Chapter 1373 The true face of the mysterious opponent
"Yes, where did the other party come from?"
Beside Lei Xiao, when Ruth, Mailon, the subordinates and the accompanying human generals also saw this dense scene, their throats rolled and they swallowed involuntarily.
Just as described in the report, the number of unidentified mysterious enemy reinforcements is indeed extremely large and mighty. Even if they stand on the towering ice stone city wall, they still cannot see the end.
At present, the other party is not far away from our city. The huge and twisted giant phalanxes are walking on flat ground among the complex mountains. They not only appear at the relatively flat entrance of Wangling Canyon, but also on the mountains on both sides.
are also moving forward simultaneously.
Moreover, the entire army did not emit a trace of light, making it appear strange and elusive.
What is even more surprising is that there is a thick black fog surrounding these unidentified enemy reinforcements, which indeed affects our field of vision to a great extent, making everything shrouded.
In the endless darkness, it is difficult to determine the identity of the other party.
But what is certain is that judging from the strong manic rage and vast energy fluctuations that are constantly emanating from the other party, this is indeed an extremely dangerous force.
According to the latest report, this huge unknown reinforcements not only made it impossible for many of the friendly scouts to return, but also swallowed up some of our small forces scattered on the periphery. The hostility could not be more obvious.
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"Those eerie black mist exudes an aura of fear and despair. This is obviously some kind of forbidden magic."
A trace of hatred appeared on Ruth's fair face, and her eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
Forbidden magic is also an existence that is difficult to achieve in the outer realm. Since the blank era, many forces that use forbidden magic have been annihilated by other surrounding forces and have been wiped out in the dust of history.
Among them, two of the forces that are most opposed to forbidden magic are the light elves and light half-elves who are good at using sacred magic and light magic.
So it's not surprising that Ruth had this look on her face.
It is worth mentioning that although dark elves sound obviously related to forbidden magic, they are not.
The practice of shadow spells that dark elves are good at is no different from ordinary spells. It does not require blood and fear as the cornerstone of practice like most taboo spells.
"No wonder none of the scouts sent out came back. This black mist is truly a poisonous miasma that corrodes everything."
Myron also frowned with gray eyebrows and echoed.
"Everyone, is there any way to break the black fog?"
Lei Xiao immediately looked at Ruth and other bright half-elves, frowning and asking.
Lei Xiao clearly understood that as the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles. The most urgent thing now is to find out the true face of the opponent first, and then carry out targeted attacks.
As one of the main forces that have been fighting against forbidden magic all year round, Ruth and other bright half-elves are undoubtedly the most authoritative force at present.
"Your Majesty the human race, I was ready just now."
Ruth and several other bright half-elf magic powerhouses have already formed a team spellcasting formation, with golden staffs shining brightly.
"Then I leave it to you, let's start immediately."
Lei Xiao nodded to Ruth and took a step back.
Lei Xiao clearly understood that before obtaining the black crystal ball, Ruth and others would definitely be on our side, so he was not worried about other situations.
After all, once the opponent obtains the ancient mine, the bright half-elves will undoubtedly lose all hope of obtaining the crystal ball.
"The stream of revelation!"
After a brief chant, Ruth's staff was pointed directly at the black mist phalanx at the front, and a dazzling beam of light shot out from the top of the staff.
The next second, the dazzling light beam intertwined with the diffuse black mist. Wherever the light beam hit, thick black smoke immediately rose into the sky and quickly dissipated, just like the clouds and mist were cleared to see the blue sky. It was obviously purified.
As the black mist dissipated, the opponent's legion finally revealed its true colors. Lei Xiao and everyone on our side on the city wall couldn't help but widen their eyes.
What appeared in front of us was a neat army of undead.
The white skeleton exudes a strange cold light under the moonlight. A pair of empty eye sockets seem to be bottomless. Broken or intact armor is draped on the body. The various weapons held tightly by the bone claws still emit light.
With extraordinary brilliance.
