Chapter 1193: Chaos and Decision-making

The defense system of the giant city of Lentax can be roughly divided into four lines.

They are the towers in the first, second and third circles respectively.

Finally, there is the Marquis Castle in the core of the city.

First, let’s talk about the third circle.

The tower there is not the most majestic, but it is the tower with the highest total perimeter.

The urban area it protects is also the largest.

And there are a large number of garrisons stationed there for a long time.

Originally, we followed the normal number of siege routes.

The third outer ring should be the giant city's first line of defense when facing foreign enemies.

All enemies who want to invade the city must first break through the tower defenses on the third circle.

However, the Calamity Raven Church did not follow common sense and directly arranged long-distance transmission channels and rituals to summon the projection of gods in the city.

This makes the various defensive buildings in the third circle useless.

The most terrible thing is that the more than 200,000 garrison troops stationed there were in a dilemma.

In the end, only about half retreated to the second circle of defense.

The remaining half were either exterminated by the church's apostles or became captives.

It can be said that defeat was unjust.

If it is a normal defensive position, the garrison can often achieve a good casualty ratio.

However, facing the raid launched by the Apostles from the inside out, these garrisons were completely defeated without being able to organize effective resistance.

Now the situation in the second circle is also in danger.

Although in theory the large magic shield there can last for about an hour.

But that's when the church's attack intensity remains unchanged.

However this is impossible.

Because as time goes by, the complete fall of the third circle has already become a foregone conclusion.

More and more Apostle warriors and fanatics are able to free their hands and go to the battle line.

In addition, the ancestral dragon skeleton that is receiving divine power from the void is also a time bomb.

As long as the projection of God comes, the magic shield of the second circle will probably be broken quickly.

This made everyone feel that a strong crisis was brewing.

All the garrison troops were on standby, and even the mage tower was alerted.

A large number of dragon magicians gathered in formation, and spellcasters from all disciplines followed the archmage leading the team to the battle line.

Everyone tightened their weapons and fought back in an orderly manner under the orders of commanders at all levels.

This time, the Calamity Raven Church almost used several times the strength of the garrison of the giant city of Lentax.

They were not afraid of death, and their eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes that represented madness. It seemed that they must have been inspired by some large-scale ritual of the church.

Crazy churchgoers sat cross-legged together, holding raven pendants in their mouths and chanting strange scriptures.

This was used as motivation to drive large church formations to be launched.

The church had already used similar methods in Odo Village.

These church magic circles have different functions. They can heal the warriors of the apostle group, shoot light balls and beams to attack the magic shield, or restore everyone's physical strength and increase attack efficiency.

There were also many church deacons gathered together in groups, chanting mysterious incantations.

Construct spell models that transcend their own level.

Mainly frost type.

From time to time, you can see ice spikes that are twenty or thirty meters long, piercing the shield like a dagger.

Sometimes, ice rocks fall from the sky and violently hit the magic energy shield.

The ones blocking the front row were mainly the Jackdaw Apostles.

Among them, the jackdaw heavy shield warrior holding a large shield became the most damaged part.

Behind them were jackdaw and halberd warriors holding halberds. They were using the cover of their comrades to hack away at the magic energy shield.

This happens almost everywhere.

Moreover, the church side is also constantly raising various magic energy shields to resist the rain of arrows and various magic attacks thrown from behind the tower.

Large siege shield vehicles can raise a magic energy shield covering a radius of 120 meters.

Under the cover of a squadron of Jackdaw Apostle warriors, the cone-shaped siege vehicle approached the outside of the city tower. The cone-shaped headbutt with a magic armor-breaking effect attached to the front hit the shield at a fixed frequency.

Every impact can cause ripples on the magic energy shield.

If there are any lords around, they can see damage values ​​of up to tens of thousands of points emerging continuously.

At the same time, dense damage values ​​​​appeared almost all the time around the entire second circle.

Of course, as a large magic energy shield guarding a giant city, its solidity value is also terrifyingly high.

Moreover, the defense power of the second circle is not the highest. The first circle is the defense core of the entire giant city.

