The overall shape of the Mechanical City is a bit like a very large cake tower, with layer upon layer.
The higher you go, the smaller the area becomes.
The Duke's Palace of Archduke Valentine is on the top floor.
The noise in the Duke's Mansion was getting louder and louder, and a curfew was declared in the Mechanical City. All activities except military mobilization were stopped, shops were closed, pubs were closed, and every household kept their doors shut... Ordinary people were not allowed to walk around the streets.
However, this did not stop the curiosity of ordinary residents, who were very curious about what was happening in the Duke's Mansion. They poked their heads out one by one, wanting to see what was going on... But because the fighting and gunshots were only in the banquet hall, although there was a lot of noise, no one could see what was happening.
At this moment, a loud dragon roar suddenly resounded in the sky.
Because of the darkness and fog, nothing could be seen above the already low rain clouds except for the flashing lightning.
Hearing the noise, the searchlights in the mechanical city all pointed towards the sky.
Then, a huge monster suddenly jumped out from the clouds and dived rapidly. The white mist quickly dissipated in the wind, and under the light, its scales shone with a cold glow.
This is actually a pterosaur with a wingspan of 20 meters!
"Look, there's a giant dragon appearing in the clouds!"
"No way... there really are giant dragons in this world. Aren't they creatures from myths and legends?"
"Wow~ This is unbelievable! Harry, come and see, there is a dragon in the sky!"
“…”
Seeing this flying creature that had never been seen before, the entire territory cheered for a moment.
They were excited and shocked that they had seen a legendary creature.
Most of the extraordinary people in this world have never seen a pterosaur, but they have all heard of the existence of giant dragons in myths and legends from the bards.
Isn’t this giant flying lizard with fleshy wings and covered with scales exactly the same as the image in myths and legends?
Moreover, the high-pitched dragon roar could not be fake. After all, sub-dragons were of the bloodline of giant dragons, and the pressure in their bloodline could make "lower creatures" feel instinctively fearful, with a kind of great pressure from the arrival of a king.
The "Black Wind Territory" was boiling.
But the next second, people's shock turned into fear.
Because at this time, another flying dragon appeared in the clouds...
Another one...
Then the sea of ​​clouds seemed to be boiling, and whoosh whoosh whoosh... thousands of flying dragons appeared.
They were like falling meteors, swooping down towards the Mechanical City in unison.
"Not just one dragon, there are many!"
"Oh my god, is this... a monster attacking the city?!"
"Look, there's a dragon rider on the dragon!"
“…”
Seeing this scene, the combat staff members of Glory City who were in charge of the deployment in a secret room of the Mechanical City were all stunned.
They never expected that the enemy would attack from the sky.
"What kind of monsters are those? Why are there so many of them?!"
"The clouds and rain concealed the movements of the flying dragons, and the unusual movements of the beasts on the ground misled our judgment... Damn it, their target is the Duke's Mansion!"
"But why are there so many living barbarians? Also, where did they find so many flying dragons?"
"It's over. Something big is going to happen tonight..."
"Sound the alarm!"
“…”
The staff officers realized that something was wrong and their faces turned pale with fear.
The enemy broke through their carefully prepared defense lines and attacked the base camp directly!
Before this, they had deduced every possibility of being attacked, but they never expected that the enemy would come from the sky.
There has never been a precedent of "air raid" in any war in this world. It is not in the textbooks, and it is not in people's cognition...
Therefore, these staff officers who are proficient in war command never thought that they would encounter such a situation!
The flying dragon's surprise attack... apart from anything else, this way of appearance is enough to be recorded in the history of war as a highlight.
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“Woo…woo…woo…”
In the mechanical city, the shrill siege alarm instantly resounded throughout the entire Black Wind Territory.
The combatants in the territory also entered into the normal plan for dealing with the beast tide. On the artillery platform, on the city wall, in the boiler room, everyone took their positions...
However, the next moment, they found a very embarrassing situation.
