Chapter 18: The King Who Came Down
If the opportunity to surprise has been lost, Richard Haas will have to re-examine the possible loss of attacking the Magic Tower.
Is there a way for the Magic Tower to wipe out an entire legion?
Of course.
But Richard Haas was not without experience of the Battle of Tower.
If there will be disputes between nobles over territorial issues, then it will be like a fantasy that nobles and magicians will coexist peacefully without disputes. In most cases, such a personal feud does not cause the mages to be angry, and there is no reason for the Mages Guild to intervene. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the nobles' private army to attack the tower.
Conversely, if the tower owner is killed, there may be mages who are happy to have an empty tower to compete with without any resentment towards the nobles. As long as the nobles do not claim and encroach on the inherent territory of the magic tower, the successor will ignore anything that the former tower owner has plundered, which is a common practice in the world of the Lost Land. But if a nobleman wants to bulldoze the magic tower, there will be guild bosses to teach him how to behave.
In other words, from Richard Haas's point of view, attacking the magic tower with the existing manpower is not without a chance of victory. In addition, the magician who took over the Tower of the Great Sage can only be regarded as a tower master recruit, completely different from those old ghosts who have been in business for a long time, and can be regarded as the best bully. However, whether the loss and gain of attacking the tower are equal is another level.
There is no need to consider an act of righteousness that can be easily achieved to increase the reputation and achievements of Count Sita and the Thunder Lightning Legion. As for the soldiers he brought out, Richard Haas was completely sure of the surprise attack. However, if the other party is already vigilant and changes from a surprise attack to a frontal attack and defense, the loss may be very large, so he can't help but think twice.
What's more, he still has a temporary cargo of great value in his team. Bringing it back will not only bring the Count great fame, but also strengthen the Legion. Moreover, in order to seize the cargo, the elite squadron that followed had casualties, and it was not the most complete state. All these factors made the Legion Elder worried, and it was difficult to make a decision easily.
In the face of his father's subordinates, who remained silent, the patience of the young nobleman gradually lost. From constant urging to all kinds of threats and curses. Eventually, he impatiently gave an ultimatum and said in a stern tone: "Commander Haas, I have made it very clear, draw up a plan to attack the tower, and implement it. Remember, whose subordinate you are? ”
He stopped thinking impatiently from the noisy environment, and as soon as he came back to his senses, he heard his young master's threat, and Richard Haas was also amused. He said coldly, "Of course I know, Baron Sita, I am your father's subordinate. Unfortunately, you have not yet inherited your father's title. ”
The young nobleman, who was disregarded for his inheritance, broke the last line of reason in his head. He pressed his hand to the hilt of his sword, ready to teach the unknown creature a lesson. Completely forgot that if there was a real fight, with the comparison of the strength of the two sides, it should be him who would learn the lesson. But a sudden tiger roar resounded through the sky, interrupting Baron Sita's irrational behavior and calling him back to reality.
The roar of the tiger was familiar to everyone present. Several thundering and lightning soldiers ran out of the forest and came to the side of Richard Haas and Baron Sita to protect them. The five members of the adventure group looked in the direction of the sound at the same time, and the hunter said in astonishment, "Could it be that the king-level demonic beast has chased it out!" ”
The next moment, not far from the forest behind the team, there was also a whistling sound. Compared to the previous sound, it looks much more immature. The warrior leader's face changed, and he scolded: "Damn, is that young beast awake." ”
In the very center of the camp of the Thundering Lightning Legion squadron was a carriage carrying an iron cage. In the iron cage is a white background with black spots, four-legged winged tiger cubs, which are firmly fixed to the base of the iron cage by iron chains.
The potion used by hunters to sleep animals has not completely worn off. But when she heard the sound of the mother beast's whistling, she still struggled to respond, and kept twisting her body to try to break free from the chain.
This young beast was the previous trophy of the group. The squadron of the Thundering Lightning Legion pinned down the king-level demonic beast, the Winged Tigers, and then a six-member adventuring group led by the heavily armed warriors Schmidt and Baron Sita secretly captured the Winged Tigers hatchlings.
Whether domesticated or turned into a magical material, this hatchling is worth as much as a standard county and several years of tax revenue. It was precisely because of the battle that Baron Theta insisted on initiating that the squadron of the Thundering Lightning Legion suffered casualties.
However, the goal at that time was only to contain the king-level demonic beast, and when the Winged Sky Tiger realized that something was wrong, he wanted to turn back, but there was no trace of his own child. If he wanted to pursue the humans who had restrained him before, Richard Haas would have already led people to escape. Leaving two ends empty, the beast rushed out of its territory in grief and began to track its young.
