Chapter 260: Water and fire that swallow everything
Cross the edge of the Fire Demon Swamp.
Riding on the earth-moving dragons, the knights came in groups across the land and led the way to the north of the giant island of Ruhe.
The fangs carrying the baggage followed closely behind. The soldiers were equipped with leather armor. When marching, some heavy armor, spears, and swords were placed on the fangs.
The tents stretched out, and groups of toothed beasts were driven across the plains.
Soldiers, auxiliaries, herdsmen, slaves and even merchants also followed, and all kinds of people gathered to form this mighty team.
From a distance, it doesn't look like a march, but more like a large-scale migration.
But after arriving here, the terrain is completely different.
There are frozen plateaus here, gurgling rivers flowing down from the mountains, and a fire demon swamp connected by large and small lakes.
Compared with the densely populated south and the plains of animal husbandry.
Everything here is primitive and wild.
The coalition forces of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court looked high-spirited and full of confidence.
They came here last year and captured Ewell City without any effort.
The Aiweier people had no resistance at all, and even King Aiweier died in their hands.
A large number of royal families and nobles were killed without hesitation.
Now that they are coming again, how can they not be confident?
The last time the commander of the royal guards was just the deputy commander of the army, but because of his achievements last time and because the previous commander had become the new generation of king of snakes, he naturally became the current supreme commander of the entire army.
He stood on top of the tent held by four dragons, and the generals wearing heavy armor below followed closely and asked loudly.
"General."
"How are we going to fight this time?"
The titles of the generals of the Ten Thousand Snakes Royal Court are somewhat different from those of the city-state people, but the meanings are basically the same.
The commander-in-chief of the Royal Court Army looked at the side of the frozen mountains, the somewhat rugged and dangerous mountains.
"It's better to fight the Glacier Fortress."
"As long as this fortress is gone, we can attack the city of Ewel. The Ewell people have no choice but to board the ship and escape."
"However, I have contacted the current elders of the Golden City. They also want to seek revenge from the Aiweier people. Without a city on land, the Aiweier people will not be able to float on the sea for long."
"Last time we were not cruel enough, this time I will completely exterminate these Aiweier people."
"Kill all the men in Aiweier, take away their women and children, and make them completely become part of the royal court."
He paused.
"This time."
"We will never give them any chance to survive."
These words full of murderous intent were greeted with cheers from many soldiers below.
Glacier Fortress.
In addition to the main fortress, there are fortresses, walled cities, and arrow towers everywhere along the way.
There are defensive measures to prevent the impact of earth-moving dragons, there are water channels to prevent the impact of stone demons and for drinking water, and there are ear holes to protect against fire demons.
There are even hidden strongholds prepared for powerful people who control fire demons and stone demons.
The powerful people in Aiweier City can suddenly burst out of it and catch the opponent by surprise.
All kinds of supplies were continuously delivered and filled the fortress.
It seems that the entire city of Ewell is preparing for war.
Weapons, bows and arrows, crossbow bolts, dried fish, animal meat, and fruit powder were loaded on carts and pushed into the fortress and various strongholds.
All the soldiers were gearing up, with hatred and anger in their eyes.
Shoeburn stood on the city wall, staring into the distance.
Although he did not see the enemy's army, he had already learned about the enemy's army.
Tomorrow at the latest.
Even today the enemy will arrive under the Glacier Fortress.
"They're coming."
The disciple of the Divine Attendant who followed him was particularly excited: "This time, let them know how powerful the Aiweier people are."
"The last time they just took advantage of the war between us and the Maritime Alliance to attack us secretly. Otherwise, with the bravery of the Ewell people, they would never have been defeated so miserably."
Shoeborn just nodded, and it could be seen that he was thinking.
Even before the war started, he had already thought of all aspects, had already begun to plan various preparations after the war, and envisioned various possible situations.
Finally, he hammered the stone on the wall.
"let's hit!"
"If you don't defeat them, you can't make them compromise."
"If we don't defeat them, it will be impossible to bring all the Ivelites back home."
"If we don't defeat them, Iver City will never be able to rise."
If at the beginning, when he said that he wanted to go to war with such a behemoth as the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court, Shoeborn was full of hesitation.
So now he feels more and more that this battle is necessary.
The King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes despises and despises the Elvir people. They cannot easily get what they want from each other through negotiation.
Only by defeating them and making the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court fearful will the plundered Elvirs be released.
On the other hand, Shoeburn thought of more.