That is, the artillery of the Mechanical City is at an upward firing angle, and it cannot hit the Dragon Legion that is diving vertically!
Thousands of meters high, arriving in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, before the artillery had even adjusted its angle, the mood of the people of Black Wind Territory suddenly changed from panic to confusion.
Because they found that the terrifying flying dragon army's target seemed to be only the "Duke's Palace" on the top of the mechanical city, and had no intention of attacking other places.
Especially in the civilian areas on the ground, there was not a single flying dragon flying down.
At this time, strange things happened again.
The sound of a looping broadcast was heard from somewhere in the city (made by the people who had come in with the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce before).
The goblin broadcast is louder and more penetrating than the broadcast from the city lord's mansion.
The sound violently overwhelmed the sound of gunfire, and in an instant everyone in the territory could hear it clearly.
"The Black Dragon City's 'Dragon Knights' are under the order of the City Lord, His Majesty Ryan, to conquer and kill the evil members of the five glorious families. All irrelevant personnel, immediately go to the lower level of the Mechanical City! Otherwise, you will be killed without mercy!"
"The Black Dragon City's 'Dragon Knights' are under the orders of the City Lord, His Majesty, Ryan..."
“…”
The looping broadcast suddenly plunged the originally panicked city into silence.
Ordinary people understood that this war seemed to be aimed at the nobles and had nothing to do with them?
…
The surprise troops descended from the sky, and the most confused people were those who were in the Duke's Mansion at that moment.
After the high-pitched dragon roar sounded, a violent gale followed. This was the pterosaur's innate ability - [Storm Breath]!
The strength of the Glory City's mage group lies in their group attacks, which can make low-level spells deal tons of damage.
When the flying dragons form a cluster, the effect is the same as that of the "Mage Corps".
The rank of an adult pterosaur can generally reach level three, the elite ones will be level four, and the dragon king is level five.
Under normal circumstances, the combat power of a dragon is half a transcendent level higher than that of an ordinary monster, which means that the thousands of flying dragons in the sky are equivalent to thousands of high-level wind magicians!
Can you imagine how powerful this cluster attack is?
Although their attack methods are limited, the wind blades they spit out are almost instantaneous, which does not give the enemy much time to react.
Oh~
When the sound waves arrived, the terrifying wind blade had already swept across the entire Duke's Mansion.
A breath of [Storm Breath] was like hundreds of "flying knives" flying all over the sky. Thousands of flying dragons breathed at the same time, and millions of flying knives instantly swept across this steel city.
Seeing this, the battle commanders of the Duke's Mansion were so frightened that their souls were about to die. They shouted at the top of their lungs: "Defense! Form a defensive formation!!"
But no matter whether it was the shield formation or the heavy armor mechanic, they all looked so pale under the cluster's [Storm Breath].
The wind penetrates everywhere, breaks through armor and defense, and is extremely fast...
This is the inherent advantage of wind magic!
The wind blades found a gap and penetrated the shield formation easily. The extraordinary momentum of those holding the giant shields was instantly blown into the sky due to the great wind resistance...
The magician's magic shield was cut into pieces in an instant under the ruthless and endless sewing...
The light armor professionals were cut all over with blood...
Not only people, but buildings were also severely damaged by the hurricane.
Click, click...
Glass shattered, mud collapsed, the steel structure began to collapse, and even the steel plates fixed by huge rivets were violently torn apart, flying in the air like pieces of light paper...
Those low-level extraordinary beings were blown directly into the sky, like helpless ants...
“Ah… help!”
"Someone come and save me..."
“…”
Screams came one after another, but were drowned out by the whistling wind.
In just a blink of an eye, this magnificent duke's mansion was torn to pieces.
The grass, sheds, and all non-frame buildings were blown beyond recognition by the storm, just like a bald middle-aged man with a bald head.
…
Similarly, the banquet hall and its roof were blown away by the storm, and the gravity field barrier was destroyed in an instant.
