Heart of the Castle

Chapter 633 Three Days and Nights Through Fire and Smoke ([-])
Seeing countless streams of hot flames spreading and raging among the army of demons, thunderous cheers suddenly resounded in the direction of the Moonglade outpost, resounding through the sky, and many hats, gloves, and shields were thrown into the air.The shouts of "Long live the Moonwhispering Forest" and "Long live the Griffon Lord" were almost as loud and loud, and everyone was screaming and shouting, even the always reserved high elves—including the green leaf singer Simon The Golden Tongue and Silver Pegasus Knight Commander Selandis are no exception.The kind-hearted Mercy Singer even burst into tears, offering his most sincere prayers to the Goddess of Life, Alara, for the achievements of the Griffin Lord Leviston.

On the contrary, the camp of the demon army was shrouded in dead silence, and the treacherous lord Shakros sat back on his obsidian throne, his face somber as if it was the sky of an impending storm.There was indeed a violent storm brewing in his throat, but he didn't know who to lash out at.

To the griffin lord Leviston who destroyed the advanced invisibility technique?However, the level of hatred between the two parties has long been irreconcilable. Li Weiston fought against the abyss demon in the northern county, the four southern counties, the holy white stone castle and the king's capital Philmeyer. He and his subordinates died in battle. There are no less than tens of thousands of demons in the hand of the hand, no matter how resentful and hostile the treacherous lord is, there is nothing to do before the outpost of Moonglade is captured.

To the Burning Dragon King Dariga who failed to cover those abyss refining demons from escaping?His Majesty the Dragon King is not someone who can be scolded at will, and the judgment he made just now is very accurate, and the order is very timely. Even the deceitful lord himself can't do better.

After hesitating for a long time, the treacherous lord Shakros had no choice but to order the team leader of the Winged Demon Destroyer to be executed.Because when he executed the order to burn the Dragon King, there was a fatal delay, which caused the dark sky to not cover those abyss refining demons in time. The trump card of the former team.

As for the offensive this morning, it was over. The demon army withdrew from the battlefield with heavy losses, leaving countless corpses, and in some places, they were even piled one to two meters high.Blood flowed from the dead and wounded demons, forming many purple-red quagmires. A gust of strong wind blew by, and the bloody smell mixed with the pungent sulfur smell was brought to the direction of the outpost in Moonglade. The guards inside were dizzy and could barely breathe.

For this trouble, even Li Wei couldn't come up with any good solution. In the end, he had to gather all the priests of the Temple of the Goddess of Life, and under the leadership of the benevolent chant, collectively cast the magic spell of "air filtration", which made these turbid The foul smell dissipated a lot.

However, this is only a temporary relief and does not solve the problem once and for all.At the same time, the level of this magical spell called "air filtration" is as high as three rings. For the priests of the Temple of the Goddess of Life, every time they perform the magical spell of air filtration, it means that a divine favor for treating severe injuries is wasted. Lost.

In the most intense moment of the battle, a divine spell often means a life. In this way, the trouble caused by the corpses of the demon army is even greater than the damage their fierce attack caused to the defenders of the Moonglade outpost.

On the other hand, the secret archer Larry Moonbow led several elven sharpshooters and was accompanying Levi Stone, the green leaf singer Simon Golden Tongue, the green lion Marquis Osiris, and the leader of the silver Pegasus knight Serrandis, etc. People patrolled the camp, surveying the damage to the fortifications by the demon army.Serving as a guard beside Li Wei was the servant knight Glen Worm. Sir Rodriguez did not participate because he suffered some minor injuries while fending off the collapsed watchtower.

Of course, the real situation is not the case. Sir Rodriguez was completely unscathed, but it was true that because of the excessive force when resisting the watchtower, the accessories that suppressed the breath of death on his body were damaged to varying degrees, so he had to go to Di Mr. Shi repaired it.

The damage to the fortifications of the outpost in Moonlight Glade was not serious. After all, the forwards of the demon army were not able to reach the distance enough for melee combat. Only seven or eight watchtowers were destroyed, and the wooden walls were also blasted away by fireballs. A gap about three meters long.Moreover, the repair work has already started after the fighting ceased. Some strong wild bearmen and orc soldiers were shouting, lifting the repair logs to their positions, and then a few wild bearmen and orc soldiers with complicated patterns on their upper bodies The elves fastened the logs with canes and ropes.Li Wei originally thought that the wild elf war dancers were doing this, but after careful attention, he discovered that it was the young sword dancers who had Mr. Dish draw the war dance tattoos on their bodies.

The arrival of Li Wei and others made these soldiers extremely excited. They put down their work and cheered one after another. Li Wei also nodded frequently in return, with a beaming expression on his face.

However, when the soldiers returned to their posts, the Griffon Lord turned his head to face the crowd, but his eyes and expressions were different, revealing deep worry.

"The fortifications are still too fragile." He said to the Green Leafsinger in a very heavy tone, "Today's battle is not so much a formal confrontation as it is a tentative raid, with a quarter of the observation The towers were destroyed by fire, and these fortifications would be of little help in the event of an all-out war."

