Chapter 282: Under the Nest
As the Supreme of Fire, it is certainly impossible for the Holy Beast Suzaku to be severely injured by the Abyss Lord's self-explosion, even if the Abyss Lord's self-explosion is based on the hellfire, it is also ignored by the Holy Beast Suzaku.
But in addition to the Hellfire, the Abyss Lord's self-detonation also brought a powerful shockwave. This shock wave directly shook the Holy Beast Vermilion Bird away, and Kisara, who was already suffering a lot of injuries, flew out upside down with dragon blood.
Fortunately, the Holy Beast Suzaku, who did not suffer much damage, caught Kisara in time, preventing Kisara from taking more damage due to the fall.
Reluctantly turning into a humanoid form, Kisara fainted directly on Suzaku's claws.
And after placing Kisara on the back of the golden crow, Roger, who quickly lifted the transformation, also spurted out a mouthful of blood. Although the demonic energy and hellfire were burned out by the fire of the Southern Ming under the form of the holy beast Suzaku, Suzaku's rebirth from the fire and the self-detonation of the Abyss Lord actually brought a considerable burden to Roger. Coupled with the fact that Kisara was seriously injured and unconscious, Roger could only grit his teeth and gather the Divine Bird Legion, and then quickly teleported back to the Emerald City through the time and space gate.
This made the belated Kleina very depressed: obviously this is the border area of the mercenary kingdom, but all the problems have been solved by Roger, but as the general of the mercenary kingdom, she has not helped anything, so why is she embarrassed to knock on the bamboo pole of the city lord of El and others?
However, after seeing the demon troops that had lost the direct control of the hero and were in chaos, Kleina could only lead the troops to kill those demons with a tangled face. If left unchecked, the lost and wild demons will be enough to turn this frontier into a barren land.
And the other side. Roger, who was a little pale, took the injured and unconscious Kisara back to the Emerald City directly through the Time and Space Gate, which immediately attracted the attention of Luna and the others. Seeing that the fierce Kisara was seriously injured and unconscious, Luna, who hurried over, performed a healing spell on Kisara. While asking about Roger's specific story.
"Well, this time we were really careless." After giving a general account of what had happened in the past few days, Roger shook his head with a wry smile, "Originally, we had a big battle with the legendary Horned Demon Lord, and then rushed all the way to rescue the people of the Wild Wolf Principality, but we met a powerful devil hero with considerable strength, which will hurt us like this." ”
Look at the treatment of the legendary Moon Divine Technique. Kisara's injuries are finally under control. After wiping the sweat from her forehead, Luna gave Roger a blank look: "After fighting two strong enemies in a row, I was able to come back alive." Am I supposed to show you some admiration? ”
"Uh, ahahaha......" Roger laughed a little awkwardly, trying to fool around.
"The dragon's magic resistance is too high, and Kisara's injuries will take at least ten days of continuous treatment before they can fully recover. You used the Sacred Beast Transformation. He was also reborn in the form of the holy beast Suzaku. I'm afraid it's a lot of consumption, right? Luna frowned and glared at Roger, "Until Kisara's injuries are fully recovered, you should stay in the Emerald City honestly." ”
"What, yes! I also made a lot of trade agreements with the magic merchant Ben regarding arms, as well as the further improvements of the Elemental Birds, and the ......" Roger, who didn't want to return to his study, hurriedly found a lot of excuses, but Luna reached out and grabbed his ear after giving him a blank look: "I said it! Stay honest! ”
“…… All right. A grimacing Roger handed the tarnished orb of fire to the rabbit who was watching the joke. Then he followed Luna back to the Emerald City.
The arrival of the demonic calamity has made the Emerald City busy. Everyone is actively preparing for war. Because of this, the Great Elder and others, who could have helped with government affairs, were also busy, so Luna arrested Roger.
Although he likes to be a hands-off shopkeeper, under the influence of the Great Elder, Roger is actually somewhat involved in various government affairs, so the Great Elder will rest assured that he will hand over the Emerald City to him. The knowledge from his hometown makes Roger very good at handling government affairs and developing the economy, etc., and with the experience over the years, Roger, who is the king of the Oaks Kingdom, is actually much more qualified than many Terran kings.
