City Lord's Mansion of City B.
The battle remained deadlocked, but overall it was unfavorable for the defenders, with guards falling from time to time.
Not only that, but there was no way to escape. The city lord's mansion was surrounded by demons, and the entire city was completely blocked. This was the intelligence that the previous waves of messengers had risked their lives to bring back.
The battlefield has now shifted to outside the city lord's hall, and the entire outer courtyard of the city lord's mansion has fallen.
Forced into a corner, the group had no choice but to hastily relocate.
During the transfer, only a portion of the wounded soldiers could be rescued and brought into the hall. The rest of the wounded were helplessly abandoned, and the cries of the wounded soldiers before they died terrified everyone in the hall.
The people guarding the hall now are the city lord's confidants and the bodyguards of the four major families. They are all experts on the ranking list, so the hall is safe for the time being.
The once magnificent hall was now stained with blood and crowded with wounded and replacement personnel. Fortunately, the hall was large enough to accommodate so many people.
The women were led to a private room in the hall, where they huddled in a corner, trembling, completely unlike their usual elegant and dignified selves.
Lu Jiaqi and her daughter managed to calm themselves down. What they needed to do was to prevent others from losing confidence, not to cause trouble for the men fighting outside, and at least to ensure that the harem would not be in turmoil.
At the entrance of the hall, Lu Dingtian personally led the troops to repel the attack of other demons once again.
Perhaps it's a cat-and-mouse game; every time the monsters are defeated, they are given less than a minute to rest.
They were able to take a short break during the monster rotation.
Lu Dingtian exhaled a breath of stale air. In the past, he could recover after a fight by resting for a while, but now he was already panting after only an hour of holding out.
He had to admit he was getting old, he sighed inwardly.
As a level 20 warrior, although I handle various affairs every day, my level has not fallen behind.
"You should go back to your room and rest," Mu Feng, one of his old subordinates, advised.
At this moment, Mu Feng was covered in blood, with a bandage on his left forearm and blood seeping out from time to time. Although he was in a sorry state, he was still in high spirits.
"What are you saying? Everyone is fighting desperately to kill the enemy. What kind of appearance would it be if I went in to rest?"
"Should we... go inside and talk to your sister-in-law?" Mu Feng asked hesitantly, his expression downcast, in a low voice.
Lu Dingtian hesitated upon hearing this, knowing that he was merely clinging to life and that the next wave of monster attacks could mean certain death at any moment.
"No, we're an old married couple, we've said everything we needed to say!" Lu Dingtian replied with a wry smile, seemingly lost in thought.
Knowing Lu Dingtian's temper, Mu Feng had no choice but to signal with his eyes for the guards around him to gather around him.
The next wave is expected to be even more ferocious, so I need to be fully prepared.
"By the way, young man from the Xiao family, why don't you go in and chat with my daughter?" Lu Dingtian said, turning to Xiao Yan.
“This…, okay, Uncle.” Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, but then understood what Lu Dingtian meant and was overjoyed.
"Thank me after you survive." Lu Dingtian didn't say anything more, but his hand holding the weapon was trembling.
There was no other way; his daughter was unworthy of anyone, but he had no better options and had to resort to this desperate measure.
As for that man named Liu Nian, his biggest weakness is his lack of any foundation. Although he may be number one on the list, so what?
Everyone has weaknesses, and an individual's strengths can easily be erased by the collective.
It's a pity. If he had even a little bit of power, I would have felt comfortable entrusting my daughter to him.
Yan Kuan had subtly revealed that he had given all the supplies he had given to the families of the fallen guards free of charge. He was indeed very moved, but he did not hesitate. His daughter, Lu Dingtian's daughter, could not live a life of poverty with others.
As for morality? The morality of the poor is worthless!
Since there will be regrets no matter which choice I make, I might as well just leave it at that!
Everyone present was shrewd and knew that Lord Lu had accepted the marriage; his daughter was to be married to the Xiao family of City C.
As for the dim-witted Zhu Siming, he was also a weakling with no fighting ability and was arranged to rest indoors.
As a newly emerging force, their alliance is quite a remarkable story.
Of course, the prerequisite is to survive today.
Chen Heng took the lead, wearing a purple armor worth over 300,000 yuan, and stood at the forefront, with his sister Chen Ling behind him.
After a brief exchange of congratulations, everyone held their breath and waited for the next wave of monsters to arrive.
About half a minute later, the door was knocked open, and a group of monsters wielding large clubs were the first to storm into the hall.
They were about one and a half times the height of a person, completely naked except for a tattered cloth covering their private parts, with a thumb-thick iron chain wrapped around their waist as decoration. Their exposed upper bodies and arms had bulging, yellowish-brown muscles, making it easy to imagine how astonishing their strength was.
Soon everyone witnessed it: after gathering their strength, they raised their wooden sticks and smashed them at the guards in the front row, completely disregarding the guards' sharp blades.
The guards' weapons were light and agile, striking them first, but were blocked by their strong muscles, leaving only a slight gash on the surface before they could not advance any further.
But the guards who were hit by the wooden club suffered much worse fates. The immense force transmitted through the club caused them to feel dizzy and fall into a state of vertigo on the spot. Some guards with weaker defenses had their chests crushed and died instantly.
[Big Beast] (Demon Unit)
Attack power: 26-78
Defense: 15-30
Health Points: 500
Skills: Heavy Strike,
Heavy Strike: An attack launched after charging, stunning the target and dealing 200% of attack power as damage. (Stun effect depends on the length of the charge time.)
Their combined heavy blows disrupted the guards' deployment, and taking advantage of the stun effect, several more guards were killed by the giant beasts.
With the defenses breached, the remaining monsters rushed in through these gaps, attempting to storm into the hall.
Fortunately, the remaining mage troops inside the hall finished their chanting, and the monsters outside the hall were repelled by the mages' earthen walls, ice storms, fire walls, and wind blades.
The melee guards smashed the frozen giant beast, taking the opportunity to fill the gap and retake the hall entrance.
Once the spell's effect wore off, both sides were once again locked in a battle of offense and defense.
After several back-and-forth battles, the mage troops ran out of mana, and the situation gradually turned against the city lord's mansion.
"It's over." Only Mu Feng and a few other key members remained by his side; the rest of the guards had all died in battle.
Seeing that the number of guards was small and that most of them could barely stand, Lu Dingtian couldn't help but think that the situation was hopeless.
The rest of the people weren't much better off; they never expected that coming to the auction would be a one-way trip.
After a brief farewell to Lu Jiaqi, Xiao Yan returned to the front lines. It must be said that, as the heir to City C, he has been well-trained.
The monsters paid no heed to the humans' sentiments; they strode forward, intent on killing them all.
Unfortunately, an unexpected change occurred. Before they could even enter the hall, a series of orderly footsteps sounded outside the wall.
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