Green Monster Epic
#856 - Entering the city
A streak of vibrant blood splattered across the sky, and a severed arm slowly descended from above.
Soza's fleeing figure, in a state of panic, dwindled into a black dot. Allen, however, had no intention of kicking him while he was down, though he secretly wished he could, especially since the demigod mage was at his weakest.
The two human shield warriors charged back, their eyes filled with determination. The ogre swung his heavy sword, channeling divine power into it, unleashing a 'Triple Wave' attack towards one of them. Simultaneously, he slammed his palm against the other's heavy shield.
Thump!
Thump!
Two slightly different metallic sounds echoed, one after the other. The human shield warrior struck by Allen's palm felt immense force against his shield. Despite bracing for the impact, his body was involuntarily pushed back.
His comrade, however, was not so fortunate. The heavy sword, not particularly sharp to begin with, was now enhanced with divine power and Allen's own strength. When it struck the opponent's thick shield, it cleaved through as if it were tofu, bisecting both the shield and the human shield warrior behind it.
Blood splattered, erupting in a cloud of crimson mist. The human shield warrior who had been pushed back felt a surge of fear, abandoning control of his retreating body and quickly falling back towards the city.
"Hmph!"
Allen coldly glanced at the fleeing figure, then, too lazy to bother with the disheartened human warrior, raised his greatsword and leaped into the air once more. He brought the heavy sword down upon the city wall, and soon, another round of intense tremors shook Newinth City.
The human knight commander on the west city wall organized a legion battle formation, attempting to stop Allen's destructive rampage. However, Allen refused to engage in a direct confrontation. Instead, he utilized the elusive speed of his 'Ripple Step,' foiling the human knight commander's plans.
As for the protective magic cast by the combined efforts of the spellcaster alliance, while it did hinder Allen to some extent, the anti-magic properties of the Rune Inscription Group allowed him to quickly dispel their magic and continue his objective.
Eventually, the eastern front, which was holding off Keron's incarnation, and another team of four or five human powerhouses were dispatched, finally slowing down Allen's destructive actions against the city.
The northern city, where human captives were being sacrificed, was now being gradually overlooked by Marshal Planck and others. Although the human warriors on the wall had become numb and fragile after suffering such blows, the actual pressure on the northern city was the least, as the wilderness army seemed to have shifted its attack direction.
At this moment, dozens of lithe, dark-skinned drow females, their seductive charm still evident, appeared beside Allen. The leading drow female was almost completely naked, wearing only a transparent veil and lightly stirring a short whip covered in barbs.
"Lady Wolna, do you think these corpses are enough?"
Allen stood beside the drow female named Wolna, his throat involuntarily bobbing as his gaze lingered on the corpses scattered across the distant battlefield.
"Yes, it's enough!"
Wolna nodded slightly, offering a charming smile that almost swayed Allen's resolve.
"Then please prepare to cast your spells and proceed with the next step!"
"Hehe, leave it to us!"
Snap!
The short whip cracked in the air. Wolna, who was actually two or three hundred years old, suppressed her seductive aura and, along with the drow spellcasters she had brought, began to chant.
Human prisoners were still being sent to the front lines, though not in as great numbers as before. In just half a day, the prisoners sent to the front had already accounted for seventy to eighty percent of the coalition's conscripted captives.
The ground was littered with corpses, resembling a human hell, piled haphazardly on top of each other, limbs intertwined, flesh even merging together. As the drow spellcasters behind them began to brew their magic, a gray-black mist began to rise from the battlefield's soil.
The mist was initially subtle, unnoticed by the commanders, warriors, and spellcasters on the city wall. It wasn't until the wisps of mist coalesced and gradually merged into the corpses on the ground that it became apparent.
The corpses, devoid of any life, writhed and twisted beneath the feet of the surviving human prisoners, eliciting cries of alarm and desperate attempts to escape. But where could they escape to? Ahead lay the towering walls of the royal capital and the human warriors who relentlessly shot at them with crossbows and javelins. Behind them were the merciless wilderness barbarians. If a human stumbled and fell among the corpses, a force would immediately pull them in, merging them with the writhing corpses on the ground.
The terrified commotion below the city finally drew the attention of the human commanders. However, by this time, the drow's dark magic was nearing its completion. The corpses on the ground intertwined and merged into a pool of flesh, which then slowly rose from the ground, forming a terrifying giant head composed of countless corpses.
