Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 386: Thunder in the Morning
whoosh-

An armor-piercing dragon arrow wrapped in red lightning shot past, brushed past Layas' cheek and disappeared into the night, leaving a blood groove deep enough to see the bone!
"what--"

Laiyas screamed. Now he didn't even have the strength to curse. The only thing he could do was to continue squeezing out the last bit of strength remaining between his fat and flesh and desperately run towards the town.

It seemed that the monsters had no intention of killing him immediately. They just surrounded him from behind, not too far away, and set up a pocket formation to slowly drive him away and tease him.

Whenever he ran a certain distance, they would attack him from a distance with dragon arrows and prayers, leaving a wound that was neither light nor serious, torturing his body and spirit like a blunt knife cutting flesh. And when he slowed down due to exhaustion, they would relax their encirclement accordingly, giving him some time to catch his breath.

It was like a cat playing with mouse, or just like the giants playing with the humans on this land a few days ago.

The thunder-like hooves' sounds gradually approached, like a horrible monster that gradually invaded reality from a nightmare, devouring Laias's will bit by bit. He didn't know how many enemy troops had taken advantage of the night to kill him, and those crazy monsters didn't even give him a chance to look back.

But he knew why those monsters did it.

If this continues, all the giants in the town of Odysseus will be awakened, gathered together, and driven into a group of animals to be slaughtered by the screams of their commander, and trampled into mud by iron hooves in ignorant panic.

And there was nothing he could do about it.

When we were heading to the East Second Camp from the town, we were full of ambition to rectify military discipline and establish military prestige. We felt that the twenty or thirty miles were only a short distance. But when we were being chased and killed like toys, we felt that the distance was so long.

"Something must be done." In the gloomy darkness, Laias looked at the shadowy city walls in the distance and said fiercely in his heart.

The despicable and cruel dragons wanted to use him to stir up a mutiny in the camp and seize the town without bloodshed, but he would not let them do so! He would seize the fleeting opportunity to loudly warn the enemy and rush back to his own formation to organize defense! Even if the enemy and us were outnumbered and the town of Odysseus would inevitably fall temporarily, he would bring these two thousand soldiers back safely for His Majesty!
Finally, he saw the outline of the east gate of Odysseus, and saw the fortifications and guard posts he had ordered to be built a few days ago as a precaution. According to the military orders he had issued long ago, once the alarm was heard at the east gate, the entire city would respond immediately within three minutes. Wait, what the hell was that?
At the end of the field of vision, a dirty, dilapidated shadow was approaching the city gate from outside the city. As the distance quickly shortened, the field of vision gradually became clearer.

There were hundreds of Odysseus townspeople with their hands tied behind their backs, 80% of them were women, 15% were immature teenagers and elderly people, and the remaining half were children under ten years old.

The children who were killed by the giants.

Their clothes had long been stained with dirt and blood, so that their original colors could no longer be seen. Beneath the tattered fabrics were traces of torture, abuse, and playing with. The pairs of eyes that looked over blankly had long been dull and filled with only fear and trembling engraved in their bones.

Of course, what Riyas cared about was not how much suffering these stored food and toys had suffered.

What he cared about was the end of the team, led by a fourth-generation giant. More than a hundred giants who were supposed to be guarding here looked at the commander who suddenly appeared here. They scratched their heads, and the same fear as those damn humans appeared in their big eyes!
At that moment, all the most vicious words that Layas knew burst out from his heart like a flash flood. If he had not been exhausted from running for his life, he would have wanted to rush over and twist off that subordinate's pig head and shit and piss in it!

No matter how ridiculous he had been these days, he had arranged for the rotation of defense at the four city gates, especially the east gate adjacent to the Port of Odysseus. He even took a brief inspection when he went out for patrol just now, and warned that beast that had been cut into pieces to strengthen its defenses!

