Chapter 79: When the battle is in progress
"It's just getting started. Quith stood at the top of the city, staring at the demon army that had been held back outside the fortress by artillery bombardment, and said with a slight frown.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to make the above judgment, and even using the brain to think is a little redundant.
This wave of demon legions showed no sign of collapse, and at this time, they all seemed to be believers who had incarnated the god of courage. Even though he was hit hard by the Silver Bullet Attack, he still launched a charge with no relent.
Ogre Blue floated directly from below to the platform in front of the fortress command room in a gaseous avatar, and he had just finished dealing with the task entrusted by Quiz before returning to his fate: "Everything is in place, just waiting for your order." ”
Quis nodded, he knew that he had to find the traces of the Demon Lord and his avatar as soon as possible at this time, otherwise even if he slaughtered more Tanari, it would be a waste of ammunition.
Moreover, according to his estimates, after these salvos, the specially prepared shells would be exhausted, and the artillery that fired the ammunition would have to be suspended, otherwise there would be a danger of exploding.
Sure enough, after another three-round burst, there were sporadic dumb fire in the artillery position in charge of the barbed demon gunner.
Including the dozen or so Skywalkers left in this plane, more high-level Tanari demons noticed this. While driving his low-level demonic cannon fodder to die without interruption, a few guys who could no longer hold back charged into battle themselves, and they quickly passed through the vacuum of artillery fire.
The hand-to-hand combat between the defenders of the fortress and the demons broke out like a thunderbolt from the sky again.
Fortunately, at this time, the morale of the defenders had been stimulated, and they did not fall behind in the first wave of confrontations with the demons. Due to their natural instincts, only a handful of demons noticed the hole in the defenses on the outside of the fortress due to the meteor burst spell, and launched a surprise attack on this hole.
Although the fortress is in a precarious situation, most of the heterotopic mercenaries who are the defenders are militant and violent, and they are quite adapted to this flesh-and-blood battlefield after being boosted by morale.
The hardest of them all was Naru, the largest of the three ogre brothers, the one who was far larger than his peers, wielding his remodified ebony flail to plug the gaps in the fortress's defenses. But if a demon tries to take advantage of this, he will be hit head-on.
Different from the ogre's wide opening and closing, the 21st Organ, who helped him sweep the array, proved the axiom of "the world's martial arts, only indestructible, only fast and unbreakable" with an extremely efficient killing method. His adamantite blades resemble snakes coming out of a hole, often taking the life of a demon with a single blow.
In addition to the duo tasked with pinning down the holehole in the defenses, the other defenders are also in the thick of the battle.
"Boom, boom, boom", the sound of arrows tearing through the air was endless, and the broom eyebrows, who were rewarded by Dalton Boss with a purple-shirted workmanship, did live up to expectations and exerted the maximum power of this excellent weapon.
He had deliberately bribed a caster with a small keg of ale, nicknamed "Warrior's Best Friend" by the defenders, so his eyes were now blessed with "Eagle Eye". And this undoubtedly improved his already excellent marksmanship once again, making it almost to the terrifying realm of unprecedented.
"Well done, Patton boy!" Dalton finally found a chance to send his enemy on one last ride, after an arrow pierced into Flo's ear hole in front of him from a tricky angle, "I said this bow and arrow would be more suitable in your hands - be careful!"
Dalton's compliment suddenly turned into a reminder. Before a sneaking Babu Assassin could launch a backstab, the hidden Shadow Thief Master spotted it and alerted the archers in a loud voice.
But as the old saying goes, "a hundred words are better than a silence", it was a broad-bladed short sword inserted from a diagonal thorn that really saved the archer's life. Jensen, who was guilty of repaying his debts, firmly twisted the knowledge of the Babb Demon's thorn with his weapon gauntlet, and directly smashed the Celestial Spirit Cover of this Tanari assassin with a shield blow in one go.
The former paladin, dressed like an ordinary sword and shield hand, raised his sword and shield slightly, and gestured to Dalton, who immediately understood what he was about to express.
"This two-pole boy has a bit of a brain, and he didn't waste the broken silver pieces I spent a lot of money on him. The corners of Dalton's mouth went up, and he almost imperceptibly gave a chuckle that he hadn't noticed.
After several major wars, silver became an important strategic material, and naturally there was a special anti-corruption team formed by the Batzu devil inside the fortress to supervise the use of silver ingots.
However, due to the large amount of silver used in Quest's Silver Bullet Offensive before, although most of it was corrupted while killing and injuring the Tanari demons, there were still some scattered scraps that would be brought back when cleaning the battlefield and picking up the demon's flesh and blood. All of the defenders have seen the power of silver to demons, so these scraps have become sought-after on the black market spontaneously formed by the mercenaries of the Alternate Plane.
Those who are particular will pay to hire a caster to help them pickle the surface of their equipment before having them plate the silver in the leftovers, and if they are a little more careful, they can go directly to the fortress's forge and melt the leftovers and pour them directly on their weapons, and then borrow a hammer to beat them.
Investing in a small piece of these scraps would make it safer for them to slay demons, so any xenomorphic mercenary who has something outside of their bodies will pay for them.
Dalton's investment in life-saving equipment has always been generous, and this time is no exception. After he used some of the silver-plated materials he bought, he threw the rest to Jensen, who looked like a "poor bastard", when no one noticed.
Catching a glimpse of the silver light shining above the sword and shield of the "two-pole" boy, Dalton understood that he was thanking himself for greeting.
Seeing the former paladin make a prayer gesture and then rush into the depths of the demon army again, Dalton sighed, "What a fucking look." ”
Due to the faction, the paladin's attacks are capable of inflicting tons of damage on the Tanari demons, who are chaotic and evil in nature. This is also where Jensen's confidence lies in daring to go deep into the enemy formation at this time: as long as the faith is still there, the lethality of the divine energy he calls for will not be attenuated.
And the physical strength that restricts his ability to continue to call on the divine energy to strike is not a big problem for the former paladin, who has already fully recuperated and recharged, at this time when he has just started fighting.
At least as the demons who had been fighting and pushing each other began to gather to besiege him, Jensen was able to hold his weapons and armor steadily, and attach divine energy to his shield through his inner call.
He threw the armor with divine power with great force, bouncing and slamming into the gathered demons in a semi-circular trajectory—
"Shield Strike: Evil Slash!"