Chapter 25: First Contact

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One thousand meters outside the city, the Goria army with 10,000 Red Flame Tigers as the core was distributed in a "human" shape, with the Red Flame Tiger Legion at the front and center, and the local army and Maigan's army on both sides and behind.

Inside the city, the 20,000 men of the Variel army stood on the city walls, and behind the city were the auxiliary 5,000 local troops.

The Duchess of Karina led the Thirty Academy Magicians at the side of the Duke of Wariel.

"Madam, I see that the enemy army is neatly formed and well-equipped, especially the Red Flame Tigers of the four main legions of Goria, and a thousand of them are wearing red scale armor, isn't it?"

"I'm afraid it is, it should be the magic armor that is enchanted with the first-level magic, the fireball."

"Sure enough. It's a pity that Grammon's 1,000 guards consumed additional magic in the Albion Civil War, and it may take a year and a half to re-attach it. ”

"Don't panic, sir, enchanted armor is certainly the most important weapon of the country, but my [Garin of Gale] is not in vain."

"It's up to Madame's might. Before the enemy forces attack the city, let's have a wave of magic in a duel. ”

"As the lord wishes."

Dressed in a bright blue cloak, Karina led thirty mages to the top of the city, flanked by hundreds of shieldmen to protect them from bows and arrows.

"Wind system, fire system, [fireball], [wind hammer]. With me as the center, five hundred meters ahead, put. ”

A series of chanting sounded, and a dozen or so fireballs and wind hammers poured from the mage's front to a distance of five hundred meters in front of the city wall.

Lady Karina was chanting, too.

"Hurri, Wendy, Wendy, Jiao." 【Spiral】

The fireball and the wind hammer collided in the air five hundred meters away from the enemy, the fire grew in the wind, and the blazing flames expanded in the air, and the fiery red light enveloped the area within a radius of ten meters.

Just before the flame's energy could dissipate into the air, a spiraling one-meter-diameter pillar of wind shot out of Karina's hand and passed through the center of the flame, stirring the flames in the air to converge towards the center.

At a distance of 500 meters, only a [quadripartite-level] like Lady Karina could control it freely.

As swift as light, the [Spiral Wind], which absorbed the energy of dozens of fireballs and wind blades, presented a fiery red pillar of wind, fire, and air, and fell into the military formation of the Red Flame Tiger.

The seven or eight unlucky eggs who were passed through it by the column of wind and fire air couldn't make a sound, and they were blown apart by the column of air, and their bodies were burned. After that, the wind, fire and air pillar broke out after it landed, and the blazing blast blew in all directions, engulfing dozens of people around the landing site, destroying the bodies that were close to them, and dying on the spot; Most of his body was burned and not yet dead, rolling on the ground and wailing in pain.

The Red Flame Tiger Army was in an uproar, and no one expected that they would be hit like this by a thousand meters away.

Sixteen or seventeen severely burned soldiers were still wailing, their faces were burned, black and red, and they were miserable.

The surrounding soldiers all looked at them with pity and fear.

Take pity on what happened to your companions and fear enemies who wield terrible magic.

The wails continued to be heard, and the mood and fighting spirit of the surrounding soldiers were lowered.

Seeing this, the commander frowned.

"Give them a ride."

The nearby soldiers looked at each other.

"Do you think they can be saved?"

The commander snapped.

The soldiers then drew their long knives, raised their swords and stabbed their comrades to death as they struggled on the ground.

The commander looked at the city of [Thoth] in the distance, and knew that he could not let his opponent rage like this and discourage the army.

"The Red Flame Army is out of the ranks."

"In!!" A shout full of anger.

A thousand elite soldiers in red scale armor gathered in front of the commander.

"Target, the walls of [Thoth], give me an attack."

"Yes!!"

One hundred out of a thousand people came out of the line, forming a 10 by 10 phalanx, each of them using less than half a bit of magic power to merge into the enchanted armor on their bodies, and using their mental power to control the [fireball] that was stimulated.

"A thousand meters ahead, let me go!!"

"Go!!"

The phalanx surged with red light, and a hundred head-sized fireballs rose from the armor and flew towards the city wall in the distance.

The fireballs converged and fused in the air, forming huge fireballs ranging from six or seven meters to three meters in size, which swept through the air with a red light and fell across the kilometer on the city of [Thoth].

"Boom, boom, boom" The continuous sound of explosions and collisions, the soldiers who were close almost fell.

Fortunately, because it was a fireball inspired by [Enchanted Armor], not a fireball used by a hundred mages, the power could not be well gathered. Otherwise, if you hit the city gate, the one-meter-thick solid paulownia gate will also be blown apart.

Because of the sound and light effect of the fireball explosion, Goria's side was very encouraged, and the confidence that had dissipated before grew back. There were shouts of "oh oh", "so powerful", and "is that the strength of the Red Flame Legion" from the army.

The commander was slightly colored.

Duke Warriel's face sank, terrified of the power of the enchanted armor.

Lady Karina spoke in his ear.

"Master, I'm going to release [Tornado], and after releasing it, I can't use magic anymore today."

Duke Wariel nodded.

Lady Karina stepped out of the crowd and stood at the front of the city gate, she first used [Float] to rise from the city gate, and slowly moved forward to a low altitude of ten meters two hundred meters from the city gate and eight hundred meters away from the enemy army.

"Gruss Wendy, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy, Sba." 【Tornado】

The incantation slowed down and was slowly chanted, and before the incantation could be completed, the wind began to gather and envelop Lady Karina. With Mrs. Karina as the center, the air around hundreds of meters began to stir, and the dust on the ground was lifted by the whirlwind, and the air that contracted from the surrounding to the center pulled the people in the range.

