The Grizzly Bear's voice was like a rough piece of wood with messy stubble, extremely ear-piercing in the silent night.
On the magic chariot in front, the Mage glanced through the telescope and said to the officers who were getting up, "It's heavy cavalry. Get ready to set up the alchemy crossbows."
They were all senior swordsmen, all officers. They went to the magic chariot to get four alchemy crossbows, which were set up in front of the camp. Behind the camp, however, were two Black Iron Sword Saints guarding it.
The heavy cavalry in the distance were extremely slow, and their warhorses were also the best of the best. Even so, any heavy cavalry had to conserve their strength before they charged. If their warhorses were not good enough, they would even have to wait until they were a certain distance away from the enemy before putting on their equipment.
The heavy cavalry was very destructive, but their mobility was not good enough.
The figures in the distance became clearer and clearer. There were about two hundred of them. The two hundred heavy cavalry did not wait for Salin's team at the predetermined ambush point. They had to ask the Mage to send out flying puppets again, only to find that Salin's team had stopped to rest after passing Red Earth Ridge.
The bandits were furious, but there was nothing they could do. They could only let the heavy cavalry rest and move eastward again.
After such a torment, the heavy cavalry, who had been conserving their strength, had already lost their drive and became cautious.
Salin stood up. The ten senior swordsmen had already passed him and set up the alchemy crossbows in front of the camp. The power of these crossbows varied. The powerful ones could penetrate three layers of magic armor with a single arrow. The weaker ones could only rely on the sharpness of their arrows.
The ten swordsmen were setting up the alchemy crossbows, a military weapon. Only the royal army had the right to use them. If anyone else used them, they would be hanged.
If the enemy was light cavalry, they could accelerate from a distance. Naturally, the swordsmen would not set up the alchemy crossbows so easily. However, heavy cavalry had to cherish their horses. Even if they were riding magic beasts, they would only accelerate after a certain distance.
Salin felt that his cold vision had improved again. Even without the telescope, he could clearly see things 800 meters away. When the cavalry accelerated, the dust on the ground suddenly rose. The hooves of the horses made heavy sounds, as if a giant was hitting the ground with a hammer.
If the soldiers beside Salin were ordinary soldiers, they would have been so frightened by this aura that their limbs would have gone limp and they would not have been able to move. The ten senior swordsmen were also extremely uncomfortable. He reluctantly adjusted the Alchemy Crossbow and was about to fire.
They were elites, and according to common sense, they definitely wouldn't fire at the farthest range of the Alchemy Crossbow. Instead, they would wait until the enemy was 200 meters away before firing. Because it took a long time to install the bolts on the Alchemy Crossbow, there was only one chance to fire against cavalry.
The advantage of the Alchemy Crossbow was its strong penetrative power. Anyone hit by it would die immediately.
"Don't fire. Wait for my order," Salin shouted, his voice carrying a strange rhythm. Although he wasn't good at Mind Magic, it was still easy for him to break the enemy's Mind Magic. After all, he was a Level-5 Great Magician, and the enemy was just using the power of the armor.
The ten senior swordsmen seemed to have woken up from a dream and were immediately covered in cold sweat.
Magic Cavalry!
Salin stared at the approaching two hundred cavalrymen and began to get serious. Originally, magic cavalries only existed in theory. In order to train magic cavalries, these soldiers had to meet two conditions. First, they had to be magic apprentices and be able to use their mental power to activate their magic armor. Second, the soldiers had to reach the level of a beginner swordsman.
It wasn't difficult to meet these two conditions. What was difficult was that a magic apprentice would never learn swordsmanship and give up magic unless his teacher abandoned him.
It was easy to find thirty to fifty people like this in every country, but it was obviously impossible to form a banner. Rex had more than a thousand magic apprentices under him, but only about ten percent of them could become Magicians. Even so, none of these apprentices planned to give up their profession to learn swordsmanship.
The two hundred cavalrymen in front of them were obviously the theoretical Magic Cavalry. Everyone could use the attributes of the magic armor and attack. Because the sound wave attack could affect the enemy's Mind Magic, the attack had already started from 800 meters away.
This kind of heavy cavalry could destroy any battle formation with a single blow. Unless … unless the enemy was a group of Magicians.
There was not only a group of Magicians in Salin's camp, but also two magic chariots. Apart from the ten senior swordsmen who were slightly affected at the start, the low-level Mind Magic Attack had no effect on the rest. Even Grizzly Bear was only irritated to the point that a rare murderous look appeared in his eyes. He mumbled and raised his three-meter-long single-edged Zhanmadao.
The Magicians resting in the chariots realized that something was wrong. Immediately, a dozen spells were shot out from the chariots and enchanted the ten swordsmen. Salin also enchanted Grizzly Bear with a Water Pattern Shield.
The Water Pattern Shield was more effective against magic attacks than the Ice Pattern Armor, and it wouldn't affect the movement of the person enchanted. Salin's Water Pattern Shield had reached perfection. A thin layer of water stuck to Grizzly Bear's body and changed its shape according to his movements.
