Chapter 149: An anxious battle
Under the cover of the Golem Legion, the army of Ghost City rushed over.
At the same time, the overwhelming gargoyles, which seemed to block the sun, were also hovering in the sky, spreading their bat wings and extending their sharp claws, transforming into predators and preparing to wait with the army. hair.
The army here in Mokou Town felt the heavy footsteps of the stone golem and the flesh golem, and their faces suddenly became ugly.
It seemed as if every time this group of constructed golems stepped forward, their hearts were trampled heavily.
Even Patriarch Tysonde of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Marik, the captain of the War Mage Legion, had worried looks on their faces.
Obviously, as a spellcaster, he naturally has the first say in evaluating constructed creatures like golems.
Although the golem is made of crude materials such as clay, flesh and blood, steel or stone, it possesses amazing strength and physical and magical resistance.
And they have no ambition, no need for food, and no pain or regret. As long as they have sufficient driving energy, they can serve as an unstoppable crusher on the battlefield.
Because the meaning of their existence is to follow the instructions of the creator and complete the requirements for protection or attack.
Seeing that this unstoppable group of constructed golems were about to approach his own magical attack range, Brian's face did not show horror or shock. Instead, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a confident smile.
When he looked at this group of constructed creatures made of stone and flesh, there was a hint of undetectable joy in his eyes.
As the golems and gargoyles got closer and closer, Brian had a thought and sent out a signal through magic to prepare for action.
At the same time, the moment the signal was released.
Hidden on a hilltop not far from the battlefield, Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin, the president of the Silver Scholars Association, suddenly opened her eyes and immediately gave instructions to her companions gathered around her: "Activate the shielding array! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, six members from the Silver Scholars Association quickly gathered around a circle that had already been carved.
In the center of the circle is a small obsidian obelisk made of a large number of precious gems, arcane items and materials that sparkle with magical aura.
At this time, this spire, which reflects the deep blue luster in the sun, is moving on the sharp tower at a speed visible to the naked eye as six wizards who are proficient in protection and conjuration schools activate the spell. The tip condensed a group of dark blue aura.
As wisps of magical energy continue to gather at the top of the tower, the obsidian obelisk suddenly emits an invisible ripple like some kind of signal transmitter.
“Buzz!”
This wave, like a rippling water wave, spread rapidly amidst the buzzing sound.
"Puff! Puff! Puff!."
Immediately afterwards, the bodies of the six wizards trembled at the same time. Some fell on their backs, and some swayed violently and almost fell.
The corners of their mouths also had traces of scarlet blood involuntarily, and their faces became sickly pale and depressed.
“The strength is too low, but it is a bit too reluctant to forcefully drive this kind of magic circle.”
Seeing the situation in front of her, the moon elf mage Ru Yin finally calmed down and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it was finally activated."
She quickly He looked nervously at the battlefield not far away, testing the results of his team's efforts.
On the battlefield, the eyes of the stone golems and flesh golems that were walking steadily emitted a light representing the spark of the soul. Suddenly they went out and stopped motionless.
What's worse is that even the gargoyles hovering in the sky are affected by the same effect.
The bodies of these demonic-looking and malicious gargoyles suddenly froze, and they fell like dumplings towards the Yinhun City troops below.
In an instant, these more than 500 gargoyles, which were the same size as humans, were like huge rocks, violently smashing into the crowd, and bursts of screams mixed with surprise and pain broke out.
"What's going on?"
Seeing that all his construction troops were out of control and stopped motionless, the commander-in-chief of Shadow City, Dark Guard Garen, almost roared. He yelled at a fourth-level paragon ghost mage next to him.
"The crystal cores of the golems and gargoyles were all shielded by some strange force." The ghost mage's expression darkened, and a touch of shock appeared in his scarlet eyes. "This is the first time I have seen this. Someone can actually block the crystal core of the golem. "
"Now is not the time to gain knowledge, quickly find a way to restore the function of the golem," Garen reminded, looking at the pensive mage.