And while Roger is dealing with government affairs with a bitter face, Edward and Glenn, who have met Roger and Prince Robin, are worried about the demonic disaster.
The cunning devils and the powerful demons are not so easy to deal with, in addition to sending the hell lords to drag down the dragon knights, the high-level demons of the demon clan have also sent a large number of middle and low-level demons out, which has caused headaches for several countries near the Wolf Principality and the Griffin Dynasty.
The demon nobles with quite powerful spatial magic attainments teleported away those low-level demons very casually through various portals, and these low-level demons are likely to appear anywhere, so all countries have to exterminate these scattered demons that appear randomly first.
Compared to the powerful Hell Lords, the damage caused by these mid- and low-level demons running around here and there is not low at all.
The Wolf Principality, which has fallen, is an example of this.
Although it is said that it has fallen, in fact, there are still many cities in the Wild Wolf Principality that are still holding on, and most of the high-level demons are actually still stationed near the gates of hell in the territory of the Griffin Dynasty, and they are doing their best to solidify the gates of hell. Devil heroes like the fallen angel Bella who ran to the territory of the Principality of Wild Wolves to attack cities everywhere are actually only a few of the few.
In addition to the demon heroes who continue to attack various cities, most of the people who are wreaking havoc in the Wolf Principality are mid- and low-level monsters such as demon babies, horned demons, and hellhounds.
For heroes and generals such as Roger and Klena, it is actually very simple to clean up these low-level monsters. But for a rural town with few garrisons, a large number of mid- and low-level monsters are enough to bring them a catastrophe.
In fact, quite a few small villages and towns in the Wild Wolf Principality were all attacked by these low-level demons.
Of course, the lords with brains knew that this situation had to be curbed. Once the people under his rule were slaughtered. No matter how rich the lords are, they can't keep their territory.
But now that the Grand Duke of Wild Wolf was killed, the city lords of the major cities in the Wild Wolf Principality are all fighting on their own. At first, there were some sober city lords who would send troops to rescue the villages and towns under their command, but after the devil heroes captured several cities that weakened the city garrison due to the dispatch of troops. The rest of the city lords honestly closed their doors.
In this way, the middle and low-level demons easily captured the villages and towns that did not have many troops, and after obtaining a large amount of flesh and blood, they quickly summoned more and stronger demons, and then stared at the various resource points with soldiers to garrison.
Under the attack of the powerful demons, various mines, lumber yards, farms, and arsenals have been reduced to ruins.
Even if the Wolf Principality is finally able to repel the invading demons, the Wolf Principality, which has lost a large number of people and infrastructure, will fall from a powerful country that was originally ranked among the top Terran countries to one of the weakest countries.
And the heads of the countries who learned about the current situation of the Wild Wolf Principality through various channels naturally cleaned up the scattered demon clans that appeared in their territory. So. The counteroffensive against the gates of hell had to be postponed.
However, the devils don't think enough of this situation!
Thereupon. A large number of mid- and low-level demons poured out of the gates of hell and launched an offensive towards the surrounding Terran realms.
In addition to the Wild Wolf Principality, which has fallen, and the Griffin Dynasty, which has controlled the demon forces in the border area, the Unicorn Principality, the Falcon Principality, the Mercenary Kingdom, and the Orc Territory have all been invaded by the demons.
The Falcon Principality and the Mercenary Kingdom, which are not weak, are a little better, although the defense line on the border has been broken through. But they have all successfully blocked the advance of the demons. The orcs did not defend the border at all. However, the demon troops who invaded the orc territory had to face the siege of one orc tribe after another, and they were about to be destroyed.
Only the situation of the unicorn principality is the worst, in the northern prairie where there is no danger to defend, the troops of the unicorn principality cannot stop the attack of the demons at all. The troops of the unicorn principality, which had been defeated, did not rely on the city defense to block the attack of the demons until they retreated to the Holy Rain City.
Swinging his sword and slashing a howling horned demon and kicking a parasite away, a somewhat panting Edward took two steps back. Came to Glenn's side, "I didn't expect that. It's just a low-level demon race, and they can force us to this extent. ”
"There is no danger to defend on the prairie, which is why the former unicorn Grand Duke will build cities one after another. Situations like this have occurred in several previous disasters, but the unicorn principality has persevered! You have to have faith! Despite the bleeding from his bandaged fingers, Glenn ignored the fact that he shot arrow after arrow out of the city.
