Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 58: The End of Maltan (2)
The magic array carved on the earth emitted different colors of light, representing the crimson of fire, the azure of water, the azure of wind, and the dark brown of earth, and the four different colors intertwined with each other, rendering the entire space around the magic circle into a colorful field.
Wearing a dark blue gold-threaded robe, Antonidas walked to the center of the magic array, holding Dalaran's artifact, which is said to be the harmony of the elements of the staff created by the goddess of magic Mistyra, the staff is made of Mithril throughout, and the top is embedded with magic gems representing the four elements of fire, wind, water and earth, and a large number of magic patterns are engraved on the body. With the blessing of the Goddess of Magic, this staff, which allows the user to communicate directly with the web, is arguably the greatest project that Dalaran has been able to stand for now.
In addition to this staff, Antonidas' strength no longer needs to rely on foreign objects to help him cast spells. The strength of the legendary archmage allows him to completely control this elemental harmony, although he majored in water and wind spells, but through this staff, he can still quickly channel the four magic elements in the magic array that are gradually irritable.
The twelve archmages led by Melganis stood at the key nodes of the magic array, and they would be responsible for guiding those magic elements to run back and forth along the veins of the magic array, avoiding the turbulence of magic power, which is very crucial, because the magic elements themselves have no will, and will only move irregularly according to instinct. Mages must rely on the magic in their bodies to guide them to follow a fixed path in order to achieve the final magical effect.
And about five meters away from the edge of the magic array, two hundred and forty spellbreakers from Dalaran are on guard of the entire magic array, these spellbreakers have been specially cultivated by the archmages since they were infants, and have learned a lot of magic knowledge since childhood, constantly perceiving magic every day, or experiencing the effects of magic themselves, and finally, these spellbreakers are extremely familiar with magic, so that they can easily see through the magic that the enemy is preparing to use, He can even rely on his powerful magic control ability to snatch the opponent's magic control.
Not far away, more than 3,000 magicians are on standby, who will help the combined forces of Virgil and Minus break through the walls of Radre Castle after Antonidas successfully unleashed the magic of war, bringing the war to an end today.
As Antonidas raised the staff of elemental harmony and gently chanted a spell in a special language, the lines of magic on the ground seemed to have life, beating rapidly, breaking free from the shackles of the earth, leaving the ground little by little, suspended in midair. These lines of magic are constantly entangled with each other, and it looks like a large group of colorful poisonous snakes are biting and devouring each other.
Melganis and the others immediately injected their magic power into the magic array nodes under their feet, fighting with those magic elements for control of these magic lines, and every time a magic line was completely controlled, it would stay in a certain position in the air very obediently.
As more and more lines of magic settled in the air according to some mysterious combination, a huge magic ball with a diameter of more than ten meters slowly took shape in front of everyone's eyes, and the first connected lines of magic slowly rotated at a steady speed, full of beauty.
Inside the magic ball, Antonidas's white hair was violently blown by the agitated magic, and around his body, he could even see those magical elements spinning and flying in a way that was visible to the naked eye, like a river of colorful points of light.
The lines of magic on the surface of the magic ball rotated faster and faster, and even afterimages appeared.
Suddenly, when the colors on the surface of the magic ball mixed into chaos under the rapid rotation, the whole world seemed to be quiet, and a sigh suddenly appeared in everyone's hearts. With this sigh, the magic ball that had been filled with magic power quietly burst open, spreading out in all directions in an instant, disappearing between heaven and earth.
Melganis and the others were panting in place one by one, the carefully carved magic array under their feet was already in tatters, located in the center of the magic array, and Antonidas, who was responsible for guiding the entire magic, also had a trace of exhaustion on his face, but the legendary strength still allowed him to maintain a strong enough combat power.
After the magic ball exploded, Mantein and the others waited for several minutes, but they didn't see any obvious effect of this so-called large-scale war magic, and just when they thought that this spell had failed, suddenly, someone exclaimed loudly.
"Snow! It's snowflakes! ”
Laclaus looked up suddenly, only to realize that at some point, the fluttering snowflakes had slowly fallen from the sky. Everyone was almost stunned by the spectacle, considering that Virgil and Minus are located in the southern hemisphere of the entire planet, and relatively close to the equator, and the temperature does not drop below freezing during the coldest time of the year, so almost no one has ever seen such a thing as snow.
And now, just by releasing a spell, the whole world has changed color, and the warm spring in May has actually snowed with goose feathers, and it is estimated that no one will believe it.
However, the anomaly caused by this war magic did not just change the climate, after a few minutes, the falling snowflakes gradually began to grow larger, and even began to appear small snow particles, and at the same time, the majesty that had been gently brushing over the face gradually became stronger, and there was even a whistling sound when it blew over the flagpole. Under the influence of the cold wind, the snow particles quickly condensed and turned into ice crystals, which continued to absorb the surrounding snow particles in the process of landing, and eventually turned into hailstones larger than a fist.
The mages of Dalaran, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately raised a blue magic shield over the entire camp, but the Castle of Radley in the distance and the 500,000 undead cannon fodder led by Bunkrek did not have this condition.
Buncraike, who was stationed in the southern camp, could only watch as the skeletons and zombies outside were smashed to pieces by hailstones, which in the real world could break bones if they were the size of an apple core, let alone something bigger than a fist these days. When a skeleton is smashed, it is the result of being immediately turned into pieces, and when a zombie is smashed, it is the result of being directly smashed and its body is broken.
What's more serious is that there is also a large amount of ice elements in those falling hailstones, as the hail falls one by one, the flowers of ice crystals bloom on the earth, and the sharp ice crystals pierce the bodies of the undead, freezing them quickly and turning them into ice sculptures.
