Chapter 34: The Sinners

Ray is the third coalition general to lead his own army into the City of God. The fastest Bobkat was the first, and the honor of entering the city was given to Jerry, and Ray slowly led his 32,000 cavalry into the Divine City. The 200-foot-high walls seem to be a whole, and the black paint looks extremely solid.

Lomat exclaimed: "Legend has it that the walls of the Divine City were built and the cracks were cast with iron juice, and it seems that it is true, sir, you can see that some places are clearly metal." ”

Ray looked in the direction that Lomat was pointing out, nodded in surprise, and said in a low voice, "How much money and manpower does it take to complete such a huge project, it's great." ”

Crete leaned up and said with an incredulous expression: "Otherwise, how could it be the first heroic city on the mainland that the seven great powers on the continent have built in a few decades? For hundreds of thousands of years, I don't know how many bones of sinners have piled up below. ”

Walking in the long, dimly lit corridors of the city walls, an inexplicable chill soaked everyone's bodies. It seems that an invisible and insubstantial spirit is whispering something in everyone's ears. Ray could even feel a trace of cool air spraying into the back of his neck, the mountain people are always very sensitive to ghosts and undead, Ray turned his head a little frightened, but saw a pale Carlin following closely behind him, two beautiful eyes flickering, nervously looking left and right.

Seeing Ray turn around, a few words popped out of Carlin's bloodless lips: "Here, such terrifying magic fluctuations, such a powerful aura, simply, it's not a place for people to stay." ”

At this moment, Ray didn't have the heart to laugh at Kalin, he just stared blankly at the deeper and deeper corridor in front of him, wondering if this city wall was boundless. Behind, the entrance they had entered had shrunk to the size of a human eyeball, and countless cavalry were faintly pouring in, and in front of them, there was no light in sight.

After walking for a while, the corridor actually stretched underground, and it was obvious that all the people began to go downhill. Lomat nervously grabbed Ray's arm and asked a little scared: "My lord, here, is the 'Divine City' underground?"

Gusts of wind blew from the front, bringing a bone-chilling chill and a strange whistling sound, and the front was like a ghost, except for the dim light emitted by the magic crystals embedded in the walls of the corridor, they couldn't see any light at all, and they couldn't even see what they were three feet away. Karin's voice came faintly: "This, probably the defense measures of the 'Divine City'... ”

After walking for about a dozen miles, that is, after going absolutely thousands of feet underground, the road finally began to extend upwards. Lei laughed a little nervously: "Haha, haha, they don't need to be so careful, right? This is the direction facing our continent, why should they be so careful? At all, no one will attack the 'Divine City' from here." Thunderous laughter suddenly sounded in the absolutely silent corridor, startling everyone. But in an instant, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the atmosphere of this corridor was too lifeless, and someone finally broke this dead silence.

A faint voice suddenly came from far ahead: "Not to defend against you, but to prevent the enemy from breaching the first wall, which is here to frame the elite warriors among them. Imagine that they would enter this passage to explore the path, and it must be their best warriors, if the whole passage suddenly collapsed... ”

Scheming people like Rao and Carlin and Lomat also broke out in a cold sweat when they heard this, who conceived this desperate plan? In case the criminals conquer the wall in front of them, they will definitely have to march towards the mainland, they will not be able to climb such a long wall, human nature, they will send a large number of the strongest warriors into the road to explore the way, at that time...

As for generals like Ray and Crete, their hair is standing on end, and the city wall with such a huge scale is just to trap people, and it is really unscrupulous.

After a little further walking, they saw the man who spoke, an old man in a strange purple robe, who looked to be at least two hundred and five years old, hovering from the ground. Carlin quickly and almost like a fall climbed off his horse, and walked forward respectfully, kneeling down in front of the old man with a standard that was only slightly lower than the etiquette in the ceremony of sacrificing to the gods, and said respectfully: "Grand Tutor Lake, you... Are you still alive? My master is the current High Priest Ole Shakra, who came here to see you two hundred years ago. ”

The old man, Ryker, burst out of two green lights in his eyes, nodded slowly, and said, "Hmm, are you Ore's apprentice? He should still be alive, right? Okay, I'm just trying to see the people of the Smart Empire, and there's nothing going on right now... If you have time, come to me in the Magic Tower, I can teach you something, although your magic is too weak to speak, but you still seem to be very smart. ”

A flash of white light flashed, and Lake vanished.

Carlin and the others stammered, "Spatial shifting, humans, is it really possible for humans to master this kind of magic?

The people of the Smart Empire were surprised and honored, as if they had seen Lake, and they had not lived in vain in their lives.

Lei coldly dropped a sentence: "It's not that you have such a strong magic, what are you happy about? In your life, you can't reach the height of others, right? Otherwise, the Van Empire will be full of glorious knights all over the world." With that, Ray rode his horse out with a disdainful look on his face.