Inside the house, Ryan and the other two were safe and sound.
Carlo and his men, who were about to take action just now, retreated back in horror: Does the enemy have a backup plan?
Wind blades of this degree are a nightmare for low-level transcendents, but for high-level transcendents, it is still within the tolerable range.
Not far away, the high-end combat power of Glory City was not much damaged, but their faces looked extremely ugly.
The tens of thousands of knights ambushed in the manor were blown to pieces by this round of attack.
Moreover, the offensive is not over yet!
What’s even more terrifying is that after this round of wind blades, tall warriors wearing strange vine armor suddenly jumped down from the backs of those flying dragons one after another, there were thousands of them!
As soon as they landed, the two thousand-plus rattan armor soldiers formed a battle formation.
They formed a group of more than 20 hundred people, looking well-trained.
Everyone in Glory City was shocked.
Even Ryan's eyes lit up: Black Dragon City's "Rattan Armor Legion" was finally formed!
…
This was also a "trump card" that was secretly trained after the establishment of Black Dragon City.
Although the Coleman warriors were powerful individually, their abilities were accumulated in battles with monsters. They were good at small-scale cooperation, but had never fought a large-scale war with other humans, and did not understand legion battle formations.
As early as the resource plundering war before the outbreak of the [Black Tide], they suffered a great loss in the battle because of this.
A well-coordinated battle formation can easily defeat scattered enemies of the same number, and can also kill enemies above their level. The role of the "legion battle formation" in large-scale wars has long been fully verified in countless wars between the two empires.
Forming a legion, this was also the most important suggestion Ryan gave to the Great Priest of Marfa!
Although the Coleman warriors don’t understand battle formations, Ymir does!
The Princess of Omar was a talented general with great military leadership and was proficient in military command. The mechanics and generals she brought with her were also high-level talents who mastered the most advanced military knowledge of the Omar Military Academy.
Top-notch battle command, battle formations... In the past few months, Coleman's soldiers have already mastered various battle formations. Now they are capable of dealing with almost any situation that may be encountered in a large-scale war.
As soon as they landed, more than 2,000 rattan armor soldiers split into a battle formation of hundreds of people, and it seemed as if they saw a number of indestructible "sharp knives".
…
The roof of the banquet hall was lifted up, and the view instantly became clear.
Elder Hab and the Coleman warriors who were imprisoned as auction items were a little worried when they saw Ryan and his men coming to rescue them, but now they were so excited that tears filled their eyes when they saw their tribesmen jumping down from the sky.
They slammed the iron cage violently, and let out low roars like those of wild animals.
Anger, joy, hatred...
All kinds of emotions broke out at this moment!
Oh…oh…
What made them ecstatic was that their tribe had not been destroyed, the Coleman tribe was still there, and they came to save us!
They were excited that they could finally fight back against these hateful invaders!
As the roar sounded, the Coleman warriors who jumped off the back of the flying dragon also roared angrily.
Ha-ho! Ha-ho! Ha-ho…
This is the roar of the Coleman tribe to fight!
…
The arrival of the Flying Dragon Legion caught the people of Glory City off guard.
After the storm, Coleman's warriors appeared in a domineering manner, shocking everyone into silence. The knights of the Duke's Palace did not dare to move at all.
At this time, several tall figures walked into the banquet hall.
Ryan looked at them and called out, "Mafa High Priest, Elder Fufa, Elder Yimuhu..."
The Marfa Great Shaman nodded, his face full of frost. The old man holding a spear, with a bronze metallic luster on his skin, exuded a majestic pressure.
His appearance immediately brought overwhelming pressure to the people on the other side.
Among the high-end combat forces of the Glorious City, a large part of them had participated in the great battle between the Coleman Atrium Tribe and had naturally witnessed the combat power of the Great Witch Priest of Marfa.
They knew very well that the frail old man in front of them was definitely a person at the top level of the world's extraordinary realm. Perhaps only Master Kavo, the leader of the "Ten Legends", could be compared with him.
