Sword of Dawn

"Actually, it's okay. The mechanical equipment you invented are very useful. I thought it would be more difficult for me to make things in this era after the magic power foundry of the Gondor Empire disappeared. Now the situation is much better than expected. Already," Kamel hummed, then raised his body slightly, looking at the entire city wall, "This is really... a sight I've never seen before."

Hetty, who was beside her, asked curiously, "Have you never experienced a battlefield?"

"I am a researcher. Although I have actual combat experience as a magister, I have never experienced a real battlefield," Kamel admitted frankly, "and the era I lived in was the most powerful period of the Gondor Empire. At that time, no country in the entire continent dared to go to war with us."

"Then you can witness what the battlefield looks like." Gao Wen smiled, "The battlefield of the new era."

"Just right, I'm also curious about what the aberration you mentioned is." The arcane brilliance on Kamel's body brightened, "A monster that appeared in the magic tide... It should be of great research value."

Gawain nodded, then looked around, suddenly curious: "Where did Rebecca go? I haven't seen her since just now."

"She left the city wall in the morning, and said she was going back to prepare some combat equipment," Hetty said. "She is not very good at commanding, but she can still serve as firepower, so I let her go."

"Battle equipment..." Gao Wen blinked, "I don't know what that girl wants to do..."

In the Lord's Mansion, in the "laboratory" set up by Rebecca herself, a certain iron-headed boy is carefully combining a bunch of rune substrates.

As a third-level mage who knows how to make big fireballs and has no common sense of experiments, Rebecca does not have her own laboratory. Dee relaxed the monitoring of the humanoid self-propelled fireball launcher, and Rebecca secretly tinkered with a laboratory—it was said to be a laboratory, but she actually arranged a working room in the utility room of her suite. Workshop, there are not many spell-related devices here (after all, she can’t use them), but there are many mechanical processing devices, such as small drill stands and machine tools. Here, Rebecca tinkered with a lot of useful things—and Strange stuff.

Till was sitting in the corner of the laboratory, watching Rebecca connect the rune substrates with copper hinges, combine them into a wide metal strip, and fix them on the body with hooks and straps, couldn't help but ask One sentence: "Are you a new type of armor?"

"What kind of armor, this is a battle mage amplifier I invented myself!" Rebecca worked hard to fix the rune substrates firmly, and raised her eyelids to look at Tyre, who was yawning, "Why are you wearing a suit of armor again?" Doesn't it look like you haven't woken up? Didn't you say that you have entered a state of excitement? You will be excited for a month or something..."

"Misjudgment, I underestimated my laziness," Tire stretched his waist indifferently (because the waist is really long), and the tip of his tail trembled comfortably in the process of stretching, "What do you say? Are you going to war soon? Are you still tossing toys here at this time, aren't you afraid of being beaten by your great-grandfather?"

"What do you know, I am prepared for battle!" Rebecca said with a serious face, and at the same time finally buckled the last lock of the "Battle Mage Amplifier", "It's you, don't you plan to go back to sleep ? You really don’t want to help on the city wall?”

"Let's talk, let's talk..." Till was about to doze off while talking, but he still tried to hold his eyelids, "Speaking of what you called me here for...not just to find someone The audience came to see how you tied yourself up with a strange iron belt?"

"Of course not, I asked you to help me as an insurance, because I don't know how effective this amplifier can be," Rebecca said while pressing her hand on a certain trigger mechanism between the rune substrates On, as she pressed the controller, all the rune substrates began to light up one by one, "Look carefully, let me test it first..."

Till lazily watched Rebecca pick up the staff next to him, lazily watched the other party make a fireball, and lazily... exclaimed in shock: "Wow, what is that fireball of yours? thing!!"

On the southern part of the city wall, on the east extension, a special team of "defending soldiers" is moving a box of crystallized bombs to the tower where the trebuchet is located, while Soldering is standing aside, supervising the work of these soldiers Condition.

They were the sixteen Typhon soldiers who were still prisoners of war.

The Typhon knight Balto bent down and placed the last crystal bomb next to the trebuchet, then he stood up and looked back at the direction of the town behind him.

From this very high place, he could easily see most of the city, and he could even see the place where he was once imprisoned.

