Chapter 41: Let Me Come
It was all flying classes, and the speed was naturally fast, and half a day later, in a wilderness where there was no danger to defend, the undead ghost team caught up with this strange team.
As the leader of a ghost squad, the level 9 ** banshee still has quite wisdom, and she didn't dare to come up and pounce on this obviously difficult team, but just ordered her subordinates to surround this group of people, she wanted to see the strength of this team before deciding how to act.
Surrounded by the undead squad, the mission was ready for battle, and the 15 knights of the Order formed a circle with shields and swords, protecting the Marquis and the 3 mages in the circle, and the rangers and wanderers acted as mage guards with bows or crossbows. Due to Casas's early warning, all of them had divine potions on their weapons and shields, and were able to harm spirits that were fairly immune to physical attacks. The Duchy of Novis has no church, and therefore no holy water reserves, so it has to urge the Duchy Mage Association to develop this alchemy potion full of positive energy, due to the high price, it is impossible to fully equip the front-line troops, so it can only be equipped in small batches with the major knights, and this mission team that needs to pass through the undead area carries a large number of such materials.
Everyone was still a little relaxed, with His Excellency the Archmage here, a powerful mass injury spell was cast, and these sixty or seventy ghosts and spirits who would only scream around the ghosts were really not enough to see, but the words of the Archmage made everyone's hearts sink.
"I can't make a move lightly, and if I do, I must wipe out all the enemies, otherwise I will attract high-level undead. The battle for a while was centered on the Marquis and Casas, and I struck as the situation depended. ”
His Excellency the Archmage can't show his true strength, that is to say, his team is really the same strength as the attacking ghost team, and after destroying most of the spirits, it will not arouse the real vigilance of the local commander, at most his subordinates were incompetent at that time, it seems that a bitter battle is inevitable, at least the hard battle must be played realistically!
With this understanding, everyone put away their contempt, listened to the command of the marquis, and lined up the team more closely to prevent spirits from burrowing into the team and harming the several mages who attacked the main body. Li Xun and Casas took off their hoods and cast a mage shield on themselves before they began to prepare for attack spells.
Seeing the two glittering mage shields unfurled in the enemy team, the ** banshee who was 100 meters in the air was also shocked: "Two spellcasters!"
But the order she received did not allow her to back down, so she had to summon 20 ghosts to her side and move to the top of the enemy team, constantly shouting and circling but no direct attack, while the remaining 50 bound spirits lowered their height and scattered around the enemy to keep circling in circles, and from time to time one or two rushed to a distance of two or three steps from the enemy's shield defenders and then violently pulled up the height to lure the enemy mage's attack.
Enemy mages are the greatest threat, but mortal weapons and shields with only brute force are also filled with a disgusting aura of energy, and you must be careful not to be hurt by them to your core.
For a while, the two sides fell into an embarrassing situation in which no one dared to attack easily.
The experienced Marquis of Alger Putek said in a deep voice: "You can't be dragged by them until dark!"
Casas and Li Xun nodded, and with a tacit understanding of raising their hands, two magic missiles hit a binding spirit that had just rushed to the front at the same time, and after a terrible scream, the binding spirit turned into powder and sprinkled on the ground.
Since the battle began, both sides threw away their unnecessary scruples and began to come up with their own means.
With a scream from the ** banshee, the ghosts in the air began to rush down, and the bound spirits wandering around also swarmed up. In the face of mages and knights smeared with special potions, it no longer makes much sense to transform into virtual bodies to avoid physical damage, so except for a few bound ghosts that turn into virtual bodies and burrow into the ground, other spirits are like a charging knight to fight and rush, anyway, as long as the core malice of the spirit is not harmed, it can extract enough energy from the air to recover itself after a while, and it has always been a good hand at fighting a protracted battle.
For Ghosts and Bound Spirits, it takes about 2-3 magic missiles to destroy one, but one magic missile with a broken body is enough. Therefore, the task of harming the spirit body was handed over to the knights on the periphery, and Casas and Li Xun began to make up for the knife in earnest, but if there was a spirit that was injured and planned to retreat to the rear to recover, it could not escape the magic attack of the two, and in order to save magic power, it was mainly based on magic missiles.
For a while, 7-8 bound ghosts died at the hands of the two of them, and the knights covered each other, and there was no real damage except for some scratches and some physical losses. Such an asymmetrical battle loss ratio made the ** banshee in the air resentful, and her originally fair and beautiful face began to distort, her eyes also emitted a dazzling red light, and with a piercing scream, she also rushed straight at the two mages.
Before the person arrived, the piercing screams first enveloped the team below, and the knights couldn't maintain their bodies for a while, and the high mental power could barely resist the impact from the soul to continue to maintain the defensive line, and the poor mental strength couldn't help but drop their weapons and cover their ears and wail together.
