The Night King has no meat, but at this moment he is truly experiencing the feeling of "flesh pain".

The armored corpse giant lost contact with him within seconds of entering the human fortress, and for such a short period of time, he didn't even have time to look closely at the inner workings of the fortress through his eyes. Through the last moment of mutilated information from the magic link, he could feel a surging fire attribute mana that was thousands of times better than frozen fire burrowing into the giant's chest, instantly dispelling all the cold magic he had poured into his body to control it.

The Night King could probably guess that it was some kind of magic weapon, but he couldn't figure out how such a remote fortress at the westernmost end of the Great Wall could have such a divine object to restrain himself.

Corpse giants and corpse elephants, there are more than a dozen in the army, but this kind of big guy, suddenly sent out to surprise and now that he knows that the other party has a restraint weapon, he is constantly sent to the battlefield as consumables, even the Night King will be reluctant.

Of course, this "reluctance" is only for the rarity and rarity of mammoths and giants themselves, and has nothing to do with personal feelings. As the number one servant of the Cold God, the Night King's feelings about battle damage are very different from those of humans: in his eyes, there is no such thing as "the lives of his brothers", and all ghouls, including the priests and himself, are just consumables prepared for the greater purpose.

As long as he can destroy the function of the Great Wall to shield the power of the cold god, and let a large amount of cold magic power pour into the fortress, the south has a large number of living people waiting to be destroyed and transformed into puppets, he is the most worrying general in the world, and the commander who is least worried about casualties.

However, not worrying about the source of troops is after destroying the magic of the Great Wall, at least for now, he can't let the ghouls be consumed meaninglessly.

As a defended object, no one knows better than the Night King the power and invulnerability of the Great Wall of Desperation.

The physical majesty and solidity of the ice wall itself need not be mentioned, but one should be amazed by the fact that there are at least three kinds of magic woven within the base beneath it:

The first is "Isolation Magic" that spreads evenly throughout its length and has a roughly constant intensity. The invisible barrier it formed isolated the power of the cold god, blocking it from the outside of the fortress, making it impossible for human natural enemies to break into the world south of the wall with light squads and kill and destroy at will. The Priest of the Chill God could not awaken the dead in the Fortress to become ghouls through the Great Wall, and the ghouls who were brought to the south of the wall could not feedback the information to the Priests of the Chill God outside the Fortress through the Great Wall, and the ghouls captured by the Night Watch in the past were not perceived and controlled by the Strangers, precisely because of this magical barrier.

The second is a spell that keeps the main body strong and stable. The part above the ground of the Great Wall of Desperation is a wall of ice, not because "Bran the Builder thinks it is very good", but because ice is the only substance in nature that satisfies the three conditions of "large quantity and easy to obtain", "immunity to cold magic", and "light weight and sturdy".

Although there are many advantages, it has a fatal drawback: it melts in the summer.

The thermal insulation magic woven into it is to solve this problem: when it is hot, people will indeed see the water on the surface of the ice wall melt or even fall off and collapse a little, but these losses are all frost, rain and snow condensed on its surface, a layer of skin danders, not the real desperate Great Wall can maintain its own temperature below freezing, and even has the function of slowly recovering itself when it suffers from not serious external damage, coupled with a little "outside help" from the night watchman craftsmen , it can survive countless winters and summers and still maintain its height and shape, and firmly protect the human kingdom.

The third, and most tricky for the priests of the Cold God, is the "suppressive force field" that radiates outwards from the energy core of the Great Wall's magic.

Through actual observations of the behavior and movements of ghouls and unanimous spirits, the Night's Watch Rangers, who regularly went out of the wall, and used naïve logic and dialectics to come to the unanimous conclusion that the closer the enemy got to the Wall, the weaker he became.

This judgment is basically correct, but the details need to be revised and supplemented.

It is more accurate to say that the closer Cold Magic gets to the giant Glowing Heart Tree beneath the Long Night Castle, the more it is suppressed.

Moreover, this suppression and weakening has a very different effect on ghouls and strangers.

The ghouls can "come back from the dead" by a small amount of cold magic injected by the cold priests, but their strength comes entirely from their physical bodies. When it is close to the "Magic Suppression Source" of the Long Night Castle, its connection to the Alien will be weakened, and the effect will be reflected in the fact that it does not receive orders in time, the controllable distance is severely shortened, and even the disconnection is out of control. However, whether it is in the Land of Eternal Winter, next to the Great Wall, or even in front of the giant tree beneath the Castle of the Night, ghouls are ghouls, and they only have the states of "dead" and "alive", "controlled" and "uncontrolled", and do not become stronger or weaker with changing places.

