Lord of War

The dark clouds in the sky give people a very strong sense of oppression.

Even if Cecilia didn't remind them, everyone present knew that this must be a huge spell bombardment.

The light emitted by Gulu really couldn't sustain the cover of the dark cloud, so it could only fall back to Cecilia's side at this moment. It can only be regarded as a small animal in the growth stage now, let alone an adult, if it is calculated according to the age of human beings, it may only look like four or five years old. It is no small thing to have three kinds of natural abilities, but if you want to If you expect Gulu to be of any help in the war, it is better to expect reinforcements from the sky.

Cecilia put Gulu away carefully, and stared up at the black lightning that flashed from time to time in the dark clouds.

"Can you see what kind of magic it is?" There was no panic on William's face.

"It should be acid rain." Cecilia said, "After all, the Skeleton Mage is only a third-level magician. He doesn't know much about undead magic, and there are only three of them. Summoning skeletons is one, and bone recovery is one. Now summon With such a large area of ​​dark clouds, it should be acid rain."

"After the undead creatures gather together, there will be a power increase of dead energy, and the intensity of acid rain will increase." It was Alisa who spoke. Her ability is rather strange, and the weapon she uses is also a magic guide that no one has ever seen before. Guns, but in essence she is more inclined towards magicians, "probably acid rain or something."

"But their magic power cannot be unlimited forever." Cecilia said softly, "This rain depends on whether it is urgent or slow."

"What do you mean?" Although William has a lot of knowledge about magic, he has never had a group of mages under his command. Therefore, there is no place for many whimsical tactics to be practiced, and naturally there is a lack of cognition to a certain extent.

"Miss Cecilia means that if the rain is urgent, the power will increase again. But it cannot last too long." Alisa explained, "If the rain is slow, it is likely to last for a long time, but In terms of power, it is weaker than rapid rain... But no matter whether it is slow or urgent, according to the standard of magic damage, strong acid rain can reach the damage standard of third-level magic."

"If it's urgent, it's the quasi-level four standard?" Alfred asked.

"At least level four." Cecilia answered, "but the time will not exceed ten minutes."

"A level-four magic attack that lasts for ten minutes?" William's expression finally changed.

If it is a second or third level magic, the latest shock shield can resist it. After all, as the Void Principality became stronger and stronger, some of the more important materials began to be mixed with rarer anti-magic materials. Although these anti-magic materials are not top-notch, and the amount is not particularly large, there is no problem if they are used to resist second- and third-level magic. Even fourth-level magic has certain resistance and immunity.

But for a level four magic attack that lasts for ten minutes, unless it is made of anti-magic materials above level three, it cannot be stopped at all.

"Acid rain magic is different." Alisa said. "The damage of this magic is accumulative. In other words, we have stood in the range of acid rain magic for a long enough time to have this power damage. And if we find a place to hide when it rains, then The power and damage of this magic is actually not high."

"So, as long as we use the shock shields to cover and combine with each other, can we survive this acid rain?" William asked humbly.

"It can last." Cecilia gave an affirmative answer, because she knew what William meant. "But we can't afford it."

"Why?" William wondered.

"It's not difficult to stand in an formation for ten minutes in heavy rain. But you have to change the shield almost every minute." Cecilia said, "I've already calculated it. Ten minutes just needs the whole steel shield." The shields of all the soldiers on the wings are used to block them. And this acid rain is very destructive to the impact shields, basically it is impossible for the shields that support the shields to block the rain to deploy the spikes."

Having said that, the meaning is already very clear.

The bone ladder was built to give these undead a chance to rush up the city wall for hand-to-hand combat. Looking at the formation of the skeleton cavalry, one can know that once the bone ladder is built, those cavalry must charge immediately, trying to tear a hole for the skeleton infantry behind to attack the city wall.

This is why Levi kept reminding him of the dangers of the bone ladder.

Abaza, on the other hand, said that these steps should not be ignored at all. Levi doesn't understand why, but everyone else knows that because they have shock shields - as long as the spikes of the shock shield are driven down to form an array, unless a cavalry regiment of level 7 or above charges to attack, there is no way to break through the steel The defense of the wings. This is also the fundamental reason why the Iron Wings can become the reason why all the cavalry regiments in the entire southern continent are talking about it, and it is also the reason why countless enemy countries want to steal the blueprint for making the impact shield.

