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The icy rain was flying, diluting the blood in the holy city, and Elesia was breathing heavily while holding the big sword.
It was not the first time she participated in the battle of the Hermes line of defense, but she never thought that the New Holy City might fall one day.
The wall is completely finished.
Eleithia has never seen such a terrifying monster. The huge insect-shaped hybrid beast sprang from the ground, its body was against the glacier cliff, its bone claws were embedded in the wall like barbs, and it climbed to the top of the city wall step by step. Its body has not yet fully exposed to the ground.
If it was just a huge body, it would be fine, but no one expected that the monster opened its bloody mouth and spit out a large number of mixed-species evil beasts from its mouth, and the pot suddenly exploded on the city wall.
The originally well-ordered team was smashed into pieces by the evil beasts, and the advance battalion of the Judgment Army where Elexia was located was also divided. The warm human blood mixed with the black blood of the monsters flowed along the cracks on the slate floor.
With the sound of the retreating horn, the trebuchets placed in the holy city also started, and half-person-high granite blocks fell from the sky, completely ignoring that there were still a lot of themselves and the kingdom's army at the top of the city.
Eleithia only remembered that a boulder just hit Captain Decato who was guarding her side. After she got up from the ground, she saw that he had been embedded in the cracked and sunken stone slab together with the armor. A sheet of wrinkled parchment, intestines dripping from a slit in his abdomen, steaming blood forming a small puddle under him.
If she hadn't jumped before the stone hit the ground, I'm afraid she would end up like him, she thought.
As for how she finally broke out of the siege and retreated under the city wall, Eleithia can't remember clearly. There were screams and curses all around, everyone wielding weapons and slashing wildly, not knowing whether they were fighting evil beasts or fighting with their companions.
In a team of more than a hundred judges, only twelve survived, including himself.
"What's next, Captain!"
"Captain Elecia!"
Eleithia suddenly came back to her senses, yes, according to the rules of the Judgment Army, if the captain is killed in battle, the deputy captain should take over as the captain and lead the team to continue the battle.
She bit her lip until the smell of iron filled her mouth, "Let's go to the north gate of the holy city. If the evil beasts want to attack the new holy city, they must pass there." The neighborhoods were all surrendered, but she had no choice, and no place could be more important than the center of the church, the Hermes Cathedral.
And there was another sentence she didn't say. The glacial cliffs couldn't stop these monsters. What role could she and the remaining eleven people play
Perhaps today is the day she dedicated herself to the kingdom of heaven, may you be merciful, she prayed in her heart, and shouted at the same time, "The Judgment Army will never give up! Let's go!"
"The Judgment Army will never give up!" the others shouted in unison.
Twelve people trotted all the way to the north gate in a column, the sound of fighting in the city wall area gradually weakened, and finally disappeared in the sound of wind and rain.
After arriving at the north gate, Elesia saw that a lot of judges had gathered in front of the suspension bridge. It seemed that everyone was thinking the same thing, which made her feel a little better.
However, at this moment of crisis, the drawbridge was lowered. Alexia frowned, walked to a handsome warrior wearing a red robe of the presiding judge, clenched his fists and saluted: "Lord Judge, I am the captain of the fourth squad of the advance battalion, Alexia Quinn! "
"I'm Tucker Thor, the defense leader of the North Gate. Thank you for your hard work," the man nodded. "We have set up a first aid center behind the North Gate. If there are wounded in your team, you can send them there."
"My lord, I don't understand, why didn't the suspension bridge be raised at this time? The evil beasts on the city wall may swarm at any time, and we must ensure that the inner city is not lost."
"Calm down, Captain, I know you and your team members are not afraid of sacrifice, but pointless sacrifice is meaningless, the church is far from the last moment," he reached out and wiped the rain from his forehead, "Go to the assembly area and stand by, If you run out of cold-dispelling pills, remember to ask the quartermaster for it."
After the presiding judge said this, Elesia realized that she was terribly frozen. After she was separated from the battlefield, the sweat on her body mixed with the icy rain, almost freezing her whole body in ice. The biting cold wind blew on her face, and she couldn't help shivering.
He took out the sheepskin bag in his underwear pocket and shook it in his palm, but only some viscous liquid flowed out. It seemed that she accidentally crushed the pill during the battle. She sighed and raised her head, only to find a brown-red cold-dispelling pill handed to her.
"Eat mine first," Tucker Thor smiled at her, "just pay me back then."
Alexia was not polite, she took the ball and swallowed it, "Maybe we won't have the chance to eat this again."
"Yeah, that's pretty good, too," Tucker nodded in agreement. "This thing is too bad."
As soon as she finished speaking, a strong fishy smell rushed out of Eleithia's stomach. Even in the battlefield where the corpses were lying on the ground, it would not give off such a disgusting smell. She felt that what she had eaten was not a pill, but a The long-decomposed mixture of flesh and blood, the unbearable acid and numbness kept pouring from the abdomen to the whole body, the chill suddenly faded, and then the scorching warm current flowed along the blood vessels. The temperature of her body gradually recovered, the frozen sweat began to slip off again, bursts of white air bubbled from the top of her head, and her numb toes regained consciousness again.
"But not today," the presiding judge waved his hand when she saw that she had eaten the cold-dispelling pill, "The God's Punishment Army is coming from the cathedral, and the evil beasts can't pass through the north gate. Take your people to the assembly area, remember. Check their pills. Don't be like you, you don't find out until you use them."
God's Punishment Army, the most elite army in the church's hands! Elesia had heard about it for a long time, but had never seen it with her own eyes. But... even if the God's Punishment Army is as powerful as rumored, it is still human after all. With this body alone, no matter how much you train, it is impossible to easily defeat a large group of mixed-species evil beasts.
But since the presiding judge said so, she had no choice but to leave the north gate with eleven team members and move closer to the gathering place in the west.
Hundreds of retreating Judgments have gathered here. They stood in twos and threes in the rain, letting the rain flow down their cheeks, and some even sat directly on the ground, looking listless. Only a small number of people are still lined up neatly, waiting for the enemy that may appear at any time.
If it had been a few days ago, Elesia would have stood up and scolded them, but now, she is also at a loss. In order to build this new holy city, countless compatriots were buried here. It can be said that the blood of believers and the Judgment Army is condensed in every brick here. Bishops often say that occupying Hermes is equivalent to owning the kingdom of God on earth.
Today, however, the kingdom of God seems to be about to fall into the hands of the devil's minions.
"The evil beast is here!" Someone shouted, "Prepare to meet the enemy!"
Elesia cheered herself up, raised her great sword, stared at the dark shadow that was approaching rapidly in the sky, and shouted loudly, "For Hermes!"
"—For the new holy city!"