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When anything has sufficient weight and volume, it will show extraordinary lethality, and skeleton bombs are no exception.
Any monster that is unfortunate enough to be in its landing point, no matter whether it is a goblin, a hobgoblin, or a huge troll, will all be knocked to the ground by a direct hammer, even if it is not turned into flesh on the spot. They also turned into meat pies, and most of them died on the spot.
Not to mention, these skeletal cannonballs are not solid. They are packed with extremely compressed negative energy. When subjected to a violent impact, these negative energies will lose their original stability and explode, enveloping the bone fragments and sweeping across them. All creatures within a ten meter radius.
Even bones, driven by strong kinetic energy, will become an out-and-out murder weapon, easily tearing apart their skin and flesh, and nailing them deeply into their bodies, accompanied by the erosion of negative energy. The places scratched and nailed by bone fragments fester at a speed visible to the naked eye and spread to the surrounding areas.
If it were just a limb, if you had quick eyes and quick hands, you might still be able to survive.
But if the injured parts are vital parts of the body, neck, head, etc., it is basically hopeless. The negative energy will directly damage their internal organs and vital parts.
For flesh and blood, highly condensed negative energy is the most powerful poison. It has strong potency and short onset time. Unless it is the undead that are purely composed of negative energy, it can only heal without killing.
The range damage of the skeleton shells, both in terms of power and envelope radius, is far greater than the fireball spell cast by an extraordinary mage.
What is the concept of a radius of ten meters?
A total of three hundred and fourteen square meters, even if there is a distance of two or three meters between people, can fit a small number of 100 people, let alone a dense military formation that is denser than this.
The 300-meter range of the Skeleton Cannon is far beyond the effective distance of most destructive spells (the casting distance of fireball is generally 150 to 200 meters, which increases with the level of the caster. Legendary spell casting Fireball technique, the longest range can reach 400 meters), these monsters have not consciously dispersed and carried out skirmish charges.
Of course, the effective casting distance, killing radius, effective range, etc. described by all spells are just like the effective range of a gun. They are only theoretical values. The most important thing to consider is the actual situation faced when using them.
When the number of people is sparse, the killing radius of the skeleton shells must be more than ten meters, but when the number of people is so dense, an average of five or six meters is good.
The monsters that bear the brunt will become human shields for the surrounding monsters, helping them block most of the splash damage, including the subsequent negative energy damage that spreads, which will be partially blocked.
Even so, one skeleton cannonball could kill as many as a dozen or as many as dozens of monsters.
What's even more cruel is that many corpses that were severely eroded by negative energy actually stood up staggeringly again. Of course, they were not resurrected from the dead, but transformed into zombies on the spot, launching mindless attacks on surrounding teammates, causing An army of monsters creates chaos in the aftermath.
Moreover, the attack frequency of these skeleton cannons is also astonishingly fast, with an average of two shots per round, which is twice the attack speed described by its special ability.
This extra shot is a wonderful chemical reaction after combining with the dark tree man.
These dark treants have the ability to take root in shadows and absorb negative energy to regenerate. What limits the regeneration rate of these skeletal cannons is the speed at which they can absorb negative energy. Originally, they needed to be transferred from Vizeme Manor, but now they have the assistance of the dark treants. .
This increase in attack speed will only take effect when the Dark Tree is rooted. If the Dark Tree attacks while moving, the Skeleton Cannon will return to one shot per round.
The lethality displayed by the eighteen skeleton cannons was more than twice that of nearly two hundred heavy-duty ballistae vehicles.
For the monster army, the attack of the vehicle-mounted heavy ballistae is like slashing and slashing wounds, which are very easy to heal and do not feel much loss.
The Skeleton Cannon is a standard heavy hammer. Once it is hammered down, even if it is re-covered by the monster behind, it will be much sparser than before, like the uneven covering of a bald man's head.
This is only a long-range attack, not even a mid-range or short-range attack.
The second before the monster army collided with the array of sidecars, countless red light spots soared into the air from behind the array of cars, flying larger and larger in the air.
Fireball!
Mortars on the battlefield.
There is nothing surprising about this. They can be seen even on the battlefield where hundreds of people are clashing, let alone on the battlefield where tens of thousands of people are fighting. If there is no fireball spell to ignite the sky and the earth, it will make people uncomfortable. got used to.
It's just that the fireball spells rising from the conqueror's army were too many and too dense.
They were densely packed, like arrows, covering the entire sky. There would have to be three hundred if not five hundred.
It directly covered the entire 100 meters in front of the Pioneer Army's position, turning it into a fiery purgatory. There was no place to hide. The wisest choice was to lie down on the ground and accept the flame impact of one of the fireballs. and baptism.
Otherwise, it is likely that not one, but two or three will damage them. The shock wave generated by the explosion of the fireball may roll them into the coverage of other fireballs.
That horrific scene made the entire battlefield mute. Everyone stared blankly at the battlefield that had been baptized by hundreds of fireballs.
