Chapter One Thousand and Seventy-Seven

His mouth opened wide as if trying to recite the remaining incantation, but his dry throat could not spit out a single character, and life flew out of his body, and when he fell with a thud, his breathing had completely stopped!

The Tour de France ceremony is suddenly chaotic!

The attackers chose a key mana node...... When this place is broken, the teleportation that has been almost opened will suddenly collapse, not only the turbulence of energy, but also the possibility of carrying indestructible space debris and killing everyone around it!

Damn it!

Sukhoi cursed in his heart, and a sword had been swung out of his hand!

The dark red flame moved forward from the blade of the sword, and the wheat grass in the path was ignited, and the raging flames were like the breath of an evil dragon, and in an instant, a fifty-foot-wide and narrow fan was enveloped in it!

In the flames, a small figure rushed out, flowing like water halfway through, and finally turned into a tall humanoid!

Transfiguration.

Sukhoi subconsciously put his sword across his chest and made a defensive gesture, but he immediately realized that he had misjudged - almost without any stagnation, the figure casually opened a door of light behind him, and rushed in, and this short time was enough for the Scarlet Knight to notice that it was not the terrible enemy he was wary of, but a tall monster in a purple robe.

That's right, it's a monster.

The Scarlet Knight's vision and reaction were far beyond normal people, so only a moment was enough for him to see the figure's huge head, glittering in the sunlight. And that revealed, there were four tentacles. A pair of silver eyes were embedded in the underside of the head, but they looked at Sukhoi slightly. But it made his heart cold.

Luckily, the devastation caused by this monster didn't make the Tour Law a complete failure.

Sukhoi turned around. I noticed that a white robe had been standing on the spare node, although Lansfil was not a non-master, but he was far more sensitive than ordinary mages in the control of spell energy, especially for the level of the magic net touch has touched the edge of the eight-ring magic net, more than the average senior mage, for teleportation, there is also a good understanding that ordinary mages do not have.

The portal was still open.

The blue ribbon of light outlines the figure of an old man in the air.

He was small wrapped in a black mage's robe, but he wore an extraordinarily high cone-topped hat as if to make up for it. The hat was embroidered with gold thread and countless stars, and shimmered in the light of the portal. And when the gaze met, even the Scarlet Knight couldn't help but be attracted to it, and then bowed his head respectfully to him.

"Why is it so far?"

Striding out of the portal, the old man glanced at the towering wall at the end of his sight, then turned to Sukhoi with a frown. The unceremonious tone made the head of the Scarlet Knight also frown: "Their patrol is very strict, and I have lost some people. Your Excellency Archmage Gaia. He responded. The tone is calm. The old mage snorted and stopped looking at him, but whispered to himself, "But that's it." ”

"It's just ......"

Nicole spoke disapprenantly behind Sukhoi, but the Scarlet Knight Leader raised his hand slightly. interrupted her.

This old man is one of the three archmages in the New Empire's mage group...... Although, strictly speaking, he is not really an archmage - for mages, there is no difference between them and archmages. In fact, there has never been an accurate standard on the mainland for thousands of years, and the general difference is whether or not you can master the eight rings or above. Those powerful spells are what the mages call 'entering the door of truth'.

But in fact most of the time. Mages who have mastered the spells of the Eight Rings are still considered only high-level mages—only more powerful, true archmages. It is those powerful beings who can arbitrarily cast the nine-ring arcane, even the legendary arcane, and truly rank in the gate of truth, and can be compared to the gods in the legendary tales.

Just like the once imperial thunder Tesla.

Now, the three who serve in the Imperial Mage Corps are just high-level mages who can cast eight-ring spells, or a nine-ring spell, although in front of Prince Alexal, they always claim to have mastered the secrets of the nine-ring magic net, but no one has really seen them cast these powerful spells.

It was a difficult problem to even get them to appear on the front line - a qiē was measured by magic, and the soldiers were treated like animals, at best, they were treated like domestic animals, and they could not be reconciled with the army at all. Otherwise, in the face of the offensive of Tuminis, the city defenses on the front line would not have been able to lose so easily.

If it weren't for the special conditions of this operation, the generals of the new empire would not have been willing to ask them to come forward.

"Stupid fellows, just for the sake of weird appearances, should build a city into such a flashy appearance, this is ...... Doesn't he know that if the radius of magic protection is doubled, the area that needs magic protection will be expanded by at least nearly four times?

