The soldiers in Enrique's city were very calm. Because when the feudal lords announced the order of rotation, they realized that this would be a long and drawn-out battle for the defense of the city. Moreover, the proportion of casualties in a defensive battle was relatively small. For the soldiers at the bottom, they only needed to continuously shoot arrows, throw things, and carry supplies. As long as they did not rush out of the city and fight the enemy head-on, most people would feel an indescribable sense of calmness and superiority.
Charles II had the same thought. He stood on the city wall and looked left and right. The passageways on both sides were filled with soldiers armed with bows and crossbows. Moreover, there was a mage in a magic robe standing at a certain distance. With them around, even if the enemy was an elite division, they would still have to pay a huge price to approach the city wall.
Moreover, Lord Queo was right beside him at this moment. The kind of blazing heat that was like standing next to a volcano made him feel the power of the world's top echelons at all times.
"It's already noon."
Charles II squinted his eyes and looked straight ahead. "But it looks like they don't seem to be moving at all?"
"I told you, they're just bluffing."
Queo could see more clearly than Charles II. The posture of the soldiers 1,800 meters away could not escape his eyes. But just as he was about to continue mocking them, he suddenly stopped and looked into the distance.
"There's movement?"
Charles II tried his best to look but could only see a blurry black spot. He gulped and looked back at the city. The open space and passageways below the city wall were filled with reserve soldiers. Near the city gates on the east and west sides were knights leading their warhorses. Because there were too many people, the strong smell of horse dung could be smelled here. But this smell gave him a sense of security. Thinking that there were so many soldiers and knights around him, his fear of the enemy naturally dissipated.
"No … They don't intend to attack, but …"
Queo suddenly froze. He immediately stood up and raised his hand to cast a spell. He gave the signal to the mages on both sides to "open the defensive barrier!"
Charles II didn't know what was going on, but the mages who received the signal knew that they should execute the order and started casting their spells. Magical fluctuations and buzzing sounds echoed continuously, and a combination of different colors immediately appeared in front of the city wall. And as soon as such a barrier was formed, a series of colliding sounds echoed.
The crackling sound startled Charles II. He took a closer look and realized that there were many fallen black stones on the ground in front of the city wall. In the distant sky, there was also a muffled sound.
Bang!
One of them smashed right in front of Charles II, but Queo's defensive boundary was exceptionally sturdy. It didn't even leave a mark on it. The boundary of the mages on both sides wasn't as sturdy. The boundary of two low-ranked mages was penetrated on the spot. Fortunately, the black stone smashed into the city wall. Apart from a small piece of rubble, no one was injured.
However, this attack made Charles II nervous. He already had a shocking guess in his heart, so he asked hesitantly, "Is … Is this Efta's attack?"
Although he asked this, he couldn't accept the fact that the royal family's best ballista only had an effective range of four hundred meters. Although they could reach a distance of one thousand five hundred meters, there was no way to aim at that distance, and the error was huge.
The distance between the two sides was nearly two kilometers. If the enemy could attack the city wall at this distance …
"No …"
While he was thinking, Queo's expression suddenly changed. Charles II looked up and discovered that a series of lights suddenly flashed in the enemy's position in the distance. In the blink of an eye, a large number of fast-moving black shadows appeared in the sky and headed straight for him!
"Damn it! They actually tricked me! "
Queo stood up angrily. Charles II's face was full of doubt. But in the next moment, a violent explosion suddenly rang in his ears. This round of attacks wasn't solid calibrated bullets, but crystal cannonballs that contained immense power!
In an instant, the defensive boundary of the mages blossomed amidst the explosion. There were a total of more than one hundred and twenty large-caliber crystal cannons in Efta's position, and they began their first mass shooting!
The energy and impact of the crystal explosions caused the shields of these mages to be as fragile as glass. Because of the adjustment of the first round of calibrated bullets, in this round of attacks, more than half of the cannonballs were directly aimed at the city wall. In the face of such weapons, the defensive boundary was blown to pieces on the spot. And the shock wave that swept over from behind caused the soldiers and mages on the city wall to stagger.
In this round of concentrated shooting, most of the cannonballs didn't hit the city wall but exploded on the boundary. Therefore, most of the soldiers on the city wall were only shaken down by the impact. They climbed up and looked around in confusion, asking loudly what had happened.
Because at this moment, basically no one could understand how such an attack happened, or rather … they still couldn't believe that this was done by the soldiers two kilometers away from Efta.
