Chapter 7 Lost Guard Battle

Chapter 7 'Lost' Lost Guard Battle

"What is that?" Ling hit me desperately with one hand while pointing at a small animal running over on the grass and shouting excitedly. Fortunately, her level is now the same as mine, and she has no attack power. It was so high at first!

"That's a mouse!" I lowered my head feebly. "This is the 3,000th thing you've asked me! Please, let me go!"

"But don't they know!" Ling put the index finger of his right hand in his mouth and looked at me with an innocent and cute look, which made me feel so cruel!

"Although you haven't been out in the Dark Temple, you must have seen something, right? How did you grow up?"

"I have been in the temple since I was born and never left the temple. Those idiots (the Dark Priest and the Death Knight) always let me decide this and that. It seems that they don't understand anything and want to do everything. I'll help them decide! That's why I haven't even stepped out of the temple! Don't talk about these things, I can't even recognize the dark creatures!"

"I didn't tell you!" What else can you complain about with such a person?

Ling suddenly became excited again. "Look what's in the sky? What is it? There are so many! It's so fun!"

I looked up in confusion, and saw a large black mass flying over me. These things flew very high and very fast, and I didn’t recognize them for a moment. At Ling's request, I turned on the telescope function of Xingpu, and a group of big birds quickly came into my sight. These creatures with golden feathers also have the body of a lion. Isn't this a gryphon? ! Why are there so many griffons here? It is said that this place belongs to the territory of the Dark Temple, and the griffins belong to the light-type magic pets, so they did not fly in accidentally, and such a large number is not normal.

I increased the magnification of Star Pupil, and there was a knight in silver armor riding on the gryphon. ***Isn’t this the garrison of the system’s main city? According to their current speed and direction, their destination should be... the Lost City?

These guys actually attacked the Lost City! They are still not satisfied after wiping out Essinger! Without having time to think about it, I turned the teleportation ring directly to reach the Lost City and summoned the Demon Knight and Ling. "Scott, do you know my brother Clark's place?"

"know!"

"Go and tell him that the Temple of Light has sent troops to attack the Lost City!"

"Yes!" Scott got on his horse and galloped away.

"Others, follow me!" I took the remaining people and rushed to the training center where the boomerang was trained that day. The training center is not far from the transfer station, and we arrived quickly.

Yeying rushed too fast. After arriving at the training center, I jumped off the horse due to inertia. As a result, I ran too fast. I didn't step firmly and was bumped by the last few steps. As a result, I was flying like this. He walked out, knocked open the door and fell into the hall. "Quick...quick...! Attention, Mystery Troops, the Temple of Light has sent troops to attack here... They want to sneak attack you, call for defense!"

The "Miscellaneous" troops who were training were stunned when they heard my words. One of them, who may have been the leader, quickly ran over and helped me up. "How did you know?"

"I saw their vanguard on the road! They were all griffins, about tens of thousands of them!"

The leading knight immediately shouted to the back: "I heard it all, all the Lost Lock troops are in position. The Lost City has entered a state of war!"

The Mystery troops all rushed out and ran in all directions of the city. I quickly ran to Clark, and Scott was standing at the door.

"Did you tell him?"

"I told you, Clark has already left to inform others, let me wait for you here. Clark said that you should wait for him in his store and stop running around."

"Oh! Okay, I got it!" I took the demon knights and Ling into the store, but waiting was not an option.

I jumped directly from the window to the roof of Clark's store. Standing on the top of this three-story building, I could roughly see a large area of ​​the city. I suddenly felt that an evil power was increasing. I followed the feeling and looked over. What came into my sight was the Eye of Hell located on the high tower in the center of the city! The originally closed eye of hell is slowly opening, and the powerful evil power is gradually increasing.

About a minute later, the Eye of Hell finally opened completely, and a golden beam of light shot straight out from the Eye of Hell. The beam searched for something in the sky like a searchlight.

"What are you doing up there?" Clark, who had already rushed back, saw me standing on his roof on the street.

"I'm watching how you prepare for war. I'm going to build a city soon. I need to learn these things!"

"Then come down! Follow me to the city wall to take a look!"

"Is it okay? That's great!" I jumped off the roof excitedly, and the Demon Knight and Ling followed immediately.

Following Clark as he ran towards the city wall, all he saw on the road were knights in armor and mages in robes running out of every house in the Lost City. "Clark! Is the entire Lost City a military force?"

"Absolutely! The people who live in Lost are all old undead who have some fighting skills, so when we fight, we go together!"

"sharp!"

