Green Monster Epic

Chapter 818 The Might of a Deity

The golden javelin seemed to float lightly towards the Seres Fortress. The human soldiers on the wall widened their eyes, watching as it failed to even pierce the wall, instead landing in the middle of the ramparts. Some couldn't help but sneer, while other humans were somewhat dumbfounded.

Crack!

Crack, crack, crack!

The sneer on the humans' faces hadn't even faded when the javelin embedded in the wall began to tremble on its own, and the frequency became more intense as time passed.

Under the gaze of everyone, cracks began to appear on the wall as it trembled. As the cracks spread, the dilapidated wall, which had already been battered by trebuchets, cannons, and other powerful siege weapons and magic for over a month, gradually began to shake and vibrate.

A trumpet-shaped crack appeared on the ground between the hooves of the golden-eyed centaur and the fortress. The closer it got to the fortress, the deeper and wider the cracks on the ground became, soon approaching the city that had stood for over a thousand years.

"Ah!!"

"Everyone, stand your ground!"

"Anyone who dares to retreat..."

The human soldiers on the wall had never seen such a shocking scene. The north wall shook violently, and almost no human warrior could maintain their footing. This was an attack beyond the imagination of mortals, and it immediately caused tens of thousands of human warriors on the north wall who witnessed the centaur's attack to lose their courage. No matter how the officers shouted and reprimanded, they couldn't stop these people from fleeing the north wall.

However, before these human soldiers could leave their positions, the middle section of the already crumbling north wall collapsed and caved in with a loud roar, revealing a pile of rubble over twenty meters wide.

Wooo... Woooo...

Although the wildland commanders were equally shocked at this time, when the horn of the centaur legion sounded, it pulled their minds back. Aaron immediately issued the order to charge, knowing what to do.

Horns and drums rose and fell in succession, and the silent wildland legion began to advance in unison in the sound of the orders, accelerating towards the breach that had been opened.

"It's over!! It's over!!"

The human commander, with his graying hair and withered face, floated in mid-air, with countless wails ringing in his ears, but no longer eliciting any response from him. He just looked bleakly at the approaching wildland warriors and centaur cavalry, muttering to himself.

"General, let's go!"

A middle-aged knight stood on the broken wall, shouting to the commander floating in the air.

"Go? Where can we go?"

Although there were still tens of thousands of intact human troops on the other three walls, the loss of the defensive fortifications meant that the defeat of the human army was basically a foregone conclusion.

Even if they disregarded the lives of the vast majority of civilians and warriors in the city and led a portion of the elite warriors into the inner city and activated the magic lock, it would only be a few days of respite. If reinforcements didn't arrive from the rear, they would be unable to escape the fate of being annihilated.

Slap!!

"Transmit my order, all soldiers abandon the defenses and gather in the inner city!!"

"Notify the people in the residential areas that have not yet fallen, and tell them that if they want to live, they should take up the weapons in their hands and follow our steps!"

The depressed fighting spirit was forcibly interrupted by the old general slapping himself hard in the face. As he regained his fighting spirit, one order after another was retransmitted to the ears of the soldiers on the wall, and soon the human army launched a counterattack against the wildland legion that had invaded the city.

The rise and prosperity of human civilization has never been a fluke. Whenever there is a desperate situation, ordinary humans always stand up to lead and inspire their surrounding compatriots to make one resistance after another.

Although there must be people among them who are weak-willed, even accounting for the vast majority, whenever someone stands up, these cowardly, ordinary human warriors are often willing to follow these heroes, fighting and killing.

Ordinary residents in the fortress, hiding in their respective houses, took the initiative to walk out of their shelters and follow the human army to fight to protect their families.

The wildland legion's warriors, as well as that iron-clad centaur legion, were equally ruthless. Having suffered from human suppression and exploitation for many years, they had finally found a great opportunity for revenge. The bright and sharp weapons in their hands were constantly waved and chopped, and any living thing that appeared in front of them became their target.

Children crying and looking for their parents, women pulling out relatives from the rubble of collapsed houses...

