On the night of the Evil Moon, Morserib slowly emerged from the dark clouds, and it was like the shadow of death, sprinkling the evil green light on the earth. The entire forest is covered with a dull shade of green. It seems eerie and peaceful.

And even more eerie is the endless howl in the dark forest. Obviously, the scale of the beastmen who invaded Blackhammer Keep this time was far larger than last year's when the evil moon fell.

However, compared to a year ago, Blackhammer Keep has grown considerably stronger, with concrete walls surrounding the town and heavily armed archers, crossbowmen, and musketeers. There are also hundreds of Norsca warriors who are sharpening their knives and waiting for their lives.

Kerosene, iron claw barbs, and rolling logs were ready, and the crossbow carriages were set above the castle, waiting for the enemy to come to the door.

In the town, although the people are still uneasy and afraid, it is reassuring that not a single civilian has fled when the evil moon comes. After seeing the strength of the Black Hammer Fortress's defenders and the hardness of its walls, all the populace chose to stay...... Of course, they actually have nowhere to go, there is a riot in Erlengrad, in the cold of winter, humans in the wild is equivalent to looking for death, if they do not evacuate in the fall, it means that they will not evacuate for the whole winter.

Looking at the city full of civilians, Rhodes felt the pressure on his shoulders increase again.

They must take responsibility for their lives, and, this year, there will be no reinforcements from Ring City and Heidelberg, who have already set out for Erlengrad to join the Ice Queen's forces.

"Check the ropes, kerosene drums, don't break them!"

Before the battle, Rhodes took Lawrence and Celta to inspect the city walls, and ordered the soldiers to check again, because every oversight and omission could affect the entire battle. A single breach can be fatal against a vast army of beasts, as humans are no match for these Chaos beasts alone.

"What are you doing?"

Patrolling the city walls, Rhodes met Lyanna, a priestess who was taking care of the children at the gates of Sarak's Abbey. She changed into civilian clothes, no longer the white robes she had seen before, and through the linen cloth, Rhodes could vaguely see that the priestess was about to have a dagger stuck in her waist, and it could be guessed that even the weak priestess was ready to fight the savage and bloodthirsty beastmen when the city was broken.

"Take care of the children, they are afraid, my lord. "I had to calm them down as much as I could, praying that Goddess Sarak would give them peace and dispel their fears." ”

The evening breeze blew across the priestess's face, blowing the broken hair between her forehead. To Rod's surprise, in such a dark moment, the priestess did not feel the slightest fear, and her face was as calm as water as usual. You can feel how strong she is in her beliefs.

In a dark world, faith is so important to human beings. Just like these people in front of them, those who have strong faith have only tenacity and courage in their eyes, and those who have no faith in the gods have only fear in their eyes......

"You can. The goddess Sarak and the bear god Ursun will bless us. ”

Rhodes said.

The night was thick, the darkness was coming, everyone was in their rooms, praying, and in the faint candlelight, there were emaciated and hungry faces.

Woo~~~~

Finally, half an hour later, the army of beastmen blew the horn of the first siege.

Unlike last year's Battle of the Evil Moon, this time, under the evil green moonlight, the army of beastmen rushed to the castle from all directions like mad dogs.

The beasts roared, the sky and the earth were dark, and under the distant sky, hundreds of beastmen rushed in the moonlight, like rolling green waves. Soar against the snow-white walls of the city.

In the cold wind, Rhodes stood above the city gate, his eyes full of dense beastmen. In the town, children were crying, and on the city walls, human soldiers clenched their bows and muskets.

"Steady, listen to my orders!"

Under the rolling green waves, Rhodes held back the anger in his heart and ordered the musketeers and crossbowmen around him to prepare to fire. The first wave of arrows and barrage is crucial and must be used to the maximum lethality. There are torches on the ground that are used to measure distances. However, the brainless beastmen did not understand the use of this thing, and they only charged, and at the call of the screaming shaman, they charged without a brain, and only one thought in their minds was to tear apart the weak, armoured humans on the walls.

The first heavy bolt flew out of the launch platform above the castle, whistling through the sky with flames and flying into the crowd of beastmen. Like a meteor crashing into a black ocean, it hits a running Beastman warrior, a dense wave of Beastmen that can be shot with little need to aim...... The hornless beast that had been shot by a heavy crossbow arrow fell on its back to the sky, and the crossbow arrow, which was more than a man long, pierced its body, pinning it firmly to the ground.

However, this is insignificant.

As the Beastman forces approached, the ground seemed to tremble. Rod's eyes were fixed on the ground, the second torch was trampled on, and soon, the position of the third torch was reached, which was the effective range of the crossbow arrow. However, at this moment, a creature much taller than the other beastmen appeared in sight, heavy and massive, approaching the walls at great speed.

Finally, when the giant beast entered the range of the ballista, Rhodes saw clearly, it was a cyclops! At this moment, Rhodes couldn't believe his eyes, in the vast land of the old world, there were indeed many monsters, but super units like cyclops were generally only found near the Ten Thousand Demon Rock, which was the core of the beastmen, and it was their place of faith and gathering. It's unbelievable that such a monster has appeared here. But that's how he appeared.

Before he had time to think about the reason, Rhodes gave the order to open fire in general.

"Aim for that giant!"

Rod hissed.

It was the only Beastman unit that had the potential to deal a devastating blow to the concrete walls. A rain of arrows shot out, swishing and gliding, and fell into the massive beastmen battle group.

Arrows in the dark. In an instant, more than two dozen hornless beasts, razormons, and chaos war mastiffs were shot through their bodies by the crossbow arrows of the human defenders. The body that was running wildly rolled to the ground the moment it was hit by the arrow, and fell to the side, either trampled by its kind behind it, or fell to the ground, leaving a pool of blood.

After a round of firing, the ground in the distance left sporadically low-level Beastmen who fell to the ground, while more Beastmen continued to charge under the rain of arrows.

The black-pressed herd approached the snow-covered human town.

However, just as Rhodes was about to give the order for the soldiers to fire a second round of all fires, countless terrible screams suddenly came from the dark sky!

These timid and bloodthirsty creatures will never attack opponents who are larger than them, unless they have an absolute numerical superiority. At this moment, Rhodes knew that what he was facing tonight would be an army of beastmen several times his size...... Yes, Chaos is on the rise, stronger every year......

Faced with the swarming army of beastmen, Rhodes raised the Thunder Tomahawk -

"Brethren of Blackhammer Castle, follow me and fight together!"

The White Bear Lord tore open his voice and roared loudly.