With such a terrifying neighbor as the Serpent King's Court on the side, if they cannot win this battle, the Aiweier people will never have peace, let alone any development.
A large number of troops arrived under the Glacier Fortress, and the dark area in the distance was full of people.
"Woo!"
The horn sounded in the Glacier Fortress, and everyone immediately stood ready.
As the commander of the royal army gave the order, the war began.
In the Glacier Fortress, Shoeborn waved his hand, and the defensive battle of the Evel people officially began.
The apprentice of the Divine Attendant was high-spirited at the beginning, but became a little nervous when facing the battle.
"They are going to attack the city."
Shoeburn, who had experienced life and death once, was obviously much more stable. His expression did not change at all whether he was standing before the battle or after the battle.
"This is exactly what I want."
Shoeborn had this intention from the beginning to kill the King of Snakes.
He knew that it was impossible for his side to defeat the King of Ten Thousand Snakes on the plains.
The only way is to attract people from the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes to attack the city. Only by occupying a favorable location can they gain a chance of victory.
When he kills the King of Snakes, the new generation of King of Snakes must take revenge.
He must take revenge before he can legitimately inherit the throne.
He must take revenge in order to subdue many tribes and subjects.
They will definitely initiate a war.
The initial siege and defensive battles were not very large-scale, but more like a drill and trial.
The King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes on the attacking side is looking for loopholes in the other side, and the defending side is constantly making adjustments to make up for its own loopholes.
When war begins.
The commander of the royal army was full of confidence and seemed to think that it would be easy to defeat the Aiweier people.
But after the war started, he immediately felt something was wrong.
The opponent's layout and defense are completely different from the last time. The construction method of the city wall and the defense method are also completely different from before.
Their defense facilities were scattered and concealed, and the attacking Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court seemed to have encountered a hedgehog.
After pulling out one thorn, there are still countless thorns.
Apart from losing troops and generals, there was no progress at all.
After several days of attacking, they did not find any weaknesses. Instead, they exposed the disorganization of their organization.
On the fourth day, the commander-in-chief of the royal army decided,
"Gather the stone demon group and the fire demon group tomorrow and attack directly with our most powerful and elite force without giving them any chance to react."
"If they can force out Shoeburn's location, they won't have any trump card."
"If Shoeburn doesn't come out, I don't believe they can withstand it."
However, he has just announced this order.
The footsteps of the earth-walking dragon were heard outside the camp, and a snake man let go of its tail and landed on the ground, entering the camp.
"General."
"A large number of enemies suddenly appeared in the Fire Demon Swamp behind us. They drove boats freely in and out of the river, constantly harassing and plundering our baggage soldiers."
"An army of tens of thousands suddenly descended from the wasteland and suddenly attacked our rear army. We suffered heavy losses."
The attackers were basically soldiers recruited from the mountains and wilderness. They were fierce and fearless of life and death.
more importantly.
This terrain is very strange, with ice jungles, swamps and lakes all gathered together.
These people are already familiar with the environment here and can come and go freely.
On the contrary, the people from the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court are extremely uncomfortable here.
Now, it was the turn of the Ten Thousand Snakes Royal Court to be anxious.
The royal court generals sitting in the tent stood up one by one and looked at their commander anxiously.
"how so?"
"They still dare to divide their troops. So except for the twenty or thirty thousand people in the fortress, there is no arrangement behind them at all. Even the city of Ewell may be empty." Someone analyzed it and immediately analyzed that the fortress in front of them was already empty.
It is the entire strength of the opponent, without any supplements or reserves.
"They also have a fleet." Someone mentioned.
"What's the use of the fleet at this time? Can they still bring the fleet to the plateau to fight us?" Everyone shook their heads and didn't think about it at all.
"They are not trying to defend and hold us back at all, but they are trying to launch a counterattack with us?" an experienced general analyzed.
And indeed it is.
From the beginning, Xiubeng didn't decide to defend. He made the decision to fight to the death with the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The commander-in-chief of the Royal Court Army was a little stiff at first when he heard the bad news, but after he figured it out, he started laughing.
"Shoburn is looking for death."
"He only loves the Vil people so much, and he actually divided his troops to surround us?"
"Does he think that a small glacier fortress can stop our 100,000-strong army and my stone puppets and fire demons?"
"Or does he think he can defeat me?"
As a veteran third-level powerful person, he was confident that even if Shoeborn had any adventures, he would definitely not be his opponent.
