Chapter 5: The White Dragon
The smoke filled the air, and the incendiary grenades thrown by the droppers created craters on the ground, and the monsters that were hit by the Molotov cocktails continued to rush towards the black wall with a terrible roar of blazing flames. Some fell into the trenches dug and poked into sharp stakes and could not move, while others stepped on the corpses of their comrades and continued to rush forward.
This is the westernmost point of Turanda, a tall black wall that stretches for more than a hundred miles and is constantly expanding. The bricks of the Black Wall were developed by the Royal Research Institute by imitating the special ore that originally blocked the gap between Turanda and Bran, and had a targeted destructive effect on Bran's creatures, and was a strong line of defense to protect Turanda from the attacks of Bran's army.
The assault had been going on for a day and a half since the day before yesterday, and because gravity was still in an abnormal state in most of the border buffer zone, the Bran army had to pass through this not-so-wide corridor in order to invade Turanda. Ever since the Dragon King was sealed into the pillar by the Bright King's Heroic Spirit, a large number of Bran armies have been assembled here.
The crossbowmen at the head of the wall were busy filling with arrows, preparing for the next round of launches, and their target was a dark red hemispherical insect monster mixed with parasitic monsters, which were about a foot in diameter and had a smooth and thornless appearance, but once they rushed to the edge of the black wall, they would detonate themselves and cause damage to the wall, which was called a bomb bug by the soldiers defending the city.
After suffering two losses, the fanged knight Rhoda Guzmant, who was in charge of guarding the place, arranged for the centaurs to attack these troublesome new monsters. Crossbowmen specialize in targeting such bombworms, nailing them to the ground with specially made blessed arrows and purifying them from within. Once the purification is complete, the bugs turn into gray cavities that quickly turn into dust in the wind.
After this wave of monsters charged, a large, flat six-legged insect monster rushed through the divided swarm, it was twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide, with thin brittle wings under its rocky hard shell, and now it vibrated at high speed and made a piercing grinding sound, stepping on the bug-filled trench in front of it and rushing towards this wall.
"Attention! There are bomb bugs down there! The number is unknown, no less than eight. The lookout soldier shouted, and he found that the flat monster was hiding dark red bomb bugs under its body. A new round of powerful crossbows aimed at the approaching flatworm at high speed and fired at it, and the six-foot-long giant crossbow bolt went straight into the monster's back, but only one of them pierced, and the others were bounced away by the special shock.
The flat beetle's long arrow-pierced body emitted a sticky black fluid, and it continued to move forward unconcernedly, allowing the arrow body to pull its body open with a huge opening. A foot covered with bristles was torn off, and the blood of the insects in the large pool was sprinkled in the place where it passed. With one less claw, the thing slowed down slightly, but still managed to rush towards the black wall as fast as it could.
With a roar, Rhoda raised his axe, stepped onto the wall, jumped down and charged at the monster on the other side. It takes time for the bolt to be installed, and before the next round of fire, the thing will rush to the city with bombworms. If there were eight, no, even if only four of them exploded at the same time, this section of the wall would be blown open by a gap of more than ten feet, and then the ordinary devourers who were stopped by the wall behind it, as well as the Bran human army behind the bugs, would swarm in.
Behind the black wall, the Turanda army was ready for battle in case the wall was blown up. A column of praying priests in blue and white robes is casting a blessing of light on the neatly arranged soldiers, protecting their armor and weapons, and increasing their damage to the Bran parasite.
Dressed in military uniform, with a long sword hanging from his waist, Ruidan was holding a priest's staff in his hand. He had just received a notice from Donseldeburg that Kenda and Martin were already on their way. In other words, as long as you hold on for another half an hour, a new force will join the battle. Receiving the good news, he returned from his bunker to the wall, directing the red-and-white robes of the law enforcement officers to prepare for the attack.
Roda jumped off the city wall, and directly transformed into a huge black boar in the run, covered with red copper heavy armor, and at this moment he stuck the giant axe on his shoulder, as if a rumbling chariot rushed towards the flat beetle.
A heavy thud erupted between two behemoths of comparable size, and the flat beetle, though massive, was clearly at a disadvantage in the wrestling, and the heavy axe blade was deeply embedded in the monster's head with the boar's brute force. Because of the forward momentum, the beetle's body turned over, belly up, revealing a dozen explosive insects covered by it.
Seeing the opportunity, Ruidan immediately ordered all the law enforcement priests to strike all the red insects with the holy light lightning that had just chanted haode. Dozens of silver-white electric lights cut through the smoke from mid-air, and the smoke was concentrated on the bomb insects that began to flee in all directions.
The explosion tore apart the flat beetle that had been used as a cover, but Roda was at the center of the blast unharmed, the golden shield of Ruidan's chant wrapped around him, shielding him from most of the damage from the explosion.
Before the dust settled, Rhoda turned from the form of a wild boar back to the form of a human, wielding a giant axe and smashing the only one or two bomb worms that had slipped through the net not far away. The non-sharp blunt mouth of the giant axe crushed the bombworm's back, and the crisp crunch accompanied by the pungent smell of sulfur suddenly spread, and the bombworm was slammed into a puddle of slime mixed with debris on the ground.
