Chapter 102, Monster’s Wisdom and Focused Magic Missile Swarm
The blue light that passes above the ground naturally comes from Kiel.
"That boy!"
Knight Rumi grinned, thinking that this particularly young boy was really good. Crowe had not misjudged the person when he accepted the knight apprentice this time.
‘It would be great if this boy were my apprentice. After drinking and bragging, he would have something to talk about. ’
This thought flashed across his mind, and of course he knew it. Even though this kid Kiel had a bad background, he traveled around taking people's money to do things for them. But whether it is his potential and strength in battle, or his spirit, he is not an ordinary civilian or warrior.
He himself is just a knight who doesn't see much of a future, and he's not qualified enough to accept an unpolished gem like Kiel.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have secretly leaned towards the Church of the Warrior Hall.
The blue light came from the axe. At this time, the ax flew straight up against the wind, spinning and making a sound that was far louder than the roar of the wind. It went straight from bottom to top, brushed the wings of a harpy monster, and hit it. The belly of a horse lifted up by a multi-headed monster.
The blue light disappeared, and then it was quiet for a moment.
With a bang, the horse exploded into two pieces from the middle of the abdomen, and a large amount of intestines and internal organs mixed with blood and body fluids were splashed out. The first one to bear the brunt was showering several harpies around him.
This is not the key. What really caused trouble for the monsters was that the monsters grabbed the horse's body from head to foot, from left to right, but the power of Kiel's ax exploded and the whole horse was blown into pieces. The two monsters, both of which were flapping their wings vigorously, seemed to be in a tug of war with someone, but the other party suddenly let go, and their whole bodies suddenly retreated in confusion.
The two monsters pulling the horse's upper body, one monster pulled the horse's head and violently lifted the body upwards, while the other monster pulled diagonally upwards. At this time, the power suddenly loosened, and the combined force between them changed from the original combined force to restrain each other.
Two monsters, you rise and I fall, I fall and you rise, but on the contrary, they both fall together.
While being defeated, the two monsters were yelling at each other, and kept shouting fierce screams at their companions. In the eyes of Knight Rumi, he didn't need to understand the language of the harpy monster. I knew that whatever I was shouting at this time was not a good word.
The other side was pulling the horse's lower body in the same way. One harpy was holding the horse's butt firmly with its claws, while the other was originally holding the horse's belly.
At this time, the horse broke from the middle, and these two guys also violently pulled half of the horse's body and flew away diagonally.
As the internal organs in the horse's belly continued to splash and explode, the monster's claws that grabbed the belly lost their grip, and the claws were sharp. At this time, it flapped its wings vigorously, but the claws were empty, and it flew up on its own with a huff. Heaven.
It looked down and saw that there was only a little bit of broken horse belly fur in its paws, and it was empty.
This side grabbed the air and flew into the sky, but the harpy on the other side grabbed the horse's butt meat.
The carrying capacity of a single monster is limited. Even if it flaps its wings with all its strength, four monsters can only lift the weight of the horse's body. If you give it half of the weight, it still can't lift it.
Therefore, no matter how hard he tried, he was still carried by the horse's lower body and fell down quickly.
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After Yuoshui's two-handed ax exploded with force, the horse's body was blasted away, and then it was spinning in the air. Kil, who was on the ground, ran past on horseback, turned around, stretched out his hand and shouted: "Come back!"
The slightly dim blue light shook, knocking away all the blood and body fluids stained on the surface of the axe, and then flew straight towards Kil at a faster speed.
"Good job!" Knight Rumi rode over quickly on horseback. First he praised loudly, then he grabbed a gun in each hand and shot at the baron guards on the ground not far away who were dodging the attacks of monsters.
Of course, it's not to kill one of our own people, it's to save the siege.
The knight was so powerful that as soon as the spear was released, it turned into a shadow and made a loud whistling sound to drive back a harpy that was attacking.
The monster was slowing down to avoid the first thrown weapon, but the second throwing gun saw the timing of its slowdown and hit the monster's wings.
"呷-"
The monster whined, then landed on the ground, turned its head and screamed at the running Rumi Knight.
"What's the ghost's name? Go to hell!"
Knight Rumi's war horse not only has the fifty throwing spears that Kiel bought before, but also has the knight sword and shield commonly used by Knight Rumi.
He didn't take off his shield, he rode his horse and quickly approached the monster, drew his sword, and swiped the fifty-kilogram steel knight's sword smoothly across the monster's neck.
That monster didn't understand until his death why his all-powerful deafening cry didn't work?