The last time Shoeborn faced the leader of the Temple Knights, he had no time to show any strength and was beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back.
In the view of the commander of the Royal Court Army, the opponent was a powerful person who had just entered the third level.
The only thing I worry about is what trump cards the other party has.
But this time he even invited many of the temple's attendants and knights, and also brought the fire demons inherited from the Temple of the Ten Thousand Snakes from the Pans era.
With his own stone puppet and the power of the third-level fire demon, he believed that the other party had no way to stop him.
"Since he is looking for death."
"Then we will give him failure and death in a dignified manner."
In the past few days, the tentative siege of the city has been blocked and troops have been lost. Everyone in the army of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court is holding back their breath.
At this moment, when they heard the commander say this, they all shouted loudly.
"It's just Aiweier people, this time we will kill them head-on, leaving no one behind." A snake man with a giant ax threw the weapon on the table, and everyone became more energetic at once.
"What kind of natural fortress, as long as we take it seriously, it will be no different from the mud." Someone immediately asked for orders, saying that they would be the first to attack the city tomorrow.
"Tomorrow I will kill that Shoeburn with my own hands." Someone else shouted loudly.
"That's the head that the general has ordered, you can't grab it." After saying that, everyone burst into laughter——
Arrive the next day.
As the vast war horn sounded, all the soldiers of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court lined up again and began to prepare siege equipment.
But this time, it is no longer a scattered test, nor is it one or two small stone demons and small fire demons looking for flaws.
This time.
Rows of stone demons, under the control of powerful people, formed a formation and attacked the glacier fortress on the mountain pass.
Fire demons coiled in the sky, their bodies translucent.
As the divine attendant below recited a spell, the translucent fire demon's body burned with blazing flames and began to rush towards the Glacier Fortress.
"Kill!" A group of soldiers followed behind the stone demon, carrying siege equipment and shouting towards the city wall.
"Block them." The powerful people in Ewell City also immediately summoned the stone demon and fire demon, and at the same time used magic to attack and block the opponent.
But this time the opponent used all his strength, which was completely different from the previous tentative attack.
One by one, the stone demons penetrated the barriers set up by the fire demons and rushed toward the fortress, all red. The powerful people on the city had no time to control the water to pour on all the stone demons, and they had already hit the city wall.
The three- to four-meter-tall little stone demon hit the solid city wall and immediately saw a big hole sinking into the city wall.
"Dong dong dong!"
Stone demons rushed forward one after another, and the city wall immediately became shaky.
There was immediately chaos on the city wall.
If you fail to keep up with one step, the defense behind you will not be able to keep up step by step.
At this time, the fire demon high in the sky also rushed down and swept over the city wall.
In an instant, he saw that many of the Ewell soldiers guarding the city were in panic and had no time to escape and enter the prepared ear holes.
One person turned into a burning man and ran on the city wall, or fell directly from the top of the city.
"It hurts, it hurts." The pain of the fire burning the body was unimaginable, and the Aiweier soldiers guarding the city kept rolling.
"Fire...fire...fire!" they shouted, and some jumped directly from the city wall.
"Help me, help me." When someone was on the verge of death, they were so painful that they rushed towards others as if they were grasping a life-saving straw.
"Lord Shoburn, Lord Shoburn." There were also people calling Shoburn's name, expecting their backbone to stand up.
Seeing the Glacier Fortress crumbling.
At this time, Shoberne, the commander of the Royal Court's army, who had always been a little afraid, finally appeared.
Shoeborn waved his hand, and the Book of Witch Spirits in his hand immediately summoned ghosts one after another.
These ghosts have different powers, some are first level and some are second level.
They rushed up to entangle and block the little stone demons and fire demons, and immediately stabilized the precarious situation.
"Shoburn."
On the other side, the commander of the Royal Court army was overjoyed after seeing Shoeborn's action.
In his opinion.
Whoever shows up first on both sides will be in a weak position.
The commander of the royal army immediately chanted a spell and a strange name, and summoned a fire demon.
The flames burned instantly, and a flaming figure walked out from the pillar of fire twenty or thirty meters away.
"superior."
"Go and try his strength."
The big fire demon immediately spread his arms and pounced towards the Glacier Fortress like a big bird.
As it spread its arms, flames also spread out from its body.
Turned into a cloud of fire.
When Shoeborn on the city wall saw the fire demon, his expression changed instantly.
