My Magic Age

When the attack horn sounded, the barbarian slaves hiding in the dense forest quickly approached the white spider camp. The spider warriors in the spider camp were still in the dark. They did not realize that a huge pocket was wrapped around the entire spider camp and quickly closed. They also did not realize what kind of doom the spiders in the camp would face after half of the spider warriors followed the spider commander and left.

This spider camp was like a white ribbon flying in the wind in the vast sea of ​​trees, surrounding the edge of the dense forest in the northern area of ​​Green Valley. According to Elder Singer, there were four such spider camps, which seemed to surround the entire Green Valley and completely isolate this dense forest from the entire Black Forest.

The camp is less than one kilometer wide, but it stretches for several kilometers. The lush trees in the camp are withering and dying under the cover of white spider silk. The white spider silk is like a green gauze tent wrapped around the branches of the big trees, weaving a spider nest in the camp. These spider nests that are more than four meters high rely on the trunks of dead trees as a supporting structure, just like a white tent.

Countless giant spiders are busy outside the camp. They need to keep spinning silk to wrap the giant pine trees, weaving spider nests like white graves under the giant pine trees. They also need to inject venom into the trunks of the pine trees to make these trees slowly die, thus forming a slow expansion.

The branches of the dead trees in the camp were full of white silk cocoons, arranged in rows. These were the Yero natives that the giant spiders had hunted back from the native tribes around the Green Valley. The giant spiders made them into silk cocoons, hung them on the branches, and used venom to slowly decompose the natives inside into a sour and smelly nutrient solution. These were the supplies for the spider warriors, but so many silk cocoons hanging on the dead trees looked a bit scary.

There were thousands of spider warriors and more than 10,000 giant spiders stationed in this spider camp. Now that the spider warlord guarding the spider camp was led away by Le Die, a large group of spider warriors followed the spider warlord and ran towards the distant Zhushan.

At the same time, hundreds of giant spiders ran out of the spider camp and searched in the dense forest for the black iron spears and the butcher's axe thrown out by the spider warriors.

It was under this situation that I ordered Justus and Kalancuo to attack the spider camp.

The barbarian slaves were wrapped in black iron armor, and wore helmets that covered half of their faces. The average height of these barbarian slaves could reach more than three meters. Even with such a physical advantage, the heavy crossbows modified from bed crossbows still looked very clumsy.

Since the arm span of the ordinary standard bed crossbow of the empire exceeded five meters, the entire arm was made of seven steel plates tied together, and the main body of the crossbow was made of iron and wood. Including the mechanism and sight attachment, grip, and tripod, a bed crossbow weighed at least four or five hundred kilograms. These problems were taken into consideration when the heavy crossbow was modified. The female dwarf craftsmen removed the umbrella gear mechanism, rudder, and pitch bracket of the automatic winding, but the entire bed crossbow was still very heavy.

During combat, the barbarian slaves had to hold the heavy crossbow with both arms. After shooting a crossbow arrow, they had to free one hand to pull the bowstring with the iron ring with their strong arm strength and put the giant crossbow arrow into the arrow slot. To pull the bowstring of the crossbow, at least five heavy armored infantry soldiers of the Green Empire were needed to pull it together.

For the barbarian slaves, their arms would become numb after they pulled the bowstring of the heavy crossbow five times in a row.

At this time, they needed to rest for a while. If they continued to pull the bowstring forcefully, there was a high probability that the barbarian slaves' arms would be strained.

Each barbarian slave carried a bundle of giant crossbow arrows on his back. These giant crossbow arrows were not much different from ordinary standard spears, except that each spear tip was engraved with complex magic runes. When Count Rez saw that the giant crossbow arrows carried by the barbarian slaves were all expensive double magic rune crossbow arrows, and saw the faint magic light emanating from the sharp spear tips, this second-level strongman squinted his eyes for a long time without speaking.

He told me frankly that this kind of giant crossbow arrow with "sharpness" and "armor-breaking" was also a fatal threat to a second-level constructed knight like him.

"Ji Jia, have you ever thought about what would happen if you lost a battle?" Count Rez asked me while riding on a warhorse and walking side by side with me.

