Heart of the Castle

Chapter 467 Above the sky, griffins come to help

The clouds floating above the sky of the Holy White Stone Fortress were suddenly disturbed by a force. A griffin with the wings and head of an eagle and the mighty body of a lion pierced through like a golden arrow. Thick clouds hovered over the battlefield with a silent majesty, and the incomparably wide golden wings only flapped once every few tens of seconds.Li Weiston sat on the special saddle on the back of the Griffin King, held his breath, and looked down against the strong wind blowing.

The clouds were thick, but the magic-enhanced goggles allowed him to clearly see the battle scenes beneath his feet.Countless undead creatures climbed over the steepest peaks, submerged every rock, and filled every inch of space in the entire Blade Rift Valley.Behind the countless undead army, there is also an army of demons that is just around the corner. The number may not be as large as the undead, but the degree of horror must not be underestimated.Surrounded by groups of red and black demon legions, the five commanding wheel palaces stood tall like movable castles. The powerful fluctuations of magic power could be easily felt even without the magic detection ability of goggles.

Li Weiston felt a cold shudder emanating from his body, and it was almost impossible to contain it.It wasn't the first time he looked down at the earth from such a height, and it wasn't like he hadn't experienced the tragic scene of heavy siege, but he still felt the fear from the bottom of his heart.The coalition forces of the dead and the demons already possessed the ability to defeat the defense of the Kingdom of Arthur head-on, and with the help of conspiracy and tricks, they did exactly that.The guards in the Holy White Stone Fortress were extremely insufficient. Although the heavily armed knights on the city wall led the soldiers to form a seemingly impenetrable line of defense, Li Wei could clearly see from the air that this line of defense was fragile. is inelastic.The flag of the Northern Allied Forces has been flying high on the front line of the battlefield since the very beginning. This is not due to the courage of the sword dancers, but because the Kingdom's army has no ability to set aside a reserve team. Even Ans, who is the commander-in-chief, Earl Al had to fight in the front to block and defeat the undead troops that broke through the line of defense.

The undead army is launching a fierce attack on the Holy White Stone Fortress, like countless ants gathered around a piece of honey.But this piece of honey is not an object to be slaughtered. The shouts and flashes of steel have never stopped for a moment. Every wave of attacks by the undead creatures can be said to be all-out, but what they have gained is only death and retreat. , unable to get even a foothold on the top of the Holy White Stone Castle.

However, the Holy White Stone Fort is still in a precarious situation, and the undead army's offensive has not stopped for a moment, so that the defenders have no chance to breathe.Although the appearance of the Ember Knights defeated the undead's surprise attack again, and killed the elite ghost army with guns and bayonets, they were forced to stay on the defense line of the city wall to fill the gap that was torn apart. cracked front.The solemn horn sounded immediately, and the banner of the Northern Alliance Army moved forward again, stabilizing a line that was about to collapse. The remaining one-third fell to the city.

The high-pitched hymns sounded, and the poems praising Flandala shone with golden light, and the holy white stone castle once again opened its sacred domain.All the undead shrouded in the golden light let out hoarse and painful cries. The low-level undead such as skeletons and zombies then collapsed to the ground and quickly turned into rancid black blood; the higher-level undead such as ghouls and vampires The undead immediately screamed and struggled, their skin seemed to be melted by strong acid, revealing the decayed body underneath, and then fell to the ground one by one by the swords of the human defenders; the resentful spirits were hit the hardest, these The incorporeal undead can even cause some damage to the ordinary sunlight at noon, not to mention the highly concentrated light divine power in the sacred domain. They immediately turned into dark green light and shadows, and dissipated into the air after a final hissing scream.

Only some of the outermost undead creatures struggled to escape, and the golden light of the sacred domain expanded immediately, advancing all the way to the corpse grave demon whose body was filled with the black profane domain.