There was no way he could recognize this fire demon.
He could never forget this all-devouring fire shadow.
On the day when the city of Aiweier was destroyed, he stood on the boat and saw the enemy turn into a cloud of fire and swoop down, swallowing up King Aiweier, himself, and all his relatives and friends.
He even thought at the time.
This is divine punishment.
If he hadn't accidentally obtained the magical tool Borik's right hand, he wouldn't have survived in the form of a witch spirit.
Shoeborn clenched his fists instantly and looked at the fire demon.
Then, he turned and looked at the black spot in the distance that summoned the fire demon.
The black dots continued to enlarge in his sight, turning into the figure of a snake-man.
"turn out to be……"
"It is you!"
Shoeborn's expression was instantly distorted, and his calm expression was filled with boundless hatred and anger.
The fire demon inherited from the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple had just arrived at the city, and Shoeborn immediately raised the Book of Witch Spirits high.
"Crash."
The pages of the book turned over and finally settled on one of the pages.
A strange force was released instantly, covering hundreds of meters in radius.
"Real Fantasy."
In an instant, all the monsters and snake-men within this range were dragged into the illusion.
These people are still under the Glacier Fortress, but they have lost their direction and purpose, wandering around like headless flies.
They even attacked friendly units, roaring loudly and shouting to kill.
Especially the fire demon.
It is the most critical entity under the care of this real illusion magic, and Shoeborn uses this trick just to trap it.
But this illusion obviously cannot stop the opponent for long.
But after supporting it for a while, it looked like it was about to break.
Even if Shoeborn is a third-level powerful person, it is still very difficult to use an illusion to immobilize another third-level fire demon.
But Shoeborn had other preparations, and he roared loudly at this time.
"Ghost Ship."
"Come out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was an immediate response on the glacier not far away, and layers of ice cracked.
"Boom."
No one expected it.
The glacier that had been frozen for thousands of years burst open for the first time.
A large ship broke through the ice, bringing with it a mighty torrent of water pouring down from the heights and pouring into the mountain passes.
"Go for it!"
"Drown them, devour them."
Shoeborn shouted at the top of his lungs, with a ferocious face.
The disciples of the Divine Attendant on the side were stunned. He had never seen Shoeborn look like this.
The icy river water carried a large amount of ice and washed down from the heights, submerging everything.
Fire demon, stone demon, snake man.
All were swallowed up by the power of heaven and earth.
Even the fire demon can only control flames within a radius of tens of meters.
And this river.
Can flood cities and wastelands.
Back then, the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes used a sea of fire to devour Xiuben's city and ships, but what he responded to today was the boundless glacial waves.
No one expected this sudden killing move, and one side of the Ten Thousand Snakes Royal Court was caught off guard and suffered a heavy blow.
The fire demon was instantly swallowed up by the glacier water.
Its flames and form dissipated in the blink of an eye, making a soft sound.
Fire demons are not afraid of water.
But they are afraid of being submerged when they turn into flames, which will cause huge harm to them.
Without external help, it might take several months for this fire demon to regain its strength, and at least for a while it would be without any fighting power.
And the other little stone demons and little fire demons, as well as the snake soldiers of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court.
In an instant, he disappeared without a trace in the torrent.
"Run!" At this moment, the soldiers who had been gathering in the distance immediately scattered and fled.
"Spread out, spread out quickly." But their speed could not escape the torrent.
"Cold, so cold!" What's even more frightening is that the cold river water can freeze people unconscious in an instant.
The ghost ship followed the water down together.
Shoeborn leaped from the city wall, and, pulled by the ghost, floated on the ghost ship in the wind.
He steers the ghost ship and the torrent of waves.
The power of the curse seal in the Book of Witch Spirits spread out, guiding the water towards the camp of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court.
The commander of the royal army looked at the ghost ship chasing the waves from a distance, as well as the mighty torrent coming.
Everyone was stunned.
In just one moment, his army, his fire demons, and his dawn of victory all disappeared.
The commander of the royal army knew that he had lost the chance of victory.
The best way at this time is to turn around and evacuate immediately.
Keep as much strength as you can.
At least.
If he, a third-level powerful person, wants to survive, there won't be much of a problem.
But the commander of the royal court turned around and saw the soldiers retreating hastily behind him.
Among them are the old subordinates who have followed him for many years, the divine attendants of the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple, and the knights entrusted to him by the temple knights.
If I retreat, none of these people will survive.
