Chapter 56 The Gradually Emerging Truth (1)
When the loud noise came, everyone was stunned. What was that? When people were thinking this way, the loud noise sounded again. What was that? The third sound, no, it would be... the fourth sound.
The loud horn sounded from above the city wall, and everyone raised their heads and looked at the dark night sky. The cold wind, the air conditioner, the noise, the panic, everything in the world was covered by the horn sound. The sound was like a sign from the sky and from the canopy of the sky where the gods were.
The faint roar of horror from the city wall next told the people below that it was a sign of destruction.
"Troll King! It's the Troll King!!"
Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.
The people below the city wall had already realized that it was the sound of footsteps. They could not see the sound of the monsters, and could only feel the tremor from their feet. Before someone could realize what was going on, he turned to look at his companion next to him. When the flames swayed on the torch saw the sleek face of his companion clearly, they almost guessed what was going on.
"Troll King!! It's approaching the city gate! Stop it!!"
Dangdangdangdangdangdang-
The craftsmen held the hammer in their hands and beat the clock hanging on the city wall for a desperate attempt. The craftsmen, mercenaries and guards rushed to fill the ammunition even more anxiously, jumping the correct heads of the cannon crossbow and catapult. They squinted their eyes and looked at the darkness under the city wall. The burning flames on the ground were thrown fish oil barrels. The shaking fire illuminated the monsters taking heavy steps around them. The terrifying figure, a huge figure about thirty feet high, even if no beam of light could illuminate its full picture, only the fire light soaring into the sky behind the northern hills could barely find its strange outline, but the mercenaries could still know where it was.
"Prepare!!!Prepare!!!"
People under the city wall could also hear the roaring sounds on the city wall. The sounds were covered by the sound of wind and monsters colliding against the city wall, so they seemed very weak. However, people under the city wall still raised their heads and held their breath and listened. There was only the city wall in front of them, and there were so many monsters behind the city wall, and they had no sense of reality at all.
The city gate has been bent inward, and the city gate has three floors: the outermost layer is a grid door made of thick iron, a heavy oak door in the middle, and an iron hoop for reinforcement is also inlaid on it, while the inner side of the city wall is a third grid door. However, at this moment, the gate that even a siege hits a hammer takes at least half a day to break open has been bent inward at this moment, the grid door has become distorted, and the oak door begins to crack.
Uneasy, anxious, and fearful, these atmospheres spread among the crowd, and some people even sobbed in a low voice. People immediately looked for someone to make such an irritating sound, but they saw a short guard wearing a ill-fitting armor, with the armor being pushed up, revealing a tender face.
No one can blame them, they can only spit or raise their heads anxiously again.
"emission!!!"
The sound of the cannon crossbows and catapults made the panicked people feel a little more at ease. Because there was a thick city wall in the middle, they could not hear the sound of hitting the target, but the cheers from the city wall also brought that joy to them.
"Hit!!"
"Okay! Go again! Recharge! Now--"
The terrifying roar pierced the night sky, and all the voices came to an abrupt end. The sound was dull and loud, an unstoppable sound like the whistling of the north wind. Everyone understood after hearing this sound: what kind of opponent they were facing. No, it was not themselves, but humans, what kind of opponent they were facing.
The terrifying roar was like a collapsed mountain, and the people on the city wall felt more real about it. A guard who was carrying a fish oil barrel collapsed on the ground with his feet. The fish oil barrel fell to the ground. He buried his head and wanted to cover his ears, but he touched the helmet. He was anxious and wanted to get off the helmet, but was knocked to the ground by the mercenaries who rushed over. The mercenaries had no time to look at their feet. Their eyes were all looking at the huge figure as high as thirty feet outside the city wall. The flames ignited on its body. It was the fish oil barrel that had just hit.
It was really a terrifying existence that made people lose their fighting spirit after seeing it: a body that was thirty feet tall, fifteen feet or even wider, heavy steps, and saplings, vines and moss on it. It was a monster that could tell at a glance what was special, the giant monster among the giant monsters.
Many people didn't react when the roar ended. The craftsmen came back to their senses until they were kicked or felt their eardrums start to hurt because of the sound of the wall clock. They immediately shouted loudly and started their work again.
"Recharge! Recharge!!"
"Wait!" Suddenly someone shouted loudly, "What has it grabbed?!"
"It's a troll! It grabbed another troll!!!"
“What does it want to do?!”
"Recharge!!!Stop it!!!"
In the hole in the tower - it was a hole that was smashed by the big tree thrown by the monster. The tree immediately fell down the city wall and hit a giant monster. The harsh north wind immediately poured in from the hole - seeing all this Barrow Whistleman issued a loud command in the team's voice: "Prepare to meet the enemy!! The monster king intends to throw the monster into the city wall!! Avoid! Avoid immediately! Pay attention to the monsters falling above!"
