Twenty minutes passed quickly, and more than a thousand snowmen were killed by the pirates. Although the pirates' fighting style was not suitable, their physical fitness was much stronger than most armies. After an hour of fighting, almost no one complained of tiredness. At the very least, this battle was much easier than the storm at sea.
Boom!
The weakest point of the Ice Castle, the main gate. The Undead Peaches rammed into the city, smashing the city gate and rushing out. Daniel rode Peter Hughes and charged straight at the 200 Headless Horsemen.
In his heart, he was a little afraid. He was afraid that the three sovereigns would not be willing to provide help. This was because Banchagana had refused Salin's request to kill the black-robed bishop. His relationship with the Three Lords was not as good as Salin's. If he were to be in danger and the Three Lords did nothing, he would not be able to defeat over two hundred Headless Horsemen.
Fortunately, there were more than a hundred pirates flocking out from behind, giving Daniel some confidence.
Those brainless guys wouldn't just attack him, right?
Daniel rushed straight to the north. The snowmen in the west discovered that the people in the ice castle had come out, so they began to slowly change their direction. But when they came to the north of the city, the pirates were already more than a hundred meters away. These snowmen had no choice but to follow behind slowly.
The Headless Horseman quickly adjusted his formation and charged at Daniel. They brandished massive weapons in their hands. Daniel felt a chill in his heart, and he didn't dare to hold back. He patted Peutheus' head, and a gray light immediately condensed between Peutheus' two horns. A soul-corroding ray shot out.
Seventh Rank Necromancy Magic was considered a powerful force. This was the only Seventh Rank Magic that Peaches could use after recovering to the Seventh Rank. As for the rest, Daniel's level was too low and he couldn't use them at all. This was Petheus' Natural Magic, and the three heads could take turns to cast it.
The gray Soul Corrosion Ray was like a magic cannon. It was so thick that it couldn't even be considered a line anymore. The Headless Horsemen who were charging at them were instantly hit. At least five Headless Horsemen died on the spot. The Headless Knight who wasn't hit directly fell off his horse. The lower-level warhorses were hit and rolled on the ground in pain.
Both sides reached their maximum speed in a dozen seconds and crashed into each other fiercely.
Petheus' body was strong, and he directly knocked away three Headless Horsemen. Daniel was high up in the air. He lowered his head and dodged a flying giant axe. He was so scared that he didn't dare to straighten his body.
The pirates collided with the Headless Horseman, and the spears in the front row broke one after another. However, the spear had already pierced the Headless Horseman's body. The pirates clutched their wrists in pain. The Headless Horseman fell off his horse and rolled on the ground.
Although the weapons refined by Salin couldn't kill them, Goddess Myers' divine power, even if it was only the size of a strand of hair, could torture the Headless Horsemen to the point where they couldn't fight.
When the pirates behind saw this, they threw their spears. Their spears were more accurate than crossbows, and almost every spear could hit a Headless Knight.
Salin was overjoyed. He had never trained these pirates to throw javelins. This was because he had enough crossbow bolts to use. Who knew that the pirates had such a technique? At close range, javelins were much more lethal than crossbows. The Headless Horseman's armor had already been cut into pieces by Salin's Snow Kill in the first round of attacks. These simply refined spear heads easily pierced through, and the sound of cold water being poured into hot oil rang out inside the Headless Horseman's body.
The Headless Horsemen who had almost killed Salin and Ainphent were now directly wiped out in a frontal charge. Salin had never thought that his team would have such strong combat power.
In fact, Salin's standards were too high. He had seen Rex's Swordsman Battalion, so he was very dissatisfied with an army composed of pirates. However, Qin Yin had a population of over a hundred million, while Rex's Swordsman Battalion only had ten thousand people. Those swordsmen were elites that Rex had trained for ten years, and there weren't many troops like them in the entire continent.
These pirates were strong and fierce in battle. Ordinary mercenaries would be defeated in one charge, unless they encountered Rex's Swordsman Battalion. The combat power of these pirates was simply not comparable to that of an ordinary army.
Besides, it was impossible for other armies to equip every warrior with magic weapons. Although the spear heads refined by Salin were simple and crude, their lethality was no different. It was just that the preservation time was too short. These spear heads would be destroyed in at most a week, and even the metal would automatically corrode and turn into dust.
This was because the metal of these weapons was too low-level, and it couldn't withstand the power of magic. However, Salin didn't need these weapons to last long at all. It was enough as long as they could last for the moment.
The pirates quickly suffered casualties, mainly because the charging pirates at the front were fighting head-on. Although they had the advantage of weapons, their strength and skills were not as good as the Headless Horsemen. Their wrists were all bruised, and they could only use their left hands to fight with their longswords. When the two sides tangled together, these pirates were almost instantly cut down by the Headless Horsemen.
A few pirates were even directly smashed into meat paste by the sledgehammers on the backs of their horses. It was extremely tragic.
