Chapter 64: Troll Siege
The Magic Guild, as a trade union that includes all the Big 6 magicians, has always been in a neutral position in the struggle for the Big 6 forces. Unless it is a beast tide or other situation, no force in ordinary warfare can force the mages of the Magic Guild to participate in the war.
But there is one case that is out of the list, and that is the race war. In the event of a race war, the mages of their own race are obliged to fight to protect their race.
Xu Yue settled the little girl in the room with a solemn face, and told her not to run around until she came back. Then he quickly left the inn and ran in the direction of the Magic Guild. The Magical Guild's order to convene must be answered, and it is an obligation that must be assumed while enjoying the resources provided by the Guild, and no mage will and cannot escape this obligation.
By the time he arrived, the door of the Magic Guild had already opened, and there were already many mages in robes gathered in the hall on the first floor. Because he had no acquaintances, Xu Yue didn't get together to talk about the convening like everyone else after he came in, he found a guild's clerk and asked a few words in a whisper and got some information.
This time, the summoning order was for the trolls outside the city, and after two months of preparation and temptation, the trolls finally attacked as everyone expected.
They chose the time of their attack at night, and it was clear that they had the intention of taking the city wall by surprise at night. However, Black Rock City has not relaxed its patrol of the city walls since the movement of the trolls, and the attacks of the trolls have been revealed at the first time.
The magicians didn't have to wait long, but after seven or eight minutes, they saw a mage wearing a purple robe appear in the hall, looking at the mark on the robe on his chest, this was a fourth-level mage.
"I'm Pyne, the convener of this time, and I'm issuing the summoning order as the vice president of the Black Rock City Magic Guild Branch. I think you already know the situation this time. Trolls outside the city have launched an attack on Black Rock City, and this attack has been defined as a race war. All human mages in Black Rock City will be temporarily called up to fight in battle by the Lord's Mansion. ”
After speaking, he looked at the many magicians who had quieted down, and now that no one had any panicked actions, he nodded and continued: "I won't say more nonsense, everyone knows what their obligations are. You will be grouped into groups according to your class level and will participate in this battle. I won't say much about the rules, everyone knows that if someone escapes, then I advise him to hide in the deep mountains and old forests for the rest of his life. Otherwise, everyone knows the end. ”
Pyne's words made the mages standing in the hall feel depressed for a while, and the crowd of whisperers fell silent for a while. However, this silence was soon broken by the group.
Xu Yue was a first-level mage and was assigned to the second group. There were about forty people in this group, all of whom were first-class magicians. The other group was magic apprentices, numbering around eighty, and the third group was second-level mages, with only fifteen in number. There were only six third-level mages in the four groups, and one of them was the library administrator Xu Yue had seen. And the only fourth-level mage is Pine.
The leader of the group is a first-level magician of the Magic Guild, named Hall. He led the largest number of first-class mages directly towards the city wall.
Leaning on the revolving staircase of the city wall, all the first-level mages trotted to the top of the city wall, and through the door of the fortress above the spiral staircase, they could see that the battle here was already fierce.
The height of the wall was thirty meters, and in order to climb the wall, the trolls threw a lot of things that resembled hooks and claws to the walls, and then climbed up the ropes on the hooks.
As a race that has lived in the forest for a long time, they are very capable of climbing. The fastest 30-meter wall they could climb up in just over 40 seconds.
The soldiers of Black Rock City were constantly knocking these hooks off or cutting the ropes from the hooks with their weapons. From time to time, there was the scream of a troll falling down.
But there are too many trolls who climb with their hooks, and from time to time there are still trolls who climb the city walls. At this point, when the neighborhood leaves, a group of soldiers will rush over and surround the troll in the middle and concentrate the attack.
However, there were also many soldiers who went to see the rope and were pierced to death with spears by the trolls who rushed up.
A man who obviously looked like an officer ran over after seeing Xu Yue and their group of magicians. The bloodstains on his armor and the murderous aura on his body showed that he had killed many trolls.
