When Emperor Alfred walked into the valley, he had no idea that Luo Ling and Mao Kai were watching them from above.
Watching the long dragon-like team walk into the narrow mountain path, the light of the torch illuminated the stone wall below, like a few strokes of bright orange and red in the dark blue world. It was also like a little candlelight floating on a winding river. Mao Kai sighed: "If we put aside what is about to happen, this scene is really a beautiful sight."
Luo Ling said: "You seem to be in a relaxed mood. You even have the mind to appreciate the scenery."
Mao Kai smiled and said, "I used to stay in the laboratory for a long time and had few opportunities to come out. This time, starting from arriving in Green Forest City, a series of events have given me a lot of feelings. To gain the power of this world, how can you not understand this world? Many things can only be truly felt after you have seen them with your own eyes, done them with your own hands, and stepped on them with your own feet."
Luo Ling nodded in agreement. She understood the significance of Mao Kai's words for cultivation, and she herself had the same feeling. At their current level, in order to improve, rational learning and analysis are important, but various opportunities to bring enlightenment are also indispensable. She said: "Then let's see how much enlightenment this next battle can give us."
The people of the Shadow Wolf Mercenaries below seemed very patient. After the Imperial team entered the canyon, they did not act rashly, but waited quietly for the team to reach the right position.
A spirit attendant mage said: "Two masters, the imperialists have reached our predetermined location, why don't we take action now?"
Mao Kai said: "Wait a little longer. It seems that we are not the protagonists today. We just need to do our cooperation well."
Not long after he finished speaking, four or five fireballs suddenly flew out from the cliffs on both sides of the valley. They were aiming at the middle of the enemy team. The fireballs hit the team below and exploded. The beast soldiers who were originally marching slowly were blown to pieces. In addition, there were large pieces of rocks falling from above. I don't know how these assassins moved so many rocks quietly. Once they fall from a high place, the people who are hit will definitely be smashed into a bloody mess.
The Imperial troops did not expect that there would be an enemy ambush in the canyon where there were strongholds. Several damaged troops fled in panic.
Mao Kai said: "It has begun, so let's give them a hand."
He stood there and snapped his fingers, and more than a hundred pre-arranged magic arrays lit up one after another on the one-kilometer-long mountain wall. The two masters of the Tower of China and eight mages spent half a day setting up the array, which was not comparable to the temporary arrangements of those assassins.
There was a magic circle every ten meters or so, with various elemental attacks of fire, wind, ice and lightning, as well as various mental attacks of chaotic illusions, and even various negative curses that took effect for a long time. This magic circle was almost the output of the alchemy factory for two weeks. It was originally intended to be used to defend the city, but now all of them were thrown into a narrow valley at the same time. You can imagine how terrible the effect would be. The lethality of these magics superimposed together increased exponentially.
This was unlike the previous magic attack which merely caused chaos. Although these magics were not very powerful and did not cause fatal damage to masters, they were more than enough to deal with ordinary beast warriors. In just a few minutes, they caused large-scale casualties.
Not only were the imperial people extremely shocked, but even the assassins did not understand what was happening.
Luo Ling raised one hand and said seriously, "I'll come too."
She didn't make any movement, but suddenly snowflakes began to float down from the valley.
There was no snow at this time of year, but in this small valley, the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Soon, the original light snow began to turn into heavy snow, falling one by one towards the panicked crowd below.
These snowflakes may not seem to have any lethality, but if they fall on a person's armor, they will condense into a piece of solid ice. If they fall on the skin, they will get frostbite. If ordinary warriors don't have fighting spirit or magic to resist them, they can't block these snowflakes with their blood power alone. Wherever the snowflakes gently floated, people were frozen into lumps of ice and fell to the ground.
This is a magic that Luo Ling improved from the ice storm magic, the Extreme Cold Snow. Although it does not have the physical damage caused by the ice storm impact, it has a wider range and stronger freezing ability.
When Luo Ling finished casting the spell, a 200-meter-long stretch of ice and snow appeared on the road ahead of the valley. All the imperial vanguards, except those who fled backwards, froze to death on the spot.
The assassins of the Shadow Wolf Mercenary Group didn't know who had made such a big noise, but they secretly guessed that it must have something to do with the Chinese. So they still acted according to the original plan. There were nearly 20 archers in their team, who had been waiting on the mountain walls on both sides.
The person who contacted them gave them a few strands of Earl Duan's body hair. Shadow Wolf has a magic item called the Eye of Watching. It is a pair of monocles. As long as the target's body hair is sensed by this item, it can be used to find its target in the crowd within a few days. At this time, the leader of the Shadow Wolf Mercenary Group, Gray Wolf Eddie, was observing the team below with the Eye of Watching.
Soon he saw the man in the crowd. It was a young man riding a horse, his body covered with green scales, surrounded by a large group of magicians and warriors, like a moon surrounded by stars.
Being in the middle of the imperial people and having dragon blood, it was obvious that he was not a count at all, but the emperor Alfred. Gray Wolf Eddie was very dissatisfied with the Chinese's dishonesty. Assassinating the emperor of the empire was absolutely a crazy thing. However, after estimating the astonishing price they offered, Eddie felt that it was enough for him to risk his life and shoot a few arrows at an emperor.
Seeing such a great magic ambush, the Chinese were terrifying to him. Who knew if the Chinese had any backup plan? If he didn't act according to the agreement, it would be a big trouble if the Chinese wiped out him and the imperials at the same time.
What's more, if you want to join the China Tower, you should demonstrate your own value. You can't do without some achievements and performance.
Eddie made up his mind, took out an arrow, put it on the bow, and shot at the target. The arrow flew into the air and became bright, showing the direction to other shadow wolf archers in the night sky, so they all drew their bows and arrows and followed Eddie to start shooting at the emperor.
(To be continued)