Soul Trigger

Chapter 318 Siege
"Team Leader, we can already see the Demon King's Castle... It's just as the intelligence said, it's really weird..."

"Don't call me team leader! Call me commander-in-chief!"

The man riding on the back of the giant dark blue wolf shouted at his subordinate, took the telescope from the other's hand, and looked at the huge black city in the distance.

It is said to be far away, but from a war perspective, it is almost the distance for starting a war and siege a city.

"What a weird building... According to the intelligence, his troops should be the 'Undead' under the rules of the Lingbo Prison, but the building has this appearance..."

The towering black city is filled with evenly arranged complex elements, like some giant ruins built by aliens with black metal.

Although the style is that of a large castle ring, the densely packed metal traces that resemble spines make this thing look like an alien product.

"It looks very solid, and the reconnaissance report shows that there is no entrance. However, it should not be able to withstand the long-range bombardment of the Carbon Orcs. After all, the appearance is just the appearance, and it is just a product under the rules of the Spirit Prison..."

"Don't underestimate the enemy. Shut up first."

The "Grand Commander" scolded his adjutant again and glanced at him coldly while riding on the wolf's back.

On his head was a line of big characters that read [Leader of the Outlaws·Wild Bones: Lv.43]. He was the leader of the Outlaws’ army that was sent to attack the Demon King’s Castle.

As he waved his hand lightly, the entire army dispersed:
"Isn't the battle report on the power splitting channel clear enough?"

Long-range projection of soldier cabins, automatically extended and assembled buildings, walls that were so hard that even a level 40 enemy couldn't penetrate them, and atomized soldiers that could absorb spiritual essence and increase the penalty for death...

And those flying units they shot down, although they quickly turned into mist and disappeared after being blown up by the orc archers at a long distance, and he couldn't see clearly what they were, it always gave him an inexplicable sense of uneasiness.

Under the carbon iron helmet, his expression became more solemn:

"...With so many high-risk features, even if his highest level is less than 20, I should have gone all out. Unfortunately, even if I stood here for a while, I could only gather less than 600 soldiers from my resource area... It's still too few."

The adjutant looked a little worried: "Even the troops from the resource area have to be summoned here, this is really..."

"It doesn't matter what the resource area is like. If we have the Demon King under control, why would we need a resource area?"

The commander sneered:
"Let those idiots who are fighting to death at the end of the world fight for the so-called treasure and the main storyline. Even if they get the rewards of the rules of the Lingliu Prison, they will eventually have to return to the Black Goat."

"Based on the Black Goat's growth speed, by the time we get the stuff, I'm afraid this Lingbo Prison will be destroyed.

By then, it will be difficult for people like us to go to the Black Prison and eat prison food. We will be left in this world forever to wait for death and become a piece of shit pulled out by Huanguang.

So as long as we control the black goat, we control the ticket to leave this world. When and how to kill it, and who can join us in the killing, we have the final say."

The rules for leaving are based on power.

Whichever force kills the devil will be able to leave this world early.

This is the news that all awakened people who enter this spiritual hell will understand after they become "adventurers".

Now the "devil" has finally appeared, but it's a pity that he's actually the madman Black Goat...

Although it was just a rumor on the public channel, he was almost certain that the other party was the Black Goat.

In terms of strength, background, soul intensity, and relevance to the "Third Prince"... the only one who can get such an identity that is hostile to the world here is the Black Goat.

This guy is a super tough one, a very tough one, but the rules in this spiritual prison are different from the reality. No matter how tough he is, there is a chance to defeat him... even if it is very difficult.

The adjutant sighed: "To be honest, I quite like this world..."

"Then you should turn into shit and be pulled out by the Fairy of Light."

"…I mean, at least the hard work paid off."

He raised his hand to condense his spiritual essence, and the Lv.42 level flashed above his head.

"Don't worry, after we get out, I will promote you in the club. We have helped each other to get to where we are now.

But it’s useless to say all this now, this thing in front of us is what we are going to do our best to deal with right now…”

Huang Gu looked at the magnificent mechanical castle in front of him with a frown on his face:

"Count the supplies and equipment of the Legion again to ensure the smooth implementation of the battle plan. And most importantly, do not damage the supply lines of the charcoal orcs... even if the possibility of the Black Goat knowing this is very low."

"Make sure all the weapons of the coal orcs have a durability of 100%, and make sure all weapons have engineer enchantments. The siege cannons must be equipped with at least two coal engineers, and there must be no malfunctions.

The construction of the railway track has been accelerated to more than three times the normal operation rate, and at the same time, all efforts have been made to develop technology..."

He issued many instructions. Facing the black goat, he had to be several times more focused and absolutely cautious.

