Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 346 Powerful Boundary
As he spoke, a scarlet light flashed, and an ultra-giant energy barrier mixed with flames quickly rose up with it as the center.
Levi retreated immediately because he was worried that he would be enveloped by the barrier. No matter how strong he was, he would not be able to stop the thousands of demons after being separated from his own main force.
In fact, by now, he had almost given up.
With the cunning shown by the devil Vial, the possibility of them taking over this place today without the help of external forces is almost zero.
It was simply that the other party was too cunning and too well prepared.
Obviously, they had enough strength to capture the besieged knights, but they set an ambush at the entrance of the valley and left so many reserve troops. If it were anyone else, they would have been caught long ago.
Moreover, Levi did not see any other spellcasters. The devil Vial alone activated such a large barrier. Was the combat power it had demonstrated before really its full strength?
Although demons and devils are the two most threatening evil alien creatures to the main world and their individual combat capabilities are also very strong, their fighting methods, intelligence, etc. are completely different.
In a one-on-one duel, the outcome is still unknown, but if it is 100 devils versus 100 demons, Levi believes that the former has a much higher chance of winning than the latter.
It would have been a disaster if they had not been engaged in a bloody battle of extremely large scale that had lasted for who knows how many years, allowing either side to launch a full-scale attack on the main world.
If they had not wasted a lot of time fighting with the Dark Blood Hand, perhaps they would have been able to catch up?
But then Levi shook his head secretly and ignored this possibility.
He had absolutely no regrets about launching an attack on Dark Blood Hand and his men, because if he had not sniped them there, he would have to face the attack from both the devil and them at the same time.
As God's chosen heroes who chose to join the Church of Cyric, it would be foolish to expect them to have any sense of the overall situation. Everything they did was just for their own benefit.
If they really had a sense of the overall situation , they would not have worked for Xirik.
What's more, if they were really smart enough, they would not be used by the devils to open this portal!
What we can do now is to retreat as much as possible, wait for possible reinforcements from other directions, and then reorganize our troops to fight again.
According to previous communication, Michaela will bring her troops to Thorn Town today or tomorrow if nothing unexpected happens. I hope she can be accompanied by some powerful mages or priests.
Levi was like this, and the others were even more dazed. Most of them could not imagine that they had spent so much energy but actually only killed some low- and mid-level cannon fodder, while the enemy's main force was almost intact. This was a huge blow to them.
Shudun, Zhang San and others could not help cursing. Although they had long known that the devils were cunning by nature and not so easy to deal with, it was only after they actually fought with them that they realized how cunning they were.
Although their troops did not suffer much loss as a result, they still felt very aggrieved and angry.
The Barto knights on the side were even more horrified. Even though they did not have much experience in knightly combat all those years ago, they were not stupid. If the devils attacked with all their strength from the beginning, they might not even be able to wait for reinforcements, right?
But despite this, Levi did not give up. He commanded his troops to attack again, at least to roughly understand the effect of the barrier.
Then he immediately felt that after passing through that special barrier, all his magic was weakened by varying degrees, especially ice and fire magic, which were weakened the most. Ice storm and fireball had almost no effect.
As for the rain of arrows from ranged units, the impact was even greater, because the arrows were burned up on the spot when they passed through the barrier, so how could they attack the enemy?
Only Donna and Avalon's magic arrows can penetrate the interception, but the damage is not as good as before.
Considering the current number of the devil army and the speed at which they are increasing, even if their number were to increase three or five times, it probably wouldn't make much sense.
Levi even began to consider retreating, because just a short while after the barrier was raised, the devil army received hundreds of reinforcements.
At this rate, if they continue to increase their troops for a period of time, the total number of troops will probably be greater than the sum of the indigenous people and the army in the three nearby towns.
This is not an enemy they can handle.
After all, they have no such obligation or responsibility.
This is trouble caused by those idiots in the Church of Cyric. Why should they be the ones to clean it up?
The Legion Demons are not good at attacking, but when it comes to defense, based on their special skills, they are definitely excellent cannon fodder.
At this moment, Luna suddenly reminded that nearly a thousand troops were heading straight here, including infantry and cavalry. Judging from the opponent's flags, they should be the Legion of Terror from Deadwater Town.
Levi suddenly changed his mind slightly. If it was the other side coming, would it be possible to weaken the power of the Legion of Fear while attacking the devil?
Sometimes, stronger allies are not necessarily better, especially unstable temporary allies like the Church of Bane.
Slightly weakening the opponent's strength and dispelling their unrealistic fantasies about us would be good for both sides.
He immediately sent out a messenger to try to get in touch with the other party. At the same time, he retreated further and adjusted his formation, ready to escape at any time.
The priests, druids and others also began to recover with all their might, and the Knights of Barto, who had been fighting for a long time, finally got a chance to catch their breath.
