The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 856 - 538: The Returnees

Southeast Corner Watchtower

This is also part of the first line of defense.

Suddenly, the Southeast Corner Watchtower was swallowed by the shadow's evil fire. In the blue flames, a black-robed Apostle unfurled a scroll. In an instant, the storm of flames began to spin wildly.

The Shadow Believers are responsible for commanding on the battlefield and provide various strategies, being the ones who understand the Night Watchers the most.

In the past, the Night Watchers would always arrange some peculiar tricks on the watchtower for a sudden strike at critical moments.

Sometimes, it would be various alchemy weapons never seen before or some accumulated magic tactics kept in secret.

They could even use special methods to understand the real-time situation on the battlefield through the perspective of some Night Watchers, making clever arrangements.

Since then, the watchtower has been a key target for enemy "attentions," with followers and apostles sent to raid and destroy.

However, this time the flame whirlpool was stopped just as it was rising.

Seven Night Watchers simultaneously smashed their metal scepters to the ground, intertwined icy chains shot out from various directions, tightly wrapping the column of fire.

When the ice and fire whirlpool violently exploded, a Snake Ninja Mage hovering in midair was also affected, his complexion turning pale as paper. And the falling ice spikes mercilessly pierced through the Evil God Followers and a large group of rats attempting to climb below.

In the distance, twelve rat warlocks responsible for spell support suffered immediate magical backlash and were blown to pieces.

A Shadow Apostle slowly emerged there.

Now, these apostles of the Evil God have begun to deeply involve themselves in the war, even forming their own support troops within the teams.

War is becoming fiercer, and the situation increasingly complex and difficult.

The screams of Desire Believers pierced through the battlefield like sharp blades, causing the eyeballs of three nearby United Army soldiers to burst within their skulls instantly.

Seeing this, a Snake-man Witch immediately plucked the strings of her instrument, with two sonic waves forming visible purple-gold ripples at the defensive line's breach.

This ripple provided mental protection for everyone around. Battling these evil enemies requires such back-and-forth approaches.

And these protective means against the special powers of the Evil God almost all originate from the Night Watchers.

At present, there is no doubt that in terms of suppression methods and responses against all Evil Gods, Night Watchers lead the way, leaving others far behind.

They have even prepared targeted forces for some measures of the Evil Gods that have not yet been revealed.

Fifty Holy Knights mounted on strong steeds in silver-white armor launched a deadly charge. Lances wrapped in divine blessings pierced through the sonic barrier like lightning, pinning an apostle of the Evil God and countless followers and rats together onto the collapsing battlement.

This move successfully interrupted the enemy's mental attacks and firmly held the breach.

However, merely closing these individual breaches holds little significance.

The intensity of the war makes more and more breaches in the first line of defense, with numerous ratmen and the barbarian race having poured into the defense through the breaches.

If we continue to hold those temporarily blocked breaches, the remaining soldiers might become encircled, eventually exhausting their strength until death.

A decision must be made at this moment.

"We should retreat, order a withdrawal!" an aide suggested.

But the commander of the Night Watchers shook his head.

"Reinforcement is just about here, hold on a bit longer. If this line of defense is abandoned, reclaiming it would incur a much higher cost, far more than now."

Being able to capture this line and successfully establish it was thanks to the earlier massive troop movement to the northern passage and launching an attack.

Without this strategy, their breakthrough and establishment of the line of defense would have taken an unknown length of time. It's truly a pity to give up so easily now.

By this time, a Blood God's elite force had successfully pierced the United Army's defense line and advanced layer by layer.

They resembled a sharp knife, plunging straight into the alliance army's formation, relentlessly advancing regardless of anyone else.

After all, this force is comprised of a strike team formed by three Blood God Apostles, accompanied by strong Barbarian Berserkers, progressing unstoppably.

"They're coming for me."

The commander looked composed, drawing his weapon.

He was located at the rear of the defense line team.

