Soul of Burning Steel

The Great Ajax Mountains, the northernmost part of the world.

In the deep blue sky, the sun is about to set, and some clouds are stirring in the sky, slowly rotating like a whirlpool. In the desolate twilight, the afterglow of the sunset shines on it, covering it with a layer of golden-red glow.

Under the sky, there are endless and vast mountains, and a gray-white fortress stands in the middle of the endless white snow and forest. The front is Hessen, and the back is the snowfield. It is located at the gap of the mountains, blocking the black forest. The road that spreads out, the city wall as tall as a mountain looks so majestic, as indestructible as the hardest rock.

This is a land of bitter cold, untouched snow-capped mountains, and black forests frozen by frost. In this piece of world where almost no one has set foot, there is no trace of impurities in the pure air, even if it is just breathing. , will also feel a burst of refreshing lungs.

Once, yes.

Kuroshio siege, the fifth day.

Slowly walking to the top of the fortress tower, the blood-stained blond knight stood aside with the shield in his hand. He stood at the end of the city wall, looking depressedly at the black forest not far in front of him.

The black-purple dust has a chaotic atmosphere, covering everything like a fog, and it even rises to the sky. The light of the setting sun is reflected by these scales, giving birth to strange and muddy colors.

Under the black-purple dense fog that ordinary people can't breathe and is completely polluted, wild beasts are churning, and almost endless monsters rush in like raging waves.

Therefore, wherever the eyes can see, there are tides of beasts.

This is not the first time for the blond knight to fight against the Kuroshio on the front line. In fact, since he became a silver knight at the age of twenty-five, he has never left this gray and white fortress. Where, he never thought that there would be a day when this place would fall.

But today, this idea has taken root in the hearts of the Cavaliers, and it has grown bigger and bigger.

"fifty thousand……"

Talking to himself, he felt a smell of iron spreading in his mouth, and with a wry smile, the blond knight spit out a mouthful of blood, and laughed at himself: "Fifty thousand wild beasts... I never thought that I would meet so many in my life." .”

The forts and various lines of defense outside the fortress have been completely lost. He evacuated from there. Although there were not many casualties because of the decisive retreat, it was also because of too hasty and decisive that the fortress also lost a lot. Supplies and equipment.

To be honest, the blond knight has never been so aggrieved. He has faced hundreds of thousands of black tides and killed several golden monsters with the old lord, but 50,000 wild beasts and ordinary Warcraft is different. This has exceeded the limit that this fortress with more than 2,000 troops and 30,000 residents can bear. In front of the monsters who don't know how to retreat, if it weren't for them occasionally killing each other, the external fortress and defense line would not last for five days at all.

But now it has reached the limit. All five satellite fortresses have fallen, and one-third of the fortress' supplies and a large number of large war machines have been lost.

Today, only Black Forest Keep itself is left to face these monsters.

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Footsteps came from behind the knight, and after a while, two figures appeared on the steps of the tower. It was a mage in white robe and a masked warrior. The mage's robe was now stained with dust, and the warrior was also Covered in wounds and blood, the two of them walked straight to the edge of the tower, and looked at each other with the blond knight.

"Let's shrink our troops, Zorgen. Taking advantage of the small losses, let's give up the defense on the side mountains and concentrate on the front to resist the impact of wild beasts."

After being silent for a while, the mage said this to his companions. His expression looked very unwilling, but his voice was firm and abnormal: "Now they are just some low-level black iron and silver monsters. With their crazy ability, we are already a little bit overwhelmed." , If this continues, we will be completely powerless to fight against the high-level golden monsters."

"What about the big rear?"

The masked soldier said in a muffled voice. He didn't refute, but simply raised a question: "If we don't intercept the monsters that bypass the fortress from the side, what should we do with the manors and small towns behind? They don't even have city walls. No, there are only wooden fences, do you want them to use this kind of thing to fight wild beasts?"

"That's just a simple massacre! The meaning of our existence is to be nailed here, to prevent any monsters from crossing the gap in the mountains, and to protect the safety of the people in the territory."

Speaking of this, the voice of the masked soldier has already brought a trace of anger: "Giving up is something that cowards will do!"

"The question is not whether cowards are cowards or not."

Faced with the suggestion and anger of his two companions, the blond knight immediately responded, shaking his head and said: "These monsters that went mad because of the black mist are very different from the previous kind, as long as they don't solve their immediate goals, they seem They won't leave at all. I have observed that those who try to cross the fort are all monsters that are not mad, and their strength is relatively weak. It is not worth our effort to stop them. And the manors and towns behind are basically full of silver With the knights in charge, they can deal with it."

Having said that, he turned his head to look at the masked warrior, and said seriously: "Our duty is to stop most of the Kuroshio, as long as the fortress does not fall, it means that our mission has not failed. Insufficient combat power on the battlefield and a collapsed defense are completely worth the candle."

"Then at least inform the rear!"

The masked soldier also knew this truth, but he was still a little unwilling.

"You have to be able to get in touch..."

Sighing deeply, Zorgen, the chief of defense of the fortress, couldn't help clenching his fists: "If it wasn't for this strange black mist that could obscure the communication fluctuations, I would have notified the main city long ago and asked the lord to lead a team to support! He is a gold-level powerhouse, with him, as long as there are no golden monsters of the same level, the fortress will be as stable as a rock."

Speaking of this, the blond knight couldn't help but feel angry: "Feng, the group of mages under your command said that they can penetrate the shield of the black mist with a little time, but in reality? It's been five days! Except for the third day I don’t know why there is a sizzling sound from the beginning to the end except for a little signal!”

"No, no, no, you can't solve the problem if you get angry at me, not to mention the group of mages under me have been casting spells in front of the position, where is the time to study the communication formation!"

The mentor of the fortress mage group, the white-haired evocation mage Feng turned his head and looked at the beast tide that had suspended the offensive and began to recede towards the Black Forest, gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Look at the momentum, the appearance of golden monsters has only been in the past few days , The offensive is fierce day by day, without the support of my group of mages, the fortress will be breached before the support arrives."

"Obviously, there must be an extremely powerful 'lord' this time, and this time the Kuroshio is its army. It drove this group of wild beasts here, just to break the nail we nailed in the mountains and expand own territory."

The masked soldier interjected, and after he finished speaking, he said in confusion: "It's also strange. The wild beast has not been seen for at least seventy years, and the lord is even worse. There has been no movement for so many years in the past. Why are they all suddenly appearing this year?" Out?"

The blond knight didn't answer this question, he just turned his head to look at the black forest in front of him, the thick black and purple fog, all the wild beasts had retreated to the black forest, and the soldiers in the fortress could finally rest for a while.

But so what, it is nothing more than a little breathing time before the real despair.

Speechless, the three of them remained silent. Facing this war between nature and humans, wild beasts and fortresses, barbarism and civilization, they had nothing to say.