Chapter 223: The Ominous Movement of Death (5)
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For Lord Arzari, the lord of Northlake, tonight was destined to be the most fearful and painful day of his life, and the walls of Northlake, which had been built for thousands of years, smelled of scorching in the firelight. It was the result of the corpses on the walls being scorched by the flames, and the traps under the walls had long since been filled with dirt.
When two archmages appeared among the drow elves, everyone knew that it would be difficult to defend the city. Although because of the town of Burkna, which is also Chen Kai's gem abyss, the lords of the entire Huge land have the ability to buy spell gems to attract spellcasters. In particular, the town of Northlake, where Lord Arzari is located, has excellent access by water, making it a favorite place for adventurers and spellcasters in the Northern Realm. Although Lake Sevanto is not necessarily very safe, the boat ride is much faster than the time it takes to walk on land.
In Beihu Town, there is a passenger boat dedicated to Lakeside Town, a northern territory, which is a huge ship with a length of more than 40 meters. With the help of spells, ships can be fully loaded with hundreds of people to travel between Lakeside Town and North Lake Town in a single day. If you add in the monthly cargo ships that transport metal ore, then the number of ships traveling from Beihu Town to Lakeside Town is even higher.
It is precisely because of the busy business with Lakeside Town that there are many spellcasters in Beihu Town, but no matter how many spellcasters there are, most of them are low-level depositors. The highest level is only a ninth-order spell master, because it is impossible for most archmages to come to Beihu Town to buy materials by themselves. Even if they would go to Hugodi in person, they would go straight to Burkner and buy first-hand ore from the mining area instead of second-hand gems that changed hands here in North Lake.
But these archmages usually come in a hurry, and when they buy something they want, they leave immediately, and they don't stay in one place for too long. Because most of the archmage-level storage zĂ i have their own spell practice rooms, these spell practice rooms are basically in the archmage tower for many years. There is an archmage tower in Beihu Town, but there is no one in it for a long time. The highest spellcasters residing in Beihu Town are just a few mentor-level mages. After all, this place of Hugodi has just experienced a rebellion of the lords. It is impossible to have many high-level mages in existence.
Therefore, even if only two archmages are dispatched, the drow elves can eat Beihu Town to death, and the spellcaster has always valued his own life very preciously. Therefore, when the drow elves began to attack the city, at least half of the spellcasters who had been stationed in Northlake Town had fled. The rest are either player mages, or some who didn't have time to escape and were captured by Lord Arzari.
Now, of course, these aboriginal spellcasters hate Lord Arzari to death. But there was no way for them to escape. Because the teleportation scrolls they were carrying with them had been seized by Lord Arzari, the Lord had to come up with this solution in order to prevent the slippery mages from escaping.
However, even if Lord Arzari captured hundreds of spellcasters as strong men, the outcome of these spellcasters in the face of the powerful drow elven archmages was not very good. Mage is a profession that relies on wisdom and time accumulation to eat, and mage battles rely on wisdom and whim. But the accumulation of years is also important. Any archmage is an old man, especially a natural immortal like the Drow Elves. Although it is impossible for them to live forever, it is long enough for the human beings who live for a hundred years before they can survive at the Holy Level. Therefore, the accumulation and precipitation of the archmages of the drow are even stronger, and the fireballs released at a distance of thousands of meters are powerful and terrifying, and a fireball directly ignites more than a dozen soldiers. The terrifying power of the spell made many soldiers dumbfounded in an instant, because they had no way to fight such a terrifying force.
Unfortunately, there was no way for them to escape now, and as the Blackhorned Minotaurs charged towards the walls, all the soldiers knew the outcome of their escape. Their legs could never outrun the hooves of the Minotaurs, and most importantly, behind the Minotaurs were the Drow cavalry riding underground six-legged war lizards.
To run through the pursuit of a six-legged war lizard in the dark of night is simply a fool's dream. Although these soldiers may have seen the drow elves for the first time in their lives. But that doesn't prevent them from knowing how powerful the drow elves are. You must know that there are many adventure stories in the game world, and the drow elves often play the role of villains in some adventure stories. In most adventure stories, the Drow Elves are synonymous with evil, horror, and sensuality. Although some of the stories are fictional, there are some real things, such as the six-legged lizard cavalry of the drow elves, which are definitely very powerful in the adventure story. Although they can't be as elusive as the Shadow Slayers, they do have the same impact power as ordinary cavalry, and even more powerful melee attacks.
They may not be able to form a powerful cavalry charging line, but because the war lizards are also capable of attack and lethality, their individual combat power is more powerful than ordinary black-armored cavalry. At least in terms of agility or high-speed movement, they were more powerful than the horse cavalry, because they could manipulate the war lizards to dodge the crossbow arrows that came at them, and Lord Arzari's shooting technique of blowing off the head of the minotaur squad leader was of no use against these drow cavalry.
