Chapter 462: Siege and Fall "Has Your Majesty left the imperial capital?"
After listening to Greenton's report on the time, Duke Thunder asked his son.
"I had left with the Imperial War Department five minutes ago, and the last order given to us before leaving was to act cheaply."
Glinton replied quickly, and the energy rifle in his hand continued to shoot at the demons in the sky that he was trying to capture.
"Tell the boys that their mission is done, and our next task is to find a way to survive for ourselves."
Duke Fury Thunder raised his head and looked at the heavenly dome that was hundreds of meters high from the ground, and said slowly, after completing the blocking mission, whether they could escape from this dead place became a huge problem.
There are only two ways to get back to the seventh floor, one is to fly through the gap opened by the Eternal Guardian to enter the seventh floor, and the other is to climb up to the seventh floor through the spiral staircase on the side of the Earth Tower, but now the Duke of Thunder has no vehicles in his hands that can carry the remaining 1,700 heavy constructed warriors to fly, and the passage leading to the seventh floor has already collapsed and sealed in the previous explosion.
When Edward withdrew the troops above the seventh layer to protect the retreat of the imperial capital, the Duke of Fury and the two thousand royal guards who broke through to the eighth layer had already been abandoned, and the true meaning of the so-called self-retreat was this.
"We retreat in the direction of the spiral staircase, which is narrower and easier to defend, and as for that staircase, as long as we can hold on for a while, the mages can create a way for us to escape."
After hesitating for a moment, Duke Thunder ordered Glinton, and then Glinton commanded the royal guards, who were all familiar with him, to abandon the defense of the central cavern of the tower in an orderly manner and retreat to the side of the tower.
Although the soldiers were all very happy to hear that they could retreat after the mission was completed, these people did not include the Duke of Fury Thunder, who had been staring at the deep void.
After unable to find an emergency retreat, Duke Fury Thunder had to choose this method that was like a slow suicide to delay the death of the soldiers.
Everyone knew that once the endless demons rushed out of the ground, they would block the way out on the ground, and even if the soldiers could hold out until the magician cleared the passage and returned to the surface, if they missed this last precious time, they would still face an endless siege of demons or angels.
However, it was at least much better than being killed immediately, and until the last moment, Duke Thunder would not want any soldiers to die in front of him again.
There were enough people who died today, and just as Duke Angry Thunder sighed, there was a sudden spatial fluctuation around him.
"Lord Duke, please come over here."
A voice that only Duke Thunder could hear reached Duke Thunder's ears, and the Duke immediately recognized that it was the voice of Elaine, the space-time dragon sent by the Dragons to cooperate with the humans.
"Miss Elaine, what are you doing here?"
Although Duke Thunder understood Edward's decision in his heart, he still opened his mouth to ask Elaine.
"I'm here to pick you up and get you out of here, in ten minutes the upper seven floors of the Earth Tower will be detonated by a large number of explosives, this explosion will completely seal this hole leading to the underground, if you stay here, you will probably die, so your emperor begs me to take you away secretly."
Elaine explained to Duke Thunder that it seemed that because of Edward's special request, even at this time, the silver dragon remained invisible.
"What about the soldiers?"
Duke Thunder calmly pointed to the soldiers who were retreating towards the spiral passage and asked.
"It's a shame that I've already used up too much energy today, and I can only leave here with a maximum of seven people right now, so if you have any candidates, please let them come over as soon as possible."
Elaine said with some regret.
She has carried out two large-scale spatial teleportations in a row today in order to deal with the invasion of demon eggs, and after that, she was invited to the imperial capital and the blood clan Tina to engage in a fierce chase battle, even if the space-time dragon is born with the ability to travel in space, just the legendary rank of her manipulation of space so frequently in a day has already made her situation extremely dangerous.
The slightest carelessness in the manipulation of this kind of existence in space will destroy the body, and now carrying seven people is the limit that Elaine can do for Duke Angry Thunder.
"That's right, Greenton, bring those badly wounded boys!"
Duke Thunder nodded calmly, and then beckoned Grinton and the other soldiers to carry a few of the seriously wounded over, and although these soldiers were a little unsure of the Paladin's request, they still quickly carried out the order.
