Heart of the Castle

Chapter 748 Attack and Defense of the Dark Fortress
Two invisible sharp thorns completely condensed by spiritual power crossed the sky silently, approaching the red-robed magician standing on the top of the giant siege vehicle.The characteristic of psychic power is that it is extremely concealed, and it is difficult to find it even in normal times, not to mention that now the battlefield is full of lightning flashes, fireball explosions, and sonic roars. The turbulent aftermath of elements is enough to make any detection magic useless .

The fire wizard Juno An Merist did not notice the two invisible sharp thorns formed by the condensed psychic power, but this cannot be blamed for his negligence. In fact, although psychic power is a branch of the original spiritual power, it is It's too unpopular, and its effect is quite limited. Except for a few races with spiritual talents, few people will take special exercises.

Except for a few high-level dragons who rely on the power of blood to cross that threshold, the experience of every legendary powerhouse can be said to be extraordinary. These experiences have already sharpened their minds to be as tough as steel. The reason why spiritual magic such as errands and mind manipulation rarely appear in the battles between legendary powerhouses.

The abyss succubus is an extremely rare race with psychic talent. The reason why the abyss succubus' ability to seduce is hard to resist is largely because their psychic talent weakens the mental resistance of the seduced target.However, the advantages of this talent are not so obvious that many victims of the succubi's temptation are not aware of it.

Once the spiritual talent is promoted to the level of the original power, the impact will become very huge.Except for a strong will and a few equally unpopular mental defense magic, there are very few powers that can effectively defend against the spiritual power that only acts on the spiritual level.However, the highest level of mental defense magic - Brain Locking Technique is only at the seventh energy level, and it has almost no defense against the invisible puncture needle issued by Ms. Cang Ye that contains the original power of the mind.

The invisible thorns easily pierced through the flame barrier and the fire shield in front of the fire magician. The latter fluctuated slightly, and it was easily pierced like a frozen milkshake. The scarlet red formed by the former The light curtain didn't even appear to fluctuate.It was only at the last moment that Juno Ann Merister realized that the situation was abnormal. He opened his mouth suddenly, and a beam of extremely thin fiery red light shot out from the tip of his tongue. The dragon chant made Ms. Cang Ye and the Horrible Lord who were hundreds of meters away couldn't help frowning. Those high-level succubi felt severe pain in their ears, and involuntarily stopped the spell in their mouths. The incomparable magic offensive stopped immediately.

The fiery red light is undoubtedly the most powerful weapon of Juno An Meriste - the flame altar extracted from the heart of the castle, which originally belonged to the original power of the flame that burned the dragon king Darija.Purely in terms of strength, it far surpasses the two soul thorns of the charming lord Ms. Cang Ye. However, there is no real intersection between elemental power and spiritual power. Where the fiery red light sweeps, the two almost The invisible sharp spikes were not affected in any way.

Seeing that the sharp thorn was about to hit the head of the fire mage Juno Ameriste, the enchanting lord, Ms. Cang Ye, suddenly felt fiery excitement in her heart.Among the tribes in the abyss and purgatory, the succubus tribe is not known for their strong fighting power. In fact, because they are better at fighting with their beauty and body as weapons, they will inevitably appear weaker in face-to-face confrontation.Among the seven lords of the abyss, Ms. Cang Ye, the charming lord, always took the last place, even lower than the filthy and stinking plague lord Yinchen Samael and the corrupt lord Anriot who liked to play with dead people's skulls.

This is probably related to the fact that Ms. Cang Ye has never defeated any legendary powerhouse head-on. As for the powerhouses who have been defeated miserably in another type of battle, there are countless, and it is enough to write a list of abyss purgatory lords.

Thinking that in a second at the most, the legendary magician on the opposite side who even paid attention to the Lord of Terror, Charlemagne, would be seriously injured by the psychic puncture he sent out, and might even be on the verge of death due to serious mental damage. Ms. Cang Ye almost Almost excited to sing loudly.

She was happy too early.

Fire mage Juno Ameriste was not fighting alone.

