How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"This may be the best chance to annihilate this expeditionary force. Even if we cannot annihilate them, we can still inflict heavy damage on these demons."

After I finished speaking, everyone, who were already vaguely convinced by what I said, subconsciously thought about the possibilities.

After all, information asymmetry is a very critical point in war. If we can master it, turning the situation around is not a problem at all. Since we know that the expeditionary force will attack Riedenburg, we can set up an ambush around it in advance.

"If it's true, we can set up an ambush around Riedenburg."

“Now is also time to mobilize the troops.”

"We can work with other associations to set up a magic circle in advance."

But some people have expressed concerns.

"The expeditionary force must have sent all its troops. Even if we can ambush them in advance, we will lose a lot of manpower if we want to annihilate such an army."

"According to Miss An, Guinness himself is also very powerful."

"The traps and magic arrays we currently possess are still insufficient to deal with this group of demons."

"And if they are discovered by the other side, they can still break through with all their strength."

"It would be great if we had a powerful and targeted attack method."

The governor of Riedenburg expressed the thoughts of everyone.

But this idea is just a thought. After all, if they really had such a means, they would not have been forced into the current predicament by the expeditionary force.

Unexpectedly, Agatha suddenly spoke at this moment.

"We do have such a trump card here."

Everyone couldn't help but look at him in surprise.

Anriel, who was standing next to her, seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Lady Agatha, are you talking about..."

"Yes."

Agatha nodded, acknowledging Anriel's guess. Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone else's faces, she slowly began to explain.

Chapter 206: Concentrated Expeditionary Force

After Agatha's explanation, everyone finally understood what the other party's trump card was.

Lorenza, the first high priest of the Antia Temple of Light, was a sage who was as famous as the Paladin Enzo. He once left behind a magic book written by himself.

It has been preserved from generation to generation as a sacred object of the Temple of Light.

As long as one can drive this magic book, one can use the magic that the great sage Lorenza once recorded, even including the legendary secret magic of the forbidden spell level.

However, the use of spells at the level of Great Forbidden Spells requires a huge amount of magic power, especially when using a magic book as the medium, and additional magic power needs to be transmitted in the middle.

Even the current high priest Anriel does not possess such strength.

However, if you use Antia's city core as the energy source for transmission, you don't have to worry about the problem of magic power.

It only requires using a special method to allow multiple people to form a connected spell to receive energy, and then transmit it to Anriel who presides over the forbidden spell.

Although the amount of energy wasted in this process is not small, a spell of the Great Forbidden Incantation level can drain nearly half of the energy reserves in the core of the city.

But its power is enough to cause a great blow to the expeditionary force.

"Moreover, this forbidden spell was left by Lord Lorenza. It has targeted killing power against demons and will not cause too much damage to Riedenburg like other forbidden spells."

Agatha paused for a moment and changed the subject.

"It's just that this forbidden spell consumes too much energy, and because of the passage of time, this magic book has been damaged. It needs to be prepared in advance, and after preparation, the casting location cannot be changed."

“Once things go wrong, all that energy is wasted.”

Before he finished speaking, the people participating in the meeting began to discuss, because they had never heard of the existence of such a trump card, which was obviously a top secret of Antia.

But I didn't feel any surprise.

Because at the end of the beast tide incident in the previous life, in order to preserve the remaining troops of the army, Antia launched such a large-scale forbidden spell, which completely cut off the beast tide's continued offensive.

This is also the reason why I knew about this and planned to force Agatha to reveal this trump card.

Similarly, when facing Agatha's gaze at this moment, there was no sign of timidity.

"So, Miss An, are you sure that the expeditionary force's target is Riedenburg?"

"War is a game where strength and luck coexist, isn't it? Lady Agatha, if you have any concerns, you can send elite scouts to the middle of the Broken Wall Mountains in front of Green City."

"I think the expeditionary force's movements in the mountains will confirm my prediction."

After a long silence, Agatha made the final decision -

"Indeed, there is an element of luck in war."

"I declare that Riedenburg will be transformed into a strategic center, and all units will provide support to the best of their ability."

……

The next two days.

In the vast territory of Karen, most areas in front of Antia have been completely spread by war.

The expeditionary force continued to move forward. Under the leadership of Ginnis, Garcinia and two legion commanders, they captured more than a dozen towns in succession. The fall of these towns meant that the second line of defense in the south was completely shattered.

The southern part of Antia is like a peeled apple, with only the last line of defense remaining as the "pulp", namely Green City, Carlodia City, and Riedenburg on the corner.

Ordinary residents and the military were speculating that Green City or Carlodia City would be the next target of the expeditionary force.

Even on the players' forums, there were several posts by military fans analyzing the pros and cons of attacking the two cities from the perspective of the expeditionary force.

Of course, there are people who have speculated about the possibility of Riedenburg.

But they were all ridiculed by the comments below.

After all, on the surface, Riedenburg is more difficult to attack than the previous two cities, and even if it is conquered, it is geographically surrounded by Antia.

It is not conducive to the implementation of any subsequent actions.