King Kipling was so shocked that he was speechless, completely losing the calmness and composure that he had in control for just a few seconds.
His face looked extremely ugly, with an expression of disbelief flashing in his eyes, and he was roaring in his heart: Why... why are there so many barbarians alive!
The hunter set a trap to catch a few fish that had escaped the net, but unexpectedly, it attracted a group of crocodiles...
It is naturally difficult to accept it for a while.
At this moment, seeing this group of "barbarians" with great momentum and hatred and murderous intent in their eyes, Kipling finally understood why the result of divination was "very bad".
The moment he saw the flying dragon riders and these vine-armored barbarians, he knew that tonight was going to be dangerous!
…
A minute ago, Glorious City had an overwhelming advantage in terms of numbers and high-end combat power.
But in the blink of an eye, these "reinforcements" that fell from the sky disappeared.
Canossa, Bazel, and the three "barbarians" in front of him, there are at least five legendary fighters in front of him.
But if it were just these five top fighters, Kipling also felt that they had an absolute chance of winning.
But……
The other side also has flying dragons all over the sky, and more than two thousand vine-armored warriors in front of them!
How could he not see that each of these vine-armored warriors was a high-level transcendent.
This is the real terrifying power.
…
The low-level extraordinary people were blown to the ground by the storm, but the Glory City was not without the strength to fight. They quickly gathered their formation and assembled into a battle formation.
At this moment, the dragon in the sky roared, but the huge Duke's Mansion was completely silent.
The soldiers on both sides held their weapons with full concentration and confronted each other with stern expressions.
Tonight, they all knew that there would be no peaceful ending.
This battle must be a life-and-death one.
But it seemed as if both sides were waiting for a "signal" to start a war.
At this moment, a tall Coleman warrior walked out from the side. It was the heroic Udo.
She said to Ryan, "Lord City Lord, please give the order!"
The Lord of Black Dragon City is Ryan, a fact that all the Coleman people have long recognized. Without him, the Coleman people would have long since become dust buried in history. Even the Marfa Great Priest and several elders are full of gratitude and trust in him.
Ryan has a very high prestige in Black Dragon City and is deeply loved.
In this kind of war, he is naturally the supreme commander.
Hearing what Wu Duo said, he didn't say anything more and shouted loudly in Coleman: "Fight!"
Finally, the war began.
"war!"
"war!"
"war!"
“…”
At this order, the more than 2,000 rattan armor soldiers charged forward bravely like tigers out of their cages.
For a moment, the sound of gunfire and the clash of swords resounded throughout the night sky...
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Originally, the noble knights of Glory City still held out a glimmer of hope. Although they were caught off guard by the dragon's storm attack, most of the casualties were low-level transcendents.
Furthermore, in the lower level of the mechanical layer, there is a steady stream of troops coming to support the Duke's Palace.
Relying on the advantage in numbers does not mean that we are powerless to fight.
But after this fight, they realized that their feeling was extremely wrong.
The Coleman warriors of Black Dragon City were all strong and elite warriors selected by Marfa to keep the tribe alive. They were naturally strong and fought in the wild all year round, so the probability of them advancing to a high-level extraordinary level was extremely high.
The group of dragon knights in front of us are all high-level extraordinary people above level three!
The Coleman warriors were already extremely powerful, and now they had the legendary protective gear [Talisman Armor]. In terms of individual combat power, it would be extremely difficult for even an ordinary fourth-order transcendent to defeat them.
What's more, it's a city-sized army!
The hundred-man regiments before their eyes were like sharp knives, piercing sharply into the enemy's army.
Not only was there a gap in the extraordinary rank, but the people in Glorious City were horrified to find that their weapons could hardly hurt the black vine armor!
"Legendary armor!"
At this moment, everyone understood that these "barbarians" were actually wearing a complete set of legendary equipment.
At this moment, they were heartbroken.
