720 The wrath of spirits Part 2 (1/2)

A spirit was originally a type of conversion form, it was the most stable. The emotions experienced by a human could hardly affect a spirit. The winged skeleton was not a spirit which could be provoked easily. During the journey, he discovered many people who tried to intercept Saleen.

Using the spirits released which could conduct reconnaissance silently from a great distance away, the winged skeleton managed to avoid all dangers. Saleen was not in his own city, he might not be able to flee if he got besieged by an army in the wilderness. The moment a grade-9 expert appeared, Saleen's current Crystal Finger could only be used once.

At the moment, Saleen had already entered the Bitter Water County and the enemy had grasped accurate information about him. The Qin people immediately deployed an army to stop Saleen.

Indeed, the Qin people did not know that the leader of this team was Saleen. They would not have deployed regular troops so easily otherwise. They thought that the two-hundred man squad had brought along a number of spatial equipments to help Lex transport resources, so they thought of intercepting this squad.

Killing Saleen would result in more losses than gains.

Even though it was a misjudgment, the winged skeleton was still outraged, he decided to teach the Qin people a lesson. ”People who try to harm Master will have to pay with their lives.”

A dozen cavalrymen were dragging the white-robed mages along, as they traveled north. From either side, cavalrymen from Qin kept charging out, trying to obstruct the winged skeleton's path. This towering spirit had given them a huge shock. After brandishing a gigantic axe, a one yard long blinding blade was unleashed, no one could withstand these weapons.

The winged skeleton controlled his rhythm carefully, ”If I capture the white-robed mages, the cavalrymen will lose all hope and they will stop swarming me.” The winged skeleton was only controlling the spirits from a dozen miles away. If this distance was exceeded, the death knights would battle using their instincts and they might not triumph over the Qin cavalrymen.

A death knight was merely a grade-3 creature, while the Qin cavalrymen were not short of swordmasters. Without the winged skeleton's directions, these death knights could not have put up such a strong fight despite being outnumbered.

The white-robed mages were led into the direction of Qin's main forces, while the cavalrymen blocking the winged skeleton had noticed a problem, but they could not leave the mages alone. If they fled now, they would be tried using military laws. If they focused on retreating, their speed might not be faster than the spirits.

At the rear, where the infantrymen's formation had been ravaged, the undead soldiers and fallen death knights were behaving bestially. They used undead poison to create even more undead soldiers. Without a death mage controlling them, these new undead soldiers were weaker than grade-1. Their speed and offensive power were very low, the only horrifying thing about them was that they could explode and spew undead fluid all over the place. Anyone below the standard of a swordmaster would quickly turn into a corpse after being contaminated by this fluid.

An undead explosion had a diameter of around four to five yards. Arrows had to be used to shatter the skulls of the undead soldiers.

After the death knights went past the one-thousand and three-hundred Qin cavalrymen, a path in the middle had been slashed into shreds by the winged skeleton and the jade skeletons, while the cavalrymen at the flanks were wounded. Hundreds of undead soldiers then charged forward, and turned the wounded Qin infantrymen into grade-1 undead soldiers.

A grade-2 undead soldier did not possess much intelligence, but its movements were agile. They led the newly transformed grade-1 undead soldiers and followed behind the brigade of death knights advancing north. Above the city entrance, Earl Besta was dumbfounded as he witnessed the scene before him.

Over one thousand spirits had effortlessly quashed a formation put up by two-thousand Qin cavalrymen and one-thousand and three-hundred infantrymen. As they massacred their way through, their speed was not even reduced much.

At the side, one trusted soldier whispered to the earl, ”Sir, should we inform His Highness?”

This trusted soldier was pretty smart, he could guess that Qin's main forces were not very far away. If the spirits failed, then it would be better to send Saleen away since the enemy was still a great distance away. Even though the town was filled with new soldiers, they could still buy some time for Saleen if they fought to their last breaths.

”Go inform His Highness.” Earl Besta was also worried that Saleen might get into trouble. If Saleen got trapped in this small town, the nearest elites from the Bitter Water County were five-hundred miles away. The nearby towns did not contain many troops. Lex did not deploy troops at this section of the border because she did not want Holy Rock City to do the same too.

”That won't be necessary.” A very mellow voice sounded behind the earl, causing the soldiers to be startled. It was unknown when Tolesi appeared at the city entrance.

”His Highness already knows about this, Earl, please let Lord Soldier do it.” Speaking, Tolesi commanded the forty soldiers he brought along to begin assembling an alchemical crossbow.

This alchemical crossbow was obviously a prohibited item, but since Saleen had already made his kingdom independent, he had the right to create any kind of alchemical crossbows. Below the four yard wide alchemical crossbow was a silver triangular rack. There was a pair of simplified binoculars installed atop the crossbow.

This sort of sniper crossbow could pose a huge threat to the nobles, from a mile away this alchemical crossbow could still penetrate a double-layered defense consisting of one low level magic shield and heavy armor. If a special arrowhead was used, its lethality would be even more horrifying.

Unless a grand mage was present to use magic and alter the shooting angle of the arrow, this alchemical crossbow could kill many people that did not take precautions, from a mile away.

Naturally, the shooting speed of such an alchemical crossbow was a problem, it could only fire one arrow per minute. Unless hundreds of them were fired at the same time, one alchemical crossbow could only be used to snipe the enemy's commander. Alchemical crossbows with a higher firing speed were actually installed in the large appliances inside the battlements where there were mages operating them.

Tolesi only brought one alchemical crossbow, he was trying to see if he could locate the highest ranking noble in the enemy's army. He could help Saleen's army save a lot of effort by killing that noble with one arrow.