Chapter 40: The Gates of Hell

That night, screams hovered over the Cheruno Empire all night, and it wasn't until dawn broke that the terrifying army of the undead retreated of its own accord.

When this army of the undead retreated, they also took the bodies of countless dead.

That night, the Cheruno Empire lost tens of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of imperial subjects.

When Ceruno II led his army to the cemetery with a sword in hand, he found that the entire cemetery had fallen.

Terrifying black holes, like burrows dug by gophers, stand there calmly.

Ceruno II gasped, he finally knew that it was his own people who attacked his empire that night, but how could these soldiers who died in battle suddenly come back to life?

Moreover, where did those undead go with their corpses?

Cerino II then marched south, directly past the cemetery, to the towering ancient ruins.

This time, the ancient ruins are no longer peaceful.

The howls of ghosts and wolves continued to come from the black hole in the center of the ancient ruins, and occasionally a few human screams could be heard.

Blood was scattered all over the land, corpses were everywhere, and stumps were scattered.

Judging from the various signs at the scene, the army of the undead must have entered this black hole.

Just as Ceruno II ordered people to approach the black hole to investigate, a huge black phantom floated from the black hole like a ghost.

"Tomorrow night, help me prepare a thousand more living people, and I will come to fetch them, and if you don't agree, the army of the undead will come to your empire again. The Black Phantom spoke.

In the face of the other party's proposal, Ceruno II, as the king of a country, naturally would not agree, and he immediately ordered the troops to destroy the ancient ruins in front of him, but he was met with a fatal counterattack from the black phantom.

The two thousand elites carried by Ceruno II were almost killed by the black phantom, and among them, there were twenty magicians of varying strength, and in this way, they were blown away by the wind like ashes in front of his eyes.

Cheered up, Ceruno II fell to the ground, and even the crown representing supreme power fell from his head.

The black phantom let out a grim roar, and instead of killing him, he put him back safely, "Don't try to resist, all you can do is surrender." ”

After returning to the Empire, he ordered his troops to take all the prisoners out of the prison, and there were not enough of them, so he could only make up the number of old men over fifty years old in the Empire.

For a time, the entire empire was full of complaints.

"Smack!"

A resounding slap was struck on Ceruno II's face.

Cheruno I's face trembled with anger, and he pointed at his son and scolded bitterly: "You beast, what are you going to do here, are you going to destroy our empire with your own hands?"

Cherono II fell to his knees crying and told the truth what had happened before.

After listening to the narration of Ceruno II, Ceruno I sat down on the chair, and then said weakly: "The Cheruno Empire can survive to this day, all depends on unity, all depends on the people's will, you are doing this now, undoubtedly to destroy this empire with your own hands, my son, why are you so confused? Even if you agree to his request today, then what if he asks you again tomorrow? Do you also give it? What about the day after tomorrow?"

Ceruno II remained on his knees, silent.

"I hope you can understand that we people of the Cheruno Empire are hot-blooded men who would rather die in battle than surrender. With that, Ceruno I walked straight out of the door on crutches, "This battle, we must fight, if you are afraid, hum, just stay here for me." ”

After Ceruno I left the lobby, a woman dressed in gorgeous costumes ran in through the side door and hugged Cheruno II, who was kneeling on the ground, in her arms, "I know that you are doing this to protect me and protect our entire empire, but my father is right, we never surrender." ”

As she spoke, the woman held the face of Ceruno II in the palm of her hand, and said with tenderness, but with great firmness: "Go, dear, my father needs you." With that, her lips slammed into the other party's face.

Feeling the love of the woman, Ceruno II's trance-like expression, only then eased, he stood up and walked out of the hall.

That night, the war broke out again.

This time, with great preparation, the Cheruno Empire's counterattack was quite successful, and it took only a few hours to completely crush the undead army.

In the countless battles that followed, the black phantom that made Ceruno II extremely jealous did not appear, and there was only an endless army of undead, which made him feel a lot of relief.

But headaches also followed, every time they fought, they could kill a large number of undead troops, but for some reason, the number of undead armies increased, like a bottomless pit, and they couldn't kill them all.

However, the number of combatants on their side is getting smaller and smaller, and it will not be long before the Cherino Empire will be defeated in this long war of attrition.

On this day, Ceruno II had a whim, since they had learned that the powerful black phantom could not leave the black hole and fight on the spot, and the army of the undead could only attack at night, why didn't they set up multiple fortifications in a compromise position to break the attack of the army of the undead in advance?

With this in mind, Ceruno II mobilized the entire imperial workforce and began to build defensive walls halfway between the empire and the ancient ruins.

Skeleton warriors, although they are extremely powerful, even if they are cut off, they can continue to fight, but their combat skills are obviously inferior to humans, and their only advantage in front of the Cheruno Empire is numbers.

If a sufficient number of defensive walls could be built to disperse the undead armies in advance and break through them one by one, then the undead armies would pose much less threat to the Cheruno Empire.

In this way, under the vigorous promotion of Ceruno II, almost all of the entire Cheruno Empire, from young children to old people, as long as they can contribute to the empire, are used.

They went out of the city to build defensive walls instead of the army during the day, and changed the emperor's ** team to keep vigil to protect the country at night.

At first, everything went fairly smoothly, and the several defensive walls built in advance did help the empire defeat several waves of undead armies.

However, just when everyone saw hope, on the eve of the completion of the entire defense line of the defensive wall, suddenly a soldier shouted in horror "Something is wrong", how could this not move the audience.

This defensive front is the last card for them to resist the army of the undead, and if something goes wrong, the entire empire will be in danger.