Chapter 168: Biting Ice
The little princess is completely messing around, but what can she say? This was not ten years ago, when she could rely on herself being a fellow warrior and a well-known mage to occasionally teach the little princess a few words, even the emperor and the queen would not say anything. .Now that ten years have passed, Victoria will no longer chase her butt and ask her to "throw a fireball into the sky for fun."
Yes, in the eyes of ordinary people, magic is not just a sideshow at a banquet, but also a horror story that can kill an entire city with just one stare.
Magic is magic, and it is not much different from a craftsman's hammer or a knight's sword.
"Can't you just hit a meteor on their heads?" The princess asked a similar stupid question more than once, and Emily shook her head every time. It's one thing to hit Duke Rick's fleet with a meteor, but throwing it away " The "deflecting position" protecting the legion commander is another matter. Didn't you see the consequences of the elf shooting it before?
It's normal for ordinary people not to understand magic. Emily didn't bother to explain. These days, the castle couldn't even provide small pieces of hard bread. She was so hungry that she didn't want to talk. But Sophie from Bernard's family relied on her half-understanding. Using the Three-Legged Cat Kungfu, I reluctantly talked to the princess.
"Then we will attack head-on."
She could still remember the expression on the princess's face when she spoke. She always thought that she had seen it somewhere. Oh, by the way, the time when we were surrounded in the field with the Ottoman prince. Speaking of which, I was really unlucky to have a princess who likes to do things so recklessly. , remember to remind me to stay away from Victoria next time.
As the surrounding friendly strongholds are taken away one by one, there are only two endings left for the siege of the lonely castle, death of starvation or death in battle. If you want to be decent, you have to do it as soon as possible, before you lose your strength from hunger.
However, this was just her opinion. Emily did not expect that Victoria would be so cruel as to send half of the soldiers in the castle to die, while covering the Starsinger's escape, and then relying on the other half to hold on. Even if the Starsinger betrayed his trust, he could defend a castle with the remaining troops. It is still possible for the small castle to hold on until the snow melts and reinforcements arrive.
The food has not really been eaten up. If you go to Baron Smith's warehouse and dig hard, you can still get some. If a group of people die, the food will be enough.
Victoria has never announced all the details of her plan. All the above bits and pieces were encountered by Emily accidentally. As long as she has doubts, she will leave the rest to magic. The charmed Baron Smith will "know" Say everything.”
Sending people to die was considered a part of the war and was blameless, but it was Flint's turn to kill Emily. She really didn't expect it. It was impossible to persuade the dwarves to escape from a battle, so Emily had to prepare two people to escape. Magic, no matter what, she would not see Flint die.
And now is the time. If the Bone Dragon hadn't suddenly appeared, Emily would have used "Advanced Teleportation" to bring Flint, Maya and a few wounded soldiers back to the city.
Once flying things appear, holding on to the castle and waiting for help becomes a delusion. This is common sense to everyone who has participated in the dragon war. But where to escape? Emily looked around, everywhere. The bare snowfield is too far away from the forest and is not within the reach of magic.
The battlefield is not suitable for being in a daze. The abnormality on the mage's side has attracted new enemies, the skeleton cavalry who follow the legion commander. Such monsters are the main force of the war, the real killing machines. It is they who destroy the few. Hopefully, the outcome of the battle will have been decided before the Bone Dragon arrives.
The terrifying cavalry swept back and forth on the battlefield, attacking enemies who dared to gather. The silence on Emily's side naturally couldn't escape the phosphorus fire burning in her eyes.
The fleshless white bone war horse was extremely flexible on the snowy field, and its speed was far faster than that of a living horse. The horse's hooves were raised too fast, raising a line of snow behind it that was no less than a fountain. Emily knew that she was being targeted, and the spellcaster never
Fighting an unprepared battle, when she saw the skeleton cavalry above, she already thought about how to deal with them below.
The mage immediately squatted down and put his right hand on the ground. The magic blood was injected into the frozen earth with his arm as a conductor. "Fossils into mud" is a very simple spell that every lecturer in the mage tower knows. In front of her, it is thirty feet square.
