Chapter 766: Aerial Suppression
As a weapon of war, the snake dragon is more extreme than the wyvern, as far as is known, no snake dragon is kind or orderly, these creatures usually show a kind of hatred, hostility and cruelty to all living things, especially to dragons, they will not hesitate to attack all kinds of dragons they encounter, provided that the other party is weaker than themselves, their favorite food, is dragon eggs.
During the war between the giants and the dragons, what they were best at was that after the dragons were attracted out of the lair, they secretly slid into the dragon's lair and went on a killing spree, swallowing all the creatures they encountered along the way into their stomachs, so they also had the nickname of dragon egg killers.
It is precisely this characteristic that has allowed them to attract the joint pursuit of the dragons, even after the war between the giants and the dragons has long ended, which has caused the number of snake dragons on the continent of Faeron to shrink sharply, and they can only retreat to extremely remote areas.
The dark regions where most dragons rarely set foot are a major destination for them, and their python-like way of gliding makes them very accustomed to life in the dark regions.
There are even some drow elven cities that have signed offensive and defensive alliances with some powerful snake dragons, or directly enslave them as their own weapons of war.
"Millers, from today onwards, she is your mistress and must be respected." The cloud giant casually threw out the roast bull that he had eaten half-gnawed.
The huge body of the gray snake dragon catapulted like a python, took the roast bull in its mouth, chewed it with a click, and then swallowed the meat and bones into its stomach.
He eats like a dragon and a serpent, tearing and chewing, and has an elastic body and stomach that allows him to swallow like a snake.
Swallowing half of the roasted whole cow into his stomach in two bites, the gray snake dragon let out a disdainful hiss: "If she wants to be my mistress, she has to rely on her own ability to prove that she has this qualification, not because your lower body dominates your brain." ”
Compared with the Wyvern in the eyes of the declining intelligence, the snake dragons still retain the high intelligence of the giant dragon, and it is not difficult to see from the attitude towards the cloud giant, the cloud giant's control over him is quite limited.
The cloud giant snorted coldly, and did not argue too much with the gray snake dragon, and directly ordered: "Gather the army and go with me." ”
"As you wish." The gray snake dragon's fierce eyes flashed with excitement, and he didn't care who the cloud giant's enemy was this time, it didn't make much difference to him, and he stretched out his head and let out a trembling roar below.
"Your Majesty, don't act rashly." Delilah admonished, "Previously, the Dark Fort of the Santarin Society, the merchants of Sambia, and the local forces of the Goblin Frontier gathered tens of thousands of monster armies to try to besiege the army of conquerors in the Goblin Frontier, but they suffered a loss that they did not understand.
Not only did he lose his troops, but he also compensated the entire goblin border wasteland, giving them the opportunity to build a city and open a way to gain a foothold in the goblin border wasteland, and it would be even more difficult to eradicate them again.
Looking at the history of warfare as a blasphemous, it is not difficult to find that he was very good at fighting defensive counterattacks, luring the enemy to attack him, destroying the enemy's living forces, and then taking advantage of the situation to fight back.
We shouldn't give him this opportunity, take full advantage of the characteristics of the Thundering Peak Mountain Range that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, squeeze the resources around him to strengthen himself, and continue to pose a threat to him, so that he has to organize troops to attack us, and most of his living force will be consumed, and it will not be too late for us to pour out of the mountains. ”
Naturally, the Drow Elf Priestess would not miss any opportunity to study her enemies, summing up many characteristics that even the parties themselves were not aware of.
The Storm King clashed with Gavin exactly as she expected, but not in such a hasty way.
She didn't want to spend a lot of effort on herself, and the right-hand man she had just found turned her head and be destroyed by her own enemies.
If that's the case, it's time for you to have a headache again.
There was an unconcealed pride in the cloud giant's expression, "Don't compare me with those monster forces in the wilderness, many times in war, it is not the number that is seen, but the suppression of the troops, today I will let you see what is called air suppression, what is called despair." ”
"But......" Before the Drow Priestess could speak again.
A violent flapping of wings came overhead, and a behemoth swooped down from the summit of Thundering Peak, another flying creature that was rarely seen.
It has a pair of huge fleshy wings and a long tail, a shark-like giant fin on its back, a crocodile-like head, but no eyes, and a large horn-like protrusion, but its body is a reptilian creature with a yellow-green color overall, its wings and dorsal fins are yellow, its body and head are green, and its jagged sharp teeth are yellow, and it has a pair of dragon claws similar to those of a wyvern, but on the small side.
Obviously he didn't have eyes, but he could accurately fly towards the gray snake dragon that sent out the signal, and because it was swooping down from the Thundering Peak, the speed was quite amazing.
When it got closer, it was found that its size was very amazing, even the cloud giant and the gray snake dragon were ashamed in front of it, its wingspan was more than eighteen meters, the crocodile's big mouth was slightly open, and its long tongue kept trembling in its mouth, making a strange buzz, if it was in front of its big mouth, the whole person was a little dizzy.
