Chapter 435: An Unsatisfactory Victory
Blessed by the Lightbringer nailed to the shoulder blades of a ghoul and still shining, the Night King, who already had strong night vision, took in the two explosive bombs that flew in the air. Guarding against this, he glanced contemptuously, and after dividing some mana and solid ice armor that had already been condensed, he ignored it - and continued to manipulate the army of ghouls across the fire, while contacting the eight ...... who had already been trapped in the city. Damn, in a moment it will already become seven subordinates, let them try to break through while they are attracting the attention of humans.
At the same time, he even grabbed a second stone - even if he couldn't kill it accurately, it was still possible to scare the two key people on the living side and attract their attention.
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Due to the limitations of the era and the level of technology, it is destined to be a good wish to make the bomb explode above the Night King's head by using the catapult to visually aim and control the length of the lead to affect the timing of the explosion. One of the two bombs landed slightly into the ghoul swarm and bounced on the frozen ground before exploding a hundred feet away from the Night King, while the other deflected a little bit and flew high above the Night King's head, exploding a few tenths of a second late.
An imperfect bombardment, but hundreds of fragments of different shapes recast from the "Lightbringer Thirty-One" ~ "Lightbringer Fifty" full twenty dragon steel arrowheads, under the impetus of gunpowder combustion and explosion, gave full play to their numerical superiority, and the Celestial Maiden scattered flowers shrouded two ball-shaped spaces with a radius of more than 30 meters, and in the case of such poor accuracy, there were still a small part of them flying in the direction of the Night King.
In the rain of dragon steel fragments that fell on him, and with a crisp crunch, the Night King suddenly lost contact with another subordinate priest.
I thought it was one of the seven priests who were still in the city and was shot with a restraint artifact, but the next moment I remembered that the priest who was suddenly "disconnected" was obviously standing behind him...... It's also the right thing to condense the ice armor to resist the dragon crystal fragments.
Before he could feel bad, a small sharp object had penetrated the solid shell of the body from the middle and left part of the back and entered the body, and suddenly exploded.
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Of course, the fragment of Dragon Steel does not have the magical function of secondary explosion, and the "explosion" in the body felt by the Night King is actually the high-density, high-purity fire attribute magic power contained in Dragon Steel, which has a strong effect of annihilation when encountering the same level of cold magic power...... Under the violent magic conflict and neutralization reaction, the massive amount of magic power that was originally operating in an orderly manner in the body instantly spread out a shock wave fiercely outward with the center of the wound point.
The Night King, who was still strategizing one second and controlling tens of thousands of ghouls to cross the wall of fire to launch a covering general attack on Houguan Town, came to the end of his life the next moment.
Just like when talking about the toxicity of a substance in the human world, you generally have to bring a dose, and weapons with magical powers like Long Jing and Long Gang can't kill ghouls and ghosts without talking about "dose".
Since the body is a full entity, all attacks can be effective against ghouls, but only by dispersing or neutralizing all or at least most of the cold magic in their body can they instantly turn them back into corpses...... Fortunately, since the cold magic in the ghoul's body is only a small wisp as thin as a gossamer, the whole of a small wisp is still a small wisp. Humans often find in actual combat that no matter how big or small the dragon crystal or dragon steel weapon is, they can easily kill them without any other principle - just because even the smallest dragon crystal arrow contains more fire attribute magic than the cold magic contained in the body of ordinary ghouls.
This is not the case with the Exorcism: since their bodies are almost entirely made of magic, and the physical parts are only shelled, they are highly immune to magic while having very little resistance to mana penetrating damage. As long as the fire attribute magic power equivalent to a few percent of one's total mana is invaded into the body, the function of the entire ice body will be completely disrupted and destroyed, and there will be no external help, and it will lead to irreversible death......
And even if they die, as the dose of fire attribute mana continues to increase after crossing the lethal line, the manifestations of their injuries will gradually intensify: when the attack strength exceeds a threshold of about one-tenth of the total amount of mana in their bodies, the alien may be killed instantly, and if the level is increased, it will even evolve into a spectacular scene such as explosion and instant vaporization.
