Soul of Burning Steel

Hearing this voice, Elson suddenly felt a flame ignited in his heart, excited, moved, and pleasantly surprised, but he also knew that now is not the time to be happy.

The communication will be lost at some point, and the situation in the fort is urgent. The gray-haired knight pressed the jump in his chest. He immediately walked to the stone platform, closed his eyes, and mentally connected to the communication formation.

"My lord, this is the Black Forest Fortress, Silver Knight Elson."

"It's actually connected? It seems that the small communication array of Artanis is not inferior."

Hearing the reply, the voice on the other end of the communication array seemed to be equally surprised: "Unfortunately, the distance is too short. I have been riding in the snowfield for two days before I can get enough signals...Elson, the situation of the fortress how?"

He couldn't understand what a small communication array or signal was, but Elson could know from the scattered information that his lord was not far away from the fortress.

In addition to being excited, in order to save time, he reported at the fastest speed: "The fortress has lost all satellite fortresses, and the supplies are less than one-third of the full warehouse, and there are nearly 50,000 wild beasts in the Black Forest ahead. The center is about to move, and the black-purple mist that permeates the mountains can block all detection magic and communication spells, which is why we can't remind the main city."

"How many casualties?"

Hearing this, the voice from the other end of the communication array suddenly became serious: "Is the situation critical now?"

"The casualties were not many. Fifty-three soldiers died when the fortress was breached, and one hundred and sixty-seven people were injured during the retreat. However, the wild beast retreated after breaking through all the fortresses yesterday. As for the fortress itself, there is currently no Under attack, the 40-meter-high city wall is not so easy to break through, and now the wild beasts may attack at any time, and all the staff are preparing for the battle with all their strength."

"The situation is not bad, and the loss is acceptable, Elson, is there any leader around you..."

hum!

There was a low buzzing sound, and the communication was interrupted. Elson opened his eyes angrily. He looked around, but found that the entire clock tower was shaking slightly, and there were rippling white mirrors on the stone platform. This is also confirmed.

"what happened?"

Walking out of the room quickly, the gray-haired knight looked out the window. The snow on the roof of the house began to slide slowly, and the trees that had lost all their leaves shook their branches. Many pedestrians on the street stopped, and they looked at it in surprise. around, but can't find the reason.

No one thinks that the tremor is an earthquake, because this is the northern part of the empire, the Great Ajax Mountain Range, and an active volcano is in the center of the mountain range. If there is an earthquake, it will definitely show signs, instead of being silent like it is now.

"Squeak creak."

In the house, in the tree hole, countless mice, squirrels, and hibernating animals were awakened by the instinctive warning. With the growing vibration, the bricks and tiles on the house began to tremble, and the icicles under the eaves also fell one by one. , fell to the ground and turned into a piece of broken ice.

— Black Forest.

Along with the tremors of the earth, black and purple mist began to surge in the forest, and even spurred huge waves of clouds and mist. This filthy, chaotic wave flooded the entire forest, and the soldiers guarding the city moved their eyes to this place. They are guarding against this huge mutation and are ready to fight.

"Huh ah ah ah!"

Suddenly, accompanied by a beast roar that shook the mountains, the black and purple mist wave was dispersed by a huge figure rushing from afar. It was at least thirty meters tall, and its huge body was like a moving fortress. From the mist, it can be seen that this long-haired monster like a giant mammoth has a pair of huge fangs and a strong proboscis, and a huge bone plate wraps the entire head.

The ice and snow became extremely active due to the arrival of this giant beast, and even turned into a flowing ice tide to surround its body, forming a solid armor of ice, and with every breath of the giant beast, it was like black smoke. The dark purple mist rose and danced in the hair.

boom!

The galloping behemoth collided head-on with the abandoned human fortress. Under its impact, the tall stone building was smashed like a fragile toy. When the huge fangs flicked, the fragments of the building flew around, and the impact produced A column of smoke rose from the dust, and it also temporarily stopped the impact, as if it was slowly recovering its strength.

"Alarm! Hurry up and sound the highest alarm!"

"It seems that the golden monster is attacking!"

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep

The shrill sirens immediately rang throughout the city, and the soldiers who were stunned by the terrifying figure of the giant beast finally came to their senses, and they immediately went to their respective posts, preparing to face the huge monster.

"The artillery is ready!" "Mage, where is the mage?" "The ice armor on it is at least half a meter behind, and it will have no effect unless it is a siege crossbow!"

Noisy voices spread between the city walls and towers. It sounded very chaotic, but in fact it was secretly orderly. Although the guarding soldiers who had been on guard against the sudden attack of wild beasts were startled by the sudden appearance of a giant beast without warning Jumped, but didn't lose his footing because of it.

A few seconds later, a goblin magic cannon that seemed to have been specially modified was pushed to the front of the city wall. The black muzzle of the 155-caliber black gun was aimed at the giant beast that had temporarily stopped moving. Under the urging of the pyroxene powder, The magic pattern lit up, and it blasted out the first shell of this defense battle.

Whoosh!