But the Alien Ghost is different: because the body 99 is all composed of magical power, while they have almost complete physical damage immunity and master all kinds of unbelievable magic methods, they have to be affected by the significant effect of this cold magic suppression force field, just close to the Great Wall, their magic power will be seriously weakened, after crossing the Grand Canyon, the cold god priests are not only suppressed to the original 1 magic recovery speed, but even the magic power is suppressed to half of the normal situation

And that's just at the westernmost point of the Great Wall of Shadow Tower. As the army marched towards the middle of the Great Wall, the effect of this suppression would become more pronounced and intense, and outside of the Long Night Castle, the magic skills of the Priests of the Cold God might only be able to exert one or two percent.

The most disgusting thing is that this magic force field only works on cold attribute magic, and it is beneficial and harmless to any other attribute magic!

Massive forms, intricate magic, and one of Westeros' largest standing legions all work together to form the shield of humanity. If the Night's Watch assembles a large army in the Long Night Castle to fight the army of the dead, it is really difficult to say who will win or lose.

This is the reason why the Night King's goal is obviously the Long Night Fortress, but he does not bypass the fortresses along the way to attack it directly, but decides to fight it from the beginning in turn, his idea is to open the situation at both ends of the Great Wall far away from the Long Night Fortress, and use the method of breaking down one by one to continuously kill and injure the human defenders, and by the way, seize the stairs connecting the top of the wall in the Night Watch Fortress, After completing the tactical goal of occupying the top of the Great Wall, replenish their own forces, and then send the ghouls along the top of the Great Wall to the Long Night Fort, and cooperate with the army on the ground to carry out an all-round three-dimensional attack on the final target from two heights of 700 feet, so that the Long Night Castle is isolated, and there is no way to enter the ground from the sky, so as to ensure that the strategic goal of capturing the Long Night Fort and destroying the source of the Great Wall's magic is still achieved even when the cold magic is suppressed.

In the long run, ghouls are the least renewable resource to save, but with the magic of the Wall still out of effect, the Night King still relies on these puppets to fight the living defenders.

Weapons that can kill the corpse giants in an instant can also kill the Priests of the Cold God in an instant, they must have enough ghoul cover to ensure that the human hero cannot be recognized, find and rush over to decapitate or snipe themselves, they must have enough ghouls to fight up the stairs after breaking through the Shadow Tower, occupy the top of the ice wall, cut off the passage between human fortresses to support each other, and rush all the way to the Long Night Castle, they must also have enough ghoul army to "cold magic is almost ineffective" after arriving at the Long Night Castle storm the largest fortress ever built by the Night's Watch, and finally complete the goal of destroying the magic of the Great Wall.

But right now, the human defenders are far more prepared than they thought.

It took less than an hour to capture the Grand Canyon defenses, with nearly 20,000 ghouls lost, and less than half an hour after the battle began under the Shadow Tower, a small fortress that was intended to be taken quickly, the strange fuel reduced thousands of ghouls to ashes under the walls, which was a loss that could not be made up for by killing everyone in the fortress. The terrible green oil of human beings seems to be endless, and if such a fortress loses thousands, and another fortress loses tens of thousands of lands all the way through, when it reaches the foot of the Long Night Fort, the priests may have to be the commanders of the light pole and personally participate in hand-to-hand combat.

The Night King scrutinized the Shadow Tower for a moment with his sharper than eagle eyes, and finally found the reason why the defenders had so much firepower: on the sturdy wooden staircase built against the wall, dozens of living people were panting up and down, and if you guessed correctly, it was they who had brought the liquid fuel from the other fortresses along the Wall, so that the fortress had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of weapons!

Trying to exhaust the enemy's combat readiness and calmly win, the Night King knew that he could not continue like this.

He turned his head to look at the other cold priests beside him, and gave the order in a sharp and piercing ancient language, and the three subordinates nodded silently and rode forward on corpse horses. In the midst of the magic surge, a layer of armor-like material that could resist the attacks of ordinary freezing fire condensed and formed on the surface of their bodies, and the sea of corpses also churned at the same time, and countless speed-type ghouls transformed from bears, wolves, and other animals squeezed through the humanoid ghouls to follow the Alien Vanguard Squad, and rushed towards the gate of the Shadow Tower, which burned brightly.

It would take a lot of mana to maintain this layer of ice armor, and it would be too much for ordinary priests who were not strong enough to bear it, but in order to keep the ghouls' attrition from rising, the Night King decided to use some ultimate means in advance.

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