The ballista only fired six rounds, and the catapult fired two rounds before the Tree Man Corps successfully advanced within its effective range.
They immediately retracted their steps, and the tree men holding super-large wooden shields focused on defending against attacks, while the tree men protected by them stood upright, opened their posture, and directly threw the stones in their hands.
There is no special situation of hitting the invisible shield. Because there are too many options to choose from, each fog barrier is different.
Like Mys Noel's Mystery Lock, the fog barrier that isolates everything is not without it, but it means giving up the ability to block teleportation, block flight, etc.
With a deeper understanding of the Mist Barrier and the Mystery Lock, Gavin discovered that the ancient Elf Mystery Lock was very special, and its power far exceeded the Mystery Lock that humans could imitate using the Mist Barrier. There was something hidden in the Elvish language. means to disappear.
The ancient mythical locks made by elves, just like those from different dimensions, can cover and hide entire cities and even regions, including all kinds of isolation. This is something that the mythical locks made by humans do not have. They are just magic barriers endowed with special abilities. , This should be related to the reason why the cost of making ancient elven mythical locks is too high.
Human mist enchantments only require enough casting materials, while elven ancient mist locks usually require the supreme mages to pay a large amount of magic power, and may even cost their lives, so their power is naturally extraordinary.
Ivanso's fog barrier is a nine-ring one, which can only activate three abilities, which are used to prohibit teleportation, prohibit flying, and prohibit invisibility. It no longer has the ability to isolate the inside and outside.
The fog barrier's isolation between the inside and outside is not the invisible shield mode of Mys Noel. Instead, as its name suggests, it forms a fog wall for physical isolation. It is also ground-defense but not air-defense. It is very flawed. There is no city wall. Only cities with city walls will consider this option, and cities with city walls will generally give priority to discarding the option.
In other words, it could have been defeated with ordinary siege methods from the beginning, but Gavin was unwilling to inflict huge casualties on the conqueror's army and was unwilling to attack the city with ants.
Suddenly, the sound of collision and bombardment on the city head was endless, and several ballistae and catapults misfired on the spot.
Treants also have advantages that these catapults do not have. They are living creatures, and catapults are their skills. Their special abilities are linked to their professional levels and are blessed by certain magic modifiers. Coupled with their own skills, their accuracy is frightening, especially When it comes to hitting big targets like the slings standing on the top of the city wall, I can't say that one hit will be accurate. It can be guaranteed that one of the three or five shots will hit.
Whether it is a catapult or a catapult, it is a relatively sophisticated instrument. If a more important precision part is damaged, the machine will immediately come to a standstill.
The tree man slingers were unyielding and focused their fire on the damaged catapults and ballistas, trying to completely destroy them before they could be repaired with magic - complete repair spells could not repair shattered and damaged things.
call! call! call!
Dozens of red dots rose up from the walls of Ivanso and flew towards the tree soldiers. They flew bigger and bigger, and by the time they reached the heads of the tree people, they were already the size of an adult.
Third level fireball technique.
Ivanso's spellcasters took action, preparing to destroy these treants with magic heavy cannons.
Compared with ballistas, crossbows and slings, this is their nemesis. Most of the activated plants are vulnerable to fire damage. If the fire damage falls on them, even if it is not extremely effective, it will be aggravated and may even cause damage. They ignite, burning them alive.
Facing their deadly nemesis, the tree-men army did not move at all. Only the two tree-men at the head raised the super-large wooden shields in their hands.
boom! boom! boom!
On the battlefield, the unique explosion roar sounded when the fireball technique landed, but the number was significantly less than what was seen just now.
Many people could clearly see that the exploding fireball spell either landed on the tree man's super large wooden shield, or in the surrounding open space.
The fireball technique that landed at the center of the tree team was like a stone sinking into the sea. With a pop, it was completely extinguished and disappeared.
The figures disappeared in a flash, and were once again hidden under the huge shadow of the tree man.
These treant detachments are not simply composed of treants. There is an extraordinary spellcaster hidden in each one.
What just made these fireball spells ineffective was the fourth-level spell-invalidation barrier.
This spell can form a magic barrier with a radius of three to four meters centered on the caster. In this barrier, all third-level and lower spells will be invalid. Even area spells such as fireball will not affect the barrier. inside the boundary.
