Sword of Daybreaker

As the huge sun sets in the west, the ancient jungle has turned into a sea of ​​fire in the gradually slanting **** sunset, and the blood-like flames of the setting sun rise and burn on the ancient land of the orcs, almost the entire plain of rubble and the red jade city are towering. The walls of the city were stained with a layer of crimson.

The wall fell into dead silence, and everyone’s minds seemed to be held tightly by the blood spreading on the plain. It was not until a tribal warrior shouted loudly on the wall that the silence was broken: "The Chief Come back! Open the city gate!"

The heavy purple steel city gate slowly rises under the action of the iron chain and pulley block. Amid the creaking friction, Camilla and the last group of retreated tribal warriors rushed into the ancient main city of the orcs, accompanied by As the heavy door was closed again, a false and temporary "sense of security" was established-but this "sense of security" did not make Camilla's footsteps brisk, she just took heavy steps step by step Walk up the city wall and walk towards his generals and soldiers.

The tribal warriors who came to guard the city wall and the temporarily armed militiamen crowded on both sides, many pairs of nervous or tired eyes watching her quietly in the sunset, Camilla never thought that the eyes of her compatriots would make her Feeling such a heavy weight, she walked forward silently, feeling the strength brought by the blood in her body gradually faded, the pain and poison began to torment her nerves and will again, and the feeling of weakness came one after another. .

At this moment, a nervous and pretentious voice suddenly came from among the soldiers: "Warchief, uncles and aunts said that you did the right thing..."

Camilla's footsteps couldn't help but stop. She looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a short orc girl standing in a corner looking at herself boldly, her ears still covered with black fur , The war patterns on her cheeks and neck have not yet grown, and she is carrying a small axe in her hand. She looks not as tall as the soldiers' waist and abdomen-even according to the standards of the "Shakhdah", she shouldn't Standing on the city wall.

The expression on Camilla's face changed. She came to the little girl, bent down and pressed her forehead against the other's forehead, until the warmth of the blood was transmitted through the fur, she got up and looked at the nearby soldier. They: "Where are the parents of this child? Why let such a small child go up the city wall?"

She asked twice, and no one nearby responded, so she woke up and looked down at the girl standing with the warriors holding a small axe. She bent down again, her voice hoarse and soft: "You are a brave child. …Will follow the warriors of the tribe, someone will tell you where to go."

After getting a positive answer from the little girl, she got up again and crossed the ramp. On the wall, she saw General Morakot with a bandage on his arm.

"Arrange for children, scholars and some young and strong craftsmen to leave the city and evacuate to the ancestral peak," Camilla came to Morak and said to the old orc in a low voice, "There is also a child on the wall who has not even grown a war pattern. , Also take her away."

Morak looked at Camilla with a complicated expression: "Warchief..."

"We have no retreat. We must stay here and buy time for people from other tribes. This is the mission of warriors and chiefs-but it should not be the fate of our entire tribe," Camilla shook her head. "Scholar, The mission of craftsmen and children is to survive. We need successors to rebuild this land. Even if the whole of Ogure cannot avoid the fate of destruction, we must leave some seeds and keep a share in the long history of the future. hope."

Morak was silent for a few seconds, and finally lowered his head slowly and said in a deep voice: "Yes, Warchief."

The old orc quickly completed the arrangement, and the warchief’s order was followed. After completing the order, he returned to Camilla and looked at the burning red jade forest with him. He was silent for a long time. No words.

Flames rise in the forest sea, and from time to time thick black smoke and explosions erupt in the depths of the dense forest. A purple-black air mass tries to condense above the forest sea, but it is constantly being dispersed by the monstrous flames, feeling the turbulent magic and power in the air. Elemental power, Morakh couldn't help but whispered: "Your plan has worked. The main force of those monsters is being wiped out by the flames of the forest guards."

"It's just a deterrence-the flames are not only killing the monsters emerging from the wasteland, nor is the red jade forest sea an airtight barrier," Camilla shook his head, and said in a low voice, "The power of the forest guard is limited. Yes, those aberrations continue to flow."

