Chapter 239: Temptation (I)
Chapter 239: Temptation (I)
Rex didn't mean to be arrogant at all. The magical equipment she designed to attack the temple was huge, and although it could move on the road, it consumed more magic cores than large golems. There are no roads here, and the movement of large equipment relies on mechanical transmission, similar to war puppets.
The team of more than 5,000 people, divided into three parts, the forward, the middle army, and the reserve. The forward is exactly a flag regiment, a thousand people. The 1,000 soldiers changed their equipment in advance, removed the matching metal armor pieces from the cart transporting supplies, and installed them separately.
The horses were also re-hung with a layer of leather armor, fed with water, and after a short rest, this flag regiment took the lead in marching towards the valley area in front.
It is said to be a valley, but it is actually very wide, and the narrowest part of the valley is more than a mile. The geology of the depths of this swamp is somewhat peculiar, and although there are many boulders, the texture of these boulders is quite soft. Ordinary weapons can be easily inserted.
In the late autumn season, there are many fewer poisonous insects in the swamp, and the soldiers' faces are still covered with cotton cloths, and they are sprayed with an unknown number of deworming drugs all over their bodies. Bivanor chose this season to attack because there were fewer poisonous insects in this season, otherwise he would not dare to lead his army into this swamp.
A flag regiment, equipped with two tripolar mages. These two tripole mages have a limited role in combat, but they can provide an alert to the army and avoid magic traps. Bivano's own soldiers were killed and injured dozens of people at once because they didn't know magic traps.
The two mages sat in the car, they were different from Qin Yin's mages, they might not exercise for a long time, their bodies were weak, and their faces were pale. One of them had a hint of purple in his eyes, which was a sign of drug poisoning. Mages who have been immersed in refining magic potions for a long time will always accumulate some toxins in their bodies.
A mage with a lineage will use various cultivation methods to avoid harm to the body. For example, Rex's physical fitness surpasses that of ordinary swordsmen, and Salen even has physical strength comparable to that of a junior swordsman. Therefore, a real battle mage can ride a horse, but when casting spells on horses, the difficulty is about the same as casting spells in flight, and the requirements for mages are too high.
These two mages have average combat ability, but they are stable in the carriage, and they will not reduce their combat effectiveness.
Rex's mages were also busy, with two magic chariots in the middle army, and the mages assembled the parts Rex had taken out. It took an hour to complete the splicing.
Then there is the inlay of magic cores, which infuse magic potions. A metal mechanical body eight meters long and four meters wide is assembled. This magic equipment is also more than three meters high, with edges and corners, and sixteen mechanical feet underneath, which can move forward slowly. The front of this magical equipment is a honeycomb-like structure, with hundreds of magic arrays engraved in countless small holes.
Behind this magical equipment is another slightly smaller piece of equipment, but it is a movable magical trebuchet. This small trebuchet projects magic projectiles that will burn up when it hits anything.
Rex assembled two suppressive magic weapons for Bivano. The attack power of these two things may not be high, and in the face of an intermediate mage, it may not be able to hurt a single hair of the mage, but for ordinary soldiers, these two pieces of equipment are a nightmare.
Slightly larger equipment can spew hundreds of flame bees out of those small holes, and the flame bee is an unpopular low-level magic because it doesn't have tracking capabilities, to be exact. It's the caster who can't control it at all. Aside from the low cost, this second-level magic is of little use.
If it weren't for the equipment that Rex assembled with hundreds of magic arrays, the only use of the Flame Bee might have been to set fires.
However, hundreds of flame bees were released at the same time, and a single spray was a large piece, and it didn't need any magic to lock it at all. The Small Magic Trebuchet has a similar effect, except that the Small Magic Trebuchet attacks from the top down, allowing it to pass through protections such as walls.
After Rex's magician assembled the two pieces of equipment, he handed them over to the low-level mages under Bivano. These two pieces of equipment do not have high requirements for the operator, only a little higher than the alchemy crossbow, and only need a first-level mage to fully exert its power.
Salin is well aware of the power of these two pieces of equipment, low-level magic, although it is called low-level, in fact, the attack power is also very amazing. When Saleen first learned the Tier 1 Icicle Technique, a Tier 1 Icicle could sink into a stone wall. The stone walls of his ancestral house are very hard, a few points harder than granite.
Level 2 magic can already penetrate most metal armor. Therefore, low-level magic is still extremely deadly to the army on the battlefield.
"Rex, it's only fifty miles from the core here, and the Red Fen Legion hasn't appeared yet, it's a bit weird. ”
"Salin, you don't understand this. "Rex wasn't just talking about Saleen, he was also teaching the magicians around him. She said to Salin: "The Red Fen Legion looks powerful, but in fact it is grass without roots, and their soldiers, if they die, there will be one less." The valley was too wide to be ambushed, if it were to fight with Biffano's army. Bivano could afford to lose, but the Red Fen Army could not afford to lose. ”
"Isn't it passive to be pressed to the door and then moved?"
