Chapter 290: A War Without Justice (End)
Elsie, the fire mage who was diligently killing undead from the air, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her nerves.
High-level spellcasters have super-strong sensing abilities and can issue crisis warnings for energy surges within a certain range.
The resonance created by the simultaneous response of the quasi-professional mental powers of more than 2,600 players to the summons was no less than the energy fluctuations naturally generated when large-scale magic was driven, and naturally could not escape Elsie's perception.
Elsie stopped suddenly in the air, turned her head sharply, and found that... a large area of brilliant white light suddenly descended from the direction of her own army's formation.
In the flashing white light, two thousand... no, close to three thousand undead souls overlapped with the middle section of the central army! !
"?!" Elsie, who , turned around and flew towards her own army.
These undead appeared in such dense numbers at the same time, which should have been a good time to cast a large-scale magic to clear the area. However, overlapping with the undead in the same area were thousands of soldiers, as well as... His Royal Highness the Prince of the Principality!
When Elsie returned in a cold sweat, the players who were squeezed hard were also dispersing in all directions.
As the players on the periphery evacuated, they grabbed bits and pieces from the Lionel soldiers who were unable to react after the sudden change. Some smart people even gave them nylon cable ties (these things are given to players for free during large-scale battlefield activities, and you can take as many as you want)...
If someone happens to "refresh" next to an NPC that looks like an officer, they will pin the officer down and carry him away... It doesn't matter whether they can carry him away successfully or not, but if you see it and don't carry him away, it means you have no player quality.
Players in the inner circle are also taking action.
Under the relay command output of the two commanders in the team channel, the players not only tied up His Royal Highness the Prince of the Principality, but also His Royal Highness the Prince's guards...
Qin Guan launched the summoning spell quite close to the prince and his guards. The density of players was highest within thirty meters around him, and on average, at least five or six undead fell on each guard.
Coupled with the dense crowds of undead all around, the brave and warlike guards couldn't even draw their swords, let alone drive the horses that couldn't even lift their legs. They were tied up hand and foot with strong nylon ties and became prisoners of the undead.
"Disperse! Carry as many as you can!"
Following Miaobishenghua's hoarse shout, nearly a thousand players divided into dozens of groups, carrying His Royal Highness the Prince and his guards, and spread out in all directions along the road cleared by the outer players.
Before launching the fifth round of general attack, Miaobishenghua and Enbuduzeng discussed how to snatch the super fat BOSS wearing epic equipment in the chaos and under the nose of the flying wizard BOSS.
According to information provided by the players who were lucky enough to discover this BOSS during the fourth round of attack, this BOSS not only wears an epic necklace that has not appeared in the current game version, but also has a full set of magical equipment. His status is also very high - the prince of the Principality of Lionel!
In other words... this BOSS is really fat! Super fat! Worth a fortune from head to toe!
As I said, when you discover a valuable goal, being able to achieve it is one thing, and not working hard for it is another!
Players are not afraid of slow infantry and inflexible heavy cavalry, and they don't take light cavalry that can become targets themselves seriously, but they have to guard against the wizard boss who can cheat in the air.
The result of the discussion is... to take advantage of the chaos and fish in troubled waters!
As long as there is a chance, even the prince and his guards will be robbed together. Anyway, these NPCs are wearing flashy silver-plated armor. As long as you take off the guards' helmets and tear off the prince's cloak, you will not be able to recognize them for a while if you don't look at their faces from mid-air!
Of course, if the system is shameless enough to give the enemy Mage Boss a "perspective" cheat, so that the Mage Boss can accurately find the prince, then it is not a loss to grab the epic necklace and carry away the guards...
Of course, Asher didn't have any system that could give him a perspective cheat. When he flew back to help, he saw dozens of people in silver armor being carried away by the undead. The escape route of these undead was like flowers scattered by fairies. He was almost driven crazy.
His Royal Highness the Prince cannot fight. The Prince’s guards are all elite soldiers, but these idiots even lost themselves!
What made Aixier even more difficult to understand was - "Why didn't your highness's protective device take effect?!"
For an important person like a prince of a country, of course safety measures would be taken into consideration when he arrives on the battlefield. In addition to the close protection of two high-level spellcasters and a group of elite guards, the Grand Duke also handed over the Lionel family's guardian weapon to the prince.
The complete information of this guardian weapon can be seen from the player's perspective using the identification spell as follows:
"Guardian's Weapon: Blessing of the Storm Angel"
"A vessel blessed by a high-level archangel of the Church of Storms."
