726 Execution Part 2 (1/2)
It was common knowledge that powerful death sorcerers were able to attack from a mile away. If the spell was a large scale one, the attacking range could be even further. Large scale spells required a long time to prepare, at least half an hour. Some spells that were grade-9 and above might even require more than six hours.
The Qin battalion commander conducted his attacks a mile away from the city wall and under the protection of the sorcerer.
He possessed the abilities of a zun grand swordmaster. With a sorcerer by his side, he did not fear the death sorcerer Mu En.
When the sorcerer beside the battalion commander saw two shadows flying towards them from the top of the city wall, he smiled.
”General, the enemy is coming for you.” With that, he took out a black-colored scroll. If he could eliminate the most powerful creature under the death sorcerer, it would be worth it even if he used up a grade-8 scroll. His Lord would provide him with another one anyway.
It was clear that the death sorcerer must have totally used up all his mental strength, he could only send forth the creatures bonded to him to fight on his behalf. Too bad, this would go against the combat rules of mages. By allowing his bonded creatures to be so far away from him, he would not be able to control them well.
Even if it was a grade-8 creature, there would be loopholes that could be exploited.
The sorcerer did not believe that both creatures flying towards them were equally powerful. He instructed the grand mages around him, ”Take out all your scrolls. No need to scrimp and save on them.”
Cuisi's eyes turned bloodshot as the whip in his hands became a pike and pointed at the battalion commander. The soldiers on the exterior began to raise their crossbows and shot at will.
Cuisi and the winged skeleton were more than ten yards apart, one on the left and one on the right. Most of the crossbow arrows were aimed at Cuisi. The devil armor that he wore shone with black light. Only one arrow managed to shoot through the armor while the rest were deflected away.
The single arrow that managed to shoot through the armor was decomposed immediately. Before the tip of the arrow could even touch Cuisi's skin, the shaft of the arrow had already broken. When the sorcerer saw this, he quickly unveiled the black scroll in his hands. A beam of magic light shone and hundreds of magic runes appeared from thin air. Amidst the runes, a twenty yard long light spear shot out towards Cuisi.
The winged skeleton was right. The sorcerer had focused his attention on Cuisi's eight yard tall figure. After seeing how the crossbow arrows had no effects on Cuisi, the sorcerer had immediately used his grade-8 spell on Cuisi.
The winged skeleton suddenly sped up and there was an explosive boom sound.
Triangular-shaped black magic patterns scattered from the winged skeleton's giant axe. At the same time, the five grade-4 mages used their gray scrolls to trigger magic chain and a huge grade-5 spell appeared. Six-hundred to seven-hundred fire serpents appeared out of nowhere and coiled themselves around the winged skeleton. The black magic patterns that he had released earlier on began to cut up these fire serpents. With the giant axe in the winged skeleton's hands, the black cutting edge of the blade now carried orange flames after cutting up all the fire serpents. The winged skeleton charged towards the grade-4 grand mages.
The five grade-4 grand mages had yet to prepare their second spell. With the appearance of such a fierce and murderous death creature, two of the mages immediately cast ice plate armor for the people around them.
Three of the grade-4 mages cast more than twenty ice blades to block the winged skeleton from advancing further.
The grade-7 sorcerer was horrified to see that after using his grade-8 magic scroll, the gigantic creature has paralyzed in mid-air, but another spirit of the dead armed with a giant axe was heading straight towards him. By then, he had already used up all his mental strength after casting the grade-8 spell. If only he had five seconds to consume magic liquid so that he could recover enough mental strength to activate the defense spell in his magic robe.
There was no time. The silver soul flame raged from behind the the winged skeleton's crystal mask. His giant axe suddenly cast death ripple. Howls of despair were released from the axe. It caused the soldiers that were originally shooting at the skeletons to cover their ears in pain and to squat down.
The huge light spear shot towards Cuisi. He spit out a ball and enclosed himself entirely in it. When the light spear made contact with the ball, the latter managed to block the former's attack. Nevertheless, the light spear did not disperse immediately. Instead, it attacked the ball fervently. Cuisi was furious. He finally realized that he had fallen into the winged skeleton's trap.
Resisting grade-8 spells would not be easy and it would be difficult to escape unscathed. Cuisi threw out his whip which became a flying dragon and pounced onto the battalion commander. Both parties were less than thirty yards apart and the whip was already sixteen yards long. It appeared in front of the battalion commander the moment it was released.
The Qin battalion commander was no weakling either. Within a short time, his Qin eight-sided sword was already releasing sword aura aggressively and he swiped at the whip.
The winged skeleton laughed maniacally. He had overcome the grade-5 spell and cut up hundreds of fire serpents. He was now above the sorcerer and was about to swing his axe down.
There were no tricks this time, just the the winged skeleton's speed and the giant axe's weight. There was an air of certainty as the axe swung from that height. All the surrounding soldiers were unable to interfere after being assaulted by his death magic.