Chapter 12: Corpse Explosion
Ten bone mages, emaciated as skeletons, followed the High Priest to the hill where the two sides were fighting. The High Priest looked condescendingly, looking at the defeated barbarians and bone warriors, and a cruel glint flashed in his eyes.
"Use the corpse explosion technique first, and bombard this group of northerners for me!"
The Bone Mages began to chant intricate incantations, only to see a dazzling white light gather at the tip of each Bone Mage's staff.
"Detonate!" shouted with the High Priest.
The bone mages each pointed their staffs at the place where the corpses had accumulated on the battlefield.
"Bang bang bang!"
The army of the Snowy Country, which was launching a counteroffensive, suddenly encountered a series of explosions. Huge explosions erupted on both sides of the crowd, and many Snowpiercer soldiers were blasted into the sky, stumps and severed arms falling from the sky like hailstones.
"Young Master Alan, get down quickly. Miraya threw Aran down from behind, using her body to protect Aran from the blast.
"What's going on!" Aran was almost lifted into the sky by the air wave just now, and his ears were still ringing.
"It must be the enemy's magical troops who have joined the battle. "Miraya is a natural demon archer with a keen sense of magical fluctuations. At the moment of the explosion, she felt several strong waves of magic surging in the air, but these magic powers were very strange and did not belong to any of the six natural elements.
"Magic troops!" Aran was shocked, the mage had a clear advantage in group battles, not only did he have a long range, but most of the magic he released was a range attack. Once a mage joins the war, it is definitely a weapon of mass destruction.
I heard that in the southern Iron Lion Country, there is a special force composed entirely of magicians. Although the Snowy Nation has the toughest warriors on the Radiant Continent, it has always been a weakness when it comes to magical troops. Among the 30,000 troops on this expedition, there was not even a single low-level magician.
Suddenly, the army of the Snowy Country, which encountered a fierce counterattack, was blown up, and many people stopped their charge and retreated, but the sound of explosions still sounded around them. How this strange explosion happened is still unclear to the people of Snowpiercer.
Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the army of the Snow Country in the valley, the high priest couldn't help but have a smug smile on his face.
Wren, no matter how powerful your enchanted weapon is, you can only attack in close quarters after all. I'm standing on the top of the mountain and bombarding you indiscriminately, and what can you do about me?
The High Priest's use of the secret method of evil bones has reached the point of pure gold. Encountering the Northern Legion armed with an enchanted weapon, the High Priest was the first to think of using corpse blasting to deal with it.
Although this corpse explosion technique and the white bone giant spear both belong to the ninth-level evil bone secret method, there is a clear difference between the two. Corpse Explosion is a high-level spell that uses corpse bones as a detonation medium. It is weaker than the Bone Spear, and it also requires a corpse as a conductor to detonate.
However, the biggest advantage of the corpse explosion technique is that the mana consumption is small, and it will not produce too many side effects like the bone giant spear. A Bone Mage who has reached level 9 can perform ten consecutive corpse explosions.
And now the last thing that is missing on the battlefield is corpses, whether it is the corpses of the enemy or the corpses of your own troops, they may become the medium of detonation of corpse explosion. And the more corpses are piled up, the more energy is released by the explosion.
When ten Bone Mages use the Corpse Explosion Technique at the same time, it is more powerful than a single Strongbow Regiment. It can be said that the corpse explosion technique is completely an evil bone secret technique developed for war.
"Damn, Miraya, do you know what kind of magic the enemy is using?" Aran couldn't hold his head up as he was weighed down by the chain of explosions. If this continues, I am afraid that the advantages that have been built up with great difficulty will be lost in vain.
"I don't know, Young Master Alan. This evil bone secret method is too weird. I've never seen magic that activates an explosion without summoning the elements of nature. "Miraya has a unique understanding of magic. In her opinion, the trick of magic is to use the elemental power of nature to attack opponents. Being able to produce an explosion out of thin air, according to common sense, should be a high-level fire magic, but Miraya can't feel the presence of the fire element in the air at all. After each explosion, there was no burning flame on the soldiers' bodies.
The appearance of the Evil Bone Secret Method can be said to have completely subverted Alan's common sense of magic cognition.
"Can't we really find a solution? ”
Araham looked around reluctantly, and he stumbled upon the fact that explosions occurred mostly on the sides of the group, but rarely in the middle of the group. It's weird, if I were a bone mage, I would definitely let the explosion happen in a crowded place, so that would do the most damage. Unless the factors that activate the explosion are not only dependent on the evil bone spell, but also on other objective conditions.
Thinking of this, Aran immediately noticed the starting point of each explosion. He suddenly discovered that the source of each explosion came from dead bodies on the ground.
