When the southern knights and noble soldiers vented their nervousness and fear that had accumulated for a month on the city wall, Sir Maryland did not become as hot-headed and lose the ability to think as those southerners did - even though he had lost his ability to think on the first day. At the banquet, he announced in a very optimistic and confident manner that the magic barrier of the Rock Fortress had successfully broken the Cecil people's "sky fire myth", and spread this confidence to everyone in the fortress, but among the Cecil people When launching the second bombardment, he immediately summoned the chief mage advisor in the fortress.
The mage consultant is always aware of the situation of the magic barrier. In front of him, Sir Maryland did not hide at all: "Can the barrier really withstand that kind of attack?"
" It's okay for now," the slightly wealthy old mage with white hair and beard said cautiously, "If the Cecil people really only have this little strength... then the fortress can completely sustain it."
< p>Maryland immediately heard the deep meaning in the old mage's words: "What do you mean?""The barrier is not as impenetrable as it seems, General," the old mage replied, "The Cecil people's sky fire 'The power is beyond expectations, it is really enough to shake the shield. If the fortress's magic barrier is not capable of self-repair, and if the Cecil people's attacks are interrupted intermittently, our barrier will be continuously consumed - until The repair speed cannot keep up with the damage, and there is also a very disturbing situation..."
Sir Maryland's brows were frowning. He looked around and confirmed that there were only his most trusted knights and others in the room. The mage advisor in front of me asked aloud: "Master, please speak directly."
"I used my mage eyes to observe the magic positions set up by the Cecil people. Those large and small 'sky fires' Device 'Only half running...'
Only half running?
What are the Cecil people doing?
An unreasonable sense of crisis surged into the heart of this high-ranking knight. He stood up, pressed the hilt of his sword, and almost immediately ordered the activation of the backup mage tower in the inner city to focus the magic power. All the reserve energy in the room was transferred to the barrier, but before he could act, the door of the room was suddenly knocked, and a messenger shouted anxiously outside the door: "General! Emergency!"
< p>The messenger quickly got permission to enter the room. The soldier had a panicked expression on his face. As soon as he entered the door, he said immediately: "General! Someone found the body of Viscount Carroll under the castle terrace! He seems to be in the room. He slipped and fell into the castle last night!""What? Carol is dead?" Maryland's eyes widened for a moment, "He slipped... fell down?"
His uneasiness was quickly amplified. This shocking information did not affect his judgment. Instead, he intuitively realized that the Rock Fortress was in a huge crisis. However, before he could react, the second messenger came. arrive.
What this soldier brought was information from outside the fortress: "Generalmilitary! Two boats suddenly appeared on the Baishui River! Marked by Cecil! And...it looks unusual! "
Sir Maryland came to the city wall as quickly as possible. At this moment, the two large ships that were going upstream along the White Water River had reached a place where they could be clearly seen even without the eyes of a mage.
They are indeed unusual - at least the speed is unusual!
Sir Maryland looked intently in that direction - southwest of the Rock Fortress, in the open area of the plains, where the White Water River is wide. On the river, an unnatural wave is flowing upstream. Amid this wave that violates the laws of nature, two strange-looking ships are speeding towards them. Their shells are covered with metal cladding, and huge ships are installed on the deck. Weird devices, their power is obviously the abnormal waves rather than sails - in fact, they have no sails at all. Where the sails should have been, only a few pairs of symmetrically distributed white "wings" can be seen. Structures, they may be able to catch the wind, but they are definitely not things that bring power!
And above the two ships, the flag of the Cecil family with the sword and plow pattern is flying in the wind.
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The southern knights and a few nobles on the city wall obviously saw what was on the river in the distance. Their strength was low and they might not be able to see it as clearly as Sir Maryland, but they could also tell that it was not an ordinary ship. So he was pointing curiously and discussing the origin of the two ships.
The next moment, Sir Maryland's eyes widened.
The two ships began to slow down. Extremely smooth, and during this process, the "wing-like structures" on both sides of them are opening up under the action of some kind of mechanism. The white "sail panels" face the midday sun, and there are dots of glow on the wings... …
What is that?
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On the deck of the first battleship "Aurora", soldiers and magic technicians are busy , commands and reports are coming from everywhere:
"The magic array has been deployed, and the energy is rising steadily! "The power ridge is normal and all layers of magic network are connected!" "The mechanical platform in the deck area has been unlocked and the angle of the main gun mount has begun to be adjusted. "Each technician will check the status of the runes in the work area and report the situation!" "
Gawain stood on the platform in the middle of the warship, watching the "magic arrays" on both sides of the ship unfold smoothly under the action of the mechanical linkage device, and watching the key equipment on the deck. The magic runes were lit up one by one, and as I listened to the commands and reports coming one after another around me, my mood gradually became high, and I couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion that was not in line with the current atmosphere - as expected, the style of this painting is nothing like that of a medieval battlefield. Matching...
Then he looked forward, at the huge weapon installed on the front of the deck.
