"People! Take shelter in the castle immediately!"
Elena held high the flag in her hand and rode on the walking beast running on the road in the inner city.
There are still a few survivors gathered inside the magic circle in the inner city.
Scarre's soldiers had already been in fear in front of the blood crystal beasts that were like a tide. Coupled with the old king's inaction, everyone from the soldiers to the people lost their fighting spirit.
But Elena's voice awakened their desire to survive.
This is a kind of spiritual encouragement, and also a special kind of magic... If Lu Cheng were to name it, it could be named something like "War Roar" or "Spiritual Upliftment"... But it is still a little different from magic like Bloodlust.
Elena learned this method of using magic to boost morale since she was a child. This is an ability that only the holders of the Holy Crystal can master, and it is very useful on the battlefield.
The frightened people and soldiers seemed to see hope when they saw the flag Elena held high.
The first person stood up and walked towards the castle, and then more people stood up and ran towards the castle.
More and more residents who survived in the inner city ran to the castle.
Elena successfully found all the survivors in the inner city based on the beams of light emerging from the ground.
"Soldiers, you have fulfilled your duty, now hurry and take shelter in the castle!"
Elena rode the walking beast to the edge of the magic barrier and saw a group of soldiers still trying to repel the blood crystal beast at the edge of the barrier.
Unfortunately, faced with thousands of blood crystal beasts, they couldn't even walk out of the edge of the magic circle. They could only follow the edge and shrink back to use bows and spears to kill some blood crystal beasts that got too close.
When the soldiers heard Elena's cry, they all looked at Elena.
"Your Highness Elena, if we leave..."
A general present recognized the brave and warlike Princess Seventeen.
"General Rick, I've found reinforcements! You retreat back to the castle and protect the civilians! Now!"
Elena gave the order in a strong tone.
"Reinforcements? Reinforcements from Xiu Enzhe to the Kingdom?"
General Rick did not show any joy on his face when he heard the news.
There were simply too many blood crystal beasts outside the magic barrier, so many that even if all the armies of the Scarre Kingdom during its heyday were assembled together, they would not be able to defeat them.
Even if Xiu Enzhe came to the kingdom with such kindness that he sent troops to support Scarre, they would only come to provide a snack for the blood crystal beast.
"It's reinforcements from another world!" Elena knew that she couldn't expose her bad habit of stuttering when speaking Chinese at this time, so she could only tell General Rick in this way, "Quick! Take your soldiers and retreat to the castle?"
"Another world?"
The young general wanted to ask if Princess Elena was also crazy, but Elena's determined eyes made General Rick believe him.
"Yes, sir!" General Rick immediately ran towards the castle with the only twenty-three soldiers left under his command.
Elena looked around again and confirmed that there were no more light pillars representing survivors in the inner city. Then she rode her walking beast back to the castle with the surviving soldiers.
When Elena returned to the castle, she found that the soldiers under Lu Cheng's command had set up a position outside the castle using a kind of bag she had never seen before.
"Have all the civilians in the inner city entered the castle?" Lu Cheng immediately stepped forward and asked.
“Everything has arrived.”
Elena looked towards the castle gate. The people she had gathered had already entered the castle under the protection of the soldiers.
"The civilians in the war zone have been evacuated. I repeat, the civilians in the war zone have been evacuated. Wait for my signal to directly suppress the firepower in areas C1 to C4. The air defense team quickly clears the targets in the sky."
Lu Cheng immediately gave orders to the entire army via radio, and then turned his gaze to the Queen of Skare again.
"We are ready. Elena, open the magic barrier and let those blood crystal beasts in." Lu Cheng said.
"Open the barrier? Your Excellency! Are you... serious?"
General Rick had been listening nearby. While he was still wondering where Lu Cheng's soldiers were, he heard Lu Cheng's order that could lead to the complete destruction of Scarre.
However, no one paid any attention to the general. Elena simply raised the holy crystal on the back of her hand, and a beam of light was released from the holy crystal and penetrated the magic barrier in the sky.
"Your Highness Elena!"
General Rick saw the magic barrier in the sky dissipate instantly. The pterosaurs hovering in the sky found that there was nothing that could stop them, so they let out excited cries and pounced towards the ground.
At this moment, General Rick thought that Princess Elena was completely crazy, but the next second he felt that he was the one who was crazy.
Those pterosaurs didn't even have time to reach the ground. They quickly disintegrated in mid-air...turning into a pile of minced meat falling to the ground.
A ball of light, too bright to be seen by the naked eye, tore the pterodactyls apart.
But at the moment the magic barrier was closed, the blood crystal beasts at the edge of the barrier had been accumulating for a long time and wanted to pounce into it.
Lu Cheng looked at the beasts in the inner city that seemed to smell blood... He picked up the walkie-talkie and said two words softly.
"Fire."
The moment the words fell, the sound of explosions resounded throughout every corner of the inner city.
The area where the outer city and the inner city meet was designated by Lucheng as a bombing zone with firepower coverage.
The 155mm caliber heavy artillery in the howitzer was fired directly with a roar. The tide composed of blood crystal beasts in the distance was instantly torn apart by the howitzer in the first second, and the red tide was engulfed by the hot flames in the second second.
Even if a few blood crystal beasts managed to break through the howitzer's fire coverage network, what was waiting for them was the intertwined fire network of heavy machine guns and light machine guns.
Elena stood aside and watched the flames blooming in front of her. Everything in front of her was burning.
This kind of scene seems to be the one that will appear at the end of the world as if it were a divine punishment in the legend, but in Elena's eyes... this country will be reborn in flames.
… … …
The ruins of the outer city of Skare after the cleanup operation of the blood crystal beast came to an end.
The girl lay quietly in the ruins covered with rocks. Her legs had completely lost all feeling...and her throat was dry and uncomfortable.
She couldn't move at all under the rubble, and now... she didn't want to move.
His mother was eaten by those monsters, and his father was also killed by those monsters. Even if he could leave this ruin, he would still be eaten by those monsters in the end.
Besides, she had no way to leave. Her legs had been pinned under the rubble for almost a day, and she couldn't even commit suicide.
The girl closed her eyes and waited quietly for death to come.
But suddenly she heard some sounds, not the roars of monsters, but the voices of humans like her.
"Life signs were found under the ruins!"
This was a language she had never heard before. Suddenly, the stones that were pressing down on her legs were cleared away, and a stranger appeared in front of her.
She was stunned for a moment, then moved her cracked lips and asked the other person with the last bit of strength she had.
"Who...are you?"
The other party seemed unable to understand the girl's language, but he understood what the girl meant.
"We are the People's Liberation Army, don't be afraid, you are safe now," he replied.
The girl didn't understand what he said, but at this moment she held his big hand with her dusty hands and burst into tears.