Three days have passed since the sudden fierce battle.
The towering walls of Black Rook Hold stand quietly in the night sky. This fortress built of black granite has experienced unimaginable fierce battles. Even the general of the fortress can't believe that the fortress can still stand upright after the storm. On the ground—the chaos storm and the monsters that came with it almost completely destroyed all the forward towers and order rune stones outside the fortress. The outer line of defense lined with high walls and giant rocks is now only a piece of gray-black crushed gravel, and even the walls of the fortress itself are devastated. Huge cracks and even holes can be seen everywhere. From a distance, it can be used To describe it as riddled with holes.
Maybe there is no need to wait for the next storm, even just a wave of wandering Chaos monsters is enough to collapse the dark fortress in an instant.
Philip tightened his cotton coat, and looked back at the majestic upper fortress of Black Rook Fortress. In the misty night sky, this ancient fortress looked like a volcano that spiraled up and gradually converged. Layers of granite walls and The towers, large and small, formed the cliffs of the mountain, and the flames that swayed between the walls and the towers were like lava flowing along the mountain. On the uppermost floor of the fortress, the light of the Fire Tower is like a white tower piercing the sky, pointing directly at the sky, and a vague barrier pours down from the top of the "white tower", covering the entire fortress .
Although it still looks dazzling, in fact, the light of Symmetra of the Torch Tower is no longer as bright as before.
The Fire Tower was traumatized in the previous chaos storm, and the too strong law conflict caused the energy core of the tower to be overloaded. Although the mages urgently repaired the most important equipment, they still couldn't fully restore the tower to its optimal state. status, and for a fortress facing the enemy head-on on the border of chaos, the weakening of Symmetra means that everything is heading for the worst: the defense of Black Rook Hold has been almost halved.
But these things are very far away to Philip. As an ordinary squad leader, he is only a little bit higher than the soldiers under him, and he knows a little bit more, but he is still a person who came from the kingdom's countryside. A vulgar soldier who has never seen anything in the world, he knows nothing about the mysterious magic field, he only knows that the battle three days ago was the worst battle he has ever experienced, and many people who are more powerful than him He died on the battlefield outside the city, and the soldiers guarding the city wall were also carried to the back in batches. If he was not lucky enough, he might become a corpse in those cold tombs himself. If it hadn't been for years of military service that had made this veteran somewhat numb to matters of life and death, I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to muster up the courage to come to this section of the city wall again.
Philip tightened his cotton coat again. It seemed that the clothes could no longer help him resist the cold wind at night—it was hard to imagine that just a few days ago, it was still hot in midsummer, and standing guard on the city wall would make people sweat profusely. However, now the inside and outside of the fortress are dripping with ice, and it is already winter.
This is the power of chaos: when the storm came, it changed the climate in this area almost immediately. In fact, it only took two or three hours from midsummer to cold winter. After that, the defenders of Black Rook Hold experienced thunderstorms, hail, and snowstorms If the baptism of chaos is placed in the first two or three years of the Chaos War, I am afraid that just such crazy weather changes can kill some unlucky people.
"Boss, it seems to be dawn, right? Why don't we stop here this time?"
The voice of one of his subordinates reactivated Philip's nearly frozen brain. He turned his head and saw a soldier under him looking up at the horizon, where a faint ray of skylight could already be seen.
"Don't be distracted, there's still a while," Philip scolded, "Don't think about being lazy, if the monster really comes at this time, you won't be able to explain to your ancestors if you die."
The soldier was reprimanded, and quickly lowered his head to obediently agree, but Philip also knew not to be too harsh on the other party: the damn weather is really unbearable, and the night patrol is too exhausting.
But he knew that monsters attacked the city day and night, and those bastards who emerged from the chaos would not give you a chance to sneak around, so this veteran still cheered up and carefully watched the movement outside the city wall.
The cold wind swirled and blew across the plain in front of Black Rook Hold, stirring up a few broken flags and some dust. Philip recognized that one of the flags belonged to the second battalion of the Black Blade Legion. The entire army was wiped out in the battle—in order to give the other brigades a chance to retreat, more than 2,000 warriors stood in front of the tide-like monsters. Philip watched them being swallowed up from the city wall, and human limbs seemed to fall into it. The creaminess of hot soup is dissolved by darkness.