But now, if the impact shield must be sacrificed to resist the acid rain, then even if the acid rain blocks it, how can the enemy's skeleton cavalry charge be blocked?

Nothing to stop.

Can only take life to fill.

William's brows were furrowed. Even if he was one of the top ten famous generals in the world, he was good at using intrigue and surprise soldiers, but he couldn't do the job of "a clever woman can't cook without rice". Of course, he believed that even if the steel wings didn't have an impact shield, it would not be a problem to block the charge of the skeleton cavalry. After all, the skeleton cavalry was only a third-level undead, at best they were comparable to a fourth-level army. , it is not a problem to block it with the steel wings that have reached the fifth level.

However, this is a cavalry charge after all, without the special ability of the shock shield, there will definitely be casualties.

William would not be willing to suffer casualties when casualties could be avoided.

But before William and the others came up with a good solution, the skeleton mages gathered together activated the acid rain magic.

In the cloudy sky, green rain began to fall.

"Hide!" William roared in a deep voice.

Those steel-winged soldiers standing under the city wall immediately searched for a nearby building to hide.

Since the first break of the Wild Fortress, the inside of the fortress has been empty. Although Cruz's touch destroyed one-third of the fortress, this uninhabited city has plenty of places to rest, so even if nearly one hundred thousand people came The army is not afraid of having no place to rest at all. At this time, except for the 30,000 steel-winged soldiers on the fortress wall, the rest of the legion was resting in preparation for the next big battle, so when the acid rain fell, it had no effect on them.

What's more, William's order has been received at this moment, and these people will not come out to make trouble.

And the 30,000 steel-winged soldiers standing on the city wall also began to form ten small steel-winged formations according to Cecilia's urgent order.

There are 3,000 people in each formation, and they hold their shields and stand side by side, holding only 800 shields.

The impact shield is a heavy-duty tower shield. One shield can accommodate three to four people to hide together. When eight hundred shields are raised together, the coverage area formed is naturally not small. Four hundred people are enough to hide 3,600 people. enough. However, the way of lifting the shield of the steel wing array is not to fully unfold the heavy shield, but similar to the construction method of the bone ladder: shield on top of shield, so although the scale will be smaller, the scale of 3,000 people is still enough up.

And this method of stacking shields can naturally ensure that one shield is only partially affected each time. You only need to adjust the angle of lifting the shield and the overlapping place, and one shield can be used repeatedly three or four times. Even if it is counted on the basis of three times, this small steel wing array can resist for as long as nine minutes. As for the last minute, it can only be used to completely wear down 800 impact shields.

As for Levi and other strong men, they are naturally not afraid of this acid rain magic. Although William is just an ordinary person and has no ability to protect himself, there are many strong people around him, and it is more than enough to protect him.

Because of the acid rain, the defense capability of the entire fortress wall was almost completely disintegrated.

However, the damage of this type of large-scale magic does not distinguish between friend and foe at all, so the attack range of the spell is only limited to the walls of the fortress and the entire fortress, and does not expand the scope to the bone staircase that is being built.

Therefore, without any interference and hindrance, the construction speed of the bone ladder will obviously become faster and crazier. Almost every minute you can see a new layer of the bone ladder being built. At this time, the height of the entire Bone Staircase has reached 20 floors, and the height is almost 17 meters, and the length of the spread is more than 30 meters. The bone ladder built by the city wall already has a very complete prototype.

I'm afraid it won't be long before the 30-meter-high city wall will be unable to stop the army of undead outside the fortress.

But soon, the undead army almost didn't even let the fortress defenders observe the progress. Because of the need to stop the acid rain, the defenders of the steel wings raised their shock shields high, and those who did not hold them high were also put in the formation, like an eagle with its wings restrained, so those skeleton archers had a higher chance to attack freely . In order to avoid losses, William could only order Abaza to withdraw the steel wings on the city wall, not to get too close to the edge of the city wall.

Looking at the original war situation of offense and defense, because the undead army has a skeleton mage group, the good situation was completely suppressed and subverted, and even unable to counterattack, William felt so aggrieved Almost vomiting blood.

Since he became the military commander of the Void Principality, he has never fought such a useless war!

William's teeth were almost crushed!

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[To be continued "". 】