Sword of Dawn

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The ear-piercing scream sounded like the howling of a banshee at midnight, and the metal warhead wrapped in a light blue air mass drew bright arcs in the air, continuously bombarding the shield of Red Maple City, causing large swathes of Explosion flashes lit up continuously on the surface of the shield, like a storm of heavenly fire—the city's shield trembled violently in the impact of the explosion, and layers of ripples continued to spread from the attack point, but no matter what, the shield was still successful successfully withstood the first attack of the Cecilians.

It stood above the city, blocking all shelling, and a low hum echoed in the outer city. It was the sound of the underground magic facilities being fully activated.

On the city wall, a crystal cluster commander showed an expression as if he had survived a catastrophe. Looking at the shield that was bursting out with large flashes of light, he let out a long breath: "Block it!"

However, Heaton glared at the commander: "Idiot, the battle has just begun!"

The dark priest didn't relax at all because the red maple shield blocked the "sky fire" of the Cecils. On the contrary, he knew that the battle had just begun—he even knew that when the Rock Fortress fell, It started when their city-level shield blocked the attack of the Cecils.

After a period of understanding, he has mastered many characteristics of the Southern Legion. He knows that the devices that can project explosions and beams are not like traditional magic props. Their cost seems to be quite low, so that damaged equipment can be replaced and replenished in a short period of time. Their disadvantage is that they are rigid and single, and they can only release fixed spells. The device makes up for this shortcoming...

Facing such an enemy, the traditional "fortress tactics" are a dead end.

The red maple shield blocked the Cecils' first round of attack. For Heaton, its greatest significance was to give him a chance to continue fighting.

"Immediately summon the godly army in the south, let them return to Hongfeng, and attack the Cecil's rear," Heaton said to the subordinates beside him, "Let Korod come back immediately, and destroy Cecil from the east. The positions of the Er people..."

Heaton quickly arranged the order, but before he finished speaking, several other strange screams suddenly came from the sky on the west side——

The screeching sound was louder than the ordinary "Skyfire", and there was a creepy buzzing in it. In a moment of stupefaction, he felt several extraordinarily strong impacts hitting Hongfeng West. Side barrier! !

Boom, boom, boom! !

The shield above the west side of the city erupted with dazzling glare in an instant, and the entire city wall trembled in front of these powerful shocks, and after these several powerful shocks, there was a continuous, shocking sound. The low and frightening humming sounded like a powerful energy flow was gathering, washing away the barrier on the west side of the city.

Those warships of the Cecils! !

They even secretly moved to Hongfeng?What time is it!

Heaton was furious, because he clearly remembered that those warships were still in the fertile forest area when the last information came. How fast were those ships? !

"Notify Greem immediately, let him find a way to stop those ships! Even if he uses his own head to stuff them into the 'magic cannons' of those ships!"

"Yes!"

After the new order was issued, Heaton didn't feel relaxed at all, because he suddenly realized that the Cecilian army seemed to be completely different from what he expected.

This army is not a royal army, not a noble corps in the east, and it has no intention of following the rules of war at all—the chariots are attacking Hongfeng from the front, and the bombardment from the Gorgon River is constantly bombarding the barrier on the west side. This attack method from land and water at the same time has never been thought of by anyone. It is like a pincer that is constantly being clamped, and it has strangled the neck of the city.

This was not a probing attack, the Cecilians aimed to completely destroy the city in a short period of time.

……

In the eastern part of Hongfeng, in the huge stone city that has been completely reduced to ruins, blood has already stained the collapsed city wall.

Day and night of fierce battles stained this ancient city with blood. The knights and soldiers of the Mountain Legion relied on the only remaining walls and main castle in the castle area to build a temporary line of defense and repelled another attack from the enemy. .

Countless twisted and swollen monsters fell to death on the courtyard and steps of the boulder castle, and countless brave and fearless knights also fell in front of the shrinking defense lines. The land is getting narrower and narrower, and now even the bravest warriors are stretched to the limit.

