Chapter 118: Prologue to the Massacre

The firelight and candlelight were bright, the shouts were deafening, and the generals with good eyesight could even see the constantly shaking figures in front of them, but they just couldn't know what was happening in front of them. It takes at least one meal for the heralds to rush back to the 'Iron Fort' from the front line, and if the offensive of the criminals is fierce, whether the heralds can be dispatched in time depends on whether the generals are available. The only thing that made Ray feel at ease was that Roctat and Ingle had been dispatched by Lomat that morning, and as long as the enemy's attack was not too strong, the first line of defense should not be too much of a problem.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. Lei, who had been circling the city wall twice like a lion with a stab on his ass, could not hold his breath anymore, and he was about to rush to the front line of defense. Carrelon's wand struck Ray on the head, and the old man's white beard fluttered and shouted, "What do you want to do? Have you forgotten? You are now the commander of the whole army, and if you run away, who will command the army?"

Thunder stomped heavily on the wall and sighed loudly. The commanders of several other countries should have rushed to their respective defense areas by now and led their soldiers to prepare for defense. And the leaders of the 'Divine City', except for a few archmages who can stay on the city wall for a long time to watch the excitement, Yaka, Klei and others have already taken their subordinate generals to restrain their armies and prepare for a surprise attack. No one can say for sure what the intentions of the criminals were, maybe they were just testing the reflexes of their army, but it could also be a large-scale attack.

No one knew what the leaders of the sinners were thinking, so no one could come up with a definite plan for dealing with it, and there was no other way than to put the whole army on alert. Ray suddenly said loudly, "Damn, if they come here like this every night, our soldiers will be dragged down by them at all, and they won't have to fight." ”

Everyone was silent, and they came to their senses, indeed, as long as the criminals harassed them a few times every night from time to time, the soldiers of the defense line would definitely be dragged to exhaustion by them, and in the end, they would not have to fight seriously, and the combat effectiveness of the coalition soldiers would be greatly weakened. After all, the combat effectiveness of the sinners is placed there, and in the face of an attack that may arrive at any time, if you don't use the combat strength of the whole army to defend against it, you may be attacked by the sinners at any time and break through the entire defense line with a sneak attack, and then it will be all over at that time.

Thunder slammed his fist on the city wall, and asked impatiently, "Why hasn't there been any news from the front?" Lomat, send someone over to inquire about the news. Don't they know that we are waiting in a hurry at the back? Hurry up, send someone over to find out the news. ”

Lomat nodded hurriedly, waved his hand, and a dozen warriors quickly jumped on their horses and rushed forward. With a 'boom' sound, a crack opened in the city gate, and the warriors stooped and rushed out. Ray stared at the backs of those warriors with round eyes, and under the light of a few torches on the city wall, he could faintly see the light reflected by the armor of those warriors. The sound of horses' hooves gradually faded away, and the figures of those warriors could not be seen, at this time, with an earth-shattering loud noise, the ground seemed to shake for a moment, and the fire and the noise in front disappeared at the same time, and there was silence between heaven and earth, as if a big hand had scraped away the people and things that made the noise.

Ray and Lomat looked at each other, was the first line of defense completely annihilated so quickly or did the sinners retreat suddenly? Come to think of it, it should be more likely that the latter is more likely, right? The first line of defense is also defended by more than 100,000 heavy soldiers, and in such bad weather, or at night, there will always be soldiers who escape, so it is impossible that there will be no movement at all. And precisely because it was night, it was impossible for those criminals to easily cross the dense barbed wire and traps of the front line? Such a sudden annihilation of all the noise and fire was impossible from the common sense of the battlefield. The most horse-ridden, those sinners must help their wounded, right?

It was as if a thick black silk curtain was covered in their hearts, and Lei and they couldn't speak for a while, so they could only look ahead. The warriors on the city walls were already full of spirits and ready to fight desperately at any time. Inside the city walls, the knights of the Knights of Glory lined up in a neat long formation, ready to rush out of the city to fight at any time, and the beast warriors in charge of the city's defense were under the reprimand of Mubarata, holding their heavy weapons near the city gates, ready to support the defenders on the city walls.

There is no way, the criminals may break into the city through various unexpected methods, so the beast soul warriors with the strongest defense power can only give up the defense work on the city wall and directly control the important places in the city. For example, Hades Dess, he and his eighteen Hades can easily rush through the defense line and rush into the city, in order to prevent the destruction of the city defense by that kind of super warrior, there must be a force to defend the city.

