Chapter 199: The Legendary Mage
Outside Eagle Claw Castle, Leon was still sitting there.
But most of the troops had returned to him, only Raphael and the Horn Call Rangers were not here.
Everyone was quiet and no one spoke.
"My Lord, there doesn't seem to be much movement in the city... the sounds of fighting are very sparse."
Wendy's been standing beside Leon, listening to the movements in the city.
There were not many Jatu people on the city wall, only a few dozen standing sparsely, but none of them shot arrows anymore. Instead, they turned and stared outside the city, looking at Leon's troops.
"Then it's time for us to act..."
The lord stood up, turned around and picked up an arrow.
The arrow had a tip wrapped in oilcloth, and Amy came forward and lit it.
This is a rocket.
"Wendy, do you see that package under the city gate? Shoot it."
Leon handed the rocket to Wendyllfu , and then pointed to the strange package that was placed under the east gate.
Wendy took the rocket in confusion. She didn't really understand what it meant.
But it was not difficult for her to hit a fixed target. Wendy put the arrow on the target, took a casual aim and shot.
Just when the arrow hit the package, Wendy discovered that the city gate seemed to collapse suddenly!
The corpses piled at the city gate seemed to be flying?
“Bang!”
Half a second later, she heard the most terrifying thunder she had ever encountered in her life, which made her ears buzz even from a distance of nearly two hundred meters.
This is the sound that lightning makes when it hits a big tree!
The result was exactly the same as that caused by thunder and lightning - the gate of Eagle Claw Castle was instantly shattered into pieces, and the horse carcasses piled at the gate were even blown more than ten meters away.
A huge amount of thick smoke rose up from the city gate, and after the smoke cleared, the city wall near the gate became charred.
The horses all let out terrified cries, but luckily they were far away, otherwise many of them would have been frightened and run around.
The Jatu people on the city wall were obviously greatly frightened, and several of them even fell off the city wall. Afterwards, no one could be seen on the city wall.
Obviously, the terrible noise frightened the Jatu people and no one dared to climb the wall.
"It's only this powerful. I'll have to try using a sealed can next time..."
Li Ang whispered to Amy, then looked at the stunned team behind him and drew his sword: "Everyone dismount, get ready, and listen to my orders!"
Le Ang did not attack immediately because the troops behind him were a little frightened at this time. There was fear in their eyes when they looked at Le Ang. The only one who remained calm was Amy.
He had to wait for the troops to calm down.
But these troops were spooked for different reasons.
The female explorers from the Sword of the Griffin Mercenaries were relatively calm. These explorers had traveled far and wide and had seen a lot, and had heard of Barkley's new weapon.
Moreover, they had seen a musket in Amy's hand and could guess that the explosion was related to gunpowder, but they did not expect the noise to be so loud.
They were also the troops with the fastest reaction at present. After hearing the order, they all dismounted, drew their swords and held shields and moved forward, formed a battle formation dozens of meters away, and prepared to charge.
But the expressions of the Noldor elves were extremely complicated...
They were not afraid of the power of the explosion, but were doubting the cause of it.
Wendelfu also stood there in a daze, looking at the bow in her hand, then at the city gate in front of her that had been blown open, she was very scared.
The other Noldor elves also looked at Wendilf with complicated eyes, and then looked at Leon - there was obvious awe in their eyes when they looked at the two people...
For the Noldor elves, this legendary thing that can summon thunderstorms to destroy cities with one blow does exist in their historical records, but it exists in another form - this form is called magic.
Magic that only the Sindarin elves can use!
"Wendy...you...you can use magic?!"
Wendatil asked stutteringly, her throat was a little dry, but a look of surprise gradually appeared on her face.
"Xindari! Wendy, you've awakened!...Haha...This is thunder magic...This is top-notch magical talent!"
Twilight Knight Noelle's reaction was even greater than Vendatil's. He started laughing wildly, probably because he felt that the elves were about to rise again...
"No, I... this is not..."
Wendy looked at her right hand helplessly.