A blue-white light lit up without warning, flickering at an astonishingly fast speed.Before the smile on the face of the charming lord Ms. Cang Ye faded away, the figure of Juno Anmeriste holding the flaming staff disappeared, replaced by an old man dressed in a very decent aristocratic butler costume, holding a sword in his left hand. A snow-white towel, and a silver-plated carved tray with two glasses of red wine in his right hand.

The sharp soul needle pierced straight into the old man's forehead, but it failed to penetrate, destroying the old man's mind—or in other words, hit the unimaginably solid protection.At that moment, the charming lord even thought that what the psychic needle pierced was a piece of diamond whose hardness was beyond imagination, and then there were two crisp cracking sounds, which seemed to come directly from the bottom of Ms. Cang Ye's heart.

A long scream sounded from the wall of the dark fortress, the beautiful face of the charming lord, Ms. Cang Ye, was bloodless, and she fell from the top of the city like a bird with broken wings. The panicked screams from the succubi, these beautiful witches with a pair of bat wings on their backs, jumped down the city without thinking. The fact that the queen of the succubus clan was in crisis made them completely forget about the dangerous battle in front of them. the back of the head.

Mr. Dish rubbed the place on his forehead where he had just been hit by the psychic needle, and his expression looked a little nostalgic, "Spiritual power is really a useful power. It is invisible and qualityless, and it is difficult to defend. As long as you master the source, even together with the Legendary powerhouses should also be very wary..." His voice was as low as a raving, his eyes flashed with memories, and the object of his speech was obviously not Ms. Cang Ye who had fallen into a semi-comatose state, but a certain figure who had disappeared. An old friend in the long river of history.

"It's a pity that cheating is never a real smooth path. Although spiritual power is difficult to defend, the power itself is too fragile. As long as you master the way to resist it, its power is the weakest of all original powers!"

After hearing the news that Ms. Cang Ye was seriously injured because of the defeat of her original power, the blood in the eyes of the Lord of Terror Charlemagne almost spurted out, "Is that old guy really human?" He growled in confidence, completely ignoring the majestic commander-in-chief image he wanted to maintain, and stretched his trembling fingers towards the opposite side, "Miss Cang Ye's mind blast is her hidden trump card, even one of the seven lords of the abyss Among them, there were also several weak-minded guys who couldn't resist, and suffered dizziness for quite a long time."

"But... Your Majesty Charlemagne, His Majesty Cang Ye's injuries are really...very heavy. Her guard captain, the Marquis of Astoria, made a request, hoping to transfer a thousand elites to transfer His Majesty Cang Ye to the safe place to go..."

"She's dreaming!" Accompanied by an angry roar, a cloud of poisonous fire with a sulphurous smell spewed out from the ferocious mouth of the Lord of Terror Charlemagne, which almost burned the sharp nose of Captain Bath. "I am the commander of the dark fortress appointed by His Majesty the Great Lord of the Abyss, Amur Hydras! Before the advance and retreat of the human coalition forces, there must be no less defenders here, let alone a thousand!"

"Your Majesty Charlemagne..." the team leader of Bath muttered, his face turned blue-gray again, obviously the fear in his heart was almost unbearable for this senior Winged Demon Destroyer, "The Marquess of Astoria Said... this is for the safety of His Majesty Cang Ye."

"Go to her Majesty Cangye!" Charlemagne cursed unceremoniously, "I don't need to pay attention to a loser, let alone spend a little bit of energy for her safety! Bass, you go tell that Aspen Miss Tolia, if the Dark Fortress can be defended, no human being will touch the place between His Majesty Cang Ye’s beautiful legs; if the Dark Fortress cannot be defended, even if she can hide in the desire vortex plane, it will not be safe, Amur Hydera His Majesty Si will also personally peel off the skins of the two demon lords—hers and mine!"

The team leader of Bass was frightened by the roar of "Get out and report!", and scrambled down the wall, almost forgetting that he still had wings. As for whether he dared to take the words of the Dread Lord It is not a question for Charlemagne to consider whether he will be beaten after the report to Astoria, Marquis of the Succubus.

