Chapter 443: The Devouring Mouth Announces
"Stay alert, but don't get too nervous. You will experience days like this often in the future."
The general named Sararo spoke to a soldier who seemed to be a new recruit, patted his shoulder, shook his hand, and told him not to be too nervous.
Alka followed him silently.
To be honest , the general in front of him named Sararo doesn't look like he's defending against the demons' attacks, but rather like he's just strolling around.
Not nervous, but rather relaxed.
And below, Alka looked at the demons beneath the city wall.
Most of the demons' skin was dark red, as before, but this time there were more types of demons.
But it is hard to see any discipline among the demons' team, with their skinny little ghosts and their burly power demons.
All kinds of medium-level demons and low-level demons are everywhere.
They might even trample on each other as they swarmed towards the city walls like a swarm of bees.
Some smaller demons that had no time to dodge and ran slower were directly trampled to death by their own demons during such a charge.
It was an extremely frustrating death.
"put!"
A roar came from above my head.
Projectiles of all sizes flew out of the barrel, and each shell was as big as a head.
The shells flew over the demon formation with a whistling sound and then exploded. Densely packed finger-sized objects fell down.
Then there was an explosion.
The explosion power of these small projectiles was much greater than Alka had imagined, and the flames they produced were golden.
Alka had already felt that there was the power of holy light in it, and after feeling it carefully, he realized that it was the power of the Virgin Mary.
Obviously, holy light materials from the Virgin Mary Church were added to it, or it contains holy water.
"These demons we see now can all be regarded as cannon fodder among the demons." Sararo stood on a part of the city wall and said to Alka next to him.
Alka looked at the demons below, and he even saw the organized four-stage and even sporadic five-stage among these demons.
"Can these also be considered cannon fodder?" Alka asked with some confusion.
As they were talking, the powerful demons had already begun launching various long-range attacks.
These ranged attacks are fireballs that are wrapped in lava and flames.
Then these fireballs were blocked and seemed to be insignificant.
"Of course they can be considered cannon fodder. Although sometimes I don't want to admit it, for us, these powerful people in the fourth and fifth stages are really nothing to those demons.
The number of these demons will far exceed your imagination. Only when there is a strong enough leader, these powerful demons will slightly follow certain rules and attack.
Normally, he is like a madman, so there is no need to worry too much. This is why we have been able to defend it until now, of course, another reason is the treasure. "
Saralo smiled as he spoke, and an ice blade condensed in his hand and threw it down.
The ability used was not a treasure but a spell, which Alka could still see.
“You know, most demons fight by relying on instinctive spells and physical strength.
Their fighting skills are extremely powerful, but overall you'll find that they fight based on instinct.
Treasures can give us abilities that are far stronger than those of demons of the same level. Of course, it must be a treasure that is at least useful for direct combat."
Sararo was explaining to Alka without asking if Alka knew. He just kept talking according to his own logic and thoughts.
Alka did not interrupt this situation at all. He nodded from time to time and watched the battle below.
Just as he said, the treasure gave them strong combat power at the same level. As long as the function of the treasure could be biased towards combat to a certain extent, they would be stronger than the demons of the same level.
As they gain control of more and more treasures, they will become stronger and stronger, and even fighting against opponents of higher levels will no longer be a difficult task for them.
After all, treasures are something that only exist in their world, and the development experience of their world cannot be replicated.
This can be seen in Alka and his friends. When dealing with demons of the same level, Alka and his friends are complete weaklings.
With the support and cooperation of various treasures, Alka and his companions' strength has long surpassed what they should have at this stage.
While thinking about this, he walked on the city wall.
The wall that Alka was walking on, which was connected from a distance, was actually the second floor of this fortress area.
The first layer of the city wall is about two meters lower than the one they are on now.
Below Alka and the others.
There are many city defense equipment there, such as various liquids poured down below that can cause great damage to demons, as well as some soldiers specializing in close combat.
And there are traps hidden in this kind of certificate.
Their floor is the main combat area. Various soldiers who can use long-range attacks, as well as some people who don’t look like soldiers, are on this floor.
Behind Alka, on the wall above his head, was the third layer, which was about three or four meters higher than the second layer.
This floor is home to a large number of long-range defense equipment, and some are located on higher towers.
Layer upon layer formed a defense circle.
As the attack progressed, some powerful demons spread their wings and jumped directly onto the first floor. Obviously, that layer of protective shield could defend against long-range attacks, but it could not defend against the advance of these demons.
Alka even discovered that the entire fortress had no doors leading to the outside, and it was all thick walls.
From the beginning of its construction, there was no intention to leave this area.
The demons that were able to jump up were all at stage four to five.
The moment they jumped up, Alka saw some captains or mercenaries who were holding treasures and rushed up directly.
The light of the treasure shone from their bodies.
Most of them were dressed as demon hunters, wearing light armor that was convenient for movement.
Alka didn't even see their ability to use the treasures. Facing the demons rushing towards him, he chopped them down with his sword in just a few rounds, making these demons seem very weak.