The first batch of the portal was the mage group, which was to stabilize and expand the teleportation circle, but of course this was not the responsibility of the three archmages, so after leaving the teleportation space, the three old men each performed a flying spell - not for better observation, but just to distinguish their identities from others.

The condescending comments were even expanded by the illusion technique, and they were scattered like thunder.

Sukhoi couldn't help but sigh slightly. He knew that these three old fellows were very important to the master of the city, the legendary Archmage who was too young. There is an almost obstinate contempt for him, who thinks he is nothing more than a lucky liar. And the capture of his city is only a matter of effort.

In their eyes, that person was nothing more than a good teacher, who had obtained some secret treasures left over from ancient times, and then coincidentally met Archmage Tesla on the battlefield...... While the latter was exhausted, he defeated him with some powerful magical weapon. Otherwise, to a spellcaster who is only less than twenty years old. Even if you start practicing spells from birth, you can't compete with an archmage. Not to mention defeating it!

Therefore, in the previous military discussions, whether it was anything about Edward Vincent, these three mages would not hesitate to slander and satirize, almost making it difficult for the military discussions to proceed, and this time, their decision to go with the army was also more rapid than ever - completely different from the usual situation of mocking and contemptuous but delaying.

I hope they can do something......

Sukhoi thought to himself, and then watched as the green glow rose from the city—less than half an hourglass scale, and the gates of that city were completely closed. The shield of magic is spreading out, and even the soldiers have begun to list their positions on the city walls.

"These guys reacted very quickly, well, when will we be able to get our army together and launch a siege?"

The archmage's words carried the power of illusion, clear and dull.

But Sukhoi did not want to answer at all.

It was already a little more than the third hourglass in the afternoon, and it would take at least two hourglasses to sort out enough troops to siege the city. Or even more—if you don't want the soldiers to climb Burgundy's nearly sixty-foot-high outer walls in a deadly manner, you'll have to wait until the siege equipment is brought in and assembled...... In addition to this, prepare a large camp to accommodate everyone.

Prepare for this qiē. Even if you rush to work overnight, it will inevitably be completed tomorrow morning. Before that, there was only one job for the three archmages. Protect the camp from sneak attacks. Of course. If they have the ability to break down the wall, it will be another calculation.

And that's almost impossible.

The soldiers guarding the walls were well equipped. Obviously, he had already prepared a few thousand of them, and the number was around two thousand, so the so-called sneak attack strategy was a joke at all - it was impossible to determine how long the transfiguring monster had been following his team, but Sukhoi had absolutely no belief that he would stumble upon an enemy around the city and then sneak in to sneak up on the mage who crossed the outer rim to attack them.

Since the opponent has been prepared, the siege can only be completely changed to a positive attack...... The attrition of troops and resources is likely to increase by a considerable proportion.

"I'm asking you, when will we be able to assemble our army and launch a siege?"

Under the cover of that tall hat, few people could actually pay attention to Archmage Gaia's face, and even if they did, they would quickly lose all impression by the huge honeycomb-like nose and thick beard. So when you talk to him, you can only judge his mood by the way he speaks—and at this moment, he is clearly already a little angry.

But the Scarlet Knight was still silent, and he even turned around and gestured to his subordinates to start gathering the team, as if he didn't care about the archmage's attitude at all.

Archmages do not hold positions, and no king will let them hold them...... It is a sin to waste their precious research time with worldly work. Not to mention an army - the archmages don't need an army, they themselves are far more than one. But for the army, whether it is a soldier or a general, as long as it is not the order of the direct general, he can ignore any mage's inquiries, or even ignore them at all.

Although in reality there are not many people who dare to do this. But what if it's a great knight, and an elector?

"Okay, Your Excellency Gaia, you also know that there are more than 100,000 people in this city, and if you want to fight it, you will need at least 10,000 troops, and when it is mobilized, maybe it will be tomorrow......"

The people who can ease the atmosphere at this time are naturally the only two remaining archmages - the assistance of the soldiers is necessary for them after all, and it is not a good choice to fall out on the battlefield with the first powerful general of the new empire, so Archmage Matthew coughed lightly and diverted the topic: "This kind of haphazard city is not necessarily necessary for us to launch spells, as long as the soldiers gather, it should be able to fall quickly, right?"

