Chapter 72 Siege
But Li Qing's attention was not on these clay puppets and rock puppets, but on a five-meter-tall steel puppet located in the center of the many puppets, made entirely of high-strength steel mixed with mithril, refined gold and other precious magical materials.
Iron Puppet, sixth order extraordinary level.
The mixture of steel and magic materials made his defense soar to an extremely outrageous level, and even large crossbows could not do anything to him.
The Iron Golem has many kinds of weapons. In addition to the two-handed giant sword, there are also heavy axes, war hammers, long-handled swords and other heavy weapons. Different weapons can be configured according to different enemies.
There are even two quivers inside his transformable arms, from which he can fire powerful crossbows.
This all-steel puppet has an incredibly strong defense and is basically unstoppable on a conventional battlefield. To be honest, if it weren't for Long Shou, this steel puppet alone would be able to sweep him away.
I just can't hit it.
The extraordinary wizard did not show up, but Li Qing knew very well that he must be controlling a group of about 500 constructed puppets in the back.
Tens of thousands of troops surrounded the city from all sides and slowly advanced towards the central city.
Li Qing stood on the city wall near the Serpent Lord, his face gloomy as water, looking coldly at the rapidly approaching team. When the front row of enemies entered the archers' range, he raised his hand expressionlessly:
"The second squadron of shooters are ready to launch the attack."
After a few seconds, wave your hands vigorously:
"emission!"
As soon as he finished speaking, fifty archers in the archery squadron shot their arrows at the same time. The arrows drew a long arc in the air and fell into the crowd. Immediately, a scream was heard.
But this also means that the battle has officially begun, and the slowly advancing snake army has begun to accelerate.
A large number of gnolls lifted up long ladders and rushed towards the city wall under the cover of a large number of lizardman archers. The crowd behind was in commotion, and soon they saw two tall catapults being slowly pushed over.
“Very well prepared!”
Li Qing exhaled lightly, took out the war magic book, and an energy card shattered. The energy was injected into the magic book and converted into spellcasting energy. Soon, a ball of light flashing with tiny lightning condensed.
The war magic book lifted the ball of light up, grabbed it and threw it into the battlefield, where it turned into a flash of lightning and shot into the group of lizardmen.
War Magic-Magic Lightning.
The Lizardmen were completely unable to resist the power of magic lightning. A circular lightning field with a diameter of thirty meters exploded. The group of Lizardmen archers in the dense battlefield had no way to dodge and could only endure it.
"War magic?"
"War magic!"
Several voices rang out at the same time.
But one is the Serpent Lord, and the other is not here, but in the distant Blackrock Spire.
Mentor Robert Cheng used Blackrock Tower to monitor the development plane as usual today, and scanned the Serpentman Kingdom for great lords who were qualified to pose a huge threat to the apprentices. When scanning Lord Hashim, he discovered something abnormal.
He discovered that Lord Hashim was not in the city, the territory's chief wizard had also disappeared, and most of the garrison had left the barracks.
He immediately looked around and soon discovered that Hashim's army was attacking a city in the wilderness not far from Hashim City.
Half a minute later, after scanning the defenders in the city, Robert Cheng showed a hint of surprise on his face. This turned out to be the army of a war lord's apprentice.
Although he didn't know how this city came about, this fact itself was very surprising, and he also recognized that the besieged person was Li Qing, whom he had seen before.
Seeing this scene, he had already decided in his heart that Li Qing was in trouble this time.
He felt a little regretful. After all, he had a good impression of Li Qing before, and he also knew that he had good potential and strength. He was ranked among the top ten apprentices among all the six mentors this time, which was considered extremely outstanding.
But I didn't expect to encounter something like this.
"It seems that this time, Teacher Nie Yang..."
Just as he was lost in thought, he suddenly saw Li Qing take out a thick leather book and open it. Then the pages lit up and a flash of lightning flew out, clearing a blank space.
He was stunned for a moment , and in the next second he quickly controlled Blackrock Pagoda to narrow his field of vision. Just before Li Qing closed the war magic book, he saw the super complex magic circle on the surface of the magic book and the residual electric light that was still jumping.
"This is……"
His mouth was slightly open, the shock in his eyes lingered for a long time, and he didn't say that sentence for a long time.
"grass!"
He pondered for less than ten seconds, then immediately opened a communication. A small screen showed Nie Yang, who asked with a smile:
"Why, did you find something good?"