This was the most violent counterattack that humans could do, and there were more than two thousand undead creatures that fell to the ground.There were bursts of cheers from the defenders from the top of the Holy White Stone Fortress, as if victory was close at hand, but what they didn't see was that, compared to the overall number of hundreds of thousands of undead troops, two thousand This amount is far too small to even be called a decent loss.

Levi dispelled these troublesome thoughts, and began to think about what kind of role he could play in such a large-scale war.He didn't come alone. Among the clouds behind him, hundreds of griffins and alchemy warriors riding on the griffin's back were ready to go, and he also brought the dark alchemist Master Youyue and the Miyun tribe The secret weapon jointly researched by the little spirits.

This is a force that cannot be ignored. However, if it is used improperly, it can only kill a group of undead and demons, and at the same time alleviate the crisis of the defenders of the Holy White Stone Fortress. Into the vortex of destruction.

That would lose the meaning of rescue.

Thinking like this, Li Wei drove the Griffon King to continue hovering over the Holy White Rock Fortress. He was waiting and observing, hoping to find the weakness of the undead army and create an opportunity to turn the tide.

The Lord of Darkness controlled the corpse grave demon's heavy body to bend down, and the obsidian's fingers were like sharp knives deeply inserted into the hard rocky ground, and then the green undead magic power emanated from the fingertips, penetrating into the depths.The ground soon began to tremble like an earthquake, but only between the hands of the Corpse Grave Demon, the soil gathered between the hands of the Lord of Darkness like life, forming a huge compressed soil clod.Then the Lord of Darkness straightened his waist, lifted this large clod of four meters square over his head, and threw it viciously towards a high tower of the Holy White Stone Fortress!

Dazzling sparks erupted from the sacred domain immediately, and soil and gravel fell one after another. However, the clods of soil were forcibly gathered and compressed by the magic power of the undead. Above, a protective layer was formed to block the intrusion of the divine power of light.Therefore, although the soil clod thrown by the Corpse Grave Demon was weakened a little and its direction was slightly deviated, it still hit the side of the high tower of the Holy White Stone Fort.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the tower broke off from a quarter of the top, and tons of white stones collapsed together with the ascetics who were praying at the top of the tower.The frantic prayers suddenly turned into terrible moans and screams, but all this was covered up by the loud noise of the tower collapsing, and no one could hear it.

With the loss of the second tower, the sacred domain was shaken suddenly. The golden light weakened a lot again, and the range was reduced to only a radius of more than 100 meters. It could barely protect the last tower and the central castle directly below the tower. .

After the golden light of the sacred domain disappeared from the city, the human defenders of the Holy White Stone Fort immediately suffered heavier pressure than before. Their confidence in winning the final victory has collapsed along with that tower.

As for the high-level defenders, there was no wavering, because facing a large number of enemies, the fall of the outer wall was within their expectations.The defense system of the Holy White Stone Fortress is not only the outer wall. The whole castle is a war fortress armed to the teeth. Every building in the castle is designed to be a strong fortress. Surrounded by iron fences, they communicate with each other through tunnels.

Although it had been expected, Earl Ansair still sighed deeply when he realized that the loss of the outer wall was irreversible. "It's too fast. I thought I could hold out until the evening at least—when the power of the sacred domain declines—and then retreat."

"My lord, the front is about to be overwhelmed... Hurry up, give the order!" Baron Hanuk, who was covered in blood and sweat, hurriedly reminded that the deputy city guard followed Earl Ansair just now. The heavy and heavy sword did harvest the heads of many undead, and he himself was exhausted, just like a bellows in a blacksmith's shop.

Earl Ansair did not answer right away, but scanned the situation on the top of the city with piercing eyes.He saw that what Baron Hanuk said was right, the defense line of the defenders of St. White Rock was indeed becoming more and more difficult to maintain. After two hours of fierce fighting, the defenders were too exhausted to stand firmly. It was very difficult, but their morale was not bad. Their swollen faces looked crazy, and they roared as they desperately slashed and killed the undead who climbed up to the top of the wall.