After the head came the giant's body, arms, and abdomen. Within minutes, a corpse giant over forty meters tall was born, drawing the gazes of countless eyes.
A trace of solemnity flashed in Planck's eyes. They had long suspected that the wilderness commander's purpose in sending humans to their deaths was not so simple. They had also instructed the spellcaster teams to use fire and lightning magic, as well as divine magic, to preemptively deal with the corpses, but there were simply too many corpses below the city, and the effects of the spellcaster alliance's and divine magic corps' spells were minimal.
Now, with the enemy launching fierce attacks on the east and west cities, and also tying up the spellcaster alliance and divine magic corps, and the human powerhouses struggling to deal with the two powerful enemies that had appeared in the east and west cities, they were stretched thin. By the time they noticed the anomaly, the enemy's dark magic had already been completed.
Originally, the Rose Duchy could have avoided being so passive. Planck and his advisors and staff had formulated many battle plans. If they had been implemented, the wilderness legion would not have been able to reach the royal capital so easily.
Newinth Royal City did not need the duchy's entire existing army to be stationed there. With its solid city defenses and the means of the Dawn Church's temple, Planck was confident in protecting the royal capital's safety with only a few hundred thousand troops, until reinforcements from the Dawn Empire arrived.
The duchy could have drawn out at least 100,000 troops, divided them into small forces to harass the enemy's rear and flanks, and even, at a critical moment in the siege, reorganized a large army to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's central army from behind. Even if it ultimately could not inflict much damage on the enemy's central army, it would at least have a great chance of burning their supplies.
Without supplies, the hundreds of thousands of wilderness and centaur troops would inevitably face the problem of food and drink, which would coincide with the duchy's earlier scorched-earth tactics.
Unfortunately, the duchy's current king, Johnson, was timid and conservative, unwilling to take this risk, and directly rejected Planck's plans, wanting only to defend the royal capital and wait for coalition support.
The restrained Planck had no choice but to obey the king's will, abandoning the plan to leave the city to fight and harass the wilderness legion, and instead gathering all his forces in the royal capital.
The corpse giant roared silently to the sky, but a wave of energy quickly spread out, seemingly to demonstrate its existence. After doing all this, the giant swung its fist towards the northern city wall, immediately causing an earth-shattering commotion, with even stronger effects than Allen's full-strength attack.
Fist, fist, and another fist. The giant, pieced together from tens of thousands of corpses, possessed truly terrifying strength, tirelessly smashing its enormous fists against the sturdy city walls. These entities were indeed the most formidable siege weapons in the magical world.
The concentrated power of death emanating from the giant even diffused from its body, forming a halo at its feet. On the ground and walls covered by the halo, any lifeless corpse would quickly undergo zombification, staggering to its feet.
At the same time, a crack appeared on the giant's forehead, and a socket without eyeballs, deep and dark inside, slowly took shape. Rays of black-gray light and thick fog shot out from this socket, landing on the human legions arrayed on the city walls, desperately trying to stop the giant.
The dark divine magic unleashed by the giant didn't possess much substantial destructive power, but it had a powerful effect of confusing people's minds and eliciting their negative emotions. When human warriors were struck by these rays and black fog, various emotions surfaced on their faces and in their eyes.
You must understand that in the previous battle, the human warriors on the north city wall had just experienced a tremendous psychological ordeal. Their fragile mental willpower hadn't had time to recover before being enveloped by this all-pervasive dark divine magic, eroding their minds.
The scene before many human warriors suddenly shifted. The flesh giant in front of them disappeared, replaced by unforgettable human faces. These faces were those of their human compatriots whom they had personally slaughtered under the city walls just half a day ago. Now, with mournful and hateful expressions, they frantically pounced on the human warriors, no matter how much these warriors struggled, resisted, or begged for forgiveness, they could never shake off these compatriots who made them feel guilty.
"Wake up! It's fake! It's all fake!!"
The human knight commander shouted hoarsely, trying to awaken his subordinates, but the response he received was the gleam of blades that should have been aimed at the enemy, erupting with murderous intent within the human ranks.
Although there were still a few human warriors with strong wills who were not bewitched or affected, more human warriors were influenced by this dark divine magic, madly turning their weapons against their surrounding comrades, slaughtering each other.