After these days of getting along, we became familiar with each other. When Count Rez and I chat, we no longer call each other by our titles.

Since the barbarian slaves were standing in the front row, the orc warriors and the constructed knights of the guards were in the back. Once they found that the spider warriors were fleeing or reporting to the spider commander, the orc warriors and the constructed knights would intercept and kill them immediately.

Justus, Kalancuo, Tauren Luka and Katarina were all on the battlefield in front. Since my ice magic could stop the fleeing spider warriors, and the magic buff effect of the stone drum totem was greater for the orc warriors, I and Ying Li and others followed behind the barbarian slave team.

Count Rez and Knight Jason also chose to stay with Ying Li with the entire knight team at this time to prevent any accidents.

I was wearing a set of "Earth's Wrath" magic pattern constructs, and the epic magic weapon "Extreme Deep Cold Crystal Dagger" was worn on my belt.

I rode on a Gubolai horse and said to Count Rez: "If we lose, we have to find a way to preserve our strength as much as possible in the defeat. What else can we do?" Count Rez pondered for a moment and asked me: "How many gold coins are each of the giant crossbows carried by the barbarian slaves worth?"

This time when attacking the spider camp, I distributed giant crossbows with dual attributes to the barbarian slaves, so I replied: "Two gold coins per crossbow plus fifty silver coins." Count Rez sighed and said to me: "In this battle, every two giant crossbows shot by those barbarian warriors is equivalent to throwing out a magic crystal. Even if they win, it is piled up with magic crystals!" Then he said: "Have you ever thought that if you can't win the battle, you will lose the magic crystals you shoot. If you can't retrieve those giant crossbows, you will just throw a huge amount of money on the battlefield. How many battles can you afford to lose with magic crystals? "

Even if the Spider Commander and half of the Spider Warriors are led out of the camp, according to my estimate, there are still no less than two thousand Spider Warriors and tens of thousands of giant spiders in this spider camp. If the Spider Warriors hold on until the Spider Commander brings the army back to support, what are you going to do? "

"If that's the case, I will decisively retreat to the dense forest of Green Valley." I turned my head and looked at Earl Rez. As the captain of a construction team in Prince James's personal guard, and as a second-level strongman, Earl Rez's rigorous attitude towards every battle made me admire him very much.

I think maybe because of the participation of Princesses Ying Li and Le Die in this battle, he was walking on thin ice!

I said to him, "Don't worry! As long as we have the help of the ancient war tree and the tree spirits, those spider warriors won't be able to catch up with us easily. Even if the situation develops to that point, I am sure I can escape back to a safe place."

Count Rez frowned and asked me, "What about the magic crossbows you shot out? How are you going to get them back?"

"Just wait until the next battle and win them back!" I said nonchalantly.

Then he added, "But don't worry! Since I have already taken out the magic crossbows, this battle will not be lost so easily."

When I was talking to Count Rez, the barbarian slaves had already emerged from the dense forest and fired a round of volleys at the poisonous spiders that were constantly injecting venom into the giant pine trees at the edge of the camp and the giant spiders that were constantly spitting out white spider webs. The insect armor on the giant spiders was far less tough than that of the spider warriors, and only single-attribute "penetrating" crossbows were enough to deal with these giant spiders.

The vibration of the crossbow arrows leaving the string had not stopped yet, and those giant crossbow arrows that were almost three meters long had already pierced the bodies of the defenseless giant spiders with the sound of breaking through the air. The giant spiders' abdomens, which were like balls, burst instantly, and the black and purple spider blood, white spider silk liquid, and light green nutrient solution mixed together and exploded. The giant spiders' huge bodies shrank quickly like deflated balls. The eight spider legs of the dead giant spiders trembled and curled up together, with their bellies facing the sky. The injured giant spiders let out a shrill hiss and rushed towards the dense forest with injuries and rage.

Those crossbow arrows passed through the body of the first giant spider, carrying a strong smell of blood, and pierced into the bodies of the giant spiders behind. Some crossbow arrows shot at the trunks of dead trees, and those dead trees also shattered one after another.

