Chapter 71 Charles wandering in the Void Realm?(1/2)
When Planck met Quantun again, it happened that day when the city defense forces stationed on the defense line changed their guards and went back to have dinner. Quantun and those who went to the canyon to dig pits were starting to withdraw from the canyon, so the two teams walked together.
Now the canyon is full of traps of all sizes, waiting for the monsters to hit them.
Quantun was calculating how much his contribution value could be exchanged for these days. After estimating that the money could be obtained from a wife, he asked Planck to help introduce an ordinary woman in the city. Don’t be too beautiful, just be able to live a stable life together. Of course, it’s best to be bigger.
On the second line of defense are several huge wooden frames, and the corpse of a huge bird hangs on it.
The Thunder Bird is a rogue similar to an ostrich. It is nearly three meters tall, with its wings degenerated, with very thick legs and a long and thick neck, and its most terrifying pair of huge and hard mouth.
It runs very fast and can catch up with prey in a very short time and bite it. When it bites its prey, its mouth will emit electric current like an electric baton to make the prey lose its ability to move. Then the powerful force brought by its thick neck can make it throw the prey to the ground forcefully, and then throw the prey to death.
This thunderbird was captured by the last group of knights of the Wang Family Knights who had been reconnaissance early this morning. These knights would kill some lonely monsters and transport them back during reconnaissance.
These killed monsters will be hung on the construction site for public display. On the one hand, it can increase the confidence of the people, and on the other hand, it is also a motivation to encourage them to work more.
Today is the fourteenth day after Charles came here. After some minor troubles, the barrier to defending the royal capital was finally completed at the last moment.
During these days, he was like he was back in his previous life, walking in every corner of the construction site every day, solving and coordinating one problem after another.
Recently, he has been accustomed to climbing the watchtower behind the defense line every day when dusk arrives, and looking eastward at the capital under the sunset.
"Sir Earl, are you missing Her Majesty the Queen?" asked Charles a knight on duty on the watchtower.
"What?" Charles was stunned.
"Everyone knows that whenever Her Queen arrives here, it is the time for you to be the happiest time, Lord Earl," said the knight.
Charles said with a black thread, "Because everyone here, everyone comes to me with bad news, only Her Majesty the Queen brings me with good news."
Charles patted the young knight on the shoulder and left the watchtower.
After the Queen's speech that day, she and Charles had a negotiation with the nobles who had originally planned to watch the show.
Her Majesty the Queen proposed that each noble can invest the food, materials, personnel and money in his hands into this war, and then the spoils will be fed back to each noble family according to the investment ratio.
The knight on the watchtower was sent by the nobles from other places to invest.
The night was low, and the bonfire was about to rise, and piles of bonfires for lighting were lit at the exit of the canyon.
A fireball rose in the sky, and the magician stationed in the strongholds on both sides of the canyon cliffs regularly informed of peace.
After having a simple supper in his tent, Charles got into his sleeping bag and fell asleep. He had not been able to sleep well for more than ten days and needed to make up his sleep before the last moment. Now even if the monsters rushed out of the canyon, they could not disturb his sleep.
Various plans have been formulated, and each unit conducted a relatively successful synthesis drill today. The next step is to leave professional matters to professionals. Those miscellaneous soldiers will be handled by the Imperial Guards led by Lorenz, the Knights of the Wang Family led by Seyman, and the City Defense Force led by Boltzman, and he just needs to concentrate on handling the final boss's matters.
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The horn is like thunder, and the sword is like lightning.
The beast roars into the wind, and the shield stands like a mountain.
Bloody flowers bloom on the land watered by life.
The armor is broken, the sword blade collapses.
Broken skin and broken fangs.
The tired warrior stood on the earth, and the ferocious beast fell in the blood mud.
In the scorching sun, the warrior waved his sword radiating red, yellow and blue, and rushed towards his last enemy, the purple Slime without hesitation.
Then the warrior was slapped away by a slap that soared into the sky.
Charles, who was dreaming, was woken up. When he opened his eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was a purple figure, and his hands were still fighting fiercely with the huge slime.
Princess Fute flashed out of the tent at the first time, and then told the officers and soldiers on duty outside the tent that the sound of beatings from the tent were hallucinations in their ears.
On the earth wall of the second line of defense, there is a 6-meter-high observation deck with a head space of about 4 meters x 3 meters. This huge observation deck is the command center of this battle.
At this time, Lorenz, Seyman and Boltzman were reporting to Queen Maxwell about the preparations of the Imperial Guards, the Knights of the Royal Family and the City Defense Forces.
Today, Her Majesty the Queen has a strong aura, and the three marquises stood there and couldn't help but sweat. During the entire report, they were cautious, afraid of angering Her Majesty the Queen, and then ended up like Count Meccaden.
Her Majesty the Queen was about to give instructions when a low horn sounded across the sky.
Everyone on the observation deck immediately rushed to the back of the railing, and they saw a pillar of cigarettes on the top of the mountain not far away soaring into the sky.
Queen Maxwell turned around and said to the three marquises standing in front of her, "Please, please!"
The three of them shouted in unison, "For the glory of the kingdom!"
All the soldiers present entered the preset positions and began to make final preparations.
Planck stood on the earthen wall with a spear in his hand. He and his comrades were only two things to do today - either poke the monsters trying to climb the earthen wall to death, or be bitten to death by the monsters.
Standing in the last row, Planck suddenly realized that the sunlight from behind was blocked. He looked back and found that Quantung and other Minzhuang were coming up with a bundle of javelins on their backs, and the bundle of javelins behind Quantung was much more than others. Their mission was to throw all the javelins at the group of beasts and then retreat with the wounded.