The two hundred magic cavalrymen were all wearing purple-red armor, which reflected a bloody radiance under the starlight. These armors were the rare Great Leaf Armor, which seemed to be triple armor. The cavalrymen's helmets were in the style of the Fourth Dynasty. They were completely sealed, and the eyes were made of two polished crystals.
The soldiers inside could see through the crystals and see things from far away. The effect was similar to that of an alchemy telescope. However, this kind of equipment required the user to be at least a magic apprentice, while the alchemy telescope could be used by anyone.
The heavy cavalryman's weapon was an outdated lance. It was about four meters long and looked a little short. Salin saw that the conical head of the lance was inlaid with purple crystals. Obviously, it could shoot magic. Even if it was only a level-one spell, it was still annoying.
Seeing the expensive equipment, Salin was even more certain that there was a powerful force behind these thieves. It wouldn't be strange if it was the Church.
The Church was divided into three parts. The Pope would never collude with thieves in this area, but the Inquisition would definitely do it.
Salin wasn't worried. Although this place was close to Tanggulas, the border was actually an enclave of the Tanggulas Empire. The Church didn't care about this place, and there was only one Red Dress Templar in the entire enclave.
The swordsmen were enchanted with multiple spells, so they were no longer affected by the enemy's sound waves. They quickly adjusted their breathing and waited for Salin's orders.
Rex didn't move at all. She was still meditating in the chariot.
Four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters …
"Shoot!" Salin calmly gave the order to attack.
This kind of alchemy crossbow produced by the royal family of the empire had a terrifying range of eight hundred meters. It was an absolute killing weapon. No matter how strong the enemy's attack was, it didn't mean that they could ignore the attack of the alchemy crossbow. This thing was originally made for attacking cities, and it was ridiculously expensive. Usually, a flag regiment would only be equipped with five.
At a distance of two hundred meters, the alchemy crossbow was invincible. Salin didn't dare to take it head-on even with ten layers of Water Pattern Shields. Even if the magic shield couldn't be broken, the alchemy crossbow had an undefendable attribute: heavy strike. This was completely dependent on the mage's own body.
Salin wasn't a Magic Shooter yet, so he couldn't calculate faster than the firing speed of the alchemy crossbow. Also, the firing of magic was orderly and easy to calculate, while the attack of the alchemy crossbow was disorderly. A miscalculation would mean death. The four alchemy crossbows that Rex had prepared clearly weren't limited to just this. Four crossbow bolts whimpered as they flew out. The swordsmen quickly dismantled the alchemy crossbow's frame and replaced it with new weapons.
These weapons were all crossbows. The crossbow was originally the exclusive weapon of the Broken Cavalry. The horizontal edge of the crossbow was extremely sharp, and could cut off a horse's hooves with a light hook.
Four one-meter-long bolts spun as they flew out. The surface of the bolts stirred up a black air current, and the sound became increasingly strange. These four bolts were too fast. They covered the distance of two hundred meters in the blink of an eye. The knights in the front row didn't even have time to react before they were shot one after another.
Poof, crack …
The spinning metal bolts shattered the knight's magic armor and directly opened a huge hole in his chest. They passed through the knight's body and continued flying backward.
These bolts were also enchanted with three spells: Sharpness, Armor-Breaking, and Elemental Offset. These were all temporary mid-level spells. Only someone like Rex, who had a few great mages around him, could use this kind of tactic easily.
The four bolts penetrated six people's bodies in a row before falling to the ground. More than twenty magic cavalrymen rolled and fell to the ground. The rest of the cavalrymen were shocked. They desperately sped up and rushed back to the camp.
They were too worried. No army would have too many heavy crossbows that could penetrate six sets of magic armor. They were even more expensive than some high-level magic armor.
Rex's two elite swordsman battalions only had a hundred of them. Half of them were left in Bitter Water Commandery, and the rest were in Metatlin City.
The swordsmen retreated slightly and let the magic chariot move forward. There were two fifth-level mages and two fourth-level mages in the magic chariot. The sorcerers that Rex brought along this time had been with her since she was six years old. This was Qin Yin's court mage system. Every direct descendant of the royal family would have mages following them.
Losing one-tenth of their power was just the beginning. The mages on the magic chariot observed the distance. They suddenly released a Dragon Wall from a hundred meters away.
This was the only spell that could be cast instantly among the earth spells. It was originally created to resist floods. However, it was also very effective against heavy cavalrymen. An earth wall suddenly emerged. It was more than two meters tall, blocking the cavalrymen's advance.
The heavy cavalrymen in the front only lifted the reins, and the heavily loaded horses actually jumped over the two-meter-tall earth wall and continued charging forward.
Even light cavalrymen didn't dare to jump over the two-meter-tall earth wall. However, these cavalrymen in magic armor actually flew over it like a feather.
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