#108 - Chapter 108: The Fall of the City

The battles between lords are often not determined solely by the outcome of wars.

The interplay between two or more parties means that war is only the most critical aspect.

The victory or defeat often depends on whether the participants in the war can achieve their goals.

That's why, in schools, war game simulations are treated as a regular course, not the only one.

Not only does Su Yingxue know this, but even Wu Wei, who is at the bottom of his class, knows it as well.

However, the ultimate goal of these two participants in the lord's trial is the same at this moment.

That is to drive each other's forces back to their respective planes and monopolize the entire trial continent.

Because only in this way can the two determine the real winner!

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“Evacuate civilian units, let the army enter the city, and wipe out the demons!”

Upon receiving Ms. Xia's message, Su Yingxue issued her orders without the slightest hesitation.

“Among them, sheltering civilians is the second most important matter!”

“The most important thing is to wipe out demons and the fallen!”

“Any civilians who have excessive contact with the fallen, or those who are involved with the fallen, can be executed directly by the army!”

With the issuance of the order, the various city troops, which were already in a state of tension, moved into action.

But even so, their speed was still much slower.

After all, Wu Wei had already begun to plan this attack several days ago.

So when those devout troops marched into the locations where the “rebellion” occurred, what they would see would be a hellish scene.

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“Oh, Goddess of Wisdom, please save me and protect my soul.”

A follower of the Goddess of Wisdom prayed as he was dragged towards a city corner by a fallen one already corrupted by demonic power.

In the farther direction.

Countless fallen ones wielding various sharp blades were relentlessly hunting and persecuting ordinary civilian units.

These fallen ones had distorted bodies and their souls were already unbearably foul.

Even their eyes were as murky as swamps.

And from their mouths, they were murmuring the dreamlike illusions woven for them by the Nightmares.

From the moment they fell, they were no longer ordinary beings, but slaves of the demons.

However, these terrifying fallen ones would not directly kill the civilian units after capturing them, but would subject them to various terrifying atrocities before dragging them to a fixed city corner.

And in that city corner, a huge, somewhat illusory heartbeat was echoing between heaven and earth.

Moreover, as time went on, this heartbeat became louder and louder, and closer and closer to reality.

The source of this heartbeat was a Demon Gate building growing out of an underground magic circle.

This special architectural shape was like a heart.

However, the material that constituted it was the blood and bones of the innocent.

Whether they were devout believers or innocent citizens, as long as civilian units did not escape the control area of the fallen in time, they would be captured by the fallen and made into the materials for the Demon Gate.

And the more pain they suffered before death, the more they wailed, the more they were tortured, the higher their value, and the faster they could speed up the construction of this Abyss Gate.

Because only in this way would their souls have value to the endless abyss.

As more and more souls were sacrificed to the Demon Gate, the soldiers would be increasingly surprised to find that this land was being desecrated more and more severely.

Bizarre abyssal plants would inexplicably grow on the originally ordinary land.

Although these abyssal plants were nominally plants, their aggressiveness was no less than that of any predator.

Poisonous, hallucinatory, and other attributes were common, and even more terrifying was that some abyssal plants had the ability to actively prey, actively grabbing any passing creatures and swallowing them into their bellies, turning them into a part of their own nourishment.

Whether it grabbed animals, intelligent creatures, or those fallen ones.

And inside the city, a large amount of air began to mutate.

Large areas of air began to become foul, full of toxins, and no longer suitable for ordinary creatures to survive.

And the buildings that were corroded by these air and parasitized by the abyssal plants also began to become decayed, infinitely developing towards becoming demon nests.

The city areas that these soldiers were once extremely familiar with began to gradually develop towards some indescribable and bizarre state.

It was as if this fallen city area began to break the barrier between reality and illusion.

They turned into some kind of channel, some kind of channel linking to the dark and fallen world!

But all of this, the purpose of all this, was only one.

That was to celebrate the early arrival of the demons in advance.

So, when those devout troops began to wave the sharp blades in their hands, trying to move forward towards the interior of the area, and finally arrived at their destination.

The construction of the Demon Gate had also been completed.

Right in the desperate eyes of these soldiers, those beings far beyond what their faith described descended into this city with evil smiles.

These distorted demons scrambled out of this temporary Demon Gate building.

With their arrival, what greeted liberation first were the fallen ones.

This group of marginalized people who had fallen for various reasons rushed towards the “divine envoys” in a dream, seeking liberation.

And in fact, they would indeed usher in their own liberation.

The grinning demons completed the contract on behalf of the Nightmare demons, killing these fallen ones one by one, and then sending their already fallen souls to the endless abyss.

Unlike Su Yingxue's army, Wu Wei's demons were a group of lunatics who loved pain.

They craved to see the death of others, craved to see their wailing and pain!

So the flesh and blood of these fallen ones would only further stimulate this group of abyssal creatures that walked out of the Demon Gate, making them, who were already hungry and thirsty, plunder everything in this city even more desperately.

And those soldiers who were already frightened by the changes in the surrounding environment would uncontrollably tremble and fear after seeing this group of huge demons.

But this, was only the beginning.

As mentioned before, the Demon Gate was a special building, and its special feature was that it was very much like a combination of a desecrated torch and an abyss portal.

Then, as a demon-exclusive transmission device, there was an upper limit to the number of demon units that could be transmitted at one time.

So the Demon Gate was also like some kind of connector that linked the abyss to reality. If it was really damaged, then all the demons would feel furious and uneasy because they lost their connection to the endless abyss.

That was an imprint engraved in the souls of all demons.

As creatures of the endless abyss, demons were destined to serve the endless abyss until the end, until their souls returned to the endless abyss.

So they would try their best to reconnect to the endless abyss after losing their connection to the abyss.

And this situation would become even worse after the Demon Gate, this special building, exploded because it carried too many demons.

Because the behavior of that group of demons would be even more unscrupulous, even more crazy, until they reconnected to the endless abyss!

As for the only way to reconnect to the endless abyss, it was to build more Demon Gates and spread the influence of the abyss even further...

And the materials they used to build the second batch of Demon Gates were naturally that group of troops who had just entered this area!

The demons, looking at this group of soldiers who were gradually losing their minds because the surrounding scene was too terrifying, revealed greedy expressions.....