Chapter 425

Chapter 425

2021-01-06

Chapter 425 Cold Magic Shows Prestige The offensive cannot be effective in one fell swoop. In order to avoid meaningless casualties, I will definitely choose to temporarily withdraw troops, rest and reflect, re-examine the offensive plan, coordinate the coordination between the various units, replace the troops with excessive casualties, and then return in a swirl of dust...

But the ghoul army doesn't follow this logic at all.

Although the Shadow Tower defenders came up with weapons that completely restrained them, the sea of ghouls only slowed down their attack a little (even this was just an illusion created by the defenders building up their confidence), not at all. Stop planning to die. The fire in the first annihilation zone consisting of burning wood and asphalt has been forcibly trampled to the point of being nearly extinguished. The proportion of the living dead who can safely cross this area and throw themselves under the wall continues to increase, and the ghouls are like seawater at high tide. It came endlessly and slammed into the defensive line formed by the combination of Wildfire and the high wall.

Although some ghouls finally started to climb up the walls with their bodies covered in flames, forcing the defenders to use Dragonglass lances...but generally speaking, they were still just sprinkled on the hot iron. Water droplets, whoosh sound will turn into smoke, and the defense line of living people is still solid.

However, it is precisely because the attack has never been interrupted that under the dual action of the "dark light effect" caused by the dazzling firelight and the sense of urgency brought by the ghouls in the front of one's eyes, the black Almost no one could see the internal movement in the ghoul army, until the battle situation in the direction of the gate changed again.

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Because the city gate has been broken, in order to strengthen the defense of this weak point to avoid short-board effect, the defenders invested far more than other city wall sections in this area. A lot of Wildfire and almost all Dragonglass bombs - fires elsewhere are confined to the walls, only burning the ghouls who have already leaned against the wall and started to climb, but the city gate is forcibly created a circle of ten Several meters of fire sea, in order to save Wildfire, the defenders even kept throwing firewood inside to help burn.

Looking down from the top of the Wall, a particularly conspicuous mass in this circular wall of fire is like a dove egg diamond set in a platinum ring, dazzling and dazzling. Not to mention ordinary ghouls, even if there are a few more corpse elephants, if you want to go to this fire sea, you will have to burn a layer of skin.

The raging flames seem to dispel the chill of winter, and the temperature inside the Shadow Tower walls seems to be much higher. The tension that was approaching the end of the day began to ease as a large number of enemies were killed. The two crossbow machines have been carried on the shoulders to the inside of the city gate. After debugging, they were aimed at the city gateway. After the establishment of the supplementary defense line with all the reinforcements, the tense nerves were relaxed, and the reserve soldiers who were responsible for cleaning up the sporadic ghouls in the door even began to have other concerns.

A reinforcement from the Sentinel Building asked: "Hey, you said, Wildfire won't soften the foundation permafrost and let the wall lean out and fall down?"

"Don't think about it, we dug the foundation of the wall by ourselves last year - first bake it on a fire, melt a section and dig a section. Fortunately, the weather was not so cold at that time, and it was easy to get the surface layer and the bottom layer. Under personal supervision, whether it's a craftsman, a clerk or a 'noble' Ranger, all the brothers took turns and laid a foundation four times the thickness of the wall without any compromise! Instead of worrying about the wall collapsing, you should worry about Wildfire putting The Wall is baked, let the ice wall fall to the south and crush us both to death!"

The joke was cold, but as if to dissipate the tension, the nearest soldiers laughed. , One of them laughed and opened a bow smoothly, shooting a ghoul who had gone through the suffer untold hardships, crossed the fire sea and turned over the bunker, and rushed in with flames from the door opening with one arrow.

Compared to the brothers on the city wall scrambling to defend the ghoul army under the heat of Wildfire, the door is so comfortable.

Then, a gust of cold wind blew, and the flames on all around the torch suddenly shook violently, and even the snowflakes falling on the top of the head suddenly became denser.

The few people who were still laughing just now were interrupted by the sudden rise of goosebumps. They were about to pull something to ease their tension when the shouts from the city wall made them have one's hair stand on end up.

"Hey? Why can't the fire burn? Hurry up and add Wildfire! Still not working? Bombs! Bombs?!"

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The three appointed Cold God priests, under the cover of the puppet Giant and the mammoth, arrived at the edge of the fire sea and began to cast Cold Magic at close range.

Due to the repressive force field contained in the Wall, a Magic that wants to release a normal formidable power outside the Shadow Tower now has to be cast at a closer distance and consume more magic power to achieve - so Night King will send their three people to team up for this mission. Under the circumstance that the recovery speed of magic power is only 1% of the original, Magic has also become a consumable like a bomb in the hands of human beings. They did not intend to use this method in the first battle of attacking Wall, and exposed their cards in advance.

After casting the spell tonight, the three priests will either return to the north side of the Gorge to replenish the magic power, or play spectators in the most crucial battle for the next two to three days, reducing the number of servants available to Cold God by -3.

