Chapter 53: Star Soul Beast Tide
Star Soul Town, the last stop of Zhou Ming and Hong Menglong's itinerary this time, this is a small city, but the thickness and height of the city wall are comparable to Silver Moon City as the imperial capital, this incident makes Zhou Ming very strange, although Star Soul Town is the border city of the Silver Moon Empire, but relying on the Jedi natural danger of the Star Soul Forest, it stands to reason that no one will attack it, this thick city wall and the ballistas and trebuchets that will be erected every distance on the city wall, in his opinion, are really redundant.
"Star Soul Town, like White Rock City, is one of the hunter gathering places of the Silver Moon Empire, the difference is that most of the hunters in White Rock City are in lower strength, and there are very few upper hunters, while Star Soul Town, due to its proximity to the more dangerous Star Soul Forest, has gathered a large number of high-level hunters. ”
"So teacher, did you bring me here to let me find death?" Zhou Ming looked at Hong Menglong resentfully, even if his strength barely reached the lower two-star, there was still a full three levels of span from the upper position, and at this time, bringing him to this place, which is known as one of the "Three Great Jedi", is not looking for death.
"In three months, you're going to report to the Star Pole Royal Academy," Hong Menglong suddenly opened the subject, "Until then, I'll try my best to let you reach the strength of the next three-star level." ”
"So you brought me to the Jedi?" Zhou Ming grimaced.
"The stress between life and death makes you grow faster. Hong Menglong is right.
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After entering Star Soul Town, the first thing Zhou Ming had to do was to find a shop to build armor and get a new pair of light armor for himself, from leaving Silver Moon City to the present, Zhou Ming used Hong Menglong's gold coins whether it was eating, drinking, or lodging expenses, and he himself got a lot of money when he crossed the Silver Moon Forest and when he completed the hunting task in White Rock City, Zhou Ming was not a miser, if this money could bring security to his life, even more so, looking at the old and fragile light armor on his body, Zhou Ming was almost sure that there was no difference between wearing this thing to hunt in the Star Soul Forest and not wearing it, Anyway, for a fierce beast with three or four stars, it will not be much more difficult to pierce it than to pierce a cloth cloth.
As a subsidiary industry linked to the profession of hunters, there will be shops selling weapons and armor in cities where hunters gather, these shops will not only directly sell some finished products, but also accept the customization of hunters, hunters can provide them with materials and gold coins to build the armor they need, Zhou Ming has no materials in his hand that can be used to build armor, so he can only pick and choose in the store, and finally spent four hundred gold coins to buy an arc steel alloy light armor with a lower four-star defense ability, but this kind of light armor does not match Zhou Ming's figure in the store at this time, so Zhou Ming just paid a deposit, and agreed to come and pick it up in three days。
Walking out of the armor shop, Zhou Ming had the heart to look at the city, because Star Soul Town is located on the border, the economy is not developed, there are no high-rise buildings in the city except for a lookout tower located in the center of the entire town, there is a big bell at the top of the tower, which will ring once every hour.
The two can still only live in the hotel, this time, Zhou Ming, who has plenty of money, paid for the room by himself, Hong Menglong is his teacher, and now everything he has done for him has almost become his parents, Zhou Ming, whose parents were not around since childhood, is very grateful to Hong Menglong, and now that he has become an official hunter and has the ability to support himself, he doesn't want Hong Menglong to break the bank for himself again.
That night, late at night......
"When!when!" The rapid sound of the bell woke Zhou Ming from his sleep, the bell was as fierce as a war drum, Zhou Ming rubbed his eyes, sat up from the bed and began to get dressed, at this time, Hong Menglong pushed the door and entered.
"Put on your armor and assemble at the north gate of the city. Although Zhou Ming wondered in his heart, since Hong Menglong had said so, he naturally hurriedly did so, dressed as quickly as possible, and rushed out of the hotel and went straight to the north of the city, only then did he see that the torches had been lit on the city wall, and the fire in the darkness covered the heavy city wall, coupled with the rapid bells, which made the atmosphere of this small town on the border depressed in vain.