The shouts of killing in the castle area gradually weakened. The surviving soldiers and the last knights were relying on the broken wall to guard the defense line of the inner courtyard of the castle. Arrow's shooters have picked up their swords and are ready for the final hand-to-hand combat. Victoria, who still has a small amount of mana left, is standing in the center of the inner courtyard, watching the situation outside the wall through the eyes of the mage.

Countless huge shadows are hovering among the ruined walls, those twisted and mutated monsters are regrouping their hands, preparing to launch the next round of attack—or the last round of attack, and her exhausted warriors have reached the limit of the human physiological structure. limit.

She even saw the commander of those monsters, an extraordinarily tall crystal cluster monster—that monster had never been on the battlefield before, showing full caution and caution, but now it appeared in the castle area, which is Confident performance.

Those monsters have decided that victory is theirs... and it seems that they are.

Victoria firmly shook the platinum staff in her hand, slowly calming down the disordered breath caused by excessive casting, and seized the time to recover a little mana. She calculated that the monsters would attack in a few minutes, and calculated that she would be able to attack in just a few minutes. You can recover some strength in a few minutes.

But suddenly, an unexpected chaos spread from among the monsters.

Victoria saw those swollen and distorted giants start to be restless at the same time, pushing each other in the chaos, and then raised their heads at the same time, looking in a certain direction outside the city. The extraordinarily tall monster had a frightened and angry expression ( Although it is unbelievable, those monsters actually retain human-like expressions), surrounded by a group of subordinates, climbed up a certain section of the nearby city wall, and looked towards the direction of the Gorgon River.

After a few seconds, those monsters gathered so quickly and retreated from the castle area! !

The movement outside the inner court soon attracted the attention of the knights. A knight standing guard on the tower watched the movement between the inner court and the outer wall of the fort in astonishment, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Those monsters have retreated!! "

The same shout soon came from another post: "Those monsters retreated, they really retreated!"

Victoria walked out of the crowd in a daze, unable to figure out what happened for a while, but after a short thought, she suddenly came to her senses——

Someone is attacking Hongfeng!

Apart from this reason, she couldn't think of why those monsters would abandon the castle that was about to be captured at such a critical moment.

After realizing this possibility, what rose in Victoria's heart was not only the peace of mind of waiting for reinforcements, but also thought of something she should do:

The group of monsters in Boulder City couldn't be allowed to come back to help Hongfeng—she had to find a way to keep these monsters, at least the most elite part of them, even if it was temporarily delayed.

She doesn't know who successfully broke into the polluted area, doesn't know who is attacking Hongfeng, she doesn't even know if the other party is a reinforcement, but she has no choice but to believe that it is a reinforcement, and then Under this premise, do everything possible to cooperate with the opponent's actions.

Victoria shook her platinum staff, and then took out a unique pale gold snowflake-shaped talisman from its close fitting place.

There is a layer of faint streamer floating on the surface of this talisman, and the light and shadow flicker, as if there is a frozen world bound on the surface of the talisman.

She originally thought that she would not be able to use this, but she did not expect that an unexpected turning point came. In order to seize this small turning point, she thought it was necessary for her to rely on the power of her ancestors——

The sharp horns of the talisman pierced the palm, and the blood of the Wilder family was soaked in the light golden snowflake surface. Victoria exhaled softly and spit out a word:

"Cold disaster."

Outside the castle area, Cloade was gathering his crystal cluster army. The urgent order from Red Maple City and the shattered breath from telepathy made the transformer upset—it was only a little bit close, maybe it would only take a few hours, It will not take more than one day at most, and it will be able to take down that small castle and crush that stubborn "Queen of the North" and her poor mountain army. Don't dare to delay.

Because Hongfeng's situation is critical, even so critical that it may break the city at any time.

