The Great Ajax Mountains, the northernmost mountains in the world.
In the dark blue sky, the sun is about to set, and some clouds are stirring in the sky, slowly rotating like a whirlpool. In the desolate twilight, the afterglow of the sunset shines on it, covering it with a golden-red glow.
Under the sky, there are endless stretches of vast mountains, and a gray-white fortress stands in the center of the endless white snow and forest, with a black forest in the front and a snowfield in the back. It is located in the gap of the mountains, blocking the black forest from entering. The roads spreading outside and the city walls as tall as mountains look so majestic, as indestructible as the hardest rock.
This is a land of bitter cold, with deserted snow-capped mountains and black forests frozen by frost making up all of it. In this world where almost no one has set foot, there is no impurity in the pure air, even just breathing , you will also feel your lungs refreshed.
Once upon a time, that was the case.
Kuroshio siege, fifth day.
Slowly walking to the top of the fortress tower, the blood-stained blond knight stood aside the shield in his hand. He stood at the end of the city wall and looked at the black forest not far away with a depressed face.
Black-purple dust carries a chaotic aura, covering everything like mist. It even rises into the sky. The light of the setting sun is reflected by these scales, creating strange and turbid colors.
Under this thick black-purple fog that ordinary people couldn't breathe and was completely polluted, wild beasts were roiling, and nearly endless monsters surged in like angry waves.
Therefore, wherever the eyes can see, there is a tide of beasts.
This is not the first time for the blond knight to fight against the black tide on the front line. In fact, since he became a silver knight at the age of twenty-five, he has never left this gray-white fortress. This is his home, where his hard work is condensed. He never thought that this place would be lost one day.
But today, this idea took root in the knight's mind and grew bigger and bigger.
"Fifty thousand..."
Talking to himself, he felt a smell of iron spreading in his mouth, and with a bitter smile, the blond knight spat out a mouthful of blood and laughed at himself: "Fifty thousand wild beasts... I never thought I would encounter so many in my life. "
The fortress and various defense lines outside the fortress have been completely lost. He evacuated from there. Although there were not many casualties due to his decisive retreat, it was also because he was too hasty and decisive that the fortress also lost a lot of money. Supplies and equipment.
To be honest, the blond knight had never been so aggrieved. He had faced hundreds of thousands of large black tides, and had accompanied the old lord to kill several golden monsters, but fifty thousand wild beasts and ordinary Warcraft is different. This has exceeded the limit that this fortress with more than 2,000 troops and about 30,000 residents can withstand. It is a terrifying offensive that can only be handled by a super-large fortress with more than 50,000 people. These are not afraid of pain, In front of the monsters who didn't know how to retreat, if they hadn't occasionally killed each other, the external fortresses and defense lines wouldn't have been able to last for five days.
But now it has reached its limit. All five satellite fortresses have been lost, and one-third of the fortress's supplies and many large war machines have been lost.
Now, only the Black Forest Fortress itself is left to face these monsters.
Ta-ta-ta-ta.
There were footsteps behind the knight, and after a moment, two figures appeared at the steps of the tower. They were a mage in white robes and a masked warrior. The mage's robe was now stained with dust, and the warrior was also Covered in wounds and blood, the two of them walked straight to the edge of the tower and looked at each other with the blond knight.
"Shrink your troops, Zolgen. While the losses are not big, let's give up the defense on the side mountains and concentrate our energy on the front to resist the impact of the wild beasts."
After a moment of silence, the mage said to his companions. His expression looked very unwilling, but his voice was extremely firm: "Now there are only some middle and low-level black iron and silver monsters, and their madness ability has already made us a little bit overwhelmed. , If this continues, when the advanced golden monsters appear, we will have no ability to fight against them."
"What about the rear area?"
The masked warrior muttered. He was not refuting, but simply raising a question: "If we don't intercept the monsters that bypass the fortress from the mountains on the side, what should we do with the manors and small towns behind? They even have city walls. No, there is only a fence made of wood, do you want them to use this kind of thing to fight against wild beasts?"
"That's just pure massacre! The meaning of our existence is to be a nail here, to prevent any monsters from crossing the gap in the mountains, and to protect the safety of the people in the territory."
At this point, the voice of the masked warrior already had a hint of anger: "Giving up is something only a coward would do!"
"The question is not whether you are a coward or not."
Facing the suggestions and anger of his two companions, the blond-haired knight immediately answered. He shook his head and said: "These monsters that are mad because of the black mist are very different from their previous counterparts. As long as they do not solve the target in front of them, they seem to be They won't leave at all. I have observed that those who are trying to cross the fortress are not crazy monsters, and they are relatively weak. They are not worth our efforts to stop them. The manors and towns behind basically have silver. The knights are here, they can handle it."
Having said this, he turned to look at the masked warrior and said seriously: "Our duty is to stop the majority of the Black Tide. As long as the fortress does not fall, it means that our mission has not failed. If the battlefield strength is insufficient and the defense collapses, then the gain outweighs the gain."
"Then we should at least notify the rear!"
The masked warrior also knew this truth, but he was still a little reluctant.
"You also need to be able to contact me..."
Sighing deeply, the fortress garrison commander Zolgen couldn't help but clenched his fists: "If this strange black mist hadn't blocked the communication fluctuations, I would have informed the main city and asked the lord to lead a team for support! He is a gold-level powerhouse. With him here, as long as no golden monsters of the same level appear, the fortress will be as stable as a rock."
Speaking of this, the blond knight couldn't help but feel angry: "Feng, the group of mages under you said that they could penetrate the shield of the black mist if you gave them some time, but in fact? It's been five days! Except for the third day I don’t know why there is a hissing sound from the beginning to the end except when there is a signal!”
"If it doesn't work, it won't work. Even if you get angry at me, it won't solve the problem. What's more, my group of mages are always releasing spells in front of the position. How can I find the time to study communication formations!"
The mentor of the fortress mage group, the white-haired evocation mage Feng, turned to look at the beast tide that had suspended its offensive and began to retreat towards the black forest. He gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Look at this momentum, the appearance of the golden monster has only been in the past few days. , the offensive is getting stronger day by day, without the support of my group of mages, the fortress will be breached before the support comes."
"Obviously, there must be an extremely powerful 'lord' this time. The black tide this time is its army. It drove these wild beasts here in order to break through our nail in the mountains and expand. Your own territory.”
The masked warrior interjected, and after he finished speaking, he wondered: "It's also strange. The wild beast has not been seen for at least more than seventy years, and the lord is even worse. There has been no movement for so many years. How come they all suddenly appeared this year?" Out?"
The blond knight did not answer the question. He just turned his head and looked at the black forest ahead. The thick black and purple fog. All the wild beasts had retreated into the black forest, and the soldiers in the fortress could finally rest for a while.
But so what, it's nothing more than a tiny moment of respite before real despair.
Speechless, the three of them were silent. Faced with this war between nature and humans, wild beasts and fortresses, barbarism and civilization, they had nothing to say.
(End of chapter)