Chapter 193: Advancing the Front, Preparing for the General Offensive
Chu Ming looked around and was about to experiment with witchcraft when he heard a faint vibration outside the mountain forest, as if someone was fighting in front.
Hmm... He waved his arm, and an ordinary dragon vine appeared. He rode the dragon vine and ran out.
It had been more than ten days since he last attacked the capital. Many things that he didn't know about might have happened during this period, such as learning the reaction of the black wizards to the attack, and the progress of Edel and the knights...
The magic skeleton dragon vine shuttled through the forest like a snake, and wherever it passed, trees collapsed and the ground was crushed into dents.
Gradually, Chu Ming heard people's exclamations in the distance, as well as the explosions of witchcraft.
"Give up!"
A serious voice sounded, and the owner of the voice seemed to be chasing these fleeing wizards.
Chu Ming waved his hand, the magic skeleton dragon vine disappeared, and he passed through the sparse woods and came out.
Not far away, horses were galloping, and a knight team was driving some wizards in tattered black robes.
The knights were well-equipped, with bright steel armor and dark brown leather interwoven together. The leading knight held a lance, and his body shone like moonlight. He and the horse under him accelerated instantly, turning into a residual shadow, piercing a wizard.
Behind him, there were several knights who were good at archery, keeping their center of gravity absolutely stable on the extremely bumpy horseback. They loosened their fingertips, and the arrow feathers and bowstrings flew, and several more wizards fell in a pool of blood.
"These are the knights of the pass fortress. Are they chasing the black wizards?" Chu Ming thought, approaching the fleeing group of black wizards, "They have advanced to this position so quickly?"
Not far away, the knights who were performing the chase and the fleeing black wizards all saw Chu Ming, an unexpected visitor with an unknown identity.
But in the eyes of these knights, the wide black robe on the wizard was tattered, and it looked like he was not much different from the black wizards who had learned it. It must be impossible for him to be a wizard from the North.
After the knight captain realized this, he ordered the knights to stop quickly and confronted the mysterious black wizard from a distance, with a vigilant look on his face.
Seeing this, the fleeing black wizards showed some hope on their desperate faces, and hastily stretched out their hands, trying to get closer to Chu Ming.
Chu Ming just glanced at them, and suddenly countless vines broke out on the ground around them, imprisoning these black wizards on the spot.
The sudden change scared these black wizards, and even the knights not far away were a little stunned when they saw this scene.
Chu Ming didn't know whether the news of his southward journey had spread, but he didn't plan to meet these knights. He took a step back, and the dragon vine behind him soared into the sky, carrying him away from the spot.
The stagnant knights saw Chu Ming release the magic skeleton dragon vine, the iconic symbol of the spiritual wizard, and the hostility in their eyes disappeared. They got off their horses and began to deal with these imprisoned black wizards.
Although Chu Ming did not reveal his identity, these knights knew that he was an epic wizard from the Tower of Knowledge in the North after seeing the magic skeleton dragon vine he released.
As for the name of this epic wizard and why he was unwilling to contact them, these knights did not think too much, but just thought that this mysterious wizard from the north was here to perform a mysterious mission.
The dragon vines rolled over the grassland, and Chu Ming stopped where he could not see the knights.
In just a few tens of seconds, he actually released three spells in succession.
One was the dream release spell released by the spiritual sea, one was the tree vine spell released by the first layer of the dream spiritual sea, and one was the magic skeleton dragon vine released by the second layer of the dream spiritual sea.
It was the first time that Chu Ming tried to release three spells at the same time, but the effect was gratifying, and all the spells were able to take effect.
However, casting spells at the same time requires extremely high mental power for the wizard. If he had not opened up three layers of the dream spiritual sea and his spirit expanded to a new level, he would not be able to drive three spells at the same time.
As for releasing four spells by connecting the runes of the spiritual sea and the three layers of the dream spiritual sea at the same time, Chu Ming could try it, but even he could not guarantee 100% success.
If he could really do it, it would mean that he could release three effective spells on the basis of dream release spells.
After thinking for a while, Chu Ming's spiritual perception spread out. Compared with the previous spiritual perception range of only about ten meters, his current spiritual perception range has skyrocketed to 100 meters.
In other words, within 100 meters, as long as the spiritual imprint can be attached, he can use the night teleportation to teleport there.
Chu Ming closed his eyes and felt carefully. Some weak spiritual resonance came back from a distance. Among them, the two teleportation crystals with weaker signals should be the ones he placed with Isabel and in the wizard's hut.
The fluctuation of the teleportation crystal in Edel's hands is much stronger than the other two. It seems that Edel is very close to his current location.
"Has Edel entered the South Territory?"
Chu Ming stretched out his hand to cut through the night, and a blue flame cloak ignited on his body. He fled in the direction of Edel.
...
The capital of the South Territory.
The knights patrolled the streets in neat rows, but these knights were different from the deformed knights who were covered with distortion marks more than ten days ago. They had clean faces and exuded youthful vigor.
After Chu Ming left, Edel held an emergency meeting, persuaded the major earls overnight, and summoned some knights to launch a counterattack in the south.
