Green Monster Epic

Chapter 837: Trump Card

Verga's outer city was engulfed in a sea of fire, staining most of the sky red. Even from over a hundred miles away, the blood-red flames in the direction of Verga were clearly visible against the night.

Within the sea of fire, at the location of the inner city, a mystic lock shield blocked the sky-filled fire tongues outside. A large amount of energy was consumed in the flames, but for a commercial city, the least lacking were sources of energy such as various gemstones and magical materials. Therefore, after the centaur army completely covered the entire mystic lock sky-screen with endless flames, they completely gave up attacking it.

Through the mystic lock shield, the human commander and thirty thousand human soldiers stood on the city wall, watching their familiar houses and buildings disappear into the sea of fire. Countless loved ones perished, and each face was covered with tears, their eyes revealing desperate hatred.

“呜呜呜”

Some people were crying softly. Although they were protected by the inner city's mystic lock and did not have to worry about being slaughtered in the short term, many of their relatives were not so lucky and could not be settled in the inner city. In the end, they were trampled and slaughtered one by one by the centaurs' plundering iron hooves, and finally became firewood in the sea of fire.

The centaur army set the entire city ablaze, leaving no one out. The warriors did not know how many ordinary human civilians they had shot and killed that night. From the initial excitement and agitation to the later numbness and mechanical actions, the city-attacking achievements, which should have been something to be proud of, did not make many people feel excited when the city was completely reduced to a sea of fire.

“Blow the horn!!”

“The whole army gathers, prepare to evacuate!!”

A glimmer of fish-belly white appeared on the horizon, and day was about to dawn. Looking at the inner city's mystic lock shield in the center of the fire, which was like a paradise, he issued the next order in a deep voice.

There were still tens of thousands of remaining human troops in the inner city, as well as more than half of the entire commercial city's wealth. If they could capture it, the harvest might not be smaller than the Newins Royal City that had been captured in the wilderness before.

But such a tempting target was not taken seriously by the centaur army commanders. Even from a realistic point of view, as long as they wanted to take this inner city, the possibility was not low.

Because the goal that Ahmad and his army were plotting was more valuable and meaningful to their centaur grasslands. If it was just for the so-called external wealth, the high-level rulers of the three centaur royal courts would not be greedy enough to send their more than 200,000 elite tribesmen to the human hinterland to die.

A blood-red beam of light soared into the sky and fell into the dense dark clouds formed by incomplete combustion smoke columns. An obsidian pillar that seemed familiar appeared outside the city of Verga at some unknown time, along with a matching altar.

Countless large human corpses were thrown into the slowly rotating altar, and then swallowed by the invisible energy on the altar. A teleportation gate rippling with gray-white mist was opened in the open space selected outside the city.

Teams of centaur cavalry passed through the mist one after another, and then disappeared without a trace. When they reappeared, even they themselves were not sure where they were. The only thing they could be sure of was that they were at least hundreds of miles away from Verga, the scene of the tragedy they had just created.

When demons invaded in the past, they built flesh and blood altars in various parts of the Fayman world to allow the demon army to invade the Fayman world across planes. During the process of clearing these evil god believers, the Wilderness Alliance and the Temple collected a lot of materials and blueprints for the flesh and blood altar.

After so many years of research on the flesh and blood altar, the scholars of the Temple of Nature finally effectively transformed the altar, allowing it to carry out effective teleportation within a certain range without specific coordinates, and the energy consumed for teleportation was far less than the original altar.

In layman's terms, it only needs to build a flesh and blood altar to open a teleportation gate, then in a remote unknown area, a teleportation exit will be generated spontaneously, instead of needing two altars to cooperate to successfully open the teleportation like the original flesh and blood altar.

Of course, there are also many shortcomings brought about by this. For example, this reduced version of the altar cannot transmit across planes, and the transmission distance is greatly limited. Even the transmission azimuth has great uncertainty. In addition to being able to control the approximate transmission azimuth, the specific transmission point position cannot be controlled. It is possible that the transmission exit is above a lake, or on the edge of a cliff, etc.

Originally, such a transformation should be considered a failure, but now falling into the hands of the centaur legion has become the best auxiliary weapon.

