Heart of the Castle

Chapter 640 Difficulties temper the will, hardships sharpen the soul

The deceitful lord Shakros and the plague lord Yinchen Samael fought against the outpost defenders of Moonglade, and they returned in embarrassment.Burning Dragon King Dariga didn't go into battle at all. According to this legendary dragon king, since the two demon lords would fail together, the result of him going into battle alone would not be very good, not to mention that he had once fought against the Elf King. In the confrontation in the Moon Language Forest, although relying on a sudden attack to severely injure the Emerald Dragon King, he was still forced to retreat by many powerful enemies.

For the statement of burning the Dragon King, Shakross was naturally very angry, but found that he could not find any refutation.So he had no choice but to return to his wheel palace with a gloomy face, and then ordered the whole army to launch a fierce attack day and night.

The ensuing battle was extremely difficult for the defenders of the outpost in Moonglade. For three consecutive days and three nights, no one could have a bite of hot food or sleep peacefully for an hour. Even the bloodthirsty and warlike orc roaring warriors feel overwhelmed.However, the defenders of the Moonglade outpost became more and more tenacious, not only the wild bears, centaurs and wild elves, but also the high elves.Thick smoke and flames have blackened their fair faces, but like a blacksmith's sledgehammer, they forged their hearts, which were originally as fragile as pig iron, into fine steel.

While the demon army was attacking, they never stopped digging ditches and building embankments. When the wooden fences and ditches protecting Moonglade were long gone, the long snake-shaped ditches dug by the demons had already destroyed them.Even the outer wooden wall was cut several times by the rushing demon troops, relying on the strong defense of the wild bearmen heavy infantry and the roaring orc warriors with flesh and blood, and then blocked the gap again, and then rushed in. All the demons in the camp were slain.

When the battle entered the fourth day, the positions of the two sides became more and more inconsistent. The trenches dug by the demons even broke through the wooden walls of the Moonglade outpost in several places. cut off.

Seeing that the battle situation was critical, Li Wei personally led the Griffon Knights to charge to the death. Marquis Osiris, Sir Rodriguez, Karmos Bloody Roar, and Captain Serrandis became the four sharpest scythes of the Knights. At the forefront of the team, the lives and flesh of countless demons were harvested along the way.

The treacherous lord Shakross, who was directing the battle in the commander's wheel palace, saw the movement of the Griffon Knights at a glance, and immediately roared and gave orders.Then the head drum kept ringing, trying to inform the troops who had rushed into the outpost of Moonglade, trying to change them from a scattered offensive formation to a tight defensive formation.

However, the uproar aroused on the battlefield was too noisy. By the time those demons began to adjust their formation, the Griffin Knights had roared in like a hurricane, piercing fiercely through the first few rows of demons, and then piercing deeply In the array, giant swords, long spears, and scimitars swished, stirring up bloody storms, and launched a desperate charge with a gesture of sweeping and smashing everything.

The demon side retreated continuously under the thundering weight of these steel men and iron horses. They were stabbed with spears, hacked with giant swords, or trampled under the hooves of the horses like poisonous insects.The guys who tried to resist fell to the ground and died one after another, and the ghosts who turned around and fled did not live long, because the underground tunnel was crowded by the follow-up demons, they could only flee to both sides along the wooden wall, and finally all died in the Under the sharp arrows shot by the elf archers and the silver Pegasus knights.

The two elite demon teams that rushed into the outpost of Moonlight Glade at the beginning were all killed here. Li Wei personally chopped off the head of one of the team leaders. When the head of the ape-half-dog slowly slid down amidst the spurting rain of blood, the Griffon Lord couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart.

This team leader is a lord-level abyss refining demon, stronger than the demon lord Ilion he faced in Viscount Ryan's territory, but he looked so vulnerable under the charge of the Griffin Knight, the fiery red beheading The sword almost didn't even make a complete chop, but was pierced through the body by more than a dozen steel spears, and then let Li Wei take the opportunity to cut off his head with a sword.

When the war was in danger, this kind of emotion just flashed across Li Wei's heart like lightning, and then the griffin lord raised his knight's sword that was still dripping blood and roared, "The devil must be defeated! Long live Moonglade!" The king immediately raised his head and uttered a loud cry in response.

Accompanied by the roars of "Devil must be defeated!" and "Long live, long live", the defenders of Moonglade and the demon troops rushing out of the underground trench rushed together, smashed into groups, rolled into balls, and the purple blood of the demons and The bright red blood of humans and elves flowed down and mixed together, trampling the land of the Moonglade outpost into a nearly black mud.

In the end, the demon left more than 3000 corpses and retreated in embarrassment. The three underground trenches were blown down by Li Wei's fireball technique, and the number of demons trapped in the trenches was unknown.However, the defenders also suffered a lot of losses. The heavy infantry of the wild bears and the howling warriors of the orcs suffered the most serious loss of personnel due to the frontal fight against the demon army. He stopped breathing.