This is a way of seeing creatures called horned winged monsters, like bats, positioning through sound waves, and the one-horned bulge on its head is used to collect the sound transmitted back, which gives them ultra-long sight range, and can find prey several kilometers away through sound wave feedback.
When this horn-winged demonic beast swept past the clouds of the flying throne, the gray snake dragon jumped up directly and jumped onto its back, the lower body like a long snake was firmly coiled on its dorsal fin, and a pair of rickety dragon claws were directly nailed deep into the back of the horned winged demonic beast.
The sharp pain caused the horn-winged demonic beast to involuntarily open its mouth and let out a huge roar, and a well-shaped sound wave gushed out directly from its throat.
Rumble!
A boulder not far away exploded, and several boulders with a diameter of two or three meters were directly blown out, along the steep hillside, rumbling down, and one after another screams came from below, where the ground servants of the cloud giant were stationed.
Horned Winged Monster obviously doesn't just use sound as a detector, it can turn its own sound waves into attacks that can be used to attack its enemies.
"Haha......"
Both the cloud giant and the gray snake dragon laughed happily, not only did they not have the slightest sense of guilt, but they peeked into the fun.
The gray snake dragon gently pulled its right claw, and the horned winged demonic beast that was suffering pain involuntarily turned its direction and began to climb, obviously it had long been accustomed to acting as an aerial mount for the gray snake dragon.
After climbing to a certain level, the horned winged demonic beast opened its big mouth again and roared, compared to the last unconscious roar, this time it was even more terrifying after charging, and the sound waves visible to the naked eye continued to gush out of its mouth, not only the surrounding air was trembling, but even the surrounding ground was trembling.
The snow layer of Thundering Peak seemed to slide down with it, and if it hadn't been for a large avalanche just a few hours ago, it would have caused a large avalanche.
Strangely, Delilah didn't hear a loud roar, only felt nausea and vomiting from the tremor in the air.
These are long-range audio waves that can be transmitted to the ears of designated creatures.
Countless flying birds flew up from the various peaks of the Thundering Peak Mountain Range and flew towards the Cloud Giant's Flying Throne.
Wrong.
That's not a bird.
If it is a bird, how can you see them clearly from such a distance?
It was a huge flying monster, but because it was too far away, it looked like a bird.
Griffins, Wyverns, Horned Beasts, Vulture Horses, Harpys, ......
This is simply a large gathering of flying monsters, and there are so many of them that at a glance, there are no less than hundreds.
After seeing the composition of this army clearly, Di Lili pulled the other admonitions on her lips and swallowed them back into her stomach, she understood what the cloud giant meant by aerial suppression, and guessed the tactics he was going to use.
He was planning to use these aerial monsters to launch an aerial attack on the army of conquerors.
For those ordinary people, these aerial monsters, any one of them appears as a disaster-like existence, bringing huge damage and destruction, not to mention the appearance of clusters, which can easily bring them great panic.
It is not necessary to completely defeat them, but only to bring them a certain degree of damage, causing a partial collapse, and they can drive them from behind, just like driving away a frightened flock, and their own riots will bring a lot of damage to themselves.
Even if they finally regrouped, it would be a big blow to Gavin the Conqueror's prestige.
Not to mention, their harassment will be continuous.
Because without a matching air force, it is difficult for ground forces to pose a substantial threat to these flying monsters.
This flying monster army of the Cloud Giants is mainly made up of three main parts.
The first to arrive were hundreds of horn-winged demonic beasts, their appearance was exactly the same as the one ridden by the gray snake dragon, but they were twice as small, with a wingspan of only eight or nine meters.
They all have special saddles on which they ride a humanoid creature that Delilah has never seen before.
The creature was almost as wide as its height, with a thick, long head, and a lower face and jaw that sloped down to cover the chest. Its small, rhinoceros-like ears sit high above its skull, and its two small black eyes are sunken deep into its face.
The chin is covered with a thick layer of crystal whiskers that protrude outward, and two small crystal fangs bulge up from the lower lip.
The creature's skin was blackish-gray, like its jaw, with crystals growing outwards from its shoulders and joints, two wide, short, thick fingers covered in thick crystal nails, and an equally broad thumb, muscular and heavily armed, with a large compound longbow on its back and a steel warhammer and steel shield hanging from its waist.
His bare skin was dark gray, with neither a sound nor a hint of expression, just a cold gaze at everything around him, and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the cloud giant.
The Cloud Giant introduced in a smug and ostentatious tone, "They are the Earth Crystal People, inhabitants from the Earth Elemental Plane, who migrated to the deep peaks of the Thundering Peak Mountains thousands of years ago, and tamed the native Horned Winged Demonic Beasts as their own mounts, before I came, they were once the hegemons here, ruling as many as ten peaks, and now they serve me. ”
Before the cloud giant's words fell, another flying cavalry arrived, their number was slightly smaller, only sixty or seventy, but their momentum was no less than that of the horned winged demon beast cavalry.
They were all fat wyverns, with a sturdy orc mounted on their backs, armed with huge compound longbows and rows of throwing spears at their sides, and they all had the same symbol—their left eye was hollow, with no eyeballs in it, but it was not empty, but it shimmered like blood.
