"That's enough. Anyway, the demons' Titans and the Nobles are all dead - that's enough. When do we launch the attack?"
"Tomorrow."
The Archmage of Bayerjans was discussing the tactics for the decisive battle with the surviving generals and nobles, and it was at this time that Naluga bravely stepped forward and said that she could also help.
As they watched, Naluga used local materials, including stones from the Purple Palace courtyard, to create a small golem.
After explaining to the Byers the limits of his ability to create and control golems, the great wizard Archimedes, who looked like a skeleton, shook his head and said that these stone men could only be used on the front line against the young ones, and they must be used in a concentrated manner.
"This... Miss Naruga, right? I can sense the magic left by the Purple Princess from you, so I'll tell you the truth: if it's just a golem made of stone, it's almost useless against a high-level demon.
The special ability of high-level demons is a "concept". In the concept, even if you are a stone, you will be "petrified" and abide by the rules of "petrification" that you cannot move or breathe.
In the same way, high-level demons usually have both powerful abilities and strong bodies. Your stone men cannot gain a physical advantage over high-level demons, and will instead hinder the actions of our hunters."
"I can control them like this." Naruga controlled the little brother Rem to dance ballet, or flexibly used her pointed hands to perform crude sword fighting techniques. "Won't this help?"
"No. The demons are not barbarians without wisdom. They are very smart and can tell at a glance that a cute girl with horns on her head is the controller of those stone men.
In order to see the demon's movements clearly, you will definitely appear in their sight. You will then be completely exposed to the threat of high-level demons, and you will die like a pig in the hands of high-level demons.
I'm not insulting you, but it's the truth - too many Bayerjans have died in vain because of their momentary bravery.
I hope you understand one thing: professional problems should be solved by big men who really know how to solve problems, not by a barber performing surgery, let alone letting a fool decide the direction of the war. "
Now that the great wizard had said this, Nalujia did not seem to be depressed.
She thought about it seriously for a while. If her golems stood in front of the defense line, they could actually attract the firepower of the larvae for the vulnerable ranged units.
After all, ordinary fireballs can only burn the surface of the stone, and ordinary acid cannot quickly corrode the body of a golem. Even if it does, in that case, Naruga can use the magic power of the devil to create golems on the spot with the magic utilization efficiency brought by her antlers that is far superior to that of ordinary people.
She was very confident about this because she had done it countless times. But she also knew that she must not die, because once she died, not to mention whether she could leave a place in his heart, the collapse of the front line would make her ashamed.
So after thinking for a long time, Nalujia said: In this case, let's put her in the safest place with the most stones.
"This will make it easier for me to do on-site production when Golem is damaged in battle... If I must not die, I need someone to cover me."
"There will be a team of strong soldiers to cover you, Miss Naruga. But this is all we can do. We all need to do our best in the decisive battle, and it is destined that many people will leave a mess behind - we have too few experienced warriors here."
"But Lucas said—"
"Flag Officer Lucas has been away from Constantinople for too long. He is not unaware that the ones using the flag of the 25th Eagle Flag Battalion are not the new recruits of the 25th Eagle Flag Battalion. Those little guys were destroyed six days ago. The current 25th Eagle Flag Battalion should actually be called the '26th Eagle Flag Battalion'."
“I see.”
Naluga was silent.
By now she had understood Bayerjans's predicament, but she really had not expected things to be so embarrassing.
It seemed that Naruga didn't need to continue her statement. She just said that she would communicate with the elves and use magic to notify the troops on the surface to wait for the signal, and then she left first.
In the elves' corner, while maintaining their Gappa 1404 rifles, they were also discussing the Bayerjans' overwhelming fighting spirit.
"A country like this... How on earth did we form an alliance with such a country in the past?"
"My grandfather told me that when the magic power was still strong, we elves could release elven magic recklessly on the continent without having to wait for the magic power to recover...
