175 – Colossal Power (5)
Chapter 175 – Colossal Power (5)
‘This is my first time attacking a castle. But there is no need to be afraid.’
Siege warfare is uncharted territory for the elves of the Great Forest, who have only recently become accustomed to collective warfare after a long period of peace.
It is the same with the elves of Eden who fought against bizarre and terrible monsters and gained experience in war with the human army.
Even though they have built a barrier against the attack of the parasitic bees, they have never been in a position to attack the barrier.
However, Serenian recognized that they would have strengths even in such a siege, as they were being reborn as unrivaled beings with the help of Seunghyeon.
“What, what are you looking at blankly? Shoot the arrow! Wizard!”
The proof was this. Lehman’s defenders panicked at the completely different kind of strategy that the elves in Eden were demonstrating.
If it’s the first time for each other, of course, it’s inevitable that they will have a strong belief in their actions and throw their bodies into it.
“The enemy is about to strike back. Shoot us too!”
The troops of Eden, who rushed to the wall without hesitation, were split in two. Most of them ran forward without stopping, but the soldier ants carrying ballistas on their backs and some soldiers stayed and tried to shoot to protect their allies.
“Ooh, wow!”
“What is this…”
Since the commanders are also losing their sanity on the battlefield, which is completely different from the basic siege warfare, there is no way the soldiers under them can respond properly.
While the defenders, whose responsiveness had plummeted to the cover of the elves, wandered around, the main force had already reached the front of the castle wall.
And the fairy ants put their front feet on the wall and started climbing up the wall all at once.
The frightened defenders tried to resist by shooting their bows, but they left the climb up to the fairy ants and shot arrows with both hands. Went out
An arrow of the elves that has the power to penetrate even steel armor and the body of a knight at close range.
A young soldier, who was about to step out with a bow himself, froze as he saw the knight next to him fall down after being hit in the neck and face by three arrows that glowed blue.
Furthermore, a giant ant the size of a bull suddenly appeared from under the castle wall. And the enemy riding on it, aiming a bow at him.
“Ugh, ugh…!”
The panic-stricken soldier inadvertently turned around, but was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. Since this happened all over the front, the elves succeeded in climbing almost all of the walls without resistance.
“Wizard! Hurry!”
In this situation, the only damage to the elves is the wizards who protect their bodies with a shield and shoot magic.
‘Only wizards need to be kept in check.’
Predicting that, Serenian deliberately stopped at the halfway point instead of taking the lead. As soon as those wizards appeared, he shot them with lightning bolts in his steel arrows.
I decided that it would be more efficient to snipe these awkward enemies without wasting my strength unless my opponent appeared.
In fact, as her lightning, which eats quite a bit of magic as her reverse, poured out vigilantly in all directions of her, the wizards had no choice but to take a step back.
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“Mayor, avoid it. Pierced, pierced The wall has been breached!”
“Ah…”
Who would have predicted this? As soon as Mayor Locke took refuge in the safety of the watchtower, he had to hide again.
The unknown army, which had come in pitch black, easily overcame the city walls. As he fled as if being dragged by the butler’s hand, he could see them climbing up the walls and fighting the defenders on top of the walls.
Fighting along the walls was no match, and close combat was no different.
The fairy ants, armed with armor up to their heads and chins, shook their heads wildly and prevented them from approaching properly, while the elves mounted on them freely attacked their allies by shooting bows and wielding spears.
An absurd situation unfolded, fighting the cavalry on top of the castle wall.
“You just need to drag the time, just a little bit of time. There’s no way Sir Felix in the stronghold is watching us suffer!”
“Yes. But for now, you have to dodge while the defenders hold out!”
Desperate at the scene of the city, where those running to fight and those fleeing were mixed together, Locke cried out that help would come. As soon as he heard the news, some of the Kingdom’s troops departed from the fortress and were running, but they needed more time.
As a result, the war naturally turned into a race against time between those who desperately tried to block it and those who tried to break through.
“Don’t stand still, Ren, this is war. Dying and killing each other fight!”
And there was Ren, who entered the middle of the war with Naria.
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Ren, who was swept away by his comrades around him and accidentally crossed the castle wall, was thrown into the place where the melee was unfolding, contrary to the original plan to move with Serenian, and the defenders armed with spears approached him.
Naria, who was riding behind Ren, stopped her frozen Ren, but her Ren’s movements were a little slow.
[Oops, can’t we expect it yet?]
However, the arrows and spears of the defenders are about to pierce them with the fairy ants. Just before Naria stepped out, her strong waves burst out of Ren’s body, revealing the spirit of her magnetic field.
At the same time, the weapons of the enemies made of steel escaped the user’s will and bounced off, injuring them in reverse.
[Calm down. It’s just nothing like this]
“Oh, I see.”
Ren nodded his head with a trembling voice as he watched all the enemies around him fall and slowly suffocate under the weight of the armor they were wearing. It is as the spirit said. This is just a small part of it.
“For a hardened one, he fights well. But it’s not over yet.”
“What are your identities? Little ones?”
Indeed, a new enemy appeared to block them. As Naria dismounted from her fairy ant to fight, the black-robed sorceress glared at the two and raised her wand.
“That wizard doesn’t even wear armor, so your power doesn’t seem to work. So I’ll take the wizard. You have to take care of those around you and make way for me.”
Naria saw those who appeared with the wizard and instructed Ren on her strategy. Although they are not from the defense force, they are a group of mercenaries who participated in this battle to obtain rewards.
The city’s strength was not limited to the garrison. Among those who stayed in the city for their own reasons, some who had the strength to fight went out to obtain rewards regardless of race or power.
“Catch!”
[Hey, should I use some strength?]
A fight broke out in an instant, and Naria, who ran and broke her ground, fired her own body like her cannonball and charged at the sorceress.
At the same time, the slightly flustered spirit moved its power and fixed the weapons the enemies had lifted in the air.
“heheheheh?!”
While they hesitated, embarrassed by the spirit’s power, which was completely different from magic, Naria reached the wizard at once. Unaware that she was a tough dwarven warrior who had served in her great war, the sorceress hurriedly deployed her shields in fright as she ran, smashing a flame spear he had fired with her fists clad in her gauntlets.
“Huh…”
However, she destroyed even that with a single blow and knocked the wizard to the ground. Right after that, her foot shattered the wizard’s skull before being stomped down.
“Elf?!”
“Look at the ears. It’s an elf!”
A voice came from behind them.
In the process of fighting the others, Ren’s helmet came off, revealing her distinctive ears. However, the reaction of the mercenaries was a bit strange to say that they were simply surprised.
“Those eyes, those eyes that know something.”
“Hey?!”
Naria saw the distraught wizard’s face and pulled him up by the collar.
“Do you know about elves?”
“Ah, I know. When attacking the elves living in the snowy mountains, Mayor Locke mobilized many mercenaries.”
“Market. Where is he now?”
At the words of the wizard who seemed to know about her target, the snowflake clan, Naria shook the collar she was holding.
“Hey, over there! That man over there is Mayor Rochbreane!”
It was then that the sorcerer’s eyes saw a figure far away, dressed in fancy clothes and hurriedly evacuating.
I got a clue about the person I need to secure for the operation.
“Helps me… Heck.”
“Ren, let’s go. When the opportunity comes, grab it and your team will win.”
Naria, who had snapped the wizard’s neck at once, pointed to Locke, who, along with her spirit, had disposed of the others and fled to the gasping Ren.