But at this moment, all the Noldor elves began to salute Wendy by touching their chests.
"Hey hey... I... you guys... this was arranged by Lord Leon, this was not done by me!"
Wendy took a step back, looking uneasily at the elders who bowed to her, waving her hands helplessly.
The lord thought the reaction of the Noldor was very interesting, so he fooled them again, jokingly: "Ha! Wendy , you did it... Next time I will teach you a more powerful magic, which will surely allow you to shoot down the city wall with one arrow!"
Amy covered her mouth and laughed secretly.
Wendy was even more confused: "Master Leon, what's going on... This magic... is none of my business?!"
Amy put down her hand covering her mouth, put on a serious look, stepped forward and patted Wendy on the shoulder: "Master Leon can guide your hidden magic power, Wendy, you are now a magician..."
Originally, Amy was just cooperating with Leon to fool people. She knew that after this battle, everyone would understand that this was gunpowder. But now she is also happy to let the Noldor misunderstand. After all, everyone has a bad taste.
However, Amy's words caused a stir among the Noldor elves - almost all of them looked at Leon and said in the same voice: "Mage!?"
Then, including Vendatil and Neuer, all the Noldor knelt on one knee in front of Leon with piety and bowed their heads deeply...
This is probably the highest etiquette of the Noldor. Even when facing the Elf King, the Noldor elves would not kneel and bow their heads like this. Touching the chest and bowing are already etiquette for the elves to show respect.
The lord was also a little confused. When did the proud elves ever bow their heads to humans?
He realized that he had gone too far in his joke...
But seeing how pious Wendatil was, Leon knew that he absolutely couldn't expose this joke, or he might get beaten...
Thinking about the fighting ability and violent tendencies that Wendatil had shown at the time, the lord swallowed his saliva and turned to look at Eagle Claw Castle.
There are already Jatu people peeking out of the city gate, so we should advance immediately.
So Li Ang didn't explain any more, but raised his sword: "Everyone! Follow me! Attack with all your forces!"
Then, the lord took the lead and rushed towards the blown-open city gate.
All the troops followed Li Ang and began to charge.
The Noldor elves seemed particularly active at this time. They all ran very fast and soon overtook the female explorers who were originally running in front.
Wendatil and Neuer rushed to the front and protected Leon on both sides, probably because they were afraid that this "magician" would be in danger...
Only Wendy was still standing there in a daze.
Amy was also there. As a musketeer, there was no need for her to rush to the front, and Leon would not let her engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Seeing Wendy still in a daze, Amy stepped forward and put her arm around her shoulders: "Wendy, what's wrong with you?"
"Amy... Is Lord Leon really a magician?"
Wendy still looked uneasily at the horse carcass that had been blown into pieces outside the city gate. Her purple eyes were full of suspicion, and it looked like there was mist lingering in them.
"Ah... someone who can make gunpowder can probably be considered as such... after all, gunpowder can probably be considered magic. In the past, it was called magic fire on the Barkley Continent..."
Amy also found it difficult to explain. She was just a beginner who half understood something. It was indeed difficult to explain gunpowder to someone who had basically no scientific knowledge.
"But I don't want to be a Sindari..."
After hearing what Amy said, Wendy nervously grabbed Amy's hand and said, "It is said that after becoming a Sindari, you will become emotionless! I don't want to..."
"Ah? Ha... Don't worry, Wendy, you won't... You are not a Sindarin elf..."
Amy laughed dryly twice. She felt that this was even harder to explain...
She knew the story of the elves. With the help of their mentors, the Sindarri elves would gradually master the ability to materialize magic, and become stronger as they grew older.
But it is said that as the Sindar elves gain powerful magic, their emotions will become increasingly indifferent, just like the legendary dragons, Titans and other extraordinary creatures, not only indifferent to life, but also lacking in humanity...
This is actually what is bound to happen when an individual life becomes powerful enough - when an individual possesses the power of a god, he or she will inevitably regard himself or herself as god itself, and naturally will not value other tiny lives so much.
