Praise of the Light to the Dark Knight

Even if the Silver Heart Fortress can survive the crisis in the city, there is no way to completely escape it.

The Annihilation Cultists realized that the resurgents who were supposed to be causing disturbances in the city were quietly eliminated. They pondered for a moment and realized that the military spirit of the Silver Heart Fortress might not be easily shaken. It has been used as a military fortress for a long time, and it has seen big scenes here. , so the little trick hardly works.After a brief discussion, they continued to attack as planned.

The undead army, which had been dormant for a long time, finally assembled completely, and appeared openly.

Under the cover of the night, the figures of these undead are faint, and they will be mistaken for the wind blowing the trees, and low-level cannon fodder is everywhere. These things that can be made as long as there are corpses are the main reason why the necromancer is so difficult to deal with, and this The world is never short of corpses. Horror jokes are often told, a living person stands here, and countless dead people from all ages lie under his feet.

Only undead creatures with autonomous consciousness can have soul fire in their eyes. The easiest way to judge whether a corpse is a high-level undead creature or just a cannon fodder manipulated by spells is to see if the eyes are shining, but Corpses can "see" without naked eyes, so the high-level undead creatures in the back row of the queue use thick leather to cover their eye sockets.

They advanced absolutely silently, trying not to be approached by the gap—

Then, at a distance of a thousand meters from the gate of the fortress, they heard the earth-shattering alarm from the Galaxy Fortress, so frightened that Priest Annihilation thought there was an earthquake.

It was discovered so early!Unexpected changes made the priests of Annihilation immediately give up the concealed charge.

The paladins standing on the watchtower looked like torches, and they rang the alarm bell without any hesitation. All the sentries who changed the guard in the early morning were paladins. Banner, politely invited them out of the post and replaced them with paladins. I have to say that the paladins of the Temple of Light, who are the idols of the whole people, are more handsome than ordinary defenders.

The Magic Legion, which had been waiting in full force, cheered excitedly when they heard the alarm.

Battle mages have been despised by orthodox mages for many years. They don't have the calmness of researchers at all, but they are proficient in killing skills, and they are organized into formations according to the spells they are good at. The most irritable fire formation has been yelling:

"Our big fireball is already hungry and thirsty!"

The mages quickly formed according to the affinity of the elements. The battle mages used the simplest and basic elemental magic. Curse, high-level arcane, space, and spiritual specialization are not among the professional requirements of a battle mage.

The special geographical location of the Silver Heart Fortress prevented her from installing large-scale defensive equipment such as catapults, so the fire-type battle mages took the lead on the city wall. They wore light short clothes and leather armor, and they looked nothing like spellcasters from a distance. The leather armor on the chest is the badge of the Oslant Magic Legion and the elemental pattern representing the fire element. They stand on the city wall, and when they cast spells, they look a little bit like bohemian mages. The same spell has a variety of casting postures Qiqi appeared, all different, some were rubbing their hands, some were pinching their fingers, some were chanting mantras quietly, and the one who was bold and yelling was right next to him.

However, no matter how self-centered their postures are when casting spells, when the spell effect is completed, they are amazingly unified. A fireball the size of a head appears in front of each mage, and the mages stand in three rows. With an order, the fireballs were thrown collectively. The fireballs traced the same arc and bombarded the undead creatures rushing over.

Then the second row rotates to the front row, the third row, and then the first row.

A group of third-rate spellcasters who need to reciting spells seriously to throw a fireball, and crappy spellcasters who would make orthodox mages laugh when they get it alone in the academy. They have demonstrated power incomparable to any legendary archmage on the battlefield , the fireball technique seemed to have no cooling time, and even covered the entire sky, and the sky and night were illuminated by fire.

Water-friendly mages collectively cast spells on the main body of the city wall. They chanted together. After a while, the outer wall was covered with a thin layer of ice. In the early summer season, the Silver Heart Fortress was covered with a layer of ice armor, and the ice layer was still there. Diffuse, gradually covering the entire exterior wall, and spreading along the exterior wall to the ground, extending forward continuously.

The first skeleton that stepped on the ice spun ridiculously, like a reckless lady who stepped on her skirt in a dance, fell to the ground with a snap, and was crushed to pieces by her companions.

The mages of the wind system also joined the battle. They were more opportunistic. The archmages could use the wind to create invisible wind blades, but they couldn't. What they were doing was very simple - to fan the flames!They blew through the fireballs thrown by the fire magicians. Those fireballs burned violently, and sparks splashed everywhere. Many undead creatures were flammable dry bones. Once touched with sparks, they burned brilliantly.

The least number of earth-type affinity mages are digging holes, and a dirt pit appears on the ground from time to time. The effect is better than nothing, and none of them can use lightning.

For the military mages of the empire, spells are just weapons, and they are soldiers, as long as the weapons can kill the enemy, there is no difference between magic and daggers.So although they are too low-level as mages, as an army, they are invincible.

