592 Curve Sho
“No need to guess, that giant iron s.h.i.+eld can at least counteract one armor piercing arrow. The orcs know this; that’s why they had organized the bearmans at the front to protect them!”k3305 lowered his voice and interrupted.
“b.a.s.t.a.r.ds, so this crossbow is hopeless against them?” K3308 said in a fury.
Even with the slower bearmans in the front line shouldn’t take long to reach them with the speed of orcs. With this distance, Abel could probably only allow shoot 2 arrows. Both the wizards and the orcs knew this full well.
A cold smirk emerged from Abel’s mouth. Maybe he would be hopeless against this battle formation in the past, but now, the way he saw the world was totally different from everyone.
A large amount of data began to update in real time, estimating the distance between the orcs and finding a loophole within their formation.
“K3516, help me break their s.h.i.+elds!” Head Commander Bodley yelled as he dashed forward with his war horse.
This act was very dangerous for him, even with the newest magic s.h.i.+eld and sword. He was about to face 5 bearmans. His chance of survival would drop dramatically as soon as he entered the enemies’ formation.
“My honor is my life!” He unleashed a charge 50 meters from the orcs. As he yelled, his war horse began to speed up and turned to shadow flying towards the bearman’s s.h.i.+eld.
Head Commander Bodley had blocked the sight of both the human and the orcs. All the orcs at that moment were squeezing behind 300 giant s.h.i.+elds, so their sight was extremely narrow.
At that moment no one would expect Abel to shoot, because there would be a big chance his arrow would land on Head Commander Bodley if he did.
However, Abel did the unexpected. He tilted the crossbow in a slight angle and gently jerked the crossbow the moment he pulled the trigger.
Everyone on the rock was in disbelief. The armor piercing arrow flew out in a swirl pa.s.sing Head Commander Bodley and the first row of bearmans.
It was like the armor piercing arrow had grown wings. It sped towards the second row of bearmans and penetrated one of their armpits. Afterward, it continued to fly towards the 100 orcs.
At that moment their formation was extremely tight, and this arrow had almost opened up a road of blood among those orcs behind their s.h.i.+elds. A bearman dropped dead, and 5 other wolf riders behind it were also penetrated by the arrow in varying degrees.
The huge armor piercing arrow could take a big chunk of meat out of you even if it just brushed along your body. The bearmans heart had been penetrated; it would be a miracle if it could survive.
2 of those 5 wolf riders were also dead in an instant, and the others had a huge hole opened up in their bodies. Even with the strength of an orc, they might not be able to live for long if they weren’t treated immediately. But still, who would have time to stop when facing a crossbow.
After paying a big price, the orcs realized their enemy had unleashed another armor piercing arrow. They still had some time before their next strike, so it was the perfect time to accelerate.
However, a head commander was rus.h.i.+ng right at them. If their bearman put away their s.h.i.+elds, they would be open for attack.
As the 100 hesitated, Head Commander Bodley already arrived in front of the bearman’s s.h.i.+eld. He lifted up his knight sword, and viciously struck down.
“Bang!” Even Abel could hear the bang from a few hundred meters.
Head Commander Bodley took 3 steps back with his war horse. At that moment, the legs of his war horse were shaking. If it was not supported by combat qi, maybe the war horse had already become disabled.
Although the bearman’s giant s.h.i.+elds had successfully transferred the force of the impact to the ground, the grey bears below were knocked back for a few steps.
A Head Commander’s big sword could double his power. On top of the charging momentum, all of his power was unleashed in that strike.
In the past, he would definitely not do this since it would break his weapon, but now that he knew that his sword was made out of condensed iron, so he no longer cared.
He gazed towards that bearman he just struck. There was a deep crack on its s.h.i.+eld.
The other bearman began to wave their giant battle axes towards head commander Bodley. The ma.s.sive sweeping sound it made almost shook the entire atmosphere of the place.
Head Commander Bodley did not retreat. Knights were prideful. Although there were a lot of formal techniques, none of them were for retreating–e
Joey, who was standing next to Abel at the time, suddenly yelled, “A curve shot!”
A curve shot was an extremely advanced archery technique. Only a small amount of people had mastered them. Joey had only ever seen a G.o.dly archer do a shot like this in Miracle City once in his life.
On top of that, this was a crossbow. How could this wizard have the confidence to unleash a curve shot with a crossbow? Head Commander Bodley was right at the front. He could directly kill him if he had made a mistake.
Although k3305 and k3308 didn’t know what was a curve shot, they knew it was a special technique. All Abel did was gently jerked the crossbow before pulling the trigger, but they knew it was not that easy. Joey wouldn’t be so amazed for no reason.
Abel didn’t care about their reaction as he cranked on the crossbow again. Another armor piercing arrow was set, ready to shoot.
Of course, Head Commander Markham would not let head Commander Bodley fight alone, so he too also dashed forward and unleashed a charge when he was 50 meters from the orcs.
The ice magic sword in his hand brushed along the 2 metal s.h.i.+elds in front of the orcs with a wave of chill. At the same time, the battle ax of a bearman had struck upon the magic s.h.i.+eld of head commander Bodley.
A flash of white light appeared on the magic s.h.i.+eld, and a chunk of force was absorbed. But still, most of the force was transferred to the body of head commander Bodley through the s.h.i.+eld. Luckily he was already in a defensive position. As long as the s.h.i.+eld didn’t break, nothing under twice his force could knock him down.
Although Head Commander Markham had unleashed a charge, he did not directly attack. Instead, he continued to use the chill force to brush against the bearman’s s.h.i.+eld. They couldn’t underestimate this small technique since his ice attributed combat qi had a powerful slow down effect. It could delay the movement of the bearman for at least 2 seconds, and those bearmans were already slow in the first place.
By this point, the orcs were faced with a huge dilemma. If they kept attacking, they might be able to gang that head commander to death, but they would be exposing their entire team to the crossbow if they did so.
“Break out, attack!” A wolf rider captain yelled. Just when Head Commander Bodley was looking for that wolf rider captain who made the command, the entire team of orcs scattered like they did not care about the crossbow at all.
It was at that moment, another arrow speeded through the sky, avoided the 2 Head Commanders, and directly penetrated the wolf riders. 3 wolf riders dropped dead.
This shot speeded up wolf riders as they kept scattering. Their target was that big rock, and those wizards on that big rock.
By that point they no longer care about those 2 Head Commanders, they had their slower bearmen to hold them down. This was the best decision the wolves could make.
At that moment, those wolf riders’ directors had decided that they needed to kill those humans by all means necessary. War glory no longer mattered, they only had one target, and it was that giant crossbow on the rock. As long as they could get that crossbow, the orc empire could break it apart for research and strengthen their own crossbows.