Chapter Twenty-Three: Divine Punishment from Heaven (I)
After the rain of arrows ended, the heavy infantry phalanx in fine armor and steel spears finally came into view of the monsters against the backdrop of the fortress shrouded in clouds of catastrophic smoke.
"Prepare for a frontal battle!" Khafre threw his sword high in desperation and gave the order to fight on his back.
Before the commander-in-chief's words fell, the divine storm unleashed by the priests had condensed - the dazzling golden streamer quickly turned into a tornado pillar in front of the army, and rushed away with the surging tide of the demonic tide.
Along the way, they swallowed the dreadbeasts in their path, tearing out large swaths of bloody rain.
Whoosh——!
The flesh fragments accompanied the sunlight and were instantly left behind the black demon tide. The bright gold ripples radiating along the tornado pillar around it, stirring up the scorching air along the way, as if it were crumbling into the crest of a wave of countless splashes on the reef. And at the same time as the bright golden broken light floated down, the two torrents finally collided together.
Under the tearing of the monster's minions, the armor is like a toy made of scraps of paper, and it is torn to pieces in the blink of an eye. The steel spear slammed through the monster's exoskeleton and sparkled, and the sound of the carapace shattering echoed through the mountains with an angry roar. In the dense collision, the steel spear, which was supposed to be indestructible, broke one after another after several rounds of fighting, and the infantry phalanx relying on the spear as a weapon also collapsed.
"God, bless us!"
"For the homeland behind you!"
"Fight to the death, fight to the death, never retreat!"
Even so, the phalanx of heavy infantry with their backs to the fortress still fought to the death, and they immediately drew their melee weapons and began to grab and tear each other. The thick smell of blood spread rapidly along the blades and blood-paved battle lines.
The demonic disasters of these years have consumed a lot of manpower and material resources of the empire, but they have also tempered a group of warriors with iron will. Everyone knows that there is no room for compromise in the face of an enemy like the Dreadbeast, once defeated, it is equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army, even if it is fought to the death of a single soldier, you must continue to resist!
Because of this, even in the face of such a large number of enemies, the soldiers were able to fight calmly.
Relying on the fortress behind them, the heavy infantry turned the phalanx into rows of lines that were divided from each other, and withstood the attack of the inferior monsters. The elite demon hunters directly crossed the interval of the front line, and killed the high-level dreadbeasts with a stab that did not care for their lives. The high-level monsters in the front row were hit one after another, and were killed by the targeted decapitation attack, and were quickly chopped into immobile carrion under the flickering blade.
The winged monsters that were replenished were often shot down by the rain of arrows of the Holy Arrow Army before they could get close to the line, and although they didn't use golden arrows this time, the amount lost was enough for them to be unable to disturb the Demon Hunters.
For the first time, the seemingly endless tide of demons stopped its progress in front of the torrent of steel woven by the long sword. Although the number of human warriors is far less than that of monsters, there are elite demon hunters and priests who work together to cooperate and be able to curb the demon tide to a certain extent.
One by one, one by one
Although the tide was stagnant under the explosive human counterattack, there was still a place where the steel defense line was shattered, and the chill of death was covered by the fallen warriors, who were almost halfway up the fortress by the time six elite witchers arrived to help.
Whoosh——!
The wind howled, and a sturdy silver figure swooped down the walls of the fortress, flickering and moving as if unconstrained by gravity, and in an instant passed through the figure of the monster climbing upward. The moment they staggered with this figure, dozens of dreadbeasts suddenly stopped, silver lines appeared on their bodies, and their hideous bodies quickly broke and fell to the ground with the silver lines.
“......”
The witcher Taisha leaned forward, hunched up, and his light white leather boots stomped on the walls of the fortress at great speed, flickering against gravity. Resembling a swift cheetah, it soars up and down with a trail of vague afterimages, killing all the dreadbeasts that try to climb the fortress along the way.
In the process of galloping at high speed, she maintained a peculiar posture of strength - her arms were slightly bent, and her two daggers hung diagonally to the ground, protecting her front and back of her abdomen.
In the midst of the demon tide, a high-level monster of the alien beast type covered with sharp bone spurs looked at the city wall, and its blood-colored vertical pupils suddenly contracted into a line.
Sneer——!!!
A small, scalp-tingling sound rang out from the darkness.
The bodies of several dreadbeasts in front of the high-level monsters shook, and their bones were shattered with a bang, and the bone spurs like a rainstorm tore them and shot out.
The bone spurs flew and shot at Taisha, and in an instant less than ten meters away, they were stopped by a pair of thick steel claws. In the rain of blood, there was a dense crunch of bone spurs snapping, sparks erupting in front of the Iron Clawed Witcher's body, and the last bone spur grazed his cheek and nailed into the fortress wall.
"Roar!!
The High Monster raised its head sharply and roared angrily.
In the process, the bone spurs all over its body instantly expanded into balls, and at the moment when it didn't even have time to make a sound, it flew out like a torrential rain.
Seeing this scene, the demon hunter used his powerful telekinesis to stay in the air for a short time, facing the dense bone spurs, and slashed his arms forward. The arms of steel drove the heavy wind pressure and set off a frenzied storm. The bone spurs snapped one after another, like fragile waves, falling apart under the obstruction of the reef.
