It had already been three days since that sudden and fierce battle.
The towering walls of Fort Raven stood quietly in the night sky. The fortress built of black granite had gone through an unimaginably fierce battle. Even the fortress general could not believe that the fortress could still stand after the storm. The storm of Chaos and the monsters that came with the storm had almost completely destroyed all the vanguard towers and the runestones of Order outside the fortress. The original layers of defense outside Fort Raven were gone. The outer defense line, which used to be full of sentry towers and high walls, was now a piece of gray-black gravel. Even the walls of the fortress itself were in a state of devastation. Huge cracks and even holes could be seen everywhere. Looking from afar, the fortress was in ruins.
Perhaps there was no need to wait for the next storm. Just a group of wandering monsters of Chaos would be enough to bring the dark fortress down in an instant.
Philip tightened his coat and looked back at the towering upper fortress of Fort Raven. In the foggy night sky, the ancient fortress was like a volcano spiraling up and gradually shrinking. Layers of granite walls and towers of all sizes formed the cliff of the mountain. The swaying flames between the walls and towers were like lava flowing along the mountain. At the highest level of the fortress, the light of the Spire of Flames was like a white tower that pierced through the heavens and the earth, and a layer of faintly discernible barrier poured down from the top of the "white tower", enveloping the entire fortress.
Although it still looked dazzling, the Light of Order of the Spire of Flames was not as bright as before.
The Spire of Flames was damaged in the previous storm of Chaos. The overly strong conflict of laws had caused the energy core of the tower to overload. Although the mages had urgently repaired the most important equipment, they still could not fully restore the tower to its best state. For a fortress that faced the enemy head-on at the border of Chaos, the weakening of the Light of Order meant that everything was heading for the worst: the defense of Fort Raven was almost halved.
However, these things were very distant to Philip. As an ordinary squad leader, his status was only slightly higher than the few soldiers under him, and he knew a little more. But he was still a vulgar soldier who came from the countryside of the kingdom and had not seen much of the world. He knew nothing about the mysterious domain of magic. He only knew that the battle three days ago was the most tragic battle he had ever experienced. Many people who were stronger than him had died on the battlefield outside the city, and the soldiers who were guarding the city walls had also been carried to the back in batches. If he had not been lucky enough, he was afraid that he would have become a corpse in those cold tombs. If it were not for the years of military life that had made the veteran a little numb to life and death, it would have been difficult for him to muster the courage to come to this section of the wall again.
Philip once again tightened his cotton-padded coat. It seemed that the coat could no longer help him resist the cold wind at night. It was hard to imagine that just a few days ago, it was still hot in the middle of summer, and standing guard on the wall would make people sweat. But now, the inside and outside of the fortress were freezing. It was already winter.
This was the power of Chaos. The storm had changed the climate in this area almost immediately. It only took two or three hours to change from midsummer to winter. After that, the garrison of Fort Raven had experienced the baptism of thunderstorms, hail, and snowstorms. If it were just two or three years after the war of Chaos began, such crazy weather changes would have killed some unlucky people.
"Boss, it's almost dawn, right? Why don't we call it a day? "
The voice of one of his subordinates jolted Philip's frozen brain back to life. He turned his head and saw one of his subordinates looking up at the horizon, where a faint ray of light could be seen.
"Don't get distracted. There's still a while," Philip scolded. "Don't even think about slacking off. If the monsters come at this time, you won't be able to explain it to your ancestors."
The soldier bowed his head as he was reprimanded. But Philip also knew that he could not be too harsh on him. The weather was unbearable, and a night of patrolling had exhausted him.
But he knew that the monsters would attack the fortress day and night, and those bastards from the Chaos would not give him a chance to slack off. So the veteran soldier still paid attention to the movement outside the wall.
The cold wind swirled across the plains in front of Fort Raven, rolling up a few broken flags and some dust. Philip recognized one of the flags belonged to the second battalion of the Black Blade Legion. He knew that the battalion had been wiped out in the battle three days ago. In order to buy a chance for the other battalions to retreat, more than 2,000 warriors stood in front of the tide of monsters. Philip watched them being swallowed up by the monsters, and human limbs were melted by the darkness like butter falling into a hot soup.