Its tower is not only more than a hundred meters high, but also has a large shield with a total solid value of nearly one billion.

In comparison, the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar (gold)] in Zong Shen's territory pales in comparison.

In fact, this is the standard configuration of all major cities.

Use shields as the highest priority defense method, instead of simply relying on strong walls to defend in place.

In order to ensure the solidity of the magic energy shield, most giant cities will use a matrix method to connect multiple magic energy shield generation devices in parallel to form a fixed defense node.

Relying on the shield to defend can eliminate some of the effects of large-scale magic or magic equipment.

Of course, the final outcome is determined by the hard power of both offense and defense.

But no matter what, a war of this scale was something the lord had never seen before.

Even Zong Shen was shocked. The momentum was far beyond the defensive challenge.

Everywhere you look is a battlefield.

Brilliant elemental magic bloomed on the magic energy shield, making the sky become gorgeous.

The men and horses of the Calamity Raven Church surrounded the second circle and built more than a dozen battlefields for the main attack.

On every battlefield, there were as few as 100,000 people and as many as hundreds of thousands of people, all frantically attacking the shield.

If it weren't for the strength of the shield itself, it would be rapidly replenished and restored at an extremely high speed.

This thing can't last so long under the simultaneous attack of two to three million people.

The counterattack in the city is also continuing, but the magnitude is not equal.

Among the hundreds of thousands of remaining garrisons, there are not even one-fifth of the long-range troops.

In addition, the church also has large defensive equipment such as shield vehicles, which can also raise various magic shields.

The two sides were fighting back and forth.

But overall, Lentax Giant City is still at a disadvantage.

To make up for the gap in the number of combatants.

At this time, adventurers and mercenaries are being urgently recruited in the second circle.

Even the young leaders who had previously participated in the competition were temporarily recruited.

…

At the same time, within the first circle.

Henry, Marquess of Lancaster, had fallen into a coma an hour earlier.

Now he has just woken up.

During his coma, the defense of the city was mainly taken over by Nasral, the garrison chief.

Information gathered from all over the city poured into the city hall like snowflakes.

Every giant city official is in a state of distress.

The fall of the Third Circle brought a lot of trouble.

Not only did it weaken the city's defense system, it also lost a large number of the city's lower-class population.

These lower-class populations are the foundation for maintaining the current system of the giant city.

Without them creating wealth and value in the city and supporting the upper class nobles, the giant city would be an empty shell at best.

The essence of the pyramid class structure is that the many support the few.

If the foundation of the pyramid collapses, can the spire still survive?

The answer is undoubtedly no.

Don't look at the nobles who treat common people as nothing.

But when the big loss really came, all the chief officers felt heartbroken.

Their thinking has not changed in time, and they have always been from the perspective of the development of the giant city.

This is the biggest difference in concepts and ideas between local rulers and those foreign invaders.

In addition to the loss of a large number of people, the agricultural and animal husbandry system that has been painstakingly established outside the city is also on the verge of collapse.

Productivity determines production relations.

In the Endless Continent, it is no easy task to feed tens of millions of people.

Not only must we use the power of magic planting, but we must also open up as much farmland as possible.

Therefore, hundreds of kilometers around the giant city of Lentax are farms, pastures and orchards.

Coupled with the food transported by traveling merchants, the supply cycle can basically be realized.

This kind of agricultural and animal husbandry system is also the basic foundation built step by step with the development of the giant city of Lentax.

At this moment, they are basically in a state of withering.

Destruction often only takes a moment, but reconstruction requires countless efforts.

These losses can seriously weaken the vitality of the giant city of Lentax.

Even if he survives this bad luck, he will never recover from this and become the last in a huge city.

Compared with losses in other aspects, the damage to the city's foundation is what worries these officials the most.

As the vested interests and managers of various fields in the giant city, their sense of belonging to the giant city is far deeper than ordinary people.

At this moment, inside the city hall.

The chief officers were quarreling fiercely.

"Follow the church's offensive and the projection of God that may come at any time."

"I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on until tomorrow morning!"

