Heart of the Castle

Chapter 390 Desperate Demon Slave, Desperate Assault

The leader of the Manu Knights, Amolo, returned to his camp in a daze. The commanders who were not qualified to attend the combat meeting in the wheel palace immediately surrounded him and asked him about the meeting situation.However, Amoro didn't want to say anything, he just kept muttering and cursing something, foam was coming from the corner of his mouth, and he kept beating his full-face helmet with both hands, as if trying to pry it off his head.

Soon the commanders all shut their mouths, and everyone was frowning, because they all saw the eyes full of fear from the hole in the helmet of Commander Amorro, and the taste contained in it seemed to have seen their own doom.

After a long time, Captain Amolo calmed down a bit, but his eyes still had a look of terror in his eyes, "Brothers, we are finished, everyone in the Knights is finished, and even a black demon wolf can't live. Come down." He said in a hoarse voice, "The demon lord, General Kleinus, asked us, the Demon Slave Knights, to take the lead and raid the human line of defense on the other side of the Black River."

"Although we have plunged into the darkness, we are still fearless knights, we just got rid of the shackles of the hypocritical cloak of pity and the weak." A demonized knight declared enthusiastically, "Master, we should not be afraid. , the blood eager to fight is boiling in my body."

"If you want to boil, you can boil it yourself." Captain Amolo replied coldly, "I don't want to be buried in the icy torrent of the Black River."

"My lord, I want to know how many teams the demon lord has sent to support us?" Another demonized knight stood up, with a wolf head badge of a black demon wolf on his chest proving that he was the leader of a demon slave rider, " If there are several teams of fire-throwing monsters to suppress the archers on the human defense line, and then dispatch the winged demons to cooperate with us to cross the river, and at the same time launch the dark barrier to cover, we are not without a chance."

"No, no, nothing!" Captain Amolo roared, "Without the long-range suppression of fire-throwing monsters, and the aerial cooperation of winged demons, General Kleinus only sent a team of little demons to assist us !"

"How can this work?" The commander of the demon slave rider said in surprise. He did not wear a full-face helmet like Captain Amoro, exposing his ugly face parasitized by demon insects to the air. It was originally a ferocious and brutal face, but with the panic expression now, it became a little ridiculous. "With the hands of the Demon Slave Knights alone, how could it be possible to capture the ice wall standing on the south bank of the Heihe River? Although the black demon wolf can swim across the place where the water is stable, it will definitely not be able to climb the ten-meter-high ice wall what!"

"Thank you for pointing out the well-known facts, and thank you for the blow to morale!" Commander Amolo roared, a hot black flame suddenly erupted from his body, and the strong fierce fighting spirit surrounded his body, making him Like a devil coming out of hell.

If it was changed to another time, Captain Amolo showed his power to reach the peak state of vindictive energy, which would definitely silence the demonized knights under him, but facing the threat and fear of death, instead made their Courage has multiplied.

"Betrayal, this is a shameful betrayal!" A demonized knight shouted.

"Yes, we were betrayed!" More voices echoed later. "Those demons want to abandon us!"

"My lord, obeying the orders of the demon lord is no different from going to die! You can't destroy us and yourself!"

"Of course I know that there is no chance of winning! You don't need to tell me this!" Commander Amolo growled angrily in a low voice, "Now what I want to know is, what should we do?"

"How about... let's run!" a leader of the demon slave riders suggested.

"Run? Where are you going?" Captain Amolo sat down upset and gasped for breath, and Li Huo's fighting spirit disappeared.

"Anywhere is good. In short, it can't be regarded as cannon fodder for death." Several demonized knights said almost in unison.However, after thinking about it for a while, Captain Amolo shook his head vigorously. "Now we can't go anywhere. The camp of the Demon Slave Knights is located in the center of the barracks, and there are guards from demon troops in all directions. They must have received orders now and will not let us leave here."

"Of course it won't work if you run now, but it's different on the chaotic battlefield." The commander of the demon slave riders further explained his plan, "We can first order the demon slave riders under our command to forcefully cross the Heihe River, anyway, they have been killed by the demon worms. Their brains have been eroded, and they will not have any sense of resistance. Then they take advantage of the chaos and escape, and wait until the demons and humans are victorious, and then think about the next thing."