Suddenly, a demon appeared extremely fast, obviously having a certain ability to travel through space.
There are no restrictions on space travel here, as is currently the case within the city walls.
Under such circumstances, he actually risked breaking through the space, then suddenly came behind a soldier and stabbed down with his sharp claws.
Just as he was about to kill the soldier, a white and blue ice card appeared next to Alka.
The demon was frozen in place in an instant, and then the water was controlled to transform into various spikes, freezing them into ice and piercing the demon in place.
Only then did the soldier react, turned around and thanked him repeatedly.
Saralo seemed to want to say something, but at this moment, a horn sounded. Saralo's originally relaxed face immediately became serious, and he turned to Alka and said, "Follow me, the situation has become serious. This is not an ordinary siege."
Alka also noticed something was wrong around him. Many soldiers who were obviously veterans immediately began to organize themselves into various defensive teams and firmly guarded their respective areas.
Only some recruits became nervous in the face of such a situation.
Some soldiers who had been standing next to them immediately took out the very long bows that they had been carrying on their backs.
At this time, a huge figure walked out from behind the hillside in front.
What a tall demon this is, its body is about 15 meters tall, and its huge body is like a Titan.
Even stranger is their construction.
It has a completely inhuman structure, its hands and legs are like heavy hammers, and its body is covered with a tough shell.
Every move was like an earthquake.
Then more such demons appeared, and there was actually more than one such huge monster.
Sararo next to him had an even more serious expression.
"It seems that this time it won't be so easy." As he said that, a slender flag appeared in his hand.
There is a tall tower painted on the flag with three stars on top.
Alka had seen this pattern before; it was the former national flag of the Saralan Empire.
With the appearance of this flag, a different atmosphere obviously appeared around.
Saralo raised the flag, and it radiated light, like some kind of enhanced aura that began to spread. The range was extremely wide, and in an instant it seemed to cover the entire fortress.
Alka was standing next to the flag, and he could feel that his emotions seemed to have changed, becoming stronger and more courageous.
The body has been strengthened in all aspects. Although the amount is not much, for ordinary or weaker people, the strengthening is very obvious.
The artillery above shook again, and shells were fired one after another. This time, they went straight towards the tall demons, trying to kill them.
It would obviously not be a good thing if such a huge monster were allowed to approach the city wall.
With the sound of explosions, more demons began to break through the long-range attack, using flight and various power jumps to the first layer of the city wall and began to fight.
Alka controls various elemental cards and has been providing remote support.
Start focusing your fire on those demons that appear powerful and are causing widespread casualties.
And those huge hammer demons were more resilient than he thought. Under the concentrated artillery fire, only one demon seemed to be hurt and took a few steps back, pausing for a while before continuing to move forward.
Seeing this situation, Alka immediately began to control his elemental cards.
A strong wind blew across the battlefield, and countless strong winds began to sweep across.
Then a whirlwind began to spiral out of the demon's area below, and many demons were sucked in.
But it was obviously just the damage of the whirlwind, which had little killing power on these demons and could only slow down their pace slightly.
A stream of water entered the whirlwind from somewhere, mixing water droplets into the whirlwind. The water droplets combined into a blade-like shape in the whirlwind.
A cold chill rushed in, and the water blade immediately turned into an ice blade. This was the combination of three elements that Alka had said he had used when he first got the element row.
With the help of the whirlwind, these ice knives immediately turned into violent whirlwinds with strong cutting power and began to cut madly.
All the demons that passed by were sucked in and turned into blood mist in an instant. The entire whirlwind changed from blue to blood-red.
But the blood of these demons was boiling hot. In this case, Alka had to spend more magic power to cool down the whirlwind, so as to cool down the blood inside and at least not affect the toughness of the ice blade inside.
The consumption of strength allowed him to immediately control the movement of the whirlwind, sweeping towards the main target first.
It began to sweep towards those tall demons, which Alka had just observed to be very insensitive, and could even be said to be heavier.
They barely blocked most of the ranged attacks, but some of the demons in them helped to shoot them down.
It was difficult for them to leave in the face of the fast-approaching hurricane, and the assistants on the demons had no choice but to flee in the face of the approaching hurricane.
Then there were fierce wails, which even drowned out the sounds of the battlefield. These demons had loud voices.
Everyone could see that the ice blade hurricane immediately cut the monster's arms and part of its body into minced meat, until it was completely rolled in, and only then could large chunks of flesh and blood be seen.
A large amount of blood, as hot as magma, was absorbed into the giant peak, and Alka's forehead began to sweat profusely.
I never expected that the devil's blood would be so hot.
Various forces and attacks began to come towards the whirlwind.
It seems that those demons are not stupid either. They discovered the weakness of the Ice Blade Hurricane. In addition, these demons themselves know some fire-related spells.
Alka immediately began to feel unable to hold on. The combination of the three elements consumed a lot of magic power, and he had already maintained it for so long.
You must also use the element of ice vigorously to freeze the hot blood to prevent it from becoming too hot and destroying the whirlwind formed by the three elements.