The Cavaliers were managed by Edel, and the wizards had the highly respected Allen. Although some people had complaints about the counterattack in the South, they did not dare to show it.
However, what was surprising was that in the few days before their counterattack in the South, the black wizard scouts who noticed their movements went back to pass on the news, but no epic wizard arrived in time.
Edel realized that it might be Chu Ming who took action, so he ordered to speed up the pace of advancement. In just over ten days, they not only recovered the lost capital, but also eliminated several epic wizards.
Later, he and Allen learned from the black wizards that a few days before their counterattack in the South, the epic wizard who commanded the war in the royal palace suddenly died strangely, and a huge explosion was heard in the palace. When everyone arrived, they only found the messy ground that seemed to have been plowed by witchcraft and the bodies of several wizards at the scene.
After losing their backbone, the black wizards could not organize a decent resistance at all, and even the black wizards who came to support died under the siege of Edel and others.
However, they have occupied the capital for five days, and the Knights have been heading south, but Chu Ming is nowhere to be seen, which makes them a little worried.
The Royal Capital Tribunal, after the Royal Capital was occupied by the Northern Knights, became the command center for Edel and his team.
In an office converted from a hall in the Tribunal, a large number of guerrilla knights wearing leather armor came in and out. They brought new intelligence from the front line to the command center, handed it over to the clerks to compile it into a report, and then went into a nearby compartment.
In the compartment, Edel and Allen discussed the expansion of the front line and the deployment of the Knights.
After giving orders to a group of epic wizards, the epic wizards hurried out of the hall and prepared to rush to the front line. Only Edel and Allen were left in the compartment.
Edel rubbed his temples to relieve his fatigue. He said to Allen, "Have you received any letters or other news from Narender recently?"
Alan shook his head helplessly, "No one knows where he went. I can't get any news for the time being."
Edel heard this and complained in a low voice, "When did Narender like to play this kind of disappearing trick?"
"Alas, I hope he's okay."
Edel sighed.
"Edel, thank you for your concern."
Suddenly a voice sounded from the room, Chu Ming walked out of the night, smiling at the two.
"Damn..." Edel was frightened and stood up, "It's so elusive, I thought a dark wizard was going to attack me."
Alan on the side reacted, he looked at Chu Ming, and asked in confusion, "Narender, where have you been these days?"
"There are some small breakthroughs again."
Chu Ming waved his hand, his face was light.
Edel's eyes almost popped out when he heard this. He said unwillingly, "Damn it, I'm still at the deep blue level."
Chu Ming was surprised and looked at him, "The method of building the first layer of the dream spiritual sea with the dream meditation method should be enough for you to break through the epic, why are you still standing still after more than ten days?"
Edel touched his nose, his eyes turned around, and he made excuses, "Well, I'm busy picking you up, and it's not that easy to practice this meditation method."
"Forget it, let's not talk about this topic for now."
Chu Ming waved his hand, the faint smile on his face disappeared, and he gradually became serious.
Edel and the others were stunned, and they knew that Chu Ming must have new news to tell them, so they hurried over and listened attentively.
Chu Ming opened his mouth and briefly recounted his experience of invading the royal capital more than ten days ago, and then told the two of them the news he got from the young wizard.
"Legendary creature?!"
"Seventeen limit-breaking wizards?!"
After hearing this, Edel's face was shocked and his body straightened instantly.
"Narend, do you think we have enough time to run now?"
Alan's face was solemn, "If the Truth Society really masters the legendary creatures, we will completely lose the chance of winning."
As he spoke, he showed a bit of confusion on his face, "But how should we resist seventeen limit-breaking wizards?"
Chu Ming glanced at the two of them, sat down at the table, and put his hands together, "Seventeen limit-breaking wizards are a bit too many, but they are still within my range of resolution."
"What?!" Allen was slightly surprised, "Narend, could it be that your breakthrough is..."
Chu Ming nodded, "Yes, it is a higher level of power, but It is still in the epic category, probably the epic limit. "
"Epic limit..." Allen chewed on these words carefully, and was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses. He smiled bitterly and said, "Nalund, it's too difficult to catch up with you."
Edel on the side also sighed slightly, but he soon realized something, his eyes turned slightly, and his tone was a little excited, "Doesn't that mean that we can push the Knights directly to the location of Red Crystal City."
Red Crystal City is located at the intersection of several mountains in the southeast of the South Territory. This place is like a long ridge of a giant dragon separating the plains and the ocean.
If the Knights can be pushed to Red Crystal City, it is equivalent to taking back most of the territory in the South Territory.
Chu Ming glanced at the excited Edel and shook his head, "Don't forget, the black wizard has the distortion powder that causes distortion."
"We have stretched the battle line, and it may give the black wizard a chance. The knights with weaker physique in the Knights can't resist it. "
"The news about seventeen limit-breaking wizards may not be true. The Truth Society may also hide some limit-breaking wizards that we don't know about."
"Besides..." Chu Ming looked to the southeast with focused eyes, "There is also a president of the society who has become the agent of God."
"To be given such a title by a fanatical dark wizard, the strength of the president of the society may have reached an epic limit that other dark wizards can hardly imagine."
