Equipment Printing School Mage
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However, the Hell Knights' mounts are faster than even their riders expected.
The war horses' hair seemed to be coated with a thick layer of grease, and all the obstacles that made people's scalps tingle were simply phantoms. Dozens of war horses marched side by side, as if they were galloping across a plain.
The distance between the Hell Knights and the Druids was reduced to zero almost instantly.
This scene was also beyond the druids' expectations. They were still standing there chanting incantations, but in the blink of an eye, the armored heavy cavalry had rushed to their front.
The Bishop of Tyre had already raised the holy emblem and recited the holy words before the two sides met.
At the first encounter, the bishop realized one thing.
The druids standing in front of them were not strong.
It's more of a bait than an obstacle.
And his guess was easily confirmed.
Advanced Divine Art: Holy Word.
This spell is quite popular among senior priests - it can be said to be a direct expression of the priests' research results on doctrine and divine arts.
No need to be familiar with various spells, no need to repeatedly consider the enemy's actions
It doesn't matter even if you are extremely inexperienced in combat.
As long as you are a qualified high-level good priest, you can rush into the crowd and chant the Holy Word. The power of words alone is enough to make non-good people weaker than you lose the power to resist. It is the opposite of the blasphemous words of the evil camp, but it is the same as the opposite.
However, the Word of God has a fatal flaw.
The mantra, filled with righteous wrath, moved forward through the forest like the wind, but passed by the druids in front of it without even looking back, without causing any effect at all.
"...!?"
The bishop was very confident in his own strength - he was a top-tier force among the churches of Faerun. The Sharptooth Forest, on the other hand, was merely a newly established fraternity.
The Holy Word can be said to be a magic that specializes in bullying the weak.
A newly formed guild could pick out a bunch of druids similar to him? And they were definitely dividing their forces to besiege Asur?
Are you kidding me? Is he going against the entire Green Garden?
This must have been achieved by some trick that he could not yet understand.
No problem.
He took a deep breath.
The biggest difference between cavalry combat and infantry combat is that the cavalry does not need to use his own legs to achieve displacement.
His chanting was somehow ineffective, but at least the druids were within sight.
Bishop Tyr released the holy emblem, grasped the greatsword with his free hand, leaned slightly to the right, and clamped his legs tightly around the horse's belly. The bishop's divine power was filled to the limit, and the blade of the two-handed greatsword immediately lit up with a dazzling brilliance.
Asking the druids to face such a perfect charge was clearly a pipe dream. Even if they transformed into ferocious beasts, they would still be beheaded with a single sword strike.
However, just as the two-handed sword finally began to swing through the air, there was no feedback that the blade had hit anything. The priest felt his eyes blur for a moment, and the druid in front of him appeared in the shade of another tree.
He subconsciously observed the battle formation - this situation was not an isolated case.
Although most of the Hell Knights' charges easily severely damaged or even killed the enemies in front of them, at least ten Hell Knights inexplicably failed: they swung their weapons, but their enemies suddenly disappeared from under their swords and appeared several meters away.
This doesn't seem to be a spell commonly used by druids.
Bishop Tyr was about to shout loudly, but was shocked to find that although he opened his mouth to breathe, no sound came out.
Silence!?
This time, the bishop was really terrified.
Silence is not a spell that a druid should know! It is the specialty of bards and priests!
Within the range of the silencing spell, he could not give warnings, give commands, or cast spells.
This is an absolute desperate situation for a commander, and he absolutely cannot stay here any longer.
Fortunately, they were cavalry.
The bishop had no time to care about anything else and could only immediately ask the warhorse to speed up further - under the silencing spell, even a few seconds of stopping could be fatal.
At this moment, the divine light on the weapon revealed something moving silently through the forest.
They were two dark arrows that barely reflected light. They silently shuttled through the shadows of the trees and were already close to the bishop before he realized it.
The silencing spell not only prevented the Bishop from making any sound, but also prevented him from hearing any sound.
