From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man - Chapter 384

c374 Battle of beams?

Soon after.

The western periphery of Jerusalem, about a hundred kilometers away from the Gate of Hell in a straight line;

There are endless buildings and streets here, together with the bloody city wall covered with bone spurs and wrapped in flesh, forming a defense line that blocks the west and continues to advance towards the core of Jerusalem.

And a large number of creatures corrupted by the breath of hell, as well as completely corrupted humans, knights, and even nuns who defected from the church, live behind the bloody walls of this defense line.

As far as the eye can see, the endless city is filled with rotten and putrid pieces of meat and bones. There are even many cages to imprison knights and nuns who still maintain their inner bottom line and refuse to surrender to hell.

The heretics, who were severely deformed both internally and externally, were unscrupulously inflicting cruel and inhuman torture on these knights and nuns.

For example, after completing the transformation of eating flesh and blood, and before inscribing curse scriptures on their bones, the fallen knights who chose to defect directly entered the cage by relying on the tyrannical power of receiving the “blessing” of hell——

Either peeling off the flesh of the knights and nuns alive, or using hell’s blasphemy virus, corruption potions, etc. to keep the knights and nuns conscious, taking out their organs and tissues, and then forcing them to eat them. .

Some fallen knights who are deeply hurt by God and the forces of heaven will also use sharp blades to scratch the bones of knights of the Order after “peeling the skin with bare hands.”

And he will also witness with his own eyes that when the oath scriptures are physically erased, God and the forces of heaven impose “divine punishment” on those knights who still maintain the bottom line and remain loyal, that is –

Amplify the pain until it is burned to ashes and dregs.

After witnessing those knights being burned to death, the fallen knight would laugh loudly and say to the knights who were also watching:

“Look! Look! This is the God you serve and fear!

He clearly did not rebel, but he was still punished by God and burned to death!

Why should we believe in and be loyal to such garbage that makes it difficult to distinguish right from wrong and even enslaves human beings? ? Come to us! Hahaha, as long as you follow us to hell and come back alive, you can gain true freedom! ”

The “freedom” that the fallen knight talks about is actually just changing camps and continuing to serve and be loyal to the Lord of Hell and the Demon of Hell.

Moreover, the fallen knights abused their former human compatriots. In addition to satisfying their distorted psychological desires, they also wanted to complete their “performances.”

They can move freely in the physical universe, but the hell lords and hell demons are subject to various restrictions. Therefore, the fallen knights must not only sacrifice to the lords and demons through extreme rituals, but also bewitch the knights and demons. Nuns rebel against God and Heaven.

In this way, they can continue to obtain more powerful power.

Otherwise, if they are really “disposed” and enjoy their freedom without any worries, they may one day die from the “divine punishment” of hell.

No matter which side you surrender to, the result is that you are destined to become a “slave”, allowing heaven and hell to gain enough “power of faith”.

Skinning, deboning and eating one’s own organs raw are still the most basic forms of torture.

Some fallen knights and fallen nuns who serve the second level of hell, lust, or the third level, gluttony, will use their best tricks to torture loyalists.

Such as cutting off the loyalist’s genitals and then using profane potions to stimulate the loyalist’s sexual desire.

But because the vaginal area had been removed, the loyalists were in agony.

As for the fallen heretics who served the “Great Demon” Beelzebul, each of them turned into a bloated and blasphemous creature.

Festering flesh, fetid pustules, and swamp-green skin color, various characteristics make the servants of Beelzebub look like the followers of Nurgle in “Warhammer 40k”.

In the absence of large-scale wars, life here would be a purgatory on earth for ordinary people, but for traitors and heretics, it would be ordinary.

Every moment there were appalling screams and riotous and evil laughter.

However, the current western defense line

Boom~! Boom!

Ta-ta-ta! !

Then there was the sound of intensive gunfire.

I saw the elite army belonging to the Holy Roman Empire, relying on the long-abandoned trenches or the craters bombarded by heavy artillery to serve as bunkers, slowly advancing towards the flesh-and-blood city wall of the western defense line.