If Hongfeng falls, if all the high-ranking priests in that city are killed, Cloade and his subordinates will inevitably lose their minds. The plan of the headquarters of the order has not been completed, and the "final disobedience" of the Grand Priest "The ceremony is still in progress. All the evil individuals including Cloade can only be counted as unfinished products. If there is no upper node to share the pollution from the will of the gods, a transformed individual like it cannot survive independently .

So it had to rescue Hong Feng, and the Dean Heaton who didn't know how to fight at all.

"Let you take a breath," Cloade looked back at the castle angrily, "I will soon..."

Its movements and thoughts are still at this moment of turning around.

A pale white halo quietly spread along the castle area. Wherever the halo went, everything quietly froze.

Including the Mountain Corps, including Victoria, including the Stone Castle, including Clorod and its cluster army.

The entire castle area turned into an ice crystal.

……

The main force of the Cecilians was well into the field—there were more chariots than expected.

One after another, they appeared on the horizon like a swarm of steel bugs. They were arranged in a loose attack formation, firing continuously as they marched, steadily approaching the city wall of Red Maple City.

The bombardment from the Gorgon River paused for a short time, but it resumed 10 minutes ago. The troops ordered to stop those warships had obviously failed, and in the bursts of loud bangs, the high-ranking priests of the Death of All Things Society We gaze upon this hellish spectacle—

The chariot was moving forward. There was no cavalier battalion shouting and charging, no infantry phalanx ordered to die, and no chaotic slave regiment. Heaton could not see any battlefield elements he knew, he could only see To those cold steels advancing - marching, firing, marching, firing...

The three troops that came out of the city to meet them had all been wiped out, falling under the continuous shooting and burning flames, while the Cecils' offensive was still maintaining a steady advance.

They are like some kind of machine, like some kind of tight-fitting and unshakable gears, they are running, moving forward, crushing all things that stand in front of this machine, it has nothing to do with glory, noble righteousness and blood mission, The only reason this machine pushes forward is because "pushing" is its mission.

Heaton suddenly remembered what he had said——

Abominations are cold weapons of war.

However, compared with the steel released by the Cecilians, this weapon may be too mild.

"Master," a priest exclaimed loudly, his voice almost drowned in the continuous explosions, "the shield is about to fail!!"

"Use up all the magic reserves, and hold on, Cloade will arrive soon," Heaton said quickly, "When Clode and his elite arrive, everything will be fine, and they will attack the fortress from the east. The Silrian flank..."

"Master, Cloade, he..." Another priest holding a crystal ball hesitated to speak, "Colode's mind disappeared..."

"Damn it!" Heaton cursed in a low voice, he felt his voice trembling a bit, but he still tried to maintain rational thinking, "Don't worry, the shield can last, let all the casters recharge the shield—— We can hold out until the southern legions return, and they will attack the Cecilians from the rear..."

That's right, the situation has a turning point. Although the Cecils' "Sky Fire" is powerful, it can't destroy the city's shield in a short time, including the three powerful warships. You can simply abandon that area and shrink the shield projection range to the main city... In this way, Red Maple City can last for a long time, enough to last until the godly army in the south returns to help...

Heaton comforted himself in his heart, but suddenly, an indescribable palpitation rushed to his heart, interrupting all his thoughts.

Along with the palpitations, there was also a deep and terrifying voice from high above:

"Come and pick it up—"

Heaton raised his head in astonishment, and saw a huge shadow passing by the clouds in the distance, and countless black things were falling from the sky with a sharp whistling sound...

Chapter 0628 After Burning

After many years, everyone who has fought against Cecil's army and survived will firmly remember a nightmare sentence, that is——

The bomb fell.

But Heaton didn't know this at this moment.

He didn't know what those things that fell from the sky were - they didn't look quite the same as the "Skyfire" launched by the Cecilians, they were not wrapped in light blue light clusters, but fell like stones, and he didn't know that What did the voice suddenly say from high above mean what, because the word "express" seems to have been invented.

But he was still instinctively aware of the danger of those things.

