After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

Preparations for the battle in Green Canyon City are still in full swing.

The soldiers of the 2nd Division were practicing with their newly acquired iron bars, pitchforks, and other weapons on the training ground, but Federico, who was supposed to be their instructor, was nowhere to be found.

The sky remained overcast, the northern border was gloomy, and a cool drizzle fell intermittently.

The city wall is being reinforced, and the tunnels beneath it have been dug. Truckloads of coal are being dumped into the deep pits, and a row of two-meter-high triangular iron spikes, newly made by the arsenal, are placed on top of them.

These iron spikes are difficult to move, which helps to prevent the undead from directly attacking the city walls.

Finally, Kate made up her mind and completely sealed the gates of Green Canyon with stone bricks.

Countless supplies are still converging on Green Canyon City; the stockpiled food alone is enough to sustain them for half a year.

However, Kate knew that they had done everything they could to prepare.

Time passed relentlessly. Kate, who was used to patrolling the city walls, finally saw the overwhelming thick fog appearing on the horizon before lighting her cigarette.

Thankfully it wasn't night, Kate could only console herself with that thought.

His hand trembled for a moment, then he steadily lit the cigarette, exhaling smoke as he waved his hand to give the order.

"Prepare to meet the enemy."

The alarm bells rang again, and Luna and her two companions pushed through the soldiers surging onto the city wall and rushed to Kate's side.

A series of solemn gazes were directed toward the white light on the horizon. At the same time, Luna and Paul, sensing something was amiss, focused intently, pressing their palms and ears against the battlements to feel the vibrations coming from afar.

"Something's wrong. There's a huge monster inside."

Paul was the first to judge that the movement of hundreds of thousands of undead could not possibly create such a terrifying commotion. And as they closed the distance, the sudden tremor beneath their feet also made Kate's expression change.

Damn it, who is the person behind all this conspiracy?!

The mist drifted onto their faces without their noticing, and the stench of blood and decay assaulted their senses. Gradually, the soldiers lost their sight, with only the faint rustling of bones rubbing together remaining in their ears.

In a flash of white light, Lisa lit up her magic wand and ignited the coal piled up in the tunnel.

Three minutes later, a mage hidden in the group cast a wind spell, dispersing the thick fog in front of everyone.

Within a hundred-meter radius, the wind whipped up the fog, and a giant skeletal hand creaked as it gently tapped the gate of Green Canyon City. After a loud, booming sound, it slowly retreated back into the thick fog.

Upon seeing this, the soldiers' faces turned pale instantly, and they didn't dare to breathe. Luna also rubbed her eyes hard, somewhat incredulous. What had she just seen?

Is that the arm of some giant?

Before they had any time to adjust or prepare, the earth began to tremble.

The desolate sound of alarm bells was drowned out by the dense trampling sound. Birds circled low, and as the wind and fog intertwined and swallowed everything, an endless white wave of death surged and crashed in.

"Charge!"

Undead races charged wildly, one after another bursting out of the thick fog, seemingly without end.

At Luna's command, the heavy crossbows on the city wall fired first, releasing their accumulated momentum. The arrows, as thick as an arm, carried unparalleled power and crashed into the undead army, shattering a series of white bones.

No need to aim, there's absolutely no need to aim!

Every gap in the open space outside the city walls was now densely packed with undead. Throwing crossbow bolts into them was like raindrops falling into the sea.

A single heavy crossbow bolt can kill seven or eight undead, but the number of undead is in the tens of thousands.

"Commander Paul, please take the young lady down to rest first. We need you to deal with that big guy later."

Before the undead began their siege, Kate quickly had Paul take the young lady away.

Death is advancing. In such a war, Kate is more worried about the collapse of the situation if something happens to the young lady than the morale boost brought by the commander's presence.

Paul nodded emphatically, picked up Luna, who was already operating the heavy crossbow at some point, and together with Lisa, they removed the city wall.

The mage Lisa also cannot participate in the attack, as she must conserve her magic to dispel the fog for the soldiers as much as possible.

The coal in the tunnels had begun to emit a dim red glow. The undead army's relentless charge was finally halted by the triangular iron spikes. However, as clumps of bones piled up on the spikes, the remaining undead still trampled over their own kind and rolled to the foot of the city wall.

"Don't let the Duke down, don't let your hometown down!" Kate drew the longsword from her waist, gathering the Second Division's frenzied fighting spirit.

"Destroy them! Destroy them! Warriors, whatever bastards or terrifying demons appear beneath these walls, you must crush all enemies of the Northern Territory!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Thunder rumbled as the undead piled up layer by layer, rain poured down with logs and boulders, and the sounds of bones cracking and roars seeped into the very souls of every soldier.

The white waves crashed against the high shore, rising higher and higher, leaving Kate no choice but to order the remaining oil to be thrown down all at once.

Boom! In an instant, a sea of ​​fire exploded beneath the city, illuminating a small corner of this vast world. The howling flames devoured the bones and destroyed the ladder wall built by the undead army.

The heavy rain was met with a backlash of scorching smoke, and soon charred bones fell to the ground in layers, but countless undead poured in and quickly built up a passage for attack.

Kate knew that how long Green Canyon could hold out depended entirely on how long the warriors could endure the endless hand-to-hand combat.

Green Canyon City may fall in the next moment, or it may never fall.

"Where's Federico? Where's Federico?"

The beginning is always the hardest. Kate hoped that a brave general could boost morale in the first battle, but the soldiers just looked blank and continued to throw heavy stones weighing more than ten kilograms down from the city.

From afar, a soldier answered. "Didn't you, Division Commander, instruct the Battalion Commander to prepare materials for dealing with the dense fog?"

Kate was stunned, somewhat speechless. She had been too busy lately, and her mind was foggy. He seemed to have actually made those arrangements...

Gritting her teeth, Kate waved for the veterans to step forward. These veterans, their faces etched with the marks of time, silently stepped forward, shook their imposing new black armor, and gripped their iron bars and forks.

The veterans seemed somewhat out of place among the group of young people, yet almost every young soldier held them in the highest esteem.

This respect stems not only from the education provided by the military, but also from the recognition of the veterans' abilities.

The Duke personally appointed and organized them, and bestowed upon them the title of "battle-hardened elites." This alone is enough to make countless young soldiers' eyes light up.

Of the ten thousand veterans, five thousand joined the Starfall Division and stood on the front line against the demons. Four thousand followed the Duke to guard the city of Kuogu, and the remaining one thousand went to their Second Division.

This is not just an honor for the veterans, but an honor for the Second Division.

The war progressed rapidly, and the deep roars seemed to reach their ears. As soon as the soldiers retreated, crimson, flickering eye sockets emerged along with the heads of the undead.

The veterans remained calm. They worked in pairs, and as soon as one of them used his iron fork to hold the undead's body, the other swiftly swung his iron bar without any hesitation.

With a crisp bang, as skulls flew everywhere, the old soldier simply pushed the headless undead with his iron fork, and the undead fell to the ground below the city walls, disappearing into the black and white pile of bones.

The entire hunt took no more than three seconds. The veteran, precise and efficient, dealt with all the undead who had climbed the city wall as easily as cutting melons and vegetables, greatly boosting the morale of the surrounding soldiers.

Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Kate quickly ordered, "Establish a defensive line! Everyone, engage in battle!"

From a distance, the undead had swarmed up the city walls like ivy, and the soldiers could hear the screeching sound of their bones scraping against the walls.

As more and more undead emerged from various locations, the real war and trials, the real life-or-death struggle, began amidst this torrential rain, drawing back the bloody curtain.