Chapter 197 The monster is coming and is about to explode [Please subscribe]
This beam of light quickly became solid, revealing a pitch-black glow.
Looking from the city, it looks like there is a big hole in the sky.
The light beam is like a black waterfall, pouring turbulently towards the earth.
Chen Xuan remained silent, and the whole city became silent.
At the same time, everyone stared at the beam of light connecting the sky and the earth.
I don't know how much time passed, but the light beam completely penetrated the void transmission channel and the ground.
Various cold-toned lights began to circulate on the dark wall of light.
It looks cold and magnificent, like a layer of cold paint.
Under the gaze of everyone, the side of the light pillar that connected to the void passage continued to flash with a large gray light.
When the halo dissipated, a large number of monsters in clusters were revealed.
They slowly fell to the ground along the guidance of the light pillar.
The gray light shone dozens of times in succession, attracting more than 100,000 monsters.
Under this dim light, Magatan City, which was not too bright due to the dark mandala light curtain, became more like a cloudy evening, like an approaching thunderstorm.
Dark shadows loom over every corner of the city.
The flames of the torches and braziers swayed, and the orange light around them flickered.
It wasn't until the monster's arrival was complete that the light beam quickly disappeared visible to the naked eye.
The already formed void transmission channel in the sky has returned to a state like a river of stars.
It stayed quietly in the distance, like a broken map, or a different kind of patch, stiffly stuck in the air.
After the monster arrived, there was a tsunami-like roar dozens of kilometers away.
It was the excited howl made by hundreds of thousands of different demons.
Huge pressure appeared in the hearts of everyone in the city.
At this moment, regardless of ethnicity, age, or gender, the fate of all living city residents are tied together. This is a knot and a disaster!
Everyone felt a landslide of pressure.
You don't need to think about it to know that the monsters will quickly assemble in a team, and then, under the leadership of the high-level intelligent demons, launch an attack on Magtan City to seize this fruit as their first meal after arriving in Naroa.
The adventurers and mercenary teams responsible for fighting guerrillas on the outer village defense lines became even more restless.
They all gripped their weapons tightly, and the sweat from their palms left stains on their weapons.
After emergency reinforcement, all peripheral defense lines have undergone earth-shaking changes.
The original thin wooden wall became a "skin", and the garrison engineers, with the assistance of earth spellcasters, built a sandwich structure of stone wall.
The "skin" is made of two wooden walls, and the crushed "ground thorns" are used as stones to fill it inside.
Finally, use [Sludge Technique] to fill it, and then use [Thorn Growth] to solidify the barrier to add additional defense.
In addition, a large number of magic and physical traps, as well as roadblocks, have been set up on the main roads.
This will buy you time while retreating.
For this reason, many houses in the villages outside the city were demolished and used as materials.
When the average person cultivates magic power, everyone is a strong man.
Coupled with the power of magic, the efficiency is naturally not much lower.
After all, this time is a real mobilization of the whole city!
But even so, the mercenaries and adventurers were still nervous.
They all understand that their current position is "cannon fodder."
And the first wave of attacks from monsters must be the most brutal.
But there was no way out for everyone, and both the association and the Bangcheng City Hall promised heavy rewards.
This allowed adventurers and mercenaries who were accustomed to licking blood from the edge of a knife to reluctantly accept the arrangement.
Under a demonic disaster, there is no use hiding anywhere when you can't stop it.
It is nothing more than the difference between dying early and dying late.
In this case, it is better to fight according to the arrangement.
As for the tall and solid tower on the third circle at the back, everyone wants to get on it, but not everyone can get on it.
Because the defense positions are limited, priority must naturally be given to the garrison that can fight in a standard manner.
Of course, there are no mandatory defensive requirements for the perimeter defense zone.
If nothing can be done, they can retreat at any time, return to the city and enter the second line of deployment.
At that time, all pressure surfaces will be borne head-on by the tower defense area of the third circle.
The defensive forces deployed in the four directions of Magtan City are uneven.
The main defense areas are on the south and north lines.
Next is the east and west.
Therefore, the Qingqi Battalion was not directly mobilized, but served as a mobile unit to respond to all parties at any time.
Even if the monster takes a detour and attacks in other directions, it can buy the city time to deploy its troops.