We quickly reached the city wall, and a large number of knights and mages were still running towards the city wall. I was placed in an arrow tower on the city wall (similar to the beacon tower on the Great Wall), which is relatively high and has good sight lines. After Clark settled me down, he disappeared again, and I had to watch from the tower.

More than a dozen turrets have been raised in the black water lake outside the Lost City. The magic crystal cannons on the turrets are still dripping water. It seems that they have only risen not long ago. I suddenly discovered an interesting phenomenon. It turns out that the Eye of Hell is actually the fire control command system of these cannons. Wherever the golden light of the Eye of Hell shines, the muzzle of the cannon follows.

Suddenly I heard a strange sound from behind. When I looked back, I saw a small door opened on the top of the tower in the center of the city, and countless gargoyles rushed out in a dense line. The Lost City actually has an air force, it’s the first time I’ve seen it!

Before the noise from behind ended, I heard the sound of water coming from the Blackwater Lake in front. One after another, vortices appeared in the center of the lake. The vortices began to gradually move toward the shore. When they touched the lake shore, a hollow began to appear in the center of the vortex. The black lake water was thrown to the periphery due to the high-speed rotation, and the hole in the center became a channel. …Boom…Boom…Boom…. The sound of neat troops marching came from the lake, and groups of monsters lined up in the vortex and marched out in neat lines.

I don't know what's coming out. These guys all stand on two legs like humans, but their leg joints are reversed, just like the joints of birds! The nearly two-meter-tall monster looks like a standing locust! They actually have more than one hand, and both pairs of upper limbs are like awls, with a cold light flashing at the tip! As for their heads, they are even more terrifying. The four fangs protruding from their mouths show that they are carnivores.

Such monsters were still emerging from the whirlpool ahead. At the same time, many passages suddenly opened on the top of the city wall, and huge wooden tools were raised one after another. I was surprised to find that the thing was actually a trebuchet, not an ordinary trebuchet, but a super huge winch trebuchet. This trebuchet, which relies on the power of gears to load ammunition, can throw a stone as big as an elephant seven or eight kilometers away. You can imagine how destructive it is.

Just after the trebuchet was in place, the soldiers were finally in place. A guy in red armor walked up to the city gate. I saw Clark standing next to him. I guess he was a big shot! The whirlpool on the lake in front has disappeared, and the troops that came out in just a few minutes actually numbered thousands of people (weirds).

The figure in red armor on the city gate said something to the side, but I didn't hear it because it was too far away. But soon I knew what he was talking about! The long stone bridge on the lake connecting the city and the shore actually slowly sank into the lake! The mechanisms of the Lost City are really comprehensive, even the long bridge can be raised and lowered!

Almost a few minutes after the army was ready, a series of black spots finally appeared in the distant sky. I knew that they were the Griffin Brigade! The speed of the griffins is very fast, and in a blink of an eye, the griffins have reached a distance visible to the naked eye. The golden light emitted by the Eye of Hell behind him suddenly became intense, and a golden light shot straight at the group of griffons in the sky. Immediately afterwards, the magic crystal cannons in the lake raised their heads and pointed their barrels towards the sky.

boom! I only heard a loud noise, and more than a dozen magic crystal cannons fired at the same time. The base part of each cannon swayed out circles of water at the same time, which was caused by the vibration of the cannon. A row of cannonballs flew into the group of griffins, and the agile griffins began to dodge. However, they were too numerous and too dense, and almost every griffin was killed by each cannonball.

The golden light suddenly flashed and turned into more than a dozen rays of light. Each ray of light pointed at a specific position in the griffin formation, and the magic crystal cannon also began to fire at their respective targets. I curiously looked at the griffon pointed by one of the rays of light with my star pupil. I wanted to know what the difference was between the griffin designated by the Eye of Hell and the other griffins.

After taking a look, I suddenly discovered that the designated griffon was actually carrying two people! In addition to the gryphon knight in front, there is actually a mage in the back! Is there anything special about these mages? Why does Hell Eye designate the magic crystal cannon to kill these targets first?

The magic crystal cannons are still attacking the griffins with the mage according to the instructions. It seems that the griffin brigade has no chance of occupying the Lost City. The strength of the ground troops is much stronger than them! Are the guys in the Temple of Light all idiots? Want to occupy the Lost City by sending so few griffins?

