Global Scourge
Chapter 163 Betrayal and Betrayal
Chapter 163 Betrayal and Betrayal
Kalin City fell overnight because of the traitor's betrayal, and the news immediately spread throughout the Tauren world.
This also made the already pessimistic tauren even worse.
Even some tauren couldn't accept the reality and began to commit suicide.
After Kane returned to the main city, the first thing he did was to arm all the tauren, men, women and children.
He planned to stick to the main city, try to recover his divine power as soon as possible, and then fight to the death.
After all, he had consumed a lot of divine power to break through the siege before.
But the arrival of the undead army has not yet come.
He received bad news first.
The Alliance of Hundred Clans has attacked two resource planes, and the garrison of the resource planes is sending for help.
Kane called a meeting of the gods again, but none of the gods attended.
After all, now that the Earth Alliance cannot protect itself, who can support the resource plane?
In the end, he could only abandon the resource plane.
And a week later, the vanguard of the undead army, the zombie army, came first.
This morning, when Kane was recovering his divine power, Michelle pushed the door open and walked in panting.
"God of the Earth, it's not good, there are countless zombies infested five kilometers outside the east city."
Kane opened his eyes and nodded solemnly.
After a while, he and Michel walked to the east wall.
Looking at the dense army of zombies below, which had returned to more than 50, he felt helpless.
These were originally his believers, but now they are driven by the enemy.
Soon, the zombies approached one kilometer, and they were within the attack range of ordinary mage towers.
After a while, a series of colorful magic attacks began to be issued.
Kane originally didn't want to waste resources on fighting zombies, but the morale of his believers was low, so he could only use it to boost morale first.
"Boom!"
After 10 minutes of magic attack, more than 5000 zombies died.
On the Tauren side, there were bursts of cheers.
But soon, new zombies began to approach again.
To be honest, even if the 50 zombies were all dead, Zhu Zichen didn't feel bad at all.
As long as the corpse king, Daniel, is still alive, he will have an inexhaustible supply of zombies.
In other directions, an army of more than 150 million undead also appeared.
There are almost 50 or so in each direction.
At a glance, you can't see the side at all.
The morale that Kane had managed to raise just now was gone in an instant.
And he himself also gave birth to endless despair.
Even if he mobilized all the people who could be mobilized, the main city only has more than 50 troops, most of them are first-level tauren fighters, and some of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.
With four times the difference in strength, how can he fight.
If there are all level-[-] heavy ax tauren and some level-[-] druids, he still has a little confidence.
But the main force lost more than half in Carlin City.
"Roar!" A dragon chant sounded.
Soon, the figure of a steel dragon appeared in the sky.
"God of the Earth, Kane, how dare you speak out!" Zhu Zichen's voice suddenly resounded in the sky.
While speaking, the zombie also retreated to a safe distance.
Soon, a divine ray of light lit up in the main city.
Kane flew into the sky, looked at Zhu Zichen who was standing on top of the giant steel dragon, and said with an ugly expression, "Say nonsense quickly."
Zhu Zichen smiled faintly, amplified his voice with divine power, and said, "I trade your death for the survival of all your believers, and I can arrange for them to live on my plane."
When Kane heard this, he sneered, "May I make my believers your slaves? It's impossible. Unless I die, the faith of the tauren will never die."
It's a joke, although he doesn't want believers to die, but he understands better that the so-called survival mentioned by the enemy is nothing more than switching to the enemy of faith, and then doing things for the enemy.
Work hard in war, and provide faith in peace.
It is impossible to develop and grow stronger, and the enemy will never give this opportunity.
Zhu Zichen shook his head and said, "Are you just for your own benefit, regardless of the life and death of your own believers?"
"Hmph, stop talking nonsense, fight if you want, none of us tauren are afraid of death." After speaking, Kane returned to the city.
He didn't believe the enemy's nonsense.
If he really died, the future of the tauren would definitely be very dark.
But Kane knows, but his believers don't necessarily know.
He soon discovered that the atmosphere among the tauren was suddenly different.
The eyes that looked at him lacked the respect and admiration that he had before.
There was an inexplicable meaning.
