40: Hunt the White Raven
In the blink of an eye, the white raven had been active on the western front of Linfeng City for a week.
In the past seven days, in all the battles she supported, the Linfeng army did not taste a single defeat.
Gradually, the Linfeng army has accepted this mysterious reinforcement who has come and gone without a trace from the bottom of their hearts, and there are different opinions about her origin.
Some people say that this is the strong foreign aid invited by the city lord's mansion;
Some people say that this is a certain hidden master in Linfeng City to help;
Some people also say that this is a cultivation genius secretly cultivated in the army......
But no matter what the true identity of the white crow was, her appearance did save the lives of many soldiers in the war, consolidated the defensive front to the west of the Linfeng army, and also crushed the ambition of the steppe soldiers to come to the city
Nowadays, whenever the enemy attacks and the red distress flare rises, everyone's hearts will think of the white raven for the first time.
They began to believe that with the protection of the White Raven, the Linfeng people would be invincible on the battlefield and repel all invading enemies.
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La Buse steppe, a hundred kilometers to the west, is the main camp of the steppe tribe.
In addition to the core combat power of the tribe, there are thousands of children, women and children living here, and it is also the place where the "Heavenly Father" is guarded, and it is the command center of the steppe people during the war.
At this time, sitting on the chair of the battle tent was a young man with bronze skin and wearing the traditional costume of the Lebs tribe.
He is the second son of the Heavenly Father, Su Yi, the future young leader of the Lebs clan and one of the commanders of the war.
"How's it going to be today?"
A general walked in quickly outside the tent, and Su Yi asked.
He remembered that this was the captain of the Ranger who was in charge of operations on the Western Front.
"I'm very sorry, young master."
The general buried his head deeply, "We encountered the white raven, and we failed to achieve any results......
For the first five days, they attempted to target the White Raven, but failed, as traditional bows and spells could barely hit such a highly mobile flying unit in the air.
For the next two days, they tried to get around the range where the white ravens frequented, but failed again.
Even when attacking from a remote position, the White Raven always arrives in time at the speed of the White Raven, and her support covers almost the entire Western Front.
It was the first time he had encountered such a difficult opponent, and he felt like he didn't know where to start.
Hearing this, Su Yi couldn't help frowning.
For decades, the recovery of the Lebus grassland has been the obsession of their clan, and for the long-cherished wish of this nation, successive generations of "Heavenly Fathers" have been silently preparing for the day when they will counterattack Linfeng City.
And now the Roland Empire is in civil strife, and it is a good time to take the opportunity to level Linfeng City and recover the grassland.
So they signed a contract with the second prince, Roderick, who would give them a certain amount of material support, as well as a promise that the empire would not retaliate if the city was broken.
The former supported the latter's ascension to the throne and guaranteed non-aggression with the second prince's forces in the future.
At the same time, according to the information that should be provided in the city, the current army of Linfeng City has not been trained because it has been too peaceful for too long, and it is definitely not an opponent of their troops.
To this end, he specially cut off the legs of one of the knights of Peak City, managed to provoke Peak City, and cut off the trade supply channel behind Peak City.
All of this is forcing Linfeng City to send an army to fight against itself.
As long as you use your own good fighting methods on the grassland to wipe out most of the forces of the Linfeng City army, and then destroy the walls of Linfeng City according to the "original plan".
On the La Buse steppe, there is nothing to resist their iron hooves.
Now that the war has begun, everything was expected, and they are eating away at the army of the peak step by step on the steppe.
But at the critical moment when the western front of Linfeng was about to be broken, variables came.
The White Raven appeared, and there was no information about her in the army information given by Neo.
She emerged like a sΓ©ance, propping up the crumbling western defenses and holding them back for a week.
"It's been seven days, and we don't have much time left. I hope to be able to conquer Peak City before the middle of winter, fulfilling a long-cherished wish that my people have been asking for for decades. β
He stood up, looked around at everyone in the tent, and raised his voice: "Now that we are only one step away from liberating our homeland, who can drive away this obstructive raven and help our iron hooves conquer the whole grassland?" β
Everyone looked at each other.
They are all the strongest group of transcendents in the tribe, and if it is a white-knuckle battle or a horse battle, they are confident that they will not lose to any of the powerhouses in Linfeng City.
But even if he was as strong as a seventh-order transcendent, he didn't dare to pack a ticket to definitely shoot down this nimble white raven.
