Chapter 21: The Siege of the Fortress (1)

Seventeenth day of the Demon Hunting War, Lower Menes, Memphis City.

The sky was full of dense clouds, scarlet and blue-and-white lightning connected the heavens and the earth, the earth trembled slightly with the roar of thunder, and the wilderness was stirred by the spears of thunder and lightning like a ditch dug in the ground by a plough.

In the middle of the steep mountains, a towering city lies between the mountain roads, and the winding blue lightning falls from time to time, which seems to be the divine punishment from the heavenly realm! And now, with this huge lightning, there is also a giant monster roar that resounded through the sky like spring thunder!

"Roar!!

In the midst of this roar like the sound of an ancient trumpet, a skeletal dreadbeast with a huge carapace appeared from the lightning touch, seemingly bound in the void, slowly breaking free. Compared to it, the dreadbeasts around it seemed so small that it was almost the difference between a mouse and an elephant.

With the body of this high-level dreadbeast as the center, the gray-black dark energy formed countless ripples, these irregular oval ripples were like flowers, but they contained devastating power.

Among the mountains like Optimus Pillars, an endless sea of monsters is overwhelming, surging towards the fortress like a colony of ants. Countless monsters gathered together, like a black tide, rushing towards the city.

Roar!!!

In the sea of monsters, this skeleton monster dozens of meters high raised its head to the sky and howled, and its body shook violently, and finally broke free from the shackles of the void.

It looked like the skeleton of a giant that had been sealed for a long time, with no trace of flesh and skin, but a heavy gray-white carapace. The carapace, shaped like a tortoiseshell, was so large that it covered almost its entire body, crushing its spine.

Immediately after free, the High Dreadbeast used its hands and feet to rush towards the fortress with heavy steps in a manner similar to that of an orangutan running. A faint black halo emanated from around its body, enveloping the surrounding area for hundreds of meters. All monsters in this range have been buffed, increasing their speed and moving much more flexibly.

There were hundreds of high-level dreadbeasts of this size in all directions in the sea of monsters, and with the ripples rippling in the void, they gradually expanded, and they continued to appear rapidly across the spatial barriers.

"Quack!!"

In the sky, winged dreadbeasts let out strange screams and flew towards the fortress, clutching small monsters with strange screams in their claws, and swept low like bombers.

Eyeball-shaped monsters of all sizes floated beneath them, and between the expansion and contraction of their bloodshot pupils, black beams of light shot forward. Beams of light splattered across the fortress's surface, turning into circles of white smoke - as if it were a lake that had splashed under a torrential rain.

Phew——!

Under the dense strafing, a pair of huge flame light wings suddenly unfurled from the sky above the fortress, and each feather on it was an extremely sharp blade of light. Illuminated by the flames, the pair's massive wings reflected a blinding light—all the feathers swept out like bullets as they reached their peak.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ——!

The thin blade of light swept obliquely towards the mountain path, and the black tide evaporated in an instant.

The skeletal dreadbeast with its massive carapace immediately fell to its knees, curling up under the protection of the 'turtle shell'. But it didn't last long, and it also wailed, and its whole body quickly cracked and collapsed, starting from the shell. In the blink of an eye, it completely turned into black fly ash and completely dissipated.

Immediately after, the army of monsters continued to move forward, and the dense dreadbeasts rushed towards the sky with light wings,

In an instant, these monsters were suddenly lit up on the ground, and then disappeared.

Bang - bang - bang!

A huge arthropod-type dreadbeast burst out of the demon tide, swept away the other monsters around it, and rushed directly into the area covered by the blade.

Boom ——!

The moment the blade covered its body, it trembled, and its body suddenly cracked densely cracked, and spewed black green smoke from the inside out. It suddenly roared wildly, its body spewing inky smoke from the inside out, trying to repair its injuries.

However, as one of the strongest group spells, the Templar Light Wings have a powerful damage effect on Dreadbeasts, and the Nightmare Breath can't repair as fast as destruction.

The entire more than thirty-meter-tall arthropod dreadbeast only lasted for a few seconds before it was directly burned into countless black ashes and scattered with the wind.

After the light blade eliminated the dreadbeasts at the forefront of the demon tide, it slowly covered forward, and hundreds of dreadbeasts turned into black flames.

One by one, one by one

"Fortunately, with this artifact called a tablet, I was able to find the clues before the monsters gathered and set them up in advance!" Hafre, the head of the garrison of the Memphis Fortress, knelt on the stone floor at the top of the fortress, and prayed gratefully to the sky.

Because of the urgency of the situation, he simply prayed, and immediately stood up, looking down the battlements of the city wall and looking at the battlefield - even after being wheeled by the super magic spells released by the priests, the monsters that poured in from the oasis in the distance still seemed endless.

This is still the lowest-level dreadbeast, and those more powerful high-level dreadbeasts can actually directly penetrate the spatial barrier, as if they were drilling through the water.

"It's not good, under such an offensive, even if there is the support of the resources of the entire province, I am afraid it will not be able to hold on. Khafre looked at those high-level dreadbeasts that were tens of meters away, and showed a worried expression.

"General!

"What's the matter?" Hafre said, turning at once.

"Back to the general, there is a small group of dreadbeasts disguised as refugees and entered the inner city!" the latter replied as he rushed all the way to him, sweating profusely.

"What are you talking about!? Didn't I order martial law that no one was allowed to enter the city except for the grain convoy?" Hafre couldn't believe his ears, like a thunderbolt on the head on a sunny day, and like someone had poured a basin of cold water from head to toe, and his whole body was numb.

"It was the order of Captain Bedi, and the refugees cried so badly at first, she was moved by compassion for a moment so she ordered it!" the communications officer turned pale and cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

"I'm going to put this bastard to death!" Khafre yelled in a rage.

"No, she was devoured by the monster and died the moment the dreadbeast entered the inner city. The head of the Demon Hunter Regiment, Orcas, rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and was fighting to the death with the monsters, but there were too many dreadbeasts......"

"That's cheaper for her!"

Khafra bit his back molars hard, forced himself to calm down, hugged the tablet in his hand and said: "Your Majesty is on the way here, no matter what the cost, we must hold the fortress." ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to calm down, and looked at the herald and quickly gave an order: "You take my own soldiers to aid the commander of Orcas, go now! You must not let the dreadbeast break into the inner city, the people there are unarmed and have no power to resist at all!"