Knight Rumi had just killed a harpy, and before he could cheer, the exclamation of another baron's guard came next to him.
It turned out that the two baron guards who fell off their horses were each riding a horse after all. The monsters were interested in the first one, and wanted to catch it and take it to high altitude, and then throw it down to bombard the human army.
But it was reversed by Kier with an axe.
But the harpies who hold the initiative on the battlefield obviously do not give up so easily. Under the order of the leader monster who gave up the pursuit of Kil, a few other harpies immediately gave up the pursuit of the riding baron. The guards, gathered together, took a fancy to another uncontrolled horse.
They chirped briefly to communicate, and then they all pounced down, surrounding the frightened horse. They grabbed the horse's body with their sharp claws, flapped their wings, and flew up.
What's more shocking is that these monsters, obviously under the command of the leader Harpy, have learned from the experience just now. They did not directly grab the horse and fly upward immediately, but flew away from the grassland ground, intending to After getting a little further away, take the horses into the air and bombard the human army.
"Kiel! Do it again!"
Knight Rumi shouted loudly, but received no response from Kil. He turned around and saw that the blue light of the ax in Kil's hand was slightly dim, and it seemed as if he had not heard his shout. He ran towards the fallen baron's guard and carried him to his horse, as if he was going to return to the army temporarily.
"Hey, I forgot about it."
The knight slapped his head and made a clanging sound. Then he remembered that Kiel and the other baron guards on the scene did not have the physical fitness and resistance of the knights that were far beyond ordinary people.
Under the particularly annoying deafening cry of the harpy monster, they were probably injured and deafened, and could not hear anything.
"Damn, that's really troublesome."
He muttered, and immediately drove his horses to catch up with several flying monsters, but he couldn't let them get their wish.
But as soon as he accelerated, a strong guy like the leader of this wave of harpies pounced on him in the strong wind. As if he knew how difficult the knight was, he did not confront Rumi directly from the knight. Instead, he targeted the horse and wanted to attack the horse to limit the knight's mobility.
The knight turned to look, and was immediately greeted by a spear, but the guy dodged sideways and got out of the way of the deadly spear that flew over its head.
"oh?"
Knight Rumi became slightly interested and was about to see if the opponent could dodge the next shot.
At this time, Knight Crow's command came from the army: "Knight Rumi, catch up with the monster group in front!"
Rumi came back to his senses at this time and remembered that he should not get entangled with the opponent, and interrupting the monsters' plans was the first priority.
But before he urged the horse to speed up, the leader monster grabbed his horse in a mean manner.
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Kendall Army Center, on top of the carriage.
Seeing that Rumi was entangled by a monster, and that the monster did not seem to be able to be dealt with in a short time, Knight Crow immediately gave the order without much thought: "All crossbows on the right side!"
Even with the howling of the strong wind, Knight Crow's voice was not defective at all and could be heard clearly throughout the entire militia.
"The furthest angle!"
Knight Crow identified the actual distance between the army and the monsters. The monsters flying close to the ground with their horses were about to run out of the maximum range of the crossbows.
"Monster swarm! No need to aim, just shoot!"
Fifty of the one hundred militiamen on the right were holding crossbows. At this time, they heard the clear command of Knight Crow. Following the knight's words, they raised the crossbows that had been strung and loaded with arrows. The shoulders are the center of the circle, and they are raised diagonally upward at an angle of forty or fifty degrees.
They took a deep breath, then adjusted the crossbow in the direction where the distant monsters flew away from the ground, and finally triggered the mechanism under the crossbow.
Bang - buzz!
The sound of dozens of crossbow strings coming together will become the same sound.
At the same time, the crossbow arrows suddenly shot upward across a large area of air, over the heads of Kil and the others, over the heads of the monsters fighting with Kil and the others, and over the heads of Knight Rumi and the monster leader.
First it rises diagonally upward, and then falls diagonally downward after passing the highest point.
They were projected towards a large area almost in no particular order.
Although it was a large area, the crossbows of the Kendall militiamen were actually quite good. This wave of shooting just covered the few harpy monsters flying close to the ground with their horses.
嗖, 嗖 嗖 ，, the sound of the sound is connected, but in breathing, many monster wings and body are hit by more than one crossbow.
Either it hits the wing, causing the feathers to be penetrated and affects the airflow, or it hits the harpy monster's back, and the small half of the crossbow arrow is drilled into it.
This is also the reason why the monster's body is particularly tough. If it were a human without armor, the crossbow arrow would not penetrate it at all.