Today is the third day since he left the cell, and as a Typhon warrior, he has helped the Anzu move bricks and ammunition boxes on this section of the city wall for three full days.

This is not something to be proud of and proud of, but as a prisoner of war, Balto knows that he does not have much choice - he is already the greatest luck to be able to breathe fresh air outside his cell, not to mention he was told that My job here is to fight monsters from the wasteland of Gondor - not to fight my own kind, which at least isn't too bad.

During the three-day brick-moving process, Balto and his comrades did not forget to observe the surroundings, and did not forget to seize all the time to understand this mysterious pioneering territory, the mysterious ancient duke and his mysterious new style. The army, and the more he knew, the more surprised he was.

He originally thought that Ansu was a decayed and backward barbaric country, mired in the swamp of decline, the nobles were corrupt and depraved, the common people suffered from hunger and cold, the borders were desolate, and the internal tide was raging-this is how Typhon's country propagated to the people, but The same is true of the real information obtained by the soldiers of the Winter Wolf Legion on the border, but here, this Cecil Territory is completely inconsistent with Balto's perception of Ansu.

He has not seen what the daily state of Cecil Territory looks like, but he has seen what this territory looks like after the alarm is sounded. Orderly mobilization, active preparations, seeing the close coordination of various departments, no excuses and delays, seeing that the management agency named "Government Affairs Office" is like the brain of the entire territory, constantly issuing orderly instructions, and all command Well-organized, but in the city, the ignorant people who should be chaotic, ignorant, and numb are all like well-trained militiamen or well-informed citizens. Instead of showing any signs of turmoil, they are fully supporting the city defense and maintain normal production and life - except for half a day of work being stopped when the production target was redistributed in the state of emergency on the first day, the operation of the entire city was not affected by the state of war in the slightest!

In all fairness, Balto didn't even think there was a city in Typhon that could do the same.

The more they observed, the more frightened Balto and his comrades became - if other places in Anzu also developed like this, would it be wise for Typhon to go to war with him?

However, the knight's thinking did not last, because a feeling of heart palpitations suddenly surfaced in his heart.

Guided by his intuition, he turned his head to look at the mountain barrier in the south of the city wall. With the powerful eyesight of a transcendent, he saw an ominous cloud of black and red smoke rising from the boundary line between the mountain and the plain, and countless A twisted and hideous figure emerged within it.

He heard one of his comrades muttering beside him: "That... what is it?!"

The most urgent alarm sounded on the walls, and the sentinel on the watchtower rang the bell and uttered a loud cry:

"They are coming!!"

Chapter 0273 Explosion and Flames

They are coming.

Wrapped with corrupted magic power and smoke, filled with hatred for the living and magic power, it brought the destruction and madness of the Gondor wasteland, and set foot on the pits and minefields of Cecil Territory.

They are truly earth-shattering in attack.

The moment the siren sounded, the atmosphere on the city wall became tense instantly. The recruits were equipped with heat ray guns and put up force field shields. In his sight, those monsters were roaring crazily, stepping on the plain full of landmines as if they didn't feel any pain. The scene was tragic, shocking, but also frightening.

Cecil's combat corps has a ratio of new recruits that makes any commander a headache. More than 800 of the corps composed of more than a thousand people were recruited after the first defense battle. Equipment and complete training, but recruits are still recruits no matter how well trained they are, and if they have not experienced the pressure of the battlefield, there will always be an insurmountable obstacle between them and veterans - in order to alleviate the negative effects of this aspect, Gao Wen has improved as much as possible. Increased the proportion of practical training for recruits, let them go to the depths of the dense forest to protect the exploration team and fight against monsters, let them go to the mountains for training, and even sent them to the northern wilderness and the surrounding areas of Kant to destroy bandits and those who took advantage of the chaos of Kant Gathered desperate mercenaries, relying on this method, he barely ensured that everyone in the Cecil Combat Corps had been shot and seen blood, which made the recruits in the Corps grow up, but they still only passed today's test. Only by going through the test can we really pass the recruiting period.

After today, even if they are still not experienced veterans, at least they can be regarded as completely removed from the hat of recruits.