The elf archers and silver Pegasus knights who were responsible for suppressing the long-range fire on the watchtower and the wooden wall also suffered a lot of casualties, and most of the fingers of the archers had been cut by the bow strings, and in some places even white spots could be seen faintly. phalanx.

On the other hand, the consumption of combat materials in the camp is also very serious, especially the consumption of silver alloy armor-piercing arrows and bursting flame arrows. Special arrows are not even enough for a round of rapid fire.

The druids of the Natural Magic Association and the priests of the Temple of the Goddess of Life were also exhausted. When the demons dug underground trenches, the thorns of the druids and the holy blessings of the priests played a very important role. The former was greatly delayed The speed at which the demons poured out of the trench exit allowed the guards to last longer.And the same group of people also healed the wounded, bandaged the wounds, held a ceremony for the dead to return to the golden tree, and even went to the front line when necessary, and dealt fierce blows to the enemy with oak sticks and mithril warhammers.

The commander of the demon army, the treacherous lord Shakros, was astonished, and at the same time, what he couldn't understand was that even though he didn't care about the lives and blood of his troops, he launched forceful attacks on the outpost of Moonglade time and time again. The camp still stands unshakably, and the harvest left to him is more and more disastrous failures.

The supplies of the demon army are also dwindling day by day, and starvation is second. The key is that the loss of siege weapons is huge.Hundreds of ballistas fired spears almost non-stop in the direction of the Moonglade outpost, so that every building in the camp was pierced by an unknown number of spears, especially the watchtowers in the front row, which were far away. It looks like a giant cactus up to 20 meters high.These ballistas were endowed with evil magic, and their power was surprisingly powerful. However, after four days and three nights of uninterrupted use, half of them had various problems, and some of them even broke on the spot. The steel bowstring flew left and right like lightning, tearing the bodies of more than a dozen demons around them in half.

The more than a dozen commander's wheel palaces that were the main firepower points on the embankment were the focus of the elves' counterattack, and they were all dilapidated now.After the magic barrier protecting the wheel palace was pierced again and again, the structure finally couldn't be maintained and broke apart one after another. After losing the magic protection, the immobile commander's wheel palace was no different from ordinary towers.

Since the start of the war, the demon army has suffered one of five losses, and the loss of morale has been even greater. The demon team sent to the battlefield has not started the bloodthirsty and cruel posture. cattle and sheep, because every storm is a new defeat for the demon army.

Although the fortifications at the outpost of Moonglade were even more dilapidated, the guards were full of fighting spirit and completely ignored the danger of their lives. There was not even a day when they did not take the initiative to attack. Break out of camp and surprise the demons with incendiary cans, spears and smoke rounds, then retreat back to the camp you started after reaping many deaths.

It's all because of that damned human being.

Whenever the treacherous lord Shakros saw the golden griffin flag fluttering over the outpost of Moonglade, he felt a dull pain from the scar on his forehead, where he was injured by the vindictive power of the mysterious Scourge Knight a few days ago. The special nature of the original power made the wound unable to heal, but festered and swollen. "Levi? Ston, it's you again..." Shakross gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, recalling that the failure of a series of recent plans seemed to be related to this name, the resentment in the heart of the treacherous lord could not be contained, making him His blue lips began to tremble, and his white fangs gleamed.

In Heihe in the north, in the Holy White Stone Fort, and even in the glorious city of Fermeyer, a series of actions planned by the treacherous lord were either completely defeated or failed to complete. His image of wisdom has not only become pale in the eyes of ordinary demons Wake up, even more eclipsed in front of the great lord of the abyss, Amur Hydras.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Shacklecross.

The deceitful lord has always been ranked high among the seven lords of hell, known as the prime minister of the abyss and the great wise man, and his status is even higher than that of the burning lord Dariga, who is known as the most powerful force.However, his personal strength is not commensurate with his status. The burning lord Darija can own three important planes: scorching hell, river of flames, and barren land, and also occupies countless small and medium planes. The treacherous lord Shakros only has one medium-sized plane, and his power is the last among the seven lords of hell.

The only reason for him to have his current status is the trust and reliance of the Great Monarch.

The treacherous lord Shakros knew very well that now that the war had reached this point, the only way to do this was to capture the dilapidated elf camp in front of him, and kill everyone including the griffin lord Levi Stern.Otherwise, the auras that shrouded him would disappear without a trace like dewdrops meeting the scorching sun.

Either Moonglade Outpost perishes, or his treacherous lord Shakros perishes, there is no other choice.

However, even though the outpost of Moonlight Grove was attacked day and night, it still stood firm. As time passed, the defenders showed more fighting spirit.On several occasions, the treacherous lord Shakross thought it was time for the final battle, as even the hardiest troops should be conquered by exhaustion and casualties, yet when the demoralized bands of daemons were driven into battle, it was always It was guards who stood up from among the broken walls and fought back fiercely with bows and arrows, scimitars, spears and other weapons, causing the demon army to suffer another defeat.

