Alien Knights

Soul space, conference hall.

Cumberland pointed to the holographic map floating in mid-air: "In the hilly area fifteen kilometers east of the Holy Acropolis, we dug three eight-kilometer-long trenches there and deployed a large number of traps and troops. The purpose It’s to stop the advance of the undead army.”

"Just now, the frontline troops had their first contact with the vanguard of the undead."

Todd looked at the map and nodded toward Cumberland.

Cumberland said: "I am now transferring the battlefield footage, and the image is from a Valkyrie on a bombing mission."

Soon, the map slowly disappeared, and a huge screen slowly rose from the center of the conference table.

The screen lights up, and the first thing that comes into view is the blue sky and a griffon underneath. This is the first-person perspective of a Valkyrie riding a griffon.

Her eyes took in the entire war and sent it all to Todd's soul space.

In the picture, far away from the boundary of the perspective, huge black waves appear from the horizon and surge towards the defense line.

There are corpses possessed by black parasites, including humans, cattle and horses, cats and dogs, rats... everything.

They were like maggots attracted by flesh and blood, overwhelming and spreading, occupying all the space on the earth.

They have no formation, no tactics, and their only consciousness is to charge forward.

Directly above the hills, the defensive force composed of soldiers from the Holy Acropolis and the Holy Crusaders used earth, rocks and fences to surround the entire hill into a towering and solid temporary fortress.

The undead like sea water rushed towards the hilly defense line. There was a lot of commotion among the Holy Acropolis soldiers in the defensive force. The frontline troops fled in a small scale, but under the control of the supervising team, the retreat was stopped.

Cumberland said dissatisfied: "The army of Holy Acropolis has been lax for too long."

Todd shook his head: "No army can be fearless in the face of an enemy beyond imagination."

Cumberland said while looking at the picture: "The undead have reached the first trench."

Thousands of undead, carrying black parasites on their bodies, fell into the first trench crazily.

The roars of humans, the barks of cats and dogs, and the cries of cattle and horses continued to echo and amplify in this trench that was nearly ten meters deep. It sounded like the sounds of hell coming from the ground.

Bugles sounded from the military camps on the hills.

Soon, a flaming arrow streaked across the sky and shot straight into the first trench, igniting the firewood and oil placed inside.

Fires burst into the sky in an instant, and the crackling and exploding sounds of bones and flesh under the high temperature resounded throughout the battlefield.

The attack of the undead army was firmly blocked outside the trench by the fire.

Looking at this scene, Todd and Cumberland not only did not relax, but frowned.

Todd asked Cumberland: "You just said that this is the vanguard of the undead."

"The undead coming from the direction of Taylor City, after sweeping through the surrounding countries, have gradually expanded into an army that cannot be calculated in numbers."

"This army is mainly divided into three routes, one heading east towards the desert; one heading north towards the snow-capped mountains; and the last heading west towards us. Among them, the west route has the largest number."

"And these undead that are attacking the Holy Acropolis now are the smallest of the vanguard of this army."

"The reason why we chose to fight outside the city this time is to allow our army to adapt to the undead's attack mode and find a corresponding method."

While Cumberland was speaking, the undead army was still rushing towards the sea of ​​fire, showing no fear of the flames at all.

The corpses in the trench piled higher and higher, and soon exceeded the height of the trench.

The undead in the rear rushed directly through the first line of defense, stepping on the still burning corpses in the trench.

Soon, the second horn sounded.

The owner of the first perspective, the Valkyrie, put her hand in front of her mouth and whistled.

The griffon under her seat flapped its wings and rushed into the sky. After reaching the height, it dived towards the ground.

The undead army was getting closer and closer to the griffin, so close that they could even see the parasite limbs that were twisting on the corpse.

The Valkyrie suddenly pulled the lock on the gryphon's back, and dozens of spore bombs fell to the ground in the net pocket under the gryphon's belly.

After patting the gryphon's head hard, the Valkyrie then blew the whistle hard.

The griffon flapped its wings vigorously, and its entire body instantly rose several meters higher, flying straight towards the clouds.

Behind him, accompanied by a deafening explosion, a huge shock wave shook the Valkyrie and her mount, shaking their bodies.

A few seconds later, Valkyrie looked back and saw a huge fireball rising from the ground, with residual limbs and blood washing the ground like a heavy rain.

The entire battlefield fell into deathly silence.

Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, the undead army moved again.

Reefs can block the waves, but they cannot block the entire sea.

The black parasite sea passed through the smoke and flames and continued to rush towards the hilly position.

The Valkyrie from the first perspective quickly flew towards the rear on her mount. By the time she replenished the spore bombs and flew back to the front line, the undead had already filled in the second trench and were rushing towards the last trench.

Arrows, falling rocks, and oil cans were constantly being thrown out from the hilly position, just like stones thrown into a pond, occasionally causing small ripples, but it was of no use at all.

Todd and Cumberland looked at each other, and the former waved his hand and issued the "entire army retreat" order in the soul space.

Soon, the retreat horn sounded from the hilly position.

The defenders began to set fire to the firewood piles and oil in front of the camp, and began to retreat towards the Holy Acropolis in an organized manner.

The owner of the perspective, the Valkyrie, looked at the undead not far away. Instead of flying back to the camp immediately, she rode her gryphon and rushed forward again. It seemed that she planned to throw the second load of spores before leaving. .

When she flew over the corpses and was about to raise her altitude to drop the bomb, a dark cloud floated in the distant sky.

Countless dead birds clustered together in the air with their wings flapping. Black parasites emerged from their eye sockets, mouths, and chests, controlling their every move.

These corpse birds quickly surrounded the Valkyrie and her griffons and began to launch rounds of attacks.

The griffin let out a mournful cry, and its mangled body fell weakly toward the earth.

The Valkyrie was thrown to the ground, and a group of corpses not far away discovered her, howling and rushing towards her.

The Valkyrie wiped the blood dripping from her forehead, then took off her bow, put on an arrow, and nailed the undead running in front to the ground with one arrow.

The second arrow, the third arrow, the Valkyrie's continuous arrows made it impossible for any undead to get close within a ten-meter radius around her.

When she finished one pot of arrows, she took the second pot of arrows from the gryphon's back.

Just when she was about to draw the bow, a black parasite crawled onto the back of her hand in her field of vision and burrowed into her skin in an instant.

A curse, a sigh.

The Valkyrie turned her bow and arrow towards the spore bombs scattered around the griffon.

Shoot away with an arrow.

The image disappeared, leaving only a blank space.

Cumberland looked at all this with a solemn expression and said nothing for a long time.

Todd closed his eyes and was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Notify the Holy Guard City, shrink the defense circle, organize supplies, and prepare to retreat."