The blood-colored smoke pouring out of the gap in the mountain range is increasing, gradually forming an astonishing blood-colored cloud, and the aberrations that emerge from the cloud are rushing towards the southern city wall of Cecil Territory—living people The powerful breath and the ubiquitous magic reaction in the city are like lights in the night to these monsters. As soon as they rushed out of the mountains, they rushed over with a clear goal, even if there was a minefield that was constantly exploding in front of them, they did not hesitate.

Landmines are a good thing, Gawain has always believed in this, especially when dealing with mindless monsters, no matter how many landmines are planted on the battlefield, these single-minded monsters will rush up without hesitation, and then go straight ahead They walked all over the minefield—but it turned out that useful mines could not completely solve the threat of mutants, because the physical fitness of those monsters was too strong, and their "physiological structure" was too weird.

A crystal mine can completely blow up the monster's lower body, but they will not die or retreat in fear in the face of this kind of injury. Instead, they will continue to crawl forward with the remaining upper body until the second or even third attack is triggered. They will be completely killed after a landmine, so although the efficiency of these monsters stepping on landmines is very fast, at the same time, their efficiency in "clearing mines" with their bodies is really amazing.

In the continuous thunder explosions, the bloody cloud and mist front line is rapidly approaching the city wall. The soldiers on the watchtower can already see through the binoculars the terrifying scene of the monster at the front spiraling up in the air and falling in all directions. After the special wooden stake with the flag was also shrouded in the filthy demon tide, the second alarm sounded, and the angry voice of Byron Knight resounded through the entire city wall: "The enemy has entered the position, and the trebuchet is ready—bombing !"

Accompanied by the "bang" sound of the winch being released, the specially-made small trebuchet started to operate, and crystallized bombs the size of heads drew long arcs in the air and fell into the ominous black-red land in the distance. On the battlefield shrouded in smoke and dust, in the next second, continuous and even more astonishing explosions exploded on the battlefield. The magnificent flashes of light and thunderous flames seemed to tear up the cloud of smoke and dust, rolling up among the monsters. There came a storm of shrapnel and heat.

"Retract the winch and continue bombing!"

"Continue to drop bombs—Balto, retract the winch and continue to drop bombs!!"

The roar of his comrades awakened Balto from his stupor. The knight of the Typhon Empire felt his heart beating and his blood pumping in his chest. He looked blankly at the exploding and On the flame-covered plain, there is only one thought in my mind at the moment: Is this the battlefield they are facing?

Balto performed the action subconsciously. It is not difficult to operate the trebuchet, and it is not a difficult problem for a knight with amazing physical strength to roll the winch. However, in the process of subconsciously tightening the winch and reinstalling the crystal bomb, he felt that his The brain has been a little out of control, and a numbness is slowly coming to his mind.

This is different from the battlefield he imagined!It is different from the battlefields he has experienced!

He is the elite of Typhon, a seasoned knight, he is not a new recruit, nor is he a country militia who has never seen the world, on the border between Anzu and Typhon, he and the soldiers he led have experienced All kinds of crises, although the two countries have not officially started war, the private friction between the two sides has escalated to the stage of bloodshed. On those small battlefields that are not recognized by both sides, he has faced swords and swords, He has also slashed enemies, but there is no battlefield like what he has seen——

The two sides were separated by hundreds of meters, and the battle had already begun. Blood and fire, thunder and explosions enveloped the entire battlefield. Those unknown monsters charged bravely in the explosion, while the soldiers defending the city continued to send more and more soldiers to fight. Thunder and explosions rain down on enemies.

It's not even time to draw the sword.

Of course, there are battle mages in this world, and mages will also create things like thunder, flames, and arcane missiles to attack enemies from a distance during battles, but how many battle mages can there be on a battlefield?How many times can a battle mage cast such a powerful spell?

Here, Pyroblast-level spells can cover the entire battlefield!

Balto once imagined that he was pushed up the city wall by the Ansu people to participate in the city defense battle: standing behind him was the supervising team, and he and Typhon's comrades held swords in front of them as a shield wall. After being beheaded by the supervising team and seeking a chance of survival on the battlefield, he never expected that he would be operating the trebuchet here—not to mention that the "stones" thrown by these trebuchets turned out to be such terrifying things!