Hundreds of soldiers at the gates felt the wind pushing them from behind.

The tents of the enemy troops outside the city were stirred by the wind and tilted in the direction of Lady Karina, and the fine dust on the ground slowly floated in the direction of the eye of the wind.

The commander is also a nobleman, and although he is only a [line-level] magician, he is not bad at it.

Even the third-level magic can't affect so far, this is the fourth-level magic of the strategic level.

"The whole army is dispersed and ready to fight the typhoon!!"

The commander shouted, and the heralds around him rode to the four friendly formations diagonally behind, delivering the command's orders.

After chanting the incantation, Karina was surrounded by a tornado ten meters high and two meters in diameter, and the tornado continued to suck the surrounding air and gradually grow, and Karina controlled the tornado to move forward slowly.

800 meters, 700 meters, 600 meters, 500 meters.

Ten meters, twelve meters, fifteen meters, eighteen meters.

When the enemy army was still 500 meters away, the height of the tornado had reached 18 meters, and the tornado that swept the dust was a little gray, but the terrifying power in it was palpitating.

Karina increased the output of her [Levitation] magic, flying up from the center of the tornado to a height of fifty meters, and then she pushed the eighteen-meter tornado, which was on the verge of maneuverability, towards the enemy.

The trance-like tornado staggered forward and left and right, crashing into the Goria army, blowing soldiers away or grinding them into a pulp. Thousands of tents rose from the ground in such strong winds, swept into pillars of wind and turned into debris. The soldiers hugged each other, inserted their weapons tightly into the ground, and clung to their weapons, resisting the pull of the tornado.

This is a natural disaster, and in the face of fourth-level magic, only the same fourth-level magic can be fought against.

On the one hand, the opponent who does not have the [Quartet Level] will fall into the first [Fourth Magic] shot, and before the fight, it will lose thousands of troops, and if it can't defeat the opponent before the [Quartet Level] recovers its magic power, it may also be hit by the second and third [Fourth Magic]. Therefore, the conventional approach is to put in the strength of the attack after taking a shot of [Level 4 Magic], speed up the tempo, and strive not to let the opponent's [Quartet] send a second shot of [Level 4 Magic].

After about ten minutes of rage, the man-made tornado began to dissipate, and the massive amount of air that collapsed blew the survivors away.

After the tornado was over, Lady Karina staggered out of the sky and fell into the Duke's arms.

"Thank you, ma'am. Medic, medics, take Madame down to rest. ”

The duke handed over the lady to his subordinates and looked at the enemy army outside the city with a serious gaze.

The enemy forces scattered in the tornado began to regroup, because the "human" shape instead of the phalanx gathered, which made the [Tornado] much less lethal. Coupled with the effective response of the enemy's command, this [Tornado] only took away about 2,500 enemies, including 200 of the Red Flame Tiger Army, 400 troops of the McGan family, and nearly 2,000 local troops.

"The enemy's [Quartet-level] has already released [fourth-level magic] and is now incapable of fighting. Taking advantage of this gap, the whole army has it, and the siege begins!! ”

"Yes!!" "Oooh." "Come on."

The tent where Goria had spent the night was wiped out by the Tornado, and with no resting place, they began a fierce attack. Nearly 50,000 people swarmed towards the dense black dots from afar.

The Duke of Warriel said loudly: "All the men, hold the walls, and they must not be allowed to take the city of [Thoth]." ”

"Defend the walls. Defend the walls. "For Torlistine, for Her Majesty."

"For Torlistine's sake, for Her Majesty's Majesty."

20,000 Variel legionnaires went on the defensive.

In a battle of tens of thousands, a 30-man mage army can only serve as high-level archers to provide long-range strike capabilities. Kishu and the others descended from the castle to provide magic output in the rear to support the part of the city wall that was in critical condition.

A large number of casualties began to appear, and the Warier Army and the Red Flame Tiger Army were the main forces, elite and loyal. In the siege and defense of the city, the battle does not retreat, the front falls, the back is replaced, the knife is cut off, and the knife picks up the enemy's knife and continues to cut.

Duke Wariel also had to step back and provide magical support as a [Triangle Level] mage with students such as Kishu. Occasionally, orders were issued to fill in the stressful sections of the city walls with 5,000 local troops as firefighters.

After an afternoon of fierce fighting, the setting sun was half under the ground, and when the sky was dark, the Goria's army stopped the offensive and retreated. And the equally exhausted defenders had no strength left to go out of the city in pursuit.

On the first day, 3,000 Red Flame Tigers were killed in Goria, 5,000 were killed by the McGans, and 10,000 were killed by the local army. Torlistine lost 8,000 men of the Variel Army and 2,000 of the Local Army. Such a battle loss ratio was achieved with the dual advantages of defending the city and magic, and two thousand five hundred heads belonged to Lady Karina alone.

Duke Wariel was worried, and with the forces at hand, he did not have the confidence that he would be able to hold the city and repel the enemy army. If the troops are five or five, when Karina defeats the opponent's formation, she can go out of the city to attack, and the battle loss ratio at that time will definitely be better. Alas, when it really came to the point where it could no longer be held, it was still necessary to retreat with the magicians.

The commander of the Goria side thought that Toristine, who didn't have any decent army, could actually cause me such a big problem. It looks like it's going to be a tough battle, and the fireballs of the 900 rounds of enchanted armor that have been saved may have to be used up.