The Greater Eas Mountains, the northernmost part of the world.

In the dark 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 sunlight shines on it, covering it with a layer of golden red glow.

Below the sky is an endless vast mountain, and a gray-white fortress stands in the center of endless snow and forests, with Hessen in front and Snowfield behind. It is located at the gap in the mountains, blocking the road where the black forest spreads outward. The tall city walls as tall as mountains look so majestic, as indestructible as the hardest rock.

This is a bitter and cold land, the untraceable snow-capped mountains and the black forest frozen by frost constitutes its entirety. In this world where almost no one is involved, there is no impurity in the pure air. Even if you just breathe, you will feel refreshed in your lungs.

Once upon a time, it was like this.

The Black Tide Siege, the fifth day.

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

Black and purple dust permeated, and the chaotic aura covered everything like fog, and even ascended to the sky. The light of the sunset was reflected by these scales and powder, giving birth to strange and turbid colors. Under the thick black and purple fog that ordinary people could not breathe and were completely polluted, the mad beasts churned, and almost endless monsters rushed in like raging waves.

Therefore, wherever your eyes can reach, it is a tide of beasts.

It was not the first time that the blonde knight fought against the Kuroshiro on the front line. In fact, since he advanced to the Silver Knight at the age of twenty-five, he had never left this off-white fortress. This was his home, where his blood was gathering, and he never thought that there would be a day of loss here.

But today, this idea has taken root in the heart of the Knight and grows bigger and bigger.

"fifty thousand……"

He said to himself, feeling a smell of iron spreading in his mouth. With a bitter smile, the blonde knight spit out a mouthful of blood and said to himself: "Fifty thousand mad beasts... I have never thought I could meet so many in my life."

The fortresses and various defense lines outside the fortress have been completely lost. It was from there that he evacuated. Although there were not many casualties due to his decisive retreat, it was precisely because of his hasty and decisiveness that the fortress also lost a lot of supplies and equipment.

To be honest, the blonde knight has never been so depressed. He has faced hundreds of thousands of great black tides and killed several golden monsters with the old lord. However, 50,000 mad beasts are different from ordinary monsters. This has exceeded the limit that this fortress with more than 2,000 troops and about 30,000 residents can bear. It is a terrible offensive that only a super fortress with more than 50,000 people can cope with. In front of these monsters who are not afraid of pain and do not know how to retreat, if they would not occasionally kill each other, the external fortress and defense line could not last for five days.

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

Now, only the Black Forest Forest itself is left to face these monsters.

Tatta.

The sound of footsteps came from behind the knight. After a moment, two figures appeared on the stairs of the tower. It was a mage in a white robe and a masked warrior. The mage's robe was now stained with dust, and the warrior was covered in wounds and blood. They walked straight to the edge of the tower and looked at each other with the blonde knight.

"Shrink your troops, Zorgen, while the loss is not big, we give up the defense of the mountains on the side and focus our energy on the front to resist the impact of the crazy beast."

After a while of silence, the mage said to his companion. His expression seemed very unwilling, but his voice was extremely firm: "Now it is only some medium and low-level black iron and silver monsters. With their madness ability, we are a little overwhelmed. If we continue like this, when the advanced golden monsters appear, we will have no ability to fight."

"What should I do if I have such a big rear?"

The masked warrior said in a muffled voice. He did not refute, but simply asked a question: "If we did not intercept the monsters that were bypassing the fortress from the mountains, what should we do with the manors and small towns in the rear? They didn't even have city walls, only fences made of wood. Do you want them to use this kind of thing to fight against the crazy beasts?"

"That's just a simple massacre! The meaning of our existence is to be here as a nail, not allowing any monsters to cross the gaps in the mountains and protect the safety of the people in the territory."

Speaking of this, the masked warrior's voice was already filled with a hint of anger: "Give up is something that only cowards can do!"

"The problem is not whether a coward or a coward."

Faced with the suggestions and anger of the two companions, the golden-haired knight immediately replied, shook his head and said, "These monsters that were crazy because of the black fog are very different from their previous similar species. As long as they do not solve the target in front of them, they seem to not leave at all. I have observed that those who attempt to cross the fortress are monsters that are not crazy, and their strength is relatively weak, which is not worth our efforts to stop them. The manors and towns behind are basically in charge, and they have dealt with them."

Speaking of this, he turned to look at the masked warrior and said seriously: "Our duty is to stop most of the Black Tide. As long as the fortress is not falling, it means that our mission has not failed. If the frontal battlefield lacks combat power and defense collapses due to just a few monsters, it will be completely unworthy of the loss."

"Then at least you have to notify me!"

The masked warrior also knew this truth, but he was still a little unwilling to accept it.

"You must be able to contact us..."

Sighing deeply, Zorgen, the garrison leader of the fortress, couldn't help but clench his fists: "If it weren't for this strange black fog that could cover up communication fluctuations, I would have notified the main city long ago and asked the lord to lead the team to support him! He is a powerful golden level man. With him, as long as there is no golden monster of the same level, the fortress will be as stable as a rock."

Speaking of this, the blonde knight couldn't help but feel angry: "Feng, your group of mages said that you could penetrate the black fog shield by giving them some time, but in fact? It's been five days! Except for the third day, I don't know why there was a signal, there was a sizzling sound from beginning to end!"

"If it doesn't work, it won't work. You can't solve the problem even if you get angry at me. What's more, the group of mages under my command have been releasing spells in front of the position. Where can I get the time to study what communication array!"

The instructor of the Fortress Mage Group, the white-haired shaping mage Feng turned his head to look at the suspended attack and began to grit his teeth at the beast tide that retreated to the Black Forest and said angrily: "Following this momentum, the appearance of the Golden Magic Beast has been in the past few days. The offensive has been fiercer every day. Without the support of the group of mages under my command, the fortress will be broken before the support comes."

"It's obvious that there must be an extremely powerful 'lord' this time. This time the Black Tide is its army. It drives this group of crazy beasts here to break through our nails nailed among the mountains and expand its territory."

The masked warrior interjected, and after he finished speaking, he wondered: "It's strange that the mad beast hasn't seen for at least seventy years, and the lord is even worse. In the past, there has been no movement at all, why did it all suddenly appear this year?"

The blonde knight did not answer this question. He just turned to look at the black forest ahead. The thick black and purple fog. All the crazy beasts had retreated to the black forest. The soldiers in the fortress could finally rest for a while.

But so what? It's just a tiny breathing time before real despair.
Chapter completed!