Chapter 1024 Grond

Although the Alliance did not know Sauron's intentions for a while, what was the use of using precious catapults to fill the soil at such a critical time—even if the muddy area was filled? The city walls were not broken, and the first strong city on the mainland was not built for nothing. Did they try to fill the first wall with the corpses of orcs?

However, the Alliance was also very clear that in the current situation where every second seemed like gold, the contractors on Sauron's side would definitely not do useless work. Therefore, they were still trying their best to snipe the giant catapults below—although these catapults only sought to bombard the area in front of the city walls, they had already retreated beyond the range of the catapults on the walls of Minas Tirith.

At this time, the Lord ordered to snipe the operators of the giant catapults. Although the strong orcs were thick-skinned, if one shot could not kill them, two snipers would be sent together. If two people could not kill them, four would be sent, striving for a sure kill.

This kind of attack undoubtedly made the contractors on Sauron's side feel their hearts bleeding, but what could they do after killing them? They could only grit their teeth and go up, spending a lot of contribution points. Finally, before sunset, the muddy ground outside Minas Tirith was covered with a thick layer of sand and stones from the Anduin River.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of orc slaves rushed up, each holding a wooden board, using the boulders thrown outside the city as cover, and laid out a road leading to the gate of Minas Tirith!!!

As a strong city on the mainland, the gate of Minas Tirith was of course extraordinary, divided into three layers:

The first layer was made of the body of the oak tree demon Mugrundos, who was as famous as Treebeard, immune to any fire attack!

The second layer was forged from a mixture of mithril and lead, and almost all ranged attacks would be absorbed by this layer.

The third layer was made of hazel planks that were thirteen years old, mixed with mithril threads. It was said that thirteen-year-old hazel trees could be used to make the most powerful wands, and the mithril threads, which were highly sensitive to magic, could permanently fix the four major magics of "brand new," "self-repair," "deflection field," and "high-level gliding."

Therefore, it was a considerable mistake for the enemy to attack the city gate, because the defensive power of the city gate was even far greater than that of the walls of Minas Tirith.

If a hundred boulders hit one spot on the walls of Minas Tirith, the walls might not be able to withstand such an impact. However, if these hundred boulders hit the city gate, everyone could pat their chests and say that it would be safe and sound.

Therefore, the walls of Minas Tirith were known as the "walls that will never be broken." From the perspective of the defenders, if the enemy focused on attacking the city gate, they could gather their defensive forces at one point and inflict even greater and more direct damage on the enemies under the city!

But there were exceptions to everything. There was no city in this world that could not be breached. After only a moment, the orc defenders outside the city roared deafeningly. The sound even went straight into the sky, covering up all the noise.

They were shouting a single word at the same time, the sound pious and faithful, as if humble believers were shouting for an omnipotent god!!!!!!

Grond…….

Grond…….

Grond!!!

When the army of Mordor, led by the Witch-king of Angmar, the chief of the Ringwraiths, rampaged across Middle-earth, the biggest enemy they faced was the terrifying city gate defense of the kingdom's capital.

To this end, under Sauron's personal intervention, a huge and astonishing siege hammer was built using black iron mixed with mithril. Its length was as high as a hundred-year-old sacred tree, shaking with thick iron chains that shone with blood-colored light.

The blacksmiths of Mordor had worked hard for at least one hundred and seventy years to forge this terrifying weapon. Its tip was cast into the shape of a roaring wolf's head, ferocious, dark, and cruel. The gaps between the teeth of the wolf's head were forever filled with terrifying flames, which were the high temperature of the lava from Mount Doom.

Sauron personally engraved dark secret patterns on it, permanently fixing the four powerful destructive spells of "doom," "breaking barriers," "range force field deflection," and "wave of fatigue." To commemorate the ancient hell hammer, they named this siege hammer Grond. Four unicorn beasts, slowly crawling out of the southern swamps, dragged it, surrounded by many orcs, and elite hill trolls from the mountains were responsible for the use of the entire device.

The Grond siege hammer crushed the fertile land of the Pelennor Fields heavily at this dusk moment, when darkness was approaching but had not yet arrived, appearing in front of everyone in the posture of a destructive king.

