Chapter 10: Dawn and Dawn

As more and more undead creatures attacked the city wall, more and more soldiers were lost, so that everyone had to abandon the defense line and began to shrink in the direction of the priest's location, fortunately, although the wild undead creatures naturally hate all living creatures, but they have a strong principle of proximity, and if they don't kill these close warriors on the city wall, they will easily not deal with the civilians in the farther town, although this will make the soldiers receive more fierce attacks, but it also protects the relatives of everyone in the town, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune。

Although Mino is only a first-level warrior who has not condensed the seeds of fighting energy, the reserves of fighting qi are extremely small and it is difficult to recover, and there is no way to use fighting energy to increase his strength, but after so many years of continuous extreme training, Mino's physical strength has long surpassed that of many ordinary second-level fighters, wielding the extremely heavy sword on his back, his attack power can barely be compared with that of second-level warriors, coupled with Mino's exquisite swordsmanship, almost no undead can get close for a while.

But after all, this kind of extreme play can't last, seeing that there are fewer and fewer comrades-in-arms around him, everyone began to shrink towards the position of the priest, although Mino knew that this was completely to quench his thirst, he had to act together, before evacuating, Mino regardless of the consumption of the luck of the fighting spirit with a fierce wave, swept a large open space around himself, unwillingly let out a long howl, threw a ball of light generated by the illumination technique into the sky, after getting a response, half relieved and half regretful glanced at the intersection behind the town towards the city of Houston, shook his hand and threw the powerful big sword on his back, and replaced it with an ordinary iron sword hanging on his waist, shrinking towards the priest's seat like everyone else.

Seeing the ball of light thrown by Mino in the sky, following Mino's orders, the eyes of Yeren and the others, who had been waiting at the edge of the town for a long time, suddenly turned red, and tears rolled out uncontrollably, and Mina and Yelai were even weaker, and they fell to the ground all of a sudden.

Although he was grief-stricken in his heart, and even wanted to go back to save Mino, Yeren also knew that the matter had come to this point, even if he went back, Mino's would not leave, and only by successfully completing the instructions that Mino's previous instructions were given to him was his greatest respect for Mino, who died generously.

So holding back the grief in his heart, Yaren used his amplification technique and yelled loudly at the town with all his might.

"The city wall is about to be attacked by the undead, in order not to let the sacrifices of the soldiers on the city wall be in vain, everyone hurry up and run towards Houston~~"

After yelling three times in a row to make sure everyone in the town could hear it clearly, Yeren glanced in the direction of the city wall with admiration, pulled up Mina and Yelai, who were still on the ground, and left without looking back, along with Grandma Conseil, who was also reluctant.

After all gathered around the priest, Mino distracted and counted the current number of people, not counting the town lord and other powerful warriors who were fighting with the skeleton lord and skeleton knights on the other side, there were only about one hundred and thirty people on the city wall, and then get rid of the three mages who left early because of the exhaustion of mana before, and now it is estimated that they are leaving with the townspeople, only lasted for about three hours, and the side of Tarsi Town has lost nearly a hundred warriors.

And you must know that this loss is not the so-called casualty rate, but the real mortality rate, because since the defense line collapsed, everyone began to shrink the defense, in order to prevent the undead from accidentally walking down the city wall, and then slaughtering in the town, everyone used things to block the passage down, so after that, the seriously injured soldiers could not be sent down the city wall, and all the people who were not here were naturally sacrificed.

The thought of his companions, who had been laughing and celebrating their victories together a few days ago, had now died at the feet of these undead, and that he would soon die under the rusty sword of the undead like them, Mino's heart welled up with indescribable sadness.

But he didn't regret the decision to join the war, the book said that sooner or later people will die, it's just what the value of death is, although Mino still has a lot of things to do, and there are still many places to go, but this encounter is too dangerous, the combat power is so high that he can't see the edge of Aunt Kasha just left, the undead are coming, only rely on the strength of himself and his sister to protect others, it is extremely difficult to protect himself, it is better to stay and buy a little more escape time for his sister and Sister Yelai, After all, before she died, her mother took her hand and said to herself, "Mino must not be a boy who hurts the girl he loves!"

Although the number of people is small, Mino can clearly feel that the pressure has become lighter, and there has not even been death for a long time, as long as there is no problem with the cutting-edge combat power, Mino even has the illusion that he and others can hold on until the reinforcements arrive.

This is not to say that Minoan has gained much improvement in this difficult battle, although this world does advocate sharpening and improving themselves in battle, but the purpose of this is to improve their combat skills and accumulate experience, unless it is on the verge of breaking through the pressure and motivation, otherwise the battle for the improvement of fighting spirit and physical fitness is not much different from ordinary training, if not, I am afraid that all soldiers are legendary powerhouses.

