Chapter 434
2021-01-06
Chapter 434 Great decisive battle? (below)Others can't guess if they want to break their heads. The Fire Attribute magic power in the body of the fallen defenders is neither R'hllor's Divine Vestige nor Greenseer's Magic, but only comes from a Queenscrown Today It has only just begun, the feasibility is unknown, and it is purely a cramming operation.
After receiving battle reports from all over the front line in the early hours of the morning, the headquarters used the newly obtained information to make a series of decisions. Qyburn Maester, who belongs to the commander and is not considered a clerk's staff, suddenly raised a magical topic during the discussion: Since Dragonglass can kill ghouls, can this substance be stuffed in the body in advance to achieve "I kill me" "oneself", that is - after being killed in battle and being resurrected as a ghoul, what about killing "another oneself" directly by means of the Dragonglass in the body?
There is no doubt that this kind of magical brainstorming discussion is more suitable for after-dinner dinners, rather than the tense moments and serious occasions in the command room after the decisive battle has broken out, but this involves thinking. The idea of a dead end immediately piqued Igor's interest.
Enemies who cannot be explained by common sense use a lot of bizarre means to rampage within the strong defense line carefully prepared by Night's Watch. At this moment, of course, we cannot stick to normal thinking!
It's naturally impossible to blow up all the military and civilians or surgically plug the Dragonglass, but there is an easier way to get obsidian into the human body: swallow it!
After completing the manufacture of the "Dragonsteel Bomb", the only working foundry in the industrial zone immediately replaced the manpower and used obsidian to melt and cast a large number of pearl-sized glass beads at full speed. Distributed to all military and civilians, including Giant, at dinner time, forcing everyone to swallow it before the battle.
This kind of round little thing without edges and corners enters the body through the esophagus and will not cause any harm to people. The only downside, but obviously, with the Others taking a fortress won't take more than an hour of swift and decisive, and anyone with a healthy stomach is unlikely to pull it out before the fight is over.
It is different from the idea of the plan proposer: the actual effect of swallowing Dragonglass is not "killing the reborn ghoul", but directly hindering the operation of Cold Magic. Dealing with this move is actually quite simple - either spend some time disemboweling the obsidian beads one after another from the stomachs of the fallen, or spend more energy and neutralize the Fire Attribute magic power in the obsidian first Drop it, and continue the ghoul transformation spell.
However, whether it is time or magic power, when the Wall is not broken and the dragon is rushing to the battlefield, it is a precious resource that the Others are lacking!
Others were shocked to report to the Night King about the strange situation he encountered, and got news of the rout soldiers came from the command, with Dragonglass bombs, Dragonsteel arrows and thus murderous-looking humans hunted the battallion's soldiers. The sound of footsteps had already sounded outside a street.
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I thought Queenscrown was a piece of fat at my fingertips, but who would have thought that it was a fully armed, agile fat warrior -- fat, indeed, But trying to eat it in my mouth is extremely difficult!
Even if the trump card of Cold Magic was used in the opening game, the casualties of the ghouls continued to rise by dozens or hundreds... and soon broke through a thousand and went straight to two thousand. , the growth rate completely exceeded Night King's original expectations.
However, although the casualties are large, as long as the total number of living people in this town that can be converted into soldiers is not exceeded in the end, this battle can be regarded as a loss. Considering that there are still a lot of Giants hiding in the wall, it can even be said that it is profitable.
As an intelligent creature, the meaning of the existence of the Night King is not only when the strongest Others, but - when the living people resort to means to resist, try to deal with and restraint.
He plays, in fact, exactly similar to Igor's role in Night's Watch Legion - decision maker and leader!
Gorge line of defense, Eastwatch de-icing, Wall top patrol day and night, Wildfire, Bombs, all kinds of Dragonglass weapons... The preparation of mankind for this war is beyond imagination, but the Night King still performs his duty, one after Another figured out and implemented the corresponding and solution. Only the Dragonsteel arrow is an unprecedented dive tool that has both there is no stronghold one cannot overcome and abundant magic power. He racked his brains and only came up with a 100% safe way to deal with it, that is: hide it well. oneself , stay out of range of this arrow.
Strictly implementing this idea, when Melisandre cast a spell to attach the first powerful light spell to the Dragonsteel arrow in Igor's hand, revealing the position of oneself, Night King remained unmoved and continued silently. Hiding in the sea of ghouls far away from the city wall, sneeringly staring at the enemies who are racking their brains to entice oneself to appear in the distance.
The first gleaming Lightbringer crossed the sky and fell into the ghouls not far from the Night King.
To be honest: a Red God priest is quite a bait, and destroying the last Greenseer in the world is even more enjoyable... Even after careful perception, the Night King found that the one who shot the arrow also Not a nobody, but with a familiar and rare aura—Cold God's nemesis mark!
Really enemies on a narrow road, that's the Night's Watch that caused its first Others casualties in the Haunted Forest a few years ago!
Even though so many temptations are packed into a pile and put in front of you... In order to accomplish the greater cause of Cold God, Night King still holds the desire to shoot.
However, as the second Dragonsteel arrow with strong rays of light shone and landed again, the Others subordinates who entered the city reported to oneself the incredible situation they had encountered. The meaning was immediately questioned: only by relying on Magic can it be possible to capture Queenscrown with less battle damage, and only by ending the battle as soon as possible can we take Nightfort and destroy the Wall's Magic before the dragon returns to the battle... But after breaking this wall, we have to It took a lot of time or a lot of mana to convert the "infused" defenders in this city into ghouls, so what's the point of attacking the town first, deviating from the original plan?