Of course, the Lord's shooting skills are definitely not good, in fact, being able to shoot the head of a Minotaur squad leader is completely shit luck. After that, it was almost nine out of ten arrows, but as a lord himself, even if he didn't hit the target, it was enough to boost morale, which is why although there were fireballs in the air from time to time, and from time to time there were unlucky people who were blasted out of the entire city wall, but they did not collapse.
In addition to Lord Arzari's brave killing, the reason why the soldiers on the walls did not flee was the Warlord's warlord's team of mercenaries under the Earl of the North. These mercenaries from the Earl's elite veterans were Lord Arzari's staunchest supporters, as they were well aware of the role of Northlake to their masters, and could not afford it to fall into the hands of the Drow elves.
They slashed down the soldiers who tried to escape, mercilessly, knowing full well that they might be able to escape, but they would never escape the Earl's punishment. However, while acting as Warlords, these veterans also worked very hard to manipulate bed crossbows or catapults to damage the approaching Blackhorned Minotaurs. The defense system that had only been formed for thousands of years in the town of Beihu played a powerful role at this time, although some of the defenses were dismantled due to the rebellion of the former lord, but with the inauguration of Lord Arzari, these defenses were gradually repaired, at least now they have been restored to about eighty percent of their original size.
These forts and traps scattered outside the town of North Lake effectively blocked the onslaught of some of the Blackhorned Minotaurs. But it's just a block. Face the black-horned minotaur with a huge body size who is more than two meters and five meters tall. Their rough skin and strong physique can block the attacks of many small crossbow arrows. Only a frontal hit to their body by a bed crossbow can inflict damage on them. But when some minotaurs have red eyes and start to go into a manic state, ordinary crossbow arrows can't stop them even if they pierce their heads, because they have completely turned into killing machines by this time.
Fortunately, in addition to bunkers and traps, Beihu Town also has walls that are three meters thick and fifteen meters high. The walls, made entirely of basalt, have been fused with lead over the millennia, and are so strong that they even glow with a metallic sheen from a distance. Of course, it was only some of the walls that were poured lead, such as the gates and relatively dangerous sections of the walls, and most of the walls were only reinforced by basalt and earth elemental spells. But even so, the town of Beihu is only seen from the sturdiness of the city walls. It is already one of the most fortified cities in the whole of Hugodi.
For the defenders of Northlake, it was definitely not a comfortable thing to be attacked by the archmage's long-range spells, but even if they were uncomfortable, they had to stay up, and as time passed, the black-horned minotaur who rushed in front gradually crossed the fortress and trap and rushed to the city wall. However, at this time, all the soldiers defending the city found that these black-horned minotaurs did not carry siege weapons at all, and they did not even have the most basic ladders. It was impossible to jump to the top of the city without a ladder, which made the soldiers defending the city feel both fortunate and strange.
However, if Chen Kai was here, he would not feel strange, but fearful. Because he knew what the consequences would be if he let a large number of minotaurs approach the wall, when the black-horned minotaurs rushed to the edge of the wall, they did not swing their battle axes to chop the wall, but together they raised the hooves of the oxen under their feet, and stepped heavily under the stunned eyes of the soldiers on the wall.
Lines of earthy yellow ripples appeared the moment these oxen hooves stepped on, and then slammed into the city wall when the soldiers on the city wall were unknown. At that moment, everyone in the city felt the walls beneath their feet begin to shake. Not only did the earthquake-like fluctuations spread, but cracks began to appear in many parts of the fortified walls.
"Don't let them continue to use seismic waves! Otherwise, the walls will collapse!" A player who knew the Blackhorn Minotaur skill roared loudly. Unfortunately, his roar was soon drowned out by an even louder crash. Thankfully, he wasn't the only player on the wall, but even if they yelled, it wouldn't be useful, because the soldiers on the wall didn't have much power to stop the blackhorned minotaurs.
The difference in height of the city wall is more than ten meters, and these soldiers have no way to go down the city wall to stop the bulls, and the so-called bomb oil may not be able to stop these crazy bulls after they are poured. The red-eyed black-horned minotaurs didn't care about the arrows that fell on their bodies, even if their fur had been scalded off by boiling oil, even if their bodies were hit by bombs, as long as they still had a breath of energy, they would pour the power of the bull's hooves into their bodies. A series of destructive lights repeatedly bombarded the same section of the city wall, no matter how strong the city wall was, it could not withstand this impact, and all the soldiers knew to stop these crazy minotaurs, and even some players simply jumped off the city wall to blow up those minotaurs with a dozen gunpowder bags as human bombs.
But the strength of the Blackhorned Minotaurs is too strong, and their defenses are also very strong, and the trick of human bombs has been very effective against the undead. The powerful impact force can even blast those bone racks directly into powder, but it will not be used when encountering these minotaurs. The impact of the explosion could only kill the few minotaurs in the center, and the number of minotaurs on the battlefield exceeded 3,000, and the number of minotaurs crowded under this wall exceeded 500. The huge explosion force couldn't kill a few at all, and the impact force could only cause less than a thousand impact damage to the surrounding minotaurs after it spread.
