Heart of the Castle

Chapter 751 The Battering Hammer Breaking through the Sky

Before the earth trembled for the first time with a low rumble, Charlemagne, the Lord of Terror, sat on the inner wall of the Dark Fortress all along, scanning the battlefield outside the city, where the thick fog was boiling like a boiling pot. , the degree is even more intense than after Team Leader Bass led the Winged Demon troops to enter.

The high-level demon lords and generals standing behind him were whispering to each other, speculating about the siege methods that the human coalition forces would use, but even the most pessimistic statement was that the outer city walls would be occupied by the human coalition forces , and then launched a series of fierce close-range confrontations with the demon defenders.

In a small-scale, close-range confrontation, the strong physique of the abyssal demons can be said to have an advantage, especially when fighting on narrow city walls and stone steps, even an ordinary horned demon can rely on its strength and physique to fight against a Regular knights who have mastered the power of fighting spirit compete against each other.

If the same battlefield is placed on a flat plain outside the city, which is suitable for large-scale cavalry charges, I am afraid that a thick array of [-] horned demons will be broken from the front by one-tenth of the human knight team. In a sense It is said that the gap in combat effectiveness will be widened to more than ten times.

Although it has suffered heavy losses, the Dark Fortress still has 2 elite demon defenders and tens of thousands of cannon fodder. The Dreadlord Charlemagne can arrange more than 5000 horned demons, hellhounds, and abyss guards in various arteries. Although there are as many as [-] people in the hand-to-hand combat team, I am afraid that less than one-tenth of the knights have mastered the power of fighting spirit. [-] people are already extremely elite.

Even if it is an ordinary knight, no commander can use it as cannon fodder for expendable purposes, and most of them are the leaders of the team.Of course, there are a considerable number of troops with all members of knights, but they are all elite among the elite, and it is impossible to be used in fierce street battles where every inch of land needs repeated fighting and sacrifice to determine its ownership.Charlemagne, the Lord of Terror, was completely sure that there was no possibility of his thinking being wrong. He raised his right hand and shook it a few times, giving an order to prepare according to the established strategy.

Most of the demon lords and generals immediately took orders to leave, each to reorganize the troops and prepare for the next battle. However, Charlemagne did not leave the obsidian city wall on which he was straddling. He looked down with a bit of malicious speculation, thinking I am very interested in how the human coalition forces climbed the 40-meter-high outer wall of the Dark Fortress.

The Dread Lord Charlemagne is different from other abyssal demons. He has a considerable understanding of the major races on the main plane, especially in terms of the combat methods of these races.Human knights are quite troublesome, and they are good at making all kinds of siege equipment; elves are good at natural magic, although their archery is a little fancy, but they are actually quite precise and sharp, and they have reached a mutual aid covenant with the emerald dragon family; dwarves are good at digging underground Although the combat effectiveness of the mines on the surface is not very high, they can exert several times their strength in the underground tunnels; as for the orcs, this race is very bloodthirsty and good at fighting, and it is somewhat similar to the abyssal demons, but it has already fallen apart. Except for the orc savage king in the far south of the mainland, there is not even a legendary powerhouse.

The troop composition of the Griffin Lord Levi Stone is not exactly the same as that of the general human kingdom. He has a very powerful air force under his command. In addition, it is stronger than the Winged Demon Annihilator in the army of abyssal demons; at the same time, the ground troops in the hands of the Griffin Lord are also very elite. Ramsdon, the mad warrior who died outside Dirk City, once recalled, That troop can even gain the upper hand in a face-to-face charge against the Scourge Knights of the Dead, and with the same number, even the ace abyss guard team riding the nightmare beast was once defeated by the corrupt lord Anliott. Under the Scourge Knights.

But for the Dark Fortress, these are not a problem.