Edel opened his mouth but did not speak. He calmed down a little and his temperament became calm, just like when he faced the Cavaliers.
Like a calm old general, he pointed at the map on the wall, "Narende, I have an idea."
"Crimson Crystal City is located in a flat land intertwined by the Crimson Fire Mountains and the Yanjing Mountains. There are only three passages from the Crimson Crystal City. If we can block the three passages, and then from the west side, where the terrain is flat, it will be easier to Approaching Red Crystal City in the retreat passage."
"In this way, we can put a certain amount of pressure on them while surrounding the Truth Society."
"Faced with our encirclement, they will definitely not fail to respond, and they will definitely focus on attacking the channel with the greatest pressure on the west side."
"And because the knights from other passages are still approaching, these dark wizards will not come out easily in order for the legendary creature's distortion and erosion to succeed."
"They don't know yet that you have a breakthrough in strength. Then we can eliminate the main force they sent to the west and force the limit-breaking wizards who attacked other channels to go back to defend."
Allen frowned slightly when he heard this, "Then when we organize our forces to deal with the black wizards on the west side, what about the other two channels? They may also face the pressure brought by the limit-breaking wizards."
Edel hesitated for a moment and looked at Chu Ming.
Chu Ming thought for a moment, stood up and came to the map.
"There are now more than seventy epics in the North, and there are four limit-breaking epics."
"Although it is impossible to send all epics out, we can leave ten epics to guard the pass fortress, and the remaining sixty epics and four limit-breaking epics will be sent to the other two passages."
"In this way, the pressure when facing the limit-breaking wizard will not be so great."
After hearing this, Edel nodded slightly. When he quickly realized something, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Chu Ming, "Do you want to face the main force of dark wizards on the west side alone?"
"What if that president leads several limit-breaking wizards to your side?"
Chu Ming chuckled and said, "Aren't you still here?"
"us?"
There was a trace of confusion on Allen's face. What role could he play as an ordinary epic, plus Edel, who was not yet an epic?
"Yes, it will take at least a month to mobilize the entire Northern Territory, summon the epics, and coordinate the knights."
"In this month, as long as Edel can break through the epic, I can optimize your extreme witchcraft into fusion witchcraft and give you the strength to break through the limits."
"What?!" Edel grabbed Chu Ming's arm excitedly, "Narende, you are really my good brother!"
After hearing this, Allen was still a little concerned, "But where did we get so many top-quality crystals?"
Chu Ming spread his hands and said with a smile: "We don't have it, but the earls in the north should have hidden a lot."
"As long as they can come up with the best crystals, I don't even mind helping them train limit-breaking wizards."
Allen's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he began to calculate, "The entire Northern Territory can exert epic power without relying on rune equipment. Excluding the natural epic among Count Kurtz and the two of us, there are only twenty people left."
"If all these epics can use fusion witchcraft, then the problem of how the other two channels can resist the limit-breaking wizard can be easily solved."
Chu Ming nodded and glanced at the two of them, "Yes, so many limit-breaking wizards completely exceed the number of limit-breaking black wizards in Scarlet Crystal City, but to be on the safe side, I suggest that three channels attack at the same time to distract the power of the Truth Society. It’s better to defeat them one by one, after all, no one knows what power they have hidden.”
"I need you to help me guard here. I will try my best to develop limit-breaking combat power within a month."
"Also, Edel, send the knights to inform the major counties of the plan, and ask them to gather two-thirds of the northern knights and all the epics to go to the south."
Chu Ming took a deep breath and looked seriously, "We are going to launch the final attack."
"To be on the safe side, I will personally lobby the major counties."
"Understood, I'll send someone to inform you right away."
Edel nodded solemnly and left the cubicle in a hurry.
After Edel left, Chu Ming looked at Allen and said, "I'll leave it to you this month."
"Narender, don't worry."
After giving Allen a few words of advice, he opened the night and headed north.
Half a day later, Chu Ming arrived at the pass fortress. He informed the knights and Claire and other epic wizards at the pass about the plan to launch a general attack, and then he passed through the pass and entered the land of the north.
There are eight earldoms in the north, and the one closest to his pass is the earldom of Brand.
Chu Ming once saved him during the battle to defend the royal capital. Apart from Edel, among the many earls, Earl Brand was the most convinced of him.
He took out the parchment map that he had prepared a long time ago. After finding the correct location, he lowered his head to check the map and stretched one hand forward. Night appeared and he disappeared from the spot.
Since his spirit was strengthened, the duration of Chu Ming's night teleportation has increased from less than five minutes to twenty minutes.
In fact, with his mental power now being countless times stronger than before, it is theoretically no problem for him to travel through the night for fifty minutes.
But Chu Ming found that the longer the night teleportation lasted, the more mental power he consumed would increase dramatically, and the actual mental consumption would be much greater than he imagined.
However, twenty minutes of night teleportation was enough for him to cross hundreds of kilometers.
Twenty minutes later, Chu Ming's mental power was exhausted and he appeared in a town. After meditating for more than an hour, his mental power recovered and he continued to pull the night forward.