The alliance army silently prepared for the siege battle, and at the same time, the demons were preparing for the defensive battle.
There was no need to say any harsh words. In fact, separated by the high city wall, both sides could not shout because they could not hear each other at all. Everyone knew what the other party's goal was, so they just had to fight.
After hundreds of thousands of siege troops spread out in formation, if one looked down from the city wall, they would see that there was no end to them. The army occupied all the open land near Ur-Hekal outside the long-range attack range of the demons and surrounded the entire city. Hundreds of catapults and siege ballistae were set up and began to load boulder ammunition nervously.
All the preparations took a few hours. During this period, the alliance army was also guarding against the demons coming out of the city to attack, but the demons did not leave the city and chose to continue hiding, which made the alliance army heave a sigh of relief.
Finally, after everything was ready, the leading heroes looked at each other, nodded, raised their hands, and roared, "Attack!!!"
The soldiers who had been guarding the catapult swung their swords and cut the ropes. The taut arms of the catapult immediately snapped back. With the help of the powerful kinetic energy, the catapult shot the boulders out in a parabola!
In an instant, the sky above Ur-Hekal darkened. Countless boulders swayed and danced in the air, blocking all the light in the sky. This scene of blotting out the sky only lasted for a few seconds before countless boulders smashed into … the barrier of Ur-Hekal!
Yes, as the capital of the demons in Eeofol, in addition to the high city walls, Ur-Hekal also had a powerful defensive barrier. These barriers were usually not activated, and they would only be activated during large-scale wars.
When the boulder collided with the barrier, it immediately revealed itself. The colorless and transparent force field barrier emitted a brilliance like a wave of water. It blocked the flying boulder and shattered it. Then, it fell outside the city wall.
Xeron was standing on the city wall at this moment. After witnessing the power of the barrier, he finally felt relieved.
In Eeofol, many trees and forests had been burned due to the eruption of the volcano, causing the alliance army to be unable to obtain materials nearby to build more catapults. The alliance army had spent a lot of effort to bring these hundreds of catapults, but this number of catapults could not bring much pressure to Ur-Hekal's barrier.
As long as there was enough magic power supply, the barrier would not have a problem lasting for two to three days.
After realizing this, Xeron did not have the mood to waste time with the alliance army here. He pulled a high-rank demon hero over and said, "I'll leave this place to you. You'll command the battle and try to adopt a defensive strategy as much as possible. This alliance army doesn't have supplies, and it won't be long before they can't hold on and retreat."
The high-rank demon nodded. He understood what Xeron meant.
After giving his instructions, Xeron left the city wall and returned to his demon hall. He had more important things to do because Isabel was about to give birth, and there were only two or three days left!
For all the demons of Ur-Hekal, their top priority now was to complete Sovereign Kha-Beleth's plan. Everything had to be done safely.
After Xeron left, the high-rank demon hero who commanded the battle grinned sinisterly and began to command the demons in the city to counterattack.
In order to deal with the siege, the demons had also set up catapults everywhere in the city because only the attack range of the catapults could reach the alliance army outside the city. However, the catapults of the demons threw out enormous rolling and burning fireballs! They were Volcanic Stones taken out from the inside of the volcano!
These fireballs carried thick smoke as they drew clear trajectories in the sky, passed through the barrier, and smashed toward the alliance army.
The alliance army outside the city did not have the protection of the barrier. When the fireballs smashed down and exploded, countless screams filled the entire battlefield. The troops standing in the front row closer to Ur-Hekal immediately welcomed a disaster.
"The front row, retreat slowly! Leave the attack range! " The heroes of the alliance army gritted their teeth and ordered, "Continue attacking with the catapults. Don't stop without orders! Start attacking with the ballistae! "
Everyone knew that this battle was unfair from the beginning. The alliance army had to break the protection of the barrier before they could attack the demons in the city. Therefore, there was only one thought in the minds of the alliance army heroes now. They had to break the barrier first at all costs!
The protagonists of this war had now become all kinds of siege weapons. Both sides exchanged blows, and countless boulders and fireballs flew back and forth in the sky. On the ground, the alliance army was constantly suffering losses.
The souls of the dead turned into rays of white light and flew toward Ur-Hekal. Gem and the others understood that it was a device set up by the demons to collect souls in the city. Not only did the alliance soldiers die in battle, but even their souls could not escape the claws of the demons. This was truly a blow to morale, but Gem and the others could not care so much.
The demons clearly outnumbered the alliance army, but they did not leave the city to fight and even used the barrier to defend the city. No matter how they looked at it, there was something wrong with all of this. Gem and the others were now more and more convinced of Raelag's words: The demons must be guarding something in the city!
Not long after the battle began, the alliance army was basically being suppressed. But after a period of time, the alliance army gradually figured out the number of catapults in Ur-Hekal and the direction of their attacks, so they sent out the mage troops to the blind spots of the catapults and began to use magic to assist in attacking the barrier of Ur-Hekal.
The mages of Bracada were actually a very terrifying unit. When someone protected them, these mages could completely become powerful cannons.
Under Zehir's command, the mages showed their might. Huge fireballs whistled toward Ur-Hekal and collided with the barrier, producing loud explosions. Some huge sharp icicles fell from the sky from time to time and pierced the barrier and shattered. The sky above the city was covered in dark clouds. They were the thunderclouds summoned by the storm titans. After the thunderclouds gathered to a certain extent, countless lightning snakes rushed down crazily.
With so many magic bombardments, the barrier of Ur-Hekal immediately became strained. Under the continuous bombardment, the transparent ripples could be seen constantly compressing. In the city, a large number of succubi, who were maintaining the barrier core and injecting magic power into it, were gradually drained of magic power and had no choice but to start an emergency rotation.
The demon heroes under Xeron immediately became anxious when they saw this. They immediately walked to the top of the city wall, raised their scythes, and began casting.
Countless huge fire meteors suddenly appeared in the sky. These fire meteors whistled and smashed into the ground like missiles, landing on the mages of Bracada. The power of the Meteor Shower released by several demon heroes was astonishing. Even though Zehir and the others desperately tried to save the mages, a large number of mages died under the magic attacks.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of flames and a thick smell of blood. Be it the alliance army or the demons, they had entered a white-hot state. They stared at each other ferociously. Even though they could not see each other clearly, they still wanted to convey their killing intent.
The war was tragic, but the alliance army still gritted their teeth and persevered.
The siege lasted for several hours. It was not until the sky turned dark that the alliance army slowly retreated and began to station their troops.
Today, they could not break through the barrier of Ur-Hekal …
At night, when Gem and the other heroes gathered together to discuss the military situation, everyone seemed very hesitant.
They did not know how long it would be before the birth of the Dark Messiah, but one more day of delay meant that the success rate of the demon's conspiracy increased. If they really could not break through after a long time, it would be too late when Kha-Beleth completed his plan.
"Use the treasures!" Zehir finally suggested. "This time, I brought the Aura Spirit Ball and Sarethus' Staff. After the siege begins tomorrow, I'll use the power of the treasures to find a way to destroy the barrier."
Gem nodded. "I also brought the treasures collected by the elves, the Archer Dream Set and the Dragon King Mystic Power Set. After the barrier breaks tomorrow, the dragon army can move out!"
With that said, Gem and Zehir both looked at Gorshak.
Gorshak was a little depressed because the orcs were too poor, and he did not have any decent treasures on him, so he could only say, "There are dozens of behemoths in my army. When we attack the city tomorrow, I'll let them hold the front …"
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