Chapter 106: We Held Them Off!

Mailun's expression was grave; the morale of the Two-legged Sheep on the city wall had recovered significantly, and the difficulty of the siege had returned to how it was at the start—no, to be precise, it had become even harder for his side.

The sound of artillery in the camp was still ringing rhythmically, yet progress on the city wall remained stalled; those Two-legged Sheep had erupted with combat power beyond his expectations, so what were those Orcs who had infiltrated the Inner City doing? How could they have given these Two-legged Sheep good equipment?

"Lord Mailun, 150 Priest Apprentices have been brought here!"

At this moment, the Orc guard Mailun had previously sent to fetch the 150 Priest Apprentices returned.

"What is going on with that fellow Waho! Why did an explosion occur where the ammunition is stored! Didn't you go there? Explain it to me clearly!"

Seeing this Orc guard, Mailun stared at it with sharp eyes and said every word distinctly.

"My Lord! When I went there, everything was still normal; not long after I left, a violent explosion occurred at that camp. I also don't know what exactly happened there!"

The Orc guard explained quickly, a bead of sweat seeping from its forehead, while in its heart it kept "greeting" Waho, who had already been reduced to ashes.

I let you watch over some ammunition and you couldn't even do that; what else are you good for?

After hearing this, Mailun trembled with rage, but he quickly forced himself to calm down.

Now he needed to stay calm and could not make any more wrong decisions.

"Go! Let's go see these apprentices."

Mailun walked quickly down from the altar and, led by this Orc guard, found the 150 Priest Apprentices.

These Priest Apprentices had clearly also seen the explosion that occurred behind them just now, and they all felt relieved in their hearts, thanking Waho for letting them survive.

Upon seeing Lord Mailun walking toward them, these Priest Apprentices bowed their heads in salute one after another.

"Teacher Mailun!"

"Enough! No need for these things! Now, I have a Task for you: cooperate with the Orc troops in the camp to take out those Two-legged Sheep who are firing the cannons for me! Be quick! For the one who performs the best, I will recommend them as a candidate for Priest."

Mailun's eyes suppressed his fury as he spoke in a low voice.

A flash of surprise crossed the eyes of these Priest Apprentices, and they said with undisguised excitement, "Yes, Teacher!"

After having the Orc guard take these Priest Apprentices to the leader remaining at the Orc Base Camp, Mailun watched the Giant Wall, where the battle was still ongoing, with gloomy eyes.

Returning to the altar, he picked several warriors from his own guard unit and said to them, "Those despicable Two-legged Sheep have destroyed our camp where the Rune Cannonballs were stored! Our Rune Cannons don't have many Rune Cannonballs left; you go find some Orc warriors, take them with you to blend into the siege force, head to the Inner City Wall gate, and detonate all the remaining Rune Cannonballs together!"

These Orc guards said to Mailun, "Yes!"

Watching these Orc guards head off, Mailun let out a heavy, turbid breath, "Damn it! These Two-legged Sheep are truly a contradictory race. Some Two-legged Sheep have a history of evil, while others will actually risk their lives to fight for others."

Now, as long as the Inner City gate was blown up, the Beast Race warriors would enter the Inner City and surround the Two-legged Sheep on the city wall.

After seeing the fire shooting into the sky from the Orcs' rear, Xindi discovered that the Orcs' Rune Cannons seemed to be firing very rarely.

A guess formed in Xindi's heart, and he said to a soldier beside him.

"Raise a City Defense Cannon! Blast those Flesh Siege Towers for me!"

The soldier did not hesitate in the slightest and turned to leave.

Soon, a City Defense Cannon was raised, and the surrounding Human Alliance soldiers were all preventing the Orcs climbing the city wall from destroying this City Defense Cannon.

The few soldiers at the City Defense Cannon quickly adjusted the muzzle and began firing at the Flesh Siege Towers that had made contact with the city wall.

The massive firepower quickly destroyed the Flesh Siege Towers connected to the Inner City Wall, and the Orcs climbing on them fell down along with them, leaving a trail of death and injury.

However, the anticipated attack from the Rune Cannons did not destroy this City Defense Cannon.

Xindi was overjoyed and had all 5 of the remaining City Defense Cannons on the Inner City Wall raised, beginning to fire at these Orcs.

The situation had a glimmer of a turning point; the Beast Race's offensive began to gradually diminish, and because the Flesh Siege Towers had been destroyed by the City Defense Cannons on the Inner City Wall, the Orcs on the wall were quickly wiped out.

"Hahaha! Quick! Aim at those Orcs below and hit them hard for me!" Xindi felt extremely gratified and shouted loudly to the soldiers beside him.

Soon, Xindi's order reached the artillerymen at the 5 City Defense Cannons.

"Commander's order! Fire at the Orcs below for 1 minute!"

Upon hearing these words, the artillerymen excitedly adjusted the muzzles and fired at the group of Orcs below.

They hadn't even fired for a minute before the densely packed Orcs under the city wall began to retreat, leaving behind deep shell craters and a field of Orc body parts and blood.

"We held them off!"

"Hahaha, we really did it, we did it!"

"F***, these damn Orcs, go to hell!"

The soldiers on the city wall let out a cheer; the sun was currently overhead, and in the time of one morning, they had seen one familiar comrade after another lose their lives, and one hateful Orc after another kill their comrades.

No one knew if they would die in the next moment; all they could do was use whatever attack methods they had available to kill those Orcs.

"Phew..." Xindi let out a long breath, his strength completely drained, and his eyes were no longer as sharp as they had been just a moment ago.

They had finally held them off; the person who had just shelled the Orc troops must have been Yingzhou, right?

"Order the soldiers to throw all the corpses on the city wall out; if any soldiers still have bodies left, bury them properly," Xindi said in a somewhat weary tone.

He looked toward the Orcs' Base Camp; the battle there did not seem to have ended yet.

On Yingzhou's side, after seeing the Orcs' Flesh Siege Towers destroyed by the City Defense Cannons on the Inner City Wall, he knew it was time for him to retreat; if all the Orcs returned, he might not be able to wipe them out even if he used up all his Spiritual Power, as the enemy's numbers were simply too great.

After confirming that the Orcs had begun to pull their main force back, Yingzhou first recalled the Krieg Artillery; the batch of Krieg soldiers in front of him was already the fourth batch.

There were many corpses of Krieg soldiers around, but there were even more of those Orcs; relying on their formidable combat proficiency and the trait of not fearing the Orcs' attacks, the Krieg soldiers had wiped out over 1,500 Orcs here, and the surroundings could be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Just as Yingzhou recalled the Krieg Artillery, he discovered some Orcs dressed like Priests among the Orc crowd; they used various strange abilities, summoning Orc claws out of thin air to crush Krieg soldiers from behind, or causing swamps to appear under the Krieg soldiers' feet, letting them be swallowed.

Various eerie attack methods were mixed into the Orc main force, which made Yingzhou complain inwardly.

Damn! Are they desperate? Sending every type of soldier at me?