Lei Xiao could even clearly see that in addition to the physical undead, there were also a large number of magical undead in the huge military formation. Their empty eye sockets shone with cold light, and the rotten staff in their hands shone with cold magical power.
You must know that among the undead legions that Lei Xiao encountered before, there was never a skeleton mage who used spells.
After all, a necromancer's magic power and energy are limited. Often, he has reached his limit by controlling physical necromance equal to his own strength. As for magical necromance, he needs to divert more magic power and spend more time.
Instead of spending more energy on daily maintenance, it would be better to control a few more skeleton archers of the same strength.
And the opponent is a necromancer army with at least level 3 and above members, as well as a huge number of skeleton mages. It is simply unimaginable how powerful necromancers can do this.
While everyone was in shock, the dazzling beams of light cast by Ruth and other bright half-elves were still breaking through the black fog, and soon several more undead legions emerged.
But in the blink of an eye, a black mist suddenly emerged like a bloody mouth, swallowing up the dazzling beam of light, causing Ruth and others on the city wall to take a step back with pale faces, obviously being manipulated by their opponents.
One course.
It's no wonder that although the light spells and sacred spells of Ruth and other bright half-elves restrained the forbidden spells, before that, Ruth and her group had already consumed a lot of magic power in the ancient mine, coupled with the opponent's formation
It's huge, so it's not surprising that this happens.
Seeing this scene, Lei Xiao casually handed a few sixth-level recovery potions to Ruth and others, while commanding the soldiers to push out all our light-type magic cannons and sacred-type magic cannons.
Since the normal power of magic cannons of these two attributes is far inferior to other attributes, although they are extremely rare in the human world, the wood fairies and flower fairies both have a small number of stocks. After Lei Xiao's upgrade, they are enough to equip the entire Ice Stone City.
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Under the premise that the opponent is the undead army, the magic cannons with these two attributes will naturally be able to exert superior firepower that other magic cannons cannot replace.
During this process, although our soldiers moved extremely quickly, Lei Xiao could still clearly feel that an extremely uneasy atmosphere was quietly filling the city wall.
After all, the opponents we face are the undead legions who fear nothing. They are the power of the dead and represent death and evil. They are terrifying in themselves. How can we kill an opponent who has already died once?
Coupled with the fact that there are a large number of skeleton mages that have never been seen before, this is even more frightening, not to mention the majestic momentum exuded by the opponent, which is obviously overwhelming ours.
"No wonder the other party appears very suddenly. Necromancers often have large storage spaces. It is not impossible to store an entire undead army. As long as they are suddenly released, it will naturally be an undead army descending from the sky."
"Furthermore, the undead soldiers do not need lighting. On the contrary, they can exert more powerful power in the dark, and it is easy to walk on flat ground in the mountains."
"But the problem is that the overall strength of these legions is too strong, which is undoubtedly far beyond the scope of ordinary necromancers. After all, the overall combat power of a third-level legion is comparable to 10 sixth-level one-star experts, or a
A sixth level peak powerhouse."
"Calculated based on this, even if these 50 undead legions are all at level three, they will still need at least 50 peak level six warriors. Is there such a powerful taboo force in the outer realm?"
Thinking of this in his mind, Lei Xiao almost broke out in sweat.
This undoubtedly means that if the operator himself is included, what we are facing is not four times the enemy's combat power, but a full eight times the enemy's combat power.
Just when our magic cannon was nervously loading the magic light crystals and charging, Ruth walked up to Lei Xiao, twisted her eyebrows tightly and said: "Your Majesty the human race, I can be completely sure that the person who controls these undead legions will
The mastermind behind the scenes is not an ordinary necromancer, but a Lich clan who are better at controlling the undead!"
Before Ruth could finish her words, the manager's urgent voice also sounded: "Your Majesty the human race, I saw that the commander of the other side's legion is a lich!"
"Lich?"
After hearing the words of Ruth and the manager, Lei Xiao and the main subordinates surrounding him frowned again and took a deep breath of the biting night wind.
Lei Xiao had already heard of the term lich.
