novellk Chapter 1446: The beginning of the battle
Chapter 1446: The beginning of the battle
boom! boom! boom!
As Lei Xiao finished his words, the magic cannons on the city wall that had just been charged fired at once, whizzing straight towards the enemy fortress that was nearby.
The roar of magic resounded through the night sky and instantly exploded on the absolute defense barrier covered by the opponent's fortress, just like dense raindrops falling into a calm lake. The momentum was extremely shocking.
Seeing the crazy and exciting scene of countless magic explosions before their eyes, the powerful cat-men on the city wall, including Lannis, couldn't help but show a look of shock again.
It has to be said that the human emperor's background is indeed far beyond their imagination.
"What the hell is going on?"
On the wall of the fortress opposite, a Gorgon general with a face full of hostility yelled at the top of her voice, "Who on earth is so bold as to dare to attack here and disturb the coronation ceremony of Her Majesty Queen Belinda?"
As he spoke, the Gorgon general looked through the thick smoke and was surprised to find that right in front of him, a giant blue city was looming in the light of magic.
"This blue divine land is very similar to the Shadow Market. Isn't this the mobile city of the human emperor mentioned in the intelligence?"
The Gorgon General directed his lieutenants to strengthen the energy supply of the absolute defense barrier while saying with murderous intent on his face, "The army of our Desert Alliance should have already wiped out the Desolate Fortress. This guy actually dared to show up in our hinterland. He is simply courting death!"
"No wonder this kid is so bold and reckless. It turns out that he has the help of these damn bastards."
The Gorgon general soon noticed the flag of the Desert Cats flying over the Ice Stone City. His face became even gloomier and he sneered, "Well, it's not that easy to break through my defense. Struggle as much as you can. When my Desert Army flattens everything, you will all die without a burial place!"
As the Gorgon general finished his words, the opponent's absolute defense barrier, which had been obviously thinned out by our bombardment, became thicker again, like a towering peak that was difficult to shake.
"Not good, the opponent's absolute defense barrier is probably not laid temporarily, but directly deployed through the barrier crystal. The defense strength is much stronger than the former!"
On the wall of Ice Stone City, the cat elder stared with old eyes, and soon found the clues. He blurted out: "And the number of soldiers on the other side's wall is extremely limited. The other soldiers must have all been providing energy for the absolute defense barrier! They didn't even fight back, but just curled up there like turtles!"
"Not only that, the opponent's defensive barrier is definitely not just powered by 10 third-level legions. I'm afraid there is at least one fourth-level legion to help."
After carefully observing the battlefield for a while, Lannis's expression became solemn.
"But the clan leader just said that Belinda has not yet completely mastered the power of the Gorgons, so she should not be able to mobilize the fourth-level power of the Gorgons, and the main force of the alliance is in the Desolate Fortress..."
The female elder's face first showed a trace of doubt, and then her eyes widened and she asked, "Could it be that there is a lich army helping us in secret?!"
“That’s the only answer.”
Lannis nodded slightly and said affirmatively: "It seems that we underestimated the opponent's strength."
After hearing what Lannis and the female elder said, the other cat elders and generals present all looked solemn, staring closely at the battle situation ahead.
You know, the Gorgons are all natural magicians, and are extremely difficult to deal with, while his side is composed entirely of fourth-level physical soldiers, who are simply unable to control the magic cannon.
In this way, coupled with the fact that the lich is secretly helping, this is simply an insurmountable barrier.
Beside the group of powerful cat-men, Lei Xiao, Bing Lao, Shuang and other powerful men on our side also discovered the same situation. The opponent's absolute defense barrier was obviously more indestructible than we imagined.
What's more crucial is that after the first wave of artillery fire, due to the limited magical power of our side, the subsequent magical artillery fire was obviously weakened. Even with the addition of physical long-range attacks from cat-men archers and javelin throwers, it was difficult to shake the opponent at all.
“I didn’t expect that I couldn’t even break through here.”
Lei Xiao frowned and took a deep breath.