A small number of people even felt that it was Kane who made them face the current desperate situation because of selfishness.
After the negotiations broke down, Zhu Zichen ordered the undead army to start building walls and arrow towers on three sides.
A pair of preparations for long-term combat.
The main city of the Tauren has a 25-meter-high city wall, plus various city defense facilities.
Even if it is captured, he will suffer heavy losses.
It's better to fight a war of attrition.
After all, the undead army does not need logistics, but the enemy needs food and water.
So Zhu Zichen was in no hurry.
Consumes energy to kill enemies.
Although it takes three points of divine power to maintain the plane channel every day, it is nothing to him.
After more than a dozen wars, large and small, he now has more than 500 million faith points in reserve.
If all the upper limit of divine power is refined, it can be raised to more than 900 upper limit of divine power.
It's time to click on the stitch monster.
If it rises to [-] points, you will be able to activate the Skeleton General, Corpse King and Ghost.
At that time, the undead army will have a qualitative leap.
But these have to kill the tauren first, and Kane will talk about it later.
In the main city, Kane became angry when he saw the enemy building a wall and planning to fight for a long time.
But he can only be angry.
After all, at a distance of 01:30 kilometers, even the magic tower can't be reached at all.
If he had a regular army of more than 5 in his hands at this time, he would dare to go out and harass a wave.
But it's a pity that his current subordinates only have [-] heavy ax tauren and [-] druid tauren, and the rest are all first-level tauren fighters who have just picked up weapons.
These first-level militiamen are doing well in defending the city. If they really want to go out, the team will probably disperse in half an hour.
Most got separated and some escaped for their lives.
So he could only watch the enemy build walls and arrow towers bit by bit.
And thanks to the fact that the undead don't need to rest, the wall looks different every day.
Seven days later, a dense wall and arrow towers were built on three sides of the main city.
Except on the east side.
But even if there are no walls and arrow towers in the east, it still doesn't make the tauren feel relaxed.
Because during this week, zombies joined in one after another.
Now there are more than 70.
And there are still many other zombies continuing to come.
However, many zombies of other races appeared.
It seems that this plague has spread to the entire earth.
After the wall was built, the tough days for the tauren came.
The army of the undead does not attack the city every day, but only casts plagues.
This made the water and food in the main city more and more tense, and then began to limit the supply.
At this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that the general trend is over.
And this also made some tauren of capitulationism start to be restless.
……
On the tenth day of the siege.
The weather is cloudy.
In a dark underground chamber.
The six tauren were sitting anxiously, waiting for someone.
If Kane were here, he would find that these six tauren were all believers above the squadron leader level.
"Squeak... bang..."
After a while, a tauren wearing a cloak pushed the door in and quickly closed the door.
The six tauren looked anxiously and expectantly at the new tauren.
One of the one-eyed tauren who was blind in one eye couldn't help asking: "Did you agree?"
After the cloaked tauren sat down, he nodded excitedly: "I agree, as long as we open the city gate, they promise to give us [-] gold coins each, and send us to the plane of the half-winged angels."
Another strong tauren asked, "Credible?"
The cloaked tauren nodded, and said, "It's believable. Those who betrayed Kalin City and a few guys are going to eat and drink hot food in the half-winged angel plane with their families now."
When the six tauren heard the words, they immediately showed excited expressions.
This means they have a chance to survive.
Instead of being buried with stupid Kane.
Now that the war has come, no tauren thinks they can win the war.
In order to survive, betrayal has become an inevitable choice.
This is not just for yourself, but for your family and children.
After the seven continued to chat about some details, the one-eyed tauren made a final decision and said, "You reply to the letter over there. The time is set at twelve o'clock in the evening five days later, and we will open the west gate."
Another tauren then said: "By the way, let them besiege for a while before we can act."
After confirming the betrayal, the cloaked tauren went out quickly, and then began to disappear invisibly.
……
In the temple.
At this time, Kane didn't know that his subordinates were going to betray him, but showed a long-lost smile.
"Are you saying that the Khan Alliance promised us?"
Looking at Michelle who just came back from the City of Angels, he felt more and more pleasing to the eye.
