Chapter Twenty-Four: The Attack of the Thieves, Brass Telescope
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On paper, only the existence of the legendary rank can compete head-on with an army, and it may not be guaranteed to win, it can only be said that it is relatively easy to get out, and the chance of dying in battle is very small. One?? Reading
But in reality, unless certain conditions are met, it is very difficult for an army with no special training to besiege an official wizard, and even a well-prepared senior wizard apprentice can inflict heavy damage on an army...... This is the difference between the power of the power to itself or to the group.
The current village and town of Branton Norka have five hundred musketeers forming a parade self-defense force outside, and three hundred full-time mercenaries and heavy armored swordsmen inside.
But for a professional seven-man wizard band, the basic combination of a thief and a potions master can easily defeat a 500-member parade self-defense team.
The second-order thief was strengthened by the wizard's spell and hidden, and took the potion to the public water source area of the mine to poison it, although the military management of the parade Self-Defense Force is very strict, and it has always been an eight-hour three-meal rotation system, but drinking water is not the same as eating, no matter how you take turns, you can't avoid it.
As long as there are conditions, few people will go three or four hours without drinking water.
Moreover, the incubation period of this potion is particularly long, and after drinking the water source, it will either be awakened by an external spell and will attack within eight hours, or it will attack after twenty-four hours...... Of course, the agent itself is also very expensive.
Although it is a medicine that poisons ordinary people, the toxicity that would have been enough to kill 500 people after being diluted by public water sources and boiled at high temperatures has basically been reduced to the point where 500 people are weakened and a small number of people die.
The immune resistance that human beings have naturally evolved through a long period of history is itself very strong, and in any ancient history of warfare, or even in the history of modern warfare, there has never been an example of rewriting war through large-scale poisoning, which in itself is very revealing.
Although the results are not satisfactory, it doesn't matter, the purpose of the Seven Wizard Thieves is to temporarily defeat this combat power unit, and then they will run away after entering the Custer Mansion, these ordinary soldiers of the Parade Self-Defense Force are not dead now, and after the legendary wizard returns, I am afraid they will not be easily forgiven.
The potions master in the seven-member wizard group was casting spells from a distance, and after confirming that the potions had worked, the thieves directly launched a general attack on the Custer Mansion.
It can be seen that before the male owner of this place left, his lair had been arranged in multiple ways, and the heavy armored swordsmen of the Shining Plantagenet Mercenary Regiment and some of the elite musketeers who defended the mansion cooperated with each other, and set up dense and complex firepower points throughout the mansion.
From time to time, there are mercenaries of the Glorious Goldfinch Mercenary Regiment who come out of the corner in heavy armor and holding a big sword, worthy of being a veteran first-class mercenary group, who have eaten the salary of the Custer family for two years, and when it comes to the end, they are really under the leadership of the regiment commander and rush up under pressure.
But it's useless, a large group of soul slaves, indigenous mercenaries are mixed with wizard apprentices and even low- and middle-level wizards in the seven-person wizard thief group.
They hit a random fireball technique, and it was no different from a humanoid repeating bazooka.
This is still the lowest-level wizards or apprentices who follow the script, and those spellcasters who have their own independent research and even certain results, and they are even more vigorous than the other.
Some dark wizard apprentices are not of high rank, but their combat effectiveness seems to be higher than that of ordinary formal wizards, although they do not have the advantages of natural defense force field, but they have the courage to do this kind of business, which one of them does not have their own hole cards to rely on?
So it can't be held at all, it's not that the fighters don't sell their lives, but they can't fight even if they fight hard.
If the gap between ordinary people and wizards can be filled through hard work, then why should the cruel and tyrannical wizarding world and even the Tongtian Witch Tower dominate the heavens?
The reality is that no matter how hard you try, you will be crushed to death by your opponent on the ground.
Fortunately, Zhu Peng and the others are wizards themselves, and they also know very well that once they encounter wizards with the power of these mortals, there is no possibility of blocking them head-on.