The people of the Smart Empire looked depressed, and watched Ray's back disappear into the darkness in annoyance, but they couldn't speak anymore, thinking about their performance just now, it seemed that they were indeed a little unbearable. In the far corridor behind, there seemed to be bursts of snickering, but they didn't know which country's team came from, so Carlin and they could only helpless.

After continuing to walk for more than ten miles, Lei and the others finally came out of the ground and saw the real Divine City. A two-story tall white stone building with a yard stretches along the straight valley, and the yard is very neatly cleaned, because the peaks on both sides block the sunlight most of the time, so there are no weak ornamental flowers, and there are many small shrubs with tenacious vitality planted in the courtyard and on the side of the road, which looks like a green patch.

There are 40 longitudinal roads in the valley, and I don't know how many horizontal roads there are, dividing the buildings in the valley into neat checkerboard-like quarters, which look very orderly. There weren't many pedestrians on the road, and it seemed that many of them were ordinary people, who were watching Thunder's arrival with a curious look.

A group of knights in black armor standing at the entrance of the Yongdao silently waved their hands to signal Lei and them to lead them over, and then led them towards the depths of the valley. Ruxu walked for more than 30 miles, and finally saw a large area of tents in front of him, and it seemed that this was where the military camp was located.

One of the black-armored knights who led the team said in a deep voice: "This is your nearest station, you can play in the city at will, but there is no entertainment here, I guess you can't find anything of interest." There's no booze, no women to have fun with, no luxuries, so my personal advice is that you stay in the camp and train hard, maybe you can increase your chances of surviving in future battles. ”

Another black-armored knight saluted Lei and said, "Legion Leader, this is your camp, fifteen miles ahead is the defensive wall of the 'Divine City', and now the Knights of Glory and the Bright Swordsmen are defending on it, if necessary, someone will come to inform you how to cooperate with the action." ”

Ray nodded: "I understand, then, thank you, I don't know who you are... ”

The first knight to speak bowed slightly: "We are subordinates of the Knights of Chaos, our ancestors are from the Dak Empire, if there is nothing to do, we are going to return to the team." Later, there will be a staff member of the city people's congress to arrange food and grass and other materials for you, so please contact them at that time. ”

Lei nodded subconsciously, and several black-armored knights were already walking quickly towards the side of the corridor, thinking that they wanted to see what the army of the Darker Empire looked like. After all, their ancestors, as they say, came from the Dak Empire.

Lei looked at the large domed tent in front of him, and couldn't help laughing: "The conditions here are good, the ground is very flat and gravelly, and the mats of the tent look very thick, so it must be comfortable to sleep on." Tell the brothers to choose their tents according to their own formation, and each officer should sleep in a tent where he can keep track of his subordinates at all times, understand?" the soldiers immediately went into action, and under the leadership of their respective officers, tents were selected in groups of twenty people, and the horses were also placed in the nearby stables.

Lomat secretly gave a thumbs up next to him, signaling that Ray was right, and Ray laughed slightly, after fighting for so long, seeing Jerry and they gave orders for so long, he had learned some things about marching and camping.

In the distance, Jerry walked over with a few knights of the guard, shouting loudly: "Ray, are you interested in going to see the walls of the 'Divine City'? Crete, you are really lucky, follow Ray, even your promotion is about to be, you are now the deputy commander of the army, back to the imperial capital, you have to treat yourself, those chores, you also have to take care of it. ”

Crete did not have the slightest sense of superiority and subordination, and made a vulgar gesture towards Jerry, Jerry walked over with a grin, pulled Ray towards the front city wall, and a group of curious generals also threw the matter to their adjutants one after another, and followed them. If you look at the barracks of other countries near and far, aren't they, all the officers in charge are walking in that direction.

Ray followed Jerry a few steps and asked in a low voice, "It's strange, it seems that this place is not suitable for growing food, but why is there no shortage of food and grass here?" Also, it seems that everyone in our village knows that if a small group of people intermarry for too long, there will be deformed babies born at that time, and how many people are there here. ”

Jerry quickly looked left and right, and then explained to Ray in a low voice: "Every five hundred years, a group of young women will be sent here, you don't need me to explain what it is for, right? This is selected by each country and specially prepared for its own army stationed in the 'Divine City'. As for grain and grass, do you know why only a small part of the grain production of our Van Empire is so high every year that it is sold to other empires? You know why there are so many livestock in the Bicester Empire, but on the table of our empire, except for the nobles, the commoners can't eat the delicate livestock from the north at all?"

