Green Monster Epic

Chapter 820: Closer to the Royal City

Whoosh!

Boom! Boom!

Many thanks, Your Eminence!

A massive, sturdy castle thousands of meters away was struck by a bolt of golden lightning. A huge hole suddenly appeared in the northern wall. The heavy wall slowly collapsed before everyone's eyes, creating a towering wave of dust.

Although Allen, Aaron, Jehr, and the others had witnessed the power of a deity before, they were still shocked and awed to see the terrifying effect of a serious strike.

It's a pity this is already human territory, otherwise the effect of these few spears would be even stronger!

With a gentle wave of his hand, the collapsed ruins in the distance exploded again. A golden lightning bolt flashed back and obediently landed in Kheron's hand.

Facing the destruction he had created, Kheron's incarnation was still somewhat dissatisfied, but he had no choice. He had to suppress his aura to avoid being targeted by the will of Faerûn again, otherwise he would have to spend some means and power to get rid of Faerûn's will.

It's already enough. With the gap that Your Eminence helped open, we will definitely be able to get you to rest in the city before tonight!

Aaron was already very happy. If they had used their legion's strength to attack this city, it would have required a great sacrifice and a lot of time.

Ao Cong!! Lead the ogre legion to be the vanguard! Charge in!

Wait for my good news!

Warriors of the Wildlands, charge!!

The gnoll commander, Ao Cong, riding a giant ogre lizard, wore a cruel and excited smile. While deploying his domain power, he issued orders to the heavily armored ogre legion.

Roar!!!

Thump thump thump!

According to the ogres' pre-battle habit, the ogre warriors vigorously slapped their fat chests a few times, let out a battle roar to the sky, and dragged their heavy clubs and maces, burying their heads and following Ao Cong to charge out.

On the distant human castle wall, the human demigod Sozai and a group of spellcasters in loose robes behind him looked pale, their spirits severely damaged from resisting the powerful attacks.

Although they tried their best, with hundreds of spellcasters casting spells together to intercept the attacks of the golden lightning bolts, Sozai and the others could only watch as the golden javelins pierced through the solid castle in what seemed like ordinary attacks.

Having personally experienced the terrifying power, Sozai finally understood how the Ceris Fortress had fallen. At the same time, he had a rough guess about the identity of the centaur powerhouse who launched those golden lightning bolts.

Retreat, your line of defense is meaningless!

Sozai turned his head and persuaded a middle-aged human man in exquisite plate armor riding a griffon beside him.

This human warrior was the current commander of the Twin Castles, Duke Gillyer of the Duchy. He had originally hoped to use the defenses of the Twin Castles to buy some time for the duchy's reinforcements to arrive, but now it seemed that he was thinking too much.

After all, the Twin Castles were not like the Ceris Fortress, which was specially built to consolidate the border defenses. At least many of the building materials of the Ceris Fortress used granite bricks with good anti-magic and anti-physical attack properties, while the Twin Castles were located in the stable central area of the duchy for a long time, so the materials used were just ordinary fired-earth bricks. No one expected that these fired-earth bricks were so flimsy that they were destroyed by a single blow from the terrifying powerhouse on the opposite side, creating a large hole of more than ten meters.

Without the advantage of the city's defenses, it would be like an ant trying to stop a chariot to resist the attack of the hundreds of thousands of troops on the opposite side with the mere thirty to forty thousand troops in this castle, which would only be a death sentence.

But the matter of retreat mentioned by the demigod Sozai was not easy!

I'm afraid we'll have to trouble Your Excellency to send an adult with sufficient speed to Westburg to notify Audman and the others, and let him evacuate immediately after receiving the order.

Gillyer stared into the distance with a gloomy face and made a serious request to the demigod mage in front of him.

Okay, I'll personally deliver the letter in a while.

Sozai nodded: What about you guys?

I'm afraid I can't escape here. Instead of being bitten to death with Audman and the others, it's better to let the soldiers fight in the city, which can buy them some time.

Your Excellency must also go south as soon as possible to inform His Highness Johnson about the situation of the Wildland barbarians and let them be careful of the centaur saint's methods!

