Chapter 78: It's just the beginning
Although it escaped the "catastrophe", even if it was only swept by the tail of the meteor explosion, the prismatic wall on the outside of the fortress was damaged to a certain extent, and the aftermath of the explosion tore and expanded along this gap, and the impregnable defense system appeared a huge hole.
The meteor burst that changed the direction of the impact due to the bombardment of Quest's Extreme Heavenly Fury Fist ploughed a furrow on the ground of the Acid Mist Canyon plane, fully demonstrating the terrifying power of the spell.
Looking at the chasm that stretched to the point where the fortress stretched not far in front of him, the dragon who was standing on the edge of the mushroom forest shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "It seems that someone doesn't want me to appear, but it's up to you?"
"We can't stop that Demon Lord from attacking," Sneijder quickly suggested as Quest removed the Strange Thing Fist that had inspired the Heavenly Fury Fist.
Although they have long been undead, logically speaking, there should not be emotions such as fear.
However, Sneijder's only remaining skull, the dark blue fire in his eye sockets was still much stronger, and he continued: "No one is more familiar with that kind of spell fluctuation than me, it is the characteristic of the worm tyrant's newly created incarnation three hundred years ago, the dragon's secondary body, Hemtar, when he casts a spell, as long as this avatar appears, the worm tyrant must lurk beside him and wait for an opportunity to attack." ”
At that time, the group of powerful spellcasters who were treated as guests by the Worm Tyrant were attacked and killed in this way. It's just that the half-lich didn't say it.
Of course, Quies knew that his new "employee" was terrified, and he was not so.
What is a Demon Lord?
They are the most powerful demons who stand at the top of the bottomless abyss food chain, and these unique demons can command the entire abyssal plane of their domination.
Even the weakest of them are as strong as gods.
What is a Demon Lord Incarnation?
The Demon Lord Incarnation is the physical embodiment of a portion of the Demon Lord's life force, created to act as his agent so that the Demon Lord can safely hide behind the scenes and plot his evil plots.
But this is only the relationship between the Demon Lord and his incarnation in most cases, and the worm tyrant of the Acid Mist Canyon plane is inseparable from his dragon secondary body - the avatar created by this guy is actually growing in the giant mouth of his own body.
The other Demon Lords had one or another guess:
Some people think that this terrifying worm is too greedy, and he is unwilling to share even the power with his own avatar.
Some believe that this is actually because the Worm Tyrant's wisdom is still too low to plan a long-term plan to open up the Demon Order in other material planes like other Demon Lords.
Others believe that it is a trapping instinct, like those monkfish that live in the deep sea. After all, it is well known that this demon lord known as the Worm Tyrant is actually an experimental creation of the previous lord of the Acid Mist Canyon Position, and maybe he was created with some characteristics of other creatures.
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And so on and so forth.
The above speculation is naturally unknown to Quiss, who is neither a well-connected boss of the Bottomless Abyss, nor a reader favored by the compilers of fate.
Of course, even if they knew this, it would not help to improve their current situation, as the Demon Lord incarnated Hemtar and the Worm Tyrant who must have lurked nearby were eyeing the Batto Alien Mercenary Fortress where they were stationed.
"We have no way back, we have no choice. This is the final answer given by the young blue dragon.
For his part, Quest remembered very well what happened at the moment he was "airdropped" to this plane.
The Batzu devils did not give themselves any chance to regret at all, and they must have left a back hand for the situation of the commander's "escape". The best-case scenario is to fight your way through the corners of the multiverse and escape the hunt of the devil's assassins to the death.
The rest of the people in the fortress have no chance, and they can only fight to the end to find a way out.
Not to mention that most of the heterotope mercenaries who were "arranged" by the Bad Zu Devil High have signed a contract - breaking the devil's contract and dying is the best end.
Even if the contract is not signed, the objective conditions at this time are enough to make the option of "escape" directly linked to "quick death".
Unless the casters have the skills comparable to the half-lich Sneijder, the idea of quietly opening the gates of the Otherworld under the noses of the Abyssal Demon Leader and the Batzu Devil Gendarmerie is simply self-defeating.
If the warriors choose to abandon their defensive positions and walk out of the fortress at this time, it is really no different from looking for their own death. Even the demonic armies that have begun to assemble outside the fortress in groups that have avoided the constant patrols of the Batzu gendarmerie will allow them to "become human again" - just reincarnate early.
"Enemy attack!"
"Beware, the demons are about to attack the city!"
"The little cubs are all out for me!"
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The demon army gathered from outside the fortress was much larger than before. All the people in the defenders who had some prestige and power knew that it was time to fight desperately again, and they spontaneously organized and integrated their forces.
It is worth mentioning that this behavior actually accelerated the speed of the build-up of Batow's fortress.
The defenders put on "pig-nosed" gas masks, grabbed their weapons and protective gear, and quickly rushed to the positions for which they were responsible.
Standing like an old monk on the edge of the mushroom forest, Hermtar opened his slightly closed eyes, and the great director who had previously "failed at the box office" made a comeback and began to prepare for his next work.
He has an entire layer of abyssal plane resources to squander, and "bringing capital into the group" is naturally tough.
And summing up the previous experience of failure, the director even decided to put down his body, and he wanted to show his acting skills in person. After all, expecting demons to be good protagonists is no different from believing that "if there is anything similar, it is purely a coincidence".
is different from this regrouped and prosperous director. The defenders of Bato Fortress, whom he designated as a "supporting role" or "set", saw this demonic attack on a scale far larger than the previous one, but they were not happy at all.
Even if they have defeated their opponents several times, and the continuous fierce battles have sharpened the tense nerves of this group of heterotopic mercenaries, fatigue is still inevitable. At this time, half of these people were able to hold the knife and gun out of obedience to the rules, and the other half were able to hold the knife and gun out of the desire to find life in death.
Quest had already anticipated this, and he had taken the lead in sniping the Trolls and Skywalkers, and also partly to motivate his soldiers. However, now that it is known that there may be a demon lord lurking among the enemy army, the young blue dragon has no stupid intention to rush forward and send the head away.
The young blue dragon chose another means to boost morale as he saw it from the books on Earth. He remembered how the book "The Emperor's Bayonet" used artillery tactics to demoralize the enemy head-on and motivate his own soldiers.
Although he didn't memorize it backwards, he still remembered most of the content of the book thanks to the retrieval memory he had developed as a programmer.
The bastion-like design that was deliberately followed in the construction of the fort's defenses played an important role at this time. The protruding walls allow for cross-fire of gunpowder weapons that Quest simply referred to as "artillery" and Batzu as "Hell's Roar".
Under the commander's order, the silver-plated cannonballs that were made at no cost, mixed with some silver-sandwiched cannonballs that could form large patches of silver mist, poured down on the heads of the demon army.
Seeing that the group of Tanari demons who had just assembled and rushed to the fortress brainlessly rushed to the fortress were bombarded in pieces like leeks, there was a loud cheer and excited roar among these uneducated alien mercenaries.
Stretching out his palm, he touched the silver mist that had burst apart as a cannonball hit his body.
The slight tingling of his fingertips, accompanied by the painful wails of the demons around him, intoxicated the dragon body of the demon lord, Hermtar. He gradually indulged in this beautiful picture that he played because of himself, with war and death as the main theme.
"It's just getting started. ”