The tree man's weakness is so obvious, and fireball is the most frequently used spell on the battlefield. How could the conqueror's army not be prepared at all?
Boom!
Accompanied by a burst of thunder and lightning, the heavy rain was like a column, extinguishing all the super-large wooden shields in the hands of the tree people that were prone to being ignited. The shield-wielding tree people moved their large shields one after another, allowing the heavy rain to fall on their bodies. Drench everything inside and out.
If you cast fire magic in a rainstorm, the effect will be greatly reduced. If it falls on a tree man, it will not only be difficult to be ignited, but the vulnerability attribute will also be suppressed to a certain extent. This is the reason why the attributes are incompatible.
This heavy rain had a negative impact on the Ivanso defense equipment on the city wall. The fired crossbow arrows and slings began to become limp because the ropes used to launch crossbow ammunition were soaked with water and their elasticity was damaged. Great impact.
Of course, this heavy rain could not have fallen out of thin air because of God's favor on the conqueror's army.
But it was the handiwork of a supernatural druid.
The seventh-circle spell controls the weather.
The scope of this spell's influence is very wide, not only the entire battlefield is included, but even most of Ivanso is hit by the heavy rain.
Unlike the temporarily cast secondary spell invalidation barrier, this spell had been cast twenty minutes ago.
Such large-scale spells, especially spells that affect the weather, require a long period of deep synchronization with nature before they can be cast, and it also takes a while for the spell to take effect.
The magic power of the spell only helps the caster gather lightning and dark clouds to form rain. It does not mean that the magic power of the spell is directly converted into rain. If that were the case, the consumption would be too great - spells that violate the laws of nature are high-cost and do twice the result with half the effort.
If you follow the laws of nature, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
This also leads to the fact that the final effect of this spell is linked to the local environment and weather.
You can't always expect that the effect will be the same in the desert and on the sea.
Ivanso is an offshore city. In the summer, the air humidity is very high. If it is slightly disturbed, it will naturally turn into a heavy rain. If it were replaced by the Eno Oak Desert, a light rain that lasts for several minutes would be considered a good thing. .
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dozens more crimson light balls shot down from Ivanso's city wall.
This time, the tree people did not dare to neglect. They set up shields and threw stones to lock the red light balls.
Ivanso's spellcasters should not suffer the same loss twice. These red light balls are by no means fireballs.
But the seventh-level spell Fire Storm.
Ivanso's extraordinary spellcaster took action, also using a weak version of the fireball spell, but because its spell level was too high, it could not be rejected by the spell invalidation barrier.
This is oppression from the hierarchy.
Just like the effect of a fourteenth-level extraordinary mage's actions, it can surpass the effects of dozens of sixth- and seventh-level intermediate and low-level spellcasters at the same time.
boom! boom! boom!
Fireballs and thrown stones collide in the air, causing them to explode prematurely. This method of breaking physical attacks is effective.
Just in the air, hitting such a moving target is like a stroke of luck. Only three or five were detonated in advance, and most of them still flew to the target.
Less than one-third of them actually performed damage, and the rest either missed the target or were blocked by the super-large wooden shield and exploded on top.
The heavy rain took effect, and the power of the fire storm was suppressed to a certain extent. After causing thirty to forty points of fire impact damage to the tree people within the explosion range, they were submerged by the rain.
If it weren't for the heavy rain, the fire impact damage would have been at least doubled. Even for a tree man, seventy or eighty points of damage was already quite astonishing.
"Prepare the ballista and release it."
"Archers prepare, release."
Naturally, the conqueror's army could not allow Ivanso's mages to bombard them wildly, and began to provide fire cover for the Treant Corps.
The floor-type chariot has been pushed into the range of the archers, and the ballista and archers mounted on it are showing off their power at the same time.
Thousands of arrows covered the city of Ivanso.
The tree slingers raced against time to bombard Ivanso's ballista and catapult.
Before the second fire storm fell, the Treant Corps had completed the first round of raids, destroying all the ballistas and catapults on this section of the city wall.
Without the threat of crossbows and catapults, they retreated very quickly and spread out enough.
When the fire storm falls again, its lethality will be further reduced.
The extraordinary spellcaster seemed to see through this, so he did not cast the second fire storm.