The cheers of victory had barely risen when they were interrupted by a distant explosion, and red flames flashed three miles away. The monsters in front of him faded like a tide, and they all rushed to the gap on the left that had been blown open. Rhoda stomped his foot in annoyance, reverted to the form of a wild boar, turned around and rushed in that direction. Ruidan ordered his men to prepare the defense here, and hurriedly mounted his horse and hurried along the black wall to the gap.
This narrow gap in the border buffer zone, where gravity is relatively stable in three places, has become the main target of the Brans' attack. In the past, there were three totem knights Martin, Kenda, and Roda guarding it, and even in the face of the monster's sprint, they could barely resist.
This time, however, as if aware of Kenda's and Martin's absence, the monster's attack was denser and more durable than any before, and it took turns at three points, leaving Ruidan and Rhoda exhausted.
The army quickly formed an encirclement and formed a battle formation in the gap. The Thrower and the Priests also aimed at the gap with all their might, but none of them could stop the monsters that poured in like a tidal wave. These Bran's insect-like creatures, not afraid of life and death, and without pain, swarmed up layer upon layer, and soon their corpses had accumulated higher than a black wall of more than twenty feet.
More and more soldiers were injured and fell to the ground under the attack of the insect monsters, and although with the blessing of the priest, they would not be turned into unconscious crystal demons, but the insect venom would paralyze their nerves and make them incapacitated. But no matter how big the sacrifice, they had to rush forward to buy time for the engineer regiment and the warlock regiment behind.
About fifty feet behind the warband, the sappers quickly erected a second black wall, using a semicircular arc patch to compensate for the broken line. The self-growing barrier developed by the Royal Academy was quickly moved to the new line of defense, and when inserted into the ground, the umbrella-like devices of metal and cloth opened, connecting and jamming each other, forming a thin black curtain.
Warlocks invoke earth magic, and behind these tents they quickly piled up tall walls of earth to form a temporary line of defense. Although there is only one side of the black substance that the Bran monster is afraid of, it can also have a temporary defensive effect.
But just as the new line of defense was about to close, a half-man-high bulge under the ground rushed towards the gap. The thing went straight through the gap that hadn't been closed yet, and then flipped out of the dirt.
It was a large, purple centipede-type parasitic monster, with three pairs of glowing red compound eyes under each pair of pitch-black armpits. After rushing out of the ground, he immediately rolled his body and pressed against the warlocks and sappers around him, and the soldiers who were caught off guard were crushed by the monster, and those who ran fast were also scraped by sharp feet, and they immediately fell to the ground, and began to crystallize from the wound. If left untreated, these people will be transformed into zombie-like crystal demons in less than a day.
Ruidan quickly chanted a temple of light on his horse, and at the same time burned five purification scrolls, cleaning the fifty-foot area centered on the centipede. A huge golden circle emerged at the monster's feet, wisps of black smoke rising from the centipede's back. One by one, the blue-white rings were placed on the centipede's body, and then began to spin, glowing with golden spells. After a few moments, the centipede was crushed into six sections.
The purified centipede corpse withered and cracked, collapsing like burning ashes. The crystals on the contaminated soldiers also began to fall off, returning to their normal bleeding wounds.
Everywhere Rhoda rushed around like a meat grinder in the monster horde, the monsters turned into stump fragments, and the few fish that slipped through the net were also killed by the warriors and law enforcement officers next to them, and seeing that the battle was regained control, everyone raised their hopes of victory.
At that moment, however, a second explosion rang out. Ruidan looked around in a panic and realized that on his right-hand side, a raging fire had ignited in the place where he had been stationed. Just when he was doing his best to save the battle here, the stronghold just now was lost.
A huge sense of frustration hit everyone, and everyone looked in that direction at a loss, wondering whether to continue to rush to the rescue.
At this moment, above the clouds, a white figure appeared, and its huge wings waved, dispelling the smoke shrouded in the sky, revealing the blue sky. Against the backdrop of the blue sky, the majestic posture of the starlight dragon can be seen at a glance.
The white dragon erupted in flames, burning the Bran monsters west of the Black Wall to ashes in an instant. It let out a long dragon groan, and the humans and horses involuntarily fell to the ground with their legs and feet. As its unrivaled strength was revealed, Bran's monsters retreated as quickly as the tide receded, leaving only countless corpses on the battlefield.
Ruidan watched with delight as the dragon flew in his direction after driving away the monster legions. He jumped off his horse, waved his arms happily, and shouted at the figure standing on top of the giant dragon's head: "Big brother, you're here, it's great! If it's too late, we'll lose this battle." ”
The dragon got closer and closer, and as the figure flew over Ruidan's head, it leapt down from the dragon, which was more than thirty feet above the ground, and landed heavily in front of Ruidaan, then stood up straight and lifted the hood on his head.
"Ruidan...... You haven't called me so affectionate before, big brother. Herre sneered, and watched with satisfaction as his cousin's face turned as pale as a dead man. There's something today.,It's late to update.,I'm sorry.,Originally, I said there would be a 10,000-word update tomorrow.,But I found that there really aren't any readers to read recently.,It's better to postpone...... Alas, there are so few people reading books in weishenme recently, it's so lonely~ I think about updates every day in the New Year, but not many people read it, so lonely. Rolling for comfort~5555****