In the event of a siege battle between the living world, if the attacker finds that his offensive cannot be effective in one fell swoop, in order to avoid meaningless casualties, it will definitely choose to temporarily withdraw its troops, rest and reflect, re-explore the offensive plan, and coordinate the coordination between the various troops, and then replace the troops with excessive casualties and make a comeback......

But the army of ghouls doesn't follow this common sense at all.

Despite the Shadow Tower's defenders' complete restraint weapons, the Sea of Ghouls only slowed down their attack slightly (even though this was just an illusion of the defenders' confidence) and had no intention of stopping their deaths. The fire in the outer Wood and Asphalt Zone 1 had been trampled to the point of being nearly extinguished, and the proportion of the living dead who could safely cross the area and pounce under the walls was increasing, and the ghouls that came in after him poured up like the sea at high tide and slammed into the line of wildfire and high walls.

Although sporadic ghouls eventually began to climb the walls with flames, forcing the defenders to use dragon crystal spears...... But on the whole, they were still just droplets of water sprinkled on the hot iron plate, which turned into smoke with a single sting, and the defense of the living was still solid.

However, it was precisely because the attack never stopped, under the dual effect of the "black effect under the lamp" caused by the glare of the fire and the sense of urgency brought by the ghouls who rushed to the nose, that no one could see the internal movement of the black ghoul army until the battle situation in the direction of the gate changed again.

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Because the city gate has been breached, in order to strengthen the defense of this weak point to avoid a short effect, the defenders have invested a large number of wildfires and almost all dragon crystal bombs in this area far beyond other sections of the city wall - the fires in other places are confined to the wall, only burning those ghouls who have leaned against the wall and started to climb, but the city gate has created a sea of fire with a radius of more than ten meters, and in order to save wildfires, the defenders even keep throwing firewood into it to support the burning.

Looking down from the top of the Great Wall, this circular wall of fire stands out like a pigeon's egg diamond set in a platinum ring. Not to mention ordinary ghouls, even if there are a few more corpses, if you want to climb into this sea of fire, you will have to burn off a layer of skin.

The raging flames seemed to dispel the chill of winter, and the temperature inside the walls of the Shadow Tower seemed to be much higher. The tension of the approaching end began to ease as a large number of enemies were killed, and the two crossbow machines had been carried to the inside of the city gate on their shoulders, and after being adjusted, they were aimed at the city gate hole. After the supplementary defensive line with all the reinforcements was established, the tense nerves relaxed, and the reserve soldiers who were responsible for clearing the scattered ghouls that pounced on the door even began to worry about other aspects.

A reinforcement from the Sentinel Tower asked, "Hey, you said the wildfire wouldn't soften the frozen ground and make the wall fall down slopes outward, right?"

"Don't be foolish, we dug the foundation of the fence ourselves last year - first set up a fire to bake, melt a section and dig a section, fortunately the weather was not so cold at that time, and it was easy to get the surface layer underneath. Under Sir Mellister's personal supervision, all the brothers, whether they were craftsmen, clerks, or 'noble' rangers, took turns to go into battle, and laid the foundations of the walls four times as thick as they were without any compromise!

The joke was cold, but as if to dispel the tension, several of the nearest soldiers laughed, and one of them laughed and fired his bow with his bow, killing an arrow from a ghoul who had gone through so much hardship, crossed the fire and climbed over the bunker, and rushed in from the doorway with flames.

Compared to the scorching wildfire on the city walls, the doorway was too cozy to defend against the army of ghouls.

Then, a cold wind blew, and the flames on the torches around them suddenly shook violently, and even the snowflakes falling overhead suddenly became a little denser.

The few people who were still laughing were suddenly interrupted by goosebumps that suddenly rose, and they were about to pull something casually to relieve their tension, when the shouts from the city wall made them creep.

"Hey, why can't the fire burn? Hurry up and add wildfire! Not yet? Bombs! Bombs!"

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Under the cover of puppet giants and mammoths, three ordained priests of the god of cold arrived at the edge of the sea of fire and began to perform cold magic at close range.

Due to the suppressive force field contained in the Great Wall, casting a normal power spell outside the Shadow Tower would now have to be cast at a closer distance and require more mana to do so - which is why the Night King sent the trio of them to work in a team. With the mana recovery rate of only 1% of the original, magic has also become a consumable in the hands of humans, and they did not intend to use this method in the first battle of the attack on the Great Wall, exposing their hole cards in advance.

After tonight's spell casting, the three priests will either return to the north side of the Grand Canyon to replenish their mana, or they will play as spectators in the most crucial battle of the next two to three days, giving the cold god -3 minions at his disposal.

That's quite a price, but it does pay a big price and pays off really quickly, as the spell continues to burn out its magic - the most brilliant diamond light suddenly dims on the ring that surrounds the Shadow Tower to protect it from ghouls!

The three priests joined forces to cast a spell to lock the air flow in the square space at the gate of the Shadow Tower...... By stopping the convection of the air so that the combustion reaction could not be replenished with oxygen, and then lowering the temperature of the area after the flame was extinguished, the regiment was so vital to the defenders that it was a defensive replenishment, exposing a huge defensive gap outside the already broken gate!

