Emperor of Arcane

Bang!

The sharp sword struck the shield hard, and he felt a stinging pain coming from his wrist.

Aini resisted the urge to retreat, gritted her silver teeth fiercely, held the shield tightly, and held on, without retreating.

She still remembered Instructor Arnold's teachings during close combat training.

No matter what, you cannot retreat.

Even if the bones are cracked or the hand is broken, the defense line must be maintained.

The attack of the supernatural elf ranger was fast and fierce, making it very difficult for Aini to resist.

However, although she was very uncomfortable, she still led her bodyguards and managed to block the attack of the extraordinary elves.

The long-range firepower support from high-level adventurers prevented the extraordinary elf rangers from rashly attacking.

The faster you rush, the more you will be killed by focused fire.

Although the Cole elves are powerful, they are not the kind of warriors who can risk their lives without hesitation.

In particular, the extraordinary rangers whose identity, status, lifespan, and enjoyment far exceed those of other Cole elves will not casually sacrifice themselves in a battle with an uncertain future.

Therefore, the Cole Elf resisted the fierce attack of the Scarlet Moon, but was forcefully resisted by the El Elf.

The elite troops who had high hopes were unknowingly suffering a lot of losses.

Their attacks gradually became weak and failed to open a larger breach in the city wall.

Seeing that the offensive came to a standstill, Teclis, the commander of the Cole elves, raised his eyebrows silently and said solemnly:

"They have already lost at least 50,000 people, how can they still withstand it!"

The legendary ranger Charis remained silent.

But he had a vague hunch in his heart that the culprit that prevented the advancement of the Cole Elf army was most likely to be the sudden appearance of the Gulf Territory troops.

Even if it is just a glimpse, the opponent's powerful strength and luxurious equipment have not reached the legendary level, but there is an extremely terrifying sense of oppression.

Charisse, who had never suffered a failure, suffered great humiliation.

Even though Charles was not in his prime, he did not change the equipment most suitable for close combat, nor did he bring his most beloved fighting partner with him.

But failure is failure!

Councilor Caledo, who was silently flipping through the information, recalled the fiasco on the eastern coast in his mind, and replied in a solemn tone:

"The Gulf Territory likes to use teleportation arrays as its core tactics and has a very powerful melee force."

"Even if we release the War Curtain, with the support of the Grand Arcanist of Knoman, they will be able to penetrate the War Curtain's protection."

Archaon, who was following him, silently glanced at Iris, who was also very unlucky. He did not feel gloating, but silently licked the corners of his mouth.

He recalled Matthew's terrifying power and felt a headache for no reason.

Teclis glanced at Caledo and could tell that he was serious, and asked in a somewhat unbelievable tone:

"You mean, they helped the El elves withstand our offensive with the teleportation support of up to 3,000 people at most once a day?"

When he said this, although Teclis was unwilling to admit it, he already agreed with Caledor's words in his heart.

However, Tigris quickly reacted, with cold determination in his eyes, and without hesitation gave the order to continue the attack:

"Stage 3 reserve team, start attacking!"

Following his order, a faint mist began to cover the entire battlefield.

The well-trained elite troops of Cole elves quickly ran towards the city wall with the help of the cover of mist spells.

Looking at their backs disappearing into the mist, Teclis turned to Caledor next to him and said:

"It is precisely because of their outstanding abilities that they are all left in this tomb."

Facing Teclis' young and handsome face, Caledor naturally understood what he meant, shrugged his shoulders and said:

"I owe you a favor. Besides, the Gulf Territory will not be eliminated so easily. They must have back-ups. You must be prepared to fight for one more round!"

After hearing Caledor's words, Teclis nodded silently, glanced at the bloody sky outside, and said without hesitation:

"Maintain the fog of war and prepare the Griffons!"

Caledor had no intention of speaking. He believed that Teclis had his own plans, but he really didn't want to get involved.

The stimulation and trauma brought to him by the bay collar will take longer to make up for.

He is also preparing a deeper, farther, and more hidden plan to bring a fatal disaster to the Gulf.

