Chapter 229 "Reinforcements" of the giant city, the petrified dragon beast in the canyon [Please subscribe]
After many teleportations and trekking.
The reinforcement team sent by the giant city of Attucks had already set off from the black leaf outpost giant city-level teleportation point more than ten water clocks ago.
This team is mainly composed of the third and sixth garrison regiments, as well as the Bauhinia Knights carrying a fifth-order magic cannon, and has excellent combat capabilities.
According to the itinerary plan, it will take at least two to three Naraya days to reach Magtan City.
At the same time, Brindisi Marsh City, Dark Sunset City, Mountain Wolf Castle, Sauron Town and other state cities in the direction from Giant City to Magtan City will form a coalition, and they will join the Giant City garrison. support.
Their strategic intention is not really to aid Magatan City and save it from danger.
It was to destroy and clear out the void passage that appeared there.
Not long after the passage was formed, millions of monsters had not yet been accumulated.
Use the high-level magic cannon to destroy it in one fell swoop.
Void passages, like crypts, have various restrictions on the arrival of monsters.
Take the medium-sized void teleportation channel as an example.
Monsters can descend on a large scale every several Naraya Days.
Depending on the level of the descending monsters, the number is approximately over 100,000.
Within the scope of the void teleportation channel here, the maximum number of monsters that can be accumulated is no more than one million.
Therefore, the native people of Naroa regard the threat of millions of monsters as a threshold.
Due to this rule, there is always an upper limit on the number of monsters that can appear.
On weekdays, the two sides fight each other, with casualties and casualties, and they can basically maintain a rough consumption and balance.
But when a demonic disaster breaks out, the number of void passages and caves of various levels that appear in various places will increase sharply.
This will greatly increase the number of monsters coming.
In short, the void channel is just like a faucet, but there is a constant upper limit for the amount of water released.
Under such a premise, what Atax City considers is not to save Magtanbon City.
Compared with the loss of a mere dozen or two hundred thousand lives, the task of destroying the void passage is more important.
If it is allowed to exist, this place will become one of the places where monsters are rampant in the giant city.
Taking millions of monsters as the limit, after consumption, it can be replenished in the next advent cycle.
As time goes by, the trouble it causes increases.
A little less than half an hour after leaving the female warrior Yastir of Zerikan.
The Pioneer Dragon Eagle team rushed to the outskirts of Magatan City.
They looked at the dark mandala light curtain that looked like an inverted bowl, and quickly took out a piece of recording crystal to record the entire scene.
Then he returned non-stop in the direction he came from.
The intelligence here will first be reported to the supporting troops on the trek.
The team leader will then decide whether to report it to Jucheng.
The existence of the light curtain proves that the void transmission channel has not been destroyed, and the threat of demonic disaster here still exists.
It is a full six to seven thousand kilometers from the giant city of Atax to the city of Magtanbang.
There are two giant city-level teleportation points in this direction.
This type of teleportation node is suitable for teams that teleport more than 10,000 people at a time.
Each startup consumes a lot of magic cores and time.
The converted cost reached more than 100,000 crowns, and a single transmission required about half an hour of warm-up.
When transmitting in large quantities, this cost is still acceptable.
But unless a small team has an urgent mission, it is almost impossible to use a teleportation array of this size.
And even so, the rest of the journey had to be accomplished by traditional marching methods.
Therefore, it is not easy to convey the news here back to the giant city.
Whether it is a high-level messenger raven or a messenger soldier riding a dragon eagle, it will take a certain amount of time to return to the giant city of Attax.
The flying speed of high-level ravens is about 120 kilometers per hour.
When flying four to six water clocks continuously, you must rest for two water clocks.
There is a high probability of losing contact when flying over long distances.
For example, encountering raptors and monsters along the way, or straying into an area with chaotic magic.
After all, the way the raven leads the way depends entirely on its sense of the magic in a specific area.
Therefore, at a certain distance scale, ravens are not suitable for communication.
Currently, this team mainly relies on the Dragon Eagle Messenger Soldiers to deliver news to the giant city.
The flight speed of the third-level dragon eagle beast can reach 300 kilometers per hour.
Every time you fly for two water clocks in a row, you must rest for one water clock and drink enough meat and water.
Under such circumstances, it would take at least ten water clocks to complete a one-way communication.