In this battle, it is said that only one uncle of the Lynx mercenary group broke through the second level under heavy pressure, and the others did not hear any movement at all, and it is estimated that there is none, so the combat effectiveness of Mino and others is actually less than half of it, and the reason why Mino's current feeling is actually because of the change in the density of friends and enemies.

Before the contraction, in order to avoid the undead from climbing the city wall, everyone has to be ready to deal with the attack of one or even two skeletons for a long time, and after the contraction, everyone no longer needs to protect the old city wall of Taxi Town, but as long as they protect the four priests and themselves, and then stick to it, everyone with such a goal will form a circle for cooperative defense, and the frequency of being attacked will naturally decrease, and someone can replace it after being tired, and the battle has more tolerance for error, and if you are injured, you can also recover from healing, so it is naturally easy not to die。

And because everyone is concentrated in one section, the undead who have no brains are all coming in this direction, so that the undead in some remote sections are also squeezing in this direction and giving up the attack on that side, but the speed of each 'human' ladder is limited, and they squeeze this way, which reduces the number of people who go up the city wall every minute.

Of course, in the past, there were 10,000 people, people will always be tired, and mana will always be exhausted, even if the priest can drink the mana potion as water, after drinking so much, it won't have any effect now, not to mention that the alchemy potion is a rare item in a remote place like Taxi Town, and the mayor can get so many mana potions there, the priest can only recover slowly on his own, without the treatment of the priest, the injured warrior can't recover immediately, but the number of undead everyone faces will not change, and being able to hold on to it is just an illusion given by a momentary return to the light, and gradually the situation began to become serious again。

Gradually, only the extremely injured warriors could be treated by the healing techniques that the priest reluctantly cast, and more and more soldiers had to participate in the battle with injuries, although no one died, but the frequency of human replacement became faster and faster, and it had reached the point that the fighters who were replaced in front had not rested well, and the soldiers who were replaced in the back could no longer hold on.

At this point, the city wall was lost in only a moment, and anyone could see this kind of thing, and there was an atmosphere of despair in the entire battle array, which made people feel extremely depressed.

"The battle has come to this point, and I think everyone knows that we should not be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrive, I have a suggestion here, I wonder if you are interested in hearing it?"

In addition to chanting incantations, the priest who had been silent tonight suddenly spoke, and to talk about the way to change the current situation that everyone was most eager for now, except for the warrior who was standing on the outermost part and was fighting the undead, everyone who was resting in the inner enclosure turned their eyes to the priest.

"Lord Priest, how many people have you saved in Tassi Town over the years, and how many poor children you have taught to read, many of us here are your students, and the people you have saved, of course we will listen to your words. ”

"Since everyone is willing to listen to my old man's nagging, then I'll tell you what I've come up with. Hearing everyone's response like this, the old priest smiled with relief, and slowly spoke: "Thanks to the blessing of the little guy who informed the whole city before, the people in the town have been retreating for more than two hours, and it is estimated that there is no one in the town except for those of us who are still guarding the city wall. ”

"Now we stay here, just to let the retreating townspeople have more time to escape, but the characteristics of the undead must be clear to everyone, in fact, as long as there is still a person on the city wall, then it is impossible for them to chase the people who have already run away, so I think, we should simply leave a small number of people to continue to attract the attention of the undead, so that most of the people can evacuate, so that maybe we can retain some more vitality for our Tassi Town, what do you think of my idea, old man." ”

After listening to the old priest's words, the despair that permeated the crowd was suddenly alleviated a lot, but it was replaced by an extreme depression.

Everyone knows that the old priest's words are very reasonable, but who is willing to give up his comrades-in-arms who have fought with him for so long, and who wants to be one of the small number of people who are left behind? But this method is indeed the last method at the moment, and if you don't do this, you will only die together, and it is difficult to say how to say it, so no one wants to speak.

Seeing everyone's silence, the old priest stroked his long white beard and smiled: "Old man, I have lived for more than eighty years, and I have almost lived enough, and the holy light can also attract the hatred of those undead, so I will stay, old man." "Lao Tzu, I have lived for fifty years, and I am still a second-level warrior, and I just took my hand to these damn undead and cut it off, and I am afraid that I will not be able to upgrade to the fourth level after living in this life, and I will get the professional badge, so I am counted as Lao Tzu!" This is a strong man of the Rocket Mercenary Regiment, who accidentally cut off his left hand by a skeleton warrior with a sword in this battle.

Hearing this, the other warrior, who already had a lot of wrinkles on his face, also shouted.