Maybe it's because the other priests are dead.
Michel also nodded excitedly, and said, "Yes, as long as we merge with the Khan Alliance afterwards, they will send troops immediately."
The Khan Alliance, an alliance composed of orcs, is stronger than them.
"Merge." Kane lost his smile when he heard this.
"How much plane authority do they want?"
Michel hesitated for a moment, and said, "With my efforts, they only need 40.00% of the nine plane authority."
"What, 40.00% nine!"
Kane immediately got up from the throne and began to walk around restlessly.
"Damn, they are robbing!"
40.00% Although Jiu's plane authority still has autonomy, if he wants to leave in the future, he can still do it.
But that would require losing 40.00% of Nine's plane area.
This means that all my efforts will be lost in half.
"Yeah, originally they still wanted 51, but after my efforts, it was changed to 49." Michelle became anxious when she saw Kane hesitating.
If they can't even grasp the last straw, they are really going to die.
Anyway, it is not 50.00% of the authority, at least there is a certain degree of autonomy, so why hesitate.
Of course, he didn't dare to say that.
After all, he is a fanatic, and his belief in Kane is absolutely loyal.
After 5 minutes, Kane finally gritted his teeth and said: "49 is 49, you go back and promise them now, let them send troops over immediately."
"Okay." Michelle nodded and wanted to leave immediately.
But Kane stopped him again.
"How many resources did you buy this time?"
Michelle thought for a while and said, "I spent [-] gold coins and bought [-] units of food and water."
If it weren't for the resources bought from the half-winged angel plane, they would have been unable to survive.
However, the resources of the half-winged angels are not free, but need to be bought with gold coins.
When Kane heard this, he stomped his feet immediately.
"These damn profiteers, this has tripled."
Indeed, the usual market price is the basic resource of five units of one gold coin.
But now [-] gold coins only bought [-] basic resources, no wonder he jumped.
But it’s okay not to buy it.
After all, the water source in the main city is extremely unsafe now. Although there are sacrifices, they are already exhausted and have no mana.
Therefore, purchasing resources from the half-winged angel plane has become inevitable.
Most importantly, his gold coins are almost gone.
He couldn't believe what would happen if food and water were lost.
This is why he would agree to the Khan Alliance.
Because he can't last long.
However, although he agreed, it took seven days for the Khan Alliance to open the plane channel.
And I don't know where to drive it yet, so according to Kane's estimation, I have to watch for at least ten days.
However, at dusk on the No. 15th day of the siege, the undead army launched an attack on the city.
Facing the 25-meter-high wall, the undead army pushed a new type of siege vehicle and siege ladder.
By the way, a siege ladder was also arranged for the zombies in the east.
Fortunately, the corpse king, Daniel, was there, and the undead were not attacked by zombies.
However, when these siege machines advanced, they were destroyed by the magic tower's attack.
But the undead and zombies did not retreat, but began to rush towards the city wall, and then began to climb with bare hands.
But this time, Zhu Zichen did not use the Frost Domain because of the large gap in strength between him and Kane.
Therefore, the wall-climbing speed of skeleton soldiers, skeleton warriors and zombies can be imagined.
After an hour of siege, no one climbed up.
All were killed by stones, logs, and odds and ends of the enemy.
In this hour, the undead army lost at least 1 troops, and the zombies also lost more than 3000.
If it weren't for the skeleton shooter and skeleton mage, it would have caused a little damage to the enemy behind.
Maybe even in the end, none of the enemies can die.
But even so, the ratio of battle damage is ten to one.
An average of ten undead can kill one enemy.
But what makes Kane very strange is that even though the enemy has suffered such heavy losses, they still have no intention of retreating.
Instead, a new siege engine was introduced.
However, it was soon destroyed by the Mage Tower again.
Even when the giant steel dragon approached, it was frightened and repelled by Kane.
From the current situation, if the undead were really so stupid, maybe they could really be guarded by them.
By the sixth hour of the siege, more than 7 undead people had died, and more than 3 zombies had been lost.
And where no one was paying attention, a one-eyed tauren led his men and directly opened the west gate.
Because, Simon, they are in charge.
