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General Dawson understood this, and therefore, although anxious, he would not make rash judgments based on the current situation.

But on the city walls, his own brothers, whom he had led all the way, were dying every minute and every second.

General Dawson's heart bled as he watched their bodies being transformed into hideous zombies in pools of blood.

"But this is only a condition for allowing the entire army to retreat."

Holman suddenly spoke up again.

General Dawson paused, "Your Excellency means...?"

"If we leave a portion of the soldiers to hold out, the remaining military can retreat into the western district earlier."

As soon as he finished speaking, General Dawson immediately understood the advantages and disadvantages.

Sacrifice a small number of people to preserve the majority of the military strength.

Theoretically speaking, this is indeed the best solution, but it also means that the remaining people must hold out until they are overwhelmed by the zombie horde.

But as the saying goes, a merciful general cannot command an army. General Dawson did not hesitate and immediately responded after thinking it through, "I will make the arrangements now... leave some men to cover the rear, and the rest of the army will prepare to withdraw."

"Ah."

Holman nodded slightly, a gesture that signified that he, as the decision-maker, would take full responsibility.

Just then, a clear, cold female voice suddenly came from behind them.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm afraid you won't be able to go anywhere."

Holman and General Dawson turned their heads at the same time and saw a girl with black hair and a black dress standing at the top of the tower's stairs.

The girl had a calm expression on her face, and was leaning on a dark tree branch.

If Ye Xiao were present, he would definitely recognize that this girl is Dong Muge.

However, Holman and General Dawson had never met each other before, but at this moment, they silently appeared behind them, with the corpses of the soldiers guarding the gate lying at their feet. It was clear that the other party was not a good person.

General Dawson looked horrified, while Holman's face was ashen. He decisively drew his revolver from inside his coat and fired a shot at the other man's forehead.

There's no need to waste words; on the battlefield, once a threat arises, there's no room for hesitation.

The lead bullet shot out amidst the blazing flames, but it did not touch Dong Muge's body. Instead, it was precisely intercepted by two hard tree branches that suddenly appeared from the stone brick ground.

General Dawson drew his sword without hesitation and slashed swiftly, the blade gleaming coldly, easily severing the withered branch. However, just as the blade was about to touch Dong Muge's body, the attack strangely froze in mid-air.

The general was astonished to find that, without his knowledge, his arm had been tightly entwined by vines that had quietly sprouted along the wall.

In an instant, the vines seemed to come alive and suddenly contracted, and a piercing pain erupted from his arm.

Dazzling blood gushed from the spiral gaps formed by the intertwined vines. In the blink of an eye, General Dawson's arm was pulverized by the merciless strangulation of the vines, scattering blood, flesh, and bone fragments all over the ground.

Overwhelmed by the excruciating pain of losing an arm in an instant, General Dawson unhesitatingly summoned the power contained within his sacred remains and roared as he lunged toward Dong Muge: "Protect the Governor and retreat!"

At the severed end of his bleeding arm, hundreds of blazing crimson veins suddenly emerged, swirling and converging in mid-air, magically transforming into a gigantic beast claw that slammed down on Dong Muge.

The guards below the tower immediately noticed the sudden situation above. At the same time, Holman did not hesitate and swiftly jumped down from the tower with a clean vault.

Holman was not afraid of death, but he would not accept meaningless sacrifices.

Therefore, when General Dawson was determined to risk his life, Holman did not hesitate to choose to retreat immediately, which was the wisest and most decisive decision under the current circumstances.

If the two supreme commanders of an army were to perish simultaneously, the inevitable fate awaiting them would be the annihilation of their entire army.

Just as Holman leaped into the air, a devastating force erupted from the top of the tower, turning the upper part of the tower into countless flying fragments of stone.

Amidst the billowing smoke, General Dawson held Dong Muge's body firmly with his blood-red beast claws. The two of them, like fallen leaves swept by a storm, burst through the smoke from the aftershocks of the explosion and plunged straight into the surging, endless, and frenzied horde of corpses outside the city walls.

Several earth-shattering roars echoed between the city walls, causing the surrounding zombies to scatter like tattered straw, turning into countless broken limbs.

Under the tight protection of his guard, Holman directed an orderly evacuation while ordering about two thousand soldiers to stay behind, while the rest of the troops quickly withdrew from the city walls and assembled in the western part of the city.

Due to the chaotic battle on the city walls, a few undead had managed to break through the defenses and enter the city. However, along the route the citizens were evacuating, the Templar Knights stood ready, and although the undead terrified those who witnessed the scene from afar, they did not pose a real threat.

However, with the withdrawal of the defending troops and the collapse of the defense line, the number of those who escaped will undoubtedly increase.

Holman knew this, but he had no other choice. He quickly mounted his horse and led his army away with their backs to the city walls.

His goal was to gather the remaining troops outside the West District to join the Templars and build a temporary defensive line before the situation deteriorated further.

However, before the horse's hooves had gone far, another deafening roar came from behind him.

Holman immediately turned around and saw that a huge gap had appeared in the seemingly impregnable city wall.