Balto suddenly remembered the experience when he accidentally slipped his hands and dropped a few "iron balls" on the wall bricks when he was carrying those crystal bombs in the afternoon, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He didn't know that those iron balls actually have quite reliable safety devices, and they are controlled by rune triggers, machine springs and locking mechanisms, rather than simply "exploding at the touch of a touch". When the copper pin on the ball is pulled out, they will have the ability to explode, and only after the strong impact thrown from the trebuchet to the ground will the trigger inside be released and cause an explosion...

The second round of crystallized bombs was thrown by the trebuchet, triggering a new round of explosions among the monsters. At this time, those monsters had already waded through half of the battlefield with their powerful inhuman bodies. Sometimes they have strong physical fitness. It's unreasonable: they don't have any command and tactics, but they can advance all the way with "recklessness". In the face of such enemies, human beings can only rely on wisdom and strength besides numbers.

Solderin drew the longbow, and a whirl of light green magic power rolled up at the front end of the longbow. The three feathered arrows resting on the bowstring were immediately blessed with magic power, filling them with a crystal-like luster. After the bowstring was loosened, three An arrow cut through the air with a sharp howl, and after a while, it directly blasted the three monsters on the battlefield into debris.

An arrow from a high-level ranger is no less powerful than a crystal bomb.

Soldering didn't pay attention to the results of his bow at all, but continued to draw, draw and shoot in silence.

These monsters are the same as they were 700 years ago, but the old friends seem to have invented a lot of new gadgets that are different from those in the past - those exploding "catapults" and traps are quite powerful. This kind of thing might not be able to survive a concentrated attack. After this battle, maybe you should ask an old friend to find out how these rather powerful weapons work—but the premise is that he can keep his position and let the area The territory can withstand the monster's attack.

The "bloody front line" surrounded by the monsters continued to fade as they advanced, but they still gradually approached the city wall. After the second mark was covered by the enemy, new orders were conveyed to the soldiers:

"Grenadiers ready to—"

The soldiers on the city wall immediately stepped forward under the order. Baskets of crystallized grenades had been prepared behind the wall. At this moment, the initial tension and fear had gradually become numb. Obedience to orders became the deepest instinct of these soldiers. They took out the grenades , Open the insurance, just waiting for the officer to give an order.

"bomb!"

With the support of the ten-meter-high city wall, the throwing distance of these grenades has been greatly enhanced, and the dense explosions covered the heads of those monsters who were lucky enough to wade through the minefield and the catapult bombing area after a while.

Gawain stood on the high city wall, watching the tide of monsters' attack gradually become thinner and weaker after rounds of firepower. This wave of aberrations has not yet come close enough to release corrosive energy arrows. The distance has been reduced to only [-]% of the number, and there is no doubt that they will fall at the foot of the newly built city wall of the territory.

However, he didn't dare to relax his vigilance at all, because the "large individuals" mentioned in the report hadn't entered the battlefield yet, and the number of monsters attacking at this moment was only half of the number reported.

His eyes were fixed on the center of the battlefield. At the edge of the range of the trebuchet, several particularly eye-catching dark red clouds were agitating. There were several huge and astonishing figures hidden in the clouds. Behind those clouds, The remaining aberrations are pouring out of the mountain path, gathering into a new wave of offensive.

As the first wave of aberrations were wiped out by grenadiers and dense scorching rays, the huge figures finally moved.

Chapter 0274

That is a mutant individual that has never been seen before - even in the wasteland of Gondor 700 years ago, Gawain Cecil has never seen such a mutant: there are four of them in total, and their body shape is almost Two to three times the size of ordinary aberrations, their limbs are swollen, and growth structures like bone spurs can be seen on most of the joints. At the same time, ominous black and red arcs are surging on each bone spur, especially On their backs, the bony spurs protruding from the ribs even formed a structure like parallel guide rails. With the chaotic and incomprehensible roars from the four giant individuals, the arcs on the bony spurs also suddenly expanded, and the next Seconds later, Gao Wen saw four huge bolts of lightning suddenly crashing towards the city wall!

An attack form that has never been seen before, exceeding the expected attack distance.