Then another roar sounded, the sound was far less loud than the roar of the troll king, and even with some horror. But everyone knew what it was. There was already a mess under the city wall. Everyone on the city wall immediately fell behind the low wall. The troll monsters roared in horror and flew towards the dark night sky. When they reached the highest point, they temporarily stopped for a moment, and that position was directly above the mercenaries on the city wall. Then the body, which was like a giant rock in the night sky, immediately began to fall.
He noticed that the mercenary who could not hit him immediately got up. He immediately poked out half of his body into the city and shouted at the bottom: "Do not get away with it!!!!"
Below the city wall was the military camp, inside of which were soldiers from Aide Town. The mercenary widened his eyes and watched the "giant rock" hit a military tent. The sound of the wooden poles breaking, the sound of the brazier being knocked over, the screams and roars, and a ball was chaotic below. He saw the heads below immediately gathered up.
"Welcome to the enemy!!!Welcome to the enemy!!!"
"Long live Aide Town—!!Long live Golden Waterfall City—!!!!"
The ferocious seamen held the battle axe and hammer and jumped to the giant monster facing upwards, slashing and smashing at its body violently. The huge impact of the grounding made the mud shell on the monster's body crack, and the sudden attack also made the monster struggle helplessly. The mercenary saw someone below raised his head and looked at him.
What can you do? These NPCs! Mercenaries immediately stood up, and the others next to him had already stood up and started to act.
"Recharged!!Prepare!!!Prepare!!!"
"The Troll King raised the second Troll!!"
"Stop it!!! Launch-!!!!"
...
What's that sound?
In the darkness, Joel raised his head and looked in the direction of the door. The wooden door was closed tightly. The strange shout made him have an ominous premonition. What did Anthony and the others do? Joel was so worried, and looked at the girl sitting in the dark corner. His calm blue eyes were slightly shining in the faint firelight of the lantern next to him.
The room was covered in dust, but they couldn't care so much at the moment, and there were spider webs hanging everywhere, all kinds of decaying wooden furniture: beds, tables, chairs, bookshelfs, cabinets. This was obviously a living room, or it used to be.
"What do you see?" Aleya asked calmly, as if she was drinking and chatting in a tavern.
"Can you move?" Joel asked as he walked over.
"The blood volume has recovered to forty percent. I didn't expect this kind of thing to be useful for a day." As she said that, she raised her hand and looked down at her rings of different styles and colors. "I feel like a rich man."
Maybe it was really, Joel thought so secretly. The ring on her hand was expensive even for people like Joel who didn't understand jewelry, especially these rings seemed to have some strange magic. "The Ring of the Eucharist," Aleya put away other fingers except the index finger and stared blankly at the ring with a red gem on the index finger. "Sister always likes to give me some strange things like this. This ring can increase the recovery speed of blood volume, but this speed can't save lives at all, but it only increases the recovery speed of the body after surviving."
"Do you think I'm showing off?" Aleya raised her eyes and looked at Joel standing next to her, with a tired smile on her face.
"You have a good sister." After Joel said this, he squatted down and helped her up. "Can you hold a weapon?"
"Hmm? It should be fine. But please don't look forward to it too much. Maybe I have to count on you to protect me at critical moments. After all, I really don't want to die." She said in a relaxed tone.
"This is not like what people who want to go to the Widow Mountains when winter comes," Joel said in a rare joke.
After Aleya stood firm, Joel took the iron sword leaning against her and handed it to her, "Will it be too heavy?"
"It's a bit. I prefer using a thin sword." But she still held up the iron sword with one hand, and then stood up like the way of holding the thin sword. She raised her head and looked at the tip of the sword, "I haven't told you what happened after I went to the Widow Mountains, right?"
Joel did not answer, but raised his eyes and looked at her, then immediately took out the mask from the "backpack" and put it on his face. "I met the legendary 'Snow Monster King'."
Joel's movement immediately stopped. He raised his eyes and looked at Eleya, and the girl's calm blue eyes also looked at him, with a smile on her face, but more helpless: "I followed the cry of the Snow Monster King and walked into a cave. As a result, the exit of the cave disappeared behind me. My character was stuck in a bug - don't you understand it very much? Well... In short, there were some problems, and then the official - ah, it's the operator of this game - that is, um... You existed like the mastermind behind the scenes at that time. They handled me, that is, to regain my character, back to about a month ago, that is, three months in this world, and I returned to Stone Fort and became a state where I can't use magic."
Joel could not react to what she said, because he didn't understand it very much, so he felt that the girl was talking about a mercenary joke in mercenary slogans. He just kept it in his heart, but he didn't spend much effort or effort to understand it - and it was not the time now, and they were still in this dangerous dungeon.