Ray suddenly realized, Jerry said with a smile: "Every certain day, a large number of materials will be secretly sent here in the name of a mainland chamber of commerce, including bows and arrows made by the Dak Empire, crystals produced by the Smart Empire and other war materials, so the solidity of the Divine City can also be imagined." ”

Ray exclaimed, "Is it all secret?"

Jerry shrugged: "Of course, it's all a secret, if it weren't for the fact that my grandfather was a direct descendant of a certain prince, and I was good friends with the grandson of the old man Messo, I wouldn't have known this... Wow, what a tight defense. ”

I saw that there were still seven or eight miles away from the city wall, and the ground was already densely covered with metal fences, thorn piles, etc., and the ground was densely packed with traps, etc., and countless pillboxes and arrow towers were densely distributed in the valley, and the samurai with resolute faces and light cyan armor were armed with bows and arrows and spears, which were distributed in these fortifications.

Jerry whispered, "The judgment fighter of the Ritter Empire, the strength of the flesh can be compared to the beast soul fighter, in this artificially complex terrain, he is the most formidable opponent in hand-to-hand combat." ”

Several of the adjudicator fighters a dozen feet away actually heard Jerry's admiration, and they turned their heads, a smile on their faces, and nodded at them.

Ray whispered, "I don't know what the combat ability is, but their ears are terrifying, and if anyone wants to slip through such a line of defense, unless he is not human." ”

The nearby Judge Fighters all had smiles on their faces, and it was obvious that they had heard Ray's compliments as well. In any case, being able to be praised by the people on the mainland is something to be happy for these people who guard the 'Divine City'. They have stayed in the 'Divine City' all their lives, and aren't they just people like Thunder? But Ray is also a warrior now, and he can help them defend.

Walking further, a huge wall of three hundred feet high was lifted from the ground, and a murderous aura, or dead aura, emanated from the black wall. Thunder shivered, almost rushed by this huge murderous aura, and a group of Smart magicians such as Karin next to him, whose bodies were not as strong as Thunder, inexplicably trembled and took a few steps back, looking at the city wall in front of him speechless.

Climbing up the stairs that could accommodate ten people walking side by side, Lei secretly glanced at the three gates of the 'Divine City', three huge gates that could accommodate fifty knights charging side by side at the same time, but the three gates were sealed with an iron plate that was not known how thick it was, and he didn't know how to raise the gate.

To the surprise of Lei and them, the city wall was three hundred feet high, but there were also arrow towers up to 100 feet high on the city wall, and on each arrow tower, there were dozens of mages in purple robes looking around. And this city wall is a mile thick, and like the defensive positions below, it is full of traps, traps, secret doors, etc., and the entire city wall is a strong city that can be garrisoned.

Led by a few glorious knights, their group of allied generals cautiously approached the battlements of the city wall in front of them, and then they saw the ten-foot-long sharp iron thorns on the front city wall, and each large iron thorn was also densely covered with sharp iron teeth that were inches long, enough to hang the muscles on a person's body. Karin took a few steps back with a pale face, for there were tens of thousands of tall skeletons hanging from the countless huge iron spikes.

The bones were old, the muscles and internal organs were all rotten, and only the blue-gray skeleton still hung on the iron spikes. Many of the skeletons were missing arms and legs, and they were clearly cut off by sharp blades, forced to retreat from the city walls, and hung on those spikes.

In front of the city wall, a ditch thirty feet wide and at least fifty feet deep was also densely covered with sharp iron piles, and the bones on it were piled up, looking so miserable, a breath of death, a gust of wind, just rushed out of the ditch and the iron thorns, the outside of the entire 'Divine City', the wind was miserable, and even the land outside was barren, and it looked gray.

And in this gray land, I don't know how many times the mages stationed in the 'Divine City' have been ravaged with powerful magic, there are countless bones piled up there, some are human, some don't know what kind of giant beast it is, at least on this continent, it is impossible for that kind of huge monster with a body size of more than fifty feet.

Between the pile of bones and the pile of bones, there are countless wooden poles that are supported, and you can see tattered animal skins or strips of cloth on them, etc., without exception, the wooden poles are either tied to a corpse that has turned into bones, or a skull on top of it, which looks full of ghosts.

In the midst of these terrible beings, what makes people feel even more evil is a simple, wooden gallows, with black ropes floating in the air, but there are no corpses on it, because the bones of the corpses have weathered, fallen off, shattered, and all piled up under the ropes.

From the walls of the 'City of God' to the beach hundreds of miles away, these terrible things are everywhere. Streams of white mist gathered and drifted between the bones, as if a group of ghosts were searching for their corpses, and the sea breeze blew through the wasteland, and as it passed the empty skulls, it let out a terrible whistling sound, as if the ghosts of the whole wasteland were screaming wildly.

