"Don't be so hasty, it hasn't arrived yet." Roland sighed, watching Lightning, who was itching to try.

Heaven knows why she's so interested in challenging demon beasts. She's clearly not the type suited for combat, yet she doesn't possess the fear that ordinary people should have when facing demon beasts. "Use the same method as before to deal with the first one. Don't be reckless. You're just luring the demon beast, concentrating its attention on you. Maintain altitude! Although it can't fly, it can jump with quite a threat!"

"Got it, got it," Lightning said confidently, "I figured out its weaknesses when the first one came. Don't worry, it won't even touch the corner of my clothes."

As she spoke, the mixed-breed demon beast had already approached the city wall, crossed a stretch of obstacles, and leaped vigorously towards an undefended section, climbing onto the wall. However, this time, no militiamen paid attention to it. They remained in their defended sections, waiting for the hunter observer's next stabbing order.

"Then, special operations against the mixed-breed demon beast, begin!" Roland said in a deep voice.

Lightning, who had already flown out, stopped and looked back at Roland.

"What's wrong?"

"That sentence of yours..." Lightning thought for a moment, then shook her head, "It's a bit strange. Never mind, I'm off."

Watching the little girl's figure quickly receding, Roland smiled awkwardly and asked Anna and Nightingale behind him, "Do you think it's strange too?"

"Yeah." The two nodded in unison.

Okay... it seems that chuuni lines are still chuuni even in another world, "Then you guys go too, be careful."

"Your Highness, you too," Nightingale bowed, then took Anna's hand and entered the mist.

Roland stood with his hands behind his back, facing the wind, trying his best to look like a Great Boss should. He knew that many people would secretly look back at him during combat breaks, so even though his feet were numb, he still stood at the highest point of the city wall, so that everyone could see him—the prince was with them at all times. Since he couldn't personally join the battle, he could at least inspire people in this way.

This demon beast invasion had exceeded the intensity of any previous attack. According to Iron Axe, only one or two mixed-breeds would appear in the entire Demon Month in previous years, but counting this one, Border Town had already encountered four mixed-breed demon beasts this year. The duration was also particularly long. The demon beasts kept appearing from the Misty Forest, in batches of dozens, constantly rushing towards the city wall.

Fortunately, the production of flintlocks had increased greatly in the past month, and the hundred-man musketeer team had already been fully armed, otherwise, it would have been impossible to guarantee such a high rate of killing. If it were gongnu, they would probably have difficulty drawing the bow now. In a protracted war, the advantage of flintlocks requiring little physical exertion would become more and more obvious. Of course, the surge in huoyao consumption was enough to give Roland a headache. He was already considering dismantling all twenty-odd packets of zhàyào in the warehouse and retrieving the huoyào to allocate to the musketeer team.

On the other side, Lightning had already flown over the head of the mixed-breed demon beast. She took out a stone from her pocket and threw it at the demon beast. The stone accurately landed on the opponent's head, and this sudden blow made it retreat sharply, only to discover that the attack came from the air.

Lightning lowered her altitude provocatively, passed in front of it, and flew close to the ground towards the center of town. Although the mixed-breed demon beast had a certain amount of thinking ability, the little girl in front of it was clearly judged to be non-threatening. It immediately pounced, spread its wings, and glided nearly a hundred meters in a few leaps. Lightning immediately pulled herself up, made a turn in the air, bypassed a few bungalows, and turned into another street.

In this way, with seven turns and eight detours, she lured the enemy to the central square of the town, which was also the attack location she and Nightingale had agreed upon. Because the lion-headed, winged mixed-breed was very sensitive to smell, even Nightingale in the mist would be discovered, so before Nightingale and Anna launched their attack, she had to distract the demon beast as much as possible.

And Lightning did it perfectly. The mixed-breed was now obviously furious, and the increasingly manic shouxing covered up its already limited rationality. It opened its mouth wide and jumped into the air several times, but Lightning, who had no weight on her body, was much more agile than the demon beast. She teased the opponent up and down, making each jump fail.

Nightingale had also arrived at the square from another direction—unlike Lightning, after entering the mist, she completely ignored the houses and fences on the road and advanced in a straight line. Anna's flame range was only ten steps (5 meters), so she had to approach from behind the tail to reduce the possibility of being discovered by the demon beast.

There were still many mistakes when dealing with the first mixed-breed, but at this moment, Nightingale was completely familiar with Anna's attack method. When she was thirty steps away from the demon beast, she increased her speed to the limit. The ground seemed to shrink in an instant, and she crossed the remaining distance almost in one step. When Anna came back to her senses, the monster's tail was almost touching her face.

"Now!" Nightingale shouted.

The black and white world around Anna receded like a tide. In the blink of an eye, she returned to the familiar town square. Green flames quietly appeared at her fingertips, then expanded into a huge flame cage, covering the demon beast.

Nightingale retreated rapidly, and the rolling heat wave already made her feel the burning pain.

In the high temperature that could melt steel, the demon beast didn't even have time to struggle before it turned into a ball of fire and fell to the ground with a bang.

"It seems they've solved it," Wendy, who was acting as a temporary guard instead of Nightingale, curled her lips when she saw the rising green flames in the distance, "It seems like I didn't play any role..."

"If I could, I wouldn't want any of you to go to the battlefield," Roland still stood with his hands behind his back, pretending to be relaxed. Even so, he knew in his heart that if the witches hadn't joined the defense line to assist in the battle today, the militia would definitely be in chaos when facing the mixed-breed demon beasts that could leap over the city wall.

Even Nana Wawa had come to the city wall, and under the protection of Baron Tigu, quickly treated the injured warriors. This was the first time Roland had publicly demonstrated the power of the witches in front of all the militiamen, and the result was very gratifying. Nana Wawa, who had the reputation of a healing angel in the team, had obviously raised the reputation of the witch group to a new level. After Anna and Nightingale joined forces to kill the first mixed-breed on the city wall, cheers even erupted in the crowd.

Of course, he knew that not everyone would be indifferent to this, and such a situation was already very rare. After the militia reached a preliminary consensus, his next plan would be much easier to implement.

Suddenly, the gunfire on the city wall thinned out, and Roland noticed that the demon beasts were starting to retreat from the city wall. They actually retreated? He couldn't believe his eyes. At this moment, a beam of light pierced through the thick clouds and fell to the ground, followed by a second beam, a third beam... Soon, the gray sky was riddled with holes by thousands of beams, and all the light merged together, becoming dazzling and indescribable. The earth suddenly brightened.

"The day the sun rises again is the end of the Evil Moon."

There was a brief calm on the city wall, followed by a wave of cheers sweeping across the border defense line. Gradually, the townspeople also came out of their houses one after another, following the cheers. They cheered for the long-lost sunshine, for safely surviving the winter, and for their prince. All the voices finally converged into a torrent, resounding throughout the Border Town!

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End of the Evil Moon Song

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