Banner of the Evil God

Just as Baron Keen was conducting large-scale agricultural experiments and water purification projects, and just as Arkain was engaged in research that would make the God of Plague regard him as his mortal enemy in the future, in the valleys opposite the Greystone Mountains and the Behemoth Mountains, the two armies of the Orc Empire and the Eagle Kingdom had already assembled and started a fierce war.

In the eyes of many people, this war will be unremarkable, no different from the many orc invasions that have occurred in the past. Humans rely on solid fortress defenses, while orcs rely on huge forces to attack fortresses one by one.

It has been like this for a long time.

For example, the battle always starts in the fortress "Iron City" closest to the north side of the valley. This fortress is the largest of all fortresses and can accommodate the most troops. The defensive equipment and military rations stored are enough to last for more than a year. In many orc invasions in the past, the orc army could only surround this fortress and could not conquer it. Instead, when humans counterattack, the army in the fortress will fight out and stab the orc army from the back.

But this time, the situation was a little different.

Facing the solid fortress, the orcs sent out an astonishing number of air forces. Those orcs who could fly, and those who could control flying magic beasts, flew to the sky above the fortress with stones that had been lightened by magic, and then threw them down when the magic was about to expire.

In just one wave of attacks, hundreds of large stones fell from the sky and hit the fortress. Those that hit the city wall created a significant gap in the solid city wall that could resist powerful magic; those that hit the ground were deeply embedded in the soil.

What would happen if such a terrifying attack fell on houses or even people?

In this wave of attacks, about one-thirtieth of the buildings in the Iron City were completely destroyed, and several times more houses suffered varying degrees of damage. As for the number of casualties, it is impossible to accurately count them.

Because with this wave of attacks, the entire Iron City fell into chaos.

The orcs immediately took advantage of this opportunity to launch a fierce attack. The steep walls could not stop the cat people's vigorous steps. They climbed up along the almost straight walls without any tools. Once they rushed to the top of the wall, they lowered the thick ropes prepared in advance so that the follow-up troops could follow up.

Originally, the Iron City had a complete set of defense systems that could block attacks of this scale. But because of the "rockfall attack", the soldiers of the Iron City were a little panicked, and the command system was also in chaos, especially in several places where the orcs focused on smashing rocks. Many brave soldiers who were originally guarding the city walls have turned into tragic pieces of meat under the huge rocks falling from high altitudes. The morale of the remaining soldiers has almost completely collapsed, and they are unable to organize effective resistance at all.

Although the Lord of Iron City, Marquis Roland Igor, immediately organized elite troops to reinforce, the reinforcements did not catch up in time because they were ready to go and acted hastily. The orcs successfully climbed the walls and quickly built a simple slope to allow the follow-up troops to rush up quickly.

When the orc army rushed up the walls like a tide and fought madly with the soldiers of the Eagle Kingdom, the outcome of this battle was almost decided.

At this most dangerous moment, Marquis Roland led his most loyal guards to bravely rush to the front line, trying to save the defeat with bravery. But even with bravery, they could not gain any advantage.

Marquis Roland himself had entered the legendary realm more than 400 years ago. The lowest level of his guards was high-level, and there were even two legendary strongmen. At the beginning, with these three legendary warriors as the spearhead, they easily tore through the orc army, defeated the orc army that had already entered the city and was almost rushing to the city gate, and counterattacked on the city wall again.

But that was the end.

When Marquis Roland rushed to the city wall, he saw eight opponents standing there in a row waiting for him.

They were legendary warriors from various orc tribes. For this battle, the orcs even set foot on the battlefield with the priests of the Great Temple.

For example, Marquis Roland recognized his old opponent, the famous warrior of the Lion Clan, "Iron Teeth" Iro Ryan.

Iron Fang Iroh is a veteran of the Lion Clan. When he was still an adventurer, he was good friends with the famous "Heavy Armored Mad Lion" Reynard. Later, the two drifted apart due to differences in beliefs and ideas. Reynard eventually disappeared from the sight of mortals and was said to have entered a realm that mortals could not imagine. Iroh became the commander-in-chief of the entire Southern Military Region of the Orc Empire, presided over more than one orc invasion, and was notorious.

In the northern part of the Eagle Kingdom, the name "Iron Fang Iroh" can even stop children from crying at night!

He and Marquis Roland have fought many times, and both have won and lost. Even if it was just one-on-one, Marquis Roland was not sure that he could definitely beat him.

If he was the only enemy, Marquis Roland would be happy to rush up with his personal guards and surround and kill this old opponent on the top of the city.

However, Iroh was not alone, he had seven other helpers.

Marquis Roland's eyes swept over the seven helpers one by one and soon recognized them.

Every time he recognized one, his heart sank a little.

Especially when the eight legendary warriors separated to the left and right, like guards, to welcome an old werewolf to the city wall, Marquis Roland's heart had sunk to the bottom of the water like a stone.

He did not know the old man, but he recognized the wooden staff in the old man's hand.

The wooden staff was not decorated at all, and was very crude, as if he had just picked up a large branch on the roadside and cut it a few times with a knife. But the wooden staff contained a strong magical light, and in his eyes with magical vision, it was like a sun in front of him.

What was even more terrifying was that there was a rope tied to the top of the wooden staff, and six fist-sized skulls were strung on the rope. These skulls also exuded a strong magical light, and there was a fierce and violent momentum emanating from them.

"...The Staff of Imprisonment?" He asked in a hoarse voice.

This wooden staff called "The Staff of Imprisonment" was said to be used by the orc god Lefeng before he was deified, and it contained a powerful and incredible power. After he was deified, he left it among the orcs. Whenever the orcs killed a demigod, the wooden staff would refine the demigod into a skeleton, imprison it on the staff, and increase its power.

In other words, the six skeletons on the wooden staff are the six demigods who died in front of it!

The old werewolf did not answer, but looked around the wall under his feet as if he could not see him, and then looked at the fortress in front of them that was almost undefended.

"This time, let's occupy it." He said to Iron Fang Ilo, "You can stay here."

The notorious tall lion man bowed deeply and accepted the order with a very humble attitude.

The old werewolf nodded and turned away with satisfaction.

Marquis Roland could no longer bear it, roared, led his loyal and brave guards, and rushed towards the old werewolf.

Then, eight legendary orcs came up.

It only took the orc army one day to capture the Iron City fortress.