"Be vigilant, but don't be overly nervous, you'll have a lot of days like this in the future."

The general, named Salaro, said to a soldier who appeared to be a recruit, patted him on the shoulder, and shook his hand to tell him not to be overly nervous.

Arka silently followed him.

To be honest, the general named Salaro in front of him was not so much like defending against the attack of demons, but like he was hanging out.

Not nervous, but a little relaxed.

Below, Arka looked at the demons beneath the walls.

Most of the demon skins were dark red as before, but this time there were many different types of these demons.

But you'd be hard-pressed to see any discipline in the ranks of demons, skinny imps, and strong power demons.

All sorts of medium demons, inferior demons, all over the place.

There will even be a stampede between each other, like a swarm of bees rushing towards the city walls.

Some small demons who didn't have time to dodge and ran slower were trampled to death by their own demons directly in such a charge.

Died extremely aggrieved.

"Put!"

There was a roar overhead.

Large and small projectiles flew out of the barrel, and each shell was the size of a head.

The shells flew into the air above the demonic formation with a scream, and then exploded. Dense finger-sized things fell.

An explosion followed.

The explosion of these small projectiles was much greater than Arka had thought, and the flames from the explosion were golden.

Arka had already felt that there was the power of the Holy Light in it, and if you felt it carefully, it was the power of the Holy Mother.

Apparently it contains a material of holy light from the Church of Our Lady, or an ingredient of holy water.

"These demons we see now can be regarded as cannon fodder in the demons." Salaro stood in one of the walls and spoke to Arka next to him.

Arka looked at the demons below, and he even saw the four stages of the establishment and even the sporadic five stages among these demons.

"Can these also be considered cannon fodder?" Arka asked, somewhat incomprehensible.

As he spoke, the powerful demons had begun to throw all sorts of long-range attacks.

These ranged attacks are fireballs of lava wrapped in flames.

Then the fireballs were blocked, and they seemed a little painless.

"Of course, they can be counted as cannon fodder. Although I sometimes don't want to admit it, for us, these strong people in the fourth and fifth stages are really nothing to those demons.

The number of these demons will be far greater than you can imagine. Only when there is a strong enough leader, these powerful demons will slightly follow a certain rules and attack them.

Usually, like a madman, you don't have to worry too much. That's why we've been able to keep it until now, and of course there's a treasure. ”

Salaro smiled. An ice blade condensed in his hand and threw it down.

The ability used is not a treasure, but a spell, which Arka can still see.

"You know, most demons fight by instinctive spells and the power of the flesh.

Their fighting skills are extremely good, but in general you will find that they are fighting using their instincts.

Treasures can give us abilities that are far superior to those of the same rank. Of course, at least it has to be a treasure that is conducive to frontal combat. ”

Salaro explained to Arka on the side, not asking if Arka knew, he kept telling according to his own logic and thoughts.

This situation Arka did not interrupt at all, nodding from time to time on the side, and watching the battle below.

As he said, the treasure gave them a strong fighting power of the same level. As long as the function of the treasure can be biased towards combat to a certain extent, in the case of the same level, they are almost stronger than the demons of the same level.

As they master more and more treasures, they will become stronger and stronger, and even leapfrogging battles is no longer a difficult task for them.

After all, there is such a thing as treasures, and only they have this world, after all, the development experience of their world cannot be replicated.

This can be seen in Arka and them, and the demons of the same level are completely weak when dealing with Arka and them.

With the blessing and cooperation of all kinds of treasures, the strength of Arka has long been out of the strength they should have at this stage.

While thinking about it, he walked on the city wall.

The wall that Arka walked on, which was connected from a distance, was actually the second layer of the fortress area.

The first level of the wall was slightly lower than the one they were currently on, about two meters lower.

Below them in the Arka.

There are a lot of city defenses, such as liquids like the Dump Below, which can deal a lot of damage to demons, and some soldiers who specialize in melee combat.

And there are traps and the like hidden on this kind of document.

And their level is the main battle area, all kinds of soldiers who can use long-range attacks, and some personnel who don't look like soldiers are on this level.

And on the back of Alka, the wall above his head is about three or four meters higher than the second layer, and the third layer is about three or four meters high.

This level houses a large number of ranged defense equipment, and some are located on top of higher towers.

Layers on top of each other form a defensive ring.

With the attack, some powerful demons spread their wings and jumped directly to the first layer with the power. Obviously, that shield is capable of defending against ranged attacks, but not against the demonic advances.

Arka even found that the entire fortress had no upper door to the outside at all, and was full of thick walls.

From the very beginning of its construction, the fortress was never intended to leave the area.

The demonic strength that can jump up is all in the fourth to fifth stages.

The moment they jumped up, Arka saw some characters such as captains or mercenaries with treasures in their hands, and rushed straight up.

The brilliance of the treasure shone from their bodies.

Most of them are dressed as witches, and they are dressed in light armor that is capable and easy to move.

Arka didn't even see their ability to use their treasures, and in the face of the demons that rushed up, he slashed them in a few turns, as if these demons were weak.