The dean of death of all things immediately raised his hands high, and powerful dark lightning instantly condensed into shape in the air, and countless densely packed black electric snakes gathered into a thick storm, sweeping across the sky with the momentum of thunder, trying to sweep those Everything that fell from the sky was wiped out.

This was his instinctive reaction, but the moment the lightning storm touched those things, he realized that he had made a big mistake——

Those falling objects contained a power far stronger than "Skyfire", and the sweep of the lightning storm instantly detonated all the falling objects!

He only saw a dazzling glare flashing, and then the glare instantly spread to the entire field of vision. A terrible chain explosion occurred. Hundreds of falling objects were detonated intensively in the sky above Hongfeng City, causing chaos. The primordial energy of the sequence surges——

From a distance, people could clearly see a round of bright novas formed by arcane flashes and shock waves suddenly appearing in the sky above Red Maple City, and the magic shock generated by the simultaneous activation of hundreds of arcane explosions gathered an egg. This huge cloud seems to be slowly approaching Hongfeng's city shield, and there is a weak black arc that seems to try to stop it, but it is instantly swallowed and extinguished by the powerful energy surge , Just a few seconds later, the energy "egg" full of destructive aura touched the dome node of Hongfeng's shield.

The fallen priests inside the red maple shield saw an even more terrifying sight.

A boiling fire cloud slowly pressed down from the sky. It first touched the red maple shield, and the shield, which had been dimmed by the continuous shelling of the Cecils, was overloaded and ruptured in an instant, and then the fire cloud began to lick the shield. After the collapse, the remaining magic cloud and the high-rise buildings in the city, the illusory and hot flames began to burn from top to bottom, and the solid towers and fortresses melted like wax...

"The shield is broken!!"

Someone finally exclaimed, but the exclamation only lasted for an instant and then stopped abruptly. Heaton saw a bright flash of light flashing nearby—after losing the protection of the shield, the shelling of the Cecils began to directly After bombarding Hongfeng's city wall, those chariots were close enough to shoot accurately. Where the flash of light passed by, only a piece of broken bricks and tiles and some fine crystals were left.

The dark patriarch became a little dazed. What happened before was too sudden, and the city fell too quickly. It seemed that in just a moment, he and the army of gods and evils he had managed to organize were about to be destroyed. He looked at On the plain outside the city, he saw that the cold and ruthless steel machines were still faithfully executing the will of the manipulator: march, fire, keep marching, keep firing...

No, it shouldn't be like this!

Heaton suddenly became furious. He let out a loud roar that didn't sound like a human voice. The black robe all over his body was instantly burst by dense crystals and twisted and swollen limbs!

In order to achieve perfect evolution, and to adjust himself to the best posture, he has been deliberately controlling the progress of his abomination, but now, he finally gave up this suppression.

The great evolutionary path must be implemented—the ideal he has fought for all his life, his exhaustive plan, the new world he has pursued so far... How can he be defeated by a pile of cold and soulless steel? !

The ragged cluster giant suddenly jumped down from the city wall, and rushed towards the steel chariots that were still performing close-in bombardment like a furious demon god, and the soldiers controlling the chariots had already discovered this reckless intruder. Several chariots decelerated and turned in an instant, and the turret pointed at the huge target higher than the roof of the chariot in a burst of creaking mechanical operation, and then the acceleration track flashed, and the crystal shells were fired.

boom!boom!

With several loud noises, two shells hit the target. Heaton smashed one of them into the air with his huge fist, but the other exploded on his shoulder. The terrible explosion knocked him (it should be it now) ) staggered in the impact, the entire arm was wiped out in the flash, but it only took two steps forward to regain its balance, and a new arm has been wriggling and regenerating quickly among the broken flesh and blood.

The giant with powerful vitality raised his arm and pointed at the chariot closest to him. Countless thick vines pierced the ground in an instant, entangled on the track and turret of the chariot, and there were bursts of roaring inside the steel machine. , broke free from the vines one by one, but another black lightning fell from the sky, piercing through the side shield of the chariot, piercing through layers of steel and the core of the engine inside, finally stopping this tireless machine down.

