Arcane Journey

Chapter 150 Anxious Battle

Under the cover of the Golem Legion, the army of Shadow City rushed over.

At the same time, the overwhelming gargoyles hovering in the sky as if covering the sun, spread their bat wings and stretched out their sharp claws, turning into predators one by one, ready to go with the army.

The army in Mokou Town felt the heavy footsteps of the stone golem and the flesh and blood golem, and their faces suddenly became ugly.

It seems that every step of this group of constructing golems is stepping heavily on their hearts.

Even Tysonde, the Patriarch of the Church of the God of Knowledge, and Marek, the captain of the Battle Mage Legion, had expressions of worry on their faces.

Obviously, as a spellcaster, he naturally has the first right to speak about constructed creatures like golems.

Golems, though made of the humbler substances of clay, flesh, steel, or stone, possess astonishing strength and physical and magical resistance.

And they have no ambition, no need for food, no pain and no regrets, as long as the driving energy is sufficient, they can be an unstoppable crusher on the battlefield.

Because the meaning of their existence is to follow the instructions of the creator and complete the protection or attack requirements for them.

Seeing that this group of unstoppable constructed golems was about to approach the range of his own magic attack, instead of showing any horror or shock on his face, Brian raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a confident smile.

He looked at the group of constructed creatures made of stone and flesh, and there was even a slight hint of joy in his eyes.

As the golem and gargoyle got closer, Brian sent out a signal to prepare for action through magical communication.

At the same time, the moment the signal was released.

Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin, the president of the Silver Scholars Guild hiding on a mountaintop not far from the battlefield, opened her eyes suddenly, and immediately gave an order to the companions gathered around her: "Activate the construction shielding circle!"

As soon as the words fell, six members from the Silver Scholars Association quickly surrounded a circle that had already been drawn.

In the center of the magic circle is a small obsidian obelisk built from a large number of precious gems, arcane items, and materials that shone with magical aura.

At this time, the steeple, which reflects the dark blue luster in the sunlight, is following the activation spells of six wizards who are proficient in protection and conjuration schools, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, clusters of dark blue are condensed on the sharp peak. color breath.

As wisps of magical energy continued to gather at the top of the tower, the obsidian obelisk suddenly emitted an invisible ripple like some kind of signal transmitter.

"Buzz!"

This wave, like a shimmering water wave, spread rapidly amidst the humming sound.

"Puff puff!."

Immediately afterwards, the bodies of the six wizards trembled at the same time, some fell to the ground on their backs, and some swayed violently, almost falling.

The corners of their mouths couldn't help but traces of scarlet blood, and their faces became sickly pale and sluggish.

"The strength is too low, but forcibly driving this kind of magic circle is still a bit too reluctant."

Seeing the situation in front of her, Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin's hanging heart finally fell steadily, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it was finally activated."

She quickly turned her slightly nervous eyes to the battlefield not far away, to test what kind of effect the efforts of her group would bring.

On the battlefield, the light from the eyes of the stone and flesh golems that were walking steadily, representing the spark of the soul, suddenly went out and stopped motionless.

To make matters worse, even the gargoyles hovering in the sky were affected by the same.

This group of gargoyles with a devilish appearance and full of malice stopped suddenly, and they fell towards the Ghost City troops below like dumplings.

In an instant, these more than 500 gargoyles, which were the same size as humans, smashed into the crowd like huge stones, and burst into screams mixed with surprise and pain.

"what happened?"

Seeing that all his construction troops were out of control and stopped motionless in place, the commander-in-chief of the city of ghosts, Garen the dark guard, almost roared at a fourth-level model ghost mage beside him.

"The spar cores of golems and gargoyles are all shielded by some kind of strange power." The ghost mage's expression sank, and a look of shock floated in his scarlet eyes, "It's the first time I've seen someone able to shield a golem crystal core."

"Now is not the time to gain knowledge. Hurry up and find a way to restore the function of the golem." Looking at the pensive ghost mage, Garen reminded.

