Dragging a dazzling trail, a Pyrocrystal Cannonball streaked through the air in a parabola and landed on the translucent city-class barrier. The chaotic energies unleashed when the cannonball was activated triggered a series of explosions on the surface of the barrier, and as the magical energies interfered and resonated, the sturdy city-class barrier quickly showed signs of crystalline hexagons, before being stained with gray-white specks of noise.
When the noise reached a critical level, Eagle City's energy shield finally shattered into fragments of light that filled the sky. This militarized city that stood in the central region of the Empire and served as one of the satellite cities of the Imperial Capital had finally opened its doors.
"Bolos Pyrocrystal Cannonball fired, entering cooldown!"
"The enemy's barrier has disintegrated, the city gates have collapsed!"
"Beware of the rapid-fire cannons and Chain Lightning Crystals on the city walls! Magic-breaker Squadron, disrupt their city defenses — Knights of the Broken Blade, follow the squad and attack! "
"Flanks have arrived at firing position … Flanks, bombard the enemy walls!"
The battlefield was filled with smoke. The bombardment of the Pyrocrystal Cannons and the release of strategic spells had filled the land with violent and dangerous magical energies. The uncontrollable magical energies gathered again as the battle continued, forming wandering magical creatures of various sizes, which then rapidly withered due to the talismans on the warriors, becoming part of the flames of war once more.
On this scorching hot battlefield, corpses of the dead could be seen everywhere. The twisted and festering flesh constantly emitted a pungent burnt smell under the roasting flames. Most of the corpses were those ferocious mutated monsters.
"Heyah!!" With a thunderous roar, a guardian giant threw his arms forward, and a bolt of lightning shot out from his hands. It was far more powerful than the 'lightning bolt' that human mages could cast. It was a bolt of real lightning, one that was even more powerful than natural lightning. It streaked across the battlefield and blasted a section of the city wall away, and hundreds of anti-magic rune bricks on the wall merely flashed once before shattering along with the wall.
More guardian giants strode towards the city, and behind them were the Knights of the Broken Blade and the Army of the North.
More black monsters poured out from the cracks on the city walls, the shattered city gates, and the cracks on the ground.
Some of the monsters were still wearing human armor, but some had swelled up and swallowed the armor into their own bodies. Some of them had been vaporized by the Pyrocrystal Cannons and the giants' magic attacks, but some of them had survived the attacks thanks to their strong vitality. They roared and made all sorts of blasphemous noises, but they quickly formed an orderly formation and charged at the guardian giants and the Allied Army of the North.
"For Mother!" When the commander of the guardian giants saw the blasphemous monsters, he immediately became furious and shouted, "For all living beings!!"
Although the Mad Lord was powerful, in the face of the overwhelming power of the guardian giants, the festered, who had been weakened countless times, finally retreated. On the battlefield, their numbers began to plummet.
Constance swung her longsword, and the blade flashed with bright lightning. She sliced a monster that was probably a high-ranking Ebon Blade into pieces, and let the black dust and debris of the monster splatter on her armor.
She had changed back to her original body, and looked exactly like "Ginny", but with a head of long black hair.
And behind her were a dozen or so female knights, and they all wore female armor, and looked exactly like her, except they all had silver hair, just like Ginny.
They were clones of Constance, and at the same time, they were carriers of her consciousness. They fought alongside Constance, and could be said to be an extension of the Dragon Soul Princess.
Hearing the guardian giants' roar, Constance could not help but turn back to look at Rheia, who was strolling casually on the battlefield. "Whenever they get excited, they would shout something like 'For Mother' … Is this the religion of the Basilica of the World Tree? You worship a goddess with maternal instincts? "
Rheia was stunned when she heard that, and an undetectable hint of awkwardness appeared on her face. She then shook her head. "Not worship, it's a true mother … Their tradition is to respect their mother …"
"Is that so? Then their mothers must be as powerful as they are," Constance looked back at the guardian giants who were taking down the Eagle City's defensive cannons, and sighed. "It's all thanks to them."
Rheia's expression was a little dazed, and she clenched her fist. "Yeah, their mothers will definitely grow up …"
Constance did not catch what she said. "What did you say?"
"Err, no, nothing." Rheia quickly shook her head and changed the topic. "The city is about to fall."
"Yeah, but who knows how many survived …" Constance sighed softly. "Along the way, almost everything was corrupted …"
The last resistance force of the Eagle City had finally been wiped out.
