"Attention all captains, once the territory to be guarded has been allocated, make sure you are in full spirit!"

"Each team will be at least a few hundred meters apart from each other. This means that you will need to subdivide into several squads and patrol your area of responsibility constantly!"

"At the same time, this also means that if the demons attack from a certain direction, the team in charge of the area will have to fight alone until the others arrive. Therefore, the captain must release a flare at the first sign of a demon!"

"Adventurers, do you understand?"

The twelve captains and vice-captains standing in front of Anno said with a solemn expression, "Understood!"

Anno scanned the crowd and said in a low voice, "Tell all the adventurers that if they survive the night, everyone will be a hero!"

"Hahahaha, I thought heroes were only for the strong, but I never thought I'd have a chance at level 4!"

Sunow Squad's Vice Captain Kahn laughed out loud, "Chairman, although I've just come to the Adventurers' Guild, the sense of trust that we all help each other out when killing slimes and confidently give our backs to our teammates is really nice.

When it's over tomorrow, I'll be sure to treat the chairman to a cup of buckwheat wine. It'll have to be a cheap wine too, I don't have much money after all!"

"Hahahaha, I thought you were rich when I saw you were carrying a sword, but I didn't think you were a poor man too!"

Another level 4 hunter adventurer said, "And me, I'll treat the chairman to a couple of drinks tomorrow!"

Anno looked at their smiling faces and was somewhat moved, "In that case, when it's over tomorrow, I'll buy everyone a glass of buckwheat wine!"

"Then it's a deal!"

Shore turned back to the many adventurers behind him and shouted, "The President is buying drinks tomorrow, do you all hear?"

"I hear!" The crowd shouted in unison.

The sound even alerted the townspeople and the mercenaries not far away.

Anno looked at the many adventurers holding torches and roared, "Gentlemen, in this defensive battle, although we are on guard and the high-level demons do not need us to fight. There will be guards and mercenary corps to take care of them, but we are still needed to fight the low-level demons!

But this is also an opportunity for us to get stronger all the same.

The experience of fighting will become our sustenance!

This afternoon, a number of people have leveled up by hunting slimes.

If the demons do attack, then we'll take them out and level up!

For this battle, the guards and mercenary corps will assign an extra level 6 professional to each team.

They will likewise be the first to arrive when the magical creatures are discovered.

So, don't be afraid.

Our side is just as strong as ours!"

The many adventurers had been forcibly conscripted by the law.

Many of them had some fear in their hearts before.

After all, it wasn't the first time that a demon attack had happened.

Some of them had even experienced their own villages and towns being attacked by demons.

Now that Anno had reassured them, the fear they felt had not completely dissipated, but it was better than before!

Anno and the captains looked at each other and then shouted, "Let's go!"

Six teams of thirty-six men each, led by their respective captains, rushed to their designated locations carrying all kinds of supplies that might be of use.

Behind Anno, there were six other professionals.

Two wore standardized equipment, long swords in their hands, and armor on their bodies.

These were Anno's acquaintances, guards Brooke and Owen, both of whom had volunteered to take on the task of assisting the adventurers.

The remaining four, two from the Bloodstained Mercenary and two from the Black Widow Mercenary.

All six were either warriors or knights by profession.

Anno assigned all two of the Bloodstrike mercenary to Shore's team, while the other four were assigned to four teams according to their needs.

To be honest, Anno didn't trust the Bloodstrike mercenary.

The reason for assigning them to Shore's team was to prevent accidents.

This was because the direction Shore's team was to guard was the main gate and the place where everyone was most concerned.

Even if the other guards and mercenary regiments do not participate in the battle in the early stages, they will still make people pay attention to this direction.

The men of the Bloodstained mercenary would not dare to make a small move here.

Anno came to the bearing to the right of Shore's squad.

The leader of this team is Bande, whose strength is currently only level 3, the vice-leader is also level 3, and the rest of the team is mainly level 2.

The overall strength is somewhat poor, which is why Anno came over.

The other team with poor strength is Lu Yan, who, like Bande, is not involved in the Gran village quest and is now level 3.

However, their team had Brooke on it and it was just to the right of Bande's team, so something happened and Anno could get there quickly.

Moreover, Anno gave Lu Yan a level 5 Wind Wolf to act as a mount, turning Lu Yan into a real knight!

Once they arrived at the designated spot, Anno had the adventurers raise fire and set up a straw man nearby - this was ordered by Anno in advance to confuse the demons, and the rest of the group had gotten quite a few straws men from the townspeople before they left.

In addition to this, Anno had the men quickly dig into the earth and pile up a long wall of earth and trenches.

This way, if they encountered a demon with long-range attack capabilities, they could hide behind cover.

Anno also took part in the building of the walls.

As the hours ticked by, the group became more and more nervous.

In the darkness, the only sound was the crackling of the fires.

The town was still separated from the meadow by a ten-meter wide river guard, and there were only two wooden bridges - one directly south of the town and the other directly north.

Shore was guarding the main gate due north.

The south gate was guarded by Sunow's party.

Both bridges have been raised, but who knows if the demons have other ways of crossing the river.

It's not like the previously destroyed villages and towns didn't have a river guard.

Hearing that during the battle deliberations, someone suggested destroying the wooden bridges to prevent the demons from sneaking across and then lowering them for the demon troops to quickly rush in.

But this was unanimously rejected by the three captains.

The reason for this was that if both bridges were destroyed, the town would be separated from the outside by a ten-meter wide moat.

If the battle was lost, the townspeople would not have a way to evacuate.

It would not be easy to swim across the ten-meter river, not to mention the many old and infirm townspeople.

As the group of adventurers waited in silence, a cloaked figure emerged from the darkness in front of a super-sized slime, protected by many large slimes in the center of the grassland not far away.

The night wind blew the cloak up, revealing the two curved horns on the top of the cloaked figure's head that curved backward.

Sensing the arrival of the cloaked figure, the round body of the mega-slime rolled a little.

From the movement, it looked as if it was bowing its head in worship to the cloaked figure.

"Slime King!"

The cloaked man touched the mega Slime and the language of the demon race came out of his mouth, "Start the attack!"

The Slime King, despite being a king, still did not have high intelligence.

However, it could still understand the simple attack command of the upper demons.

"Roar!"

The Slime King's body split a mouth down the middle and let out a roar.

The Slimes that roamed the surrounding mountains immediately began to bounce and charge toward the Gruul town.

......

"Kiki!"

At first, Anno only sporadically heard a few slimes' cries.

But soon, the sounds became one in a row and loud.

From the sound alone, one could tell that the slimes rushing over were definitely in the hundreds or thousands.

"Here they come, prepare for battle!"

Anno poked his head out from behind the earthen wall and looked across the river in the dim moonlight.

Through the summoned goblin scattered around, Anno learned that only the main gate and the nearby direction were currently under attack from the slimes.

The only ones affected were Shore's group, Anno's group to Shore's right, and Lily's group to Shore's left.

No movement in other directions for the moment.

Moreover, there was no sign of the goblin.

Therefore, Anno did not release the flare immediately.

The other teams presumably did not see goblin either, so Anno did not see the flare go up.