It was probably the most anxious day in Linya's life. The smoke and dust stirred up by the army of blood clans in the distance pressed tightly on her heart like an endless dark cloud.

Fortunately, however, it took another half a day for the army of the Blood Clan, which seemed to be in front of the city, to rush to the outside of Pierce City, and set up camp about five or six hundred meters away from the city pass.

The sky was gloomy and terrible. The day is coming to an end, and the night of joy for the Bloods is coming. So they don't seem to be in a hurry to attack the city directly. Although the defenders in the city have mobilized all the residents to help build and defend the city, Linya knows very well in her heart that these frightened civilians cannot play a big role, and what she can really rely on is the original 2,000 defenders.

With the arrival of night, it means that the attack of the Blood Army may also come at any time. Beyond the glow of the torches on the walls, the whole world seemed to be pitch black. Although the soldiers tried to avoid making eye contact with her, Linya could still feel the indelible fear in their dodging gazes.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, fellow citizens! That's just a bunch of cowardly white imps! Today, I stand here in the name of Gaisha, believe in me, and believe in yourselves! Fight bravely for freedom!"

The Bloods' camp was still quiet, were they still preparing? or did they want to wait until the second half of the night when the people were more sleepy to attack? Or was there some more terrible conspiracy?

It was destined to be a sleepless night.

Linya flew again, far closer to the camp of the Blood Army, but didn't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary. But Linya's doubts were still hard to dissolve, but when a rain of arrows suddenly flew from the camp, Linya had to turn around and return to Pierce.

But on the way back, she was surprised to find that something strange seemed to appear in the land in front of the level. The earth seemed to crack open, and countless tiny lava was pouring out along the cracks, and at the same time, one after another black figures with wings crawled out of the ground, shining so brightly in the red light.

Devils? What are they doing here? Now is the critical time when the war situation is about to be urgent, what are they also running to make a fuss about? What are their intentions? Full of doubts piling up in her heart, Linya gritted her teeth and decided to go down directly to ask for clarification. Just as she was about to land on the ground, Linya spotted it, and it was that guy again, Agares, the horned winged demon!

"What are you doing, what are you doing here?" asked Linya, hovering above the lava with her wings. The Horned Winged Demon had apparently already spotted Linya, and it saluted indifferently, "Ah, it's an honor to see your beautiful face again, Your Highness Honored Gayisha. Well, yes, there's no moonlight tonight, and as you've probably noticed, the weather was pretty good for us, so we decided to climb out and get some fresh air. Well, that's right, that's it!" Agareth thought for a while, and suddenly said: "By the way, Your Highness Gaisha, according to the contract between our Demon Lord and you, as long as we don't take the initiative to harm the sentient beings, it won't be considered a breach of contract, right?

Linya almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and the hateful creature became cunning, but when she saw that the demon lava area was traversing left and right along the front of Pierce Pass, stretching to the sea and the mountains, just blocking the passage between Pierce Pass and the Blood Army camp. Thinking of what it had said to herself earlier, Linya seemed to understand what was going on.

She can't take the initiative to attack the Blood Army, but if she defends, it's obviously not within her contract with the Demon King. Linya was stunned, not knowing what to say for a while. "To put it simply, we can do whatever we want, it's our freedom. I don't know if you understand?

Linya flew back to Pierce in a trance, and the terrified generals hurriedly surrounded her, lest something happen to her in the devil's territory. "I'm fine, don't worry. Linya reassured. "Are the devils coming against us?" asked one worriedly. "No......" Linya really didn't know how to answer, "please do your part, stick to your post, don't think nonsense." ”

But having said that, Linya herself couldn't stop thinking nonsense. Mankind. Bloodsucker. Devil. Could it be that humanity has been reduced to the point of relying on the protection of the devil to survive? She instinctively hated it from the bottom of her heart, but the grim situation in front of her forced her to bow to reality. Silent.

In this messy and uneasy mood, the early morning of the second half of the night had arrived, and several fire dragons floated out from the camp of the blood army, extending towards Pierce in three ways. Eventually, of course, they were forced to stop before the devil's lava rift.

Linya didn't know or wonder what had happened in front of the lava rift, and she just wanted to cover her ears, trying to pretend she couldn't hear Elixis's angry and sarcastic laughter.

"It seems that the legend is true, even Highbrem can be fascinated by you!, but what are you going to explain to Cassirer, little moon!"

"Are you humans planning to be vassals of the demons?"

"Sure enough, I can't hope too much for your weak race!"

"Don't you dare to have a decisive battle, cowards?"

"Or, please throw down your badges, knights protected by the devil!"

It was a difficult night. The humans at the gates of Pierce City had gone through a brutal mental torture, but it was finally dawn, the clouds had mostly dispersed, and the light of the morning sun shone on the ground that should have been sprinkled with blood.

At the same time, Gregorian reinforcements from Cap City finally arrived in Pierce, an elite 10,000-strong garrison. After arranging the defense areas of each army as soon as possible, Linya gathered the generals.

"Some people may think that having the devil in the way of the Blood Clan can at least give us a little more respite. But I think you should also think about another question: one day in the future, when we human beings look back on history and look back on this moment, will we still be able to hold our heads up? What I want to say is that we can die here, but we can't live without dignity!"

Soon, Linya flew to the devil's camp again. I don't know why, she suddenly had a feeling of mixed taste. "Thank you, Lord Agareth. Please convey on my behalf, as well as to Cassirer and all the people of Gregory, our sincere gratitude to His Majesty Hybrem for his help. ”

"Ah, Your Highness Gaisha, I don't know what you're talking about. We don't seem to be doing anything, so I'm afraid we can't accept your gratitude. The Horned Winged Demon said with a look of surprise.

"I'm not in the mood to play a game like this right now. This is a request, and a command: please leave, you have helped us a lot. But this is ultimately a war between us humans and the Bloods, and this is destined to be understood by ourselves. This is our war. Hope you understand. I'm sure the Demon King will be able to understand it too. ”

Frightened by her serious, pale face, the Horned Demon said nothing, saluted respectfully, and quietly retreated. In less than half an hour, the demons retreated into the depths of the earth with lava and flames, leaving only a scorched and cooled earth in front of Pierce.

The Blood's army began to advance slowly against the sun, and soon the front of Pierce was tightly sealed.

The time for the decisive battle has arrived.