"When you are attacked fatally, the Storm Guard will be triggered. Several hurricanes will appear around you, destroying all enemy targets taller than the tires of a carriage within a radius of 10.5 meters. The duration is three minutes."
"While Storm Ward is in effect, the hurricane will move with the wearer."
" While Storm Guardian lasts, the wearer is immune to all mental attacks."
"After triggering the Storm Guardian, the Guardian Device needs to be filled with magic cores with a diameter of more than 5mm for charging."
With extremely strong physical destructive power and three minutes of physical damage/mental damage immunity, the value of this guardian weapon is in no way inferior to that of a sealed object, whether from the perspective of the player or the indigenous people.
As for the magic cores needed to trigger the Storm Guardian, they were not extremely difficult to obtain. As long as it was a monster, there was a chance that it would drop. Players could get them by clearing the poisonous fog swamp, exploring the depths of the Tarantan wasteland, or playing in the monster battlefield of the (Dimensional Demon Realm). Many of them were handed over to Lord Yang in exchange for reputation...
Theoretically, if His Royal Highness the Prince encounters the enemy's decapitation tactics, this protective weapon will give the enemy who comes to assassinate him a big surprise.
But... Elsie, who was far away when the undead performed the Great Summoning, probably never thought in her life that the players did not attack the prince at all, but tied him up as soon as they "descended"...
Players who are extremely experienced in dealing with humanoid monsters have long discovered that in this game, no matter how powerful the humanoid BOSS is, as long as he is not a wizard who can fly or cast magic to kill people instantly, he will lose the ability to resist if he gets close to him and is tied up.
It's totally different from the BOSS in ordinary online games that has dominance, invincibility, is not susceptible to control or silence, and always plays rogue!
The Prince BOSS is shown to be a mere level 2 monster under identification. It is easier for players to control it than to catch light cavalry!
Fortunately... as a high-level spellcaster, Elsie still has a trick to identify the prince's identity - biological detection magic!
The anxious fire mage cast detection magic from the air one by one at the silver-armored men who were carried away by the undead. After filtering out six or seven targets, he successfully found the prince!
"Stop right there!" Elsie, who was so angry that magic power was overflowing and sparks were coming out of her body, angrily chased after the group of undead who carried the prince away.
"RNM really gave the boss a perspective! The planner Sima——!!"
Brother Lahong, who had just run a few hundred meters, was so angry that he started cursing.
"Bang! Run to the west! Friendly forces are coming!" Miaobishenghua shouted desperately in the team channel.
Anyway, the epic equipment has been snatched up by the players, so now that the friendly forces are coming, just come!
Brother Lahong and the dozens of players who were carrying the Prince BOSS together immediately ran westwards...
At this time, Colonel Victor had just arrived at the scene with the vanguard troops.
After bypassing the low hills that blocked the view, Colonel Victor and hundreds of cavalrymen were shocked to see... Lionel's army was in complete chaos on the field ahead.
Lionel's army was a hundred times more chaotic than what Colonel Victor had seen through the water mirror technique a few minutes ago. There was no formation at all.
Countless undead were carrying things that looked like humans and running wildly in all directions. Behind each team of undead was a large group of people, including all kinds of soldiers.
More and more soldiers from the Odysseus family came around from behind the hill. Many of them pulled their hands out to rub their eyes, pinch their thighs, and look doubtful about their lives.
Colonel Victor was stunned for 0.5 seconds, and then he saw a group of undead running towards the army as if they were escaping for their lives, and a high-level spellcaster covered in flames chasing from the sky behind them. He was immediately startled and waved his hands and shouted, "Everyone! Help the undead--!"
More than a thousand vanguard cavalrymen responded loudly and reacted quickly.
Conventional armies cannot engage in direct combat with high-level spellcasters, but they are not just defending themselves against attacks.
The well-trained light cavalrymen, who were cultivated with great efforts by the Odysseus family, all raised their bows and crossbows and fired alternately under the command of the non-commissioned officers of each team. The rain of arrows swept over the fleeing undead friendly forces in waves, forcing the enemy spellcasters to stop two hundred meters away!
At a distance of 200 meters, the archers' accuracy and lethality are actually very limited, but there may not be enough light cavalry to arrive in the first batch!
Lionel's light cavalry was pulled off their horses and dragged away by the undead unexpectedly, but this does not mean that the light cavalry as a unit has no combat effectiveness. It just happened to be restrained by the undead - the undead are fast and not vulnerable to piercing damage, so even if they are shot into hedgehogs by arrows, it will be no problem.