Only Donna and Avalon continued to shoot downwards. Even if they could not really change the situation of the battle, it would be good to kill one more devil.
Shudun, Zhang San and others were still trying to attack in various ways, trying to test the opponent's barrier and find out which kind of attack it was relatively weak against.
Levi also took the opportunity to call the old wizard Tess over, wanting to find out in detail whether they had any information about these demons.
During this meeting, Levi was still enthusiastic, but the old wizard was obviously much more distant from him and was very respectful in his words.
Originally, out of his pride , he didn't like to call him Lord Levi, and just addressed each other as "Mage". But now his attitude is obviously different from the past.
At first Levi thought it was because the two sides had not seen each other for many days, but when he soon saw the knights around him looking at him with a little respect, he knew it was not just that.
This must be related to his legendary level.
With continuous battles, he led his subordinates to fight against powerful enemies many times and stopped the conspiracy of evil forces more than once. In addition, he captured towns and witnessed demigods and even true gods. His current legendary level is almost approaching 20.
An ordinary town chief only had a few legendary points, but his reputation now far surpassed theirs, and it was not only limited to the colony, but also began to spread to the surrounding areas.
This led to the situation that when he met these relatively honest and trustworthy indigenous people, once he asked a question, they would tell him almost everything they knew.
He even felt that considering the life-saving grace, even if he proposed to recruit them now, probably a large number of knights would agree.
But that’s for later.
After quickly communicating the information, Levi learned that the old wizard was planning to travel around, looking for ways to improve his strength. As a result, by chance, he met these Barto knights who ran to the nearby area because they were lost.
You have to know that the Kingdom of Batto is probably thousands of miles away from here. The fact that they got lost here shows that these knights are far superior to their fellows in terms of strength and directionality.
So he took the initiative to propose to join and go on adventures together to improve his own strength.
These knights from Barto, even though they are still young people with little adventuring experience, have received very strict training since childhood, and their strength is definitely above average among their peers.
In the Kingdom of Knights, all true knights must and can only be nobles. The training they have undergone, the weapons, armor, and horses they possess, etc., are all superior to those of ordinary knights in other human kingdoms.
Later, for similar reasons, they rescued or accepted several druids, priests, rangers, etc.
Because of the frequent fighting nearby, there are still many lone wanderers in the wild.
Originally, they had heard the news that Thorn Town had changed its owner, and the old wizard was very surprised and unexpectedly discovered that one of the names was not unfamiliar to him, so he planned to come to Thorn Town to take a look.
The knights who had also heard some of the legends about Levi did not refuse. They also wanted to meet this legendary figure who had recently become famous.
Then they met the followers of Xirik by coincidence.
At first they wanted to observe first, and then see if the other party was planning any conspiracy, and then choose whether to stop it.
Ninety-nine percent of all noble knights and ordinary peasants in the Kingdom of Batto chose to believe in the Lady of the Lake.
This goddess has always been very low-key, without any enemies or allies, and she does not have any obvious hostility even towards a guy like Xirik who is notoriously hated by everyone.
Therefore, before they were really sure that the other party was doing something bad, the Barto knights did not want to attack first.
Because their actions not only represent themselves, but also represent the Kingdom of Batto and the Goddess.
Then, they were delayed for some time by a group of beastmen, not knowing whether it was some trick used by Xirik's followers or it was just an accident.
After easily getting rid of the other party, they followed the ranger in the team and tracked all the way to the valley. They found that because of the slight delay, they were a little late.
They watched helplessly as an ominous blood-red portal was opened, and those followers of Xirik were swallowed up by the devil army in the blink of an eye.
Whether those guys did it by coincidence or on purpose, they paid a heavy price for it.
So in order to stop the invasion of the demons, the knights attacked the demons immediately, and then they were blocked in the valley and beaten up.
Their average strength was of course far superior to that of the Legion Demons, but because they had never encountered this kind of demon before and were unfamiliar with its abilities, they made one wrong step after another and put themselves in danger.
Levi basically knew what happened afterwards. It can be said that without the help of Levi and his men, none of these knights would have survived.
After carefully asking about a few details, Levi felt something was wrong.
Because in the other party's description, the demons at the beginning did not have those middle and high-level demons like the Blood Armor Demons, and they did not see any changes in the portal.
So when Levi broke the illusion, they were the most surprised.
Even though the demons were very cunning, they were still unable to discover such a large army.
It was such a large barrier, but they never saw the other party set it up from beginning to end. This was a bit abnormal.
Levi couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly and carefully observed the movements in the valley again.
Although he did not find any clues on the surface, but now that the enemy obviously has so many troops, why are they still willing to defend the valley?
If the sinister devil Vial had built such a large barrier by himself, why would he be so tolerant of his own provocations if he were in his place?
Does it really not care at all and only think about increasing its troops, or does it actually have the will but not the power?
