A baby dragon has built a nest outside the Novice Village

Chapter 228 "Monsters", Humans
"Keep bombarding, don't stop."

The Principality's troops have completely withdrawn from the valley, and now they can only rely on their heavy firepower advantage to barely maintain the blockade.

The heretic monsters in the distance finally stopped.

As the Principality troops retreated, their charge route became much longer than before and they would be subjected to more firepower attacks. After the next two attacks were intercepted in front of the Principality troops' line, calm returned to the valley.

Those "monsters" no longer appeared before the eyes of the Principality's soldiers.

"So, they don't have any weaknesses in the traditional sense. If you want to make them stop, you have to completely turn their bodies into a pool of minced meat?"

The commander of the Principality's troops was looking at the deacon in front of him.

He had written a report of what had happened, which was probably on Moralich's desk by now.

They have now suffered a lot of losses, and the remaining troops are not enough to continue launching large-scale attacks while maintaining the blockade.

"Don't let any heretic go" is the highest priority order for these principality troops, and they have not received new orders yet, so the old orders will be executed.

A rash attack might create loopholes in the blockade, allowing some heretics to escape.

"We will continue to bombard the valley, weakening and softening the enemy's combat effectiveness as much as possible, in preparation for the next attack."

But the order they received was to eliminate all heretics in the valley, and simply maintaining the blockade would not be enough to make those heretics return to the arms of their gods.

The Principality's troops must take the initiative to complete their mission.

"Their bodies are blessed by the sun. As long as the sun shines on them, unless their bodies are completely destroyed all at once, the blasphemous flesh and blood will continue to regenerate."

Now the Principality's troops do not have many means to completely destroy the bodies of those monsters in one go. The discarded corpses and projected iron balls are basically their only means to fight against these "monsters".

All the ordinary soldiers could do was pour grease on the still leaping and multiplying limbs and arms, then set them on fire, eventually turning them into ashes.

"The growth of flesh and blood in their bodies does not come from their own strength. Ordinary believers cannot directly bear this level of God's gift. The power comes from the sunlight."

The deacon of the church pointed to the sun above.

"When it's night, they will lose their current strong recovery ability."

The commander looked at the sky outside and it seemed that dark was not far away.

"Begin field preparations. Estimated mission time is four hours."

Compared to the task of clearing all the heretics in the valley, the night time is very urgent. If we want to attack at night, we should start preparing now.

Whether it is the plan of the offensive operation, the arrangement of personnel, the evacuation support after an accident, or the weapons and equipment and lighting tools that need to be carried. Humans are not nocturnal creatures. To exert their combat effectiveness in the dark, they need a lot of extra preparation. They are not like powerful dragons, whose vision will not be affected in any way even at night.

Even in such a dark night, Fari could still clearly see what was happening below.

It was a "sanctuary" of heretics. A group of trolls were trying to attack the sanctuary. In the distance, several Cyclops were throwing boulders into the "sanctuary" to cover their attack.

The connection between the monsters is becoming closer and closer. Although they are not yet able to fight side by side, they can already perform different tasks in one operation and achieve a certain degree of complementarity.

The heretics had obviously foreseen this attack and they built a large number of fortifications. Some believers seemed to have voluntarily transformed themselves into "monsters" and formed the first line of defense under the low wall.

But in the darkness, those "monsters" did not have such strong recovery abilities, and the swollen and twisted bodies of the "monsters" who were originally just civilians were smashed by the trolls' sticks and cut by their blades.

The remaining recovery ability in the trolls' blood allows them to almost ignore the attacks of these "monsters". These "monsters" have no weapons and can only attack with their own limbs that have been twisted and deformed after their flesh and blood have grown.

It's not that the other humans in the "sanctuary" don't want to give weapons to these "monsters", it's just that the bodies of these monsters have completely lost their human form after being exposed to the sun. The weapons in the arsenal are not prepared for humans whose stomachs have bulged with two hands, or whose five fingers are indistinguishable and fused together.

But even so, these "monsters" still firmly hold their lines. They silently endure the attacks with their bloated bodies. Even if their limbs are broken and their heads are chopped off, their bodies will still tightly entangle a troll before they actually die.

The crusaders who still maintained their human form on the low wall were supporting them with all their might. Finally, the trolls retreated after leaving behind hundreds of corpses.

The best the trolls achieved was breaking down a section of the low wall and briefly breaking in, but they were soon driven out by the crusaders in the "sanctuary".

The sun was about to rise. The Skitarii on the parapet opened the gate and rushed out.

Under the low wall, most of those "monsters" had turned into a pool of rotten meat. Even if the sun they believed in shone its rays on them again, these rotten meats had no other ability except to meaninglessly proliferate into clumps of unconscious flesh.

Those dead "monsters" will not be resurrected.

"He is alive, priest, priest!"

The Crusaders searched the battlefield for the surviving "monsters" and called on the priests to come and rescue their comrades.

For those "monsters" that were completely dead, they tore out small pieces of iron with their names engraved on them from their flesh and blood. Before the transformation, these people ate these small pieces of iron with their names engraved on them.

They were well aware that after the transformation, they would not be able to maintain their current human form, so that after death, others would be able to know the name that the piece of flesh once had.

The Crusaders put the minced meat into bags, and then wrote the original names of these "monsters" on the bags.

“May you find peace in His presence.”

Bonfires have been lit in the sanctuary, and some civilians have gathered around them. They are family members and friends of those who have voluntarily accepted the transformation, and they will accompany them by the bonfires for the last time.

(End of this chapter)