Chapter 358: An Astonis.h.i.+ng Number of Skeletons
The fireball spell cast by the mage apprentices, which had been tempered by the Enfath Empire for countless years, was worthy of its name!
The fire elements that had condensed to the extreme directly exploded. The raging and violent fire dragons swept through all obstacles within a 15-meter radius. The scorching temperature reached thousands of degrees, and the skeleton warriors in the center were directly burned to ashes!
Even more than 30 meters away from the explosion point of the fireball, the scorching air waves mixed with the flames were still rolling in the group of skeletons.
The skeleton warriors and soldiers were sent flying one after another.
There were also many skeleton warriors who were contaminated by the flames in the air waves and instantly turned into ash by the high temperature. Even the tattered ancient armor could not defend against it at all, and they were turned into flying dust under this high temperature.
Fireb.a.l.l.s were thrown one after another. At least one thousand skeleton warriors were directly killed.
One could tell how powerful the spells were.
However, after the mage apprentices cast all three of their fireb.a.l.l.s today, they had no choice but to retreat and hand over their casting positions to the Veruga archers behind them.
Although the spells were powerful, the spell slots limited the number of times they could cast spells.
Or in other words, their endurance.
As long as the crossbowmen had arrows and stamina, they could fire as many times as they wish.
Mages were different. Their spell slots were fixed every day. After casting the all the spells in their spell slot, they could only retreat dejectedly and hand over the heavy responsibility of long-range attacks to the crossbowmen behind them.
In fact, in large-scale battles, most of the long-range damage were dealt by the crossbowmen.
As for mages, they would only appear in strategic positions.
For example, when nrekxaing through the enemy’s defense, or when attacking the enemy’s elite troops with spells.
Therefore, in normal battles, mages would never waste their precious spell slots. After all, when all the spells contained in the spell slots were ineffective, the only things left would be their weak body and their decorative wooden sticks, in close combat, they couldn’t even defeat a peasant.
Even the mages or great mages who had more spell slots and stronger spells would not take the risk easily. They would always leave a few spell slots to save their lives.
These mages apprentices were the same.
Although they had used up the fireball spell with AOE damage, they still had the magic bullet spell.
This was a single-target spell.
Its power was like a two-handed sledgehammer.
However, due to the close range of the spell, which was only about 50 meters, the mage apprentices did not plan to release it. It would be wiser to stay behind and prepare to attack the enemies that might appear at the city wall or the city gate.
Kant also understood this point, but when he looked at the skeleton warriors that were still numerous as ants, his expression became glum.
The empty area where the fireball spell had exploded had been filled up once again.
An astonis.h.i.+ng number of skeleton soldiers and skeleton warriors poured out from the curtain of death. It was impossible to know how many more there were, and the higher-level skeleton cavalry and death knights had yet to appear.
Even the other undead troop cla.s.s had yet to appear.
What Kant was facing now was perhaps only the tip of the iceberg of the undead troop.
The endless natural disasters of death were using absolute numbers to crush the enemy army to death.
“We can only defend.”
Kant’s expression was cold.
But in his heart, he was still uncertain. He did not know how many undead army there were in the curtain of death. Could it really be endless and to the point where it’d crush the entire Oasis Lookout?
The skeleton warriors that had been shattered into bones were almost piled up.
Even the lake was filled with skeletons.
In the east, west, and south, the skeleton warriors and skeleton soldiers were mixed together. They had already arrived at the bottom of the cliff. They were using the rotten weapons in their hands to strike the rock layer in vain, leaving small white marks.
In fact, their rotten weapons directly shattered, leaving the skeletons standing in place in a daze.
They did not have siege weapons.
They did not have climbing tools or the ability to directly reach the city walls!
Therefore, the main direction of the undead’s attack was automatically s.h.i.+fted from the north to the southeast when the large group of skeleton warriors fell.
That was because there was a 5-meter wide and 20-meter long ramp on both sides of the southeast that connected the city gates!
“They’re here.”
When Kant heard the sound of horse hooves, he understood.
The desert bandit messengers quickly rode over. They threw away the reins in their hands, jumped off their horses, and rushed up the stairs to Kant. They reported, “My lord, the enemy is attacking the city gate!”
“Got it.”
Kant nodded calmly.
At the same time, he asked the desert bandits beside him, “Which gate is Manide guarding?”
“The east gate!” Someone immediately answered.
“Ok.”
Kant nodded and ordered, “Tell him to hold the east gate.”
“Yes!” The desert bandits who answered nodded, then turned around and left.
Kant thought for a while, then walked forward. At the same time, he turned to ban dake and said, “We’re going to the south gate.”
“Understood.” Bandake followed.
