Along with Iron Head, there were also hundreds and thousands of rat people warriors.
After more than two months of death trials, the elites who had been filtered out of the tens of millions of rat people rebels naturally had their own ways of survival.
Some of the rat people warriors were as fast as lightning. With a few leaps, they covered a distance of hundreds of arms. Then, they made use of high frequency and high speed changes in a small area to dodge dozens of arrows.
Some of the rat people warriors were as strong as Iron Head. They held huge wooden shields embedded with several layers of bones and shells. The shields were thicker than the width of their palms, and they were densely packed with arrows. However, they could still carry them and hold them in front of them while they ran as if they were flying.
Some of the rat people warriors had extremely long hands and legs. They waved catapults made from the tendons of wild beasts and threw the sharp projectiles accurately into the crenellations on the city walls.
During the prosperous era, there were two main ways for the rat people to pluck the mandala fruits.
One was to be like Leaf, who relied on her nimble limbs to directly climb up the mandala tree and harvest the fruits.
Some rat people liked to use catapults to accurately shoot down the mandala fruits on the branches full of mandala fruits.
The latter often mastered the catapult technique that allowed them to shoot down the mandala fruits.
The shooting range of the catapult could not be compared to the shooting range of the crossbows.
However, after passing through five trenches, the distance between the rat people warriors and Hundred Blade City was less than a hundred arms.
The sharp-eyed rat people warriors could even see the panicked expressions of the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards in the crenellations on the city walls.
They aimed at the eyes of the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards and threw stones like rain.
Regardless of whether they hit their targets or not, they could effectively suppress the shooting from the city walls.
The rat people warriors who charged at full speed took the opportunity to rush to the bottom of Hundred Blade City and the blind spots of the archers on the city walls.
They also used the mandala tree trunks that had been cut and roughly trimmed in the past few days to knock over the hundreds of barricades set up under the city walls.
Then, the rat people warriors worked together to erect the mandala tree trunks high on the city walls to serve as simple scaling ladders.
Of course, such a ladder was not stable at all.
However, as high-level orcs who had been tempered by blood and steel, the rat people warriors who could rush here were not ordinary soldiers on the battlefield of ancient Earth.
Swish swish swish swish!
Their bodies were as agile as monkeys. They were able to climb up the 'ladder' that was almost parallel to the city wall and perpendicular to the ground as if they were walking on flat ground.
There was even someone who let out a roar and his legs suddenly swelled up. He jumped high into the air and was able to jump onto half of the tree trunk.
There were also some Rat Folks from the territory of the Dark Moon Clan who had reptile talents. There were extremely tiny scales on their palms and feet. They could make the scales stand up by the contraction of their muscle fibers. Like tiny hooks, they firmly hooked onto the seemingly smooth wall.
In this way, there was no need for scaling ladders at all. They could directly climb up the wall like a giant gecko.
In just a short while, the southern city wall of Hundred Blade City was densely packed with Rat Folk Warriors showing off their abilities.
There were also ten times the number of rat people warriors, shouting "Rat God bless us". They followed behind them like a burning tide.
Of course, the defenders on the city walls wouldn't just sit and wait for death.
The city walls of Hundred Blade City had been embedded with a lot of sharp blades made of metalized Devil's Snare branches in the first place.
Many of the sharp blades contained not only rare metal elements but also tiny amounts of crystals. The priests of the Gold Clan had also carved ancient runes on them and implanted offensive rune arrays with blessings.
When they sensed that the vitality magnetic field of a carbon-based creature was approaching, the offensive rune arrays would be automatically activated and release destructive powers such as frost, fire, lightning, and high-frequency vibrations.
This unique defense system was also the origin of the name "Hundred Blade City".
When a large batch of rat people climbed up the scaling ladders and tried to charge up the city walls …
The sharp blades that looked like thorns all over the city walls immediately emanated dangerous brilliance.
Some of the sharp blades were ablaze with furious flames.
Some of the sharp blades were spurting out icy mist that could freeze people instantly.
Some of the sharp blades were releasing dazzling electric arcs that crawled into the gaps between the shields and armors of the rat people like translucent vipers. The rats were electrocuted so badly that their flesh was burnt and their bones cracked. They screamed and fell down the scaling ladders.
Some of the sharp blades spun quickly like the blades of a meat grinder and shredded half of the scaling ladders as well as the seven or eight rat people who were clinging to them into pieces.
These sharp blades effectively slowed down the rat people's climb.
However, this was not the Hundred Blade City from three thousand years ago. It was not the Hundred Blade City that had an impregnable defense system that could rival Pure Gold City.
Due to the lack of numbers, there was a huge gap between the sharp blades. As long as one observed carefully, it was possible to find a route around the dangerous areas.