The most powerful human knight lies in the group charge on the plain. Good cooperation and steel-like discipline can enable them to exert several times their combat effectiveness. Invincible, even the thick armor of the abyss refining demon can be pierced forcibly.However, the walls of the Dark Fortress are not a good place to charge horses. Although the width of the outer walls is not too narrow, there are enough ramps, stone steps and potholes. It is almost impossible to charge. , if you are not careful, you will fall under the city wall of tens of meters.

As for griffins, these monsters may be regarded as powerful enemies in the air, but they cannot defeat the large number of demons in close combat. At most, they carry out some behaviors such as harassment and guerrilla warfare. The demon defenders of the fortress are fully capable of withstanding such losses.

There was a low hissing sound, and it sounded like the catapult, which had been silent not long ago, was starting to work again.A malicious smile appeared on the face of the terror lord Charlemagne, "What a stupid move, let those human beings smash stone balls on the empty outer city wall, in addition to creating some obstacles, there is no threat to the darkness." What is the effect on the body of the fortress?"

Maybe those humans want to use the power of the catapult to throw the soldiers directly to the top of the city?This weird idea suddenly appeared in the mind of the Lord of Terror, so Charlemagne temporarily indulged his imagination, imagining a pair of human soldiers being thrown into the air one after another, and then accompanied by miserable howls, let the darkness The beautiful view of countless blood flowers blooming on the outer wall of the fortress.This scene so attracted the fearful lord's mind that when the ground suddenly trembled violently, he was almost shaken off the obsidian city wall.

"Damn the gods! What happened, those humans want to create an earthquake?" Charlemagne dunked his right hand into the solid obsidian, blinking his blood-red eyes and looking down, "By the way, The Church of the God of the Earth has sent many clergymen, and among the divine arts they have mastered, there is indeed an earthquake-making type!"

With a dull roar, the ground trembled again, the city walls shook, the towers tilted, and the demons with unstable footholds staggered to and fro with screams, and some even fell from the city walls.The roar came for the third time, and it seemed to be getting closer, and the vibrations became more intense, as if the God of the Earth was suddenly furious and was about to use his mighty power to destroy the demon defenders of the Dark Fortress.

Charlemagne's expression became dignified. The Dark Fortress is not an ordinary castle, but a super fortress formed by the condensation of the first layer of the entire abyss and purgatory.Ordinary power can't cause any damage to it at all, even if the attack launched by the legendary powerhouse can destroy some ancillary buildings of the dark fortress, it is impossible to cause serious trauma to the fortress itself.

To deal with such an indestructible fortress, it is indeed a way to start from the foundation. If the priests of the Earth Temple can really create a super earthquake that collapses the mountains, it is indeed possible to seriously tilt the Dark Fortress, or partially fall into it. underground.

Thinking of this, Charlemagne, the Lord of Terror, turned his head and ordered to a demon general beside him, "Tell the leader of the abyss priests to prepare to activate the Blood Flame Light Sea Domain of the Dark Fortress and let the entire fortress float ten meters into the air. To prevent those human-made earthquakes..."

There was a particularly violent roar, and it seemed that something hit the outer wall of the Dark Fortress fiercely, and the whole castle shook violently. "Earthquake? Catapult? No, not those!" Charlemagne turned around in surprise, and then saw a scene he would never forget.

The dense mist of water vapor created by humans has dissipated most of it at some point, and the remaining thin mist can't play much of a covering role at all.A black giant—the top of its head is almost level with the outer wall of the Dark Fortress.The visual height may have reached more than 40 meters - pushing a larger war machine approaching the outer wall of the dark fortress, and was sorting out the black ram hanging under the machine. Charlemagne had a feeling of chills in his heart, his appearance was even more terrifying, and he also had an inexplicable sense of intimacy, as if it came from the hands of the lord of the abyss and purgatory.

"Your Majesty Charlemagne, look, that... what is that?" A demon lord who also saw this scene couldn't help but shouted, his face was overly frightened and gray. "That black giant... seems to want to use that thing to smash through the walls of the Dark Fortress!"

