Belk Loren walked step by step down the path leading to the castle district of the inner city, the sharp tingling of several small wounds on his body constantly stimulated his already tired spirit and stimulated him to stay awake.

The fog had thinned, but the smell of blood lingered in the air, and there were still suspicious shadows flashing, and footsteps could be heard from the depths of the nearby alleys, and each shadow and footstep could be a lurking monster - they may have completed their transformation, or they may be transforming, and in any case, Belk cannot afford to risk it.

The voice still lingered in his head:

"It's like this...... You can live by eating stones...... My lord. ”

For this reason, people can willingly turn into monsters.

At this moment, the young marquis suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen in a report:

…… In the above-mentioned areas, grain was levied six times, and the households were empty, the leaves of the trees had been eaten, and the number of hungry people was ......

It used to be just a description, a few numbers, and he used to feel shocked, but he only felt shocking.

Now, he finally saw with his own eyes what that "world" was like.

It is unbelievable that between that "world" and his "world" there is only a city wall and only a castle.

He finally knew why most of the decrees of His Royal Highness the Prince were difficult to implement, and why those noble lords could never be relied on.

People who live in castles can't imagine what the outside world is like.

Belk looked up and saw that the main entrance to Fort Solin was in front of him, the drawbridge ...... Didn't rise, and didn't see the soldiers on guard.

An indescribable uneasiness suddenly came over him, and Belk immediately quickened his pace.

Gripping his sword, he crossed the drawbridge, walked through the empty courtyard and barracks area, pushed open the door of the main fort with a slit, and entered the long hall on the same empty floor.

There were no moving figures in sight, but the unsettling aura of blood was everywhere, and there were traces of battle all over the Great Hall, human blood, and broken and fallen crystals.

It was not an external invasion, it was a battle that broke out from the inside out, and the guards briefly confronted it, but for a short time they stopped the battle on their own initiative......

Belk quickly made these terrible judgments through the traces of the scene, and at the same time, he kept moving, and followed his memory as fast as he ran to the second floor, to the hall on the second floor of the castle.

The door to the hall was open, and the guards were also out of sight, and in the center of the hall, Belk saw the last thing he wanted to see.

A tall figure in black armor stood there—Edmund Moen heard movement in the doorway, and he turned his head, a face that had been spread and symbiotic by crystals met Belk Loren's eyes.

Belk felt his heart beat suddenly, and immediately drew his sword and prepared for battle, but he soon found that Edmund Moen's gaze was not completely chaotic and crazy, and there was still a light of human reason in the eyes that were about to crystallize.

He leaned forward cautiously: "Your Highness, can you hear me?" ”

Edmund Moen stared at Belk, his body trembling slightly, as if two wills were vying for dominance of this body, and in the process of this struggle, a hoarse voice came out of his throat: "Kill me, do it immediately." ”

The terrible command caused a brief blank in Belk's mind, but he came to his senses two seconds later and made the most dissorian judgment.

He lifted his sword and strode forward: "Yes, Your Highness." ”

An illusory and scorching fire ignited on the sword, and knowing the strength of the prince in front of him, Belk gathered the magic power of his whole body in this blow, and with a sharp sound that broke through the air, his longsword stabbed into Edmund Moen's heart.

However, when the tip of the sword was only a few centimeters from his heart, Edmund's left hand suddenly raised, and the palm covered with crystals directly grasped the hot pure gold long sword, and after a series of dazzling fires and tooth-aching squeaks burst out between the palm and the blade, Belk's sword could not move forward even a bit.

Two pairs of eyes stared at the scene before Edmund looked up and spat out a single word: "Run." ”

Belk instantly let go of the hilt of his sword, and without stopping for the slightest, he rushed to the side of the hall and leaped forward, smashing directly into the window and jumping out of the castle.

In the shadows of one corner of the hall, a clump of vines swayed slowly, rustling as they all shrank into the darkness.

……

On the west side of the Giant Wood Crossing, in the Boulder City and White Pine areas, on the land controlled by the royal family, the dense fog had completely dissipated.

The fog left the cities and the countryside, and where it had been infested, people became monsters.

Countless twisted giants of flesh and crystal clusters are gathering to form a catastrophe that spreads like fire, wherever there has ever been a human population, the terrifying Crystal Cluster Legion will be gathered, and the black-robed, giant-like individuals are the commanders of these legions, and under the leadership of these commanders, the Crystal Cluster Giants have occupied all the villages and towns in just a few hours, and then they have begun to spread in the direction of the Kingdom Army's station.

One of the Kingdom's strongholds, Boulder City is under attack, and the city, known for its thick walls, is facing its greatest test ever.

"Hold the line! Hold the line!! Shield-hand - Resist! ”

"More oil is needed here! Need more stone bullets! ”

"Battlemages have run out of mana - trebuchets on top! The Guards Mage Regiment is coming! ”

Burning oil ladles and rune-etched stones roared into the air, flying off the city walls into the distance, huge crossbow arrows pierced the air with the thudding of the strings, and smashed into the middle of the "crystal tide" in the distance, the knights and the noble officers who supervised the battle ran on the city walls, commanding the battle hoarsely, strengthening the walls with various spells, and boosting the morale of the soldiers, but below the walls, those monsters were still gathering more and more.