Just the first round of volleys shot down a large number of giant spiders outside the spider camp.

Under the command of Justus, the barbarian slaves standing in the front row took a step back, and pulled the bowstrings again.

The barbarian slaves in the second row walked to the front with crossbows and fired a new round of volleys at the giant spiders that were in a mess at the edge of the spider camp. The giant spiders at the edge of the camp were very dense, and there was almost no need to aim carefully. As long as they didn't shoot too high, they could hunt down the giant spiders.

The barbarian slaves have been feeding on giant spiders for more than a month. They were naturally fearless in the face of the first counterattack of these giant spiders in anger. They shot the giant crossbows in their hands in an orderly manner, and instantly shot the giant spiders that rushed over again.

As long as there is no dead wood blocking it, a giant crossbow arrow can at least penetrate four or five giant spiders. Faced with the power of the heavy crossbow, Count Rez was dumbfounded and couldn't help asking me: "Don't all the noble lords in your northern border have a private army of barbarian slaves?"

"We northerners and barbarians are mortal enemies. There is an unwritten rule on the battlefield in the northern border. When we meet barbarians, we must kill them and cut off their left ears as soon as possible." I said to Count Rez: "Because I am not a pure northerner, I don't enforce this unwritten rule!"

The barbarian slaves rushed into the camp on the corpses of giant spiders on the edge of the spider camp.

At this time, the spider warriors who were resting in the spider nest in the camp came out one after another, just like the rain falling from the sky gathered into a stream, and the spider warriors who came out of the spider nest gathered into a torrent. The fearless spider warriors raised the moon blade axe and rushed towards the barbarian slaves facing the giant crossbow arrows.

"Change the double-attribute crossbow!" Justus shouted in the team. Although the voice of this descendant of the siren was not loud, it had an inexplicable penetrating power, as if it had some kind of magic, and every barbarian slave could hear it on the battlefield full of roars and shouts.

"The first row of barbarians, take your positions... get ready... shoot!"

One after another, the giant crossbows were like a scythe of death, shooting down the rushing spider warriors one after another like cutting leeks. The spider warriors behind had to step on the corpses of their companions to rush into the barbarian slave camp.

These spider warriors have experienced hundreds of battles. They probably think that as long as they rush to the front of the barbarian slaves, they can easily chop these barbarian slaves in black armor to the ground, so they rush up without hesitation.

Unfortunately, they didn't expect the giant magic crossbow to be so terrifying, especially in the spider camp full of dead trees. The spider warriors had to bypass the dead trees that blocked their steps to keep rushing forward, so the barbarian slaves only needed to shoot the crossbow arrows at the gaps between the dead trees, and they could often shoot through two spider warriors.

The spider warriors charged forward at the risk of their lives, and naturally some of them would slip through and rush to the front of the barbarian slaves' camp. Although the number was small, they disrupted the barbarian slaves' position. At this time, a double-edged sword fell from mid-air, splitting a giant spider in half, and then Kalancuo's figure jumped down from above, holding the double-edged sword in his hand, pulling it out from the ground, and blocking the moon blade axe chopped by a spider warrior.

Catalina followed closely behind, her figure suddenly became very blurry, and in a flash she had flashed behind the spider warrior. The spider warrior was wrestling with Kalancuo with his moon blade axe in both hands, and he couldn't stop to deal with Catalina. Catalina put one hand on the spider warrior's head, and with the other hand, she held a recurve blade and rubbed it hard on the spider warrior's neck, and a black head was held in Catalina's hand...

The spider warrior who rushed up from behind held a black iron spear, trying to pick Catalina off his companion, but he didn't expect to stab in vain.

A minotaur warrior wrapped in heavy iron armor hit the spider warrior, knocking the spider warrior back more than ten steps and hitting his companion behind him. At this time, another row of giant crossbow arrows were fired, and the two spider warriors who collided with each other were shot through by a giant crossbow arrow.

There were a huge number of giant spiders in this spider camp. At this moment, those giant spiders came over to us in overwhelming numbers. They were everywhere on the treetops, on the ground, and on the tree trunks...