This is the information lag between the two places.
Of course, there are more efficient delivery methods in the giant city.
For example, "Books Written by the Same Man".
This is a magic book with entanglement effect.
It is divided into main volume and sub-volume.
It is huge and bloated and needs to be enshrined in a special induction magic circle.
Generally speaking, fascicles will be placed in important passes and towns within the jurisdiction of the giant city.
As long as you write on the sub-book, the relevant content will appear simultaneously on the main book in the giant city.
This method of communication can achieve true "instant communication".
But it cannot be carried with the army.
However, the problem of mobile remote communication is not completely unsolvable.
In the rich and huge cities near the middle of the kingdom, many cities have built [Crystal Communication Towers].
This is a new technology developed by the Alchemy Association.
Use the characteristics of magic link to achieve instant communication.
The communication crystal imprinted with the link rune can use the communication tower as a node to call other communication crystals.
This technology sounds somewhat similar to mobile communications, but it has not yet spread to the giant city of Attucks.
The Pioneer Dragon Eagle Team did not dare to waste a single minute and returned with the latest observation information.
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at the same time.
Chen Xuan arrived at the Misty Canyon riding a griffon.
Below him is a suppression team with more than 10,000 people.
In the middle of the team were dozens of wind mages who continued to cast spells.
Waves of air surged, forcibly blowing away the dense white fog in front.
Although the dense fog that is blown away will soon heal, it can also open up enough safe vision for the team to move forward.
The suppression team was like a heavy piece of black iron stuck in cotton, gradually deepening and disappearing into the fog.
After entering the forest outside the Misty Canyon, you can often see scattered corpses of monsters.
Basically, they were all killed with a clean sword.
Even the magic core at the back of the neck was not removed.
Chen Xuan rode a griffin, sometimes swooping down and sometimes rising into the air to observe the situation.
He knew who killed these monsters.
Before the arrival of the suppression team, only the Zerikan female warrior Satyr had been here.
This allowed the clearing team to encounter no trouble along the way.
Even if there are occasional scattered monsters that rush out from nearby, they can be quickly dealt with.
After the main force of the monsters was wiped out, the monsters wandering outside the city no longer had a numerical advantage.
Pushing forward like this, everyone reached the edge of the misty canyon in half an hour.
Regarding this "Goubuli" area located not far from Magatan City.
Usually dogs really don’t come here.
It was the first time for many people to see this amazing place with their own eyes.
The canyon is located between two mountains and is not an ordinary low-lying valley between mountains.
It was as if a complete mountain had been split in the middle.
The canyon itself is a sloping gap in the mountain wall.
The large fog that shrouds this area also emanates from this mountain.
Its entrance is extremely spacious, about a hundred meters wide.
The ground on the rock base is also relatively flat, and can even barely allow heavy cavalry to pass.
The canyon is also obscured by thick fog.
It looks particularly deep in the dim light.
Chen Xuan did not enter rashly, but stood outside the canyon and waved his arms.
"Casters, be prepared!"
"All the wind gusts, perform matrix spellcasting on the canyon."
His voice echoed outside the canyon, faintly echoing from the rock wall.
The caster below has already taken [Magic Drink] in advance to quickly restore his magic reserve.
Under Chen Xuan's order, they cast spells in groups of four.
A series of spell models of wind gusts were formed at the mouth of the canyon.
Then it turned into a turbulent airflow, rushing towards the inside.
The four gusts of wind can blow forward for a distance of about a hundred meters.
Continuous steps of casting spells quickly dispersed the fog within a range of three to four hundred meters in the canyon.
After the white mist dissipated, one could see statue-like petrified figures standing in front of them, hundreds of them densely packed.
These figures are tall, with curved legs and long sharp claws.
They maintain a self-reliant posture, but everyone understands that these guys are by no means human.
When the fog within the area was blown away, the remaining wind spirit elemental magic swept across the canyon floor.
These "statues" suddenly trembled.
The clods of soil covering the body surface fell "swissly".
The next moment, pairs of red eyes like light bulbs lit up in the canyon.
It is indeed a monster!
Chen Xuan rode on the back of the griffin and took out a dozen small mercury bombs with his backhand and threw them into the canyon.
At the same time, the clearance team in the rear immediately prepared countermeasures.
The shield warriors in the front row held up several small magic energy shields.
