Chapter 1156 (1/2)
”Here they are.”
In the dark tunnel, Dalton kand, with a stiff expression, spoke faintly - if it wasn't for the almost constant vibration in the tunnel, it was like preparing for the guest's host.
Although in a sense... It is.
”Six elves are in the front, which should be feint; four on the left and right are approaching, one in the rear, a total of 14. Be vigilant.”
As he spoke coldly, Dalton had dodged three sneak attacks by the enemy's hidden arrows. While retreating a small half step, he brushed past the blade stabbing his neck from the right side.
The cold eyes stared at the stunned elf warrior with a knife. The secret silver short sword in his hand rose slightly and the blade shook.
High level spell, force impact.
”Poof --!”
The transparent thin white line penetrated his neck, and the elf warrior trembled all over, only saw the blood gushing in front of him; The next second, the world whirls and the world falls into darkness.
Dalton, who opened his mouth and stepped away, pointed the wand in his other hand to the other end of the tunnel and threw a blue ”light arrow”.
”Poof --!”
Blue light flashed, another Elf Warrior fell to the ground silently, and several fast-moving figures flashed through the illuminated dark tunnel.
”There are thirteen more. Pay attention to concealment.”
”Yes!”
”I see!”
The nervous demon hunter and the war dancer clung tightly to the weapons in their hands, tightened each heartstring, and focused on it, for fear of missing any word from the wizard behind them.
Just now, they saw with their own eyes how the three of them killed ten times the number of ELF warriors without wasting a drop of sweat under the command of the ugly wizard!
Of course, the vast majority of Elven warriors died in humiliation under all kinds of strange traps and didn't even meet them. Most of them were killed without notice, which has little to do with their strength.
But another way of thinking, in this extremely narrow environment, you can not be found by the other party, let the encirclement and blockade party be killed one by one, and you don't even know how to die... It feels terrible.
And it's the creepy kind of horror.
”Dang --!”
Almost as soon as they spoke, a dazzling white light flashed in the darkness in front of them. The sharp blade and cutting blade in the hands of the hurried Parry exploded sparks, which forced the demon hunter and the war dancer to retreat.
Without giving them any chance to respond, seven or eight indifferent Elven warriors came out of the darkness, and the messy blade wind tore the air and sent out a shrill wail.
Obviously... The time for easy sneak attack is over, and then it begins to hit hard!
The war dancers and demon hunters under the sudden increase of pressure have to move closer to each other. Although this will greatly reduce the space for moving and dodging, at least they will not be surrounded and annihilated by the enemies surrounded on all sides.
At the same time, the pressure on Dalton kand behind them suddenly increased - the best evidence is that the concise wizard never spoke again from the moment the enemy appeared.
The war dancers fighting side by side and the demon hunter looked at each other, and they saw a trace of dignity from each other's eyes, and they were determined - from now on, it is time to really play their role.
Guard the wizard and win the casting time that can last until the end, even at the cost of life.
But Dalton kand's mood at this moment is completely different from what they think.
”Boom --!”
A flame lit up at the end of the tunnel, mixed with vibrating air waves, like shock waves; One by one, the expressionless Elven warriors continued to rush at the three of them as if they had seen nothing.
No anger, no pain... It seems that the robes and injuries of the dead have nothing to do with them.
The elf warrior in front of us is completely different from before, that is... Is the enemy finally ready to fight?
Dalton kand, who was secretly in his heart, penetrated the long knife robbed from the elf warrior into the top of the enemy's skull. The elf warrior who tried to die together was shocked and collapsed in his own pool of blood.
It has been more than an hour since the beginning of the battle - starting first is the time to carry out the ”real” plan.
According to the data given by Dalton and elbird, Isaac calculated that it would take at least nine wizards to build a huge void force enough to be controlled by the executor (Loren Turin).
But in fact, this information is passive... Not nine, but three!
According to Albert and Dalton kand's assumption - if the enemy has indeed prepared an alchemy bomb enough to destroy the Empire, they only need to rely on the path completed by the enemy, and the three wizards can build a relatively complete magic array to solve the crisis;
If all this is just a cover... The cooperation of seven or eight wizards, even without Loren Turin, is enough to draw a drop of the void of the underground network on the premise that at least two wizards open the first valve.
For eboden, which is almost connected to most of the urban area by complex sewers and various secret roads, the direct consequence is that the whole city instantly falls into the ground and then collapses - violent vibration will destroy the city wall, and the collapsed city can kill at least one third of the elves in the city and cause irreversible damage to the surrounding areas for at least a hundred years.
Not only that, considering that the land around eboden is narrow, flat and close to the gem River, there is no mountain support; An earthquake of this magnitude and ”scope” will spread far enough to destroy all the armies of the Azores Elven warriors... And even affect the armies of the Empire.
Casualties will be measured in ”10000”. Even in the most cautious judgment, the Empire will at least bear the cost of eboden's destruction.
And the Azores - if the elves of eboden were all in the world now - would be exterminated.
This is the fundamental reason why Brandon is willing to agree to implement this plan... The reason to save the Empire, the world and civilization can not be used to convince the ”disgraced Prince”... He was lucky not to do so.
Similarly, this is the reason why Dalton insisted on not letting Isaac and Ayn participate in the plan.
The whole plan only needs eight wizards at most. In fact, if life is not considered, four people are enough - he Dalton, elbird, three elders of the wizard tower, four senior mentors... All consumables.
As long as we can ensure the completion of the task, which four wizards are... It doesn't matter. Dalton didn't even prepare any evacuation plan, because the possibility of leaving alive is very small and the plan is meaningless.
Loren Turin... Why hasn't it started yet? Have you been blocked by the enemy?
No, the enemy is out. We can't wait any longer.
Glancing coldly at the end of the tunnel, the elite elf warrior who kept killing in from outside the tunnel, Dalton kand raised his magic wand and a gray blue ring appeared at his feet.
In the dark tunnel, the cold light also looks so dazzling.
”Plan, start!”
……………………
While Dalton kand was ”struggling to support”, hundreds of unconscious and emotional Elven warriors sneaked into the underpass from the entrances of the city and moved towards the area with the strongest response to the force of emptiness.
For hundreds of years, the rushing footsteps sounded like a death knell all over the tunnel, fast and without leaving a trace. The different fighting methods from ordinary Azores elves also made many war dancers, demon hunters and wizards who were not aware of it in advance attacked one after another without being prepared.
”Dang --!”
At the moment of squatting down, the note of the collision between the tip of the gun and the blade sounded above Lucian's head; The grey pupil boy stabbed the short sword of his right hand into the lower jaw of the elf warrior for the first time, and waved the blade held back by his left hand.