Chapter 424
2021-01-06
Chapter 424 The Others Go OutThe Night King has no meat, but at the moment is truly experiencing the "meat" pain" feeling.
The armored corpse lost contact with the oneself seconds after entering the human fortress, so short that he didn't have time to look closely at the structure within the wall through his eyes. Through the last moment of incomplete information from the Magic link, he could feel a surging Fire Attribute magic power that was thousands of times stronger than frozen fire penetrated from the position of Giant's chest, and instantly dispelled oneself and poured it into his body. The full magic power used to control it.
Night King could probably guess that it was a Magic weapon, but what he couldn't understand was that such a remote fortress at the westernmost end of the Wall would have this kind of restraint. The dive object.
There are more than a dozen corpse giants and corpse elephants in the army, but this kind of big guy can only be unexpectedly sent out... Now that he knows that the other party has restrained weapons, it's like adding fuel. Continuing to use it as a consumable, even the Night King would be reluctant.
Of course, this "reluctance" is only for the rarity of Mammoths and Giants themselves, and has nothing to do with personal feelings. As the number one servant of Cold God, Night King's feelings about battle damage are completely different from that of human beings: in his eyes, there is no concept of "brothers' lives". All ghouls, including priests and even himself, are Consumables for that greater purpose.
As long as it can destroy the Wall's function of shielding the power of Cold God, and let massive cold magic power pour into within the wall, there are a lot of living people in the south waiting for oneself to destroy and transform into puppets. He is the general who does not worry about the source of troops in the world, and the commander who does not worry about casualties.
However, not worrying about the source of troops is after the destruction of Wall Magic, at least for now, he can't let the ghouls be consumed without meaning.
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As a defended object, no one knows the power and invulnerability of The Wall better than the Night King.
The physical majesty and sturdiness of the ice wall itself do not need to be repeated, but what people should be amazed at is at least three kinds of Magic woven in the base below: Basically constant "Isolation Magic". The invisible barrier formed by it isolates the power of Cold God and blocks it from beyond the wall, allowing the impossible human predator to break into the world south of the wall, killing and destroying at will. Cold God priests cannot wake the dead within the wall into ghouls through the Wall, nor can the ghouls brought to the south of the wall feed back information to the Cold God priests beyond the wall through the Wall... Previously, Night's Watches captured North And the ghouls of King's Landing are not sensed and controlled by Others, precisely because of this Magic barrier.
Second is a spell that keeps the subject sturdy and stable. The part above the ground of The Wall is an ice wall. This material selection consideration is not because "Bran the builder thinks it is very cool", but because - ice is the only one in nature that meets the requirements of "large quantity and easy to obtain", "immune to cold Magic", Substances with the three conditions of "lightweight and strong".
Although it has many advantages, it has a fatal disadvantage: it will melt during Summer.
The thermal insulation Magic woven into it is to solve this problem: when the weather is hot, Night's Watches will indeed see the surface of the ice wall melt or even fall off and collapse a little, but all these losses are condensation The frost, rain and snow on its surface, a layer of skin flakes, is not the body of the Wall... The real The Wall can maintain its own temperature below freezing, and even has the function of slow self-recovery when it suffers minor external damage, Coupled with a little "outside help" from Night's Watch craftsmen, it can go through countless winter and summer alternations and still maintain a high shape, a strong Protector-like country.
The Third Type is also the most troublesome type for the Cold God priests - the "suppressive force field" that radiates outward from the energy core of the Wall Magic source as the origin.
Beyond the wall residents and Night's Watch Rangers who frequently go out of the wall have come to the same conclusion by using simple logical thinking and dialectics through practical observation of the behavior and movements of ghouls and Others. Conclusion: The closer the enemy is to Wall, the weaker it is.
This judgment is basically correct, but the details need to be revised and supplemented.
A more accurate fact - the closer the Cold Magic gets to the giant glowing Heart Tree beneath Nightfort, the more suppressed it becomes.
Also, the effects of this suppression and nerf on ghouls and Others are completely different.
The ghouls can "resurrect from the dead" rely on a little magic power injected by the Cold God priests, but the strength comes entirely from oneself's physical body. Its connection to Others will be weakened when it is close to Nightfort's "Magic Suppression Source", and the effect will be reflected in aspects such as untimely receiving commands, severely shortening the controllable distance, or even disconnecting and losing control. But whether it's in the Lands of Always Winter, next to the Wall, or even in front of the giant tree under Nightfort, ghouls are ghouls, they are only "Death" and "Alive", "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" "These states will not become stronger or weaker with changing places.