The feeling of having nowhere to use your strength and strength and only looking at the sky and sighing is too embarrassing, in case you miss the blow and scare away the white raven, resulting in the failure of the mission, and you may become a laughing stock in the tribe.
Each of them is also a figure with a head and a face, but they don't want to lose this person.
There was silence in the tent for a while, when an old man stood up and said, "I would like to break off the wings of this white raven and contribute to the revival of the tribe." β
He is one of the most senior shamans in the La Buse tribe and the only sixth-order wind mage in the tribe.
When it comes to aerial combat, he is indeed the strongest of all those present.
Su Yi's eyes lit up: "Very good, tomorrow I will send another army to attack the Western Front and lure the white raven out." β
"When that happens, I'll do it." The old man bowed his head and said, "Make sure she has to go and never return." β
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Following.
Nolen's carriage stopped outside the city of Peak, near the center of the western front, and as soon as it rose into the air, the entire front could be seen calling for help on the left and right.
Yuna got on the full Valkyrie gear with Aisha's help, and Nolan spoke up, "Did you notice any difference?" β
"Hmm." Yuna nodded, "With a bracer added to her left hand, the magic guide is different." β
"This was sent from Luo Genna last night, just in time for today's sortie."
Nolan said, "Let me introduce the new equipment of the first machine...... Hmm, shouldn't it be called the first machine now?
"Let's talk about this first, the bracer in your left hand is loaded with a fourth-order water spell "Blocking Barrier", and when you see that the blue button on it is not, press it to activate it.
"The Blocking Barrier is an all-around, translucent fluid shield that is particularly effective against spell-based attacks, so use it when you need it."
This bracer has a similar structure to the Duelist Arm Guard on his left hand, except that it does not allow the Duelist to change the magic cards in the Spell Structure bin at will like the Duelist.
It's not that it's impossible, but it's unnecessary, because Valkyrie's drivers are often in high-speed combat scenarios, and manually changing magic cards will affect the pace of the battle too much.
At the same time, the bracers share a line with the joystick that connects to the backpack, and it is powered by the backpack's large mana crystals, so it is not as easy to run out of mana as the duelist.
Yuna figured out the function of the bracers, she nodded, and Nolan pointed to the magic guide gun in her hand again, and smiled:
"Next up is the highlight of this modification - the new version of the Wizard Gun has also been successfully created, and now it is equipped with three different attack spells at the same time!
"In addition to the fourth-order wind spell "Wind Blade", it also adds the third-order earth-based spell "Gravel Scattering" and the fifth-order fire spell "Concentrated Flameburst".
Among them, the "Gravel Scatter" has a large attack range, and its lethality is enough to deal with ordinary opponents, because it is a third-order spell, it consumes less mana, which is suitable for cleaning up miscellaneous soldiers or carrying out fire cover.
"And "Concentrated Flame Explosion" is a close-range attack spell, which is extremely powerful, as long as it hits the opponent, it can basically play a decisive role.
"But because it's a fifth-order spell, the mana consumption is very large, considering the mana required for normal flight, you can only use it once at most, and you need to control the timing of your own use."
In fact, "Concentrated Flame Explosion" is a spell he obtained by asking the Book of All-Knowing Questions.
And the "key word" he asked the Book of All-Knowing at that time was that he needed an attack spell that was "the most lethal single under the high-level spells".
The current Valkyrie equipment is not yet capable of carrying high-level spells, one reason is that the mana source of the backpack is still not large enough to withstand the terrifying mana consumption brought by high-level spells.
Another reason is that the magic circle engraved by high-level spells will also become larger.
Although relying on the perfect magic circle of the Book of All-Knowing, it was not like the Demon Guide City Defense Cannon, a sixth-order magic circle with a huge diameter of seven meters at every turn, it was not the volume of a magic guide gun that could easily accommodate it.
In fact, in order to cram into the circle of the fifth-order spell "Concentrated Energy Flameburst", the body of the new magic bolt has been widened and lengthened a bit.
At the moment, "Concentrated Flameburst" is the most powerful spell that can be carried on the first machine.
At the same time, in order to support the new magic bolt to quickly switch between three different attack modes, Nolan also designed a small trap next to the trigger.
There are three different levels of the small trap, and you can adjust the gear with your thumb to determine which circle in the body of the gun will be connected to the mana source.
It's just a simple parallel circuit.