But even so, this also affected the flying movements of the monsters. One harpy monster was shot in the chest and lungs, and pink blood foam came out of its wide-open mouth when breathing.
The monster instantly lost its strength and could not flap its wings, causing the entire horse body to fall to the ground.
In the distance, the human Tin Man's command sounded again, and the impatient Harpy yelled at the injured monster.
"Yah! Yah!"
The injured monster was a little aggrieved. When he retorted, other monsters slapped him on the head with wings.
"Gah! Gah! Gah!"
After being taught a lesson, the injured monster immediately became violent and used its back muscles to clamp the crossbow arrow that hit its lungs. Then it cheered up and flapped its wings, and flew up again with its other companions.
"Yah!"
Some monsters suggested flying directly, and other monsters immediately agreed.
Immediately, the claws of the monsters grasped the skin and saddle of the horse, flapped their wings, and quickly flew up with the heavy horse corpse.
The crossbow arrow projected at this time was a step too late, and shot diagonally on the empty grass, but it just missed the monsters.
"It's too late. Hey, do you want the team to disperse?"
Knight Crow, who was commanding on top of the carriage, whispered to himself, disappointed that he could not stop the monster from moving.
"What's too late?"
Baron Kendall's voice suddenly came from the top of the carriage next to him.
Knight Crow naturally knew that the Baron had just stepped out of the carriage, but Baron Kendall, who had always been praised for his wisdom and knowledge, would come out to watch the battle, which surprised Knight Crow.
He stretched out his arm to point to a small, rising black dot in the distance.
"The monsters are taking a dead horse into the air and are preparing to throw it down to bomb us." Knight Crow explained.
Baron Kendall raised his head and squinted his eyes to look in the direction of the knight's finger, and then showed an unexpected expression.
"Fortunately, there are no exposed stones on this grassland, otherwise it would be all over." After the baron finished speaking, he fell into thinking again.
Knight Crowe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Baron Kendall to be able to think deeply at this time.
While he was directing the militiamen to shoot crossbows at the target of Knight Rumi, he asked Baron Xiang: "What are you thinking about? At this time?"
Baron Kendall watched the large number of crossbows thrown by the militia hit Knight Rumi and the monster leader who was fighting with him, and murmured: "I understand how the local knight lords were defeated before. Those people started to If you don't do a good job fighting, everything will soon lead to a defeat."
"What???"
Knight Crow didn't understand what kind of nonsense the baron was talking about.
"Explain, don't say anything you don't understand."
The baron watched the battle in the distance. The young man from Kiel put down his bodyguard who had lost his horse, then grabbed the spear of a militiaman and rushed towards another bodyguard who had lost his horse.
Knight Rumi and his horse were unscathed by the intensive volley of crossbow arrows from the militiamen. At most, some of the decorative paint on the armor's surface was knocked off. However, the strong monster leader was hit by seven or eight crossbow arrows and was seriously injured.
The previous offensive and defensive postures of the two immediately changed.
Knight Rumi even shouted loudly for Knight Crow to command the militia to listen to his signal. If he does it again, he will definitely be able to deal with this monster leader next time.
"Faced with our human army, monsters, besides fighting head-on, are there any other ways to defeat the army?"
The Baron withdrew his gaze and looked at Knight Crow.
Knight Crow shrugged, raised his chin slightly, and pointed at the horse carcass and several monsters above that were flying over at a height that was impossible to hit in the air.
"Yes, throwing heavy objects is like a trebuchet. And unlike the fixed and slow trebuchets, these harpy monsters are the best trebuchets themselves. But their biggest problem is that they have no ammunition!"
Knight Crow waved his hand and immediately ordered the militia on the right to disperse as previously trained. This is a means to avoid the magician's large-scale magic attack and reduce losses.
But here he just avoided the horse carcasses falling from the sky.
"So, how did they defeat the previous army? Just with this trick?" Knight Crow asked.
Baron Kendall said first: "You can call out the priests who are accompanying the army, and they will rush to treat the injured militiamen later." Then he continued what he said before: "Just rely on this trick, but it must be done first and then later. More is better. I'm talking about the munitions the monsters throw."
Knight Crow raised his eyebrows. He understood what the baron meant: "Is it a corpse? A killed corpse? Not just horses, but also the corpses of dead soldiers?"
After asking, the knight loudly ordered: "Secretary, please bring out the priests from various religions who are accompanying the army and rush to the front line immediately to prepare to treat the injured."
