"Devil's mark?" The six-armed snake demon crossed his chest with six arms, looked at Grace condescendingly, and said in a sultry voice, "I see, you are a poor little bastard in the web of conspiracy spun by the devil. How many thoughts do you have now?" Is it your own? How many of them are the devil whispering in your ears? You are lucky to meet the Lord. His ability is rare and can cut off this kind of mark. If you don't cut off this kind of mark, , as long as the devil is alive, no matter what method you use, there is no way to escape this entanglement, he will drag you into hell and add it to his collection."
Ophelia's words might as well have been the whispers of a devil.
She was neither helping Gavin nor Grace with good intentions, she just wanted to appreciate Grace's complex expression of being played with, and wanted to drag her into her ranks, even if she had a little toy beside her. Not a bad choice.
"Is there really a mark of the devil on my body?" Grace could not believe what Gavin said, but she couldn't help but not believe what a legendary six-armed snake demon said.
It's not that the devil is more honest than Gavin, but that the other party is strong enough and doesn't need to play these conspiracies with him.
At the same time, he made a new assessment of Gavin's strength. What he used just now was not an ordinary summoning spell, but an instant summon. He could summon such a powerful demon instantly. There is only one possibility to do this, and that is Gavin's mastery. Knowing the opponent's demon's real name is thousands of times more difficult than simply summoning a legendary demon.
The most important thing is that this kind of summoning ignores most of the laws prohibiting teleportation, including myth locks, because this kind of summoning does not originate from teleportation, but the power of the devil's true name. It can be regarded as the owner of the devil's true name using her The devil's true name reshaped the devil in an instant.
No wonder the other party still chose to go to the meeting alone even though he knew it might be a trap. It turned out that he had enough cards. Judging from the opponent's tone at the beginning, he was fully prepared and ready to pull off a trick and kill the person who laid the trap. end.
"Hey..." The six-armed snake demon just sneered, as if you don't believe it.
The more she behaved like this, the more convinced Grace became. She nodded without hesitation and said: "Okay, just follow the Lord's method. As long as you can save my soul, I am willing to be loyal to you. Lord, I will also What do you need me to do?"
"If I want to cut off the devil's mark, I must be in a special state. This state will only be activated when I kill Arms. I am going to cut off his devil's mark together, so you have to make sure you die. At that time, I activated this special state, and you could only die in my hands. Once you are killed by Arms in advance and your soul is dragged into hell, there will be nothing I can do." Gavin told the truth.
As for whether Grace will play a double agent trick and sell her information to Arms again, she no longer cares. With the arrival of reinforcements, he has more trump cards. If he can scare Arms away, , may not be a shortcut to victory.
"Okay, give me a day, and I will make the corresponding arrangements, and you can launch a full-scale attack. I will cooperate with you according to the progress of your attack. Ivanso's detailed map is buried one meter below this stone. I will only wait for you for one day. If you don't launch an attack within one day, I will escape on my own." Grace's mind was as meticulous as ever, and she would not place her hopes entirely in the hands of others.
As soon as she finished speaking, her projection began to flicker, and disappeared completely after a few times. It was not known whether the duration was up or whether she canceled the spell on the other side.
Gavin moved away the stone on which she cast the projection technique, and focused her mind to synchronize with the surrounding land. Her consciousness immediately began to extend outward, deep into the earth and rocks under her feet. Although it was not as clear as seeing, it was still vague. It can sense the outlines of surrounding objects, and indeed senses a rectangular object about one meter away.
With a thought, the surrounding soil seemed to come alive, and began to surge to both sides. Within a few seconds, a wooden box was pushed out by the earth and rocks below.
The three-ring spell Stone Shaping.
Coupled with the extraordinary body's super control over magic elements, it can be used flexibly to the greatest extent.
After opening the wooden box, there was a scroll-shaped map inside. It was completely drawn by hand. The fonts marked on it were graceful and feminine. It was probably written by Grace. It not only gave detailed topographic maps of Ivanso's above and below ground. He drew it and even marked the main distribution of the troops clearly.
A hint of joy appeared on Gavin's face. With this map, they could follow the map and go straight to Huanglong. The risk this time was not in vain.
The six-armed snake demon said faintly at the side: "Don't be too happy too early. What you are dealing with now is a devil, a guy full of treacherous tricks. How can you be sure that Grace's betrayal was not bewitched by him or intentional?" Sending false information into your hands? In order to lead you into a bigger trap?"
"I know." Gavin carefully put away the Ivanso map and said with a smile, "Thanks for the reminder, madam. We will discuss this."
"I'm not worried about you, I'm afraid that the next time you recruit me, you will face a desperate situation and drag me to death with you." The six-armed snake demon was as arrogant as ever.
"Return the sword to you. Next, adjust your condition and prepare for the battle." Gavin returned the two snake-letter strange-shaped swords to the six-armed snake demon. The next time he summons her, it will definitely be the most critical one. At that time, there may not be a chance to return the weapon to her. At that time, he would probably lead the troops to provide support and take action at the last moment.
