Chapter 26: The Shadow of the Wolf (I)
On the twelfth day, Lady Luck seemed to stop visiting the Steelshield camp, and bad news began to come one after another.
First of all, the news brought by the Boar Man warrior who returned to the Boar Man Tribe a few days ago to spread the message - the Wolf Clan attacked the Boar Man Tribe on a large scale, and the Boar Man Tribe was too busy to take care of itself, and there was no way to divide forces to support the Steel Shield Camp.
Immediately after that, the news released by the Grand Commander: the energy spar of the defensive circle has bottomed out!
This meant that the days of leisurely archery on the walls were coming to an end, and the Boar People had begun to build fortifications along the walls under the arrangement of the Grand Commander.
Only a handful of Boar Warriors were left on the city walls to maintain the huge incinerator inside the gourd mouth, and the others were sent to help under the walls.
However, the last news is the most desperate: the wolves have begun to increase their troops!
Yes, you heard it right, the wolf clan is starting to increase its troops! Began to increase troops to this hard bone that no one has been able to gnaw for thousands of years!
Originally, after the five-day war of attrition, the wolves on the plains had become much more sparse, but since the day before yesterday, the edge of the forest and the junction of the plains have actually begun to pour out a steady stream of wolves!
Until today, the wolves on the plains have returned to their original size, while on the side of the wild boar people, due to a few days of continuous consumption, the defensive circle spar has bottomed out.
Everything seems to be developing in a bad direction, Mu Yan sees it in his eyes and is anxious in his heart.
But there is no way, in this big war, his strength alone is too small.
Now he really experienced a feeling of doing his best and obeying the destiny of heaven.
This feeling is really bad!
Mu Yan spread out his palm, a green leaf gradually faded in his palm, and finally turned into a withered yellow fallen leaf, the abundant moisture in the leaf still made it soft and stretched, but the vitality in it had long since faded!
Mu Yan put the leaf in front of his eyes and looked at it for a while, then threw it aside, and plucked another leaf from the tree next to him.
This is Mu Yan's new discovery in the past few days.
Just as he has a soft spot for the dark element of all the elements, in the dark element, his affinity is also divided into three, six, nine, and so on.
Among them, during these few days of experiments, a dark element with death attributes and he showed an extremely high affinity.
The dark element of this attribute can directly eliminate the vitality in the living creature, or the vitality of the living thing, just like Mu Yan just did, directly neutralizing the vitality of a leaf, which is extremely domineering.
But there are also quite a few flaws, one is that if there are too few dark elements of this attribute, the loss of life force is almost negligible, on the contrary, the more this element is gathered, the tighter it is, the vitality that can be consumed will increase exponentially.
The second is that there are too few elements of this nature, even with Mu Yan's affinity, it is rare to find elements of this nature in the vast sea of dark elements.
This may be due to his lack of mental strength, but the rarity of this nature element is an indisputable fact.
The same element also has different properties, this may be Mu Yan's biggest harvest in the past few days, in just five days, just with the current simple experimental environment, Mu Yan has already tested five or six properties of the dark elemental element.
Although these discoveries have not greatly improved his current strength, they have laid a solid foundation for his future development!
In the past few days, except for setting fire to the city wall and stealing teachers, Mu Yan has returned to the beginning of life at other times, practicing with Dicker for two hours every day, studying medicine with Parr in the afternoon, and studying spiritual power in the rest of his spare time.
To be honest, the hunting team is now in a rather awkward position in the steel shield camp, the boar people don't arrange anything for them, and they don't communicate much, everyone hides from each other, and they don't communicate very comfortably.
The hunters have always been in a state of free men in the camp, and if they are willing to help, the boar people will be happy, they will do nothing, no one will care, as long as they do not cause trouble themselves, the boar people will not come to their own business.
At a time when the situation is becoming more and more critical, this isolated contradiction is becoming more and more prominent.
Now no one wants to advance this matter first, there are hidden cracks on both sides, and the party that advances first must be the party that bows its head first, and the next action must be restricted everywhere.
Although neither side would do such a stupid thing at such a critical juncture, but what about waiting for this time to pass? No one knows what will happen.
Putting down the leaves in his hand and pulling out the dagger inserted in the trunk, Mu Yan shook the knife, played with a knife flower in his hand, and raised the blade of the knife in front of his eyes, and the bright blade began to darken rapidly, as if covered with a layer of ash.
The rich dark elements gathered on it, and even the light dimmed a little!
Nodding with satisfaction, Mu Yan inserted the knife into the scabbard on his leg, got up and walked towards the city wall.
