Chapter 0773: Battle Underground
The conversation with the fire demon Kozoyed was 'pleasant' and 'relaxed'!
When the figure of the Burning Man in Grim's form disappeared into the bazaar, a sinister sneer appeared on the Burning Demon Kzoyed's hideous and terrifying red face.
"My lord, do you think you need to send someone to follow him?"
Silently, a hazy humanoid phantom appeared on the side of the Fire Burning Demon, which seemed to be just a short child more than 1 meter tall, but its illusory body could always give people an eerie and terrifying strange feeling.
Naruto Assassin!
This is a strange creature with a half-demonic and half-elemental physique, and it also belongs to an alien hybrid xenomorph that is not recognized by the local natives on the fire elemental plane. Due to their ability to stealth and assassinate, as well as their ability to do things, they are often recruited by powerful beings to serve as assassin thugs under them.
"No, he's a hot bounty target on the Fire Elemental Plane right now, and we can't afford to be part of those stupid lords' personal hunts. It's just a bounty from a second-order minor lord, and it's not worth offending a second-order wizard for this!"
"Then we're going to do nothing?"
"That's not going to work! the little lord's bounty still has to be taken. Anyway, as long as you provide the wizard's traces of action, you will have 1/3 of the reward to be taken, and we will not take it for nothing. Go, tell the little lord's men about the human wizard's appearance in the Gaba Bazaar, and tell him that we can provide the magical portrait of the human wizard and see what they are willing to pay! We are now businessmen......"
Immediately, the bazaar resounded with the sneering laughter of the Fire Demon Kezoyed.
The Hokage Assassin, who had always acted insidiously, shivered, quickly hid his body and left in a hurry.
After leaving the bazaar, Grim plunged headlong into the flames.
The fire elemental plane map provided to him by the Fire Burner, Grim used a chip to record all the terrain information on it, and then discarded it directly. According to the chip test, there were at least three rather obscure ways to locate the item on the sheepskin scroll. If Grim takes it with him, his whereabouts will be completely in the hands of the enemy.
It's a rough map!
On it, almost only some approximate place names and geographical mountain trends are indicated.
Of course, this also has to do with the laziness of elemental creatures.
From the very beginning of their birth, they have wandered aimlessly throughout the Fire Elemental Plane, almost never caring about where they are or what is around them. Therefore, they never bother to name these places, let alone actively draw some maps of fine points.
Therefore, according to this map, Grim has quite vague information except that he knows that the market is called Gaba Market, which belongs to a small local public market.
Inside the fire elemental plane, a large sea of fire stretching for hundreds to tens of thousands of miles can be seen almost everywhere. There was nothing left inside these seas of fire except churning flames, and even most of the flame creatures could not survive in them for long.
Only in the gap between the sea of fire and the sea of fire can it be possible to condense some strange terrain and landforms similar to land. And these fixed forms of the earth, hills, plains, and volcanoes are the most common areas and places where fire creatures gather.
Many powerful flame races occupy some places where the fire element is dense, and regard them as their homes or nests, so that a completely irregular race territory is born.
By comparing the plane coordinates of the mission with the rough map, Grim finally confirmed that the Flame Lord he needed to assassinate on his trip lived in a special fire terrain called Dust and Fire Canyon. It was 50,000 miles away from where he was now, and it would take at least a month to get there at a normal pace.
And through various means, Grim can clearly feel that he is now in the middle of a huge storm vortex. It seems that a net has been laid there, waiting for me to drill into it.
Faced with such a situation, Grim could only pause his pace of progress, and instead turned in another direction, finding a colder place to run to digest those flame essences.
With the vastness of the fire elemental plane, a second-order flame lord like Canadian Solar simply didn't have that much strength to oversee the surrounding tens of thousands of square kilometers of land. Seriously, Canadian Solar's sphere of influence is almost blank when it comes out of the Dust and Fire Valley.
If you want these free-spirited fire elementals to build an intelligence network to control the surrounding area, I'm sorry, they really can't do such a detailed job!
So as soon as Grim left the Gaba Bazaar, washed away his traces through the sea of fire, and then got into a hidden place to get up as a cat, that Canadian Solar sent all his men out to dig three feet into the ground and never think about finding Grim's traces again.
Due to the lack of the protagonist, the originally lively bounty arrest event couldn't help but slowly cool down!
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Wizarding World, Crimson Throne.
At this moment, the lava hall hidden deep in the ground was already densely packed with noble private armies.
