"Quick, quick, assemble, assemble!"
"Damn it, hurry up, hurry up, evacuate those who are watching, let them get out of the way and stay out of the way."
"The Gate of Hell, how could something like this appear in the royal city?"
The young team leader gathered all the combat power that could be gathered around him, although he didn't know what this meant for the lava cracks rising in the sky.
"Sir, where are your Night Blade troops?" The team leader glanced at Edward, who was watching the rising direction of the Gate of Hell. He hesitated, but still asked his question.
Who doesn't know that during the war, the city guards of the kingdom are only protectors in name. They can deal with general banditry and security issues, but when it comes to problems of the level of the Gate of Hell, they are basically beyond their capabilities.
But the Night Blade commander, who had an acquaintance with that night when the fleshy monsters were raging in the city wall area, did not go looking for the Night Blade troops. Instead, he asked him to gather as many city guards as possible.
But are those city guards who are still making noises and talking about it and showing great fear of the gate of hell really useful?
The young captain is also a minor nobleman. He is also unlucky. He came to the city guard to work as an errand, and even if he is gilded, he will encounter this kind of thing twice. However, I don’t know if I should say he is lucky. The scapegoat who took the blame last time It wasn't his turn, and this time, it probably won't be.
"Huh... they are in the palace and can't be counted on for the time being. All we have to do is support them until the forbidden army arrives."
Edward exhaled. The power within the kingdom is indeed empty now. The war has mobilized too many troops to the battlefield. In the past, at least the city guards in each district had high-ranking formal knights as commanders, but now...
This relatively conscientious team leader has the strength of a high-level trainee knight, but as for those from other regions, Edward doesn't feel that he is better than him.
Originally, it would have been no problem for the Night Blade to fill the empty part of the city guard during the war, but this happened to be the time. The Night Blade could not be dispatched, and it would take some time for the Kingdom's imperial army to arrive.
Watching the winged demons flying out of the lava cracks and jumping into the sky, the human-like faces looked around with a hint of doubt and more excitement.
Edward knew that this was the vanguard from hell. If the door to hell was not closed as soon as possible, more and more powerful demons would sense the door leading here, and that would be a real disaster.
"The appearance of the Gate of Hell means that Wang Yu failed in his attempt to prevent the Gate of Hell from appearing... Then will he be fine?" Edward muttered in his heart.
The communication was cut off due to the Reality Anchor's position, and Wang Yu has not yet sent him another message. He doesn't know what happened to the explosion, but there is a high probability that it was caused by Wang Yu.
"Edward, I detonated the reality anchor and tried to use the explosion to break the top of the demon summoning array, but it seems to have failed so far. I was a step slower, but I still gained something."
Coincidentally, when Edward was worried about Wang Yu's situation, Wang Yu's communication arrived.
Running in the city wall area without gaps, Wang Yu recalled what he saw in the pothole, organized his language a little, and told Edward the information.
"I don't know who cleared a cavity in the sewer below in advance. Someone drew a demon summoning formation inside. The residents of the city wall area who you found missing before should have been pulled down as sacrifices. "
Thinking again of the bloody scene below and the painful wailing that did not stop even after the soul dissipated, I have to say that life at the bottom of the royal city is really too bad.
It is very difficult to attack the residents outside the city wall area without being discovered. However, although these residents of the city wall area are nominally residents of the royal city, they are not actually members of the royal city at all. The large-scale disappearance of the residents of the wall area did not cause any problems. Troubles.
Wang Yu didn't know if the structure of the Royal City was deformed or not. It did have many hidden dangers. Considering the uncontrolled violence and chaos under the shadow of the Royal City, which was uncontrolled by the royal family, he had to suspect that the royal family was deliberately doing this. Raise something.
The professor once mentioned a weapon called "The Divine Remains of the End". Although the professor believed that the protective measures included prevented Wang Yu from hearing it, in fact, this had no substantive effect on Wang Yu.
"The darkness and violence born in the hearts of these people will eventually be projected into the ocean of spiritual power, and the things bred in the center of the ocean of spiritual power will become stronger and stronger, and eventually the nascent will of the abyss will You will also mature, Aleister royal family, what on earth are you doing..."