Then, he quickly dodged sideways, and a gargoyle falling from the sky rubbed his scalp and fell to the ground, falling into pieces.
"If you want to restore the golem, you only need to find the source of the problem." The ghost mage said thoughtfully, "I need some time to explore the surrounding situation."
said After that, he set up a defensive force field for himself and released detection magic to detect the source of the shielding energy around him.
Looking at his results, Brian nodded with satisfaction.
To create a golem, you first need to build its body, a task that requires exquisite sculpting, stonework, ironwork, or surgical skills.
After making the body out of clay, flesh, steel or stone, the golem maker begins the most critical step, which is to inject the essence from the earth elemental plane into it.
These tiny sparks of life contain no memory, personality, or history, just a pure force of energy that they use to initiate and obey.
This process will bind the spirit into an artificial body and make it subject to the will of the golem maker.
To put it simply, it is to provide the golem with a crystal core (soul) that can control the body.
However, because the method of obtaining the elemental essence from the earth elemental plane is too difficult and the cost is too high, some wizards of the necromancy school use the soul confinement technique to kill the souls of mortal creatures. Condensed into a replaceable soul crystal.
Although soul crystals do not contain any memory or personality like elemental spirits, their impact on low-level constructed creatures such as stone golems, flesh golems, or clay golems is equivalent to nothing.
Gradually, when making low-level golems, the less expensive soul crystals completely replaced the elemental spirits from the earth elemental plane.
The shielding circle arranged by Brian took advantage of this seemingly inconspicuous weakness of the golem to temporarily block the functions of all constructed creatures.
This is a shielding array developed by a wizard in the late game, with the rise of the Arcane Empire and many forces suffering from the scourge of the Construct Legion.
However, in addition to consuming too much money to set up this array, it also has one of the most obvious shortcomings.
Its shielding effect does not distinguish between friend and foe, and the effect of high-level constructed creatures such as steel golems is equivalent to nothing.
But this is not a problem for Brian, because at this moment it has played a role enough to turn the tide of the battle.
After all, more than two hundred stone golems and flesh golems, in his eyes, are like a group of troops armed with light weapons. They have no chance of winning when they encounter tanks pushing flatly.
He knew that when the enemy faced this strange situation, he would definitely send high-level spellcasters to study the root cause of the problem.
After they discover the hidden wizards of the Silver Scholars Association, they will definitely attack madly, destroy the obsidian obelisk, and restore the function of the golem.
Naturally, he would not leave them such research time.
The moment the construct lost control, he had ordered the Purple Dragon Knights and War Mage on his side to launch a full-scale counterattack.
Except for their captain Marik, the remaining fifteen people in the Battle Mage Army immediately divided into three teams with a tacit understanding. Under the cover of the Purple Dragon Guards, groups of five formed a circle. The magic circle began to cast spells rapidly.
The ring magic circle is a magic circle of the energy evocation school developed by the red-robed wizards of Sel. By using this magic circle, the caster can let allies transmit their own power to him, to Amplify the power of magic.
The more people there are, the stronger the power of the amplification. Up to nine people can be used to amplify the caster.
——"Fourth Ring Spell: Focused Explosion!"
A raging flame energy gathered crazily in front of the three war mages. With the continuous guidance of the caster, the rolling flame gradually became solid, Like a ball of lava fire shining in the sun.
"Rumble!"
Three big fireballs fell to the ground like meteors, the roar resounded throughout the fields, and the earth trembled.
Along with the violent explosion, scorching flames flew wildly, and tongues of fire touching the ground licked everything that could be ignited.
Within the troops of Haunted Soul City, the debris and fragments of the gargoyles and golems were blown away, like countless sharp arrows shooting out.
The ear-piercing screams came one after another. The few ghost mages who reacted quickly even released the "Spell Invalidation Barrier" and "Elemental Shield", but they were still shaken by the violent flames. blood.
"Charged Explosion" is a fourth-level energy evocation spell. It is a group attack spell in which the longer the casting time, the higher the accumulated energy damage.