Perhaps when the magic power was strong, Japaria was indeed qualified to become the brotherhood of Bayerjans, but now... Sigh. The magic here cannot allow me to cast barriers and become invisible. At most, I can use the elf magic of long-distance communication..."
"It should be much better after we get off the elevator, right? By then, the magic in the Monster Forest will have subsided, and we can..."
"But have you forgotten that demons can also use magic? Then we might not be able to catch any magic at all..."
The elves were discussing heatedly, but after Naruga came over, they temporarily ended their previous topic and asked Naruga whether she needed to send a signal.
Naluga nodded, but she also added that she wanted to report the special features of the demon's abilities as well.
She was not smart enough to understand what the "concept" the great wizard was talking about, so all she could do was hand over this important information to Yang Hao and others on the surface and let them make their own judgment.
as well as…
"The Bayerzans seem to be ready for total annihilation... But I think it would be better if their casualties could be reduced. So... please let Yang Hao realize this.
We can't let the Bayerjans lose too many people in the final battle. Otherwise, Theresa, we will receive a city with only women and children left."
Naluga's words kept the elves silent for a long time.
After a while, the elf in charge of the transmission nodded and said, "We have more men than women here. If Bayerjans gets worse, we won't be able to stand it."
"His Majesty the Regent and Finn will figure it out. So let's just transmit it over like this."
The elves transmitted the crucial information to the surface, to Caparia, to the headquarters of the elven coalition forces which were clearing the platform with the warriors on the plain and ready to sink at any time, and to the ears of Yang Hao, Theresa in purple, and Fen.
At the same time, outside Constantinople, on the only way to the devil's land.
However, Bayer's reconnaissance vanguard encountered a small group of demon larvae and larvae, as well as two troops composed of high-level demons.
After a brief moment of surprise, the commander of the youth army, Mallister, and the commander of the veterans, Sarkozy, ordered their troops to attack. On the demon side, the demon army, mainly composed of petrified demons and fire-breathing demons, also charged at the Bayerjans.
…
After the entire youth army was petrified and burned, the remaining half of the veterans stepped on the "stairs" formed by the corpses of their companions and killed two high-level demons.
Chapter 9: The Bridge of Life, the Final Battle against the Devil 8K - 2
That happened half an hour ago. When the Bayerjans were preparing for the next decisive battle, a team of about 400 young soldiers and a team of veteran soldiers, led by two commanders, marched towards the only way to the Demon Land. While scouting the enemy for the large troops in the rear, they also built a temporary base at the edge of the Demon Land suitable for the large troops to enter.
But as luck would have it, on their way to the march, they ran into the demons who were preparing for an ambush in a narrow passage that could only accommodate a thousand men at most.
Those were two high-level demons.
The 10-meter-tall "fire-breathing demon" is common among high-level demons. It has a molten human face with charred fur, and its breath carries flammable gas. Just walking can cause countless sparks.
This demon has cow's hooves, a snake-headed tail that oozes hot black pus, and two pairs of meat-hammer-like forelimbs that are too deformed for a normal creature.
It is a tank among ordinary high-level demons. According to the standards of the Bayerzans Empire, it is a high-level demon that can be killed with human lives.
This is an irritable demon after all.
According to the records of the Bayerjans Empire, the standard size of a fire-breathing demon should be more than 20 meters, but now it is less than 10 meters. It is an opponent that the current vanguard can easily defeat after killing or injuring one-third of its members.
But the other kind of demon is a completely different matter.
The petrified demon is the most difficult opponent among all the high-level demons faced by the Bayerjans Empire.
If the meteorites falling from the sky can be countered with magic.
If the flaming lava could be jumped over with an agile body.
If those venoms and concentrated acids can be blocked by equipment.
If the will to dominate can be ended directly through self-commitment.
Then the concept of "petrification" itself is unstoppable.
As long as it is stared at by the eyes of the petrifying demon, no matter what it is, it will begin to be petrified in concept.
