For a country, peace is like fine wine, sweet and intoxicating. But wine wears down people's wills and destroys their bodies—and so is peace, in which countless nations perished before empires. Therefore, the sages of the empire made such a rule, using the fiercest enemies and the fiercest wind and snow to sharpen the blade of the empire.

The climate of the Central Mountains is harsh and sparse, and the only 'trophies' of humanity are the orcs themselves...... Great strength and tenacious physique are certainly a disaster when plundering, but in another direction, they can also be used in the work of creating zào wealth - for the new empire that has acquired the land to the west of the empire, bordering the central mountain range, the number of orcs in the annual expedition is at least about 20,000, and the more than 10,000 orc slaves here are nothing new.

However, generally speaking, this number of orcs will not be gathered together, even in a slave farm such as a mine, the number of orc slaves used is often not more than a thousand, because the individual number of orcs is too strong, if there is a real riot, it will be difficult to suppress, a thousand orcs with bare hands, it is not difficult to destroy the same number of human private soldiers, it is just a matter of time.

But in fact, this is nothing more than cowardice.

Nicole rode on a tame peonous horse and paced up a small hill, looking at the gray that was moving forward in a haphazard manner, trying to discern the orc race...... Eventually, though, she gave up, letting her gaze fall on the towering cyan castle at the end of her sight—a gloomy silence that contrasted with the messiness of her own.

The slow torrent eventually came to a halt where several knights rode their horses. They raised their heads in horror and stared three or four miles away. The blue-brown wall, which seemed to absorb light in the morning light, faced a miracle that almost surpassed human creation. Even their numb souls could feel extreme shock, and they questioned each other, shouted, whispered, and prayed to their ancestors, and to the beast god Guush, but nothing could drive away the towering walls. As if to crush them to pieces of deterrence.

"They...... Can it really work?" Nicole whispered.

In fact, she wanted to know how many of these orcs would make it back alive.

As a knight, she has seen a lot of death...... Enemies, comrades-in-arms, civilians...... Some of them were caused by herself, and she knew that it was impossible to describe herself as 'innocent' for a long time, but that didn't mean that she would look at the lives of more than 10,000 people in cold blood.

Most of them. Will she die soon, right? And all she could do was watch, whether indifferent or unbearable—she suddenly hated herself. I hated the armor on my body, the status of a knight, and this qiē......

"Don't overthink it. They die so that the people of the empire can live. And their souls ...... will be saved by God. Sukhoi reached out and patted the female knight on the shoulder. Said softly.

But the belief of the orcs is that of the beast god Geush, and their souls after death, if they cannot return to the gods, will reincarnate as newborn orcs...... And what awaits them is either to be born in the central mountains, to grow up in barren misery, and finally, to die in that misery, or in the expedition of man.

The trumpet sounded.

In a desolate and long voice, hundreds of rangers began to gallop, using their spears and swords in their hands, compressing and concentrating the orc ranks, causing bursts of howls, and they slowly retreated in desperation, maintaining the rear of the group...... The orcs gathered at the front of the group were relatively strong adult males, while the females and smaller ones were deliberately left behind—the last bit of 'favor' Sukhoi could give them, and they still had a little hope that they would escape in the event of a successful siege or a defeat that was too great.

But the chances of that are also very slim.

And at this time, the three archmages finally stepped out of their vehicles and flew into the air.

"Get excited, you brutes ......"

Archmage Gaia's voice was still like thunder in the sky, only this time some cruel pleasure permeated it, and in the midst of this laughter, he raised his hand and held a bottle high. So, a red torrent gushed out of the bottle!

The bottle is not small, about a foot high, and it is a crystal vessel used to boil potions in the magic room, but at this time, the liquid spewed out from the mouth of the bottle, which was only the size of a wine glass, was unimaginable!

However, the column of water did not spread, but rolled in the air, turning into a blood-red dark cloud, which almost instantly completely covered the sky above the orcs.

Red rain fell immediately.

The moment the delicate rain mist poured over the orcs, it caused a commotion...... The blood-colored raindrops carried some kind of indescribable fishy smell, thicker than blood, thick but not dispersed, and for the orcs with a keen sense of smell, it was a new torture.

Roars erupted.

No, not a roar, but a howl, similar to the howl of a wolf in the wilderness, except that the poignancy and wildness of that sound are indescribable......