Therefore, the defense mode laid out by the entire Custer Mansion is a continuous retreat in the form of unarmouring, that is, constantly exchanging strategic depth for tactical superiority.
As the mercenary group and the musket team fought and retreated, the bandit group gradually spread.
With the scarcity of wizards and wizard apprentices, they are of course a relatively small minority of the bandits, and the majority of soul slaves and local thieves and mercenaries, in the eyes of these people, the splendid Castel Mansion is full of wealth. Although there is a little regret that I can't see the panicked, screaming and running maids at all, but grab the money first, as long as you grab enough money, are you still afraid that there will be no women in the future?
As a result, the uncontrolled banditry began to spread, and as soon as they dispersed, they were often quickly eaten by the mercenary groups and musket teams who were familiar with the environment of the mansion.
Forget about the musket team, the old leader of the Glorious Gorse Mercenary Regiment, Sagar, and his current apprentice, Yareko, are both third-order swordsmen, and it is quite cheap to meet wizard apprentices or even first- and second-order wizards head-on in this indoor environment.
Both the rugged and heroic Yalei and the old fox Saga are very hardworking, or they can't do it if they don't work hard. Before Zhu Peng left, he asked Ma Qianrong to strengthen the witchcraft of the two, and when the strength of the two was greatly improved, Ma Qianrong and the two also signed a soul slave contract.
When Ma Qianrong left, the order given was to defend the Castel Mansion, so Yare and Saga could only defend the mansion until they died in battle or the master canceled the order.
In fact, according to the basic principles of the three iron laws of soul enslavement witchcraft:
1. Don't perform this technique on life forms that are stronger than yourself and have a higher rank;
2. Do not use this technique on living beings that have the will to resist;
3. Do not perform this technique on the mental and intellectual side of the living body.
Ma Qianrong prefers to make a near-irreversible soul contract with her own creations such as ghouls. However, since it was Zhu Peng's request, the witch did it, and the soul flame was not irretrievable anyway.
When the mercenary group and the elite musket team achieved certain results, the spell defense mechanism of the entire mansion also began to run synchronously, not only the iron-armored ghouls arranged in all corners of the mansion, although these ghouls carefully developed by Ma Qianrong are also very powerful, and after activation, hand-to-hand combat is not inferior to the strong second-order fighters, and the most disgusting thing is that it will explode after dying in battle, which is very difficult to deal with in complex and narrow terrain, and even a formal wizard was hugged by several iron-armored ghouls, and then was blasted to death inside, and his body was instantly poisoned and corroded by more than half。
The cemetery and the huge redbud tree in the courtyard were awakened by the necromancy that had been arranged before, and one after another zombies who had been injected with corpse-enhancing potions in their spines crawled out, and rushed into the mansion of Custer Mansion under the effect of the "group corpse activation", and fought the thieves with the mercenary group and the musket team.
The huge redbud tree turned into a tree troll, and it walked to the window of the mansion, and suddenly reached into it with a hand, grabbed a very brave and fierce bandit warrior, and directly held it in his hand.
"Boss, the situation is a little wrong, they are too calm while fighting and retreating, and so far, our people have inevitably died too much. The second-in-command of the Seven Thieves Wizard Band, the bald wizard Derk leaned over to Jon, who had long hair in a silver gray half ponytail, and whispered.
They are a professional group of thieves and wizards, and they have done more than a dozen or twenty times to rob houses like this, and the information constantly fed back from all sides during the advancement process makes the second-in-command intuitively feel weird...... The lion tiger pounces on the elk, and the elk dodges and does not run away, but keeps jumping in front of it to tease the lion and tiger, which of course makes people feel weird.
Jon, the leader of the bandits, directly took out his brass binoculars, looked up and down the ground, and then said to the deputy beside him with great certainty: "Don't worry, the strongest in this neighborhood is a strong second-order sub-official in the basement." ”
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