After temporarily stopping the enemy spellcaster, a soldier swiftly jumped off his horse, removed the special components from the horse's buttocks, and quickly assembled them into a long cylindrical weapon that looked like an R~P~G.
When the undead rushed into the friendly positions and finally had a chance to catch their breath, the soldiers of the Odysseus family, in groups of three, took up long-barreled weapons with a strange luster, stuffed them with magic crystals, loaded them with magic cores, and aimed at the spellcasters in the air.
Elsie watched helplessly as the prince was carried into the enemy camp. Her anger gauge exploded and flames rose all over her body. However, she had to pull back again after being pointed at by that strange long-barreled weapon...
The conventional army’s powerful weapon against high-level spellcasters—the alchemical rocket launcher!
In addition to alchemical rocket launchers, there are also alchemical bombs and alchemical cannons, which can allow conventional armies to effectively kill high-level spellcasters!
That's why all spellcasters hate alchemists... These guys who make everything and sell all kinds of alchemical products for money, it would be strange if they weren't disliked!
Despite this, Elsie was unwilling to retreat.
In such chaos, the army of Odysseus appeared, and Lionel's defeat was inevitable.
But even His Royal Highness the Prince fell into the hands of the enemy... Elsie couldn't accept it!
Colonel Victor did not dare to lead his troops forward, as he did not know what the undead had done or who they had captured. However, the enemy's high-level spellcasters were standing in front of him, and it was not wise to provoke them - if they wanted to destroy themselves and others and cast a forbidden magic, then he and all the soldiers in the vanguard would be buried with them.
The two sides were in a tense standoff...Upton, the illusionist who was stationed at the rear of the Odysseus family, finally arrived.
Upton, riding on the back of a monster with colorful feathers, flew slowly over and stopped above the vanguard of Odysseus. He glanced at the chaotic position of Lionel's army in the distant field, then turned his gaze to Elsie, who was on fire, and said, "Accept the result, Elsie. Lionel lost."
After Upton arrived, Elsie floated back a few dozen meters.
Illusionists cannot fly freely and can only rely on vehicles like black magicians and alchemists. However, this does not mean that illusionists are afraid of enemies who have air superiority - illusionists who are good at mental magic can influence any enemy within their sight without them noticing!
"I admit defeat." Elsie took a deep breath and tried to suppress the blue veins on her forehead. "Even though you used such a despicable trick... you did win."
Victor, the chief commander of the Odysseus family, who was below the two spellcasters: "..."
What's so despicable about this? What did I do? How come I don't know anything?
Upton, who was watching the whole process through the remote-controlled Mage's Eye, couldn't help but want to laugh.
Really, he never expected that these Tarantan Undeads could do this...
Upton, who had rushed over because he felt unsafe because the opponent's spellcaster was performing a large-scale magic, was halfway through his flight when he noticed with a smile that the undead had tied up the enemy's prince...
The commission Miss Phoenix spent was well worth it.
No matter how much you want to laugh, you have to hold it back, otherwise it would be too rude.
"The Odysseus family will not take advantage of the situation and will release the captives." Upton said straightforwardly, "In return, Lionel needs to return the land that was originally occupied from the Odysseus family, return all the residents who once belonged to the Odysseus territory, and compensate for the losses incurred in the eastern part of the Odysseus territory for thirteen years. These are the peace terms ."
Although the prince was kidnapped and many officers fell into the hands of the undead, Lionel's army did not completely lose its combat effectiveness; if the Odysseus family wanted to take on this tough challenge, they would have to bear certain losses.
Of course, the Odysseus family cannot afford the damage of war, and the other side is well aware of this... As for matters that can be resolved at the negotiation table, it is obvious what choice Lionel will make after losing his prince.
Elsie was silent for a while, silently turning her gaze towards the enemy position.
His Royal Highness the Prince, who was carried into the army of Odysseus by the Undead, is still held tightly in the hands of the Undead, with no intention of handing him over to friendly forces... Such a valuable NPC, players are waiting to exchange him for reputation, and of course they will not hand him over easily.
Upton could understand the difficulty of the spellcaster on the other side, and said with a smile: "Then please ask Your Highness the Prince and the Earl to meet with Miss Phoenix in person."
Colonel Victor suddenly turned his head and looked at the unfortunate guy who was unable to move among the undead.
What is this?? Your Highness?!
