821: Chapter 261: Qin City Long-range Attack Legion (Part 2) 821: Chapter 261: Qin City Long-range Attack Legion (Part 2) But the real terror was yet to e.
When the offensive power of two hundred magic guide cannons simultaneously fired and converged in the sky, a terrifying chain explosion occurred.
It was the most direct and also the most horrific energy storm, spreading like a vast colorful halo in an instant.
Tremendous magic power spanned the entire sky, and within the epicenter of the explosion, thousands of Faran knights were reduced to ash immediately.
Even those fortunate knights who were outside the impact zone were totally swept up by the violent energy turbulence.
In a moment, two Faran Air Force legions were thrown into plete chaos.
One volley from the magic guide cannons caused them to lose over one-third of their forces directly, and that didn’t even take into account the injured.
What terrifying energy was this?
Gerard, the Holy Pegasus Knight, had his eyes turn blood-red.
Relying on his Ninth Rank mount and Ninth Rank Zi rank strength, he forcibly withstood three blasts from the magic guide cannons.
Yet despite this, he was only one man.
Watching his rades, who had fought alongside him through life and death, perish under the might of the magic guide cannons, the sudden blow had driven him to the brink of madness.
He frantically yelled out orders.
“Ascend, ascend…” This was the only mand that Gerard, the Holy Pegasus Knight, and Kong Lingqi, the Magic Eagle Saint Knight, could issue.
But at this moment, how many Faran knights could still maintain rapid flight?
The Tree Spirit Druids launched their second round of attacks at that time, soaring back into the heavens.
Only this time, not a single Faran knight could maintain the relaxed posture they had before to defend against it.
Amidst the energy turbulence, both Pegasus and Magic Eagle momentarily lost their magical abilities, dropping their defense to its lowest level.
In such a state, their bodies were simply unable to block the thrown spears of the Tree Spirit Druids, leading to the fall of a thousand more Faran knights from the sky.
The quality of the Faran knights was indeed astonishing.
Despite the sudden and chaotic attack, they handled the situation far better than the Dragon Clan did initially.
The surviving Faran knights carried out the Holy Knights’ orders at a moment’s notice, desperately channeling Douqi into their mounts and ascending towards the high skies.
They knew that to survive, they first had to escape the enemy’s attack range.
Qin City had once again proven to the world with its actions that Qin City’s airspace is inviolable.
When Gerard, the Holy Pegasus Knight, and the Magic Eagle Calvary ascended with their subordinates to an altitude above one thousand five hundred meters, a simple glance at the diminishing number of their panions left their expressions so grave that it seemed as if water might drip from their faces.
Two legions, two Faran knight legions.
Now, the total number of those who could still fly was less than twelve thousand, with casualties surpassing two-fifths.
Moreover, even those Faran knights who survived had nearly all sustained varying degrees of damage from the magical turbulence.
How horrendous the battle was; never since the establishment of Faran’s Twelve Legions had they suffered such a heavy blow.
This was indeed due to Qin City’s astounding defensive power, but it was also related to the innate underestimation in their hearts.
If they had reacted sooner or held the Tree Spirit Druids in higher regard, perhaps the situation would have turned out differently.
Although it was impossible for the magic guide cannons to produce the same effect in a concentrated attack again, just the fact that they had bee so debilitated in the very first engagement, with the Air Force’s bat strength halved, was intolerable for the two Holy Knights.
The Faran Air Force was dealt a heavy blow.
Meanwhile, the main battlefield’s Faran Legion was similarly shocked.
Just moments ago, right before the magic guide cannons were fired, the Faran Legion also experienced unprecedented agony.
At the moment the Tree Spirit Druids launched their spears, the Goblin Rippers also released their Super Heavy Crossbows, with a total of two thousand four hundred Heavy Crossbow arrows heading directly towards the enemy Mage’s Camp.
Although the magic defense cover interfered with the targeting of these Heavy Crossbows, when they arrived, they still brought great devastation to Faran.
Casting Heavy Crossbow arrows is far more difficult than normal arrows, and due to their enormous size, these arrows could undergo special crafting processes that regular arrows could not.
Etched onto the tip of each Giant Crossbow arrow was a small but crude Magic Formation, made of Mithril.
While only a little Mithril was used, it undoubtedly turned them into magic weapons.
The attack power of the Heavy Crossbows was already strong.
In designing the Magic Formations, the elite Goblins of the Goblin Laboratory naturally did not choose to enhance their attack power.
Instead, the function of the formations on the arrowheads became quite simple: demon-breaking.
Even the Dragon Clan had to fear the demon-breaking power of these Heavy Crossbows, let alone ordinary Humans.
Two thousand four hundred Heavy Crossbow arrows shredded the already thin Magic Defense Cover in almost no time, and the next moment, they descended into that space.
Screams rose one after another.
