Chapter 0992 - The battlefield is like chess
It was a huge wooden ship.
However, unlike other wooden boats, it does not sail in the river, but slowly floats in mid-air.
The tall mast, the resplendent appearance, and the pointed ramming angles in front of it give it a strange look of grace and magnificence. The most prominent position on the side of the hull is a striking Fabres family crest.
On the land beneath it, in all directions, on the front, back, left, and right, you can see a neat formation slowly moving forward with wooden boats as the center.
The cabin, in some secret room.
Seven wizards were gathered in front of a witchcraft sandbox, whispering in whispers.
The sorcery sandbox undulates the topography and iconic landmarks of the entire Elovies region. The entire area near the southwest has turned green, while the rest of the area is red, green, or yellow, and so on.
Green indicates land that has been occupied or surrendered, yellow indicates territory that still belongs to the Crimson family, and red indicates territory that is hotly contested......
The seven Rank 3 wizards deliberated in a low voice, and whenever they made a decision, they would pick up a diorama of the chess pieces from the table and place them somewhere on the sandbox. The chess pieces are flickering with witchcraft marks of different colors and shapes.
Whenever there is any change in the sand table, there will be a special person next to it to record the decision of the family top management and pass it on to the outside. When the orders are conveyed to the specific wizards and teams, a number of people in the ranks gathered around the wooden ship will take on the task and go straight into the distance.
Of course, every moment, there will also be a team that has completed the mission and returns.
In this way, the pieces available at the Witchcraft Sandbox table are always in a dynamic situation!
However, just as the secret room was busy, a few soft clicks came from the witchcraft sandbox, and several chess pieces placed on it suddenly exploded. Dense cracks first appeared on the surface of the chess pieces, and then the sorcery imprint on them completely dimmed after a few flashes of light.
And this usually indicates the death of the family wizard on the mission!
If this was just one or two inconsequential places, the seven high-ranking wizards present would not have cared at all. After all, in such a fierce and grand war of the wizarding family, it is impossible not to have a few casualties.
However, if the mission fails in five places at once, the wizard dies, and this ...... It's just that they don't pay attention to it!
Umma, one of the seven high-ranking wizards, glanced away and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
Four of the five mission failures were tasks that he had assigned by himself, so it was no wonder that he was secretly annoyed and felt a little unbearable on his face.
Then take a closer look, the Cold Wind Collar, the Silver Springs Cave, the Savia Castle, the Ilgara Stone Tower, the Arixton City, ...... All are secular realms or resource points located outside of the Crimson Family's inner circle. It stands to reason that with the intelligence investigation conducted by the Fabres family in the early stage, the strength of the team sent by each mission point is several times that of the other party, and the probability of missing should not be so great.
Uma picked up the broken pieces that had been placed in the castle of Savia, and immediately identified them from the extinguished brand of sorcery. With the authority of the core wizard, he also quickly connected to the spiritual frequency of this wizard team.
"I'm the Uma Wizard at HQ, is anyone from the Crystal Spear Team still alive?"
……
The same spiritual secret words, which were widely read many times in one breath, barely got a little response.
"Umma-sama, ...... Come on...... Rescue ...... We ......"
The message was fed back from the psychic frequencies by a wizard apprentice, but he seemed to be running at high speed, and the messages coming back were intermittent and accompanied by strong interference.
"I don't care who you are, tell me quickly, what happened to you, why did the mission fail?"
"Yes...... Worm Witch ...... Be...... Ah......h
The wizard apprentice was only halfway through his words before he suddenly screamed, having lost the last of his connection.
Worm Witch ...... The core of the Crimson family, the second-order insect witch Billis?
Uma's brow immediately twisted together.
If this guy is really the case, the horror follow-up mission will be a little more difficult.
Since it was Uma's war zone that had an accident, the rest of the third-order wizards would just laugh and ignore it even if they saw it. Only the Wizard of Linus, who was closer to Uma, couldn't help but whisper, "How is it, do you need help?"
Uma refused indifferently.
It's just a low-intensity battle on the periphery of the family, and as a veteran third-order wizard of the Fabreth family, the wizards under his command are enough, and he can't ask other third-order wizards for help. Otherwise, once it leaks out, it will make other third-order wizards laugh.
"How's your situation there?" Uma couldn't help but ask.
The Ilgara Stone Tower was the Wizard of Linus's war zone in the five failed missions, which is why he asked.
"A second-order blood dragon appeared there, and it killed all the guys I sent...... I'm trying to find a way to encircle it!" After saying the reason, Wizard Linus's face was full of annoyance: "What about you?"