After a slight repair, the Treant Corps pressed forward again, expanding the results of the battle to both sides along this section of the city wall.
This is the consequence of losing the initiative on the battlefield. The conqueror's army can fight whenever it wants and retreat whenever it wants.
The damage you caused last time will be useless in the new round of battle, because during the time when you went back to repair, these tree people repaired their injuries to the best of their ability by taking root and regenerating.
"Despicable, shameless, bastard..."
"Ams is a devil, they actually did such evil things."
"Withdraw, quickly withdraw the Treant Corps. If we continue to fight, it will cause a large number of casualties to the ordinary citizens of Ivanso. Even if we capture Ivanso, it is meaningless."
"But once they do this, Ivansuo's treacherous plan will succeed. They will take advantage of it and use this trick in all aspects. We can't tie our hands and feet just because we care about these citizens. This battle How else to fight?"
"Too despicable, too shameless..."
The scene that happened next on the walls of Ivanso caused the conquerors' army to curse from top to bottom after seeing the above situation, but the opponent's methods were more sinister and vicious than they imagined.
Seeing that there was no way to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Treant Corps, a group of pale-faced Ivanso citizens were rushed to the top of the city and gathered next to the catapults and ballistas.
While destroying these catapults and ballistae, a large number of Ivanso citizens will also be killed.
Gavin and the others came here holding the banner of justice. If they ignored the lives of the citizens of Ivanso, they would be labeling themselves evil and associating with the necromancers of Ivanso.
"Let the Treant Corps withdraw temporarily." Gavin ordered with a gloomy face.
"This is not entirely a bad thing. The more we show that we care about the lives of the citizens of Ivanso, the less likely they will start the transformation ritual and kill the entire residents of Ivanso." Veranika comforted from the side.
"I know, I'm just disgusted by the despicable methods of these evil people." Gavin nodded and asked, "Is there any news from Susie?"
"I'm about to report this to the Lord. The news delivered by Grace is true. There is indeed a secret passage leading directly to the Ivanso Dungeon in that abandoned warehouse. What should we do now?" Veranika replied.
"You have to do a complete show." Gavin turned to Catherine and said, "Madam, I hope you can personally lead the team and lead the Goliath regiment to raid the Ivanso Dungeon from the secret passage. Whether it is a trap or not, it will be Delay their elite regiments for as long as possible, and I will leave that road to your full authority."
Goliath Chapters are not the best choice for breaking out from underground, as their size tends to limit them there.
There is no way for the hobgoblin giant to drill inside. Not all dwarf cities are built as grand and tall as the dwarf statue cities. Most of them are built according to the standards of medium-sized humans, between two and a half to three meters.
It's a bit forced for Goliath to go deep down there, let alone a hobgoblin giant.
In fact, the paladins led by Darnell and the Tempus believers led by Erdan are the best candidates.
But Ivanso's enemies know where their elites are. If the Goliath Battle Group does not show up, but an extraordinary battle group they don't know about at first, I'm afraid they will be frightened and a trap will be launched in advance that will hurt both sides.
As for letting Catherine lead the team in person, of course he wanted to use her legendary combat power and commanding ability to ensure that even if it was a trap, the opponent would not be able to easily eat them.
"Okay." Catherine readily agreed, "In an hour, I will launch an attack from the secret passage on time."
She had already guessed what Gavin wanted to do next, but she just saw through it without telling him.
After Catherine teleported away and prepared for a sneak attack from the secret passage, the army of conquerors led by Gavin was not idle. They made full use of the troops at hand and launched a new round of spells with the extraordinary mage on the wall of Ivanso. , tactical battle.
The focus of both sides was the section of wall where all the city defense equipment had been destroyed by the Treant Corps.
After the Treant Corps withdrew, Gavin directly ordered the tower chariot to start advancing towards this section of the city wall, as if escorting his army to seize the city wall.
Without catapults and ballistas, let alone ordinary bows and arrows, even fireballs can do relatively limited damage to them. The twenty property market tanks charging at the front have been specially waterproofed and have external Thickened armor.
Not to mention, it's not just Ivanso who has spellcasters. There are also a lot of spellcasters in the conqueror's army now.
There are kobold warlocks, fey druids, Tethyr battlefield mages, and orthodox mages like the female mage of the Rowinhorn family.