Bang——!
The witcher slammed to the ground, then stepped forward, rubbing his claws and squeezing into the arms of a dreadbeast. The right hand suddenly grabbed its neck, and a crisp sound burst out, the cervical vertebrae shattered, and the monster's body suddenly softened.
"Ahhh
He raised the corpse of the monster to cover his body, and charged forward with a roar, as if turning into a phantom in a flicker—he crossed several meters with a flick of his fingers, quickly approaching the spine-covered high monster.
Sneer——!
Another volley of impermeable bone spurs directly tore apart the corpse of the monster that was used as a shield.
The witcher did not dodge or dodge, and his hands turned into a heavy afterimage and slashed at the sky with an incredible speed.
As a result, bone spurs flew and scattered all over the ground.
Bang ——!
The balls of energy mixed in exploded, and the gray-black flames rose out of thin air, overturning the surrounding monsters and engulfing the figure of the witcher.
The wind howled one after another.
Phew——!
The Demon Hunter's body flew out of the flames and continued to rush forward with a sharp sound of breaking through the air—now he was half blackened, and the remnants of the heat were emitting green smoke from all over his body, but his speed was not much slower than before.
Sneer——!
The monster roared demonstratively, and its body expanded into a spherical shape again, and another round of bone spurs flew like raindrops.
"Come to hell with me!"
The witcher let out a final roar, and his thick arms of steel slashed forward with a huge wind pressure!
Bang ——!
Like a wave rolling backwards, the dense bone spurs suddenly shattered, shattered one after another, and fell to the ground.
The witcher burst through the air like a phantom, gritting his teeth, waving his scorching arms, and punching the head of the high-level monster.
Boom ——!
The dreadbeast's body shook violently, and it was pushed backwards by the force of the rage, and the spurs that had swelled up again came to a standstill on the brink of launch—the enemy's iron fist embedded in his face, piercing through the entire skull.
Sticky blood flowed out, a tragic dark red.
"Bah! garbage!"
The witcher spat at its corpse, took two steps back, and fell to the ground in exhaustion, before being overwhelmed by the surging monsters.
One by one, one by one
In the fierce battle, the gray and lead-colored clouds of disaster smoke over the fortress began to twist unnaturally, and the warriors of the Holy Arrow Army who threw a rain of arrows raised their heads consciously. The clouds were already tumbling and boiling, and the huge energy distorted the barriers between the present world and the alien space, and the aftermath of the spillover turned into thunder and rushed in the sky, like the first omen of the end of the world.
In just one breath, the clouds in the air were completely distorted, forming a vortex in the air above the fortress. The energy gathered in the void finally reached a critical concentration, and above the fortress, the space suddenly distorted and bent, and the scenery in the line of sight suddenly shook chaotically. In the next moment, a thin but incomparably bright line emerged from it and ran in the direction of the fortress.
"Defend it!" Khafre roared.
In response to his call, the priests used their last strength, gathering their telekinesis into a pale golden translucent dome. Like a glass cover that fell out of thin air, it enveloped the entire fortress in an instant.
Boom ——!
The barrier resisted the impact of the beam with great tenacity, and the two streams of energy extinguished each other at the point of contact, and the tall fortress ramparts trembled like leaves in the wind in the roar. In the depths of the beam, a phantom image rapidly magnified at a speed visible to the naked eye, and with a deafening roar for a lifetime, the huge body of a high-level dreadbeast had already been reflected in the eyes of everyone above the fortress. Like a steel hammer smashing down, the entire defensive barrier was suddenly covered with white cracks, and the support was broken into countless pieces in less than a moment.
“......”
Seeing this scene, Tessa breathed softly, the silver light flashed in the depths of her pupils, she squatted suddenly, her figure froze, the muscles on her two long legs tensed to the limit, and then she stepped on the wall of the fortress and rushed out, rising into the air like white light.
With her figure as the center, countless water vapors condensed into tiny and sharp ice crystals, which quickly rolled up to form sharp thin lines, like circles of translucent ribbons. These linear blades swirled around her, densely woven and overlapped to form an indistinct 'silver mask', vibrating the air at high frequencies and making an undulating humming sound.
Sneer——!
The white light in the witcher's pupils flickered with his figure, forming a blurred white line, and slammed into the large dreadbeast that flew down from the bottom up. At the moment when she swung her blade and slashed, the 'silver light mask' expanded and exploded at the same time, condensing into a brilliant white light, fiercely piercing through the evil body.
Bang – Bang——!
With the terrible screams of the dreadbeast, streamers flickered between the air twists. It struggled to rise high into the air again, its massive body trembling, bursting with shimmering splinters, and soon expanding and bursting into shards of flesh that flew into the sky.
Bang——!
After the dreadbeast's figure split apart in midair, a beam of white light slammed into the ground at an angle, revealing Tessa's stooping figure in the pit that shook open.
“......”
She lowered her head and stood up as calm as water, the corners of her mouth overflowing with terrible blood, pulled into a drop of blood and fell to the ground.