Robert shook his head and asked seriously:
"Old friend, has your apprentice Li Qing contacted you recently?"
Nie Yang was stunned for a moment and asked:
"Yes, he told me some time ago that he was going to attack Hashemite City. I was going to notify several mentors once he was in place. So, has he started yet?"
"How could you agree to this?"
Nie Yang spread his hands and said:
"I have also tried to persuade him, but he said he was sure. I can only explain the risks to him and persuade him. If he insists on going, there is nothing I can do."
"you……"
Robert pointed at his old friend and suddenly said:
"Do you know what I just saw?"
"What?"
"look by youself."
As he spoke, Robert Cheng shared the surveillance footage rights with Nie Yang. Soon, a large light screen appeared in front of Nie Yang's eyes. After a shake, the background became clear, revealing a fierce battle on the battlefield.
Nie Yang took a quick glance and knew that his apprentice had been surrounded by the snake army.
He frowned involuntarily and said a little:
"Why is he surrounded by an army of snakemen in the wild?"
"How should I know? And that's not the point."
“What’s the point?”
"Look at the magic book your apprentice is holding."
Nie Yang turned his gaze back to the battlefield and happened to see Li Qing opening the magic book in his hand. His attention was not here just now and he did not notice this.
This time his eyes were directed towards the magic book. He saw Li Qing open the magic book, put his hand on it and muttered something. A beam of light shot up into the sky and exploded into countless white lights that fell on the city wall. Then a magic shield light ball appeared on all the soldiers touched by the white light.
"This... is a magic book?"
"What do you think."
"How did he get the magic book?"
"You don't even know that you are his mentor, how would I know?"
…
There was silence for a few seconds, and Nie Yang bowed to Robert.
"thanks for reminding!"
Rob Cheng smiled:
"We have a close relationship, so I won't say more. Just go ahead and do your work. See if I can help you in any way."
Nie Yang nodded, and after closing the communication, he immediately contacted the other five mentors, immediately informing them that the war between had begun, and asked them to abide by the agreement.
Some of the instructors didn't care, some were a little surprised, and some seemed to be thinking about it and quickly contacted the Blackrock Tower.
Nie Yang ignored what the mentors were thinking . After the announcement, he immediately contacted Li Qing's Divine Realm and soon contacted An Erqiu who was in charge of the Divine Realm. He said in a deep voice:
"Leave a hundred men to guard the house, and immediately lead all the available men to Hashem City to support your lord. Don't worry about your family. The other apprentices will not attack you within a month."
When An Erqiu first received the news, he was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted, thanked his mentor, turned around and began to summon the territory's army.
There were only over two hundred soldiers guarding the territory. After some thought, An Erqiu only left fifty soldiers at home to guard the city.
As the mentor said, if no other war lord apprentices take action within a month, the territory will not be in danger.
The nearby alien tribes had been wiped out long ago, and the only threat was the snake people in Hashiwei City. Now Li Qing was fighting with the Hashiwei snake people's chief lord, and they certainly couldn't spare any time. Fifty soldiers were enough to defend the home.
The team left the castle and came to the river, going down the river.
After walking only five or six kilometers, An Erqiu saw the troops on the other side of the river. He quickly joined up with them and found Xie Zhu, who was escorting a large number of civilians back.
He immediately stepped forward and told Xie Zhu the news. The two of them decided to release the escorted civilians on the spot. The two teams combined, with a total of about 350 people, rushed down the river to support Li Qing.
On the battlefield, the snake people had already launched a full-scale attack.
A large number of kobold cannon fodder mixed in with the gnolls and carried long ladders and rushed to the bottom of the city wall. A group of gnolls worked together to lift the ladders and placed them on the city wall, and a large number of kobold cannon fodder climbed up the ladders.
Upon seeing this, Li Qing immediately used a large amount of wood to make five or six meter long poles in the space in his palm and asked his men to take them and use them.
There is a fork at one end of the long pole that can be used to support the top of the ladder. Several soldiers work together to push the ladder away from the top of the city wall, causing the soldiers climbing on the ladder to fall down.
Of course, only ordinary long ladders can be pushed open. If it is a long ladder with a curved hook hooked on the city wall, it can only be pushed open after cutting off the curved hook.
Ignore this type of ladder and only push away the ladders without hooks to minimize the enemy's access points to the city.
A large number of gnolls and kobolds came up the ladders. The soldiers who had been ready for battle were guarding the ladders and killing anyone who came up.
