Chapter 267: Bravery and Cowardice (3k)

The battle in front of the fortress continues.

The solid wall finally collapsed completely under the crazy attack of the demons.

Although human resistance still shows no signs of weakening.

But the seemingly endless demons behind really make people see no hope.

The mountain-high lava demon was now staring at the wound on his left arm.

That was left for it by a human transcendent. The other party's sequence was not high, only Sequence 5, not even a demigod.

So at the beginning it didn't even want to take the trouble to block it, but the result was that the opponent almost broke its arm.

After a long time, it reached out its hand and pulled out a dagger from the wound. Compared to it, the dagger was not even as big as a burr.

A cursed weapon of unknown origin?

It seemed to be the weapon of the Lost One, for it was filled with the stench of rotting corpses.

"We are just a group of mortals. How can we persist until now?"

The demon who crushed the dagger looked towards the fortress in confusion.

Those regular troops had been wiped out long ago, and what came in place were a group of mortals armed only with weapons. Not only did they not know how to fight, they didn't even know how to fight.

All they had was numbers and so-called courage.

But it is this group of people who have dragged them on until now, and it looks like they can drag them on even further.

After taking a look at the fortress that had been crumbling since yesterday, it finally gave up the idea of ​​going down again.

The first time, it was nearly killed on the spot by the Dragon Crossbow, and the second time, it nearly lost its left arm.

It doesn't want to happen a third time.

Anyway, their advantages are getting bigger and bigger!

Looking at the sky above, which was almost obscured by demons.

The mountain-tall demon revealed an expression of great satisfaction.

Their main force was indeed being held back in all directions.

But there are really too many of them.

No matter how tight the defenses are, there will always be enough demons to slip in and ruin that damned ritual.

Now that I think about it, no matter how hard the humans inside tried, that extremely blasphemous ritual should have only been completed by less than one-third, right?
Haha, it’s so beautiful.

Although it was already fast to complete one third of the task in less than two days, how could the remaining humans possibly hold out for another two days? —
Just as the demons had expected, even though the front line had completely risked their lives to maintain the defense line, there were still quite a number of demons that crossed the overly large defense line.

For example, at this moment, about seven or eight demons were bypassing the edge of the fortress that was still holding out.

Here, they can even see the demon lord as majestic as a mountain.

They can fly, but there are many animals on the earth that cannot fly and can only slowly cross the steep mountains.

Not only is it a natural line of defense, there are also many humans ambushing inside.

There were originally more than a dozen of them, but when they were flying over the mountains, several of them were shot down by humans who came from nowhere.

They have no interest in caring about the life or death of their companions, and will not fight for so-called revenge.

All they want is to find more normal humans who will not resist, and then enjoy the pleasure of torturing them.

So they just flew higher and faster over the mountains and came here.

And when they came over, they saw from afar a group of humans carrying things and rushing forward.

They were obviously not the crazy humans in the Stronghold, because they wore no armor.

This made the demons rush over with great excitement.

The entire sky in the distance was filled with their strange cries.

But soon, the weird cry became a real weird cry. It was just that before it was to scare humans, but now it was really scared.

Because they saw more humans behind those humans, and several huge lines that almost spanned the entire field of vision.

Even when they stopped, the lines were still moving forward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

They knew what it was almost at first sight.

That's a huge ritual to summon Constantine!

How could it be so fast?!

Aren’t there already a lot of demons coming in from the front?
Don't they bother these humans?
Moreover, even if there were no demonic interference, they shouldn't be able to be so fast!

The demons' minds were instantly filled with absurdity and incomprehension.

But they couldn't understand it, and they knew they had to do something.

They are a new generation of demons, and they don't know how disgusting Constantine is to demons.

But this does not prevent them from knowing how troublesome such a large ceremony will be once completed.

So they rushed directly towards the humans carrying things without hesitation.

These humans are not soldiers or warriors.

They had encountered many humans like this before. As long as they rushed up, the other party would instantly become chaotic and allow them to kill and play with them.

There are even many humans who will directly reach out their hands to their companions, praying that they can be saved by sacrificing their companions.