The snowfield has arrived in early spring, becoming the first swampland in the empire to recover. However, the Skeleton Knight is not a human being, and the undead souls who are not afraid have quite bizarre ways of thinking and absolutely inhuman behavior.
The cavalryman at the front leaped forward, jumping so high that Emily couldn't help but raise her head. This magic increases with the strength of the user. An ordinary lecturer might create a quagmire ten feet wide.
, Emily became more than thirty feet tall.
After all, the undead monsters failed to challenge the common sense of physics. They landed far away from the mage and were quickly swallowed up by the mud. The undead knights that followed followed suit and took off again, landing on the heads of the previous group of similar creatures with great accuracy. Therefore, they
He failed to sink, but used it as a step to move forward. This time, some of the splashed mud fell on the mage's red robe.
Seeing the third batch of skulls on the other side charging again, Emily understood what the other party wanted to do.
"Flint! Maya!" Emily shouted as she stepped back. At the same time, she was covered in a layer of blue-grey from head to toe, and her entire face changed accordingly.
Simple magic such as Stoneskin does not require a genius who can run for the Archmage.
Just as the spell was completed, a sword flew out from the hand of a certain skeleton knight and hit the mage right between the eyebrows. The skin as hard as marble protected her from feeling pain, but the impact was still unavoidable. Emily quickly got up after falling.
, falling down in battle means death.
She just regained her footing and faced the skeleton cavalry who had successfully landed ashore after several relays. Although there were only three of them, any one of them could kill her.
"Fight me! Stinky skeleton!" Just hearing the loud voice, Flint didn't look like a wounded person at all. Although the dwarf's charge was slow but fierce, he knocked one of the living dead, including man and horse, into the quagmire.
But the remaining two did not intend to regard the dwarves as their opponents, but went straight to Emily in order to eliminate the biggest threat.
A golden warhammer whizzed past the mage, easily smashing the leader and not sparing the ones behind, as if they were all piles of broken toys. While her companion was showing off his power, Emily ran towards the one-handed craftsman.
The muddy mire, reversed the spell, turned it back into hard frozen soil.
Now even if the skeleton cavalry can crawl out, it will still take a long time.
"Bah! I haven't had a good fight yet." Flint sneered at the ground. The dwarf's stubbornness meant that he would not change his attitude even if his life was saved by magic.
"Let's go, stop talking nonsense!" Emily lost her temper, and the dilemma of having nowhere to escape made her very irritable. The castle has been suppressed by the bone dragon, and it is only a matter of time before it falls. In addition to rescuing the dwarves, Emily also
We can't leave the princess alone.
No matter how annoying Victoria is, she is still the daughter of the emperor. If she dares to run back without taking the princess with her, treason is only the lightest punishment. The imperial mage can be proud and proud today because of the support of the royal family. He leaves the princess alone because he wants to stir up trouble in the empire again.
Witch-hunting frenzy? The church is eager for it!
"Let's go back first..." Before she could finish her words, a downright chill hit her, turning the second half of the mage's words into an awkward sound of teeth clashing against each other.
"What, what's wrong..." Flint walked to Emily's side with his arms crossed. It looked like he was cold and wanted to hug the mage for warmth.
The nun's reaction was to walk back. She wanted to take care of the wounded soldiers, but before taking two steps, she shrank her neck and stood there shivering. What's going on? It's obviously not that cold, why is it snowing?
Emily was shaking so hard that she could hardly think.
The coldness envelops everyone present with snowflakes, which can pierce the bones through fur coats. Although there is no wind, it is still colder than soaking in snow water. The snow that has stopped for many days appears in the sky again
, falling in pieces, causing the vision to become blurry. A few steps away, everything turned into a white fog, and it was no longer possible to see clearly.
"Alas... you must die? For an elf, a shameful traitor with pointed ears, is it worth it?" Legion Commander Publius walked out of the snowstorm of new life, and the dead man's empty tone actually contained a deep meaning.
Sadly, Emily heard it.
Chapter completed!