Chapter 56: I'm not the third oldest at home
"When my dear friend Twenty-One and I set foot on the land of the Bottomless Abyss for the first time, the welcome ceremony was held by some hilarious-looking big monkeys.
Twenty-One insisted on calling them 'Donkey Kong', and Commander Quest later told us that they were actually a kind of Tanari demon called Bagula.
......
Just as I had already set up the first machine that I had already set, and was ready to deal with the demon army that was about to swarm next,
A strange-looking undead creature appeared in my scope......"
— Ricknaz Bloody Frontline Report, Abys, Chapter 11
Having defeated the attack of the Devil of Bagula, Quis stood on the walls of his "airdropped" fortress, waiting for the arrival of more demon armies.
All the heterotopic mercenary guards in the fortress, even the various reserves that were arranged to wait in ambush in the hiding cave, were all ready to attack at any time. After Blue's previous arrangement, there are "veterans" in each squad who have participated in the encounter in Aphners, and these guys have naturally popularized the grim situation of fighting demons with those newcomers.
Each crossbowman counts his crossbow and arrows. Each warrior tied and tied the belt of his armor, repeatedly checking that the weapon in his hand was sharp and strong enough.
Anyone who has the ability to cast spells, whether it's a mage, a warlock, a priest, a druid, a ranger, etc., is silently reciting the spells that have been prepared, and making every effort to study them.
Busy and intense, yet orderly.
Breaking the silence before the battle was a strange undead creature with three ape heads and six arms.
"Uh, Xiaolong, No, Your Excellency, may I ask if you are the third in the family," the machine man samurai, who had been silent since the start of the great war, leaned behind Quith and whispered.
"First: The same batch of hatched blue dragons were all born at the same time, and there is no brotherly order; Second: the place where I was born was far away from the sea, and there is no place called Chentangguan nearby. Quest replied without looking back.
"That's good...... Huh?"
Although the three ogre brothers and Ricknaz next to them still couldn't understand these words, they were still happy to see that someone had finally followed the strange brain circuit of Twenty-One - it was okay to say that it was an integrated circuit.
The guards on the periphery didn't know what these fortress higher-ups were thinking at this time, and they were still 120,000 careful about the undead creatures standing outside the shooting range, maybe this elder's strange-looking undead creature was some kind of rare demon.
"Old Niu, be careful later, Lao Tzu heard from the people above that this place is actually a kind of bug-like devil's lair, and that guy is obviously not ......"
As a stormtrooper, Dalton "Broomeyebrow" and his brothers were placed in the Hidden Cave.
Thanks to his good eyesight, he could see what the enemy looked like through the lookout holes in the walls. So he carefully reminded the Minotaur who was the leader of the stormtrooper next to him, and after a few days of contact, Dalton knew very well that this reckless man was too impulsive.
"A certain family already knows. The minotaur replied with a seemingly kind expression.
At this moment, the undead creature with "three heads and six arms" is single-handedly standing outside the bow and crossbow shooting area of the fortress. Without the use of artillery or spellcasters, the defenders would not be able to effectively strike at such a distance.
This is the half-undead, half-demon creature that Snead the Lich randomly concocted by injecting the souls of several Bagura demons into the shells of skeleton creeps.
Although it has the skulls of three ape demons, it still doesn't have much intelligence in nature. The reason why they are "shrewd" to stay out of ranged strike range is because there is an evil drow lich manipulating their actions behind their backs.
Wars between drow elves often resemble ritualistic religious practices.
At the beginning of the battle, elite samurai, both voluntarily and involuntarily, would demonstrate in front of the enemy's position in order to attract their attention.
The real war begins with daggers stabbed into the throat of the enemy from the darkness by the warriors under the command of the Drow Master, and the sudden attack of the slave army that quietly surrounds it from all corners.
Even after becoming a lich, Sneijder is still accustomed to following the "fine traditions" of his original race.
While all the defenders saw the three-headed and six-armed undead begin to charge, the real opponent emerged from the ground and the sky at the same time as they had not yet paid attention.
In the middle of the third and second layers of defensive walls, a large area of land suddenly collapsed, and in the large hole that formed, a large number of undead creatures and Tanari demons formed a coalition of troops surging out of the hole.
Above the sky, the Flo demons and a large number of gargoyles gathered directly above the fortress immediately gathered under the cover of the acid mist clouds of volcanic sulfur emitted by this plane, and as soon as the attack on the ground began, they quickly cut into the battlefield from high in the air at an angle close to perpendicular to the ground.