Thank you for your great support, okay(ω)
(End of this chapter)
Kalin City fell overnight because of the traitor's betrayal, and the news immediately spread throughout the Tauren world.
This also made the already pessimistic tauren even worse.
Even some tauren couldn't accept the reality and began to commit suicide.
After Kane returned to the main city, the first thing he did was to arm all the tauren, men, women and children.
He planned to stick to the main city, try to recover his divine power as soon as possible, and then fight to the death.
After all, he had consumed a lot of divine power to break through the siege before.
But the arrival of the undead army has not yet come.
He received bad news first.
The Alliance of Hundred Clans has attacked two resource planes, and the garrison of the resource planes is sending for help.
Kane called a meeting of the gods again, but none of the gods attended.
After all, now that the Earth Alliance cannot protect itself, who can support the resource plane?
In the end, he could only abandon the resource plane.
And a week later, the vanguard of the undead army, the zombie army, came first.
This morning, when Kane was recovering his divine power, Michelle pushed the door open and walked in panting.
"God of the Earth, it's not good, there are countless zombies infested five kilometers outside the east city."
Kane opened his eyes and nodded solemnly.
After a while, he and Michel walked to the east wall.
Looking at the dense army of zombies below, which had returned to more than 50, he felt helpless.
These were originally his believers, but now they are driven by the enemy.
Soon, the zombies approached one kilometer, and they were within the attack range of ordinary mage towers.
After a while, a series of colorful magic attacks began to be issued.
Kane originally didn't want to waste resources on fighting zombies, but the morale of his believers was low, so he could only use it to boost morale first.
"Boom!"
After 10 minutes of magic attack, more than 5000 zombies died.
On the Tauren side, there were bursts of cheers.
But soon, new zombies began to approach again.
To be honest, even if the 50 zombies were all dead, Zhu Zichen didn't feel bad at all.
As long as the corpse king, Daniel, is still alive, he will have an inexhaustible supply of zombies.
In other directions, an army of more than 150 million undead also appeared.
There are almost 50 or so in each direction.
At a glance, you can't see the side at all.
The morale that Kane had managed to raise just now was gone in an instant.
And he himself also gave birth to endless despair.
Even if he mobilized all the people who could be mobilized, the main city only has more than 50 troops, most of them are first-level tauren fighters, and some of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.
With four times the difference in strength, how can he fight.
If there are all level-[-] heavy ax tauren and some level-[-] druids, he still has a little confidence.
But the main force lost more than half in Carlin City.
"Roar!" A dragon chant sounded.
Soon, the figure of a steel dragon appeared in the sky.
"God of the Earth, Kane, how dare you speak out!" Zhu Zichen's voice suddenly resounded in the sky.
While speaking, the zombie also retreated to a safe distance.
Soon, a divine ray of light lit up in the main city.
Kane flew into the sky, looked at Zhu Zichen who was standing on top of the giant steel dragon, and said with an ugly expression, "Say nonsense quickly."
Zhu Zichen smiled faintly, amplified his voice with divine power, and said, "I trade your death for the survival of all your believers, and I can arrange for them to live on my plane."
When Kane heard this, he sneered, "May I make my believers your slaves? It's impossible. Unless I die, the faith of the tauren will never die."
It's a joke, although he doesn't want believers to die, but he understands better that the so-called survival mentioned by the enemy is nothing more than switching to the enemy of faith, and then doing things for the enemy.
Work hard in war, and provide faith in peace.
It is impossible to develop and grow stronger, and the enemy will never give this opportunity.
Zhu Zichen shook his head and said, "Are you just for your own benefit, regardless of the life and death of your own believers?"
"Hmph, stop talking nonsense, fight if you want, none of us tauren are afraid of death." After speaking, Kane returned to the city.
He didn't believe the enemy's nonsense.
If he really died, the future of the tauren would definitely be very dark.
But Kane knows, but his believers don't necessarily know.
He soon discovered that the atmosphere among the tauren was suddenly different.
The eyes that looked at him lacked the respect and admiration that he had before.
There was an inexplicable meaning.
A small number of people even felt that it was Kane who made them face the current desperate situation because of selfishness.