So when he discovered the two arrows, he could only turn sideways on his horse in great awkwardness.
The arrow silently pierced the helmet, and the flexible shaft swayed gently on the bishop's head with kinetic energy.
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[…Hit. The Hell Knight commander was struck by an arrow and fell from his horse.]
An archer half-knelt on the top of a thick tree in the forest, while continuing to put the arrow on the bowstring, and whispered in his heart.
[Are you sure you can kill me?] She got the answer from afar.
[No, it's too far away. I can only guarantee a hit.] The archer, wearing close-fitting leather armor, touched the branch under his feet with an uneasy look on his face and asked, [...Halffont, why is this branch allowed to be stepped on? I clearly saw it with my own eyes...]
"In this world, the line between reality and illusion is not that sharp." On the other side of the telepathic connection, the mage being questioned patiently replied, "Even in a normal mirage, an illusionist can injure people with rocks like swords. My mirage will go even further, so don't worry, there won't be any problems..."
[Unless you gain several hundred kilograms in the material plane.]
Archers are tall and slender, so naturally they won't have this problem.
She shook her head, no longer bickering with her commander. "I'll continue to apply pressure, but I suggest a backup plan: these Hell Knights are too elite. Even after being ambushed, they haven't lost their fighting spirit or will. They have absolutely no intention of retreating."
[…Understood, Gwei. I allow you to attack without restriction. But the goal remains the same: once a priest uses the Mantra of Reversal to leave this place, you must destroy everyone else. I will intervene if necessary.]
After receiving the commander's order, the archer Gwei breathed a sigh of relief, and even her long pointed ears trembled with excitement.
However, just as she was about to release the arrow, her dark pupils caught a ray of moonlight.
"Hold!!!"
She couldn't help but curse and immediately released the bowstring. The rebounding bowstring left a conspicuous red mark on her face.
But she didn't care about all this, she pushed hard with her feet and suddenly fell forward.
The moon-white light instantly pierced the entire forest. Branches half a meter thick were broken by a single blow, and the long bow still flying in the air was reduced to ashes by the moon-white light.
Gewei climbed through the branches and landed safely on the ground after a narrow escape. Even so, she still felt an extremely clear burning pain in her neck.
She suspected that if she dared to apply even a little force to the wound, all the blood in her body would gush out of it.
What the fuck is that!?
She clearly saw that at the moment the first ray of moonlight appeared, as if receiving a signal, more than ten moon-white beams of light suddenly lit up in the dark forest. They crisscrossed and moved recklessly, instantly clearing a large area in the forest, illuminating it like daylight.
The archer in ambush watched his bow shatter in mid-air and couldn't help but curse out loud, "What the hell is this?! It's so powerful? And everyone has it?"
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Forty-five Fifty Percent Truth (Part 2)
The Moonlight Sword overloaded, and a pure white beam of light gushed out from the sword barrel, instantly illuminating the dark forest. The murderous intent contained in this beam of light was even more fierce than the light itself.
The torrential rain of arrows caught the Hell Knight off guard.
Precise and sharp.
They were ambushed by a group of true archers - this type of ambush force is not common in Faerun.
Warrior, or Ranger.
The more likely partner for a druid would be a ranger. However, this class is incredibly rare, with only slightly more people than paladins. Furthermore, rangers generally prefer to be alone, a stark contrast to paladins.
There were very few paladins like Apodel who stayed with their own team all year round, or even completely alone. In fact, most paladins in Faerun were treasures of the church and always acted in groups.
Perhaps Elturgard didn't know enough about the Sharptooth Forest, but even a well-known druid order wouldn't necessarily be able to invite a group of rangers in advance based on their own reputation. A young order like the Sharptooth Forest would be completely out of the question.