The six-armed snake demon took the two swords, snorted, and began to disappear. Her summoning time had come.
Gavin took Ivanso's map and headed straight to the north. After only running 800 meters, he got into another warehouse, which was filled with heavily armed people.
Catherine, Veranika, Carissa, Regina, Darnell, Auguste, Erdan, etc., the army of conquerors can be said to be all elite. Although the total number is less than a hundred, the fighting power exploded , defeating thousands of regular troops is as easy as drinking cold water.
This was Gavin's ambush. If there was a battle on his side, they would all arrive on the battlefield in just a few seconds.
"Playing conspiracy is bound to be easy to be plotted, but in the end, it depends on the strength of both parties." The first one to speak was still Catherine, "Whether you want to join the game depends on whether you have confidence, even if it is a trap. I still have the ability to break the situation."
When Gavin returned, they didn't ask about the meeting at all, as they witnessed the entire process, in the manner of Regina's actual phantom drop.
"We assume that this is a trap intended by the other party to lure our elites in. They rely on two methods. One is to sacrifice innocent souls and recruit reinforcements from hell like the original troll army. This method takes too long and has obvious flaws. The strength of the teleported devil is uncertain. Once the teleportation gate is broken, the teleportation can be terminated.
One is to use the plague virus they are best at to kill and transform our elites on a large scale. If this method is used, we will have an absolute advantage. They don't know that we have found a way to crack the deadly virus. "Veranika analyzed.
This time, Gavin had no intention of continuing to delve deeper. He waved his hands and said: "We have spent enough time and energy on this matter, and we have also learned a lot about the other party. The rest is tactics. It's a matter of application. I want to see whether it is my way that is higher or his demon that is higher.
Let Susie mobilize a hundred elite kobolds from the Trap Corps to clean out the abandoned warehouse as quickly as possible to see if it can really lead directly to the underground of Ivanso.
The army of conquerors set up camp and pressed on Ivanso. "
"As ordered." Everyone responded in unison.
Both those who understand war and those who do not know that espionage warfare, conspiracy warfare, and elite beheading tactics are all auxiliary. The conqueror's army must be used, and Ivanso must be surrounded.
Previously, it was in a semi-encamped state, unloading horses but not unloading cargo, and it would take more than an hour to prepare for the conqueror's army to start. Now it is in a fully encamped state, and it will take at least a full day to prepare to start.
The conqueror's army was now in an environment where everyone was the enemy. Gavin and the others did not dare to divide their troops at all. Instead, they pressed forward with the entire army in the form of an entire chariot camp.
They had already calculated that Ivanso had no strength advantage. Relying on the mysterious locks on the city wall, their strength was a little stretched, let alone taking the initiative to attack.
"It's moving, it's moving, the army of conquerors is moving."
"The war has begun, the war has begun, the army of conquerors has officially started war with Ivanso."
"The Conqueror's army surrounds Ivanso."
As soon as the conqueror's army moved here, all kinds of news spread to the major cities in Ivanso as quickly as possible, and countless pairs of eyes stared at their every move.
Naturally, Gavin would not launch an ant attack on Ivanso. Instead, he pushed out the tower chariots and side carriages to form a huge formation, slowly advancing towards their city wall bit by bit. Ivanso is just a small city, and the city wall is not high, about six or seven meters, not much higher than a four-and-a-half-meter building chariot.
These floor-type chariots are ready-made siege towers. Standing on them, ordinary adults can jump onto Ivanso as soon as they turn over, let alone those tall and powerful hobgoblin giants.
"Ballista, prepare, launch!"
"Catapult, prepare, launch!"
Buzz!
This is the whistling sound made by a crossbow arrow that is as thick as a duck's egg and more than two meters long.
call!
This is the sound made when a stone bullet weighing 20 to 30 kilograms breaks through the air.
The scene of hundreds of crossbows and catapults showing off their power at the same time was shocking and stirred up a lot of dust outside the city of Ivanso.
However, it failed to damage one person or one vehicle, because the Conqueror's army's vehicle camp was not within range at all, at least still a hundred meters away.
Ivanso was completely using this method to intimidate, warning the conquerors not to get too close, otherwise even their floor-type chariots would not be able to withstand the bombardment of such war weapons.
"Treant Corps, attack." Gavin waved his hand.
Accompanied by a blast of passionate horns, more than forty huge figures staggered out of the army of conquerors.
From the very beginning, there were not two extraordinary regiments of the conqueror's army, but three.
These tree people all have at least ten life dice, and they are truly extraordinary, because the conqueror army has always used them as tools for pulling beasts of burden and loading and unloading cargo, thus making people ignore their war use.
These more than forty tree men were divided into eight teams, each with about five people. The two tree men walking at the front each held up a super shield in their hands. If it could be called a shield, , they are basically made of thin logs and pieced together using wood plastic techniques. They can be simple and crude.
The tree men who were guarding the back all held a super large stone bullet in their hands. Most of them were tree men with the ability to throw stones.
The eight treant teams, not far apart, began to slowly advance towards Ivanso City.
"The ballista is ready."
"Prepare the catapult."
