The ball of darkness traps were detonated one after another, and his teammates were killed one by one. The knuckles of Qiaosen’s clenched fist turned white, and his eyes were blood red with anger.
He also discovered the trap within his reconnaissance range, but he did not approach it. Instead, he fulfilled his mission as captain and continued to encourage his teammates.
In fact, the scouts don't need Qiao Sen's encouragement. Those who can stand up at this time are not cowards. They will be killed in one blast. They probably won't feel any pain. What's there to be afraid of?
The explosions of the trap gradually stopped, and only Qiao Sen was left in the open space. He was positioned relatively far back and could clearly see Emil.
Qiao Sen gave Emil a military salute: "Your Excellency, Holy Son, based on the scope of the trap explosion, there may be 2 to 3 traps in the area that each of us is scouting. The traps have not all been eliminated. Please be careful, Holy Son. The reconnaissance team... …completely annihilated."
Emil returned the greeting slowly and watched as Qiaoson walked towards the Dark Ball Trap. After dismantling the first trap at the cost of a leg, the second trap was wiped out in the explosion of the black ball.
"Squeak!" Before Emil could send anyone to deal with the trap, a group of big white-tailed moles volunteered to go.
White-tailed moles are good at digging holes and have strong senses. They are very suitable for this kind of reconnaissance work. However, their courage is too small. When encountering danger, their first reaction is to hide and escape.
But they are spiritual beasts with intelligence after all. The shocking heroic sacrifice of the reconnaissance team gave them courage and allowed them to stand up bravely.
52 large white-tailed moles plunged into the soil and disappeared. After a while, another black ball trap exploded in the open ground ahead.
The mole doesn't know how to dismantle the trap, so he can only destroy it violently, at the cost of causing an explosion and destroying the trap.
"Boom!" There were more explosions than those caused by the reconnaissance team. Qiaosen's prediction was correct. There were two to three traps in each reconnaissance area. The moles used their super perception to eliminate all the traps. .
The raised earthbags left traces all the way from the open field to Emil as if declaring victory. Cute and cute moles emerged from the earthbags one after another, squeaking and asking for credit.
But Emil couldn't be happy. There were only 23 big white-tailed moles that came back, less than half of the number when they set out.
"Well done, thank you for your hard work!" Emil forced a smile on his face and nodded to the moles.
"Squeak~" The moles who were praised happily dispersed and went underground to continue to gather information for the army.
After the trap was cleared, Emil immediately led his army to join forces with the iron-eating giant beast, giant rock turtle, and giant-horned rhinoceros. After being delayed by the trap for so long, the second line of defense of the blood clan must have been reinforced under the command of the blood knight.
However, Emil couldn't see anything like a defensive line. The blood clan's main formation was in front, and the blood knight was in the center of the formation, as if there was no defense at all.
"All troops stop advancing!" Emil ordered loudly.
Based on the distance traveled, they should have reached the second line of defense, but they have yet to encounter the enemy. This phenomenon, which was contrary to the reconnaissance intelligence, forced Emil to stop his troops.
Suddenly, a low-flying bird caught Emil's attention. When it flew directly in front of the iron-eating beast, it suddenly disappeared, as if it had traveled through something and entered another space.
Emil thought for a moment and ordered: "Fire magician, release the fireball technique forward from the position of the giant rock turtle. Pay attention to safety."
The giant rock turtle was behind the iron-eating beast, not too far away from where the flying bird disappeared, and was just within the attack range of the fireball technique.
Emily was the flame magician. She rode the clear spirit tiger to the side of the giant rock turtle, and carefully blasted a fireball into the open space in front of her.
The fireball was seen flying forward with its tail trailing, and suddenly exploded just below where the bird disappeared, causing ripples in the air like a stone thrown into the water.
Wherever the ripples pass, you can vaguely see high wooden walls and earthen barriers, as well as vampires with bows on the walls ready to shoot.
The ripples disappeared, and the front returned to its original appearance. However, Emil already knew what was going on: "It's the shadow curtain, pay attention to defense!"
Shadow Curtain is a fifth-level large-scale positional dark magic. The opponent who looks through the Shadow Curtain will see the image the caster wants to see, but your own side will not be affected when looking through the curtain. It is a positional warfare that confuses the opponent and hides oneself. Very useful magic.
As soon as Emil finished speaking, a swarm of arrows suddenly appeared from the front and shot at the army of the Holy Kingdom of Souls. Explosive arrows, poisonous arrows, corrosive arrows, flame arrows and other special arrows were overwhelming.
Fortunately, the first half of the troops were mostly spirit beasts with strong defenses and defenders wearing heavy armor and shields. This round of sudden arrow attacks did not cause any damage.
"Magician troops, release magic to attack the iron-eating beast right in front!" If you can't see the enemy, you can't fight back. The top priority is to break the curtain.
The Shadow Curtain can completely block magic and energy attacks, while physical attacks can completely penetrate, so the Vampires can shoot arrows behind the curtain without destroying the curtain.
Powerful magic attacks can break the curtain. There are a total of 200 magicians in the Holy Soul-Calling Kingdom. Each person releasing a magic is enough to break the curtain.
Fireball, Wind Blade, Ice Cone, Thunder, Flying Rock, all five types of magic appeared, exploding colorful magic lights on the curtain.
The curtain was broken, and what appeared in front of the Spirit Summoning Holy Kingdom army was the defense fortifications that the Vampire Clan had built long ago.
The fortifications consist of two layers of walls, the outer layer is a shorter earthen rampart, and the inner layer is a tall wooden wall. Its strength is almost as strong as that of a small town in the empire. There are eight bed crossbows and two trebuchets on the wooden wall and earth barrier. The bed crossbows have already set up huge crossbow arrows, aiming at the iron-eating beast.