After the negotiations broke down, Zhu Zichen ordered the undead army to start building walls and arrow towers on three sides.
A pair of preparations for long-term combat.
The main city of the Tauren has a 25-meter-high city wall, plus various city defense facilities.
Even if it is captured, he will suffer heavy losses.
It's better to fight a war of attrition.
After all, the undead army does not need logistics, but the enemy needs food and water.
So Zhu Zichen was in no hurry.
Consumes energy to kill enemies.
Although it takes three points of divine power to maintain the plane channel every day, it is nothing to him.
After more than a dozen wars, large and small, he now has more than 500 million faith points in reserve.
If all the upper limit of divine power is refined, it can be raised to more than 900 upper limit of divine power.
It's time to click on the stitch monster.
If it rises to [-] points, you will be able to activate the Skeleton General, Corpse King and Ghost.
At that time, the undead army will have a qualitative leap.
But these have to kill the tauren first, and Kane will talk about it later.
In the main city, Kane became angry when he saw the enemy building a wall and planning to fight for a long time.
But he can only be angry.
After all, at a distance of 01:30 kilometers, even the magic tower can't be reached at all.
If he had a regular army of more than 5 in his hands at this time, he would dare to go out and harass a wave.
But it's a pity that his current subordinates only have [-] heavy ax tauren and [-] druid tauren, and the rest are all first-level tauren fighters who have just picked up weapons.
These first-level militiamen are doing well in defending the city. If they really want to go out, the team will probably disperse in half an hour.
Most got separated and some escaped for their lives.
So he could only watch the enemy build walls and arrow towers bit by bit.
And thanks to the fact that the undead don't need to rest, the wall looks different every day.
Seven days later, a dense wall and arrow towers were built on three sides of the main city.
Except on the east side.
But even if there are no walls and arrow towers in the east, it still doesn't make the tauren feel relaxed.
Because during this week, zombies joined in one after another.
Now there are more than 70.
And there are still many other zombies continuing to come.
However, many zombies of other races appeared.
It seems that this plague has spread to the entire earth.
After the wall was built, the tough days for the tauren came.
The army of the undead does not attack the city every day, but only casts plagues.
This made the water and food in the main city more and more tense, and then began to limit the supply.
At this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that the general trend is over.
And this also made some tauren of capitulationism start to be restless.
……
On the tenth day of the siege.
The weather is cloudy.
In a dark underground chamber.
The six tauren were sitting anxiously, waiting for someone.
If Kane were here, he would find that these six tauren were all believers above the squadron leader level.
"Squeak... bang..."
After a while, a tauren wearing a cloak pushed the door in and quickly closed the door.
The six tauren looked anxiously and expectantly at the new tauren.
One of the one-eyed tauren who was blind in one eye couldn't help asking: "Did you agree?"
After the cloaked tauren sat down, he nodded excitedly: "I agree, as long as we open the city gate, they promise to give us [-] gold coins each, and send us to the plane of the half-winged angels."
Another strong tauren asked, "Credible?"
The cloaked tauren nodded, and said, "It's believable. Those who betrayed Kalin City and a few guys are going to eat and drink hot food in the half-winged angel plane with their families now."
When the six tauren heard the words, they immediately showed excited expressions.
This means they have a chance to survive.
Instead of being buried with stupid Kane.
Now that the war has come, no tauren thinks they can win the war.
In order to survive, betrayal has become an inevitable choice.
This is not just for yourself, but for your family and children.
After the seven continued to chat about some details, the one-eyed tauren made a final decision and said, "You reply to the letter over there. The time is set at twelve o'clock in the evening five days later, and we will open the west gate."
Another tauren then said: "By the way, let them besiege for a while before we can act."
After confirming the betrayal, the cloaked tauren went out quickly, and then began to disappear invisibly.
……
In the temple.
At this time, Kane didn't know that his subordinates were going to betray him, but showed a long-lost smile.
"Are you saying that the Khan Alliance promised us?"
Looking at Michelle who just came back from the City of Angels, he felt more and more pleasing to the eye.
Maybe it's because the other priests are dead.