They will only show awe to lives with equal abilities.
Even humans, whose individual strength could never reach this level, would mostly ignore other weaker people after they acquired abilities and power beyond ordinary people.
However, Amy at least knew that Leon was definitely not a magician, and Wendelf was not a Sindar.
"Wendy, let's go into the city first. We'll talk about this later... Li Ang will explain it to you clearly..."
Seeing that Leon had already led his troops into Eagle Claw Castle, Amy took Wendy in her arms and walked towards the city. She felt that this difficult matter should be left to Leon to solve by himself. Who made that guy talk nonsense...
All the forces in Eagle Claw Castle have now been exhausted . They each occupy a direction at the crossroads in the center of the castle, and the fighting between them was not fierce.
However, when a thunderous noise was heard at the east gate of the castle, fierce fighting broke out again among the various parties in the city.
Because at this time the Jatu people launched a violent attack like crazy.
The Jatu people did not immediately check the blown-open city gate - they did not dare.
In fact, the explosives themselves did not cause any casualties to the Jatu people. Just as Leon told Amy, there was a slight problem with the proportion of the explosives, and the power was even smaller than Leon had imagined.
Li Ang originally made explosives according to the ratio of 75% saltpeter, 11% sulfur, and 14% charcoal. He soaked the mixed material powder in a saltpeter solution, then dried and crushed it to make granular gunpowder.
This is a very close ratio, but obviously, the purity of the materials in this era is not enough...
Sulfur can be purified, but charcoal cannot. Moreover, the charcoal produced by burning different trees has different effects. Even moisture-proofing is a big problem.
Therefore, even if the explosives are formulated according to scientific proportions, the explosive power of explosives produced in this era is still difficult to meet expectations.
In addition, there was no built-in ignition device and no container capable of withstanding high pressure was used.
If a high-pressure environment is not formed during detonation, the explosives will not be able to accelerate the reaction process and the power of the explosion will be reduced by at least ten times.
The explosive pack was ignited by external ignition, and the pressure was released directly , which made it impossible for it to fully detonate. Therefore, the sound after the explosion was quite loud, but the city wall was basically intact.
Li Ang used ten pounds of explosives and even used horse carcasses to confine the explosion space, but he only managed to blow up the city gate.
But even so, the Jatu people are still afraid...
The Jatu people had never seen such a sight of divine punishment. With a loud bang, the city gate shattered - who would dare to go and see? What if there was another bang?
So after the east gate was blown open, the Jatu people's first reaction was not to rush out of the open city gate, but to launch a frenzied attack to the west and north.
They wanted to stay as far away from the terrifying "heavenly punishment" as possible. Even if the city was full of enemies like tin cans, at least they were human beings, creatures they could kill...
Leon did not rush into the city immediately after the explosion. He wanted to confirm the situation in the city. He did not charge until he saw the Jatu people starting to poke their heads around the east gate.
When the lord rushed into the city, more than half of the Jatu people had been killed or injured.
There were corpses everywhere, and blood gathered into streams on the ground.
The current situation of the Lion Knights and the Raven Kingdom's troops is unclear, but it is estimated that they are not much better.
The sounds of fighting coming from the city center seemed a little weak.
The Jatu people near the east gate were exhausted at this time. Although they were still brave, they were obviously no match for Li Ang's fresh forces. Li Ang's troops killed their way through half the street without much effort.
The troops advanced step by step, while the Jatu people kept retreating until they retreated to the center of the city.
The Noldor elves are now truly fighting side by side with humans, and in the street fighting environment, the various teams are gradually blending together.
In such a densely packed battlefield, friendly forces often support each other subconsciously.
The Noldor would use their tough shields to block the fatal blows of their allies, and human soldiers would use their spears to pierce the Jatu who were about to pounce on the Noldor.
No one would mention racial hatred at this time. The Jatu people were the common enemy.
"Wendatiel, take the rangers to the roof, use bows and arrows..."
Li Ang gave an order somewhat helplessly.