This is not a normal ethnic group, but a collection of people who have fallen into the abyss of death, full of chaos, disorder and darkness.
Before this, the Nightmare Knight he had encountered had turned part of himself into a dead spirit to obtain a more powerful body, but he still retained part of his normal structure.
The Lich has taken this aspect to the extreme, completely transforming itself into a dead soul, in order to gain more powerful forbidden power and no longer be bound by death.
Of course, this requires paying a huge price, one of which is that it will never be able to escape the fate of decay.
"It is said that after becoming a lich, the ability to control the undead will be greatly increased. Generally, a necromancer can only control undead combat that is equal to its own strength, while a lich can often control undead combat that is several times greater than itself, and regardless of
Both their command ability and adaptability are superior, because they themselves have become one with the undead."
"That way, everything really makes sense."
Thinking of this in his mind, there was no trace of relaxation on Lei Xiao's face.
Although we will not face an opponent with eight times the combat strength at the same time, the Lich's command ability is undoubtedly stronger and can bring out the power of the undead army to the maximum extent.
The pressure is not much less, in fact it is more difficult.
This undoubtedly means that facing a huge number of opponents, we are still on the verge of a life-and-death crisis, and can be said to be surrounded on all sides.
"It's indeed a lich!"
Our two beast masters, Nolan and Lina, also reacted quickly and blurted out.
As Nolan and Lina finished speaking, the opponent's undead camp was already filled with vast energy fluctuations filled with murderous intent, and they were obviously ready to attack the city.
"Lord, how should we respond?"
All our subordinate generals took a step forward and said solemnly.
Although everyone was uneasy in their hearts, as generals who had come all the way to fight with Lei Xiao, everyone had already determined in their hearts to fight to the end for Lei Xiao.
"Although I don't know why the lich got involved with the tauren and trolls, since the other party is on the opposite side of us, we will naturally have to pay the price."
Lei Xiao's voice was sonorous and powerful, and he commanded: "All the magic cannons are ready to fire immediately, and the archers are all equipped with arrows blessed by sacred magic. Once the opponent enters the shooting range, there must be no hesitation.
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Lei Xiao clearly understood that Ice Stone City was the last hope to resist the opponent. As long as Ice Stone City remained standing, it would be difficult for the opponent to join the tauren and troll army.
In other words, as long as we buy enough time, our besieging friendly forces who stabilize their formation will have a chance to annihilate the tauren and trolls.
On the other hand, if we fail to stop our opponent and let this undead army stab our besieging troops from behind, our front line will undoubtedly fall apart in an instant, and the result is self-evident.
"Currently, Bingshi City is located on a gentle highland, and behind it is the only place to enter Wangqing Canyon. This is undoubtedly the best defensive place."
Lei Xiao slowly took a deep breath and stared at the undead army that was already close at hand below the city.
"Your Majesty, human race, can you gather all the light and sacred magic practitioners in the city nearby? I will guide everyone to use the group spells of the light half-elves to the maximum extent!"
Ruth's fair face was also full of determination, and she took a step forward and said.
"No problem, I will let General Jubai of the Holy Light fully cooperate with you."
Lei Xiao nodded slightly and nodded to Ju Bai who was on standby, signaling him to take action immediately.
Currently, there are about five legions of holy light priests and light magicians in Ice Stone City. Although most of them are second-tier, they can at least play a certain role.
Just as Ju Bai turned around to take action, our magic cannons were already firing thousands of cannons, causing countless golden meteor-like compression spells to pierce the sky and roar directly towards the undead army just around the corner below the city.
For a moment, under the entire city wall, dazzling golden light bursts shot up into the sky, and the momentum was extremely astonishing.
However, when the golden light gradually faded, Lei Xiao and others noticed it.
The opponent's more than ten vanguard legions have already gathered together, and our side has not even broken through the opponent's absolute defensive barrier.
In the next second, vast energy fluctuations filled with the aura of death surged wildly below the city, and countless pitch-black magical artillery fire resounded across the sky, blasting straight towards our city.