If this is the case for one or two, or if it is accidental, if it is all of them, then it is intentional.
This orc has a special name - the Eye of Gush.
Speaking of them, we have to talk about the origin of the orcs, in the legend of the orcs, in ancient times, the gods gathered together to divide the world for their followers.
The orc god Guush declared himself to have taken the mountain, but found that it had already been taken by the dwarves.
He instead claimed to have taken the forest, but the elves had already inhabited it.
After both failed declarations and he was even ridiculed by the gods for gaining nothing, Geush responded with his own rage, destroying the mountains with his mighty spear, burning the forests, and leaving a deep rift in the earth, he created the orc race, and declared that the orcs would destroy and replace all the races that rejected them.
To this day, the orcs still maintain this trait, and they continue to wage war against humans, elves, dwarves, and other intelligent races.
Among all the races, they hate the elves the most, because in ancient times, the elven god Corellon and the orc god Geush once broke out in a divine war, for that divine war, the two races have different statements, the elves emphasize that it is a fair decisive battle, and the orcs call it a sneak attack.
Regardless of the course of the battle, one thing is certain, and that is that Geush's left eye was blinded by an arrow from the Elven Lord God Corellon, and in order to remember this shame, Geush did not try to repair his blind eye, and has always shown himself in the form of a one-eyed person, including his divine incarnation.
As a sign of their piety, many orcs kill an elf in the name of Geush and sacrifice their body to the god of slaughter, resulting in a scar on his left eye.
However, in order to make this stigmata complete, it is necessary to gouge out his left eye and present it to Geush as a symbol of his pain and anger, and after completing the sacrifice ceremony, Geush will grant the orc certain spellcasting abilities and unique favors, the wrath of Geush.
From then on, they will receive a special title and open an advanced class, the Eye of Geush, exclusive to orcs.
Only those powerful orcs can receive this favor, or rather, only the mighty ones can survive.
Over time, the Eye of Guush became synonymous with the elite of the orcs.
When countless Eyes of Geush appear on the battlefield, it means that the orcs have exhausted their elite, and it is also the beginning of the catastrophe of those intelligent life.
They are more aggressive, more angry, and more cruel than ordinary orcs, and wherever they pass, they leave nothing alive, only endless killing.
A group of Eyes of Geush riding a flying dragon are even more powerful, and the combat power that can burst out is naturally even more terrifying.
The last number of people who arrived was the largest, about two hundred, and their strength was relatively the weakest, that was a group of bird demons with human bodies, feet showing the shape of bird claws, and huge eagle wings stretched out behind their backs, also called eagle body banshees.
Their most powerful weapon is not a claw or a club, but a song of seduction.
It's just that this kind of charm weapon is okay to deal with those ordinary people or beasts, but against those monsters or extraordinary professionals, it is obviously not enough, their will is usually very firm, and they will even have the ability to resist this kind of charm.
When they saw the horn-winged demonic beast cavalry, it was like a cat seeing a mouse, hiding far away, and they didn't dare to approach at all.
Both Earth Crystal and Horned Winged Demonic Beasts are masters of sonic attacks, not only are they extremely resistant to their Song of Temptation, but they can even form a certain degree of suppression.
There are also a few others, such as griffins and vultures, which are obviously not large, so they are not worth mentioning.
From the distribution of their guards around the Flying Throne, you can see their status in this monster kingdom.
The Wyvern Orc cavalry was in the innermost circle, the horned winged demon beast cavalry was slightly outer, and the harpy banshees could only surround from a distance.
"Troops!" With a wave of his hand, the Cloud Giant took the lead in flying towards the east.
Thundering Peak is difficult to climb that is for those who try to conquer it with their feet, and for a group of flying troops, it is not too easy to cross it.
The Cloud Giants did not try to fly directly from the top of the Thundering Peak, not only because of the thunderstorm that enveloped them all year round, but because there was an evil existence there that they were afraid of, even they did not dare to provoke easily.
They had bypassed the eastern side of Thundering Peak, a vast expanse of sparsely planted wasteland, many of which were barren at all, and belonged to the vanished valley of Death, the Sethren Valley, where Delilah had previously plotted her own schemes.
Their goal was clear, the Tivanton Rift.
This is the northern border between the Kingdom of Cormir and the Valley, and most of the border between the two is separated by the Thundering Peak Mountains, but there are three trade routes connecting each other, from north to south, namely the Moon Sea Highway through the Tivanton Rift, the East Road through the Thundering Rift Valley, and the Thundering Road through the High Valley.
The best of the three roads is the Moon Sea Highway through the Tivanton Rift, which is located between the Thundering Peak Mountains and the Mokou Mountains.
The Tivanton Rift has its name in its name, but in fact, like the Misty Valley, it is a narrow plain sandwiched between two mountain ranges, with more than ten kilometers at its narrowest point and as many as twenty kilometers at its widest point.
It once belonged to the Sethren Valley, and with the demise of the valley, it was taken over by Tivanton.
After passing through this canyon, it means leaving Cormier and officially entering the valley, and this three-month, 3,500-kilometer migration route is finally coming to a perfect end.
(End of chapter)