Mercenary Wars

Chapter 50 Magic Attack and Defense
"To be precise, it's the 'Magic Rejection Circle'." Gao Jianuo said. He was undoubtedly the one who knew the most about magic among the few people, although most of the magic he knew was not very serious.

"Rejection magic circle?" Several rookie mercenaries obviously knew nothing about it, and their faces were full of questions.

Gao Jianuo: "The Denial Array is the most common defensive magic array. It is built on city walls and nodes, and is maintained by mages and high-level personnel. If the Denial Array is functioning properly, no enemy can enter."

A mercenary thought for a moment and said, "So the enemy will destroy the magic rejection circle first?"

"That's right." Gao Jianuo nodded. "They will first establish an 'intervention magic circle.' Just like the rejection circle, the intervention circle will also be maintained by mages and high-level people."

"The intervention array will weaken the effectiveness of the denial array. A weakened denial array will no longer be able to block all enemies, but only some." He continued, "Of course, the highest-level attackers will be blocked first, while lower-level attackers can pass through the denial array and engage the defenders below the city."

"If the attackers can break through the defenders, they can approach and destroy the city walls. The city walls are magical facilities of the denial array. If the city walls are destroyed, the denial array will be further weakened, creating larger 'gaps' and allowing higher-level attackers to pass through." He pointed to the defenders under the city and said.

"Why does the Rejection Array look a bit like the Tidal Land..." someone commented.

Gao Jianuo: "Yes, the person who created the Rejection Array, an ancient blood elf wizard, is said to have been inspired by the Tidal Lands."

"So, the outcome of a battle is mainly determined by the higher-level ones?"

Gao Jianuo pondered and said, "Pretty much. War is only necessary when the strength of the high-level warriors on both sides is not much different."

"If there are many high-level people on Yuris' side, are we doomed to lose?" someone worriedly asked.

Gao Jianuo shook his head: "There shouldn't be many high-level people on Yuris' side. Of course, the same is true for us."

"why?"

Gao Jianuo did not answer this question.

According to the information he had, this Battle of Prestor seemed to involve the internal strife of the Mosaic Church, or it was a microcosm of the internal strife of the Church.

Since it is an internal struggle, there must be many checks and balances or tacit understandings, and there should not be a situation where the big bully the small.

Of course, he is just a small fry after all, and these are his speculations based on unofficial information. They may not be accurate, and he cannot speak casually.

Three days flew by.

Viscount Yuris's army arrived as expected and laid siege to the city.

Gao Jianuo stood on the city wall and looked into the distance. He estimated that the enemy had more than 5,000 people, much more than the defenders of Presto Castle.

However, most of these 5,000 people were cannon fodder, which could be seen from their clothing and weapons - Gao Jianuo even saw some "soldiers" holding farm tools.

Cannon fodder is cannon fodder.

Taking into account the denial effect of the denial magic circle, at least in the early stages of the war, the main participants in the war are low- and medium-end combat forces, and there is no high-end combat force.

Gao Jianuo noticed that Viscount Yuris's army had begun to set up an intervention magic circle.

Several carriages, escorted by the army, arrived at several locations outside Prestor Castle, and then a huge transparent crystal was unloaded from the carriages.

Linking Crystals. Almost all magical arrays, including Intervention Arrays and Denial Arrays, require these crystals. Therefore, in the world of Farallo, Linking Crystals are a crucial strategic resource. The larger the piece, the more valuable it is. Ordinary people rarely encounter them in their daily lives.

These huge link crystals are almost completely embedded in a metal base that is engraved with mysterious patterns and has a shape that tapers downwards so that it can be inserted into the ground.

Insert the metal base into the ground and fix it, and the magic node of the intervention array is established.

Then the mages began to cast spells, and these magic nodes gradually lit up with colorful lights similar to the rejection array, but they looked much weaker.

The situation quickly changed.

The high-level people on Yuris's side approached the magic nodes one after another. With the help of the mage, they established connections with the nodes through a magical arc that looked like a floating silk thread, becoming the "node connectors" who intervened in the formation.

As the connection was established, the light of the magic node quickly became stronger and extended to both sides, connecting with other nodes and forming the magic circle.

The formed intervention magic circle flickered regularly for a period of time, and then several dazzling beams of light were stimulated from the nodes and shot towards the rejection magic circle covering Presto Castle.

"Boom--" When the intervention array came into contact with the rejection array, a rumbling sound immediately erupted, as if thunder was surging.

At the same time, the place where the light of the intervention array touched the light curtain of the rejection array also lit up with brilliant light, even brighter than the sun in the sky.

In this massive magical confrontation, the light curtain of the rejection array continued to retreat, getting closer and closer to the city wall.

Originally, the light curtain of the rejection array was several hundred meters away from the city wall, but in less than half a minute, the distance was compressed to less than a hundred meters.

Some rookie defenders on the city wall showed some panic when they saw this scene.

"Is the magic circle about to be broken?"

Hearing the discussion around him, Gao Jianuo said, "This has just begun. The intervention array and the denial array usually engage in fierce confrontation for at least a day before a relatively stable balance is achieved."

As expected, just as he was speaking, the light curtain of the rejection array, which had been retreating step by step, suddenly turned around and began to push back the light column that had intervened in the array.

Gao Jianuo could vaguely see that when the rejection array began to push back, the node connectors that intervened in the array all looked like they were struggling, as if they were playing tug-of-war. He estimated that the node connectors on his side were the same.

The repulsion array and the intervention array engaged in a series of magical attacks and defenses, with at least a hundred advances and retreats occurring over the next two days before gradually stabilizing.

At this time, the light curtain of the rejection array was about a hundred meters away from the city wall.

When the magical attack and defense formed a stable balance, a wizard came to Viscount Yuris.

"Lord Yuris, the result of the magic circle confrontation is out." The young wizard said respectfully to the lord in front of him.

Viscount Ulysses was a tall, handsome, blond man, about thirty years old. He wore plate armor, had a long sword at his waist, and sported an exquisite mustache.

"What's the result?" He looked at the rejection light curtain in the distance, frowning slightly, obviously not completely unaware of the result.

"The initial range of the repelling magic circle of Prestor Castle was from level one to eight," the mage said. "Through our efforts, the range has been reduced to levels five to eight. Now, soldiers below level five can begin the siege."

(End of this chapter)