Zhou Ming trotted towards the north of the city, along the way he also saw groups of hunters gathering to the north of the city, because of the same direction, the hunters gathered one after another, and soon formed a considerable number of groups, at the same time, the soldiers stationed in the city also walked quickly to the city walls around the city with neat steps, looking like a big war was coming.
Zhou Ming ran all the way and said speechlessly: "Is there really such a back? During the day, I was still thinking that Star Soul Town was relying on the Jedi Heavenly Danger, and it was impossible for someone to attack it, and it was invaded just after night?"
However, after climbing the city wall, Zhou Ming knew how much deviation between his thoughts and what actually happened, he thought that the Star Soul Forest was the natural shelter of Star Soul Town, but in fact, it was the Star Soul Forest that these specially built thick city walls were guarded against.
The black oppressive beast herd rushed all the way from the north like a soldier pressing the realm, and in the night, Zhou Ming couldn't even see the end of the beast herd.
"How many fierce beasts must be here......" Beside Zhou Ming, a hunter gasped, "Star Soul Town doesn't know if it can survive it." ”
"Don't say something unlucky!" another old hunter slapped him on the head, "aren't they just little beasts, how can they be so terrible." ”
The old hunter was cheering for the young hunter, but he was a little unconfident, and he glanced back at the lookout tower behind him, the bell had stopped, and the whole city was as silent as death.
"The archers are in position, the ballista trebuchet is ready!" A loud and thick command came from the watchtower in the center of the town, the order was issued by the town guard general of Star Soul Town, who is also the city lord here, his voice is very steady, obviously not the first time to face the attack of the beast tide, the archers and soldiers who heard the order quickly came to the battlements, and boxes of feather arrows were also carried to the position that the archers could easily access, and the city gates in the other three directions were also busy with the same thing, the hunters all came to the north city wall that was facing the impact of the beast tide, and the pressure was the greatest, and the hunters were supplemented here as a temporary new force, but the hunters were not assigned tasks like the army, so before the beast rushed to the city wall, except for hunters who used long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, everyone could only watch.
"Open the city gate, the cavalry troops will go out of the city to meet the battle!" The city lord's order was issued in an orderly manner, the heavy city gate opened in a rumbling sound, and a cavalry force of hundreds of people assembled outside the city, at this time, the fierce beast tide was less than a kilometer away from Star Soul Town.
The dreary waiting before the battle could easily crush the hearts of the warriors, so the fierce war drums sounded, and the archers and crossbowmen silently calculated the distance between the beast tide and Star Soul Town, and one hand reached behind their backs to take out the feather arrow and put it on the bowstring.
500 meters, 300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters. ”
"Ballista trebuchet, fire!" The loud sound of the trebuchet and the sound of the ballista opened the curtain of the defensive battle of the Star Soul Beast Tide, and the huge stones were thrown into the sky by the trebuchet, and then smashed into the beast herd, these two weapons to defend the city burst out with terrible combat power in the face of the beast tide, and the lower beasts could not resist the huge crossbow arrows fired by the ballistas, and even the upper fierce beasts could not survive under the boulders that fell from the sky, and after only one round of salvos, the front line of the fierce beast tide was already broken.
"Cavalry, charge!" Seizing the fragmentation of the front line of the fierce beast tide, the cavalry team began to speed up and rushed away against the fierce beast tide.
However, the tide of fierce beasts originally did not have any formation to speak of, the fierce beasts in front died, and the fierce beasts behind would quickly fill the vacancy, although the power of the trebuchet and ballista just now was great, but for the almost endless herd of beasts, the damage caused was really limited.
Another salvo of trebuchets and ballistas fell in the tide of beasts, provoking screams and screams, and the cavalrymen collided with the beasts that rushed to the front, or stabbed the beasts in the chest with their spears, or fell to their horses with their claws and fangs torn off their throats, it was a war between humans and beasts, and neither side could surrender......