Gao Wen was taken aback, but his body had already reacted subconsciously. He poured magic power into the long sword, and the pioneer sword burst into a glaring white light. Immediately after the long sword swung down continuously, two shock waves greeted it respectively. Two of the black and red lightning strikes, and not far from the middle of the city wall, an arcane lightning also suddenly lit up, and the third attack was scattered with a bang - that was the direction where Kamel was sitting.

The fourth black and red lightning bolt missed the bottom of the city wall, and with a bang, large swaths of dust and rubble exploded from the base of the city wall.

And after this sudden blow, the four mutated mutants did not continue to release lightning—probably because this kind of attack also consumes a lot of energy, and they cannot be used continuously—the lightning on the bone spurs on their backs It weakened slightly, and then these monsters straightened up, with their faceless heads facing the direction of the city wall, bursts of turbid roars came from their bodies, and the army of deformed bodies behind them seemed to be stimulated by something, suddenly collectively Get excited, and start to charge with astonishing momentum.

As mentioned in the report, the aberrations around those mutated monsters will produce "strengthening" with unknown principles, and both the desire to attack and the speed of action have increased significantly!

"The trebuchets continue to drop bombs!" Knight Byron roared loudly, "Grenademen, continue to drop bombs! Concentrate on attacking those giant monsters!"

Large and small explosions began to explode in the army of aberrations. The soldiers responsible for throwing the crystal grenade were all selected from various units with amazing arms, but even so, it was difficult for them to throw the grenade within those distances. At the foot of the large monster far away, only the trebuchet had enough range—but after a round of bombs was thrown, Gawain couldn't help frowning.

The accuracy is terrible, and the rate of fire is terrible.

More than a dozen bombs bloomed on the battlefield. Although they tried their best to aim at the four mutants, the poor accuracy of the trebuchet still made each explosion fall far away from the monsters. After a round of attacks, ordinary There are indeed quite a few deformed bodies that have been smashed to pieces, but the real enemies to deal with are still running on the battlefield intact.

"Keep bombing!"

The team operating the trebuchet tightened the winch and reloaded as quickly as possible, because they knew the Achilles' heel of the trebuchet - not only the accuracy was poor, the rate of fire was slow, their range was almost fixed, even by adjusting the winch, lever arm They can't attack the enemies that are too close, and those aberrants...their speed of action is getting faster and faster under the influence of those large individuals, and they will all cross the nearest range soon The limit is reached.

In the second round of attacks, a crystallization bomb finally hit the target, and a large mutated individual was firmly hit by the bomb. With an astonishing explosion, the overwhelming filthy flesh and bone fragments were torn apart on the battlefield, and more Many monsters continued to approach the city wall in the process.

The trebuchets had stopped attacking. At this distance, they could no longer play a role, and the team manipulating the trebuchets quickly retreated from the outer tower to the city wall. They opened the safety of the heat ray guns and began to prepare with the shooting team. Those monsters who started climbing the walls.

At this time, there were not many monsters left, and the thermal energy ray guns and melting swords in the hands of the soldiers on the city wall were enough to deal with them—if the remaining three large individuals did not exist.

They are intelligent, at least possess the ability of simple thinking - this is the astonishing conclusion Gawain obtained in a brief observation.

Ordinary aberrants react almost like conditioned reflexes after feeling the stimulation of magic power or the breath of living people, and their rampage is even worse than that of cunning beasts. Therefore, humans can always use tactics and traps to deal with them, but those Large individuals... Just from the fact that they didn't charge along with them, it is already a shocking performance.

More importantly, they seem to be able to slightly control the ordinary aberrations that are used as cannon fodder—it is precisely because of the existence of those four large individuals that the attacks of the aberrations are divided into two waves. It has been dragged on until now.

Simple operation, but no matter how simple the operation is, it is also the embryonic form of tactics.

Gawain slightly raised the long sword in his hand. He looked at the three large mutated enemies and prepared to deal with them himself.

This wave of attacks can be defended. Although there are some variables, the strength of the Cecil Combat Corps is still firmly suppressing those monsters. Currently, the aberrations rushing to the bottom of the city wall are focusing on crystallization grenades and heat rays. They died in droves, not even a single enemy could climb the walls, and the soldiers didn't even use their melting swords.