Less than half of them were still standing, most of them were injured, and their whole bodies had a smoky smell. Whether they were goblins, jackals, hobgoblins or orcs, their eyes were a little dull.
This was completely inconsistent with the propaganda and mobilization they heard before the war. Didn't it mean that this was an immigrant army? The entire team only had less than 10,000 troops, and the rest were as weak as lambs. As long as their outer shell was torn off, the tender meat inside would be free for them to enjoy.
Their fierce firepower made them feel that they were not facing a team of immigrants, but the Purple Dragon Legion of the Kingdom of Cormyr. Only this perverted country would equip its army with so many battle mages. Only then can the casters be gathered into a corps for use.
Before the enemy could even touch it, most of their teammates had already fallen?
How to fight this battle?
There is a three-meter-high car wall in front of it, which is covered with densely packed spears.
They were not given much time to think about it. Facing the already encouraged human sea tactics, they had no chance of retreating. The monsters coming up from behind would push them forward.
And the longer they stay here, the longer they will be in danger, because the mid- to short-range and long-range attacks of the conquerors' army are not only fireballs, but also thousands of arrows, densely covering the entire battlefield.
The continuous rain of arrows is perfect for harvesting enemies with residual blood after being baptized by the fireball technique. Many of them are lying on the ground and lingering, with no way to defend or dodge.
But even without the harvest of this wave of arrows, their chances of survival are very small. The monster army is coming up behind them, but regardless of whether they are dead or not, Bigfoot will step on them mercilessly. It won't take long before they He would be trampled to death alive, and dying under the rain of arrows would be a kind of relief.
"Kill! Rush in and kill all those humans. All the wealth belongs to us."
"Kill all the men and steal all the wealth and women."
"Victory is ours!"
Those monsters endured shelling, arrow rain, and magic bombardment, and went through all kinds of hardships to rush in front of the conqueror's army, but were blocked by a huge wall of vehicles.
Strictly speaking, this is the first time that the sidecar array has been put into actual combat.
In the Blood Canyon defensive counterattack, the main force was not sidecars, but floor-type chariots. At that time, a hundred floor-type tanks spread out to fill the entire Blood Canyon, and the sidecars were built behind The second line of defense is auxiliary.
These side carriages printed from the same mold, when connected end to end, have the side with the carriage facing outward, and soldiers holding spears stand on top of the chariot, condescending, and can shoot from the air through the reserved shooting , and can also use the spear to stab downwards to suppress the enemy outside the car wall.
It's not that there are no monster soldiers like Goliath and Bullywug who can jump three meters high, but they are only a minority.
And the result of their doing this will only make them die faster.
Most of the spearmen in front were new recruits or less courageous. They relied on the vehicle wall for defense and just poked blindly with their eyes closed.
The real elites are squatting in the back of the sidecar, or under the sidecar, waiting for those powerful monsters to break through the car wall, and then quickly harvest them.
After they jumped in rashly, what they faced was definitely not a one-on-one fight, but a group fight.
It wasn't until the front of the sidecar wall was densely packed with people that the entire wall was pushed around and the fireball spells from the monster group began to rise one after another. Only then did the second round of fireball spells hit them viciously. When it came down to it, the number was only a lot more than in the first round.
The conqueror's army can possess such terrifying firepower thanks to Ivanso's Arms. This guy is worthy of being the evil beast ghost of Grand Duke Maman, the devil of greed and desire. He has taken greed to the extreme. In the dimensional cave, there are more than a thousand wands and more than a hundred magic wands stored, of which 800 wands are fireball wands.
The price of a single fireball wand is not expensive, only 5,000 or 6,000 per piece. Two of them are easy to get, but if you want to buy them in large quantities of ten or eight, it will be more troublesome.
Many forces regard it as a strategic material reserve and will not take action at all. As for making it yourself, you need at least six wizard levels and a complete understanding of the principles of fireball. Each rod takes at least eight hours to make.
Hundreds of hoards, either you have enough time and accumulate bit by bit, or like the Kingdom of Cormyr, there are enough intermediate mages for you to deploy - as for the warlocks, most of them are spell users who want to make Magic items such as staffs and wands require a lot of time to study and learn the corresponding magic principles and production techniques.
Gavin lacked the most wizards who were proficient in the craft of making magic items. The six female mages sent to him by the Roinghorn family with ulterior motives had to be treated as treasures.
With these 800 fireball wands, the conqueror's army immediately has 800 heavy artillery with a capacity of 60 rounds. Gavin has always paid great attention to the cultivation of battlefield spellcasters, and the difficulty of level three is not high. After casually hanging out with the army of conquerors, the professional level came up. The difficulty was that they didn't have so many wands before.
Unexpectedly, this shortcoming was made up for by Ivanso's Necromancer.
He probably didn't realize that even after he killed Arms, he had hoarded all the wealth he had accumulated for centuries and used it all as a wedding dress for the conqueror's army.
The army of conquerors used their actual actions to explain what it means to get stronger as they fight.