The core of his territory is the "Wild Magic Stone", and he is the second lord among the outlaws besides the president.

The race of soldiers that can be summoned by the core of this territory is "Charcoal Orcs". According to his understanding of the lord soldiers of the Masonic Knights, "Honorary Knights", and other lord intelligence, his Charcoal Orcs are actually a very special race.

This race has the characteristics of orcs' bellicosity and strong combat capability, and also has the common features of dwarves and goblins in some fantasy works.

For example, he is good at making weapons and can even create rough-looking machines. In the game background of "The Outer World", all this knowledge comes from the "Wild Magic Stone".

This also means that his charcoal orcs, while having combat capabilities, also possess extremely strong technological and infrastructure capabilities.

The disadvantage is that his troops need to take extra responsibility for the food supply lines and consume a lot of resources.

Now his black technology has been successfully used to create a black technology product such as the clockwork exoskeleton through the resources plundered by the Outlaw Alliance.

Its appearance has the basic power structure, and it has magic stone as the energy source, which can strengthen his charcoal orcs several times. The disadvantage is that it needs to be wound by hand, and the duration is short, so the orcs have to wind it themselves while fighting.

This time when attacking the Demon King's Castle, he moved out hundreds of precious clockwork exoskeletons and even two "hand-pushed ironwood tanks". The reason was simple: the opponent was the black goat.

These things were enough for him to wipe out less than 10 lords from other forces. It was a huge investment.

"Report to the team leader, the inventory has been completed!"

"I told you to call me the commander-in-chief!" The commander scolded again:
"What about the Masonic Order?"

"'Qingjin' said that they need us to trigger the Demon King's Castle's counterattack, or for the Demon King's Castle to take the initiative to attack, so as not to violate their military rules..."

"Troublesome thing... Wait two more minutes, and we will attack the city."

"Wait, aren't you going to attack yet?"

"The Black Goat hasn't moved. We still have time to prepare. In two minutes, 50 units of orcs will join the battlefield.

When facing this kind of person, we just need to keep our composure and accumulate as much strength as possible, and we also need to closely monitor the situation of that big guy."

The adjutant next to him lowered his voice slightly:
"That wandering beast? Its territory is the Giant Tree Forest. It shouldn't care about our situation..."

"What I mean is, we need to secure the location of the wandering beast, so that if the battle situation goes against us, we can still use it to do something..."

As he was speaking, Huang Gu's voice suddenly stopped.

The reason was simple: he heard that buzzing sound again, and the adjutant next to him suddenly looked solemn.

And this sound came from the reconnaissance unit of the Black Goat that they had defeated before.

Just as Huang Gu was about to give an order, his profile was illuminated by a sudden surge of white light, and deafening explosions came from behind.

For a moment, the growls of the wolves and the commotion of the orcs merged into one. The two people who turned around suddenly were stunned on the spot - a dark mushroom cloud rose into the sky from behind the army. The interior of the mushroom cloud was rising scarlet, and the outer edge was wrapped in a circle of strange white light. Thousands of screaming skulls were rising up like black mist.

Huang Gu instantly opened his own battlefield map monitoring, and a large number of skulls representing casualties appeared behind the battle line, and his face changed drastically:

"…My supply line?!"

The next moment, a buzzing sound like insects filled the sky over the entire plain.

The adventurers who were among the orcs suddenly looked up and were stunned:

"That's... a drone?!"

How could such a thing appear in a magical battlefield? !

Huang Gu's pupils also shrank sharply, and then he heard a series of strange muffled sounds and the sound of some kind of energy being released. He turned his head and saw a large number of black dots being thrown from the Demon King's Castle -

"It's the meteorite capsule in the intelligence! Get ready to fight!!! Engineers, stop those things in the sky!!!"

Huang Gu's roar echoed throughout the battlefield. He suddenly pulled out the giant axe on his back, and the wolf under him roared and ignored the black spots shooting from the sky, and rushed towards the huge black city.

The entire orc army let out a deafening roar, and all kinds of soldiers rushed up and launched an attack on the Black City.

Countless short orc engineers let out monkey-like roars and rapidly shook the large equipment that had stopped beside them.

Instantly, a dark spiritual energy shot up into the sky from countless instruments and transformed into a translucent black barrier, covering the entire army.

"Damn it! It's a stealth drone... He eavesdropped on our intelligence. The supply line was blown up. This battle must be over within ten minutes!!!"

Having already prepared to fight the enemy with all his strength, he instantly activated his lord skill:
"Mass violence!!!"

In an instant, the eyes of the entire charcoal orc army emitted red light, and violent spiritual essence soared into the sky.

The meteorites that fell from the sky had already hit the dark barrier, and the impact of the meteorites was so strong that it didn't even shake the black curtain.

