepared for it with the resistance of the energy-sucking insects.
Resist the parasite absorbs energy attacks and defends against various negative effects, and of course it can also absorb heat from lava.
After the first baptism of the lava waterfall, the cockroaches who took the lead in the charge quickly started jumping and jumped directly to the top of the city.
At the same time, the projectors continued to throw other swarm troops directly onto the walls from a distance, a siege method that also surprised the demons who had never seen it.
When swarms of poisonous blasters curled up with spiked bodies and rolled straight to the lava vents along the walls to explode, the Purgatory Fortress completely lost all of its defenses.
Some of the thunder beasts launched the phantom charge and directly penetrated the city wall as if nothing was there, while the other part of the thunder beasts wielded their sharp and tough monomolecular giant blades and acted as city wall demolition workers.
Above the sky, under the cover of the crazy air raids of the alien dragons, a large group of king insects loaded with groups of Zerg units directly airborne into the city, these airborne Zerg units together with the Zerg units sent into the city by the projector began to create chaos in the demon army in the city, making it even more impossible for the demons to support the city wall safely.
Lilia, the master assassin of the swarm, led the Shadow Worm troops to silently climb over the city walls under the cover of the main force of the swarm, sniping those high-level golden demon commanders and blue demon elites in the demon army.
All offensive operations have gone smoothly so far, and if we continue like this, I am afraid that before the halfway point of this polar day, the swarm will be able to completely storm the Purgatory Fortress.
However, sometimes the progress of the situation is not always smooth sailing, just as the insect swarm began to gradually control the battle situation of the entire battlefield, an abnormal situation suddenly appeared on the southern city wall, that is, the city wall in front of Xue Hua and them.
Judging from the sight of Xue Hua and the others, it was as if a blood-red whirlwind had suddenly appeared on the city.
The whirlwind was extremely large and stout, and when it appeared, it quickly swept across the entire southern section of the city wall.
The Zerg forces that rushed to the city were all crushed by this sudden whirlwind, and some of them were even scattered at the touch of a button, unable to resist the terrifying power of the whirlwind at all.
At first, Xue Hua and the others thought that it was the dark gold demons in the city who had made a move and released some powerful primordial skill, but soon, the psionic monitoring image from the Surveillance King Worm instantly made Xue Hua understand what they were dealing with.
"Hurry up, the transcendents! That whirlwind isn't a magical skill, it's the transcendent demon that guards the gates of hell! ”
Xue Hua yelled, and the others immediately took action.
Several legendary communications quickly shot into the air, and two silver-robed figures quickly and silently appeared in the air on the city wall.
"I see, it's this guy." The expression under the eagle's mask was very solemn, and it was obvious that he had recognized the real body of Lacanos hidden in the whirlwind.
"I don't know who has the ability to say that it will move, but if it's this guy, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to deal with just the two of us......"
The skeleton on the other side also had a serious face, and there was an indescribable bitterness in his tone.
Lacanos is a very powerful demon of the Demon King level, and its name of "King of Despair" is not self-proclaimed, but given by the god of fear, Diablo.
This proves that it has a strength that is not inferior to Azmodan, and even stronger than Azmodan in terms of individual combat power.
Azmodan is good at war command, and the demon troops in its domain are recognized as high-quality in the entire Chaos Purgatory, and even the demon legions under the command of the Three Demon Gods are inferior in quality.
But when it comes to one-on-one heads-up, it's not very strong.
And the King of Despair who appeared on the city wall in front of him was an out-and-out murderous character, all of its strength was in battle, and when it came to heads-up ability, even the four demon kings were afraid of it.
The reason why it didn't become the Fifth King was that in addition to its own lack of interest, the Lord of Fear's reluctance to let it go was also a big factor, but not becoming a lord in Chaos Purgatory didn't mean to measure its combat power at all.
The way it grows in power is quite peculiar, sharing territory with Diablo, the Lord of Fear.
As Diablo said, "Fear breeds despair, and despair breeds madness", the king of fear sucks the fear of the territory, and the king of despair sucks the despair of the territory.
The Lord of Dread is like the sword in Diablo's hand, sharp enough to pierce the heart of any enemy with a single blow.
The two transcendents were now facing such a sharp sword, so even if they were combined, they still felt a little numb.
However, seeing this guy crisscrossing the city and crushing one swarm after another, the two transcendents also knew that they couldn't let it continue, otherwise it would probably affect Xue Hua's entire battlefield layout.
So the eagle quickly stretched out his hand and waved forward, and a crow covered in gray hair was summoned by it, he nodded at the crow, and then shook his arm slightly, and the crow turned into a gray light and flew towards the southern sky with a "whoosh".
"Let's do it, we have to support it for half an hour anyway, Gray Feather needs this half an hour."
The eagle said a few words to the skeleton in a faint tone, and then its body swelled suddenly, turning into a gray-white werewolf surrounded by ice crystals again.
The skeleton also stretched out his right hand and made a move in the void, and a pale green short staff appeared in his hand from nothing.
"Whew!!"
The werewolf incarnated by the eagle raised its head to the sky and howled, and the sky near the Purgatory Fortress instantly dimmed.
A white ice moon appeared out of thin air, casting a cold blue light on everything below.
The skeleton waved the translucent short staff in his hand, and an invisible ripple spread out in all directions, and the cry of the dead soul from the realm of the dead filled the entire battlefield in the blink of an eye, and around the ice moon, a dreamlike aurora appeared......
As soon as the two transcendents made a move, the huge movement immediately stopped Lacanos, who was killing frantically in the city.
The blood-colored hurricane around it slowly dissipated, and the huge figure in the pitch-black armor appeared clearly in the cold moonlight.
"The stronger will have a deeper ...... of despair"
Lakanos muttered to himself in a low voice, and a dark and dull strange gas inexplicably spread from the ground of the city wall under its feet, which quickly covered all the surrounding ground, and soon enveloped the entire Purgatory Fortress inside!