And just when they were at a loss, the third round of concentrated shooting landed on the city wall after a delay of a few seconds.
Charles II stared blankly in front of him. He felt as though the world in front of him was instantly engulfed by red flames. The city wall under his feet looked as though it had been ruthlessly swung by a giant's warhammer. Even Queio's defensive boundary couldn't withstand the direct bombardment of seven or eight cannonballs and shattered in an instant!
Just when he thought he was about to be engulfed by the flames, the Dragons Overlord beside him directly activated his own Fire Shield. Powerful elemental waves resisted the physical impact of the crystal explosions. The unprecedented strenuous feeling caused the Overlord's expression to change. For the first time, he discovered that as a Dragons Overlord, it was possible for him to be injured by a human's attack!
The violent impact completely blew up the tents and even the tower on top of the city wall. If it wasn't for the large range of Queio's shield, Charles II would have most likely turned into pieces flying in the air.
At the same time, the middle section of the city wall that was originally filled with soldiers and mages was completely wiped out by the flames and explosions. Regardless of whether it was a low-level or a high-level mage, there was no way for them to survive such a dense bombardment. The shields were instantly shattered, and the people's bodies were completely torn apart by the power released by the crystal explosions. More than fifty people were directly sent flying to the bottom of the city wall and fell to their deaths. The entire northern city wall of Enrique City collapsed in two sections on the spot …
Apart from Queio and Charles II, there were no more than three survivors within a radius of fifty meters.
In the next moment, Queio had already used a spell to grab Charles II and directly levitated backward. As soon as the two of them left the city wall, the fourth round of concentrated shooting passed under their feet. The landing point of the cannonballs was no longer aimed at the city wall but inside the city.
Hundreds of crystal cannonballs seemed to have been calculated in advance. Some of them landed within a range of 20-30 meters behind the city wall, while the others directly extended to both sides and smashed right near the east and west city gates that were 200 meters away.
At this moment, Charles II, who was floating in the air, felt as though he was in hell.
He stood in the air and looked down at the densely packed soldiers in his field of vision being engulfed by the sea of fire. This feeling made one's senses dull. Charles II seemed to clearly see the entire process of the crystal cannonball exploding. The metal bullet, which was about the size of a helmet, expanded and exploded after landing on the ground. The charged crystal shone with a blue light when it released energy. Because the energy was too dense, the light quickly turned into orange or even bright yellow flames. In the process of spreading, it ignited and collapsed everything, causing everything in the surroundings to be smashed into pieces …
Charles II saw the terrified soldiers trying to escape, but because they were standing too close together, they fell down in large numbers. They were like dehydrated fish, desperately stepping on other people to struggle into the distance. However, a shell fell, and when the intense fire disappeared, only a deep, charred pit was left on the ground. Within a radius of seven or eight meters, there was nothing left except charred and carbonized corpses. Not a single moving object was left.
A cannonball hit the city wall, and the seemingly thick and sturdy wall broke in the middle on the spot. The collapsed stones fell into the crowd, and several unlucky people's heads were smashed open. The buildings in the city were even more defenseless. A cannonball landed in the middle of the street, and the impact and flames it brought directly collapsed three or four houses next to it. The flames spread rapidly, and the entire northern part of Enrique City was completely covered in three consecutive rounds of artillery fire.
Queil quickly retreated. Charles II, who was dragged along with him, looked around with a sluggish expression. He saw that the places where a large number of knights were gathered on both sides were also hit by the same cannonball. The enemy's attack was exceptionally accurate. Almost half of the cannonballs fell in the areas where the soldiers were densely packed. This also meant that the tens of thousands of soldiers that Charles II had painstakingly gathered … were directly killed or injured within ten minutes.
He could no longer hear the screams of the nobles and soldiers because his ears were almost deafened by the explosions.
Why is this happening?
Charles II desperately hoped that this was just a nightmare, but when Queil, with a gloomy expression, placed him on the square in the middle of the city and began to pace back and forth in deep thought, the King of the Kingdom of Karen understood that everything was over.
Without an army, he had no sovereignty. Under such an attack, it was unknown how many of the nobles in the city wall area could survive. What made him feel the most despair was that not only were the mages blasted to pieces on the spot, even Queil, the Lord of the Dragons, had to retreat to avoid the brunt of the attack.
There was only one question left in his heart: Is this really something that humans can do?
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