"In this case, the possibility of success is much greater." Captain Amolo's eyes lit up, and then these guys who gave up their dignity and reputation to join the devil, but were abandoned by the devil were stealing in the tent. Whispering, making plans to find a way out.

At the same time, on the Great Wall of Ice Wall on the south bank of the Heihe River, Li Wei stood quietly under the Griffon banner, looking towards the camp of the Northern Demon Army.The several swordsmen standing beside him were holding crackling pine torches in their hands. The jumping flames added a layer of fiery brilliance to the young lord's face, making his expression extraordinarily resolute.

After the Winged Demon Envoy returned, the demon army launched several tentative charges, but under the double blow of the arrow rain from the archers and the stone bullets from the spirit monster catapults, these demon troops never rushed through the Heihe River every time. Had to drop hundreds of corpses and retreat.

A series of small victories made the defenders of the Great Wall cheer in many places, but Li Wei did not feel relaxed at all.Because through the intelligence of Scott, the quasi-burning lord, he clearly realized that these slain demons were just cannon fodder, and only the regular army belonging to each demon leader was the real opponent.

"Your Excellency the Baron, it seems that these demons will not launch an attack tonight." An old voice came from the side, and then Beria, the vice-principal of the Earth Temple, who was wearing a khaki-yellow plain robe, walked up to the ice wall, with his chest on his chest. Wearing an obsidian badge that is only used in religious rituals.

"Your Excellency, Deputy Archbishop Beria, it's so late, and the cold wind in the north is strong. What are you doing on the city wall? Be careful not to catch a cold." Li Wei turned around and said hastily.

"Just now I led the children to hold a parade blessing for God Kagino and Lord Behemoth. This is the last stop of the parade. It seems that the morale of the defenders on the Great Wall is very good." Vice Archbishop Beria squinted his eyes, a faint smile appeared on his ascetic old face, and the next words were as light as a whisper. "I can feel that the number of people who believe in Lord Behemoth is gradually increasing. Although he still can't compare with God Cardano, it is not a big problem to support a minimum godhead."

Li Wei felt a little surprised in his heart. He didn't understand why the vice archbishop of Beria mentioned Lord Behemoth at this time, the legendary earth elemental monarch, who was also used by Mr. Dish to pretend to collect the power of faith. The name of the demigod.But soon he read the well-disguised wavering and fear in the old man's eyes.

Undoubtedly, even the well-informed Deputy Archbishop Beria also felt fearful of the unprecedentedly large demon army, so he, like all devout believers, hoped to get strong support from the gods.

"There is no need to implore Lord Behemoth to come now." Li Wei comforted the deputy archbishop of Beria and said, "Because the Great Wall of Ice Wall has no possibility of falling, even if the magic flames are monstrous, they will eventually be defeated here. Heihe is the best grave to bury this army of demons."

The wrinkled cheeks of Vice Archbishop Beria trembled a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but soon there were footsteps coming from below, so he had no choice but to swallow those words and regained his composure Self-possessed solemn demeanor.

Several high-ranking priests from the Earth Temple then came up, all holding long staffs inlaid with obsidian in their hands, and two of them were also carrying portable incense burners. Myrrh and musk were slowly burning in the incense burners, emitting bursts of scent aromatic.

These are the other priests who followed the archdeacon of Beria on a parade blessing. One of them raised the carrying basket above his head, and then the priests sang in unison to the crowd on the top of the city the holy song of Caggio, the god of the earth. Poetry, in which there are also several stanzas in which Behemoth, the earth elemental monarch, is especially praised.Then the priest took out a few pieces of hard-baked oatmeal cakes from the basket, and another priest standing beside him took out a skin pouch from under his robe, unplugged it, and suddenly a bitter aroma unique to light beer wafted out. Come.

This is the so-called blessing of the God of the Earth.

The two priests distributed oatcakes and ale to everyone, and even Sier and Babrupa got their share.Although not all of these people believed in the God of the Earth, they all lowered their heads to show enough respect for this blessing, and then received it with both hands.

Babrupa stood on the top of the city for a long time, already hungry, and several times wanted to suggest going back to the camp to eat, especially when he repelled the tentative attack of the magic army for the last time, those words were like It was like a flame burning his tongue.However, when he saw Li Wei's young but resolute and resolute face, his slippery tongue became stiff, and he couldn't spit out those words no matter what.