And because the Curse of Light had sealed the totem power deep underground, the Devil's Snare branches that had regrown had a lot of rare metal elements and tiny amounts of crystals, and they could not compare to what they had three thousand years ago.
Even the sharp blades made from Devil's Snare branches could not withstand the full power of a few destructive attacks.
As a result, after a few rounds of fire, frost, and lightning eruptions, when a large number of rat men were swept off the ladder, these sharp blades also lost their chilling luster, as well as their sturdiness that could cut through iron like mud. They either drooped down like molten steel, or metamorphosed into real branches, and were soon burned into black charcoal strips.
"Rat God, protect us!"
"The Horned Rat God cast a curse on us and helped us destroy the defense on the city walls!"
The rat people did not understand the principle behind it.
But it did not stop them from using the craziest thought process to come up with the most perfect explanation.
Once they left behind hundreds of torn corpses, they charged forward with an imposing momentum.
This time, Iron Head, who swung two axes, was among the rat people who charged at the front.
There was also Meng Chao and Hailstorm, who followed behind him quietly to protect him.
In truth, Iron Head was pretty much the first rat people to reach Hundred Blade City.
But since he came from Blood Hoof Tribe's territory and had the blood of an elephant and a bull, his body was huge, and he was not good at climbing.
He tried a few times, but he always slid down the simple scaling ladders.
Of course, Meng Chao and Hailstorm had also done something in the dark.
The vanguard was not easy to fight.
Before the blades on the city walls reached the limit of fatigue and lost their effectiveness, the first batch of rat people who tried to climb the city walls had a high chance of dying.
Even Meng Chao and Hailstorm were not confident that they could ensure Iron Head's safety when there were more than ten thousand blades on him.
Besides, it was too ridiculous for him to be the first to climb the city walls. It would definitely attract the suspicion of the experienced officers and priests.
Now, the city wall had already been trampled by the wave of rat people, and several bloody paths had been created.
With Iron Head's thick skin and a bit of "luck", it was only logical for him to be the first to climb the city walls.
"With Rat God's help, I will be invulnerable!"
The simple-minded, boorish man still did not understand that at every critical moment just now, when the sharp blades stabbed into the city wall spurted flames, frost, and electric arcs at him, he would feel numb and his muscles cramping for no reason. Then, he would fall from the ladders again and again. Although he would fall on his back in a mess, he still narrowly dodged several fatal attacks. What was going on exactly?
He had a screw loose in his head, and he did not want to understand it at all.
In any case, he did not need to ask. If he did, he would get the Great Horned Rat God's blessings, and everything would be over.
He felt that he was really lucky this time.
He did not know who had knocked against the simple scaling ladder he was climbing, but now, he was leaning against another scaling ladder in a crooked manner.
The originally shining blades around the two scaling ladders had become dull and drooped down, as if they had lost their effectiveness.
He had somehow created a green channel that led straight to the top of the city wall!
When he climbed thirty arms high and was only half a step away from the battlements on the city wall, the heads of quite a few jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards craned out of the battlements, holding giant metal claws with long poles in their hands, trying to grab his ladder and throw him to the ground together with the ladder.
However, a few stones flew from behind him and accurately hit the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards' eyes, glabella, nostrils, and Adam's apple. The defenders were immediately knocked to the ground. Some of them even passed out on the spot and fell from the battlements into the wriggling tide of rat people.
In front of Iron Head, a gate was immediately opened.
The boorish man, who thought that he was invulnerable because he had been blessed by the Horned Rat God, roared and jumped onto the city wall of Hundred Blade City.
"He's charging up!"
"Someone is charging up the city wall!"
In a siege battle in the era of cold weapons, whether or not the attackers could climb onto the city wall and start a melee with the defenders was of symbolic significance.
Before the attackers climbed onto the city wall, the ratio of casualties between the two sides could reach ten to one.
The defenders could wait on the city wall and slowly use arrows, boiling oil, and falling stones to whittle down the numbers and morale of the attackers.
However, once the two sides started a huge battle on the city wall.
The ratio of casualties would change from ten to one to one at an alarming rate.
If they could not immediately and resolutely chase down the attackers who had climbed onto the city wall and block the gap, the defenders would be completely whittled down.
It was only a matter of time before the defenders were whittled down by the attackers, who had more than ten times the number of defenders.
For a moment, all the rat people warriors seemed to have heard the call of the Horned Rat God again.
Their blood, which was already close to boiling, began to burn even more fiercely, injecting surging momentum into their muscle fibers.
This caused their climbing speed to increase. They leaped onto the city wall in one go and approached Iron Head without a care for their own safety, forming an indestructible arrow.
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