The pale flames burned the exposed skin of these mages. The originally normal skin was now cracked open, revealing the hideous wounds underneath. The blood was steaming and swallowed by the flames.
These flames burned quietly, as if these mages were used as firewood to maintain a bonfire.
This must have been extremely painful torture. Lu Tiao thought that the expressions on the faces of those mages were even more terrifying than those of the monsters. It was the fear shown by humans after being ravaged by extreme pain. Their limbs were trembling constantly, and the flames
It was as if it burst out of their bodies, flowing from their wounds and burning between their bones.
Lu Jian has seen documentaries before about humans who were wrapped in flames and died in pain. In fact, many people did not really die from the fire, but more from suffocation caused by depletion of oxygen. Before being burned alive, they were all
Suffocated to death.
Even if you are out of the flames, the infection caused by large-scale skin burns will kill people, and the injured will die with hatred in endless torture and pain.
And now, these mages are suffering from such inhuman torture.
At the same time, Lu Tiao saw that the armor on their bodies was emitting a faint light.
However, these armors are not to protect them from the fire, but to firmly imprison their bodies on the high-backed chairs to prevent them from leaving the seats because they can't bear it anymore.
"Is this the fate of a mage?"
Lu Tan couldn't help but sigh.
"You may not know that one hour as defined by the Gray Tower refers to the time it takes for a mage to sit on the spiritual torch until it is completely burned out."
Jonah looked at his tortured colleagues, his face illuminated by the firelight, giving it a mysterious color.
"When we chose the path of mage, we already expected this ending."
It seemed that a mage couldn't bear the torture anymore. He opened his mouth and tried to scream, but his throat had already been burned, and the flesh and blood exposed on his neck had been turned into charcoal. Only air flowed through, making the flames stronger.
"In a large fortress, a spiritual torch composed of three mages can resist monsters for an hour. In a smaller stronghold, a spiritual torch composed of one mage can resist monsters for an hour."
Jonah is doing simple math problems.
During the three days of demonic tide, three mages died every hour in the Black Castle Fortress.
There are hundreds or even thousands of such fortresses.
In one demonic wave, tens of thousands of mages may perish in the Kingdom of Darkness.
This kind of demonic tide occurs at least once a year and has lasted for thousands of years.
Lu Tiao didn't count how many mages died in the process.
These extraordinary beings who possess extraordinary power and appear to be powerful in other foreign lands, but in fact when the demonic tide comes, they can only be used as consumables like firewood.
If the rangers of the Black Tower are ordinary people who have difficulty controlling their own destiny, then the mages of the Gray Tower are extraordinary people whose destiny has already been decided.
What is even more desperate is that even after paying such a price, the land of the Kingdom of Darkness is still decreasing every year. The black forest gradually covers the entire continent, and with the simultaneous appearance of three demonic tides this time, the defense line of the Black Tower
There may be a complete collapse.
Thousands of years of sacrifice, in the end, only delayed the end of destruction a little.
Just like the resistance at the Blacksburg Fortress at this moment.
Even if it can resist once or twice, this fortress will eventually fall.
Everything is in vain.
Suddenly, a wolf howled.
This wolf howl was far louder than anything I had heard before, making my heart tremble and making me instinctively feel fear.
Lu Tiao hurriedly left the hall and came to the window.
The guarding ranger's legs were shaking and he could hardly stand up.
Through the window between the rocks, Lu Jian saw the thing.
In that eternal night, under the blood moon, stood a giant wolf.
The size of this wolf has exceeded ordinary people's imagination.
As tall as a mountain, its existence is like an eternal thing in this world. Just seeing that figure is enough to make people give up resistance.
It is simply incomparable. It is something that should exist in this world.
From Lu Jian's point of view, the giant wolf's back was already touching the blood moon. It was completely silver, shining in the eternal darkness. It had a breathtaking face. It was clearly a wolf, but it could still be seen as somewhat human.
look.
Those dark red eyes were like the red moon hanging high in the sky, exuding a demonic and coquettish glow.
Winter Wolf, Lord of Frost!
"I'm going to fight this guy and take his heart?"
Lu Tiao suddenly felt that this mission was nonsense.
The heart of such a big creature is probably much bigger than that of Lu Tiao. Even if he could find a way to shoot it to immobilize it, where would Lu Tiao find the time to take away its heart?
Not to mention there are two other demon tides.
If there was only frost, Lu Tian thought there was still a chance, but neither the eternal night nor the plague could be easily solved by Lu Tran.
He saw countless small dust particles shaking off from the huge winter wolf.
What looks like small dust from a distance is actually a giant wolf.
Those winter wolves are as tall as a small building, have silver-grey fur, and have four eyes.
From those sub-level winter wolves, more wolf pups jumped out.
In the blink of an eye, the winter wolves formed a silver-white wave.
This wave was not just what Lu Jian saw before his eyes, but the entire Kingdom of Darkness and the entire Black Forest appeared at the same time.
If you were outside this world at this moment and looked down from a very high position, you would be able to see a line of silver frost appearing on the dark and deep land, and moving towards the remaining settlement of human civilization.
Wherever the silver frost passes, everything freezes, and even the air turns into ice crystals.
Lu Tran's breath had turned into a pure white weapon. He saw the frost spreading from outside the fortress along the windows. Before those winter wolves arrived at the fortress, the outermost layer of the Black Fort might be completely frozen.
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At this time, Lu Tiao heard a horn.
It was a horn coming from the dome. It seemed unstable at first, but as it was played, the sound became louder and louder, giving people the feeling of a winter wolf howling.
The next moment, Lu Jian saw huge rocks being thrown out from above the fortress.
Those stones emitted light, illuminating the surrounding night.
Boom——
The stone fell to the ground and fell into the surge of frost, immediately causing several gaps in the surge.
But the gap was quickly filled without any weakening.
Moreover, these winter wolves did not just charge in one wave.
In places covered by frost, those ice crystals are growing more winter wolves, endlessly.
At this moment, many people cannot imagine that the area of the silver-white part of the Black Forest has far exceeded the area of the only unpolluted land left by humans in the Kingdom of Darkness.
Billions of winter wolves are rushing towards the fortress of human civilization.