The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 875 The Long Morning (3)

Strategic magic is currently the most powerful magic power that mortals can master.Its power is the literal meaning, enough to change the situation of the battle.

Although strategic magic is not a spell that cannot be cast by a single person, such as Ymir's famous work 'Icefall'.But with the current level of magic development, it is far from reaching the level of destroying a country by one person. There were not many big men like Ymir in the ancient elves.

The current so-called strategic magic is not as powerful as the original version, and is essentially born out of a technology called combined spellcasting.It allows spells that could not be released originally to be used through the tacit cooperation between several people.

It's just that the joint casting of strategic magic requires very high requirements, and the scale is by no means as simple as a few people.

Not only do you need to arrange magic nodes all over Farland County, draw a magic circle that is so complicated that it is a headache at a glance, and the number of mages working together exceeds three digits, and as long as one person makes a mistake, not only will the spell release fail , At the same time, it will also cause a chain reaction. In the best case, the mages who use strategic magic will be injured, and in the worst case, the strategic magic will be out of control...

That way, [-]% of them will be thrown on their own heads.

Despite all the risks and difficulties, strategic magic is still the first choice of rich city-states because of its ferocious destructive power.

The huge light yellow magic circle in the sky began to turn towards pale gold, and at the same time, wisps of electric light entangled in the magic circle and appeared, and more and more.

This is completely different from the thunder cloud, there is no trace of dark clouds at all. It should be said that there is a large cloud composed of thunder in the sky, and people who are flashing can't look directly at it.

"I suggest you better plug your ears."

Sai Li reminded her, and Brother Lin followed suit immediately.

At this time, the rushing beast hordes seemed to be captured by the super power of strategic magic. Faster monsters such as evil wolves running in the front and within the range of strategic magic strikes obviously flinched.But the monsters in the back defense still rushed in like a tide, they couldn't retreat at all, they just rushed forward under the coercion.

At this moment, the clouds formed by thunder suddenly brightened in the sky, followed by a huge roar of thunder that seemed to shake people's brains out.

Bucket-thick lightning bolts fell from the sky, sweeping obliquely or vertically across the plains outside Farland County. The lightning bolts intertwined with each other, densely filling the entire field of vision and illuminating the sky like daytime.

Even with the monk's physical fitness, Lin Tianci couldn't see it too clearly. He could squint his eyes to see the power at first, but soon the thunder light became stronger and stronger, so he had to cover his ears and close his eyes, burning hot The flash of light through the eyelids dazzled the eyes with some ghosting.

"So that's it. I thought it was some kind of powerful spell, but it turned out to be just Judgment Lightning..."

Sally seemed a little disappointed, but her words were not heard.

The flash and continuous thunder lasted for about ten seconds. Lin Tianci felt through his eyelids that there was no more thunder and lightning falling, so he slowly opened his eyes.

Originally, there was a large expanse of farmland stretching to the end of the field of vision outside Farland County, but now this circular area with a radius of at least two kilometers near the city wall has completely disappeared.

It's as if someone used a shovel to cut off a layer of soil in the entire area, and now only the ground is still steaming, and the semi-liquid glass-like shape, and you can even see the red-hot ones, as if Hot magma is slowly flowing.

The rushing beast horde didn't even leave any corpses, and it was completely evaporated together with the layer of peeled off soil...

As expected of a spell with the name of strategy, although in Saili's view, Judgment Lightning is relatively weak in strategic magic, it is still very powerful even now.

The soldiers on the city wall shook their dizzy heads from the shock, rubbed their eyes, and saw that the originally black animal horde outside the city wall disappeared immediately, and immediately burst into loud cheers.

Farland County is a treasure land of geomantic omen, and there are many city-states that want to get involved in it, but Farland County has blocked the attacks again and again by virtue of strategic magic and a city wall as high as 30 meters. The most dangerous time was besieged by four countries and city-states. Persisting for more than half a year directly dragged down the opponent.

But you have to understand that the commander's order to put the archers on alert just now was not an order given indiscriminately.

Mixed in the rising steam, a dark shadow gradually emerged from the far end of the field of vision, and then more and more shadows...

The beast horde was not affected at all, and continued to charge towards Farland County, and even the herd of beasts wiped out by strategic magic seemed to be only a small part of the beast horde...

This stopped the soldiers' cheers abruptly, and made them truly understand that this was not dealing with malicious neighbors, but a group of real monsters.

The pale golden color of the strategic magic circle in the sky gradually faded, and finally completely disappeared into the night.

Although everyone hopes that the strategic magic can be used again, the condition is that it is really not allowed.

