Chapter 1196 Chaos and Decision-Making 【Subscription】

The defense system of the Lentax giant city can be roughly divided into four.

They are the towers of the first, second and third circles respectively.

The last is the Marquis Castle in the heart of the city.

Let me talk about the third circle first.

The towers there are not the most majestic and magnificent, but they are the towers with the highest total circumference.

It also protects the largest urban area.

And there are still a large number of garrison troops stationed there for a long time.

Originally, according to the normal number of siege routes.

The third outer circle should be the first line of defense for Jucheng when facing foreign enemies.

All enemies who want to invade the city must first break through the third circle of tower defenses.

However, the Calamity Raven Church did not follow common sense, and directly arranged the long-distance transmission channel and the ceremony of summoning the projection of the gods in the city.

All kinds of defensive buildings in the third circle are useless.

The most terrible thing is that it caused the more than 200,000 garrison troops stationed there to be in a dilemma.

In the end, only about half of them retreated to the second circle of defense.

The remaining half were either wiped out by the church's apostles, or they became captives.

It can be said that it was wronged to lose.

If it is a normal defense, the garrison can often achieve a good casualty ratio.

But in the face of the surprise attack launched by the apostles from the inside out, these garrison troops were almost unable to organize effective resistance and were completely defeated.

Now the situation in the second circle is also precarious.

Although theoretically, the large mana shield there can last for about an hour.

But that was under the condition that the church's attack intensity remained unchanged.

However, this is impossible.

Because with the passage of time, the complete fall of the third circle has already become a foregone conclusion.

More and more soldiers and fanatics of the apostles were able to draw their hands and go to the front.

In addition, the ancestral dragon skeleton that is receiving divine power from the void is also a time bomb.

As long as the projection of God descends, the mana shield of the second circle may be quickly broken.

This made everyone feel that a strong crisis was brewing.

All the garrison troops were on standby, and even the mage tower was alarmed.

A large number of dragon mages gathered in line, and spellcasters of all schools followed the archmage leading the team to the front.

Everyone clenched their weapons tightly and counterattacked in an orderly manner under the orders of commanders at all levels.

This time, the Calamity Raven Church used almost several times the strength of the defenders of the giant city of Lentax.

They are fearless and fearless, and their eyes are bloodshot representing madness. It seems that they should have been inspired by some kind of large-scale ceremony of the church.

Crazy church believers sat cross-legged together, holding raven pendants in their mouths, and chanting strange scriptures.

Using this as a driving force, it drove the large church circles to launch.

The Church has used similar methods in Odo Village.

The functions of these church magic circles are different. They can heal the soldiers of the apostles, or they can shoot light balls and beams to attack the magic shield, or they can restore everyone's physical strength and increase attack efficiency.

There are also many church deacons gathered in groups of three or four, chanting mysterious incantations.

Constructed spell models that surpassed their own ranks one by one.

Mainly Frost-based.

From time to time, you can see ice spikes as long as 20 to 30 meters piercing the shield like a dagger.

Sometimes it was ice stones that fell from the sky, violently hitting the mana shield.

Standing in the front row is mainly the Jackdaw Apostles.

Among them, the Jackdaw Heavy Shield Warrior holding a large shield became the most damaged part.

Behind them are jackdaw euphorbia warriors holding halberds, and under the cover of their comrades, they are desperately hacking at the mana shield.

This happens almost everywhere.

Moreover, the side of the church is constantly raising various mana shields to resist the rain of arrows and various magical attacks thrown from behind the tower.

Large siege shield vehicles can raise a magic shield with a radius of 120 meters.

Under the cover of a squadron of Jackdaw Apostle soldiers, the cone-shaped siege vehicle approached the outer edge of the city tower, and the cone-shaped head hammer with the magic energy armor-piercing effect attached to the front end hit the shield at a fixed frequency.

Every impact can create circles of ripples on the mana shield.

If there is a lord around, you can see the damage value of tens of thousands of points is constantly emerging.

At the same time, dense numbers of damage values ​​appeared almost every moment on the periphery of the entire second circle.

Of course, as a large mana shield guarding the giant city, its sturdiness value is also frighteningly high.