Although Maltan activated the castle's magical barrier as soon as he felt the burst of magical power, he had already consumed a large amount of mana crystals in the previous days of battle. As the flowers of ice crystals bloomed on the magic barrier, the magic barrier that enveloped the entire castle lasted less than half an hour before it shattered.
The scene that was indistinguishable from the southern camp was repeated inside the castle, where the terrifying Flower of Death Ice Crystals covered the entire castle in an instant, and countless undead soldiers were transformed into corpses and ice sculptures. Even Maltan was helpless in the face of this terrible power, which was not something that could be countered by individual strength.
The only thing that is easy is the location of the coalition army, Antonidas has controlled the scope of influence of magic to a certain extent in advance, plus the magic barrier supported by the three thousand mages, although there are also many ice crystal flowers blooming above their heads, but it can't hurt the human army protected by the magic barrier at all.
This beautiful feast of ice crystals lasted for two full hours, and by the time the last snowflakes fell, the sky was clear again, and the sun was once again shining its rays on the earth, the entire Radre plain had been transformed into a silvery-white world. What you can see is the ice crystal flowers that grow on the earth and reflect the sunlight.
"Your Majesty, let your soldiers attack! As long as you don't use great force to destroy the ice on the surface of those flowers, the ice elemental wrapped inside will not explode. The mages of Dalaran will help you climb the walls smoothly. Antonidas straightened his hair, which had been blown by the magical wind, and said with a smile to Mantein.
"Oh! Oh! Good! Good! Dorman! You, you go and do it! Mantein was already frightened by this scene, he never imagined that the power of magic could be so powerful, it was no longer the so-called magic he usually saw, but a natural disaster. In the face of such devastating forces, no one will survive this natural disaster at all.
Led by Dorman, the morale-boosting army of the Kingdom of Virgil roared loudly and rushed towards the distant city walls. The mages of Dalaran followed behind the soldiers, casting various power-enhancing spells on them while keeping an eye on the city walls, and if the undead were able to walk up to the walls to defend themselves without dying under magic, they had to be responsible for removing as many people as possible who stood in their way.
Roar of the Bear! Flame power! Swift Wind Guardian! Agile blessings!
The soldiers immediately felt a noticeable change in their bodies, as if they had inexhaustible strength in their bodies. They found themselves able to run faster and jump higher, and not only were the weapons in their hands no longer heavy, but they also had a faint red glow on them.
When there were still dozens of meters left from the city wall, some mages took the initiative to stop, and after a short chanting, they threw fossils into mud spells on the city wall. Even if the walls of Ladre Castle had been blessed by magic, and such a large number of fossils were smashed into the body by mud spells, they could only give in gloomily. The sturdy and towering walls slowly turned into a soft pile of earth, losing the shape of the rock, and a casual grasp of it could scratch a head-sized depression in the wall.
Led by Dorman, Kalva, Sethra and Ninri also rushed to the front. Shocked by the effect of the magic, they did not hesitate to attack the walls with their greatest strength. The strength of the hero-level was so strong at this time, and the walls that had firmly kept them out of the city collapsed after several consecutive all-out attacks.
The appearance of several gaps immediately made the soldiers who followed behind like chicken blood, and once again increased the speed of the impact by a few points. Hundreds of soldiers followed the four commanders and poured into the castle along the collapsed gap.
Standing in their way were some of the undead of Rare Lala, and until now, the defenders of the castle had not recovered from the terrifying war magic they had just had. The undead's counterattack and resistance were so insignificant that Dorman even thought that the undead who had guarded the castle the other day were his hallucinations.
Calva made his way to the main castle in the middle of the castle, his eyes already red with the prospect of revenge, and his eyes were bloodshot, but his exuberance made him careless. All that remained in his eyes was the ten-meter-high main castle, and his sharp gaze seemed to pierce through the heavy stone walls and into the depths of the lich's soul.
A large knife with a few pieces of frost still left slashed in front of him, and a skeleton knight stopped in front of Calva.
"Get out of here, undead! I'm not looking for you! The long sword in Calva's hand flipped over, and opened Steyr's long knife, he didn't want to waste his time on this undead, even if the other party had the same heroic strength as himself.
In order to protect the elites of the necromancer and the corpse witch from the influence of those death ice flowers as much as possible, Steyr and Enrique were both injured, which can be seen from the fact that there are still some ice crystals left on his weapon, but Steyr still rushed up without hesitation. It's not about loyalty, it's just about giving yourself a chance to live.
Calva was very annoyed by the stalking of this skeleton knight, but purely in terms of strength, Steyr was stronger than Calva, and even if he was injured, he was not an opponent that Calva could defeat in a short time.
But the human knight who stormed the castle was not alone, and although his relationship with Calva was not very good, Ninri quickly followed, ready to deal with the evil undead with Calva.
However, when Ninli stopped Steyr's blow for him, Calva did not hesitate to abandon him, and took advantage of Steyr's blockade to rush into the main castle.
Ninri was almost angry with Kalva's move, but fortunately, Cezilla also rushed over in time, two against one, and Ninri had to temporarily put aside his anger at Kalva and concentrate on dealing with Steyr with Cezla.
Dorman blocked Enrique, who was about to escape, and there was not much difference in the strength of the two, but Enrique was bent on escaping from the castle, where did he have the mind to fight with Dorman, Enrique ran while fighting, and Dorman had to stare at this undead warrior with a depressed mood.
After rushing into the main fort, Calva used his sword to open all the rooms he passed, but none of them contained the Lich Martan.
Just as he rushed up to the second floor, about to kick open a storage room, two figures suddenly appeared and pulled him away. At the same time, the wooden door burst open, and the magic mixed with darkness and frost exploded, enveloping the entire second floor in a dark green poisonous mist.