Monster Lord: The Goblin Offers the Saintess to Me at the Start

Only Vikalina looked extremely uneasy.

The more this situation worsened, the more she felt that Sivis was absolutely essential.

The female knight realized that even if Sivis had some tricks up his sleeve, if he didn't show up, the morale of the people wouldn't last much longer. Just relying on her own commands, she wouldn't be able to hold the line!

Moreover, no one could cure the Blood Servant infection.

The people's defense line wouldn't last.

The situation had already deteriorated to the worst possible point.

But Vikalina couldn't show her worries.

She was afraid it would affect the people's morale.

The female knight forced herself to say, "Don't worry, everyone. The lord is preparing a special force. He'll arrive to support us soon. We just need to hold on for a little while."

"Really?" The people asked.

Vikalina wasn't very good at lying, so she just nodded firmly.

At that moment.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With a deep rumbling sound, the monsters' screams gradually faded.

But no one could smile, because that rumbling soon turned out to be the sound of Blood Servants rushing forward.

The people saw clearly—Sivis's industrial area had always been brightly lit for the night shift, and they could see the dark gray waves coming from the distance.

The monsters swept across the ground, and wherever they went, houses and walls were smashed and torn apart by the crazed Blood Servants, making the scene look like hell.

At the factory, even though it remained bright, it was like a small boat in the ocean during a storm, ready to be completely overturned at any moment.

Yet, the people clung to the hope that Sivis would surely come to rescue them, that he would keep them safe, and they barely managed to suppress their fear and held onto their weapons.

Seeing this, Vikalina immediately said, "Stay calm, don't panic, keep your formation!"

She quickly gave orders.

Even if she felt the hope of holding the line was slim, the female knight still did her best to make the best possible deployment.

She was afraid that these untrained civilians, driven by fear, would run forward on their own and be killed needlessly. Fortunately, under her control, those people who had turned from fear to excitement managed to hold themselves back.

In the front, the wave of Blood Servants kept advancing and approaching.

They were getting closer and closer. The first Blood Servant, which had been far away before, had now entered the factory area and destroyed the outer residential buildings.

After a few more seconds, the blood-red eyes of the Blood Servant appeared in the eyes of countless civilians.

Behind it, in the darkness, countless eyes like red lanterns were gradually lighting up, one after another—how many there were, no one could tell.

Even the most determined people, including Vikalina, were so nervous that their palms began to sweat.

The female knight gripped her lance tightly, took a deep breath, and ordered, "Everyone, listen up! Prepare yourself!"

Numerous men stepped back a step, gripping their long spears. They split into three rows.

This was a tactical method taught by Sivis, based on a classic infantry tactic from the previous world: the three-file spear formation.

The first row of spearmen would attack and then quickly retreat, allowing the second row to strike. Then the second row would retreat, and the third row would attack.

After reorganizing, the first batch of spear teams launched another round of attacks.

This tactic worked quite effectively, even having a revolutionary significance in the otherworldly setting...

Sivis had given this tactical system to the overseers and Vikalina for free, and had ordered them to train the people to deal with the waves of Blood Servants.

Until now, Vikalina still found it incredible that such an important and revolutionary system of tactics had been casually proposed by Sivis...

What other amazing and absurd abilities did this companion of hers actually have?

But Vikalina had no time to think further.

She could only silently wait for the monsters to come.

Meanwhile, the members of the Church who had left with such arrogance just a moment ago were now in a huge panic, retreating back toward the factory compound.

They had also seen the Blood Servants who had gone into a frenzy.

They knew that the final disaster of this plague was about to erupt.

Although the distance from the factory to the eastern gate wasn't particularly long, the dense, massive wave of monsters made them realize it was smarter to retreat rather than charge forward blindly.

This included the silver priest.

He tightly gripped a crystal-clear stone, engraved with a young dragon, his expression shifting between hope and worry.

"If I activate the power in this fossil right now, would I have a chance to break through?"

"This fossil only contains a young dragon. Even though it has the strength of a silver tenth-tier, its size is too small. It might not be able to clear a path wide enough for me to pass through."

The silver priest was now very troubled.

What he had in his hand was none other than the Dragon-related Fossils that Sivis had been desperately searching for!

The priest was torn.

Should he take the risk and try to survive by fully unleashing the fossil's power along with his own?

Or should he retreat to the factory, where he would at least be safe for a while and could join up with Vikalina?

He didn't know what to choose.

But luckily...

Someone had already made the decision for him.

Sylar, who had already been turned into a Blood Servant, was shouting loudly.

