"The Day of Judgement is coming! The saints and the sinned will be separated! The day is coming . Are you ready for it? The day is coming, are you ready for it?"
In the song, big explosions boomed one after another . Columns of fire roared into the sky with huge waves of hot air and deafening booms . The flags of fire flew up high . In the light of the Sacred Emblem, clergymen in iron armor pointed forward and the demons singing charged forward . They were no longer spiritless . Instead, they charged full speed into the crowds of dark-green ghosts . Then, they held the ghosts nearest to them and their body began to grow larger . Their half-healed wounds cracked open, spurting out light and fire .
The Alchemy Metrics implanted in their bodies were activated, sucking the aether around them, which caused terrible high temperature and a vacuum of death . Then the whole body exploded, sweeping out with super high pressure .
Boom! Fire pressure and impact plowed every inch of the field . Every explosion left a big hole on the beach . The disastrous impact waves reached the wall of the fortress, bringing hot wind to the face of everyone on the wall .
Feeling the hot wind on his face, Ye Qingxuan looked at the sacred yet quirky fire . Shi Dong raised his hand to fend off a piece of flesh falling onto him and tossed it under the wall .
"You make the demons into bombs?" asked Ye Qingxuan .
"Yes . It's simple," Shi Dong answered . "Cut out the prefrontal lobe, brainwash them, and cut out their internal organs to implant the self-destruction metric . Then, sew up the wound and inject some antibiotic . They have short lives, but it is okay as long as we can use them within seven days after they are made .
"A well-trained prentice can finish the process within 15 minutes . It's a sort of recycling; pretty cheap . We have a lot of cruel methods in the Religious Court of Inquisitors . After all, we recruited a hell bunch of dark musicians with our license of the Sacred City .
"Only one problem . Do you approve our way of doing things, my Grand Inquisitor?"
"They are all demons . It doesn't matter . " Ye Qingxuan smiled at him meaningfully . "Better watch out next time . No need to test me . "
Shi Dong lowered his head in respect . Looking back behind Ye Qingxuan, he said with a smile, "Don't worry, sir . We have a lot of members of demon descendants in the Religious Court of Inquisitors . "
The sound of a cold hum seemed to be heard . A feeling of coldness swept over and vanished . After the flesh bombing, the line of the sea ghosts was destroyed . Yet the ghost didn't show any fear, nor did they retreat . Instead, they sped up as they were not so crowded .
"No more close squares . They are now in skirmish line now . Do demons know about tactics now?" Looking at the scattered sea ghosts pushing close, Ye Qingxuan frowned . If the ghosts scattered, the demon-bombs would not be able to kill as many demons as before .
What's more, the demon-bombs were almost used up . There would be no more demon-bombs in a short time .
"It doesn't matter . " Shi Dong said calmly, "That was only the prelude . It would not be a war without close battles . "
The rustling of armors was heard from at the root of the wall . That was the sound of power armors and charging of the squares .
The Witch's Hammers were installed and in formation . The cavaliers, assisted by the power armors, began to charge at the enemies . They soon went out of the gate and into the lines of the ghosts . In the light of the fire columns, the cavaliers who were more than two meters tall stepped forward with their shields and spears .
"Heavy cavaliers?" Clearly seeing those soldiers on the field, Ye Qingxuan frowned . The heavy cavaliers had been replaced by heavily armed machines since the widespread power armors a century ago .
The heavy powered exoskeletons undertook the most important task on the battlefield: to destroy the enemy's formation so that the swordsmen and infantry can do their parts of the job . Then, the enemy would be eliminated by the combination of three forces . However, they need enough swordsmen and infantry troops to finish what they started .
They had no more than 1,000 men in total, including backups . It was meaningless for the heavy cavaliers to undertake this sort of attack as there would not be enough men to follow them to finish the enemies .
What's more, those sea ghosts were not normal soldiers . They would not retreat after their formations collapse . They would continue to attack until the very last of them was dead . If the cavaliers charge into their formation without swordsmen following them, they will be consumed by the endless attacks of the ghosts .
It would be suicide .
While he was looking, 60 heavily armed cavaliers were on the field . Yet they did not gather up to formation but scattered up . According to the number and order given to each of them, they gathered separately under the six fire flags and circled up the six armored clergymen . Then, the tower shields lowered down . The shields were then fixed by rivets driven by the pneumatic pumps on the rocks . The tower shields spread out their folded parts, which were joined together with other shields .
Surrounding the six clergymen, the cavaliers formed six temporary "fortresses" with their shields and weapons . Those six "fortresses" were six supporting points of the defense line against the demons .
The question was, would they hold? Among those organists watching the battle on the wall, many were experienced soldiers . And they couldn't help but feel doubtful .
The problem was not the temporary "fortresses . " It could be said that they were quite wisely built . They could be very powerful by combining their power together to produce huge aether waves . They were like stings on the throat of the enemy . They would bring them pain and death if not destroyed .
However, the problem was that they do not have enough power to attack the enemy . They might be able to defend themselves, but they could not destroy the enemy's formation . They would be no more than six obstacles on the enemy's way . If the enemy could not destroy them, they could go around them . The enemy could even wipe them out after they passed them .
Ye Qingxuan soon understood the statics . "I see…" looking behind him at the courtyard of the stronghold, he murmured .
"Grand Inquisitor, you are so smart . " Shi Dong smiled . "You know everything about this sort of statics . "
"Just sensed the movements of the aether . " Ye Qingxuan smiled . "This should be very effective to eliminate these demons . I have learned a lot from this . "
Just then, the ghosts had reached the line of the defense . Endless dark-green poured onto the defense line like waves hitting the rocks on the beach .
Endless dark-green waves .
Blood and flesh flew .
From behind the tower shield, the cavaliers raised their spears which were heated to a burning-red color and easily cut the ghosts into pieces . The dark-green "waves" were separated by the "rocks," yet after the defense points, they gathered again and rushed to the gate of the stronghold .
This was the disadvantage of this tactic . Without enough attacking forces to eliminate the enemies, the defense line was useless . Yet behind the walls made up of the shields and surrounded by the heavy cavaliers, the purifiers raised their flags of fire again .
They shouted, "Light of the heaven, fall upon here . "
The next moment, horns sounded .
Night on Bald Mountain! No one was more familiar with the melody than Ye Qingxuan . In the courtyard of the stronghold, the purifier musicians, gathering within alchemy metrics, played the magnificent symphony .
There were 40 musicians in total . With 40 Resonance Musicians, the aether waves were neat and strong .
On the top of the stronghold, the fire column began to circle around rapidly . Then, the fire soared up into the sky, tearing up the dark clouds . Endless aether fell from the sky and poured into the metric . A stake at the center of the metric began to burn, shining with hot light . Then it soared into the sky .
In just several seconds, there were 13 stakes up in the air . They gave off glaring light, rising above the wind and rain, shining in the sky like burning stars in the endless night . Then, the stakes rushed toward the ground, guided by the fire flags . The sound of the stakes piercing through the air generated hot airwaves as if they were burning aerolites falling from the sky .
Chapter end
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