A furious wildness filled it, and with a single sound, it seemed to mix all the ferocity and wildness of a pack of wolf howls, and the sound was one after another, ten on top of ten, and began to reverberate! The wilderness around the city was filled with the sound in an instant.

When the sound sounded, the horses began to leap violently, but after only a few jumps, they all fell to their knees, and many of the unprepared knights fell straight down......!

Nicole jumped off the limp horse, but she couldn't care about it anymore...... She stared blankly at the changing horde of orcs in front of her. I felt a chill rushing from my feet to my forehead.

Orcs, changing.

Howling. They arched their bodies, but instead they grew taller—every muscle in their bodies was expanding. The swollen muscles pulled apart their fur, revealing the dark red tendons beneath them, the claws stretched out more than half a foot from the ends of his limbs, and the pale pieces of bone poked out of their skin from their waist ribs, from their flanks, from wherever they could or couldn't, forming an armor-like wrap outside their bodies! The fangs protruded from the gums, like a pale dagger.

The process was so fast, and in just a few breaths, they had become more than eight feet tall, and there was not a hint of humanoid features on the outside, but they were also not beasts of any kind...... Only the word 'monster' can be described.

What did they do?

"All right, my sweet little ones, now. Your bait is behind that wall...... Go ahead. ”

Archmage Gaia's whispering was not loud, but the howl of the beast stopped at this moment. Fear oppresses the hearts of every human being, making them unable to speak, so. In the empty space, only his voice remained: "Go and let them see it well." Magical ......"

Rumble!

All human beings trembled at this moment. A thunderous roar exploded overhead. Let them subconsciously give up listening to the words of the archmage and raise their heads.

In the line of sight, there was a red light that flashed away.

As if I saw it, a white fog rose over the city, as if I saw, there were black and red shadows in the white fog, through the fog, expanding in the field of vision. As if I saw ......

No, nothing can be seen!

At that moment, a qiē in the world seemed to suddenly become slow, and an indescribable force pulled the torrent of time, and it also took away the sound of a qiē around it. Packing a qiē into a delicate crystal box, Nicole's eyes widened in dazedness as she saw that clumps of fire were exploding and expanding, and the middle of her vision erupted into bright fire, and black earth that had been pushed away, and with the expanding ashes, something spread.

It's death.

Humans' bodies were soaring, they leaping into the sky in an eerie manner, and then twisting like that, causing limbs or heads to split from them, and strings of plasma erupted outward, flying away with the shattered pieces of flesh!

His neck was so stiff that even if he turned hard, he couldn't move a single bit, and he could only watch as everything around him was shattering—the human body, the horses, and the wood on the trebuchet that was ready to be used for siege...... The force shattered the tough oak, tossing the scattered fibers in all directions. A human body spun and rushed past her line of sight, and the scattered fragments of plasma and internal organs instantly dyed half of the sky bright red!

Then the knightess finally saw the true colors of those powers.

It was in the dark red, fist-sized balls, swarthy flying diagonally from the sky, and wherever it passed, no matter what the fate was, it was as if it were different.

What's that?

Nicole found herself ignoring a qiē scream...... But she couldn't hear anything, the only thing she could feel was fear, and the incomparable fear was like a giant beast, enveloping her whole body tightly and devouring it...... She wanted to escape, she wanted to jump, she even wanted to climb, but her stiff body seemed to no longer belong to her. Even breathing is powerless.

Darkness came before her eyes, dust rising from the ground? she didn't know it, the sky was spinning, she couldn't hear anything, she couldn't see anything, she could only feel ...... Until a force tugged at her waist and made her flutter and fly.

It turns out that this is what it feels like to die?

It seems that it is not as bad as imagined...... But I just died? God...... No, I'm only seventeen years old, and I want to be with Sukhoi, I want a simple and happy wedding, I want a few children......

Sue......

Just made such a sound, and the throat felt like it was on fire......

However, a cool liquid was sent to her mouth at this time, dispelling the burning pain and pulling her back from the chaos.

"Hmm......" she opened her eyes weakly. I just felt that all the qiē was spinning, and my ears were buzzing. Nothing can be heard...... Until the qiē in front of him finally condensed into a familiar face. Sukhoi wrapped her head in the crook of her arm, holding a silver jug in one hand. "Are you alright?" he asked. The sound was as unreal as it came from afar, but it was enough to wake Nicole up.