Uma put down the broken pieces in the rest of the place, and her face was so gloomy that she could almost squeeze out the ink.
"Damn, it's the Worm Witch, the Dragonman, and the goblin...... Several core 2nd orders of the Crimson family are on my side...... "No wonder he is so resentful, such a vast and huge family battlefield, the opponent's core combat power has actually run into his war zone to make trouble, this evil breath is really difficult to swallow."
"Beware of Billis, this guy is very tough. An ordinary second-order wizard can't compete with his insect army at all, it's easy to defeat him at a third-order like you and me, but it's a little difficult to kill him......" Hearing Uma's answer, even Linus, who was still angry just now, couldn't help but secretly rejoice.
To deal with a guy like the Worm Witch who can be separated by countless people, it is appropriate to find a soul wizard to deal with him. With the soul wizard's profound knowledge in soul searching and locking, he can find out the true soul body of Bilis from the thousands of insect armies, so that he can kill in one blow, so that he has no chance to escape.
However, Uma didn't have a second-order soul wizard under his hands, so he hesitated again and again, and could only ask for help from other 'partners' in a low voice.
borrowed a second-order soul wizard from another third-order wizard, and combined with a second-order elemental wizard under his own hands, it is so targeted to two-on-one, and the winning rate must be eighty percent.
So, 67 seconds after the failure of the last mission, Uma placed a new chess piece in the location of the castle of Savia, and a series of delicate and subtle orders were passed on layer by layer.
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Castle of Savia.
The once secluded and beautiful castle is gone.
From the crumbling walls to the devastated castle body, twisted corpses can be seen lying in pools of blood. Some were the castle's original guards, some were wizard guards in black armor, and some were wizard apprentices in short gray robes......
The causes of their deaths varied, but now they all became a breeding ground for a strange kind of beetle.
All the corpses had high bulging bellies, and their epidermis was stretched thin like a piece of paper, and the red blood solution could almost be seen inside. When the blood and water are stirring, you can also see some dense beehive-like strange insect eggs.
Faintly, you can still hear some strange gnawing sounds of chirping!
Bang bang bang......
As the hatching ended, the abdomen of the bloody corpses began to burst one after another, and the scarlet and sticky blood flowed all over the ground, and a large number of black larvae emerged from it like a tide.
The black larvae, the size of a fingernail, shook off the sticky flesh and blood stains from their bodies, opened their metallic hard plate armor, and protruded two pairs of strange elytra, one long and one short, from within, and flew up with a buzzing sound.
For a moment, the black beetles rising from the ground were too dense, and a huge black smoke ball was formed on top of the ruins of the ancient castle.
As an invisible spiritual shock wave came out from the ancient castle, this huge black smoke ball split into two, part of it flew into the ancient castle and hid in various dark and damp corners, and part fell to the ground, and disappeared in an instant.
And after doing all this, Billis, the Worm Witch, did not stay in the castle any longer, and left with his own personal guards, 7 2nd Order Rippers, and 30 1st Order Demonized Mantis.
As for the insect army that hatched in the castle, Bilis didn't mean to take them away at all, but let them lurk inside the castle. Before leaving, Bilis's final order to them was to annihilate all living beings that had broken into the castle.
Presumably, the lackeys of the Fabres family will definitely send someone to investigate the situation here, and these bug troops will treat them well.
However, less than half an hour after Billis, the Worm Witch had left the castle when the Worm Army he had left there was touched.
Perceiving the rapidly extinguishing large group of spiritual nodes 3 miles away, Billis stopped and looked back at the battlefield in the distance.
There are only two people in the two, a man and a woman, both powerful wizards of the Fabreth family.
Among them, the male wizard is an ice wizard with a cold face and a faint frost flower on his brow. The reason why Bilis's Worm Army was wiped out so quickly was due to the work of this elemental wizard. The other female wizard has a graceful posture, picturesque eyebrows, and a pair of eyes soaked in powerful spiritual power that people dare not look at directly.
Originally, Bilis was still secretly examining and looking at the two wizards with the eyes of the swarm, but when his gaze collided with the female wizard's gaze, even if it was three miles away, Biliss couldn't help but sting, and his head was dizzy.
What's even more terrifying is that the female wizard also seemed to directly lock on to Billis's soul breath through the eyes of her eyes, and snorted coldly at him: "You can't escape!"
In an instant, the spiritual connection between Bilis and the distant insect swarm was broken!