The flesh behemoth that looked like it was pieced together with countless limbs, tentacles on its back, and faceless head was beaten to death by the guardian giants, and as Rheia watched, it quickly turned into black smoke, and with the death of the last monster, the city closest to the imperial capital had officially fallen into the hands of the Army of the North.
Constance, Rheia, and Duke Owen walked together on the streets after the battle.
It could not even be called a street anymore … It was just a pile of collapsed buildings that were laid out along the original road.
The corruption spread and spread rapidly across the entire central region in a single night, and the Mad Lord's unique ability to spread through dreams, rely on fear and other negative emotions to grow stronger, and once it appeared, it would corrode everything, and it was a disaster for densely populated areas.
The Knights of the Ebon Blade were scattered all over the empire, and it was especially so in the central region. Almost every city had their garrison, and when the War of the Turn of the Eras began, Berentine and the Knights of the Ebon Blade were chosen as the "Carriers of Annihilation", and these knights became an endless source of infection.
They and their squires had corrupted the entire land in a short period of time, and the normal imperial soldiers were the first to be infected, followed by the civilians in the cities, and then the cities themselves.
The Army of the North advanced rapidly, and with the support of the guardian giants, they attacked with an unstoppable momentum. They had already saved a large number of civilians and imperial soldiers who had not been infected, but compared to the destruction caused by the power of the Mad Lord, those that could be saved were just a small portion.
And the closer they were to the imperial capital, the more complete the corruption, and the fewer those that could be saved.
Constance looked at the crumbling walls by the side of the road, and the twisted, festering flesh was burning in the ruins, slowly turning into black smoke. The bricks that had deteriorated due to the corruption of the evil power were also slowly disintegrating, and from this day onwards, this ancient and glorious city would become a part of history.
Some of the corpses of the civilians were dragged out from the nearby cellars by the soldiers of the north. Their deaths were gruesome, and while they still had the appearance of humans, their limbs had clearly mutated.
A silver-haired clone female knight was commanding the soldiers who were moving the corpses, "Burn them, while they can still die as humans."
Constance sighed, and turned her gaze to the other side of the street, but at that moment, a soldier of the north suddenly ran over. "There are survivors! There are survivors ahead! "
Constance quickly rushed to the place where the survivors were found.
They were hiding in a secluded church. The church belonged to a local church, and such churches were not uncommon in the empire. While the emperor himself did not believe in religion, but the commoners had a need for faith, and so churches were everywhere in the big cities. The church was almost completely collapsed, and the surface was used as a lair by the rampaging monsters before it was flattened in the battle. But underneath the church was a large and sturdy cellar, and a small group of survivors hid there, surviving those hellish days.
There were men and women, young and old, and what they had in common was hunger, fear, and weakness. Not seeing the light of day for a long time had given them a rancid stench.
Constance saw that one of the survivors was wearing a soldier's uniform, and that was the uniform of an ordinary soldier of the imperial army.
"Give them food and water, and send a medic." Constance looked at the cowering and trembling survivors as she tilted her head to one of the clones beside her. She purposely raised her voice to calm the survivors down, "And send someone to watch them eat, to prevent them from eating themselves to death."
After that, she let out a small sigh and whispered to Duke Owen beside her, "An unexpected miracle."
"Yeah, I didn't expect to see anyone alive. I thought that in a place so close to the imperial capital, everything in the city would have been corrupted."
After a proper amount of food and water, the haggard survivors finally looked a little more energetic.
Constance came before the imperial soldier and bent down. "You are a soldier, you should know more than others."
"I was the one who organized everyone to escape into the cellar." The imperial soldier recognized Constance's identity and was a little fearful. But as he was about to get up and bow, Constance pressed him back down. "I … Thank you, Your Highness. I already know that you are on the side of justice. Those … those Ebon Blades and my officers have all turned into monsters. Are you here to save us?"
"Not just to save you." Constance shook her head. "How did you survive? The entire city has been engulfed by the aura of Annihilation. Even if the monsters did not discover you, did their aura not spread into the cellar? "
The soldier opened his mouth, but before he could speak, an old granny beside him spoke first. "It is the blessings of the gods, Your Highness. It must be the God of Day, Lamar, and the God of Night, Sue, protecting us. This church is the key to God's salvation … "
The God of Day and the God of Night were obviously the gods that the church originally worshipped, and the old granny who spoke was most likely a believer here. But after Constance heard those words, she gave the old granny a cold stare. "God will not save you. God will not do anything. Only humans will save the world."
Rheia thought for a moment and decided to lower her head and continue picking at her fingers, pretending she did not hear anything.
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