Even if the entire treasury of Glorious City was plundered, it might not be possible to find ten sets of legendary armor. How could these two thousand "barbarians" in front of them each have one set?
The extraordinary rank originally had no advantage, and now the equipment has no advantage either. The other party's battle formation is more coordinated than mine...
How can we fight this?
With just a face-to-face contact, the battle formations of both sides collided with each other, like stone hitting tofu, and were pierced through in an instant.
More than twenty hundred-man regiments were like more than twenty sharp knives, piercing through the Knight Legion of Glorious City in an instant.
Faced with the reinforcements that continued to pour in from the lower level of the Mechanical City, the Coleman warriors wearing black rattan armor were completely fearless. They were like tigers pouncing on a flock of sheep, killing them in an instant, leaving corpses all over the ground and blood flowing like a river.
Screams rang out one after another, and the Glory City Knights' Legion was instantly defeated...
…
As soon as the battle started, there was a trend of a major defeat, which was something no one on the Glorious City side had expected.
All the pressure fell on the king, Kipling Winster.
If they were on the plains, they might be able to rely on their numerical advantage and gather an army of 10,000 to wear down the enemy.
But in a mechanical city with complex terrain and narrow space, the "Hundred-Man Group" is the best combat unit.
However, the combat effectiveness of our own "hundred-man regiment" is simply not on the same level as those of the barbarians!
It collapses at the first touch, it collapses at the first touch...
This is what Kipling sees happening.
"So, this is what the divination predicted..."
He murmured something.
If this continues, Glory City will surely be defeated.
Moreover, the victory or defeat of a war is a trivial matter. Kipling sees further.
He was well aware that these "barbarians" before him were no small threat.
Instead, it is a deadly threat that is enough to threaten the safety of the kingdom.
Even the two old empires could not form a combat corps that could compete with this army composed of all high-level extraordinary people.
No!
They understand battle formations and have top-level equipment, so they can no longer be called "barbarians".
Behind it is the "Black Dragon City" whose location is unknown.
That is the root of the threat.
Although Kipling didn't know where this city he had never heard of was, it had already begun to show its potential. Now it seemed that it had enough strength and potential to threaten any major power in the future.
What appeared here were only the Barbarian Legion, the financial resources of the "Black Gold Chamber of Commerce", and the Princess Omar...
It’s scary to think about it.
The key point is... they are all enemies that Glorious City once had.
There is no turning back except for the complete destruction of one side.
After the shock, Kipling's mind raced.
Even though the battle situation was overwhelmingly unfavorable to them, the top fighters from Glory City did not panic at all and confronted each other calmly.
For the top extraordinary people, even if they cannot win, they still have some confidence in protecting themselves.
As long as they choose to escape, few people can stop them.
However, Kipling knew that he would not be able to leave today.
Not to mention his identity as the King of the Glorious Kingdom, this conspiracy was planned by him, and the other party wanted to kill him as soon as possible. And with the [Fire Totem] on him, those "barbarians" would definitely not let him go.
Sharing the same idea as him is the [Black Witch] Dia Vanilla who possesses the [Wood Totem].
They all knew that others might be able to escape, but now that they had been targeted by the barbarian witch priest, there was absolutely no chance for them to escape.
The only option is to fight.
However, at this moment, Kipling had no intention of leaving.
He was very clear that if he didn't kill these guys in front of him, even if he survived today, their Glorious Kingdom would definitely suffer a big trouble in the future!
This brilliant and talented king was also extremely decisive. A hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, and he quietly stroked a sapphire ring on the middle finger of his right hand.
A wave of magic came out...
At the same time, the eight magic towers on the outer walls of the mechanical city lit up at the same time.
Then, a layer of light blue octagonal barrier slowly lit up, faintly sealing the entire mechanical city inside...
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Space restriction barrier?
Not far away, Ryan and his companions looked normal.
They have been preparing for today's battle for a long time. Now that they are well prepared, they will not be afraid of any means of the enemy!