Final Lord

Chapter 194 Leviathan Fortress

The Principality of the Bucks, a border fortress of Leviathan.

This is the largest border fortress in the entire Principality of Bucks, garrisoned by 120,000 soldiers and civilians. As night fell, the changing guards yawned and climbed the 15-meter-high city wall.

"Stop! Command!"

"Bucks!"

"Invincible!"

The two groups of guards greeted each other and exchanged some necessary equipment. One of the guards looked out of the city walls; the largest and most dangerous chaotic zone in the entire Stag Duchy, the "Dead Wasteland," lay just outside the border fortress.

At night, the desolate wilderness is utterly dark, with no light able to penetrate. Even the moonlight is swallowed up by the chaotic zone. Only with specialized tactical goggles can one glimpse the movements of the monsters lurking in the desolate wilderness.

Even tactical goggles can't be used indefinitely. If one person uses tactical goggles to look into the chaotic zone for too long, they will be contaminated by the aura of the chaotic zone and risk becoming demonized. Therefore, observation can only be carried out by many sentries taking turns.

"Any movement from the monsters tonight?" asked a soldier with a bright red, bulbous nose.

"A new species has appeared. It looks like a white crane, a very thin, gregarious monster. It shouldn't be very powerful."

"Damn monsters, all they do is cause us trouble." The bulbous-nosed man grumbled, "Hopefully they'll be smart and stay in the Chaos Zone and not come out."

"Be careful. New monsters can easily trigger a monster tide."

"I know, did you report it to the general?" Faced with his companion's reminder, the man with the bulbous nose didn't seem very appreciative.

"Of course, it was reported as soon as it was discovered. The general invited Viscount Shackles of Shackles to assist in the defense. His troops should already be on their way."

"Silver Shackles Hank." The man with the red nose relaxed immediately. "Then it's alright. He's one of the best fighters among the border nobles."

"Anyway, just be careful. Report any problems immediately. And whatever you do, don't drink anymore." The guard pointed to the water bottle on the waistband of the man with the rosacea.

"I understand. I can't take responsibility if something goes wrong." The man with the red nose waved his hand dismissively, not taking his old friend's words to heart.

He had served on Leviathan for two more years than the other side and was already used to these things.

For the first half of the night, the man with the red nose diligently kept track of the changes in the chaotic area. But in the second half, he relaxed. Based on his years of experience, he was certain the monsters wouldn't attack in the second half of the night.

There were no problems during the first half of the night, and there shouldn't be any problems throughout the entire night.

"Glug glug." The person with the red nose was really thirsty, so they used the kettle to moisten their throat. The aroma of the wine filled their mouth, which fascinated them.

It has some flavor, let me have some more. I can't taste it yet, let me have some more. My throat is still a little dry, so I'll stop with the last sip.

When the man with the rosacea reached for his water bottle again, it was completely empty.

The man with the bulbous nose, feeling a little dizzy, touched his nose. He beckoned to one of his men and said, "You stay here and keep watch; I'm going to patrol the inner city."

Before he could even stagger down the city wall, a commotion suddenly broke out on the wall.

"Captain! There's something strange going on in the Chaotic Zone! Monsters have escaped from the Chaotic Zone! It's those white cranes!"

"What?!" The bulbous-nosed man turned around in horror. While he was drinking, a flock of white cranes had slipped into the clouds and were silently approaching Leviathan Fortress under their cover.

"Call the police! Ring the bell!" the man with the bulbous nose shouted hoarsely. His shouts, in turn, pointed the white cranes in the right direction for their attack.

dong dong!

As the bells rang, the last ray of moonlight was swallowed by leaden clouds, and the bronze alarm bell that was echoing atop the watchtower suddenly shattered into seventeen pieces. The night watchman, with half his intestines hanging from his body, plummeted from a height of thirty meters, landing right in front of the bulbous-nosed man.

The afterimage of the silvery-white cranes tearing through the night sky still lingered on his retina. More than four hundred white cranes had already broken through the city wall's long-range defenses and were now facing off against the defenders on the wall. "Ah!" The mournful cries of the white cranes echoed in the bulbous nose's ears, easily shattering his eardrums and turning his brains to shreds.

As the captain of the guard, Red Nose was an ordinary Tier 3 Valiant Spearman, and many monsters had died at his hands. However, his spear was useless against the White Feathered Crane, which could fly in the air and attack by sound penetrating the city walls.

The mournful cries, like the tolling of death's bell, relentlessly reaped the lives of the guards on the city walls.

The first wall of Leviathan Fortress fell unexpectedly, but fortunately, there were still two more walls, each higher than the last.

"Dawn's protection!" On the second city wall, the fortress commander inserted his holy silver longsword into the crenellation, and a golden light curtain spread along the city wall.

The unfolding of the light screen meant that all soldiers within the first city wall area would be abandoned.

"Ballads, load the Demon-Slaying Arrows! Priests, prepare for mass purification!"

Before he finished speaking, thirteen ring-shaped sound waves suddenly exploded from the flock of cranes. The sound waves actually penetrated the light barrier and exploded among the defenders of the second city wall!

The twelve bronze crossbow carts twisted into a pretzel shape amidst the resonance of the sound waves, and the operator's internal organs gushed out from his seven orifices.

"Dawnlight Protection is ineffective; the opponent's attack is neither a physical nor a magical attack!"

"They've noticed us!"

"Priest, hurry! We can't let them continue harassing the ballista line!"

"Dawn!"

Three hundred Dawn Priests, dressed in white robes, knelt in a blood-soaked scripture array, holy symbols coalescing in their palms.

"In the name of light, judge the darkness!"

As three hundred people chanted in unison, a milky white beam of light suddenly pierced through the clouds, instantly hitting more than seventy white cranes that were swooping down.

But the white feathers protecting them suddenly transformed into glowing down, falling like snowflakes in midsummer onto the city wall, shielding them from the potentially fatal damage.

"Now!" the heavily armored knights roared as they hurled holy water bombs. The glass bottles shattered amidst the flock of cranes.

"coax!"

Immediately afterwards, the crossbow bolts from the ballista struck the flock of cranes, creating a fireball that exploded in the center of the flock!

The feathers of the white cranes, which had been touched by the holy water, suddenly burst into flames, continuously burning their bodies.

More than thirty fireballs wailed as they fell into the moat between the two city walls, the steaming water vapor carrying the pungent smell of charred crane meat.

"Did you win?"

"It looks like we've got it!"

Long live the Principality of the Bucks!

Just as the defending soldiers raised their blood-stained battle flags and cheered, blood-red foam suddenly surged up on the river. The remains of the white cranes that should have been dead were eerily suspended in mid-air, their stark white ribs piercing through their charred skin, their pink vocal cords emerging from their necks like slugs, and their heads split into four pieces, emitting shrill screams like the cries of infants!

The sound waves surged, the golden light curtain shattered like snowflakes, and more than four hundred strangely shaped, decaying corpse cranes flew up along the city wall!

"By the Dawn, what is that thing?" A young priest trembled as he backed away, the holy book in his hands spontaneously combusting due to his wavering faith.

(End of this chapter)