"I'll say it again, Elonhan, hurry up and inform Botarus and Lucius so that they can bring their men and get out of here immediately!" Adeline's tone quickened. 2.8.Chinese.Text.Net

The guard slowly looked at the Great Sage, his eyes determined. "I'm sorry, Adeline, this time, I'm on Stan's side, and I'm not going to take a step back until I die. ”

"Are you crazy, Elonhan, don't forget that my decision is always the right choice to minimize our losses!" Adeline was visibly surprised that the guards had disobeyed her orders, and her body began to tremble as she spoke.

Elonhan stared into the Great Sage's eyes and said word by word, "This time, I'll follow my heart, I'm sorry, Adeline. ”

Adeline stared straight at the guard, her chest heaving violently with excitement, and the Grand Sage turned to the other officer beside him. "You go and inform Botarus and Lucius, we don't have time!"

The officer looked between the great sage and the guard, and did not know what to do.

"Don't go yet!" Adeline finally got angry, and the officer quickly ran away, leaving several people who looked at each other speechlessly and stood awkwardly.

After a while, Botarus and Lucius ran together, both with multiple injuries, and Bothalus was panting and shouting as he ran. "Is it true, Great Sage, do you really want us to retreat?"

Adeline exhaled, calming her excitement. "Yes, Your Majesty, just now it was only the front team of the dark tide, and there are stronger enemies behind it, and we have already lost more than half of our soldiers, and if we continue to fight, we will only destroy the whole army. ”

"But our soldiers ......," Botarus looked back at the corpses that covered the walls, and the bodies of the soldiers of Artuna and Dayton lay on the ground, in a miserable death.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I know it's definitely not easy for anyone to do this, but in order to preserve our strength, we have to do it. Adeline regained her composure, her tone flat.

Lucius patted Bothalus on the shoulder and approached the Great Sage. "Adeline, remember when you made a similar decision in the Far North more than twenty years ago?"

Adeline and Elonhan turned their heads to look at Lucius at the same time, a rare look of confusion in the Great Sage's eyes.

Lucius paused, and continued. "I don't know if you ever regretted making that decision, but for more than twenty years I've been agonizing over that decision every day, for the cowardice I was at the time, and I've been thinking about how if we hadn't given up on them then......"

"That's enough!" Adeline interrupted Lucius harshly. "I've said it many times that decision was the only option we had at the time, otherwise we would all die there. ”

"If that's the case......" Elonhan nodded at Lucius and looked at the Great Sage. "I'd rather die there. ”

Lucius also walked over to Elonhan. "Adeline, we have been following your advice and arrangement, because you are a great sage, and we are not questioning whether your decision is correct or not, but because there are some things that cannot be measured simply by whether they are worth it or not. ”

Adeline's shoulders trembled in anger. "Is it what you want to die?"

Elonhan slowly approached the Great Sage, raised his hands and gently embraced her into his arms. "Adeline, this time, let's let us men decide our own life and death. ”

Adeline's eyes widened, and the guard's actions made her speechless for a moment.

"Yes, Great Sage, I can't leave these dead soldiers behind and flee back to Arturas myself, I will fight with the rest of the soldiers until the last moment!" Bothalus walked up to Lucius and placed his right hand on his shoulder.

Elonhan let go of Adeline and took a few steps back, Lucius helped Stan up, and then stood with the other two, the four men standing in front of the Great Sage like a strong wall, their resolute faces revealing their determination to die. Stan gripped the obsidian sword and was honored to stand with the three seniors. "Life and glory, if I had to choose, I would choose the latter. ”

"That's right, it's better to die in glory than to live in remorse. Lucius slapped Stan on the back.

Adeline shook her head helplessly, giving up on trying to persuade them. "Whatever you want, but I'll still send a yellow signal to Ethan and Windthor to let them know what's going on. ”

"That's it, I don't know when those monsters ......" Botarus was only halfway through his words, when a strange whimper suddenly came from the formation of the dark tide, like a covered horn giving orders. Immediately afterward, the rear team of the Dark Tide began to move rapidly, coming towards the city wall with great momentum.

