Chapter 13: The Fishman's Elegy - II - War
Following what seemed to be the secret passage of the castle, the two of them followed the butler several times, and then began to walk up a stone staircase with an inclination of nearly seventy for a few minutes, and after the other party opened a stone door at the end, the light directly replaced the dim candlelight in the dark passage, accompanied by the chaotic sound of fighting.
Because he had already walked the dark road for a short time, he had just been exposed to the sun's rays, and the mid-level mage couldn't help but squint his eyes, and then, a chaotic battlefield appeared in front of him.
As the ancestral home of a family that has been inherited for nearly a thousand years, Kurdaron has been standing on the island of Daron for hundreds of years, this castle was originally built according to the standard Grand Duke's level, the entire city wall is made of a single piece of giant granite, the Andohal region does not produce stone, most of these rectangular granite are mined from the Otlante Mountains and then transported by water, such a huge project, according to the ordinary world, basically requires the power of the whole country, but the existence of magic, makes this impossible possible, and makes this castle more difficult to break。
However, even if it is a granite wall, there are cracks in many Ru walls at the top, and Kelreth looks at it, and there are constantly emerging fishmen rushing into the city wall, and the next second they are either bitten to death by the mercenaries before biting and biting a few backs, or they are directly kicked out of the Ru wall, let out a roar and fall off the city wall.
Stepping out of the shadows, the mid-tier did not immediately join the battlefield, but instead raised his staff and threw an arcane light at each of the seven or eight warriors, blessing them with an arcane armor. This is the simplest protective spell, although there are three rings or even four rings of higher defense spells, but there are too many people who need blessing at present, arcane armor for mid-level mages, not only can instantly release spells The mana consumed is also very small, and the first time he blessed are those soldiers who are running at the forefront of the front, all of them are mid-level warriors, they are often caught by some fish-men who are often surrounded by fish-men, although the defense ability of the arcane armor is not high, but it is better in all-round protection, and there is no problem in resisting one or two third-order fish-man attacks。
Some of the warriors glanced at Kyris with a slight surprise after a moment of surprise for the sudden arcane armor that appeared on their bodies, while some of the warriors who had already killed the red eye did not notice the magic armor on their bodies at all. And just after Kyris blessed seven or eight arcane armor at a good price, three young men in magic robes suddenly ran out of the corner on the other side, and after dodging a wave of fish-man attacks in a panic, they flashed in front of Kyrryth, and just wanted to get closer, Kiel had already blocked in front of the middle-level mage with a horizontal sword.
The middle-level mage glanced at the three first-ring mages, and did not say anything, but lightly touched the staff to the ground, and a cold frost air began to spread on the city wall, and after a while, the three low-level mages wearing slightly thin robes spewed out mist, and the mercenaries who were fighting also found that the temperature around them dropped sharply by more than ten degrees in ten seconds, which was originally a slight cold in autumn, and suddenly it seemed to have entered a cold winter, although this temperature was uncomfortable for human mercenaries, but it was not dangerous, and the blood in the battle was originally the nemesis of this coldAt the same time, the soldiers were pleasantly surprised to find that the movements of the fishmen who were still alive and jumping up and down just now began to slow down, and even some were directly frozen on the ground, twitching half-dead, and in a cheer, the mercenaries began to harvest these weakened fishmen, and the middle-level warriors who had been busy saving the scene finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to clear the fishmen who climbed up with ease.
There are no useless spells in this world, only incompetent mages, and the middle-level mages quietly watched the mercenaries harvest the fishmen who had lost their combat power, and suddenly thought of this ancient proverb in their hearts. The frost effect created by the frost impact of his several second-ring spells is really deadly to the cold-blooded animal of the fish-man, who originally needed at least a few fire rain spells to scorch the fireball and then add a single-click kill strategy, with the assistance of these mercenaries, the mana he spent was even recovered after the fish-man on the city wall was completely wiped out.
After the entire city wall was cleared, the mid-level mage took a step and walked not far from the Ru wall, where the Shadow One held two daggers and quietly guarded the mage.
Glancing at the three low-level mages who were also following closely, Kyris crossed the rue wall and looked outside, the layers of fishmen almost filled the square in front of the castle, and there was no more open space in sight. The reason why he knew that this was a square was because there was a fountain pool in the center, and in the center of the pool was a three-meter-high sculpture of a human male, which was the traditional design of a noble castle, and there would always be a pool in front of the castle to build a sculpture or something, and sometimes the carving might be a famous ancestor. But now it's not just the pool that has been filled with fish-people, it's also the sculptures of many fish-people jumping on them.
With a slight tap of his left hand, a fireball with a diameter of thirty centimeters appeared in front of his fingertips, and the middle-level mage threw it towards the center of the square at random, and the large fireball threw out a long line of fire, smashed into the crowd of fish, and immediately exploded, directly smashing out a deep pit with a diameter of nearly two meters, and clearing twice as much of the open space in a row, the fish-people in the range either did not evaporate directly and cleanly, or left dry and charred corpses, but the open space lasted for a few seconds, and it was immediately filled with layers of fishmen.
Fortunately, there are only a few fish-men who can climb the city wall on foot, and Kelrith's mental power senses that only a few of them are climbing up towards the city head at the same time, and the other fish-men are just after filling the moat, they begin to stack Arhats and slowly increase their height, plus the corpses of the fishmen who keep falling from the city wall, it is almost three or four meters high, close to half the height of the city wall.