The sound couldn't catch up, and the armor-piercing projectile with a pointed steel core flew through the atmosphere at supersonic speed. The special magic projectile made by the pair of large monsters hit the target's left shoulder—it successfully broke through the ice tide and penetrated the ice armor. Then the magical explosion dust contained in it exploded loudly, releasing an extremely powerful shock wave and high-temperature airflow, tearing and burning the flesh and blood, destroying everything.

"Success! Hit!"

The morale of the guards on the city wall was immediately boosted, and they could clearly see that following the violent explosion, a huge wound appeared on the left shoulder of the giant beast, and purple-black blood spurted out like a fountain, blowing the surrounding snow Stained with cloudy color.

"The raw materials for this shell cost three thousand gold coins, but the power is indeed worthy of this price!"

"Continue, don't stop attacking, it still has fighting power, if this guy hits the city wall, it will be over!"

Some people can also see that although the wound seems to be very serious, for the huge monster that is 30 meters high, 40 to 50 meters long, and 20 meters wide, the wound is probably equivalent to being dug up on a human body. The loss of flesh the size of two fingers, although very painful, will definitely not affect the combat effectiveness, it can only arouse anger.

The facts are as he predicted.

"Boom ah ah ah!"

The heavy snow was flying, and the thunder-like sound waves turned into substantial impacts. The air was shaken by this huge sound to form translucent ripples. This giant beast, which was several times larger than the mammoth, let out a violent roar, which seemed to be Responding to its will, a sudden blizzard suddenly rose out of thin air between the heavens and the earth, and the black-purple mist spread wildly on its body.

He raised his two forelimbs, and then trampled heavily on the ground. Under its power, the permafrost of the northern land, which had been frozen by ice and snow for thousands of years, instantly turned into a torrent-like wave, rushing towards the city wall like soft mud. pounce.

At the same time, the second wave of attacks on the fortress also poured out, whether it was heavy crossbows or magic spells, artillery or stone throwing, all hit the huge target, although most of them were unloaded by the ice tide surrounding the giant beast. Going forward, the remaining small part was also blocked by the half-meter-thick ice armor, but there were still very few attacks that actually hurt the monster.

Being bombarded by this earth tide, the fortress wall shook violently. Although it was blessed by the elves, the solid wall with activated tree roots inside would not be destroyed by such an attack, but the people above could not withstand such a shock. The continuous attacks stopped immediately.

"call--!!!!"

And the giant beast also uttered a painful roar for the second time. It retreated several steps in succession, and there were many huge wounds all over its body, but an inexplicable coercion suddenly appeared, and the giant beast suddenly opened its mouth wide, violently Breathing, ice, snow, purple mist mixed with countless air was swallowed by it, the momentum seemed to swallow everything up.

"Crackling, crackling—"

The originally huge body swelled in the continuous inhalation, and the wound was also suppressed by the swelled muscles, so it stopped bleeding, and the berserk momentum of the giant beast continued to rise, and even broke through a limit in the end——

"Boom—ahhhhhh!"

The surrounding mountain peaks began to tremble due to this roar, the snow accumulated for thousands of years collapsed, and the torrent of collapsed ice swept towards the forest below, and the endless wild beasts also walked out of the black forest shrouded in purple mist, howling , and began to rush towards the fortress.

——On the second floor of the clock tower, the communication finally resumed again.

Immediately, he heard the highest-level siren resounding throughout the city, and Joshua at the other end of the communication array immediately asked, "What happened?"

"..."

The gray-haired knight didn't answer his lord's question, he just stared out the window blankly at the other end of the fortress.

Violent tremors came from the section of the city wall facing the Black Forest. It seemed that some huge monster was slowly moving towards the fortress.

Amidst the wailing siren, the silver knight Elson's vision seemed to penetrate the city wall in an instant, and he saw a huge flame of life burning crazily right in front of the fortress, which was as huge as a mountain and sea. The existence of fear, it broke through its own limit by burning its own life, lighting up a ray of light.

That is the radiance of gold, the power of glory.

"Golden behemoth..."

Muttering in a low voice, the thirty-nine-year-old silver knight's eyes flashed with complicated light: "The behemoth golden beast, the city wall is over."

He turned and went back to the room, and reconnected to the communication.

"My lord." Kneeling on one knee, the middle-aged knight closed his eyes and said quietly to the other end of the communication array: "The golden monster is coming, the city wall is about to be breached, and the Black Forest Fortress is about to fall. .”

Who can stop the knights from guarding the heart of something?

No more, the knight's sword swung must be to defend something, life and death under this determination, has already become a meaningless empty talk.

"It's a helpless pity that I haven't had time to serve you, but now I'm going to the front line to protect this land..."

After a pause, the gray-haired knight laughed with a peaceful expression. He vaguely recalled the first time he saw Joshua at the gate of the main city.

"Fighting to the death for you and this land is fulfilling the duty of a knight."

"No, Elson, stop for me."

There was a moment of silence, and a majestic and confident male voice sounded from the other end of the communication array again. The Moldavian lord said firmly to his knights: "No one will die, and you don't need to die. Dedicate your life to me."

"Because I'll be there soon."

When I refine the first few chapters and this chapter, I can write better.