The massive number of corpses brought about by the massacre made the centaur legion not have to worry about the resources needed to open the teleportation gate, and the inability to determine the teleportation location was not a problem for the army. Anyway, they did not have a specific goal. As long as the legion's movement trajectory was unpredictable, then their probability of survival and action would be much greater.

When the sun rose into the sky, under the misty dark clouds, the figures of the centaur legion had disappeared from Verga City. When Ahmad led the last team of centaur warriors to disappear into the teleportation mist, a gust of wind directly blew away the many human corpses still piled up on the altar.

The figure of Karon's incarnation then appeared beside the altar. A pair of skillful hands pressed on a certain magic joint of the altar, and the entire operating altar returned to calm, and the aura of magic shock gradually subsided.

After cleaning up the altar, Karon casually threw out a scroll, and a raging fire burned on the original site of the altar. Karon's incarnation waved his hand, and countless corpses were thrown into the flames, turning into fuel for the fire.

After clearing the traces, Karon's incarnation closed his eyes and began to sense for a while. Finally, after determining the direction of the centaur army, his slender figure rushed straight into the sky and quickly chased after the distant centaur legion.

Until Karon's incarnation left the city swallowed by flames, the last human army in the city was unaware. Although they had already noticed some anomalies at this time, such as the absence of human wailing in the sea of fire outside the city, and the absence of large-scale centaur army movements.

For a time, except for the crackling explosion of firewood in the sea of fire, the outside of Verga suddenly fell into a strange silence.

No one dared to make suggestions to the city lord and commanders to open the mystic lock shield for reconnaissance. It was not until the sky was really bright and scouts and strong men from distant cities rushed to search the city cautiously. After these humans stated their identities, the mystic lock was reluctantly opened by the city lord.

It was just at this time that the whereabouts and whereabouts of the attackers last night could not be found. It was as if these centaur legions had turned into ghosts and disappeared without a trace.

It was not until a day later that Fars, another city of considerable size more than five hundred miles away from the ruins of Verga, was suddenly attacked again in the evening. The entire city was slaughtered like Verga City, and after the city was burned to ashes, the high-level officials of the Chenxi Empire really became nervous.

The empire dispatched powerful legendary experts and elite soldiers to the territories of Verga and Fas City, but they found no trace of the centaur army. Two days later, another piece of bad news arrived: another city more than six hundred miles east of Fas City was attacked in the middle of the night, and tens of thousands of people in the city were killed.

At this time, the Dawn Empire paid more attention to it, but paying attention alone did not help much. Now the empire's internal military strength was empty, and even the number of local experts was somewhat stretched, most of them stationed in important towns of the vast empire.

Not to mention that they still knew nothing about the intelligence and whereabouts of the invading enemy. Even if the top leaders of the empire had obtained first-hand information about the enemy at this time, they would probably not be able to create much obstruction to this invading enemy in a short period of time.

The Dawn Empire sent nearly 500,000 troops to fight against the orc empire in the east, as well as an equal number of civilians to transport supplies, and more than 20 human experts.

Later, when the Rose Principality faced the invasion of the Wildlands Allied Forces, it sent a request for help to the empire, which again led the empire to transfer troops stationed in the country. Now that 500,000-strong army has arrived in the Rose Principality's capital and is engaged in fierce battles with the Wildlands army occupying the city.

There are still five to six hundred thousand troops left in the country, but they are stationed in major passes and cities in the southeast, northwest, and it is impossible to assemble them in a short time.

No matter how powerful the Dawn Empire is, the number of regular troops it can mobilize is ultimately limited. Especially since the Central Plains has been peaceful for a long time, and there has been no large-scale war for many years. If it weren't for the human civilization's plan to attack the orc empire, I am afraid that the Dawn Empire's regular army would not have such a large scale.

After all, maintaining a huge standing army is a heavy burden for any country, even for an existence as strong as the Dawn Empire.

Above the empire, there is the invisible hand of the main faith church shrouded in it. The church seems to be a neutral existence, watching the royal family and the powerful rule and manage the empire, but in fact their figure is everywhere.