. Then take care!

Sozai could understand Gillyer's choice. The cavalry regiment of the Wildland centaurs had already bypassed the East Fort of the Twin Castles and was killing towards their rear, obviously not intending to let the human army in the castle escape.

There were many hills here, but most of the terrain was not very undulating. Although it was not the best battlefield for cavalry, it was not a bad environment either. The difficulty of charging and chasing was much lower than the difficulty of the human army escaping.

Wanting to rely on two legs to outrun the centaur's four legs was obviously impossible. Since this was the case, it was better to use the crisscrossing, complex, and familiar environment of the castle's alleys to inflict heavy blows on the Wildland warriors who had invaded the city.

Your Excellency, you should leave quickly. If the Wildland powerhouses come over in a while, it will be troublesome for you to get rid of them. I also have to reorganize the army and arrange the defense of the city.

The aura of Allen and other Wildland powerhouses was gradually approaching, and Gillyer didn't want Sozai and the others to get into trouble, urging them to leave.

Whoosh whoosh!

Sozai glanced back at Gillyer with a complex expression, then soared into the sky. The eight or nine human powerhouses around him also shot towards the southern sky, and soon their figures turned into black dots and disappeared on the horizon.

Announce to the entire army, abandon the city defense positions and retreat to the inner city!

The griffon mount spread its wings and jumped directly from the seven- or eight-meter-high city wall, and finally hovered down to a square under the city, merging into the personal guard gathered here.

The streets in the distance were in chaos, with large amounts of dust and broken wood flying up from time to time. Teams of Wildland warriors roared, waving heavy weapons, and charged in from the breach in the north city, with all living things and buildings blocking their path becoming their targets.

The ogre warriors charging at the front, with their black heavy armor matched with heavy and ferocious weapons such as wolf-tooth clubs or maces, were simply humanoid beasts. No matter how strong the building or how powerful the enemy, they would be submerged under their heavy weapons.

May the light of dawn pierce the darkness, may the rose bloom in blood and fire, the bloodline of heroes charge!!

Gillyer drew the greatsword from his waist, raised it high, his eyes firm and his expression calm. While shouting a sentence, a sacred light sprinkled from his greatsword and merged into the bodies of the surrounding human warriors.

Clang clang clang!!

Kill!!

Gillier's guards drew the lances mounted on the sides of their warhorses, and with a unified battle cry, the cavalry brigade of over two thousand men began to accelerate their charge.

When Allen and the others arrived at this castle from afar, the human powerhouses had already withdrawn. Since that was the case, they would no longer be polite. One by one, the close-combat experts plunged headfirst into the ground, displaying their formidable power among the ordinary human warriors.

“Jie jie jie! ! ”

“. gok ”

A blazing pillar of fire soared into the sky. Yogg, as a dragon vein sorcerer, seemed to have found the perfect stage at this moment. His not-so-burly body transformed into a massive firepower turret, and countless fire spells were unleashed wantonly in the once-prosperous castle, turning building after building into a sea of flames.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

In the sky, several fire meteors with long tails grew larger and larger as they approached the city, then exploded violently in the inner city of the humans, setting off a series of surging storms and claiming the lives of countless human warriors.

With the wilderness powerhouses clearing the way for the army, the warriors of the wilderness coalition had no more scruples. Any living thing that appeared and was sensed by them lost its vitality amidst a series of cruel roars.

However, the humans were not without the power to resist. Gillier's decision was correct. If he had led his legions to retreat from this familiar castle at this time, it would have given the centaur legions, who were outflanking their rear, a great opportunity. But now, the human army was scattered and mixed into the city to fight in the alleys. Although they still had to face warriors of the wilderness coalition several times their number, the complex environment ultimately gave the human army some chance to trade lives.

In what seemed to be a raging ruin, a team of wilderness warriors thought there was no danger and were about to speed through, but just as half of their team passed through, the burning building suddenly exploded violently, with sparks of wood and cloth splashing around, a large portion of which landed right on top of the wilderness team.

A team of human warriors emerged from the ruins, their eyes filled with murderous intent, and went straight for the somewhat chaotic wilderness army. Soon, the two sides were locked in a melee.