"There's no way out anymore. We can't break through!"

"We have no choice but to retreat first."

"Let's go back to the Daister family's base and at least live a little longer with Vikalina."

Hearing his words.

The knights who had been leading the charge immediately gave up their attack.

They didn't hesitate—they decided to retreat first.

The Blood Servants surging forward were all attacking like madmen.

Even though the knights could easily kill these enemies, the endless stream of enemies still terrified them.

The Church members' original plan had been to break out before the final frenzy of the plague hit.

Who could have expected...

They had just seen the shield of the church shattered by the Evil God's aura, and then immediately started to flee, but it was already too late...

Now, the knights were killing enemies while looking completely hopeless.

They weren't even using the most standard attack moves, which cost them extra energy and further worsened their dangerous situation!

Hearing Sylar's suggestion, the knights gradually had their scattered eyes refocus.

Yes, yes!

Retreat, retreat to Vikalina's side!

They didn't care about their pride anymore, just wanted to live a little longer.

The knights' regular training did have some effect. They didn't immediately abandon their line and run back, but instead, some of them moved from the front to the back, guiding the rest of the people to turn around.

At this moment, even the rear area that they had just cleared out was being continuously attacked by Blood Servants.

Luckily, these monsters weren't as densely packed as those in the front, so they weren't like a wave that couldn't be broken through.

The knights killed these scattered monsters at a very fast pace.

Plus, their own strength was still higher than that of the Blood Servants, and their speed was enough to make the monster waves unable to catch up.

This allowed them to successfully retreat back toward the factory.

Seeing this, the priest sighed helplessly in his heart.

He also thought there was no need to use the Dragon-related Fossils to clear the way.

There were no other people to act as cannon fodder.

If the priest used the fossil's power alone to escape, the chance of survival was very low.

Besides, these Blood Servants were in their most terrifying first wave. If they could survive a while with Vikalina, then activate the sacrifice of the fossil to summon the dragon's spirit inside, the chance of success might be higher!

Right, in fact, the crystal dragon fossil that Sivis had been searching for was always in the priest's hands.

Earlier, when Sivis tried to find it, the priest had shown no intention of handing it over.

The Dragon-related Fossils were the most mysterious resources left behind by the dragon race in Gandanyir.

And it's a Silver Tenth-Rank fossil!

This kind of resource can't be used to brew a guardian policy, but it can also help silver-world cultivators break through to the gold rank.

The power contained within a dragon's body is several times stronger than that of an ordinary race. The energy within this fossil can allow cultivators to achieve qualitative change through quantitative accumulation, breaking through their cultivation plateaus!

If it weren't for the Blood Plague, the priest wouldn't have considered using it, let alone selling it.

If Sivis had known the priest's thoughts, he would have been utterly speechless.

From the game's perspective, this priest clearly had no chance of using the fossil to reach the gold rank.

He never used the item until his death, and only then did the Dragon-related Fossils end up in the players' hands...

You could have just sold it to me directly.

...

At this moment, after the knights turned their direction around,

The priest truly couldn't bring himself to use such a precious resource.

Under Sylar's persuasion, he followed the crowd back.

But on the way back.

A new hope suddenly rose in the priest's heart: if he went to that factory base, there might still be a chance of survival!

Sivis had "tricked" Vikalina, so he might really be a favored servant of the Evil God.

Might he have a secret card to help everyone get through this crisis?

The priest's eyes flickered with a hint of hope.

He knew that the Evil Gods were extremely hostile to each other.

A thousand years ago, during the Battle of Exorcism, they had hindered each other, and only then were they all eliminated one by one by the True God.

Sivis had lured Vikalina, and it was definitely not to let himself and her die in the city. He must have had a secret plan!

The priest consoled himself.

He simply put the fossil back into his spatial item.

This silver-level powerhouse kept finding reasons for himself not to use such a precious resource for future breakthroughs.

He successfully convinced himself.

Additionally, the priest knew that Sivis had been searching for information on this Dragon-related Fossil.

"This is a precious resource I was going to use for my own breakthrough. How could I give it to you?"

The priest sneered and laughed.

But he didn't realize that the action of taking out the Dragon-related Fossil had already been seen by many people in the group.

Some members of the Knight Order had already known that Sivis was searching for this rare object.

But...

At this moment, the knights didn't think about it much, and had no time to think about it.

This group of church members just kept clearing away the chaotic Blood Servants rushing toward them from the roadside, slowly and steadily approaching the Daister family's base.