There was another shout from the top of Ivanso City. Along with the crowds, the creaking sounds of ballistas and catapults were heard. All the city defense weapons were aimed at these behemoths that were as big as the city wall. If they were allowed to rush to the city wall, Below, the city wall could not withstand a few of their bombardments.
The Treant Corps turned a blind eye to these threats and continued to advance slowly but firmly. Behind them, the horses of the Red Falcon Cavalry Regiment and the Nott Guards Heavy Cavalry were snorting thickly, ready to charge at any time.
Anyone who knows a little bit about war knows that even if you are defending a city, you cannot be passively beaten, especially when the opponent's siege equipment is preparing to advance under the city. The defense equipment alone is not enough. Elites must be dispatched to supplement the defense equipment. With the cooperation of the enemy, destroy these siege equipment to prevent your city defense from being destroyed.
This is why even though they know that the city gate is the weakest point and the easiest to be breached by the enemy, the city defenders still refuse to completely block the city gate easily.
Because once the gate is sealed, it means that the initiative in the entire war is lost. There is no way to take the initiative to destroy the siege equipment, and there is no way to pursue the enemy, which is equivalent to leaving the enemy in an invincible position.
It was for this reason that at Fort Nott, when Zalanda had only a dozen cavalrymen, he took the initiative to destroy the enemy's catapults under great pressure.
Most battlefield games begin with a bloody battle of mobile forces. Whoever wins this bloody battle will control the initiative on the entire battlefield.
Until the Treant Corps, which were used as siege equipment, advanced into the attack range of the city defense ballistae and city defense catapults, Ivanso was not seen sending his own mobile troops, and the city gate was closed from beginning to end.
I don’t know if Ivanso’s commander doesn’t know this simple military truth, or is extremely unconfident in his mobile troops. He is afraid that after coming out, not only will he fail to defeat the Treant Corps, but he will be defeated by the heavy cavalry of the Conqueror’s army and take advantage of the opportunity. Follow and seize the city gate.
I believe the latter is more likely. Not every city can afford heavy cavalry.
In particular, the Dragon Coast, which is a vast stretch of sand, can be proud of a city that can support two to three hundred heavy cavalry.
After all, mercenary wars and assassination wars are the main ones here, and large-scale cavalry wars only occur on the Tethyr side.
The 1,200 Nott Guards in the Conqueror's Army can truly be called heavy cavalry. Only the 200 are at the vanguard, and the remaining 1,000 are auxiliary cavalry. Not only do they not belong to the heavy cavalry. They don't have sophisticated equipment, they don't have years of training, and their professional levels are also lacking.
In Tethyr, knights are an advanced profession. Generally speaking, this profession is biased towards warriors, but having the special ability of a paladin companion's mount will allow your mount to improve as your professional level increases. Turn on Professional abilities also revolve around riding combat.
There is a huge difference in power and safety between charges with magic blessing and those without magic blessing.
Just such a miscellaneous heavy cavalry, excluding equipment updates, the basic maintenance cost of salary, food, drink, and toilet is as high as 50,000 to 60,000 gold coins per month.
Undead armies have never been known for their mobility, and Ivanso is no exception.
"emission."
"emission."
"emission."
The roar of crossbows and catapults came again from the top of the city. They could only place their hopes on the quantity and power of the defense equipment.
boom! boom! boom!
A large number of crossbow arrows and slingshots hit the tree man's super-large wooden shield heavily. It was said to be very powerful, and sawdust and gravel flew around, making a thumping sound, but that was all.
The super large shield in the hands of the tree man is more powerful, rough is rough, but quantity will lead to qualitative change.
Most of the crossbow arrows could only penetrate these super-large wooden shields, but they were unable to attack the tree people behind them again.
Throwing stones can only knock the super large wooden shield around, but it is not enough to break it.
Occasionally, crossbow arrows and slings would pass over the super large wooden shield and hit the tree man behind, but it would be difficult to cause fatal damage.
Because they are activated plants and have no fatal injuries, even if the ballistae and crossbow arrows are nailed to the body ten or eight times, there is no way to damage the essence of life.
The situation of throwing stones is similar, and it cannot pose a fatal threat to its thick body at all.
As for the number of Ivanso city defense weapons, it did not form a sufficient advantage.
Because the Treant Corps did not attack across the board in a scattered manner, but maintained a distance of more than 20 meters from each other. The eight teams faced only the defensive equipment on the wall of 200 to 300 meters. No matter how far away it was, Out of range.
The total number of ballistas and catapults they actually had to face did not exceed fifty, with half of them each.
The Treant Corps pushed forward slowly despite the firepower.
Since it relies purely on strength rather than mechanical assistance, the tree man's stone throwing range is relatively short, and it has to be pushed at least fifty meters below the city to exert its power.
The ballistas and catapults used to defend the city were at a commanding height. The range of the catapults was over 100 meters, while the range of the catapults was over 200 to 300 meters.
Even if the Treant Corps advances slowly, it is still extremely large. One step can take several steps of an ordinary person, and the speed is still relatively impressive.
(End of chapter)