However, what they did not know was that the expeditionary force had no intention of considering further. Conquering any mid-level town in Antia was Guinness's ultimate goal.

The Broken Mountains in front of Green City.

Although not as vast as the Zeyue Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of kilometers, it also occupies a considerable area in southern Antia.

The dense forests, rolling mountains and canyons are enough to hide tens of thousands of soldiers.

When traveling to a certain area.

Yade, the commander of the First Legion of Berghead, gave instructions to his two trusted confidants.

"Linus, Vissi, each of you will take 10,000 soldiers and stay behind. After receiving the order from Lord Ginnis, go to Green City to harass it and create the illusion of an attack."

"Yes."

Seeing the two figures leaving, Yade immediately ordered the army to rest where they were.

"Repair here, and then rush to the direction of Riedenburg at nightfall to meet up with Master Ginnis and Master Garcinia."

The surrounding forests were sufficient to conceal the sound of the army's movements.

However, what Yade and his companions could never have imagined was that their every move had already been seen by several pairs of eyes somewhere in the forest.

"Go and tell Lady Agatha that everything is going according to plan."

The next morning.

The outskirts of the Broken Wall Mountains.

The three expeditionary forces finally came together under the cover of night, and to the astonishment of many players and ordinary soldiers, they advanced at lightning speed to within a few kilometers of Riedenburg's front line.

"You lead the troops to attack the towns on both sides, and I will leave this city to you."

Guinness instructed Ad and Jacinia.

Like other mid-level cities, Riedenburg also has subordinate towns under its jurisdiction, forming a defense line. The only difference from Green and Carlodia is that Riedenburg's subordinate towns are basically located on the front line.

Unlike the previous two, some are arranged in the front to provide warning, while others are arranged in the back to provide logistical support.

Although there are advantages to doing so, it obviously facilitates the expeditionary force's actions at this moment.

Or perhaps it was because of this that Guinness finally decided to attack Riedenburg.

"Yes, my lord."

Ad and Garcinia, each with 40,000 soldiers, broke away from the fast-moving army like a branching river and attacked in two different directions.

Leaving behind 100,000 soldiers led by Guinness.

After all, although they are a joint defense line, no matter how you think about it, the defense force of a mid-level city is much stronger than that of a subsidiary town.

"I haven't moved my muscles for a long time."

Guinness looked at the tall city standing in the distance and smiled cruelly, "I will take you as a key mark of my conquest of this land."

"All troops advance!"

Chapter 207: Breaking the City

About 100,000 soldiers is an extremely large number for the entire war situation.

What's more, these are the well-trained troops in Berghead, including Guinness's main guards, more than 300 elites.

At this moment, it was like a thick steel torrent.

Even if the troops near the Riedenburg area wanted to come and stop it, they were unable to resist this raging torrent and were defeated by the advance troops the moment they came into contact.

But just like a river, there will always be rocks blocking its way.

Using the city as the core, Riddenburg quickly organized a defense, which eventually stopped the rapid advance of the expeditionary force.

A bright beam of light shot out from the center of Riddenburg and exploded in the sky, forming an elliptical transparent shield that protected Riddenburg.

Utilizing the energy barrier driven by the city's core, most attacks can be kept out.

This was also the advantage of the defenders during fortress battles in previous lives. Without strong power, it would be impossible to break through this layer of defense, thereby causing damage to the defenders in the fortress.

This can be seen from the expeditionary force's attack at this moment.

Whether it is the complex magic cast by the battlefield wizard or the rain of arrows that can cover the sky.

Most of the attacks directed towards Riedenburg were blocked by the transparent shield, and the few attacks that did fall were also blocked by the city walls or the Riedenburg garrison on the walls.

Unless they can completely consume all the energy in the core of the city, their attack will be ineffective.

Even with more than 100,000 soldiers launching a simultaneous attack, they could be defeated in less than an hour.

But firstly it will waste time, and secondly there will be a certain loss of military strength.

Guinness had considered this situation a long time ago and made adequate preparations in advance.

"Entu."

"Yes, my lord."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the army behind him immediately responded.

A demon dressed in a black robe, thin and intelligent, came out from the guards with more than 150 mages, and they prepared a large-scale ritual together in the open terrain.

As the spell is chanted.

Pitch-black charred blocks emerged from the magic circle one after another, gradually gathering above the army and forming giant stones burning with flames.

The combined might of hundreds of elites and the fluctuations of aura emanating from these meteorites were even more powerful than the magic of all the field mages in the army combined.

Yes, in addition to gradually depleting the reserve energy in the core of the city.

Another thing is that using powerful attacks makes the transmission efficiency of repairing the energy shield completely unable to keep up with the consumption speed.

"Twelve o'clock, attack!"

These summoned stones, infused with the power of hundreds of elite mages, rose far into the air.

then--

Like a real meteorite, it was burning with raging flames, as if dyeing the entire dim sky with the color of a candle at dusk, making it seem like the end of the world is approaching.

Faced with such a massive offensive, the garrison commander on the walls of Riedenburg was naturally horrified.

"Quick, fight back!"