Chapter 861 The true face of the Black Duke
"Human race, this leader will definitely cut you into pieces!"
On the other side of the battlefield, two more legions were seen falling one after another. The orc leader tried to withdraw several times to come back for help, but in the end they were all intercepted by the knotweed.
Angry and annoyed, the orc leader had no choice but to order the remaining six legions to stay away from the range of the city wall, rely on swamp traps for defense, and wait and see what happens.
Although he was filled with anger, the orc leader understood clearly.
Although he still has 6 legions under his command, after a series of fierce battles, the actual number of troops is less than 50,000.
As for the two cavalry puppet legions of that abominable human race, their losses were less than 5,000 at most, and they still maintained strong charging capabilities and high-speed movement capabilities.
The strength comparison of 15,000 vs. 50,000, coupled with the Goblin legion in Luolong City, undoubtedly meant that he had completely lost his numerical advantage.
The most critical thing is that when the two long-range legions, especially the shaman group, are almost completely wiped out, even successfully climbing the city wall will be a problem, let alone maintaining the firepower advantage.
Thinking of this, although the half-orc leader was extremely unwilling, he had already begun to think about retreating.
"Your Excellency, there is no need to panic."
At this moment, the Black Duke's calm whisper reached only the ears of the orc leader through a special secret transmission method: "Don't worry, I have my own strategy to defeat the enemy."
"Oh?"
Hearing the voice of the Black Duke, the half-orc leader rolled his cloudy eyes and listened calmly.
After a while, as the Black Duke quickly revealed his plan, the orc leader smiled coldly, and his morale was immediately boosted, and he became full of fighting spirit again.
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"Being distracted at this time is simply destroying yourself!"
Jiang Li, who was dueling with the Black Duke, saw that the other party was mumbling to himself, and his starry eyes suddenly became piercing.
Under the deliberate hiding of the other party, although it is impossible to hear clearly what the other party is saying, this is a good opportunity to attack!
I saw the other side of time in Jiang Li's hand, drawing a perfect light gray six-pointed star in mid-air, and began to sing at a very fast speed.
With the blessing of this sixth-level staff, in terms of spell lethality and singing speed, Jiang Li, who is currently only fifth-level and five-star, is already comparable to the fifth-level and seven-star Black Duke.
"Void Feast!"
After Jiang Li finished singing, he gave a cold shout.
This time, the space around the Black Duke was not only twisted and deformed, but a hole more than two meters long was directly torn open, revealing a deep and chaotic void space.
For a moment, the deep crack like a black hole was extremely terrifying, like a glutton with its bloody mouth open, devouring all objects in the real space indiscriminately.
Air, energy particles, dust, stones...including the Black Duke who is still conspiring with the orc leader.
Sensing the sudden threat of the black hole, the Black Duke also reacted extremely quickly.
I saw the black magic wings behind it vibrating suddenly, trying to escape the influence of the space crack.
"It's not that easy to leave!"
Jiang Li fixed her eyebrows, and the simple Other Side of Time in her slender hand suddenly glowed with light gray, causing the cracks in the space to continue to expand.
As the area of the deep black hole continues to expand, the suction force erupting from it becomes stronger and stronger, just like an overwhelming seaspout, forcibly sucking back the Black Duke who had just escaped a few meters away.
"The half-elf magister does have some tricks up his sleeve."
A drop of uncontrollable cold sweat began to flow from the dark face of the Black Duke hidden in the hood.
In the duel with Jiang Li just now, he had always tried to avoid a head-on confrontation, focusing on dodging with the least energy consumption and releasing the black magic ball he was good at, in an attempt to drag Jiang Li, the most dangerous fifth-level powerhouse, to the orcs. Legion buys time.
As long as the orcs attack Luolong City, everything will be settled.
After all, he still needs to preserve his strength to prevent the man in black robe No. 3 from suddenly attacking.
Otherwise, even if he exerts his full strength here and uses all his trump cards to defeat Jiang Li, he will only end up benefiting from the advantage of the No. 3 man in black robe who enjoys the success.
