Stars appear and dusk falls.

Tonight's Mannia is destined to be a sleepless night.

The lights light up in the city from near to far.

What is brighter than the lights are burning torches.

Torches gathered like endless fireflies, spreading continuously on the crisscrossing streets, extending into the distance.

That was the angry people and the rebels entering Mannia.

They danced bright flags in the vast night and kept moving towards the southeast of the city.

And at the end of the road, a towering castle standing in the darkness, like a monster in the dark, overlooking the ancient royal city.

It is the Dolorian Castle, known as the "Immortal Fortress".

Dorolia means border fortress in ancient Seges.

This towering castle with a wall of twenty meters and a tower of fifty meters high is the tallest building in Mania besides the Eternal Cathedral and is also the commanding height of the entire Mania city.

When the Holy Mannian Empire was still a slave city-confederate alliance, the castle had already stood in Mannian City.

At that time, the Mannian City-Constitutional Union was only Mannia, a city built by fugitive slaves, and Doloria Castle was a military fortress built by the Mannians to resist their former slave owners.

Later, the founding monarch of Holy Mannia, Karl I, who was elected as the consul, expanded the fortress, used it as his own castle, and changed the city-state republic to hereditary royal system.

He expanded all the way with Mania City as the center, and eventually achieved a miracle achievement of the emperor as a slave.

The Dolorian Castle has thus become one of the imperial authoritative symbols of the entire Holy Mannian Empire.

Of course, it has been a thousand years.

The times are developing, and magic technology is also constantly improving.

To this day, many nobles are no longer satisfied with living in ancient and dark castles, but prefer to be beautiful manors with magical defense barriers.

The defensive role of Doloria Castle also gradually lost its meaning due to the continuous expansion of the empire and no longer had the value of resisting foreign enemies.

Therefore, this indestructible castle gradually changed from a royal territory to a royal prison, specifically detaining political prisoners who resisted the royal family and nobles, as well as pagans who opposed the Eternal Church.

From then on, the Doloria Castle Prison became a terrifying land of legends for the people of the empire, feared and respected by others...

It is like a mountain pressing on the hearts of the people of Manny City, making people breathless; it is also like a devil surveillance of the entire city, making people feel scared.

On weekdays, even the streets near the Doloria Castle Prison rarely see pedestrians, some are just soldiers coming and going.

But today, it's different.

Dorolia Castle, outside the fortress.

The smoke of gunpowder rolls, sometimes covering the sky and sometimes revealing stars.

On the street, there are fires, even in the night, you can see dense crowds of people shining under the flames.

There were fully armed imperial soldiers, majestic employed knights, civilians holding high flags, and wanderers with clothes that had countless patches.

People have old and young, men and women, and the only thing that is the golden armband tied to their right arm, shining brightly under the light of stars and torches.

They waved different weapons and shouted the same slogans, and rushed towards the Doloria Castle Prison in the dark...

"Long live your life! Conquer Dorolia!"

"Long live your life! Conquer Dorolia!"

The shouts were like a tsunami, drowning the darkness.

On the tall tower of Doloria, looking at the crowd like a vast ocean, the noble officers and soldiers guarding the castle were shocked.

"Sir, the prisoner! The gates of the outer city were captured by rioters! The rebels have entered the city and are rushing towards us with mobs!"

The soldiers who sent the message rolled and crawled, came to the tower, looked at the warden in the distance, and said in panic.

"Rebels? Where did the rebels come from?"

The warden, who was a nobleman, looked confused.

"The Guards! It's the Guards! They were wearing the Guards' standard equipment. I'm afraid the Seventh Guards Legion outside the city has rebelled! Not only that, there seem to be mercenaries!"

The messenger said hurriedly.

After hearing his words, the warden widened his eyes and was full of disbelief.

He took a deep breath, picked up the telescope from the Elf Forest, and looked out of the castle.

Under the stars and flames, when the warden saw the iconic silver armor of the Seventh Guards Legion and the mercenaries and citizens who were rushing towards them, his expression changed slightly and he took a breath.

For a moment, his expression became more serious.

"Everyone obeys the order! Enter the highest alert state! Please activate the defensive magic! Archers and magic crystal cannon gunners are ready, don't put these rebels in!"

The warden looked at the direction of the inner city, then looked at the sky, pulled out the commanding sword in his hand, and drank it.

With his order, magic crystal cannons with deep muzzles were raised by the defenders, aimed at the streets outside the castle, and aimed at the people coming from the streets.

The archers also tightened their bowstrings, set up arrows, and aimed at the citizens and soldiers who were gradually surrounding the castle.

In the darkness, the castle defenders standing on the tower and the rebels gradually siege the castle.

"People outside, leave here quickly. If we go further, we will shoot arrows!"

Seeing the crowds gathering outside the castle, the warden's scalp was numb, suppressing the fear in his heart, and shouted with the amplified magic.

The Castle of Doloria is indestructible.

But there were too many people gathered outside the city.

Faced with these thousands of rebels, even if the warden is very confident in the castle, he can't help but be frightened by this exaggerated scene.

And outside the castle, there were dense crowds of people.

Soon, people separated to the sides, and several professionals dressed in mercenaries stood up.

The leader is not someone else, but the "hound" Tim.

And beside him, there were several mysterious people wearing eagle-mouthed hoods and unable to see clearly.

Recognizing Tim's identity, the warden was furious:

"Tim? Do you know what you are doing? Your current action is openly an enemy of the empire and an enemy of the church!"

However, "Hound" Tim just shook his head slightly:

"Mr. Eisingdorf, don't say much if it doesn't make sense."

As he said that, he looked solemn:

"Open the gate of the castle and surrender to us, otherwise we will attack... and if we attack strongly, we cannot guarantee your safety after the victory of the battle."

The warden was slightly stunned and then laughed in anger.

His eyes swept across the vast majority of the people under the tower who didn't even have decent equipment, and snorted coldly:

"A group of mobs! Just because of you, do you want to attack Doloria Castle Prison?!"

After speaking, he turned around and ordered to the soldiers on the castle:

"Fire the gun! Fire the arrow! Let these mobs know the end of the rebellion!"

With his order, the sound of cannons rang out, and accompanied by rain-like arrows, they fell into the crowd outside the castle.

For a moment, the fire caused by the magic explosion exploded in the crowd, and the rebels in the front fell one after another in the rain of arrows.

Looking at the scene of his companion's tragic death in battle, the rebels who besieged Doloria Castle instantly fell into chaos and began to retreat continuously.

"Tim" looked solemn.

He yelled while cutting down the arrows he shot:

"Everyone is looking for cover! Stay stable! Don't be messed up! Stay stable!"

Then, he looked at the mysterious man wearing a hood beside him:

"Sir Cyber!"

The mysterious man beside him nodded and shouted in a certain direction:

"Get out! Get ready to attack the city!"

With a shout, the crowd slowly moved away from the street hundreds of meters away, and heavy magic crystal cannons were pushed out by the rebels.

Seeing the heavy magic crystal cannon appearing on the street, the warden's expression changed slightly and exclaimed:

"Elf Magic Crystal Heavy Cannon!"

Elf Magic Crystal Heavy Cannon...

That is a heavy artillery that only the elves of the Elf Forest have. They were powerful when they attacked the Demon Legion some time ago.

Even in Mania, the warden of Doloria has heard of it. He has specially found picture albums and seen the legendary heavy artillery appearance.

It is said that in the final battle of the Southern Leader to siege the Demon Fortress, the elves blasted the demons' walls with just one shot...

However, today, he did not expect that he would encounter this terrifying opponent on the battlefield.
To be continued...