Then, he quickly dodged sideways, and a gargoyle that fell from the sky rubbed his scalp and fell to the ground, torn apart.

"If you want to restore the golem, you just need to find the root of the problem." The ghost mage said thoughtfully, "I need a little time to find out the surrounding situation."

After finishing speaking, he propped up a defensive force field for himself, released detection magic, and detected the source of the shielding energy in all directions.

Looking at his results, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

Crafting a golem begins with constructing its body, a job that requires great skill in carving, stonework, ironwork, or surgery.

After making a body out of clay, flesh, steel, or stone, the golem maker begins the most critical step, which is to infuse it with spirit from the Elemental Plane of Earth.

These tiny sparks of life contain no memory, no personality, no history, just a pure drive to initiate and obey.

This process binds the spirit to an artificial body and bends it to the will of the golemmaker.

To put it simply, it is to provide a spar core (soul) that can control the body for the construction golem.

However, due to the difficulty and high cost of obtaining elemental spirits from the elemental plane of earth, some wizards of the necromancy school use the soul-binding technique to condense the souls of killed mortal creatures into replaceable souls. Soul spar.

Although the soul spar does not contain any memory and personality like the elemental spirit, it has the same effect on low-level construct creatures like stone golems, flesh and blood golems, or clay golems.

Gradually, when making low-level golems, the less expensive soul crystals completely replaced the elemental spirits from the earth elemental plane.

The shielding circle arranged by Brian took advantage of this seemingly inconspicuous weakness of the golem to temporarily shield the functions of all constructing creatures.

This is a shielding circle developed by a certain wizard in the later stage of the game, with the rise of the Arcane Empire, and after many forces suffered from the scourge of the Construct Legion.

However, in addition to spending too much money on setting up this magic circle, it also has one of the most obvious shortcomings.

Its shielding effect does not distinguish between friend and foe, and the effect of high-level constructed creatures like steel golems is equivalent to nothing.

But this is not a problem for Brian, because at this moment it has already played a role that can turn the tide of the battle.

After all, more than 200 stone golems and flesh and blood golems, in his eyes, are like a group of troops armed with light weapons. They have no chance of winning against flat-push tanks.

He knew that in the face of such a strange situation, the enemy must send high-level spellcasters to study the root of the problem.

After they discover the hidden wizards of the Silver Scholars Association, they will definitely attack frantically, destroy the obsidian obelisk, and restore the function of the golem.

Naturally, he would not leave them such research time.

At the moment when the constructed creature lost control, he had already ordered the purple dragon knight and battle mage on his side to launch a full-scale counterattack.

In the battle mage army, except for their captain Marek, the remaining 15 people immediately divided into three teams tacitly. Under the cover of the Zilong guards, a group of five arranged a circle magic circle and began to cast spells quickly .

The circular magic circle is a magic circle of the evocation school developed by the red-robed wizards of Searle. By using this magic circle, the caster can let the allies transmit their own power to him to increase the power of magic.

The more people there are, the more powerful the boost will be. Up to nine people can boost the caster.

—— "Fourth Ring Spell: Energy Explosion Flame!"

A surge of flame energy crazily gathered in front of the eyes of the three battle mages. With the continuous guidance of the casters, the tumbling flames gradually became solidified, like a lava fireball shining in the sun.

"Boom!"

Three big fireballs fell to the ground like meteors, and the roar resounded all over the field, shaking the earth.

Accompanied by the violent explosion, the scorching flames ran wildly, and the tongue of fire on the ground licked everything that could be ignited.

In the troops of the City of Shadows, gargoyles and golems and fragments were blown up, flying like countless sharp arrows.

Ear-piercing screams came out one after another, even if the few ghost mages who reacted quickly released the "Spell Nullification Barrier" and "Elemental Shield", they were shocked by the violent flames and vomited blood.

"Energy Concentration Explosion" is a spell of the fourth ring's evocation system. It belongs to a group attack spell that the longer the casting time, the higher the accumulated energy damage.

