Chapter 7: The Battle of the Lost Guards
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"What's that, what's that?" Ling was beating me desperately with one hand while pointing at a small animal running past the grass and shouting excitedly, fortunately, her level has become the same as mine now, and her attack power is not as high as at the beginning!
"That's a mouse!" I hung my head weakly. "This is the 3,000th thing you've asked me! Please, let me go! β
"But don't people know!" Ling put the index finger of his right hand in his mouth and looked at me with an innocent and lovely look, and I couldn't be ruthless!
"You haven't been out of the Dark Temple, but you've seen something, right? How the hell did you grow up? β
"People have been in the temple since they were born, and those fools (the High Priest of Darkness and the Knights of Death) always let me decide this decision and that, as if they don't understand anything themselves, and I have to help them decide everything! So I never stepped out of the temple! Not to mention these things, even the creatures of darkness I don't recognize! β
"I didn't say it!" What else can you complain about with such a person?
Ling suddenly began to get excited again. "What's in the sky? What is it? That's a lot! It's fun! β
I looked up in confusion, and a large black oppressive thing flew over. These things flew so high and fast that I didn't recognize what they were. At Ling's behing, I turned on the telescopic function of the star pupil, and a flock of big birds quickly came into my sight, these creatures with golden feathers also had the body of a lion, isn't this a griffin! How can there be so many griffons here? It is said that this place belongs to the territory of the Dark Temple, and the griffin belongs to the light demon pet, because it should not have been unintentionally flown in, and such a large number is not normal.
I increased the magnification of the star pupils, and the griffin was still riding a knight in silver armor. Isn't this the garrison of the main city of the system? At their current speed and direction, their destination should be...... The Lost City?
These guys actually attacked the Lost City! After sweeping away Isengard, they are still not satisfied! I didn't have time to think about it, so I directly turned the teleportation ring to reach the Lost City and summoned the Demon Knight and Ling Du. "Scott, do you know my eldest brother Clark?"
"Acquaintance!"
"You go and sue him, the Temple of Light has sent troops to attack the Lost City!"
"Yes!" Scott rolled over and galloped away.
"The others come with me!" I rushed with the rest of the people to the training center where the boomerang had been trained that day. The training center was not far from the teleportation station, and we arrived quickly.
Nightshade rushed too quickly, and when I arrived at the training center, I jumped off the horse by inertia, but I ran too fast, and I was dressed up in the last few steps without stepping steadily, and I flew out of the way, slammed open the door and fell into the hall. "Quick...... Fast......! Attention to the Mystery Troops, the Temple of Light has sent troops to attack here,...... They want to attack you, so call for defense! β
The Lost Lock troops, who were already training, were stunned when they heard my words, and one of them, probably the lead, quickly ran over and helped me up. "How do you know?"
"I saw their vanguard on the road! It's all griffins, about tens of thousands! β
The knight who took the lead immediately shouted to the back, "I heard it, all the Lost Locks troops are in position." The Lost City is at war! β
The Lost Locks rushed out and ran in all directions of the city. I quickly ran to Clarke, where Scott was standing in the doorway.
"Did you sue him?"
"Tell me, Clark has left to inform the others, let me wait for you here. Clark said to wait for him in his shop and not run around. β
"Oh! Okay, got it! "I took the Demon Knights and Ling into the shop, but there's no way to do it.
I jumped straight through the window to the roof of Clark's shop, and from the top of the three-story building, I could see a lot of the city. Suddenly, I felt that an evil force was growing, and when I looked over my senses, it was actually the Eye of Hell located in the tower in the center of the city! The originally closed eye of hell is slowly opening, and the powerful evil force is gradually increasing.
After about a minute, the Eye of Hell finally opened completely, and a golden beam of light shot straight out of the Eye of Hell, and the beam searched the air like a searchlight.
"What are you doing up there?" Clark, who had already made it back, saw me standing on the roof of his house on the street.
"I'm looking at how you prepare for war, I'm going to build a city soon, and I have to learn all these things!"
"Then come down! Come with me to the city walls! β
"Is that okay? That's great! I jumped directly from the roof of the building in excitement, and the Demon Knight and Ling immediately followed.
Follow Clark all the way to the city walls, and all you see along the way are the families of the Lost City, knights in armor, and mages in robes. "Clark! Is the Lost City a soldier for all? β
"Almost! The people who live in the Lost are all old undead with age, and their combat skills are somewhat proficient, so when they fight, they are together! β
"Awesome!"
