From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 390: The Magic World's Stronghold

The sunshine in the elves' main city of Koros was as bright as ever, with no sign of impending disaster.

Lu Heng and his companions discussed the crisis with Queen Orianna. About an hour later, the Elf Sword Saint Tyrese rushed back from outside, exhausted.

After the death of the great arcanist Augustus, this elven swordmaster took over the responsibility of guarding the city of Kolos.

Of course, his job is not to stay in the city every day.

He also needs to patrol Moon Lake from time to time, and train the elven warriors.

When the Grand Arcanist Augustus was in charge of the main city's defense, the elven army mainly built a defense system with the Arcanist as the core.

After Teris took over this position, he began to train elven warriors and established a defense system with powerful warriors as the core.

There is no right or wrong in these two development directions, and it is not that Tyrese wants to change the defense system, but his abilities and Augustus are originally in two different directions.

He is not good at arcane. If he continues to use the arcane system, the combat effectiveness of the Elf Guard will only continue to decline.

The right choice would be to change to the defensive system he is good at.

……

The news about the huge crisis facing the elves spread to the main city and then to Luna Lake.

When Tyrese heard the news, he rushed back immediately. Even though he tidied his clothes before entering the palace, he still looked exhausted.

"It's been six or seven years since we last met." As soon as Tyrese came in, he nodded to Queen Orianna, then opened his arms and hugged Lu Heng.

Speaking of which, he is Lu Heng's swordsmanship teacher, and they have fought side by side, so it can be said that they have a relationship of both teacher and friend.

Tyrese joined the discussion, and Lu Heng told him all the information he knew about the Skeleton Lord.

However, in Lu Heng's memory, there was no effective way to deal with the Skeleton Lord.

Because the main city of the elves in the previous life was conquered by the Skeleton Lord, and the elves in the previous life were unable to withstand the attack of the Skeleton Lord, naturally they had no effective way to deal with it.

Moreover, many siege warfare tactics would not work in this magical world.

For example, "Fortify the Walls and Clear the Fields" among the Thirty-Six Stratagems is definitely a brilliant strategy in the world of cold weapons where there is no supernatural power.

Jianbi refers to strengthening the city walls.

Clearing the fields refers to clearing out the food around the city so that the enemy troops besieging the city cannot obtain food supplies from the surrounding areas.

This strategy may not be applicable in the magical world.

Perhaps fortified walls are still of some use. At least when defending against attacks, solid city walls can indeed give the defenders a greater advantage.

It's not necessarily the case for clearing the wild.

Especially when facing the Skeleton Lord, the skeleton army does not need food supplies, so clearing out the food around the city will have no effect.

Of course, strategies can be changed.

When discussing the defensive layout, Lu Heng thought of another usage of "fortify the walls and clear the fields".

"Your Majesty, according to the speed of time, the recruits will be sent here in fifty days, and this crisis should also come in fifty days..."

Lu Heng thought and suggested: "So, we still have fifty days to make arrangements to deal with the attack of the Skeleton Monarch.

"In the history of our human civilization, there is a strategy called 'fortifying the city and clearing the fields', which is the simplest and most effective way to defend a city.

"Of course, the Skeleton Army doesn't need food supplies, so clearing out the surrounding food will have no effect, but we can clear out one thing."

After hearing this, Su Muyu was surprised and asked, "Cleaning up the bones, right?"

Lu Heng nodded and replied, "Yes, clear out the skeletons around Kolos City. The Skeleton Lord needs to enslave skeletons to become his army. If there are no skeletons, he will have no soldiers to use."

Queen Orianna and Tyrese fell into deep thought upon hearing this suggestion.

"This is indeed a solution, but there are countless bones buried underground. It may be difficult to clean them up completely."

Lu Heng had already thought about this.

On the continent of Quel'dorei, there are not only elves living, but also other creatures, whether they are powerful wild beasts or giant monsters, as long as there are skeletons buried underground, they can be awakened by the Skeleton Lord.

The Quel'dorei continent is very vast, and it is an impossible task to remove all the biological skeletons from the entire continent.

Not to mention fifty days, it would not be completed even in fifty years.

Lu Heng had already thought about this question and answered directly: "So we need to screen the skeletons of living things. According to the information I know, the combat effectiveness of the skeleton army controlled by the Skeleton Monarch is proportional to the level of the skeleton when it was alive.

"That is to say, if the skeleton was powerful in combat when it was alive, then after becoming a terracotta warrior, its combat power will also be very strong.