From the power of the explosion, it can be seen that under the blessing of the circle circle, this spell has been accumulated to the maximum damage by the battle mages.

Three big fireballs instantly cleared a vacuum in the Shadow City troops, killing nearly a hundred of their fighters and five or six casters who couldn't escape.

At the same time, it also woke up the people of Shadow City from the shock of the golem's loss of control, and began to calm down, organizing and counterattacking in an orderly manner.

For a moment, the defender's evocation magic and the invader's counter-attack shadow magic came and went, fighting extremely fiercely.

The knights and warriors on both sides were also approaching each other at the fastest speed under the magic bombardment, and they collided like two torrents of steel in an instant.

——"Deep Darkness Technique!"

A ghost mage whose strength reached the fourth level murmured a spell, and quickly raised his hand. A large shadow exuding icy energy covered the entire battlefield, and plunged into darkness where he couldn't see his fingers.

——"Shadow Summoning!"

——"Undead Creature Summoning!"

——"Oath from another world!"

——"Summon the Demon Legion!"

At the same time, magic lights emerged in the darkness, accompanied by portals.

Dense ghosts, banshees, ghouls, zombies, mummies, and even two winged night shadows appeared on the battlefield and rushed towards the Zilong guards.

What's even more crazy is that there is also a ghost mage who summoned a group of uncontrollable abyssal demons.

Two berserkers turned their guns without hesitation, and rushed at the ghost mage's troops, causing a burst of cursing and screaming.

In the confrontation of magic, Tysonde, the Patriarch of the Church of the God of Knowledge, unleashed the divine spell he had prepared for a long time without showing any weakness.

——"Eight Ring Divine Art: Yang Yan Explosion!"

The moment Tysander raised his scepter and pointed at the shadowed troops in the City of Shadows, a dazzling glare suddenly burst out from the shadowed sky.

That light carried a suffocating power, directly purifying all shadows, spirit bodies, and undead creatures within a radius of 500 meters.

At the same time, the mages and warriors transformed into ghosts also made creepy sizzling sounds after being irradiated by the strong light, as if they were being roasted on a raging fire.

As an eight-ring magic spell, "Yang Yan Blast" is sometimes more effective in fighting against evil creatures and undead creatures than nine-ring spells.

Facing undead creatures and ghosts, it can be said that the price/performance ratio has been maximized.

However, even though Tysander's magic has produced such powerful power, compared to the number of ghost mages, it has not yet achieved the ability to change the situation of the battle.

Moreover, Tysonde was completely exposed to the sight of the ghost mages, and became the target of key care.

Facing the vast number of undead creatures, other priests also chanted high-spirited divine spells.

- "Supernatural Ability: Turn Undead!"

A series of pale golden light arrays quickly spread and crushed the summoned undead creatures, and all the nearby undead creatures turned into piles of black ash with scorched smoke.

The stone giant priest from the Underdark region, Stone Whisperer Hegram, finally broke out in silence, throwing the summoning spell he had prepared for a long time.

——"Summon the earth element!"

"Buzz!"

A radiant summoning circle emerged from the fighting crowd. A ghost mage who noticed it was startled, and immediately released a shadow ball bombardment towards the summoning circle.

In the exploding shadow magic, the summoning array was not damaged at all, on the contrary, the light became more and more blazing.

Soon, the powerful aura of alien creatures permeated, and an earth element creature like a hill appeared.

This is an elder of the earth element, whose strength is second only to the prince of the earth element in the legendary field.

Its head and body are made of earth and stone, with bits of metal, gems, or other shiny minerals mixed in.

The elder of the earth element took heavy steps, swung his ball-shaped arms, and hammered at the nearby dark guards.

The black guard who couldn't dodge was kicked in the abdomen, immediately spit out a mouthful of blood and covered his stomach, lying on the ground like an overcooked lobster, groaning in pain.

In the end, he was trampled into a pulp by the elder of the earth element.

After the hand-to-hand combat, as the magic confronted and countered each other, Brian already felt the pressure on his side.

