Chapter 379: Battle of Xisheng Pass (Part 2)
After advancing for a distance, the night elf troops stopped just outside the wreckage of the wall that was destroyed by the glaive throwers, considering the existence of the mage tower in the second wall of the West Saint Pass. According to the design of the general mage tower, if they go forward to the position of the first wall, they will be within the range of the mage tower.
Here is still nearly a kilometer away from the second wall of the West Saint Pass. Even the night elf archers with a long range cannot attack the enemies on the second wall of the West Saint Pass. Including the mountain giants who can throw boulders, their range is not that far.
Three hundred glaive throwers can attack the second wall, but the glaive throwers whose charged blade skills are temporarily on cooldown cannot cause much damage to the second wall, which is more solid. Although the three hundred swords hit the second wall and the rubble flew, they could not cause the previous effect.
Frowning, Illidan hesitated whether to attack directly. Looking at the Mage Tower on the city wall, Illidan finally decided to wait for the Glaive Thrower's Charged Blade skill to cool down before attacking.
Anyway, they have now reached the gate of the Holy Imperial Capital. The army of the Holy Lion Empire will not be able to return to the Imperial Capital in a short time, so they don't have to wait for the skill to cool down. If some night elves are lost under the attack of the Mage Tower, it will not be beautiful.
The cooling time of the Glaive Thrower's Charged Blade is not long. Not long after, Illidan waited for the opportunity to attack again. Three hundred Glaive Throwers flashed again and began to charge. At the same time, the Mage Tower on the second wall of the West Saint Pass in the distance also began to emit obscure fluctuations.
"Swoosh--" Three hundred swords flew towards the second wall with enough power to destroy the city and open the mountain. However, this attack was not as easy as before.
At the same time as the Glaive Thrower's Charged Blade flew out, several Mage Towers on the second wall of the West Saint Pass emitted colorful light. After a moment of stagnation, these lights were spread on the city wall.
The blue light was suspended in front of the city wall, turning into huge flowing wind walls; the red light turned into crimson fireballs to meet the flying sword blades, tit for tat; the blue light turned into ice crystals, covering the surface of the city wall; the yellow light was directly integrated into the city wall, making the entire city wall suddenly have a majestic atmosphere.
The three hundred sword blades faced the flying fireballs, and just a stroke made the fierce fireball cluster extinguished. However, the energy of the fireball explosion slowed down the speed of the sword blades a little, and the energy carried on them was also weakened.
"Puff puff puff--" Then, the wind walls were penetrated by the sword blades. However, the flowing wind wall significantly reduced the speed of the sword blades. Wind magic is unique in blocking long-range physical attacks.
However, these wind walls can only slow down the flying speed of the sword blades. The biggest effect of deviating from the direction of long-range attacks is that they have no effect at all under the sword blades comparable to legendary attacks.
There is no defensive magic behind the wind wall, and the three hundred sword blades swiftly sank into the second wall of Xisheng Pass. However, before attacking the wall, the sword blades penetrated the ice crystals covering it.
These ice crystals are extremely hard under the effect of magic, but very slippery. After two rounds of weakening by the fireball wind wall, some of the sword blades shot at the upper part of the wall actually slipped directly on the ice crystals and flew into the air.
However, there are still a few sword blades that bounced off, and most of the sword blades successfully hit the wall. However, after penetrating the hard ice crystals, these sword blades failed to achieve the shocking effect that appeared when attacking the first wall of Xisheng Pass before.
The last yellow light from the mage towers reinforced the city wall, which was originally made of magic, to an incredible degree, making the charged sword blades that had been weakened several times only have the effect that ordinary attacks could produce before.
Seeing this scene, the defenders of the West Saint Pass, who had not been able to withdraw the city wall under the strict order of the superior, cheered. In contrast, Illidan frowned.
Since these mage towers can't attack us, they are simply used for defense? This is a good way to deal with it, but do you really think that the night elves only rely on glaive throwers to fight?
Originally, Illidan didn't want to directly attack the heavily guarded second wall of the West Saint Pass, but the defenders of the West Saint Pass actually used the mage towers for defense, making the glaive throwers' attack in vain. This forced Illidan to choose the way of strong attack.
However, strong attack also needs to wait for the opportunity. Although the mage towers at the Western Pass chose to defend against the Glaive Throwers' attacks, if they just rushed forward, those mage towers would definitely not hesitate to cast a large amount of attack magic.
After a little thought, Illidan simply waited for the Glaive Throwers' next charged blade to cool down.
While waiting for the Glaive Throwers' next round of skill cooldown, the night elves were not idle. According to Illidan's instructions, the thousands of Claw Druids who had reached the elite level transformed into Earth Bears and came to the front of the night elf formation with the Mountain Giants.
Then, these Claw Druids who transformed into Earth Bears blessed the Mountain Giants, who were originally made of stone, with their own Stoneskin. And they themselves, one by one, took on the signature skill of the Earth Bear, Earth Guardian.
If Earth Guardian can only be used by oneself and cannot be released on others, Mountain Giant combined with Earth Guardian would be the best choice. Such Mountain Giants have more than one level of defense than the Dragon Turtle Troops of the Naga Clan.
However, Stoneskin is also a good skill, which makes the Mountain Giant's already very strong defense reach a higher level. The Claw Druid who casts Earth Guardian on himself has a defense that is not inferior to the powerful meat shield Mountain Giant of the Night Elves.
The general of the West Saint Pass garrison on the distant wall saw the action of the Night Elves clearly with the help of the magic item blessed by Eagle Eye. In fact, even without using magic items, the huge size of the Mountain Giant and the Earth Bear is enough for people on the wall to see clearly.
Is this the rhythm of a direct attack? The general of the garrison thought when he saw the action of the Night Elves. Haha, do these elves think that the Mage Tower can only defend? Although the enemies in front of the battle array seem to have strong defense, I wonder if they can hold out under the bombardment of the Mage Tower?
However, the defending general still thought too simply. He didn't know how terrible the defense of the mountain giants with Stoneskin and the earth bears who held up the earth guardian was, and the earth druid Serabir's toughness aura was also blessed on the night elf troops.
After waiting for a few minutes, Illidan gave an order, and the mountain giant troops and earth bears who had already formed a formation in front began to charge. The Swiftness Aura and Wind Control Magic were also blessed on them.
At the moment when this part of the night elf troops rushed out, the three hundred glaive throwing vehicles whose skill cooldown had passed flashed the light of charging again. In a few seconds, three hundred powerful sword blades flew to the city wall a thousand meters away with the sound of whistling wind.
The defending generals on the city wall were instantly entangled. Should we defend or attack? The mages who controlled the Mage Tower did not hesitate. Compared with the enemies charging, the attacks launched by the elves' extremely sharp siege tools were obviously more threatening.
It was a replay of the situation just now. Under several obstacles, the charged blades of the Glaive Thrower failed to cause much damage to the second wall.
However, the Mage Tower, which cast a large amount of defensive magic, needed a buffer opportunity in a short period of time and could not release magic again immediately. This means that the Mountain Giants and the Earth Bear troops can rush to the second wall of the West Saint Pass without any obstacles.
No, it can't be said that there are no obstacles. There are also many archer troops in the West Saint Pass. When the night elf charge team entered the range of two or three hundred meters of the wall, those poor human archers who had a shorter range than the night elf archers shot arrows one after another.