Chapter 37: Prelude to the Bloody War
Of course, Gelgen is not a purple sweet potato, he is just one of the billions of Tanari demons.
"It's not dead, seriously, this guy shouldn't be a distant relative of a cockroach or a tardispeller," looking at the decoy demon who had half of his head blown up but was still supporting his body, Mechanic 21 picked at the wound that had been repaired by the Hammer of Chaos with his fingers, and then looked at Quis and Naru, who wanted to take advantage of the situation and kill that guy: "You won't die if you hit the big move, you really want me to be robbed of my head." ”
However, his worries were unnecessary, and just as Naru's flail and Quis's sword were about to fall on the decoy demon together, this guy directly used another life-saving spell-like ability, Advanced Teleportation.
"Yo, I also brought the scroll back to the city......"
Golgen teleported directly back to the middle of the demon army that had been dormant in advance, and as soon as he woke up from the falling state of teleportation, he used his chela to turn the two closest Tanari clans into four with his chelae.
This was done in order to cover up his serious injuries and to deter his companions, who would betray and kill them as a common occurrence, and in order to obtain some healing medicine. He carefully applied fresh demonic flesh to his flesh-soaked face, and the wound was slowly soothed by Tanari's flesh and blood, and when the teeth grew back, the demon stuffed the remaining stumps and severed arms into his mouth in a fit of not wasting them.
The method is correct and the effect is remarkable, both to deter the demons and to heal the injuries.
"There's a disgusting gathering place of Batzu ahead, you bastards rush me for the abyss!" Gergen chewed as he shouted in a mixed voice to attack the demon army that had long since been unable to suppress the desire to kill.
Without the pressure of the stronger demons, the demons who had smuggled into Aphneras unleashed their instincts, howling and charging in the direction pointed out by the Enchanted Decoy. These advance troops, who were originally used by the Demon Lord as spies to spy on Bato's military deployment, completely forgot their original mission.
Maybe they haven't forgotten - many demons have higher intelligence than mortals. But the instinctive desire to tear apart the enemy and devour living creatures, as well as the irrepressible eternal blood feud against the Butterzu Devil, led them to launch a death squad-like attack.
The demons, who had been dormant by the Temptation Demon, were more than a dozen kilometers away from Bato's alien mercenary camp, and after receiving the order to attack, they all immediately chose to charge, and the army rushed towards their target like a scattered and unstoppable tide.
No army in the material plane has the possibility of charging at such a distance, even the cavalry on the horse, after such a long distance of running, will become a strong crossbow, but the demons of Tanari do not care about these problems at all, they seem to have endless physical strength.
The first demon to arrive on the battlefield was not the flying Flo Demon, and the fireballs falling from the sky of Aphneras caused a lot of trouble for these winged guys, and their small bodies and ordinary flames could not withstand the repeated bombardment of fireballs.
A group of berserkers with damp skin like armor like a large toad became the vanguard of the demon army. These behemoths, which emit a stench that no living creature could stand, including the other Tanaris, sped forward on all fours on the ground with their teeth full of gaping teeth and grinning mouths.
As they ran, the secretion of mucus turned the faint smell of sulfur into foul-smelling mud, and even the other Tanari were careful to avoid the path of these fellows, and if they stuck to a point, they would have to dig out the whole skin to get rid of the maddening stench.
The demons' long run gave the camp guards some time to prepare, and the riots caused by Doug's transformation into a werewolf had been contained, and all the hard labor was "properly" arranged - they were issued standard spears and tower shields, and stood on top of the second wall of their own construction to stand in line to defend themselves against the oncoming charge of the demon army.
"Your Excellency Commander," the goblin nobleman Ricknaz stood beside the Chain Demon, this greeting that omitted the word agent made the Batzu Devil feel a little happy, and he pointed to the demons who were surging like a tide in the distance, "There are at least five thousand or more demons that have launched an attack, even if there are not many powerful demons, but this number is about five times the combat power of all the demons in the camp......"
"I'm afraid your calculations are still too conservative," Quis, who had already retreated from the outer city and walked onto the inner city walls, interrupted the goblin's words: "Every Tanari has the ability to summon their own people to fight, and the more powerful the demons can summon, the more of their kind, even if we have the rules of Bato's hell to suppress their success rate in casting spells, we will not face less than twice as many enemies as expected." ”
Ricknaz nodded in acknowledgment, indicating that he understood the unincorporated variable. The chain demon on the side habitually waved his arm, making a noise of chain rubbing, and said disapprerovitously: "It's nothing, after participating in a few bloody battles, you will know that demons will always be like this - swarming, and then being slaughtered, the difference of five or ten times the number is just a few more swings of the weapon or pulling the bowstring." Now this can only be regarded as a small scene, just an infiltration operation before the start of the big war. ”
This time Quest did not refute, and he did not personally experience a real bloody battle. It's just that judging from the momentum alone, the demons that appear here do not have existences that can pose a threat to his life, like those dangerous wolf snake demons and Barlow flame demons should only appear on the frontal battlefield later.
Now in this battle, even if the soldiers in the camp are gone, Quis is sure to escape with his ogre companions. And that goblin nobleman also has this idea compared to the chain demons, otherwise they would not have the time to stand on the head of the city and watch the attack of the demons now.
However, compared to the steadfastness of these people at the head of the city, the defenders standing on the second layer of the wall, those who had been used as laborers for the construction of fortifications, were not so relieved, and most of them did not have decent weapons and armor except for the spears and tower shields that were issued.
Even if the Batzu devils who run the camp never bother to confiscate the weapons brought by these material-plane "babas", you can't expect the knives and clubs that can only be used in the alleys of the city to hurt the terrifying monsters with their claws and bloody mouths.
That's right, those monsters, most of the mercenaries who had been tricked into making their lives here, didn't know the difference between the Devil of Tanari and the Devil of Batzu, and with their meagre knowledge they only instinctively knew that these terrible-looking and even more terrifying ones were demons from the lower realms. When they arrived in hell, they realized that the ghosts that originally existed only in the stories of the old grandmother really existed.
But now that they're facing the onslaught of the demon armies of Tanari, they're realizing that their definition of "goblin" may be a little too narrow.
What a wickedness that is! It's not a ghost story, but creatures that only appear in the most horrible nightmares rush in front of them, and the barbed demon guards who are spitting sulfur and scolding them are even "kind eyes".
The first soldier to suffer misfortune was confronted by a small coward.
At the front of the demon army, some berserkers had not yet rushed to the city wall, so they changed their posture of running on all fours, and some of them directly used their spell-like abilities to summon some cowardly demons. Others saved up this one-of-a-day spell-like ability in order to summon another berserker - they grabbed some demons weaker than them from the army of demons behind them, and threw them directly onto the high wall of the camp despite their bites and insults.
There were no ladders to climb, no ants to attack the city, and the first wave of raiders appeared on the top of the city so easily, and most of these demons that were thrown over were cowards about the size of a halfling, and even smaller Quasai demons that were no bigger than a candlestick.
The flying and clever Kwassamos mostly cloaked in mid-air, a tactic often used by these cowardly creatures who are eager to succeed. And the cowards who were also thrown up were not so lucky.
These stupid and slow low-level demons were quickly cleaned up by the defenders on the city walls, but the stinky cloud and some panic spells they unleashed caused some trouble for the defenders' formation, but a few cowardice who slipped through the net took advantage of the effects of the panic spell and mercilessly took their lives when the defenders fell into fictional fear - this is the nature of demons, even if they themselves are scared to death, but they will kill at the first opportunity.