We soon reached the wall, and a large number of knights and mages were still running towards it. I was placed in an arrow tower on the city wall (similar to the beacon tower on the Great Wall), which was relatively high and had a good line of sight. After Clark settled me, he ran away again, and I had to watch from the tower by myself.
More than a dozen turrets had already risen in the Blackwater Lake outside the Lost City, and the magic crystal cannons on the forts were still dripping, and it seemed that they had only risen for a short time. I suddenly noticed an interesting phenomenon, it turned out that the Eye of Hell is actually the fire control and command system of these cannons, and wherever the golden light of the Eye of Hell shines, the muzzle of the cannon follows.
Suddenly, I heard a strange sound behind me, and when I looked back, I saw a small door open on the top of the tower in the center of the city, and countless gargoyles rushed out in a dense line. The Lost City actually has an air force, it's the first time I've seen it!
Before the noise in the rear was over, I heard the sound of water coming from the black water lake in front of me, and a whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake, and the whirlpool began to gradually move towards the shore, and when it touched the shore of the lake, a hole began to appear in the center of the whirlpool. The black water of the lake is flung to the periphery because of the high-speed rotation, and the hole in the center becomes a passage. β¦β¦ Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble....... The sound of neat troop marching came from the surface of the lake, and teams of monsters in the whirlpool drove out in neat formations.
I don't know what came out. These guys all stand on two legs like humans, but their leg joints are reversed, like the joints of birds! The monster, which is nearly two meters tall, looks like a locust standing up! They actually have more than one hand, and both pairs of upper limbs are like awls, and the tips are shining with cold light! As for their heads, they are even more terrifying, and the four fangs on their mouths that stick out show that they are carnivores.
In the whirlpool ahead, this monster continued to emerge, and at the same time, many passages suddenly opened on the top of the city wall, and huge wooden tools were raised. I was surprised to find that it was actually a trebuchet, not a regular trebuchet, but a super huge winch trebuchet. This trebuchet, which relies on the power of the gears to reload, can throw a stone the size of an elephant seven or eight kilometers away, and you can imagine how destructive it is.
Just after the trebuchet was in place, and the soldiers were finally in place, a guy in red armor walked up to the city gate, and I saw Clark standing next to him, I guess it was a big man! The whirlpool on the lake in front of them had disappeared, and in just a few minutes, there were thousands of troops (strange).
The red-armored figure at the gate said something to the side, but it was too far away for me to hear. But soon I knew what he was saying! The long stone bridge connecting the city and the shore on the surface of the lake actually sank into the lake slowly! The mechanisms of the Lost City are really comprehensive enough, and even the long bridge can be lifted!
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Almost a few minutes after the army was ready, a series of black dots finally appeared in the distant sky, and I knew it was a brigade of griffins! The griffons were very fast, and in an instant the griffins were at a distance visible to the naked eye. The golden light from the Eye of Hell behind him suddenly became intense, and a golden light shot straight into the griffons in the sky. Immediately after that, the magic crystal cannons in the lake raised their heads one after another, pointing their barrels into the sky.
Rumble! All I heard was a loud bang, and more than a dozen magic crystal cannons opened fire at the same time. The base of each cannon is swung in circles of water at the same time, which is caused by the vibration of the cannon. A volley of cannonballs flew into the griffon's ranks, and the nimble griffons began to dodge, but they were too numerous and too dense to kill almost a griffon with each shell.
The golden light suddenly flashed into a dozen rays, each of which pointed to a specific position in the griffin formation, and the magic crystal cannons began to fire at their respective targets. I looked curiously at the griffons pointed at one of the rays of light, wondering how the griffons designated by the Eye of Hell were different from the others.
After taking a look, I suddenly noticed that the designated griffin was actually carrying two people! In addition to a griffin knight in front, there is actually a mage in the back! Could it be that there is something special about these mages? Why did Helleye designate the Shard Cannon to prioritize these targets?
The magic crystal cannon is still attacking the griffin with the mage according to the guidance, and it is impossible for the griffin brigade to occupy the lost city in this way, and the strength of the ground forces is much stronger than them! Are all the guys in the Temple of Light stupid? Send such a griffon to take over the Lost City?