Even if these humans were not threatening and did not resist, as long as they appeared in front of the wildland warriors, there would always be a javelin or throwing axe thrown over, mercilessly reaping their lives.

The cruelty of war was evident here. The entire city rose with raging flames, and flesh and blood bloomed with their respective brilliance in this disaster.

Two elite wildland armies were still stationed outside the city, gazing at the rising smoke and flames in the distance. Akhmad bowed to the calmly standing Kheron's avatar: "Your Excellency, please allow me to block their retreat."

"Go!"

The south wall outside the city was the weakest in defense, which the wildland legion had deliberately done to avoid the humans fighting to the death in a desperate situation. Now that the army in the south had sent a signal that the humans were breaking through, it was a great opportunity for the centaur cavalry to pursue them.

Aaron and the others were now reverently accompanying the young centaur, and they never imagined that the human fortress that had been attacked by the wildland army for more than a month would be easily breached by the unimaginable powerhouse in front of them. Even Aaron himself, as a legend, was truly shocked.

Of course, they wouldn't know that the land they were standing on had belonged to the Centaur Grasslands thousands of years ago. When Kheron ascended to the throne, one of the important authorities he possessed was the ruler of the Centaur Grasslands.

Although humans had occupied this land that once belonged to the Centaur Grasslands and painstakingly managed it for thousands of years, it didn't mean that this land was completely cut off from the Centaur Grasslands' territory.

When the owner and controller of this land appeared in front of it, the elemental power of this land should naturally respond to the will of its owner and be used by Him.

However, Kheron's avatar was not without a price. Although He looked calm and composed at this time, in reality, because He had just used the power of a god and revealed the identity of a god, He had been detected by the Faerûn's will that controlled the entire world, and was applying a majestic invisible force to expel the consciousness that controlled this centaur.

The wildland powerhouses in the sky were even more unscrupulous at this time. In the previous days, the enemy had clearly gained the upper hand many times, but they were allowed to escape back to the fortress just when a victory was in sight, making it impossible to launch a pursuit.

Now, without the protection of the Ceres Fortress, the strong ones of the wilderness are eager to see where the enemy, whom they have fought many times, can escape to next.

On the human side, everyone's face was cold. Without needing to pay too much attention, they could already understand that the fall of the fortress was irreversible just by sensing the aura within the city.

The remaining human troops under the city were gathering, preparing to break through from the south gate. The human powerhouses in the sky also began to exchange glances, planning their retreat.

The instant kill sword technique is indeed a considerable threat to ranged powerhouses. Allen, who was covered in numerous negative effects, once again thrust straight at Sozai, who was a hundred meters away. Amidst waves of magical shock, Sozai used the force to move further away from Allen again, but several protective spells around his body were also dispelled.

The pursuit of the two demigods was very tedious. It was a contest of patience and tenacity. However, if they were to stalemate like this for a long time, the close-combat bear goblin would eventually have the advantage.

After all, with Allen's current stamina and rage, he wouldn't be exhausted even after fighting for ten days straight. However, Sozai, as a spellcaster, cannot recover his mental strength and magic power during battle. Eventually, when his mental strength and magic power are exhausted, he will naturally be unable to resist Allen's strong attacks.

If it were any other demigod, Sozai might have been able to inflict heavy damage or even kill the opponent before his magic power was exhausted, but facing a demigod who specialized in many legendary abilities and magical items designed to counter spellcasters, and who was also extremely fast and agile, he was simply a spellcaster's natural enemy.

While retreating, Sozai also cast spells in an orderly manner. Although what happened in the distant city made his heart heavy, it would not make him lose his mind. As a large lightning sphere moved left and right following his movements, he immediately inserted his staff into the electric ball and stirred it continuously.

Buzz! Buzz!

Bolts of lightning separated from the sphere, densely shooting towards Allen's main body or the path he was taking.

Bone Cleaver swept out, causing Allen's body to spin rapidly. In a few breaths, a man-made hurricane formed in mid-air, roaring and wrapping towards Sozai.

