"Roar!!!"
A hoarse, buzzing voice rang out, and a figure in tattered military uniform, swaying unsteadily, appeared at the edge of the imperial city.
The deserted city skyscrapers have long been devoid of human life, so the sudden appearance of such a figure at this moment is clearly unusual.
Abraham's scalp tightened, and he stared intently at it.
His pupils contracted as he adjusted his gaze, clearly seeing the face of the swaying soldier.
Its body was slender and severely shrunken, somewhat resembling the early Norton, with its skin already withered and wrinkled. Its exposed face revealed its skeletal structure, and its skin was severely rotten. As it swayed, bits of flesh even fell off, much like the festering and peeling skin of Norton before it reached the Fourth Stage.
"What... what is that?"
A melodious female voice rang out from the side. Elizabeth had appeared beside Abraham on the city wall at some point, and was now looking at the swaying figure at the edge of the distance with a look of surprise.
Abraham's expression was extremely solemn, and he reached out to the side to ring the alarm bell that he was always ready to ring.
"Thump, thump, thump..."
Only after the piercing sound of bells did the explanation finally begin.
"This is... proof that Jonah exists!"
"Roar!!!"
As the bell tolled, the swaying corpse at the far end of the horizon finally steadied itself, letting out a shrill scream.
Its face was slightly raised, as if sensing something, and it locked onto the city that had already been laid out with layers of defenses in front of it. Its eye sockets, which had long since fallen out due to decay, seemed to be able to see, staring directly at the pale tower in the distant imperial city, locking onto the position of the Pale God.
As its roar resounded, a subtle vibration arose.
"Splash splash splash..."
Amidst billowing dust, figures began to appear from the distant horizon, followed by a frenzied charge!
"Roar roar roar..."
In a short while, at the edge of the field of vision, the once empty wilderness was now filled with countless figures, stretching as far as the eye could see, with no clear boundaries between them. Like an endless swarm of locusts, they charged madly toward the imperial city.
"Enemy attack!!!"
Abraham cried out.
Accompanied by its piercing roar, a deafening cannon boom rang out from the imperial city's battle lines.
With the deafening roar of cannonballs, a dense barrage of shells burst forth from the imperial city like a shower of flowers, their long trails of flame crashing down like meteors onto the distant, madly littered corpses.
"Boom!!!"
The blinding explosion enveloped the entire wasteland like a curtain in the sky, blasting countless corpses into pieces that were scattered everywhere.
But these corpses showed no signs of death or fear. Some had only one hand left, still moving forward with their fingers, while others had only their heads left, still biting the ground, desperately trying to continue their charge.
As for the remaining half of the body, they were all unharmed, climbing with their two arms to keep up with the group and move forward.
A single round of artillery bombardment, though seemingly powerful, yielded minimal results. Although these corpses were no longer armed, their sheer number and fearless charge propelled them ever closer to the imperial city, until they broke through the artillery lines.
"Da da da..."
Corpses littered the hillsides as the artillery bombarded the area, breaching the defenses and approaching the city walls. The machine guns, which had been waiting for a long time, were ready, their muzzles exploding and bullets firing.
The crimson flames, with their incredibly high speed, were almost like lasers. When they struck a corpse, they could tear off a large chunk of flesh, or even slice it in half.
But even with such formidable firepower, it was still difficult to suppress the column of corpses that covered the entire mountainside.
Before long, many corpses had rushed to the edge of the city wall, and then they pushed and trampled each other, piling up in a frantic human wall to quickly climb upwards.
"What the hell is this thing?"
"A demon! This is a demon! This is a demon from Hell! The Pale God has angered the true god, he..."
" Pale God, your most devout believer begs you to bestow your holy light and cast out these demons from Hell!"
The soldiers stationed on the city wall were losing morale under such a massive offensive, and they started shouting and yelling.
These seemingly indestructible monsters are endless. Since their appearance, a continuous stream of corpses can still be seen bursting out from the edge of the field of vision, rushing towards the imperial city.
"Damn it! How dare you judge His Holiness?" Abraham roared, reaching out and crushing the head of a shouting believer beside him. Then his body suddenly swelled up, his skin bursting open along with his clothes.
Fine, tough downy hairs swelled up from the tears in his skin, each hair stretching the skin and rapidly expanding, turning a dark bluish-black color.
His fingernails fell off, and as his palm deformed, sharp, black claws emerged from between his fingers once again.
Its originally aged face shattered and twisted, with bristles emerging as it contorted into a hideous monster.
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic monster, several meters tall and comparable in height to the city wall, appeared atop the wall.
With a gentle squeeze of its nearly one-meter-long foot, the rigid, iron-like city wall boulder was crushed into powder.
Its enormous wings slowly unfolded on its back, and with a sudden flap, a huge gust of wind howled, lifting its body into the air. However, due to its weight, it slumped slightly, only to rise again with the flapping of its massive wings.
"Roar!!!!"
"Your Majesty's dignity cannot be insulted, and the pale divine court cannot be destroyed! All devout believers, raise your weapons high and vow to defend Your Majesty's holiness to the death!"
Abraham's enormous body rose into the sky, and with his movement, more than fifty bat-like giants gathered around him.
With a loud roar, Abraham of Biyang, like a true believer, crashed down from the sky like a meteorite, carrying more than fifty bats, into the wilderness of corpses.
"Boom!!!"
With a tremendous roar and the blasting of earth, more than fifty enormous monsters descended upon the vast wilderness filled with endless corpses.
Then, these fifty-odd enormous monsters waved their hands high, like bulldozers, rampaging through the horde of corpses and crushing all the enemies that came to attack!
More than fifty enormous monsters descended from the sky and crashed into the horde of corpses in the wilderness. This scene instantly ignited the passion of the believers, restoring their spirits that had been shattered by fear.
In an instant, roars echoed from the city walls. Angry witches breathed fire, burning through the mountain of corpses that had clung to the walls, while Vajra warriors lifted boulders and smashed the climbing corpses to pieces.
This is the most united Pale Holy See has ever been since its founding.
The crazed monster, several meters tall, could crush any corpse in front of it with a single swing of its arm.
It only needs to take a step forward and charge ahead to flatten all the mountains of corpses in front of it like a bulldozer.
While these fearless corpses could play a role on the human battlefield due to their numerical advantage, they were still far too fragile in the face of true superhuman power.
For a moment, the scales of victory seemed to have truly tipped in favor of the Pale Holy See.
However, these were nothing more than cannon fodder for the Northern Continent army!