"kill……!"

Loud roars continued to echo on the battlefield.

He held up Ji Fan who was rushing forward and waved his spear to sweep away the elf warriors who jumped over.

He could clearly feel that the pressure around him was getting bigger and bigger.

The dwindling number of Aiel warriors forced him to take care of a wider defense line.

Fortunately, the majority of Cole Elf's combat troops are rangers, and a small number are warriors.

The reformed warriors of the Gulf Territory are best at dealing with such enemies!

Seemingly flexible and light, the cramped battlefield of the city wall greatly restricted their active attacks.

It can be used in melee combat or long-range combat, and its attack methods are quite comprehensive.

However, they do not have top-notch penetrating attack effects and can hardly break the magic armor of the transformed warriors.

Combat skills are indeed outstanding. Every elf professional has very skilled and outstanding combat skills and expertise.

However, their gorgeous combat skills are not very strong against the powerful attacks and sweeps of the modified warriors holding spears.

"No matter how gorgeous your movements are and how skilled you are, you are not even qualified to get one meter close to me. How can you fight me?"

In a brief moment of thought, Ji Fan held the spear in his right hand and swept the advancing elf warrior across the face.

They tried to duck down to avoid it, but Ji Fan's palm shook slightly, and the spear that was originally floating suddenly accelerated in speed.

The elf warrior, unable to dodge, tried to block by raising his round shield.

boom! boom! boom!

The silver-white metal round shield was torn into pieces. The Elf warrior behind the shield had his bones broken and his tendons broken. His whole body flew out one after another, screaming and falling off the city wall.

As long as no one releases the light body technique for them!

Dead!

Gently turning his spear to push back the frightened elf warriors, Jifan gained the upper hand and pressed on them step by step.

A spear that simply swings left and right.

Relying on the swiftness like the wind, he has extraordinary power of up to 27 points.

Forming an indestructible line of death on the battlefield.

The elf warrior was in a dilemma and tried to run to both sides.

The El elves came towards them with their shields and used simple spear thrusts to trap them here.

"ah……!"

"kill……!"

"rush!!"

"Do not hesitate!"

"Go together……"

"..."

The noisy screams soon fell into silence.

Jifan glanced at the broken body and signaled the El elf warriors to repair it quickly.

The "whooshing" barrel flew over his head and hit the outside of the city hard.

Several crossbow arrows covered it, and soon a ball of flames reached the sky.

The blazing flames dispersed part of the fog of war, revealing the Cole elves rushing below.

Jifan looked at the fog of war that almost blocked most of the bloody moonlight, with a little thought in his eyes.

This seemingly inconspicuous fog of war has many benefits for the attacker.

Block the line of sight, defend against long-range attacks, and cover up your true attack target.

This alone has weakened most of the two strongest advantages of the defender.

The former is the main offensive method used by the defender to kill the enemy's number and momentum, and can give the defender a considerable psychological advantage.

Unless, like now, we can completely ignore consumption and costs and continuously aim downwards for fire coverage.

Even so, the killing efficiency will be greatly reduced.

The elven warriors who don't have to be so anxious to get close to the city wall can use various armors to strengthen their defense capabilities.

The latter reversed the situation.

The defender could have been waiting for work and deployed superior forces for defense according to the focus of the enemy's attack.

Now it can only maintain high-intensity defensive forces across the entire line, because the opponent can launch the main attack from any position.

This is why, even with 50,000 troops defending Icewind Castle, the troops are still somewhat stretched.

"However, maintaining such a high-intensity, long-term, and large-scale fog of war will inevitably consume many spellcasters' mana and spell slots..."

"This is something that the Gulf Territory cannot afford, and it is also extremely inefficient..."

Even now, Ji Fan can think of using the magic props and alchemy items that the Bay Leader is researching and experimenting with to achieve similar effects.

The saved caster manpower allows them to produce thousands of times more of this type of items.

Therefore, even if the enemies are numerous and powerful, Jifan and the reformed warriors under his command still have sufficient confidence.