Currently, Drondheim Castle only had two pa.s.sageways, the south gate and the east gate. Those were the only points where the castle could be breached. Of course, they had to pay attention to them.
However, there were differences between these two city gates.
The inner part of the east gate belonged to the military administration area, and there was also a batch of reinforcements that could be deployed at any time.
Manide was in charge of that area, and it could also make up for his weakness in commanding battles. Therefore, Kant asked him to simply defend with his life. Moreover, he even brought the two pages of the magic item that could summon elemental giants to him beforehand.
The south gate was different.
This city gate was used for commerce and civilians, so there were fewer troops stationed there. They needed to arrange for troops to be stationed there in advance. In an emergency, they also needed to lead troops to reinforce.
Kant had asked Bandake to guard the south gate. He also planned to use his own power.
After all, Bandake was now the strongest!
Even Kant could not be compared to this underworld apostle.
Whether it was individual combat strength or summoning a small team of underworld invaders, they could stop the invasion of the undead. Perhaps they could even create the illusion that their defense was weak and let the supernatural powers of the undead suffer a loss!
They quickly moved to the south gate.
On the city wall, the archers were relying on the towers and arrow towers to shoot wantonly.
At the same time, there was a violent banging sound at the city gate. It was as if there were countless people outside struggling to get in. However, there was a strange crisp sound mixed with the intense banging
Kant narrowed his eyes. Of course, he could tell what the source of the crisp sound was.
It was clearly the sound of bones breaking!
He quickly walked up the city gate and followed the platform that had been built before to the position of the urn city gate. The 5-meter wide and 20-meter long ramp outside was already filled with the figures of skeleton warriors.
They were holding a rotten lance or longsword in their hands and wearing rotten armor from the ancient times.
They were crowding towards the city gate.
Those skeleton warriors who had already come into contact with the city gate were using their weapons to knock on the well-made and st.u.r.dy thick wooden gate. Outside the wooden gate, there was a layer of iron bars as thick as a thumb that was welded together. It was the source of the sound.
However, these skeletons could not cause any damage to the city gate at all. Perhaps they could leave some scratches. Their decaying weapons could not even knock down the thick wooden city gate, let alone the iron gate!
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh –”
At the city gate, the Swadian crossbowmen and the Veruga archers were still shooting arrows.
Black shadows rained down like a storm. On the slope, groups of skeleton warriors fell because of this. At almost every moment, an empty slope appeared and was immediately filled up by the skeleton warriors that surged up from behind.
The crossbowmen stationed at the urn of the city gate were all thoroughly elite.
There were also two archmages who had yet to make a move.
Although the 50 Veruga marksman’s rapid fire was not as fast as the Ravenston ranger’s, they were still able to shoot at close range within 20 meters. Every arrow hit the forehead of the skull, so there was no issue.
With the addition of the Veruga marksman’s accurate shooting, the scene was very harmonious.
That’s right.
It was very harmonious.
Every time the 50 Veruga marksman and the 30 Swadian marksman fired, they would clear the 20-meter slope of the skeleton warriors for a short while.
But soon after, the s.p.a.ce in front of them would be filled up again by the skeleton warriors.
They went back and forth.
The scene was unusually harmonious.
Standing at the top of the urn city gate, Kant’s expression was calm, and his eyes were a little more relaxed.
As piles of broken bones fell down the slope, the group of skeleton warriors were accurately shot in their skulls. The danger of the city gate had not increased, and it made him feel al little more at ease.
Even Bandake looked more relaxed. He smiled and said, “This is very simple.”
“Yes.”
Kant nodded in agreement. “Simple.”
However, he still frowned and looked at the skeleton warriors who were still filling up the entire Oasis Lookout outside. The corners of his eyes were twitching. “The number of these skeletons should be at least 40,000, right?”
“Well, maybe 50,000. As you know, the skeletons don’t have flesh and blood, and they occupy a small area.”
Ban dake replied, “In short, there are a lot of them.”
“Heh.” Kant chuckled, but there was a hint of depression in his eyes. “Then, if these skeletons focus on attacking a certain point of our position, can they form a bridge made of bones and directly charge up the city wall?”
“This… is hard to say.” Bandake’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a red light flickered.
This was indeed possible.
The group of Jackalans who had pa.s.sed through the Nahrin Desert and were almost at the end of their lives were able to go all out once. With such a brazen and reckless charge of death, they had directly charged up the city wall, almost crus.h.i.+ng Kant’s original troops.
Moreover, right now, those skeleton warriors did not have the concept of death.
Building a wall made of bones.
It was really possible!
Although it was 20 meters, it was not that difficult to fill up a city wall form a slope with almost 50,000 skeleton warriors and skeleton soldiers!
There might be more of the undead in the curtian of death behind them!