Just when Lei and the others saw that the army was ready, they couldn't help but feel relieved, hundreds of cavalry rode their horses and rushed over. A silver knight at the front shouted loudly: "My lord, Lord Lei, all the sinners have retreated... They used a very strange weapon, and the Bicester Cavalry caused a lot of damage to the attacking Bicester Cavalry, and Lord Rokat is leading people to rescue the wounded Bicester Cavalry, and wants us to come back and report first. ”

Another silver knight shouted loudly, "The front line is safe, Lord Ingle wants us to ask your lord for instructions to see if there is anything that needs to be changed in the defense plan." ”

Lomat was stunned for a moment, and he muttered in a low voice, "Strange, did they find anything strange? Why did Ingle say that we need to change the defense plan? Those sinners don't know what strange things are being used. The killers in the 'God-given Prairie' have reported that they have found that the criminals have tightened the blockade of the road to the 'Divine City', and it seems that they are using the workshops of the 'Divine City' to make something, the question is, what could it be?"

Ray slapped Lomat on the shoulder, and Ray smiled and said, "Haha, don't think about it so much, anyway, the sinners are withdrawn." Hmph, it doesn't matter what new stuff they used, anyway, when Rokat and they come back to report on the battle, we'll find out what it is... To say that the killers in front of them, their recent results have become smaller and smaller, after all, the defense of the criminals is getting stronger and stronger, and the vigilance is getting stronger and stronger, who told them that in addition to the leader of the dwarf clan, even the patriarch of the elf clan was killed by them? ha!"

Ray was very satisfied with the results of the court killers, of course, there was a fly in the ointment, that is, the killers could not get more detailed information about the criminals. However, Ray still believed in the abilities of Rocatt and Ingle, after all, they were on the battlefield, and the criminals used some strange things, which can also be learned from their mouths, and they have studied how to solve it. In any case, Ray would not believe that in just a few months, the sinners could develop something powerful? That's a bunch of uncivilized barbarians!

In the conference room of the Allied High Command, the commanders of the seven countries gathered together and began to listen to the report brought back by Rokat. Although the iron-faced Bobkaat also participated in the battle, it seemed that he had suffered a lot of losses from the criminals, and he just sat there angrily, without the slightest intention of speaking. It can be seen that he is in a very bad mood, extremely bad, so the commanders of several other countries are also very knowledgeable, and their eyes avoid Bobkat, so as not to inadvertently anger this guy.

Ray coughed, nodded at Rokat, and said, "Rokat, you can start." What did the criminals use this time? How many troops did they dispatch, what was their combat effectiveness, and how many losses did they inflict on us? Tell me about it. ”

Roccata nodded, stood up and said: "This time, the sinners used about 100,000 troops, and judging from the contact between the Bicester Iron Cavalry and them, 50,000 Bicester Iron Cavalry surrounded their entire right flank, so it can be seen that the number of people they dispatched will not be very large, that is, about 100,000 people. From the point of view of combat effectiveness, it is very difficult to be optimistic. The cooperation of the sinners has indeed strengthened a lot, and it seems that they are much more skilled than the last time we went to the 'God-given Prairie', and their learning ability is indeed amazing. Bicester's cavalry attacked from behind, but apart from inflicting more than 2,000 casualties on the criminals, it didn't do much to gain. Instead... ”

Bobkat stood up in exasperation and smashed a hole in the wooden table in front of him with a heavy punch. He roared impatiently, "Instead, they launched a counterattack and killed more than 7,000 of my fighters. Damn, our Bicester warriors, the worst warriors have about the same strength as their low-level orcs, but they didn't have any power to fight back before they were killed by more than 7,000 people. It's not that the sinners are too strong in combat, or that my warriors are too weak, but ... ”

When the sinners suddenly attacked tonight, there were more than fifty huge thunder beasts mixed in their ranks, and each thunder beast had something similar to the artillery batteries on the 'Iron Fort' defense line on either side. The black platform was not large, and a triangular spike protruded from the curved shield, and the spike shone with a faint blue light. On top of each table, a sinner sits, fine-tuning the direction of the spikes.

Bicester's 50,000 horsemen attacked the sinner's phalanx from the right flank, while the remaining 100,000 horsemen bypassed the rear of the defensive line, ready to stab them in the back as they dealt with the cavalry on the right flank. Who knew that it was Bobkat's ruthless move, which avoided too many losses of the Bicester Iron Rider. Fifty thousand horsemen rushed down on the right flank of the criminals, breaking through their entire perimeter stragglers. The reaction of the sinners was not unpleasant, and they immediately shrank their formation, revealing the huge bodies of those thunder beasts.

More than fifty thunder beasts, the two spikes on the back of each thunder beast emitted a dazzling flash at the same time, and a pillar of light with a diameter of five feet burst out from the spikes, with a 'choking' roar, more than a hundred pillars of light fiercely bombarded into the team of fifty thousand bicester iron horsemen, and then the entire earth almost trembled, and clouds of fire rose from the ground. The Bicester cavalry at the center of the explosion disappeared without a trace, and the cavalry fifty feet away from the explosion point was also swept up by the huge shock wave, falling to the ground and smashing half to death.