Suddenly, a demon figure was extremely fast, obviously with a certain spatial shuttle ability.

There is no restriction on space travel here, and now it is so serious within the city walls.

He ventured out of space under such circumstances, and then slammed into the back of a soldier, his claws plunging straight down.

As he was about to take out the soldier, a white-blue ice card appeared next to Alka.

Freeze the demon in place for a moment, then control the flow of water to turn into various spikes, freeze it into ice, and pierce the demon in place.

Only then did the soldier react, turned around and thanked him repeatedly.

Salaro seemed to be about to say something, but then the sound of a horn was heard. Salaro's originally relaxed face immediately became serious, and he turned directly to Arka and said, "Come with me, the situation has become serious, this is not an ordinary siege. ”

Arka also noticed that something was wrong around him, and many soldiers who could clearly be seen as veterans immediately began to organize into various well-guarded teams, firmly guarding their respective areas.

Only a few recruits became nervous in the face of such a situation.

Some of the soldiers who had been standing next to them before immediately took out the very long longbows that had been carried behind their backs.

At this time, behind the hillside in front of him, a huge figure walked out.

What a tall demon this is, reaching a size of about 15 meters, and its huge body is like a titan.

What's even more bizarre is their construction.

Completely inhuman, with hands and legs like hammers, and a tough carapace on the body.

Every step is like an earthquake.

Then more such demons appeared, and there was more than one monster of this size.

Salaro next to him had a more serious expression.

"It doesn't seem to be so good this time." As he spoke, a slender banner appeared in his hand.

The banner depicts a tall tower with three stars on top of it.

This pattern Arka has seen, which is the former flag of the Salalan Empire.

With the appearance of this flag, a different atmosphere has clearly emerged around it.

Salaro raised the flag, and the banner radiated its brilliance, as if the aura of some kind of buff state began to pass. The area was so wide that it seemed to envelop the entire fortress in an instant.

Arka was standing next to the flag, and he could feel as if his mood had changed, stronger, and more courageous.

The body is strengthened in all directions, although not much, but for ordinary or weaker people, the strengthening is very obvious.

The cannon overhead shook again, and the next shell was fired. This time, he threw it straight at the tall demons, trying to kill them.

Once such a huge monster is allowed to approach the city walls, it is obviously not a good thing.

With the sound of explosions, more demons began to break through ranged attacks. Using flying and jumping with various powers, you can reach the first layer of the city wall and start fighting.

Arka controls the various elemental cards and is already providing long-range support.

Begin to set fire to the demons that appear to be powerful and are causing widespread casualties.

And those huge hammer demons were more resistant to blows than he thought, and under the concentrated fire of the artillery, only one demon seemed to be damaged, took a few steps back, stayed for a while, and then continued to act.

Seeing this, Arka immediately began to take control of his elemental cards.

Fierce winds blew across the battlefield, and countless gusts began to sweep through.

Then a whirlwind began to spiral in the demon field below, and many demons were directly sucked in.

But apparently it was only the damage of the whirlwind, and the lethality of these demons was not very strong, but it could only slow them down slightly.

A stream of water entered the whirlwind out of nowhere, causing the whirlwind to mix with water droplets, and those currents combined in the whirlwind to form a blade-like shape.

An icy chill poured in, and immediately the water blade turned into an ice blade. This is the combination of the three elements that Arka said he used when he first got the Elemental Platoon.

These ice blades were immediately transformed into a powerful whirlwind of cutting under the blessing of the whirlwind, and began to cut wildly.

Everywhere they passed, all the demons turned into a mist of blood the moment they were almost sucked in. The whole whirlwind turned from blue to blood-red whirlwind.

But the blood of these demons is actually piping hot, and in this case, Arka has to spend more mana to cool down the whirlwind. Let the blood inside cool down, at least without affecting the toughness of the blades inside.

The consumption of power made him immediately control the whirlwind movement and sweep away towards the main target first.

It began to sweep towards those tall demons, these demons Arka had just observed that they were very insensitive, and even heavier.

Most of the ranged attacks were barely blocked, but some of their demons were helping to shoot them down.

In the face of the fast-winding hurricane, they could hardly leave, and the helpers of those demons had to flee in the face of the hurricane that was getting closer and closer.

Then came the fierce wails, the wails that had even drowned out the sounds of the battlefield, and the demons were still loud and loud.

Everyone could see that the Iceblade Hurricane immediately cut the monster's arms and parts of its body into minced flesh until it was completely swept inside, at which point large chunks of flesh could be seen.

A large amount of scalpy blood was absorbed into the giant peak, and a large amount of sweat had begun to break out on Arka's forehead.

I didn't think that the demon's blood was too hot.

All sorts of forces, as well as attacks, began to come towards the whirlwind.

Those demons don't seem to be stupid, they have discovered the weakness of this ice blade hurricane, plus these demons themselves have some flame-based spells.

Arka immediately began to be a little unable to hold on, the three elements gathered together was already very mana-consuming, and he had maintained it for so long.

It is also necessary to use the cold elemental to freeze the hot blood, so as not to be too hot and destroy the whirlwind of the convergence of these three elements.