"Your Excellency Li Wei, with our powerful elven sharpshooter troops, it will not be so easy for those demons to rush to the outskirts of the camp." Before Green Leaf Chanter could answer, Serendi, the leader of the Silver Pegasus Knights, was walking beside him. Stan had already spoken, his young face beaming with excitement. "Look, those piled up corpses on the battlefield are the symbol of our victory!"

"Master Serendis, you imagined the war too simply." The secret archer Larry Yuebow shook his head and smiled wryly, "In the battle just now, the archers did perform very well, but it was only in the watchtower. Before being destroyed by the devil's magic, at least half of the archers stopped shooting because they were afraid of being chosen as the target of the magic attack. If it wasn't for His Excellency Li Wei who lifted the invisibility technique of those abyss refining demons in time, I am afraid that the wooden walls of the camp are already dead. was breached."

"The skills of the elf archers are impeccable, but the will to fight is far behind." Sir Grace, the sniper archer, added, "And our material consumption is also very high, especially the explosive flame arrows and silver alloys that are difficult to replenish This is especially true for armor-piercing arrows, if the fierce battle like this morning continues for a few more hours, we will have to fight with ordinary arrows."

"The iron and wood arrows we have always used are obviously not powerful enough. When dealing with enemies like the Horned Demon Warlord, ordinary archers can't even pierce their scale armor. After all, the number of sharpshooters is limited. There are still five in the battle this morning. More than ten people were killed and more than ten people were injured." There was a hint of mourning in Larry Yuegong's voice, and he took a deep breath to calm down his emotions. "So I completely agree with His Excellency Levi's statement that we must find a way to strengthen the fortifications, otherwise it will be difficult for us to support for too long."

"Leave the task of strengthening the fortifications to us bear people." Bill Dabas, the leader of the bear people, said in his deep and deep voice, "we bear people have a lot of strength, we can dig a ditch, lay a pile or something no problem."

"No, not only wild bears, but also orcs, centaurs, elves, ancient tree tribes, and humans." Li Weiston stretched out his hands and drew a big circle that included the entire camp, "come in the evening Before, we had to dig a deep enough trench around the three sides of the Moonglade outpost, and nailed a sharpened and charred wooden stake behind the trench. In addition, in order not to let these trenches and wooden fences block our soldiers The road for the attack must also be designed and built with a movable suspension bridge, and the last aspect can be left to the chief of the four children."

The leader of the little monsters knocked on his breastplate with a smile on his face, "Si Er, Knight of Secret Rhyme, I am at your service anytime!"

"But I don't want to see any complicated design. I don't need steam power, alchemy skills, self-explosion, and other messy functions. It's just an ordinary movable suspension bridge. Do you understand?" Li Wei's tone was very strong, and he could not refuse.

The leader of the goblin showed a sad expression, "Don't you need any functions? Your Excellency Li Wei." He lowered his eyes, but quickly raised his head again, his eyes shone with the light of "wisdom", "A building that can be laid by itself How about a movable suspension bridge? Just add some of the simplest alchemy golem manufacturing techniques..."

"I mean..." Li Wei bent down, stared at the eyes of the leader of the four children very seriously, and told him word by word, "Just one, ordinary, movable suspension bridge!"

At the same time, the demon army was also starting to build its own camp. Due to the recent defeat, the morale of the army was very low, and the work efficiency was also very low.Although the cannon fodder troops whose consciousness was destroyed by the spiritual storm did not have such a problem, but because the abyss priest team that was mainly responsible for manipulating them had been wiped out at the beginning of the fierce battle in the morning, the dozens of new demon priests who took over could not do anything. Be manipulative.

The camp of the demon army is simpler than that of the elves.They neither set up tents or huts, nor dug trenches and nailed wooden fences. In fact, apart from some sentry towers for early warning, the camp did not build any fortifications, as if they were welcoming the elves to sneak attacks at night.

In fact it is.

The demon army has always been good at attacking but not defending. Even if they prepare enough fortifications like the elves, the demons who are weaker in long-range attacks can hardly use these fortifications to fight against the elves. It is better to save some time and energy in these areas.

The only thing that showed the astonishing scale of the demon army was the thousands of blazing bonfires, and beside each bonfire were swaying chaotic shadows, and the smoke that floated up was like gray-white fingers stretching into the sky.More than a dozen majestic and tall commander's wheel palaces together formed the core of the camp. Among them, the wheel palace belonging to the plague lord Yinchen Samael was particularly low and dilapidated, and it happened to stop at the most gorgeous flame that burned the lord Darija. Next to the wheel palace, it looks like a thin beggar standing next to a knight in bright armor.

However, none of the three demon lords had the heart to notice this. They all came to the particularly tall and magnificent palace of the Burning Dragon King Dariga, which looked like a commander's wheel palace made of flame gems, red crystals and red agates. Among them, he then ordered the convening of a military meeting attended by the commanders and team leaders of each army.