This plan was discussed by the city hall, and Chen Xuan had no objections to it.
After all, it is better to maintain a certain degree of flexibility before the monster launches an attack.
The number of more than 100,000 monsters is huge, but it is not enough to form a siege.
An attack from all directions would be the most arrogant and troublesome situation.
As usual, the monsters will most likely choose a main attack direction after gathering in formation and attack with all their strength.
As for the north direction of the city, it was not originally the main defense area, but was temporarily included after the magic dragon appeared.
After all, Chen Xuan couldn't sit still. He called the two girls, formed a temporary team, and left the city along the rope ladder lowered from the city tower.
Go to the outer defense line facing the south.
When necessary, he can activate [Same Domain Flash] at any time to take the two women back to the city quickly.
At the same moment, on the tower in the north, the female warrior Zerikan opened her eyes and turned her head to look south.
Then he silently turned around and looked around at the garrisons who were waiting for him.
He shook his head as if sighing.
"War is synonymous with death."
"But only war can witness such a situation of unity and unity."
After thinking about it in her heart, she did not get up, but continued to breathe with her eyes closed.
At the same time, I feel the rare artistic conception of war.
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More than an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
The atmosphere became increasingly tense.
During this period, the city hall dispatched several heavy-duty light cavalry squads. They obtained first-hand intelligence at the cost of more than half the loss rate.
A snowflake of letter carrying this information was sent to the city hall.
Baron Bezos, Grand Bachelor Inaogi, and various officials and association leaders in the city formed a temporary headquarters. The city's sand table was placed in the center, and everyone looked very nervous.
Looking at the piece of paper with the information recorded in his hand, Baron Bezos was silent.
This information was obtained with the blood of the soldiers of the Qingqi Battalion.
In the current demonic disaster, the dirty things inside are no longer important.
"According to the report of the light cavalry team who went out for investigation."
"The main force of monsters has gathered on a large scale in the plain area 63 kilometers south of Magatan City." "
The vanguard is less than ten kilometers away from the city."
"There are currently more than two main types of monsters observed. Seventeen kinds, the total number is estimated to be no less than 120,000!" "
In addition, the original uncleared caves in the west and east directions are also gathering scattered monsters." "
The total number of monsters in a single direction is between 3,000~ Between 5,000."
"In the end, the team sent to the north of the city failed to return information, and it is suspected that the entire army was wiped out!"
Baron Bezos recounted with some difficulty.
After he finished reading, the venue immediately became excited.
"It is definitely a medium-sized void transmission channel."
"This type of channel can transport more than 100,000 monsters every Naraya day!" "
You can imagine what kind of pressure our town will face next."
The first person to speak was old bachelor Inaogi. He sighed leisurely and looked down at the Star and Moon badge on his chest.
He is very greedy for money and has several wives, but this does not prevent him from pursuing knowledge and truth.
It did not prevent him from dying together with everyone else in the catastrophe caused by the demonic disaster.
When he left home, Inaogi left strong poison at home.
Rather than letting the family members be destroyed and killed by monsters, it would be better to take the poison after the city is destroyed.
At this moment, Inaoji understood for the first time that knowledge could not save lives.
Even if he racked his brains, he couldn't come up with a plan to survive the demonic disaster smoothly.
It seems that only force can solve the problem and is also the most solid and reliable cornerstone.
"My brothers cannot die in vain."
"The Qingqi Battalion will protect Magtan City to the death!"
At this moment, Norman Weiner, the captain of the Qingqi Battalion wearing leather light armor, suddenly stood up and said loudly.
His eyes were full of sternness.
This guy is a middle-aged sergeant with a very tough style.
He has a typical grassroots background, his parents are poor people in the underworld of Magtan City.
His talent has been very good since he was a child, so he was recruited by the Qingqi Battalion.
When Chen Xuan contracted him, he knew that the protective umbrella behind Sorel Moran, the garrison captain who had coveted him, belonged to a middle-level officer in the Qingqi Battalion.
Over the years, that officer allowed similar teams to do illegal work and made a lot of black gold.
After Chen Xuan informed Norman of the situation, within half an hour, he came to the castle with a bloody human head to apologize to him.
In fact, there are many situations like this within the garrison and Qingqi battalion.
It's just that Chen Xuan didn't have time to straighten everything out.