The three iron guard knights each led a small group of ashen knights to rampage across the city, trampling every undead that broke through the defense line under the hooves of their horses, and drowning in the shadow of swords and swords; However, his bravery in battle is no less than that of any knight. He seems to never tire of wielding a long-handled heavy hammer, leading the armed clergymen and apostolic storm knights of the Temple of Storms to fight on the front line. The blue suit on his body The black burqa had long been turned into blood-stained rags, and the steel plate armor coated with blue enamel under the burqa was also heavily scarred, with blood oozing from several places.It was thanks to the hard work of these people that the situation at the top of the city was stabilized, barely maintaining the integrity of the front line.

Earl Ansair's eyes showed a look of reluctance, but he knew even more that once the barely maintained front collapsed, most of the guards on the outer wall would not be able to withdraw to the central castle. Leading to the complete fall of the Holy White Rock Fort.

"Commander, blow the horn and order the whole army to retreat!" Earl Ansair ordered loudly, and then swung the thorn sword, the blade made a whistling sound in the air, and a black cloud of undead blood fell on the ground. Immediately let the white wall make a buzzing sound. "Knights of Dirk City, charge up with me and cover the retreat of your comrades!"

Beside the sword dancer, Captain Kane of the Dirk City Guards waved the banner of the Ring of Steel in his hand, and then there was a shout of killing, and more than a dozen city guard knights followed Earl Ansair, Charge along the outer city wall.But Baron Hanuk and several messengers stayed where they were, and blew a burst of urgent horns, commanding the defenders of the Holy White Stone Castle to retreat gradually.

The easternmost wall was abandoned first, and there were two gryphon knights in full metal armor and wielding two-handed swords.Since the distance here is the farthest, when the Earl of Ansair led the city guard knights to arrive there, all the soldiers under their command had been killed and wounded, and the two of them were also scarred, but they didn't look panicked at all. Swinging the big sword back to back, they chopped off batch after batch of undead and rolled them down the city.

Even the Earl of Ansair couldn't help but be moved by this heroic and fearless gesture. The knights of the City Guards worked together to kill all the undead troops on the top of the city.Then Earl Ansair erupted a storm of vindictive energy, and dozens of ghouls were smashed to pieces as soon as they rushed to the top of the city.

The defenders of the outer city wall took advantage of this rare opportunity to withdraw. They retreated step by step along the city wall from east to west, the most tired and injured walked in the front, and the Earl of Ansair led the city. The guard knights blocked the enemy from behind.As the walls of various places were abandoned one by one, the team of defenders gradually expanded. The outer wall of the Holy White Stone Fortress was enough to accommodate three knights galloping side by side, but it still seemed extremely crowded.The team stopped from time to time, and Earl Ansair even had to organize several counterattacks to force back the army of undead that was chasing him.

The attack of the undead army was not particularly violent, because the outer wall of the Holy White Stone Fortress had been soaked in blood and lost the protection of the divine power of light, but other parts of the city walls and buildings still had strong lethality against the undead.Neither vampires nor ghouls were interested in touching or staying on the surfaces of those buildings, and the mentally retarded skeletons and zombies moved very slowly, which allowed the defenders of the Holy White Stone Castle to evacuate the outer city walls smoothly.

They then quickly entered the inner city along the passageway. Earl Ansair was the last one to enter the entrance of the passageway. As he entered, the iron gate engraved with the golden sun god's emblem slammed down, and it would pass along the city wall. The swarming undead army blocked the outside.Immediately there was a burst of knocking on the door, but it didn't last long before the knocking on the door turned into howls and groans.

Earl Ansair couldn't help showing a smile. This iron gate is a precious magic item, and the divine power of light contained in it is no less than that of the sacred domain. Every collision with the iron gate will arouse the divine power of light to counterattack automatically , to the undead, it is like a scary hedgehog, unable to find a way to attack.

