If the opportunity for a surprise attack has been lost, then Richard Haas has to re-examine the possible losses of attacking the Magic Tower.
Is it possible for the Magic Tower to wipe out an entire legion?
sure.
But Richard Haas is not a newcomer to the battlefield who has not experienced the battle against the tower.
There will be disputes between nobles because of territorial issues, so it would be like a fantasy that nobles and magicians could coexist peacefully without disputes. In most cases, this kind of personal feud will not cause public outrage among magicians, and there is no reason for the Magicians Association to intervene. Therefore, it is not uncommon for nobles to attack towers with private armies.
On the contrary, if the tower owner is killed, there may be magicians who are happy to have an empty tower to compete with without any resentment towards the nobles. As long as the nobles do not claim and occupy the magic tower's inherent territory of X ten kilometers (10 kilometers), if anything is plundered by the former tower owner, the successor will ignore it. This is a general rule in the lost land world. But if a noble wants to demolish the magic tower, the big guys from the association will immediately come to teach him how to behave.
In other words, from the perspective of Richard Haas, attacking the Magic Tower with the existing manpower is not without a chance of victory. In addition, the magician who took over the Tower of the Great Sage can only be regarded as a new recruit of the tower owner. He is completely different from the old ghosts who have been running the tower for a long time, and he is also considered the easiest to bully. However, whether the losses and gains from attacking the tower are equivalent is another level of issue.
There is no need to consider the righteous deeds that can be easily accomplished to increase the reputation and achievements of Count Sita and the Thunder and Lightning Legion. For the soldiers he brought out, Richard Haas was fully confident of surprise attacks. But if the opponent is already alert and changes from a surprise attack to a frontal attack and defense, the losses may be huge, so he cannot help but think twice.
What's more, he also carries a very valuable temporary cargo in his team. Bringing it back will not only bring great fame to the earl, but also strengthen the legion. Furthermore, in order to seize the cargo, the elite squadron that followed suffered casualties and was not in the most complete condition. All these factors made the legion leader worried and made it difficult for him to make an easy decision.
Facing his father's subordinates who remained silent, the young noble gradually lost his patience. From constant urging, it turned into all kinds of threats and curses. Finally, he impatiently issued an ultimatum and said in a stern tone: "Commander of the Haas Army, I have made it very clear. Make a plan to attack the tower and implement it. Remember, whose subordinate you are."
He impatiently stopped thinking in the noisy environment, and when he regained consciousness, he heard his young master's threat, and Richard Haas was also amused. He said coldly: "Of course it is clear, Baron Sita, I am your father's subordinate. Unfortunately, you have not inherited your father's title."
The last thread of reason in the mind of the young nobleman who was ignored for his inheritance suddenly snapped. He put his hand on the hilt of the sword, ready to teach this ungrateful guy a lesson. He completely forgot that if there was a fight, based on the strength comparison between the two sides, he would be the one who learned the lesson. But a sudden roar of a tiger echoed through the sky, interrupting Baron Sita's irrational behavior and calling him back to reality.
That tiger roar was familiar to everyone present. Several soldiers with thunder and lightning ran out of the forest and came to guard Richard Haas and Baron Sita. The five members of the adventure group looked in the direction of the sound at the same time. The hunter said in shock: "Could it be that the king-level monster is chasing it?"
The next moment, a howl came from the forest not far behind the team. Compared to the previous sound, it seemed much more immature. The warrior leader's expression changed and he cursed: "Damn it, is that cub awake?"
In the center of the Thunder and Lightning Legion squadron camp was a carriage carrying an iron cage. In the iron cage is a cub with black spots on a white background, four legs and wings, which is firmly fixed to the base of the iron cage by iron chains.
The potion used by hunters to stupefy animals has not completely worn off. But after hearing the howl of the mother beast, it still struggled to respond, and kept twisting its body, trying to break free from the iron chain.
This cub was the group's previous trophy. The squadron of the Thunder and Lightning Legion restrained the king-level monster, the Winged Sky Tiger, and then a six-man adventure group headed by the heavily armored warrior Schmidt and Baron Sita secretly captured the Winged Sky Tiger larvae.
Whether it is tamed or turned into a magic material, the value of this larvae is no less than a standard earldom and several years of tax revenue. It was precisely because of the battle that Baron Sita insisted on launching that the Thunder and Lightning Legion squadron suffered casualties.