Moreover, the defensive power of the second circle is not the highest, and the first circle is the defense core of the entire giant city.

Its city tower is not only more than one hundred meters high, but also has a large shield with a total solid value of nearly one billion.

In comparison, the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar (Golden)] in Zongshen's territory is nothing.

In fact, this is the standard configuration of major cities.

Use shields as the highest priority defense method, rather than simply relying on strong walls to defend in situ.

In order to ensure the sturdiness of the mana shield, most giant cities will use a matrix method to connect multiple mana shield generators in parallel to form fixed defense nodes.

Relying on the defense of the shield, it can eliminate the influence of some large-scale magic or magic equipment.

Of course, the final victory or defeat is still determined by the hard power of the offensive and defensive sides.

But in any case, the lord has never seen a war of this scale.

Even Zong Shen was shocked, his momentum was far beyond the defensive challenge.

Everywhere you look is a battlefield.

The gorgeous elemental magic power bloomed on the magic shield, making the sky even more gorgeous.

The men and horses of the Calamity Raven Church surrounded the second circle layer by layer, and built more than a dozen battlefields for the main attack.

Every battlefield ranged from more than a hundred thousand people to as many as hundreds of thousands of people, all attacking the shield frantically.

If it weren't for the solid value of the shield itself, it would also be replenished and restored at an extremely high speed.

Under the onslaught of two or three million people at the same time, this thing can't last for so long.

The counterattack in the city is also continuing, but the magnitude is not equal.

Among the remaining hundreds of thousands of garrison troops, not even one-fifth of the long-range troops.

In addition, the church side also has large defensive equipment such as shield vehicles, which can also raise various magic shields.

The two sides fought back and forth.

But overall, the Lentax giant city is still at a disadvantage.

In order to make up for the gap in the number of combatants.

At this time, adventurers and mercenaries are being urgently recruited in the second circle.

Even those youth leaders who participated in the competition before were temporarily recruited.

...

At the same time, within the first circle.

Lord Henry Lancaster had fallen into a coma an hour earlier.

Just woke up now.

During his coma, the defense of the city was mainly taken over by Nasraar, the chief officer of the garrison.

The information gathered from all over the city poured into the city hall like snowflakes.

Every chief official of the giant city is devastated.

The fall of the third circle brought a lot of trouble.

Not only weakened the defense system in the city, but also lost a large number of urban bottom population.

These low-level populations are the foundation for maintaining the current system of the giant city.

Without them creating wealth and value in the city and supporting the upper-class nobles, the giant city would be nothing more than an empty shell at best.

The essence of the pyramidal hierarchy is that the many support the few.

If the foundation of the pyramid collapses, can the spire still exist safely?

The answer is undoubtedly no.

Don't look at ordinary nobles and gentlemen who treat common people as grassroots.

But when it came to the big loss, all the chief officials felt heartbroken.

Their thinking has not been reversed in time, and they have always stood at the perspective of the development of the giant city.

This is the biggest difference between the concepts and ideas of the local rulers and those foreign invaders.

In addition to the loss of a large number of people, the farming and animal husbandry system that has been painstakingly established outside the city is also on the verge of collapse.

Productivity determines production relations.

In the Endless Continent, it is not easy to feed tens of millions of people.

Not only must the power of magic planting be used, but also as much arable land as possible must be opened up.

Therefore, hundreds of kilometers around the giant city of Lentax are farms, pastures and orchards.

Coupled with the grain transported by traveling merchants, the supply cycle can basically be realized.

This kind of farming and animal husbandry system is also the basic plate built up step by step with the development of the giant city of Lentax.

At the moment, they are basically in a state of withering.

Destruction often only takes a moment, but reconstruction requires countless painstaking efforts.

These losses can seriously damage the vitality of the Lentax giant city.

Even if he survives this bad luck, he will never recover from a setback and become the lowest rank in the giant city.

Compared with other losses, the damage to the foundation of the city is what these chief officials care about the most.

As the vested interests in the giant city and the managers of various fields, their sense of belonging to the giant city is far deeper than ordinary people.

At this moment, in the city hall.

The chief officers are arguing fiercely.