A huge, dark, hairy spider emerged leisurely from the gap. Its lower body was enormous, while its upper body was none other than the girl they had just seen on the tower.

At this moment, she held General Dawson's distorted head in her hand, beneath which were sections of what appeared to be a spliced ​​skeleton, still writhing.

"My sister's offspring..." Dong Muge's usually indifferent lips curled into a strange and bewitching smile. "This familiar aura is truly nostalgic."

After speaking, she opened her gaping maw, large enough to cover her entire face, and swallowed General Dawson's head, still attached to the worm, whole. The sound of chewing echoed across the battlefield.

Chapter 187 A Dead End

Endless corpses poured out from the breach in the city wall created by Dong Muge, and an endless torrent of death poured down on the streets and buildings within the wall, like an apocalyptic scene that only appears in a nightmare.

"Your Excellency, please evacuate immediately!"

Upon seeing this, a deputy general in the army resolutely led the elite troops, raised their gleaming blades, and fearlessly charged towards the enormous, mountain-like spider-like beast.

Holman frowned, knowing that every second counted. He immediately ordered his troops to stop waiting to regroup and to speed up their retreat to the rear of the town.

The main force rushed westward in pursuit of the zombie horde. At each stage of the retreat, a group of people were left behind to block the pursuing zombie horde. These people were destined not to return alive, but they were the best option to preserve the entire army as much as possible.

General Dawson didn't even get half a minute of time, and the formidable walls of the imperial city were easily breached by the enemy.

Holman had not implanted the Holy Relic, so he was even less likely to be a match for the half-human, half-spider monster girl in front of him.

The Templar Knights and Arcane Mages have received a message from the High Walls and have deployed a temporary Holy Light barrier outside the bustling West District. Reaching out of the South District as quickly as possible to rendezvous with them and establish defenses is the only option for the Wall Guards in the current situation.

Amidst the piercing screams and the surging sounds of battle, Holman, riding his swift warhorse and leading his guard through the towering buildings, could already see the golden barrier of holy light standing in the distance.

Once you cross this last block, you will meet the Templars, but darkness always precedes the dawn.

High in the sky, several enormous clumps of flesh, formed from numerous living corpses, streaked across the sky like crimson meteors, crashing towards the lines of Holman and his group.

The sudden attack of corpses disrupted the formation of the evacuation team, and Holman's guards and the soldiers at the front immediately engaged in a fierce battle with the corpses falling from the sky.

But the real crisis was about to strike. The earth behind them trembled violently, and one building after another collapsed under the pressure, making way for the enormous spider to appear in everyone's sight.

With incredible strength, Dong Muge broke through the rearguard blockade and approached Holman and his guard regiment from behind.

The girl's frail figure was closely connected to the chest cavity of the giant spider she rode, and it looked especially terrifying against the backdrop of the blood-red setting sun illuminated by the flames of war throughout the city. The huge body cast a majestic and terrifying shadow, like a moving dark mountain, enveloping Holman and his elite guards on the snow-covered ground.

Faced with this unavoidable threat, Holman's gaze was resolute. He decisively raised his arm, signaling the guards to take out the long-barreled muskets from their backs and launch a synchronized volley at the giant spider.

The brilliant flames were like twinkling stars, and the dense bullets rained down like a storm, viciously striking Dong Muge's bloated spider body, instantly carving countless wounds into its dark exoskeleton, making it appear riddled with holes.

But then, countless withered, black vines suddenly sprouted from the huge, hairy spider's body. They wove together and quickly filled and healed the numerous wounds caused by the bullets, forming hard, iron-like scabs.

Dong Muge's body, which had been stitched with spider parts, was restored to its original state in the blink of an eye.

Then, she raised a slender branch she held high, declaring, "Through the eternal roots of the Tree of Life, heed my call, follow my will, and annihilate my enemies!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the earth trembled, and the street instantly shattered into cracked slabs. Countless withered vines, like demonic arms reaching out from hell, pierced through the horses and people standing on them.

At that moment, Holman's horse was pierced by vines rising from the ground, and with a miserable neigh, it threw Holman off its back.

The fully armed guards were also mostly killed or wounded by the dense, withered vines. Those who were lucky enough to be thrown off their horses immediately engaged in battle with the corpses rushing in from all directions.

Amidst the chaos, Holman staggered to his feet and looked towards the golden barrier in the distance, as if it were an unreachable end.

Although Holman didn't die from this delay, he was now completely surrounded by countless undead.

His personal guard had already suffered heavy casualties from just one spell attack, and the spider girl was right in front of him.

It seems... this is the best we can do.

Thinking this, Holman turned around, and the monstrous figure of the giant spider immediately enveloped his vision.

He conspired with the Samuel Order to overthrow the monarchy, bearing the infamy of raising a rebel army.

Unfortunately, the weakness of mortals means they can only become sacrifices in the game of evil gods.

...The Loren Empire, in the end, was not qualified to stop its inevitable demise.

Holman sighed, facing Dong Muge alone, and raised his revolver musket.

This weapon was so insignificant in the face of that colossal creature, half-human and half-spider.