Suddenly, the Night King suddenly understood the reason why the opponent kept throwing the Dragonsteel arrow "pointlessly" in the direction of the oneself.
In addition to wanting to lure oneself into beheading him, this move is also meant to demonstrate and show off - the enemy wants to use this Magic weapon that can destroy the Cold God priest as a way to Send such a message: This weapon, they have as many as they want, the priests sent into the city by oneself have already entered the trap, a lamb in a tiger's den, hard to avoid calamity!
Abandoning the Wall and attacking this human town is a huge decision-making mistake, and while the casualties of the ghouls are not serious, it is the best choice to immediately stop the attack and move on to other more valuable targets. However, the eight priests who had already been sent into the wall now became the biggest difficulty in withdrawing troops.
Every Cold God priest is a precious resource. The number of ghouls that Night King can control is endless. He can easily give up his subordinates on 2/3/2022. Otherwise, Even if you win the land-grant battlefield, it will still be difficult to attack the remaining human worlds in the south.
You must try to cover them so that the eight priests can break through the walls of Queenscrown again!
Again and again, and again and again, the Night King, who flew into a rage out of humiliation, finally got his heart out. He raised the ice spear and aimed it in the direction of the wall. After hesitating, he gritted his teeth and put it down: If he has to deal with Demon Dragon in the future, this kind of Magic weapon made of his body is still the only choice. Out of anger, this last card was used against trifling, a mortal opportunity.
He handed the ice spear back to the priest's subordinate beside him, and picked up a fist-sized stone under his feet.
Using a non-streamlined weapon to project an attack at such a long distance has no precision at all, but the advantage is that even if the position is exposed, there is no fear of the threat of the human magic arrow.
Glancing at the location of the Red God priest and the first priest killer, the Night King gathered all his strength and threw the stone in his hand... At the same time, he issued an order for the entire army to attack.
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Stone throwing is not a spellcasting in any sense, but as a life form fully supported by magic power, whether it is Others or Night King — - Even the muscles are woven from magic power. When they do violent movements, they will inevitably leak magic power, and it is this subtle energy fluctuation that makes Melisandre aware of the enemy's movements in an instant.
“Crouch down!”
The last time I saw the Night King, Igor pushed him to save his life. This time the witch won’t make the same mistake again. Grabbing the man beside him, he dragged him, who understood the seriousness of the matter and was quite cooperative, to hide behind the battlements and a row of soldiers with shields, and then... "Boom" with a loud bang with a sense of shock, the enemy's The attack smashed into the battlement, smashing the whole tens of centimeters thick stone stack from the city wall, knocking down the nearest soldier holding a shield, and the splashed gravel also hit other nearby shields, and the crackle hit it. A sound.
The scene is like being hit by small-caliber artillery. If there is no battlement to block this, Igor has no doubt that this attack can pierce the shield soldiers and kill oneself. But he didn't have time to feel the formidable power of the enemy's attack, and he didn't have time to investigate whether the enemy's attack was aimed at Melisandre or oneself. He immediately asked loudly: "Where!?"
"In your second arrow A little bit to the north, but... damn, it's a thousand feet away!" Melisandre exclaimed in despair.
A thousand feet away, more than three hundred meters, indeed far beyond the range of any wooden bow of this era. However, Igor invested a lot of material resources to buy and imitate high-performance trebuchets, and ordered the operators to focus on accuracy and range in training, and even specially held a skill tournament to test their training level, not because "when the arrow's range is insufficient , need to snipe the enemy from a longer distance" to prepare for this moment?
The failure of Dragonglass's ability to kill the enemy almost made this series of arrangements a basket case, but now, the two "Dragonsteel bombs" will be the last of Queenscrown's elite "artillery" to make history. opportunity. After Igor asked Bran about the location of the Night King, he brought to this section of the fence, in addition to the two dive archers An Gai and Theon, as well as two groups of the best trebuchet pitchers in all land grants!
"Traveler, Dragonsteel bomb ready, 1,100 feet away, cut leads!"
"In place, ready!"
Too late Explaining to Melisandre, Igor pulled out a third Lightbringer and leaned in front of her again: "enchanted!"
The unmistakable tone made the Red Woman subconsciously obey, and another dazzling ray of light was on the wall The overhead lights up, and Igor shoots without delay, pointing in the direction Melisandre had previously announced.
Magic flares once again illuminated the enemy army outside the wall from Queenscrown Northwest. It can be clearly seen: the wave of ghouls that was originally standing still outside the fire sea, attacked the wall in Night King. At the same time, like a colony of ants, they rushed towards Queenscown desperately.
"Is it this direction?!"
Melisandre was so nervous that he almost stammered at this moment: "It's not...about!"
"Aim at this arrow and land on the ground. In the direction of the arrow, point flame hair!"
Thousands of trainings have made the operators of the trebuchets proficient, and the two fuzes, which were cut short and expected to be airbursts, were lit by the torch, and the two fuzes were neatly lit. To the almost unifying sound of throwing arms, two limited-edition spherical weapons with the same shape and size as Dragonglass bombs, only with different contents, flew out, chasing the Lightbringer in front of them that had already landed.
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(end of this chapter)