But Others are different: because 99% of their bodies are made up of magic power, they have almost complete immunity to physical damage and master all kinds of incredible Magic methods, but at the same time they have to be suppressed by this cold Magic. The significant effect of the force field - just close to the Wall, the formidable power they cast Magic will be severely weakened. After crossing the Gorge, the Cold God priests not only suppressed the magic power recovery speed to the original 1%, even Magic The power has also been suppressed to half of the normal situation...
And this is only in the case of Shadow Tower, the westernmost part of the Wall. As the army moves towards the middle of the Wall, this suppressing effect will become more and more obvious and strong. Outside of Nightfort, the Magic skills of the Cold God priests may only be able to exert one or two percent.
The most disgusting thing is: this Magic force field is only effective for Cold Attribute magic power, and it is beneficial and harmless to Magic of any other attribute!
The huge body, the complex Magic, and the largest standing Legion in the Westeros continent ... together make up this human shield. If Night's Watch gathers army in Nightfort to fight with the dead army, it's hard to say who wins or loses.
This is why the Night King's goal is clearly Nightfort, but he doesn't bypass the fortress and attack it directly, but decides to attack it from the beginning - his idea is to be far away from Nightfort's Wall Open the situation at both ends first, and use the method of destroying one by one to continuously kill the human defenders. By the way, capture the stairs connecting the top of the wall in the Night's Watch fortress to replenish their own troops... After completing the tactical goal of occupying the top of the Wall, send the ghouls along the Wall. Heading towards Nightfort, cooperate with the army on the ground, from two heights that are 700 feet apart, carry out an all-round three-dimensional attack on the final goal, so that Nightfort is isolated and helpless, and there is no way to go to the ground. Under the circumstance of being suppressed, the strategic goal of capturing Nightfort and destroying the source of Wall Magic is still achieved.
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In the long run, ghouls are the least renewable resource that needs to be saved...but while Wall Magic has not yet expired, the Night King still has to rely on it These puppets came to fight the living defenders.
A weapon that can instantly kill a corpse Giant must also instantly kill a Cold God priest, they have to have enough ghoul cover to ensure that the human hero is unrecognizable to find and rush over to behead or snipe oneself; they have to have enough corpses After the ghosts broke the Shadow Tower, they went up the stairs and occupied the top of the ice wall, cut off the passage of mutual support between the human fortresses and rushed all the way to Nightfort; Nearly ineffective", stormed into the largest fortress built by Night's Watch, and finally completed the goal of destroying Wall Magic.
But right now, the human defenders are far more prepared than expected.
It took less than an hour to take down the Gorge line, costing nearly 20,000 ghouls, and less than half an hour of fighting under Shadow Tower, a small fortress that was meant to be taken quickly, that kind of weird fuel. Burning thousands of ghouls to ashes under the wall - that's a loss that can't be made up by killing everyone who wants to be within the wall. The terrifying green oil of human beings seems to be endless. If such a fortress loses thousands, and another fortress loses tens of thousands of land to attack it all the way, when it comes to Nightfort, the priests may have to be general without an army and fight hand to hand. .
The Night King observed the Shadow Tower for a moment with his eyes sharper than an eagle, and finally found the reason why the defenders were so well-fired: on the solid wooden stairs built against the wall, several Ten living people gasping for breath up and down - if you guessed correctly, they brought that liquid fuel from other fortresses along the Wall to give this fortress a seemingly endless supply of weapons!
The attempt to drain the enemy's combat readiness to win with ease, the Night King knew, couldn't go on like this.
He turned his head and looked towards the other Cold God priests beside him, and gave an order in shrill ancient words. The three subordinates silently nodded and rushed out on dead horses. During the turbulent magic power, a layer of armor-like material that can resist the attack of ordinary freezing fire condenses and forms on their body surface, and the sea of corpses also churns up at the same time, and countless speed-type ghouls transformed from bears, wolves and other animals squeeze out of the human form. The ghouls followed the Others vanguard squad and rushed towards the glowing gates of the Shadow Tower.
Maintaining this layer of Ice Armor will consume a lot of magic power, and at the same time using other means, it is an unbearable burden for ordinary priests who are not strong enough, but in order to make the loss of ghouls no longer Continuing to climb, the Night King decided: to perform a little bit of the ultimate in advance.
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