Even if it was originally stone or inorganic matter. Hard steel turned into ordinary rock, human bodies and blood turned into different types of stone according to their levels, and even demons other than high-level demons would be harmed by petrified demons and eventually become part of the stone.
This slow-moving giant lizard that's as big as a dinosaur is so hateful.
Its weakness is its eyes, but the problem is that anything it sees will quickly turn into stone, making the plan of damaging its eyes with javelins or arrows an unrealistic option.
The Bayerjans Empire has not yet found a way to fight the petrified demon with the highest efficiency and the least loss, but they have found another weakness of the petrified demon.
Because it would cause indiscriminate killings, the petrified demon would never open its eyes unless it was in the most urgent moment, as long as there were low-level or medium-level demons around it.
In other words, the petrified devil cares a lot about its own kind. Ordinary demon larvae will turn into stone if he looks at them, not to mention the weaker larvae the size of a hound.
Therefore, in the battle code of the Bayerzas Empire, how to kill as many ordinary demons as possible while posing a fatal threat to the petrified demon when it closes its eyes... is a very good theoretical solution.
Just like now. The young commander intends to act according to the canon.
"Don't kill those larvae! We have to kill it before the petrified demon opens its eyes!"
Mallister shouted, and ordered the poorly trained young soldiers to form a square formation in front of the veterans according to his instructions.
"Only attack the young ones! Put up a shield wall! Avoid the attacks of the fire-breathing demons as much as possible! Give the veterans time to prepare to throw their javelins! Quick!"
He ordered the young soldiers to create a temporary safety wall in front of the veterans in the form of a shield wall. But the demon larvae and larvae were not vegetarians either.
They used acid, fireballs, and ice cones to try to destroy the shields in the hands of the young soldiers.
Fireballs exploded, ice cones pierced, and acid corroded. The release of magic caused the underground passage to be filled with excessive magic elements, and the magic was gradually transformed into filth, and finally became a residue that almost no one could use.
Under the hail of bullets from the demons, the young soldiers raised their shields high in panic according to the scriptures.
The shields in their hands can absorb some of the magic released by the young demons, but there will always be people who fall because of the powerful magic.
After being hit by magic, the young soldiers screamed and rushed out of the formation before dying, fighting madly with the surrounding demons. The daggers in their hands easily pierced the fragile and tender skin of the demon larvae, but soon these young soldiers who were destined to die would fall down because of the magical damage on their bodies, or be killed by the demon larvae before being killed by magic.
Under the desperate cover of the young soldiers, the old soldiers in the rear made the throwing action calmly.
Their first priority was naturally the two high-level demons that were slowly approaching in the middle, but since they were unable to reach them, they had to temporarily launch a round of attacks on the army of demon larvae and larvae.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—the heavy javelins commonly used by the Bayerjans Empire became the howling scythe of death in the hands of the veterans.
With just one round of javelin throws, the number of demon larvae and larvae attacking the youth army's shield wall was reduced by half!
Any weak demons hit by the javelin would basically die instantly, but these weak demons were unlikely to determine the outcome of a battle.
Under the veteran's solemn gaze, the fire-breathing demon finally protected the petrified demon with its eyes closed and came to a distance of less than eighty meters from the shield wall.
The fire-breathing demon raised its two pairs of meat-hammer-like forelimbs towards the shield wall of the young army. It opened its mouth, and the veterans took the opportunity to throw another round of javelins. However, before the javelins flew to the demon's face, they were burned into molten iron in mid-air by the demon's protruding flames.
The molten iron splashed onto the fire-breathing demon, causing the demon to scream in pain and anger.
Then the fire-breathing demon went crazy and launched a charge towards the Bayerjans' phalanx without paying any attention to the existence of the larvae and larvae in front of it.
Wherever it went, it turned into flames and lava. It trampled on the bodies of its own kind. Its irritability alone caused more casualties to the demons than the javelins of veterans.
