Heroes of Might and Magic: Grand Consul

Chapter 161 Arrows Pierce Ten Thousand Bones, Shields Resist a Hundred Souls

The moment all the ranged archers appeared, the sky was covered with stone arrows and dizzying arcane attacks, even the clouds were shattered into pieces.

Skeleton soldiers are a group of soldiers without morale or reason; they only obey the hero's commands and crush the enemies in front of them. However, they did not expect that ranged archers would suddenly appear on the battlefield, and they were caught off guard until the rain of arrows fell, at which point they did not react.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Countless skeleton soldiers fell instantly, their bones scattered all over the ground like a tidal wave, a truly spectacular sight.

The Arcane Prayer's opening spells were incredibly accurate, thanks to Orling's advanced mastery of air elementals, which greatly enhanced his ranged damage output. Combined with Vengeful Spirit's powerful stealth-breaking strike, he wiped out over 3000 skeleton soldiers.

Many skeletons cannot withstand a single arrow; in fact, a single arrow can pierce through the bodies of several skeletons, making it comparable to a powerful crossbow.

Of course, this was also due to the fact that the opponent's formation was too dense, so the Earth Bow didn't need to aim much and could directly launch a piercing attack.

The square formation, stretching for hundreds of meters, collapsed with a deafening roar, leaving the earth as if it had been pierced by a volcano, with huge craters everywhere caused by the stone arrows.

Max nearly dropped his jaw at the sight. He had anticipated Su Mu's strength, but he hadn't expected this. One volley of arrows wiped out 3000 skeletons? Are you sure the opponent wasn't 300 Titans, but the Earth Bow?

However, he was no mediocre general, and he quickly discovered the extraordinary nature of the Earth Bow.

While the Arcane Prayer is powerful and its unerring accuracy can be surprisingly effective, these aren't the key factors. The truly terrifying thing is the group of Vengeful Spirits capable of replicating all archers, unleashing a 1.5x damage multiplier from their mirror images.

Once Max realized what was happening, he immediately activated Death Wave, causing damage to all living beings on the battlefield.

The anticipated devastating blow did not come. Su Mu had already taken the initiative and used an advanced earth elemental anti-magic spell. Max's death ripple had no effect at all, and it was just a dud.

At this moment, Maggie also began to exert her strength, directly using Swiftness to accelerate the Earth Bow, allowing them to launch a second attack.

Another volley of fire followed. Although the stealth-breaking attack was gone, Vengeful Spirit was still powerful. Together with Earthbow and Arcane Prayer, they wiped out nearly 2000 more skeletons.

The supposedly massive horde of tens of thousands of skeletons was wiped out in an instant, leaving Max trembling with rage.

"Exorcism Technique!"

"Frost Ring!"

Max finally realized what was happening and, with the help of Gao Shui's exorcism spell and the witch's death ripples, destroyed the vengeful spirit.

The reason he didn't let his men use Death Ripple was because he was afraid that these vengeful spirits were also susceptible to necromancy. If the enemy launched a third attack, his skeleton soldiers would all be wiped out!

Having finally withstood these two deadly attacks, the skeletons have arrived around the Earth Bow. As long as they rush in and disrupt the archers' formation, they can disable their ranged abilities.

With the remaining 5000-plus skeleton soldiers, he still has a chance of winning.

Not only that, Max turned the specters and vampires who were still besieging the city around and attacked Earthbow. He only regretted that he had rushed into the city earlier and was too far away, otherwise he would have attacked long ago.

At this moment, Ivan's shield bearers were also in position. Facing the onrushing skeletons, they showed no fear and immediately raised their shields to defend. The large number of skeletons charged forward, but they only had time to raise their swords once before being instantly killed by the recoil, having no effect whatsoever.

Ivan activated his defensive spell, which was essentially equivalent to physical immunity. Although the God's Domain consumed a lot of energy, he could still maintain control of the shieldbearers.

Max relied on the Undead Assault spell, but this special skill was extremely effective against high-health soldiers, while it was useless against a large number of low-level units. With the skeletons' low damage output, they could only deal 1 point of damage to the shield infantry, barely managing to leave a bloody gash, and the shield infantry didn't even utter a sound.

The Thunder Swordsmen were eager to try, launching a lightning strike that inflicted area-of-effect damage on the skeletons in front of them. With a sweep of their broadswords, hundreds of skeletons were cut in half at the waist, reduced to dust.