Otherwise, just by borrowing the ability of [Insight], he can easily find out the criminals and worms in the team.
Now that there is a demonic disaster, it is not a good time to purge the team.
Following his initiative, Nigel Dora, the chief officer of the garrison, also quickly expressed his stance.
The atmosphere at the scene changed from anxiety to excitement.
"Quiet!"
Baron Bezos patted the table, then picked up the command stick and pointed at the sand table.
There are many vertical chess pieces carved out of wood.
There are coyotes representing mercenaries, goshawks representing adventurers, rats representing the underworld forces, and war horses from the light cavalry battalion.
As for the garrison, it is replaced by the emblem of the state.
"Currently, the south of the city is the main force in the defense zone."
"Nearly four-tenths of the city's garrison, adventurers and mercenaries have been gathered." "
The north of the city accounts for three-tenths of the troops."
"The second circle and the third There is still one-tenth of the emergency garrison in the circle."
"The total strength of the defense zones in the east and west directions is only two-tenths." "
Judging from the location where the monsters have descended, those pieces of shit are only very low. The probability will change the direction of the main attack, after all, a detour of 180 kilometers is enough to waste a lot of time."
Baron Bezos summarized the situation.
It is not easy for hundreds of thousands of monsters to move quickly.
At the very least, it will be delayed for several water clock hours.
With that time, the garrison in the city would have been able to complete the transfer earlier.
The efficiency gap is here, but you don't have to worry too much about the monsters playing tricks.
"Then why don't we mobilize two-tenths of our troops and divide them between the southern and northern defense zones?" The person
who spoke was the chief officer in charge of the city's internal affairs and the baron's deputy.
His suggestion was quickly rebutted.
"Unless there are monsters who are good at dark witchcraft, we must not easily transfer the troops from the east and west defense zones." "
Some dark witchcraft or evil rituals can achieve instant transfer." "
We have to guard against it. ."
The person who spoke was the garrison commander, who was obviously more familiar with monster routines.
The scene suddenly fell into a heated discussion.
This stage is the most grueling.
Although everyone has the same goal, their ideas are different.
In the end, Baron Bezos came forward to end the matter.
He settled the controversy with just one sentence.
"The garrison ratio will not be changed for the time being."
"The main force of the Qingqi Battalion is on standby in the third circle."
"This is the order of the lord..."
...
While the city hall was busy compiling intelligence from all parties and coordinating the situation in the city when.
In the southern suburbs of Magtan City, almost half of the original village was demolished.
Gone were the crowded and dirty village lanes, replaced by a main road almost riddled with traps and roadblocks.
The evacuation route has already been arranged.
There are trails on both sides, which are a bit circuitous, but you only need to memorize the route a little.
Such an arrangement can significantly reduce the monster's advancement speed.
On the outermost "sandwich biscuit" stone wall, there are more than 20,000 adventurers and mercenaries waiting here.
In addition, there is a team of about two to three hundred spellcasters lingering at the commanding heights inside the wall.
It would be nice to be able to complete the mobilization in a hurry, but there is no way to plan the whole team for them.
Therefore, most of these adventurers stay together in small groups.
Refer to the daily method of sweeping the devil's cave, with companions who are good at melee combat blocking the front.
The crossbow archers and spellcasters stay in the safer higher spots behind.
Within a hundred meters of the stone wall, there are more than 17 wooden towers.
In addition, there are net bags filled with logs and rolling stones hung on the wall, as well as wooden barrels filled with greasy oil.
The ground outside the wall is basically covered with tangled thorns.
A hundred or two hundred meters away, there were a large number of ground thorns scattered at random.
The combined power of magic is enough to change the terrain and create a buffer zone suitable for output.
Chen Xuan stood on the wall with a magazine box on his back and dual-wielding M2 heavy machine guns.
Beside him, the two women were also holding an M2 heavy machine gun and were waiting.
After he unleashed the might of a silver-level powerhouse, the adventurers and mercenaries around him all withdrew their slightly covetous eyes and no longer looked at them wantonly.
The ears were filled with noisy conversations, and the air became turbid due to the gathering of people.
Suddenly, a loud horn sounded!
"The monster forward has arrived at the sentry point in the south of the city!"
Sharp shouts echoed, and all the noise suddenly subsided!
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(End of chapter)