"Damn the gods, let him go and see!" Charlemagne cursed in a low voice, gnashing his teeth, convincing other demons, and at the same time convincing himself, "The Dark Fortress is a miracle of war created by His Majesty the Great Lord of the Abyss, Amur Hydras. , apart from the full attack of the legendary strongman, there is no power that can cause decent damage to this fortress!"

It was impossible for the black giant to hear the curse of the terrifying lord from thousands of meters away, but even if he heard it, it was impossible for the Alchemy Colossus to stop attacking.Due to time constraints and insufficient materials, the alchemy battering hammer supervised by Mr. Dish was not actually fully manufactured. If it was successfully manufactured, it should have its own forward and attack capabilities.And since it is only a semi-finished product, it has to trouble the only person who can push this war machine.

"Moti, the god of alchemy, will definitely cry for me!" Yan kept talking as he pulled the battering hammer back forcefully, "I am the alchemy colossus, the supreme crystallization of the great alchemy, It’s not a coolie for forced demolition! Grandmaster Dish, you must remember your promise, twenty for carts, forty for demolition of walls, the wages will be settled on the same day, and the wages of the Alchemy Colossus cannot be in arrears!”

There was a loud bang that shook the world, as if a thunderbolt had exploded on a sunny day, and it was also like the earth was violently powerful. The entire dark fortress was shaking non-stop, and some ancillary buildings collapsed and rolled down because they could not withstand such a violent vibration, billowing dust and smoke Accompanied by screams, it suddenly rose and rushed straight into the sky.

Several stone passages and suspended corridors connected to the outer city wall collapsed one after another, and the demons guarding them screamed in horror, and then fell down along with the wreckage of the building.The powerful physique of the demons allows them to survive a sudden fall from a height of tens of meters. However, if there are thousands of tons of building debris accompanying the fall, the only ending for most demons is to be smashed to pieces.

The outer city wall of the Dark Fortress was indeed strong enough. Even this violent blow did not completely destroy it. Instead, it broke the front frame of the giant battering ram, and half of the black chain as thick as an arm was broken.People who saw this scene let out sighs of disappointment, mixed with a little gloating that was not clever enough to hide.

Even Mr. Dish frowned, but the young griffin lord did not lose confidence. He raised his arms high and gestured five fingers towards the alchemy giant statue.

"Yan, fifty gems of faith!"

"Oh oh oh oh! Fifty—one hammer!" The Alchemy Colossus suddenly uttered a shout that shocked the entire battlefield, and with a wave of its arm as thick as a pillar, it grabbed the body of the giant battering ram from the frame. When they got down, the black chains broke and collapsed one after another, and then the sturdy frame of the fire-grained wood was also kicked away by the Alchemy Colossus.

"Come on, try the dwarf craftsman and the god of wisdom Mortilara Noah Clemennon Susan Obi-Wan... the highest masterpiece, the fourth form of self-defense of the Alchemy Colossus, the centrifugal rotation of him... Fortress, please , open the door!"

The second loud noise was like a sky crashing, followed by a tremor several times more violent than before. Hundreds of corridors, steps and ramps were broken and collapsed during the tremor, and more than half of them collapsed, except for the ability to fly or teleport In addition to the demons, many of the demon defenders who survived by chance have become prisoners trapped on isolated towers and buildings.

What made the demons even more horrified was that the outer wall of the dark fortress, which had never been destroyed, was blasted with an extraordinarily huge gap, and this gap actually looked like a human figure!
"Calculation error, major calculation error... beep beep, logical self-check begins..." Yan, who was lying on a pile of rubble, was obviously dissatisfied with what he had done just now, his eyes flickered red, his mouth All kinds of alchemy terms and dwarf secret language words kept popping up in it. "I should have smashed the battering ram against the city wall. Why did I smash myself over? If my size is regarded as seven times that of the battering ram, can I ask for seven times the reward from the host of Leviston?" ...The calculation of the probability of success has started, beep beep..."

(End of this chapter)