"The magician of the Magic Guild?" he asked with a stern expression.
After receiving an affirmative answer, he nodded and pointed to the middle of the wall.
"It's not time for you to play. These trolls won't be able to attack for a while. But these guys' siege tools haven't appeared yet, and as soon as they appear, you will attack their siege equipment according to the order. I'll send you a herald. ”
After saying that, he called over a soldier with several magic wands that flashed with different lights, and asked him to follow the magician team.
The leader of the team followed the instructions and led a team of forty first-class magicians to the middle of the city wall here, standing in a square formation. Quietly waiting for the order to arrive.
Xu Yue was standing right in front of the team, so he could see the battle very clearly.
Because it was night, the light was not very good. A large number of bonfires were lit on the city walls. The soldiers defending the city were obviously aware of the weakness of the trolls' fear of fire, and many soldiers lit torches with oil and threw them at the trolls who were climbing up the city.
A few soldiers even poured pots of burning hot oil down the city walls, and the trolls below fell like flaming fireballs.
Although coming to Talumia has already experienced quite a few battles, from the siege of the wind wolf pack to the killing of several robbers on Earth. From the guards of Komodo Town to the battle of the Troll Altar, Xu Yue has seen a lot of battles.
But for this kind of siege battle of 10,000 people that can only be seen in ancient China, he still feels very shocked. The momentum of tens of thousands of people fighting alone was enough to make some timid people paralyzed on the ground.
Not all of the mages in the team were veterans of battle, and some of the younger mages could be seen clenching their fists nervously. There were even a few bodies trembling slightly, not knowing whether they were excited or scared.
However, no one escaped, and it was clear that everyone knew how harsh the Magic Guild punished those who escaped in the race war. Just one complete inability to use any of the guild's resources almost wiped out most of the mage's path to promotion.
The troll's sneak attack did not have the desired effect, and soon a loud and long trumpet sound was heard from the jungle outside the city. The trolls who had desperately climbed the walls heard this sound and immediately retreated like a tidal wave. It is clear that the trolls are in command and will not let these trolls die in vain without gaining an advantage.
The troll's retreat caused many soldiers to roar in excitement, but the officers who commanded the battle did not look happy, shouting and driving the soldiers to the defensive positions.
"It's here!" Xu Yue thought to herself.
He could see that the reason why these trolls retreated was not because they were afraid, but because the commander of the other party did not want to let his warriors die in vain after seeing that the sneak attack was ineffective. In the next battle, the opponent will definitely use siege equipment in order to attack the city wall, and that is when they need to play.
Sure enough, just ten minutes later, there was a sudden loud noise in the forest outside the city. I saw a huge number of people falling down at the edge of the forest. Then several huge beasts came out with several huge carts made of wood more than ten meters high.
The herald next to him saw several different colors of light on the city wall in the distance flickering a few times according to a certain pattern, and he took out the light magic wand in his hand and responded to the other party with a special signal transmission method and turned his head.
"Command your mage squad to divide into teams according to the number of siege vehicles of the opponent, and each team will attack one siege vehicle. Be sure to knock it out!"
Hall, the leader of the wizard's group, nodded, and turned back to look at the somewhat nervous group.
"Now each squad is divided into eight groups of five people. As I said, each team stared at this group of siege vehicles. You don't have to worry about anything else on the battlefield, just smash those siege engines with fireballs until they burn them out. ”
After saying that, Hall divided the teams according to the information he realized, and it can be seen that he has tried his best to average the strength of each team, and there will not be a situation where a team will be a squib because its strength is too low, and it will not be a few fireballs.
Xu Yue's team was assigned the best siege vehicle, and the team was still led by members of the Magic Guild. It can be seen that they have all received special training, and those mages who are temporarily recruited are much calmer.