The lightning bolts uncontrollably merged into the hurricane, mutually annihilating the energy contained within the hurricane, but still more lightning bolts grazed the hurricane and flew into the distance.

Whoosh!!

Sozai's retreating movement was also pulled tightly by the hurricane, constantly tearing him towards the inner circle of the storm. Seeing blades of rage floating out from it and striking towards him, Sozai's staff flashed coldly, and his body immediately disappeared into the storm circle.

Several hundred meters away from where Allen had come, dozens of lightning bolts that had not hit Allen reassembled into a sphere, and then suddenly expanded. A human figure appeared in the position where the sphere was located. It was Sozai, who had escaped from the eye of the hurricane.

Whoosh!!

The hurricane suddenly stopped, revealing Allen's main body, and countless blades of rage shot out towards the surroundings, most of which targeted the space where Sozai was located, shooting over like bullets.

Buzz!

A lightning shield suddenly materialized, firmly protecting Sozai. At the same time, the remaining electrical elements, following the demigod's mental call, transformed into a Spear of Judgment, which disappeared from his hand in a flash and appeared in front of Allen in the blink of an eye.

Crack ~ ~

A thick ice shield appeared abruptly, just in time to block the Spear of Judgment when it was about to pierce Allen's body.

Whoosh!!

The ice shield turned into a flurry of white ice crystals, just enough to hide Allen's figure. Just as Sozai was preparing his next spell, Allen's slender figure had already reached the opponent's eyes.

Hiss ~ ~

A black lightning bolt quietly formed along the trace of the heavy sword's blade, splitting the human body in front of him in two, but Allen did not feel any sense of hitting a real object. All he saw in his eyes was the joy of the human demigod's successful scheme, and a lip movement that he could not hear.

"Explode!!"

The human body that had been split in two suddenly burst into light. A low voice came from a white cloud hundreds of meters away, and then Allen's body was submerged in the sky full of electric snakes.

Tzz!!

The electric snakes danced, illuminating half the sky. Sozai, who had some joy in his eyes, had not yet dissipated his emotions when a void suddenly exploded in the electric net, and then a violent premonition surged into his heart, causing him to crush a star diamond on his staff without hesitation.

Pfft!!

The instant kill sword technique missed, dodged by Sozai in the nick of time, but Allen's main body also stumbled out of the gap in the electric net that the instant kill sword technique had pierced.

The two demigods gasped for breath, and after a few moments of rest, they suddenly moved in tacit agreement, continuing to engage in an endless battle.

Ceres City was completely lost. Everywhere were figures of wilderness troops and centaur warriors. Corpses littered the fields wherever they passed, with no omissions.

The abandoned human civilians fell into despair. Some braced their will, raised the kitchen knives in their hands, and rushed towards the plundering wilderness natives like madmen, but before they could get close to the wilderness warriors, they were already picked up by several spears, their bodies flying in the air before being pierced through.

Others cowered and tried to surrender, tightly holding weak children in their arms, desperately expecting the salvation of the gods, but they did not receive the slightest pity from the wilderness natives and centaur warriors. With a raise and fall of the sword, human women and children all became a wisp of corpses on the ground.

In the southern direction of the city, the last 30,000 isolated human soldiers finally broke through the weak defense line deliberately set up by the wilderness, followed by a group of stumbling civilians, quickly fleeing towards the southern mainland.

What they didn't know was that a dozen miles behind them, an elite centaur cavalry army was slowly following the traces they left behind, slowly catching up with them.

The centaur cavalry regiment was not in a hurry. There was still a wilderness warrior biting the tail of the other side in front. It was not so easy for the remnants of the human army to escape this battlefield.

Ahmad's calculation was very clear. Even if the human army in front, whether in terms of morale or combat power, was no longer a match for their cavalry officers, if they could consume a little more of the human's stamina, it would mean that their own soldiers would suffer fewer losses.

Anyway, the two hundred miles south along the way had already been cleared by the centaur army. There was no need to worry about the appearance of human reinforcements, or any terrain such as fortresses for the humans to stay and rest.