A swarm of archers? That could only come from a few great powers. Unfortunately, Elturgard is also a member of the Northern Lords' Alliance, and after the battle with Zariel, it has even established ties with the Harpers. A large number of archers traveled all the way to the Sharptooth Forest to ambush the Elturgard? They couldn't have heard nothing at all.
"……call."
The Bishop of Tyre, staggering, held on to his horse and tried to stand up.
My head feels so heavy that I can hardly stand.
This was understandable, after all, there were two heavy arrows on his forehead.
Tingling.
He suspected that the two arrows had pierced the helmet and lodged in the skull.
This kind of injury cannot be healed on the spot.
Today may be the day he returns to the Kingdom of God.
But at least he couldn't die as a fool.
He still couldn't speak, and could only barely use the palm of his hand to feel the pressure of the Moonlight Sword.
The indestructible blow left a considerable amount of residual heat on the hilt. If a second blow was fired in a short period of time, the Moonlight Sword would likely become extremely hot.
The bishop breathed a weak breath.
Hell, he could almost feel the arrow trembling slightly in his cerebral blood vessels, beating along with his heart.
If it were as usual, he would not be able to continue fighting in this state.
However, his heart still couldn't stop beating wildly.
It was simply because the damage caused by the Moonlight Sword was far beyond his imagination.
The power of the Moonlight Sword was certainly astonishing, but its radiance was still far inferior to the blazing sunlight of the Rising Sun Sect, and even its wake was not so lethal.
But what did he see?
Wherever the moonlight reaches, the dark forest seems to melt away, fallen leaves turn to ashes, and tall trees collapse, as if the entire forest is set on fire by the moonlight.
The Hell Knights had certainly tested the power of the Moonlight Sword, and they were certain that its overload shots would not cause such devastation.
The only explanation was that Yuehui had some special and subtle restraint on this forest, so much so that even the slightest release of power could cause massive damage to the forest.
The problem is that the moonlight of the Church of Selune is not actually a magical effect with a large killing range.
The Moonlight Sword's power comes from the Moon Goddess Selune. This fact has never been concealed by Emilia of Lunya.
The Moon Goddess and her church are very popular in Faerun, and even most evil gods do not regard her as an enemy.
The only ones it will primarily take care of are the undead creatures, the goddess of night, Shar, and the clergy of the goddess of the sea, Umberlee.
The Sharptooth Forest is at least hundreds of kilometers away from the ocean, so it is impossible that this is the area where the Umberlee clergy can operate.
This group of druids were obviously not undead creatures, and there were no traces of strong negative energy on their bodies.
……I see.
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The forest, which was originally dark, was now as bright as day under the moonlight.
For some reason, the most ordinary branches and leaves became the fuel for the moon fire. The silver light was spreading throughout the forest with them as its support, turning it into a silver forest.
"... Is this the Moonfire of Selûne...?"
At the very top of the forest, a woman in a pitch-black, translucent robe muttered to herself, "But, according to the information, the Church of Selune should be very conservative in its use of moonfire..."
However, just now, the brilliant moonlight formed a dazzling flower of death in the forest, instantly reducing the number of their team by nearly half.
If this kind of firepower is considered conservative, then what would it be like if Selune went crazy?
If it was conservative before, and this is what Moonfire looks like when it goes all out, then why did Selûne suddenly become so aggressive?
Even the commander of this ambush definitely did not want to use his frail body to face the bombardment of Yuehui.
She knew the Hell Knights of Elturgard had recently adopted new longswords, but she hadn't expected them to be this new! They called them swords?
The range of the moonlight's bombardment is almost farther than that of a bow and arrow!
[…Everyone, listen to my orders.] She took a deep breath and said, [Return to the Shadowless Underworld. If you can, take the bodies of your comrades with you. If you can't, don't force it. Leave here, now.]
The archer Gwei replied hesitantly: [Are you sure, Haverfont? The lady won't forgive us.]
"We're not running away, we're just trying to avoid leaking any more secrets. I'll cover you. Close your eyes and leave!"
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