"As expected of a weapon left over from the Fadland Empire, it can easily destroy our tanks, but in this case, we don't need to hold back."
The hobgoblin sneered as he stared at the bird's-eye view of the image transmitted by the wyverns in front of him.
"Just like what His Majesty Cassius said - 'Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys', the current city of San Theo is the chicken that is about to be slaughtered. I will let all the people of Aethel see the consequences of resisting the empire. .”
His voice was sonorous and powerful, there was a fierce light in his turbid yellow eyes, and a cruel look appeared on his entire red, scaly face.
This hobgoblin officer is the commander-in-chief of the fourth army of the "Blitzkrieg" operation, the commander of the siege of San Theo, and the distinguished Dragonblood Marquis Arturo Redridge.
As a close associate of Duke Doro, an important member of the imperial military, and one of the representatives of the "Extreme Hawks", Arturo would not let go of such an opportunity.
Arturo quickly pulled out the saber from his waist, raised it high, and roared with great force: "The whole army obeys the order - attack with all your strength! I will turn this city into scorched earth!"
The hobgoblin has a ferocious face, spitting everywhere, and the general stars made of pure gold on its shoulders are shining brightly.
And his roar was transmitted to every tank and every combat vehicle on this battlefield by the infinite electromagnetic waves generated by the magic communicator.
Before he finished speaking, the entire battlefield roared with anger, the ground shook violently and even shook, and endless firelight and thick smoke rose into the sky.
The battlefield is completely boiling!
"Boom——"
More than a hundred tanks opened fire in unison, and even the ground shook violently under the powerful recoil, collapsing, and black smoke came out of the muzzles, covering half of the sky.
The dazzling firelight formed a row, and the cannonballs dragging thick smoke tore through the sky, criss-crossing, forming a dense fire network, and finally all bombarded the towering and solid city wall of San Theo.
"Boom!"
In an instant, the fierce explosion shook the entire city. The raging flames almost engulfed the entire city, and billowing smoke enveloped the sky above San Theo.
"Amaunata! Is today the end?"
"How can I make this stop! I don't want to get involved in this war!"
"Damn it, damn it."
People looked up at the thick smoke that enveloped the sky, witnessed this doomsday-like scene, and screamed in panic and panic.
At this moment, facing this natural disaster-like scene, the residents of San Theo had completely lost their minds and were running around, leaving the city in chaos.
Affected by the explosion, the light curtain outside Sansio City kept flashing, with spider web-like cracks appearing on it, and the city wall was shaking violently, even causing several soldiers to lose their feet and fall, falling into pieces.
Karen stood on the tower, raised his sword, and pointed into the distance with gritted teeth: Soldiers! Don't back down, crush them! ”
The soldiers beside the crossbow on the bed of the Sun God tried their best to turn the winch and continuously load the giant arrows, but under the cover of the thick smoke, they could not even aim at the target.
Arrows of light pierced the sky, but they could only be submerged in the thick smoke and dust. They were nothing compared to the cannon fire that filled the sky from the Ember Empire.
Looking at the gradually dimming and cracked light curtain, Karen turned his head and said eagerly to the group of mages: "Mr. Zalan, can you and your colleagues repair our protective magic circle?"
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Zalan shook his head solemnly and sighed: "With our power, we can only maintain the shining net over the city. We no longer have the energy to maintain such a complex protective formation.
Lord Karen, the Ember Empire's offensive is too fierce, far beyond everyone's expectations. I don't think we can hold on for long. ”
Karen frowned: "You mean you want me to give up this city?
You want me to hand over San Theo City, which belongs to the Fadland Empire, to the Ember Empire? Run away like a shady mouse? ”
His expression was annoyed, his tone became a bit harsh, and anger burst out of his golden pupils.
Master Karen, now is not the time to be willful. Please come out of the illusion of the past and take a real look around you."
Zalan raised his eyes and pointed at the sky shrouded in smoke and fire with his staff, his voice extremely heavy.
"The fall of Sansio City has become inevitable, and we have no means to prevent it.
Lord Karen, please conserve your strength and don't take impulsive risks. The only thing that can allow us to reverse the situation now is the decisive battle in Collins City. ”
Karen knew that Zalan was right. Under such fierce bombardment from the Ember Empire, even he, who claimed to be a descendant of the gods, could not save the situation.
The Sun God's crossbow on the wall of San Theo was enough to bring down the dragon, but it was not enough to fight against the armored legion composed of organized steel behemoths.
But he was still unwilling to do so. In his mind, Fadland was a symbol of conquest, victory and glory. They were supposed to conquer the world, so how could they become invaders and lose their territory?
Karen was silent for a long time, then whispered: "Your Excellency Zalan, I cannot give up my homeland of Fadlan."
