Chapter 306 - Siege
Chapter 306 Siege
The alliance army was quietly preparing for the siege, and the demons were also preparing to defend.
There was no need to say anything fierce. In fact, with the high city wall separating them, both sides could not shout because they could not hear clearly. Everyone knew what the other party’s purpose was, so they just started directly.
With the formation of hundreds of thousands of siege troops, if you looked down from the city wall, they were simply endless. The army was outside the range of the demon’s long-range attacks and occupied all the open space near Ur-Hekal, surrounding the entire city. They had set up hundreds and thousands of catapults and ballistas and began loading boulders and bolts nervously.
All the preparations took several hours. During this time, the alliance army was also guarding against the demons leaving the city to attack. But the demons did not leave the city and instead chose to continue defending, which made the alliance army heave a sigh of relief.
Finally, when everything was ready, the heroes commanding the army looked at each other and nodded. They raised their hands and shouted, “Attack!!!”.
The soldiers guarding beside the catapults swung their swords and cut the ropes. The straight arms of the catapults immediately bounced back. Then with powerful kinetic energy, they shot out boulders in a parabola!
In an instant, the sky above Ur-Hekal became dark. Countless boulders flew in the air and blocked all the light in the sky. This scene of blotting out the sky only lasted for a few seconds before countless boulders smashed onto… the barrier!
Yes, as the capital of Eeofol, in addition to the high city wall, Ur-Hekal also had a powerful defensive barrier set up. This barrier was usually not open, and the demons only activated it when there was a large-scale battle.
When the boulders hit the barrier, it immediately appeared. The colorless and transparent force field emitted a ripple-like light as it blocked the flying boulders and shattered them before they fell outside the city wall.
Xeron was standing on the city wall. He finally felt relieved after seeing the power of the barrier.
In Eeofol, many trees and forests had been burnt down because of the eruption of volcanoes, causing the alliance army to be unable to build more catapults nearby. The alliance army had brought these hundreds of catapults after spending a lot of effort, but this small number of catapults did not bring much pressure to Ur-Hekal’s barrier.
As long as there was enough supply of magic power, there would be no problem for the barrier to last for two to three days.
After realizing this, Xeron did not have the mood to waste time with the alliance army here. He pulled over a high-rank demon hero and said, “I’ll leave this place to you. You will command the battle and try to defend as much as possible. This alliance army has no supplies, and it won’t be long before it withdraws.”
The high-rank demon nodded, understanding what Xeron meant.
After warning him, Xeron left the city wall and returned to his hall. He had a more important matter. Isabel was about to give birth in only two to three days!
For all the demons of Ur-Hekal, their top priority now was to complete the plan of Sovereign Kha-Beleth, and everything had to be safe.
After Xeron left, the high-rank demon hero commanding the battle smiled sinisterly and commanded the demons in the city to fight back.
In order to deal with the siege, the demons had set up catapults everywhere in the city because only the attack range of catapults could reach the alliance army outside the city. But the demons’ catapults were throwing enormous burning fireballs! They were volcanic rocks taken out from the inside of volcanoes!
These fireballs flew through the sky with thick, billowing smoke, passing through the barrier and smashing into the alliance army.
The alliance army outside the city did not have the protection of a barrier. When the fireballs slammed down and exploded, countless screams filled the entire battlefield. The troops standing in the front line closer to Ur-Hekal immediately welcomed a disaster.
“Front line troops slowly retreat! Get out of the attack range!” Several heroes of the alliance army gritted their teeth and ordered. “The catapults continue attacking. Don’t stop without orders! Ballistas begin to attack!”
Everyone knew that this battle was unequal right from the beginning. The alliance army had to break the protection of the barrier to attack the demons in the city. Therefore, the alliance heroes only had one thought in their minds now-break the barrier at all costs!
The main characters of this battle had all turned into the various siege equipment. Both sides were exchanging blows, and countless boulders and fireballs were flying back and forth in the sky. On the ground, the alliance army continued to suffer losses.
The souls of the dead turned into rays of white light and flew toward Ur-Hekal. Gem and the others knew that it was a device set by the demons to collect souls in the city. Not only did the alliance soldiers die in battle, but even their souls could not escape from the claws of the demons. This was extremely damaging to morale, but Gem and the others could no longer worry about it so much anymore.
The demons clearly had more troops than the alliance army, but abnormally, they did not leave the city to fight and even used the barrier to defend the city. No matter how Gem and the others looked at it, it did not seem right. They were increasingly convinced by Raelag’s words—the demons must be guarding something in the city! Not long after the battle started, the alliance army was basically being suppressed. But after a while, the alliance army gradually figured out the number of catapults and their positions in Ur-Hekal. It then sent the mages to the blind spots of the catapult attacks and had them begin to use magic to assist in attacking the barrier of the city.
The mages of Bracada were actually formidable soldiers. When others protected them, these mages could become powerful artillery towers.
Under Zehir’s command, the mages exerted their might, and enormous fireballs continually flew toward Ur-Hekal. After colliding with the barrier, immense explosions thundered, and some gigantic sharp ice pillars fell from the sky from time to time, stabbing into the barrier before disintegrating. Dark clouds were densely covering the sky above the city. These were the thunder clouds summoned by the storm titans. After the thunder clouds gathered to a certain extent, countless lightning snakes darted down crazily. With so many magic attacks, the barrier of Ur-Hekal immediately became strained. Under the continuous bombardment, the layer of transparent ripples was continuously compressing. In the city, the numerous succubi, who were maintaining the core of the barrier and inputting magic power into it, were gradually drained of their magic power and had no choice but to start an emergency rotation.
The demon heroes under Xeron panicked when they saw this. They immediately went to a higher elevation on the city wall and raised their scythes to cast spells. Countless huge fire meteors suddenly appeared in the sky. These fire meteors howled as they smashed into the ground like missiles, and the landing point was the mages of Bracada. The meteor shower released by several demon heroes was extremely powerful. Even though Zehir and the others were trying their best to save the mages, numerous mages still died under the magic attack.
The air was full of the pungent smell of flames and the thick smell of blood. Be it the alliance army or the demons, they had all entered a white-hot state. They stared at each other ferociously. Even though they could not see each other clearly, they still wanted to convey their killing intent. The battle was bitter, but the alliance army was still clenching their teeth and enduring.
The siege lasted for several hours. It was not until the sky darkened and night fell that the alliance army slowly withdrew and began to set camp.
Today, it had failed to break through Ur-Hekal’s barrier…
At night, when Gem and the heroes gathered together to discuss the battle, everyone appeared very hesitant.
They did not know when the Dark Messiah would be born, but one more day’s delay meant a higher success rate for the demons’ scheme. If they really attacked for a long time without success, when Kha-Beleth completed his plan, it would be too late.
“Use the artifacts!” Zehir finally suggested. “This time, I brought the Orb of the Firmament and the Staff of Sar-Issus. When the siege tomorrow starts, I’ll use the power of the artifacts to find a way to destroy the barrier.”
Gem nodded. “I brought the artifacts collected by the elves. The Archer’s Dream set and the Power of the Dragon Father set. After the barrier breaks tomorrow, the dragons can move out!”
With that, Gem and Zehir looked at Gorshak.
Gorshak was a little depressed because the orcs were too poor, and he did not have any decent artifacts on him, so he could only say, “There are dozens of behemoths in my army. I’ll have them take the front when we attack the city tomorrow…”