This is undoubtedly very clear to the Black Duke, who represents the eldest prince's side.
However, no matter how helpless those stupid orcs were, facing this situation alone, he had no choice but to use all his strength.
You must know that once he is forced into the void space, even if he can persist for a long time, he will definitely die because he cannot open a passage back to the real space.
After all, only a rare number of space powerhouses have the ability to open space tunnels.
In addition, if part of the body is drawn into the void space, and the opponent sees the right moment and stops casting the spell, then this part of the body remaining in the void space will naturally disappear together with the space crack.
"Then let you, a young half-elf girl, see my true strength."
The Black Duke sneered, and a blood-red black energy burst out from his body.
Immediately afterwards, the Black Duke's body turned into an ethereal blur, just like a reflection reflected in the water, making it difficult to see clearly.
And the black hole that can absorb everything actually has no effect on it, and can no longer absorb the other party.
"Atomization?!"
Seeing the unexpected change in the other party, Jiang Li's fair face suddenly felt solemn, and she blurted out: "It's actually a vampire."
After finishing speaking, Jiang Li had no choice but to stop casting spells, causing the torn space to return to normal.
Jiang Li clearly understood that facing the atomized opponent, his spells had lost their effect.
"More than 200 years ago, when I was traveling in the Iron Hand Islands in the westernmost part of the mainland, I happened to encounter a strong fifth-level vampire, who also used this atomization technique at the time."
Jiang Li's eyes became more solemn, staring closely at the illusive Black Duke.
Atomization is a unique skill of the notorious vampire race. Only the top vampires can use it.
Although it is called atomization, it does not really convert the body into a gas state.
But due to their special physiques, vampires will use special secret methods to escape into the middle zone between real space and void space, which is the sandwich between the two.
In this way, physical attacks and spell attacks performed in the real space will naturally not be able to cause damage to it.
In the same way, even if a black hole is torn open in real space, the crack in real space can only absorb objects in real space, but cannot affect the target in the sandwich between the two.
This situation of being unable to see and hit, to an ordinary strong person who is unaware, looks like the body is really atomized, and this is why this name has been passed down.
The most important thing is that even Jiang Li, a space mage, cannot easily step into this special mezzanine.
Because it is different from the void space where there are a large number of space system energy particles. There are no energy particles there, so the passage back to the real space cannot be opened smoothly.
"Of course, this does not mean that they are always invincible."
Jiang Li's solemn starry eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and she clenched the other side of time in her hand.
During the duel with the fifth-level vampire strongman, Jiang Li had already discovered it.
Although the opponent can escape into the mezzanine at will, it requires a lot of energy every time and cannot maintain the atomized state for a long time.
At the same time, if they want to launch an attack in the mezzanine, they can only escape from the atomization state and return to the real space.
For ordinary strong people, this is undoubtedly the best time to attack vampires.
In addition, vampires cannot use atomization under sunlight or even bright enough light, and their strength will decline to a large extent.
"But the problem is that it is dark now. In the dark night, this guy's strength will only become stronger, and his battery life will be greatly improved. This is also one of the characteristics of vampires."
Thinking of this, Jiang Li frowned slightly.
Jiang Li clearly understood that although his space spell could easily tear apart the mezzanine, it was one of the few methods that could directly attack the opponent.
However, the image displayed by the opponent in the real space is completely different from the position in the mezzanine. In addition, the opponent can move very fast in the mezzanine, making the attack like fishing for the moon in the water and difficult to hit.
Moreover, his own strength is inferior to that of his opponent, which makes it even more difficult to hit.
"In general, although my attacks can restrain the opponent, in this case, it is better to say that the opponent has also restrained me who uses space spells."
Jiang Lei sighed helplessly and had no choice but to give all the concise and concise reports to Lei Xiao.
"Is the Black Duke actually a fifth-level vampire?"
After listening to Jiang Li's description, Lei Xiao froze his eyebrows and nodded thoughtfully.
I already knew something about this well-known race.
Because he often sucks blood wantonly, his reputation is not much better than that of users of forbidden spells.
As for its main scope of activities, it is the Iron Hand Islands in the west of the mainland, a rather mysterious country.