"Please send them back to the ground for treatment, these lads have behaved valiantly, if the highest act of a soldier's loyalty to the Empire is to sacrifice his life, then they have done it now, and now their remaining lives are all picked up from the hands of the Grim Reaper, they don't need to stay here and give up their lives for the Empire."
Duke Angry Thunder said loudly to the empty place, and Elaine had to reluctantly show her figure after hearing Duke Angry Thunder's undisguised words.
"What about you?
Lord Duke?
Elaine reluctantly confirmed.
"I am a knight of His Majesty, and in this world, if I cowardly flee in the face of enemies and difficulties, how can other knights protect their faith?"
Duke Thunder drew his sword and gave Elaine a sword-wielding knightly salute, then turned and walked towards the soldiers of the Royal Guard with his sword in hand.
And at this time, Elaine didn't have any way to make a coercive move against a legendary powerhouse who had already drawn his long sword and entered the battle state, and finally Elaine glanced at the back of the Duke of Angry Thunder with some frustration, and then disappeared into the air with the wounded soldiers in a burst of silver light.
"Boys, our chances of survival this time are probably very small, but I'm very happy that I can fight with you until the last moment.
It was because of my recklessness that I rushed to the eighth floor with you before, but I swear by the glory of the Gray family, Derek Gray, that I will never abandon any of you and escape!
The Duke of Fury, wielding his sword, gave a sword salute to the 1,700 soldiers of the Royal Guard, and those who were also aware of their death, without any complaints or complaints, silently raised their weapons and saluted the paladin.
The paladins and soldiers then silently retreated to the edge of the eighth floor of the Earth Tower, and then, under the guidance of the magicians, began to dig a crater at the edge of the tower and waited for the impending explosion.
The power-armored guards lifted the stone slabs on the ground and quickly dug out enough space with their hands, and then less than a minute after they jumped into the pit, a series of thunderous noises rang out from above their heads.
The demons who broke through the magic net and rushed to the exit of the ground were smashed back to the ground again in an instant by the mud and rubble like a torrent, and the violent vibration made the soldiers hiding in the pit and holding their heads tremble involuntarily.
After nearly three minutes of the explosion, the violent shaking of the earth finally stopped, but fortunately due to the protection of the crater, except for a few soldiers who were injured by the debris falling from the sky, none of the soldiers were killed by the explosion.
Unfortunately, however, the spiral passage on the side of the Earth Tower was also shattered by the explosion, and 1,700 Guards and Duke of Fury and his second son, Glinton, were trapped in this enclosed space.
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"At least now we can rest and get some sleep and then think about what to do next."
After counting the number of people, Glynton said to his father with a smile that due to the collapse of a large amount of earth and rubble, the hole in the central part of the eighth layer has been temporarily blocked, and it will take at least a while for the demons to open the passage again, and during this time, whether Elaine can regain his strength and save them is the only hope for the soldiers to leave.
Although it is easy to say, Glinton and Duke Fury Thunder both understand their current situation, the explosion just now has disrupted the nearby space, making the spatial positioning of the time and space dragon extremely difficult, and now they are in this confined space There is no water and food, and the royal guards have never been in the habit of carrying their own supplies.
Whether they can survive or not is no longer up to them, now it is up to the outside empire to have the strength and time to save them.
While the exhausted warriors fell asleep, the troops on the ground were far less fortunate than them.
The imperial capital has now fallen into a sea of fire, and the attacks of the beast angels have begun to gradually spread to the urban agglomeration near the imperial capital.
Those citizens who had been driven out of the city during the day could now only desperately use their legs to run away from the imperial capital, and the small number of troops near the imperial capital was buying time for these ordinary people to survive.
Fortunately, at this time, the air force units stationed in the northwest had already rushed to the airspace near the imperial capital, and a large number of artillery fire from the sky barely kept the fragile temporary defense line of mankind.
The battle between the air force and the beast angels lasted until the early morning of the next day, and after nearly 150,000 beast angels were killed, the remaining beast angels suddenly turned around and flew towards the imperial capital that was still burning with fire.
The Battle of the Imperial Capital officially ended at this moment, and this battle also officially kicked off the prelude to the century-long war of the Three Realms.