My doubts did not last long. The gryphon brigade quickly crossed the forest and entered the sky above the mass burial plain. All the griffins carrying mages began to land one after another. The locust army outside the Lost City (they looked so similar!) suddenly began to rush towards the griffins that landed. There were no griffins carrying mages in the sky. They all lowered their altitude and began to attack the locusts that rushed up. It can be clearly seen that the locusts are not the opponents of the griffins, but they are more numerous, and they do not seem to intend to compete with the griffons. The locusts rushed directly through the griffon blockade and rushed towards the mages who had been put down in the rear. This makes me even more convinced that these mages are of great significance, and the locust army in the Lost City will not attack these mages aimlessly!

The locusts were very fast. Although the griffins tried their best to intercept them, it seemed to be ineffective. A large number of locusts still rushed past the griffins' interception team and approached the mages. As soon as the mages landed, they began to concentrate on drawing something on the ground. They did not react at all to the locusts rushing up behind them. But the locusts didn't care. The locusts that rushed forward immediately started to kill the mage. Many mages were killed in the middle of drawing. The magic crystal cannons did not stop during this period. They were also bombarding the mage's team, but many griffins used their bodies to block the cannonballs. The cannons had no effect except causing a large number of casualties to the griffins.

I suddenly heard a "dang-dang-dang" sound, like the sound made when a rope is stretched and about to break. He looked back, looking for the source of the sound, and found that it was a trebuchet winding up! Weng! There was a muffled sound of air vibration, and a trebuchet was launched. A huge stone bullet flew out with a huge wind sound. The rough-processed stone can basically be considered round. The huge speed caused the stone bullets to start rolling forward after landing. Of course, their target was also the mage!

The griffins in the sky are not very suitable to resist the rolling stones on the ground. Even if they want to sacrifice themselves, it is useless. Stones of this quality will not stop even if they crush dozens of griffins! The effect of stones was better than that of cannons. A large number of mages were smashed into pulp. The only drawback was that many locusts were also squashed along the way!

Under the coordinated operations of locusts, magic crystal cannons and trebuchets, the mage team suffered heavy losses. But after losing more than 70% of the mages, suddenly a mage completed his work, and now I could see clearly what it was! In a ring with a diameter of seven or eight meters is a regular six-pointed star. Now that thing is shining with blue and white light. All fools know that it is a magic circle, and the only possibility of arranging a magic circle here is to teleport the army!

As soon as I guessed the answer, I saw the magic circle on the edge of the forest shining brightly, and groups of cavalry rushed out. The mage who had drawn the magic circle laughed and wiped the sweat from his head with his mage robe. As soon as he turned around, a sharp thorn pierced his body and sent him to heaven. The locust that killed the magician was cut in two by the knight who rushed out of the magic circle before he could pull out his tapered arm!

The other magic arrays nearby were completed one after another, white light flashed into one piece, and the large cavalry regiment poured out of the magic array like a flood.

This will be an eye-opener. It turns out that the real city battle is not to send a large number of troops to the opponent's city, but to directly have the air force with fast speed and strong penetration capability carry a large number of space magicians to the opponent's city to prepare the teleportation magic array! We players are still stuck in the age of attacking on foot. Compared with these super NPCs, we are really lagging behind!

When the large army rushed out of the chanting formation, the locusts were useless. The cavalry was completely one-sided in dealing with these locusts. After a while, the cavalry cleared them all. A giant trebuchet, a large number of ladder trucks, and something I had never seen before that looked like a square box with wheels suddenly appeared from the magic circle at the back.

The ladder truck started running back as soon as it came out. It is probably because the Lost City has a moat that is too wide, so the ladder cannot be used for the time being. The trebuchet was quickly pulled away, and some engineering troops began to load stone bombs on the trebuchet. Suddenly I saw a stone bullet flying towards the city.

Judging from the trajectory of the stone bullet, it should have crossed the city wall and fallen into the city, but suddenly a golden beam from the Eye of Hell shone on the stone bullet. With a bang, a magic crystal shell hit the stone bullet flying in the air and exploded it into pieces. Immediately after the second and third stone bullets were launched into the air, the Eye of Hell illuminated these stone bullets respectively. The magic crystal cannon fired alternately and intercepted all the stone bullets. But as the trebuchets deployed more and more stone bombs, the magic crystal cannon was gradually overwhelmed!

When I was wondering why the trebuchet didn't attack the magic crystal cannon in the Lost City first, a stone bullet hit a magic crystal cannon. But the stone bullet was smashed into pieces and fell into the lake, and the magic crystal ran away but nothing happened! No wonder the trebuchets attacked the city walls instead of the cannons!

The square boxes with wheels at the rear began to move toward the lake. The Eye of Hell suddenly gave up intercepting the stone bullets and pointed at those square boxes. But it is a pity that a large number of mages have set up magic shields in front of this thing. The magic crystal shells can only penetrate a few layers of shields before losing their power. Although each cannon can kill several mages, it is always Can't do anything to that box!