"Boom!"
There was another deafening bang, a violent explosion that shook the city wall, and the Ember Empire's specially-made armor-piercing warhead with anti-magic effects finally penetrated the light curtain.
Immediately afterwards, several similar shells came one after another, creating a series of explosions.
In an instant, ring-shaped cracks appeared on the light curtain. Those cracks spread and split rapidly, and gradually became densely packed, covering the entire light curtain.
"Crack!"
Finally, with a crisp sound, the protective magic circle built by dozens of archmages to protect the city for decades was overwhelmed and completely shattered.
"No! Escape!"
Zalan's expression suddenly changed and he issued a hurried reminder. Even he did not expect that the empire would break the protection so quickly.
The next moment, the Ember Empire's mortars also roared, and the shells drew extremely high arcs in the air, attacking the soldiers on the city wall like eyes.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the city wall burst into flames, gravel flew, and dust and smoke filled the air. The soldiers were engulfed by the explosion amid horrified shouts and had no time to escape.
Karen waved his wings and soared into the air. He raised his divine sword and kept slashing, cutting off more than a dozen cannonballs one after another, causing them to explode in the air.
However, compared to the intensive firepower of the empire, the efforts of the Divine Marquis were not worth mentioning.
Although he did protect the dozen soldiers under him and maintained a section of the city wall that was tens of meters long, the empire's artillery shells landed on all the defensive buildings of San Theo with almost no blind spots.
The majestic and towering city wall has been scarred, with shocking gaps appearing on it.
Another group of dragons flew across the sky, attacking from a distance. Their steel wings pierced the air and emitted a scream that made people's hair stand on end.
Karen flapped his wings, suddenly climbed up, raised the divine sword high above his head, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Flanders will never retreat!"
Under the intensive charge of hundreds of flying dragons, Karen looked extremely small.
"Shua——"
But the next moment, surging and dazzling golden flames were released from the sword blade, splitting the dragon group from the middle. Several bipedal flying dragons roared and fell, exploding in the air.
The other flying dragons climbed up and turned sharply, avoiding Karen's slashing, and flew over the city of San Sio step by step, dropping hundreds of deadly bombs.
"Boom! Boom!"
Dozens of bombs were intercepted by the mages' shining nets and exploded in the air, causing burning and broken shrapnel to rain down into the city.
Buildings were set ablaze, and people fleeing in all directions were hit by shrapnel, and some even had half of their heads cut off by shrapnel.
Immediately afterwards, the missed bombs exploded in the city again, and both humans and buildings were engulfed in fire and smoke. The surviving people knelt in the ruins and looked to the sky with desperate expressions. However, they could not see the sun. They could only see the black smoke covering the sky and the looming "God of Death".
"God, what have we done wrong to deserve this punishment?"
"Purgatory! This is simply purgatory!"
"We all bear the sin of His Majesty Amaunata who abandoned us. This is His punishment!"
In this burning scorched earth, people are gradually falling into madness. The former order has been completely destroyed, leaving only desperate cries and crazy shouts
"No, it shouldn't be like this."
Overlooking the once prosperous and prosperous city that is now in shambles, I listened to the screams of flying dragons passing by and the roar of artillery fire, and felt the hot and pungent breath coming from my skin.
Karen flapped her wings, confusion appearing on her almost perfect face.
"Your Majesty Amaunata, have you really abandoned us?
Lord Walter, what would you do if it were you? Do I really want to abandon this city and become the deserter I despise the most? ”
The god is too conspicuous in the sky. He has killed more than a dozen flying dragons and intercepted hundreds of cannonballs.
As a result, the artillerymen of the Ember Empire made him their main target. Countless armor-piercing bullets and anti-magic bullets were fired at him, trying to shoot down this angelic-looking warrior.
The empire's player army has arrived a hundred meters outside the city. Some of them raised their staffs and recited incantations, some filled their magic bows with arrows, some picked up the latest magic sniper rifles, and even more. Throws a magic forbidden bomb.
In their eyes, this is not a divine warrior who makes the enemy fearful and avoid him. He is clearly a living experience and military exploits!
"Kill this birdman down!"
"Hahaha, kill him! For the empire!
In an instant, dazzling arrows, flaming spears, poisonous darts, magic-destroying cannonballs, extremely cold ice cones... dazzling attacks came from all directions, rushing towards Karen's body.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by an earth-shaking loud noise, a violent explosion suddenly appeared in mid-air, cracks appeared in the space, and the gorgeous flames and thick smoke instantly engulfed the angel god with wings on his back.
"Is he dead?"
"Who has received experience tips?"
Suddenly, two dazzling white lights burst out from the thick smoke, penetrated the smoke screen, triggered a violent explosion, and instantly engulfed several players.