Seeing that there were many loopholes in the defense line below in an instant, the ghost in the sky quickly swooped down with the ** banshee. Seeing that the situation was a bit dangerous, Casas risked the possibility of a magic backlash and quickly cast a sentence breaking spell, an ice storm quickly formed overhead, and ice blades mixed with snow particles smashed into the diving ghost, while Li Xun locked onto the banshee and sent out a fiery orb to block its approach.
The ** banshee, who had just swooped down against the ice storm, was covered with ice particles and her speed was greatly reduced, and she saw that the huge fireball that was red on the outside and white on the inside could not be hidden, so she had to plunge into the fireball with both hands, and with a loud "boom", the fireball burst, and the banshee's piercing scream was replaced by a more ugly scream.
The ** banshee that rushed out of the fireball was black, and the magical flames that were still burning around her body brought a sting pain that penetrated the soul, but the red eyes were even more than just now, and there was a feeling of turning into flames at any time. **The banshee took a sharp breath, and a large amount of negative energy gushed out, quickly flushing away the magic flames on her body, and treating her own injuries.
The red eyes stared at Li Xun, the two mages were equally hateful, but this young one was obviously more delicious. **The banshee slammed down with a sinister smile, and her fingernails, which had recovered intact, were sharp and sharp, and together they pierced Li Xun's chest like an awl.
Marquis Arger Ptek, who had been on full guard by his side, had a flash in his eyes, and he leaped up and staggered past the banshee, slashing his sword at her shoulder. Lord Marquis has been gathering momentum for a long time, from the beginning to the time a sword is slashed, the light on his body continues to flash, and in just a short moment, he has blessed himself with the power of a brute bull, the elegance of a cat, the levitation technique, and the four blessing spells of demonic weapons, so this sword is really slashed and solid. **The banshee let out a terrible scream that shocked the audience, flashed the strong scorching ray added by Li Xun at the fastest speed, dodged the jumping attack of the two knights, and rushed out of the battle circle like the wind and climbed to a height of 100 meters and no longer dared to participate in the attack.
The sword just now almost hit its core, mainly because the marquis had no magic induction and couldn't find its core, so the sword slashed into the most comfortable shoulder, almost splitting it in half. The ** banshee who climbed high in the air almost exhausted all her stored negative energy before she barely healed herself, looking at the human team below with tacit understanding, she gritted her teeth for a long time and couldn't think of a way to quickly break the knight's defense.
At this time, the knights who got rid of the simplified version of the banshee's howl almost suffered casualties, and the ones who almost caused casualties to the knights were the bound spirits who turned into virtual bodies and burrowed into the ground. They flicker and flicker insidiously, using the earth to hide their figures, and from time to time rush out and pass through a knight's body to take away a lot of physical strength, combined with the physical attacks of the physical spirit bound on the ground, often a combined attack can make a knight splash blood.
Li Xun shouted "Let me come!", no longer attacking the peripheral spirits, but turning on the soul vision to focus on guarding against the bound spirits walking underground. Whenever a bound spirit rushed out of the ground with the intention of entering the knight's body with the intention of attacking from the ground, Li Xun took advantage of the time difference to throw a necromantic immobilization technique at it, and then a magic missile shattered its core. After killing 5 Bound Spirits in a row like this, the remaining 3 Bound Spirits underground no longer dared to show their heads and hid far away.
The rangers and wanderers who acted as mage guards also figured out how to cooperate. The Wanderer was in charge of applying the potion to the bow and arrows, and the Ranger was a cameo archer, shooting at the spirits flying in the sky, and he actually shot 1 ghost and 2 bound spirits.
The ** banshee who pressed the formation in the air was helpless, after all, its team was all spirits, and would not attack from a distance, mainly by contact attacks, and what she usually relied on was that she could evade physical attacks by virtual body, and she could also absorb the negative energy in the air for self-healing, but today she encountered this prepared human team, and she was completely helpless. I was hesitating, my team had lost more than half of it, but the enemy had not lost one, how to explain such a battle loss to Lord Helias! I wanted to stay up for a while, and wait for the mage's mana to run out before attacking in one fell swoop, but look at the battlefield below, an hour has passed, and the frequency of the magic missiles of the 2 mages is still unabated, and the ghost team I brought with me has only 8 ghosts and 16 bound spirits flying in the air.
**The banshee saw that it was getting late, so she ordered to call back all her subordinates, no longer come forward to attack, just hang far away, and wait for late at night to make plans.
Hold out until all the ghosts have retreated, and the duchy mission will have a chance to recuperate. Casas and Li Xun's mana had already consumed most of their mana, and although they had not been harmed, their long period of high mental concentration had also made them tired, and they just wanted to lie down and rest. The knights are on the front line, basically all of them are injured, but fortunately, they are just simple scratches, but the loss of physical strength is more serious, if they don't get the opportunity to recover, it is difficult to travel long distances.
As soon as the Marquis and the Archmage consulted, they lit a bonfire in the same place and began to set up camp to rest.