"According to the church's offensive and the projection of God that may come at any time."

"I'm afraid we won't last until tomorrow morning!"

"The shield generation device of the second circle layer has shown signs of overload."

"The morale of the garrison is very low, and it is well-trained to maintain the defense of the front."

In the conference room, an adjutant in charge of gathering information from all parties stood up and said.

At this time, the situation in all aspects of the Lentax giant city is not optimistic.

"Is Master Henry awake?"

"Before the teleportation array nodes in the city fall, all we have to do is call in reinforcements!"

"This is an organized and premeditated act of aggression by the heretic church!"

"The kingdom must not sit idly by! The surrounding giant cities should also provide support!"

After the adjutant finished his report, a middle-aged man wearing crystal glasses sitting beside him yelled angrily.

"Shut up, Axo!"

"Don't you understand what's going on?"

The person who spoke was Nasrael, the chief officer of the garrison. He was a resolute officer, wearing a high-level Avalon-style battle armor, with three redbud marks on his chest.

This proves that he is not only a military noble with real power, but also has the strength of a legend.

"Due to Lord Henry's wrong decision, we were abandoned."

"Prince Carter has disappeared, and the Swordfish and Sailfish regiments, as well as the legendary experts from the eastern coast, have all evacuated from the city."

"We have no reinforcements, at least no reinforcements will appear until the church breaks the city."

Nasrael frowned and said the news that surprised everyone.

As the confidant next to the Marquis Henry, he naturally witnessed the previous moves of the Marquis.

He is also secretly responsible for the power to contact Princess Anna.

Before that, Nasrael was also under the control of the [Rose Mark].

But not long ago, the imprint was successfully lifted.

He has the strength of a legendary level, and his body is not as weak as the Marquis, so he can recover quickly.

The Marquis Henry fell into a coma directly after the mark was released.

Things have developed to this point, and Naslam, who has returned to reason, knows that there is no point in continuing to cover up everything.

Sure enough, when he told the truth, it immediately caused an uproar at the scene.

Except for several other chief officials who have also been controlled by the mark and know the inside story.

Most Jucheng officials do not understand this.

Nasrael remained silent, staring at the table in front of him, wondering what he was thinking.

The noise lasted for several minutes before subsiding.

"Surrender! We surrender to the Church!"

Now that he has been abandoned by the kingdom and the Grand Duke, surrender seems to be the best option.

Joining the Calamity Raven Church is at best brainwashed.

A few unlucky ones may become sacrifices.

But at least most of them have a chance of surviving.

If you resist to the end, it will be a dead end.

The most important thing is that they are destined not to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The important reason for maintaining the tenacious resistance of the frontline garrison is the illusory reinforcements.

Listening to the quarrels and discussions among the crowd, Nasraar did not answer for the time being.

...

In the Marquis Castle.

In the luxurious bedroom.

The Marquess of Henry Lancaster woke up leisurely.

He looked confused and rubbed his drowsy head.

I always feel that the invisible shackles in my mind have been lifted.

It made him feel relieved, but at the same time there was an overwhelming sense of weakness.

Lying on the soft bed, the memory slowly came to life.

"Come on!"

He hoarsely called the maid and asked for a glass of water.

The sound insulation effect in the room is excellent, coupled with the isolation of various layers of shields, he cannot hear the noise from the outside world.

The slender maid holding the water glass looked nervous and looked quite terrified.

Taking a sip of water to moisten his dry throat, Marquis Henry looked at the maid and asked patiently.

"How's the battle outside?"

"Has the heresy from the Calamity Raven Church come in?"

Facing the Marquis' inquiry, the maid did not dare to neglect, and said hastily.

"It hasn't come in yet, those heretics are besieging the second circle!"

Hearing her words, Marquis Henry was slightly relieved.

"Prepare the horse, I'm going to the city hall!"

After waving his hand, he sent the maid away, and he sat beside the bed with a solemn expression.

With the recovery of memory, the absurd things he did when he was under control also surfaced one after another.

"Penny...Blood Rose Inheritance..."

"Damn it!"

"I didn't expect such an evil thing to exist in the family's hunting ground!"

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