The ferocious power of strategic magic is caused by consuming the magic power of the caster. After casting the spell, more than a hundred mages lay down on the ground as if they had made an agreement. The precious mages were sent to the sofas or soft cushions prepared in advance, and various potions and magic crystals were sent to them, trying to make them recover as soon as possible.

The huge consumption of mana and energy cannot be replenished in a short while, and the mages involved in casting are almost completely drained.

After all, there are not many monsters with huge mana like Lin Tianci.

Strategic magic cannot be shot continuously, not only related to the mage who casts the spell, but also related to the most important magic circle facility.A group of people were taking care of the mages, while another group of people hurriedly poured specially prepared cooling fluid on the magic nodes that were gradually dimming.

After this set of procedures alone, the amount of gold coins consumed is already a huge wealth, not to mention the consumption required to train these mages.

So strategic magic has always been something that only rich city-states can play. Even Nordhalan, which Lin Tianci visited last time, can't afford it.

Using strategic magic as the first shot at the opening has two main purposes.

One is to eliminate a large number of monsters as soon as possible, and the other is to boost the morale of the soldiers on the front line. After all, when seeing a group of monsters flooding in like a tide, even experienced soldiers will feel fear.

The second is to 'fire first, then cool down', so that mages and magic circles can recover as soon as possible, and then they can do it again.

However, the strategic magic of Farland County can only be used once more at most. Even with the help of potions and other foreign objects, it is impossible to recover completely. It is the limit to be able to hit two shots. If you have to force it, the result is It is very likely that these mages who spent a lot of money to train died suddenly on the spot.

But in any case, the first strategic magic is over, and the next step is to watch the performance on the city wall.

"Five hundred steps, ready to shoot!"

The officers on the city wall quickly conveyed the order, and ordinary soldiers could be afraid and fearful.But the officers can't. If the officers are also afraid, then the battle will be defeated without fighting.

So even the officers trembled under their feet, but they must not show timidity in front of their subordinates.

Fortunately, the strategic magic of the first strike at the opening gave a great boost to the morale of the soldiers and low-level officers, and the archers on the city wall drew their bows and got ready.

The sound of rumbling footsteps was like rolling thunder approaching from the sky. The beast tide stepped on the ground that was almost melted by strategic magic, and the front part had already reached the firing line.

"put!"

The bowstring hummed softly, and feathered arrows rushed over like locusts, forming a dense dark cloud.

Projectiles play a very high role in warfare, especially when thermal weapons that can fire continuously do not appear, crossbow teams can use projectiles to cause a lot of damage to enemies in dense formations.

But it was a battle between mortals, and when placed on monsters, the effect was not very prominent.

The ones running in the front were still fast monsters like evil wolves, cockatrices, and dire tigers. A round of volley only caused some of the monsters to fall to the ground with arrows, and more of them stepped on the corpses of their companions to stand on the ground. Arrow Rain continued to rush forward.

The monster's vitality is very strong, and because it is under the control of the beast tide and the demons, it has lost its usual habit of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil. As long as it is not a fatal injury, it will not stop at all.

What's more, they're too fast.

The distance of [-] steps was fleeting for them, and the city wall only shot two rounds of arrow rain in the form of projectiles, and the frontmost monster had already rushed under the city wall.

There is no moat outside the city walls of Farland County, mainly because even if it is as rich as Farland County, water sources are very scarce. Their only surface water is the small river flowing from the mountains on the other side, which is not enough to irrigate the farmland. If the moat is dug again, agriculture will be seriously frustrated.

Normally, for a city wall that is 30 meters high and strengthened by enchantment, it doesn't matter if there is no moat. The siege catapults have nothing to do with this kind of city wall, and even the siege ladder cannot reach it.

And why do monsters care how tall and strong your walls are?

The evil wolf rushed to the bottom of the city wall and used all four claws, trying to climb up the slightly sloping wall, but the trapezoidal city wall became steeper as it went up, and after a few climbs, it would eventually slide down helplessly.

But don't forget, the monsters behind are still rushing up.

They seem to be climbing up by stepping on the bodies of their companions, and they pile up a slope with corpses.Anyway, there are enough monsters, and they even plan to use this method to directly level the 30-meter-high city wall in Farland County.

In Farland County, of course, we can't just watch the monster 'build a human body'.

The strong vibration spread along the bricks and stones to the soles of the feet, giving people a very unpleasant feeling of tingling. Lin Tianci immediately saw the mages on several towers not far away stand up one after another, holding different colors in their hands. Aura of magic.

It's their turn, the spellcasters recruited from the adventurers.

(End of this chapter)