Now that it is happening again, it is definitely bad news for the human side. Because before, you could make a time difference to escape separately. Now they have to fight positional warfare, not only to defend the young beast and not let it recapture; It is not only one or two levels higher to defend against the attack of a king-level magical beast until it is killed or repelled.
At this time, the magician Meher Lindeolles proposed a choice that he thought was the most rational: "Shall we hide in the magic tower and rely on the tower's defense to meet this king-level demonic beast?" ”
Everyone immediately gave him a look of contempt. I was so stiff before, how can I ask for the door now?
At this time, the magic tower reacted, and as a strategic attack magic that it relied on, the Light Bullet Attack Technique, it blasted towards the source of the tiger's roar. Then there was a wave of disappointment, even despair.
As the most strategic-level attack magic arranged in magic towers, the name and power of the light bullet attack technique are very familiar to those with rich experience. It condenses a small sun-like orb of light at the top of the tower, slowly descending on the heads of its enemies. The condensed power of magic will annihilate everything in its path until the magic contained in the orb of light is exhausted.
It is important to know that most attack spells can lock on to the enemy, and they are limited to the state that the caster can see, and actively blast at the enemy in the form of mental power control; There's no such thing as a real lock-in and then auto-tracking. And the more complex the magic, the more difficult it is to change the attack path with mental power.
In terms of the use of strategic magic, most of them are used in places that cannot be directly observed by the caster, so there is no way to talk about things like locking on enemies. The only thing you can do is to specify a direction and distance, and then make the damage range as wide as possible to inflict a lot of damage.
This means that strategic magic is not suitable for dealing with Warcraft. Because by the time the caster completes the spell and casts it in the designated direction and distance, the beast may have already run to other places to show off its might.
Therefore, the magic tower's routine to deal with the monsters is to lure the opponent closer, and then brush a large number of tower-centered range attack magic to hit the monsters outside the tower. Obviously, this kind of common sense, the rookie tower master does not have.
The second was a ball of light the size of a human head that I had only seen just now, and it smashed in the direction of the Winged Sky Tiger with a whoosh, completely lacking the power that the light bomb attack technique should have. Meher Lindeolaes was the first to react and cursed in a low voice. Because this means that the tower master, perhaps in the process of renovating the tower, took it upon himself to modify the strategic magic array, and the worst result was to change the magic array. Then, everyone was in a big trouble.
Richard Haas gave orders in an orderly manner, and the soldiers of the Thundering Lightning Legion moved quickly.
To deal with this kind of monster with a huge body and amazing attack power, unless it is a fully encompassing fortress like a castle or magic tower, it is extremely unwise to choose a simple wooden village for positional warfare.
The best way is to have a distributed encirclement, which takes the form of a hunt, where the soldiers standing behind the monster attack, and at the same time have a provocative effect. The purpose is to make the Warcraft take care of one thing and lose the other, and it is difficult to take care of the head and tail.
But the reality is that there is still the restless young beast to defend so that the Winged Tiger cannot be recaptured; There is also the need to protect the heir of Count Sita. In this way, a lot of manpower will be dispersed. Richard Haas quickly had an idea, and he first asked the hunters in the adventuring team to deal with the tiger cubs. The tone was a little harsh, but at this fatal moment, no one cared about it.
Then set up the assembled squads. Although this group of elite soldiers was not afraid to fight at night, they had to deal with a king-level demonic beast that had caused them to lose a lot of troops before, and everyone was still in good spirits. At the intersection of life and death, oneself is the greatest reliance. I didn't look at the weak attack of the magic tower, and I said it was tickling......
For the three-story building standing not far away, before everyone's complaints were over, they saw a continuous ball of light shooting out from the top of the tower, connecting like beads in a line, attacking in the direction of the Winged Sky Tiger.
No matter how fast the ball of light flies, it is silent, but when it hits an object, the chaotic power generated by the annihilation of the magic produces a muffled popping sound. But because the human legion was still some distance away from the Winged Sky Tiger, they couldn't hear such a muffled sound, and in their ears it was the roar of the injured king-level demonic beast, louder and more angry.
The attack launched by the magic tower was unprecedented, looking at the stringed balls of light swinging in the air, and the Winged Tiger constantly screaming, the hunter couldn't help but come to the team's magician and asked, "Could it be that those light bullets all hit that demon tiger?" How? ”
Meher Lindolles held back for a long time before replying, "Well, don't ask me. ”