However, the situation was still in Salin's favor. Salin had lost more than twenty pirates, but he had eliminated more than half of the Headless Horsemen. The Headless Horsemen who hadn't died were all rolling on the ground in pain. Peuuce's huge bony claws stepped on them forcefully, directly trampling these Headless Horsemen into a mess of flesh and blood. Peuuce wagged its tail excitedly. Since following Daniel, this was the first time it had fought and killed so happily. As long as its huge bony tail swept the Headless Horsemen, it would be swept into the air. Then, a small necromancy spell would fly out from Peuuce's horns and destroy it.
Necromancy was the bane of black magic. Salin now had two necromancers by his side. If he still couldn't control the situation, then he would be an idiot.
Ainphent immediately summoned the Flesh and Blood Wraith. The Flesh and Blood Wraith spread its slender wings and danced in the air, swooping down from time to time. Its attack power might not be stronger than Salin's magic, but it was the bane of the Headless Horsemen.
After throwing their spears, the pirates pulled out their longswords and began to fight the Headless Horsemen.
The Headless Horsemen's combat power definitely surpassed that of the pirates, except for their weapons. The pirates had also learned their lesson. The skeleton warhorses they rode were extremely agile, and they would use their front hooves to attack the enemy. According to Salin's training, the pirates formed groups of three and didn't fight the Headless Horsemen head-on.
A few pirates with mental problems who thought they were strong were smacked to death by the Headless Horsemen's heavy weapons.
The pirates had only dispersed the Headless Horsemen's power. The ones who were truly fatal to the Headless Horsemen were Zola and the four Magical Beast Swordsmen. Zola rode on a skeleton warhorse, and his longsword, Tear Stain, exuded an even more vicious aura than the Headless Horsemen's. Even a giant axe couldn't stop a sweep of his longsword.
While Salin was releasing magic, he still had the energy to observe Zola. He realized that Zola didn't force the sword aura out of his longsword at all, and only used the smallest amount of power to attack. But every attack was able to make use of the weapon to produce the greatest effect.
His white robe was like snow, and his longsword was like the wind. Zola slaughtered wantonly among the Headless Horsemen's troops, and his eyes revealed a rare fanaticism.
Salin's troops gradually pushed forward, and more than two hundred Headless Horsemen slowly collapsed under the attacks of magic and the Sword Sage. More than thirty pirates had already died, and there were still eighty pirates left. They followed closely behind Salin. They realized that the closer they were to Salin, the less likely they were to be injured. As long as Salin was protected, Salin's magic could accurately attack every target.
When a Headless Horseman's Zhanmadao was about to chop down on a pirate's head, Salin's Ice Bullet accurately hit the Headless Horseman's wrist. The Zhanmadao tilted to the side, and the pirate's longsword swept across, cutting the Headless Horseman's body open.
The Headless Horseman didn't die, but his wrist was broken, and his body was split into two. He had lost the ability to fight.
This kind of thing happened time and time again, and it had imperceptibly planted a seed in the pirates' minds. As long as Salin was alive, they would have an extra life on the battlefield. The pirates' troops became more orderly. Other than the dozen or so guys who had long been dead set on following Salin, the rest of the pirates also started to separate themselves from the Headless Horsemen, allowing Salin to cast his magic in peace.
Out of the four Magical Beast Swordsmen, two could now attack without worry, and the pirates' losses were even lower.
There were still more than forty Headless Horsemen left, and they were desperately attacking. The snowmen behind them had finally caught up, and they wanted to entangle Salin's troops. Salin didn't want to be entangled with these forty Headless Horsemen. He called out to Daniel, and the troops turned around, charging towards the hills in the west.
Salin had lost a quarter of his warriors, and defeated more than four times the number of enemies. This was all thanks to the defense of the ice castle at the beginning, which was why the losses were so small. If they had chosen to fight in the field from the beginning, the mages and the Sword Sacred Guild wouldn't have been a problem. However, there were more than five hundred Headless Horsemen, and Salin simply couldn't take care of the battlefield and control the situation.
Especially those ten thousand snowmen, which could only be unleashed in the field.
Salin's troops charged into the hills in the blink of an eye, and the forty Headless Horsemen were still bitterly chasing after them. In reality, they already had no chance of winning.
Near the ice castle, there were corpses all over the ground. After Salin and the others entered the hills, the corpses began to wriggle on the ground, and the remaining flesh and blood cores of the snowmen gradually gathered together.
Other than the Black Puppets and Headless Horsemen killed by Petheus and Ainphent, the other corpses had all mutated. Thousands of soul fragments and flesh fragments fused with each other at an increasing speed, finally forming a six-meter-long monster. The surface of the monster's body was covered in broken metal armor. It had six legs, six eyes, and a thick tail.
The monster's fangs were more than a foot long, and its head looked like a tiger's. It looked in the direction that Salin had left, and its six eyes were filled with hatred.
If a mage from a thousand years ago was here, he would definitely recognize what this thing was.
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