Corpse bear, corpse wolf...... These special cold god classes, which were far faster than humanoid ghouls because they landed on all fours, took advantage of the brief gap when the flames were extinguished, roared forward from the sea of corpses, and quickly poured into the black doorway.

The tense defenders at the top of the wall blocked the door with the reserve explosive bombs transported from the sentry building for the first time, the black powder has its own oxidant, and the lack of oxygen cannot prevent it from exploding, and the rumbling sound does greatly hinder the pace of the fast ghouls, but the limited dragon crystal fragments are not as good as the pervasive flames after all, and due to the innate body flexibility of the predators, the draugr who fell in front of them cannot stop the pace of the subsequent corpse wolves and corpse bears, and the flesh and blood are flying, even if only half of the fast ghouls can rush through the doorway, they are also a steady stream of enemies for the defenders！

"Shoot the arrows!"

The moment the first corpse wolf crossed the obstacle through the doorway and bared its teeth towards the defenders behind the door, the vigilant goalkeepers began to slaughter with fierce firepower, the dense dragon crystal arrows made the enemy have nowhere to hide, and the spears shot by the crossbow machine in the thud can often penetrate several enemies and nail out a "ghoul string" in the wall of the doorway......

For a moment, the scene was encouraging: it seemed that the new species of ghouls that had poured in from the doorway could not break through the defenses. But the Night's Watch archers had gaps between firing and the crossbows were reloading slowly, unable to maintain the initial burst of fire, as the wolves and bears knocked down the hastily erected barricades and bunkers, and the defenders on the top of the wall quickly ran out of explosive ammunition, and as soon as the explosions stopped, the frantically influx of enemies continued to push the battle line into the fortress.

One hundred and seventy seconds after the three Coldgod priests ventured close to the front line and cast a spell at close range to extinguish the sea of fire at the entrance of the Shadow Tower, the first corpse wolf rushed into the position of the human defenders behind the gate, and the three soldiers armed with dragon crystal spears joined forces to kill the archers before it could bite them, but only ten seconds later, the other corpse bear that was still immortal after an arrow on his shoulder - finally knocked down the cover behind a night watchman, and bit the unlucky man's head before being eliminated by the other soldiers, and the first victim of the gate defense battle was born.

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It is still possible for the defenders to drive them down in a heroic and bloody battle after the enemy rushes up to the land grant, but this is not possible in this battle of ice and fire - the living and the dead are fighting, and there are only two scenarios: either there are few casualties, or there is a rout...... There are no neutral endings!

When the defenders' firepower ≥ the speed of the enemy's influx, the ghouls are unable to perform such delicate operations as long-range attacks, as long as the wraiths do not attack, the defenders will ideally achieve zero casualties until they run out of weapons. But once the defenders' firepower < the speed of the enemy's influx, then, as casualties begin to appear and continue to expand, attrition leads to a further decrease in firepower...... In a vicious circle, the only thing that awaits the living is complete defeat, and at most they rely on courage and faith to fight to the end, replacing more enemies before the whole army is wiped out.

Between screams and screams, the casualties quickly changed from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3 after breaking through 0...... It becomes 10...... 20...... Up to this point, the situation did not look irreparable: more than 200 soldiers guarded the gates, the first one died and the last one was on top, and more logisticians could join the battle at any time. But with the disappearance of the distance and depth between friend and foe, after the hand-to-hand combat begins, there is no suspense in the ending.

Even at this moment, the continuous attacks of the ghouls did not stop in other places outside the wall, and the seven or eight hundred night watch soldiers on the wall were too busy to pay attention to the situation inside the fortress, let alone go down the wall to support and retake the gate.

"My lord, it makes more sense for you to live for the Night's Watch!Please retreat from the stairs immediately, I will take over the command here!" Bane, who replaced the deputy commander and kept the two dragon steel arrows in the custody of Colin, shouted at Dennis, "I will stay here, and as soon as a strange ghost comes up, I will immediately kill it with the Lightbringer!"

Contrary to the previous time when he had to be dragged by a few people, this time, Dennis Mellister did not insist on it anymore, he nodded silently at Bane, and without even saying a word about the scene, he withdrew towards the upper staircase behind the Shadow Tower, under the protection of his cronies and guards.

He didn't want to run, but to carry out the darkest and cruelest, cold-blooded part of the "Great Wall Defense Plan", which only the commanders of the fortresses knew.

[When the loss of the fortress is inevitable, the commander must destroy the upper wall ladder at all costs, and the priority is above all else!]

He had already given this task to the severed palm Colin, this guy has always been reliable, and if he took ten thousand steps back, even if something happened to him, the small number of defenders on the top of the Great Wall would have had time to destroy the stairs from above if they had enough brains to react. But...... After seeing the incredible magic methods possessed by the strangers, Dennis decided to take matters into his own hands and form a triple insurance with his lieutenant commander, the sentries at the top of the Great Wall, to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

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[Terrible...... I said that the July monthly pass was 600 and 90,000 words were updated in August, and then it really reached 600 at 11:59 on the 31st half month?

Well, no nonsense, the August 90,000 word challenge begins, ask for votes]

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