Groups of Cole Elf warriors launched a fierce attack on the city wall shrouded in fog.

They will retreat when the team's casualties approach 1/3 and replace them with new combat units.

This can ensure that combat troops can regain their combat effectiveness after a week or two of rest.

It can also maintain continuous offensive suppression against the enemy's defense line.

Even the tallest defensive castle of the El elves was defeated by them using this tactic.

Therefore, they are very confident!

Teclis attaches great importance to the warriors of the Gulf Territory and has been counting the casualties of the El Elf troops.

Two hours passed.

The 4th batch of high-ranking elf mages has been replaced, and there are still 5 teams making preparations.

Tigris counted the data of the 26th withdrawn combat unit, silently calculated and said:

"Although the nine troops that attacked at night lost 40,000 combat effectiveness."

"But it also caused the casualties of about 9,300 El Elf warriors, and more than 200 special warriors were injured..."

"The number of El Elves capable of fighting is less than 20,000..."

"Maintaining the entire defense line of Icewind Castle requires at least 80,000 soldiers..."

He could clearly feel that the addition of 3,000 soldiers from the Gulf Territory had indeed increased the strength of the El Elf defense line by at least two levels.

This can be seen from the ratio of casualties on both sides.

It increased from the original 1:7 to 1:5.

Tigris was a little lucky. Fortunately, he never relaxed his offensive and kept suppressing the defense line.

He has made up his mind to completely defeat the El Elves before the second batch of reinforcements from the Gulf Territory arrives.

At that time, Teclis even wants to occupy the walls of Icewind Castle and regain the favorable terrain, so as to attract the active attack of the remnants of the El elves and the Gulf Territory warriors!

Even because of the difficult offensive operations, the current Cole Elf combat troops have suffered losses of more than 80,000.

The number of those killed was as high as 50,000.

Therefore, Teclis wanted to take revenge and at the same time severely weaken the elite troops of the Gulf Territory and El Elves.

When the El Elves were severely weakened, they could not assemble an elite force with real combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

He can march eastward and capture the El Elves in one fell swoop!

After digesting the gains of the El Elves, he will be able to completely free up his hands to attack the stagnant Gulf Territory.

It has to be said that Tigris has very rigorous ideas and has made relatively long-term plans.

However, all this he thought was based on the fact that the number of El Elf warriors was decreasing.

Whoops!

Densely packed crossbow arrows fell under the city wall like a continuous drizzle.

The elf warrior holding his shield high prayed silently in his heart.

"What comes must be ordinary crossbow arrows!"

Poof!

The sharp arrows pierced the shield very easily and tore apart the elf's body with force.

The fatal trajectory from top to bottom took away the lives of the Cole Elf warriors in an instant.

More and more enchanted armor-piercing arrows quietly joined the battlefield.

Silently, a large number of elven warrior casualties were caused.

The unsuspecting Cole Elf warriors launched a fierce attack on the El Elf defense line as before.

However, this time they encountered terrible danger.

Three times more crossbows than before covered the Cole elves who climbed up the city wall.

They didn't even have time to react before their bodies were instantly pierced by the enchanted arrows.

The El Elves even formed a formation with shields on the city wall, providing solid protection for the El Elf crossbowmen behind them.

The crossbow arrows flew away, and scores of Cole Elf warriors fell.

Aini, who was repairing, stared at the scene in front of her with some confusion.

Unknowingly, hundreds of commanders from the Gulf Territory had transformed the El Elf warriors into their appearance.

However, this is a good thing!

Only if you can survive can you have a future!

After noticing the El Elf warriors walking out of the bunker with heavy shields in hand, the expression of the Cole Elf warrior who had just climbed up the city wall changed drastically.

Before he could react, his companions at the rear were already urging him.

Gritting his teeth, the elf warrior climbed up the city wall and looked at his opponent two or three meters away, with deep fear in his eyes.

How to fight this?

Is this a formation that can be broken through by a short sword and a long sword?

What a joke!

The El elf warrior wearing heavy armor looked nervously at the enemy climbing up.