"Bang bang bang..."
accompanied by the explosion of mercury bombs.
These "statues" complete the process of recovery.
They have dragon-like heads and reverse-jointed limbs.
There are also sharp bone spurs on the elbows, heels, and shoulders.
Chen Xuan narrowed his eyes. From his previous reading, he quickly knew the identities of these monsters.
Those in the canyon are all third-order petrified dragon beasts.
Also known as the Dragon Puppet Soldier.
This is a rather special monster that has some of the characteristics of a gargoyle.
Rather than saying they are monsters, they are more like high-level puppets.
It can enter the petrified state on weekdays, and will quickly revive to face the enemy when stimulated.
To create a petrified dragon beast, you need to use the body of a third-level monster.
Imposing a special dragon transformation ritual.
Moreover, these petrified dragon beasts can swallow magic cores as a source of chaotic magic power.
They cannot advance independently and cannot move freely.
Usually they can only stay near the Dragon Transformation Ceremony.
Hundreds of petrified dragon beasts in the canyon almost revived together.
Their strong legs make them look like flying mantises, and they are extremely agile when running and jumping.
More than a dozen mercury bombs created a loose barrier within the canyon.
These guys didn't seem to have high IQs. They didn't have any intention of evading during the whole process. They just sprinted straight and fast, passing through the isolation zone constructed by mercury vapor.
This caused the surfaces of these petrified dragon beasts, which were moving as fast as the wind, to be covered with a layer of gray-white mist.
Chen Xuan frowned. He found that the magic tears were not very effective against these dragon puppet soldiers.
Strictly speaking, the Dragon Puppet Soldier is a dead creature, similar to the Demon Puppet developed by the Naroya Alchemy Association.
Its power comes from the magic core, which is chaotic magic.
However, there is not much magic power on its body surface. Unlike the original species of monsters, the blood, flesh, muscles and bones contain rich chaotic magic power, and the erosion effect is particularly obvious when encountering magic tears.
The distance of three to four hundred meters passed almost instantly.
The petrified dragon beast rushed wildly towards the clearing team outside the canyon.
Then it hit hard on the small magic energy shield at the forefront.
"Bang bang!"
The clear sound of impact echoed inside and outside the canyon.
There are many types of dragon puppet soldiers, and each type has the characteristics of being fierce and not afraid of death.
They not only retain the rigid and firm execution of puppets, but also possess the savagery of monsters.
When the claws are swung, the chaotic magic power will condense into sharp blade light, causing ripples on the magic energy shield.
The suppression team had a numerical advantage, and when these petrified dragon beasts approached, they launched counterattacks simultaneously.
All kinds of attacks are coming towards them.
The battle became very intense in just an instant.
Chen Xuan did not continue to waste mercury.
According to his observation, when dealing with dragon puppet soldiers, the effect of magic tears is only one-fifth or sixth of that of dealing with ordinary monsters. It cannot be said that it is ineffective, but the effect is not satisfactory.
He took out two M2 heavy machine guns, used the gryphon flying in the air as a platform, and fired wildly downwards.
Facing the petrified dragon beast at the level of a third-level monster, the .50-caliber bullet fired by the M2 heavy machine gun is enough to break through the defense.
Anyway, this wave of advantages lies with us, Chen Xuan only needs to act as a wingman.
The fired bullets formed two intermittent light chains and swept towards the petrified dragon beasts.
Each shot can explode a small "flower" made of chaotic magic energy on the dragon beast's body.
If the escaping bullet hits the nearby rocky ground, orange sparks will burst out.
With everyone attacking together, it only took four or five minutes for hundreds of petrified dragon beasts to be beaten to pieces.
There are many magic cores in the remains of these dragon puppet soldiers.
They are all swallowed up in advance and stored in the body.
In addition, there is also "Magic Talisman", a special output.
The appearance of the magic rune fang is similar to that of a finger-long fang.
The surface is covered with dense demonic runes.
This thing can be used as a material for making link demon puppets.
The so-called link demon puppet is a demon puppet that can be controlled remotely through mental power.
In the giant city in the middle of the city, each third-level magic rune tooth can be sold for a high price of at least 1,800 crowns.
The price is equivalent to three magic tears.
It is also an extra bonus, worth storing and studying.
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(End of chapter)