He was closely protected by a group of Noldor masters and didn't even have much room to perform.
Neuer stood in front of him, and there was no enemy in front of the Twilight Knight, and he didn't miss a single enemy.
And Wendatil stayed by his side all the time, even more like a bodyguard than Lisadilan.
Wendatil looked around and saw that Leon was probably safe, so he nodded and led the rangers to climb onto the roof.
But the lord found that he still had nothing to do - several Noldor nobles under Neuer surrounded him again...
In fact, the scene in the city center was quite terrifying.
The area of the entire Eagle Claw Fort, if placed in modern times, is probably only equivalent to a medium-sized community.
But in such a small place, thousands of people died...
There were corpses everywhere, with almost no place to stand. The blood had turned into a thick paste that was enough to cover your ankles with one step.
Every step forward was bound to step on a corpse.
It was even common for soldiers who were holding shields to block their view of the ground to fall down because of corpses or blood and mud.
But Leon didn't feel any danger at all, as he was surrounded by Noldor masters holding shields.
"Roland! The troops are in your hands!"
It seemed that he was no longer needed in killing enemies, so Leon simply let Sir Roland lead the army, and he climbed up to the tallest building in the center of the city with his flag and planted a griffin flag on the roof.
Then he found a piece of leather, rolled it into a loudspeaker, and started shouting to the other side.
"Brothers of the Lion Knights, I am Leon! Are you scared by the Jatu people? The Royal Knights are not so cowardly, right? Lion Knights! Charge to my flag!"
The lord was not trying to boost the morale of the Lion Knights; he just didn't want them to retreat.
Leon led the team to attack from behind the Jatu people. In fact, the Lion Knights were under the greatest pressure...
Because the Jatu people were originally attacking the Lion Knights frantically, and now Leon attacked from the east, the Jatu people in the east retreated step by step, and all the Jatu people were crushed into a ball in the center of the city, which was equivalent to further forcing the Jatu people in the front row on the west side to fight more fiercely.
The Lion Knights were under a lot of pressure at this time. They were already exhausted and were in danger of a total collapse.
So Li Ang had to cheer them up.
"...Did you see that? Even the Noldor elves are supporting us! You are all men, don't be inferior to these girls! Charge! Don't tarnish the honor of the Royal Knights! Kill those Jatu people!"
The Lord shouted loudly.
"Honor is my life!"
The Lion Knights could indeed see the Noldor maidens on the roof. I don't know if it was the power of honor or the Noldor maidens, but they mustered up their last bit of strength, roared and started fighting, and they looked much more energetic.
Then the Lord turned around and pointed the horn towards the Kingdom of Ravenstern...
"Warriors of Ravenstern, the disputes between kingdoms can be put aside. Our enemies now are the Jatu! As long as you are in this city, my troops will not attack you! The Noldor elves will not attack you either..."
Gregory IV, wearing a crown helmet, looked up at Leon on the roof, pulled down his mask, and asked the people around him: "Who is that? Is he the leader of the previous army?"
"It should be... the troops that intercepted our scouts were flying this flag. He seemed to say his name was Li Ang just now."
A noble in highland armor answered.
"Remember this bastard... He's the one who dragged us into this quagmire!"
Gregory IV said with a frown.
"Your Majesty, while they are attacking the Jatu people, we can try to retreat and then defend the city gate... The Jatu people should not be able to attack us now! We can wait until they are both defeated..."
The noble suggested to Gregory IV that the Jatu people in front of them were indeed gradually retreating, and under the attack from both sides by the Lion Knights and Leon, the Jatu people slowed down their pace of attacking to the north.
"Okay... let's retreat first!"
Gregory IV turned and walked away.
But at this moment, he heard Li Ang's voice again.
"Is the King of Ravenstern here? Is the King of Ravenstern here? His Majesty Gregory IV! Please do not leave the city... If you leave the city, I will have no choice but to attack you. After all, this is the land of the Kingdom of Sarleon... In order not to offend the relationship, you'd better not let the troops leave the city gate!"