Even the taxes and corvée that the empire relies on to maintain its operation, the church defined as the state religion, will take away a considerable share.

Below the empire, there are also six ranks of nobles, such as duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. They control the local power. Whether it is taxation or service, the empire needs to go through them to effectively complete it.

If you want these nobles to support the rule of the imperial royal family, and want the empire to operate normally, the imperial royal family will naturally have to delegate many powers to these powerful hands, and sometimes the royal family will even have to marry their own blood, using marriage and other relationships to win over some powerful noble families.

In a hurry, whether it is to transfer troops from other cities or to re-recruit troops, it requires the support of the church and the nobles. The problems that arise are not as simple as a few orders can accomplish, but require the emperor to summon the powerful to conduct a series of discussions and compromises.

One bad news after another came, igniting one war flower after another on the vast territory of the Dawn Empire, but the troops mobilized by the empire and the troops conscripted from the powerful have not made much progress.

In the end, the empire had no choice but to send people to the army of the Rose Principality in the north to convey the order, ordering them to withdraw their troops and return to clear the hidden dangers within the empire before seeking other solutions.

If it weren't for the fact that the national army fighting against the orc empire in the east was too far away from the empire's mainland, I am afraid that the Dawn Empire's royal family would have recalled this army as well. But even so, the Dawn Empire is probably not going to fulfill its original promise to provide the next batch of supplies and soldiers to the Human Alliance.

In Newens Inner City, the remnants of the Wildlands army persisted after a day of fierce fighting, but the original army of less than 20,000 soldiers has now lost more than half again, leaving only a little over 9,000 remnants.

Allen once again activated the resonance state in the war, and did not know exactly how much faith power was consumed, which helped the Wildlands expert team to resist the siege of the human experts.

But the price they paid was still not small. Zhan Rui, a legendary intermediate shaman from the Argand Lizardmen tribe, one of the members of the Thorns Ring team, unfortunately fell, and Niger and two other legendary experts were injured on top of injuries, basically losing their combat power in the short term. Now, in the Wildlands Allied Forces, apart from the legendary knight who commands the army, only five people in the Wildlands expert team can still maintain combat power.

And the opponents they have to face, the original experts from the Dawn Empire and the Rose Principality combined, are still more than three times the size of Allen's team.

"If the enemy does not launch an attack tonight, we will prepare to evacuate!"

Just when a group of experts were in a depressed mood, Allen finally said a piece of news that made everyone overjoyed, except for Jehr, the demigod leader of the Church of Nature, whose face was a little unhappy.

But after the excitement, everyone's faces showed a bit more hesitation and embarrassment. Now they were surrounded on all sides and in an absolute disadvantage. Unless they abandoned the remaining Wildlands warriors in the city and Allen led the breakout, otherwise just Yogg and the other experts would basically not be able to escape the enemy's encirclement.

"If the breakout is to abandon the warriors in the city, then we two disagree!"

Although they knew that the result would not change in any way, Aaron and Orcun quickly expressed their position, their tone heavy and painful.

If before the dispatch of troops, Aaron and Orcun looked at the ordinary Wildlands warriors under their command more as cold numbers, then now, after fighting alongside these brave warriors for a long time, sharing life and death, even legendary experts with hearts as hard as stone could not help but develop some bonds with these warriors.

They were unwilling to see such a group of brave warriors who fought bravely and obeyed orders end up being abandoned. At least they two still hoped to lead this group of warriors to fight to the last man before making plans to break out.

Of course, Aaron and the others also knew that their ideas were too naive. When the Wildlands warriors fought to the last man, they, the experts, would probably be difficult to escape.

But the attitude that should be there, and their own intentions must be expressed, otherwise they would feel a little guilty in their hearts. After all, it was only the first time that they two commanded troops, and their blood had not been completely worn away by the cruel and merciless war.

"I never said that I would abandon these brave warriors!"

Just when Aaron and the others were indignant, Allen continued to say in a calm tone.

"Then..."

Many experts in the field changed their expressions, seeming not to believe what Allen said, but thinking about Allen's style of doing things since they had been together for so long, they couldn't help but express trust in what Allen said, so most of them curiously cast their eyes over.