Chapter 365 - Cataclysm (1) (1/2)
The alliance army’s crusade against Ur-Hekal began, and the first to attack was the hundreds of catapults.
These catapults looked different in styles because various races made them. The orc’s catapults were simple and crude, while the humans were finely crafted. As for the elves, theirs looked slender. But regardless of what race made the catapults, they had enough tonnage and looked gigantic. When the winches pulled back the thick arms bit by bit until they laid flat, the cyclopes or titans waiting at the side would carry boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms or even nearly a ton and place them on the throwing arms.
When these steps finished, soldiers would cut the restraining ropes and cause the throwing arms to spring back suddenly. The arms would throw these heavy boulders out and smash them at the city wall of Ur-Hekal with tremendous kinetic energy.
Almost instantly, howling sounds resounded from the sky as hundreds of boulders spun in the air in a parabola and then crashed into various parts of Ur-Hekal. Thunderous rumbling sounds immediately came from every impact point, and dust and rubble flew everywhere. The screams of the demons were endless.
In this first wave of attacks, a small portion hit the city wall, and more boulders fell into Ur-Hekal. Some of the taller buildings collapsed with a loud bang after being struck. Many of the demons on standby in the city could not dodge in time and were smashed into a bloody mess. The remaining could only roar angrily as they stared at the sky in the direction where the boulders came from and tried to escape.
Soon, the second wave of catapult attacks followed. After the corrections from the first wave, more boulders smashed onto the city wall.
The alliance army’s goal was, of course, to break the city wall. Although there were many catapults, it was impossible to bury all the demons with stone. The final goal of the war was to attack the city.
With the cover of the catapult attacks, the behemoths formed an assault force and approached the city wall. They only stopped temporarily about three hundred meters away from the city wall to wait for the catapults to continue bombarding.
Facing such a massive attack, even Roy was shocked. Apart from commanding the demons to defend, he did not have a better way to deal with it.
Of course, the demons in the city were also using the catapults to fight back. The boulders flying out of the city crossed with the boulders thrown by the alliance army in the air, but they appeared so scattered and sparse. Although the boulders crashed into the alliance army formation, most of them landed where the behemoths were. With such attacks, it was extremely difficult to kill these behemoths known as the kings of war. Instead, after being hurt, they roared again and again.
After the casualties of many demons in Ur-Hekal, the pervasive smell of blood stimulated the remaining demons and aroused their ferocity. The high-rank demons under Roy began to use magic to strengthen the demon army to help them resist the damage.
Not only was the alliance army waiting, but the demons were also waiting, waiting for the city wall to collapse to fight against the alliance forces rushing in…
The city wall of Ur-Hekal was clearly not going to last long. Although this was the headquarters of the demons, and it could be considered sturdy, because Demon Lord Kha-Beleth had entered the True Name Liberation state and transformed into the Inferno Overlord, he had melted a lot of the city wall. Although it had been repaired afterward, it definitely could not compare to the original state.
What happened next was not beyond the demons’ expectations. A repaired section of the city wall was the first to collapse.
When the city wall on the side collapsed in smoke and dust, excited cheers came from the alliance army. This collapsed section was a signal for an all-out attack.
The alliance army’s catapults still continued firing, but the rear troops of the alliance army had already begun to advance slowly. The radiance of magic began to shine in the alliance army’s formation, and the dragons in the sky were circling faster and faster.
After holding on for a few more waves of attacks, the front wall of Ur-Hekal’s city gate finally collapsed in deafening sounds. The fallen rubble even filled up the magma moat surrounding the city. After seeing this scene, the alliance army suddenly blew the war horns. In the midst of the loud tumult, the soldiers of the alliance army all let out soul-stirring roars. Then all the ground forces moved and began charging toward Ur-Hekal.