A third wave of living corpses followed, barely giving the guards room to buffer and reorganize their formation. They poured out of the streets and houses in the distance, pounced like cockroaches in a garbage heap spotting a lump of sugar.

The squadron of young soldiers, who had just been hit, was still in a state of disarray, many of them covering their heads, and blood oozed from their noses and ears.

"Back in!" At this moment, Oscar gave the order from the rear. Hearing his voice, Mika and Kaz stepped back without hesitation.

"Ensign, where's your trebuchet?!!Get an incendiary bomb!" Griffith felt that he must be unable to resist this time, and held the echo crystal and shouted, "Holy Grace Church, do you hear me?

"What are you going to do? The lieutenant asked hesitantly.

"If you don't do it, there will be no more of us!"

The hastily organized young soldiers fired a wave of feathered arrows, knocking the front wave of living corpses to the ground. This level of damage isn't enough to wipe out the living corpses, it just makes them more chaotic and crowded.

"Boom!" the first incendiary grenade shot from the courtyard of the Church of Grace, streaking across the dim sky, a flaming fireball and a hissing wind howling down. The moment the incendiary bomb hit the ground, flames, storms, and shockwaves roared in all directions, burning houses and shadows to ashes.

The second incendiary bomb missed, smashing into the roof not far from Griffith with a terrifying thud, nearly engulfing him and the boy soldier into flames.

"Essentia, essentia!" Minos hurriedly reminded, "and there's the extraordinary properties of a piece of Sequence 7 there!"

The area of the Church of Grace can only be deployed with a maximum of two siege trebuchets. Griffith gritted his teeth, rushed over and grabbed the extraordinary properties of the eyeball monster and ran.

This was followed by a second round of firing, and two meteorite flames rolled out a long wall of fire on the ground, burning the neighborhood near the foot of the mountain in Hepu Town.

After the second round of firing, fire support in the direction of the Church of Grace also stopped temporarily. The swarming corpses were engulfed in the sea of fire, and they couldn't move forward for a while.

Bursts of tidal screams came from far away from Cangyue Mountain. The flames below the mountain and the fireballs in the sky frightened all the visitors, and the evacuation of the crowd was bound to be chaotic.

Griffith walked towards Oscar. The junior soldiers protected their sergeants in the center of the squadron and retreated to the line of the rear city defense corps.

Mika and Kaz had reverted to their human form, billowing heat and steam rising from their bodies, and the silver armor and scales wrapped around his body were gone.

The squadron of young soldiers marched in silence, no one spoke, only some of them looked at Griffith with cold and strange eyes, as if they were watching their own lunch.

"As you can see, we won't be able to fight for long," Oscar said with a smile. Unlike the other Westillo Boys, his smile is free and frank, like a tolerant big brother.

Griffith thought for a moment and asked, "Don't you have to keep your fighting methods secret?

"According to the rules, that's not going to work, we can't leave bystanders in our fight. Oscar said calmly.

The air suddenly fell silent. Finland, whose face was covered in blood not far away, was suddenly startled and was already preparing to escape over the wall.

The young soldiers looked at the cadet knight with frosty eyes. But at the same time, the temperature of the air seemed to be plummeting, and a faint cold air was swirling around Griffith, gathering and forming.

"However, the situation is different now," Oscar suddenly shrugged his shoulders and grinned, "according to Shangfeng's meaning, we want to return to a peaceful life." The old rules also have to be adjusted a little. ”

Griffiths pressed his left hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, slowly walked up to Oscar, stretched out his right hand to him, and smiled: "Congratulations, you made a wise decision." ”

"I feel it," Oscar reached out to grasp his palm, "and when this fight is over, we will have a chance to talk about the future." ”

......

After retreating to the defense line of the city defense army, the young soldiers quickly dispersed and urgently strengthened the fortifications at the intersection.

Without the urging of their commanders, they brought in wagons from the neighborhood, dismantled the wheels, and built double walls one next to the other; at key fulcrums, the young soldiers built makeshift towers from nearby houses and trees, and boarded them between the wagon walls and towers to form passages connecting the different positions.

Griffith, familiarizing himself with the map leading to the police station, watched their work, and noticed that the Westillo soldiers, despite their young age, were far more efficient than the much larger city guards. One by one, their sergeant, Oscar, issued new orders, which were implemented by the leaders of each squad according to the situation of the team and the materials at hand.