On the evening of the fourth day of the battle, a strong attack just launched by the demon army was repelled again, and the remnants retreated back behind the embankment in a panic.After the rout a few days ago, the treacherous lord Shakros ordered the beheading of the commanders and team leaders who retreated first, and then sent his cronies to take charge of the troops, but he soon found that this could not continue because his men The number of his cronies has dropped sharply, either died in the battle against the Moonglade outpost, or had to be executed by himself because he took the lead in fleeing.

Seeing the exhausted demon army silently retreating into the embankment, the yelling, cursing and cursing that usually filled the retreating army did not appear, the worry on Shackles' face was hard to hide.The defenders at the outpost of Moonlight Glade haven't been dragged down yet, but it looks like the demon army has been dragged down instead. Both ordinary soldiers and team leaders look dejected, and even the hellhounds have their tails clamped. His head almost dropped to the ground.

"This can't be done, can't be done!" Shakross whispered to himself, standing up from his obsidian throne, pacing around the wheel palace hall, thinking worriedly. "The morale of the army is too bad now. If this continues, it will be difficult to capture the damn camp opposite, let alone a week, and..."

A burst of noise sounded from outside, and one of the voices seemed to belong to the captain of his own bodyguard. As soon as Shackles was angry, the door behind him was slammed open with extreme force. "Damn the gods, is it an enemy attack? Or a mutiny?" The deceitful lord turned around like lightning, and the kaleidoscope field opened at the same time, and dozens of brilliant light curtains circled around him with his movements.

The one who opened the door was Tildan, the captain of the treacherous lord's personal guard, a powerful Earl of Abyss Alchemy, but now he flew across the hall without any resistance, and then slammed into the opposite wall, making the tapestries and furniture messy. into a ball.Burning Dragon King Dalijia followed closely, his face was as stern as a stone sculpture, and he shook his fist at Tirdan who was moaning and struggling to get up, "Little Lianmo, next time you want to block someone's way, You have to measure your own strength first!"

Tirdan's face became very ugly, his right hand firmly grasped the hilt of the sawtooth beheading sword at his waist, white-hot flames erupted from his whole body, but no matter how angry he was, he never dared to burn the Dragon King Da. Riga drew his sword in front of him, and even the vicious curse could only be suppressed in his throat.

Even the other seven monarchs of hell did not dare to provoke the Burning Dragon King. In the abyss of hell, only the abyss monarch himself can securely defeat Darika in terms of personal combat power, even the tyrannical lord and the mad warrior Both are inferior.If Tildan confronted him with his sword drawn, it was almost certain that the Burning Dragon King Darija would be happy to twist his neck with both hands.

Shackles was about to be outraged, but in order to save the life of his own guard captain, he still had to walk forward quickly, "Brother Darija," when he spoke, his voice and expression changed. It was sincere and emotional, without any hint of anger. "My subordinates are ignorant. It's because of my lax discipline. Please forgive me."

Burning Dragon King Darija took a deep look at Shackles, with a bit of sarcasm and provocation in his eyes, "Is the discipline not strict, or too strict?" He asked softly, and then let out a burst of arrogant laughter.

The plague lord Yinchen Samael walked into the hall, followed by the evil god of the abyss, Yerudir, and several other abyss lords, all of them looked very gloomy, and they looked less at the treacherous lord Shakros than usual Kind of awed.

Shacklesh's heart tightened for a while. He knew very well that the fear of these demon lords for him had been reduced due to the failure during this period, even those ordinary demons were the same. The treacherous and treacherous lord Shakros of the horned demon warlords has become a trampled and defeated unlucky man in their mouths. It seems that luck and wisdom have all parted with him since then.

However, when the treacherous lord frowned and showed the majestic expression that the prime minister of hell should have, except for the burning dragon king Darija and the plague lord Yinchen Samael, the other demons still felt a tremor and hung down involuntarily. look.

"What do you want to come here to see me?" Shackles said to the demon lords in a cold tone, "The attack on the elf camp cannot stop for a moment, go back immediately and lead your troops to the battlefield! Otherwise if……"

"Your method won't work!" The evil god of the abyss, Yerudir, muttered gloomily. Although his voice was not loud, he interrupted the deceitful lord's words.This may be the first time that the treacherous lord was interrupted by a demon other than the Seven Lords of Hell. Shackles' expression was stunned at first, and then became ferocious.

"Yerudier, what are you talking about? Do you want to question me? Are you questioning the deceitful Lord Shakros, and is he personally appointed by the Abyss Lord as the President?"

The face of the evil god of the abyss, Yerudir, turned pale, but he forced himself to hold his head up, "That's right, Your Majesty Shakross, your method won't work, and if you do this, you will destroy us and yourself!"

(End of this chapter)