During the first wave of magic bombardment just now, he and Bing Lao and others activated dozens of sixth-level attack scrolls in one breath to coordinate the attack, but it still did not play a decisive role, and not even a trace of a crack appeared. This is enough to prove that the opponent's defensive barrier is indeed extremely solid.
However, the number of magic light crystals in my hands is extremely limited. Most of them are left in the two fortresses where we are in contact with the enemy army. It is impossible to fire the magic cannon immediately. I can only charge them step by step, which greatly limits my firepower.
The most crucial thing is that even the strongest first wave of attacks could not do anything to the opponent, let alone the subsequent attacks that are currently underway.
"Your Majesty, if you don't find a solution, I'm afraid..."
Lannis turned to Lei Xiao. Although he didn't finish his words, the meaning was self-evident.
If we continue to waste time here, not only will there be no hope of saving Xina, but our existence will be exposed, allowing the enemy to attack the Desolate Fortress and Yingming Fortress more unscrupulously.
Hearing the sound, both the powerful cat-men and human generals present could not help but look helpless. Under the premise that their magical power was inferior to that of the opponent, it was obviously impossible to break through the opponent's barrier defense.
"No, we still have a chance."
Just when everyone was at a loss, Lei Xiao spoke calmly after a brief exchange with Shuang: "This will be the only hope to break through the opponent's barrier."
At the same time, on the wall of the Gorgon Fortress, seeing that our attack was getting weaker, the Gorgon general looked joking and said contemptuously: "After all, they are just a bunch of trash. They actually tried to stop the coronation ceremony of Her Majesty Queen Belinda. It's simply overestimating their own abilities!"
"Be ashamed of your incompetence and weakness."
After saying that, the Gorgon general burst into laughter. She looked so arrogant that even her snake hair started dancing wildly.
Next to the Gorgon general, a figure covered in a black hood also laughed sinisterly. The magical light blocked by the barrier wall occasionally reflected his grim face. He was undoubtedly a powerful lich who looked like a mummy.
Just as the two were acting recklessly, the Ice Stone City in front of them suddenly disappeared on the spot, making the battlefield quiet in an instant.
Before the two could react, something they had not expected happened.
The next second, the entire huge land of God's favor reappeared, and it was right in front of them, no more than one meter away.
At this close distance, they could even clearly see the pores on the faces of Lei Xiao, Lannis and others opposite them.
"What are they going to do?!"
The arrogant laughter of the Gorgon general came to an abrupt end, replaced by a look of surprise.
At this distance, if Lei Xiao fired thousands of cannons again, Bingshi City’s own absolute defense barrier would undoubtedly be greatly affected.
"Oh no! They are trying to trade one for one!"
The reaction speed of the powerful lich was obviously faster. He pulled the Gorgon general and retreated wildly, leaving only some other Gorgon soldiers standing there in a daze.
Immediately afterwards, the Ice Stone City's absolute defense barrier began to expand outward, and soon collided with the opponent's absolute defense barrier wall.
For a moment, the surface of the absolute defense barrier of both sides was turbulent, violent energy fluctuations occurred, and both began to vibrate wildly.
In the blink of an eye, the crisp sound of glass breaking was heard, and the absolute defense barriers of both the enemy and us collapsed at the same time, turning into barrier fragments all over the sky.
"Warriors of the Cat People, show your fangs and teeth, and charge!"
As the barrier collapsed, Lannis, who had been ready for a long time, took the brunt of the attack. He led a group of cat-men soldiers to fly onto the opponent's city wall and swung his claws at the unsuspecting Gorgon soldiers.
As all this happened in a flash, and the enemy had only a limited number of soldiers left on the city wall, the cat soldiers were unstoppable and quickly gained a foothold on the city wall.
On the other hand, the other party's wails and screams resounded through the sky, and they had no power to fight back at all.
On the wall of Bingshi City, looking at the fierce attack of the cat soldiers, Lei Xiao nodded with satisfaction.
The reason why he was able to successfully break through the opponent's city wall was naturally because of the mutual exclusion of the absolute defense barrier magic. In the previous battle between the trolls, minotaurs and dragonborn, he had witnessed a similar scene with his own eyes, so he came up with this method temporarily.