This is also the reason why the conqueror army did not show too much fear from top to bottom when they knew that there were a bunch of enemies waiting for them in the goblin frontier.
They have too many trump cards in their hands. What they consider from beginning to end is not whether they will fail, but how to reduce their own losses as much as possible, especially the loss of personnel, and then gain more benefits from the enemy.
Looking at the situation below, Ximanmeng's face was extremely ugly. He didn't feel sorry for the monster soldiers who were slaughtered below. These things had never been part of his power. They were like weeds on the roadside in Faerûn. , as long as you have power and financial resources, you can get whatever you want.
What makes it difficult for him to accept is the irreversible situation. The monster army of Dark Castle is not facing the entire conqueror army now, but only one third at best. They have paid thousands of casualties and barely managed to reach them. In front of the camp.
And that place has completely become a meat grinder, and the monster army will rush forward one after another to kill them.
Until the casualties reach a certain critical point, the entire monster army collapses completely, and that time will be the moment when their heavy cavalry attacks. Two legs cannot run as fast as four legs in the wasteland.
If the Lizard Queen is killed by the opponent again, the entire Lizardmen army in Thun Swamp will collapse.
As long as they hold the Bridge of Humans and Gods firmly in their hands, they will seal this group of lizardmen in the Thun Swamp.
The legendary hag gathering in the Far Sea Swamp will be left alone and can only retreat to the Far Sea Swamp.
At that time, the entire other areas of the goblin frontier will have no choice but to be kneaded and cut by the army of conquerors. In a short time, the Dark Castle will be driven out from here.
This is still the most optimistic development. If the Lizard Queen is frightened by them, or the legendary hag gathering in the distant sea swamp throws herself into the arms of the conqueror's army, the situation in the goblin frontier will be completely out of control, sliding into a direction that Ximanmeng cannot predict. .
This possibility is not possible, but very high.
Because the black mist created by the other party was unusual, Ximanmeng felt more and more something was wrong the more he looked at it, because as the war continued, wisps of black mist were constantly adding to it.
When the number is small at first, it is not easy to detect.
When the war at West Bridge completely broke out, the army of conquerors began to harvest the lives of those monsters in large quantities. Countless black mist floated out from the battlefield at the same time to join them, and even ordinary people noticed something strange.
That was not black mist at all, but souls belonging to those dead monsters.
The souls that were supposed to go to the City of Judgment, waiting for judgment and guidance, were actually kidnapped alive. The meaning of this is a bit shocking. What ability did the commander of the conqueror army use? If the Lizard Queen is killed there, will she still have the ability to be resurrected?
But there are rumors that the little baron has the ability to hinder the enemy's resurrection. Could it be this ability?
If that were the case, the Lizard Queen would have great fun.
Xi Manmeng didn't know that his estimate of the situation was still a bit too optimistic.
Gavin's ability is not only to prevent resurrection, but also to control it in his own hands, and in turn control the lizardman army.
From the beginning to the end, the Lizard Queen and her Lizardmen army were the first targets of the Conqueror's army. The previous attacks to the east and west were completely prepared for them, in order to stagger the time of fighting with the other two forces and fight the Lizard Queen alone first.
This has nothing to do with the Crown Princess's previous trade request. It is entirely based on the interests of the Conqueror's army and Gavin's special abilities.
The existence of the Lizard King's Court is destined to be centered around the Lizard Queen. They are absolutely loyal to her from top to bottom. No matter what orders she gives, they will obey them unconditionally, even if they turn their original enemies into Such an order from one's own allies.
This is simply an excellent opponent in the field of undead revenge. As long as it is killed and transformed into the night shadow state, the original three against one will immediately become two against two.
The Bitch Terminator that I just bought has a shadow duel field, which is perfect for this kind of place.
I just didn't expect that although this black dragon is fat, it is not stupid. It has been hiding under the river surface, controlling the huge waves, and sending its own cannon fodder to conduct repeated tests.
The Shadow Duel Arena can only be used once a day. Without 100% certainty, Gavin does not dare to take action easily. Once he frightens this guy, he will go back to the edge of the river and sneak back to the Thun Swamp to find him again. If you have the chance to kill her, it will be ten or a hundred times more difficult.
In desperation, she could only show weakness to the enemy, and even though she had a large number of means, she did not dare to use them easily. She allowed her to send her cannon fodder army to the Bridge of Humans and Gods until she felt that she had a certain chance of winning and couldn't bear it. When Gavin jumped out, it was the moment Gavin took action.
Before the Lizard Queen could release the first acid dragon breath she had carefully prepared, she was pulled into the shadow duel by Gavin.
This shadow duel arena is very similar to Gavin's shadow duel in Ivanso and Arms's shadow duel in the city hall. It has entered the gap between the material plane and the shadow plane. A place is temporarily opened with shadow energy. The dimensional space that comes out is separated from the material plane, but it relies on it, just as a blurred background.
In other words, Gavin and the Lizard Queen are still on the Bridge of Humans and Gods, but this bridge is infinitely long and infinitely wide.
(End of chapter)