Thinking of the Temple Knights, he suddenly felt extremely ashamed.
"hateful."
"I was defeated at the hands of the Aiweier people, and at the hands of my former subordinates."
"So many people have died, how can I still have the nerve to go back?"
He turned around and no longer thought about escaping.
Facing the glacier and the torrent, he looked at Shoeburn coming with overwhelming murderous intent.
The commander of the royal army suddenly burst out with a thunderous voice.
"Xiu... uncle... um!"
At this time, the ghost ship also arrived in front of him.
Shoeburn on the boat looked at him and burst out laughing.
"Hahahahaha~"
Then, Shoeborn gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.
"Finally I."
"Got you."
The commander-in-chief of the royal court drew his sword, and the power of wisdom and power surged all over his body. His spiritual power and the power of the curse came out of his body.
"bring it on!"
"Let's fight to the death here."
There is no need to say more about old and new grudges.
The two released all their power in the flood and traded their lives for the better.
The stone puppet rises from the ground, standing like a mainstay in the torrent.
The Colossus firmly resisted Shoeburn's ghost ship.
The ghost ship carried potential energy and hit the stone puppet, making a loud impact.
Immediately, he saw that the stone puppet summoned by the commander of the royal court kept retreating.
It took him a long time to regain his balance.
The commander of the royal court waved his hand and summoned a huge boulder, which he threw at Shoeburn's ghost ship.
And Shoeburn raised his hand, and the huge waves turned into transparent sailors, constantly rolling towards the stones.
The stone golems began to fight back.
One by one the ghosts separated from the ghost ship.
But in this big water and torrent, it is obvious that Shoeburn, who can control the water flow and owns the ghost ship, has an advantage.
The commander-in-chief of the Royal Court Army lost the fire demon and the guard of his soldiers, and now he has fallen into the worst situation.
Shoeborn can continuously draw on the power of water, and he also has a large number of ghosts contracted through the Gate of Truth to assist him.
The two of them tried their best.
It can be seen that the wizards have more methods and are more bizarre.
The commander-in-chief of the Royal Court gradually became unable to support himself in the flood.
but.
His counterattack was not ineffective, at least it gave the army behind him a lot of space and time to retreat.
The water flow turned into a whirlpool, tightly trapping the stone puppet of the commander-in-chief of the royal court.
The ghost ship continued to press under the waves, cracks appeared in the stone puppets, and even large pieces of stone fell off.
Shoeborn stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the commander-in-chief of the royal court on the stone statue.
"When you set fire to the city of Awell and burn King Awell to death."
"Have you ever thought about today?"
The commander-in-chief of the royal court glanced at Shoeburn, with regret in his hateful eyes.
"I only regret it."
"Why didn't I check it that day and let you slip through the net?"
The words just fell.
The ghost ship and the huge waves struck down at once, crushing the stone puppet to pieces.
The commander-in-chief of the royal court also fell into the water and turned into meat under the hull.
But at this time, the rest of the army of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court had basically evacuated.
Shoeborn did not pursue it, but just watched from a distance.
I don't know what I'm thinking about.
Shoeborn put away the ghost ship and stood in a large swampland.
The moment the water calmed down, I also saw densely packed corpses rising from the bottom of the water——
This battle.
All the elite members of the royal court were lost, and even the commander-in-chief died at the hands of Shoeborn.
The remaining people fled towards the Fire Demon Swamp and the wasteland.
They were frightened by the huge glacial waves.
But in the fire demon swamp, there were boats and ships, and the Evel people, a fishing and hunting people, were already waiting for them.
Only in the wilderness can there be a way out.
However, it was not easy to pass through the wasteland, because Shoeburn had already deployed tens of thousands of soldiers from Ewell City to block their way back.
This group of broken soldiers gave it a try and fought with each other, but found that it would be impossible to rush out for a while.
If the fight continues, maybe the pursuers from behind will come too.
By the time.
What they will face is a double attack.
But the divine servants of the Temple of the Ten Thousand Snakes are indeed very powerful. They actually built a simple fortress out of thin air on an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack mountain peak in the wilderness.
Twenty to thirty thousand defeated troops who had lost their baggage and supplies were huddled here, waiting for rescue.
"Have you sent the letter back yet?" Several embarrassed knights discussed with a divine attendant.
The Divine Attendant looked towards the sky, with uneasiness and expectation in his eyes.
In the sky.
A little winged demon, only one or two years old, circled away.