Shaking his head, Wang Yu shook all these things out of his head. Now is not the time to engage in conspiracy theories. The top priority is to hold back these demons who ran out of the gate of hell and prevent the scorched earth. spread.
"Although the explosion was not able to destroy the summoning formation, it also had the advantage of opening up the passage between the summoning formation and the upper part. Just wait until the Royal Forbidden Army arrives and forcefully break through it from above. Edward, what we have to do now is to contain these demons. It may have reduced casualties.”
Wang Yu's thinking is very clear. These demons are currently only the vanguard. The strength of the winged demons is not very strong. They are probably at the level of high-level knight apprentices, and their physical fitness is not very high. This strength is mainly due to their ability to fly. , and can also throw fireballs.
The real trouble is that a series of more powerful demons such as the Eye Demon, the Bull Demon, and the Black Goat will appear later. The strength of these things can be said to have skyrocketed, far exceeding the terror of the Winged Demon.
"Ah ah ah, help! Please help me!" A shrill scream came from a distance. While running, Wang Yu looked back and saw a young woman who was trapped between the cracks of the house by a winged demon. It was discovered that these evil winged demons took her into the air and admired her frightened face and struggling.
"Alas..." Wang Yu sighed and ignored them. They were too far away. Although it was not difficult to kill these winged demons, he was not a superman. He had neither superhuman strength nor superhuman responsibility. He might save those within his power. , but an unfamiliar person who is further away will not feel any guilt even if he does not save him.
"Bang." The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came, and the screams stopped suddenly. Wang Yu did not look back. This was just the beginning. As long as these demons are still raging, tragedies will continue to happen. What Wang Yu saw , is just a microcosm of the chaos in the royal city.
"I am gathering the city guards and asking them to set up a defense line at the junction of the city wall area and other areas. It usually takes five minutes for the next level of demons to appear. Wang Yu, you have about two minutes, hurry up and join us. "
Edward's communication came through, and the sound there was noisy. A large number of noisy voices could be heard, including frightened inquiries, impatient shouting, and even crying and cursing.
"Okay." Wang Yu nodded and sped up again.
It will take a certain amount of time for the Imperial Army to arrive. It is estimated that it will take fifteen minutes without help. And every five minutes, the danger level of demons that may appear in the Gate of Hell will increase to a higher level. Time is what they lack most. s things.
Most of these demons are still within the scope of this city wall area. If most of the residents in the city wall area were not sacrificed, they might be massacred by the demons now.
However, precisely because there are no weak humans here to attract the attention of demons, they lose interest in this empty and dilapidated place faster, and turn to other areas faster.
At this moment, the outermost city guard defense line had come into contact with the first batch of demons flying to the outside world, and the demon blocking battle began at this moment.
Winged Demons, creatures at the bottom of hell, are nothing outstanding, but their poor intelligence prevents them from knowing what fear is. The reason why they are fearless and die without being wiped out is because of their numbers.
There is a limit to the throughput of the Gate of Hell. The more powerful demons pass through, the larger their share will be. As for the Winged Demons, they are so weak that they barely need to stop when swallowing these low-level things.
A large number of winged demons were densely packed and scattered, laughing wildly without formation and flying from the direction of the Gate of Hell towards the first line of defense built at the junction of the city wall area and other areas.
“Can such a large quantity really be handled?”
"Damn it, it's just my first time going into battle."
"Obviously the city guards only deal with thieves and the like, why would they get involved in something like this?"
"I won't die here...wuwu."
The mobilized city guards used simple scrap carriages, old furniture, and some stones to build a half-person-high crude fence at the dividing line between the city wall area and other areas. .
This was of no use to the flying winged demons, and seemed self-deceptive to the flightless but more powerful demons that appeared later.
The armors of the gathered city guards are all Kingdom-standard armors made of metal. The quality is quite good. The bows and swords in their hands are also high-quality products provided by the Kingdom. This set of equipment is not as good as any other adventurer guild outside the royal city. Among mercenaries and mercenaries, only the upper class can possess them.