But those mutant guys who seem to have developed some thinking ability are very disturbing - they must be eliminated as soon as possible.

But just as Gao Wen was about to make a move, the three mutated monsters also started to move. They had rushed to a position very close to the city wall under the cover of cannon fodder. At this moment, they suddenly bent down together, and the bone spurs on their backs floated again. There was a dense black and red arc!

Kamel, who was in charge of guarding the middle of the city wall, immediately opened a magic barrier to protect the city wall under his feet. At the same time, he began to brew a powerful arcane magic, but before the attack was launched, he suddenly felt a change in the surrounding magic field. , which made him stop in astonishment.

The magic field shrouded in the city wall and propped up by the magic energy obelisk suddenly accelerated, and a huge amount of magic power was gathering in a certain direction. Kamel looked over according to his perception, and he saw that the head was very The little iron girl was climbing to the tallest tower, holding her staff high.

And a fireball nearly the size of a city gate was rapidly forming above the little girl—and getting bigger.

Even Gawain sensed this astonishing flow of magic power, he looked back almost in horror, and the cold sweat almost broke out on the spot - what did Rebecca rub? !

The fireball that was as huge as the city gate had condensed into shape at this moment, and became brighter and brighter with the filling of magic power. Its color gradually changed from red to yellow and white, and Rebecca under the fireball was full of excitement. She A strange wide metal "belt" is wrapped around her body. Those metal plates are exuding eye-catching magical brilliance at the moment, and the staff in her hand is bursting out with dazzling light like a lit sun torch. After noticing After she finally made the biggest fireball in history, Rebecca was as excited as a brat who was about to be hung from the beam by her ancestors and aunt, and yelled loudly: "Master Ancestor! Look at me! What did you rub out!!"

Gao Wen's roar resounded throughout the audience: "Throw it out!"

"Okay!" Rebecca yelled, and then tried her best to shake the staff in her hand-the fireball condensed by the magic didn't have much weight, but the surge of the magic field made the magic staff in her hand The staff seems to be attracted by a magnet, and it is extremely difficult to swing. If it is a normal mage, I am afraid that it will start to despair at this moment. The magic backfired to pieces, but is Rebecca a normal mage?

After pushing for a while and finding that there was no push, Rebecca put away her energy for breastfeeding, and turned to use the energy she used to kill the wolf with three punches when she passed the family trial. The fireball flew in the direction of the battlefield under the horrified sight of countless people.

Even monsters with low thinking ability will feel the terrifying power from this fireball. The three mutated monsters who originally planned to destroy the city wall with a close range attack forcefully retracted it when they discovered the fireball. Half of the lightning strikes, and then made a move that is absolutely impossible for ordinary aberrations——

They turn around and run away.

Gao Wen was finally completely sure: these mutant large individuals had the ability to think.

And at this moment, Rebecca's super big big big fireball has landed on the battlefield - it landed behind the three mutant monsters who turned around and fled. In the first second, it just fell calmly, like a red-hot fireball. The iron ball melted the ground like falling on cheese, vaporizing the surrounding monsters, but after a second, the unstable magic energy inside it finally burst out.

Accompanied by deafening roars, a small mushroom cloud rose slowly in front of Cecil's southern city wall.

The remaining monsters on the battlefield were almost all wiped out after this blow.

Looking at the slowly rising mushroom cloud, Rebecca showed a sincere smile on her face, and she suddenly felt that her "fireball way" seemed to be a good way.

After the big fireball is rubbed, it can protect everyone and bring about miracles——

Then the girl who had exhausted her mental strength with a big fireball just fell down straight.

And on the city wall, most people failed to recover from the earth-shattering explosion just now.

Gawain had already seen Rebecca fall, but beside him there was a black figure rushing up the tower quickly. It was Amber—with Amber watching over him, he felt relieved and turned his head to look in the direction of the battlefield.

A hideous and ugly hand suddenly protruded from the edge of the city wall not far ahead, and then, under the watchful eyes of many people, the last surviving mutant of this battle finally climbed up the city wall.

Although he didn't know how it survived, Gao Wen knew that it was hacked to death by at least twenty people.