Chapter 118: Ice and Fire (I)
The south of the Ganges, the main battlefield.
The night in the depths of winter should have been a silent and desolate scene, but the main battlefield, five miles north of the Titan camp, was filled with piercing shouts.
Soldiers on both sides fought in close quarters among the impermeable trees, swords slashing at shields and making a mournful sound of iron clashing.
The defenders of the Titans, numbering only five thousand, were evenly dispersed across the triangular defensive line, with fifteen hundred warriors on each flank on the left and right, who had joined the battlefield an hour earlier.
On the other hand, the Essit Legion had 15,000 elite soldiers! At the order of the commander, 8,000 soldiers swarmed up and divided the remaining 7,000 soldiers into three teams—2,500 men each.
When reinforcements from both flanks of the Titans arrived, they collided head-on with Essit's two reserve teams, and fierce battles broke out on both sides of the main battlefield!
The commander of the Essit Legion was the captain who had saved Victor's life before, and was clearly a resolute and calm veteran.
The commander kept a close eye on everything that was going on on the battlefield, and as the minutes ticked by, his face became more and more ugly.
The Essit soldiers fell almost in pieces, and the war developed far beyond his expectations!
He could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and ordered the team to stand by, while he led two hundred archers to sneak into the battlefield from the flank, intending to find out that the Titan Legion, which was at an absolute disadvantage in strength, actually held on for a whole hour!
The squad of archers, under the cover of the trees, silently bypassed the eastern side of the battlefield.
The commander was a well-known marksman in the Essit army, and he squinted slightly at the moment, looking at the rear of the Titan Legion.
With his keen eyesight, even at night, through the faint light of a distant fire, he could see things hundreds of meters away.
"Huh?" When the commander saw the situation behind the Titan, he said in surprise, "What's the matter, there are only a few small defense towers here." ”
There are three towers in total, built of ready-made timber, and from the structural point of view, they seem to be randomly arranged. Because the top of the tower is a small platform that can only accommodate two or three people to stand on, it is not effective for defense at all.
The Commander saw a faint glow on each tower, and without exception, only a single figure was standing.
He was immediately puzzled - since the rear of the Titan did not have troops deployed, with an overwhelming advantage of nearly four times the enemy's strength, it was impossible to delay it for so long.
"There must be something wrong with these three towers!" the commander gritted his teeth, Lord Victor told him to break through the camp of the Titan Army at all costs, and at this moment a full hour had passed since the start of the war, but the battle situation was stalemate, and the enemy army could not defend the line.
"Rhea, these guys are even tougher than you think!" a slender mage stood on the platform at the top of the tower, his red magic cloak like a flaming flame.
At this moment, he was using his magic to transmit his voice to the other two towers on the left and right. The magician's childish voice proved that he was still very young.
"It's a good thing that there are no magicians in the Essit army, otherwise we wouldn't have survived until now. A man in a golden robe answered, and the voice came from the tower on the left.
"I don't know how long it will take Lord Shiloh to get here. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have much magic left. "On the tower on the right side of the tower also stood a magician, but it was a graceful woman, the sky blue mage robe lined with white skin like snow, which further accentuated her beautiful appearance.
The Commander was too far away from the tower to hear the conversation between the three mages, but he was watching everything in the dark.
The commander saw that the tower was only two hundred meters away from the main battlefield at most, but on this small lawn, there were already piles of corpses - most of them were Essit's soldiers!
The commander couldn't believe his eyes - within a radius of 100 meters, except for the three people on the defense tower, there was no other enemy in sight!
"Could it be the powerhouse of the Sanctuary?" he quickly denied his inner thoughts: if there really were powerhouses of the Sanctuary class in the Titan Army, it would be tantamount to breaking the rules of war.
There is an unwritten agreement between the human empires on the Starfall Continent that the powerhouses who step into the Sanctuary cannot fight without the permission of the enemy army—that is, they must have Sanctuary powerhouses on both sides before they can throw this extraordinary power into the battlefield.
The commander believed that the Titan Empire would not pay the charge of betraying morality in order to win the war.
"Who the hell are these guys?!" The scene unfolding in front of the commander's eyes at this moment was too weird, and he didn't dare to act rashly until the specific situation was confirmed.
"When the mana is about to run out, it's never too late to retreat. Don't be distracted, another wave of soldiers has broken through the defensive line!" The red-robed mage hurriedly reminded the two of them, and once again condensed the magic power in his hand.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the air behind the red-robed mage began to fluctuate, and dense orange points of light faintly appeared. After a few seconds, the point of light gradually expanded, eventually forming a fist-sized fireball!
An overwhelming fireball instantly lit up the entire area in front of the tower, and the Essit soldiers smashed head-on into the ground.
The charging soldiers were shocked at this scene, but they had no choice, and it was clear that it was too late to retreat.
"Damn, give me a breath to rush over!" the soldier at the head erupted into a frantic roar.
"Boom~!" fireballs slammed into the ground like scorching hailstones, and many soldiers turned into charcoal under the flames before they could wail.
The dark smoke filled the entire battlefield, and the commander could only judge the casualties of the Essit soldiers by the flickering light of the fire.
"It's not over yet!Rhea!" the blue-robed woman exclaimed excitedly, the magic power in her hand began to condense into ice, and then expanded exponentially at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The commander instructed his archers to stand by while he slowly approached the right side of the tower, stopping at the edge of the forest.
"Wow~!" Through the bright moonlight, he clearly saw the ice crystals in the hands of the green-robed woman pouring down like a waterfall, and the soldiers on the ground were instantly frozen as soon as they came into contact with the transparent ice crystals!
The Commander was shocked by what he saw—it turned out that it was three high-ranking mages who were standing in the way of the Essit soldiers.
The lethality of large-scale magic to ordinary armies is self-evident, so it seems that on this meadow with a radius of 100 meters, there must be a magic array drawn by three magicians in advance.
And the three defense towers echo each other from afar, making it difficult for the enemy who enters the magic circle to escape.
"Wait for me!" the commander said, looking up in the direction of the tower, before disappearing into the darkness behind him.