Soon, the commander's order came to their ears.

"Raise your shield! Hold your gun! Come in!!"

One after another, the spears poked out from behind the shield, looking like a big hedgehog with iron armor.

But this seemingly heavy formation made the Cole Elf warriors who kept rushing up the city wall feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Densely packed crossbow arrows flew over, suppressing their forward figures.

The spear thrust forward continuously, bringing with it a deadly chill.

Poof!

Click!

Rows of Kor elven warriors fell.

They used various methods, but they were completely unable to break through the thick shields and densely packed spears.

The time left for them was too short and they couldn't think of any way to deal with it.

Failure to solve this problem cost them their lives!

"Back up, get into formation!"

The clear voice echoed on the city wall.

The soldiers who suddenly came back to their senses looked at the fallen Cole Elf warrior with a little bit of disbelief in their eyes.

The soldier holding the shield felt like he had done nothing.

The soldiers thrusting their spears felt like their work was mechanical.

The crossbowman felt "bored". According to the angle, he raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger.

The entire battle process is very simple and repetitive.

The effect displayed has reached an extremely astonishing level.

They only suffered more than a dozen casualties and killed more than 300 Cole Elf warriors.

No prisoners, no survivors!

The commander quickly arranged for the wounded to evacuate and supplement the El Elf soldiers who had just completed their training.

Wounded soldiers who are carried to the rear on stretchers will arrive at the emergency treatment camp first.

The emergency doctors here will first perform emergency treatment on their wounds and classify the urgency of the injured.

Wounded soldiers will be classified and treated differently according to their severity.

Wounded soldiers with minor injuries will be sutured and bandaged by medical staff, and will be given a bottle of blood-activating potion and stamina potion.

In about half an hour, they can fully recover and rejoin the battlefield.

Slightly wounded soldiers accounted for 2/3 of the total wounded.

They can return to the battlefield as quickly as possible, ensuring the number of soldiers on the overall defense line.

Moderately injured soldiers account for 1/4 of the total injured soldiers, and will be quickly disposed and treated according to the injured part.

They can usually enjoy quick treatment with healing spells, replenish their physical strength, and reorganize their combat positions.

They will return to the battlefield eight hours later and join the long-range shooting queue.

Life-threatening wounded soldiers will be sent to the safer seriously wounded camps in the rear.

They will provide emergency treatment there, except for brain injuries, broken hearts, or fatal internal bleeding.

The vast majority of seriously injured soldiers can survive again under the treatment of priests, druids, and Gulf Territory doctors.

If they do not suffer any physical damage, they can basically regain their combat effectiveness within 5 to 7 days.

As for those soldiers who are disabled or seriously injured and cannot recover, they will enter the next process.

Because the relationship between the Gulf Territory and the El Elves is not so close that there is no distinction between you and me.

This is Aini's own decision!

It will also keep these elven warriors secret.

As the understanding deepened, Aini also had a better understanding of the Gulf Territory's support for her this time.

Although there are not many Gulf Territory warriors, they are all powerful transformation warriors, and they are the most outstanding first batch.

They all wear magic armor worth millions of gold coins, master many powerful combat skills, and have extremely rich combat experience.

Under the leadership of Matthew, they maintained their ability to suppress the extraordinary troops of the Cole elves, preventing them from breaking through the El elves' defense lines.

1,500 high-level adventurers not only possess excellent combat abilities, but are also proficient in commanding combat skills.

They helped the El Elf army to quickly complete changes in battle formations and methods, giving them greater lethality and defense.

Of course, change cannot be achieved by issuing orders.

Various supplies worth more than 5 million gold coins were also brought over by the adventurers.

Many materials prepared for this war as early as half a year ago have shown very practical effects at this moment.

What moved Aini the most was that, except for some extremely precious priests, druids, and doctors from the Gulf Territory.

Matthew brought a tree of life!

To be precise, what Matthew brought was the clone of Quanquan, the largest tree of life in the Gulf Territory!

