From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

"Ah!"

Thorin chopped down a fleeing orc with his sword, and shouted with his companions to boost morale.

As early as when the earth began to shake, the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain had been alert. Except for Balin who rode a goat to meet Dain in advance, everyone else was preparing their weapons and armor, including Thorin who had been immersed in the sadness of the destruction of the Arkenstone.

But the huge dragon corpse in front of the main gate of the Lonely Mountain still hindered their steps to go out. The short-legged dwarves were not good at climbing up and down by nature. It took them a lot of effort to cross Smaug's corpse, especially Pombo who boasted of his strong body.

So when they rushed out of the gate of the Lonely Mountain and came to the front battlefield, the orcs had already begun to disintegrate under Ivy's nine-ring spell meteor explosion.

Even a ragtag army composed of local rogues would fight a favorable battle, let alone these dwarves who had experienced adventures together?

So they chased the orcs fleeing towards the ridge like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

But when Thorin was about to take a breath and continue fighting, he found that the elves began to retreat.

"The elves retreated? Why did the elves retreat?" Qili asked puzzledly, "Now is obviously a good time to break through the orc camp in one go!"

Just when the dwarves were at a loss, a large number of elves who received Thranduil's instructions had quickly returned to the foot of the mountain and began a short rest in the camp next to the Dale City.

"Wizard!" Thorin shouted at Ivy who was riding down the hillside, "Why retreat? Did the elves betray us?"

"There is another larger orc army on the other side of the mountain. Those who fell on the hillside are just their vanguard." Ivy explained to them, "Let's go back to the elf camp outside Dale City. We have no way to defend the Lonely Mountain before Dale City's Ironfoot Army arrives. If Dale City falls, everything will be too late."

"What!" Thorin's shock was obvious, "We can't give up the gold in the Lonely Mountain!"

"A wise king can take them back from the orcs again, not to mention the help of elves and humans, not to mention me." Ivy's face remained unchanged. If Thorin could endure the pain of losing treasures many times, maybe his dragon disease would be cured without medicine because of multiple blows.

Thorin's face, shrouded by the shadow of the crown, twisted for a while, and he gasped and said, "You are right, wizard... Since we can take back the Lonely Mountain from the flames of the evil dragon Smaug once, it will not be more difficult to take it back from the orcs for the second time. Let's go! Go to the elf camp!"

The dwarves who received the order acted together, and the twenty-four short legs almost ran out of afterimages.

Ivy took a last look at the hillside where a large number of orc corpses were left, and also moved towards the camp.

The orcs behind the hillside did not leave much preparation time for the coalition forces. There were too many of them, so many that they could launch rounds of attacks at all costs until everyone in the coalition forces was exhausted.

Fortunately, the Running River surrounding the Valley City has not begun to freeze, and Ivy's previous move to widen the river channel has greatly shortened the width of the orcs' siege. Therefore, even if there are more orcs, it is impossible for them to use all their strength at once under the walls of the Valley City.

But if time continues to move towards winter, and the entire Running River falls into a dry season because the source on the lonely mountain is frozen, then Dale City will be in danger.

When the number of orcs exceeds that of the coalition ten times, time is no longer on the side of Dale City. However, the coalition still has the possibility of dragging down the orcs, but this depends on whether the logistics organization of the orc army is perfect. Such a large number of orcs will put a huge test on the logistics capabilities. If their organization declines due to insufficient food, the coalition that has stored food in advance will have a new advantage.

Ivy doesn't like overly passive strategies, but there is no extra time for him to think on the battlefield.

A large number of orc troops crossed the hillside and advanced towards Dale City.

They split into two groups on the ridge. The one with the siege beast rushed towards the wall of Dale City, and the other rushed directly to the elf camp in front of the bridge of Dale City.

This is the advantage of having more people. The orcs have enough troops to fight on two fronts. Even if the width of the Running River is not enough for the orcs to wade in the water, it is a very smart decision to set up a siege camp to consume the durability of the city wall.

The catapult can not only attack the city wall and the buildings inside the city wall across the river, but also lure the coalition forces that are unwilling to bear the loss to attack the siege camp. This is a dilemma. If the siege camp is not removed, it means that the coalition’s base camp will continue to be hit, but if the camp is removed, the risk of dividing the troops must be borne.

"This is throwing the problem to us to choose..." Gandalf, who was standing next to Ivy, muttered to himself, and then looked at Ivy with Thranduil and Thorin, "Ivy, can you..."

