Chapter 674 Ice Wind Battlefield

The battle has entered a white-hot stage.

Duanmu Huai swung his warhammer and knocked down a frost giant that tried to break through the fortress, then looked forward. More than an hour has passed since the battle began, and for now, the fortress can still hold on. The races that attacked the fortress were frost giants, ice wolves, and a large number of goblins. Their tactics were simple. The frost giants were responsible for attacking the walls and gates, trying to make a gap in them, while countless white ice wolves were running around like a surging tide, attracting the attention of the defenders together with the goblins.

On the other hand, Luminas seemed to be able to advance and retreat in moderation in the face of the attack of the monster army. The mages chanted magic, and once a frost giant approached, he would be knocked to the ground by the blazing fireball. The knights held their shields high to block the edge of the fortress wall, holding shields and sharp blades to fight the goblin ice wolves that rushed up.

"This kind of battle is really boring."

Jia Wei's figure flashed, and then disappeared. A moment later, she appeared beside Duanmu Huai, and the goblins and ice wolves between the two fell to the ground and turned into cold corpses.

"Master, isn't there anything more fun?"

"I think you can change your weapon."

Duanmu Huai glanced at the dagger in Jia Wei's hand. This was something she had picked up in the Dark Area. Although Duanmu Huai didn't know why Jia Wei didn't manipulate silk threads and puppets to fight like Ogis, in this situation, a thief-like profession really has limited role to play.

"I want to, but I don't know what to use. Anyway, I don't want to be like my elder sister."

"Then there's nothing I can do."

A frost giant roared and crashed into the city wall. Duanmu Huai swung it casually, and the thunder hammer flew directly from Duanmu Huai's hand and hit the frost giant's face directly. The thunder and lightning that erupted seemed as dense as a spider web, instantly turning all the enemies around into a pile of black charcoal.

"Why don't I give you another mission? Go and see what's going on behind these monsters."

"Behind?"

"Yes, the army must have a commander. This is just the beginning. Although I'm not sure whether this monster army has a commander, what if there is one?"

"Okay then."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's request, Jia Wei nodded.

"By the way, if there is a commander, can I kill it?"

"Of course no problem."

"Understood."

The moment the voice fell, Jia Wei's figure flashed and disappeared.

At the same time, someone shouted.

"The enemy has climbed up the west wall!!!"

Perhaps due to negligence or because of excessive fatigue in the battle, the knights of Luminas gradually began to be unable to resist the attacks of the monsters. The ice wolves roared and jumped up. Their sharp claws directly grabbed the frozen wall and jumped onto the wall in just a few jumps. The goblins sitting on the backs of the ice wolves screamed in victory, and the knights of Luminas raised their shields again, trying to drive away these invaders who had forcibly climbed the wall.

However, at this moment, a white figure appeared from the crowd.

Aurelia held a long sword in her hand. She was as dazzling and gorgeous as a flower blooming on the battlefield. Her movements were as light as petals flying in a snowstorm. She rushed into the enemy with the violent wind and waves. The shining sword light bloomed in an instant, and it was as luxurious and elegant as a work of art that made people intoxicated.

However, the ice wolves and goblins obviously had different opinions on this, but unfortunately they did not have time to express their dissatisfaction. With the sudden rise of the sword light, blood marks burst out from their bodies, and then these ice wolves and goblin riders fell directly to the ground and died.

Oviria retracted the long sword, and there was not even a trace of blood on the pure white battle robe. The Ruminas knights also took this opportunity to rush up again and regained the position that was almost lost.

"Your Highness!!"

The black-haired maid hurried over, the long sword in her hand was stained with blood, but the black-haired maid obviously didn't care about this now.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Oviria shook her head.

"Is the defense line okay?"

"It's pretty solid. To be honest, I didn't expect it to last until now."

"Yeah............"

Olivia understood what her maid was saying. The monster army kept attacking, and Ruminas could only rely on the city walls and fortresses for defense. The cold stone walls might not get tired, but people have their limits. Under the reckless attack of the monster army, they were able to hold on until now without collapsing...

"It seems that inviting the judge to fight together was the right decision."

As she spoke, Aurelia turned her head and looked at the city gate. Duanmu Huai was too lazy to play cat and mouse with the invaders on the city wall. He took over the entire fortress main gate by himself. He didn't even stand on the fortress wall, but jumped directly to the gate, waving his war hammer to block the monsters' wave after wave of attacks. Wherever his thunder hammer swept, accompanied by shining thunder and lightning, large numbers of monsters died. Even a frost giant who was taller than Duanmu Huai was no match for this iron warrior.

“Roar————!”

