Chapter 123: Confronting Thunder

  After the flames behind the fort were extinguished, Liu Yu let out a sigh of relief. This was his first time seeing such large-scale use of magic in battle. Although he had never relaxed his training in magic before, due to his insufficient strength, he could not cast those high-level magic spells that were rumored to be incredibly powerful. Today's battle between the two sides' high-level magic users casting large-scale high-level magic was far beyond Liu Yu's imagination.

  That kind of unheard-of giant eagle carrying the magician to attack the ground was absolutely beyond the expectation of all the defending troops. Liu Yue estimated that this strange and novel tactic had completely disrupted the original defense plan of the fortress defenders, leaving Kayne, Louis and other officers caught off guard.

  "Ballista, prepare!" The officers' roar brought Liu Yu back to reality. Turning around, he found that the front of the fortress was filled with dense torches at the mouth of the canyon, and in the light of the fire, several huge shadows could be seen, apparently the large siege engines of the Farnod Empire.

  "Hurry up! Hurry up! Five in a row, five in a row!" Soon, behind a ballista stood five Bimon warriors, Liu Yu and Ivan, Nari, and two other Bimon warriors as one group, operating a ballista near the right side of the city wall.

  Di Geng then led the remaining four Bi Mon warriors from the Huo tribe behind Liu Yu, drawing their longbows to play the role of archers. The longbows used by adult Bi Mon warriors were also specially made by several vassal tribes in charge of forging for the kingdom, with a bow length of nearly 1.8 meters and requiring great strength to draw the bow, resulting in a very strong shooting range and penetration power.

  "General attack preparation! Prepare for attack!" Along with the new command conveyed by several officers standing in a row at a certain distance on the city wall.

  "One, two!" Liu Yu and Ivan shouted slogans while exerting their strength to pull open the crossbow string of the ballista. As the two strongest Golden Bimon warriors in the Fire Realm, they naturally undertook this most laborious task. The other two Bimon warriors pressed down on the ballista with all their might to keep it balanced, and Nari immediately set up a pure iron crossbow arrow over four meters long.

  "It's done."

  "Mission 12 accomplished."

  "Number two is complete."

  "Number eleven position completed."

  "Number three..."

  The same action was performed twelve times between breaths on the black stone city wall of Emalbeng. Several officers were running quickly on the city wall, reporting the preparation work of the crossbow cannon. After Liu Yu and these soldiers operating the crossbow cannon completed all the operations, other Bamun warriors on the city wall also completed their respective preparations.

  For a moment, everyone was silent. The city wall, which had just been bustling with activity, suddenly fell quiet. At this moment, the loudest sound on the city wall was the soldiers' breathing, and the most obvious thing was the white mist exhaled by the soldiers in the cold winter night. Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

  "Hmm..." Liu Yu breathed lightly, gazing at the frost on the crossbow in front of him, feeling the slight vibration transmitted from the taut bowstring in his hand. He secretly rejoiced that although it was very cold tonight, there was no snow, which would reduce a lot of trouble for them when they fought, but it would also make it easier for the Farnod army to attack the city.

  Attack

  "Attack!" Cain, standing in the middle of the city wall, gave a very low but exceptionally clear command, and then several officers began to loudly relay his order.

  Liu Yu's hands, which had been holding the crossbow string and were slightly numb, suddenly relaxed, and he felt something shoot out in front of him. The sound of it breaking through the air was very clear. The two Bamun warriors who were holding down the crossbow machine shook their bodies slightly, although the crossbow was fixed on the city wall in advance, but the recoil force when firing was still very strong.

  And he also seemed to have seen several gray shadows rushing towards the firelight at the mouth of the valley, and then a fierce sway appeared in the group of firelights, with many torches falling to the ground. It was clear that the soldiers holding the torches should have been hit by crossbow arrows. Judging from the physique of the steel crossbow cannon, Liu Yu estimated that the enemy who was hit must be dead without a doubt.

  "Second wave, prepare! Second wave, prepare!" Without time to observe the results of their previous attack, Liu Yu and his men immediately drew back their crossbows and loaded new bolts under the officers' commands. The five Bi Mon warriors were still performing their duties with ease, every operation smooth as flowing clouds.

  "Attack! Attack!" With the same sound of breaking through the air, Liu Yu saw a huge figure in the flames across from him stumble and fall to the ground. It seemed that some kind of siege engine, like a catapult, had been hit.

  "The third wave..."

  "Take cover!" Liu Yu, who was preparing to draw his crossbow again, heard a loud shout and dropped down like lightning.

  "Boom, boom, boom, boom..." The continuous loud noise made Liu Yu's head spin and his vision blur, as if the heaven and earth were shaking together. Then he felt many debris hitting his body.

  "Get up, third wave! Third wave attack!" Despite the great commotion, Liu Yu, who had not suffered any substantial harm, heard the officer's command and stood up from the ground with a push of his hands.