Calculating the time, it's almost noon, Havemer usually activates a magic circle at this time, and the observation of Havemer in the past few days has made him take many detours in his mental power, so it has become his habit to come here at noon every day to be a volunteer arson for a period of time.
Walking up the city wall, the chaotic and noisy roars filled his ears, and Mu Yan looked around.
Outside the city is still the same, but there seem to be many more boar people on the city wall today than usual.
Turning to the high platform, the Grand Commander and Haveemer were there, and their faces were very solemn, they had been arguing about something, no wonder they hadn't seen the Grand Commander today, it turned out that they were here early in the morning.
Something big is about to happen! This was Mu Yan's first reaction.
Usually only Haveem was on the city walls, and the Grand Commander usually built fortifications under the city with other boar warriors.
Now that the fortifications have not been completed, the Grand Commander has appeared here, and it seems that the recent bad news has put a lot of pressure on the Grand Commander and Havemer, and they are ready to do something!
Mu Yan patted the wild boar man warrior in front of him who was struggling to scream and curse down: "Rest for a while, I'll come." ”
The boar man warrior turned around, saw the person clearly, and happily stuffed the longbow into Mu Yan's hand, and walked to the side to rest.
In the past few days, they have also become familiar with this human guy who comes to volunteer at noon every day, and in their impression, Mu Yan is both edible and enthusiastic, and he is simply a moral model (being able to eat is also a good character!). All boar people are willing to make friends with such humans.
Pulling out an arrow, Mu Yan glanced around a little boredly, and shot an arrow in the direction of the smaller fire.
In the past few days, he has basically become numb to such a scene, standing on it without the slightest worry, the city wall is an absolutely safe area, and the only danger may be that he will break his leg if he falls relatively high.
Mu Yan has been paying part of his attention in the direction of the high platform, always paying attention to Haveymer's movements.
The argument between the two boar men on the high platform had come to an end, but the Grand Commander did not choose to leave, but stood there with Havemer, as if waiting for something.
In a few moments, the corpses under the city were about three-quarters piled up, and Havemer walked to the rightmost pillar and expertly lit it.
Mu Yan sensed it carefully, and his eyes showed a look of admiration.
Every time he perceives Havemer's mental manipulation, there is a feeling of visiting a beautiful work of art, and the mental power is full of artistic beauty under his control.
In fact, Mu Yan also knew that his "voyeurism" could not be hidden from Havimer, but since the other party did not choose to break it, he pretended not to know and continued to "peep".
The wolves and the flames were once again squeezed into a huge fireball, and a thick pillar of fire burst out in the direction of the wolves, and the mouth of the gourd once again became a vacuum.
Mu Yan pulled out a few arrows and put them on the side, this short gap would soon be overwhelmed by the wolf tide, and this time would be the busiest time for them incinerator workers.
But Mu Yan was just about to put the arrow into the torch next to him when he was stopped.
The Grand Commander on the high platform issued an order for all the staff to temporarily stop archery.
Mu Yan turned his gaze to the high platform.
After releasing the circle, Havemer did not stop, and walked directly to the stone pillar on the far left, and he turned his head to look at the Grand Commander.
The Grand Commander nodded with a calm face.
Could it be...... Mu Yan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but hold his breath.
Havemer took a deep breath, looked at the approaching wolves, and inserted his wand into the stone pillar.
Unlike the usual incantations, the earthy yellow hedron gradually darkened, and the dark green light lit up the intricate graphics on the stone pillars.
Boom Boom!
A loud bang came from the ground.
Mu Yan looked down at the outside of the city, and the earthy yellow lines began to extend on the blackened ground! The numerous runes lit up one by one! A huge circle floats from the ground!!
A completely different feeling, in his perception, countless earthy yellow elements on one side surged towards the ground, and countless water-blue elements on the other side merged into it, and the two elements blended with each other under the control of the magic circle, boiling, almost changing the appearance of the entire earth.
In fact, it did change, in Mu Yan's stunned gaze, the ground began to soften, shattered, clear water spread up from the ground, mixed with the earthy yellow soil, sticky bubbles kept popping up, and the hard earth under the city wall was instantly transformed into a swamp!!
"That's power!" Mu Yan slowly exhaled a breath, and a heart that longed for a wizard became hot again.
At the same time, countless wolves had rushed in through the mouth of the gourd, and then stepped on the swamp, slowly sinking in countless frightened and desperate wails.
The wolves are still pouring in, and this swamp, the size of five or six football fields, seems to have no bottom, no matter how many wolves pour in, it can be swallowed in one bite.
Now, the wolf clan doesn't even have the ability to climb the city with their lives, and in this swamp, they can't even leave corpses behind!
The Grand Commander and the frail Havemer looked at each other and smiled—now they could finally rest assured for a while!