The soldiers of the Roman Empire were all heavily armed and wore filter masks that looked like octopus faces to resist the poisonous fog and corrupt atmosphere that filled the place.

Tanks and armored vehicles similar to those seen at the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II in the main universe, as well as heavy artillery with a caliber exceeding 400mm or even 1000mm, followed the army forward to launch an offensive.

Thousands of knights and tens of thousands of nuns charged under the cover of elite soldiers, specifically fighting against large, disgusting-looking demonic creatures, fallen knights, and fallen nuns.

On the other hand, the army of hell also broke through the flesh and blood city wall and launched a fierce battle with the elites of the Roman Empire.

The fight between the two sides was acrimonious.

It seems that the hell side did not expect that they first organized countless “cannon fodder” and launched a raid on the towns located on the border, and that humans actually wanted to launch a raid deep into the hinterland?

The elite of the Roman Empire seemed to be determined to fight to the death, but in fact they left room for maneuver, just like pretending to attack.

The Roman Empire, as well as the Hungarian Empire, the Orthodox Russia and the African tribes that also launched attacks in the north and south, also “unintentionally” launched offensives that seemed fierce but were actually feints.

Because they needed to cover the paladins who sneaked into Jerusalem alone and prepared to force their way through the gate of hell and attack hell.

Only the paladins could withstand the high temperature of the gate of hell and avoid the corruption and destruction of their will by the breath of hell.

If ordinary people approach the gate of hell, their consciousness will be instantly defeated, and they will become lunatics who have lost their minds, and then instantly become “loyal” servants of hell.

Heretics living all over the world frequently organize the so-called “dark pilgrimage”, that is, using mortal bodies to try to approach the gate of hell located in the core of Jerusalem.

And those few heretics who can withstand the test of hell will become official believers of the “Dark Church” or elite soldiers of the Lord of Hell and the Great Demon.

However, the price these heretics have to pay is also eternal curse.

From the moment they were branded by the Lord of Hell and the Great Demon, they were already slaves of Hell. How can they have any freedom?

So whether it is heaven or hell, from a certain perspective, they are all the same.

Not long after.

The Roman Empire’s army, which reached hundreds of thousands in size, gradually began to become powerless in the face of endless heretics and traitors, as well as the hell creatures living near Jerusalem.

The logistical supply of the Roman Empire could not support a real “expedition” at all.

The consumption of ammunition and medicine, the maintenance of weapons and armor, and ordinary living supplies, etc., with the national strength of the Roman Empire, can only support the army for four months at most, and then it will declare “bankruptcy”.

And Hell has no such worries at all.

Traitors and heretics can no longer be judged by common sense. They may not need to take in calories to maintain their physiological state.

What’s more, the elite army organized by the Roman Empire was fighting in the territory of Hell, which had the advantage of home field.

So after a fierce battle, the commander-in-chief and generals of the army began to think about how to retreat.

Either return to the original route, or take the risk of continuing to advance to the north, join the armies of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Knights, and then return to the territory of the Roman Empire.

Anyway, according to the time, the paladins responsible for stealth and advance should have arrived near the gate of Hell, so their feint attack mission has also been completed.

What needs to be considered at this moment is how to lead this living force to retreat while maintaining the full scale as much as possible.

However, the commander-in-chief and generals had not had time to determine the retreat route, and a large number of fallen knights, fallen nuns, and seemingly endless zombies and heretic soldiers emerged from the flanks and rear of the army.

The situation immediately reversed.

The originally evenly matched battle turned into a one-sided scene.

The army was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the front and rear could not take care of each other. The troops responsible for covering the flanks could not compete with the fallen knights and fallen nuns.

There was even a huge group of fallen knights with bone spurs on their armor and helmets stuck to their scalps. They forcibly penetrated the right wing of the Roman Empire army and were about to attack the command center of the army.

The elite guards responsible for protecting the commander-in-chief and a group of generals, as well as a few knights and nuns, had to fight desperately to avoid the complete defeat of the army.

