The City Wall was forged from Blackstone, exceptionally sturdy, with a metal gate beneath it.
The sections behind it were built from ordinary stone bricks and wood, then reinforced by mages.
It was not that Blackstone was difficult to forge, but that they simply could not afford it.
From the sky, its overall shape somewhat resembled a Western Middle Ages castle, only enlarged. (Note: The City Wall was a hundred meters high; Demacia's City Wall was even taller.)
Beyond the outer high walls, there were countless rooms within.
Behind the castle lay the kingdom's residential district, and the tallest building was where the Three Kings resided.
To resist Noxus, these kings had reluctantly squeezed together to form the Three Kingdoms Alliance.
As if sensing Darius's displeasure, the mages hurriedly sped up their work.
"Who goes there?!"
"Ordinary people are forbidden from approaching the Magic Turret area!"
Carrol acted as if he had not heard them and continued forward.
Just as the five Defenders prepared to attack, he stopped.
Carrol stared blankly at the Magic Turret Base. It was a product of magic and alchemy combined.
The base had been placed inside a room forged from Blackstone, with a Crystal Sphere exposed outside.
The patterns on its shell lit up from time to time, indicating that it was charging.
Whether its design or its patterns, they were knowledge Carrol had never encountered before. Unfortunately, he had to destroy this masterpiece.
"Ah... if only I could pilot a Magic Turret too. Then I definitely, definitely..."
The Defenders exchanged speechless glances. It seemed he was a madman.
One of them spoke to the people behind Carrol. "Hey! You people, hurry up and take him away. If the supervisors see this, who knows what might happen."
He might have been a madman, but he was still a comrade.
The Defender could turn a blind eye, but it would be troublesome if the nobles discovered him.
Hearing the Defender's advice, the bloodshot-eyed soldiers behind Carrol stepped forward one after another.
However, instead of stopping Carrol, they embraced the Defenders amid their stunned gazes.
"Hey? Brother, what are you doing?"
"Don't touch my ass!"
"It's not even dark yet. Isn't this a little inappropriate?"
Carrol ignored the Defenders' various thoughts and pretended to wipe tears from the corner of his mouth.
If this Magic Turret could be moved away, how much money could it sell for? Slurp.
"Thank you for the reminder, and then..."
"Goodbye!"
As his words fell, Carrol turned into a pool of Blood Water and slipped out through the gaps in the room.
The bodies of the soldiers under his control began to swell, growing larger and larger.
Boom!
One of the Magic Turrets that had displayed its might on the battlefield went silent.
Carrol had used most of the blood he had collected on the battlefield for this explosion, and he was quite satisfied with its results.
"War Merit, War Merit, here I come."
When Lightning Mage Yuchizona saw that a mage had already destroyed a Magic Turret, he immediately grew anxious.
Mana poured from his body, shortening the buildup time of the dark clouds floating over the battlefield.
Yet the Magic Turret below, which had been struck for so long, still stood firm.
The turret had been designed with the possibility of the outer Crystal Ball being attacked in mind. The best way to destroy it was still from the base.
It was not that Yuchizona did not know this, but weren't the other two mages cooperating with him for the War Merit from the Magic Turrets?
With no other choice, he gritted his teeth and bombarded it again and again.
Meanwhile, the mages of the Underground Team successfully entered the City Wall. Aside from the castle built from Demacian Nullstone, there was practically no City Wall capable of stopping mages from entering and leaving.
"Alright, now it depends on our own abilities!"
"Of course."
"Let's hope the one up there can hold on a little longer."
Naturally, they meant Chen Yi. If so many Wasp Birds returned, they would be extremely troublesome.
After several dozen mages entered the City Wall, they began fighting separately.
They had their own pride and also hoped to earn more War Merit.
Large numbers of isolated soldiers quietly disappeared around corners. For a time, no one even came to relay the General's orders.
However, the mages' carefree time did not last long.
After Carrol killed a Royal General, chaos immediately erupted behind the City Wall!
"Pah!"
"Pah! Pah!"
Carrol kept spitting, seemingly trying to spit out the blood he had just drunk.
He had thought that a Royal General would be powerful, or that their vaunted Royal Bloodline truly possessed something extraordinary.
After scheming for so long, he discovered that the Guards were the only strong ones.
Still, the outcome was good.
After killing the so-called Royal General, he eagerly drew out the blood within his body and took a huge, satisfied gulp.
"Blegh!"
Carrol nearly vomited from disgust.
Not only did the blood contain no power whatsoever, its taste was utterly revolting. It was trash among trash.
It was the kind Carrol would not drink even at his most destitute.
"With blood this worthless, you still travel with dozens of Guards. Even a Magic Turret hides itself better than you do. How are you fit to be a General? 'Royal glory was born with me,' my ass!"
Carrol cursed as he searched for his next target.
He had no idea how much trouble his actions had caused the other mages.
Losing one Magic Turret did not matter.
But if a royal died within the city, then the problem became extremely serious.
Upon receiving the news, the three kings flew into a rage at the same time.
"How dare these lowborn wretches!"
"Maybe it was the slaves."
"I said long ago that slaves could not be trusted."
Their first reaction was that those lowborn wretches were challenging royal authority. They paid no attention to the army currently fighting Noxian soldiers.
They forcibly issued orders, demanding that the Generals on the City Wall bring the criminals' heads beneath the throne.
The Generals helplessly withdrew some of their soldiers. The moment those soldiers left the battlefield, they had to pay for the kings' actions.
Meanwhile, the Noxian front line had already advanced to within five hundred meters of the City Wall, breaking through with abnormal ease.
This was an absurd act Noxians could not understand, an act Demacians found not entirely unacceptable, an act Ionia's old diehards clung to, an act that... the kings would defend their power to the death for.
They would never allow anyone who had challenged royal authority to remain alive.
Boom!
Another Magic Turret collapsed.
Several mages watched the scene unwillingly. Being a step too slow meant losing who knew how much War Merit, and their latest experiments were still waiting for funding.
"Over here!"
"Quick, quick, quick!"
"They're Noxian mages!"
A large number of soldiers surrounded them.
The mages were astonished. Were these guys reacting that quickly?
Such situations occurred repeatedly behind the City Wall. Once these mages emerged from the Anbu into the open, their threat was reduced by more than half. Against some powerful soldiers, they might not even win in a one-on-one fight.
Surrounded by so many soldiers, many mages could not even escape.
At that moment, fireballs began falling from the sky again.
As the fireballs continued to rain down, individual buildings began to burn.
A single Wasp Bird was useless, but sufficient numbers could cause a qualitative change.
Fire Dragon's flight speed could not exceed the speed of sound, causing the threat posed by the Wasp Birds to surge dramatically.
Even though Chen Yi constantly used Repelling Fire Ring to create distance, after dealing with those strange birds, both Chen Yi and Fire Dragon were already in terrible condition.
Now, he was merely tossing fireballs around and picking up assists.
"Fire!"
"Someone, hurry and put it out!"
"Stop yelling. I don't know whether we can put out the fire, but if we fail to catch these mages, we'll all die."
Those words plunged many soldiers into silence, and no one mentioned putting out the fire again.
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