However, the goal at that time was just to contain the king-level monster. When the Winged Sky Tiger realized something was wrong, he wanted to turn back, but there was no trace of his child. If he wanted to pursue the humans who had restrained him before, Richard Haas would have already escaped with his men. Being left empty-handed, this monster rushed out of its territory in grief and anger, and began to track its own offspring.
Now that we are encountering it again, it is definitely bad news for the human side. Because before, we could make a time difference to escape separately. Now they have to fight a positional battle, not only to guard the cub and prevent it from being recaptured, but also to defend against the attack of a king-level monster until it is killed or driven back. This level of difficulty is not just one or two levels higher.
At this time, the magician Mech Lindorais proposed what he thought was the most rational choice: "We hide in the magic tower and rely on the tower's defense to fight against this king-level monster?"
Everyone immediately gave him looks of contempt. The situation was so tense before, how can I ask for a visit now?
At this time, the magic tower reacted, and the strategic-level attack magic it relied on, the light bullet attack technique, blasted towards the source of the tiger's roar. Then everyone was disappointed, even desperate.
As the most strategic attack magic deployed in magic towers, the name and power of light bomb attack are very familiar to those with rich experience. It will condense a dazzling light ball like a small sun on the top of the tower, and slowly descend towards the enemy's head. The huge condensed magical power will annihilate everything in its path until the magic power contained in the light ball is exhausted.
You must know that most attack magic can lock the enemy, but only in a state where the caster can see it, and actively blasts the enemy through mental control; there is no real locking, and then automatic tracking. And the more complex the magic, the more difficult it is to use mental power to change the attack path.
When it comes to the use of strategic magic, most of it is used in places where the caster cannot directly observe it, so there is no way to talk about locking the enemy. The only thing that can be done is to specify a direction and distance, and then expand the killing range as much as possible to cause a large number of killing results.
This means that strategic magic is not suitable for dealing with Warcraft. Because by the time the caster completes the magic and casts it in the specified direction and distance, the monster may have gone to other places to show off its power.
Therefore, the magic tower's strategy for dealing with monsters is to lure the opponent closer, and then use a large number of range attack magic centered on the tower to attack the monsters outside the tower. Obviously, the rookie tower owner did not possess such common sense.
Secondly, there was a ball of light the size of a human head that I had just seen. It hit the direction of the Sky Tiger with a whoosh, and it had no power at all that the light bomb attack technique should have. Maher Lindeolais was the first to react and cursed in a low voice. Because this means that the tower owner, perhaps in the process of renovating the tower, modified the strategic magic circle on his own initiative, and the worst result was that the magic circle was damaged. Then, disaster struck for everyone.
Richard Haas gave the order in an orderly manner, and the soldiers of the Thunder and Lightning Legion also acted quickly.
To deal with this kind of monster with huge body and amazing attack power, unless it is a fully covered fortress like a castle or magic tower, it is extremely unwise to choose a position battle in a simple wooden village.
The best way is a distributed siege, in the form of a hunt, with soldiers standing behind the monsters attacking, which also serves as a provocation. The purpose is to make the Warcraft focus on one thing and not the other, making it difficult to take care of both the head and the tail.
However, the reality is that there is still the restless cub to defend so that the Sky Tiger cannot recapture it; and there is also the need to protect the heir to Earl Sita. This will divert a lot of manpower. Richard Haas quickly came up with an idea. He first asked the hunters in the adventure team to deal with the tiger cubs. The tone was a bit harsh, but at this critical moment, no one cared about it.
Then arrange the assembled teams. Although this group of elite soldiers was not afraid of fighting at night, they had to deal with a king-level monster that had reduced their numbers a lot before, so everyone still cheered up. In the matter of life and death, you are the one you can rely on the most. I didn't look at the weak attack of the magic tower, it just scratched my itch...
Regarding the three-story building standing not far away, before everyone's complaints ended, they saw a series of light balls shooting out from the top of the tower, forming a line like beads, attacking in the direction of the Sky Tiger.
No matter how fast the light ball flies, it is silent, but when it hits an object, the chaotic power generated by the annihilation of magic power will produce a muffled crackling sound. But because the human legions were still some distance away from the Winged Sky Tigers, they couldn't hear that muffled sound. In their ears, it was the injured roars from the king-level monsters, which were louder and angrier.
The attack launched by the magic tower was an unprecedented form. Seeing the string of light balls swinging in the air, and the constant roar of the Sky Tiger, the hunter couldn't help but come to the team's magician and asked: "Is it possible? Did all those light bullets hit that devil tiger? How did you do it?"
Maher Lindeolais held it in for a long time before replying: "Well, don't ask me."