The corpses lying on the side of the road are like time bombs that detonate as soon as someone approaches. Where the more corpses are piled up, the stronger the explosion will be. However, since there are no corpses in the crowded places, the explosion will naturally not occur.
After figuring out the secret of the corpse explosion technique, Aran stood up and shouted to the soldiers of the Snowy Country, regardless of the danger:
"Stay away from the bodies, these explosions are caused by dead bodies on the ground. ”
Although Aram's shouts were muffled by explosions from time to time, some of the warriors heard Aram's warning, and finally his voice reached the ears of Wren, the king of the north.
"Alan, are you telling the truth!" Wren also paid attention to the dead body on the ground at this moment, and the energy of the explosion did come from the inside of the corpse. It is already difficult to find a single intact corpse throughout the battlefield.
"Yes, Father. From what I've observed, these explosions are supposed to be an unknown magical attack, but as long as you don't get too close to the corpse, you won't be affected by the explosion. Aram replied as he searched for a clearing without bodies.
Wren saw Arran's calm appearance and believed Arran's statement even more.
"Ahan, give my order, and gather the whole army in the center, taking care not to go near the place where there are corpses. As Wren spoke, he also released a wind magic with an evaluation level of five, Whirlwind.
A strong gust of air roared through the valley. Most of the corpses on the ground were swept up into the sky by the strong wind and fell dozens of meters away from the army of the Snowy Country. Wren uses wind magic to clear a clearing for the army without corpses.
Ahan gathered the warriors in the clearing, and together they laid out the tightest defensive formation, the outermost part of the line guarded by warriors with enchanted shields. Although corpses exploded from time to time in the distance, the force of the explosion could not hurt the people hiding behind the shields at all.
"Miraya, can you find out where those mages are?" Although the enemy has temporarily stopped attacking, as long as the mage army remains, it will always threaten the progress of the army.
Aram sensed that the mages of the Bone Tribe were hiding somewhere in the valley. If this special force can be eliminated, then the Barbarians and the Evil Bone Tribe will never have a chance to turn the tables again.
"I'll give it a try, Master Alan. Miraya looked around the sides of the valley, searching for traces of the Bone Mage. Archers have a pair of keen eyes, and a marksman of Miraya's level has three times the eyesight of ordinary people. Soon, Miraya's eagle-sharp eyes found the bone mage hiding on the top of the mountain.
At this time, the High Priest and the Bone Mage were engrossed in chanting the Evil Bone Spell, unaware that thousands of meters away, an enchanted divine arrow was aimed at them. The range of an ordinary bow and arrow is only 250 meters. The range of the enchanted feathered arrow can be increased to 600 meters. Since bows and arrows are consumables, when enchanted, usually one energy hedron will be attached to ten bows and arrows at the same time.
But in order to increase the range of the enchanted arrow to the limit, Miraya actually attached an entire energy crystal to the same feather arrow this time. The feather arrow, which absorbed all the energy, emitted a blue-white light. The air suddenly surged with a violent and unruly wind elemental energy.
Surrounded by the wind elemental, Miraya's entire body floated, her silver ponytail dancing along with her placket in the wind. It is very difficult to maintain the stability of the body in the wind, and only a genius archer like Miraya can draw the bow into the shape of a full moon in such a harsh environment.
The moment Miraya let go of the bowstring, the gas surrounding the Wind Demon Arrow was instantly compressed into an umbrella-shaped sonic boom cloud, and a deafening airburst sound erupted.
At an ultra-high speed invisible to the naked eye, the Arrow flew towards a target thousands of kilometers away, leaving a long trail of white wakes in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the Wind Demon Divine Arrow flew in front of the eyes of the High Priest and the Bone Mage. One of the bone mages was pierced by a galloping silver arrow before he could summon the bone armor. The powerful power of the Wind Demon not only directly wrenched the white bone mage into pieces, but even carved a large hole in the cliff wall behind him with a diameter of five meters.
"What a joke!"
The High Priest couldn't believe what was happening in front of them, they were still thousands of meters away from the army of the Snowy Nation, who had the ability to shoot arrows so far.
"Hide, Lord Priest, for there are very good archers hidden in the ranks of the enemy. The bone mages who reacted bowed down one by one and hid behind the huge rocks. Although the high priest did not want to admit it in his heart, the facts were laid out in front of him. He had to bow his haughty head and hide with the other bone mages from hiding out of sight of the archers.
In fact, what mages are most afraid of encountering is the magic archer who is also good at long-range. As long as there are demon archers on the battlefield, it is impossible for the White Bone Mages to continue to unleash the Evil Bone Secret Technique as they please.