"My magic power is not infinite..." Ivy sighed.

The spell slot of [Splendid Warlock] is actually quite tight. Although it is a nine-ring spellcaster, this profession itself only provides a nine-ring spell slot, and even there is only one eight-ring spell slot.

If Ivy didn't possess ancient magic that provided an extra eighth-ring and two seventh-ring spell slots, and if spell points could not be converted into high-level spell slots, Ivy would have been unable to do anything but transform into a melee mage and rush into the enemy, hacking and hacking non-stop.

"I will be responsible for taking down the siege camp, but you must hold on to the front battlefield." Ivy took a breath again and said, "At least wait until our reinforcements arrive. In addition to Dain's Ironfoot Army, Lord Elrond also went to the Misty Mountains to seek help from the Eagle King. As long as Lord Elrond's situation is smooth, the giant eagles can arrive at the battlefield as quickly as possible."

"I feel much more relieved to hear the news of reinforcements." Bilbo's voice came from the side.

Everyone who heard this was stunned and looked at the hobbit. No one noticed how this master thief appeared.

Gandalf was horrified: "Why are you here? Bilbo! Go back and hide! I wanted to ask King Thranduil for a horse to send you away, but the orcs came too fast... War is not the domain of Hobbits, please go back to the city quickly!"

"Why! I have weapons! I want to stay with my friends!" Bilbo was very dissatisfied, "I am the fourteenth person you chose, and I will never back down!"

"Let him stay here! Gandalf." Thorin said, and a smile appeared on his face, which was gloomy because of abandoning the gold in the lonely mountain. "We need Master Baggins to watch our butts."

"Haha!" The dwarves standing in the first row as infantry laughed.

"We don't have time to joke." The elven king with the best eyesight raised his long sword and commanded the elven archers behind him, "Shoot!"

Before riding to the siege camp of the orcs, Ivy slammed the staff in his hand on the ground and added many buffs to himself one by one.

The route Ivy chose to advance was the Running River.

Since the orcs set up the siege camp by the running river, the cold river water is the best assault route for Ivy. The West Wind Horseshoe allows the Golden Horn to carry Ivy on the water, and there will be no enemies in this direction.

This not only prevents the orc troops blocking the elf camp and the siege camp from delaying Ivy's actions, but also allows them to directly attack the opponent's core area.

Seeing the golden unicorn running on the water, the orcs who surrounded the elf camp were very panicked for a while, and tried to throw arrows at Ivy on the river, but found that none of these projectiles had the desired effect, and even failed to delay Ivy's actions. After that, the war beasts in the siege camp began to prepare for close combat.

These siege beasts wear giant iron gloves on their arms, and many hideous spikes extend from them. When the war beasts need to use the siege weapons behind them, they will insert the spikes on the iron gloves into the ground to fix their bodies like ground nails.

When there are enemies around to interfere, these giant beasts can also swing their long arms to fight. Although the siege weapons behind them will slow down their turning speed, at least they have gained the ability to drive away enemies within the melee range.

Ivy has activated the last ancient ability of the Ravenclaw crown, the Wise Man's Plan, through the specialty of [Ancient Master].

When approaching the Orc troops on the shore, he took the time to split a six-ring spell slot into two three-ring ones, and gave the two three-ring spells [Spell Repeat] super magic effects through [Wise Man's Plan].

The huge fireballs grew in the wind and blasted the Orcs on the shore into pieces.

When the six seconds were up, two fireballs of the same size emerged from the void again, flying towards the middle of the Orc formation intact. Those Orcs who were struggling to survive because of their iron armor and heavy shields all fell under the second attack and turned into charred corpses on the ground.

The orcs were unwilling to accept such a spell attack, but they had no means to fight back, so they had to stay away from the banks of the Running River as much as possible.

This was exactly what Ivy had planned at the beginning.

Ivy poured the surging arcane into the Beast Bite Sword again, and stepped into the siege camp full of giants.

Ivy's attack was very clever. He did not rush into the middle of the siege camp like a fool, but landed from the direction close to the hillside. Although this place was closer to the orcs' base camp, it was not a conventional threat direction in their eyes - who would put the line-resisting infantry behind the siege weapons? And when the vanguard had already engaged the enemy?

There were no orc troops blocking this direction, so Ivy was able to circle around with the giants.