The front-line troops facing the flesh and blood wall had been “cut” and “split” into small groups, almost fighting back to back.

It would not take long before the elite soldiers, knights and nuns who were still struggling to hold on, would be swallowed up by endless heretical demons.

Da da da-ka-!

At this time, a soldier emptied all his ammunition.

He drew out the bayonet hanging on his waist, and his expression under the filter mask revealed extreme fear, but his eyes were extremely firm.

It seemed that even if he died, this soldier was unwilling to give up his faith in God.

But more importantly, he hated hell.

After all, the humans living in the “Trench Crusaders” universe have more or less been invaded by the forces of hell, making their already difficult lives even worse.

Click, click——!

The comrades-in-arms emptied their ammunition one after another.

There were only dozens of them who were separated and isolated.

In front of them were fallen knights who were more than ten times their number, and heretic soldiers with distorted appearances.

Seeing that this soldier and his comrades had run out of ammunition and picked up close weapons to fight to the death, it aroused the “playful” hearts of the traitors and heretics.

They also drew out their close weapons, that is, bone knives, bone swords, and even whips that emitted a strange luster and were also distorted and deformed, and slowly approached the soldiers and others surrounded by them.

“Kill!”

“Even if you die, take some with you!!”

The soldier who first used up all his ammunition, and his closest comrades, took the initiative to launch a fearless charge at a fallen knight who was 2.6 meters tall.

“Kill!!”

“For humanity! For glory!”

Seeing this, the remaining teammates also stepped forward and launched their last charge in their lives.

“Heh.”

But the Fallen Knight was quite disdainful.

In its eyes, the soldier and his comrades were all in slow motion.

The Fallen Knight lifted the whip with ease and controlled the force to swing it forward.

Thunder-bang~-bang-! !

The extremely powerful whip directly whipped the soldier and half of his comrades away.

The other half of the comrades died directly because the whip hit their heads and chests. Their bodies fell backwards limply and turned into lifeless corpses.

As for the soldier

“Hoo-cough. Cough-cough!!”

Because of the impact, the mask fell off, and he was lying on the ground spitting blood, and was also corroded by the poisonous fog, falling into a half-dead state.

He wanted to struggle to get up and continue the “death charge” to the Fallen Knight.

But his consciousness gradually blurred, and it was extremely difficult for him to even move his fingers. He could only watch the Fallen Knight slowly approach.

“Ouch!”

What the soldier found most difficult to accept was that his comrades who had died suddenly began to stand up unsteadily.

However, those comrades who stood up again became zombies, and were driven by instinct to surround him and his seriously injured comrades.

Seeing this scene.

The Fallen Knight stopped and looked around at the soldiers and comrades present with his scarlet eyes, and then said in a nasal tone:

“Your courage is commendable, but you don’t know your own strength.

Now you will either be eaten up by your former comrades and partners, or abandon your faith in the damn God and join us.”

After that, the Fallen Knight and the traitors and heretics around him began to wait in silence.

Of course, while waiting for the soldiers and comrades to make a choice, they also wanted to enjoy a “wonderful performance” up close.

What could be more interesting than the despair and pain of being bitten and eaten alive by the comrades who were once trusted but turned into zombies?

Anyway, whether the soldiers and seriously injured comrades surrendered or not was not a big deal to the Fallen Knights.

“Fuck you!”

The soldier Fallen Knight cursed and sat up with all his strength, then stretched out his left hand that was still intact, tried to pull out the dagger next to the military boots, and prepared to give himself a good time.

“Uh-huh!”

But the comrade who had become a zombie had already come in front of him and pounced on him with his mouth open.

! !

Plop!

The soldier, who was covered in wounds, could not withstand the attack of a zombie and was thrown to the ground directly.

And his neck was also bitten and swallowed by the zombie comrades.

The severe pain made the soldier regain a brief sobriety, and at the same time realized that he was about to be “swallowed” by his former comrades.

However, when his consciousness was about to die, he seemed to see an extremely dazzling golden beam of light?