Chapter 0411: Prelude
Inside the Witch Tower.
The probing crystals and witchcraft eyes arranged in the passages were discovered and destroyed by the enemy, but the rest of the area still showed the real situation of the periphery at a glance on the water mirror in the central hall.
Looking at the terrifying scene in the passage, watching the appearance of many wild beasts running and roaring, all the apprentices who stayed in the witch tower couldn't help but raise their hearts to their throats, silently pondering whether it was right for them to continue to stay here.
Underground passages lead in all directions, and crevasses and fissures can be found in any area that are barely passable for human traffic. Therefore, as long as they escape from the Witch Tower and find a no-man's corner to hide, it is still possible to avoid this 'unjustified disaster'.
The strength of the two sides was so disproportionate, even those would-be witch disciples who had followed Grim for a long time lost the confidence to win. Many people silently hoped in their hearts that Grim would give an order, and they would abandon the tower and flee, so that it was still possible to survive some people.
Once the gate is blocked by the beast tide, and there is no teleportation array in the Wu Tower, then what other means can they have to get out?
The apprentices in the tower were doing their jobs hard and thinking about it in great pain. Many times, they don't have the answer in their hearts and don't dare to have it!
Although the name of their mentor, the Fire Demon, resounded in the sky in the Ferdinand region, it could ...... You must know that among the monster leaders who attacked this time, there were as many as 5 elite-level monsters alone, and there were 17 wizard-level monsters, and as for ordinary monsters, there were no less than three digits.
On the other hand, Grim can barely be counted as an elite wizard, Gargamel is an established wizard, and Meryl is a new wizard with a red fruit. Apart from them, the strongest guardian force of the Witch Tower is a group of 11 underground manticores and a mechanical maiden Sabrina.
Among the 12 apprentices who followed, 5 were quasi-witches and 7 were senior apprentices.
With this kind of strength, if it is paired with a well-functioning wizard tower, then there is still a fight. But...... At present, even if this wizard tower has been desperately reserving energy for four days, the elemental pool in the energy room is still not full. Once the war starts, it is difficult to hold out for more than 1 hour.
If the battle had been too intense, this time would have been even shorter!
Although the apprentices didn't go to the energy room to see the reality of the void, even if they only thought about it with their toes, they could understand that the Wu Pagoda at this time must be empty of energy and weak to vibrate.
But in contrast, Grim's attitude is strangely firm and resolute!
Only letting the manticores drive away the underground creatures and clog the underground passages, Grim did not fill any of the apprentices into the terrifying underground labyrinth. With the strength of the apprentices, without any cover and protection, it is almost wishful thinking to block the assault of the beast herd.
So Grim didn't bother with it, but gathered them all into the Witch Tower, and each of them was assigned to an attack witch array. He, Gargamel, and Meryl are directly responsible for guarding the gates of the tower. Once the battle starts, it will undoubtedly be the fiercest area of the fighting!
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In the third hour after the beasts attacked, the surface beasts that followed one after another finally broke through the underground labyrinth and poured into the underground cave where the witch tower was located.
Like a huge octopus, the legions of beasts continued to stretch inside the cave, and the huge number of teams occupied every inch of space in the line of sight in an instant.
On the ground are almost endless fierce beasts such as lions, tigers, cheetahs, etc., and of course, there are also terrible monsters such as jungle trolls, forest goblins, berserk apes, razor-knife boars, jungle sloths, and lightning leopards......
There are also many harmless creatures such as spotted snakes, sika deer, and owls. Bustling, all creatures gathered together, roaring in unison and rushing towards the glowing witch tower in the center of the cave.
Almost as soon as they stepped into the cave, huge fluctuations of magical energy rose from the tower, and lava fireballs dragged long black smoke tails like meteors, falling far into the herd.
Knock knock knock......
It was like a dense howitzer exploding at the same time, and the beasts that had just emerged were torn apart in an instant, with a lot of dead and wounded. Wherever the furious flame blast blew through, those weak jungle beasts were killed and wounded in an instant. And the rain of magma and fire that burst out everywhere instantly wiped out a large group of beasts.
Not to mention ordinary jungle beasts, even ordinary monsters with primary magic resistance can't resist such a violent and violent fireball!
The beast herd forwards that had just poured into the cave were all wiped out in an instant!
What's even more terrifying is that wherever the rain of magma fire falls everywhere, a raging fire will ignite. The terrifying heat and ferocious flames incinerated the small animals into ashes as soon as they approached.