The Duchy's divine magic corps also noticed the commotion on the north city wall and quickly adjusted their spellcasting targets. Cleansing spells, morale-boosting spells, and other divine magics that strengthened the spirit were cast upon the warrior ranks, temporarily restoring clarity to the human warriors' minds. But when they saw the scene they had created, watching their comrades being hacked down by their own hands, with another wave of dark divine magic enveloping them, they once again fell into darkness, escaping the sins they had committed.
"Hmph!!"
Makaroff had finally managed to extract a moment from his confrontation with Kahron's incarnation. Seeing the precarious situation on the north city wall, he felt both indignation and fury, as well as a hint of worry and hesitation.
As a resolute look flashed in his eyes, it seemed that he had made some kind of decision in his heart.
"...Our Father who art in Heaven, may Your Holy Spirit bless us, may Your mighty name terrify the world..."
As Makaroff began to offer devout prayers, the magnificent temple in the inner city of the royal capital also gradually began to emit subtle tremors, especially the statue of the Lord of the Morningstar in the temple, which actually had strands of light surging within it, and the aura of magical turbulence gradually intensified.
The ever-composed Kahron's incarnation now had a few more traces of caution on his face. The javelin in his hand transformed into a long spear, and he suddenly launched a fierce attack on Makaroff, but both were intercepted by the two diamond golems.
"...May Your divine grace save your humble believers!!"
Buzzing!!
The temple in the inner city, just as Makaroff finished his last words of prayer, a golden light descended from the sky, enveloping the entire temple. As the golden light was finally absorbed by the temple, a divine phantom appeared above the temple, its height exceeding a hundred meters, overlooking the entire royal city with a kind of sacred majesty and emotionless eyes.
Buzz!!
A powerful domain force rapidly extended, until it covered the entire Nuweince Royal City. The negative emotions such as madness and fear that had gripped the human warriors on the north city wall slowly began to disappear as the golden domain force covered their city wall. Their original reason regained control of their bodies.
Many critically injured human warriors, after receiving the blessing of this golden domain, had their injuries heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their depleted strength was injected with new vitality.
The flesh giant summoned by dark divine magic now seemed to have encountered its nemesis. The corpses and flesh on its body dissolved and fell off piece by piece, revealing a skeleton formed of white bones.
Seeing this, Walna and her drow spellcaster companions in the distance could not hide their disappointment. They had originally wanted to manipulate such a behemoth and savor the experience, but now they could only execute their plan ahead of time before the Radiant Domain completely destroyed the giant.
"...death"
The flesh giant rarely showed any emotion, hammering its arms back and forth a few times in front of its chest. Countless pieces of flesh fell towards the city wall, colliding with the faint divine light appearing on the city wall, giving rise to wisps of white smoke. These were two opposing forces annihilating each other.
Seeing that the flesh on its body was about to fall off, the giant stretched out its arms, embracing the entire north city wall. Before humans could understand the purpose behind its strange actions, a violent energy vibration erupted from the giant's skeleton.
"Corpse Explosion!!"
"Quick, get out of here!"
Some humans noticed in time and tried to remind their companions, but it was already too late. The power of death condensed from tens of thousands of corpses erupted at the same time at this moment, and the destructive power it produced was absolutely shocking.
Annihilation!
The power of light in the Radiant Domain and the power of death condensed under the dark divine magic were originally two absolutely opposing forces, and the collision between the two was far more intense than the collision of other attribute energies.
Even the power of death condensed from tens of thousands of corpses was actually difficult to contend with the divine power accumulated by a temple over countless years. But the problem was that the power of death condensed from these tens of thousands of corpses only erupted on one section of the north city wall, while the Radiant Domain covered the entire royal capital. Under the difference between point and surface, the absolute damage caused by the mutual annihilation of the power of death and the power of light on the north city wall, even a city carefully built over thousands of years, was difficult to match.
The explosion was much smaller than imagined, but the huge sphere formed during the annihilation process, like a black hole, silently devoured a section of the north city wall directly.
When the annihilation effect finally disappeared, an oval groove more than ten meters wide suddenly appeared on the north city wall, which was more than twenty meters high, but no city wall debris could be seen under the city wall.
Regarding the desire to see the protagonist slaughtering everyone, it would be easy to write, but the power system that has been painstakingly established would seem somewhat contradictory, so I still decided to follow my own ideas and try to make these strong people not so easy to be killed.
In addition, regarding things like recommendation tickets, although I don't say it, it doesn't mean I don't need them. Everyone, please give me some encouragement, considering that I was relatively diligent last month!
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