"Attention all captains, once the areas to be guarded are assigned, you must be fully alert!"
"Each team is at least several hundred meters apart. This means you need to be divided into several small teams and patrol the areas you are responsible for!"
"At the same time, this also means that once a monster launches an attack from a certain direction, the team responsible for this area will have to fight alone before others arrive. Therefore, the captain must release a signal flare as soon as he discovers a monster!"
"Adventurers, do you understand?"
The twelve captains and vice-captains standing in front of An Nuo said solemnly, "Understood!"
An Nuo glanced at everyone and said in a low voice: "Tell all the adventurers that as long as they survive tonight, everyone will be a hero!"
"Hahaha, I thought only the strong could be heroes, but I didn't expect that I, a level 4, would have a chance!"
Kahn, the deputy captain of Geng Qingxue's team, laughed and said, "President, although I have just arrived at the Adventurer's Guild, when everyone was killing slimes, they helped each other and felt relieved to leave their backs to their teammates. The sense of trust is really good.
When the meeting is over tomorrow, I will definitely treat the president to a glass of buckwheat wine. It can only be cheap buckwheat wine, after all, I don’t have much money! "
"Hahaha, I saw you carrying a knife and thought you were rich, but I didn't expect you were also poor!"
Another level 4 hunter adventurer said, "I'm different. I'll buy the president a couple of drinks tomorrow!"
An Nuo looked at their smiling faces and said with some emotion: "In that case, when the end comes tomorrow, I will treat everyone to a glass of buckwheat wine!"
"Then it's settled!"
Xiao turned around and shouted to the many adventurers behind him: "The president will treat us to drinks tomorrow. Did you all hear that?"
"I heard it!" everyone shouted in unison.
The sound even alarmed the townspeople and mercenaries not far away.
An Nuo looked at the many adventurers holding torches and shouted, "Everyone, in this defensive battle, although we are on guard, we don't need to fight high-level monsters, the guards and mercenaries will deal with them, but we are still needed to fight low-level monsters!
But this is also an opportunity for us to become stronger.
The combat experience will become our nourishment!
This afternoon, many people leveled up by hunting slimes.
If the monsters do attack, then we will kill them and increase our level!
In this operation, the guards and mercenaries will add a level 6 professional to each team.
After discovering the monster, they will also rush there as soon as possible.
So, don't be afraid.
Our strength is also very strong!"
Many adventurers were recruited by force of law.
Many people still had some fear in their hearts.
After all, this isn't the first time a monster attack has occurred.
Some of them even experienced their villages being attacked by monsters.
At this time, he was comforted by An Nuo. Although the fear in his heart had not completely dissipated, it was much better than before!
An Nuo and the other captains looked at each other, then shouted, "Let's go!"
Six teams, each with thirty-six people, led by their captains, rushed to the designated location carrying all kinds of supplies that might be used.
Behind Annuo, there are six professionals.
The two were wearing standard uniforms, holding swords in their hands and wearing armor.
These were Anno's acquaintances, guards Brooke and Owen, who took the initiative to ask Rodney for the task of assisting the adventurers.
Of the remaining four, two are from the Bloodstain Mercenary Group and two are from the Black Widow Mercenary Group.
All six of them are warriors or knights.
An Nuo assigned both members of the Bloodstain Mercenary Group to Xue Feibai's team, and the other four were assigned to four teams according to needs.
To be honest, An Nuo did not trust the people from the Bloodstain Mercenary Group.
The purpose of being assigned to Xue Feibai's team is to prevent accidents.
Because Xue Feibai's team has to guard the main gate, which is also the place that everyone pays most attention to.
Even if other guards and mercenary groups do not participate in the battle in the early stages, they will draw attention to this direction.
The people from the Bloodstain Mercenary Group dare not make any small moves here.
An Nuo himself came to the right side of Xue Feibai's team.
The captain of this team is Lu Zhishang, whose strength is currently only level 3. The deputy captain is also level 3, and the rest are mainly level 2.
The overall strength is a bit poor, which is why Annuo came here.
Another team with weaker strength is Lu Yan. He and Lu Zhishang did not participate in the mission in Gran Village, and their current level is also level 3.
However, Brooke is in their team, and they are right on the right side of Lu Zhishang's team, so if anything happens, Annuo can rush over quickly.
Moreover, Annuo also gave Lu Yan a level 5 wind wolf as a mount, turning Lu Yan into a real knight!
After arriving at the designated location, Annuo asked the adventurers to light a fire and set up straw men nearby - this was an order Annuo had given in advance in order to confuse the monsters. Other teams also got a lot of straw men from the townspeople before leaving.
In addition, Annuo also asked everyone to dig the soil quickly and pile it into long earth walls and trenches.
This way, if you encounter a monster with long-range attack capabilities, you can hide behind cover.
Anno himself also participated in the construction of the earth wall.
As time passed, everyone became more and more nervous.
In the darkness, the only sound was the crackling of the burning fire.
Although there is a ten-meter-wide moat separating the town from the grassland, and there are only two wooden bridges - one in the south of the town and the other in the north.
Xue Feibai was guarding the main gate due north.
The south gate was guarded by Geng Qingxue's team.
Although both bridges have been raised, who knows if the monsters have other ways to cross the river.
The villages and towns that were destroyed before were not without protective rivers.
I heard that when the battle was being discussed, someone suggested destroying the wooden bridge to prevent monsters from sneaking over, and then lowering the bridge to allow the monster troops to rush in quickly.
But this was unanimously rejected by the three captains.
The reason is that if both bridges are destroyed, the town of Gruul will be separated from the outside world by the ten-meter-wide moat.
By then, if the battle is lost, the townspeople will not even have a way to retreat.
It is not easy to swim across a ten-meter-deep river, not to mention that there are many old, weak, young and large townspeople.
While all the adventurer teams were waiting quietly, on the grassland not far away, a cloaked figure walked out of the darkness in front of a super-large slime that was protected by many large slimes in the center.
The night wind blew up the cloak, revealing the two horns on the cloaked man's head that curved backwards.
Sensing the cloaked man's approach, the giant slime rolled its round body.
Judging from the movements, it looks like he is bowing down to the man in the cloak.
"Slime King!"
The cloaked man touched the giant slime and spoke the language of the demons, "Begin the attack!"
Although King Slime is the king, his IQ is still not high.
However, it could still understand the simple attacking orders from the upper demons.
“Roar!”
A mouth opened in the middle of the Slime King's body and it let out a roar.
The slimes that were all over the surrounding mountains and plains immediately began to jump and rush towards the town of Gruul.
…
“Chirp!”
At first, Anno only heard a few sporadic cries of the slime.
But soon, the sounds became one and the volume became louder.
Just from the sound, one could tell that there were definitely hundreds or even thousands of slimes rushing over.
"Here we go, get ready to fight!"
An Nuo poked his head out from behind the earth wall and looked at the other side of the river in the dim moonlight.
Through the summoned goblins scattered around, Annuo learned that currently only the main gate and the nearby directions were attacked by slimes.
The only ones affected were Xue Feibai's team, An Nuo's team to Xue Feibai's right, and Meng Xin's team to Xue Feibai's left.
There is no movement in other directions for the time being.
Moreover, there was no sign of the monster goblin.
Therefore, Annuo did not release the flare immediately.
The other teams probably didn't see the goblins either, so Annuo didn't see the flare go off.