After everyone was in their seats, the order came to everyone's seat to save their physical strength.
Just a few minutes ago, on the top of the cliff at the exit of the other end of the canyon, as a pair of eyes in front, Somofe saw a burst of dust rolling up in the west.
"Look!" Somofe shouted loudly to his comrades beside him, "They are here!"
After confirming that the beasts were running towards the canyon, a fireball hit the brazier that had been prepared, and a thick column of smoke rushed straight into the sky.
After a few breaths, the second column of smoke rose at the top of the cliff about a hundred meters away from them, followed by the third and fourth...
When the horn sounded at the other end of the canyon, the beasts had just arrived at the entrance of the canyon.
Somofe was estimating the number and species of the beasts, and then quickly recorded them on the parchment note. But he did not see the final boss similar to the strange monster.
Not long after, a sentencing falcon flew towards the capital with parchment notes.
The blade-toothed tiger running in the front suddenly felt a pain in the soles of its feet, and then a severe numbness came from its feet. After a moment, it fell down.
Other monsters continued to run forward while trampling on its corpse, and from time to time, some monsters suddenly fell down as they ran.
The poison-coated steel stick stuck on the ground took off the first beast head.
Entering the canyon dozens of meters, the monsters encountered the first trench.
A fear wolf jumped up to the top of the earth wall at the other end of the trench. At this time, a sharp arrow fell from the sky and penetrated it, which made it unable to stand firm on the earth wall at once, and then the wheel rolled to the bottom of the trench.
A thunderbird barely stopped by the trench. Although it ran fast, its degenerate wings did not enhance it's jumping ability. Then it was hit by the blade-toothed tiger behind it. As a result, all birds and tigers rolled into the trench.
At this time, chaos appeared. Some monsters could jump over the trench with the rain of arrows above their heads, while others could only stop instinctively while hooking, and then the monster behind them was hit into the trench.
The monsters slowly gathered here, and then a rain of arrows, magic and huge rocks fell on their heads.
As a wise tower defense gamer, how could someone not find a way to establish an attack point on the top of a cliff to launch a condescending attack on the monster?
Soon, the trench was filled with the corpses of the monsters. The monsters stepped on the corpses and climbed over the earth wall, then jumped into another trench.
The "—?????—"-shaped trenches consumed some monsters, although this little monster was a drop in the entire beast group, and such fortifications in the canyon can be seen everywhere.
In some places, in narrow places where trenches are not suitable, walls formed by huge logs are even erected.
Behind the wooden walls supported by huge logs, even the fine-toothed giant bears and giant apes, which are known for their strength, cannot be easily destroyed. Moreover, the sharp arrows, javelins and giant rocks above their heads will take special care of such beasts.
The monsters were consumed bit by bit in the canyon, but they ran forward unswervingly.
Whenever a stronghold on the cliff catches the enemy, someone will first notify the next stronghold with flag words.
The news will soon be transmitted to the general command center on the other end of the canyon through temporary training flag language hands, and then a dedicated person will plant flags at the corresponding location on the huge map.
Looking at the notes sent back by the falcon, the people in the headquarters found that things were not that simple, because some species of monsters were not around and had to come from a very distant place.
But this is not the issue we need to consider now. The most important task at present is to kill all these monsters.
At noon, just as people on the first line of defense were gnawing on the jerky meat, a timberwolf rushed out of the canyon entrance.
The people who were waiting for the battle watched it rush forward, and then stepped into a camouflaged trap of one meter-deep and twenty centimeters in diameter. Under the huge inertia of its body, its front legs broke in the trap.
The scene of the wolf stumbled and many people laughed.
However, more and more monsters rushed out of the canyon, and soon almost filled the space inside the first line of defense.
A silver figure suddenly soared into the sky, and then a thunder fell to lightning the monsters so much that they smoked.
Queen Maxwell, wearing armor, stood at the top of the arrow tower in the center of the first line of defense, held up a long sword surrounded by lightning, and said to everyone in a high voice, "Today's sky is clear and the breeze blows. The kingdom survives and dies, fight here!"
Because of forcibly launching the magic sword, Her Majesty, who returned to the headquarters, was a little exhausted, and Charles hurriedly went up to support her.
The new monster soon filled the open space and began to attack the opposite side of the trench.
The trenches that are wider and deeper than the trenches in the canyon block the footsteps of the monsters. Not every monster can jump over an 8-meter distance in one leap.
The archers on the first line of defense and the temporary crossbows began to attack the monsters that were staying outside the trench.
At less than twenty meters, simple bed crossbows and simple crossbow arrows, which are consumables, have considerable power. Even the sharpened wooden stick can open a hole in some monsters that are not good at defense.
The scouts on the watchtower used flags to direct the catapult behind the second line of defense to carry out a cover-type attack. For a time, if there are too many monsters gathering and staying for too long, a covered stone will be summoned.
Some monsters attempted to jump into the trench and climb to the opposite side, but they were baptized by javelins under the trench.
The speed was limited by the terrain, and the monsters that lacked the ability to attack from a long distance were slaughtered one-sidedly.
Although one side of the human side suffered some losses during this period - a giant ape used the corpse of a monster to hit the humans and arrow towers on the earth wall - people on the battlefield felt that if this continued, they would win.
Her Majesty the Queen stood on the podium and stared at the battlefield. She whispered to Charles who was holding her aside, "Would it be too simple?"
Charles smiled and said, "It was a very simple thing, but its prerequisites are not easy to meet."
"What is it?" asked Her Majesty the Queen.
To be continued...