Chapter 44: Breaking Out of the Encirclement
The breeze was blowing, and the warm sunlight was shining on him, making Vane feel like he was on the streets of Obojar. But the pale yellow light that slowly faded in front of him reminded him that it was just his delusion.
The sound of crisp birdsong faintly sounded, and the faint scent of earth came to his nose, and Vane found himself and four other companions standing on a wide path that could carry ten horses in parallel. The road winds its way with no end in sight, flanked by large meadows and sparse woods.
"Where are we, are we really in Salento?" Ise asked, rubbing her eyes, a little incredulous. The legend of the Kingdom of Salento she had heard countless times at the Academy of Magic
"I don't know, listening to that strange woman, it seems to be a real combat venue, it's really a strange name. Felder pouted, he was very dissatisfied with the woman who had never shown up, and forcibly sent them here to guard some city, which was really inexplicable.
"Look at the ...... behind," Elena's voice was a little excited. Everyone turned around and froze in unison. Not far away, the sun shines through the thick clouds, and a majestic city stands between heaven and earth.
The towers of the city walls are lined with towers, the white body of the tower and the orange-red top of the tower highlight the elegance of beauty, and the middle tower is like a sharp sword straight into the clouds, and the high part looms. Compared to it, Obojar is like a small town.
"Is that the city of Salento? it's so beautiful, I think there must be angels living in it!" Ise looked enviously at the city of Salento not far away, her eyes lit up.
"Unbelievable, do you see that tower in the middle? I never thought there would be such a tall building, this city is a miracle!" Felder said excitedly, holding the jet-black metal cylinder in his hand.
The city of Salento is said to be the capital of the ancient elven kingdom of Salento, which was destroyed thousands of years ago. How did the few of them get to this place? Could it be the legendary forbidden art that can manipulate time and space? Vane couldn't figure it out.
At that moment, the sky suddenly darkened. There was a sound of rustling around them, and soon the sound became distinct, like the sound of digging in the dirt. A patch of grass in the distance suddenly bulged, and then the piece of dirt and blades of grass flew to the side as if something had pushed it open.
The same sound came from all sides, and countless black filamentous objects crawled out of the broken hole as if they were alive, overlapping and intermingling, rapidly expanding in all directions, and the vegetation began to wither and even decay rapidly in its path. The crowd clenched their weapons tightly and looked around in a circle back to back.
"Bang!" a patch of grass to Vane's right was pushed open, and a rotting hand suddenly stretched out of the cracked hole, white maggots wriggling on the surface, and then the other hand reached out and grabbed at the dead grass covered with black silk. As the horrible finger bones sank deep into the dirt, a half-decomposed head poked out of the hole, dirt mixed with carrion covering the blackened skull. The rancid smell makes people can't help but cover their mouths and noses and retch.
"Click!" As a flash of cold light flashed, a giant axe slashed from the zombie's head. The power of this axe was as great as that of a divine help, and the zombie that had just come out of half of its body was neatly split into two halves and fell to both sides. What was even more shocking was that the split corpse quickly condensed into thick ice cubes from top to bottom, and with a crisp sound, the corpses turned into countless ice cubes of various sizes scattered on the ground.
Simpson stood by with a plate axe in his hand, staring stunned. Felder stood by and looked at the pair of giant axes and ice blocks all over the ground, his eyes were about to pop out, and a thought quickly flashed through his mind, could that broken sword also have such incredible abilities?
"Be careful! The zombies are already surrounding, Simpson, you lead the way, let's run in the direction of the city, don't disperse. Elena was not distracted by anything else, and commanded calmly.
The zombies looked scary, but their movements were relatively slow, and Simpson brandished the pair of plate axes with a freezing effect to clear the way ahead, and the sound of ice falling to the ground continued to sound, and everyone retreated in the direction of Salento City. But soon skeletons appeared in the zombie horde, and their numbers increased, besieging everyone in the road.
"Whoosh!" Elena let go of her left hand, which was pulling the string, and the seemingly ordinary arrow burst out of the air, and the body of the arrow actually ignited a raging flame, like a meteor. The arrows pierced the bodies of several zombies in an instant, and into the skull of a skeletal archer in the distance. The skull of the skeletal archer burst open, and the headless skeleton staggered and fell. And the pierced zombies also fell to the ground, and holes the size of bowls appeared on their bodies, and the surrounding area became charred and blackened as if they had been burned by a red-hot soldering iron, constantly emitting bursts of white smoke.
Seeing the performance of the weapons in the hands of Simpson and Elena, Vane also had some guesses about these seemingly ordinary but amazingly powerful weapons, which should be legendary magic weapons.
Any weapon that has been enchanted by an enchanter will become a magic weapon, and the skill of enchantment requires an innate sensitivity to the fusion of magic and matter, and only a very small number of magicians can become enchanters. The number of powerful enchanters was scarce in itself, and they almost disappeared after the Great War. Magic weapons are now available in the Weapons Shop on the continent of Raffrey, but the actual effect is very poor, and most of them are only decorative and have a short duration, such as various weapons with a faint light attached to them.
Vane took the staff in his hand and began to chant incantations quickly, and the staff, which had no inscription, emitted a faint chill. A few dozen meters above the left side of the road began to appear a large cloud cover. The clouds are getting larger and denser, and foggy cold air forms in the space below. The zombies and skeletons shrouded in cold air were covered with a layer of frost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their movements became more and more sluggish.
At that moment, a rumbling sound came from the clouds, and fist-sized hailstones rained down on the ground.
The mid-level magic of light, the Hail Technique, was raging wildly, and the earth around it began to shake. The biting cold wind hit everyone, and Elena's ponytail blew, and she could only use her arms to block it.
In just a few seconds, the clouds disappeared, the cold air slowly dispersed, and just a few meters to the left of the road appeared a deep crater with a diameter of tens of meters, filled with ice, a mixture of minced meat and broken bones. Felder couldn't help it anymore and threw it out.
Vane put away his staff, and there was only a feeling of weakness, as if he had cast a rudimentary spell. Although he had expected it, he had underestimated the staff's abilities. Vane had previously tried to cast hail, but it only covered an area the size of a room, and its destructive power was very limited.
The pressure on the left side was much less at once, and Simpson swung the board axe to quickly clean up the undead on the right, and several people broke forward together.
But the undead creatures seemed endless, and the black filaments on the ground made everyone tired to deal with. Eth's thorns are surrounded by large areas of thorns, which play a role in zombies and skeletons, but these black threads are pervasive, and if you accidentally climb on your legs, you will feel a rapid loss of stamina. The pace of the crowd is getting slower and slower.
Vane looked around, and suddenly a figure leaped into his eyes in the distance, it was a guy with a long staff, hunched behind several skeleton soldiers.
Corpse witch, Vane thought of a terrifying undead creature. Some magicians have been recorded using evil dark magic to kill themselves or other magicians, thus transforming into necrophiles. The Dead Witch is more powerful than it was in life, and does not have to retain its magical cultivation, and can also use dark magic to manipulate other undead to serve it.
Vane silently chanted the Great Fireball Technique. A moment later, a barrel-sized fireball rolled up into a rolling wave of heat, roaring towards the corpse witch in the distance, unstoppable!