Chapter 185: Demon Night Attack
The Starry Night Leader's policy towards them has always been to ignore and not participate, and the Baldur's Gate has won, and they can't have an impact on the Starry Night Collar, on the contrary, the Baldur's Gate has failed, and their group of high-level leaders will be completely gg......
The Earl of Darkness had already established a secret base in Baldur's Gate at the behest of Acost, and some high-ranking spies had successfully broken into the City Lord's Mansion to secretly monitor the work and life of the four led by the Duke of Silver Shield. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the information they recently sent back made the high-ranking leaders of the Starry Night Leader laugh and cry, because those spies said that in addition to Anta Silver Shield, who wanted to win this war, the other three dukes had actually begun to transfer their own property during this time, some of them were preparing to go to Ammu to retire, some were preparing to go to Cormier to make a comeback, and one was going to the Silver Moon Alliance to join relatives......
It is conceivable that even these high-level leaders do not have the confidence to win the war and prepare for the back road in advance, so how much is left to win this kind of war?
However, in the few days that Acoste was recuperating, the clergy of the Three Holy Temples had already come five or six times.
Their purpose is very simple, the first requirement is that the Starry Night Leader must also send a certain number of troops to fight this time, and the second is to enter the city to check the distribution of their own here.
It's just that to the surprise of these priests, their envoys were all beaten back by the other party in disgrace.
Since the paper can't hold the fire, then Lavis and the others have nothing to be polite to them, and directly said that they have nothing to do with you, and if they come over again, they will have a dead hand......
Soon, the priests knew that something had happened to the Starry Night Leader, but the war with the demons was imminent, and they didn't have time to understand the cause and effect of the matter in detail, seeing that the other party's attitude towards them had changed 180 degrees, these holy warriors and priests in the temple had to go to the demons for trouble first, and then come back to solve the problem of the Starry Night Leader.
A few days ago, the West Hartland coalition army had frequent successes, and almost all of the demons they encountered on the road were a small group of scattered demons, among which there were some high-level demons, but in front of the human army with an absolute numerical advantage, the equipment was generally not bad, and there were several high-end combat power, these demons almost did not make any waves and fell.
One after another ruined villages appeared in front of those soldiers, and the bones of gnawed white bones were scattered on the side of the road, all these apocalyptic scenes also stimulated the emotions of each soldier, making them always maintain their anger and high fighting spirit against the demons.
Likewise, they saved many unmurdered villages and displaced people, which boosted the Coalition's reputation in West Hartland, and a small number of them were civilians who had just been blasted out by the Starry Night......
They added fuel to the story of Acoste's order to expel the temple and kill the temple guards, but they were silent about fighting the demons bravely before Starry Night and fighting the demons to the death on the city walls......
Human nature is like that, and he wouldn't be surprised to hear the civilians in his presence right now.
All of a sudden, Acoste was corrupted and degraded by demons, and the entire high-level of the Starry Night Leader was in the same league as the demons, and everyone was affected by the rumors and began to hate the Starry Night Lord, and the prestige that the half-elf sword saint had built up with great difficulty in West Hartland no longer existed, and the most excited were the priests of the temple, who wanted to run to Scarlet City now to purify Acoste and his subordinates, so as to free the civilians of the Starry Night Leader from the clutches of this degenerate......
As the mastermind behind this army, the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, Anta Silvershield, has even laughed off his eyebrows in the past few days after learning about the specific situation.
He was very glad that the half-elf sword saint did not send an army over to participate in the alliance he had brokered this time, and he was also very glad that the other party would turn against the Three Holy Temples so irrationally for the sake of a vampire girl.
The current situation is that the credit is on one's side, but the hatred is on the other side, and there is nothing more comfortable for me than this situation.
As long as they can defeat the demons, then the Grand Duke of the Silver Shield can go to the Starry Night Territory with the momentum of the victorious army, and he can also occupy the supreme point morally, and take out the famous Acoste in one fell swoop, and then bring the mature Starry Night Leader into his control power.
But Anta Silver Shield, who was in a state of excitement and even frenzy, didn't understand that all this was based on the premise that they could kill the demons, which was the most critical part, if their coalition failed, then Silver Shield not only all dreams would be in vain, but even his own and his family's lives would be very likely to be saved......
Sure enough, in the weeks that followed, the coalition encountered fewer and fewer demons, but instead the pressure of the battle grew, and the number of demons increased, and their casualties became more and more serious......
Demons are not stupid people with zero IQ, it's just that they don't like to use their brains to think a lot of the time, and they are obsessed with using their powerful power to solve all problems, but when they find that the strength of the enemy and the enemy is too different, these demons are not unable to learn to make some changes......
Some powerful demons began to anxious about their scattered accomplices, and they gradually gathered into a force and began to snipe the West Hartland coalition forces from afar.
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On a quiet night, the bright light of the fire in the tent stretched for dozens of miles, and there were groups of tired soldiers patrolling or standing guard, but many more soldiers fell asleep hastily after dinner.
The West Hartland coalition had just engaged in a fierce battle during the day, and they encountered a group of more than a thousand demons, and the two sides fought from the rising sun in the early morning to the sunset in the evening, and the grasslands of more than a few hundred meters turned into scorched earth, and the corpses of demons and humans crisscrossed each other, some even intertwined after death, so that others could not separate them.