It can be seen from the power of the explosion that this spell, with the blessing of the circular array, has been accumulated by the battle mages to maximize the damage.
Three large fireballs instantly cleared a vacuum area among the Haunted City troops, wiping out nearly a hundred of their soldiers and five or six spellcasters who could not escape.
At the same time, the people in Yinhun City were awakened from the shock of the golem losing control, began to calm down, and organized in an orderly manner to fight back.
For a time, the defender's evocation magic and the invader's counterattack shadow magic went back and forth, and the fight was extremely fierce.
The knights and warriors on both sides were also bombarded by magic, approaching each other at the fastest speed. In a moment, they were like two torrents of steel, colliding together. ——"Deep Darkness!"
A ghost mage who had reached the fourth level of strength murmured a spell, quickly raised his hand, and a large area exuded cold energy. Shadows covered the entire battlefield, plunging it into darkness that made it impossible to see even one's fingers.
——"Shadow Summoning Technique!"
——"Undead Creature Summoning Technique!"
——"Alien Oath!"
——"Summon Demon Legion! ”
At the same time, magical lights emerged in the darkness, followed by portals.
Densely packed ghosts, banshees, ghouls, zombies, mummies, and even two winged night shadows appeared on the battlefield and pounced on the Purple Dragon Guards.
What is even more crazy is that there is a ghost mage who summoned a group of uncontrollable abyss demons.
Two Berserker Demons turned their guns without hesitation and pounced on the Ghost Mage's troops, causing a burst of curses and screams.
In the midst of the magical confrontation, Tysonde, the Patriarch of the Church of the God of Knowledge, showed no sign of weakness and released the magic he had prepared for a long time.
——"Eight-ring magic: Sun Flame Explosion!"
The moment Tysonde raised his scepter and pointed at the troops shrouded in shadow in the City of Shadows, a dazzling bright light suddenly erupted in the shadow-shrouded sky.
The light has suffocating power and directly purifies all shadows, spirits, and undead creatures within a radius of 500 meters.
At the same time, the wizards and warriors who were transformed into ghosts also made a creepy sizzling sound after being irradiated by strong light, as if they were being roasted on a fire.
As an eighth-ring divine spell, "Sun Flame Explosion" is sometimes more effective than a nine-ring spell in fighting evil creatures and undead creatures.
Facing undead creatures and ghosts, it can be said that the price-performance ratio has been maximized.
However, although Tysonde's magic has caused such a powerful power, compared with the number of ghost mages, it has not yet reached the ability to change the situation of the battle.
Furthermore, Tysonde was completely exposed to the sight of the ghost mages and became the target of key care.
Faced with the countless undead creatures, other priests also chanted high-spirited and frustrating magical spells.
——"Supernatural ability: Dispel undead creatures!"
A light golden light array quickly spread and crushed the summoned undead creatures, and all nearby undead creatures turned into a Piles of smoky black ash.
The stone giant priest Stonespeaker Hegram from the Underdark finally broke out in silence and threw out the summoning spell he had been preparing for a long time.
——"Summon the earth element!"
"Buzz!"
The bright summoning circle emerged among the fighting crowd, and a ghost mage noticed it With a startled look on his face, he immediately launched a frantic bombardment of shadow balls towards the summoning array.
In the exploding shadow magic, the summoning array was not damaged at all. On the contrary, the light became more intense.
Soon, the powerful aura of alien creatures filled the air, and a hill-like earth elemental creature appeared.
This is an earth element elder, whose strength is second only to the earth element prince in the legendary realm.
Its head and body are made of earth and stone, with some metals, gems or other shiny minerals mixed in.
The elder of the earth element took heavy steps, waved his ball-shaped arms, and hammered at the nearby dark guards.
The Dark Guard, who was unable to evade, was kicked in the abdomen. He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood and covered his stomach. He lay on the ground like an overcooked lobster, groaning in pain.
In the end, he was trampled into a pulp by the elder of the earth element.
After the close combat, with the magic clashing and counterattacking each other, Brian already felt the pressure on his side.