With the attack of power, the whirlwind began to dissipate.

By this time, one of the great demons had been churned into minced meat, and the other had almost half crippled to the ground.

Some skinny and inferior demons even began to eat away at the corpses of these giant demons.

Just as Arka matched his crouching body gasped, a silver-gray-purple blade of light almost covered the entire battlefield and flew out.

In an instant, he cut countless demons in half, flew all the way and even hacked three huge demons to death.

The sudden and huge attack surprised Arka a little, but many of the soldiers around him and Salaro next to him seemed to be used to it.

Arka looked in the direction from which the attack had come from, and it was Grefal standing at the top of the wall. At some point, he held a giant blade in his hand that was taller than the others.

The greatsword resembles a door panel, but the blades on either side of the greatsword are somewhat jagged rather than bladed.

Arka blinked, he finally fully understood Grefal's strength at this time, this is a powerhouse whose strength has reached the eighth stage.

And the weapon he was holding in his hand was a treasure that glowed orange in Alka's eyes.

A scepter-level weapon.

Speaking of the greatsword and slashing it again, Arka realized that the power of the blade was combined with the huge ball of light at the top of the Demon Hunter Fortress.

Apparently the treasure was giving him a bonus.

The blades of light that flew out turned grayish-purple.

And this time, when the light wheel flew halfway, it was suddenly eaten by something unknown.

Looking at the huge insect-like mouth that appeared, Arka had a familiar feeling.

A demon the size of a normal person appeared in mid-air, and Arka looked at it from a distance.

Devouring Mouth.

He had blood-colored skin and was dressed in luxurious clothes like an ancient nobleman, but behind his back was a pair of huge bat wings, and the fascia full of blood vessels spread on it.

Above his head were a pair of slender, not as wild as the demons.

This is his prototype, it really doesn't look like a demon, but like a devil in some works.

And the moment he appeared, he looked at Arka with a dangerous glint in his eyes, but he didn't attack Arka directly.

Obviously, he is not necessarily much better than Grefal.

Arka also clearly saw his strength at this time.

The demon's strength was at the eighth stage, and in his opinion, it was about the same as Grayfal's.

"Devouring Mouth? Do you use this as a stage for your show? Are you going to have to put on a show of your clown play on this? ”

It's obviously a yin and yang weird joke, but when it comes out of the mouth of the more serious Grefal, it seems to be serious.

As if asking, as if the Devouring Mouth would really do that.

It makes this taunt even more weird, more hurtful than the yin and yang weird accent.

Hearing this taunt, Arka could clearly see something wrong with the Devouring Mouth's expression. His expression management was about to fail.

The Devouring Mouth glanced at Arka again, his eyes full of anger and desire to kill.

"I'm not here to talk to a lost dog like you, just stay in this kennel." After a sarcastic remark, the Devouring Mouth floated in the air and looked at Arka.

"And you, Alka. You've finally come here, I've been waiting for you for a long time. I miss you all the time.

Live here in fear, and I'll slowly push you into a corner, pulling out your soul. ”

As he spoke, the Devouring Mouth didn't even bother to listen to Arka's answer, and the figure disappeared directly in place.

Instead, Salaro, who was next to him, gave a thumbs up to Alka.

He also knew the origins of Arka and the Devouring Mouth.

"I've seen that performance in my dreams, too, and it's been so many years since that Devouring Mouth hasn't ever disgusted anyone in this place with his head held high."

Apparently everyone would laugh at him about it.

And such ridicule will only deepen the hatred of the Devouring Mouth towards Arka.

He couldn't admit it, because the nightmare put that fact into everyone's minds, making it seem like everyone was there.

Such dreams spread over such a wide area.

But Arka didn't care, he couldn't let this demonic force continue. After all, it is a hostile force, either you die or I die.

With the disappearance of the Devouring Mouth, the number of demons has begun to decrease, and some demons seem to have discovered the problem and slipped out of the battlefield.

Those who had not yet come to the battlefield, the marching giant demons also began to return.

Not all demons are all brains and are only interested in fighting and killing.

Soon the remaining demons were cleaned up.

Obviously, this attack is not really about attacking the city, but simply attacking to allow the Devouring Mouth to appear and give Arka a dismount.

Declare it in front of many people, so that Arka's death can wash away the shame on him.

At some point, Grefal came to his side.

"Do you want to stay here? Stay here, and I can guarantee that you won't be harmed in any way by that cunning demon. ”

Hearing this, Arka shook his head: "No, I will come here naturally because I am ready."

I just need to know that he can't do whatever he wants here, and of course, I'd love to know if I have more information about him. ”

Hearing this, Grefal nodded with a serious expression.

"Of course he can't do whatever he wants here, I'll let Salaro talk to you about it for more than that."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Salaro, and the meaning was self-evident.

And Sararo next to him immediately straightened his posture and saluted: "Please leave it to me, Grand Judge." ”

Grefal nodded and turned to leave.

"Come on, friend, let's go inside and talk." Salo said, gesturing to a nearby tower.

They happened to be at the doorway of the tower.

Arka nodded and followed him inside.

(End of chapter)