In the end, the humans won a crushing victory, they destroyed more than 1,000 demons at the cost of more than 2,000 people, and after the battle, everyone was exhausted, and the soldiers could not do even the most basic things such as collecting the corpses of their colleagues, and they were hastily cremated together.
They have been fighting with the demons for nearly a month, and the morale of each soldier is no longer as strong as it was when they won at the beginning, the ferocity and fearlessness of the demons have brought a great impact to these soldiers, but it is not without good news for him, after fighting for such a long time, the number of demons who came to West Hartland due to the rift in the plane is also very small, according to the current situation, they only need to fight one or two battles at most, and they can return to their homeland and say goodbye to this precarious life completely......
"Old Buck, after the battle with the demon is over, you won't be ready to stay in the army anymore, will you, where will you settle down with that money?"
At the gate of the battalion, there were two veterans who had survived a hundred battles sitting on duty in the improvised outpost, they were sitting on a stake with their legs crossed, and one of them was holding a pipe and spitting out the clouds, looking very leisurely.
"I, I should take my family to the starry night, I have a friend who has settled there, and I am going to take my wife and children to join him."
The old soldier named Buck spat out a puff of smoke rings, and then thought for a long time and said slowly.
"Starry Night Lord, you said you were going to the territory of the lord who was in the same stream as the demon?" Another veteran looked surprised, "You have to think about it, after we have defeated the demons, the next step may be to wage war against the Starry Night Lord, and it is said that it has been taken over by the demons, and now the life of the civilians there may be even worse than ours." ”
"Come on, are you really going to believe the deported civilians?"
Old Buck looked at his colleague with a smirk, his tone full of disdain.
"My family sent me a letter a few days ago, telling me that it was the case of my brother who received the starry night."
"They are still very safe and comfortable over there, and the lords there have also contributed to the fight against the demons, my brother served in the Knights, and he saw with his own eyes that the half-elf lord killed a legendary-level Balo Flame Demon!"
"As for the irreconcilable conflict between them and the temple, it is not because of the demon, I heard from my brother that there is something else hidden in it."
Speaking of this, Old Buck suddenly laughed coldly. "You don't really think Baldur's Gate has enough strength to stand up to that half-elf earl, do you? It's hard to even know the outcome of our battle with the demons now, and what they can rely on to crusade against the Starry Night Lord. ”
"Besides, it's been months since the priests of the major temples lost the ability to unleash divine magic, and no one knows why, but there is no doubt that they don't have the power they used to have! Luthers, why can't I go to them when no one can save themselves? ”
"Hey......"
Luthers sighed slightly, and he didn't refute anything, because he knew that his old friend was telling the truth.
Even if he doesn't know so much about Buck's brother, Luthers only needs to look at the mental outlook of everyone in the coalition he is in now, and then look at the Starry Night Leader on the other side, I believe that as long as a person with a normal mind will have an intuitive understanding of the strength gap between the two.
"Then can you please ask your brother to bring me in, you know me, I don't want to live this life of no hope for a long time.
Luthers looked at his old partner with a warm expression, yes, not to mention that the problem of the devil has not been solved yet, but even after the victory over the demon, the devil knows whether the devil will continue to wreak havoc in the West Hartland region in the future.
In this troubled world where even ordinary people feel the crisis, what better way than to join and find a strong territory to shelter yourself?
"Of course, I'll ask my brother."
"Thank you, my ...... Forehead ......"
Buck nodded affirmatively, which made Luthers immediately overjoyed, and he was about to express his gratitude when a dark cyan claw peeked out of his chest.
Drops of blood splattered on Old Buck's face.
Luthers's happy expression froze instantly, and before he could change into a painful expression, his whole body fell to the ground because his heart was shattered.
"Enemy ...... Enemy attack! ”
Old Buck's first reaction was to ring the alarm bell next to him, but the assassin was smart enough to attack him at the first time, and he could only draw his long sword first to deal with the opponent's attack.
Blood flowed in the camp in the next moment!
A lurking assassin demon jumped out of the darkness, shattering the bodies of the patrol guards with his claws, biting their heads with his teeth, and in front of the camp there was a large red light that lit up half of the night, and countless demons with strange shapes appeared as if they appeared out of thin air, rushing towards the barracks like a tide!
"Quick, assemble!"
The other party's voice was so loud that at this time, even without the alarm bell, everyone knew that something was wrong, and many soldiers who were sleeping scolded and took up their weapons and rushed out of the tent, and after a little frozen, they fought with those assassins.
Raythel stepped out of the most luxurious tent in the middle, and the paladin's first instinct was not to trouble the demons, but to run to the tent where the mercenary mages lived.
It stands to reason that the assassination demons can sneak in silently, but how could a large group of demons sneak up less than a few hundred meters from the camp?
In addition to the warrior patrols, these mages also set up a lot of spell traps and mage eyes on the periphery of the camp, why didn't those guys be able to detect such an obvious demon and warn them, did they all eat?
Or, they're all ......
Ressel opened the curtain of the tent with a burning fire, and the strong smell of blood made him frown.
Four men dressed in mage robes were lying on the ground with their heads separated, and next to their corpses stood 5 or 6 humans with bald heads, black robes, and strange tattoos carved into their faces.
They held bloody daggers in their hands, and when they saw the paladin whose body was filled with holy light energy, not only was he not afraid, but licked his tongue excitedly, with an eager expression.
"Cultists?!"
Reesel's face became heavy, these cultists must have infiltrated the coalition team in advance, and then killed these mercenary mages at this critical moment. (To be continued.) )