The pale flames burned the exposed skin of these mages. The originally normal skin was now cracked, revealing the hideous wounds underneath. The blood evaporated and was swallowed by the flames.

The flames burned quietly, as if using the mages as firewood to sustain a bonfire.

This must have been an extremely painful torture, Lu Ban thought. The expressions on the faces of those mages were even more terrifying than those of the monsters. That was the fear shown by humans after suffering extreme pain. Their limbs kept shaking, and the flames seemed to burst out from their bodies, flowing from their wounds and burning between their bones.

Lu Ban had seen documentaries before of people being engulfed in flames and dying in agony. In fact, many people did not actually die from fire, but more from suffocation due to oxygen depletion. They were suffocated to death before being burned to death.

Even if they are out of the flames, the infection caused by large-area skin burns can be fatal, and the injured will die in endless torture and pain.

And now, these mages are suffering such inhuman torture.

At the same time, Lu Ban saw that the armor on their bodies was emitting a faint light.

However, these armors were not there to protect them from the flames, but to firmly confine their bodies to the high-back chairs, preventing them from leaving the seats because they could no longer endure it.

"Is this the fate of a mage?"

Lu Ban couldn't help but sigh.

"You may not know that the Gray Tower defines an hour as the time it takes for a mage to sit on the torch until it burns out completely."

Jonah looked at his tortured colleagues. The firelight illuminated his face, giving it a mysterious look.

"When we chose the path of the mage, we had already anticipated this outcome."

It seemed that one of the mages could not bear such torture. He opened his mouth and tried to roar, but his throat had already been burned and the flesh and blood exposed on his neck had turned to charcoal. Only air flowed through, making the flames more vigorous.

"In a large fortress, a torch formed by three wizards can resist monsters for an hour. In a smaller stronghold, a torch formed by one wizard can resist monsters for an hour."

Jonah was doing simple math.

During the three days of the demonic tide, three mages died every hour in the Black Castle Fortress.

There were hundreds of such fortresses.

In one demonic tide, tens of thousands of mages may die in the Kingdom of Night.

This kind of demonic tide has been going on for a thousand years at least once a year.

Lu Ban did not count how many mages died in the process.

These extraordinary people who possess extraordinary powers and seem powerful in other foreign lands can actually only be treated as consumables like firewood when the demon tide comes.

If the rangers of the Black Tower are ordinary people who have difficulty controlling their own destiny, then the mages of the Grey Tower are extraordinary people whose destiny has already been determined.

What is even more despairing is that even though such a price has been paid, the land of the Country of Darkness is still decreasing every year, the Black Forest is gradually covering the entire continent, and with the simultaneous appearance of the three demonic tides this time, the Black Tower's defenses may completely collapse.

Thousands of years of sacrifice only delayed the end of destruction a little bit.

Just like the resistance at Black Castle Fortress now.

Even if it can resist once, or twice, the fortress will eventually fall.

It's all in vain.

Suddenly, a wolf howled.

This wolf howl was much louder than any other one he had heard before. It made his heart tremble and he felt fear instinctively.

Lu Ban hurriedly left the hall and came to the window.

The ranger on duty had trembling legs and could barely stand.

Through the window between the stones, Lu Ban saw the thing.

In the eternal night, under the blood moon, stood a giant wolf.

The size of this wolf is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

As tall as a mountain, its existence seemed to be an eternal thing in this world. Just seeing its figure was enough to make people give up resistance.

There is no match for it at all; it is something that should exist in this world.

From Lu Ban's perspective, the giant wolf's back was already against the blood moon. It was silver all over, shining brightly in the eternal darkness. It had a captivating face; although it was clearly a wolf, one could see some human looks in it.

Those dark red eyes were like the red moon hanging high in the sky, emitting a devilish and enchanting glow.

Winter Wolf, Lord of Frost!

"I'm going to fight this thing and take its heart?"

Lu Ban suddenly felt that this mission was nonsense.

Such a large creature's heart is probably a size larger than Lu Ban's. Even if he could find a way to fire a shot at it and render it unable to move, where would Lu Ban have the time to take out its heart?

Not to mention the other two demonic waves.

If it was only frost, Lu Ban felt there was still hope, but whether it was eternal night or plague, neither was something Lu Ban could solve easily.

He saw countless small pieces of dust shaken off from the huge winter wolf.

Those things that looked like small dust particles from a distance were actually giant wolves.

Those winter wolves were as tall as a small building, had silver-gray fur, and four eyes.

More little wolves jumped off from those second-level winter wolves.

In the blink of an eye, the winter wolves formed a silver-white wave.

This wave was not just what Lu Ban saw in front of his eyes, but appeared simultaneously in the entire Kingdom of Night and the entire Black Forest.

If you were to wander outside this world at this moment and look down from a very high vantage point, you would be able to see a streak of silver frost appear on the dark and deep earth, and then gather towards the only remaining settlement of human civilization.

Wherever the silver frost passed, everything froze, even the air turned into ice crystals.

Lu Ban's breath had turned into a pure white weapon. He saw frost spreading from the outside of the fortress along the windows towards the inside. Before the winter wolves arrived at the fortress, the outermost layer of the Black Castle Fortress might be completely frozen.

At this time, Lu Ban heard a horn.

It was a horn that came from the dome. It seemed to be unstable at first, but as it played, the sound became louder and louder, and it actually gave people the feeling of the howl of a winter wolf.

The next moment, Lu Ban saw huge stones being thrown out from above the fortress.

The stones emitted light, illuminating the eternal night around them.

Boom——

The stone fell to the ground, into the frost tide, and immediately caused several gaps to appear in the wave.

But the gap was quickly filled without any abating.

Moreover, these winter wolves were not just charging in one wave.

In the places covered by frost, the ice crystals are breeding more and more winter wolves, endlessly.

At this moment, many people could not imagine that the area of ​​the silver-white part of the Black Forest far exceeded the area of ​​the only remaining unpolluted land of the human beings in the Kingdom of Darkness.

Billions of winter wolves are rushing towards the bastion of human civilization.