Chapter 241: Secret Weapon
Sure enough, on the fourth day after Legral's burial, the distant forest suddenly heard the noise of goblins, the screams of lizardmen, the low roar of minotaurs, and the faint shaking of crimson skull flags.
Thanks to Liberas' timely return, the North Gate guards still had limited time to add traps outside Sheffieldtown.
The Sheffield Wood Elf warriors raised their eyes on the wooden wall of North Town to look at the maple forest outside the town, and then rushed to the wooden clock tower in a panic, and with the dull sound of the bell, the remaining wood elf townspeople in Sheffield Town began to close their doors and flock to the Druid altar not far from the Sheffield Prayer Tree, and began to ask their forest god Forrester to give Sheffield a blessing of nature.
The soldiers of the Wood Elf Border Patrol Brigade dressed in rattan and wood armor each had a Wood Elf longbow and a Wood Elf scimitar hanging from their waists, and stood on the wooden fence or wooden wall with extremely fast steps, and some well-equipped Wood Elf Rangers members even quickly climbed the tall tree tower behind the wooden wall.
Earl Glenn ordered Jacques, the chief steward, to take Avenna to take refuge in Mount Colin, and after a hurried order, before he could say goodbye to Avenna, he came to the north gate of Sheffield surrounded by wood elf warriors, and climbed the wooden wall with a stern expression.
He wears a sapphire silver crown on his head, and wears an elven armor crafted for him by Sheffield craftsmen, with a giant unicorn coat of arms carved into it, an Eltora tree pattern on his arm and shin guards, and a solid rattan wood lining leg armor, a cloak embroidered with the Kingdom coat of arms of the Kingdom of Erwinia on the back, and a well-made composite wood elven longbow on his back, and a royal scimitar from Wood's gift to him at his waist, the handle and handle of which have been inlaid with silver tree pattern. Glenn Fahn, the Earl of Sheffield, shines and mighties like a shining pearl among these warriors.
Although Sheffield was protected only by wooden walls and wooden fences, it was always easy to defend, with rough roads and dense maple forests between the mountains making it impossible for heavy siege engines to pass. Coupled with the archery skills of the Wood Elves, these invading enemies should have been feared.
"Count. The monster is about half a mile away. The Wood Elf garrison officer at the North Town Gate stepped forward and pointed to the strange shadows in the maple grove outside the town under the wall.
"We're going to have to keep them out of Sheffield, are all the fighters ready for battle?" Glenn asked as he untied the longbow on his back, twisted a wood elf wood elf arrow with a yellow ribbon tied with a yellow ribbon from the quiver, placed it on the back of the bow, and then drew the string.
"Yes, Your Excellency." As soon as the garrison officer finished speaking, Earl Glenn loosened the bowstring that had been drawn, and the arrow of the wood elf tied with a yellow ribbon flew out, and the arrow was firmly inserted into the mud path of the maple forest, and the yellow ribbon stood out under the dark brown trunk.
"All the garrison soldiers, bow in hand!" Glenn twisted a Wood Elf arrow again, the shaft resting on the back of the compound longbow.
"Bow in hand! Shoot the arrows! Steady! As the Wood Elf garrison officer on the wooden wall kept repeating Earl Glenn's order, all the Wood Elf warriors neatly removed the Wood Elf longbow on their backs, and stared nervously at the approaching Sheffield monster army with a pair of eyes.
Under the wave of the crimson skull flag outside Sheffield, the true faces of the monsters were finally revealed between the trunks of the maple trees, and most of the goblins armed to the teeth looked slightly stronger than the goblins of Hawk Mountain, but the eyes were also without eyes and faces, and the skin was also gray; The lizardmen with primitive hunting bows or black iron spears covered in green scales and triangular pointed eyes full of malice, these creatures sometimes crawl forward, sometimes bobbing their heads and tails, and their wart-like protruding webbed toes and snake tails make them look like big reptiles out of the jungle; It wasn't the intruders that surprised the wood elves, but the tall, wild minotaurs—beneath the crooked horns, ugly faces glowing with scarlet light in their huge bison eyes, greedy harax at the corners of their mouths full of fangs and sharp teeth, and their black bull's noses were covered with copper and iron lockrings of various shapes, and the locks were stained with patina and rust. They carry shoddy bone necklaces made from the bones of various animals. The large, double-edged battle axe they held in both hands shimmered with a menacing aura. They are even less fast than goblins and lizardmen, but this monster is something that Sheffield's warriors have never seen before.
The army of monsters in the Resting Place came to a halt beyond the range of the Wood Elf Longbow, and the goblins and lizardmen stood at the forefront of their own accords, slowly walking out of the ranks of the invading monster hordes with a shaved maple trunk carried by a few scattered formations of lizardmen.
"The Twelve-Dan Knocker is approaching!" The Wood Elf warriors conveyed to each other, and for a moment they all drew their bowstrings, staring at the target outside the wooden wall.
Glenn's was quick to notice. Behind the dozens of goblins who were carrying the crashing wood, there was a relatively strong goblin, the goblin's face was painted with blood-red striped war paints, and he was wearing heavy black iron armor, revealing only a pair of black goo-dong evil eyes, not only that, but they also held a crimson skull banner in one hand and a thorny whip in the other. Perhaps they took the armed goblins in front of them as slaves, wielding their long barbed whips and viciously lashing out at those who refused to push forward. As for the lizardmen with primitive hunting bows behind them, these goblins don't seem to have the power to enslave them.