In recent hundreds of years, the Iron Hand Islands have rarely had contact with the human nations, and were once a place of exile for serious criminals from the human nations.
According to intelligence, the royal family that rules there is inextricably linked to the vampire clan.
"If the Black Duke comes from the Iron Hand Islands, then the supporter behind the eldest prince is likely to be the Iron Hand Islands royal family?"
"I didn't expect that the Iron Hand Islands, so far apart, would actually interfere with the royal power of the Cold Flame Kingdom. There must be ulterior motives in this."
Thinking of this in his mind, Lei Xiao did not continue thinking about it.
At this stage, protecting Luolong City and the territory is the top priority. As for the origin of the other party, there will be time to settle the accounts when everything stabilizes.
"Jiang Li, since the opponent is a vampire, there is no need to confront the opponent head-on. All you need to do is hold the opponent back. When daybreak and the opponent's strength is affected, everything will be easier to handle."
Lei Xiao did not hesitate and gave the order directly to Jiang Lei.
"As you command, Lord."
After receiving Lei Xiao's instructions, Jiang Li's slender figure moved and appeared opposite the Black Duke again.
"Half-elf magister, it's not polite to call me a vampire."
The figure of the Black Duke was ethereal, and he smiled proudly and said: "I am a great vampire!"
"A guy who takes pleasure in sucking the blood of innocent people cannot be called great."
Jiang Li snorted coldly, her eyes full of disdain, and said lightly: "As soon as the sky breaks, you will be no different from an eggplant beaten by frost."
"The premise is that your master can survive the night."
The Black Duke ignored Jiang Li's sarcasm, and his hoarse voice became deeper and deeper: "Besides, so what if it's dawn? Do you think I don't have the means to resist the sunlight?"
"So what if you can resist for a while? You guys will not be able to survive in the bright sunshine after all."
Jiang Li waved the other side of time in her hand, and the space around the opponent began to become extremely distorted again.
I saw Jiang Li increasing the intensity of her spells while saying in a deep voice: "When these orcs are defeated, it will be your turn to be the next one to bring the flames of war!"
"Defeat the Orcs?"
The Black Duke began to laugh and said playfully: "Do you think I've been dealing with you here for so long just to play house?"
"Vampire, what do you mean?"
Hearing the connotation in the other party's words, Jiang Li immediately frowned and said coldly: "Now that the overall situation under Luolong City has been decided, you have no chance with these despicable orcs!"
"As long as I am here, everything is not over yet."
The Black Duke's laughter began to become more and more unrestrained, and he said solemnly: "Let you see the horror of the strong vampires!"
After finishing speaking, the Black Duke's ethereal body had become solid again.
Immediately afterwards, a burst of rich and strange bloody black mist suddenly burst out from the Black Duke's body and began to spread rapidly in the deep night sky.
In just a moment, the thick black mist that covered the sky and sun turned into countless blood-red bat puppets with teeth and claws, and the momentum was extremely astonishing.
The overwhelming scene was like locusts all over the mountains and plains, quickly dividing into several mighty tributaries.
Then they swept towards the Dragon Falling City Wall, the Heavy Cavalry Legion, the Archer Cavalry Legion, the Half-Elf Wolf Cavalry Squadron, and Ariel and Sarah's Magic Cannon Formation.
In the blink of an eye, the puppet bat groups, who were already in their respective positions, began to attack the Goblin soldiers and fallen dragon recruits on the city wall, as well as several other locations, causing chaos in our camp.
Just when our side was completely in chaos, something even more surprising happened.
Accompanied by a heavy metal friction sound, the thick Luolong City Gate, which had been tightly closed, slowly opened, completely exposing the fragile interior of the city.
"Warriors, it's time to charge! Rush into the city and kill all these guys!"
Seeing this, the orc leader who had been prepared for a long time was overjoyed and immediately ordered the six orc legions that were ready to go to rush towards Luolong City together.
At this point, the battle situation that Lei Xiao thought was a sure win suddenly completely reversed, making the situation extremely dangerous again. (End of chapter)