These fellows from afar brought with them a large number of craftsmen and servants, and used the inexhaustible wood here to create batches of siege equipment. And now, they were using these siege machines to advance step by step towards the towering witch tower in the center of the hall.
However, their advance was extremely difficult, as an even more powerful Magical Legion stood in front of them.
The fighting between the two sides has been going on for three days and three nights.
The main attacking aristocratic private army sent a large number of cannon fodder, holding high thick and dense wooden shields, shouting slogans step by step, and slowly advancing towards the Wu Tower. Behind them, they were followed by heavy infantry assembled by nobles and nobles who had spent a lot of money.
The hoplites were all dressed in enchanted heavy armor as thick as two fingers, and the front of the armor was barely visible with any gaps or cracks in the front of the armor, and even the steel helmets with cylindrical faces had only a small cross-shaped slit.
As the elite unit of the noble private army, this heavy infantry was generally equipped with heavy weapons such as maces, flails, and double-sided battle axes. They were in a row of ten, huddled together with each other, looking from afar like a group of free-moving iron walls.
Behind them were followed archers dressed in rudimentary leather armor, carrying longbows and short axes. They were not considered the normal configuration of the nobles' private armies, but only hunters and mercenaries who were temporarily recruited.
It stands to reason that this team configuration is enough for them to be able to kill most enemies. Unfortunately, when they were not facing a human army, it was they who were slaughtered and ravaged.
In front of the Wu Tower, about a hundred or so metal magic weapons with a height of 3 meters formed a loose defensive front, and used the furious magic energy rifles in their hands to frantically pour metal barrage at the approaching aristocratic private army.
And in front of the battle array, there were more than twenty spider-type mechanical puppet beasts waiting for them. They are up to 5 meters tall, with spindle-shaped spider bodies, high spider heads, and giant claws, all made of intricate alloys that glow with a magical luster.
The perimeter of the metal body is staggered with four pairs of dark and deep metal knuckles, the ends as sharp as knives. As you crawl forward quickly, a single jab can leave tiny triangular holes in the hard lava slab.
The spider-like mechanical golem's main attack weapon is actually a pair of giant chelicera-like chainsaws mounted on the front of its body. As it slammed through the wooden shield in front of it and slashed its metal arthropods into the crowd, the two massive chelicera-like chainsaws let out a piercing roar, slicing dazzling sparks between flesh and steel.
In front of the spider-type mechanical puppet beast, ordinary human infantry will not even have room to resist before they will be cut off and become miserable corpses. The heavily armored hoplites might be able to resist them for a little longer, then gather around them and smash the metal shells with their heavy weapons.
As long as the strength is strong enough and the weapon is hard enough, there is still a certain chance that the magic machinery in the mechanical puppet beast's body will be shattered and smashed, making it incapacitated.
But that's when the mechanical golem spits out crimson flames from the spider's mouth. Due to the density of the enemy and the difficulty of the hoplites to dodge, the terrifying sight of roasting the human body and heating the iron can is unbearable to look at whenever the encircled mechanical golem strides forward while spitting flames.
The mechanical puppet beast spits out alchemy flames with a temperature of up to one or two thousand degrees, and when it touches the human body, it can directly turn into scorched bones. As for the hoplites, their clothes were ignited in the raging wave of flames, and even the iron plate armor outside their bodies was heated and red.
On the battlefield where the soldiers were in chaos, there were no servants to help them take off their armor that had been burned to red iron. These hoplites were burned to the ground in the howls of wolves and ghosts, and black smoke billowed from inside the armor.
In the face of such a terrible scene, all the nobles and nobles who were pressing the formation in the rear were shocked, and they all turned their eyes to the wizards who were sitting comfortably at the back of the team.
With the approval of the high-ranking wizards, one official wizard led a large number of wizard apprentices to quietly sneak up on the mechanical golems that were slaughtering on a large scale.
With the outbreak of dense witchcraft, twenty or thirty apprentice-level witchcraft combined with two or three wizard-level witchcraft were enough to overturn one mechanical puppet beast after another. Although the mechanical puppet beast has a layer of anti-magic metal plated on its body, with the outbreak of the battle just now, it will inevitably be damaged to a certain extent. Now that they are attacked by the sorcerers and apprentices, they will naturally be defeated one after another.
In the bursts of thunder and smoke cannon-like explosions, thick black smoke came out of the bodies of the mechanical puppet beasts, all the joints suddenly drooped softly, and the huge metal shells fell down, and they quickly lost their combat effectiveness under the blows of the wizard's side.