Michel also nodded excitedly, and said, "Yes, as long as we merge with the Khan Alliance afterwards, they will send troops immediately."
The Khan Alliance, an alliance composed of orcs, is stronger than them.
"Merge." Kane lost his smile when he heard this.
"How much plane authority do they want?"
Michel hesitated for a moment, and said, "With my efforts, they only need 40.00% of the nine plane authority."
"What, 40.00% nine!"
Kane immediately got up from the throne and began to walk around restlessly.
"Damn, they are robbing!"
40.00% Although Jiu's plane authority still has autonomy, if he wants to leave in the future, he can still do it.
But that would require losing 40.00% of Nine's plane area.
This means that all my efforts will be lost in half.
"Yeah, originally they still wanted 51, but after my efforts, it was changed to 49." Michelle became anxious when she saw Kane hesitating.
If they can't even grasp the last straw, they are really going to die.
Anyway, it is not 50.00% of the authority, at least there is a certain degree of autonomy, so why hesitate.
Of course, he didn't dare to say that.
After all, he is a fanatic, and his belief in Kane is absolutely loyal.
After 5 minutes, Kane finally gritted his teeth and said: "49 is 49, you go back and promise them now, let them send troops over immediately."
"Okay." Michelle nodded and wanted to leave immediately.
But Kane stopped him again.
"How many resources did you buy this time?"
Michelle thought for a while and said, "I spent [-] gold coins and bought [-] units of food and water."
If it weren't for the resources bought from the half-winged angel plane, they would have been unable to survive.
However, the resources of the half-winged angels are not free, but need to be bought with gold coins.
When Kane heard this, he stomped his feet immediately.
"These damn profiteers, this has tripled."
Indeed, the usual market price is the basic resource of five units of one gold coin.
But now [-] gold coins only bought [-] basic resources, no wonder he jumped.
But it’s okay not to buy it.
After all, the water source in the main city is extremely unsafe now. Although there are sacrifices, they are already exhausted and have no mana.
Therefore, purchasing resources from the half-winged angel plane has become inevitable.
Most importantly, his gold coins are almost gone.
He couldn't believe what would happen if food and water were lost.
This is why he would agree to the Khan Alliance.
Because he can't last long.
However, although he agreed, it took seven days for the Khan Alliance to open the plane channel.
And I don't know where to drive it yet, so according to Kane's estimation, I have to watch for at least ten days.
However, at dusk on the No. 15th day of the siege, the undead army launched an attack on the city.
Facing the 25-meter-high wall, the undead army pushed a new type of siege vehicle and siege ladder.
By the way, a siege ladder was also arranged for the zombies in the east.
Fortunately, the corpse king, Daniel, was there, and the undead were not attacked by zombies.
However, when these siege machines advanced, they were destroyed by the magic tower's attack.
But the undead and zombies did not retreat, but began to rush towards the city wall, and then began to climb with bare hands.
But this time, Zhu Zichen did not use the Frost Domain because of the large gap in strength between him and Kane.
Therefore, the wall-climbing speed of skeleton soldiers, skeleton warriors and zombies can be imagined.
After an hour of siege, no one climbed up.
All were killed by stones, logs, and odds and ends of the enemy.
In this hour, the undead army lost at least 1 troops, and the zombies also lost more than 3000.
If it weren't for the skeleton shooter and skeleton mage, it would have caused a little damage to the enemy behind.
Maybe even in the end, none of the enemies can die.
But even so, the ratio of battle damage is ten to one.
An average of ten undead can kill one enemy.
But what makes Kane very strange is that even though the enemy has suffered such heavy losses, they still have no intention of retreating.
Instead, a new siege engine was introduced.
However, it was soon destroyed by the Mage Tower again.
Even when the giant steel dragon approached, it was frightened and repelled by Kane.
From the current situation, if the undead were really so stupid, maybe they could really be guarded by them.
By the sixth hour of the siege, more than 7 undead people had died, and more than 3 zombies had been lost.
And where no one was paying attention, a one-eyed tauren led his men and directly opened the west gate.
Because, Simon, they are in charge.
Thank you for your great support, okay(ω)
(End of this chapter)
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