Chapter 454: Black Tide
When Stannis and his guards arrived at Niseko Pass, the western entrance to the Sarana Basin, they found that their troops had already gathered to fight bloodily, and it looked like they had been fighting here for days, each covered in battle wounds, exhausted, and, more worryingly, exhausted.
Niseko Pass is one of the three main entrances and exits of the Sharana Basin, where the Froude family ruled as the guardian of the eastern realm, and the densely populated basin was the core of his rule in addition to a large plain. Because as long as you enter the pass, it will be a vast plain as far as the eye can see, so it has always been a heavily guarded place, and because of this, when the disaster breaks out, the monsters in the basin will not be able to gush out, but the situation is still not optimistic, and under the fierce attack of those tireless monsters day and night, it is only a matter of time before the fortress built at the entrance of the pass falls.
"Seventh Squad, come forward to support as soon as you are ready. A man who looked like a squad leader shouted to his men over there, and his combat squad of only 11 soldiers stumbled to their feet, though they had only rested for less than half an hour.
But just as they were about to leave, Stannis, who had entered the pass first with only a small number of men, called out to him, "Soldier, stop. ”
The captain also stopped when he heard his voice, and when he saw the face of the person who came was Stannis, he also had a look of surprise on his face, because he knew that he and the others were saved.
"Hooray, Your Majesty!" the captain blurted out excitedly, ignoring the men on the fortress who were crying out for support from the walls.
Stannis rolled over and dismounted, and asked urgently, "What is the situation here, what should I call ......?"
"My name is Matt, Your Majesty, I once saw you when I was guarding the Marquis's Mansion in Baili City, but I didn't expect you to come to the rescue in person. I beg your pardon for not being able to give you the full salute, but the situation here is terrible! What kind of disaster has erupted in the basin is unknown to any of us here, except that three days ago suddenly countless refugees fled here, begging us to open the gates and let them out, saying that there were terrible monsters chasing them from behind. ”
Stannis listened to him earnestly.
"As the troops guarding here, of course we won't let go of so many lords under the marquis's leadership like this, but I didn't expect the people behind the fortress to gather more and more, many of them are even the lords under other lords, but the commander of the fortress still refused to let them go, until the earth-shattering cries and screams broke out behind us before we knew that someone was indeed chasing them again. So we had to open the gates at once and let the fleeing people out, and surprisingly, among them I even saw the Marquis Pedro! After about 3,000 people had been evacuated, the monsters finally appeared, so we had to close the gates and watch as the people who didn't have time to flee were torn apart by them under the walls. Unexpectedly, these monsters were not satisfied, and began to climb the wall to attack the city, their number is too much, although this fortress built with a pass is impregnable, but the current form is still very critical. ”
Stannis nodded and said that he roughly understood the current situation, and he didn't know where the monsters came out of to launch a crazy slaughter, these are the old routines of the Divine Seal, and he can even memorize this process, the Divine Seal, as a force that boasts that he is the supreme existence of this world, has no new methods at all.
"Your Majesty, but it's great that you can come here, you must know that those monsters are almost all immortal, and we have to pay a great price to kill them!"
It seems that the impact of these scythe monsters is much more serious than Stannis thought, it may be that his father-in-law's troops have been out of battle for a long time, and they don't even know how to deal with those monsters with basic means.
"Those Chaos People, just chop them up and kill them. Stannis said as if he had come over, and there was probably no one in the principality who was more experienced in killing these monsters than he was.
But Matt shook his head bitterly, "Your Majesty, I know you've fought countless terrible monsters in the past, but this time I'm sure you haven't even seen those monsters!"
It's an exaggeration, the Chaos Folk are disgusting, but they're not invincible!Stannis is now beginning to wonder if these guys are grinding foreign workers and deliberately exaggerating the monster's attack.
But not far away, the defenders on the walls had begun to shout in despair.
"Oh my God! they're climbing the walls, and we're all going to die!"
When Stannis heard this, he immediately felt that something was wrong, and he immediately glanced at Robert, who had come with him, and the latter immediately led the rest of the men to rush up the wall to support.
But only a few minutes later, Robert's screams came from above, "No, no, boss, we can't stand it!"
It seemed that the situation was far more serious than Stannis thought, and without the slightest hesitation, Stannis immediately picked up his shackles and rushed up the city wall behind Matt.
But just one glance, Stannis immediately sensed that something was wrong, because these monsters were not the Chaos people he knew!
"What the hell are these monsters!"
Unlike the Scythe Monsters, which resemble human corpses stitched together, these monsters that climb the walls are humanoid, but they are tall and heavily armed, and although their armor is rudimentary, they are much better than most of Zivignie's army. They leaked brown or black skin from under their armor, covered in green tendons, as if they could burst their muscles at any time if they were too forced.
Despite their tall stature, they are not reckless men who only know how to use brute force, and their fingers under their armor are still nimble, which is why they can suddenly climb the city walls.
"Damn it!" Stannis sharply dodged the swing of a mysterious soldier who used a black blade like a machete, and then he raised his hammer, parried the enemy's slash with his long handle, and then slammed it into the head on the other side, but although the helmet was dented and the skull was even deformed, the monster soldier who made a beast-like cry still refused to fall, and it pounced on Stannis as if it were desperate.