With a pale face, Carlin hid behind Shapoco, not daring to look outside the city again. The other generals from big aristocratic families couldn't see where they could go, they only knew that the 'Divine City' was responsible for the important mission of defending the entire continent, but they could never have imagined that after hundreds of thousands of years of crazy killing, the 'Divine City' would be such a terrible place.

Everyone, including Ray, deeply believes that this place should not be called 'Divine City', but should be called 'Ghost Snake'. Look at the inhabitants of the 'City of God', they have no life, no fun, no entertainment. Their task in life is to give birth to a bunch of strong boys or strong girls, men are trained from an early age to become a strong warrior, and women are trained from an early age to have more children.

This is the 'City of God', and life here is hell at all. Whether it is for the sinners or for the inhabitants of the 'Divine City', this is hell at all.

Hart's voice rang out from behind them, "Guys, you'd better get used to what is down there... Our seven legions stationed in the 'Divine City', the reservist warriors survived alone in the wilderness outside for a year when they were twelve years old in survival training, and we were able to make it through, and you should be able to do the same. Because we have to fight against such landscapes, against those bloodthirsty enemies, you must be strong. ”

Carlin didn't want to ask, but he couldn't help it: "When you train, what do you eat in this desert?"

Hart gave Carlin a strange look, as if he didn't want to say, but he still answered him: "There are a lot of rats that eat corpses and bones to kill, if you can't... Although two hundred years have passed, the atmosphere here is strange, and some of the corpses buried deep under the pile of bones are still not fully decomposed. ”

Hearing this, Carlin and several other noble commanders vomited frantically. Lomat was not behind Carlin's speed and had already squirted out.

Although Ray didn't vomit, his face was extremely unsightly, his mind was blank, and he didn't dare to imagine what a harsh survival training it was.

Hart suddenly said, "Attention, their spearhead sentinel is coming... I guess they've been there in the last few days, huh, they're on the beach, it's impossible to find much food. Ha, the sinners who were banished by God to that barren continent, hmph, here they are. ”

A strong man with long hair hanging down to his waist and no shorter than Bobkat, holding a wooden stick, strode towards this side. He was all over his body, only a piece of animal skin was wrapped in his lower body, and the rest of his body was completely ****. As he got closer, he could see that his whole body was horrible, the scars left by the beasts, and even one scar from his left shoulder to his right thigh, it was obvious that his abdomen was completely torn open when he was injured.

Lei exclaimed: "What a majestic man, ******, if that wound were on me, I would have died." ”

Hart looked at Ray solemnly and said loudly: "Never underestimate those sinners, they have a terrible fighting spirit, a fighting spirit that exists purely for the sake of fighting, don't forget that the god of war who betrayed the gods is the object of their worship, the god of war who trampled on the glory of the warriors, and the power given to them is a fighting spirit that is far stronger than ours, so you must be careful." Unless you cut off their heads and limbs, you have to be careful of his dying counterattack ... Even if it is to cut off his head, they have the strength to smash your head with a final punch. ”

Ray, Jerry, Crete, and even generals including Bobkat swallowed and foamed at the mouth, only to find that their throats were so dry that there was no liquid at all. Hart wasn't a bluffer, and since he said so, then these sinners really were so terrible.

The man got closer and closer, gradually approaching the distance of two thousand feet of the city wall, and behind him, slowly appeared hundreds of equally unclothed, even naked, strong men, all of whom held thick wooden sticks in their hands, and only a few of them had iron spearheads embedded in their sticks.

Hart sneered: "The continent they were expelled to only has very meager minerals, so they don't have too good weapons, which is also our luck, huh... ”

And the sinners, who were already looking at the 'City of God,' sang a very desolate song, with a strong and hoarse voice, and an ancient tune, and to the accompaniment of the wind in the desert, they were like a group of evil spirits from hell, who were about to come to the world to demand something.

Ray faintly heard the lyrics they were singing.

"Losing my God's grace ... Losing my god is in the mountains... Bumps and drifts... There is no fixed place to live... Starving... Children and grandchildren do not grow... ”

The group of big men walked back and forth among the piles of bones, constantly checking the defense system of the 'Divine City'. A swordsman in silver armor and holding a huge long sword suddenly walked up with light steps and shouted loudly: "The sinners who have been expelled by the gods will either come to attack the city or get out of the way." ”

Those sinners glanced at the swordsmen of the Bright Swordsman Regiment, and continued to wander back and forth in the distance, constantly spying on the 'Divine City'.

Lei subconsciously asked, "What is their divine grace?"

Hart shrugged his shoulders and sneered: "The vast grassland between the Van Empire and the 'Divine City', the only land on the entire continent that is richer than the Qingfeng Plain. ”

Lei Moran, he seemed to think of something suddenly, he seemed to be able to understand a little bit of why the singing voices of those people were filled with such deep sadness...