As the power attacked, the whirlwind began to dissipate.
But at this time, one huge demon had been minced into meat, and the other one was almost half-crippled and lying on the ground.
Some skinny and inferior demons even began to cannibalize the corpses of these huge demons.
Just as Alka squatted down to catch his breath, a silver-gray and purple light blade flew out, covering almost the entire battlefield.
In an instant, he cut countless demons in half, and even killed three huge demons along the way.
Alka was somewhat surprised by the sudden and huge attack, but many of the soldiers around him and Sararo next to him seemed to have gotten used to it.
Arka looked in the direction where the attack came from, and saw Grayfar standing on the top wall. He was holding a giant blade that was taller than his.
This giant sword is like a door panel, but the blades on both sides of the sword look more like saw teeth than blades.
Alka blinked his eyes. Only then did he finally fully understand Grayfar's strength. He was a strong man whose strength had reached the eighth stage.
And the weapon he held was a treasure that glowed orange in Alka's eyes.
A scepter-class weapon.
Picking up the greatsword and swinging it again, Alka discovered that the power of the blade was combined with the huge ball of light on top of the Demon Hunting Fortress.
Obviously, the treasure was giving him a bonus.
The flying light blade turned gray-purple.
This time, the light wheel was eaten by an unknown creature halfway through its flight.
Looking at the huge insect-like mouth that was revealed, Alka felt a sense of familiarity.
A demon about the size of a normal human appeared in the air, and Alka watched from afar.
Devouring Mouth.
He has blood-red skin and wears luxurious clothes, looking as elegant as an ancient nobleman . But behind him, there is a pair of huge bat wings spread out, with fascia full of blood vessels spreading on them.
On top of the head is a pair of slender horns, not as wild as those of a devil.
This is his prototype. He does not look like a demon, but rather like the devil image in some works.
The moment he appeared, he looked at Alka with a dangerous light flashing in his eyes, but he did not attack Alka directly.
Obviously, his strength is not necessarily much stronger than Grayfar.
Alka now clearly saw his strength.
This demon's strength was at the eighth stage, which in his opinion was about the same as Grayfar's.
"The Devouring Mouth? Do you think this is your stage? Are you going to perform your clown drama for me here?"
It was clearly a sarcastic remark, but coming from the more serious Greyfort's mouth, it sounded like a serious matter.
It was as if asking, as if the Devouring Mouth would really do this.
This made the taunt even more bizarre and more hurtful than the sarcastic accent.
Hearing this taunt, Alka clearly saw that the Devouring Mouth's expression had changed. His expression control was about to fail.
The Devouring Mouth once again looked at Alka, its eyes filled with anger and desire to kill.
"I'm not here to talk to a stray dog like you. Just stay in this doghouse." After a sarcastic remark, the Devouring Mouth floated in the air and looked at Alka.
"And you, Alka. You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time. I have been thinking about your arrival all the time.
Just live here in fear, I will slowly drive you into a corner and tear out your soul."
Having said that, the Devouring Mouth didn't even bother to listen to Alka's answer, and his figure disappeared from the spot.
Instead, Sararo next to him gave Alka a thumbs up.
He also knew the origins of Alka and the Devouring Mouth.
"I also saw that performance in my dream. In the years since then, the Devouring Mouth has never held its head high and disgusted others with its weird accent in this place."
Obviously everyone would laugh at him for this.
Such ridicule would only deepen the Devouring Mouth's hatred for Alka.
He had no choice but to admit this fact, because the nightmare put that fact in everyone's mind, making everyone feel as if they were there.
Such dreams are widespread.
But Alka didn't care. He couldn't let the demonic forces continue. After all, they were hostile forces. It was either you or me.
With the disappearance of the Devouring Mouth, the number of demons began to decrease. Some demons seemed to have discovered the problem and simply slipped out of the battlefield.
The huge demons that were on the march and had not yet arrived at the battlefield also began to return.
Not all demons are interested only in fighting and killing.
Soon the remaining demons were cleared out.
Obviously, this attack was not a real siege on the city, but a simple attack to allow the Devouring Mouth to appear and give Alka a warning.
Announce it in front of many people, so that Alka's death can wash away the shame on him.
At some point, Grayfar came to his side.
"Would you like to stay here? If you stay here, I can ensure that you will not be harmed by that cunning demon."
Hearing this, Alka shook his head and said, “No, I came here naturally because I was already prepared.
I just need to know that he can't do whatever he wants here. Of course, if there is more information about him, I would also be very happy to know it. "
Hearing this, Grayfar nodded with his usually serious expression.
"Of course he can't do whatever he wants here. I'll let Saralo tell you more."
After saying that, he turned and looked at Sararo, his meaning was self-evident.
Sararo, who was standing beside him, immediately straightened his posture and bowed: "Please leave it to me, High Judge."
Greyfar nodded and turned away.
"Come on, friend, let's go inside and talk." Salo said, pointing to a tower nearby.
They were right at the entrance to the tower.
Alka nodded and followed him inside.