That retreat saved most of the main force of the Black Blade Legion, so that the fortress's combat effectiveness would not be damaged too much at one time, but it also caused the chaos monsters to rush into the order barrier of Black Rook Fortress in advance, laying the groundwork for the overload of the Fire Tower. Hidden danger.
"Boss, I heard from those mages that it was a chaotic storm a few days ago. I heard that the storm was blown in from the border of the continent, surged up from the bottom of the Sea of Karnos, and then poured into our world. The forest in the south seems to have been completely destroyed and turned into a land of chaos."
"Can I still not know?" Philip glanced at his subordinate and said calmly. He didn't like the other party to bring up this topic, because until now, recalling the scene three days ago made him shudder: the darkness and When the storm came from the southern sky, it was like a huge black wave thousands of meters high and boundless on both sides. Emerging from the air, pounced on the city wall... and the fight lasted for a whole day and night.
The mages called it "the front arrow of the storm", which means that there will be more chaos coming, maybe not as violent as the first day, but it will definitely take more lives.
Philip didn't want to talk much, but some of his veterans couldn't stay idle, and soon they were chatting about other topics.
"Hey, have you heard? A while ago, it was said that a group of monsters suddenly appeared in the forest in the south—a very large group."
"Ah, I heard that too, what's the matter?"
"It is said that the group of monsters is not ordinary. There are all kinds of races in it, and the mighty ones are coming towards us."
"There are all kinds of races? Then they haven't developed their own brains yet?"
"It's strange to say that the group of monsters seems to be organized. It is said that there is a particularly powerful... The leader of the monster called Wolf unified them."
"Hey, it sounds powerful. Could it be a big wolf as tall as a hill?"
"I heard that yes, a 3,500-year-old forest wolf has three heads, a tooth is half a meter long, and a single claw can knock down a house..."
"Hey, what's the use of saying this, look to the south—chaos is here, no matter how powerful the alpha wolf is, it's still a monster. It doesn't have the holy artifact of order. At this time, most of those monsters have been completely wiped out by chaos."
Philip did not stop his subordinates from chatting at the moment, because he had already seen that the sun on the horizon was about to jump out of the ground, and the night of duty would soon be over. At this time, it is understandable for the soldiers to relax a little, as long as no one Just leave the post.
He didn't know that the "warrior beast leader" who was "3,500 years old", "had three heads", and "one tooth was half a meter long" was happily leading a team called a beast at this time. Chao's army was approaching the border of civilization, and he didn't know that in the next moment, a new round of chaos storm attacks would begin.
The sentry who was the first to notice the anomaly looked up at the direction of the Black Forest. When a huge black shadow appeared in the sight of the sentry, he first rubbed his eyes, and then realized that the shadow was not caused by a sleepless night. Illusion—it actually appeared, like a thick smoke coming out of the forest, a column of smoke swirled out of the forest, approaching Black Rook Hold at an unnatural speed, on the column of smoke, It can be seen that countless shadowy monsters are rapidly forming.
The sentinel opened his mouth, and it took two seconds for him to react: "... Chaos is coming!!!"
The deafening alarm sounded throughout the entire fortress in an instant, and every bell tower in Black Rook Fortress began to ring crazily. The protective runes on the surface of the city walls and sentry towers were lit up one by one. The shouts of the knights and the orders of the commanders Came from every corner, followed by the sound of heavy footsteps and the collision of armors. The heavy iron gate on the upper level of the fort also came down, and the gryphon cavalry who were still completely woven flew out of the iron gate one by one, circling the dark fortress to guard, and then the wizard tower also started to operate, with arcs of light one after another Fired from the wizard tower to the battlements, the magic crystal cannon was powered, and the focusing crystal began to glow bright white on the city wall.
Outside Black Rook Hold, black smoke was gathering.
Black smoke and dust, this is the manifestation of the chaotic power in the southern part of the kingdom.
When the first bird-like monster emerged from the black smoke and screamed at the city wall, Philip spat, cursed under his breath every vulgar word he could think of, and drew his weapon to meet him.
(By the way, my wife opened a Taobao store, which is a husband and wife store between us. It sells some peripheral dolls and gifts, and everyone will support it. In the future, if Xiling and Anomaly have peripherals, they should also buy a batch there. Everyone directly TB searched for the seller "Jingyue Bingtian" and it was all right~ If you pass by, don't buy it, just take a look =. =) (to be continued~^~)