"The entrance to the temple must be very narrow, there, as long as a few hundred people are arranged, the attacks of thousands of people can be blocked, and the defense in turn can reduce a large number of unnecessary losses. What's more, they don't believe that we can open the doors of the temple. ”
Rex's guess was not far from ten, and the Red Fen Legion had arranged a lot of ambushes on the road. However, Bivano's army suddenly turned, the Tangulas Empire invaded, and the ambush of the Red Fen Legion was completely useless, but instead ran into the Blood Knights, losing their troops.
The leader of the Red Fen Legion, the sorceress who almost didn't die at the hands of the Holy See, fled all the way back to the swamp, already knowing that Bivano had gathered his army in Fire Dance City and went straight to his lair. In this case, how dare she go head-to-head with Bivano, she can only gather everyone back into the valley and hide in the temple.
The key to the temple was in her hands, and she didn't believe that Bivanor could enter it. Only his own men know the secrets of this temple. I hate that he left this world, leaving behind a bunch of orphans and widows. Luckily, the key was always in her possession, otherwise she wouldn't even have a place to stay.
The wolf-like striker did not encounter any obstacles and came to an open area. The ground here is unusually flat, and it is all of that kind of extremely soft stone.
Within a radius of two miles, there are no obstacles, not only no rocks, hills, not even a single grass.
The scouts were sent out, but they couldn't find any ambushes. Biffano's Chinese army soon arrived, leaving only five hundred heavy cavalry. Stand by from afar.
Bivano's magician took out a compass-style magic equipment, compared it with the map, and quickly found the hidden secret.
Bivano came to Rex's chariot again, and said very humbly: "Your Highness, I have found the entrance, and I would like to ask you to help open it." ”
Rex sighed softly and said to Salin, "Are you coming or am I coming?"
"I'll go. Salin said, taking the Ring of Gift from Sika's hand and disembarking from the magic chariot. Zola followed closely to Salin, and in the carriage, Rex let out a violent bear. The armored Storm Bear followed Saleen's footsteps with his hammer.
Rex didn't get out of the car, she took out a seventh-level scroll and prepared to support Saleen. The attack distance of the seventh-level magic can exceed five hundred meters, and on the magic chariot, Rex can control the scroll in detail.
Under the gaze of thousands, Saleen came to the clearing surrounded by soldiers.
After the four low-level mages saluted Salin, they said, "My lord, this is it. ”
Salin thought for a moment and looked at the soldiers around him, most of them had abandoned their horses, and only the cavalry was still on their horses. Dozens of hard crossbows were aimed at this place from a distance, and if Saleen was still a low-level mage, his heart would definitely be cold. Now, apart from the alchemy crossbow, it is difficult for other bows and crossbows to penetrate his water-streaked shield.
"Let the soldiers step back more than forty-five meters. "Salin's calculating power is terrifying, and with a casual glance at it, he has already estimated how large the area would be if the entrance to the temple appeared.
The junior mage whispered orders to the nearby officers, who immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat.
Saleen stroked the Ring of Gifts on his left hand, and it was this ring that changed his fate. The second time I opened the temple, I don't know if this temple has been destroyed by the Red Fen Legion. The materials in the temple are very precious, even the paving stones are steel rock.
If Salin hadn't obtained the magic tower materials given to him by his teacher, he would probably have thought about returning to the temple of the Swamp of Chaos and taking all the materials he could take with him.
A white glow diffused from Saleen's left hand. Salin recited the inscription on the ring. The ground immediately twisted, and the flat stone cracked inch by inch, like a magic lattice, and the fragments moved regularly. The entrance to a black hole appeared silently.
It's not a teleportation array!
This black hole is more than ten meters high, and when viewed from all sides, it is all in the same form. Hundreds of feather arrows suddenly shot out of the black hole, these feather arrows were aimless, Zola slashed over with a sword, the sword qi was stimulated, and all the feather arrows shot at Salin were shattered by the sword qi.
Salin turned around and said to Bivano, "You can go in." ”
Bivano was suspicious, when he opened the temple, there was a lot of commotion, why was Salin so relaxed this time?
Of course, he didn't know that the key to opening the temple was whether the divine power was sufficient. In the equipment left by the goddess, the divine power is already weak and pitiful, such as the Gift Ring, and there is not much divine power stored. The Red Fen Legion also rarely opens the entrance to the temple, because the key in the hands of the legion can only open the temple once every half a month, and it has to slowly recover its divine power.
Salin's left hand absorbed the leaves of the Tree of Life, and if it was not disguised, the people of the Holy See would probably be able to feel the presence of this divine power thousands of miles away.
The temple has been opened, do you want to give the order to shoot Salin now?Bivano's eyes twitched, and Salin was surrounded by his soldiers, with at least forty steel crossbows facing him.