Chapter 113 Counterspell
"The humans in Delin Town are more cunning than we expected, elders, please be careful."
Cottard waved his hand after urging, and the two guards on the left and right riding hadrosaurs led the line, escorting Elder Basson forward, holding shields to block the arrows constantly flying from the opposite human position.
Elder Bassoon drove the hadrosaur to approach the sentry tower where Joan and Roger were. While riding, he made a series of spell-casting gestures and chanted divine prayers. It was golden and red, as if two groups of flames were about to erupt from the depths of his slender vertical pupils.
Joan stood on the tower and looked at the intruders from far and near. The abnormal magic fluctuations radiated from Bassoon's body aroused his vigilance. The magical fusion of scorching fire elemental energy and pure divine energy seemed familiar, which made him immediately feel a strong sense of crisis, and he couldn't help but pull Roger to turn around and run away.
The two hurriedly climbed down the ladder. At this time, Elder Basong on the opposite side had finished preparing to cast the spell, and waved out a "flame strike".
With a loud bang, a golden pillar of fire fused with divine energy rose from the bottom of the sentry tower. The scorching fire wave engulfed the sentry tower straight into the sky, and the terrifying impact burst out, instantly shattering the sentry tower. Joan and Roger were also impacted by the magic power, and the suffocating heat wave swept over them. The ladder under their feet fell apart, and the two fell from a height of more than ten feet from the ground one after another.
When the pillar of fire rose, Tom and Dick were guarding the bottom of the sentry tower, looking up at the figures of Joan and Roger who appeared and disappeared in the flames, with anxious faces. Witnessing that the two were blown away by the air current, they rushed to the rescue at the same time. Tom hugged the fallen Joan just in time, and Dick caught his younger brother Roger, protecting the two back to the ground without any danger.
The sentry tower was like a flaming torch, and broken wood continued to fall down with black smoke, like a rain of meteors and fire. It has become too dangerous to stay here, Joan hurriedly called his companions to retreat to the distance.
Opposite the burning sentry tower, Elder Basong was very satisfied with the damage he had caused, the corners of his lips raised slightly, his gaze turned to the sentry tower on the other side of the town entrance, and he made the spell-casting gesture again.
Qiao An recognized that he was performing the "flame strike technique" again, and hurriedly ran to the tower to warn loudly, urging the sentries on the tower to come down and escape for their lives.
At this moment, there was a familiar sound of dog barking behind him, and Joan hurriedly glanced back, seeing the mixed-breed winter wolf Jamie and the gray bag beast Gray running towards this side.
"Grey, why hasn't Weiss come yet?" Joan's question implied anger, and he couldn't help but suspect that Weiss backed down and failed everyone's trust.
"Mott!" Gray pointed to the guard tower opposite, as if defending Weiss.
Joan followed the direction of the gray bag beast's finger, and on the high platform on the top of the tower, a figure wrapped in a cloak could be vaguely seen. The man stood on the top of the tower, looking at Elder Basson, and suddenly raised his hand and pressed it, smoothing the folds of the magic net around Elder Basson, dispelling the "flame strike" that was about to take shape, and the turbulent magic power fluctuations around the sentry tower subsided.
Elder Basong raised his head and stared at the top of the tower, his eyes could not hide his shock and anger.
"You can actually counter my Flame Strike Technique, who are you!"
The so-called "spell counter" refers to the fact that both parties use the same spell, which cancels each other out and produces no effect. Since the person on the top of the tower can counter the Flame Strike, it is conceivable that this person must also be good at performing the Flame Strike. Ba Song has never heard of such a powerful person in Delin Town.
The man at the top of the tower did not respond, and calmly lifted the hood of his cloak, revealing a lizardman's face.
"Weiss, it really is you, the traitor!" Bassoon's face was gloomy and almost frozen.
Seeing Weiss appearing, Joan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling ashamed that he still doubted the character of the lizard prince just now.
Weiss stood on the towering sentry tower, first blessed himself with a loudspeaker trick, and then shouted to the lizardman troops outside the town in dragon language.
Most of the people in Delin Town under the tower couldn't understand what he was talking about, and their faces were full of bewilderment. Qiao An knew a little bit of dragon language, so he even guessed and heard that Weiss was publicly exposing Bassoon and Cottard's plot to usurp power by launching a coup d'etat. He accused Bassoon of colluding with the goblins to launch an aggressive war, which violated the principle of neutrality adhered to by the lizardmen, and tarnished the honor of the tribe. What is even more intolerable is that once Cottal, a demon believer, takes power, he will definitely suppress Samuel, who occupies the vast majority of the tribe. Sub-believers, promoting the belief of demons, dragged the entire tribe into the abyss of depravity.
After denouncing the crimes of Bassoon and Cottal, Weiss called on all the descendants of Samuany to bravely stand up and gather around him in a more impassioned tone to defend the honor and belief of the cold-blooded tribe and overthrow the "King Slayer" Bassoon and the brutal reign of Cottard, the "son of the devil".
Joan had to admire the eloquence of the lizardman prince. After some speeches, the opposite lizardman camp became agitated, showing faint signs of mutiny.
"The son of Mirik has defected to our enemies, and only stupid humans will believe his lies!" Cottal sternly yelled at the restive clansmen, trying to stabilize the army, "Warriors of the cold-blooded tribe, follow me to tear up that Despicable traitor!"
The herald beside Cottard blew his horn, and the army of lizardfolk moved forward. However, Joan soon discovered that only half of the lizardmen immediately responded to Cottard's order and launched a charge, while the troops led by the other cold-blooded nobles appeared to move slowly, falling behind Cottard and Bassoon's direct troops intentionally or unintentionally, as if Affected by Weiss' impassioned speech just now, he was reluctant to charge for the newly appointed patriarch.
Fifteen-foot-wide trenches can only stop infantry, but they are not an insurmountable obstacle for the marsh hadrosaur. These dinosaurs, which look like huge water birds, have extremely strong hind limbs. They rushed to the front of the trench and jumped up vigorously, and then stepped steadily on the solid ground on the other side of the trench.
The people in Delin Town watched the enemy cavalry easily cross the trench they had painstakingly dug, and their morale was inevitably frustrated. Fortunately, the trench was not useless, at least it could temporarily stop the lizardman infantry. As for the lizardman cavalry who had already broken through the first line of defense, they were in an uncomfortable situation. First they had to face the dense rain of arrows and charge, and then they were forced to stop in front of the second line of defense formed by double repelling horses. The noble knight held up his shield to block the arrows, and distracted his mount to use the wide and flat beak as an engineer shovel to clean up the repelling horses blocking the road, appearing to be in a hurry.
Flint seized this opportunity to sound the horn of counterattack. The militiamen in Delin town took the squad as the basic unit, led by the sergeant who served as the captain, and moved forward. The militiamen in the front row held up the tower shield with both hands to block the javelins thrown by the lizardman knights on the opposite side, forming an impenetrable shield wall.