Chapter 172: Fortress Battle (18)
The gods put the king's army in a situation of poor command, and the defense of the entire fortress was already in jeopardy, no one knew whether it would be the next hour, the next minute, or the next second, and the whole situation would deteriorate in an instant.
At this time, not only Roll, Rambopho, and Rambovan, but the soldiers of the entire legion are looking forward to the appearance of the latest instructions of the Divine Envoy King to guide them to end this incomparably bloody war and move towards victory.
And where is the King of God?
Half an hour before turning his gaze.
When the protagonist kills the second parasitic dung beetle, he is unable to move due to the sequelae of using the "Heavenly God", but he is faced with the double attack of silk parasites and parasitic ants.
Caught in such a dangerous situation, it is impossible to say that the protagonist is not afraid, and he even thinks that he is going to die here, becoming the first time-traveler in the history of travel to die at the hands of ants.
However, the god of crossing obviously will not tolerate this happening, and will not allow this kind of shame to occur.
At the last moment, many Praetorian Guard soldiers jumped down from the second city wall, led by Mulan.
They quickly encircle the protagonist in the middle, bravely fighting the approaching silk parasites and parasitic ants.
Due to the protagonist's previous orders, the defenders of the second wall are ordered to guard the wall. Under the constraints of this mandatory order, the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion on the wall behind the protagonist cannot come down to support even if they see the protagonist in danger.
But the Praetorian Guards are different, their job is to protect the protagonists.
When the protagonist falls with the crumbling wall, Mulan and the Praetorian Guard team are following him. Before the Praetorian Guard could take steps to rescue the protagonist who had fallen in front of the parasitic dung beetle's bloody mouth, he had already jumped on the head of the war beast, forcing the injured war beast to retreat and flee frantically.
The Praetorian Guards moved along the walls again, chasing the beasts and the protagonists from afar, and if it weren't for the constant guidance of the city wall defenders along the way, the Praetorian Guards with limited vision would have lost their targets.
The Praetorian Guards came at the right time, and when they leaped down, the protagonist was already on the verge of danger.
More than fifty Praetorian Guards squeezed the dead beast's head to drain the water, and they even counterattacked the beast's broad back, and then used the beast's tall corpse as a backing to establish a defensive line.
In the process, the Praetorian Guards also suffered heavy casualties, especially the silk thread parasite that looked like a python was extremely powerful, and it took several soldiers to suppress it, and the Praetorian Guards who were pierced by this large parasite fungus would be paralyzed to death in a short time.
Mulan clings to the protagonist, and along with several warriors, she tries to hold him up and get him to climb the wall and return to the safety of the defensive position.
However, although the second wall is not high, it is a 90-degree vertical wall. Although the big-headed ants had great strength, they did not dare to clamp the body of the king of the gods with their jaws (this is disrespectful), so they could only support him with their heads and limbs.
In this way, the protagonist tries several times, but he is too weak to climb up at all, and he tries to tell Mulan with his tentacles that she can carry herself up with her mouth, but Mulan and the other soldier ants sternly refuse - the big-headed ant kingdom is very hierarchical, and they will never dare to do such an insulting act to the higher-status male ants.
In the midst of the stalemate, the parasitic ants had already broken through the temporary position of the Praetorian Guard team like a tide, after all, there were too many enemies, and the corpses of the war beasts were not very favorable to defend the terrain.
The warriors around the protagonist are constantly reflexively thrown into battle, using their lives to delay the enemy's attack. The other warriors still try to carry the protagonist up the wall, but they fail repeatedly.
The protagonist's heart is like ashes, and there are less than ten Praetorian Guards left, and it seems that he still can't escape, and so many Praetorian Guards have also been killed in the enemy's formation.
Amid the collision and friction of the ants, the protagonist suddenly hears a unique sound.
It is a rapid, dense vibrational sound, "buzzing buzz", the sound from far to near, getting louder and clearer.
Humans feel sick and sick from the bottom of their hearts when they hear this sound, which is the cacophony of insects' wings flapping at a frequency of up to hundreds of times per second.
But when the protagonist hears this voice at this moment, he is suddenly full of desire to survive. This is the sound of flies shaking their wings, at this time, no wild flies dare to approach the dangerous battlefield, and those who venture close must be flying knights.
The protagonist looks up, and sure enough, a flying knight and his mount are circling as they move closer to where the protagonist is.
The flying knight has been spotting the enemy's movements in the air as ordered by the protagonist, and constantly reporting to the protagonist in the command position inside the fortress. And when the protagonist leaves the command position and goes to the front line, he forgets to inform the flying knights, so the conscientious flying knights keep hovering in the air, trying to find the protagonist's movements and report information to him.
This is not an easy task for the Flying Knights, who have an accurate vision of only three decimeters, so they have to identify a suspicious location at a higher altitude before risking a lower altitude to confirm if the protagonist is in it.
The three-centimeter height was already dangerous, and the parasitic ants were brave enough to climb up to a nearby height and then leap up to try to attack them, but fortunately, there were no casualties among the flying knights so far.
The flying knight is lucky enough to find the protagonist and find him in danger.
So, the flying knight eagerly lowers his altitude and wants to pick up the protagonist. However, the fly's flight characteristics are fast and agile, but it does not have the technology of hovering in place like a dragonfly, so the flying knight can only constantly control the mount to circle, spinning and descending in a smaller and smaller radius.
Due to the speed of the fly, the Flying Knight has no way to take the protagonist directly to the mount, so he must find a suitable position to land.
But there was already chaos below, countless ants were fighting in a narrow area, and there was simply not a single open space for the flying knights to land. Even if he forcibly landed, what awaited him would only be countless parasitic ants that would instantly drown him.
And the protagonist's side has fewer and fewer guards, and time does not allow the flying knight to hesitate......
What should he do!?
The parasitic ants frantically assaulted forward, and according to the orders of the noble pale gold workers, they knew that there was an important person of the enemy army in front of them, and they attacked desperately, completely incaring about their own lives or the lives of their companions, and constantly broke through the defense lines of the Praetorian Guard team in a life-for-life manner.
The important big-headed male ant had appeared in front of them, and he did have a temperament that was different from the other ants.
But it doesn't matter anymore, because it won't be long before he will be torn to shreds!