Chapter 23: The Wave
The moment he pulled out the witchcraft scroll, Duke felt the temperature around him drop quite a bit.
And the pitch-black scroll in his hand also rose up a few traces of black qi and wrapped around his fingers.
One look at it tells it's not a good thing.
"My lord, what is this?" Lenia sensed the strangeness of the object in Duke's hand, and she only felt her vindictive energy instinctively repelling this energy.
"Nothing, just a rare scroll. ”
Duke replied calmly, though in his heart he was still at war with heaven and man, and he was too entangled.
He took a deep breath and began to pour his spiritual power into the scroll in front of him.
In an instant, he felt as if there were countless sharp cones poking his soul back and forth, making the transmission of his spiritual power no longer so smooth.
Fortunately, this feeling did not last long, and he successfully activated the witchcraft scroll in his hand.
I saw a black flame suddenly rise from the center of the scroll, swallowing the scroll without a trace of heat, and at the same time, a trace of black gas invisible to the naked eye invaded his body from Duke's nostrils, causing the green tendons on his neck to emerge instantly.
At the same time, the soil layers on both sides of the valley seemed to be shaken by some kind of huge force, and the surface layer of floating soil continued to slide sparsely.
The soldiers who stood closer to the edge were shocked to their feet.
Ever since the black qi penetrated Duke's body, he had clearly felt that his body's functions were declining, and even the simplest breath was throbbing with a slight pain, and his originally smooth and delicate hands began to lose their luster.
The vibration of the soil made him stumble and almost fall, but it was Lenia who grabbed him with a quick hand.
"Quick....... Tell everyone to step back. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The soil is about to collapse." ”
Hearing Duke's words, Lenia no longer hesitated, raised a large blue flag and waved it a few times, and then retreated some distance with Duke.
"How's your condition, it doesn't look like it's too much right now, do you need to call the doctor?" Lenia looked at Duke's condition with some concern.
For a moment, he was reluctant to even stand up straight.
"No, no, you go and bring some of the rabbits I asked you to buy earlier. Duke said with a weak wave of his hand.
"Rabbit?" Lenia was puzzled, but asked the guards to bring over a cage of live rabbits, and waved everyone around them to retreat, leaving herself and Duke in the bushes.
Seeing that there were no idlers around, Duke put his somewhat withered hands on top of the rabbits and exhaled softly.
"Transfer. He muttered under his breath.
In an instant, the white fur of the rabbit in the cage became decayed, the red eyes turned gray, and in a short time they were all on all fours.
"It's ...... Some kind of sorcery?"
Lenia looked at the scene in front of her with some confusion, her right hand resting on the hilt of her sword for a moment, and then putting it down at a loss.
"Don't worry, Lenya, it's just a lost spell, not cultist black magic. Duke, who had recovered a little, smiled, "And what we should do now is to launch a fierce attack than this, and I can hear the sound of the soil tumbling much quieter." ”
On the other side, Baron Rhine was equally uncomfortable.
At the first time the soil was shaken, he felt that something was going to happen.
Then he saw the soldiers of the Duke's Lordship of the North rising on the edge of the valley retreating, and the arrows that had been roaring for death were no longer there.
All these strange scenes confirmed the terrible conjecture in his mind.
"Quick, Aiden, increase the strength and range of the shield, quick!"
"Everyone, who wants to live, leans towards me!"
He commanded loudly as he pulled out a foul-smelling mass from his bosom and smeared it on the magic advisor's face.
Aiden, who had been pale and barely supporting his blood-colored shield, had regained his flush after smearing on the mud, and his body was exuded with a powerful magical coercion that did not belong to his level.
And the shield, which was only capable of protecting dozens of people, has become larger again, and has become an area the size of a basketball court.
When Baron Rhein's soldiers heard the lord's words, only some of them quickly broke away from hiding and rushed towards them.
Others are still weighing whether it would be worth it to leave the hideout and travel through an open area to the shield.
But soon no one has to choose.
After a brief interval between the first shocks, successive shocks began to advance in cascades.
Some boulders that didn't have time to be pushed down began to tumble and rumble down.
Then came the yellow-brown mud of the valley that rushed down like a huge wave, ready to fill the "ditch" below.
Looking at the surging waves, the soldiers below began to run in vain, running in the direction of Baron Rhine.
But the earth waves fell far faster than their legs, and in a few moments they completely encased the poor soldiers in the dirt, becoming part of the mud waves, continuing to devour more lives.
But Aiden's blood-colored shield was unusually strong.
Countless waves of earth were crashing against the thin shield, but they could only ripple with no sign of breaking through.
If you look down from the sky, you can see that there seems to be an extra red eye in the center of the earth-black scroll, which flashes with the flow of mud waves.
As the soil accumulated, the soil foundation of the valley began to be gradually filled and raised.
The place where Baron Rhein was located had almost become a huge pit of earth, and they were like prey in it.
It took about half an hour for the turbulent waves to gradually subside, and there was no longer a loud sound of mud and rocks.
Aiden, who had been holding the shield to protect the soldiers, no longer felt the squeeze of the shield from the outside world, and instantly collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball, and was barely able to stand up by the nearby soldiers.
And the massive blood-colored shield shattered into a glimmer of light.
Baron Rhine looked at the scene of less than a hundred soldiers around him, thinking about the high spirits of his recent march with hundreds of men.
For a moment, his breathing became extremely heavy, and his eyes were bloodshot.
"Everyone obeys the order, now retreat in the direction of the territory, run as fast as you can, the enemy is coming soon. ”
His sanity had suppressed his anger, and now life was the most important thing.
After saying the order, he took the lead in climbing the dirt slope, turning out of the bottom of the unnaturally formed pit and running in the direction from which he came.
The soldiers below followed the climb up the dirt slope as if from a dream to die, and by the way, they carried the semi-unconscious magic advisor.
At this time, Duke had just returned to the battlefield, and before he could feel the spectacular scene he had created, he saw the golden figure of Baron Rhine running rapidly.
"Give me the order and attack with all. ”
Lenia nodded, waving the red flag over the valley again.