The moment the curtain disappeared, the vampire soldier behind the crossbow hammered the machine with a hammer, and the crossbow arrows shot out with the roar of the wind, hitting the relatively weak legs of the iron-eating beast.
However, the iron armor of the iron-devouring beast is too thick, and the armor on its legs is also 5 centimeters thick. Even at such a close distance, the vampire bed crossbow cannot penetrate it head-on.
The huge kinetic energy of the crossbow arrow still limits the movement of the iron-eating giant beast. The bed crossbow cannot cause damage but can bring pain to the iron-eating giant beast.
This was enough for the Vampires. The land under the feet of the iron-devouring beast suddenly became like a swamp, with strong corrosive ability.
"It's a dark mire! Is there a light magician who can dispel the holy light?" Emil asked eagerly.
But no one answered.
Holy Light Dispelling is a third-level light magic that can only be learned by advanced light magicians whose magic aptitude reaches level C. The number of light magicians is already small. Several members of the Holy Spirit Summoning Kingdom's army have not yet reached advanced levels, and Emil himself is only intermediate.
There are several types of light-attribute spirit beasts in the army, but none of them know how to dispel them.
This is troublesome. Dark Mire is a fourth-level dark earth dual-system magic that can turn a large area of land into a soft and muddy quagmire. Creatures that enter the scope of the mire will fall into it, and the more they struggle, the deeper they will fall. Dark Mire is also highly corrosive and can quickly corrode metal and flesh.
The earth magic mire trap can be countered by the earth element, but the dark mire needs to be dispelled by holy light to completely eliminate it. If there is no holy light to dispel the swamp in time, the creatures caught in it will basically die.
Able to release the fourth-level dual-system magic Dark Mire, there must be a magician-level master in the blood army.
The giant iron-eating beast's huge size and super attack ability aroused the fear of the vampires, and it was immediately targeted and fell into the quagmire. One-third of the height of the iron-eating behemoth, which was originally about the same height as the earth barrier, had fallen into mud.
"Chi!" The dark mire quickly corroded the Iron-Eating Beast's armor. Due to the gaps in the armor, part of the Iron-Eating Beast's flesh was also corroded.
"Ouch!" The giant iron-eating beast roared in pain. The invasion and corrosion of darkness brought severe pain, which was much more painful than being attacked by a crossbow.
The pain in its limbs made the iron-eating giant beast struggle, which played into the hands of the dark mire. The iron-eating giant beast sank deeper and deeper, and the mire had already reached its knee joints.
"The magician troops, focus on attacking the enemy's crossbows and trebuchets! Attack the trapped camp first and break through the first earth barrier for me!"
Emil had to temporarily give up rescuing the iron-eating beast. It was too heavy to be pulled out of the quagmire by human means. Moreover, the distance between the army and the vampire defense line was too close, and the vampire would not let us move without harassing it. .
The two most deadly weapons, the bed crossbow and the trebuchet, should be destroyed first.
The bed crossbow is extremely powerful, and its accuracy is not bad at close range. The arrow speed is very fast and difficult to dodge. It can cause damage to any spiritual beast except the iron-eating giant beast and the giant rock turtle. The thick-skinned rhinoceros armor of the giant horned rhinoceros can also Penetrated by its shots, humans below high-level warriors will die on the spot if they are hit by an arrow.
The trebuchet's flame explosion projectiles can cause widespread damage, but due to the close distance between the two armies, the trebuchet's shooting angle is average and is not as threatening as the crossbow.
With the traps in the open space delaying the attack, the Blood Knights had already sent most of the soldiers stationed in the main formation to the second line of defense. The numerical advantage of the Spirit Summoning Holy Kingdom was not very obvious.
Without numerical superiority, it would be difficult to fight a fortified battle, which was no different from a city siege. The trapped camp had been beaten back three times by vampire soldiers using rolling stones, wood, and hot oil, resulting in serious casualties. The attack of the magician troops on the bed crossbow was also blocked by the anti-wear barrier set up in advance, and the bed crossbow would not be destroyed for a while.
The inability to destroy the bed crossbow means that the giant-horned rhinoceros with the strongest siege ability at this time cannot step forward to break through the earthen fortress and wooden wall. They have already tried, and a rhinoceros was shot dead on the spot.
Emil could only order the giant rock turtle to cover the troops and continue the attack close to the earthen fortress, trying to figure out which section of the wall was easier to break through.
"Sister Filia, it seems that the attack is not going well." Group after group of soldiers tried to climb up the earthen barrier but were shot down one after another. Ofina, who had just arrived on the battlefield, had already begun to treat the wounded.
"Nana, save the big guy first, it's trapped in the dark mire."
Ofina followed Filia's guidance and saw at a glance that the huge iron-eating beast had half of its body submerged, roaring in pain.
Ofina's attention was attracted by the wounded just now, and she didn't even see this big guy. She said with some uncertainty: "It's a dark mire. Just use the holy light to disperse it, right?"
"Well, let's go find Emil first and ask him to send a giant rock turtle to cover us. Facing those bed crossbows, I can only protect myself, but I can't protect you." Filia, a senior warrior, can dodge the bed crossbow arrows in time. , but if she wants to protect another person, she has to use the Soul of the Sun. She has just recovered from the backlash of the Crimson Flame State, and her vitality will be lost if she uses it in this battle.
"It doesn't hurt anymore." Ofina quickly helped the wounded man who had lost an arm and was staring at her blankly to stop the bleeding, then mounted the unicorn and Filia and rushed towards Emil.
The injured person has not yet recovered from the shock. Why is this angelic and beautiful girl treating my injury with a leg of lamb? The leg of lamb was so big, how could she hold it with one hand?