Forget Blue rank Mages; even Zi rank Mages would not dare to block such Heavy Crossbows with their flesh!
Although Sloan reacted quickly, along with the two rear-guard Holy Knights and An Qi, the four of them together took action to block these Heavy Crossbow arrows to the greatest extent.
Yet, in the face of such sudden shock, they still couldn’t stop them all.
The fact that the demon-breaking arrows could shoot so far proved the extreme strength of the crossbows.
As they were released, one could only see trails in the air, with even slight distortions forming in the atmosphere—such swift attacks were simply beyond human capacity to stop broadly, and even Sloan couldn’t do it without preparation.
Over five hundred Faran Mages lost their lives perpetually in this round of demon-breaking arrows.
Such arrows didn’t need to hit vital spots directly; as long as they hit the body, they would invariably cause through-and-through wounds.
The instantaneous severe blood loss was more than enough to strip frail Mages of their lives.
Thus, the injured were actually much fewer; only those extremely lucky individuals were merely grazed.
In the blink of an eye, all the spells being chanted by the mages were disrupted by this sudden strike, and more than a third of the magic formations on the ground were damaged to varying degrees.
Annihilating the mages was tantamount to destroying the foundation of the Faran Army, and such heavy losses were more than Sloan could bear.
Before arriving here, he had indeed considered the strength of Qin City to be formidable, but he had not expected Qin City to be so powerful as to launch a direct attack on Faran.
Their bold and fierce tactics caught the haughty Faran pletely off guard.
Sloan was furious, truly furious.
He naturally noticed the change in the sky.
In just one encounter, without a single casualty on the other side, the Faran Army, known as the invincible force on the continent, had nearly ten thousand of its men destroyed, almost amounting to one-sixth of its bat power.
What an utter disgrace?
Not only was Sloan angry, but all the people of Faran were enraged as well.
The attack of Qin City did not diminish their will to fight, it only made them crazier and more furious.
The Mammoth Saint Knight Sakhir let out a roar towards the heavens, “Cowards of Qin City, do you only know how to launch surprise attacks?
Have the courage to fight out in the open.”
Oliveira glanced disdainfully at the Mammoth Saint Knight Sakhir, and said in a deep voice, “You invade our Qin City and still seek a fair duel?
Isn’t that a joke?
Whoever dares to invade Qin City will be pursued and eliminated, no matter the distance.”
Under Peja’s mand, the long-range army soldiers, who had recovered, used three volleys of arrow rain to express their determination to the Faran Army.
However, this time they did not achieve another glorious victory.
Sloan, having recovered his wits, was not going to give Qin City another chance.
As the mander of Faran, he finally joined the war directly.
He rose into the sky, floating in mid-air, and with him rose a massive black cloud.
All arrows that entered this black cloud disappeared as if into a vast sea.
Sloan’s icy gaze spanned the heavens, looking over at the parapets of Qin City, and his enormous oppressive aura surged forth, enveloping everything.
The real decisive battle was about to begin, but Oliveira’s figure had already disappeared from the top of Qin City’s walls.
At this moment, another surprising event happened to startle Faran once more: The sky was filled with three thousand points of light speeding towards the unsteady Pegasus and Magic Eagle Cavalry.
They were three thousand short arrows, shot by the Elf Archers.
The three thousand Horn Eagle Knights had already taken flight from inside the Burna Mountain Range during the bombardment of the Magic guide cannon.
After their initial volley of arrows, they stood off against the enemy from a distance.
In terms of military arms, Qin City was undoubtedly well-furnished; the three thousand Horn Eagle Knights were mainly used for scouting in the past, but now they were finally stepping onto the battlefield against a formidable foe.
The Horn Eagle Knights knew only some Wind Attribute Magic and did not possess great offensive power, but when that Wind Attribute Magic was applied to the short arrows shot by the Elf Archers, the effect became entirely different.
Precision and penetration were always the Archers’ specialties.
Although the knights of Faran reacted quickly enough that no one fell, many still suffered numerous wounds.
War, from this moment on, was truly beginning.
Gerard, the Holy Pegasus Knight, had calmed down by this time and watched the Horn Eagle Knights in the sky from a distance.
He did not issue an order to attack but instead led the remnants of the two flying cavalry groups to quickly retreat alongside the Magic Eagle Cavalry, moving out of Qin City’s range.
In midair, they corresponded remotely with the rest of the Faran Army.
After the previous strike, the knights of Faran needed time to recover, both physically and mentally, and Gerard’s choice was undoubtedly the correct one.
Sloan lifted his hand pointing towards the walls of Qin City, “Mammoth Knight Group, charge.”
The Mammoth Holy Knight Sakhir, who had long been impatient, initiated the charge of an entire ten thousand Mammoth Knights at Sloan’s mand.
Their roars of fury, thundering like earthquake tremors, spread towards the direction of Qin City’s walls.
They had already raised their battle axes high.
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