Arad's Sword

Chapter 202
"Don't worry." Midi suddenly said, "Manipulating a puppet of this size requires too many scarabs. Even the famous Nightmare Hand can't handle these big guys well."

This sentence is to calm the military, but it is also a fact.

Although necromancers are the best at manipulating large armies, it's just that, because the bodies of manipulative objects like undead giant puppets are too huge, the amount of scarabs and energy they need to invest is also extraordinary.

It would be fine if they were puppets that had been processed and processed, but the dozen or so puppets in front of them were obviously subdued by Wiseman just now, and the magic power would definitely be spent.The reason why I stay here on purpose is probably to scare Midi, to see if I can find some opportunities, how could Midi show any flaws?
The key point was broken, Wiseman was not angry, but still said calmly: "I have good eyesight. I came here just to expand my armaments. I have no intention of going to war with you yet. It's better for both sides to fight." How about taking a step back?"

Rarely, the Hand of Nightmare chose to retreat instead of attacking wildly. However, this is not surprising, but because the environment of Sky City is rather special.

Any big force will encounter a problem after entering the Three Towers Sea of ​​Trees initially, and that is the shortage of manpower.Although the essence of magic power can provide professionals with extraordinary power, it will kill at least [-]% of them.

Even in a team composed of high-level adventurers like the Falcon Group, at most only four of them are capable of withstanding the baptism of pure magic power.

Not to mention the empire dominated by the regular army. The regular army mainly relies on excellent equipment, iron-like discipline, strict formation and huge numbers to win. The level of individual soldiers can be said to be the lowest among all groups. With such a card, at least [-]% will be screened out.

No matter how strong the foundation of the Delos Empire is, and how terrifying Wiseman's unreasonable undead spells are, it may take a while to gain a firm foothold in the Three Towers of Trees.

If you agree to Wiseman's request, at least you can avoid this unnecessary battle. After all, Midi's side can be said to be unprepared, but after some preparations, Wiseman caught a group of undead Compared with the giant puppet, Midi is at a disadvantage.

However, Midi had no intention of backing down at all.

Because the other party is probably trying to do this, once they choose to accept, they will fall into the rhythm of the hands of nightmares, and then they will become extremely passive.

Therefore, even if it was a hasty battle, Midi did not intend to make any concessions. On the contrary, he had to show extreme confidence.

With a sneer, Midi raised his brows and said lightly: "Your Excellency Wiseman, do you want to wait until your undead army is formed before going to war? Sorry, instead of facing the processed undead puppets, I might as well put Annihilate these newborn big guys on the spot, anyway, they are the targets to be killed, so it is not impossible to kill them again after you kill them."

"Oh?" Wiseman narrowed his eyes, "I thought you ran so far for this gold-plated valley, did you want to annihilate the elemental giant?"

Midi felt a slight shock in her heart.

This seemingly careless and cynical Nightmare Hand was really trying to test his own purpose, why he wanted to invade the Gilded Valley.

Maybe, Wiseman may even have been paying attention to the whereabouts of his army, otherwise, why did he arrive so soon after the war started, and still have time to attack these elemental giants?

In this way, the correspondence needs to be more cautious.

At least, you can't fight directly, otherwise it will be easily regarded as trying to cover up. As a result, the Delos Empire believes that there is something abnormal in the Gilded Valley and invests a large number of troops to fight for it.

At that level, how to mine Kong Mingshi?Even if it is mined, it may be discovered by Wiseman, and then based on the characteristics of this stone, he can deduce some of his purposes.

You must find a way to repel Wiseman, and at the same time, prevent him from continuing to pay attention to the Gilded Valley.

Thinking of this, Midi sneered, and said: "Why bother to ask here knowingly, the Gilded Valley has a large number of high-quality mineral deposits, of course Belle Mare is determined to win, not only that, I also want to get all the other important resources, Wise Mr. Man, if you want to stop me, just come and try."

"Of course I will try." Wiseman nodded seriously.

"But before that, you have to escape from the Golden Valley first!" Midi's eyes became cold, and he waved his hand, and the elf archers who had been ready for a long time immediately shot from the commanding heights. Tricky sniper arrows.

At the same time, the dragon army also moved, and the four columns were deployed separately, with a hollow formation that was most suitable for the super-sized enemies in the camp, and greeted them!

"Then try it." Wiseman smiled, pointing at the staff in his hand.

The next moment, the undead giant puppets let out a shrill and sharp roar, turned around, and began... to escape without hesitation.