It's a pretty big price, but it pays off really quickly, and as the spell continues to cast magic power quickly drains - the circle around Shadow Tower protects it from ghouls. On the ring, the most shining diamond rays of light suddenly dimmed!
The three priests joined hands to cast a spell to lock the air flow in the square-inch space at the entrance of Shadow Tower... By blocking the air convection, the combustion reaction could not get oxygen supplement and stopped, and then lowered the area after the flame was extinguished The way of temperature, forcibly stifled the defensive supplement that was crucial to the defenders, and exposed a huge defensive gap outside the broken gate!

Corpse bears, corpse wolves... these special Cold God units, whose speed is far faster than humanoid ghouls because they land on all fours, roared and rushed out of the sea of corpses while taking advantage of the short gap when the flames were extinguished. , quickly poured into the dark doorway.

The tense guards at the top of the wall immediately blocked the door with back-up bombs from the sentry building. The Blackfyre medicine had its own oxidant, and the lack of oxygen could not prevent it from exploding. There was a loud rumbling sound. It does greatly hinder the pace of the fast ghouls, but the limited fragments of Dragonglass are not comparable to the flames with no opportunity, and due to the innate flexibility of predators, the fallen ghouls in front cannot. Blocking the steps of the follow-up corpse wolves and corpse bears, flesh and blood are flying, even if only half of the fast ghouls can rush into the entrance, they are continuous enemies to the defenders!
"Let the arrows go!"

The moment the first corpse wolf passed through the door and passed the obstacle, baring its teeth and rushing towards the defenders behind the door, the guards who were on full alert began to violently attack The densely packed Dragonglass arrows make the enemy have nowhere to hide, and the lance shot by the crossbow machine in the loud peng peng can often penetrate several enemies and nail a "ghoul string" to the doorway wall...

For a moment, the scene is quite encouraging: it seems that the new species of ghouls pouring in from the doorway can't break through the defense line. But the Night's Watch archers had a gap between shooting, and the reloading of the crossbow machine was extremely slow. They could not always maintain the intensive firepower at the first moment. The newly acquired explosive bombs of the defenders at the top of the wall were also quickly exhausted. As soon as the explosion stopped, the frantically influx of enemies continued to push the front line to within the wall.

One hundred and seventy seconds after the three Cold God priests ventured close to the front line and cast spells at close range to extinguish the fire sea at the entrance of Shadow Tower, the first corpse wolf rushed into the position of the human defenders behind the door. The three soldiers holding the Dragonglass lance joined forces to kill it before it bit the archers, but only a dozen seconds later, the other corpse bear was shot in the shoulder and still undead-finally threw down the bunker one day later. Named Night's Watch, the first victim of the gate defense battle was born after biting the hapless head before being eliminated by other soldiers.

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In the battle between the living, after the enemy rushed to the land grant, it is still possible for the defenders to drive down through a heroic blood War General, but this situation is in this Ice The battle between and Fire is impossible - the living and the dead fight, there are only two scenarios: either almost no casualties, or a rout... no neutral ending!

When the firepower of the defenders is greater than the speed of the enemy's influx, since the ghouls cannot perform fine operations such as long-range attacks, as long as Others do not attack, ideally the defenders will run out of weapons before running out of weapons. Zero casualties can be achieved. But once the firepower of the defenders

Between the screams and the screams, the casualties quickly changed from 1 to 2 after breaking through 0, from 2 to 3...to 10...20... Until this time, the situation didn't seem to be To the point of being irreparable: more than two hundred soldiers guard the gates, and the first one dies and one goes up, and more logisticians can join the fight at any time. But with the disappearance of the distance and depth between the enemy and the enemy, after the hand-to-hand combat began, there was no suspense in the ending.

Even at this moment, the ghouls continued to attack in other places outside the fence where the fire had not been extinguished. The seven or eight hundred Night's Watch soldiers on the fence were too busy to take care of themselves, and had no chance to pay attention to within the fence. The situation of the wall department, not to mention the support from the wall, recapture the gate.

"My lord, your life is more meaningful to Night's Watch! Please retreat from the stairs immediately, I will take over command here!" Bann, who was taking care of the two Dragonsteel arrows in place of Deputy Commander Qhorin Halfhand, shouted to Denys persuaded, "I'll stay here, as soon as Others emerge, I'll use Lightbringer to kill them immediately!"

Contrary to the previous one that required a few people to drag him away, this time, Denys Mallister didn't stubbornly insist. , he silently nodded to Ben, and without even saying a word, he withdrew to the stairs behind Shadow Tower under the protection of his trusted guards.

He wasn't going to run, he was going to execute the darkest, cruelest, coldest blooded and emotionless part of "Wall Defense Plan" that only the commanders of the fortresses knew about.

[When the fortress is unavoidable, the commander must destroy the ladder at any cost, the priority is higher than everything else! ]

He has already given this mission to Qhorin Halfhand, this guy has always been reliable, back ten thousand steps, even if something happened to him, if the few guards on top of Wall are smart enough I can react, and it is too late to destroy the ladder from above. But... After seeing the incredible Magic methods that Others possessed, Denys decided to do it himself, and formed a 3rd-layer insurance with oneself's deputy commander and Wall's top sentries to ensure that nothing could go wrong.

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[terrifying...I said that the monthly pass in July will be updated to 90,000 words in August when the monthly pass reaches 600, and then it really arrives at 11:59 on the 31st half of the month 600?

Okay, no nonsense, the August 90,000-word challenge starts, ask for tickets]

(end of this chapter)