"Die! Let me see what's special about you Night Watchers!"

A pair of blood-red wings stretched from the flesh, and after unfolding, the blood-red figure charged at the commander with astonishing speed over many soldiers.

This is a powerful Blood God Champion, who is among the strong in all Apostles.

With Legendary level power, he moves across the battlefield unhindered.

In fact, the Night Watcher commander's level was only at Level Eight, hardly a match.

After a few rounds, the surrounding guards were all slaughtered, and even the commander's life value dropped to below half.

Just as the Blood God Champion's ax blade was within half an inch of the Night Watcher commander's throat, twelve Snake-man Poison Fangs suddenly shot out from the shadows.

These poison fangs, blessed with divine skills, instantly corroded the Blood God's rune, causing the Chaos Armor to emit a wailing sound like an infant's cry.

This unexpected ambush successfully interrupted the Blood God Champion's attack.

The commander seemed to be pulled by a peculiar force, his body flying backward, narrowly escaping this deadly crisis.

A red-haired red snake slid out from the suddenly opened teleportation gate.

"Demon, now I will be your opponent." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Cowardly Mage, I will split you from head to toe and make a bracelet from your snake bones."

After exchanging a few harsh words, the two engaged in battle.

Meanwhile, reinforcements finally arrived.

But the so-called reinforcement was nothing more than three Night Watcher squads, totaling only eighteen people.

These eighteen Night Watchers, riding heavy-armored Land Birds, sprinted rapidly like the wind.

"Just these few?" a United Army commander couldn't help but question.

At this moment, having drunk a healing potion, the restlessly recovered commander stood up, looking at the arriving Night Watchers with a confident smile.

He nodded and said, "Just these few, but they're enough."

On the distant enemy lines, atop a giant altar war wagon, the rat general was gazing at the defenders.

The enemy clearly was not retreating, evidently waiting for reinforcements.

"That's their reinforcement? A Legendary Mage, plus eighteen Night Watchers?"

Saying this, the rat general couldn't help but issue a shrill laugh.

"Hahahaha, these guys are truly foolish to the extreme!"

The Legendary Mage was understandable, after all, they had Legendary experts to counter.

But what use could the eighteen Night Watchers be?

Know that this is a massive battlefield with tens of thousands of troops gathered.

"Since they're so foolish, let all soldiers move forward! Crush their defense line entirely and let them know our power!"

The surrounding rats jubilantly screamed with excitement, their morale ever increasing, surging wave upon wave toward the alliance defense line.

However, not even ten minutes passed.

The rat general uttered a terrified scream.

"This is impossible!"

The eighteen Night Watchers split into the original three squads, swiftly assaulting from three different directions toward the enemy defense line.

Soon thereafter, an astonishing scene unfolded.

Just like the sharp knife team made up of Blood God Apostles earlier, they marched invincibly straight through all enemy forces.

Along the way, enemies turned to ash, leaving not a scrap of armor.

Moreover, every action carried a clear target, directed at crucial objectives, whether it was a rat commander, various alchemy equipment, commanding Evil God Followers, or even Barbarian leaders.

They specifically chose key targets to strike, and all enemy defenses seemed meaningless before them. Even if rats gathered like mountains, they were scattered and disarrayed by these Night Watchers.

Just a few rounds, and the rat's morale plummeted sharply.

"How can they be so strong!"

The rat general finally saw through it.

Though these eighteen Night Watchers hadn't reached Legendary Level, almost each one's strength was close to the pinnacle below Legendary.

Meaning, these eighteen Night Watchers' levels were between Level Eight and Nine.

In previous Night Watcher teams, they held the role of Combat Masters or Tactical Masters, responsible for commanding and assault tasks, in short supply.

But now suddenly eighteen appeared, and in three well-coordinated teams.

This situation was like three Soul Guardian squads suddenly descending onto the battlefield, executing the highest difficulty tasks.