She raised her head and looked in the direction of Hongyu Linhai: "When I was evacuating, I noticed that the monsters had begun to emerge from the mountain roads on the north and south sides of Langji Mountain. Under the command, they were not completely ignorant. They know how to detect, divide and outflank the monsters. In this case, being able to block part of their main vanguard force with the red jade forest is already a great result."

Morak fell silent, and the old orc seemed unwilling to accept the fact that the entire red jade forest could only temporarily stop the enemy's offensive. However, the reality will not change with his will after all. He can only sigh in the end: "At least, we This prevented the entire land from transforming into a wasteland environment-the burned land will still be able to live in one day."

Camilla nodded silently, and at this moment, she suddenly noticed that something seemed to be rising in the depths of the burning red jade forest. She looked into the depths of the flames and smoke in astonishment, and saw A huge shadow is condensing, bulging, and quickly turning into a cloaked, blurry phantom!

It was the image of a forest watcher, a condensed phantom. This phantom rose from the forest and looked at the direction of Red Jade City from a distance. After staring for a while, it raised its arm made of smoke and dust and pointed it at the Red Jade Forest. In the north of the city, after making a vigilant gesture, the huge illusion suddenly collapsed and turned into smoke and dust in the sky.

And at the moment that the dust drifted away with the wind, the flames in the red jade forest also rose to the peak, but there was no tangible will support in this monstrous flame—it had become an ordinary forest fire.

The forest guards are free, and there is another mysterious and long-lasting thing on Ogure Land that has become history, but the warchiefs and generals on the walls have no extra energy to sigh this. Morak stared at the huge illusion. In the direction of the finger, the tone became tense: "Warchief, the forest ranger seems to want to tell us something, that direction is..."

"Let the warriors on the wall prepare for battle, and let the evacuation team leave the city immediately," Camilla said quickly, and she had already thought of the worst possibility, "That is the direction where the Fourth Mountain Corps of mankind is garrisoned... The northern line of defense may be Gouge through!"

The forces in the Ruby City were quickly mobilized. The warriors and all the war preparations in the city were sent to the city wall, and the teams that needed to be evacuated began to gather at the side entrance to the west of the city. Not long after that, Camilla had a bad foreboding. It was confirmed.

An unknown piece of dark smoke rose from the sky north of the Red Jade Forest Sea, and the unusually gathering clouds brought a great sense of oppression, and the soldiers who had experienced repeated fierce battles before were no strangers to this feeling-that is The unclean aura exuded by the converging army of deformed bodies is a sign that the entire land is transforming into a wasteland environment.

As Camilla said, the sea of ​​red jade forest cannot stop all the enemies. When Ogure’s defenses are broken one by one, the aberrations that have gathered can launch attacks on the surviving cities on this land from any direction. -Of course, the fire in the Red Jade Forest Sea is not meaningless. The fire blocked at least half of the aberrations, but correspondingly... Camilla and her soldiers must now face the remaining enemies.

"Perhaps today is the day of our destiny." When the familiar "black tide" appeared on the northern horizon, rushing to the towering walls of Hongyu City along the edge of the red jade forest sea, Morak clenched his hands tightly. With the chipped axe already chipped away, he turned his head to look at the warchief beside him, "I am honored to have your witness."

"Today we will all have the testimony of our ancestors," Camilla laughed, her sharp fangs glowing with blood in the dusk, "At least we persisted until the last moment."

On the city wall, the exhausted warriors assembled again, the notched weapons and damaged staff were also clenched again, all eyes were facing the dark tide that came to the city of Hongyu, and in the direction of the sea of ​​red jade. , The monstrous flames are still burning, but the deformed body on the opposite side of the sea of ​​fire is also ready to attack, and they will swarm in when the flames are slightly extinguished.

However, at this moment, a meteor-like fire light suddenly pierced the blood-colored evening, and accompanied by a sharp to eerie whistling sound, the "meteor" fell straight into the densest "black tide" in the north. The place.

"Boom!"

A terrifying explosion soared into the sky, and the shaking of the entire land even made the walls of Hongyu City sway.