The heir to the Cecil family, the authority on magic technology, was in the magic technician. Rebecca, who has extremely high prestige in the world, is standing next to the "calibrator" at the front of the deck. She looks high-spirited. The viscountess is giving instructions to the magic technicians in a loud voice.After completing various inspections, he personally adjusted the amplifier on the "calibrator" base so that this weapon, which was still in the "verification period", could be in the best condition.
She seemed to feel Gawain's gaze, turned around, and showed a happy and bright smile to Gawain: "Ancestor! That's enough!"
"That's it. Let's get started," Gawain smiled and nodded, "Knight Philip has been waiting for these two 'Italian cannons' for a long time." Byron next to him heard Gawain's words and couldn't help but be curious. Standing up: "'Italian Cannon'? Isn't this cannon called the Calibrator..."
Gawain laughed: "Don't worry about these details, I gave it the nickname."
Gawain laughed. p>
Rebecca, on the other hand, doesn’t care at all what her ancestors’ “Italian cannon” means. She has long been accustomed to the weird words created by her ancestors, and compared with these words, it is difficult to activate this rainbow. Light cannons were what she was more willing to do at the moment.
She raised her hand high, and a clear and bright voice sounded on the deck: "Water pump filling - turn on the power ridge!!"
The water pumps set up on both sides of the warship instantly Started, the powerful second-generation magic engine began to inject water from the White Water River into the base of the rainbow cannon. Below the deck, the hidden magic amplification core of the rainbow cannon was instantly soaked in the cold river water, and then As the power ridge was turned on, the "wing"-shaped devices on both sides of the warship also began to emit a low and melodious sound. A brighter magical light began to gather on both sides of the warship, and the surging power began to flow through the ship. The magic structures surged and brought a louder roar in the cabin. In the roar, the main body of the rainbow cannon was activated.
Its three curved "barrels" slowly rotated for a week, and the crystal prism fixed in the middle of the barrel brightened and emitted white light.
"The focusing crystal lights up and begins to shine - the target, the gate of the Rock Fortress!"
After a brief focusing, a dazzling arcane beam one meter thick erupted. came out, like a spear made of light, piercing the distant rock fortress.
After a few seconds of delay, the front end of the second ship "Morning Star" also erupted with a similar energy beam, following the Aurora and bombarding the magic barrier of the Rock Fortress.
This second "calibrator" beam missed a little, and it landed nearly a hundred meters away from the first beam, but the "gunner" on the Morning Star obviously noticed it quickly. At one point, and began to adjust the weapon, the bright arcane torrent in mid-air began to slowly turn, and it majestically swept through the magic barrier of the Rock Fortress - where the beam reached, a huge and dazzling bright spot almost spanned half of the A city wall.
The drain valves at the sides and rear of the two warships were opened, and the steaming cooling water was discharged into the river by the water pump. The technicians in the cabin below the deck quickly sent a report: "The core temperature is stable! You can continue to shine!”
Use the White Water River to cool down the rainbow cannon—this plan isIt worked once before in testing, and now in the field, it still doesn't disappoint.
Sir Maryland looked pale as he watched the two beams of light that were like heavenly punishment bombarding the magic barrier of the fortress. Seeing the panic of the knights and noble soldiers on the city wall, he finally realized the biggest problem. The problem was—
He had never understood Cecil's true power.
This war was completely different from what he expected from the beginning.
The dazzling white beam is still burning the shield of the fortress. This is a weapon that does not appear in the intelligence at all. It is completely different from the "Skyfire Explosion". In the burning of the beam, the rock The fortress's magic barrier was erupting into large and frightening bright spots centered on the "burning point". The bright spots vibrated and spread rapidly like ripples. At this moment, they had spread to tens of meters above the city wall.
Ordinary soldiers and civilians may not understand what it is, but as a high-ranking knight, Sir Maryland knows it all too well -
The magic shield is disintegrating.
Those two beams of light are pure magical energy, and their intensity is extremely high. Such high-intensity pure energy is a fatal threat to any shield spell, and it will easily penetrate and interfere with , block the energy flow of the shield, and prevent the regeneration of the shield that penetrates the area.
What’s even more deadly is that the “irradiation” of the beam is continuous.
The magic barrier of Rock Fortress is about to end.
As soon as this desperate thought emerged, Sir Maryland suddenly turned his head and looked at the mage towers in the inner city.
The only hope to save the city barrier is to immediately mobilize the emergency magic power stored in the magic focus and inject all of it into the barrier. In this way, the barrier may be able to persist for a while longer until the weapons of the Cecil people are destroyed. Overheating or waste energy cannot be released and have to be temporarily stopped, so that the barrier has a chance to regenerate...
However, those mage towers did not move!
Where are the mages in the city?
Not long after this idea came up, Sir Maryland saw the chief mage advisor flying from a distance.
The old mage probably flew all the way from a certain mage tower to here. He was panting and embarrassed. As soon as he landed, he shouted in despair: "General! The magic that controls the focus of magic power. The array and rune stones were destroyed! The battle mages and soldiers guarding them were all dead!"