344 Poly Spirit Beast Part 2 (1/2)

Twenty minutes passed by quickly, and another thousand snowmen were killed by the pirates. Even though the pirates' techniques were unsuitable, their physical attributes were much stronger than those of most armies. In this one-hour long battle, almost no one grew tired. At the very least, this battle was much more relaxing than experiencing a storm at sea.

Boom!

The gates were the weakest part of the snow ice castle. With a crash, the pikoosi broke the gates and charged out. Daniel, riding on the back of the pikoosi, made a beeline for the over two hundred headless riders.

He was somewhat fearful that the three kings would not lend a helping hand. This was because the previous time Saleen had demanded that Banchajanna kill the black bishop, Banchajanna had refused to do so. His relationship with the three kings was not as close as that of Saleen's. In the event that he ran into danger and the three kings turned a blind eye to it, he would not be able to defeat all those headless riders alone.

Fortunately, there were more than one hundred pirates rushing behind him, making Daniel feel more assured.

Those brainless things could not possibly target me alone, could they?

Daniel charged towards the north, and when the snowmen realized that the people in the snow ice castle had come out, they began changing their direction in a sluggish manner. But by the time they made it to the north of the city, the pirates had already advanced by more than one hundred meters. These snowmen had no choice but to give chase at the back slowly.

The headless riders hastily altered their formation before charging towards Daniel, wielding massive weapons. Daniel became afraid and did not dare conserve his abilities. With a tap on the pikoosi's head, the two horns on its head immediately began gathering a grey light, and a ray of soul corrosion was propelled outwards.

A level-7 death spell was also a powerful ability. It was the only spell the pikoosi could employ after returning to grade-7. The pikoosi could not cast the rest of its spells because Daniel's grade was too low. The soul corrosion was the fundamental spell the pikoosi had, and its three heads could take turns casting it.

The grey-colored ray from soul corrosion was like a magic cannon, becoming massively thick after its launch until it could not even be considered a ray anymore. At the same time, those headless riders who were charging head-on were struck accurately, and at least five of them died on the spot. Those who were not struck fatally also fell off their warhorses, and when the warhorses of a lower grade were hit even a tiny bit, they rolled on the ground in excruciating pain.

In dozens of seconds, both parties had attained terminal velocity, ruthlessly ramming into each other.

Having a sturdy body, the pikoosi immediately sent three headless riders flying. Daniel, who was riding on top, ducked his head to avoid a giant axe which flew up in all that chaos, and became so appalled that he did not dare straighten his body again.

When the pirates crashed into the headless riders, the lances in the front row were fractured. However, the lances had penetrated the bodies of the headless riders, causing the pirates to clutch their wrists in pain as the headless riders fell off their horses and rolled across the ground.

Even though the weapons refined by Saleen could not kill the headless riders, the power of life from the Myers Goddess would still torture them until they lost all ability to fight, even if there was only a tinge of it.

Noticing the phenomenon, the pirates at the back tossed their lances forward. They were more accurate tossing lances than they were shooting steel crossbows. Almost every lance which was flung struck a headless rider.

Saleen was overjoyed. He had never honed their lance-throwing skills in the past because he had enough steel crossbows to use. Nobody would have known that the pirates possessed this technique. From a short distance, the lethality of a javelin was much higher than that of a crossbow. In the first round of assault, the armor of the headless riders had already been reduced to shreds by Saleen's snowkill. And when these briefly refined lances pierced in, the sound of cold water being poured into hot oil was produced.

Half of those headless riders who had previously almost killed Saleen and Aini were now being exterminated in this head-on blitzkrieg. Saleen had never expected his team to possess such strong offensive abilities.

In truth, Saleen had set his expectations too high since he had seen Lex's swordsmen's camp before, so he had been very unsatisfied with the pirates. However, the Qin Empire had more than a billion people while Lex's swordsman's camp had only ten thousand soldiers. These swordsmen were the elites groomed by Lex over a period of ten years. Not many armies like hers could be found on the mainland.

These pirates had robust bodies and possessed unparalleled ferocity in battles. They could easily defeat normal mercenaries, unless their enemy was Lex's swordsmen's camp. The offensive power of these pirates was unmatched by any other normal army.

Furthermore, other armies would definitely not provide their soldiers with magic weapons. Even though the lances refined by Saleen were very crude, their lethality was not any less. It was just that the shelf life was too abrupt. In a weeks' time at best, the tip of the lances would be destroyed, and even the metals would self-erode into dust.

Because the metals used in these weapons were too low of a grade, they could not withstand the power of magic. That being said, Saleen did not need these weapons to last for a long duration. He just needed them to last until the current battle was over.

Very soon, casualties started appearing among the pirates. Despite having the advantage of magic weapons, the pirates who were pioneering at the front paled in comparison to the headless riders in terms of strength and skill, hence their wrists were injured and they could only use their left hands to wield longswords for the fight. As both parties slaughtered one another, the pirates were almost immediately thrown off their horses by the headless riders.

Some pirates were even smashed into pulp by sledgehammers while still on their horses. It was truly tragic.