Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 9

As the night got deeper, the weather slowly got colder as well.

In this freezing cold night, a death battle was carrying on.

One side of the battle was a great evil skeleton army of the Black Forest, endlessly; while the other side of the battle was a bunch of settlers in the dense forest, who were putting all of their might into protecting their families and their lives.

The process of the battle was a little boring and dull. The skeletons were like 'stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades'. They were storming forward, wanting to break down the wooden fence around the village. Whenever the villagers used wood with burning flame to poke through the holes in the fence, fighting and burning the skeletons, the flame melted away the dark powers in them, and temporarily made them become harmless skeletons.

Sui Xiong could see from this side a pitch-black tide constantly flowing towards the wooden fence around the village. After being blocked by the burning flame, it constantly rippled. Every time it rippled, there would be one or few skeletons that had turned into remains, dissipating on the ground at the little hole on the fence. After that, another group of skeletons dived in, making up for those that had been lost in these holes, continuing their attack.

This was simply a repetitive process. At the first look, the villagers' defenses seemed not to have any flaws, no matter how intensely these skeletons attacked outside of the wooden fence, they couldn't help but run back to the ground when the sun rose. But Sui Xiong knew that victory had been completely tilted. The villagers' failure was already close to their eyes.

The reason was very simple. They were tired.

Every time the skeletons attacked, they would immediately push back the skeletons as soon as they reached the fence. This was the only way they could block the skeleton's attacks. But these skeletons' powers were not weak. It required quite a decent amount of power to push back these skeletons. Since the great skeleton army had first arrived in front of the fence, the village had pushed back proximately more than a hundred times.

More than a hundred times seemed not much. But in fact, the act of repeatedly pushing back more than a hundred times was enough to cause pain to a strong man's muscles. Before jumping here, Sui Xiong had also experienced this. He had pushed weights fourteen to fifteen times a section. Every day, he did four sections, which were totally sixteen times of shot-putting. That had almost reached his limit. But these villagers' "Movement Intensity" were definitely higher than his, with such many times of repeating like this, they didn't even rest in between...honestly speaking, there wasn't a person lying down to rest up until now, Sui Xiong really admired their endurance.

But, these villagers were not any strange power kings after all. At this moment, all of them were drenched in sweat, completely trying their best to hang on.

Judging from the color of the sky, although the moon had already been back in the west, it was still early until the sun rose.

"Seems like the time for me to show up will come very quickly..." Sui Xiong talked to himself. When he was about to jump out, a shadow flashed out. Everything changed tremendously again.

Every time the night cast on the village, that energy which made Sui Xiong feel annoyed, suddenly became stronger. The great skeleton army, which was like sea waves, suddenly hurled forward.

Crackling and rattling sounds joined into one. All the skeletons close to the fence were all directly shattered, then turned into white remains, falling down to the ground.

At the same time, Sui Xiong heard praying sounds. These praying sounds linked into one, which had a strange rhythm, promoting that energy to grow constantly.

It took him half a day to recover his mind from being surprised. This world was not the Earth. It had a supernatural power. These skeletons were the example. He obviously used a supernatural defending power to face with a supernatural attack.

Perhaps, is this the village's true defending trick?

Reality had once again proved Sui Xiong's guess wrong.

Right at the time that he was in a daze, four women in black gowns came out of the stone house. Each one of them brought along a wooden cage covered in black cloth. Each one of them went to each side of the village, handing over the wooden cages to four muscular men, who had been waiting there. These muscular men each carefully received a cage, used their forces to throw the cages over the fence towards the great skeleton army.

After a while, a shrieking sound came up from the great skeleton army. Four monsters suddenly appeared out of nowhere among the skeletons, frantically wreaking havoc.

These monsters were born from the chicken heads and chicken wings. But they had human shapes. Just by the look of their stout limbs, one could immediately tell that their strengths were not ordinary. Their chicken feet in the shape of human limps looked exceedingly sharp. The skeletons were immediately shattered when bumping into them, couldn't even handle one strike. Their heights were also very tall. The shortest one must have been at least about three sturdy men's heights stacked upon another. The tallest must be even up to the total height of five men.

"So strange! Where do these beasts come from?"

Sui Xiong bewilderedly looked at them. He could swear to Marx, the village, which he had observed for such a long time like this, didn't have any trace of these beasts before---he must be blind if he didn't see such a big monster like that!

So where do these four big fellows come from?

No, this was not an important thing. The important thing was how these four enormous fellows could prevent the great skeleton army from taking over this village...

Sui Xiong didn't have much fighting experience, so he couldn't correctly guess how powerful these four beasts could be. But based on the fact that these guys could easily win the skeletons wherever they went, thus the victory clearly tilted to one side. Although the reinforcements of the skeletons were abundant, their number could be said as infinite, no matter how infinite they could be, they couldn't do anything towards these great beasts, which could immediately kill anything when swinging up their arms.

Sui Xiong couldn't help but secretly sigh.

