Chapter 1052: Stalling for Time
Although Lin Li felt that Osric was likely aware of the appearance of this exploration team, perhaps, this fake Grand Lord who only possessed a part of the will of the real Osric also only possessed a part of Osric's intelligence.
Finally, when night had fallen, the expedition had arrived in a small hidden valley outside of Oranna. This small valley should be regarded as the closest hidden place to Orlana City, but there are still thousands of meters of open land between the valley and Orlana City. Fortunately, according to the memory of the captured High Elf, due to thousands of years of peace, there are few High Elves patrolling the city walls at night.
In fact, it is not surprising that there are only a few hundred High Elves, and human races are completely treated as slaves, and there is no resistance at all under the policy of the Great Purge, so why should the High Elves arrange patrols in such a move. It can be said that in this world, the life of the High Elves is simply extremely comfortable, and there is nothing that can threaten their existence.
The night does not completely cover everything, and under the starry sky, the majestic city of Orlana is more gorgeous and mysterious, giving people a dreamlike feeling. Compared to Orlana City here, Orlana City, where Anriel World is the capital of the Kingdom of France, is simply crude.
However, for such a rare scene, the people of the exploration team did not have the heart to appreciate it. The majestic and gorgeous city of Orlana looked like a man-devouring beast in their eyes, bringing them only nervousness and fear.
From the information available, Osric must be in the palace in the city, and his magic legion is divided into two parts, one is responsible for guarding the palace, and the other is living in the noble district outside the palace.
This is also one of the reasons why the rest of the exploration team agreed to the raid, as long as they plan well, they can use thunder to kill the high elves outside the palace in one fell swoop, and then kill them inside the palace. But this has a premise, that is, the high elves are really unprepared, but Lin Li is not optimistic about this.
Therefore, when discussing the raid plan, Lin Li overturned the plan of Archbishop Martin and others to go outside and then inside, and advocated the decapitation plan of the High Elves, and directly attacked the palace to kill the fake Grand Lord. For the others, since they didn't know the details of the fake Great Lord, there didn't seem to be any difference in difficulty between the beheading plan and the outside and then the inside, so they didn't insist too much.
Maybe the life in this world is indeed too comfortable, and the city of Orlana at night has almost no defenses. The exploration team left the small valley and, under the cover of the magical realm, soon arrived safely under the walls of Oranna City. The members of the exploration team are all above level fifteen, and the tall city walls have no hindrance effect on them, and even the dragon horse beast under the light knight can jump over.
Lin Li carefully probed the situation in the city with his spiritual power, and found that there was no sign of an ambush, so he waved his hand and signaled the team to start entering the city. Under the cover of the many magical realms, although the movement of the exploration team into the city was not small, it was digested by the twisted rules as soon as it appeared, and in a moment the entire team silently climbed over the city wall and came to the city of Orana.
The procession continued to sneak towards the central palace in the city for a while, and did not stop until it was a few hundred meters from the square in front of the palace. At this time, the alchemists in Lordaeron's team also began to summon their own alchemy colosses.
According to the plan, after storming the palace, the teams of the Tower of Dusk and the Temple of Light will mainly attack the fake High Lord and the other High Elves in the palace, while Lordaeron's team will hold the main road and block the High Elves who come to support outside. Therefore, it is obviously too late to summon the alchemy colossus after entering the palace, so it can only be summoned here, and then rush into the palace as fast as possible.
However, when the exploration team rushed into the square and was about to directly impact the palace gate, the two gates, which were extremely luxuriously decorated, suddenly opened slowly to both sides. Seeing this scene, everyone in the exploration team couldn't help but sink their hearts, and immediately stopped in the square, and quickly formed a defensive formation.
At the same time, the sky also changed, and the moon, which had been soft in its light, turned into a blazing sun hanging in the sky in an instant, and the night became day. In the sunlight, the entire palace was gilded with a golden glow, and in the blinding light, a tall figure slowly stepped out of the gate.
When that figure completely came out of the light, everyone in the exploration team couldn't help but think in their hearts, some of the pictures handed down from the dark ages, a name immediately appeared in their hearts, the Great Lord Osric!
Obviously, the raid of the exploration team failed before it began, and the appearance of the high lord Osric is enough to show that the operation of the exploration team has always been under the control of the other party. Although they knew that the great lord in front of them was just an impostor, everyone in the exploration team still felt a burst of despair. From the fluctuations of magic power emanating from the other party's body and the incomparably majestic coercion, they could completely feel that the strength of this fake great lord was not something that they and others could compete with at all.
And with the appearance of the Great Lord Osric, figures continued to flash around the square, all of them were wearing faro robes and holding the Darkmoon Staff, obviously all members of the Magic Legion. And the members of this magic legion also exude huge magical fluctuations on their bodies, and each of them has the strength above the legendary level.
After the members of the magic legion appeared, they did not immediately attack the exploration team, but formed an encirclement around the square, and looked at the people of the exploration team surrounded by cold eyes, just like looking at a flock of lambs to the slaughter.
It's really over! In the face of such a formation of the High Elves, even the powerhouses of the legendary peak like Archbishop Martin and Donald instantly sank to the bottom.
And Lin Li, who was standing in front of the team of the Tower of Dusk, did not have the slightest change in the expression on his face at this time, and the situation in front of him was actually not beyond his expectations. If this didn't happen, Lin Li would have to wonder if there would be any conspiracy here in Osric.
In the eyes of Archbishop Martin and Donald, the distance between the strength of the exploration team and the High Elves is simply a world of difference, and it cannot be made up no matter what. If the raid had been successful, there might have been a glimmer of hope, but now it was clear that there was no glimmer of hope.