Now, equipped with the water-based spell "Blocking Barrier", the earth-based spell "Gravel Scattering", and the fire-type spell "Concentrated Flameburst", the first machine has stronger survival and offensive capabilities.
Speaking of which, these spells have different elemental types, and only alchemy weapons can be played like this, integrating different types of spells together.
I'm a master of spells!
After listening to Nolan's introduction, Yuna also had a score in her heart, maybe these equipment are very complicated when designing and manufacturing, but they are very simple to use.
Even the intricate jetpack can quickly adapt to the operation, and she can basically look at these regular equipment.
Yuna put on the white raven mask and controlled the first plane to fly into the sky, and Nolan also put on a mask to maintain a soul connection with her, and said with a smile:
"It's been a week in a row, are you feeling a little tired? After testing out the new gear today, I'll give you a vacation, right? β
Yuna watched over the various defensive strongholds set up by the Linfeng army from high in the sky, and strung these strongholds together to form a whole line of defense that stretched to the west.
"I'm not tired." She switched her backpack to energy-saving hovering mode and whispered, "I'm happy to be able to help everyone." β
"Yes." Nolan bowed, "Then let's fight until the end of the war." β
Speaking of which, Yuna has experienced several battles in the past few days, and has also observed a lot of extraordinary powers for herself, and has accumulated a lot of knowledge points for the Book of All-Knowing.
Although I obtained some spell circles halfway, the amount of knowledge points in reserve is still increasing overall.
I don't know when I'll be able to accumulate enough knowledge points to get the next soul spell, and he is very greedy for the technology of mental power control jetpack.
After waiting quietly for a while, Yuna spotted a distress flare rising in the air.
She lifted her spirits and said, "The steppe people are here again, and someone has sent a distress signal. β
"I see, the distress signal in the previous two days was far away from us, but I didn't expect it to be quite close this time."
Nolan curled the corners of his mouth, "Strike, Yuna, let them see how the first machine can perform after the modification!" β
"Hmm!"
Yuna sped in the direction of the distress signal, and in a short time reached the sky above the military stronghold.
Seeing a figure flying like a meteor in the sky, the defenders on the ground were all excited.
"It's the white raven, the white raven is really here!"
"It's coming so fast!"
"We've won!"
"Hold the stronghold, let her see our strength too!"
Yuna was greeted with cheers from the defenders as soon as she arrived, and their morale continued to rise, and they were on par with the battle-hardened steppe troops.
"You're getting more and more popular." Nolan teased.
Yuna didn't respond, and by the time she arrived at the stronghold, she had fully focused on the battlefield.
She pressed the mechanism of the Wizard Bolt, adjusted the spell to a gravel scatter, and pulled the trigger on the steppe troops below.
The earthy yellow circle quickly took shape, and countless sharp pieces of rubble shot out, like a torrential rain falling from the sky, enveloping all enemies in the range.
Some horses were injured by the splattering stones, and they fell to the ground with men and horses.
There were also enemy helmets and armor smashed into potholes, and blood flowed down to the ground, unable to attack again for a while.
Although the Gravel Scatter is not effective in dealing fatal damage against heavily armed enemies, it is a low-level spell with low mana consumption and a large attack range, and the suppressive power is still sufficient when cast from the sky.
With Yuna's air support, the defenders on the ground were even more combative, and they fought hard to kill the enemy, but before she could really exert her strength, there was a faint tendency to repel the enemy.
And in this chaotic battle, there is an old man in a black cloak who is hiding in the troops of the steppe people, raising his head and staring at the white raven in the sky with cold and resentful eyes.
In this short period of one week, the defense of the Linfeng Western Front army has made rapid progress, from being defeated by the steppe people at the beginning, to the reluctant resistance later, and finally to the current almost equal score.
Among them, the Linfeng army is certainly rapidly adapting to the rhythm of the war, and the appearance of the white crow has inspired their military morale is also a major reason.
Because of her, Linfeng's army is getting stronger and stronger.
Because of her, the defense of the Western Front could not break through.
Now, she is the biggest obstacle to the reclaiming of their homeland by the Lebuses!
Looking at the figure in the sky, the old man's emotions were agitated, and the air flow around his side became strong and disordered.
He kicked his foot hard, and the whole person rose into the air, and a huge wind blade with a length of three meters was waved out by him, and slashed towards the white raven!
The high-ranking mage who was lurking in the shadows showed his fierce fangs at this moment.