With the "help" of Yaya's teachings and Matthew's power of destiny, the very smart Quanquan mastered a very practical and magical illusion clone.

Quanquan's phantom clone is naturally not as strong as his original body.

But even so, the life halo he carried with him still showed an extremely powerful strategic effect.

Legendary feat - Life Aura: Restores 3 health points of all friendly units within 500 meters every second.

The health points of most professionals do not exceed 100 points.

That is, with the injury removed.

Every 30 seconds, Quanquan can fully recover their lost health points.

This is also why the recovery speed of all injured soldiers is so fast.

The spring, which Matthew called a spring, covered most of the battlefield and continued to exert force quietly.

Although she heard Matthew's explanation, Ani was still deeply moved.

After this war, she has become very clear.

No matter how good the relationship is with the same race or blood relatives, they may not come to help at a critical moment of life or death.

The El elves seem to be united, but each family and force has its own little calculation.

Even the royal family who called on everyone to resist together was firmly remembered by Aini after decisively abandoning the western defense line.

These guys are completely unreliable!

Either rely on yourself, or you can only rely on the Gulf Leader!

Bay Neck never disappoints!

Looking at the Cole elves who were attacking more and more fiercely, a little bit of confusion flashed in Aini's eyes. She looked at the fallen enemies and asked hesitantly:

"How is this going?"

Matthew, who was replacing several plug-in armor parts on his chest, looked calmly at the Cole Elf elite troops who had climbed the city wall in the distance and were attacking the defense line, and said in a cold and deadly tone:

"The Cole elf is betting to see if we can hold on, counting the soldiers we lose!"

"Even if the casualties increase greatly now, he will only think that we are using our last resort..."

Aini noticed Jifan who was directing the battle and ordered the defensive troops who were too far forward to retreat back to make some space for the Cole elves to climb up.

She can already "see."

The Cole elf warriors who worked hard to climb the city wall would be baptized by a wave of deadly crossbow arrows before they could be happy.

Without considering retreat, in order not to continue to be covered by crossbows.

They must take the initiative to attack the El elves in formation!

Thus, we entered a fatal death cycle.

The space Jifan specially made way for was the dead space for the Cole Elf to step into on his own initiative!

At this time, Aini had completely let go of her worries about the city wall's defense line.

With the support of the Gulf Territory's super logistics system, and under the aura of life of Quanquan.

In addition to the 10,000 dead El Elf warriors, 2,000 soldiers were disabled and seriously injured.

The remaining 70,000 El elves will repeatedly take to the battlefield with a steady stream of injuries and recovery.

Among them, more than 60,000 El elves were injured.

If not for the timely arrival of the Gulf.

Under the attack of the Cole elves regardless of casualties, all the El elven warriors in the entire Icewind Castle may have died long ago.

Thinking of this, Aini's eyes revealed unspeakable anticipation.

She wondered how long it would take for the Cole Elf to discover this secret.

By that time, how much price had the Cole elves paid?

Putting a high-level elemental crystal worth 100,000 gold coins into his chest, Matthew's thunder magic armor once again lit up with the familiar blue light.

He waved to the modified warriors and took the lead in rushing towards the Cole Elf extraordinary elite troops.

Noticing Matthew's arrival, the Cole Elf Extraordinary Elite Rangers' expressions changed drastically, and they immediately began to retreat quickly.

Compared with ordinary Cole Elf warriors who can only launch an attack, the extraordinary elite rangers have greater autonomy on the battlefield.

This is reflected in the aspect of retreating quickly!

Except for the two extraordinary rangers left behind by Matthew's control of Thunder, the others decisively retreated to the bottom of the city.

They are ready to regroup and pick out weak points in the defense that can be exploited before Matthew arrives.

Of course, the ordinary Cole Elf warriors who followed them in the attack became victims of "voluntarily covering" their retreat.

Under the threat of magic artillery and dragon-hunting crossbows, the caster troops did not dare to approach the walls of Icewind Castle.

The extraordinary elite unit that had high hopes also fell into a disadvantage in front of the reformed warriors led by Matthew and Jifan.

