"Don't be so anxious, it hasn't come yet." Roland looked at the eager Lightning and sighed.
Only God knew that she was so interested in challenging the demonic beasts. She was obviously not the type that was suitable for fighting, but she didn't have any fear of the demonic beasts. "Follow the way you dealt with the first one. Don't try to be brave. You just need to lure the demonic beast and focus its attention on you. Pay attention to maintain a high altitude! Although it can't fly, it's still quite threatening when it jumps! "
"I know, I know," Lightning said confidently, "When the first one came, I already knew its strength. Don't worry, it can't even touch the corner of my clothes."
During the conversation, the hybrid demonic beast had already approached the city wall, crossed an obstacle area, and jumped towards the unguarded area, flipping over the wall. But this time, no militia members paid attention to it. They still stayed in their defensive area, waiting for the next assassination order from the hunter observer.
"So, the special operation against the hybrid demonic beast, now begins!" Roland said in a deep voice.
Lightning, who had already flown out, stopped and looked back at Roland.
"What's wrong?"
"What you said …" Lightning thought for a moment, then shook her head, "It's a bit strange. Forget it, I'm leaving. "
Looking at the little girl's quickly disappearing figure, Roland smiled awkwardly and asked Anna and Nightingale behind him, "Do you also think it's strange?"
"Yes." Both of them nodded.
Well … it seems that even in a different world, the lines of a chuunibyou are still chuunibyou. "Then you also go, pay attention to your safety."
"Your Highness, you too." Nightingale bowed, then took Anna's hand and entered the fog.
Roland put his hands behind his back and stood against the wind, trying to act like a big boss. He knew that many people would secretly look back at him during the battle, so even though his feet were numb, he still stood at the highest point of the city wall, so that everyone could see that the prince was with them at any time. Since he couldn't personally participate in the battle, he could at least use this way to motivate people.
This time, the demonic beasts' attack had exceeded the intensity of any previous attack. According to Iron Axe, in the previous years during the Months of the Demons, only one or two demonic hybrids would appear, but this year, Border Town had already encountered four demonic hybrids. The demonic beasts continued to emerge from the Concealing Forest in batches of dozens of beasts, constantly rushing towards the city wall.
Fortunately, in the past month, the production of flintlocks had increased greatly. Right now, a team of a hundred flintlocks had been fully equipped. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to maintain such an efficient killing speed. If it was a crossbow, it would be difficult to load it. In a protracted battle, the advantage of a firearm in consuming little stamina would become increasingly obvious. Of course, the rapid increase in the consumption of gunpowder was enough to give Roland a headache. He was already considering dismantling the twenty or so bags of explosives in the warehouse, retrieving the gunpowder for the firearm squad.
On the other side, Lightning had already flown over the head of the hybrid demonic beast. She took a stone from her pocket and threw it at the demonic beast. The stone accurately fell on its head. This sudden attack made it fiercely retreat, only to discover that the attack had come from the air.
Lightning provocatively lowered her altitude and passed in front of it, flying close to the ground towards the center of the town.Although the hybrid demonic beast had a certain ability to think, the little girl in front of it was obviously not a threat. It immediately swooped down, spread its wings, and with a few leaps, glided nearly a hundred meters. Lightning immediately pulled herself up, turned around in the air, bypassed several bungalows, and turned into another street.
In this way, after several turns, she lured the demonic beast to the central square of the town, which was also the place where she and Nightingale had agreed to attack.Because the hybrid demonic beast had a very sensitive sense of smell, it could even detect Nightingale in the fog. Therefore, before Nightingale and Anna launched their attack, Roland had to try to distract the demonic beast as much as possible.
But Lightning had done it perfectly. The hybrid was now obviously in a rage, and its increasingly manic bestial nature had covered up what little reason it had. It opened its mouth wide and jumped several times into the air, but Lightning, who did not have any weight on her body, was far more flexible than the demonic beast. She teased the hybrid up and down, making every time it jumped up, it would fail.
Nightingale had also arrived at the square from another direction. Unlike Lightning, after entering the fog, she completely ignored the houses and fences on the road and moved forward in a straight line. The distance of Anna's flame was only ten steps (5 meters), so she had to approach the demonic beast from behind to reduce the possibility of being discovered by the demonic beast.
There were a lot of mistakes when dealing with the first hybrid, but now Nightingale was completely familiar with Anna's attack style. When she was only thirty steps away from the demonic beast, she raised her speed to the limit. The ground seemed to be shortened in an instant, and she almost crossed the remaining distance in one step. When Anna came back to her senses, the monster's tail was almost touching her face.
"Now!" Nightingale shouted.
The black and white world around Anna receded like the tide, and in the blink of an eye, she returned to the familiar town square. The green flame quietly appeared on her fingertips, and then expanded into a huge flame cage, covering the demonic beast.
Nightingale quickly retreated, the rolling heatwave hitting her face had already made her feel a burning pain.
In the heat that could melt steel, the demonic beast didn't even have the time to struggle, and turned into a fireball, crashing to the ground.
"It seems that they have solved it," said Vendy, who replaced Nightingale as the temporary guard, when she saw the rising green flame in the distance, curled her lips and said, "It seems that I didn't play any role..."
"If possible, I hope that you don't have to go to the battlefield," said Roland, still standing with his hands behind his back, pretending to be relaxed. Even so, he knew that today, if there were no witches to join the defense line to assist in the battle, in the face of the hybrid demonic beast that could fly over the city wall, the militia would inevitably be in chaos.
Even Nana had come to the city wall, and under the protection of Baron Sir, she quickly treated the wounded soldiers. This was the first time that Roland had revealed the power of the witches in front of all the militia members, and the result made him very happy. In the militia, Nana, who was known as the Angel of Healing, had obviously raised the reputation of the witches to a new height. After Anna and Nightingale joined hands to kill the first hybrid on the city wall, the crowd burst into cheers.
Of course, he knew that it was impossible for everyone to not care about this, and such a situation was very rare. After the militia had a preliminary consensus, his next plan would be much easier to implement.
Suddenly, the gunshots on the city wall became sparse, and Roland noticed that the demonic beasts began to withdraw from the city wall. They actually retreated?He couldn't believe his eyes. At this moment, a ray of light pierced through the thick clouds in the sky and sprinkled onto the ground, followed by a second ray, a third ray … Very soon, the dusky sky was riddled with holes by the millions of rays of light. All the rays of light fused into one, becoming dazzling and indescribable. The earth suddenly brightened.
[When the sun rises again, it will be the end of the Months of Demons. ]
There was a brief silence on the city wall, and then a wave of cheers swept through the border defense line. Gradually, the townspeople also came out of their houses and shouted. They cheered for the long-lost sunshine, for their safe winter, and for their Prince. All the voices finally converged into a torrent, resounding throughout Border Town!