"We ...... What's wrong?" she struggled, but then the sound was drowned out by a loud tremor that seemed to inject some vitality into her, allowing her to struggle to support herself.

Although he did not want to leave the crook of the arm, the danger of the moment had clearly deprived anyone of his right to be willful—the wind mixed with the indescribable smell at the end of his nose, with the pungent and thick blood, and the rumbling explosions. But it made all the qiē blurry - when she turned her head to look around, she finally saw the imperial army again......

But it was a defeated formation, a ...... of blood and fire Hell.

A mile away, it seemed to be the same hill where it once stood...... But it was no longer clear that there was a continuous roar, and black smoke and dust rose from the ground in the rumbling explosion, enveloping everything in the dust and flying stones that rained down...... And in the dust, there are soldiers of the Empire who are running and shouting for death. Knights and mages.

Loose horses scurried through the ranks, mercilessly trampling on wounded soldiers to the ground. The neighing of war horses, the roar of warriors, the striking of metal. The sound of tearing flesh, all kinds of sounds suddenly intertwined...... And then every pop that explodes in it represents some death.

With those smoke and fire. A storm of power swelled and swept across the earth. The corpses of people mixed with the dirt were constantly lifted, torn apart and falling. There's something. As the rising black flame emitted outward, brutally decomposing the flesh, the body that was still full of life just now was soon covered with huge blood holes, and no one remembered to attack, or even forgot to escape!

The flash of fire lit up Nicole's eyes, and she saw the huge wave of qi push a mage from the ground into the sky...... Then he flew a little more than half a mile away, and fell to the ground not far in front of Nicole's eyes, tumbling and tumbling, leaving a trail of blood and scattered all his internal organs—all that was left of his body was half above his waist, as if he had been cut in half by a sharp blade.

The blood flowed on the ground, and before it could be sucked in by the dirt, it was churned into blood-colored mud by the hooves of horses and human footsteps, and the blood and internal organs were so horrific that she could only look up and look for the cause of the explosion.

She quickly found ...... The muffled sounds that seemed to be far away from the sky came from the walls of the high city, and had already flooded out of the blue sky in the early morning, and in each sound, a black dot dragging a white smoke track would cut through the air and fall outwards with a whistling sound, so fast that even the vision of the Scarlet Knight could not keep up, but after repeating the observation a few times, Nicole had already discovered that that thing was the reason for the constant explosions on the ground, and each of its explosions. will bring a bloody rain -

So when we approached the wall within three miles, we were already within the range of the Tumenes?

Nicole finally struggled to her feet, her somewhat dizzy mind regained consciousness, and she looked around to see the figures of the Scarlet Knights gathering around her in a bonfire, and also to the warlocks and mages who were withering the white phoenix as they walked out of the white door.

"If it's better, it's time for us to go. She heard Sukhoi say this.

Yes, the rout must be brought in.

This siege battle had been a complete failure, and in the face of such a massacre, it was impossible for the soldiers to launch any decent attack, and they could only rush backwards like a tide...... They were guided by a few people who were not frightened and stupid to run to the front, no longer caring about any formation, no longer caring about any orders, only running towards the camp in the rear, their already dizzy minds no longer remember anything, only that it was their own brigade, and they could live if they fled there!

This run they lost all the qiē, flags, armor, weapons...... Even though the nobles were riding their horses and shouting, ordering their knights to gallop back and urge the soldiers not to cause too much confusion. But efforts are of no avail at all, and in the face of naked death, no noble, no order, no glory is as precious as one's own life......

Moreover, those explosions were as agile as if they had been manipulated, and whenever some nobleman or knight began to suppress the ranks, a column of smoke would rise in their midst! Rows and rows of soldiers were blasted open by unknown forces, tearing open their bodies, tearing off their arms, legs, and feet. Blood flowed, mutilated corpses and screams everywhere.

Four miles, no, five miles, no......

The limits in my heart have been overturned again and again...... Nicole couldn't help but hold her breath as she saw the explosions stretching towards her side, farther and farther away!

No sooner had her mind turned, than she heard a very sharp hiss! A cone-like thing suddenly fell from the sky, slamming into the ground not far in front of her, making her gaze tighten! (To be continued......