The cannon fodder among the undead creatures was being consumed rapidly, and the commanders of the Magic Legion kept reminding the mages to save their magic power so that they could wait for the high-level undead creatures and the disciples of Annihilation to fight.

Although the Magic Legion is as powerful as a rainbow, the priests watching the battle are not optimistic about them.

The Silver Heart Fortress is located at the mouth of the valley, and the outside is a pocket. Therefore, it is impossible for large troops to form a formation if they want to charge. The terrain is only so small.This is of course very beneficial for resisting large-scale invasions, but what if the enemy itself is a small group of elites?

The temporary command room did not have the relaxed atmosphere on the city wall, and the Duke of Haines himself was aware of the problem. He asked the priests for confirmation: "The overall number of the Annihilation Sect should not be large, right?"

"Thousands of believers are enough, so there will be fewer 'clerics', maybe a few hundred." Kevin replied, "And they have more than one battlefield."

A few hundred, compared with the tens of thousands of priests in the entire mainland of the Temple of Light, it is pitifully small. Even Shadow Moon and Huiyue Temple have thousands of priests and dark knights stationed all year round.

Etjaye refuted Kevin on the spot: "It's too small? But how many priests in various temples in the temple do not know magic arts? How many nominal paladins can't even beat street gangsters? The real core Strength, the Knights Templar only has 2000 people."

Yalan sighed and nodded, and said: "There are very few believers in the Annihilation Sect, and they have been silent for many years, but now every one of their Annihilation priests is not weak, and they cannot be treated as ordinary soldiers."

Duke Haines nodded: "Among them are there necromancers?"

Regarding this, Kevin's face was gloomy: "Yes, most of the illegal necromancers who abuse the power of death will choose to stay close to the Annihilation Sect. Although they are second-rate mages in the eyes of Shadow Moon, they do have an advantage in number." The Legion of Death Whisperers has been ridiculed by Et Gaya more than once as the "Death Whisper Squad". There are more than a dozen priests. How many legendary archmages add up?The same is rare, dozens of people are too many, but there are tens of thousands of ordinary people everywhere!

"So the situation is not good for us." Et Gaya pointed out, "The narrowness of the terrain restricts us instead. The legion needs large-scale cooperation. With all due respect, Duke, in your magic legion, those low-level mages beat a dozen ordinary ones." The army has an advantage, but the opponent is a small but elite elite team, this is no ordinary war."

"Yeah." Although he hated Et Gaya's statement, Clark admitted, "Our army's superiority in numbers is limited by the terrain."

While they were talking, witch corpses appeared among the undead creatures on the battlefield. The undead creatures who were spellcasters in life still retain their strength after death, and all spells have a layer of undead nature. Under the protection of cannon fodder, they started Confront the mage on the wall.For archery, the arrows shot down from the city wall will have a longer range than the arrows shot up from below, but spells are not limited by gravity. Many witch corpses have a much higher level of spellcasting than the legion mages. The witch corpse throws a pitch-black fireball , The mage on the city wall was burned a large area.

"Turn on the defensive tower's magic defense system!" The commander ordered decisively.

The four mage towers with a glorious history in the Silver Heart Fortress were cleaned up again, and the mages in the legion were officially stationed. The magic power stored in the towers was consumed by the Annihilation Sect during the last attack. These days, the military mages took turns to serve The core magic pool of the tower was charged, and the defense system of these four mage towers was activated again.

The barrier shimmered, and the entire fortress was shrouded in a shallow layer of invisible fluctuations. The great crystallization of countless generations of ancient mages, this defensive barrier can block external magical attacks, but it will not prevent your own people from throwing it from the inside out.

It’s just that every block consumes the magic power of the tower, which is precious and limited. The king of secret magic does not have the archmages who can continue to maintain the tower defense in the legendary stories, and they don’t even dare to activate the defense tower lightly. attack function.

"It's good news." Clark's adjutant walked in, and he said, "But it may be bad news for us. The outpost of the Holy Dragon Empire has temporarily repelled the half-orc barbarian tribe."

"This means that if the other side is still retreating, the Annihilation Sect may give it a go at the Galaxy Fortress." Clark's brows were knit together, and he could clamp the pen in his hand. "They are fighting on two fronts. One loses, and the other I’m afraid I’ll have to use my trump card in one place, what’s going on at the outpost, hasn’t it been critical before?”

"The leader of the Northern Darkness Temple—the Great Priest Siyue himself has gone, and His Majesty the Dragon Emperor personally marched. There are eighteen giant dragons in the city. It is normal for the situation to reverse."

After such a comparison, Duke Haines looked around - the lineup of the Silver Heart Fortress was bleak.

Etgaya winked at Yalan silently, Yalan raised his eyebrows, until now the high priest of light is still "seriously injured and recuperating in the temple", the temple has never tried to refute the rumor, using this as an excuse, at this critical juncture they Successfully postponed the original joint discussion meeting on the establishment of a large national defense, and persuaded Oslant to focus on the Annihilation Sect.

"My lord duke!" A battle report came from ahead, "The enemy sent human cavalry and monsters!"