A single bombardment reduced more than 7,000 bicester cavalry to ashes. Bobkat, who was leading his troops, was stunned, and he couldn't help but scream as he watched the spikes flicker again with a dark blue light, and ordered all the Bicester cavalry to turn their horses and rush back towards their hidden jungle. The sinners did not attack again, and several of the sinners who were the leaders let out a smug shout, commanding the thunder beasts to turn around and swagger back towards the 'God-given Prairie', and then, all the sinners extinguished their torches and quietly retreated.

Intimidated by the terrifying power of those spikes, Rocatt and Ingle did not lead their troops to chase after them, and just watched the sinners return triumphantly to the 'god-given prairie'.

Rokat glanced at Bobkaat, whose face was extremely ugly, and shook his head helplessly and said: "The specific situation is like this, in fact, judging from the strength of the sinners this time, we have a good chance to gather them and annihilate them, as long as the iron cavalry of the Bicester Empire outflanks them from the left and right flanks, and the soldiers of our first line of defense give them a head-on attack, it will be difficult for 100,000 sinners to resist our attack." In particular, the Knights of Chaos are ready to surprise behind us, and it is still very certain that they will be destroyed. However, the kind of weapon they use is so powerful that it can be compared to the high-level offensive spells issued by a high-level mage, and it is hard to imagine that if such a weapon is equipped by a large number of criminals, our defense line is simply vulnerable. ”

Lei was stunned for a moment, and asked cautiously: "Their weapons should be similar to our artillery, but what they fire is not a hollow cannonball, but light?"

Rokat nodded affirmatively, "Yes, my lord, the light, similar to the very strong flow of light emitted by the Adjudicator. However, the pillars of light emitted by those spikes will explode after hitting the target, which is even more terrifying than the magic of the adjudicator. It seems that those light is almost a combination of judgment magic and high-level fire magic, and the power is very huge. ”

Lomat covered his head in annoyance and groaned lowly, "Oh my God, what is that? In that case, we are too passive to think of how to guard against that kind of thing." What kind of magical enchantment are we going to use to resist that weapon?" Lomat's eyes quickly caught a glimpse of Sock and Carrelon.

Soke was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head in distress and said, "Well, we don't have a bottom in our hearts, but... Sock seemed to think of something, and looked at Lomat hesitantly, as if he didn't know if he should say his guess.

Carreron didn't have so many worries, he said in a deep voice: "If I'm not mistaken, it was the 'magic light cannon' that was the pinnacle of human weapons of mass destruction during the Divine War. The energy used is the magic crystal, which directly collects the magic power in the magic crystal, and turns the pure magic energy into a light stream to bombard it, which is extremely powerful, but the consumption of the magic crystal is also very considerable. However, the sinners have conquered the 'Divine City', and the magic crystal reserves inside are enough for them to make tens of thousands of such 'magic light cannons'. ”

Everyone was stunned, Ray swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked in disbelief: "Archmage Carrelon, you mean that they may be equipped with a lot of such things, oh, the 'magic light cannon'? Isn't it? They really have such a lot of equipment? Also, you know that there are such things, why don't you remind us to make more? Listening to Rocat's description, the power of the 'magic light cannon' is much more powerful than the artillery we use now." ”

Carrelon snorted, while Sok shook his head helplessly, and whispered: "To say that we know what it is, this is correct, there are still a lot of relevant records of the 'Magic Light Cannon' in the classics of the 'Divine City'. But we don't know exactly how to make it. To say that the principle is very simple, just like the magic enchantment, magic defense tower, and magic attack tower we use now, drain the magic power in the magic crystal, and then release it. However, how to draw a magic array that is enough to control the power of the magic crystal in such a small 'magic light cannon' is not something we can grasp. ”

Carrelon nodded, and said with a sneer: "After the end of the Divine War, the humans who are good at making 'magic light cannons', that is, the humans who believe in the God of War, have long been expelled to the Forgotten Continent. The god of war did not give their followers any special powers, but he also gave his followers strong combat power and the 'magic light cannon' as an auxiliary weapon... It should be said that it is impossible for the criminals to still have that kind of knowledge, but don't forget that there are Hades among them, and the Hades who have survived for so many years have all the knowledge at that time. ”

Ray's face turned ugly, and he suddenly realized that he had been muttering about the role of the underworld among the sinners. For the sinners, the underworld is not only a companion with strong force to charge with them, but more importantly, those underworld people are also their mentors, and when the time comes, they will re-impart the knowledge that has been forgotten by the sinners to the sinners. This is the most terrifying place for the people of the underworld, with the current force after the degeneration of the mainland, it is really a bit powerless to deal with the army of criminals who have gradually gained the power of the primeval power.

Everyone in the conference room figured this out, and everyone fell silent for a while. Everyone's hearts are heavy, tonight's attack by the sinners should be just a prelude to their large-scale aggression, right?