The retreat had saved most of the main force of the Black Blade Legion, so that the combat effectiveness of the fortress would not suffer too much at once. But it had also caused the monsters of Chaos to crash into the Barrier of Order of Fort Raven in advance, laying a hidden danger for the Spire of Flames to overload.
"Boss, I heard from the mages that there was a storm of Chaos a few days ago. I heard that the storm blew in from the edge of the continent, from the bottom of the Sea of Carnos, and then into our world. The forest in the south seems to have been completely destroyed, and it has become a land of Chaos."
"How can I not know?" Philip glanced at his man and said in a lukewarm tone. He did not like the topic. Until now, the scene of three days ago still made him shudder. Darkness and storm came from the southern sky, as if an endless black wave, thousands of meters high, was crashing down on them. In the blink of an eye, the sky was dark, the wind was howling, and the alarm sounded throughout the fortress. Countless ferocious monsters emerged from the air and pounced on the wall. The battle lasted for a whole day and night.
The mages called it the 'arrow of the storm,' meaning that there would be more Chaos attacks. Perhaps not as violent as the first day, but it would definitely take more lives.
Philip did not want to talk much, but his veterans were restless. They soon chatted about other topics.
"Hey, have you heard that a group of beasts suddenly appeared in the southern forest a while ago? A very large group."
"Yeah, I heard about it too. Why?"
"It is said that the group of beasts is not ordinary. There are all kinds of races in it, and they are coming towards us."
"All kinds of races? Then won't they beat their brains out? "
"It is strange. The group of beasts seems to be organized. It is said that there is a particularly powerful beast called the alpha that unified them."
"Hey, it sounds powerful. Is it a wolf as tall as a hill?"
"I heard that it's a 3,500-year-old Demonic Forest Wolf. It has three heads and a single tooth is half a meter long. It can collapse a house with a single swipe of its claws …"
"Hey, what's the use of talking about this? Look to the south. The Chaos is coming. No matter how powerful the alpha is, it is still a beast. It does not have a sacred relic of Order. By this time, most of the beasts have been wiped out by the Chaos."
Philip did not stop his men from chatting at this moment because he had seen the sun on the horizon. A night of duty was coming to an end. At this time, it was understandable for the soldiers to relax a little, as long as no one left their post.
He did not know that the "leader of the beasts", who was "three thousand and five hundred years old", "had three heads", and "a tooth half a meter long" in the soldiers' mouths, was leading an army of beasts to the border of civilization in high spirits. He also did not know that in the next moment, a new round of attacks from the storm of Chaos would begin.
The sentinel who first noticed the anomaly looked up in the direction of the Black Forest. When the sentinel saw a huge shadow, he first rubbed his eyes, and then realized that the shadow was not an illusion caused by a sleepless night. It was really there, like a thick cloud of smoke from the forest. The smoke column swirled out of the forest and approached Fort Raven at an unnatural speed. On the smoke column, there were many shadowy monsters forming rapidly.
The sentinel opened his mouth, and it took him two seconds to react. "The Chaos is attacking!"
A deafening alarm rang throughout the fortress. Every bell tower in Fort Raven began to ring wildly, and the protective runes on the surface of the walls and sentry towers lit up one by one. The shouts of the knights and the orders of the commanders came from every corner, followed by heavy footsteps and the clashing of armor. The heavy iron gate on the upper level of the fortress was also lowered, and the Griffin Riders, who were still in good shape, flew out of the iron gate one by one, circling the dark fortress vigilantly. Then, the wizard tower also began to operate, and arcs of light shot from the wizard tower to the battlements. The magic crystal cannons were supplied with energy, and the focusing crystal began to bloom bright white light on the walls.
Outside Fort Raven, black smoke was gathering more and more.
The black smoke was the manifestation of the power of Chaos in the south of the kingdom.
When the first bird-shaped creature materialized out of the black smoke and flew at the wall with a shriek, Philip spat and cursed under his breath every vulgar word he could think of. Then he drew his weapon and met it.
(Speaking of which, my wife has opened a Taobao shop. It's kind of a husband-and-wife shop for us. It sells some peripherals, dolls, gifts, and the like. If Xi Ling and Anomaly have peripherals in the future, they'll probably sell them there as well. Everyone, just search for the seller "Moonlight Ice Sky". =)
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