The upper and lower attacks, three-dimensional strikes, are the tactical arrangements that the drow elves who are accustomed to living in the caves of the dark region.
During the construction of the fort defensive position, considering the problem of digging into the ground that might be encountered, the caster troops were specially called to use spells such as turning mud into stone to strengthen the foundation, but due to the construction time, the construction between the second and third layers of the defense circle had not yet been completely completed, so the attack from the underground broke out here.
"Crossbowmen prioritize attacking targets in the air, and artillery units are on guard against other demonic armies that may appear outside the fortress!"
As the commander of the entire fortress, Quest adjusted his combat deployment in a timely manner.
The air strikes initially caused great distress to the defenders on the ground, but as the rain of arrows from the crossbowmen's crossbowmen began to focus on the flying Flo and Gargoyle troops, these guys either quickly flew higher to dodge, or had to land and fight the defenders on the ground.
The "broom eyebrow" boss still maintained a cautious combat style at this time, and after coming out of the hiding cave, although he was struggling to meet the opponent, he never took the initiative to jump out of the formation.
But most of the rest of the stormtroopers, especially the Minotaur Captain, whom he had rarely kindly reminded him before, had already lost their eyes.
Unscrewing off the head of a zombie that had swooped down on his side, perhaps something else, Dalton glanced at the minotaur who was wrestling with the strange undead creature with three heads and six arms.
"I'm afraid that after this battle, I will have to change the captain again. I hope that this errand that takes the lead in sending his life will not fall on Lao Tzu's head. ”
It's just that according to the actual situation, his worries are a little unnecessary. The undead creatures that are somewhat similar to "Nezha" do not have the ability to turn the sea and the sky like the children of their COS.
Even with a few Bagula demon's souls infused into its shell, this transformed undead monster could only rely on brute force as a means of attack. Just took advantage of the fact that the defenders had no time to take care of it, so they were able to successfully climb over the wall and jump into the battle group, but they didn't want to encounter the Minotaur barbarian fighters who also relied on strength to eat.
Just a face-to-face kung fu, it was overturned to the ground.
The minotaur flew up and down with a giant axe, chopping melons and vegetables, turning the "newborn" undead into a piece of shards. Huge bull's hooves stomped on the skull's skull, crushing it deep into the ground that had been "airdropped" from Bato.
"But that's it. ”
As if sensing that his opponent was too weak, the Minotaur Stormtrooper stretched his arms, repositioned his nearly the size of his tomahawk, and plunged headlong into the depths of the army of undead and demons—the job of a stormtrooper is what a stormtrooper should do.
It doesn't matter if he kills him, but it hurts the "broom eyebrow" boss who wants to concentrate on paddling.
Like an inspired arrow, the entire stormtrooper followed the Minotaur captain as the arrowhead, and Dalton, who was in formation, was carried into the heart of the warband.
The demons are not afraid of death, and the army of immortals does not know whether to live or die.
The combination of the two makes these monsters an inexplicable combination for all other physical plane armies.
It's just that in the face of the Batzu devil's machine-like precision and efficient warfare technology, this combination has become not so invincible.
Teams of barbed demon sword and shield soldiers not only fended off the attackers who spread from the cave entrance, but also surrounded the warband.
It was as if an iron bucket had been formed, into which the attacking enemy would be filled like water.
Several stormtroopers of mercenaries from the Terteroplane, like Dalton's team, plunged into the bucket of "water", churning like loaches, strangling the invading enemy.
"Aang!"
It was the Minotaur Stormtrooper who let out this mixed roar of anger and pain.
In the midst of the slaughter, he had just cut off his opponent's head, and his arm holding the axe blade was pierced with a halberd by a sneak attack Hildemon.
The Hill Demon is a humanoid demon with a goat's head, and although the body is thin but full of muscles, the sneak attack of the fierce blow actually directly pierced the steel arm of the Minotaur, causing severe penetrating damage.
This demon has a habit of gnawing on its own weapons, so the halberd is covered with the demon's sick saliva. Although the stabbed and frenzied Minotaur backhanded the sneak attacker, a large number of gray rashes appeared on his body.
"Be careful!" Dalton shouted to the soldiers around him, not to go near the stormtroopers who could spread the disease, while carefully putting on his own mask that would keep the disease out.
The diseased Minotaur quickly weakened and could only support his body with his tomahawk on the ground, but it didn't seem to have much effect.
At the same time as he fell to the ground, some parasite-like worms emerged from the body of the demon he had slain. Suddenly gathered from all directions, as if anxious to share the fresh body.
Only more undead and demons rushed over, obscuring Dalton's vision, and he only saw a small part.