Although the preparations on the ground were orderly, the city defense army was quite numerous, and the abilities that Mika and Kaz had just shown were strange and powerful, the development of the battle situation worried Griffith. After all, once Iloti arrived, the entire line of defense would have to abandon and retreat to the next one.

Griffith must leave the position, try to free Amber, and then investigate the cultists' control of Iloti and take the final substantive action.

Under Oscar's command, despite the tight schedule and lack of suitable tools at hand, the young soldiers were able to build a multi-layered defense line guarding the entrance to Cangyue Mountain in a very short time. They completely blocked the road ahead with a makeshift fence built with various sundries and tools, and remodeled three improvised arrow towers from the adjacent dwellings, which were guarded by resolute young soldiers armed with strong crossbows.

This kind of execution even the anxious Griffith couldn't help but admire it.

These young soldiers don't talk much, but they have an efficiency and execution that the city defense army can't match. Even without mentioning their strange abilities, the mysterious and awe-inspiring name that survived the bloody battles in the East seems to be well deserved.

At this time, Sergeant Oscar walked over and said to Griffith, "Mr. Knight-Trainee, we have found living corpses gathering on the street in the distance, and the locals in Tsurupo say that there are signs of powerful psionic ripples and dark magic rituals. ”

That might be Iloti...... Griffith sighed softly.

"Will you stay and fight with us?" Oscar watched Griffith's every move, but continued, "If you have something to do and need to leave, we won't mind, after all, we won't last long by holding on like this." We have written down the love of the person you killed that monster and saved us just now. ”

"Well, then, I've decided to pick up the survivors at the town police station and help them break out," Griffith said to Oscar, "I'll leave it up to you to stop here." ”

As for the safety of the defense line after he left, this is not the highest priority for Griffith. What's more, the young soldiers and city defense troops of the Westillo Special Operations Squadron have established a relatively solid defensive line, and the trebuchets of the Holy Grace Church can also provide fire support.

"No problem," Oscar gave a crooked military salute, "and we'll retreat to the next line of defense when we can't resist." ”

......

In order to move between the houses, Griffith set off with no horses, but some throwing guns and paraphernalia.

The neighborhood leading to Cangyue Mountain has been clogged with hundreds of living corpses, but there are still many roads that can be passed. As long as he doesn't enter the fight, Griffith is sure to get close to the town police station as soon as possible.

Along the way, Griffith discovers that the sky in Hepu Town has been filled with a gray fog that is so thick that even sunlight can penetrate it.

Among the hundreds of wailing corpses, some figures in black robes appeared. They cover their faces and bodies with hoods and cloaks, and are drawing intricate circles on the ground and walls.

Cultists.

There were about twenty of them, writhing their upper limbs like a dance, jumping in place, and chanting incomprehensible incantations. Then, a green and terrifying crystal rose from the circle and began to emit strange fluctuations.

In the distance, a slender and distinctive figure could be faintly seen, shrouded in a swirling array of illusory black lines.

Iloti!

Griffith had palpitations, and subconsciously groped his way there. However, after only a few steps, the intense fear and ominous premonition almost pushed him back, and even the skin appeared with a strange sharp pain like pins and needles.

It's already affected from such a distance......

Calm down, I want to be calm. Griffith clutched his chest and gasped desperately, his heart feeling as if it was about to be torn apart.

He almost gritted his teeth, but reason finally convinced him, and under the pressure of endless worry and pain, he accelerated around the area and towards the police station.

The town police station is just a small building. Broken windows and walls can be seen from afar.

Here, Griffith found many broken bodies lying on the ground. The bodies were badly damaged, stretching from a nearby street corner to the entrance of the police station.

It is clear that there were heavy battles here, but it is not clear whether it happened on the defensive or in a breakout.

Griffith didn't take the main road, but climbed through the windows and backyards of nearby houses, and approached the gate of the police station.

Ever since passing through the cultist's strange ritual area, the Echo Crystal had been rustling, and neither Amber nor the allies behind could reach it.

At the main entrance of the police station, he found more bodies, many dressed as local patrol officers and militiamen. They also tried to wear as much armor as possible, holding various weapons and shields in their hands, and it looked like they had launched a decisive counterattack.