Originally, the fixed defensive barrier covering the city was much stronger than the mobile barrier in the military formation. Even if magic repulsion occurred, it would not fall apart directly.
However, since the Ice Stone City's absolute defense barrier is not an ordinary item, its strength far exceeds that of ordinary defense barriers, and it has specially strengthened the effect of magic repulsion, it is not surprising that this situation occurs.
"This is exactly the information I just got from Shuang. According to Shuang, the defense barrier of Ice Stone City is far from its peak state, so it can only result in mutual losses, but it is enough."
"Of course, the only drawback is that Ice Stone City is currently in a state without the protection of an absolute defensive barrier. It will take some time to restart, and it is even impossible to teleport anymore."
"But now I have no choice but to burn my boats."
While thinking this, Lei Xiao flew to the top of the enemy's city wall and began to assist the cat soldiers in the attack.
"A bunch of rubbish, hold your ground for this general!"
After the initial panic, the Gorgon general also reacted, twisting his huge snake body to command a large number of enemy soldiers who came to reinforce to block the main roads on the city walls, and gray-black petrifying rays shot out.
Since there is no need to charge the absolute defense barrier, the opponent has plenty of available troops.
However, these Gorgons were only ordinary third-order legions after all, and their melee capabilities were relatively limited, while the cat-men soldiers commanded by Lannis were two fourth-order legions leading the charge, but they still defeated the enemy and caused screams to be heard one after another.
As for those cat-men soldiers who were accidentally petrified, they were left where they were and treated by the cat-men shamans and druids who followed up.
"Your Excellency the Lich, if you don't take action now, I will not be able to hold on any longer!"
At this moment, the Gorgon general was no longer as calm as before, and her snake hair became a mess.
"Right on my mind."
The powerful lich still looked calm, and a large number of skeleton soldiers wearing heavy armor and carrying huge shields flew out from the Gorgon's camp and soon blocked the cat soldiers.
Judging from their aura, these heavily-armored skeleton soldiers were clearly at the fourth level, with strange lights flickering in their empty eye sockets.
Facing a new and powerful enemy, although the cat soldiers' attacks were still extremely sharp, their offensive had obviously stagnated.
This is not surprising. After all, the cat people are known for their agility and flexibility. They are very good at dealing with magicians and lightly armed opponents. However, facing heavily armed opponents with extremely high defense like cans, they are obviously unable to cope.
Those heavily-armored skeleton soldiers were like a steel barrier, successfully blocking the offensive of the cat-men soldiers. The Gorgons took the opportunity to madly shoot petrifying rays from the rear, causing the casualties of the cat-men soldiers to begin to increase.
On the relatively narrow city wall, although the cat-people soldiers had the advantage in numbers and strength, they were unable to make use of it. Those cat-people soldiers who attempted to jump up were hit by dense petrifying rays of light, fell straight to the ground, and some were even turned into fragments.
"Haha, it's not that easy to break through my fourth-order heavy-armored skeleton army."
Seeing this, the powerful lich became even more calm and composed, watching every move on the battlefield from a dark corner.
"As expected of you, Your Excellency. Now those losers are completely helpless."
The Gorgon general also began to become unscrupulous again, echoing in the dark.
But just when the two were happy for a moment, shining holy light bullets fell from the sky like a meteor shower, whistling into the camp of heavy-armored skeletons.
As the holy and dazzling light vibrated and penetrated the thick heavy armor, those unshakable heavily armored skeleton soldiers began to fall in large numbers. Some were even purified and disappeared directly on the battlefield.
"What's going on? Who is attacking my soldiers?"
Seeing this scene, the Lich Warrior's originally calm and haggard face suddenly twisted, and he subconsciously looked towards the wall of Ice Stone City.
I saw a group of human magicians and priests holding up their staffs and chanting loudly. That was the source of the attack spells.
Needless to say, the ones who took action were the elite human army under Lei Xiao.
"Well, it's time to drive them off the wall."
Lei Xiao's eyes were as sharp as torches, and he was the first to shoot towards the chaotic enemy formation. (End of this chapter)