267. Firewood

Pale The flames burned the exposed skin of these mages. The originally normal skin was now cracked, revealing the hideous wounds underneath. The blood was steaming and swallowed by the flames.

These flames burned quietly, as if these mages were used as firewood to maintain a bonfire.

This must be extremely painful torture, Lu Ban thought, the expressions on the faces of those mages were even more terrifying than the monsters. It was the fear shown by humans after being extremely ravaged by Affliction. Their limbs were trembling, and the flames seemed to burst from their bodies, flowing from the wounds and burning between the bones.

Lu Ban I have seen documentaries about humans being wrapped in flames and Affliction dying. In fact, many people did not really die from fire, but more from suffocation caused by depletion of oxygen. They were suffocated before being burned alive.

Even if they are separated from the flames, the infection caused by large-scale skin burns will kill people, and the injured will die of endless torture and Affliction with hatred.

And now, these mages are suffering from such inhuman torture.

At the same time, Lu Ban saw that the armor on their bodies was emitting a faint light.

However, these armors were not protecting them from the flames, but rather tightly confining their bodies to the high-backed chairs to prevent them from leaving the seats because they couldn't bear it anymore.

"Is this the fate of a mage?"

Lu Ban couldn't help but sigh.

"You may not know that one hour as defined by the Gray Tower refers to the time it takes for a mage to sit on Spirit Torch until it is completely burned out."

Jonah looked at his tortured colleagues, the firelight illuminated his face, giving it a mysterious color.

"When we chose the path of mage, we already expected this ending."

It seemed that a mage couldn't bear the torture anymore. He opened his mouth and tried to roar, but his throat had already been burned, and the flesh and blood exposed on his neck had been turned into charcoal. Only air flowed through, making the flames stronger.

"In a large fortress, Spirit Torch composed of three mages can resist monsters for an hour. In a smaller stronghold, Spirit Torch composed of one mage can resist monsters for an hour."

Jonah is doing simple math problems.

Three days of Demon Tide, in this Black Fortress, three mages died every hour.

There are hundreds or even thousands of such fortresses.

One Demon Tide, Night Country may kill tens of thousands of mages.

This Demon Tide happens at least once a year and has been going on for thousands of years.

Lu Ban didn't count how many mages died in the process.

These Transcendentss, who possess extraordinary powers and appear to be powerful in other foreign lands, actually can only be used as consumables like firewood when Demon Tide comes.

If Rangers of Black Tower is an ordinary person who has difficulty controlling his own destiny, then the mage of the Gray Tower is Transcendents whose destiny has already been decided.

What is even more desperate is that even after paying such a price, the land of Night Country is still decreasing every year. Black Forest gradually covers the entire continent. And with the simultaneous appearance of three Demon Tide this time, Black Tower's defense line may completely collapse.

Thousands of years of sacrifice, in the end, only delayed the end of destruction a little.

Just like the resistance at Black Fortress at the moment.

Even if it can resist once or twice, this fortress will eventually fall.

All in vain.

Suddenly, a wolf howled.

This wolf howl was far louder than anything he had heard before, making people's hearts tremble and making them instinctively fearful.

Lu Ban hurriedly left the hall and came to the window.

The stationed Rangers's legs were shaking and he could hardly stand up.

Through the window between the stones, Lu Ban saw that thing.

In that eternal night, beneath Blood Moon, stood a giant wolf.

The size of this wolf has exceeded ordinary people's imagination.

As tall as a mountain, its existence is like an eternal thing in this world. Just seeing that figure is enough for people to give up resistance.

It is simply incomparable. It is what should exist in this world.

From Lu Ban's point of view, the giant wolf's back has already touched Blood Moon. It is all silver, shining brightly in the Eternal Darkness. It has a breathtaking face. It is obviously a wolf, but it can still look a bit human.

Those dark red eyes were like the red moon hanging high in the sky, exuding a demonic and coquettish glow.

Winter Wolf, Lord of Frost!

"I'm going to fight this guy and take its heart?"

Lu Ban I suddenly felt that this task was nonsense.

The heart of such a big creature is probably much bigger than that of a Lu Ban human. Even if we could find a way to shoot it to render it unable to move, where would Lu Ban find the time to take away its heart?

Not to mention there are two other Demon Tide.

If there is only frost, Lu Ban thinks there is still a chance, but whether it is eternal night or plague, Lu Ban cannot easily solve it.

He saw countless small pieces of dust shake off from the huge winter wolf.

What looks like small dust from a distance is actually a giant wolf.

Those winter wolves are as tall as a small building, have silver-grey fur, and have four eyes.

From those sub-level winter wolves, more wolf pups jumped out.

In the blink of an eye Kung Fu, the winter wolves formed a silvery white wave.

This wave is not just what Lu Ban can see, but the entire Night Country and the entire Black Forest appear at the same time.

If you are outside this world at this moment, looking down from a very high position, you can see a line of silver frost appearing on the dark and deep land, and moving towards the only remaining residence of human civilization.

Wherever the silver frost passes, everything freezes, and even the air turns into ice crystals.

Lu Ban's breath had turned into a pure white weapon. He saw the frost spreading from outside the fortress along the windows. Before those winter wolves arrived at the fortress, the outermost layer of Black Fortress might be completely frozen.

At this time, Lu Ban heard a horn.

It was a horn coming from the dome. It seemed unstable at first, but as it was played, the sound became louder and louder, giving people the feeling of a winter wolf's howl.

The next moment, Lu Ban saw huge stones being thrown out from above the fortress.

Those Stone radiate light, illuminating the surrounding eternal night.

Boom——

Stone fell to the ground and fell into the surge of frost, which immediately caused several gaps in the surge.

But the gap was quickly filled without any signs of weakening.

Moreover, these winter wolves did not just charge in one wave.

In places covered by frost, those ice crystals are growing more winter wolves, endlessly.

At this moment, many people cannot imagine that the area of the silver-white part of Black Forest has far exceeded the area of Night Country, the only unpolluted land left by mankind.

Billions of winter wolves are rushing towards the fortress of human civilization.