Chapter 591 Monster Siege
As I continued to run forward, I felt that the situation was not good. The magical beast swarm that attacked the motorcade did not re-enter the mountains and forests but continued to advance along the royal road. Footprints and scratches on the surrounding trees could be seen along the way.
I ran forward for not a long distance before I saw more victims, this time two woodcutters carrying firewood, with axes beside them. They should be villagers from nearby; they were too pathetic. If they didn’t chop wood diligently, they wouldn’t have fire to burn at home, but unexpectedly, they encountered disaster here.
I continued to hurry forward and discovered more traces of magical beasts attacking humans, but this time there were no corpses, only discarded heavy luggage. I inferred that they ran away after being attacked by magical beasts, discarding their heavy luggage that affected their speed along the way.
I followed the traces and ran forward. The traces of magical beasts did not disappear all the way. It seemed they were relentlessly pursuing. Not long after, I saw human corpses again. I didn’t know if these were people who were caught up after escaping, or if they were also caught up while traveling on foot. Judging by the absence of mount corpses nearby, I guessed it was the latter.
What on earth happened? We were already very close to **Cando City**. Generally speaking, magical beasts have some basic intelligence and would not attack places where too many people gather, unless…
I remembered what I saw and heard during my previous few outings. Both the **Militia Group** in the outer city and the **Villagers** in the small villages said that the wild **animals** in the **wilderness** had become ferocious recently, and the probability of **monster** sightings had greatly increased, even starting to attack **Cities**.
I hurriedly asked the **Packhorse** to speed up and return to **Cando City**. Soon, I exited the forest and arrived at the **Plains** outside **Cando City**. My vision suddenly opened up.
In front of the **Wooden Wall** of the outer city, **a lot of** wild **animals** were fiercely attacking the wooden wall. Several parts of the wall had already been damaged, and **a lot of** **Militia** were holding **spears** at the gaps, blocking those wild animals from rushing into the outer city and killing wantonly.
No, those were no longer wild **animals**, but **Magical Beasts**, **monsters** mutated after being infected by unknown **energy**. Among the **Magical Beasts** attacking the outer wall, I saw **giant wolves** with **a lot of** irregularly grown fangs or horns all over their bodies, which are usually parts found on herbivores.
Then there were wild boars with countless eyes growing on their faces. These **eyeballs** were densely packed, filling the wild boars’ faces, making it impossible to see other parts. With just one accelerated charge, their fangs could knock down a section of the fragile wooden wall.
There were even more disgusting mutated crocodiles. The hind legs of the crocodiles had turned into six **Insect Legs**, looking like cockroach legs. Their skin was covered with dense holes, and countless **flies** flew out of those holes to sting the militiamen who were defending.
**Simultaneously**, there were flying magical beasts attacking the outer city directly. They could even breathe fire. I had already seen several **Residential houses** or piles of **Farmland** straw set on fire, and the villagers’ cries of pain kept coming from the wooden wall.
What on earth had happened? A huge beast swarm actually attacked **Cando City**, and it seemed to have caused great damage. I didn’t know if the defending militiamen could hold on.
From my perspective, I could only see many **Militia** holding inferior wooden **spears** at the gaps of the **city wall**, holding back the beast swarm’s **attack**.
At this moment, a ferocious wild bull rubbed its hooves on the ground, suddenly exerting force and charging towards a gap. The fur on its body was even burning with **blood red** fire.
The wild bull forcibly broke through the gap. The **spears** pierced its body, and although they were embedded, they seemed to be unable to inflict fatal damage on this thick-skinned wild bull. On the contrary, the **soldier** holding the spear was thrown off the spear by the bull’s impact and was sent flying to the ground.
The wild bull rushed into the wall with the momentum. The bull, after being seriously injured, became even more enraged and wild, crashing everywhere, causing disturbances everywhere within the wall. The commander of the **Militia Group** also seemed to be in a terrible state, failing to order the **soldiers** to prioritize blocking the gap again, which allowed more **Magical Beasts** to rush into the gap.
It was also not optimistic on the **city wall**. There were some magical **monsters** that could climb walls, such as those that looked like lizards or large chameleons. The **soldiers** on the wall could only be forced to use **bows** and **arrows** or stacked stones to attack them, and could not suppress the other **monsters** on the plain.
Finally, there were the magical **monsters** in the sky, which were even more troublesome. I saw a massive **strange bird** with four **wings** and four **legs** swoop down directly, grab a person, and tear them in half with its companions in the air before dropping them.
However, on the real **city wall** of **Cando City**, many **soldiers** were already raising their **guns** and shooting at these **strange birds**. Including those tall **Towers**, they were also firing dense crossfire at the **strange birds**.
The firepower of these regular **troops** was indeed quite sufficient. Soon, several **strange birds** were focused-fired. After their **wings** were injured, they fell. Moreover, the **cannons** on the **city wall** could directly bombard the **Magical Beast** swarm on the plain, providing some **support** to the outer city.
Under these circumstances, the outer city could still barely hold on. I felt that with the number of these **Magical Beasts**, although they were ferocious, they were far from capable of breaking through the inner **city wall** of **Cando City**, as a rock fortress was far from comparable to the wooden walls of the outer city.
Moreover, the beast swarm did not actually have a numerical advantage. When the regular **troops** of **Cando City** came out to fight, it was only a matter of time before they were all wiped out. All that remained was how much damage they would cause to these pathetic **Commoners** and **Militia** in the outer city before they were completely eliminated.
Just as I was about to get closer to see, unexpectedly, before I could get close, several **Magical Beasts** suddenly turned and sprinted towards me.
What the heck! No way? I was still several hundred meters away from them. Even if these **Magical Beasts** had good eyesight and could see me, wouldn’t the people and the noise in the closer outer city attract their attention more? Why were they rushing towards me?!
The problem was not just the ones on the ground; a huge black **strange bird** also swooped down towards me from the sky. As it swooped, it let out loud hisses. I strongly suspected that it was it that spotted me first and then used its calls to make the **Magical Beasts** on the ground chase me.
“Run fast, turn back!” I patted the **Packhorse**’s neck, but the **Packhorse** reacted faster than me. It turned its head and ran into the forest.
Unfortunately, the long-distance sprint had ultimately consumed the **Packhorse**’s stamina. Its speed was no longer as lightning-fast as it was at the beginning.
Even so, the **Magical Beasts** on the ground were instantly left so far behind that they could no longer be seen. Only that huge **strange bird** in the sky kept its eyes on me, and it was getting closer and closer.
No matter how fast I ran, I couldn’t run faster than flying. And as it got closer and closer, that **strange bird** actually opened its mouth and spat out three fireballs at me.
The **Packhorse** let out a neigh, and dodged the fireballs with agile changes of direction in an instant. But I was caught off guard and was thrown off the horse by the impact of the fireball explosion.