A frost giant grabbed the trunk of a big tree and smashed it directly at Duanmu Huai. Duanmu Huai did not dodge at all. He roared at the oncoming tree trunk and smashed it in two with a backhand hammer. Then he rushed forward and came to the front of the frost giant. The thunder hammer whistled and tore through the blizzard, and hit the frost giant's knee heavily. Then the frost giant's entire right leg exploded completely, and the frost giant, who lost his balance and limbs, fell to the ground with a scream. Then his head was smashed into pieces by Duanmu Huai's hammer.

Compared with the pure white Aurelia, who did not even have a drop of blood on her cloak, Duanmu Huai was covered in blood at the moment. The dark red blood stained his black armor and the eagle pattern on the golden skull. He looked like a demon walking in the world.

Ogis followed Duanmu Huai as always. She seldom moved. She just swayed her fingers slightly, and the invisible silk thread formed a fishing net, blocking all the fish trying to go downstream, and directly cut them into sashimi.

To be honest, Duanmu Huai and Ogis together were even as good as a Ruminas Knights.

"Humph."

The black-haired maid snorted in dissatisfaction. She didn't like Duanmu Huai at all, but the facts were there. If it weren't for Duanmu Huai guarding the gate, then I'm afraid this frozen fortress would have been breached by now.

"How long will the fleet take?"

"I don't know, but they will definitely come today."

"I hope the fleet can arrive soon."

At this point, Aurelia's eyes showed a complicated expression.

"Maybe they will arrive soon, as long as we can survive this wave of attacks."

Duanmu Huai repelled another wave of enemies and retracted his gaze from Aurelia.

He always felt that there were many things wrong with Aurelia, not to mention the illogical behavior of inviting him to join the battle. Even her performance in the battle was very strange. Indeed, from a normal perspective, Aurelia was the first to fight and tried her best in the battle. She could be regarded as a loyal knight. But Duanmu Huai's intuition as a judge did not see it that way. He always felt that Aurelia was acting. All she did was not really wanting to completely defeat the monster army, but more like doing it for the Ruminas knights to see, like a performance, just to let them see that they were fighting hard.

Just act like this, it's like when your boss comes to you, you are busy at your desk, as if you have many important things to do, but in fact you are busy.

This is why Duanmu Huai did not immediately burst out all his strength to defeat the monster army. Of course he could do it, but Duanmu Huai did not intend to do so. Aurelia's fall into the dark swordsman is a story that players love to hear and hear. Many secondary creation books use this as the theme. After all, evil fall... well, it is indeed exciting.

But in fact, according to the experience of the Inquisitor, there are generally two types of fallen betrayers.

One is that they have long had the idea of ​​betrayal, and the fall is just a natural result.

The other is that they did not have this idea at first, but finally succeeded under the enemy's various conspiracies.

Players have always believed that Aurelia is the second type, so most of the books are drawn according to this aspect.

But as of now, Duanmu Huai suspects that it is very likely to be the first type.

Aurelia's performance and her words seem to be false. Although she is trying hard to defend the fortress, in Duanmu Huai's eyes, she only emphasizes the "hard work", and as for whether the fortress itself can be defended, Aurelia does not seem to care much - as if it doesn't matter if the fortress is breached.

This is obviously wrong. As a ruler, the important thing is the result, not the process. According to common sense, with Aurelia's identity, she should stop the monster army from breaking through the fortress at all costs. Even if she sacrificed more people, she could not hesitate.

Unfortunately, the facts now seem to be different.

Duanmu Huai wanted to see what Aurelia would do if the fortress was breached, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up this idea. Duanmu Huai was still looking forward to finding a group of talents in the territory of Ruminas to help with internal affairs. If the monster broke through the fortress and went deep into Ruminas, then his trip would be in vain.

However, at this moment, suddenly, a fierce roar came, which made Duanmu Huai and the knights fighting on the city wall raise their heads and look towards the sky. Then they saw a huge white shadow rushing out of the clouds in the dark and gloomy sky, rushing towards them.

That is………………

“Giant dragon!!!”

Amid the knights’ screams, a giant dragon almost as big as the fortress descended from the sky. It opened its mouth and launched a fierce attack on the fortress. The biting cold wind whistled past, and the leading knights didn’t even have time to dodge before they were turned into ice sculptures by the bone-chilling cold. Then the dragon flapped its wings again and raised its head again………

“Evil dragon, prepare to die!!!”

However, at this moment, accompanied by a shout, Duanmu Huai saw Aurelia leap up, fly out from the city wall, holding a long sword and stabbing straight at the dragon in front of her. Her expression was extremely resolute, and the whole person at this moment seemed to be a dazzling white flower in full bloom.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of Ruminas cheered immediately, and their morale was greatly boosted.

However, only Duanmu Huai saw the indifference and numbness in Aurelia's eyes.