There was a strange sound like a dragon panting, and the giant siege vehicle on the opposite side was throwing that kind of stone ball again. Seeing that the obsidian towers and city walls that had just repaired themselves a little were disintegrated under the continuous heavy blows of the stone balls, The abyssal demons who wanted to launch continuous fireballs were smashed and dodged everywhere. The Lord of Terror took a heavy breath, and finally decided to stop the meaningless forceful counterattack and evacuate the defenders from the outer city wall that had become a death zone.

After hearing the low-pitched retreat order issued by the Bone Horn, the defenders of the Dark Fortress who had already felt unable to hold on could not help but howl in excitement, as if they had just won a battle.Then a large number of demons swarmed back, scrambling for the ramp leading to the inner side of the fortress, or jumping off the city wall desperately.Those abyssal demons even impatiently cast the flame jumping magic, balls of fireballs soared from the obsidian city wall, so many that it almost made people think that the dark fortress was once again bathed in a sea of ​​flames.

The battle line moved forward as the demon defenders withdrew from the outer walls, and now the siege troops of the human coalition could even reach the foot of the walls of the Dark Fortress without any hindrance.However, for the vast majority of troops, a solid city wall as high as 40 meters is a desperate obstacle. Although they have also produced some siege weapons before, they are faced with a high wall that has never appeared in the history of war on the mainland. The barrier, even the tallest ladder car, barely reaches a height of about 30 meters.

Even the giant siege vehicles of the Griffon Knights are facing the same problem. The 20-meter-high siege vehicles have almost reached the limit of their size, and their height even exceeds the towers of some medium-sized castles. Compared with the fortress, it still looks like a batch of useless toys.

The goblins were still happily operating the catapults, throwing huge stone balls constantly, but as the towers on the front wall of the Dark Fortress were destroyed one by one, the catapults gradually lost their usefulness.The terrible impact of the stone ball falling from the sky can destroy any magic shield or solid crenel, but for the obsidian city wall body with a thickness of more than ten meters, the marks caused are no more serious than scratches, even if the dark fortress has no self-healing mechanism Ability, if you want to smash this city wall with a catapult, it is probably not something that can be done in a day or two.

What's more, the things created by the little monsters have more or less the same problem, even if Master Youyue personally guides them, it can only delay the occurrence of the problem...

"Thanks to the blessing of my lord, Flandara, after an arduous battle, the Allied Forces of Radiance have achieved a great victory! We have now arrived under the walls of the Dark Fortress, and we are ready to eradicate the root of this evil."

Grand Duke Zandora of the Kingdom of Deldes gave an impassioned speech. His Excellency was wearing a military uniform, with a rapier on his waist, standing behind a giant siege vehicle flying a Griffin flag, full of passion from time to time Waving his hands towards the crowd, he looked far more like the creator of this victory than the griffin lord Leviston standing beside him.

"It sounds like our Grand Duke Zandora is here to command the battle in person?" Prince Locke of the Sigis Kingdom cursed in a low voice, gnashing his teeth, "Then who was the one who had morning tea with us in the camp just now?" What about people? Speaking of the major contribution to the victory, the Kingdom of Sigis, which lost the most personnel, should undoubtedly have a place, right?"

"His Royal Highness Prince Locke, I'm afraid you have made some mistakes?" King Philip II of the Kingdom of Florence curled his lips, his tone half mocking and half serious. The strength of the troops is too weak, or the commander is too incompetent. If the number of people lost can be equal to the contribution made, then if a group of untrained country bumpkins are sent, wouldn't it be possible to compete with His Excellency Leviston for the first place? ?”

Prince Locke's fair face was flushed red, but before he could think of retorting words, there was a loud noise above his head, followed by countless screams and screams, and hundreds of little elves jumped out of the siege vehicle. The top floor fell down with a crackling sound. If they weren't all tied with safety ropes around their waists, there would definitely be a rain of ghosts out of thin air.

