606 Chapter - 305 A fog in Green Dragon Stone Part 1 (2/2)
Loud bangs filled the air. Eight of them rolled across the ground with flames on their bodies. Before they could launch their cutlasses, they had been repelled by the Fire Ring of Resistance.
”Retreat first!” The warrior with the unharmed warhorse wielded a longsword, then he swerved his horse around wanting to exit the town. Out of the blue, a huge fog appeared at the city gates. This fog was emerging from the surrounding houses. It was very moist, carried a tinge of blood red color, and had an extremely pungent stench.
”There's poison!” The warrior atop the horse bellowed, then he immediately sealed the breathing vent in his helmet activating the magic array on the armor. After this armor was totally sealed it could allow a warrior to continue battling for three hours without needing to open his armor. This equipment belonged to the imperial swordsman's camp, solely used for dealing with poison fog spells.
The roof of the houses were made up of colossal tiles. All of a sudden, these tiles turned into magic beasts which measured over one yard in length. They then charged down the street besieging the eight imperial swordsmen.
The people outside the city gates were only in time to see the eight swordsmen getting surrounded. The fog then became so thick that it obstructed their view, they could no longer observe the happenings in the city.
Narnia wanted to take action, but Saleen stopped her. Saleen signaled to the group of warriors beside him to seal their armor, then he urged his skeletal warhorse to stop before the city gates.
He opened a scroll containing the Wild Wind Spell, stimulating this spell beyond the city gates. A violent gust of wind quickly dispersed the fog, but the eight warriors had disappeared.
”Sir, should we retreat and wait for the people behind to catch up?”
”No need. Aini!” Saleen bellowed in a low voice, then fifty skeletons charged into the city gates. Saleen and company never thought that the people in the city would launch an offensive before their main forces arrived. It was as though they were not worried that Saleen's team would not enter the Green Dragon Stone.
This was not an ambush, it was a provocation.
Su came beside Saleen. Saleen told Su, ”Protect Narnia, I will be with Aini. There won't be any problems, there is still Cuisi around.”
Su knew that Cuisi possessed tremendous strength, so he nodded his head and urged his horse to trot towards Narnia.
”Enter the city!” Seeing that Saleen did not object the commander wanted to save his comrades. He did not believe that eight powerful swordmasters would die in such a brief period.
The skeletons charged into the city. Indeed, they were not purified, the enemy's holy masters were hiding somewhere and did not bother attacking the skeletons. Dozens of white-robed warriors dashed out of the alleys wielding long knives as they hacked the skeletal soldiers.
Aini and the rest were riding on skeletal warhorses, so they were not afraid of weapons like a cross spear because the warhorses' legs were as tough as metal. All the warriors had sealed their armor while the remaining people were protected by magic. Fog diffused throughout the alleys, only one street was clear after being cleansed by the Wild Wind Spell.
Magic beasts measuring more than one yard in length as well as white-robed warriors, were continuously pouncing out of the fog. These white-robed warriors looked unfeeling and unafraid to die. Both parties clashed swiftly, there was zero strategy.
While battling in a city the effect of a formation would not be too pronounced. Saleen's Elemental Eye could clearly observe the silhouettes of the people within the fog, it could also determine whether one was friend or foe, but it could not identify the person controlling the fog.
Over two-hundred people entered Green Dragon Stone and the city gates were obstructed with fog once again. This fog was getting increasingly concentrated, it had already begun diffusing towards the exterior of the town. Very soon, the whole Green Dragon Stone had been enveloped by a pale white fog. The entrance could no longer be clearly seen.
The imperial swordsmen had no choice but to pull back surrounding Saleen and company. The crystal pieces before their eyes were also magic equipment, but in such a thick fog, their line of sight was only about ten yards. Even the range of a handheld crossbow was also about ten yards. If they charged in recklessly, there would be much peril.
”There is an expert here. Our route of retreat has been disconnected, the enemy should have used a maze-type holy spell.” Saleen analyzed the situation swiftly. Since there was no way out in the sky above, the only way to overcome the siege by the fog would be to kill the person who was controlling this divine spell.
There was a dumb method too, which was to obliterate all the warriors inside the fog. The duration of this holy spell array would not last too long, it would automatically disperse in at most half a day. A divine spell was unlike magic, it was not sustained using magic nuclei, but by the amount of power a god had lent to humans. The borrowing duration was decided by the god. Humans could only request for a time limit before activating the spell.
”What should we do now?!” The commander of the imperial swordsman's camp was anxious. It was okay for him to die here, but if Saleen and company got killed, then it would mean that he had failed the mission. That would put his family to shame and his son might not be able to enter the imperial swordsman's camp anymore. These small families who served the imperial family loyally placed a lot of emphasis on honor. Currently, he was not thinking about his own life, he was thinking of a method to get Saleen and the rest of the people out.