  At the same time, the scene in front of him made him stunned. From the canyon entrance, several green, blue and brown light columns were constantly rushing towards here, with a speed that was not something their warriors could dodge. However, none of these light columns came towards the defending army on the city wall. Without exception, they all hit the thick black stone city wall of Emal Fortress, which was several meters thick.

  "Boom, boom, ...." Again, several loud noises came, Liu Yu's spirit was not weak, and he vaguely felt that the city wall under his feet shook more violently than before.

  At the same time, boulders continued to fall from the sky, and it was clear that the enemy was still using catapults to attack. However, several powerful Bamons and wolf tribe officers each held a longbow in their hands, shattering all the boulders that were about to hit the city wall guards in mid-air.

  As for those stones that hit the city wall, they were clearly not taken care of and could only be left to crash into the city wall, causing a tremor.

  "Attack!" After a military order, Liu Yu loosened the tight crossbow string again, and several crossbow arrows shot out. However, this time the flames in front did not fluctuate much.

  "Free attack! Free attack!" With a fierce gritting of teeth, Liu Yu once again drew open the crossbow string, and in an instant, he had loaded the bolt onto the bow. The order to "free attack" meant that Liu Yu and his men could operate the ballista at full capacity, firing bolts without waiting for orders from their superiors.

  "Commander Duwei, the magic array is under too fierce an attack. Several mages say it may not last much longer." A Bammon warrior beside Kain in the central keep of the castle wall said anxiously.

  "Let the elders of Tyre return to preside over the law array, and don't worry about the defense in the back." Cain turned his head to look at the camp in the back. It was already a sea of flames, with lightning, giant stones, wind blades, and fireballs descending from the sky, crushing everything on the ground. Even a sixth-order battle commander would find it difficult to survive in this dense magical offensive.

  Those beast tribe warriors struggling in pain had only three hopes, one was to run to the place covered by the fiery light screen behind the city wall. That thin layer of light screen blocked countless magical attacks. However, the area that this light screen could cover was not large, and the distance of just over a hundred meters was already crowded with a large number of Bimon and wolf tribe warriors.

  Another was to run into the last stronghold of the human Black Cloak warriors who were being besieged, and all the magical attacks from the sky cleverly avoided that place. It's just that those Black Cloak warriors were very powerful, and despite being surrounded, they had already gained the upper hand. Those beastmen warriors who barely escaped with their lives from the sea of flames often didn't even have time to catch their breath before being killed by these Black Cloak warriors.

  The last one was the layered sand waves that kept rising in the camp, these sand waves not only rose high to block the attacks from the sky, but also swallowed many beast tribe warriors who couldn't run out into the ground to provide cover for them. Several Bi Mong tribe mages on the outermost edge of the Flame Red Light Screen were chanting non-stop to drive these sand waves.

  "Sir!" The Bamun warrior's voice trembled strongly as he looked back at the rear upon hearing Cain's command.

  "Carrying out orders is the duty entrusted to us by Your Majesty, the Council of Elders and our people." Cain's eyes dimmed for a moment, but his voice showed no compromise.

  "Yes, sir." The last two words were almost spoken in a sob by the Bhiman warrior.

  After a while, Liu Yu, who was fully operating the crossbow, suddenly felt that the tremors of the city wall under his feet had decreased significantly when those light pillars and giant stones hit it.

  "General, the top-tier magic ballista is ready."

  "Attack, flatten them." On the edge of Emal's fortress valley mouth, a Fanode officer with a cockscomb-style iron helmet and three cyan-blue star-shaped medals on his chest immediately gave orders after hearing the report from the soldiers beside him. His eyes were full of madness when he said the last sentence.

  "Hmm." After exchanging blows with the opponent for an unknown amount of time, Liu Yu was about to launch another attack when he found that the light pillar and giant stone shot by the opponent had mysteriously stopped. The deafening roar also stopped, and the city wall returned to silence.

  "What's going on?" Ivan also said with equal puzzlement.

  "Don't stop, continue the attack." Cain gave the order to attack again from the center of the city wall. The crossbow operators also responded instantly, and several crossbow arrows were shot out again.

  But the next moment, a blue light wall appeared at the canyon entrance. In the dark night, this blue light wall was exceptionally dazzling. Those crossbow arrows that hit the light wall were all blocked and did not cause any harm to the Farnod army behind.

  "It's over." Cain's eyes widened in an instant as the light wall appeared, and he whispered voicelessly towards the front.

  When Liu Yu and his men launched another bolt of crossbow arrows, three blue-green light columns as thick as water buckets and three equally thick blue light columns shot towards the black stone walls of Emalbeng Fortress.

  "Boom, boom..." "Ah" Several loud noises later, several old Bimont magic masters in the bluestone house under the city wall spat out a mouthful of blood, and some let out a miserable cry before fainting directly.

  "Concentrate your spiritual power, this attack can't last much longer, huh!" An old man in a golden robe of the Bei Mong tribe, standing at the center of the Qing Shi house, was the first to react.

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