CHAPTER 445: CHAPTER 414: CAPTURE

Gaia’s Fist!

The enemy soldiers on the fortress watched as the gigantic mechanical iron fist suddenly appeared below, continuously launching arrows from their hands.

Yet, this enormous mechanical iron fist was unstoppable, heavily smashing onto the fortress gate.

"Bang!"

The massive sound echoed all around.

Under the enormous vibration, quite a few soldiers on the fortress couldn’t stand steady, with some unlucky ones falling directly off the fortress.

A huge cloud of smoke and dust accompanied the loud noise, spreading around.

When the smoke cleared, the giant mechanical iron fist and Kane’s figure had vanished.

What remained was the enormous hole in the fortress.

The fortress was breached.

This scene was clearly seen by Horn, who excitedly shouted loudly.

"Attack!"

All the soldiers raised their shields and weapons, quickly charging down towards the fortress.

The ranged soldiers first launched projectiles at the soldiers on the fortress to disrupt their attacks.

By this time, Kane had already flashed back into the ranks, setting up a firepower platform beside him again.

In his eyes, the crosshair had long been aimed at the soldiers atop the fortress.

The cannons beside him roared, sending shells towards the enemy soldiers on the fortress.

Kreya and the others had long rushed out with the soldiers.

Longbei, even more so, led the charge, transforming into a 5-meter-tall gray stone giant, holding a shield and deploying iron wall shield defense at the forefront, blocking all incoming arrow storms.

Escort the soldiers behind him.

Meanwhile, the soldiers above were relentlessly casting down arrows, trying to slow the advance of the red soldiers.

Shells were delivered to their sides, exploding around them and by the bridge, causing them to be blown away, with unlucky soldiers occasionally being blasted down directly.

But these shells were not enough, and atop, rainbow-colored five-pointed stars rained down continuously.

When these soldiers saw them, they instinctively dodged to the side.

Those defensive machines, the enormous bed crossbows, had long been marked by Kane, and before firing a single arrow, they were blown to smithereens.

The remote soldiers atop the fortress no longer concerned anyone.

"Quick, quick, quick, press forward!"

The once arrogant commander of the blue side was now frantically yelling in front of the huge hole, directing soldiers to hold their shields firm beside the hole, blocking the impending attack from the red soldiers.

He must hold this fortress before reinforcements arrive, or else the red forces could rise again on the fortress.

Otherwise, all their previous efforts would be in vain.

The first to charge through were the heavy cavalry accelerating halfway, rushing towards the soldiers at the hole.

All the blue soldiers knelt, steadily raising their shields and setting up their long spears.

Yet, these heavy armored cavalry did not truly charge through, turning around halfway through.

Behind them were the 30 ghost cavalry led by Kreya.

These ghost cavalry ignored shields and long spears, transforming into ghost form and passing through these soldiers, reaching their rear.

A blue flame ignited on these ghosts and Kreya, attaching to these soldiers.

All the soldiers, pained by the flames, rolled on the ground howling, unable to hold their weapons steady under the burning flames.

The heavy cavalry, having turned and charged again, surged in directly, unstoppable, without any resistance.

The blue commander’s mind was entirely on keeping the enemy outside, picking up his longsword and charging at Kreya.

Facing the charging commander, viewing his strength as far inferior, Kreya held the flying wing twin swords.

With one sword, she blocked down the incoming sword blade of the blue commander, while the right-hand sword blade gently swung.

The blue commander only felt his vision whirl before falling into darkness.

Kreya glanced at the pile of dust underfoot and turned to attack the other soldiers.

Behind her, the massive hole had been breached by Longbei and many soldiers. The fortress was utterly lost.

Capturing it was just a matter of time, though this time needed to be fast.

Kane, through the body’s link, directed Cotton Candy floating in the air to drift outside the fortress.

Let it carry the Eye of Magic Power to monitor the situation of reinforcements below, to completely capture the fortress before enemy reinforcements arrived, and prepare defenses.

Now everyone had fully invaded the fortress.

"Everyone, speed up the kills," Kane communicated to all team members through the ruby lapel pin on his collar.

What they needed to do now was kill as many of the enemy’s living forces as possible to avoid being preempted by Horn’s subordinate soldiers; it was now racing against time to seize resources.

"Alright."

"No problem, good brother."

"Lulu, attack!"

"Mm."

Information from the ruby lapel pin reached all teammates.