This did not make the veteran commander Sarkozy feel the slightest bit happy. On the contrary, this veteran who had fought for more than 40 years just shouted at the top of his voice:
"Everyone! Back off! Back off!! The petrified demon is about to open its eyes! Cover yourself with your shields, quickly!"
The petrified demon will not open its eyes when there are medium or low-level demons around.
However, the fire-breathing demon may accidentally hurt low-level and medium-level demons because of its own anger.
Adding on the half of the demons that were killed by the veterans’ attacks, it can be said that only one in ten low- and middle-level demons left on the field are left!
In this case, once the petrified demon opens his eyes, the consequences will be disastrous!
But no matter whether they were veterans or young soldiers, they were unable to stop the fire-breathing demon from trampling on low-level demons.
Under the horrified gaze of everyone, with an attack from the fire-breathing demon, more than ten young soldiers in the front row were turned into charcoal in the air along with flames. At this moment, the fire-breathing demon eliminated the last living demon hatchling on the field.
The petrified demon opened his eyes at this moment. The veterans had already hidden themselves behind their shields and slowly retreated, but the young soldiers who were fighting the fire-breathing demons were not so lucky.
A young soldier who had stabbed the fire-breathing demon's lower limbs with his sword saw his sword and shield gradually turning into stone before he could draw back his dagger.
Before he could utter a scream or a confused call, petrification quickly spread from the sword and shield to the young soldier's body.
He turned into a stone statue, and not just this young soldier. The young soldier who had just fought with the fire-breathing demon even turned into stone along with the blazing flames on his body.
These were the casualties caused when the petrified demon looked down at the corpses of the young and larvae.
Accompanied by the petrified demon's roar, the slow-moving demon lizard began to twitch its limbs as it slowly moved towards the retreating Bayerjans vanguard.
As it got closer, more and more young soldiers turned into stone statues while they were still alive.
Some people wanted to avoid being petrified by tearing off their petrified limbs, but the power of the devil was faster than them in cutting off their limbs.
The power of this "concept" not only turned the flames spewed by the fire-breathing demon into stone and turned human flesh and blood into stone, but also turned the ground where the petrified demon passed, the corpses of the demon's young and larvae, and even the stone itself into "stone".
There is no possibility of recovery for things that have been completely petrified by the petrified demon, but even so, the young soldiers and veterans still have to continue retreating despite casualties.
Just as they stopped for a while after passing two huge fluorescent mushrooms, and just as they retreated all the way to a low ground, the young army once again gained a foothold.
The young soldiers knew the order of sacrifice very well. They were the most worthless cannon fodder, and if calculated in terms of coins, they were just two hundred copper coins that could be found everywhere.
The veterans were silver coins, or even gold coins. The copper coins had to die earlier than the gold coins, so that they could use the gold coins to deal a heavy blow to the demons at the decisive moment.
But even so, almost half of the young soldiers were dead. They maintained the shield wall posture tremblingly, while the irritable fire-breathing demon rushed out of the passage between the two mushrooms first and launched a fierce charge towards the formation of the young army and the veterans.
The soldiers remained unmoved. At the moment when the shadow of the fire-breathing demon covered the shield wall, the petrified demon's sluggish body finally appeared outside the passage.
It was at this moment that the ten veterans lying in ambush on both sides jumped down from the mushrooms that had turned into stone.
They hugged the petrified demon's neck and back, and all of them tried their best to stab the petrified demon's eyes with daggers, but the moment those daggers appeared in the petrified demon's eyes, even the veterans' palms turned into stone.
At the critical moment, an old soldier jumped directly from the bottom to the right eye of the petrified demon.
His entire abdomen turned to stone, but he also fixed his body to the right eye of the petrified demon.
The petrified demon, who had lost his sight on one side, struggled and screamed, trying to throw the human off him.