All the demon nobles who saved their heads during the fierce battle in the morning all came to the wheel palace. There were more than a hundred of them, almost filling the hall of the wheel palace.This is also one of the reasons why the meeting was held in the wheel palace of the burning lord Dariga. If it were replaced by the commander's wheel palace of the plague lord or the treacherous lord, it would simply not be able to accommodate such a large number of powerful demons.

Often a council of war involving ten or more demons can be very noisy, and often ends in a brawl.Contrary to what many people think, the abyss demons are not a united race, but are composed of hundreds of races that have serious differences and even hate each other. The only consensus among them is probably to leave the abyss where the living conditions are extremely harsh hell.

But this time, there was no sound in the commander's wheel palace, only the heavy and tense breathing of those demons could be heard.The existence that can make these powerful and rebellious high-level demons silent is of course the three demon lords.

Three thrones are placed side by side at the end of the hall of the wheel palace. The throne of the burned dragon king Darija is red like fire, inlaid with countless precious gems, which fully demonstrates the consistent aesthetic views of the dragon clan; the plague lord Yinchen Samael The throne was as pale as an old skeleton, surrounded by faint black smoke, which made the demon lord even more eerie, like a living corpse wrapped in a shroud.

The throne of the treacherous lord Shakros is different from the two. It is a very simple obsidian throne, especially without any magic runes engraved on it, and there is no magic aura. If it is not placed on the two demon lords Next to the throne, it is almost mistaken for the seat of some fringe demon lord.However, Shackles seems to cherish this throne very much, and he has to carry it with him wherever he goes, and only allows his two horned demon commanders to carry and touch it.

The oppressive atmosphere in the hall was mainly due to the treacherous lord. Just now, in a fit of rage, he executed an abyss guard who came to report the loss of troops.The furious Shacross just made a gesture, and the abyss guard who was equivalent to the strength of a human grand knight commander and his heavy armor were broken into countless tiny fragments.

This time, the troops that make up the demon army belong to the three demon lords.Among them, [-]% came from Philmeyer, the glory capital of the Kingdom of Arthur, under the command of the Burning Dragon King Dariga, [-]% came from the troops attacking Westwind County, and belonged to the plague lord Inchen Samael, and less than [-]% The troops are subordinate to the treacherous lord Shakros.

However, proportionally speaking, His Majesty Shakros was the one who suffered the most damage. The twelve powerful abyss alchemists who were close to the lord level under his command had already been shot down by the silver alloy armor-piercing arrows of hundreds of elf marksmen. There were no bones left, and the team leader of the Winged Demon Annihilator was also beheaded by himself because he missed the fighter plane, and it is still hanging on the spire of the commander's wheel palace, swinging in the wind.

If the title of Shakross is not the treacherous lord, then the furious performance he made just now is indeed in line with the character of an abyssal demon, but now the commanders and team leaders look at each other, all of them are gloomy and silent. Word.

"It's too ugly, it's really too ugly!" Shackles' voice was like a burning fire, and the posture of suddenly standing up from the obsidian throne was very similar. ""

"You are very impatient, Your Majesty Shakros." The Burning Dragon King Darija suddenly said, his calm voice broke the silence, "Usually I am the one who plays this role, Lord Burning, Lord of Fire, Burning Hell and High Lord of the barren land. And you - Shakros the Deceitful Lord - shall be as solid as ice, as your domain, the Black Ice Vault."

"I can't calm down! Brother Darija!" Shackles turned around suddenly, his movements were as fast as lightning, and two groups of flames seemed to be burning in his eyes, and there seemed to be a taste of fear on closer inspection. "I have already sworn to the Supreme Monarch, using my life and status to promise him that within a month and a half, he will get the Moonwhispering Forest and at least [-] elf slaves!"

"Then you still have a week left." Burning Dragon King Dalijia nodded in understanding, and then spread his hands, "Sorry, it's six and a half days, we have been beaten to pieces this morning, and we have to rest on the spot gone."

"It's not me, but us who have only six and a half days left." The treacherous lord Shakros gritted his teeth viciously.

"That's what you promised to the Great Monarch, Shacrossroth!" Yinchen Samael, the plague lord, pointed out in a hoarse and ugly voice.

"What the Great Monarch sees is the failure of the three of us, not just me!" Shakross roared back fiercely. "It is the three of us who have no way out now. Brother Yinchen Samael, if the Moonwhisper Forest still cannot be taken down after a week, do you think you will be able to escape the wrath of the great lord?"

Dariga stared into Shackles' eyes, and what he saw in it was real fear, "What are you afraid of?" Burning Dragon King frowned, "Our main force didn't suffer from the setback this morning. To the bone, as long as we take down the small outpost camp in front of us, the resistance of the Moonwhispering Forest Elf Royal Court will be quickly weakened... So the outcome of the war is far from certain, what are you afraid of?"

The treacherous lord Shakros was silent for a moment, then sat down on his obsidian throne. "I...I have to report the outcome of the first confrontation to the Great Monarch. The loss of Portuarius has already made him very angry. I am worried..." His voice became lower and lower, until it was like moaning at the end generally.

(End of this chapter)