However, for Lin Li, the only thing that is really difficult, or what really makes him jealous, is the fake Osrick in front of him. Although the strength of the magic legion is also very strong, it is not enough to pose a threat to him, and the people of the Temple of Light and Lordaeron are just to minimize the losses of his subordinates.
The impostor Osric's gaze swept over the exploration team, as if he was about to say something. However, Lin Li knew the truth that the first strike is stronger, and the second attack suffered, so he didn't wait for Osric to speak, and suddenly waved his hand, and a flash of lightning instantly flew out.
The target of the electric light was not the impersonation of Osric, but the other direction, a High Elf standing in mid-air. That High Elf also has the strength of the legendary peak level, and should be a commander-level figure in the magic legion.
Although the fake Osric is fake, Lin Li can also feel that the other party definitely has the strength of the Holy Domain, and it is basically impossible to sneak attack. Therefore, Lin Li chose the High Elf Commander at the peak of the legend as the target, at least it could reduce some of the burden on his subordinates.
If it's ordinary magic, even if it's legendary-level magic, it's basically a very difficult thing to hurt a High Elf Commander at the peak of the legend with a single blow. However, what Lin Li used was not magic, but directly projected the star fragment thunder.
The fragments of the stars themselves contain extremely terrifying power, and after Lin Li stepped into the realm of the Holy Realm, although he did not have the cooperation of the wrath of the stars, the power that could be stimulated was not comparable to before. And the Star Fragment Thunder is the sharpest attack among the seven Star Fragments, the projection of the Sacred Domain powerhouse, coupled with the extremely sharp attack, this is not something that ordinary legendary peak figures can compete with.
In the eyes of everyone, only a flash of lightning flashed, and then they saw the leader of the high elves over there, as well as several high elves behind him, and an arm-thick hole appeared on their bodies in an instant, and they were skewered by this extremely swift blow.
"Kill, kill them!" Seeing this scene, the fake Osric was suddenly so angry that he was going to say something about a humble human being, but he didn't expect the other party to be so despicable that he dared to attack his subordinates in front of him!
And this scene also made the exploration team, Archbishop Martin and Donald and other legendary powerhouses can't help but feel chills. They knew very well in their hearts that the High Elf Commander who was killed in an instant had a powerful strength that was not inferior to their own, so if it was themselves, would they be able to dodge that thunderous blow!
Of course, as a partner, Lin Li's strength should be a good thing for Archbishop Martin and others. It's just that in terms of the identity of the legendary peak powerhouse, their mood can't help but be a little complicated, after all, in the Anriel world, the legendary peak almost means an invincible existence, and even claims to be able to compete with the powerhouse of the holy realm. But now, seeing that the same legendary peak powerhouse was killed in an instant like ants, they also felt a sense of loss in their hearts.
Archbishop Martin is better, how to say that in his eyes, Lin Li still has the identity of a son of light, and he is also a family. At that time, the son of light, Viren, had a very strong strength, and even Apophis, one of the three major arbiters of the Supreme Council, was once defeated by him. From this point of view, Lin Li is also a son of light, and it seems to be a matter of course that he has the strength to instantly kill the legendary peak powerhouse.
However, for Donald and Campbell and other Lordaerons, at this time, in addition to loss, there is more of an irrepressible horror in their hearts. Although judging from the attack just now, they vaguely felt that it should be the work of a magic weapon, but the magic weapon that can instantly kill the legendary peak powerhouse is probably only the legendary artifact.
Thinking of the word artifact, even in the face of such a desperate situation, Donald and Campbell's eyes couldn't help but flash a ray of greed. Although one of them is the chief court mage of Lordaeron and the prince who is the most promising to inherit the throne, it can be said that they have seen countless good things, and there are many of them that have been labeled as artifacts. However, everyone knows that kind of artifact, at best, it can only add a pseudo-word in front of it, which is the so-called semi-artifact.
In the history of the Anriel world, a magic weapon that can truly be called an artifact can be counted in a single slap. The most famous is the weapon used by the Immortal King to kill the dragon of destruction, Azadas, but there is no detailed description of that weapon in either the canon or the lore. Therefore, until now, no one can say clearly what the weapons used by the Immortal King look like, and they basically belong to the legendary existence. In addition, there is the Book of Eternity made by Gresco from the leaves of the Tree of Eternity, and the Moonlight Scepter of the High Elf Queen, which are enough to be classified as artifacts from the eyes of the world.
Donald and Campbell believed that the weapon that Lin Li had just used, even if it did not reach the level of a legendary artifact, was at least much stronger than the so-called demigods he had seen by killing the legendary peak powerhouses in an instant.
Still, both Donald and Campbell are well aware that this is not the time to put that in mind. If the other party can kill a high elf at the peak of the legend in seconds, he can kill himself and others in seconds, not to mention that now they have to face a huge crisis together. Therefore, as soon as their greed flashed, it was immediately hidden deep in their hearts, and they did not reveal the slightest.
"President Ferrey, the raid plan failed, those High Elves handed it over to us, I hope you can hold off Osric as much as possible, and we will deal with them as soon as possible to support you!" Seeing that Osric was furious and a fierce battle was about to begin, Donald's heart moved, and he preemptively said a new battle plan.
Although he didn't dare to show his greed for the artifact, Donald couldn't help but think a little carefully, and threw the fake Great Lord to Lin Li alone to fight against in one sentence. Of course, this is also what he thinks, Lin Li will not be killed by the fake lord soon with that artifact.