"Really, if it weren't for the expansion of Oxhorn Town into a big city to protect that lake, we'd probably have to retreat all the way to Utor City." Edward shook his head with a wry smile.
"Now the name of this city is the Holy Rain City! It's not Bullhorn City! Glenn rolled Edward's eyes, "If you let the original residents of Oxhorn Town hear this, you will probably be stoned!" ”
"Well, as you know, it's not a miracle at all, it's just a magic cast by that Lord Kerr." Edward pouted boredly.
“…… Of course I know that, but you have to admit that it's because of the so-called miracles that the city hasn't collapsed yet, hasn't it? After firing another arrow, Glenn took out a bottle of potion and drank it, and then continued, "It is precisely because people don't want the lake of miracles to be polluted by demons that those nobles will support us strongly, so that we can fight until now. ”
"But how long can we hold on?" Edward smiled tiredly. Glenn, on the other hand, was silent, just silently shooting arrow after arrow out of the city.
Looking out of the city from Edward and Glenn's perspective, there was red and black everywhere under the clear sky.
A large number of demon babies, demon children, and parasitic demons fluttered over with the small wings on their backs. Although the wings of the demon babies were not enough to make them fly, now that the corpses of the middle and low-level demons had been piled up to the height of the city wall, the demon babies flapping their wings could completely rush up the city wall along the corpses. Therefore, the halberdiers defending the city had to kill the demon baby while taking a moment to push the corpses under the city walls outward.
The muscular Horned Demons, Horned Overseers, and Howling Horned Demons don't need to compete with the Babies for those "roads" at all, even if the corpses piled up in the Horned Demons' attack position are not high enough, the Horned Demons can climb or jump up the city walls.
Howling Horned Demons and regular Horned Demons are mostly intercepted by the Crusader Swordsmen, but the Horned Overseers who can self-destruct can only be shot by archers and crossbowmen. If archers and crossbowmen fail to shoot the Horned Overseers outside the walls, the Horned Overseers will often blow up a large number of people and demons as they rush to the walls. Therefore, the few remaining archers and crossbowmen had to keep an eye on the remaining Horned Overseers, and did their best to snipe the Horned Overseers.
Comparatively speaking, the Cerberus are much easier to deal with than the Demon Babies and Horned Demons. After all, it was difficult for Cerberus to reach the city walls on four legs, so the Cerberus in the early stages of the siege were just live targets for archers. But now there are piles of demon corpses as high as the city walls outside the city walls, and the Cerberus who rush up the city walls from time to time can always take a few lives.
The Enchantresses, Pet Queens, and Charms who stand far away and have ranged attack capabilities are the biggest threats. Although under the blows of Edward and Glenn in turn, there are not many remaining demon queens, but these thousands of demon troops that can throw fireballs are still the one that has killed the most Terran soldiers since the demon siege of the city.
Seeing the enchantresses who had exhausted their magic power constantly taunting the priests on the city wall, Edward couldn't help but grit his teeth: "Glenn, can your Pegasus shooters still be dispatched?" ”
“…… It's useless, the fire monsters are still there watching. Looking at the fire monsters guarding the Enchantresses, Glenn couldn't help but frown, "Although we managed to kill those Great Devils and Abyss Lords, my Pegasus Archer and your Terraching Dragoons suffered heavy losses in that raid. If we don't find a way to get rid of those fire monsters, we won't be able to kill the remaining enchantresses. ”
"Then we can only watch the enchantresses recover their magic and then attack our priests first." Edward gritted his teeth. Now in the battle, the number of priests under Glenn and Edward is not many, and it is likely that they will all be wiped out by the next round of attacks from the Enchantresses.
Glenn didn't answer, just silently fired arrows at the enchantresses. But there are still thousands of Enchantresses, and it is obviously impossible to kill them all before the Enchantresses regain their magic power by shooting them alone.
Edward quietly touched the short sword at his waist, and a flash of determination flashed in his eyes. (To be continued.) )
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