"Ignorant mortals!"
Everyone looked up and saw Karen holding a divine sword, his eyes shining brightly and bursting with fire, like a real angel who had come to the world.
The white wings flapped, blowing away the smoke screen in front of him, shaking off the ashes and dust covering it, and setting off a hurricane that swept across the earth.
"Who gave you the courage to challenge a descendant of the Sun God?"
Karen shouted angrily and raised his sword high. The complex and exquisite lines on the sword instantly lit up, releasing a dazzling divine energy flame.
A pillar of red-gold fire soared into the sky, reaching straight into the sky. Countless flaming meteors fell down, like divine punishment falling from heaven, which was shocking.
In an instant, dozens of players who launched a charge and wanted to be the first to board Sansio City were reduced to ashes by flames falling from the sky.
This is the angelic descendant of Holy Fadlan! The terrifying army that once followed "Sun King" Aragorn I to conquer the multiverse!
"Long live Fadlan!"
Karen raised his arms and shouted, but even his voice was obscured by the deafening explosions and the roar of artillery fire.
The deaths of the players did not weaken the Ember Empire's firepower by half. Instead, the bombs and artillery shells flying toward San Theo City became denser, and explosions continued one after another.
"Boom——"
Suddenly, there was a dull sound behind Karen, followed by people's panic and frightened screams.
"It's going to fall! The city wall is going to fall! It's going to come down soon!"
"Get out of here!"
He turned around and saw dust and smoke filling the fields, and the city walls crumbled. Under the fierce bombardment of the imperial army, San Theo's city walls finally collapsed!
The city let out earth-shattering wails and roars. The city wall stretching for hundreds of meters collapsed. Smoke and dust covered the sky. Countless soldiers and citizens were buried in the ruins of the city wall.
"Master Karen, let's go quickly! Let's go to Collins City! This is definitely not a place to stay for a long time!" Zalan came to the god's side with the help of flying skills and urged anxiously.
The mages who came with him used group teleportation to leave here before the city wall collapsed. In his view, the fall of San Theo City had long been inevitable.
No matter how many tanks they destroy and how many soldiers they kill, they cannot defeat the Ember Empire. Their only hope of victory is to defeat the red dragon.
"Did we fail?"
Karen was suspended in the sky, waving his wings slowly, his eyes dimmed.
He looked at the ruins of the city of San Theo, then turned around and looked at the charging steel behemoth and the flying dragon, his golden pupils once again showing confusion.
"Boom!"
There was another explosion next to him, but it was blocked by the invisible divine energy shield surrounding the angel god.
Under the threat of artillery fire, Zalan released the teleportation spell, and his figure gradually became blurred, but he still advised hastily: "Master Karen, we have not lost yet!
We will win, and Fadland will win eventually, but not here! Duke Walter needs you! ”
Finally, Karen gritted her teeth, with a look of determination in her eyes, and said word by word: "We will win."
The angel god raised the long sword in his hand with one arm, and a dazzling light appeared at the tip of the sword, and his figure gradually became illusory.
The next moment, countless cannonballs dropped from high altitude, creating a fierce explosion at Karen's original location, but the angel god had already left.
The steel behemoths rampaged across the earth, accompanied by billowing steam and thick smoke, and rushed at high speed towards the city that was reduced to scorched earth and ruins, without encountering any resistance in the process.
They succeeded in occupying the city of San Theo, or completely destroyed this city with a glorious history.
On July 15, 1789 in the New Calendar, the city of St. Theo, a major military town in North IJssel, fell. On the afternoon of the same day, five large cities including Calvin City, Falling City, and Asher City fell one after another.
Three days later, seventeen cities including Bertrand, Mitchell, and Ashwood Castle were also occupied by the troops of the Ember Empire.
Until July 30, in just nineteen days, under the Empire's thunderous offensive, all the cities in North IJssel except Colin City had fallen, and almost all important territories were controlled by the Ember Empire.
The Burning Ember Empire's "Blitzkrieg" shocked the world. Before the various forces in the Fianso Continent could react, news of the fall of various cities in North IJssel followed one after another.
And the Grand Duke of North IJssel, the former "Wings of Fadland" Walter Graham is leading the remaining army to stubbornly station in Collins City, waiting for the final decisive battle to come.
"The Burning Ember Empire appeared on the stage of Fianso Continent with a lightning-fast and fierce offensive, forcefully declaring its existence and sounding the death knell of the old Fadland order."
——Todd Brown
"His Majesty Wilhelm told me not to worry, but I am already considering continuing south.
Damn it, these arrogant Fadelans are still immersed in the dreams of the past, and have no idea how terrifying the red dragon is, and they will pay the price for it. ”
——"Luton Notes" (End of Chapter)