My doubts didn't last long. The Griffin Brigade quickly crossed the forest and entered the skies above the Mass Graveyard. All the griffons with mages began to land, and the army of locusts outside the Lost City (too big!) Suddenly, they began to charge towards the landing griffons, and the griffons in the sky, who were not carrying mages, lowered their altitude and began to attack the rushing locusts. It is clear that the locusts are no match for the griffins, but they are outnumbered, and they don't seem to be going to compete with the griffins. The locusts rushed straight through the griffon's blockade and rushed towards the mages behind who had been laid down. This reinforces my belief that these mages are of great significance, and that the locust armies of the Lost City will not attack them aimlessly!
The locusts were very fast, and although the griffons tried their best to intercept them, they didn't seem to be effective, but a large number of locusts rushed past the griffons' interception team and approached the mages. As soon as the mages hit the ground, they began to draw something on the ground, and they did not react at all to the locusts rushing up behind them. But the locusts didn't care, and the locusts that rushed to them immediately began to slaughter the mage. Many mages were killed halfway through their drawings. The crystal cannons didn't stop during this time, they were also bombarding the mage's team, but many griffons used their bodies to block the cannonballs, and the cannons had no effect other than inflicting a lot of casualties on the griffins.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of a dang dang, like the sound of a rope about to break. Looking back, looking for the source of the sound, it turns out that it is a trebuchet winding! Father! With a muffled sound of air shaking, a trebuchet fired. A huge stone projectile flew out with a huge wind sound, and the rough-machined stone could basically be considered round. The sheer velocity of the projectiles landed and began to tumble forward, and of course their target was the mage!
The griffons in the sky are not very suitable for resisting the rolling stones on the ground, even if they want to sacrifice themselves, it is useless, even if the stones of this quality are squashed by dozens of griffons, they will not stop! The effect of the stone is better than that of the cannon, and a large number of mages have been smashed into pulp, and the only drawback is that many locusts have also been flattened along the way!
With the combined efforts of locusts, crystal cannons, and trebuchets, the mage team suffered heavy losses. But after losing more than seventy percent of the mages, suddenly a mage completed his own work, and I can see exactly what it is! In a ring seven or eight meters in diameter was a six-pointed star, and now that thing was shining with blue-white light. Fools know that it is a magic array, and the only possibility of setting up a magic array here is to teleport the army!
As soon as I guessed the answer, I saw a flash of magic on the edge of the forest, and groups of cavalry rushed out. The mage who had drawn the magic circle laughed, wiped the sweat from his head with his mage robe, and as soon as he turned around, a spike pierced his body and sent him to heaven. Before the locust that had killed the magician could pull out its conical arm, it was cut in two by the knight who rushed out of the magic array!
The other magic arrays next to it were completed one after another, and the white light flashed into a single piece, and the cavalry legions of the brigade poured out of the magic array like a flood.
This will be regarded as an eye-opener, it turns out that the real city battle is not to drive a large number of troops under the opponent's city, but directly by the fast and strong penetration ability of the air force to carry a large number of space magicians to the opponent's city to prepare to teleport the magic array! We players are still stuck in the era of attacking on foot, and we are really backward compared to these super NPCs!
When the large army rushed out of the chanting array, the locusts were also useless, and the cavalry was completely one-sided against these locusts, and after a while, the cavalry cleared the locusts. Huge trebuchets, a large number of ladder carts, and something that resembled a square box on wheels suddenly opened up in the magic circle behind.
As soon as the ladder car came out, it began to run behind, presumably because the Lost City had a moat that was too wide, so the ladder was not used for the time being. The trebuchet was quickly pulled apart, and some engineering troops began to load the trebuchet with stone bullets. Suddenly, I saw a stone projectile fly up and towards the city.
Looking at the trajectory of the stone bullet, it was supposed to fall over the city wall and into the city, but suddenly a golden beam of light from the Eye of Hell shone on the stone bullet. With a bang, a magic crystal cannonball hit the stone projectile flying in the air, shattering the stone projectile. Immediately after that, the second and third stone bullets rose into the air, and the Eye of Hell illuminated these stone bullets respectively, and the magic crystal cannon fired alternately to intercept all the stone bullets. But as the trebuchets unfurled more and more stone projectiles, the magic crystal cannon was gradually overwhelmed!
I was wondering why the trebuchet didn't attack the Lost City's Crystal cannon first, when a stone projectile hit a crystal cannon. But the stone bullet was smashed and fell into the lake, and the magic crystal ran but nothing happened! No wonder the trebuchets attack the walls instead of the cannons!
The boxes with wheels in the rear began to move towards the lake, and Eye of Hell suddenly gave up on intercepting the stone bullets and pointed at them. But it's a pity that a large number of mages have set up magic shields in front of this thing, and the magic crystal cannonballs can only penetrate a few layers of shields and have no power, although each cannon can kill several mages, but they just can't do anything about that box!