This is the Crystal Cluster Legion transformed from all the population of the entire region, and in the face of this number that can already cause qualitative changes, only stone bullets and fire oil, and even the fireballs and lightning of the mages seem weak, and these attacks fall on the heads of those monsters, like a pebble thrown into the sea, it is difficult to set off too big a wave.

A noble officer in dark blue armor with a ribbon on his shoulder stood on the city walls, watching as more and more crystalline monsters surged from afar, and those monsters were not only fighting with powerful bodies, but they also had terrifying spell-casting abilities - powerful arcane lightning constantly erupted from the densest places of monsters, and after each lightning, there would be a terrible crack in the walls of Boulder City, or a fallen soldier, if the situation continued to develop like this, it would only be a matter of time before the city fell.

"How many more oil and stone bullets do we have?" The aristocratic officer turned his head and stared at a nearby knight lieutenant.

"I can last two days, my lord, but I'm afraid it's still not enough - there are too many monsters, and there are countless more to come!!"

Fire oil is the most effective means of fighting those monsters, but the oil packets thrown by the trebuchets are simply not able to stop the flood of attacks, and the mages who can unleash massive fire spells in succession...... There are too few of them, and all of them have run out of mana!

The noble officer's face was gloomy, and he heard a loud bang coming from the western wall, followed by screams and noises.

A large number of soldiers on the verge of collapse fell into confusion, and from the area under attack, the defending troops began to visibly waver and retreat.

The Warlord stepped forward as soon as possible, using his morale-boosting skills to force the defensive line, and the soldiers affected by the supernatural strength returned to the walls under the effect of hormones and nervous excitement, but their eyes were bloodshot, their demeanor was unbalanced, their inner consciousness was rapidly collapsing, and it was completely unknown how many times they would be able to operate trebuchets.

What's even more terrifying is that even the knights who are behind those soldiers are watching...... There was already a wavering look on his face.

These are already the elite troops of the kingdom, and they can fight on the battlefield for a whole day against the powerful Eastern Knights, but it was only a war against "people", and now, they are facing monsters.

This is beyond the limits of human willpower.

Another knight lieutenant ran up the city wall with horror on his face, and his tone was full of wavering: "My lord, it has been confirmed, there are many monsters with fragments of clothing and armor of the third, fifth, and sixth knights and soldiers of the Kingdom Army, they ...... They are transformed by our soldiers!! ”

The noble officer glared: "How many people know the news?!" ”

"All the garrisons have seen ......"

Finished.

The knights and levies stationed on the north and south longitudinal lines of the giant wood crossing are all finished, and this city should be finished soon.

But before the aristocratic officer could sigh, a nightmarish shout suddenly came from afar:

"Count Thorin is dead!!"

After a brief moment of astonishment, the noble officer's eyes widened to find out what the most stupid herald was shouting at the front of the battle, but he soon realized that the voice was coming from under the walls, from among the monsters.

A mutilated corpse was thrown into the sky by the monsters, and the dead head of the Count of Thorin came into view of the defenders.

In the end, the count was unable to reclaim his domain and castle.

The defensive line on the walls began to crumble at a visible rate, began to retreat, began to appear large gaps and gaps, the defending forces fell into an irreversible rout, and the Warovers were no longer able to reorganize the defense.

Because even the morale of the knights has collapsed.

Dozens of huge arcane arcs slammed into the walls at the same time, and with a continuous sound of explosions, the majestic stone wall shook violently, as if it was about to collapse in the next second.

The city is no longer able to hold.

The moment they realized this fact, the noble officer and his lieutenants heard a sharp whistling sound coming from high in the sky, and with this whistling sound, the whole sky was quickly covered with large shadows—

Countless ice picks and howling winds swept across the battlefield, as if the cold winter had just returned to this world again, and in this sudden ice storm, a new frozen barrier quickly blocked the front of the city wall, and hundreds of monsters were nailed to the frozen cliffs by ice picks.

However, in the next second, this line of defense formed by the ice was under continuous attack, and about half of the monsters that were nailed to the ice began to struggle: this was enough to kill ordinary people completely if it was enough to kill them.

With a clattering sound, the entire ice wall quickly cracked.

A majestic female voice came from high in the sky and resounded throughout the battlefield: "After the mountain army is broken with me, the royal knights and the guards will take the civilians and break through to the northwest!" ”

This is the voice of Duchess Victoria Wild.

The knight's lieutenant reminded him, "My lord, it's an order to retreat. ”

The aristocratic officer took a deep breath as he glanced at the defense, which had almost completely collapsed.

"Retreat!!"

On the 12th day of the recovery of Ansu in 738, the largest fortress of the Kingdom Army on the Holy Spirit Plain, Boulder City, fell.

A huge army of crystalline giants began to spread in the direction of the city of St. Sunil.

……

A few days later, Sölderlin and his Iron Rangers, who had just crossed the Pompeii region and were heading north along the eastern bank of the Dolgon River, encountered a completely unfamiliar enemy.

An extraordinarily tall human being who seems to have been infected by some crystal parasite.

The scorched ground was burned by the individual burners, and a large number of completely charred corpses and scattered crystal clusters were piled up in patches within range, heavily armed combatants were on guard on the perimeter, while Thorderlin and a few Steel Ranger warriors examined the grotesque corpses on the battlefield.

The High Ranger frowned.

What is happening in the north?

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