This first sky fire seemed to be some kind of signal, or a test for calibration. Ten seconds after the big bang skyrocketed on the horizon, the successive screams began to tear through the sky. In front of Camilla, the land where the Kuroshio was located was swept by explosions and fire almost instantly, as if the entire land was rolled up in front of this terrible power, and she felt that the fluff all over her body was exploding in an instant. In the fierce power, she could not feel any emotions belonging to living beings such as "brave", "hatred", and "killing", but only pure destruction. This bloodless, tearless, cold and precise killing force made her He looked at his general subconsciously, but only saw the same horror in the eyes of the opponent.

"What's that?" General Morakh exclaimed. He looked in the direction where the "meteors" fell, but only saw the thick clouds under the setting sun and the rays of light constantly shining in the clouds, but soon, There was a change in that cloud layer—something that was so huge that it was frightening to float out of the cloud layer, and began to gradually approach the direction of the Red Jade City.

It was a city floating in the sky, like a palace made of steel. It was lifted in the sky by glowing rune rings and heavy and complicated supporting structures. Around the city were huge cannons and platforms full of warriors. It descended from the clouds and faced The whole land was splashed with devastating flames and explosions, and a low buzzing sound resounded from the depths of the steel construction, like thunder in the belly of a giant beast.

Immediately afterwards, more and smaller flying platforms appeared around the "city", all of which were equipped with huge cannons and various weapons capable of firing skyfires. They surrounded the sky city like a herd, blood-colored skylights. Reflected on their shells and turrets, the torn clouds retreated in the sky—

These behemoths are slowly advancing in the sky like a machine in a factory, bombarding and strafing the entire land with precision. Their speed is not fast, but they are advancing slowly in this way, but let all The creatures that looked up at them on the ground were instantly out of breath.

This is not a war familiar to the orcs-this is not a "battle" at all.

This is the cleaning and purification of the earth, and a certain "treatment method" for the pests that corrode this land.

"Ancestral Peak..." Morak took a hard breath, as if he was going to use this method to resist the huge pressure he felt, "What is that? The Temple of the Elves? But there is no such group in the Temple of the Stars... "

"Look at the sky-that is the mark of the Cecil Empire," Camilla suddenly noticed the huge holographic projections floating among the behemoths. Those projections were projected from both sides of the largest fortress, seeming to be dedicated projections. Come out to identify the personnel on the surface, "It's reinforcements! It's alliance reinforcements!"

Accompanied by Camilla's voice, some of those huge platforms slowly lowered their height, a large number of shells of various calibers were dropped on the ground, and more precise and efficient "cleaning" began.

Immediately afterwards, a thunderous broadcast sounded over the entire city, but it was the voice of a very energetic young girl: "This is the air force of the Western Front Expeditionary Force of the Cecil Empire, the'Earth Dawn' sky and sky. Battle group, repeat, the air and space battle group "Earth Dawn" enters the field-our ministry is ordered to support you, our ministry is ordered to support you..."

It was a familiar voice.

When this voice sounded, Camilla felt involuntarily relaxed. There was even a smile on her face, but General Morak, standing next to her, showed an unexpected appearance: "Such a young voice? Those terrible air. The fortress is actually under the command of such a young girl?"

"The young girl in your mouth is one of several people who are qualified to change our world order, General Morakot," Camilla said with a sigh of relief, "I didn't expect she would come in person, but this It doesn’t seem to be a surprise..."

Morak was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but then the radio from high above interrupted his voice: "This is Rebecca, call Red Jade City, call Red Jade City-Camilla Chief, please turn on the communicator and talk."

Camilla was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and immediately looked at the people around him: "Communicator-bring the communicator!"

A tribal warrior rushed out immediately, and it didn’t take long for a portable magic net terminal to be sent to the city wall. For a long time in the past, this device could not be contacted far away due to interference from all over the ground. At the communication site, but at the moment its base is lit up to represent the unobstructed signal.

There is no doubt that this has something to do with the huge fortresses floating in the sky.

(End of this chapter)