Trying to make the war beasts carrying heavy objects turn quickly was undoubtedly a huge test for their ankles. Not to mention that Ivy also sprinkled a layer of grease on the soles of their feet.

These clumsy guys had already lost the moment they tried to turn around. The difficult terrain caused by the oil spell knocked down all the war beasts in the range, and also made the orcs who were responsible for using siege equipment on their backs fall down one after another. At this time, Ivy ignited the fire, and all these unlucky guys became barbecue on the iron plate.

The orc warlord in charge of guarding the siege camp angrily ordered his men to scoop water from the running river with helmets to put out the fire. At the same time, he personally led some other orcs to bypass the fire and attack Ivy.

But the grease layer formed by the oil spell is lighter than water, and the water they poured on the fire was completely counterproductive. Not only did it fail to extinguish the flames, but it also expanded the range of the flames. The siege beasts that tried to avoid the spreading fire accidentally collided with each other, which triggered a larger chain reaction-many siege beasts that were not within the range of the oil spell also fell to the ground because of the digging of their companions. Although they were not as unlucky as their companions who were struggling in the flames, these guys would not have the opportunity to launch another attack in a short time.

Since the enemy missed the opportunity due to mistakes, it was Ivy's turn to launch a new round of attacks. His original idea was to use the high mobility of the Golden Horn to circle around the war beasts in the siege camp, and then use long-range spells to kill.

Although such a strategy can perfectly protect itself, it is inevitable to spend a lot of time. However, the most time-poor side on the battlefield is the coalition. If the elves responsible for resisting the Orcs can't resist first, Ivy may have to provide support, so it is best to fight quickly.

The chaos in the siege camp gave Ivy the possibility of a quick victory.

He was about to cast another eighth-level spell, the Cloud Burning spell from the Conjuration Department.

The effect of this spell is to create a swirling cloud of smoke with high-heat flames, which not only provides 10d8 continuous damage, but also provides heavy cover within the range. Under the guidance of the caster himself, this cloud of high-heat burning can also move every round.

Ivy himself is under the effect of [Fire Elemental Invocation] and is completely immune to fire damage, so he can make full use of all the effects provided by this spell. Heavy cover can make most ranged attacks miss, and when facing enemies in melee range, these war beasts cannot figure out the enemy's position, and rash attacks can easily hit their own people.

Although these disadvantages also apply to Ivy himself, don't forget that this is the siege camp of the Orcs, and everyone except Ivy is an enemy, so Ivy doesn't have to worry about friendly fire.

As long as the effect of [Delay Spell] is used to double the duration of the Burning Cloud Spell, Ivy is confident that he can kill all the war beasts still alive in the siege camp within two minutes.

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Ivy jumped off the Golden Horn and commanded it to go to the Running River to avoid the encirclement of the Orcs, while he turned around to meet all the enemies in the entire siege camp.

The Orcs were all stunned when they saw Ivy abandoning his horse. They had never seen an opponent who voluntarily gave up his speed advantage.

But just as these Orcs surrounded them with a grin, a group of hot smoke appeared out of thin air under Ivy's command, surrounding the Orcs. With the blessing of [Wild Element Surge], the range of the Burning Cloud Spell has long been more than twice the standard.

Most of the siege camp was shrouded in this high-heat smoke, and screams were heard. However, shouting with your mouth open is actually the worst option. You should know that in a fire, only a few people are burned to death by the flames, and more people die from edema suffocation caused by the hot smoke burning their respiratory tract.

This burning cloud will punish those half-orcs who have no sense of safety for Ivy.

Ivy strode forward, and sure enough, before he ran two steps, the shouting from the burning cloud turned into a violent cough.

With a slight smile on his face, Ivy began his short career as a demon in the smoke.

Ivy cut off the thigh of a war beast with a horizontal sword, and dodged another war beast that was waving its arms randomly in the smoke.

The beast bite sword flashed with a cold light, and two more war beasts that were running around like headless flies fell to the ground and wailed. Ivy did not need to personally finish off every enemy. As long as they did not leave the effective range of the burning cloud technique, these war beasts would sooner or later die tragically due to the high fever caused by internal and external difficulties.

Two minutes passed in a flash. When the smoke of the Burning Cloud began to dissipate, the entire Orc siege camp had turned into a hell on earth. In addition to the war beasts with missing arms and legs, there were other Orcs who died of suffocation and burning.

Although there were Orcs who wanted to rush in and fight Ivy, after understanding the horror of the Burning Cloud, these Orcs lingered outside the range of the Burning Cloud, and did not dare to cross the line.