"Lao Tzu's leg is broken, and it is estimated that running away is also dragging his legs, so Lao Tzu will stay here and simply not run. ”

"Old man, I'm eighty years old, it's time for the loess to cover my face, now I can still make a name for a hero if I stay, who doesn't let the old man stay with me!"

In this way, more than a dozen soldiers stood up, most of them were old soldiers who were physically disabled in this battle, and like the old priests, they volunteered to stay here in order for their juniors to escape.

"My leg hurts too, count me in. ”

"No, anyone can do it, but you have to get out of here!"

For those who were willing to stay before, the old priest looked at each other with satisfaction, but for the person who spoke out now, the old priest refused sharply, because this person was none other than Minow, who was known as a genius swordsman.

It is impossible to cure the sick and save people only by healing, so the town church buys all kinds of common herbs all year round, although the price is lower than the pharmacy, but the old priest often does not need money to treat others, so Mino used to take the herbs to sell, and also followed the priest to learn simple herbology and theology for a period of time, for a long time the two people lived together like their own grandfather and grandson, not long ago it was the old priest who went to hold a funeral for Mino's mother, so the old priest knew the child very well.

Smart, kind, sensible, polite, persevering, talented, assertive, and also very interested in theology, the old priest likes this child in his heart, if it weren't for Mino's talent in swordsmanship is too high, and it is too wasteful to transfer to divine arts, the old priest wants him to follow him as a priest apprentice, not to mention that Mino cultivated his fighting spirit at a young age and became a real warrior, as long as he doesn't die halfway in the future, at least he is a sixth-level top powerhouse.

It is rare for the old priest from Tasi Town to see such a good seedling appear in his hometown, and how can he let him die with this old guy meaninglessly, not to mention that he was only hit by an arrow in the leg, that is, he was seriously injured and dying, and the old priest also wanted to cure him and beg someone to send him out, so the old priest resolutely disagreed with Mino's request.

The old priest disagreed, and the other old soldiers who asked to stay did not agree, everyone knew what the concept of being able to cultivate fighting spirit at the age of thirteen was, except for those powerful forces that have a long heritage, even in a city like Houston, there are not many such geniuses, and Mino is only a first-class warrior, there are not many Dominos in this kind of battle, and there are not many less Minots, they are willing to stay because they want to fight for a way out for the juniors in their hometown, and how can they let the genius juniors like Mino stay and die.

So despite Mino's repeated pleas, his arms could not reach his thighs, and under the painstaking advice of the old priest, he was pulled by an apprentice priest he knew well, and evacuated with the other soldiers.

Looking back at the old priest and others behind him who were struggling to fight and buy time for themselves and others, and then looking at the other side who were beaten by low-level undead because of the evacuation of themselves and others, and the strong men such as Mayor and Grandpa Conseil, who were becoming more and more dangerous in the battle with the seven mid-level undead, Mino looked at the dark night sky above his head, and big tears rolled down from his eyes.

"The Holy Spirit is destroyed!"

Just when everyone finally cleared the obstacles that had been blocked at the entrance of the passage before, and were about to leave, they saw a golden streamer coming from a high speed in the distance, and then under the attention of everyone, they jumped high, crossed the night sky like a meteor, and fell straight into the pile of undead, only to hear a long roar, the place where the meteor fell exploded, and countless skeletons returned to eternal sleep under this blow, and before the dust and smoke cleared, a middle-aged warrior in silver armor and holding a giant hammer that emitted a dazzling silver light rushed out of it, like a tiger like a flock of sheep in the army of the undead。

"War Realm: Triumphant Gate!"

Before the people of Tassi Town could recover from this sudden change, six streamers came from afar, rushing into the army of the undead like the previous one, and then these warriors in silver armor raised their hands in different shapes, but they all exuded the same silver light weapons shouted in unison, and a majestic holy light poured out from their bodies, converging on the warrior who appeared first, as the warrior stopped drinking, I saw a huge door composed of holy light falling from the sky, and then opened suddenly, and the dazzling light poured out from the giant door, stabbing everyone unable to open their eyes。

When the light dissipated, I saw that the boundless sea of bones that had been endless before was now gone, and everything was like a dream, only the corpses of those heroic warriors who were still lying on the ground and the wounds on their bodies let everyone know that this was not a dream.

Perhaps the power of the move just now was too great, so that the death curtain in the sky was shattered, only to see that in the gap blasted out by the holy light, a golden sunlight pierced the black cloud and fell to the ground, and the people who had been in the darkness for a long time could not open their eyes, and the dawn of dawn that Tassi Town had been waiting for finally appeared.