Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 309 Precarious

Amidst the panic, the demons set up camp not far outside the city and began their formal attack.

"Don't let those things climb up!"

On the city wall, the knights roared madly, and the soldiers below kept throwing large stones and rolling logs down the city wall.

The cannons imported from the North on the city walls were constantly roaring. Due to poor maintenance technology, many cannons had exploded many times due to continuous firing. The rune craftsmen and alchemists in the city spontaneously stepped forward to repair the cannons, but because they were always held back by the North in terms of technology and materials, the results were not very good.

Although the mud monsters could not corrode the city wall because of the barrier, they were able to climb up the city wall along the barrier.

Just one look at the dense silt on the city wall is enough to make one's scalp tingle, just like the caterpillars crawling all over the trees in summer, with a few falling off from time to time.

But there is no way. The more scared we are, the more we cannot let these monsters crawl into the city.

Although the barrier has the ability to actively attack, under Judith's arrangement, the professionals in the city can save their magic power as much as possible. When they are about to collapse, they will use the barrier's attack function. If they can still hold on, they will use some physical means to attack the monsters on the city wall.

Although there is a half-built obelisk in the north that provides energy, it is unknown when reinforcements will arrive, so Judith can only prepare for the worst possible scenario.

This gigantic obelisk was worthy of being a product of the North. Just a semi-finished product could already relieve a lot of pressure for the spellcasters in the city. However, the obelisk was not completed after all, and the spellcasters had to make manual adjustments to maintain the barrier. Even most of the spellcasters in the royal capital did not understand the operating logic of the obelisk. Judith did not dare to use it in an extreme way, as she believed that if it could work, she should not touch it.

Although the Governor's ancestral potion left by Her Majesty the Queen was very effective, it was used in small amounts, so Judith only used it as a last resort.

Spellcasters stood on the city wall, continuously casting various spells. Even apprentice-level spellcasters from the Magic Association and the Royal Academy were brought out. Lightning and fireballs, frost and storms poured down from the city wall.

Magic is very effective against those mud monsters, but spells that cannot be concentrated will hardly have a significant effect on the ever-expanding offspring of the demon.

Judith and Scott kept walking around the city giving commands to prevent the army from losing morale, but facing the non-stop attacks of those inhuman monsters day and night, Judith and Scott were already extremely exhausted both physically and mentally.

From the intelligence they got at the Golden Harvest Plains, Judith and Scott already knew that the monsters of the demon clan were quite terrifying, but they didn't expect that the most terrifying thing was their ability to never sleep. The attacks day and night had made the people in the city very tired, especially those spellcasters.

This also made Judith wonder how the North defeated these monsters in the first place?

The physical strength of the knights and soldiers on the city wall has reached its limit, and many monsters have climbed up the city wall while everyone is tired.

At this time, the bell of the Central Church in the royal capital rang, and the Crusaders who had been prepared long ago, wearing specially enchanted armor, bathed in holy light, climbed to the top of the city and began to fight.

With the blessing of holy light, the Crusaders could easily chop these monsters down and purify them on the spot. Soon the situation on the city wall stabilized again.

But this was just the situation on the city wall. Just as Judith feared the most, these monsters of the demon clan seemed endless and could not be completely solved. And with the descendants of the demon god constantly hitting the city walls, it was difficult for the Crusaders to go out of the city to fight.

Depressed, this is how everyone in the royal capital feels.

Cliff followed the tradition passed down by Augustine III and summoned all the nobles to the palace to start a meeting, but the number of nobles who showed up each time decreased.

In this precarious time, the nobles could no longer conceal their little thoughts, because the devil Antipas had asked Monroe to stand up and make a statement to the nobles in the royal capital, saying that as long as they surrendered, all the nobles would retain their noble titles and treatment.

At the most recent meeting, Judith reported on the current situation. The number of nobles who came to discuss the matter had decreased by two-thirds. Those nobles had already planned to draw a line between themselves and the royal family and no longer make any efforts to defend. But at this time, Cliff was helpless against those nobles.

Now the only thing the entire capital can count on is that the Governor of the North who defeated the demons before can come to support. Although it is known that Her Majesty the Queen has been in contact with the Governor of the North and asked for help from the North, but people do not know how fast the information transmission between the two sides is. The pessimistic people think that the capital may not be able to hold on until the Governor of the North can come to support.

But Judith still encouraged everyone at the meeting. If the Northern Governor could defeat the demons once, he could defeat them a second time. As long as the king could hold on until the Northern Governor arrived, everything would be fine.

"His Majesty."

At this point, an Augustine stood up at the meeting.

"Even if the Northern Governor really arrives, how much better can he be than the demons?"

"According to what Her Highness Claire said, the reason why the Governor of the North suddenly changed his attitude was because he is a relative of Her Majesty the Queen. If this information is true, and Her Majesty the Queen is missing now, even if the Governor of the North really saved the capital, would it really be a good thing for us?"

Then, Augustine began to appeal to the emotions and reason of the meeting, constantly deducing how bad the situation would be if the North entered the royal capital.

Before Judith could rebuke Augustine, Marcel, the leader of the old party who had insisted on attending the meeting, couldn't hold back any more and cursed, "You said so much, but it was all hypothetical. Don't you just want to surrender to the demons? Do you still have any royal backbone? All the previous Augustine kings should be ashamed of you!"

But the Augustine glanced at Cliff who was slumped on the main seat and said, "But your majesty, all this is for the continuation of Augustine. As long as the demons promise that Augustine will still be the king of this country, then I will naturally have the face to meet the previous kings of Augustine with pride!"

At this moment, Judith suddenly felt that the atmosphere at the scene was a little wrong. It seemed that the meeting place was surrounded by someone. Cliff knew better than Judith that it was Augustine's last strength, a strength prepared to protect Augustine and allow Augustine's bloodline to escape from the royal capital in an emergency. Unexpectedly, it was used in this place.

Just as Judith and Augustine were on the verge of a fight, a herald ran in and said, "Your Majesty, another city wall has been lost. Our strength is running out. Your Majesty, please prepare to escape quickly."