The gnolls and kobolds were not very strong, and even if they could climb up the city walls, they could not stand. Almost as many as they came died.
The snakeman overlord Hashim supervised the battle from afar. He did not even blink at the death of many of his men, but just kept driving cannon fodder forward to consume the enemy's strength.
No one would expect cannon fodder to capture a city. The only function of cannon fodder is to consume the enemy's physical strength and manpower, especially the archers' arrows.
In Hashiwi's opinion, this army couldn't even see the logistics, and the archers only carried a limited number of arrows. Once they were used up and had no long-range power, the snake people he relied on would join forces with the puppet army teleported by Master Kendin to launch an attack, and they would surely be able to capture the city in one fell swoop.
Bloody, cruel, and the most primitive cold weapon combat is always ugly.
The snake people did not send out the Mage Corps from beginning to end, but only sent cannon fodder and vassal troops to consume the resources.
Li Qing would open the war magic book from time to time, releasing magic lightning to bombard the enemy's long-range lizardman troops outside the city. With the enemy's siege density, each magic lightning could kill at least hundreds of lizardmen and a small number of other unlucky aliens.
But for the snake-man coalition with a total number of tens of thousands, this loss is completely affordable.
After all, magic lightning only comes every fifteen minutes, which is too low a frequency.
The only thing that made the muscles on Hashim's face twitch constantly was Long Shou's dragon breath, which had a maximum width of nineteen meters and a maximum distance of forty-five meters. The total range was almost comparable to the killing range of magic lightning.
The key is that his breath does not have a fifteen-minute cooldown. After taking a breath, he can start charging for the second breath of dragon breath within just a dozen seconds.
At the beginning, the snakeman overlord Hashiwi's mentality was relatively stable. He had seen blood sorcerers before. This kind of ability required the consumption of physical strength. The greater the power, the greater the consumption. He would run out of physical strength after just a few uses.
But he didn't expect that Long Shou had pure crystals of flesh and blood essence and pure soul essence to restore his physical and mental strength.
After exhaling eight times in one breath, the aura on Long Shou's body weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye, which made Lord Hashiwei, who had been observing, nodded in his heart and felt relieved.
But what he didn't know was that behind him, Li Qing took out two soul essences and five blood and flesh essence crystals and gave them to Long Shou to take, which restored his consumed physical and mental strength in one breath.
It is worth mentioning that at this time, the strength of Long Shou's bloodline is LV3, the concentration is far beyond the original, the strength has reached the fifth level, and the upper limit of physical strength is N times the original.
The Dragon Breath spell is only level 2, so the physical strength consumed is not the original 15% per breath, but 10% per breath. Therefore, there is still a lot of physical strength left after eight breaths.
But because the upper limit of physical strength has been increased, one crystal of flesh and blood essence could restore almost all physical strength, but now five are needed to replenish it.
His mental strength also increased dramatically. The reason why he only needed two to replenish it was that the consumption of mental strength by spewing dragon breath was not as great as physical strength. Therefore, the mental strength consumed by the eight dragon breaths just now was not much, and only two were needed to restore it to full.
The dragon guard, whose health was fully replenished, appeared on the top of the city wall in high spirits again. To the surprise of the snakeman overlord Hashiwi, he opened his mouth and spit out another breath of dragon.
"this……"
He had nothing to say.
But he didn't say anything, just watched his men continue to attack.
It's not too strange to have potions that can restore physical strength, but there shouldn't be many of them, so they can be consumed.
But this time, Long Shou got instructions from Li Qing, and the target of his dragon breath was exactly where the ladders were gathered. Not only did the dragon breath kill a large number of people, it also burned the ladders in the process.
Five consecutive breaths of dragon burned five ladders and the pressure on the city wall was suddenly reduced.
Seeing this scene, Hashiwei could no longer hold back and gave the order in a deep voice:
"Have the magicians prepare to use the spell of turning fossils into mud to open the city wall. Also..."
He paused and said to the female snake wizard beside him:
"Master Kendin, please cooperate with us and launch a joint attack."
The female snake wizard nodded, took out a red quiver from her bosom, lit the quiver and shot it out, which exploded in the air to form a strange red pattern.
Then, the golem puppet army that had not launched an attack before, located fifty meters away from the rear city wall, began to move. A large number of clay golems separated, and the tall steel golems walked towards the city wall with heavy steps.
But Li Qing's attention was not here, but behind the iron golem.