As the conqueror's army began to grow in size and its reputation grew, more and more people came to seek refuge, including middle- and low-level wandering mages.
Using one's own spellcasting ability to exchange for more growth resources from those powerful rulers is a shortcut for the growth of these middle and low-level mages.
Among the many mercenaries on the Dragon Coast, there are many spellcasters. Naturally, they are the priority recruitment targets for the conqueror's army.
Most of these spell casters are mid- to low-level spell casters who have not reached extraordinary levels, especially low-level spell casters who have not yet turned on the third-level spell casting ability. This is the most embarrassing time for them, whether it is spell tricks or spell power. , are very unsatisfactory, far less useful than the sharp sword and long bow they wield, and are very unpopular with the mercenary group.
It's not that those mercenaries are short-sighted and don't know the huge hidden value of spell casters, especially those who have been trained by their own hands.
However, the precarious life of mercenaries leaves them with the ability to only focus on the present, and it is difficult for them to have the energy to think about the future. If they choose an incompetent low-level mage as a teammate and let themselves die in the mission, there will be no future.
Not to mention individuals, even most small mercenary groups do not have any remaining financial resources. To cultivate their own spellcasters, it is better to directly hire ready-made ones.
Forced by the army of conquerors, the spellcasters in Ivanso City could only compete with them in spells, especially the few extraordinary spellcasters who were the main force.
They used the wall of fire technique directly in front of the city wall of Ivanso, trying to use the wall of fire to destroy and block the real estate market chariot.
The spell caster of the Conqueror's Army cast an ice wall spell with the same fourth ring directly on the original position of the fire wall spell.
The effects of the two spells will be directly offset, resulting in an effect similar to dispelling magic.
Not only the Fire Wall Spell and Ice Wall Spell, but also many spells of the same ring with opposite attributes have the ability to restrain and offset each other.
For example, plant growth and plant decay, holy residence and evil residence, darkness and lighting, etc.
In desperation, the extraordinary spellcaster repeated his old tricks and tried to destroy the tower chariot with a fire storm.
The conqueror's army didn't even pay attention here. Not to mention that the heavy rain continued. Even if there was no heavy rain, these fireballs would not even be able to ignite the floor-type chariot. The external armor added on it was not made of wood, but made of repeated layers of mud. After applying the slurry, it is transformed into stone using stone shaping techniques, which not only increases a certain resistance to impact, but is also mainly fireproof.
The failure of the spell confrontation directly fed back to the advancement of the army. The tower-type chariot was getting closer and closer to Ivanso's city wall, so close that standing on the chariot, one could directly see the situation on Ivanso's city wall.
Countless Ivanso crossbow gunners, under the supervision of a group of undead, are transporting crossbows and catapults from other areas to this side - such complex war tools, the undead without brains cannot use them. Drive the citizens of Ivanso.
The city walls were crowded with low- and middle-level undead soldiers such as skeletons, zombies, and ghosts, preparing to welcome the conquerors' army.
"The goal-breaking team is dispatched."
The army of conquerors has made a new move.
A dozen shield-wielding tree men rushed out first, carrying super large shields, and rushed towards the Ivansuo city gate not far away.
Immediately behind them, two giant elephant tree men rushed out. What they dragged behind them was an iron pillar weighing hundreds of tons. The only difference was that the iron pillars attached to the iron pillars were , no longer a road compactor.
Instead, it is a super giant cart with sixteen wheels, and the iron pillars for rolling roads are installed vertically on it, directly transforming into a battering ram.
Dragged by two giant elephant tree men, it rumbled towards the gate of Ivanso City.
The city defense commander of Ivansuo immediately numbed his claws and probably started cursing in his heart.
The opponent had not dispatched earlier or later, but he dispatched some of his crossbows and catapults to the building-type chariot siege point. Now, it was too late to withdraw or continue to move to the destination. .
Although he ordered the ballistae and catapults to fire wildly, the caster cast the spell regardless of consumption.
There is still no way to stop the opponent's crazy advancement. Most of the damage is blocked by the shield-wielding tree man. Spells that hinder the advancement or cause greater damage to the tree man are neutralized or removed. Small ones come and go, and are simply ignored.
(End of chapter)