"We can't clean up all the skeletons, but we can clean up the skeletons of powerful creatures. This can greatly reduce the pressure when facing the skeleton army."

Queen Orianna nodded in agreement. "That makes sense. I will hold another meeting to arrange for the cleanup of the powerful creatures' remains."

In Lu Heng's memory, he clearly remembered that there were several particularly terrifying skeletons of creatures among the army of skeletons.

One of the most ferocious is a giant dragon skeleton with a pair of bone wings. It flies in the sky and can spit out frost.

Even if the elves' arcanist team joined forces, they could not withstand the attack of this frost bone dragon.

Lu Heng then asked: "Are there any dead bone dragons on the Quel'dorei continent?"

"This one……"

Queen Orianna and Tyrese looked at each other and did not answer the question immediately.

As for the Frost Bone Dragon controlled by the Skeleton Lord, Lu Heng had only seen it from afar and had no idea where it came from.

When the Skeleton Lord broke through the main city of the elves, he commanded an army of 100,000 skeletons.

It is impossible for so many biological skeletons to be teleported from other worlds.

If it is possible to teleport 100,000 biological skeletons, it would be better to directly teleport 100,000 demons to plow the Quel'dorei continent.

Therefore, this army of 100,000 skeletons must have been gathered on the continent by the Skeleton Lord after he landed on the Quel'dorei continent.

However, this does not prove that the Frost Bone Dragon is also from the Quel'dorei continent.

The Skeleton Lord cannot teleport an army of 100,000 skeletons, but he can still teleport one or two powerful skeletons.

There is another reason why Lu Heng asked this.

That is, when we were in the Urumqi Blue Cave, we did not see the skeleton of any creature as huge as the Frost Bone Dragon.

In other words, this Frost Bone Dragon was obtained by the Skeleton Lord after he left the Siren World. As to whether it was found from the Quel'dorei continent, no one knows.

When Tyrese heard Lu Heng's question, he took a deep breath and asked, "Hearing what you said, this is indeed a huge crisis. There are indeed dead dragons on the continent, but that place has been swallowed by the abyss and cannot be approached."

Lu Heng frowned and reminded: "The Skeleton Monarch has become the Demon King of the Abyss. He can enter places that we cannot enter." Tyrese said seriously: "I understand. I will find a way to go there and take a look. If I can get in, I will try to dispose of the skeleton of the dragon."

Lu Heng also remembered some giant skeletons of other shapes.

These giant skeletons are extremely dangerous because there is usually no magical energy left after a living creature dies. Even if a little magical energy remains, it does not have much power.

Therefore, the larger the size of the biological skeleton, the stronger the combat power it displays.

Especially the skeletons of those ancient creatures, each of which has the power to destroy the city walls.

"I suggest paying more attention to the skeletons of large creatures, such as giant mammoths. Any one of them can create a gap in the city wall."

Queen Orianna nodded slightly and agreed: "Understood. I will send the Elven Guard to the Valley of Giant Beasts to clean up the bones there."

At this time, Fiona raised her hand and volunteered: "Your Majesty, let me go. I will go to the Valley of Giant Beasts myself and saw all the bones there into pieces."

After discussing the strategy of "fortifying the city and clearing the countryside", Lu Heng raised another topic:
“There’s one more thing that makes me feel weird.

“This time, we will most likely be facing a massive army of skeletons. Theoretically, the scale of the recruitment should be very large.

“However, I posted a recruitment in our world, and apart from the four people in our team, I couldn’t find any other psychics to be recruited.

"This situation does not conform to the rules of conscription, and we don't know what caused it yet."

Tyrese thought for a moment and suggested a possibility: "It could be a multi-racial draft."

Multi-race conscription is an abyss battlefield mode that will only appear in the middle and late stages of the abyss invasion.

The model is simple, that is, the race of the recruits is not limited to a single race.

So far, all the abyss battlefields that humans have experienced have recruited a single race, that is, only the human race has been recruited.

Whether it was the evil god’s burial ground at the beginning or the siren’s world recently, the recruits were all humans, with no other races appearing.

Of course, the demons summoned by the abyss are not included in the calculation.

In the middle and late stages of the Abyss invasion, as the danger level of the Abyss battlefield becomes higher and higher, the scale of conscription becomes larger and larger, and a single race cannot meet the combat power requirements of the Abyss battlefield, a situation of multi-race conscription will occur.

