The first thing Benjamin and the others faced were the elemental attacks spewed out by the monsters.
Because of the swamp surrounding their camp, the first batch of wolves that rushed over stepped into it, and their speed suddenly slowed down and they failed to approach the camp. However, they are not just melee combat. Therefore, they opened their mouths, and with a loud roar, overwhelming fireballs and wind blades surged over.
Although each attack is not strong, the total number of elemental bombs totaling four to five thousand is astonishing!
Fortunately, Benjamin and the others had been preparing fortifications from the beginning.
Layers of ice walls blocked their front, and they were hit by countless elemental attacks, making rumbling sounds one after another. The ice walls were broken one after another, but the mages kept chanting spells and adding new ice walls. After a lot of efforts, they still blocked this wave of attacks.
Then, the attacks from the mages arrived.
Countless wind blades flew away, bypassing the ice wall, and rushed towards the first batch of monsters temporarily restricted by the mire!
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of wailing.
This wolf-shaped monster had no defensive means, and its fur was not very tough. It was suddenly cut by the wind blade, and the foul-smelling blood spattered. This dense wave of wind blades almost killed more than sixty monsters!
However, for the entire herd, more than sixty people are still scratching an itch.
Immediately afterwards, the entire group of monsters swarmed up and surrounded the camp. The swamp could prevent them from approaching, but it could not push them back at all. The wolf beast in front has just fallen in, but the one behind can continue to rush forward as long as it steps on the head of the front one.
The mage is also launching new attacks to clean up the monsters in front of him as much as possible. Soon, nearly a thousand corpses piled up around the camp, becoming a springboard for more monsters to cross the mire.
When Benjamin saw this, he couldn't help but frown.
"Stop using your quagmire technique. The earth-type detachment uses the falling stone technique instead, and join the attack with the others!"
He immediately spoke and commanded.
With this number of enemies, the effect of the Mire Technique is obviously not as powerful as last time. Therefore, instead of pursuing the control effect, it is better to maximize the attack power and quickly clear out the monsters.
At this moment, through the translucent ice wall, the mages looked up, and the only thing they could see was the red eyes of the wolf beasts, which made those who saw it feel uncomfortable.
Regardless of the situation, they were completely surrounded. His line of sight was completely blocked, and he couldn't see clearly how many wolves were behind him. Therefore, they began to feel unsure.
How often... I'm afraid I won't be able to kill them all, right
"Teacher Benjamin, do we want to start singing?" Joanna asked anxiously, a little impatient.
Benjamin shook his head without changing his expression.
"Don't worry, it's not yet time for you to take action."
Through the water element induction method, the system has helped him count the number of wolves—14,321. It's not to the point where they can't be killed all, but if they don't use some large-scale destructive magic, they will be exhausted to death.
At this time, the wolves at the front had already rushed to the ice wall, spitting fire, and began to attack the ice wall with their claws and fangs. Suddenly, the ice wall was broken twice as fast, and the pressure on the mages doubled. Some of the mages responsible for the attack could only be transferred over to quickly fill the gap in defense.
Layer after layer of ice walls, broken and built, built and broken. The fangs of the monster were so close that the herdsmen were too frightened to speak. The expressions of the mages were not as confident as they were at the beginning. Almost everyone subconsciously took a few steps back and leaned closer to the center.
"Lord Benjamin, if we don't start singing advanced magic, it might be too late!" Tony was also a little anxious, grabbing Benjamin's arm and shouting.
"There's no rush." Benjamin replied while helping to summon the ice wall.
His expression remained calm.
When the wolves' offensive was almost unstoppable, he suddenly clapped his hands. Subsequently, the fragments of the destroyed ice wall underground gradually rose up, and under his control, they shattered bit by bit and turned into countless fine ice powders.
As a result, strands of ice mist formed, like rising curls of green smoke, spreading out lightly. The wolves that were first exposed to the ice mist suddenly howled, and then were frozen into ice sculptures one after another.
The wolves' offensive suddenly stalled.
"Okay, so awesome..."
Seeing this scene, those trembling herdsmen couldn't help but cast awe-inspiring glances at Benjamin.
The ice mist seemed silent, gentle and invisible, but it seemed to carry a fatal power. As soon as the monster was covered, it was frozen in the blink of an eye, without even a little room to struggle.
In this way, until the ice mist was exhausted, Benjamin probably killed more than 600 monsters by freezing.
For a wolf pack numbering in the tens of thousands, this may not be a serious blow. But... Benjamin didn't expect to be able to conjure tens of thousands of ice sculptures at once.
Before the others could react, he waved his hand again, and the water vapor rolled up the corpses that were frozen into lumps of ice and built up high in front of the ice wall, forming a new flesh-and-blood ice wall.
When the monsters behind them attacked again, those elemental bombs could only pass through the barrier of corpses before they could attack the ice wall erected by the mage. The entire offensive was suddenly weakened a lot.
Suddenly, the pressure on the mages was greatly reduced and they breathed a sigh of relief.
As soon as Benjamin took action, the situation became clear at this moment. Once the quantitative offensive of the wolves is resisted, the mages will continue to fight back. As long as their mental strength can keep up, the rest is only a matter of time.
They have medicine, and they use magic that is not too mentally draining. No matter how large the number of wolves is, it is impossible to consume them alive.
The three mages who were about to release high-level magic were relieved when they saw this, and even felt a trace of regret at the same time.
—They may not have a chance to shine.
Therefore, they simply took action and used some wind or earth magic to contribute some of their own strength. The few dark magicians no longer held back, and used magic to summon several shadow tentacles among the wolves to help everyone clear out the monsters as quickly as possible.
Even the group of herdsmen slowly felt relieved during this process. They looked at the magic released by the mages with fascination. The two apprentices, who had just started, tried to use the useless magic they had learned to attack those monsters, and realized the importance of experience in mixing and assisting.
Tens of thousands of magical beasts are basically something that ordinary mages dare not even think about. Even a team of a hundred people may not be able to resist if there is a slight mistake, and they can only use flying skills to escape.
However, after the battle to ambush the priest and the subsequent streamlining of the team, they gradually developed their own tactical system, and group battles became more mature.
- Divide into teams according to the magic you are good at, and use high-level magic as your trump card. Eventually, when things don't go as planned, Benjamin will step up and use his personal strength to open things up.
Now it seems that it is also a very comprehensive tactical system.
In this way, the mages killed tens of thousands of monsters for more than an hour. During this period, many people were exhausted mentally and had to stop and rest. However, when it reaches that point, the beast group will naturally be severely damaged and the offensive will become weaker, so the remaining people can support the situation. And whenever there was a flaw, Benjamin would take action and use his strength to forcefully close the flaw.
Therefore, although it took a long time, in the end, they killed all the wolves without any casualties on their side.
"It's so terrible..."
When the last monster died, the mages removed the ice wall. The herdsmen took a deep breath, stood up and looked outside, and they couldn't help but sigh like this.
One word - corpses everywhere.
With them as the center of the circle, densely packed wolf carcasses were spread across the entire grassland, with no end as far as the eye could see. And the grassland... can't even be seen as a grassland anymore. The blood formed a lake, and the grass up to the knees was even soaked soft, falling limply to the ground, lifeless.
Benjamin even had to maintain a constant stream of water vapor blowing outward, as well as a small knee-high wall of ice. Otherwise, they would either be suffocated to death by the smell, or drowned in the black blood.
Faced with this scene, even if the mages had just won the battle, their expressions were not much better.
"These materials... we may not be able to use them up in our lifetime."
Wallis smiled bitterly and sighed.