The knight in the abyss

Chapter 672 There is a battle ahead

The person Lancelow can find is naturally Tijana. Although they still can't communicate directly through the spiritual connection, the succubus lord is wearing an earring that can rotate synchronously with the human knight's wristband. After last night's practice, The two have been able to convey information proficiently through rotation and pause.After a while, Lancelot returned to his companions and said to everyone:
"Vesuvius did have such a lover, but there have been many rumors about this person's race, saying that she is a daughter of Bird Demon, Fallen Love, and Mecansut, and of course it is said that she is Enriyes's. If there is such a person, then she should be able to help us. Please lead the way, Miss Jiayika, it seems that we must go to the temple of Lord Wu'an, and we will protect your safety."

"Let me make this clear first..." The succubus' expression returned to that distrustful look, "If I encounter an enemy, I will hide far away. Fighting is your business."

"No problem." Lancelot nodded, "But you must also obey my orders and don't get in the way."

"Understood, my lord." The succubus tugged on his robe and wrapped his naked body again, "Come with me, this way..."

They soon left the alley and returned to the stone streets of Volcano.The sickening stench in the air was still strong, and the crowd had just made a new contribution to it.The environment they live in is not silent, the lava fountain in the center of the city has always been active, and every eruption will create a strong sonic boom; the surrounding buildings that have just experienced a fire will partially collapse from time to time, as if the devil's A city that has corrupted this demon appeared; there were always shouts of killing coming from behind, it was the movement made by the cannon fodder troops sent by the coalition forces, because the distance was relatively far away, it was not very clear, and these noises were enough to cover them The sound of hurried footsteps.

The succubus is obviously very familiar with the terrain, and they take the hidden and wide-sighted route. If they encounter the devil again, there is a high probability that they will be able to take the lead before the enemy finds them.But before that, everyone saw many traces left by the devil: a headless body, a headless head, stumped limbs crushed by sharp knives, dead bodies scorched by fire, and Brutal even accidentally kicked One was broken -- no way, it looked too much like charred wood, and no one thought to remind the not particularly long-legged companion.

Lancelow noticed that most of the dead were demons and tieflings, but there were not many real demons.But in people's minds, devils rarely choose to massacre a city after capturing a settlement. This kind of profit-oriented demon does not have an uncontrollable desire to kill like Tanari, and what they covet are the souls of mortals.Once they have the power to rule, they have countless ways to induce mortals to sign a contract to sell their souls, and they will get nothing if they kill them directly. Some devil princes even expressly prohibit their subordinates from killing anyone whose soul has not been clearly assigned. Mortals, violators will be regarded as destroying public property and will be judged harshly by the Nine Prisons.

Of course, completely different rules apply in war, even for devils with a strong lawful bent.Lancelot knew very well that the biggest reason why the devils who captured the Volcano Fortress committed such atrocities was that they were short of troops, and it was difficult to allocate manpower to maintain law and order in the short term. Compared with collecting souls, occupying the Volcano Fortress is obviously It is a higher priority goal, so they chose the simplest and most brutal way to ensure internal security: kill all possible resisters, so that the devil can devote all its troops to defense before the battle starts again.

From this point of view, Lancelow is also indirectly responsible for the massacre—he can be said to be the biggest black hand who caused all the casualties of the Devil Legion's low-level combat power. In the Volcano Fortress, perhaps the massacre would not have happened, but of course he would not feel any guilt about it.

If I do nothing and let the devil gain a firm foothold in the volcano castle, the mortal residents in the city will die, and their souls will continue to be enslaved by the devil after death.It was the Balrog Lord who lost the city, and it was the Devil Legion who killed the people. Neither the Balrog Lord's stupidity nor the Devil Legion's brutality had anything to do with him, and the crimes he committed were naturally not his responsibility.

Lancelot has fought battles for half his life, and he has figured out these principles long ago.

After walking forward for a while, the human knight changed his expression and quickly gestured to his partners a few times.Everyone immediately took out their weapons, and the monster monkey girl disappeared on the eaves again after a few jumps, while the others formed a fighting formation.

"What's wrong?" The succubus guide was the only one who couldn't figure out the situation, his face was full of confusion, "What are you guys going to do?"

"There is a battle ahead." Lancelow replied briefly, "There are quite a few people."

After the partners got ready, the human knight quickened his pace.After running for two blocks in a row, the sound of fighting has become clearly audible.On the next street corner, outside a half-collapsed house, a small-scale battle appeared in their field of vision.

Six demons and two hellhounds are trying to rush into the building, while four dark-skinned demons holding short spears are using the ruins to resist the attack of the devil.Behind the demons, there were several tiefling civilians holding improvised weapons such as pot lids, dung forks, or chair legs, surrounded by a succubus wearing a tight black leather jacket.And in the open space outside the building, stood a knight in plate armor, his whole body was shrouded in an uncomfortable black air, he seemed to be the commander of this devil team.

When Lancelot and his partners arrived, the defense was on the verge of collapse.The demons were barely able to deal with the Sumo, but they could no longer respond to the hellhounds attacking from below at the same time.A demon descendant was severely bitten by a hellhound on his leg, screaming and backing away, exposing a huge gap in the already crumbling defense line.

At this moment, Lancelot noticed that the succubus made a certain movement, and immediately a tiefling rushed up frantically, attacking the hellhound with a short-handled dagger in his hand.His courage was exhausted when the sharp teeth penetrated into his flesh, and the vicious dog with a body length of more than five feet almost tore off his forearm with the first bite, and buried it in his neck with the second bite .

The previously retreating demon descendant took the opportunity to stabilize his body, poked and picked the hellhound with the tip of a stalk, and threw it far away.The beast fell heavily to the ground, and immediately stood up again. It seemed that it could continue to fight, but tiefling, who was holding it just now, couldn't get up—he had a string of thumb-thick fingers around his neck. The blood hole obviously couldn't survive.

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