Although the strength of those behemoths seemed to be enormous, their movements were quite slow. Each giant beast is more than ten meters tall, a bit like the ancient dinosaur Triceratops of the earth. Their heads and backs were wrapped in a thick layer of iron armor, and ordinary attacks didn't want to hurt them at all, and it was no wonder that the commanders on the human side didn't let the mages directly attack these giant beasts.
"What are those giant beasts? Why haven't I heard of them?" Xu Yue asked a magician beside him while waiting for the giant beast to come over. The team didn't prohibit the magicians from talking to each other, but most of them were nervous and didn't bother to talk.
The one beside him was a mage who looked to be in his forties, and his raunchy stubble and casual expression made him look like an ordinary middle-aged, decadent uncle. And looking at his physique, if it weren't for the fact that he was indeed wearing a mage robe, Xu Yue would prefer to believe in this battle-hardened warrior.
"That's a Bighorn! Don't look at these guys as scary, they're actually grass-eaters. This thing isn't actually a monster, it's just an ordinary beast. However, because of its great power, it is sometimes used by some aliens to pull things. However, this thing is a thing from orc territory, and I don't know why it is on the troll's side. The mage casually leaned against the wall and said.
His words reminded Xu Yue of the news that Aivo had received from the elves a few days ago, saying that the trolls had also been involved in the war between the elves and the orcs. Now it seems that the two alien races have long been united, otherwise there would be no beasts unique to orcs here.
"Attention! The siege vehicle is already in range. Attention all members of the mage team, prepare the fireball spell and shoot it together at my command. Attack the pillars of the siege engine, don't hit anywhere else. The team leader suddenly shouted.
Immediately, the other four mages also stood up, all raised their hands to the pillars of the siege vehicle in the distance, and began to lock on with their spirits. Fireballs suddenly appeared in their hands.
"Be careful!
A hurried voice came from the soldiers guarding nearby, and suddenly a group of shield-wielding warriors standing next to the mage immediately raised their shields in front of the mage.
I saw a few sharp spears flying with a sound of breaking through the air, many spears were blocked by shields, but there were also some powerful spears that shot through the wooden shields wrapped in iron sheets, penetrating the soldiers holding the shields. There was even a spear that pierced through the body of one of the soldiers, and even pierced the thigh of one of their magicians.
The magician screamed and fell, the fireball spell in his hand shot straight into the air from the fall and pain.
"Damn! it's a spear warrior of the Troll Clan. Take care to protect the mage, and the shield-bearers fight in two rows. An officer next to him roared.
"Come a few people, lift this wounded mage to the back, let the priest treat him, and come back to fight as soon as he can move. The other mages listen to my orders, fireball spells, target the left front pillar of the siege vehicle, go!" shouted the leader of the mage team.
Under his order, he suddenly saw four fireball spells bring out a band of light at the same time, shooting towards the huge wooden pillar of the siege vehicle.
After a loud noise and firelight, I saw that among the six pillars of the siege vehicle, a waist-thick pillar in front of the left was blown off from the middle under the concentrated blow of the four fireball techniques. This caused the siege vehicle's platform to shake for a while. But with the other five pillars as support, the platform did not collapse.
The attack effect of the fireball technique is still good, as long as you make a note again, it will definitely make the platform of the siege vehicle collapse.
However, the trolls did not turn a blind eye to this, and saw a number of troll warriors with strange patterns on their bodies standing up on the platform, and they hurled their spears in the direction of the fireball.
Xu Yue instinctively sensed a danger, and almost without hesitation, he immediately activated the one-way protective magic 'Protective Shield' on his staff, and suddenly saw a shield-shaped light shield appear in front of him, protecting most of his body.
His instincts were not wrong, and the spears had been shot close to the front almost as soon as they left the hands of the trolls, and the shields in the front two rows barely waved the spears to block them, and they were immediately pierced. ‘
One of the spears shot almost unabated and fiercely at his 'protective shield', and for a moment only the spear and the light shield saw a spark appear. The brilliance of the light shield also became uncertain.
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