Under Dong Muge's cold, condescending gaze, the giant spider raised its pincers and swung them down.

At the same time, Holman, with a death wish, pulled the trigger.

A dazzling yet faint flash of light erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and the lead bullets that shot out struck the hard and sharp pincers, leaving a few sparks.

But right after that spark flashed, a golden flame, ten thousand times more dazzling, suddenly burst forth.

The spider's massive pincers were blasted off course by the sudden burst of flames, causing it to graze diagonally onto the ruins of a nearby building, sending bricks and tiles flying everywhere.

What's this……?

Holman was stunned. He knew that the small musket in his hand could not possibly produce such terrifying power. So he turned his face slightly to the side and saw a knight wearing fine light armor come into view. His imposing presence was like the dawn breaking through the darkness.

The knight brandished his blazing rapier, its blade ablaze like a phoenix rising from the ashes, and his fierce charge tore a gap in the horde of corpses.

Behind the knight, a group of warriors in various outfits rode their warhorses across the battlefield overrun by undead, cutting down the once terrifying corpses as easily as chopping vegetables.

This unfamiliar cavalry unit, which had suddenly burst onto the battlefield, broke through the encirclement of corpses and galloped straight toward Holman.

Dong Muge, connected to the bloated giant spider's body, naturally noticed the newcomer. With a casual wave of his branch staff, the vines rolling on the ground surged towards the knight who controlled the flames like ocean waves.

However, the flames burning on the sword in the knight's hand suddenly turned into a stream of azure ice. With a slash forward, a faint dragon's roar echoed across the battlefield, like the cold breath exhaled by a giant dragon, instantly freezing the earth and vines into a snow-white ice mound.

Chapter 188 Twin Dragon Sword Saint

Legend has it that the late Emperor Loren was blessed by the red dragon ancestors of Molten Castle and the blue dragon ancestors of the Northern Abyss, and thus possesses bloodlines interwoven with the flames of the red dragons and the frost of the blue dragons.

Within the chain of bloodline inheritance, the one who can awaken both of these dragon blessings is destined to become a legendary leader who leads the Loren Empire toward a bright future.

Holman's gaze was fixed on the knight, and with each swing of her sword she uttered a low dragon's roar, flames and ice bloomed alternately at the tip of her blade.

When he witnessed this scene, a myth deeply imprinted in the memory of every subject of the empire immediately came to mind.

"The Twin Dragon Sword Saints?"

This shout was not uttered by Holman, but by Dong Muge's sharp voice, which echoed for a long time on the battlefield filled with the smoke of war.

Holman, following the fragments of his memory, quickly pieced together the knight's identity: "Your Highness!!"

That's right, the knight clad in armor and wielding the power of ice and fire is none other than Princess Skadi.

Following Ye Xiao's final instructions, she joined forces with the Seven Stars Society and Raven Commander Isaac and his loyal Imperial City Guards, returning to the city to form a knightly order to defend justice.

Originally, this knightly order was formed to storm the palace and fight against the rebels who were trying to seize power, but now that the army of corpses is pressing on the city, they have stepped forward in a different way.

Skadi took the lead, riding her warhorse up the frozen slope. At the top of the ice cliff, she soared into the air, over the dense corpses and the rebels fighting below, and finally landed steadily in front of Holman.

"Your Highness..."

Looking at the tall figure riding on horseback before him, Holman's voice was filled with complex emotions that were hard to describe.

He had once looked down on the eldest princess. In the secret plans of the Samuel Order, both Prince Raymond and the eldest princess Skadidenki were considered enemies, and they would support the youngest princess Erica, who was chosen as the messenger of the gods, to overthrow the new king.

However, this very princess, whom he had once overlooked, stood in front of him at the crucial moment.

"Hollman, don't tell me that after all these years, you've developed a habit of spacing out."

Following closely behind Skadi was a fine horse, on which sat a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe, surrounded by several crows.

“Isaac…” Holman recognized the Raven Commander before him.

Without further ado, Isaac pulled Holman onto his horse and said to Skadi, "Your Highness, we will meet you at the barrier."

"Be careful on the road." Skadi didn't say much either, and in an instant, she raised her sword again, facing the huge spider monster.

"..."

Holman was filled with mixed emotions, surprised that a member of the royal family could be so fearless and courageous as to cover the rear for his subordinates. At the same time, he gradually came to understand that this was perhaps the courage and determination that should be possessed by those who carried the legend of the twin dragon bloodlines.

This stirred a long-dormant ripple in Holman's heart, which had grown increasingly indifferent due to his deep disappointment with the imperial nobility—a mixture of relief that the flame of hope for the empire had not yet been extinguished, and bitterness at why he had failed to see all of this sooner.

If they had joined forces with Princess Skadi from the very beginning, perhaps the capital city wouldn't be in such a precarious situation today.

Just as Holman was lost in thought, Dong Muge, who was connected to the giant spider form, glanced at Skadi and said with disdain and sarcasm, "Even if you have awakened the bloodline of two dragons, you are still just a fragile mortal... You are not qualified to face the majesty of the gods!"