The length of this giant hammer even exceeded forty meters, and its height would definitely not be less than ten meters. On the dark green trunk, there was also a shimmering light shining. At least thousands of strong orcs surrounded it, and it was being dragged by dark unicorn beasts, panting heavily and roaring angrily in a low voice.

On the trunk of the Grond siege hammer, a total of seventeen names were engraved. Without exception, all seventeen names were the names of the last kings of the royal capitals that were smashed by the Grond siege hammer. When darkness came, the ghosts of the kings imprisoned within these names would appear around them, wailing miserably. And their pain and fear would add enormous power to the Grond siege hammer!

Obviously, the attacking side had also chosen a very good time and opportunity. Relying on the advancing speed of the Grond siege hammer, when it entered the range of the catapults on the walls of Minas Tirith, the sky would just be completely dark. Darkness, in any case, would have a great impact on the defenders who were good at using ranged weapons to attack.

The orc arsonists, relying on the cover of darkness, arrived on the battlefield one step ahead. Wherever they went, there were fires and thick smoke, making the defenders' shooting even more greatly disturbed. The darkness and thick smoke, as well as the flickering light, would reduce the accuracy of all enemy attacks by at least 10%. For the Minas Tirith defenders, who completely relied on ranged attacks to output damage, this was already a very remarkable weakening.

At this time, from the main camp of Sauron's army, the nine Ringwraiths once again took off riding terrifying Fellbeasts. Both the Ringwraiths and the Fellbeasts were extremely perverted dark creatures, and since they were dark creatures, they would naturally not be affected by the darkness!

However, the Giant Eagles, which could restrain them during the day, could not maintain a high level of combat at night!

Because vision depends on the visual cells on the retina, and the visual systems of humans and birds are different. Humans have two types of visual cells: cone cells and rod cells. Cone cells are divided into three types in humans: red, green, and blue. The main function of cone cells is to sense strong light and color. In other words, they have visual and color perception during the day.

Rod cells mainly sense weak light, that is, they have light perception at night. However, most birds only have four types of cone cells and no rod cells, so they cannot see things at night. Obviously, Giant Eagles are neither humans nor related to bats and owls in any way. Therefore, this is a congenital defect of the species, just like humans cannot naturally breathe underwater like fish.

At this time, it could be seen that the Blue Light team was definitely not selected by the space to lead this battle without reason.

The identity, status, and strength of the contractors were greatly related. Because Reef and Aziz had displayed extremely powerful strength, their status had also risen, and it was very convenient to inquire about things.

Fang Senyan learned from Reef that the Blue Light team had specially formed a think tank, and the offensive launched today was planned by them, claiming to be a four-pronged attack. As could be seen, the appearance of the Grond siege hammer was one prong, and the Ringwraiths' strength remained unchanged at night, but the strength of the Giant Eagles from the Misty Mountains plummeted, so they could also be used as the main force of another prong.

"Then the third prong of the attack...?" Fang Senyan pondered, "Should be what I inferred!"

At this time, there was another excited shout from the strong orcs in the distance. It turned out that the Alliance was not the only one with powerful mages. Zeus was in the limelight at this time. His specialty was gravity control. After this guy joined the team attacking the Grond siege hammer, he directly reduced the gravity near the extremely heavy siege hammer to the lightest!

As everyone knew, the defenders would definitely desperately interfere and gather on the section of the road where the siege hammer approached the city wall. After arriving under the city wall, the attack would not be so strong because of the shooting angle. Therefore, the section of the road from when the siege hammer entered the enemy's range to when it arrived under the city wall could be said to be the most tragic road to death. The longer it was delayed, the more people would die.

At this time, Zeus suddenly halved the gravity in the area near the Grond siege hammer. Wouldn't that make the movement speed of this giant hammer more than doubled? More importantly, even the various ogres, soldiers, etc. nearby became as light as swallows and could dodge better!

While most of Minas Tirith's attention was focused on the advance of the Grond siege hammer, in the darkness, it seemed that something huge was wriggling. It was not until it calmed down that sparks of fire ignited.

That was to light the fire basins for the oil bombs! And countless orcs were busy beside them.

Beside the fire basins, there were actually twenty-five giant catapults looming!!

Yesterday's update mistakenly wrote Lord as Jax, hereby corrected.