In the clouds above the Holy White Rock Fort, Li Weiston had to use all his willpower to restrain his urge to lead the whole army to dive down. The defenders of the Holy White Rock Fort fought very tenaciously. If hundreds of griffins and If all the alchemy fighters above join in, the outer city wall can still hold on for a long time.

But that won't win the final victory, because behind the undead army there is an army of demons recharging their energy. Even if it is to smash the offensive of the dead, the power of demons must be considered.Now Li Wei is very clear about the advantage of his team, that is, neither the devil nor the dead have noticed that there is such a force on their heads that cannot be ignored.

However, Li Wei is also very clear that the power in his hands is not enough to suppress the undead and demons. The first blow he made may be the only chance to determine the final victory or defeat of the war.

So he had to carefully consider how to make good use of his own advantages, and then Li Wei gave an order to the Griffin King in his heart to let this powerful beast fly south, and he wanted to take a look at the south side of the Holy White Stone Castle To find a possible retreat for the kingdom's troops.The sound of the battle was quickly left behind by the Griffin King. In less than 2 minutes, Li Wei saw the south wall and guard tower of the Holy White Stone Fort, as well as the defenders on the wall with less than a hundred people.

To Li Wei's relief, although there are thousands of demon troops gathered on the south side of the Holy White Stone Fort, most of them are ordinary teams composed of little demons, and there is also a small-scale winged demon army. scout troops.The commander of this demon troop is the Lord of Abyssal Demon Refining. For ordinary opponents, the Lord of Abyssal Demon Refining is already a very difficult and powerful enemy, but Li Wei is sure to decapitate the Lord of Abyssal Demon Refining with one violent attack. , and then defeated the demon army under his command.

A voice in Li Wei's heart was urging him to do so.

This is indeed a way. The Griffon cavalry unit hidden in the clouds can easily wipe out these demons in front of them, and the seemingly powerful Lord of Abyss Alchemy is no problem.Even without Curse World Black Sun and Mr. Dish, Li Wei is confident that he can defeat or kill him with the help of Roaring Bear Donald, Steel Fist Dragoonsun and his own long sword.In this way, the road to evacuate the Holy White Stone Fort was opened.Being able to successfully rescue the remnants of the king's army is obviously a rather glorious feat, and it is enough to shine the dazzling light of the dawn of the northern border when the kingdom's three-way army is almost wiped out!
Li Wei took a deep breath of the cold wind in the sky, and drove this tempting thought out of his mind.It's just that evacuation is definitely not a good choice. St. White Stone Fort is already the only guard leading to King Arthur's capital, Fermeyer. Once this place is occupied by undead and demons, the next war will probably be fought in the vast land of Yimapingchuan. It started on the plain, and for the undead and demons who had an absolute advantage in numbers, it would be a venue where they could play to their heart's content.

If the power in Li Weiston's hands is insufficient, then doing so is the only correct choice. However, the power in the hands of the young Griffin Lord is now strong enough. Even if they captured the Holy White Rock Fort, they would be unable to invade the north for a period of time.

A loud horn sounded from the northern front of St. Whitestone Fort. Li Wei immediately drove the Griffin King back to the sky above the battlefield. He saw that one of the towers maintaining the holy domain of St. Whitestone Fort had collapsed, and a faint golden light It can only cover a radius of [-] meters around the central castle; he saw Earl Ansair's Iron Ring banner flying above the city head, and the Ash Knight and City Guard Knight formed a steel fist, knocking the undead on the city wall The creatures were swept away; he also saw that under the cover of the knights, the exhausted defenders were gradually abandoning their position on the outer city wall and retreating into the city along the corridor, preparing to form a new line of defense relying on the buildings inside the Holy White Stone Fort .

All this indicates that humans have lost the first round of the battle to defend the Holy White Stone Fort, and the next battle will be even more difficult.However, Li Wei felt a burst of excitement, because he had found the flaw exposed by the undead army, and it was also the opportunity to turn the tide of the battle!
(End of this chapter)