However, in Lu Heng’s memory, this pattern only gradually appeared in the third year after the abyss descended.

It is only September of the second year since the abyss descended, and it is not yet the middle or late stage.

In the previous life, when the elves' main city fell, the recruits were only humans, and no other races appeared.

Has this life changed?

Lu Heng still felt something was wrong, so he shook his head slowly and said, "I don't think this is a multi-race recruitment, so after the recruits are teleported over, you need to confirm how many recruits there are and what their identities are as soon as possible."

Queen Orianna nodded and agreed: "Of course, even if you don't mention it, we will find out the identity of the conscript."

The elves are relatively friendly to the recruits, but that doesn't mean they are completely unguarded.

The elves resisted the abyss for more than seven hundred years, during which time they saw many alien civilizations being recruited to the Quel'dorei.

Some alien civilizations perished during these seven hundred years, while others survived.

No matter what race is recruited, the elves will find a way to investigate the identity of the recruiter and consider whether these recruited creatures are trustworthy.

Each kind of intelligent life has a different personality. Some are smart, some are reckless, some are brave, some are timid, and there are all kinds of them. It is possible for a recruiter to have any kind of characteristics.

The elves had also witnessed the conscription of multiple races, so when Terris heard the question raised by Lu Heng, the first thing he thought of was this special mode.

……

Since the Skeleton Lord has not appeared yet, Lu Heng and Su Muyu stayed in the Quel'dorei continent and could not help much.

As for cleaning up the remains of biological organisms around the city of Kolos, adding two more people wouldn't speed up the job much.

Besides, Lu Heng and the others had other things to do. After returning, they needed to hurry up and prepare for the upcoming abyss battlefield.

However, after returning, Lu Heng still had one thing to do.

After leaving the Queen's Palace, Lu Heng and Terris came to the training ground and took the initiative to make a request: "I want to learn the last sword skill."

The last time he was summoned to the elven world, Lu Heng learned two unique skills from this elven swordsman, namely Wind Dragon's Breath Slash and Flying Dragon Tracer.

The power of these two sword skills is extremely great, and in subsequent training, Lu Heng also wants to combine these two sword skills with other abilities to develop even more powerful moves.

After that, Lu Heng didn't have the chance to learn the last sword skill from Terris. Now he has to face the threat of an evil demigod. If he can learn the last sword skill, he will have an extra means of self-protection.

Tyrese didn't refuse, but he didn't agree immediately either. He thought for a while and said, "Come on, seven years have passed, let me see your progress. If you want to learn the last sword technique, you need to master the first two."

"Forehead……"

Lu Heng was stunned for a moment. After hearing what he said, he felt that if he didn't practice the first two moves well, he would have no talent.

But there is a problem here. For Tyrese, seven years have indeed passed.

However, for Lu Heng, only nine months had actually passed.

This difference is caused by the different speed of time flow in the two worlds.

There is no point in explaining this difference. Whether you can eventually learn the last sword skill depends on whether you have practiced the first two skills well.

"Then I'll give it a try." Lu Heng said as he drew out the Aurora Blade and prepared to draw his sword.

Terris pointed to a row of neatly-standing stone pillars in front of him and said, "Try the Wind Dragon Absolute Breath Slash first and see the results."

Lu Heng took a deep breath and gathered his strength.

After the power was accumulated, he rushed out violently, breaking through the sound barrier in an instant, leaving a circle of Mach rings in place, and slashed out with the Aurora Blade in his hand.

Wind Dragon's Breathless Slash!
Roar!
A shocking roar of a wind dragon shook out.

A wind dragon took shape and rolled over the stone pier.

Under the strong wind pressure, four stone piers were blown into the sky, and then the fifth stone pier flew up as well.

Not until the wind dragon dissipated did the five stone pillars fall back to the ground with a "thump thump thump", causing the ground beneath their feet to shake a few times.

"call!"

Lu Heng exhaled slowly and displayed the purest Wind Dragon Absolute Breath Slash.

In fact, this sword is not the most powerful one that Lu Heng can use, because he has already mastered a sword move that combines the Wind Dragon's Breath Slash, the Rift Slash and the Sonic Boom Sword.

However, that was not pure Wind Dragon's Breath Slash.

The reason why Tyrese wanted to see the Wind Dragon's Breathless Slash was to confirm to what extent Lu Heng had practiced this sword. If other powers were added, it would not be pure.

(End of this chapter)