Ivan's melee legions fought with increasing ferocity, even pushing the battle line back hundreds of meters. The skeleton soldiers couldn't even get close to the archers, let alone defeat the shield bearers.

Max was stunned. It was one thing to have such a powerful marksman hero, but who was this one with invincible physical defense? Was this still a member of the Argyll family?

"It's alright, we still have the Howling Wraith and the Vampire Count!"

"Skeletons, spread out and attack, don't pile them up!" The Earth Bow isn't a ranged unit with area-of-effect damage. As long as the skeletons keep some distance, even if the enemy has high damage output, they can only kill one soldier at most.

Meanwhile, hundreds of howling ghosts and nearly a hundred vampire counts rushed to the battlefield from afar, ready to support the main battlefront.

【Screaming Wraith (Graveyard Tier 3, Tier 2 Unit, Earth Elemental Baptism): Attack 9, Defense 9, Damage 4-6, Health 24, Speed ​​8, Medium Size.

Element: Earth element. Undead flying unit.

Brain-Eating Spirit: Before each attack, it will automatically recover a certain amount of Soul Fire (health) and absorb a certain amount of the opponent's mana (it can only be absorbed a maximum of 3 times within a certain period of time).

Ghostly Howl: Attacks have a 15% chance to trigger Ghostly Howl, dealing (10 + damage) magic damage to living beings in a small surrounding area.

Comment: When you hear a single scream, you won't be afraid of these ghosts, but when hundreds of screams ring in your ears simultaneously, you'll question the entire world.

The Howling Wraith, also known as a miniature death wave generator, is perfect for an opponent immune to physical attacks. As for the Vampire Count, he can perfectly serve as a meat shield in front of the enemy, wearing them down in a back-and-forth exchange with the Thunder Swordsman.

Once the enemy's forces drop to a threshold, the Vampire Count can quickly recover his health and gain the upper hand.

From his vantage point, Su Mu had a clear view. The enemy's high-speed forces had already entered the fray, so it was time for his reserve forces to move in as well. He immediately notified Ivan to take off with the Wild Griffins and launch a dive attack.

Dive attacks can limit regular units, but they can't stop the two types of flying units in the graveyard; they can only temporarily slow down the enemy's advance.

His real trump card is the high-level air elemental magic he has been preparing for a long time: the Undead Slayer.

Su Mu clasped his hands together and conjured a divine image of light above the battlefield. The image shaped clouds into a giant spear, and with a gentle breath, the clouds scattered into countless spears that rushed towards the undead soldiers on the battlefield.

This is a group-wide, indiscriminate area-of-effect spell; the more dispersed the enemies are, the higher the spell's intensity within the area.

Previously, the skeletons advanced in a swarm, only to be decimated by the Earth Bow. Max was forced to split up the formation, and even the wraiths and vampires were scattered to avoid being wiped out in one fell swoop.

Su Mu was waiting for this change of tactics so that his Undead Slayer could inflict maximum damage.

With that one breath, the shrieking ghosts themselves cried out in agony, and more than 100 of them died; the vampire counts, with their thicker skin, also lost more than 30 of them; the skeleton soldiers fared the worst, with more than 400 of them wiped out, suffering heavy losses.

Even the blood-poison zombies in the city were killed, with hundreds killed, and even the corpse-throwing carts were damaged.

Although the Ghostly Corpse Thrower is a mechanical creation, it incorporates necromancy and is classified as a semi-undead war machine, thus it is susceptible to damage.

The Undead Slayer is that powerful; it's the nemesis of all undead, and that's no exaggeration.

Max was terrified. He had no choice but to use water magic with the witch to counteract the magical damage caused by the undead killer.

However, their combined spell power level is only 20.

With the added power of curses and her own medium intelligence, combined with the arcane runes, Maggie can easily unleash another Undead Slayer spell after casting a debuff.

The magical output of the two sides was not even in the same league.

As the battle raged on, the seemingly endless sea of ​​skeletons turned into a field of white bones.

Ivan, as steadfast as a rock, led his troops in battle on the front lines, never retreating an inch.

Tony Argyle was incredibly excited as he watched his son fight against a thousand men single-handedly.

Who would have thought that this child, who was always protected, would one day become a great hero of Bear Castle!
(End of this chapter)