Midi failed to keep Wiseman after all.

The environment of Gilded Valley was not suitable for a pursuit battle, not to mention that Wiseman was really determined to escape.

Regardless of any loss, he directly let the undead giants run away with big strides. Once these big men strode out, they were tens of meters away. How could the "short legs" of dragonmen and elves catch up?

Even Midi, who keeps using "Ghosting Flash", can only stop one undead giant at most.

In the end, when Wiseman escaped from the extremely narrow exit at the other end of the Gilded Valley, three undead giants were left behind, blocking the exit directly.

Although these undead giants have just formed, their movements are slow and inflexible, and their lethality is extremely weak, they are very qualified as human shields.

You must know that the undead itself has the characteristics of immortality and regeneration, and a giant like the undead giant has brought these two characteristics to the extreme.Moreover, the dragon army only had the magnetic arrows in their hands, and they didn't carry the flame arrows, blasting arrows, rotting bone arrows, etc., so they still felt a little helpless when facing these undead.

In the end, under the main attack of Midi's Explosive Flame Wave Sword, the dragon army finally released the three undead giants, but at this time, Wiseman had already run away.

This necromancer drove a group of undead giants away like a sheep. Looking at him laughing and waving his hands unscrupulously, even Tanius, who has the hottest temper, also felt a sense of loss of strength. However, as for Sigmund and Lilian, who knew the horror of the "Nightmare Hand", they were secretly relieved.

But Midi knew that the real contest had just begun.

As soon as he returned to the Thunderfire Wings tribe, he immediately adjusted his overall strategy.

Originally, Midi's strategy was very straightforward - to capture all the producing areas of Kongmingshi, at the same time defend the transmission line of the crack, and then concentrate on mass-producing two-seater airships.

But now, since the Delos Empire has adapted to the environment of the Three Towers of Trees in a short period of time, and Wiseman has focused on himself again, the only way to do it is to throw a lot of smoke bombs.

In other words, Midi will launch an attack on all the places with rich mineral veins.

Only by doing so can the purpose of occupying the Gilded Valley be concealed, and make the empire think that what Belle Mare wants is mineral deposits, not empty stones. Otherwise, once the empire pays attention to this special product unique to Sky City, it may be very easy You can guess Midi's purpose.

After all, Midi was only able to seize the opportunity because of the advantage of rebirth. The airship is not difficult to conceive. In the previous life, someone tried to invent it a year after the sky city appeared. , there are definitely a lot of smart people in the empire, so how can Midi dare to trust her?
As for the occupation of the Kong Mingshi production area after the full-scale attack, it can only be carried out by the elite team.

Fortunately, Wiseman's Hyakki Night Walk is not so strong that it is invincible. The elite squad led by Tanius and Sigmund is stronger than expected, although most of Midi's troops have to Put into the battle of creating smoke bombs, but the production of Kongmingshi is still increasing, and the development progress of the airship on Deep Rock Island is faster than expected.

The situation is stable, and Midi can breathe a sigh of relief. Since his own purpose has been successfully concealed, the next step is naturally to find ways to understand the enemy's movements.

Create an army of undead?

Looking at the thick stack of battle reports on the table and scanning the details sent by the scouts, Midi speculated patiently.

While Midi was occupying the mine veins and secretly transporting Kongmingshi, Wiseman was naturally not idle.Relying on the support of the Imperial Alchemist Guild, he led a group of high-level necromancers and started a snowball sweep.

With the support of Hyakki Yako, except for the flame giant, other types of elemental giants have almost no resistance.They could only let out angry roars, allowing scarabs to get into their bodies one after another, and then swallowed their souls, turning them into unconscious puppets under the hands of necromancers.

Soon, the empire established an army dominated by undead giants in a short period of time, and it got bigger and bigger.

Not only that, Wiseman is obviously no longer satisfied with the race of giants. He even opened up the battlefield to the territory of humanoid divisions, and began to try to transform these extremely flexible little things into members of his command.

If it is allowed to go on like this, according to Midi's inference, after the airship is put into mass production, there will only be two forces left in the entire Three Towers Sea of ​​Trees - the living forces of the Kingdom of Belmar, and the Empire of Delos power of the dead.

Relying on the power of necromancers to turn the Three Towers of Trees into a place of death, and then use the army of undead to completely occupy the entire sky city?

Is this Wiseman's strategy?

Midi thought quietly.

Judging from the current situation, this is indeed the case, but my intuition tells Midi that there must be something wrong with it.

(End of this chapter)