Chapter 1082 - A Battle in the Darkness (1/2)

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

“What just happened?”

Lightning felt her head swimming. By the time she returned to the present, she found herself surrounded by numerous long black needles as thick as a man’s finger. These lusterless crystals landed in the vicinity of the railway, point down, quivering like black swords.

Then, a few more blasts from the encampment shattered the silence of the night.

“This is… an attack!”

The enemy had sent the Spider Demons to attack the Expedition Corp!

By the time Lightning realized what had happened, the enemy had started their second round. This time, however, the noise did not come from the sky but traveled through the trembling ground underneath, thudding as if a heavy object were smashed into the earth.

“Oh, no…” Lorgar muttered under her breath. “That’s where the Longsong Cannons are.”

It appeared that the demons first located the encampment before they attacked the cannons. Could they really do that in such a pitch-black night?

“Why hasn’t the alarm gone off yet?”

“I’ve got to wake everybody up!” Lightning yelled. Since she did not take her flight suit or sigil with her when she sneaked out, she had to fly back to the campsite against the heavy fire above the encampment. At this thought, Lightning grabbed Lorgar by her arm, trying to hoist her up to her feet.

“You…” Lighting turned around. To her great surprise, she saw a long needle half buried in Lorgar’s leg, nailing the wolf girl into the ground. Blood oozed profusely from her wound and soaked her pants.

Lightning suddenly felt suffocating.

It was her fault that Lorgar got hurt…

“Don’t be stupid,” Lorgar said, grinning. “The needle would get me regardless. Probably my condition would have been even worse if I didn’t meet you. Fortunately, there’s no demons’ blood on these stone needles, so I just got a scratch.”

“What scratch! Your bone is broken,” Lightning said within herself. From the volume of the blood, the needle might have reached Lorgar’s main blood vessel. If that was the case, it should be handled very carefully. However, where could she find Nana now? If the Mad Demons came back, Lorgar would literally become a sitting duck, completely vulnerable and defenseless!

Lightning revolved a multitude of thoughts in her head rapidly but could not find a solution.

“Look,” Lorgar said feebly as she put her hand on Lightning’s shoulder. “You need to get to that big machine on the railway…”

“Do you mean the ‘Blackriver’?” Lightning asked in surprise. “But…”

“Everybody should have heard the bombing by now,” the wolf girl said painfully. “The problem is how we’re going to deal with it. If my assumption is right, at least half of the enemy are coming for the Longsong Cannons. It seems to me that they’re also using weapons other than stone needles. I don’t know what’s happening there, but if… if the demons get what they want, we would lose the only weapon that has a chance to repulse them. You know its possible consequence, don’t you?”

If that happened, the Spider Demons would be able to pour down black needles at the encampment unscrupulously and break through the entire defensive line.

Lightning nodded.

“Aargh… then hurry up…” Lorgar urged, pushing Lightning on the back. “Although this is the first place being attacked, it’s actually the safest. I’m not their target anyway… Look over there…”

Lightning looked in the direction Lorgar pointed at and saw the wooden watchtower at the end of the railway had been chopped off by half as if it were engulfed by the darkness.

“So, run! To the ‘Blackriver’—” the wolf girl shouted at the top of her lungs through her teeth. “Only you can do that now!”

She was right. Flying would be the fastest way to deliver a message to the armored train traveling between the front and Station No. 0.

Lightning clenched her fist. She cast one last glance at Lorgar before turning around reluctantly. Within a second, she soared into the air and zoomed toward the encampment.

A few gunshots reached her ears.

As Lorgar had predicted, the whole campsite was awakened. Although the soldiers did not know where their enemy came from, they all scrambled to their feet and armed themselves for the upcoming battle.