Chapter 31: The Sea of Bones (5)
By the time the light of dawn came to light, the attack of Drew's army had noticeably slowed down. Although the pace of the bone frame has not stopped, the suppression of the city head by those stray arrows and spears has obviously eased a lot, which is actually good news for the defenders of Warneburg.
This kind of thing thrown by the low-level undead has no accuracy at all, and it is basically thrown out in front of the top. As for what kind of posture they will take to cross the city when they see these stray arrows flying over, no one knows. If you are not careful, you may be directly hit by a trick and die unexplained.
As for those frozen acid bottles, Quinton had already heated and concentrated them according to Ain's instructions. Although Ain didn't say exactly how to heat and concentrate the method, Quinton, as a civilian commander from the bottom, still has some life experience, and he didn't stupidly throw the acid bottle directly into the fire, but first heated the acid bottle through a water bath, and then directly heated it with fire.
By the time the sun had risen above the horizon, Quinton climbed to the top of an arrow tower and began to observe Drew's skeleton through the archery holes.
Under the sunlight, the bones of the white flowers filled Quinton's vision. Although this kind of Skull Sea tactic is very common for Drew, and Quinton has also fought in the Northwest Fortress all year round, and it is not uncommon to see it, but such a large-scale troop raid is really the first time Quinton has heard of it.
Although there are a lot of these skeletons, because of their extremely poor intelligence, they basically rely on the command of high-level undead or necromancers for everything, so if there are thousands of them, it is difficult to have any discipline, and naturally this kind of raid is particularly difficult.
Moreover, according to Quinton's understanding, Drew still lacks the kind of wanderer who can quietly pull out the sentry, which makes it more difficult for these bone frame raids.
By the time Quinton's gaze shifted to the sky, he could glimpse several skeletal wyverns in the distance. This undead creature is transformed from the Wyvern as a subspecies of dragons, although it has no intelligence, but its speed and attack ability are quite good, and the key is that this kind of air-supremacing creature can become the eyes of the necromancer, and if it flies over Warneburg, it can easily explore everything in the fortress.
No matter how far away it was, with Quinton's eyesight, he couldn't see it clearly, so he had to give up. But what he saw in his own field of vision was enough to tell him that what he had expected at the arraignment yesterday was true.
"Hurry up and tell Viscount Brady about the situation, the sooner this reinforcement comes, the better." Quinton muttered to himself, and quickly left the Arrow Tower and headed for the basement.
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Meanwhile, in the temple area of Winterfell.
When the dawn dissipated over the earth and was replaced by the glow of the round sun, the three gods of the good camp, Pero, Bahamut, and Eracis, their respective temples, had completed their morning prayers to their gods. Because these three gods have a certain consistency in doctrine, and there is a relatively wide number of believers among human beings, and they all belong to the camp of good or biased towards goodness, they form a loose alliance and do not further form a divine system, mainly because these three gods have different views on whether their actions are bound by objective rules.
The Church of the Three Gods of Goodness is the most effective means and a force to be reckoned with in the fight against Drew. Although the Northwest Province is only one province of Reesel, the respective churches of the good trio have established a parish-level temple in Winterfell due to the opposition to Drew, with an archbishop and cardinals on rotation.
Brady was a pan-believer in Eracis, the law-maker, so the temple he went to first was also the temple of Eracis.
The temple of Erasis is very prescriptive, and although the god still holds realms such as civilization and invention, his most famous authority is law. The temple of rules and regulations is also an allusion to this authority.
Because he is a pan-believer in Eracis, Brady often comes to talk and laugh with the archbishop of the temple of Eracis. After a little explanation of the things that had been sent to inform him before, the archbishop of the temple of Erasis immediately set it up, and assembled a small group of clergy specially used for battle.
As for Brady's departure from the Temple of Erasis and the other two temples, there was not much prevarication and arrogance, and the archbishops of the Temple of Pero and the Temple of Bahamut also assembled a battle team, and the three teams were also formed together and marched towards Warneburg.
"How long will it take to get to Warneburg?" Brady asked Archbishop Rhodes, who was leading the group to the temple of Bahamut.
Originally, when encountering this kind of thing, it was directly teleported to it through a short distance. But because of the instability of the space, I was forced to rush like this.
Archbishop Rhodes frowned slightly, and then said with a reverent expression: "Lord Bahamut, I should be able to reach Warneburg at midnight today at the latest, thanks to the glory of platinum." ”
Brady calculated a little in his heart, nodded slightly, bowed to Archbishop Rhodes, and got out of the way. Archbishop Rhodes returned the salute and directly led such a small army of dozens of people to leave across a special cold-resistant war horse, leaving a splash.
If the heating method provided by Ain doesn't work, it is estimated that in the middle of the night, when Drew's skeleton officially begins to attack the city wall, the addition of this new force should delay the situation a little longer, delaying the arrival of the Frost Legion. However, the arrival of the Frost Legion can only make the war more brutal.
When Brady returned to the town hall, he received a summons from Quinton from Quinton confirming the estimate of the previous night.
Looking at the summons transcribed by the mage of the city guard, Brady's face did not change significantly, but it still looked very ugly. If you want to say that you are not surprised, Quinton has already made this prediction to Brady when she was arraigned yesterday, and he is already somewhat sure, so Brady is naturally not surprised. But whether his face looks good or not is another matter, because even if he is mentally prepared, he doesn't want to suffer such a bad result.
"Master, I'm Brady." Triggering a teleportation brooch on his body, Brady chose to send another subpoena to Rutherford, "Master, Quinton, the commander of Warneburg, has roughly visualized the size of Drew's army, which is not far from what he estimated last night......"
"Hmm." The Master of Prophecy groaned slightly, and then said very decisively: "Prepare me a hardy horse, and I will go to Warneburg myself." ”
Ain, who had just woken up from his sleep, was still pretending to be preparing for today's spell, when he heard Rutherford's words, the mage himself suddenly said, "Prepare one for me too." ”