During the days when the Old World and the Abyss overlapped, humans like this were the norm. The crazy humans in the Fortress were the first anomalies they had seen.

And now, they think it will be the same here!

So they rushed forward with great confidence and boldness.

As the humans below finally saw the incoming demons.

They did indeed scatter.

This made the demons even more ecstatic, and they let out strange cries and rushed forward faster.

But as they kept rushing forward, they realized something was wrong.

The humans did disperse, but they did not flee.

Instead, they scattered and ran towards the fortress! ?

Demons are naturally evil and chaotic creatures, but they are just evil, not stupid. Even as abyssal creatures that feed on negative emotions, they are almost smart!
So they instantly knew what these humans were thinking:

They knew they couldn't defeat them, so they used this method to minimize casualties so that they could deliver supplies into the fortress!

The humans here are also a bunch of lunatics!
After realizing this, the demons with twitching mouth corners decided to teach these humans who can only run a lesson.

They want to let the other party know that this method is useless for them who can fly.

The first demon easily captured a human who was carrying food and weapons.

Although the opponent also ran towards the fortress and tried to take out weapons to fight it, he was frightened to such an extent that he couldn't even draw his dagger. He could only be pinned to the ground from behind and trampled to death by it.

The demon grabbed the opponent's body and flew into the sky, intending to throw it to the next target.

But when it was halfway into the air, it noticed a crossbow arrow shot past it.

Looking in the direction I followed, I saw that it was shot by a human who was running away from below.

This annoyed it greatly, and it tried to attack it without even knowing how to use a crossbow!
But just when it was about to fly down, it saw that one of its companions had been ridden by its target and was constantly stabbing his body with a sword.

Even though his companion who had already flown into the sky had stabbed his claws into the opponent's stomach, the human had no intention of stopping, and instead stabbed more frantically.

Soon, the demon watched his companion fall from the sky and turned into a pool of meat along with the human.

This discovery instantly stopped the demons in their tracks.

These humans will also risk their lives, and the probability is not low.

It is impossible to let an abyss demon who has no supervision and no end in sight risk his life.

They feed on negative emotions and themselves are the embodiment of all negativity.

Selfishness is obviously the first to be blamed!

All the demons stopped where they were.

They hesitated whether to continue. They knew they couldn't leave each other alone, but they also knew they might lose their lives.

Then, they smelled a hint of despair and wailing in the air.

This made them look behind them.

After a brief listening, they heard the painful cries from afar and the excited revelry of their companions.

It was a sound that made their bones numb.

Are there humans in the rear being slaughtered by their companions?

After realizing this, they couldn't help but look down at their feet. The humans just ran away, and at the farther line, there were also some demons that couldn't fly and were trying to attack and destroy the ritual, but the humans there not only didn't run away, they were even more desperate.

After looking back and forth below and far away for a while, the demons all flew away tacitly.

Behind them, the new demons were repeating the process.

They all flew towards the 'paradise' that could only be felt by the demons from afar in the abyss.

On the way, they saw a perfect super-large ceremony and many human corpses, who were either exhausted to death or killed by their companions.

They wanted to go down and destroy it, but they soon discovered that although this super-large ceremony could not be activated yet, the rituals here that had already been completed to a considerable degree would actively repel and burn them.

Even if they risk their lives to destroy it, it will be quickly repaired by humans who appear from nowhere.

In addition, the sweet temptation has become more and more obvious.

So the demons continued to fly towards the depths without hesitation.

They thought that as long as they destroyed it at a deeper level, the same effect would be achieved.

And the front line should be breached soon.

Very diabolical idea.

Then, the demons saw the paradise they were looking for - the refugee camp surrounding the Temple of Remembrance!
The demons couldn't even tell how many humans there were here.

The only thing they know is that the humans here are normal.

They would run, be afraid, beg for mercy, and betray their companions, just like everything they had seen the people here do.

The only thing they can't do is fight them like those crazy people on the front line!

And this was obviously the core of the ceremony. They could even see rituals that were gathering from all directions and were completely destroyed and no one had repaired them!

Why are the humans in front not normal? Because normal humans will never appear on the front line!
After a moment's pause, the demons flying from all directions cheered and joined the carnival.

(End of this chapter)