After being bounced off, it flew away like a rag doll out of control.

Huang Gu glanced at him, and a hint of joy flashed in his wildly lit scarlet eyes——

The terrifying rumors about the black goat led him to order the charcoal orcs to use their powerful infrastructure capabilities to lay rails along the marching route.

The information about the destruction of the camp made him use the expensive rails and bring these protective equipment that had never been used in combat:
Only the rules of the virtual game can allow him to do this. If it were a real battle, this would be absolutely impossible.

"As expected, war is fought with intelligence... Wolf Cavalry, follow me over the city wall!!! The siege team follows! Prepare for the battlefield sacrifice—"

But in the blink of an eye, the adjutant beside him screamed:
"Team Leader! Those things..."

"I told you to call me the Grand Commander..."

Just as he responded casually, he looked up with a look of surprise -

Those black "meteorites" that were bounced away actually unfolded one after another, bursting out with hot thruster nozzles, and attacked the dark battlefield again.

It was at this moment that he saw clearly what the "meteorite capsule" mentioned in the intelligence was.

They were giant machines of the same style as those in the Demon King's Castle, but for some reason their size was several times larger than what was described in the oral intelligence.

At this moment, the bottoms of those giant machines were spinning at high speed, bursting out with sharp spiritual drills, which pierced into their own black membranes one by one with a harsh grinding sound.

[Assault Pod Piercing Module: The World Tree's expansion and specialization have been improved, allowing the World Tree's ejection pod to have a strong penetrating power that can penetrate the surface of the planet. 】

"Oh no, they are coming in!!"

"Then fight back!!! Priest!!"

In the middle of the legion, priests riding on wolves raised the jingling ritual staffs in their hands.

As the psychic energy illuminated their facial features, it transformed into thousands of psychic light beams that erupted from the ritual staffs and shot towards the drills that were about to come in.

But the drills that had already drilled in halfway suddenly burst into dense muffled sounds and broke into several pieces on the spot.

[Assault Pod Modularization: World Tree Expansion Specialization Improvement, Improved Ejection Pod, Expanded Volume of Launched Ejection Pod by 6 Times, and Can Be Split into Sub-Body Ejection Pods. ]

"……What?!"

Before Huang Gu could react, the split ejection capsule fell at a sprint-like speed, ignoring the spiritual bombardment and crashing directly into the army.

Suddenly, explosions occurred everywhere, thick dust billowed into the sky, and puffs of black fog exploded from all over the battlefield accompanied by shrill screams.

"The siege team keeps advancing, everyone else stops and fights on the spot!!!"

“…At this time?!” The adjutant looked at Huang Gu in shock.

Huang Gu and his wolf troops turned their heads around:

"Don't be stupid! You know the consequences of letting those things smash our formation!"

This kind of assault cabin is simply a dimensionality reduction attack for the army of the current level of civilization. It can directly smash into the center or rear of the battle line and destroy the formation on the spot.

So when Huang Gu confirmed that he couldn't stop those things at this moment, he changed his strategy -

Whatever you do, get rid of the stuff that comes in immediately:

"Forget about the logistics plan. Increase the input of magic stones, increase the power, and reinforce the black membrane of the battlefield for me!"

"The wolf cavalry will carry out the targeted clearing operation! The main siege plan will be handed over to the Knights, and we will..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard a violent roar coming from behind him.

That was the surging orange-yellow gun line, and the sound of collision that followed like firecrackers exploding.

"Blackstone Great Shield..."

The adjutant suddenly turned around and saw that the front of the siege squadron raised their giant black shields and moved forward vigorously towards the dense barrage of bullets coming from above the blockade wall of the Demon King's City.

The mobile equipment and various types of soldiers in the rear pushed forward, especially the pile of tall giant cages at the back were safe and sound, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief:
"It's the machine gun mentioned in the intelligence... Fortunately, we were prepared. The siege team should be equipped with a Black Stone Shield that can withstand it..."

But as several dark shadows and unusual machines appeared on the blockade wall, the adjutant suddenly had a bad feeling:
"I don't feel right, that thing..."

Before he could finish his words, a deafening explosion accompanied by a heat wave surged from behind.

The large area of ​​scarlet on the battlefield map caused the system alarm to echo in Huang Gu's ears. He turned back suddenly, and a broken black stone shield whizzed past his face:

"what?!"

Countless flames exploded one after another under the dark city wall, and countless orcs' limbs flew everywhere amid screams.

A row of mechanical humanoids wrapped in honeycomb pattern reflective raincoats, carrying heavy weapons, appeared above the tall blockade wall, with surging blue spiritual fire rising from the raincoats.

[Entropy Increaser Skin (Binary Pollution): Lv.40]

(End of this chapter)