Baron Kendall adjusted his magic crown, then took out the magic gem short staff from his waist, flexibly turned it around in his hand, and held it tightly in his hand.
"Crow, probably, all the corpses, or anything they could pick up. The corpses of horses, the corpses of human soldiers, even their own corpses, armor, weapons, iron pots, luggage, even heavy carriages Maybe. If anything of some weight is caught in the air and thrown into the dense army formation, even a ball of clothes covered in mud, it should be able to kill one of the most heroic soldiers."
As the baron spoke, he lowered his head and used his right thumb to flip some mechanism on the magic gemstone staff.
The crisp clicking sound of the mechanism was masked by the surrounding strong wind.
"Magic missile? Blue sky wind mass? Or Aurora scorching ray?" The baron muttered in a low voice, as if he didn't know what to choose at this moment.
Knight Crow in the carriage next to him saw the Baron's appearance and shook his head: "Sir, can you be more generous? When we get to the capital of the southern province, there must be a magician designated by the parliament to charge it. I don't need to keep my sword. , weapons should be used, not shelved."
Seemingly being teased by Knight Crow, Baron Kendall smiled slightly, and without mumbling any more choices, he tapped his magic gem crown, and then tapped his magic gem short staff.
A red magic thread visible to the naked eye connects the two magic props.
"You said, let's be extravagant and use a swarm of shaped magic missiles."
As soon as he finished speaking, his expression became serious.
Several magic gems in the magic gem crown worn on the Baron's head lit up one after another, and the magic gem short staff gem he held in his hand had a three-dimensional complex magic array on its surface, with slender cyan magic fibers. After passing through the magic circle, it seemed that some information was taken away from the magic circle. This information was then connected along the magic power with the cyan magic fiber, and directly connected to the magic gem crown.
Seemingly ready, the Baron looked at Knight Crow.
"when?"
"It's now!"
As soon as the knight finished speaking, the baron raised the magic gem short staff, stretched it out and pointed the head of the staff directly at the horse corpse hanging in the sky not far away. His eyes were also fixed there, and he uttered a short high-class aristocratic language.
"Permission to shoot!"
In an instant, the magic gem crown instantly projected several masses of thick magic power. In less than a blink of an eye, these magic powers were transformed from mixed thick magic power into orderly ones under the guidance of magic fibers carrying more information. Of the functional areas, some are responsible for building, some are responsible for restraining magic, and some are responsible for instilling magic.
Like a small factory made entirely of energy, these magic aggregates quickly create fist-sized energy balls that radiate magic light at a speed that is invisible to the human eye.
These balls were produced in a queue, and then flew around Baron Kendall.
In a short period of less than a second, at least twelve magic spheres emitting bright light suddenly appeared around Baron Kendall, and the temporary magic 'factories' that produced them gradually collapsed one by one. The disintegrated remains were instead absorbed by the last magic 'factory', which finally tried its best to produce three luminous magic spheres.
Only then did this last temporary magic power 'factory' finally dissipate and turn into a relatively harmless air mass rich in magic power.
The magical fibers that had completed their mission shrank back into the tiara jewel of the Baron himself. At this moment, the crown officially took over control of the luminous magic spheres flying around it in a way that was invisible to the naked eye.
In the Baron's own perception, he vaguely seemed to have fifteen more flying attack magics that could be directly controlled by his consciousness.
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All of the above were completed in the blink of an eye. To outsiders, it was just a flash. The area around the baron standing on the top of the carriage lit up for an instant, and then a group quickly surrounded it. It even seemed to the naked eye that there was a cloud of light. Circle the luminous hood that protects the Baron himself.
That is actually the afterimage left in human eyes by the magic missile flying too fast.
Only Knight Crow, who was not far away, could slightly see the entire magic process, and was secretly shocked by combat magic.
In ordinary people's impression, magic is the kind that appears after a magician chants a spell and slowly gathers power.
But that was actually just a look that was deliberately changed for performance in bards and dramas. Real combat magic, not to mention fixed-trigger magic props, this kind of attack magic that requires human control is actually magic that has been prepared for use in advance. When used, the activation speed does not appear based on human beings' own cognition. of.
It appears based on the complexity and type of magic.
Judging from the knowledge that Knight Crow had learned in the Knights, the magic power emitted by the Baron at this time was actually pretty good, but it only took a blink of an eye to cast.
Other less powerful magics are even faster, and are often cast instantly in a very short time before humans can react.
The knight looked up and saw that the baron was about to release his magic.