The ordinary elf warriors who were originally used to trade with the El elves have now lost as much as 100,000.

With multiple trump cards blocked, Cole Elf's offensive fell into a stalemate.

The elf commander Teclis, who only learned of the situation more than an hour later, looked through the newly compiled data with a livid face.

More than three thousand-man brigades were all killed, leaving no one alive.

This will most likely lead to the disappearance of the system, and will also subject him to a lot of censure and punishment.

By accident, the Gulf Territory gave him a big surprise.

Looking at these shocking statistics, raging flames burst out of Tigris's chest.

However, he did not get angry at the messenger and the soldiers fighting.

He stared intently at the battlefield where the shouts of killing were loud.

Without hesitation, he issued the order to attack on multiple fronts.

"The opponent has already lost 80,000 people. No matter how tenacious the remaining combat power is, it will be impossible for them to withstand our fierce offensive!"

"Capture one or two special warriors from the Gulf Territory as much as possible. If that doesn't work, retrieving the bodies will be a great achievement."

Tigris's disbelief in the Gulf Territory's ability to cause trouble has changed from his initial disbelief to his current hatred.

But he never dreamed that the ones who really caused him big trouble were those El Elf warriors he looked down upon.

Two hours later.

The bloody moon has begun to set toward the east.

Judging the number of enemies, Teclis, who had already lost more than 20,000 men, issued an order for a full-scale attack.

"Army attack!"

In addition to ordinary Cole Elf warriors, he also mobilized many ace troops including Griffin Knights, Iron Golem Legion, High-level Combat Puppet Legion, and Battle Mage Legion.

Together we launched a general attack on Icewind Castle!

Matthew's sight passed through the fog of war and he keenly noticed these Cole elves' ace troops.

He reminded Jifan without hesitation and rushed to the central city wall as quickly as possible.

Wherever there is danger, they need to temporarily block the gap.

Jifan, who had long been wary of Cole Elf's move, marked the drawings of the marching routes of many ace troops and immediately informed the relevant data to the long-range troops.

Jifan is not surprised that the Lord has obtained this information. He has long been accustomed to the Lord's power and mystery.

After all the artillery units were ready, Jifan decisively issued the order "all magic artillery fire".

The 300 hidden magic artillery pieces spewed out shocking sparks and sounds crazily at the moment the order was given.

The rotating shells roared through the fog of war!

They brought with them a flickering flame and stirred up the already thick fog of war.

An elf warrior with considerable combat experience was smiling and saying to his frightened companion next to him:

"Don't worry, there is the fog of war, and the enemy's attacks will not fall on us. What you should be thinking about is..."

Poof!

His head disappeared instantly, and the splash of blood instantly turned the elf warrior next to him red.

The elf warrior who was studying hard looked blankly at his broken body with his upper body destroyed, fear and madness suddenly entering his mind.

"ah……!"

Click!

Boom!

"Disperse quickly..."

"How come it's so accurate?"

"This isn't right!"

"Run...!"

"..."

The golems and siege equipment that pose the greatest threat to the walls of Icewind Castle suffered considerable losses in this round of rapid artillery coverage.

In just one round of bombing, four steel golems struck, and seven or eight attack equipment were destroyed.

These large, slow-moving targets have become targets for the El Elf artillery in actual combat and training.

They only need to enter the established coordinates, adjust the shooting parameters, and then fire.

After every three rounds of shooting, you will get new coordinates.

When these two ace troops were ravaged by magic artillery.

Several other Cole Elf ace troops have already entered the El Elf defense line.

But they never expected that the defense line that they imagined should be very thin was actually filled with many fully armed El Elf warriors.

The commanders of the units, whose expressions changed drastically, noticed the surrounding El Elf warriors, and immediately passed this information to the rear.

"There are too many enemies, please retreat!"

After summarizing the data, it was found that the number of El Elf warriors exceeded 30,000. Teclis, the commander of the Cole Elf, had a bit of collapse in his eyes and shouted in disbelief:

"This is impossible! They should all die! How many lives do they have?"

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