In the face of the magical flames caused by elemental sorcery, beasts and birds without the slightest magic resistance could not get close at all. No matter how large the number is, filling it in is just a death!
And this is not an ordinary natural flame, it is difficult to crush them with the huge number of beasts.
Therefore, after being blocked by the magic fire, the ordinary beast desperately struggled and did not dare to take a single step, but was pushed forward step by step by the 'companions' who kept coming behind him, and then was squeezed into the fire with a desperate face.
After initially judging the race of the attacking herd, Grim has adjusted most of the attacking sorcery in the Witch Tower to lava fireballs. The apprentices didn't need to wear down their strength at all, they just needed to stay comfortably in the tower and drop the lava fireball into the pre-designated area as Grim instructed.
In order to save the energy of the Witch Tower as much as possible, Grim did not prop up a full-cover protective force field, but put all his energy into attacking the Witch Array.
With just a dozen lava fireballs, Grim completely sealed the entrance to the cave. The follow-up beasts want to rush in, and don't want to get close to the Witch Tower without paying a price.
After the first round of fireball attacks, all the apprentices stopped their attacks and waited quietly for Grim's instructions.
This also reflects the horror of fire sorcery!
Most of the other witchcraft is unleashed, and it will naturally disappear after a period of time. The lava fireball chosen by Grim exploded, creating a small sea of magma fire on the ground near the cave entrance. If the magma is not condensed and extinguished, the sea of fire will never disappear.
So they last for a long time, and they are also very difficult to eliminate.
Seeing that it only took a dozen fireballs to block the herd's advance, the apprentices in the witch tower immediately became cheering.
However, Grim was not allowed to wait, and the herd of beasts that were blocked in the way ahead soon had new movements.
Like a blowout, the black-pressed birds swept over the heads of the herd, roaring and rushing into the cavern. They form a dense formation and swoop down on the tower from the sky.
Grim, who was standing in the control hall of the Wu Tower, swept away his spiritual power, and he didn't care about these birds.
Don't look at their dense number, the momentum is very scary, but if you really want to take a closer look, most of them are almost harmless ordinary birds, like bipedal flying dragons, Lei Peng, griffins and other monsters are a few after all!
The red glow in Grim's hand flickered, and as he whispered softly, an order had reached the leader of the manticore.
An airtight window on the third floor of the Witch Tower suddenly opened, and nine wizard-level manticores rushed out. They did not meet the black-pressed flock of birds, but circled around the Witch Tower.
Under Grim's command, the second round of lava fireballs smashed down on the target.
As with the first round of attacks, the furious witchcraft attack was devastating to the flock. No matter how ferocious the bird is, as long as it is stained with a little bit of magma fire rain, it will burst into a huge ball of fire.
Therefore, as soon as the second round of witchcraft passed, the mid-air of the cave that was still airtight just now became sparse in an instant.
The leader of the manticore and a few adult manticores took this opportunity to immediately meet the flying monsters that leaked out, while the two young manticores flapped their bat wings and rushed into the flock of birds, killing them frantically.
For a moment, the noisy bird screech and the angry roar of the manticore lion rang out together!
The two sides frantically collided with each other in the air near the Witch Tower, and the fluttering bird corpses and the blood of the canopy rained down.
Under Grim's strict orders, no matter how fierce the battle is, the manticore will never be 100 meters away from the Wu Tower. Whenever they are besieged by ferocious flying monsters, they quickly dodge into the protective circle of the Witch Tower, grabbing the wall of the tower with their sharp fingers and claws and hanging on it for a while.
And as long as those flying monsters who fought with them dared to get closer, a lava fireball flew out of the witch tower. Within a range of 100 meters, only those petite and nimble flying monsters could successfully dodge the attack of the fireball. And a big guy like a bipedal wyvern is often forced to use his membrane wings to deflect the fireball.
Then the next burst of magma fire rain and flame shock wave, it can only rely on its strong body to resist.
So when a bipedal wyvern and a griffin were blown to pieces by the lava fireball and fell into the sky, all the flying monsters never dared to approach the tower again.
In this way, although the number of manticore lions is far less than the number of birds, with the protection of the Wu Tower, they still fight with each other, but the number of birds in the sky begins to decrease rapidly.
However, relying on the entanglement of the birds to the death, the beasts that had freed up time finally broke through the blockade of the sea of fire at the entrance of the cave, and once again poured into the cave hall where the witch tower was located.