The boxes were finally pushed to the lake, but the soldiers behind didn't seem to stop, and they kept pushing the thing into the lake. After the soldiers pushed the thing into the water, there was a strange noise in the lake. Small swirls appeared in front of the boxes.
"How does it feel?" Clark suddenly appeared behind me.
"What's that?" I asked, pointing to the box.
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Clark didn't even look at it and said, "That's the highest product of an alchemistβa water absorber." It relied on magic crystals as power, and there was a water magic array and a space magic circle in it. The Water Magic Array will constantly suck the nearby water into the car, and the Space Magic Array will teleport the water out, so that the water in the moat can be drained! β
"Damn! So powerful? Won't this blackwater lake in the Lost City be sucked dry soon? β
"Suction is a certainty, but this lake is not a moat after all, and it will take a while to completely suck it up. We just hope that we can destroy more enemies during this time. β
"Then you're going to let them suck like that?"
"You can also see that they hold so many layers of magic shields, and we can't help it!"
As we spoke, the enemy griffin in the sky suddenly rushed in the direction of the city. A large number of gargoyles on this side immediately greeted them, and the air forces of both sides scuffled in the air. The dark wizards of the Lost City here have begun to use the Life Forbidden Zone in the air. The Life Forbidden Zone is a long-term large-area magic, its main function is to form a magic vortex in a certain area to absorb life force, and, as long as it is not dispersed by light magic, it can last for a long time, even if the releaser has been hanged, this magic will still exist until the time limit will disappear.
Because magic is judged by automatic attacks, the gargoyles are not affected by magic, but the griffons are unlucky, and some griffons fall from time to time in the sky, and of course the gargoyles are also slightly lost!
"Be careful!" Clark shoved me away, and a gargoylee fell to the spot where I was standing. Gargoyles are made of stone, and they turn into stone when they die or rest, and now when they are killed, they fall and shatter.
Ling in the back clapped his hands happily and said, "It's the first time I've seen such a spectacular war!" It's amazing! β
Clark whispered to my ear, "Where did you get this girl?" Why do I look so familiar? β
I whispered into his ear, "She's the former Goddess of Darkness!" β
"Her Highness the Goddess?" Clark couldn't help but cry out.
"I'm not anymore!" Ling was still watching the battle below, and he didn't look back at all. "The current temple is in the hands of my sister Aerni!"
Clark placed his right hand on his chest and bowed 45 degrees. "Anyway, you used to be the goddess of darkness, and you have to be polite and good!"
"Okay, okay, I'm just a retired goddess, don't be so polite! Yes! Look, the lake is gone! β
I followed the sound and saw that the lake had indeed gone down a lot, but it had not been sucked dry. Many huge eel-like creatures writhed on the dry lakebed, and the rest of the lake had many fanged heads exposed. As the water of the lake descended further, the big heads finally took shape. These are some plesiosaur-looking creatures, except that their heads are larger. And they obviously have good teeth, so their appetite is also very good, so their bodies are on the list, so they eat hemp fragrant. One of them didn't pay attention, and a monster bit a pumping machine in the mouth, probably very unhappy about this thing that had robbed all the water, and the monsters rushed up to attack the pumping machine. But the monsters all have turtle-like limbs on their bodies, and they must have nothing to say about swimming, and they are too slow to run! Most of the pumps ran back safely, but the cavalry that rushed up to cover was unlucky. The attack power of this thing seems to be no worse than that of the dragon clan, and it is no longer possible to pick up a knight and throw a man and a horse away!
"These aren't the guards of the Lost City, are they?" I think these monsters are attacking coalition forces, but they don't look like planned troops, and they seem to be venting their anger!
"These are the natives of the lake, and we don't care if they are just used as guards in the lake!"
"No wonder!"
Although the monsters below are strong, they can't stand the crowd, and the knights divide the monsters in three or two clicks! The drained lake was so thoroughly drained that even the silt was sucked up and turned into hard soil. The siege engines and ladder trucks were finally pushed up. The magic crystal cannon built in the lake was dismantled by the cavalry who rushed to the front, and as a result, the magic crystal cannon exploded one after another, and a large number of backs were pulled on the back of the dying force!
The battle for the city wall officially began, and the army that rushed to the city was dense like a flood, and this scene was really spectacular. Although the number of participants in the war is only 1 million (900,000 coalition troops, less than 100,000 lost), how spectacular it is to throw out an army of 900,000 in such a narrow place!