"Hold your breath, hold your breath." Earl Glenn muffled, only the sound of breathing on the wooden fence, and the monsters had already stepped over the yellow ribbon wooden elf arrows planted in the side of the road. The eyes of the Wood Elf warriors were focused on Count Glenn's body, "Steady, warriors! Don't waste your arrows! ”
Until the bow-wielding lizardmen after hitting the wood, they also stepped over the wood elf arrows with yellow ribbons tied to them stuck in the dirt beside the roadside.
A Wood Elf arrow flew out, striking the triangular head of a lizardman.
"The soldiers on the wooden fences on both sides of the perimeter obey the order! Target, the bow-wielding lizardman! "Hundreds of arrows flew into the sky like swarms of locusts. The Crashing Goblins looked up at the barrage of arrows flying from both sides, raising the balsa shields above their heads, and their speed slowed down significantly, even though the Goblins were whipping them behind them.
Moments later, the arrows that fell accurately knocked out the lizardmen archers behind the crashing wood. Even though these lizardmen took out their primitive hunting bows and shot at the wooden fence, the range and accuracy of the primitive hunting bow were not worth mentioning at all, and the rusty arrows did not hurt any of the Wood Elf warriors on the wooden fence at all, either they did not touch the edge of the wooden fence, or they shot at the rattan wood armor of the Wood Elf warriors and quietly fell to the ground.
"The warriors on the wooden walls obey orders! Goal, flag up Goblin and its minions! As soon as Glenn's words fell, a curtain of arrows flew out of the wooden wall, and there was a dull bang sound inside and outside the North Town Gate, and the goblins who were carrying the bumper no longer cared about the big brother Brin's whip behind him, but decisively threw down the bumper wood he was carrying, and immediately squatted, and raised the balsa round shield over his head again in fear. These gray-skinned monsters peeked into the sky through the tiny gaps between the spliced wooden bars on the balsa shield, and the dense arrows looked like a downpour from the sky.
The twelve Goblins were corpses under the cover of arrows at one time, even though they were wearing heavy armor.
"All stop shooting! Save arrows! Glenn's tactics were quite successful, easily thwarting these rudimentary siege equipment, and the wooden fence and wooden walls cheered for a while. A little beyond the wooden walls, wounded goblins writhed in the dirt, hedgehogs staggered around the crashing wood, and the monsters escorting rudimentary siege equipment didn't even step on the traps, let alone the wooden fences and walls that were close to Sheffield.
The occasional surviving armed goblin pushed away in horror the heavy round shields that had been thrust into hedgehogs by a rain of arrows, and they lost their weapons, spreading their feet and screaming and fleeing backwards. The minotaurs who hadn't yet attacked let out a low mooing sound, a tone that sounded like a merciless mockery of useless goblins and lizardmen.
"Captain of the garrison, send down the order to shut up the warriors, so that they don't get distracted by smugness! The monsters are just testing us! Earl Glenn didn't pay attention to the frightened monsters who had escaped, but instead focused all his attention on the minotaurs who had not yet moved. He watched the tall monsters' every move, the warning of Liberas' return was still ringing in his ears, he had once believed in the legends of the druids and even memorized the scriptures that summoned the giant eagle, so he completely believed in the secret weapon of the evil army in Liberas's mouth.
"The Minotaur is on the move! Part! The captain of the garrison pointed to the scattered monsters on both sides of the maple forest outside the town, and from behind the scattered group, another dozen strong minotaurs rushed out of the queue naked and rushed towards Sheffield Town, and a dozen strong minotaurs rushed out of the line, each carrying a large barrel with a metallic sheen on their shoulders. The eerie red light flickering above the vat gradually accelerated.
That's what Liberas warns you are.
In the First Age Druid Elder Awakened Elder book, "Studies in the Dark Arts", Count Glenn remembers every letter clearly. Reality is closer to it more similarly-
I also heard Terrian's name from my mentor about Terry Deathflame, but I didn't ask too much about why he was named that way, as it had nothing to do with the study of the book.
I've traveled all over the forest, collecting a lot of ashes and fragments of the Flame of Death from the Battle of Kane-Roth, and I don't think it's "magic". Even I don't know how to make something like this. But I'm sure it's pretty much the same as how we kill with a bow and arrow. The metal fragments and weapon fragments ejected by the blast projectiles are like the sharp arrows of a bow and arrow, which act as the main force of destruction, and the flames are only the appendages formed after the explosion.
With the permission of my mentor, I dug up several of the swords left over from that period, dug up the remains of some of my compatriots, and came to the following conclusion from their observations: the deceased of Deathflame was not burned to death by flames, but by metal fragments, and then burned by flames, making his attacker appear to have died of flames.
I've done a lot of research on a weapon that can shoot up a giant flame like a mushroom cloud, but I've already written about it. I can't guess how Deathflame was inspired, but I can say that the makers of Deathflame are much smarter than we are. My mentor seemed to know something, but I couldn't understand what he was saying.
I hope that the people of the clan will not encounter such 'magic' again, and pay attention to this thing's form: a black metal 'barrel'. When the Flame of Death blooms, the surface will glow with a fierce red light—
“ТЕггап·деед·кеано!” Earl Glenn shouted, "All soldiers! Free Fire! Stop this minotaur from approaching the wooden fence of the town wall! Don't let them get close!! ”