Ivy no longer maintained the concentration of the Burning Cloud, but the smoke that had been lingering here for two minutes would not disappear suddenly. When Ivy came to the Orcs' commander with the smoke entangled in his body.

None of these monsters who enjoyed war and were born for war dared to come forward to fight Ivy.

Ivy heavily inserted the staff in his left hand into the ground, and made an insulting gesture with his free hand - he stretched out his thumb and scratched in front of his neck, indicating that he was going to cut the throat of the Orcs' commander in front of him.

The Orc Lord Commander, who understood the clear sign, was furious and wanted to drive his men forward, but they all regarded this as a challenge and no one dared to move forward.

So the Orc Lord Commander who had lost the siege camp had to swing the iron hammer in his hand, roaring to give himself courage, and charged towards Ivy.

However, Ivy stood there leisurely, and did not even take the beast bite sword in his hand to attack.

The Orc Lord Commander, who thought he had the upper hand, swung a powerful and heavy blow, but Ivy only let the beast bite sword and the iron hammer collide lightly, and then turned his wrist, letting the sword body bypass the hammer head of the iron hammer, and cut off all the hands of the Orc Lord Commander holding the hammer along the handle.

The half -orc supervisor who lost his arm had not yet come to yell, and Avi dodged his route on his way. The sword of the sword bite the sword touched the half orcs to turn it in time before the iron armor on the chest of the half of the orcs, and turned around and cut off his right. The side calf, then Avi walked behind the orcs, and cut off his left calf in the same way.

The half -orcs who lost their limbs were short, and they would fall to the ground, but Avi, who was around the left, had supported the iron helmet above his head with his left hand, preventing him from falling.

Faced with the troops behind the orcs, Avi bite the sword with a beast and gently made a mistake on the neck of the supervisor, and cut off the head that was accustomed to the order.

The semi -orcs who witnessed this scene retreated together and completely lost their will to fight Avi.

Avi stepped back, reached out and picked up the staff inserted on the ground, jumped to the back of the golden horns returning from the river, and launched an charge again.

In the face of Avi's charge, these half orcs are completely frightened, and only know that all things on their body escape, and they dare not fight back.

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"The wizard's actions are successful!" After the vision of Sulan Governor made him cut a circle of orcs around him, he noticed that the siege camp was falling. Worrying about it! "

The first to respond to King Lin Di was his former prisoner, the twelve dwarves who fought on the front line.

They waved the weapons in their hands and applauded the fifteenth member of the expedition team.

"Our wizard is the brave who slaughter the evil dragon! It is a master who uses flames! You semi -orcs have no possibility of victory!" Musician Bo Buddha waved the ax in his hands and attacked the morale of the half orcs loudly, "I am Write this battle as a poem!

"I will teach me first!" Pang Bo flew a half orcs with his belly and talked to his good brother.

"Of course, we will be the first batch! The song of today's victory depends on the dwarfs we spread to all the dwarfs of the Middle -earth!" Bobo's other cousin's cousin than Buddha.

"No, Bi Buddha." Qili Sword stopped at them and looked at the hillside in the distance. "There are other dwarves to fight with us ..."

"What?" Bi Buddha asked puzzledly.

"Barin!" Qili had waved his arms at the distance, "Dry these ugly half -orcs!"

The white beard dwarf on the ridge line was very recognizable. He rode a goat from the steeper place. Behind him was a dwarf knight riding a wild boar. He had long brown -red hair. The beard that has begun to be white has shaped the shape of two pointed teeth with a golden hoop.

When the wild boar knight initiated the charge, he waved a heavy red war hammer and sent out the unique battle of the dwarf: "Goat Knight! Let these half orc scum blood flow into the river!"

A large number of short and strong riders appeared on the ridge line. They were wearing heavy armor one by one, like a hillbag moving, shouting the enthusiastic war roar to rush down from the hillside.

The goal of the dwarf knights is to siege the side direction of the semi -orcs of the elves. Although there are many people, they are in a state of non -defense, and they are mainly based on the long -range troops holding the bow and arrow.

The half -orcs who fought with the elves wanted to draw the enemy behind, but how could the elves who were pressed and hit the whole game let go of this great opportunity. Alan Governor waved his sword and led his soldiers to launch today's second back charge.

"I can start writing the song of victory now? Right?" Bo Fo asked his companions.