But only the equipment can be considered sophisticated. It is true that the general strength level of the royal city is one level higher than that of the outside world. This is determined by the environment and resources, but things like mentality and will cannot sometimes be supplemented by these.
When facing these swarming winged demons, they showed uncontrollable fear and confusion, but they were unable to escape due to military orders.
The number of winged demons makes them seem overwhelming. Their bodies are about the size of human teenagers and their wings are much larger when spread out. Although they are not as numerous as a flock of birds, they still bring about the same sense of oppression.
Although the overall strength of the temporary city guards during the war is not strong, and most of them are crooked melons with no experience and no willpower at all, they are also regular organized troops incorporated into the kingdom's army and defy the Military orders will be dealt with horribly afterwards.
So even when faced with these large numbers of winged demons, they did not dare to escape and had no choice but to bite the bullet.
"Calm down, these demons are just the earliest vanguard. If these winged demons can't stand it, you may all die here today. Cheer up and prepare to shoot!"
In the middle of the queue, a knight captain with some gray hair commanded these soldiers who had little fighting spirit. These veterans were either retired from the frontline army and did not want to be idle, or they had some hidden injuries and were unable to go to the frontline.
Compared with other crooked melons and cracked jujubes, these leaders still have very good military literacy and willpower. Under his command, although the chaos and fear still exist, the city guards still gather as much as possible into a shooting formation. , using the building as a cover and getting ready to shoot.
The team leader stared at the Winged Demon who was getting closer and closer. He showed composure and coolness, but in fact he was not as calm as he appeared. He had willpower and insight far beyond that of the city guards, but at the same time he was even more powerful because of it. Understand how scary the devil is.
These winged demons were just the vanguard, and there would be more terrifying ones later. As a team that unfortunately was on the front line, he didn't know how many of the people present could survive, and whether he himself could survive. Survive.
However, even if he was going to die, he would do so after fighting with all his strength, "For Arestle, shoot!" When the winged demons flew quickly into the shooting range of the city guards, the leader was very angry. The roar spread.
"Click, click, click!" The sound of the machine string pulling was endless. The soldiers, who were already in a highly tense state, heard the leader's roar and subconsciously pulled the trigger of the crossbow without even listening to the content.
The taut force of the bow string turned into the force of the arrow during the process of loosening. The power of the military crossbow was fully displayed at this moment. A large number of arrows rose rapidly in the military formation, flew rapidly in the air and then shot into the wing. A swarm of demons.
"Duo! Duo! Duo!" The sharp metal arrows easily pierced the weak body of the Winged Demon. The Winged Demon whose head was pierced died in the air, and those whose limbs were hit also had no good end. After struggling for a few times, he lost strength and fell from the air.
Even the wing demons whose wings were scratched could not survive. The arrows cut through the membrane of the wings, and the wing demons that lost power fell to the ground from a height that they could not bear, turning into a pool of bloody residue.
A wave of volleys from hundreds of people made the array in front of the Winged Demons become significantly sparser.
Later, because I was not familiar with the loading of crossbows, the shooting was not as fast and neat as the first wave. The shots were uneven, and the sound of arrows piercing the air came intermittently. Because of the quantity problem, there was no need for any aiming. Basically The last shot will definitely kill a winged demon.
"Okay, these demons are nothing special."
"It scared me haha."
"I'll make a profit this time."
"Better be careful, there are a bit too many of them."
"What are you afraid of? I promised you a reward this time."
These inexperienced soldiers lacked confidence, but they built it up quickly. They immediately became excited after seeing how easily shooting could kill these winged demons.
"Be careful to avoid it!" the leader's voice suddenly came.
Seemingly noticing the group of humans shooting at them, the winged demons let out shrill laughter. They did not feel any fear due to the large number of attrition, but instead became even more excited.
A large number of approaching winged demons emitted fiery red flames from their hands, and each fireball was created by these crazy hell creatures and then thrown.
The soldiers stared blankly at the fireballs falling from the sky, falling into a daze. Aren't these demons easily killed?
Maybe they were right, but these demons could kill them just as easily.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The neighborhood where the first line of defense was located fell into a purgatory of explosions and flames.