The boxes were finally pushed to the lake one after another, but the soldiers behind didn't seem to want to stop. They kept pushing the things into the lake. After the soldiers pushed the thing into the water, a strange sound suddenly came from the lake. Small vortices appeared in front of those square boxes.

"How do you feel?" Clark suddenly appeared behind me.

"What is that?" I asked, pointing to the square box.

Clark said without even looking at it: "That is the alchemist's most advanced product, the water absorber. That thing relies on magic crystals as power. There is a water magic array and a space magic array in it. The water magic array will continuously absorb nearby objects. The water will be sucked into the car, and the space magic array will transmit the water out, so that the water in the moat can be drained!"

"So powerful? Then the black water lake in the Lost City will be sucked dry soon?"

"It is certain that it will be sucked dry, but this lake is not a moat after all. It will take some time to completely suck it dry. We just hope that we can eliminate more enemies during this time."

"Then you let them suck like this?"

"As you can see, they hold up so many layers of magic shields, and there's nothing we can do about it!"

As we were talking, the enemy griffin in the sky suddenly rushed towards the city. A large number of gargoyles immediately rushed forward, and the air forces of both sides struggled in the air. The dark wizards in the Lost City here began to use the Life Restriction Zone in the air. The Life Forbidden Zone is a long-lasting, large-area magic. Its main function is to form a magic vortex in a certain area to absorb vitality. Moreover, as long as it is not dispersed by light magic, it can last for a long time, even if the releaser has died. , this magic will still exist until the time limit expires.

Because magic has automatic attack judgment, the gargoyles were not affected by magic. However, the griffons were in bad luck. Some griffons fell from the sky from time to time. Of course, the gargoyles also suffered slight losses!

"Careful!" Clark pushed me away, and a gargoyle fell to where I was standing and shattered into pieces. Gargoyles are made of stone. They will turn into stone when they die or rest. Now, if they fall after being beaten to death, they will of course be shattered into pieces.

Ling from behind clapped his hands happily and said, "This is my first time to see such a spectacular battle! It's really awesome!"

Clark whispered into my ear: "Where did you get this girl? Why does she look so familiar to me?"

I also whispered into his ear: "She is the former Dark Goddess!"

"Your Majesty the Goddess?" Clark couldn't help shouting.

"I'm not that anymore!" Ling was still watching the battle below and didn't look back at all. "The temple is now in charge of my sister Alni!"

Clark put his right hand on his chest and made a 45-degree bow. "No matter what, you were once the goddess of darkness, so you must have the necessary courtesy and good deeds!"

"Okay, okay, I'm just a retired goddess, don't be so polite! Ah! Look, the lake is gone!"

I followed the sound and looked over. The lake water had indeed gone down a lot, but it had not been sucked dry yet. On the dry lake bed, many huge eel-like creatures were writhing on the ground. As for the rest of the lake, there were many heads with sharp teeth exposed. As the lake water dropped further, these big-headed things finally emerged. These are creatures that look a lot like plesiosaurs, except that their heads are larger. And they obviously have good teeth, so their appetite is also very good, so their bodies are weak, so they eat hemp fragrant. Without paying attention, a monster bit a water pump in its mouth. Maybe it was very unhappy with this thing that took away all the water. The monsters rushed up and attacked the water pump. But the bodies of the monsters all have limbs like turtles. It would be difficult to swim, but running would be too slow! Most of the pumpers ran back safely, but the cavalry who rushed to cover were unlucky. The attack power of this thing seems to be no worse than that of the dragon. It picked up a knight and threw him and his horse far away and disappeared!

"Aren't these the guards of the Lost City?" I saw that although these monsters attacked the coalition forces, they did not look like planned troops. They seemed to be venting their anger!

"These are the aboriginal people in the lake, and we don't care that they are only put in the lake to serve as guards!"

"No wonder!"

Although the monsters below were strong, they couldn't stand up to the crowd. The knights defeated the monsters three times! The drained lake was so thoroughly dried that even the silt was sucked dry and turned into hard soil. The siege engines and ladder trucks were finally pushed up. The magic crystal cannon built in the lake was dismantled into pieces by the cavalry who rushed forward. As a result, the magic crystal cannons exploded one after another, and they even gained a lot of support before they died!

The battle for the city wall officially began. The troops rushing to the city were as dense as a flood. This scene was really spectacular. Although the current number of participants in the war is only 1 million plus one (900,000 coalition troops, less than 100,000 lost troops), it is so spectacular to defeat 900,000 troops in such a narrow place!