If the obsidian dagger in Egger's hand had been smaller or less colorful, he might not have been able to kill the stranger...... On the contrary, the strange ghost who was shot by Long Gang's arrow was the most tragic death without suspense.
Dragon Steel is extremely light, the fragments in each blast are cast from ten arrowheads, and the dragon steel in the early 100 grams is divided into two or three hundred fragments, and on average, each fragment is only less than the size and thickness of the top hat of the pushpin - it is precisely because the lethality has been reduced to the extreme with the shrinkage of the volume, that the Night King who was hit did not dissipate into the air with a pop like he was shot by the "Lightbringer".
But even so, the situation is still not optimistic: the Targaryen, as one of the Dragon King family's exclusive weapons, uses a high-spec version of Dragon Steel with such a huge amount of energy, even if it is only a small piece the size of a small fingernail, the magic power contained in it exceeds the kill line!
With a shrill roar like a glacier cracking, the Night King's "host" instantly severed all the ghouls under its direct control. He struggled to maintain his connection with the other priests, threw down the second stone in his hand that he was about to throw, and stabbed his left chest with his right hand in a cone, and with great perseverance and intuition, he took out the dragon steel fragment that had penetrated his back, and threw it to the ground!
Through this self-mutilating operation, he successfully resolved the crisis that melted and dissipated in the next second, but the large hole dug out from the shoulder blade to the middle of his chest hissed out, and the ice armor wrapped around his body also instantly appeared countless spiderweb-like cracks, and the existence of the entire body became unstable.
As a magical body, there is nothing to fear when it comes to breaking a hole: as long as the magic power is enough, it can be plugged and grown back in minutes...... But the problem that the Night King is facing now is that that small piece of dragon steel fragment not only forced it to open a hole in its body, but also disrupted and destroyed the magical operation of its entire upper body, so that its otherwise powerful and incomparable self-healing ability was completely nullified!
One of the five priests who accompanied the Night King to watch the battle was ruthlessly torn apart by the Dragon Steel Fragment, and the remaining four immediately surrounded the Night King, who was about to fall on his feet, desperately instilling magic in an attempt to rescue their leader.
The Night King is the center of the radial magical interconnection network of the Priests of the Cold God, and if he dies violently, the other priests will not be spared!
Theoretically, as long as the magical life is not killed instantly, it can be forcibly extended with a large amount of mana infusion until the physical signs are stable and can begin to heal themselves. It's a pity that this is not a good time to bathe in the power of the cold god outside the Great Wall, and the priests who still have surplus magic power have all been sent to Houguan Town to carry out combat missions, and the few priests left here are all in a weakened state that have not yet recovered from the previous battle against the Shadow Tower or Sentinel Tower.
But the victim next to him, who had already vaporized and dissipated the mana of the source of the source, provided them with inspiration: although there was not much surplus mana left at their disposal, the mana that made up their bodies was still considerable.
As long as one or two priests voluntarily give up their lives and actively disintegrate and dissipate their bodies to provide magical power, they still have hope of turning the tables around!
As the four priests began to discuss the order in which they should exchange their lives, the Night King grabbed one of the priests by the arm and shook his head in denial.
He knows how much he was injured, and the efficiency of decomposing his body and transferring magic power cannot reach 100%, and it is difficult for the lives of one or two priests to be exchanged for him intact, in this case, it is better to seize this last moment to hand over the dominance and control of the entire Cold God Internet to another priest, and create a new high priest, so that everyone will not be buried for themselves!
The surging and turbulent magic power and information flow flowed into the body of the strongest Han God Priest present through the bone-like pale hands, and the Night King's body also shrank and melted little by little with smoke, and finally in a light sound like a leak, nearly half of the previous Cold God High Priest's strength and all the knowledge, memories and permissions were passed on to the next one.
And the next Night King's first order after completing the transformation of his identity was to completely abandon the attack on Houguan Town, and quickly retreat into the darkness of the Grant Wilderness with the remaining army of ghouls.
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