Joel quickly recalled what had just happened: he found traces of someone coming in the tunnel, and then was immediately attacked, but Joel quickly fought back. When he was about to kill the other party, he found that the other party was actually the Aleya he knew. The injured Aleya explained to him that he was being chased. Joel originally planned to take her to the mercenary team, but Aleya refused harshly. She did not tell Joel about his uneasiness, but he did not ask, because he had almost guessed something. Later, he took her to the upper dungeon, but unexpectedly there was a piece of white frost here. Joel took Aleya and kept going around the labyrinth dungeon, going up the stairs from time to time, and finally came to a corridor without white frost. Joel helped Aleya to one of the rooms on both sides of the corridor and sat down.
Alya, who was already injured, was attacked by Joel again, so she became very weak, but fortunately she was not dead. Joel rubbed her temples and felt that it was extremely troublesome now, because he was still far from the route the old man told him. It was estimated that Anthony and the others had set out on their own. Joel anxiously wanted to go back immediately, but he could not leave Alya behind.
Joel turned around and looked at Eleya.
"you--"
"You want to ask me what happened when I disappeared, or why I wouldn't meet with others?" Aleya wrapped her cloak, tilted her head slightly, and exhaled a wisp of white air as she spoke, and her clear blue eyes were looking at Joel.
Joel paused, and then he replied in a deep voice: "What do you know?"
Aleya blinked, then said lightly: "There are traitors in the mercenaries."
Joel didn't answer, just looked at her.
"Sure enough, you already know? Does that guy Anthony know?"
Joel nodded slightly.
Joel saw a smile on Eleeya's face, then raised his shoulders: "It's really a blessing that he still has the courage to bring this team to the copy of the strategy. It's really time for my sister to take a good look at his growth, otherwise she would have to scold him all day long."
"Do you know what the purpose of the traitor is?"
"Probably - destroy Golden Falls." Joel replied.
"Wrong, but not all, their purpose is here below Golden Falls - this dungeon." Aleya smiled, "Destroying Golden Falls is just to prevent others from discovering this place. They want to occupy it exclusively."
"How did you know?" Joel asked in confusion.
"I was immediately ambushed after sneaking into the brothel that day. Later, I guess you already knew it? The brothel caught fire, and it should have turned into ruins now, right? After igniting the fire, I entered the underground with the escaped people. I guess you don't know it yet? There is a tunnel to the deep tomb under the brothel."
"I followed the mysterious people to the tomb, cursing all the way, and I could hear their conversation clearly," Aleya stopped, and then breathed a sigh of relief. "It was so cold - I continued, they originally planned to follow the mercenaries to reap the benefits after they attacked the dungeon - but it seemed that their plan should not have changed yet. They would attack the exhausted mercenaries when the mercenaries completed the strategy, and then wait for the golden waterfall city to be flattened by the monsters, and then they can accept the dungeon with peace of mind.
"But I was still discovered during the tracking process. There seemed to be some other powerful guys among them. In short, I was injured and my weapons were all lost - I was embarrassed?" She showed a self-deprecating smile on her face, but Joel didn't say anything. Then she continued to whisper, "Then I followed the stairs of the dungeon. Fortunately, the guys didn't follow him and came down to the bottom. They were almost discovered when they passed by the Black Knight, but fortunately the stone door inside was opened, and I finally came here and went offline to ask for help. When it was back online, it seemed that the mercenaries had already killed them, so they bumped into you."
"What a good luck." As he said, Aleya's face showed a happier smile.
"Is that true?" Joel turned around. I didn't think so.
"Well, yes, it's quite good luck." She also took two steps forward as she said that, "I'm really sorry for talking about my own affairs for a long time. I'm a little too nervous, so I couldn't help but say more when I saw someone with an acquaintance. It seems that you are more concerned about the plan of 'those people'?"
"Do you know anything else?"
Aleya nodded: "Well, after all, I've been following them for so long."
Joel didn't say anything, just looked at her quietly.
"Do you know the identity of the 'traitor'?"
"No, I only know that it is probably the people of the Iron Chain Knights, do you know who it is?"
"It's a pity, I don't know either, but those people mentioned it in their conversation." Aleya paused, and then continued: "Those guys... know a lot about the situation below."
"Is this a dungeon?" Joel thought for a while, "Maybe who told them, I have also disclosed a lot of information-"
"No, I mean I understand very much," Aleya blinked her blue eyes, "I understand very much. Do you understand? They know much more than you know."
Joel was silent, and Aleya, who was on the side, showed a helpless smile.
"Did you think of something?"
Joel didn't answer anything, or there was no time to answer anything. A strange sound came from outside the room. Both of them immediately looked in the direction of the door, and the room fell into silence.
Chapter completed!