The Great Ajax Mountains, the northernmost part of the world.

In the deep blue sky, the sun was about to set, and some clouds stirred in the sky, slowly rotating like a whirlpool, and in the desolate twilight, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on it, covering it with a layer of golden-red glow.

Beneath the heavens, there were endless mountains, and a gray-white fortress stood in the middle of the endless snow and forest, with Hesse in front and snowy fields behind, and it was located in the gap of the mountains, blocking the way of the black forest to spread outward, and the walls as tall as mountains looked so great that they were as indestructible as the hardest rocks.

This is a bitterly cold land, with no trace of snow-capped mountains, and black forests frozen by frost that make up all of it, and in this world where almost no one has set foot in the world, there is no impurity in the pure air, even if you just breathe, you will feel a burst of refreshment in your lungs.

Once, it was.

Siege of the Kuroshio, fifth day.

Slowly walking to the top of the fortress tower, the blood-stained blonde knight stood at the end of the city wall, looking at the black forest not far in front of him with a depressed face.

The black-purple dust was filled, and the chaotic breath covered everything like mist, and even rose to the sky, and the light of the sunset was reflected by these scales, giving birth to strange and turbid colors, under the black-purple fog that ordinary people could not breathe and was completely polluted, the wild beasts were churning, and the almost endless demonic beasts were surging like angry waves.

Therefore, wherever the eye can see, it is the tide of beasts.

This was not the first time the blonde knight had fought the Kuroshio on the front line, in fact, since he was twenty-five years old when he advanced to the rank of silver knight, he had never left this gray-white fortress, this was his home, where his heart and soul were condensed, and he never imagined that this place would be lost one day.

But today, this idea took root in the knight's heart and grew bigger and bigger.

"50,000 ......"

Muttering to himself, he felt an iron smell spread in his mouth, and with a wry smile, the blonde-haired knight spat out a mouthful of blood foam, and laughed at himself: "Fifty thousand wild beasts...... I never thought I'd come across so many in my life. ”

The fortress and various defensive lines outside the fortress had been completely lost, and it was from there that he evacuated, although there were not many casualties because of the decisive retreat, but it was precisely because of the haste and decisiveness that the fortress also lost a lot of supplies and equipment.

Seriously, the blonde knight has never been so aggrieved, he has faced hundreds of thousands of big black tides, and he has also killed several golden demonic beasts with the old lord, but 50,000 wild beasts are different from ordinary demonic beasts, this is beyond the limit that this fortress with more than 2,000 garrisons and about 30,000 inhabitants can bear, it is a terrible offensive that can only be handled by a super large fortress of more than 50,000 people, in front of these monsters who are not afraid of pain and do not know how to retreat, if they don't occasionally kill each other, The outer fortresses and defensive lines did not last five days at all.

But now the limit has been reached, and all five satellite fortresses have been lost, and a third of the fortress's supplies and a large number of war machines have been lost.

Today, only the Black Forest fortress itself is left to face these monsters.

Click.

Footsteps were heard behind the knight, and a moment later, two figures appeared on the steps of the tower, a mage in white robes and a masked warrior, the mage's robes were now stained with dust, and the warrior was covered in wounds and blood, and the two of them walked straight to the edge of the tower and looked at the blonde knight.

"Shrink your forces, Zorgun, and while the losses are not large, we will abandon the defenses on the flanks and concentrate our efforts on the front to resist the onslaught of the beasts."

After being silent for a while, the mage said to his companion, his expression looked very unwilling, but his voice was unusually firm: "Now it's just some low-level black iron and silver demonic beasts, and with their madness ability, we are already a little overwhelmed, and if this continues, when the high-level golden demonic beasts appear, we will not be able to fight at all." ”

"What about the big rear?"

The masked warrior muffled, he didn't refute, he simply asked: "If we don't intercept those demonic beasts from the side that bypass the fortress from the mountains, then what should the manors and small towns in the rear do?" They don't even have walls, just wooden fences, and you're going to let them fight the beasts with that kind of thing? ”

"It was just a simple massacre! The purpose of our existence is to be a nail in the water, not to let any monster cross the mountain gap, and to protect the safety of the people in the territory. ”

At this point, the masked warrior's voice already carried a hint of anger: "Giving up is something that only cowards do!" ”

"It's not a question of being a coward or not."

In the face of the advice and anger of the two companions, the golden-haired knight immediately replied, he shook his head and said: "These demonic beasts that are crazy because of the black mist are very different from the same kind in the past, as long as they don't solve the target in front of them, they don't seem to leave at all, I have observed, those who try to cross the fortress are not crazy demonic beasts, and their strength is relatively weak, it is not worth our energy to stop, and the manors and towns in the rear are basically in the hands of silver knights, and they can deal with it." ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at the masked warrior and said solemnly: "Our duty is to stop most of the Black Tide, as long as the fortress does not fall, it means that our mission has not failed, if the frontal battlefield combat power is insufficient because of a few demonic beasts, and the defense collapses, it will be completely worth the loss." ”

"Then at least notify the rear!"

The masked warrior knew this, too, but he was still a little reluctant.

"You have to be able to get in touch with it......"

Sighing deeply, the fortress garrison commander Zorgen couldn't help but clench his fists: "If it weren't for this strange black fog that can block communication fluctuations, I would have notified the main city a long time ago and asked the lord to lead the team to come and support!" He is a gold-level powerhouse, and with him, as long as there are no golden demonic beasts of the same level, then the fortress will be as stable as a rock. ”

Speaking of this, the blonde-haired knight couldn't help but feel angry: "Feng, that group of mages under your command said that they would be able to penetrate the shield of the black mist if they were given a little time, but in fact? It's been five days! Except for the third day, I don't know why there was a little signal, and it was a sizzling sound from beginning to end! ”

"No, it's not good, you can't solve the problem if you get angry at me, not to mention that the group of mages under me have been releasing spells in front of the position, where is the time to study what communication formation!"

The mentor of the fortress mage group, the white-haired sculpting mage Feng, turned his head to look at the beast tide that had suspended the offensive and began to grit his teeth and say hatefully: "Look at this momentum, the appearance of the golden demonic beast has only been in the last few days, and the offensive is fierce day by day, if there is no support from the group of mages under me, the fortress will be breached before the support comes." ”

"Obviously, there must be a powerful 'lord' this time, and this time the Kuroshio is its army, and it has driven this group of wild beasts here in order to break our nails in the mountains and expand its territory."

The masked warrior interjected, and after he finished speaking, he wondered: "It's also strange, the beast hasn't been seen for at least seventy years, and the lord is even more so, there has been no movement for so many years in the past, why did all of them suddenly appear this year?" ”

The blonde knight didn't answer the question, he just turned his head to look at the Black Forest in front of him, the black and purple fog, all the wild beasts had retreated to the Black Forest, and the warriors in the fortress could finally rest for a while.

But so what, it's nothing more than a little respite before real despair.

Speechless, the three were silent, they had nothing to say in the face of this war of nature and man, beast and fortress, barbarism and civilization.