Although his fourth-tier spellcasters include stone giant Hegram, battle mage Marek, and priest Tysonde, there are more than a dozen third-tier spellcasters.

But compared to the caster team of nearly a hundred people in Shadow City, even if the high-end force field on his side has the upper hand, it is very difficult to deal with it.

If it weren't for the magic damage of these shadow mages who rely on the shadow magic net to cast spells, they would not be able to compare with the evocation magic, and the losses they caused would be even greater.

However, facing this predicament, Brian is not worried at all.

Because he still has back hands.

The moment he killed a second-level ghost mage, a shining magic circle appeared behind the ghost city army.

Immediately afterwards, a group of more than 30 temple knights with distinctive silver and white armors, riding heavy horses, suddenly appeared behind the enemy.

These temple knights who appeared through the magic of "Tactical Teleportation" exuded a strong magical aura and a solid defensive barrier all over their bodies.

Obviously, it is a variety of buff magic and divine arts that have been blessed in advance.

"charge!"

The leader of the Knights who had reached the fourth level waved the golden giant sword, shouted an order, and rushed to the enemy first.

Oghma, the god of knowledge, is a deity of great power.

Although His church is an absolutely neutral camp, their extreme maintenance and protection attitude towards knowledge makes them often conflict and conflict with other churches.

Naturally, the way to resolve conflicts is not by words, but by swords in hands.

The professional level of these temple knights is all above level 10, and the inaugural occupation is also a special temple knight, a profession that combines both divine arts and melee combat.

As the speed became faster and faster, this group of temple knights from the Church of the God of Knowledge finally turned into an unstoppable torrent of steel, tearing apart the formation of the City of Shadows in an instant.

"Stop them!"

The dark guard Garen in charge had an ugly expression, as if he had been stabbed through the back door by a red-hot iron rod, and quickly commanded the army to stop the knights who were trying to reach the mages.

A group of spearmen formed a half-moon formation, like a two-faced steel hedgehog, hiding behind the tower shield painted with the emblem of the gray stone tower surrounded by poisonous snakes, waiting for the battle.

The leader of the knight order led the elite heavy knights into a wedge formation, and took the lead in fighting with them.

Facing the large platoon of long spears, half of the cavalry jumped into the air at the last moment with the help of the inertia of sprinting, and a few of them rushed and fell off their horses and were killed by magic bombardment.

The mount of the leader of the Temple Knights was scraped across the neck by the great sword of a powerful black guard, and he himself was blasted in the chest by a lightning spell.

His steed rose to its feet, kicking away blockers with outstretched hoofed feet, leaping frantically into the enemy lines.

Spears and magic came attacking and killing him from all directions, but the shield wall also collapsed under the madness of the heavily armored horses.

The expressions of the ghost soldiers changed, and they staggered to avoid the dying struggle of their mounts.

The horse crashed and vomited blood to death.

The leader of the knight order stood up unscathed, brandishing the two-handed greatsword of adamantine that shone with the aura of divine magic, and launched a frenzied attack on the surrounding ghost mages.

A stream of blood splattered.

Most of these spellcasters, whose strength is only around the second level, face a group of knights who are fully armed and blessed with various buffs and magic, and it is difficult to avoid their edge.

The orderly caster troops were finally overwhelmed by this group of knights, and they became chaotic in their separate battles.

Seeing the turn of the battle from a distance, Brian immediately commanded the caster troops to support the group of breakers through magic as much as possible.

Then, he exchanged glances with Battlemage Captain Marek, signaling that it was time for him to act.

The war shaper who had been waiting for a long time nodded, and his clear and bright eyes were gradually replaced by wild ones.

At the same time, the shadow mage, who had never released a single magic spell from the side of the black guard Garen, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the distant mountain and said, "I found it!"

When Garen heard what he said, he naturally understood what the other party meant.

He looked at the unfavorable battle situation, and immediately said to the mage, "Go and destroy it, let the golem play its role. Our reinforcements, the blue dragon lich, will also rush over soon."

(End of this chapter)