Although the blessing of the God of the Earth is more symbolic than practical, the unique aroma of the food also aroused the appetite of the short fat man. Just as the priest of the God of the Earth turned around, he put the oatmeal cake into his mouth impatiently. Almost swallowed without chewing.

Then he realized a truth, that is, no matter how hungry a person is, his physical structure is somewhat different from that of a crocodile.The piece of oatmeal cake was stubbornly stuck in his throat, choking him so much that he rolled his eyes, if it wasn't for a glass of light beer in his hand, and he drank it down hastily, Babrupa could hardly bear the blessing of the God of the Earth up.

After finally swallowing the oatmeal cake in his mouth, Babrupa wiped away the tears he had suffocated and gasped for breath. Suddenly he heard a few people not far away having a lively conversation, so he swayed and moved closer.

The topic these people discussed was of course the current battle situation. The priests of the Earth Temple tended to think that after several consecutive setbacks, the demons would calm down at least until tomorrow morning.But the knights have different opinions, some think that the devil will sneak attack at night, some think that tomorrow dawn is the most dangerous time.

Roaring Bear Donna is the loudest among them, and because he has rich adventure and combat experience, and because he has experienced the disaster 10 years ago, many people agree with him, and he Very happy with that too.

"Those devils won't let us sleep peacefully. They will definitely launch a surprise attack in an hour or two at the latest." When he said this, Tang Na tilted his head in the direction of the north bank, "Look at it , The scale of this raid will not be too small, those devil cubs outside are dispatching troops."

Several knights and priests surrounding him nodded at Donna's words, but Babrupa snorted disapprovingly, "I don't think so." Humpty Humpty joined Come in, "I agree with the views of several devout servants of the God of the Earth, at least until tomorrow morning, those demons will not make any moves."

Hearing Babrupa's outrageous words, many knights showed slight disdainful expressions, but they didn't refute them because of the most basic politeness.Babrupa, however, seemed to take this indifference as an acquiescence to his opinion, with a triumphant expression on his face and his chin raised towards the dark north.

Since Donna had known Babrupa for a long time, he paid more attention to the opinion of this cowardly and ridiculously fat man than others. "Pious Babrupa, those devil cubs will not be dispatched tonight. How did you analyze it?"

Half of Donner's tone was serious, and the other half was meant to be joking, but the tone of Grunwalm standing beside him was completely sarcasm. "Maybe he fell asleep standing up just now, and some god told him in his dream?"

This sentence set off a burst of laughter in the city. The knights were all happy, and the priests were also laughing. The sound even caught the attention of Li Wei and the deputy archbishop of Beria who were talking with each other.

Only Babrupa blushed with anger, and the veins on his neck stretched out, as if this would increase his persuasiveness. "Babrupa never brags, Sir Donner Knight, you know that, in North Aura, in Dirk City, in the abandoned tower, in the Dusk Forest, which time did Babrupa not participate? No Speaking of other things, the last time we destroyed the plot to accuse the dead in the Rotten Swamp, there was no Babrupa to provide Thor's hammer, so what kind of alchemy hexagram is so easy to destroy?"

This series of words was urgent and fast, and many people who were not familiar with him were awe-inspiring. Babrupa saw this and couldn't help becoming more excited, leaning on the crenel of the Great Wall of Ice and gesticulating, " These guys have driven such a long way today, and they are exhausted for a long time, and then after several failed tentative attacks, even their vigor has been worn down. So in my opinion, these demons will choose to rest for a night, tomorrow Only then will the attack be launched!"

As soon as Babrupa's words fell, a burst of shouts sounded from the opposite side, it was the breathtaking and wild shouts of countless demon slave riders riding black monsters, followed by crowds of people, accompanied by hundreds of people The little devil rushed towards Heihe recklessly.The water of the Heihe River was swift and cold, but these puppets who had lost themselves jumped into the water without hesitation!
"This time it's an old opponent, the Demon Slave Knights!" Li Wei's eyes were shining with the brilliance of probing skills, and he gave an order without hesitation, "All go to the city and prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Hey, pious Mr. Babrupa, how could such a thing happen?" Grunwalm said mockingly as he pulled out his sword that shone with milky white light like milk glass.

Babrupa's expression was particularly depressed, and he took out the dark elf poison crossbow from the bark box beside him, "They don't know the art of war!" He complained, "They don't know the art of war at all!"

(End of this chapter)