Chapter Thirty-Four: The Devil's Height
The defenders did a lot of preparations, from bows, arrows, crossbows to splashing water and freezing on the city walls, they thought of everything. It is common sense for the castle to be easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is impossible to conquer a fortress without spending a high cost.
Castles are often not isolated and helpless. The continuous groups of fortresses are the nightmare of the invaders. Like the wealthy Ricks, the Dragon Legion relies on many castles that support each other to block the Dragon Legion, which also makes the princess who come to suppress the rebellion suffer enough. But Baron Smith is an exception. Poor and few people are definitely not the problem. As the last place of destruction of the Dragon Legion, the Baron Legion originally had three castles, but now only one of them remains.
Victoria was trapped in the lonely city and lacked foreign aid. The soldiers fought on the wall, but she sat in the cafeteria and was stunned at the map larger than the dining table. Yes, war games were placed in the corresponding position, with cavalry and infantry, which was really a lot. But these troops were all trapped on the road, and they could only arrive after the snow melted. But the snow this year was particularly heavy and it had become a natural disaster. The princess could imagine how the troops struggled in the mud when the snow melted in spring.
The Imperial Avenue is the guarantee for reinforcements to arrive on time, but the level of maintenance of the precious heritage left by this old empire is directly linked to the lord's financial resources. With the baron's management of the road, it is impossible to survive the small flood caused by snow. The Earth Mother Ascension Festival has not arrived, and there are more than three months before the possible reinforcements arrive. The enemy is a group of monsters that do not eat or drink. They can fight from morning to night, let alone ninety days, Victoria suspected that she could not hold on for thirty days.
In order to avoid suspicion, Victoria used some tricks and never took the initiative to say that she would stay in charge.
On the surface, the Baron knelt in front of the princess in public, begging Victoria to stay with the righteousness of the life and death of the border people. In fact, Will just conformed to the princess' ambitions. If the young Baron was calm and willing to sacrifice, others would jump out and be young. In order to get what he wanted, Victoria and the local knights discussed a lot at the cocktail party, as well as the fact that reinforcements would come only if they had their own hearts.
Even though Victoria made a hint at the banquet all day long, everyone knew the fact that His Highness was the baron who was the baron in charge of life. Last Dragon War, the fiefdom was half a life, and there was probably no living person here again. So the princess' letter of help to the emperor was filled with signatures of local nobles, knights and squire. Victoria took the public opinion to respect herself and got what she wanted, and was awarded the title of military command by her father.
The emperor gave her the power to protect the Star Song, and promised that all the troops that would enter the Baron's leadership in the future would be under her control. My father was generous. If the weather was not too bad, Victoria already had a large army of war. Look at those exquisitely crafted war games, including cavalry and infantry, which looked really a lot. But these troops were all data from the letter paper, and they had not actually arrived.
So what if the girl is good at doing well, has good moral character, is dignified in manners, and is widely loved by the people. So what if you can't stop the assassin's crossbow arrows, you will have to go to the snowy and ice priest for the rest of your life.
My younger brother Edward was born with the priority of inheriting the throne, and the possibility of Victoria's inheritance was only theoretically present. After all, the Empire believed in goddesses, and oversuppressing women was considered to be immoral blasphemy.
She lived like a gambling game, and she always made a big fortune with a small fortune, and she always wanted to win in the dark, and she laughed to the end. Most people, including the mage, went to fight or were on standby. There was no one in the cafeteria except her and the maid. The princess closed her eyes and put her hands together on her forehead. Terra, please bless me.
Victoria can only be considered an ordinary believer, but at this moment, she hopes to be favored by the Mother of the Earth.
The Baron Castle has thick brick walls, which is also a trust that can stand until now. It is difficult to hear the movement outside while sitting indoors. If you are disturbed by the wax light and the closed window panels, you will be unable to tell the difference between day and night. It was the first day, and it was so difficult. Facing a legion of dead people who do not need supplies, if you don’t kill the other party, the war will not end.
The princess really wanted to walk up the city wall and encourage the soldiers. Sir Lancelot told her that in the face of a protracted siege, the princess should not be so unstoppable. It would be fine if Lancelot said it, and Emily also joined in and advised her to keep the calmness that the commander should have.
So Victoria had to stay here with her maid Regina, silently praying for everyone on the city wall and herself.
The Baron's castle has a moat. Now it's not too long since the Ascension of the Earth Mother, the river surface has frozen and cannot block the enemy. Emily can use fireball techniques to melt all the ice, but she has seen the number of zombies, which is enough to fill the moat and there is still room left.
Since that's the case, she changed her target and turned to deal with the skeleton behind the zombies.
Immortal monsters are most afraid of fire. It is said that flames remind the resentful spirits who refuse to enter the cycle of reincarnation to hell. For Lyon, Emily has been to hell, which is indeed very hot. She crushed the sulfur ball in her hand, and the spell blurted out. A fire wall that is more than ten meters wide broke through the snow and separated the zombies and skeletons. Emily raised her hands to maintain the spell, and the magic energy in her body surged and would be backfired if she was not careful. She might turn into a pillar of fire, or exploded to pieces.