At this moment, the enemy forces resisting in the fortress were in trouble.

Kane went straight to the fortress walls and cleared all the soldiers using the revolving launcher.

He set up a firepower line on the wall, his eye filled with cross aims, targeting and killing all enemy forces below.

"Da-da-da!"

As the launcher rapidly revolved, round after round of bullet storms. Slanting downward, many enemy soldiers were pierced through the head by these inexplicable bullets, falling to the ground and transforming into piles of dust.

Kleya led his ghost soldiers rampaging through the fortress, directly passing through various obstacles.

Mages in the fortress had already been pulled away to attack them; now there were no mages, not even soldiers capable of using magic attacks in the fortress, so the soldiers posed no threat to Kreya.

Lulu’s flashing stars accurately and quickly hit those soldiers attempting to flee or resist.

Longbei was slaughtering his way through areas with the most soldiers.

Even Meizike took the time between healing to use his magic palm, killing enemy soldiers around him.

With Kane and their efforts, the number of enemy soldiers rapidly decreased.

In no time, all the enemy forces were dead.

And inside the fortress, the flags fluttering on the poles were also quickly changing, turning towards red and white colors.

"Archers, take positions on the forward wall, remain vigilant; all other soldiers, find a place to rest."

After Horn finished speaking, he turned to the three commanders beside him and said, "Organize some soldiers to start patrolling around, spread our scouts out, I want updates on enemy reinforcements, and ensure all patrol rotations are organized well."

With Horn’s orders, the three commanders each began to take action, quickly getting the fortress operational.

With the occupation of the fortress, a number of artisans appeared in the craft camp.

More artisans began constructing various defense apparatuses, moving along the fortress walls.

These artisans started repairing the destroyed areas on the fortress and various walls.

Shadows directly appeared over these gaps and holes, then were filled, as artisans wielded iron hammers or wooden mallets, solidifying those shadows.

Kane, who was beside identifying equipment, couldn’t help but marvel at how useful these artisans were watching the scene.

If only they could be taken out, how useful would they be.

At this moment, Horn walked over and forcefully hugged Kane: "Thank you, Kane. Without you, capturing this fortress would have cost us so much more."

"Where, you’re overpraising me, the main effort was your commanding of the soldiers."

"Hahaha, Kane’s modesty remains unchanged. Alright, let’s set this aside for now, come with me, let’s discuss the upcoming battle situation."

With that, Horn led Kane towards the fortress’s command room.

By this time, red and white flags had been erected beside the command room, inside hung a map depicting the dungeon terrain, with a central giant sand table, clearer than the camp’s sand table.

Horn directly approached the sand table.

On the sand table, the red faction’s controlled area expanded again, with a red fortress shape positioned upfront, and two camps angled rearward.

"This is now our fortress, while ahead of our fortress lie various enemy camps and areas."

Horn pointed to the blue figurines ahead of the fortress.

Each figurine represented a blue faction camp.

There were exactly five camps ahead of the fortress, with more densely distributed across the entire map behind them.

Now they could rely on the fortress for defense, gaining better initiative and slowly dispatching troops to nibble at the front camps.

Logic dictates, with the blue faction’s size, they could gather forces and directly sweep over Kane’s red faction, leaving no room for counterattack.

No need to excessively worry about this, as dungeon data Kane obtained had already explained.

Originally, the dungeon should contain dozens of small factions, Explorers receiving different rewards upon clearing depending on which faction they joined.

However, due to the dungeon’s will interfering, at a certain time only two opposing factions emerged.

And furthermore, the Explorers could only select the smallest faction occupying merely 5% in territory.

After Explorers discovered the blue faction was constructed by merging all other factions due to the dungeon’s interference.

Although they became a singular faction, many were very dissatisfied, obeying only begrudgingly.

Unless the red faction grew strong or their original territory was attacked, they would drag down their own faction, even pulling each other down.

This was why Explorers had a chance to clear, else clearing was nearly hopeless.

For example, the fortress Kane captured and the surrounding camps once belonged to the same faction, hence they came to support the attack.

Whereas further camps and areas wouldn’t even consider assisting.

At this point, Horn said: "These camps will likely form an allied army in the coming days to attack the fortress. We must defend it, Captain Kane, do you have any good ideas?"

With dungeon information as the foundation, Kane had a clear strategy for defending the fortress and consuming the surrounding camps.

He began discussing with Horn.