"The shield generation device in the second circle has shown signs of overload."

"The morale of the garrison is very low. Being able to maintain the defense of the line is considered well-trained."

In the conference room, an adjutant responsible for summarizing information from all parties stood up and said.

At this time, the situation in the giant city of Lentax was not optimistic in all aspects.

"Lord Henry, are you awake?"

"While the teleportation array nodes in the city have not yet fallen, all we have to do is call in reinforcements!"

"This is an organized and premeditated act of aggression by the heretical church!"

"The kingdom must not sit idly by! The surrounding giant cities should also provide support!"

After the adjutant finished his report, a middle-aged man wearing crystal glasses sitting next to him shouted angrily.

"Shut up, Axl!"

"Don't you still understand the current situation?"

The speaker was Nasral, the chief officer of the garrison. He was an officer with a resolute face. He was wearing a high-level Avalon standard armor with three redbud marks on his chest.

This proves that he is not only a war-honored noble with real power, but also has legendary level strength.

"We were abandoned due to Lord Henry's poor decisions."

"Prince Carter is missing, and the Swordfish Group, Sailfish Group, and the legendary strong men from the eastern coast have all evacuated from the city."

"We have no reinforcements. At least there will be no reinforcements until the church breaks the city."

Nasral frowned and told everyone the news that shocked everyone.

As a confidant around Marquis Henry, he naturally witnessed the Marquis' previous actions of jumping left and right.

Even the power to contact Princess Anna is secretly in charge of him.

Before that, Nasral was also controlled by the [Rose Mark].

But not long ago, the mark was successfully lifted.

He has legendary level strength, and his body is not as weak as the Marquis, so he can recover quickly.

And Marquis Henry fell directly into a coma after the mark was lifted.

When things have reached this point, Nasram, who has returned to his senses, knows that there is no point in continuing to cover up everything.

Sure enough, when he told the truth, he immediately caused an uproar at the scene.

Except for several other chief officials who were also controlled by the mark and knew the inside story.

Most of the giant city officials didn't understand this.

Nasral responded with silence. He stared at the table in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

The noise lasted for several minutes before it stopped.

"Surrender! We surrender to the Church!"

Now that he has been abandoned by the kingdom and the Grand Duke, surrender seems to be the best option.

Joining the Calamity Raven Church is like being brainwashed at best.

A few unlucky ones may become sacrifices.

But at least most people have a chance of surviving.

If you resist to the end, it will be a dead end.

The most important thing is that they are destined not to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The important reason for maintaining the tenacious resistance of the front guard garrison was the illusory reinforcements.

Listening to everyone's quarrels and discussions, Nasral did not answer for the time being.

…

In the Marquis's Castle.

Luxurious bedroom interior.

Henry, Marquess of Lancaster, woke up leisurely.

He looked confused and rubbed his groggy head.

I always feel like the invisible shackles in my mind have been lifted.

This made him feel relaxed, but at the same time there was an overwhelming feeling of weakness.

Lying on the soft bed, memories slowly revived.

"Somebody come!"

He called the maid hoarsely and asked for a glass of water.

The sound insulation effect in the room was excellent, and coupled with the isolation of various layers of protective shields, he could not hear the noise from the outside world.

The slender maid holding the water glass looked nervous and quite frightened.

After taking a sip of water to moisten his dry throat, Marquis Henry looked at the maid and asked patiently.

"How is the fighting situation outside?"

"Have the heretics from the Calamity Raven Church invaded?"

Facing the Marquis' inquiry, the maid did not dare to neglect and spoke quickly.

"We haven't broken in yet, but those heretics are besieging the second circle!"

After hearing her words, Marquis Henry breathed a sigh of relief.

"Prepare your horses, I'm going to the city hall!"

Waving his hand and sending the maid away, he sat on the edge of the bed with a solemn expression.

With the recovery of memories, the ridiculous things he did when he was under control also emerged one after another.

"Penny...Blood Rose inheritance..."

"Damn it!"

"I never thought there would be such an evil thing in the family's hunting ground!"

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