Although the Crystal Cannon was destroyed, the work of the Eye of Hell was not over. The golden pillar of light shot straight into the clouds, and lightning suddenly began to shine in the sky. The dripping raindrops suddenly began to fall from the east to the west, and I reached out to catch it, and it was not rain but blood!
The originally blessed coalition cavalry was doused with blood, and the colorful and brilliant magic on their bodies was immediately gone! The cavalry who had lost their brilliance had lost their combat ability a lot, and the cavalry who rushed to the side of the ladder car directly stepped on the ladder and rode their horses onto the city wall (this kind of ladder car is not the ancient one, but the kind of ladder car like the airport, and the stairs are straight).
The cavalry that rushed to the city wall was immediately strangled by the troops who were confused by the wall. Because the number of Death Knights in the Lost Lock Force is small, they are all arranged near the ladder, and they can easily defend the vicinity of the ladder by using the prominence of the single combat ability.
A large tool suddenly teleported from behind the opponent, and I knew at a glance that it was a battering ram, and it looked like a swing frame, but there was a whole large copper pillar hanging underneath. Clark yelled at several trebuchets around him, "Kill the other party's engineering hammer!" β
The trebuchet immediately changed its target, but the opposing mage once again held their shield against them, and the goal was to send the battering ram to the city no matter what, and it would be a victory. The dark mages on the city walls are constantly throwing massive killing magic at the crowd below, but unfortunately there are too many people to seem to kill them all!
The eye of hell behind him changed again, and the pillar of light that had been reaching the sky suddenly began to scatter in all directions, and the pillar of light turned into scattered light, as if a flashlight suddenly turned into a candle! The rain of blood outside the city suddenly stopped as the pillars of light scattered, but the ground suddenly began to squirm. Slowly, a large number of zombies and skeletons emerged from the ground, although these low-level monsters were of low level, but they were huge, and there were nearly 1 million of them in the first batch, and they were still rising! The mage next to the battering ram is disturbed by zombies and skeletons, and a gap suddenly appears in the magic shield.
The trebuchet on the rampart seized the moment, and a volley of stone projectiles flew past. The battering ram was smashed to the ground with a click, and it was less than 300 meters away from the city gate! The second battering ram in the teleportation array in the rear was pushed out, but unfortunately there were too many zombies, and the road was blocked by them tightly, and there was no place at all.
The cavalry were not as nimble as zombies and skeletons in the mud, and as a result, they were beaten to the brim, and occasionally a few who rushed up the walls were knocked down by the overwhelming Death Knights.
As the number of skeletons and zombies grew, the armies of the Temple of Light Alliance gradually shifted from active to passive. Two red fireworks suddenly exploded above the teleportation array, and all the troops began to retreat slowly, apparently the fireworks were a signal to retreat.
The fleeing coalition forces were also not very smooth, the ground was too slippery, there were too many zombies and skeletons, and the trebuchets were still attacking, and the retreating coalition forces suffered great losses. However, after finally dropping a large number of corpses, the main force of the coalition retreated to the teleportation array, and at this time, a large black monster flew over on the other side of the Lost City. I could see that they were black wyverns, and it looked like reinforcements from the temple had arrived!
The coalition forces no longer had any hope of rushing into the magic array, and this battle was considered a crippled defeat for the coalition forces, but the Lost City also lost some strength, but it was relatively small.
As the enemy retreated, the skeletons and zombies outside the city stood still, and then slowly sank into the ground as if they had never existed. The defeated corpses also changed, the more intact corpses became zombies, and the more mutilated ones became skeletons, and then they were all the same as the zombies and skeletons in front of them. Now I know why there are so many zombies and skeletons outside the Lost City, and they are all dead bodies of the temple army for half a day!
It's a pity that this is an NPC war, and I have neither experience nor equipment that explodes (NPCs can't attack each other and lose equipment), but I have a general understanding of siege warfare, especially when I know that the attack method of the Temple Alliance is such a highly mobile combat method, I thought it would be an infantry siege, but I didn't expect that all the cavalry that came out in the end were cavalry!
"Purple Sun!" Clark called me out of the blue.
"Huh? Do? β
"Come with me, the city will see you!"
"Just the guy in red armor?"
"Yes!"
"What did he do when he saw me?"
"You'll know when you're here!"
I followed Clark down the city wall and towards the center of the city with a feeling of doubt, and I still couldn't figure out what the city lord was looking for me!
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