After all, he couldn't look after those villagers, who led a humble and peaceful life in this Black Forest!

But not long after that, he soon discovered that his previous guess was not wrong, this village's power was indeed not that strong.

It was probably after more than half an hour of fighting, the four beasts suddenly let out miserable shrieking sounds. Their bodies, which basically didn't have any wounds since they had been in the war until now, had quivered. Then soon enough, following after four explosion sounds were pools of blood.

The villagers were a little disappointed when they saw this scene. On the contrary, Sui Xiong lightly sighed in belief.

It is still early. My original savior debut plan still has time to be executed.

No, in fact, the situation right now is better. Due to the struggle with the four monsters for this time being, the number in the great skeleton army had been reduced remarkably. They were not crowded like a tide from before. Although the reinforcements were still constantly surging out from the ground, they would need a little time to recover their original state in the end. On the other hand, the villagers had rested during this time. Their strengths had recovered a lot. Even if they could not hold on, the entire defense line at least wouldn't immediately crumble. So, until the time Sui Xiong made his debut, he could definitely save them.

This was a good thing, the villagers would be frightened a little bit, but it was not a surprise anyway.

Sui Xiong believed that as long as he jumped into that village, went around the fence one time, more than eighty percent of the great skeleton army would be destroyed. There were just two or three kittens left, which he could slowly beat them up.

There was no problem. He had considered everything.

The destruction of the four monsters was clearly in the villagers' calculation. They just slightly sighed then went back to their jobs of resisting the great skeleton army.

The current situation was not much different from the last one. When the skeletons rushed forward, the villagers used the burning woods to push them back, burning them until they collapsed.

But soon enough, Sui Xiong could recognize the issue.

The villagers' strengths have been worn out really much!

Nevertheless, they had been deadly exhausted. Even if taking a rest for half an hour, it wouldn't help them recover much.

As a matter of fact, this was just a small matter, facing a life and death crisis would eventually squeeze out even the last fighting strengths of a pig, not to mention a human. By seeing these villagers panting heavily, Sui Xiong bet that they could at least hold on for another hour!

On the contrary, the other crisis was in fact imminent.

The wooden fence probably could not stand anymore!

The wooden fence around the village was indeed really solid, but no matter how solid it was, it was still wooden after all. At this night, after they had been constantly attacked by the great skeleton army and their burning woods had been broken countless times, they had soon reached their limits. If this world were a game, this wooden fence's durability would probably be burned to the bottom, soon see its collapse.

Once the fence collapsed, the entire defense line would completely fall apart as well.

Right at this moment, the tightly shut main gate opened.

There might be someone giving orders in the dark. The great skeleton army, which originally was constantly attacking the wooden fence, all stopped, hurriedly charging forward towards the main gate.

Sui Xiong was entirely dumbstruck. He couldn't get these skeletons' thoughts.

Seeing them having been struggling for more than half a night, seeing the entire wooden fence was completely broken down, seeing them uniting to attack this village, how come they would immediately ignore the wooden fence, and come straight to the great gate as soon as it was opened?

What on earth is this Logic!

Sui Xiong felt that only those Enlightenment classic game could have this level of artificial human intelligence named mentally deficient inside.

Oh... These skeletons had already been dead long time ago, they could not be considered as being artificial, not to mention having such intelligence...

While he was secretly ridiculing these guys, the great skeleton army, which originally hovered around the village, had already gathered at the great gate, continually flooding in.

Being in charge of blocking them was obviously those muscular men, who had taken rest before.

These muscular men wore animal skin armors, carried axes, hammers, all kinds of heavy weapons, rushed over the skeletons to crush them down. These guys, who had been logging for a long time, had hidden extraordinary strengths. Those black skeletons were basically not considered their opponents. Shortly, a big area was down.

However, such an intense battle would consume a huge amount of strength. In less than ten minutes, those long-experienced loggers, who were as strong as buffaloes, started to pant heavily.

The bald gatekeeper waved his hand, and ordered them to retreat. He himself brought along two or three other muscular men to replace these guys to block the skeleton's attack.

His ability was clearly much stronger than an ordinary logger. He just needed to swing his ax several times and the skeletons all fell down like blades of grass.

Sui Xiong couldn't help but be startled. At the first glance, this bald bastard didn't look much more special than those exceptionally powerful loggers, however his striking force was not on the same level with them. They were basically not the same type. What on earth did he eat to grow up strongly like this?

After he formed a good relationship with these villagers, he would definitely exchange some experiences with this fancy guy. If he could utilize the experiences that he had learned, his body would definitely be strengthened till the point of being unbeatable!

However, this invincible powerhouse's endurance probably had problems. After fighting for the amount of time which was double the usual time that an ordinary person could endure, he started to pant, retreated, and let other loggers keep on fighting. He withdrew to the rear to rest.

Of course, in such a really short time, he had defeated more than hundreds of skeletons, creating a glorious merit.

This fellow is completely exactly very strong!

Chapter end