These machines seem to be no more than that.

A burst of joy rose in Heaton's heart, but in the next second, successive explosions struck from all directions, completely submerging it.

The chariot destroyed by it was one, but behind that one was ten, and behind the ten was a hundred, and behind the hundred was an artillery regiment, supported by naval guns, loyal magic corps and white knights .

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, Heaton felt that his body was rapidly torn apart. Neither his powerful body shield nor his limb regeneration ability could resist the attack equivalent to the concentrated bombing of hundreds of great magicians. In the consciousness of being about to collapse, Heaton Still those great plans come to mind, still its grand ambitions.

However, War Machine is not an army of nobles. It has never cared about personal ambitions and blood—no matter whether the ambition is noble or not, and whether the blood is humble or not.

The sixth company eliminated the small accidents on the way of attack and continued to move forward.

The war machine is working faithfully on this scorched earth.

The huge dragon shadow flitted across the clouds, and the crystal-clear vertical pupils reflected the city that was gradually disintegrating under the artillery fire.

"Use natural disasters to deal with natural disasters...

"Anyway, 'express' is an interesting word."

……

In the rear command vehicle, Solderling's figure appeared on the holographic projection above the magic net communication terminal. The Iron Rangers led by him brought first-hand information from outside the battlefield: "Observed crystal clusters everywhere Rogue out of control phenomenon - the crystal cluster command node in the Red Maple area has disappeared!"

Gawain nodded, and Amber's figure emerged from the air beside him, and the half-elf lady sighed: "It seems that the guy who jumped from the city wall and singled out the tank before is the enemy's supreme commander—— Reckless."

"Perhaps the transformation of crystal clusters will always affect people's reason, even those priests of the death of all things will be no exception."

Going into a group of tanks alone is so reckless that it makes one's scalp tingle. Gawain thinks that even Gawain Cecil himself and those first-generation irascible old pigeons might not dare to do this... After thinking about it , this reason can only be attributed to the damage to the cranial nerve caused by the mutation of the crystal cluster.

"Order the attacking troops to establish a position immediately after controlling the gate of the Red Maple City, block the gate, and the rest of the troops will switch from attack to defense, and the burners will be warmed up. The next step should be to deal with those out-of-control infected crystal clusters," Gao Wen said. Turning around and ordering, "Pay special attention to the east side. The crystal cluster giants returning from Boulder City are the largest elite force in the Red Maple area. Even if they are out of control and weakened, they may pose a threat to us, although I don't know why they haven't arrived yet. , but it must not be taken lightly.”

In addition to the order, Gao Wen also had some doubts in his mind - in his original battle plan, the biggest challenge and pressure the legion had to face was at the later stage of the battle, when the elite enemy army besieging Boulder City entered the battlefield and attacked its own side from the flanks At the time of the battle, it is said that the crystal cluster army is not only the strongest in combat effectiveness, but also the commander is suspected of being transformed into the Kingdom Army or the Eastern Realm officer, who is far superior to the dark priests who do not know how to fight in leading the army. Once they enter the battlefield, The Cecil Army must allocate a considerable part of its forces to deal with the pressure on the flanks.

But for some reason, until the Red Maple City was broken, and even until the cluster giants in other places began to lose control, the elite enemy army that was supposed to appear did not show up, and the Iron Ranger squad placed at the eastern intersection did not even see that one. The shadow of the enemy.

Of course, this allowed the Cecil Army to avoid additional losses and pressure, but it also made Gao Wen full of doubts——

Why don't they show up?Could it be that this change of family... this tactic of besieging Wei and saving Zhao didn't work?

With this worry in mind, after the order was issued, Gao Wen immediately activated another magic net terminal. Above that terminal, Wright's unusually tall and strong figure emerged from the holographic projection.