Archmage Matthew had a long face like a horse, and he spoke with the steady demeanor of an old mage, which made Sukhoi's face slightly pale, but his words still carried some sonorousness:

"Or maybe the city is a flawed product of magic, but it's something that has been cleverly designed to counter massive siege forces. ”

He had little interest in teaching this archmage who didn't understand what war was...... But as that Edward's former opponent. He had truly experienced the strength of the other party, and the Archmage of Gaia was mercilessly derogatory. In fact, it is equivalent to insulting his ability. Therefore, his rebuttal also leaves little room for discussion:

"If it's an infantry unit, you're going to attack the walls. You have to break between the two convex corners, but no matter which side of the convex angle you attack, you will be shot in the back by the bow and arrow from the raised corner next to it, unless you climb a ladder with a large shield on your back, otherwise you can only be targeted, and if you attack the protruding front alone, it is too narrow, whether it is a ladder or a siege vehicle. None of them can be expanded at all. ”

"Well, let's blow it down!"

These unyielding words made Archmage Gaia's face cloudy, and he snorted and was about to speak, but Mage Aldiga on the side once again preemptively spoke - or because of the particularly striking huge chin, the voice of His Excellency the Mage was always the loudest: "Look what they can protect against the impact of meteoritography!"

"I've heard that they seem to have a lot of power and can rebuild a wall in an instant. Sukhoi said: "The two sets of facades of the city are erected in this way, and the innermost layer has a very high foundation. It's about having some large earth elemental circles. Simply attacking the city wall will have little effect. ”

"Earth Elemental Circle, okay, then, let's try it!"

Archmage Gaia's beard trembled slightly. Suddenly, with a sneer, he pulled out a staff from his side, pointing a purple light into the distance.

The majestic magic power rolled and burst out in an instant! The ground a thousand feet away suddenly shook with a terrifying frequency, and the rumbling roar beneath the ground was like the roar of a monster. Then, like a fountain, the ground spat out a torrent of earth and rock!

Brown dirt spat out from the ground. But it didn't disperse, and in a moment, the clods and rocks piled up into a raised shape, and then, the black-brown color gradually receded from it, turning the dirt into a grayish-white, rocky hand.

Then the huge hand bent downward, holding the ground, allowing a figure to slowly stand up with the wave-like tremor of the ground...... In other words, it is to slowly 'pull' his huge 40-foot-tall body from the ground. The earth continued to pour out of the ground like flowing water, then gathered and glued together like a gel, and then faded the color of the dirt to form his bulky body, and when a giant foot two or three times thicker than the pillars of the temple landed on the ground, the power brought by that weight made the Scarlet Knights feel unstable for a moment.

The massive thirty-foot-tall figure shook its tiny head and stood up straight, its massive upper limbs hanging to the ground and its relatively stubby lower limbs making it look ridiculous...... But anyone who knows anything about magic can't laugh out loud about it - elemental creatures, while they usually come across as stupid or something, are nothing more than puppets controlled by mages, but as their energy grows, they become bigger and more powerful, not just in appearance, but also within them.

A large earth elemental already possesses almost human intelligence, and can crush most of the opponents on the battlefield with their huge bodies of thirty feet high, which is an extremely perfect war machine, but at this moment, this earth element summoned by the Archmage of Gaia is already close to forty feet, and it is already a high-level intelligent creature second only to those elemental elders, even if it confronts an adult dragon head-on, it will not fall behind!

"Go, I'll send you up to that wall, and then you'll kill all the living people on it, and leave not a single one behind!"

The archmage snorted and ordered.

Then the huge elemental creature shook and made a rumbling sound from within its body that seemed to rub against a stone, as if in answer to the archmage. The latter nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his hand and waved it again, and in front of the stone element, a huge light gate of the same height suddenly opened!

This is clearly a modified arbitrary door.

Sukhoi's eyes flickered.

As a great knight, he has far better physical functions than ordinary people, so in this sunny weather, as long as he raises his head, he can see all the movement on the city wall ten miles away, and at this moment, what catches his eyes is a spot of light far above the city - a door with a blue luster like rippling water waves, unfolding in the sky there!

As you can imagine, that's where this teleportation ends.

Any Gate is not a powerful spell, but it can extend the distance to more than ten miles, and the ability of this Gaia Archmage has indeed far surpassed Tongji, and it can almost be compared to the miracles created by those legendary mages!

And what kind of impact will a giant earth element fall from above a city?

You must know that this earth elemental creature, the body is originally made of heavy rock, and the huge weight of at least 60,000 pounds or more, such a huge stone projectile, no matter what it hits, will bring unimaginable destruction! (To be continued......