Although the magic crystal cannon was eliminated, the work of the Eye of Hell was not over. Golden light beams shot straight into the clouds, and lightning suddenly began in the sky. The dripping raindrops suddenly began to fall here and there. I stretched out my hand to catch it, and it turned out that it was not rain but blood!

The coalition cavalry that had been blessed were poured with blood, and the colorful magic on their bodies disappeared immediately! The cavalry who lost their glory have greatly reduced their combat capabilities. The cavalry who rushed to the ladder truck directly stepped on the ladder and rode up to the city wall (this kind of ladder truck is not the ancient one, but the kind of ladder truck like the one at the airport. The stairs is straight).

The cavalry who rushed up to the city wall were immediately strangled by the "mysterious" troops on the city wall. Because there are not many death knights in the Mystic Force, they are all arranged near the ladder. They can easily defend the vicinity of the ladder by using their outstanding single combat capabilities.

A large tool suddenly teleported out from behind the other party. I knew it was a battering ram at a glance. The thing looked like a swing frame, but there was a whole big copper column hanging from it. Clark shouted at several trebuchets around him: "Kill the opponent's engineering hammer!"

The trebuchet immediately changed its target, but the opponent's mage once again held up a shield to resist them. The purpose was to deliver the battering ram to the city no matter what, which was victory. The dark wizards on the city wall are constantly throwing large-scale destructive magic at the crowd below. Unfortunately, there are too many people and they can't seem to kill them all!

The Eye of Hell behind him changed again. The light pillar that was originally inserted straight into the sky suddenly began to scatter in all directions. The light pillar turned into scattered light, as if the flashlight suddenly turned into a candle! The blood rain outside the city suddenly stopped as the light beams scattered, but the ground suddenly began to squirm. Slowly, a large number of zombies and skeletons emerged from the ground. Although these low-level monsters were low-level, they were huge in number. The first batch appeared with nearly 1 million, and they are still rising! The mage next to the battering ram was disturbed by zombies and skeletons, and a gap suddenly appeared in the magic shield.

The trebuchet on the city wall seized this opportunity and a row of stone bullets flew over. With a click, the battering ram was smashed to the ground. At this time, it was less than 300 meters away from the city gate! The second battering ram was pushed out from the teleportation array at the rear. Unfortunately, there were too many zombies, and the road was blocked by them, leaving no space at all.

The blood rain just now had turned the not-so-dry lake bed into mud. The cavalry were not as agile as zombies and skeletons in the mud. As a result, they were beaten until they were exhausted. Occasionally, a few rushed up to the city wall. He was also defeated by the overwhelmingly superior Death Knight.

As the number of skeletons and zombies increases, the army of the Temple of Light Alliance gradually turns from active to passive. Two red fireworks suddenly exploded above the teleportation magic array, and all the troops began to retreat slowly. It seemed that the fireworks were a signal to retreat.

The escaping coalition forces did not go smoothly either. The ground was too slippery, there were too many zombies and skeletons, and the trebuchets were still attacking. The retreating coalition forces suffered heavy losses. However, after finally throwing away a large number of corpses, the main force of the coalition retreated to the teleportation array. At this time, a large number of black monsters flew over from the other side of the Lost City. I can see those are some black flying dragons. It seems that reinforcements from the temple have arrived!

The coalition forces rushed into the magic circle without any hope. This battle was considered a complete defeat for the coalition forces, but the Lost City also lost some power, but it was relatively small.

As the enemy retreated, the skeletons and zombies outside the city stood still, and then slowly sank into the ground as if they had never appeared before. The defeated corpses also changed. The more complete corpses turned into zombies, and the more mutilated ones turned into skeletons. Then they all went underground like the previous zombies and skeletons. Now I know why there are so many zombies and skeletons outside the lost city. After a long time, they were all dead corpses of the temple army!

It's a pity that this is an NPC war. I can neither gain experience nor see explosive equipment (NPCs cannot drop equipment when they attack each other), but I have a general understanding of siege warfare, especially knowing about the temple. The alliance's attack method turned out to be such a high-mobility combat method. I thought it would be infantry attacking the city, but I didn't expect that all those who came out in the end were cavalry!

"Purple sun!" Clark suddenly called me.

"Huh? What are you doing?"

"Come with me, the mayor wants to see you!"

"That guy in red armor?"

"right!"

"Why did he see me?"

"You'll know it when you come!"

I followed Clark down the city wall towards the center of the city with a feeling of doubt. I still couldn't figure out what the city lord wanted from me!