"Ready!" shouted Botarus, turning and running towards his position, the officers around him shouted along, and the remaining soldiers in the fortress hurriedly ran and regained their position on the wall.

Adeline looked at the dark tide that was surging in front of her, the cold wind blowing her long hair. "Transmit a yellow signal. The Great Sage ordered Ness, who was beside him.

With the sound of a soft incantation, a yellow beam of light shot into the sky, rising to a height of two hundred yards, and then burst in the air, scattering sparks in all directions.

The soldiers in the fortress all looked up at the sparks that gradually dissipated in the cold wind, as if watching their hope of survival go with the wind, the soldiers took up their weapons, and their eyes looked straight at the dark tide surging ahead, and everyone was ready to die in battle.

In the blink of an eye, the dark tide had reached the city wall, and the demons and ghouls rushed to the city wall by stepping on the pile of corpses in front of the city wall. There were no more soldiers to shoot arrows, the archers had long since been lost, and most of the remaining soldiers were wounded, and they formed a human wall and blocked the walls.

"Warriors of Dayton and Artuna, today will be a day for you to embrace glory, the gods of warriors are with you, and the seven gods are with you, for Wallis!" shouted Botarus, standing on the wall.

The soldiers let out a deafening roar, raised their weapons and fought with the first wave of the dark tide rushing up the walls, and the Dayton soldiers who tamed the falcons also drew their short swords and joined the battle, and every soldier in the fortress risked their lives to stop the dark tide in front of the walls.

Elonhan and Stan join the fight, and the three mages are left with Adeline. The Great Sage seriously examined the battle situation in front of him, although the soldiers fought bravely, but the number of Gloom Tide was too much, gradually, the defense line of the city wall began to retreat, and the Gloom Tide continued to climb the wall, killing the exhausted soldiers, and the last line of defense formed by Artuna and Dayton soldiers showed signs of retreat.

"Go out through the east gate, and walk half a day's way up the Black Ridge Mountain, and you will see a camp that I have arranged there beforehand, and the soldiers of Altuna there will take you to Doyle. Adeline turned her head and instructed the three mages behind her.

"No! we're not leaving!" Ness cried out, tears streaming down her eyes as the battle befell her.

"You are also dying if you stay here, there is no need to die with them, they are for their glory, what are you for?" Adeline asked Ness, annoyed.

Nerfi regained some strength and rose from the ground. "But Stan, she ......"

"I won't stop you if you can get him to come with you, but do you think he'll listen to you?" Adeline shook her head. "Sometimes I really don't know what these men are thinking!"

"Of course you won't understand, because you have always only measured everything in this world by whether it is worth it or not, and you have ignored what people are after!" Rui slammed back the Great Sage's words. "I'm not going to go, I'm going to be with these soldiers. As he spoke, Rui raised his hands and chanted the incantation.

"Childish!" Adeline yelled, interrupting Rui's spell casting. "I'm not going to let you make unnecessary sacrifices like those men. The Great Sage's brows furrowed slightly, his lips quickly opened and closed a few times, and the three mages suddenly seemed to be tied up, and then a circular shield appeared around each person's body, slowly lifting them up. "Take what I said and head east. Adeline waved her hand, and the shield began to float backwards.

"No, stop, I'm going to stay here!" Ness shouted, but the girl was wrapped in a shield and couldn't move.

At this moment, a long trumpet sound was heard from the east side of the fortress, and the sound of the horn pierced through the dark clouds, through the fortress, and spread to every soldier on the city wall who was fighting desperately. The soldiers raised their heads, barely able to lift them anymore, and looked in the direction from which the trumpets came, the cold wind blowing across their bloodstained faces, and hope reignited in the hearts of already despair. I saw that on the high slope on the east side of the fortress, countless cavalry stood on the highest point, and at the forefront, there were knights with golden light.