Although one player after another ran to act as human bombers, in the end they were unable to stop the Minotaur from attacking the walls. Less than ten minutes later, the battered wall slowly cracked under everyone's horrified gaze, making the sound of clods of earth crumbling.
"Plug it! What about earth elemental mages? What about mages? Seal the walls for me!! Lord Arzari roared frantically, and all of the player casters, the Earth Elemental Mages and the Native Earth Elemental Mages, all of them didn't care about releasing the Earth Elemental Spell that stabilized the wall. It is hoped that the collapse of the city walls will be stopped. But at the same time as they made a move. The two drow elven archmages in the distance suddenly joined forces and unleashed a massive flame hammer. The burning fireball formed a huge blast of fire in the air. Crossing a distance of hundreds of meters, it directly hit this section of the city wall, and the terrifying flame power instantly tore apart the bodies of those spellcasters on the city wall, and the huge city wall also slowly fell backwards under such an impact. This spell has reached the level of a ninth-order spell in terms of power and difficulty of release. That's why it has such a terrible effect.
After an hour and seven minutes of being attacked by the Drow Elves, the walls of Northlake began to crumble, taking not only the courage of the defenders but also a lot of lives. Behind the walls were residential areas, and at the same time there were some wounded people lying under the walls. The collapsed walls did not overwhelm the houses, but they crushed the wounded under the base of the walls. Dozens of tons of rock fell down, and those wounded were crushed to death without having time to dodge.
When the news of the capture of Beihu Town came out, Chen Kai was holding the wound on his chest and directing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield in front of the lord's mansion. More than a dozen Drow Elven Shadow Slayer Len killed more than thirty soldiers, and these soldiers were all elite-level personal soldiers, which Chen Kai had cultivated with great difficulty. But now they are all dead. Faced with the corpses of these soldiers, Chen Kai wanted to chop up the corpses of all the Drow elves and feed them to the dogs, but there were only ten Drow Elf shadow killers they really left, and five Drow elves covered each other and fled at the last moment of the battle.
In the face of Zhuo Er, who ran away, Chen Kai didn't even have the strength to chase after him, because he had at least three or four wounds on his body. And if it weren't for He Liwen's antidote to suppress the toxin, he would have been wiped out by the Drow elves on the weapon with severe poison. This assassination from the Drow Elves was even worse than the damage inflicted on Chen Kai by that Grand Duke, at least the Grand Duke of Hansting was not able to kill many of Chen Kai's personal guards. Drake and a few of his important officers were not allowed to lie on the ground, and these drow elves only dispatched a dozen men to achieve what the Grand Duke had failed to achieve in hundreds of people.
Thinking of Drake and the others who were injured by the highly poisonous dagger and knocked unconscious, Chen Kai felt bitter in his mouth. You must know that the poison of the drow elves is very difficult to remove, even the super-effective antidote developed by He Liwen can only suppress the onset of toxins for a few hours. After three or four hours, these poisons will also erupt, and now Chen Kai can only pray that these drow elves will carry the antidote to the poison.
If he couldn't find an antidote, Chen Kai might face a situation where he would lose his most powerful men, which was definitely not what he wanted to see. Of course, when rescuing Drake and them, Chen Kai began to order martial law throughout the town of Burkner, and all players were recruited by him to join the battle to hunt down the Drow Elves. Although this move made Chen Kai pay the price of 150,000 gold coins in an instant, Chen Kai, who was about to go crazy, couldn't take care of these anymore.
Of course, for the players of Burkner, this night was definitely a night of exciting news. First, the Iron Knights and another small town of the Players' Guild were attacked by the Drows, and then the town of Burkna was attacked by the Drows. The sudden explosion caught everyone off guard, and the alarm bells sounding on the city walls were even more terrifying. Then, less than ten minutes later, the news that Beihu Town was besieged by the Drow Elf army came, and a large amount of information hit the player's nerves. But then came the more exciting news that the lord of the town of Burkna had been attacked, and the commander of the cavalry regiment, Drake, was seriously wounded and fainted during the battle, and the lord himself was stabbed several times and poisoned.
Later, the players who stayed in the town of Burkna were tasked by Chen Kai to hunt down the Drow Elves, and the highest bounty reached 50,000 yuan, and the players who participated in the battle could exchange a piece of Drow Elve's meat for a gold coin. This caused players in Burkner to start a frantic way through the streets, and soon someone spotted the Drows.
However, before the players could kill all the drow, more exciting news came, and the town of Beihu in the north was captured by the drows. This is definitely shocking news for players, many people know how strong the defense of North Lake Town is, and it is unbelievable that such a powerful town has been captured. (To be continued.) )