The cold wind was like a knife, and the snow fell into a curtain, but she was so hot that she was sweating. Big drops of sweat were flowing down her cheeks. The extremely cold weather also sealed the zombies, allowing these poor people who could not rest to leave no faster than the turtle. Emily raised her hands, and the huge array of skeletons followed closely behind and stared at her. She had to maintain the firewall in its prime.
The zombies walking in front walked across the frozen moat and reached the city wall, but their efficiency was not comparable to that of the skeleton. The zombies stood beneath the wall in a daze and stretched their hands upwards. The wide purple lips made a heart-shaking wail. This scene that was no different from hell scared the soldiers, and no one could think of getting up to shoot arrows and throwing stones.
Emily's spirit was all focused on maintaining magic, and she could not be distracted to tell Sophie how to deal with the corpses below. The eldest lady of the Bernard family did not react slowly. The fireballs that burst successively engulfed the zombies and turned them into black charcoal that could not move.
The first group of ignorant skeletons forced themselves to cross the fire wall, and only walked a few meters before burning to ashes. Emily put down her hand and wiped away the sweat on her forehead. Although the spell that needed to burn her own magic power was exhausted, she had successfully passed the test.
Emily was confident that she could last for more than ten minutes. She slammed the walls and enjoyed the wonder of the skeletons below passing through the fire wall one by one and then burning them to ashes. The resurrected bone rack was much dryer than the zombies, and there was no drop of water on her body. She could not find a better "fire" than this in a radius of hundreds of miles.
The two mages, just two, resolved a fierce attack. The Imperial Guards strictly abide by discipline and would not make noise on the battlefield, so the Baron's troops did not care about so many. At that moment, "Lady" and "Miss" shouted. The soldiers took off their helmets to show their respect.
Emily raised her hand and gave back the gratitude to everyone. She leaned over and looked at the zombie still squirming below, and had an idea in her mind. Emily bet everyone would love the next situation to death.
"Zi, Qilanan, Sossi, Alansu, Kali, and Jialalan."
After saying that, the mage dropped a sulfur ball casually. The spell materials can be similar or even similar. The caster himself turned the decay into magic. The bursting fire covered nearly 100 meters of open space at a scale of ten times that of the Sophie Fireball Technique. The white smoke with heat rushed straight into the sky. Even without the sharp ears of the elf, the sound of water boiling can be heard.
Sophie was stunned. The young lady stretched her neck and was so shocked by the mysterious and unpredictable journey of the empire that she couldn't speak.
The cold wind swept away the smoke, allowing everyone to see clearly what was going on. The snow below became a small pond, without floating limbs, it would be a steaming hot spring.
He only knows simple fireball and lightning, while Emily uses fire spells magic to a terrible level.
Sophie's eyes were turning back and forth between the newly emerging pool and Emily, and she couldn't find a suitable language to express her mood. Emily gave her a smile-like expression, like looking at the silly girl in the village.
Blocking the zombies, should we rely on the city wall to consume the opponent, or go out of the city to fight, and make a big move? Emily has been with the army for many years and has participated in the combat meeting countless times, and has begun to unconsciously think about the problem from the commander's perspective.
The skeleton no longer tried to cross the firewall, and dozens of infantry phalanxes stood there, neither detoured nor retreated. Flint sent people down in a rough voice to bring more ammunition up. The dwarf had a premonition that today would be very long.
But Amy did a good job, which was simply amazing. Lyon made him worry, Christina made him worry, and after all, this mage "little girl" could be said to be worry-free. The dwarf walked down from the cannon position to chat with Emily. Anyway, it was a long time, since the enemy did not come to climb the city wall, the dwarf didn't want to stand and stare blankly.
"Look!" Lolana stood on the high arrow tower and suddenly shouted that made the dwarf raise his head.
The Elf Ranger had already pulled his bow while shouting, obviously finding a target worth shooting. Flint looked in the direction pointed by the Elf Arrow. The skeleton cavalry, who had not moved once since the war started, was galloping at high speed. Under the ghostly iron hooves, the heavy snow pile seemed to not exist.
The Ranger fired an arrow, and the dwarf widened his eyes and waited for the result. The feather arrow brushed the head of the skeleton cavalry, and Lolana actually shot a missed shot! The Ranger never fired only one arrow, so Flint was fortunate to witness the scene where the elves shot four arrows in succession.
"This is impossible!" Someone shouted. Flint was not the only one who was disappointed on the wall.
Well, Flint remembered Emily once said that it was magic. But you can't rush to the wall of fire. The dwarf gently patted the handle of the axe, watching the group of bones getting closer and closer to the flames.
Just like that, burn it to ashes, the monsters and the dwarves thought.
Chapter completed!