The staff flickered in front of him, and fifteen basin-sized water balls formed in front of the mid-level mage, and then the mage controller flew out of the city directly, bent and smashed on the city wall, and then in the whispered chant of Kelseth, a long strip of ice rain formed outside the city wall, and countless thumb-sized ice crystal thorns mixed with the cold rain from top to bottom, washing the city wall.
A few middle-level warriors who were still fighting on the Ru Wall looked at the ice water curtain not far away, and then looked at the mage in the spell casting in surprise, who could be so accurately controlled, under the ice rain, it happened to include the edge of the city wall, not a single warrior touched, just half a minute of spell guidance, nearly one-fifth of the city wall surface was covered with a thick layer of ice, and there were no more fish-people coming out in this section, according to this, Kelrith repeated the cycle four times in the remaining city wall, and finally transformed the entire city wall into an ice wall, and the figure of the fish-man was no longer seen on the city wall。
"Master Mage, thank you for your spells, the Barov family will not forget your help. ”
Shaking off the flesh on the gray blade, a bald-headed armored warrior strolled up to the mage, respectfully gave a noble salute, and said softly, his voice was elegant, but it didn't match his image at all.
"I also accepted the commission. ”
Kelreth looked at the surviving mercenaries, some of them sat on the ground as if they had escaped death, and were immediately scolded by the middle-level soldiers who had been fighting on the front line just now, and began to clean up the mess of the ground, piling the corpses of the fishmen aside and starting to clean up the corpses of his comrades.
Hearing a slight whisper of crying behind him, the middle-level mage turned around and skimmed to the three low-level mages behind him, and then saw the remaining girl mage who was comforted softly by the two young mages, all three of them were wearing the same robes, and glanced at the logo on their robes, and Kyris was stunned.
"You're only this year, no... I guess I'm a mage who just graduated from Namitheus recently!"
"Yes, mage, we... I just finished my course last month..."One of the two young mages looked at the mid-level mage in surprise and said after hesitating.
"Well, I'm Tirith, from Dalaran. Nodding, the mid-rank mage turned to look at the warrior who was still standing in front of him.
"This number of fish-people can only be gathered by more than two large fisherman tribes, and almost all the fish-people of Lake Dalongmere are here. ”
"Yes, Master Mage, this fisherman's plague has occurred four times in the centuries since our Barov family occupied Kurdaron, and this is the fifth. ”
At the moment when the middle-level mage was talking to several low-level mages, the middle-level warrior had already taken the towel of the guard behind him and wiped his red face, and the guard behind him wanted to wipe his armor for him, but was stopped by the middle-level warrior, and the battle was far from over.
Touching his chin, Kyris had heard of one of the scourges of the Northern Continent for a long time, the Fishman Mania. Even in his childhood, Yu Lordaeron City experienced a fish-man frenzy of the same scale, but that time the fish-man did not even touch the walls of Lordaeron City, and was exterminated on the shore of Lordane Mill Lake, so he actually did not see the specific situation, but for the burning of the cascading fish-man corpses after the war, the smoke produced for several days is still fresh in his memory, but he did not expect that there would be this level of fish-man disaster in the next door Daron Mill Lake, and the Barov family has experienced it four times.
"The battle is far from over, although the ice spell is very lethal to the fishmen, once it gets dark, the fishmen with dark vision have an advantage over us. ”
The mid-level mage strolled over to the Ru Wall and peered out. Although the original layers of fish-man mountains have become lumps of freezer fish-man mountains, and there are no fish-people climbing on the city wall, the endless stream of fish-man crowds are still frantically stacking towards the fish-man iceberg, increasing the height of this iceberg.
Although for this kind of iceberg, a large fireball of four-ring spell burning energy can knock out several layers, but just now, Kelreth has already released the four-ring ice rain spell, and he can no longer cast the fire elemental spell that completely contradicts the elemental nature.
After the spells of the Azeroth mage reach the four rings, that is, the intermediate level, the elemental barrier phenomenon will appear. A mid-level mage, after casting the ice spell, can no longer cast fire spells for a period of time, because the casting of mid-level spells will mobilize most of the arcane energy in the mage's body to favor the attributes of the element to which the spell belongs, as mentioned at the beginning, the reason why the arcane energy will become the mage's choice is because of the plasticity of the arcane energy, it is one of the few energy that can be converted to a variety of energy, but in this way, it is difficult to convert the temporarily attributed arcane energy into other energy, especially the energy with conflicting attributes, but this principle has little impact on low-level spells, especially the first and second ring spells because of the power consumed。
"Just carry it through the night, and they'll be gone, Master Tiris, please. ”
Also frowning and looking at the ever-increasing pile of fishmen, the mid-level warrior bowed down and said, then looked at the mid-level mage and looked at him suspiciously, and the warrior of Barov immediately continued.
"Even today, they have been attacking for four whole days, and according to the law of previous years, at most four days, the fish-man frenzy will recede. ”
Nodding thoughtfully, the mid-rank mage glanced beyond the Ru Wall again.
"I'll do my best. ”
"My lord! He's lying. After the mid-level warrior retreated, a glutinous female voice came from the mage's ear.