But now, right in front of him, they were actually thinking of rushing over a group of humans from the prisoner camp outside the city for fun while he was away!
The sentinels on the top of the city wall tower, the archers guarding the city, the giant catapult and crossbow operators, the armored guards stationed in the fortifications outside the city gate. All the giants who were supposed to be here to help them resist this wave of attacks surrounded the group of prisoners happily, drooling as they worked together to move the barricades, open the city gates, and clear the way for the bonfire party they had been longing for!
A bunch of bastards who don’t know how to spell the word death, those dragons—that demigod, Lucia Shanks!

He has come to kill you! Buzz——

The thick and long hairs all over Laias' body suddenly stood up!

Hundreds of armor-piercing dragon arrows, which were far more powerful than the previous ones, gathered into a cold black light, carrying with them blazing red lightning and swept across his head, like a huge wave hitting the array of giants surrounding the captives at high tide, slamming into the huge waves!
However, the waves were not made up of sea water, but the blood and flesh of giants.

"Idiots, run!!!" Rhys shouted at the top of his lungs.

The East Gate could no longer be defended, and the tactic of using the East Gate fortifications to delay the enemy's pace and buy time for retreat also failed. Now the only thing he could hope for was to use the advantage of street fighting in the city of Odysseus, where cavalry was not convenient to launch, to delay time until the generals of the Eastern Regiment came to help. How many of his men could survive would be the best!
More than a thousand steps away, nearly half of the giants who were driving the captives suffered casualties in the first wave of arrow rain. The drastic change from a simple violation of military discipline to an imminent catastrophe almost caused the low-level giants, whose thinking was so simple that they acted almost entirely on instinct, to almost have their brains crash.

Finally, the fourth-generation giant leading the team reacted. He shouted and dragged his subordinates into the city. Among them, several giants were reluctant to part with the captives and tried to take a few of them away with them under their arms, but he immediately rushed forward and knocked them to the ground with a few punches.

"Run!" The fourth-generation giant jumped onto a fortification, waved his arms and shouted, and took the giant crossbow from the inside of the fortification to prepare to counterattack the incoming enemy.

The next second, a beam of brilliant lightning struck from the sky, instantly turning him into charcoal.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when nearly a hundred giants were crowding inside and outside the East City Gate, the flying dragon guards who were originally chasing behind Laias not far away transformed into dragon bodies and soared into the sky!

Their iron-like membrane wings tore through the sky, stirring up howling gale, and poured the most extremely violent elemental force towards the giants who were obscured by the dragon's shadow!
The elemental powers mastered by flying dragons are not limited to fire. Although they cannot master the five elements of earth, water, wind, fire and thunder at the same time like the ancient dragons, they can rely on their own bloodlines to become proficient in one of them.

What's more, those who are qualified to follow the new king are the most outstanding upper-level flying dragons of the younger generation of Fam Azra!

Sand, ice, hurricanes, fire, thunder. The violent energy tore the giant battle formation into pieces, making the sky above the entire city of Odysseus as bright as day.

In the dimly lit sky, Laias caught a glimpse of a dark silver line passing by his side, like an outstretched arm, guarding the captives thrown away by the giants.

At this moment, he no longer had the leisure to mock the armies of the three dynasties for still caring about civilian casualties. At this time, the other side could still send such an elite force to protect the prisoners, which could only mean one thing -

In the darkness behind him, the forces that raided Odysseus were by no means a small group of troops, but the real main force of the Northern Expedition of the three major dynasties.

Your Majesty, the high priest, the ancestral giants, the judgments of all the strong and wise men in the royal court have lost their effectiveness on the new ancient dragon king. Such an army that is capable of completely subverting the war situation in the north has arrived in the far east without any warning. What's next?

Clayton, Vigland, the Eastern Chapter headquarters Guntherfred, and even the meat grinder-like Sol battlefield in the central region.
When the Storm Troops that crushed the North five hundred years ago joined forces with the Golden Army that razed the Old Royal Court twenty years ago, and at the same time had a true Dragon King as their commander, although the Arctic ice field is vast, where can they retreat to before they can be held back?

(End of this chapter)