Although his fourth-level spellcasters include the stone giant Hegram, the war mage Marek, and the priest Tysonde, there are also more than a dozen third-level spellcasters.
But compared to the team of nearly a hundred spell casters in Shadow City, even if the high-end force field on our side has the upper hand, it is very difficult to deal with it.
If it weren’t for the magic damage of these ghost mages who rely on the Shadow Demonic Network to cast spells, which cannot be compared with the plastic magic, the losses they caused would be even greater.
However, Brian was not worried at all when faced with this dilemma.
Because he still has a backup plan.
The moment he killed a second-level Yinhun mage, a shining magic circle appeared behind the Yinhun City army.
Immediately afterwards, a group of more than thirty temple knights with distinctive silver-white armor, riding heavy war horses, suddenly appeared behind the enemy.
These temple knights who appeared through the magic of "tactical teleportation" exuded a rich magical aura and a solid defensive barrier.
Obviously, various buff magics and divine spells have been blessed in advance.
“Charge!”
The leader of the knights, who had reached the fourth level of strength, waved his adamantine giant sword, shouted an order, and charged towards the enemy first.
Ogma, the god of knowledge, is a god of powerful power.
Although his church is an absolutely neutral camp, its extreme attitude of safeguarding and protecting knowledge causes them to often conflict and contradict with other churches.
The way to resolve conflicts is naturally not with words, but with the sword in your hand.
The professional levels of these temple knights are all above level 10, and their employment profession is also a special temple knight, a profession that combines divine magic and melee combat.
As the speed became faster and faster, this group of temple knights from the Church of the God of Knowledge finally turned into an unstoppable torrent of steel, tearing apart the formation of the City of Shadows in an instant.
“Block them!”
The Black Guard Garon who was in charge had an ugly expression, as if he had been stabbed at the back door by a red-hot iron rod. He quickly commanded the army to block these people who were trying to come into contact. Knights of mages.
A group of spearmen formed a half-moon formation, like a steel hedgehog with thorns on both sides, hiding behind the tower shield with the emblem of a gray stone tower coiled by poisonous snakes, and were ready.
The leader of the Knights led the elite heavily armored knights into a formation and took the lead in engaging them.
Faced with the large row of spears, half of the cavalry used the inertia of sprinting at the last moment to jump up and run in. A few fell off their horses and were killed by magic.
The leader of the Temple Knights' mount was scraped across the neck by the giant sword of a powerful Black Guard, and he himself was hit in the chest by a bolt of lightning magic.
His horsemen stood up, stretched out their hoofed feet, kicked away the blockers, and leaped into the enemy's formation like crazy.
Spears and magic attacked him from all directions, but the shield wall also collapsed under the madness of the heavily armored horses.
The expressions of the ghost soldiers changed, and they staggered to avoid the death struggle of their mounts.
The war horse collapsed, vomiting blood and died.
But the leader of the Knights stood up unscathed, brandishing a two-handed giant sword of fine gold that shone with magical aura, and launched a frantic attack on the surrounding ghost mages.
A stream of blood splattered.
These spellcasters, most of whom were only about two levels in strength, faced a group of knights who were fully armed and blessed with various magical powers and magic, and it was impossible to avoid their sharp edges.
The orderly army of spellcasters was finally overwhelmed by this group of knights, and became chaotic as they fought independently.
Brian saw the situation of the battle being reversed from a distance, and immediately commanded the spellcaster troops to support these game-breakers through magic as much as possible.
Then he looked at the battle mage captain Marik again, indicating that it was his turn to take action.
The war shapeshifter who had been waiting for a long time nodded, and his clear and bright eyes were gradually replaced by wildness.
At the same time, the dark guard Garen, the model of magic who has never released a single spell beside him, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the mountain in the distance and said: "Found it!"
After Garen heard this, naturally, Know what the other person is referring to.
Looking at the unfavorable battle situation for him, he immediately said to the mage, "Go and destroy it quickly and let the golem play its role. Our reinforcements, the Blue Dragon Lich, will be here soon."< br>
(End of this chapter)