Chapter 108: The Fall of the City

Battles between lords are many times not just decided by the end of the war.

A game between two, or more parties, of which war is only the most crucial part.

Battles are often won or lost depending on whether the participants in the war can achieve their objectives.

That's why military chess projection is treated as a common course in schools, not the only one.

This was known not only to Su Ying Xue, but also to Wu Fear, who was at the bottom of the list.

Only, the purpose of these two final participants of the Lords' Trial was the same at this moment.

That was to expel the other party's forces, back to the other party's realm, and monopolize the entire Trial Continent.

Because only then can the two decide the true number one!

"Evacuate your own civilian units and get the army into the city to exterminate the demons!"

The first moment she received Ms. Char's message, Su Ying Xue gave her order without the slightest hesitation.

"Of which sheltering civilians is the second most important!"

"The first matter of importance is the extermination of the demons and the fallen!"

"Any civilians who come into excessive contact with the Fallen, or any civilian unit that is involved with the Fallen, can be executed outright by the military!"

As the order was given, the various city forces, which were already on edge before, moved.

But even then, they were still much too late.

After all, Wu Fear had started to set up this attack several days ago.

So when the pious armies move in to the places where the "rebellion" is taking place, it will be a hellish scene.

"O Goddess of Wisdom, save me and shelter my soul."

A believer in the Goddess of Wisdom, praying while being dragged towards some city corner by fallen men long ago corrupted by demonic forces.

Farther up in the direction.

For their part, countless Fallen with various sharp blades in their hands were constantly hunting down and persecuting ordinary civilian units.

These fallen ones were twisted and their souls had long stank.

Even their eyes were as muddy as a mud puddle.

And their mouths murmured the dream visions the nightmares had woven for them.

From the beginning of the Fall, they were no longer ordinary creatures, but slaves to the demons.

However, these horrible degenerates, upon capturing the civilian units, do not kill them outright, but rather drag them towards some fixed corner of the city after inflicting all sorts of horrible evils.

And in the middle of that city corner, a loud and somewhat illusory heartbeat was resonating between heaven and earth.

And, as time went on, this heartbeat became louder and closer to reality.

The source of this heartbeat sound is a kind of Demon Gate building that grows out of an underground magic formation.

This particular building is shaped like a heart.

Only the material that made up its own was the blood and bones of innocents.

Whether it's the devout believers or those innocent citizens, any civilian unit that doesn't escape the area under the Fallen's control in time will be captured by the Fallen and made into fodder for the Demon's Gate.

And the more they suffer, the more they wail, the more they are tortured before they die, the more valuable they become, the more they can speed up the construction of this Abyssal Gate.

Because only then would their souls be valuable to the Endless Abyss.

As more and more souls are sacrificed to the Demon's Gate, the more the soldiers will be surprised to find that the land is being desecrated more and more.

Grotesque abyssal plants will inexplicably grow on otherwise ordinary land.

These Abyssal Plants, though nominally plants, were no less aggressive than any predator.

Attributes such as poisonous and psychedelic are common, and even more terrifying is that some Abyssal Plants possess active predatory abilities, actively grabbing any passing creatures and swallowing them into their bellies, turning them into part of their own sustenance.

It doesn't matter if it catches an animal, an intelligent being, or one of the Fallen.

And inside the city, a great deal of the air began to mutate.

The air inside large swaths of the area began to become foul-smelling, became filled with toxins, and became no longer suitable for ordinary creatures to survive.

And the buildings that were parasitized by this air corrosion as well as the abyssal plants began to become decayed, infinitely moving towards demonic denizenship.

The area of the city that the group of soldiers used to be incredibly familiar with began to gradually develop towards some kind of unnameable and bizarre state.

It's as if, this area of fallen cities is beginning to break down the barriers between reality and illusion.

They changed into some kind of channel, some kind of link to the dark fallen world!

But all of this has one purpose.

That's to celebrate the early arrival of the demons.

So, as the pious armies, began to swing their sharp blades in their hands, working their way towards the interior of the area and eventually reaching their destination.

The construction of the Devil's Gate, too, has been completed.

It was in the despairing eyes of these soldiers that creatures far beyond what their faith described descended upon the city with evil smiles.

These demons, with their twisted forms, scrambled out of this makeshift structure of the Demon Gate.

With their arrival, it was instead the fallen ones who first welcomed relief.

This group of marginalized people, who had fallen for various reasons, ran to the "God's Angels" in a dream to seek liberation.

And indeed, they do usher in their own deliverance.

The grinning demons, instead of the nightmare demons, completed the contract, killing the group of degenerates one by one and then sending their already corrupted souls to the Endless Abyss.

Unlike Su Ying Xue's army, Wu Fear's demons were a bunch of lunatics who loved pain.

They longed to see others die, to see each other wail and ache!

So the flesh and blood of these fallen ones only further fueled the group of abyssal creatures that had come out of the Devil's Gate, making them, already hungry and thirsty, even more desperate to plunder everything in this city.

And the group of soldiers who were already fearful because of the change in their surroundings would be unable to control their trembling and fear when they saw the group of huge demons.

But this, too, is just the beginning.

As I said before, the Devil's Gate is a special kind of building, special in that it is much like a combination of the Profane Torch and the Abyssal Portal.

Then there was the fact that, as a demonic exclusive teleportation device, there was an upper limit to the number of demonic units that could be transmitted at once.

So the Devil's Gate is also like a sort of connector of the Abyss linking to reality of sorts, and if it does get damaged then all the demons will be furious and upset at the loss of their connection to the Endless Abyss.

It's a brand engraved in the souls of all demons.

As beings of the Endless Abyss, demons are destined to serve the Endless Abyss to the end until their souls return to the Endless Abyss.

So they will do everything in their power to try to relink the Endless Abyss after losing their link to it.

And this situation will become even worse as the special building, the Demon Gate, bursts open due to the sheer number of demons it carries.

Because the behavior of that group of demons will be even more reckless and crazy until they relink back to the Endless Abyss!

As for the only way to link back to the Endless Abyss is to build more Demon Gates to spread the influence of the Abyss even further ....

And the materials they used to build the second batch of Demon Gates were, naturally, the group of troops that had just moved into this area!

The demons, looking at the group of soldiers who were gradually losing their minds due to the overwhelming horror of the scene around them, revealed a greedy expression .....