When the loud noise came, the crowd gathered behind the giant siege vehicle was shocked.A second ago, he was still clenching his fists, wanting to be the first to lead the way. Grand Duke Zandorah, who was the "No. 1 Invasion of the Dark Fortress", fell down on the spot with lightning speed, and then left the scene with a series of neat rolls ;The young and strong Prince Locke's dodging movements were also unambiguous, showing strength far superior to his martial arts, and even trampled one of his guard knights to the ground when he rushed out of the crowd; Philip II was regarded as The most calm among the leaders of the three kingdoms, but according to the description of the truly calm Prince Ermufasa later, this mediocre appearance and talent His Majesty the King would have been petrified at all, if it wasn't for his The guarding knights were loyal enough to block the chaotic flow of people with their bodies and shields. Maybe the Kingdom of Florence would lose their king because of trampling.

Maybe that's not a bad thing?
Li Wei looked up helplessly. He had expected this kind of thing to happen. He was surprised that the explosion didn't happen until after the demon defenders of the Dark Fortress were driven away from the outer wall.However, perhaps because of the relatively long brewing time, the explosion just now caused a terrible air wave that swept across the roof of the siege vehicle. Fortunately, the priests of the Temple of the Earth and the Temple of the Storm had already left first, otherwise it might have caused quite serious damage. casualties.

"Secret Rhyme Knight Si'er, are you and your subordinates okay?" Li Wei shouted loudly, while looking for the leader of Si'er among the little elves dangling above his head, which made the Griffon Lord feel distressed The strange thing is that each of these little guys was blackened by the thick smoke of the explosion, and they were almost indistinguishable from coal balls except for two bright big eyes.

"Leader Four, I said I couldn't count to six, but you said yes. How do you see it now? Did it explode?" A hoarse and strange voice sounded.

"Where is it, Great Technician Baba? Although I did say that, you exploded when you counted to three just now!" Si'er, the leader of the little monsters, immediately retorted that the coal ball was still holding on to his saber tightly. And the helmet, but the water bottle used as the breastplate has gone to nowhere.

"Anyway, it's all your fault!" This time, they all blamed in unison.

Once the goblins fall into mutual accusations and evasion, they usually need to form a special committee to break down the responsibility for the accident in detail, and then implement it to every tribe member from the leader to the newborn. No matter how big the mistake was, it was broken down to the point where there was not much left, and it was enough to punish myself by banging my head against the wall a few times.However, Li Wei didn't intend to wait for them to follow the tradition. The eyes of the Griffin Lord flashed a strange light, and the voice of telepathic communication sounded in the mind of the leader of the four children.

"Leader Si'er, now is not the time to pursue responsibility." Although Li Wei's voice was not high-pitched, the meaning in his words carried an undeniable flavor, "Is there any casualty among your clansmen? Do you need to investigate immediately?" Rescue?"

"No, my lord, not at all!" Si'er looked around excitedly. After seeing the figure of Li Wei who was more than ten meters away from his feet, the leader of the little monster wanted to knock on the breastplate with his fist, but it quickly became Disappointed—his kettle breastplate was blown into the Dark Fortress, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get it back for a while.

"My lord, this explosion is nothing. In the history of the Miyun Tribe, there have been several explosions bigger than this one!"

"There's nothing to be proud of!" Li Wei replied dumbfounded, "Leader Sier, what happened to the catapult on the top of the siege vehicle?"

"Of course it's all over!" The voice of the leader of the four sons definitely did not sound depressing, but a little excited, "One set of 'Boom', followed by 'Boom Boom Boom...' Lord Lord, I I think this phenomenon is very worthy of research, so I will tentatively name it 'Bengbengbeng Chain Explosive Reaction of Catapult Discovered by Si'er'!"

Li Wei suddenly understood the dark psychology of those alchemists who regarded the little elves as consumables. The young Griffon Lord then shook his head violently, getting rid of such thoughts, and at the same time regretted it for a while.

"Every life is precious, and the little monsters who don't take their own lives seriously should be no exception... Is that right, Mr. Dish?"

The old butler who appeared next to Li Wei at some point in time nodded with a smile on his face, "Your kindness can sweeten the bitter water, Master Li Wei, but the next thing doesn't need the catapult of the little monster, please Join me in opening the portal of the Castle Heart and summon the secret weapon that has been prepared for this war for half a year!"

(End of this chapter)