By the time the other wilderness teams arrived, of the hundred or so men in the ambushed wilderness team, less than a third were still standing. And their surviving opponents, seeing that more wilderness warriors were surrounding them, showed no panic or tension at all, but a resolute death wish on their faces, and continued to pounce frantically on the surviving wilderness warriors.

Similar scenes played out in every corner of the castle. The human warriors seemed like cockroaches that couldn't be killed, always able to emerge from unexpected places and inflict considerable blows on the wilderness powerhouses.

Although the human warriors showed their tenacious and heroic side of sacrificing themselves generously, in the face of absolute strength, their struggles and efforts were nothing more than a tragic song.

A day passed, and as night gradually fell on this castle, it was difficult to conceal the flames flying all over the sky, dyeing most of its horizon red.

There was no trace of any human existence in the city, not even a single living thing could survive. Dozens of miles west of the castle ruins, a similar fiery cloud rose in the sky, which was the West Fort of Twin Forts burning.

It was a pity that the commander of the West Fort had made a decisive retreat. Although Ahmad sent a cavalry legion to pursue them, the enemy had set a trap during the retreat and launched a counterattack, giving the centaur pursuit legion a small loss at the time.

In the end, this isolated human army was allowed to retreat. When Ahmad heard the news, he flew into a great rage on the spot. Fortunately, the deputy general of the centaur legion was not present, or he would have had a hard time.

After breaking through the first line of defense of the Rose Duchy's capital, the coalition and the centaur legion did not delay any longer, and then led the army south to continue.

Aaron and Ahmad also felt a sense of urgency in their hearts. The human coalition had finally shifted its gaze from the orc empire in the east to the wilderness coalition invading the Rose Duchy, which also meant that the purpose of the wilderness's dispatch of troops this time was completely achieved on time.

Although the goal had been achieved, the enormous risks and pressures that followed would inevitably descend on this wilderness legion that had penetrated deep into the human heartland.

Not to mention the distant future, just the 300,000-strong army that, according to current intelligence, would arrive at the Rose Duchy's capital, Newns, in at most a month, combined with the 300,000-plus troops defending the capital, would be enough to compete with the wilderness coalition and the centaur army on the frontal battlefield.

Not to mention that the human side had follow-up actions. It was said that at least 500,000 troops were being assembled, and in no more than four months, they would be able to reach the Newns royal city area.

Human civilization was prosperous and strong. Even a small duchy could have hundreds of thousands of troops, let alone the existence of powerful empires. Their speed of mobilizing troops was extremely fast.

On the other hand, regarding the wilderness alliance, the latest documents sent said that the alliance had reached an agreement on the number of troops to be conscripted for the second time. Next was the long period of army assembly.

I am afraid that before the second wilderness army has been assembled, their coalition, which has penetrated deep into the heart of the Rose Duchy, will have already turned into piles of white bones and will not be able to see the day when subsequent reinforcements arrive.

If their army is defeated and annihilated by the humans, the vast land occupied in the north of the Rose Duchy will also return to the hands of its original owners.

Even if the Rose Duchy had a little courage to bypass the wilderness coalition on the frontal battlefield and attack the rear, the northern land could be easily recovered. The only trouble might be that, in addition to the naturally dangerous terrain in the three northern provinces, there were no fortresses or castles for defense, all of which had been completely destroyed by the wilderness coalition and the centaur legion.

Therefore, before the human coalition arrived, Aaron and Ahmad wanted to put as much pressure as possible on the Rose Duchy's capital and reduce the strength of the enemy's army, and then rely on the vast territory cleared in the three northern provinces to entangle with the human coalition until reinforcements from the wilderness arrived.

This was also what the centaur legion had been doing before and after the wilderness army attacked the Ceris Fortress. Only their excellent speed could have allowed them to clear out most of the famous towns in the three northern provinces in the past month or so.

After occupying and completely destroying Twin Forts, the wilderness legion rested in place for a day, and then continued south with the main force of the centaur army, heading straight for Newns City, the capital of the Rose Duchy.