Chapter 786: The Desperate situation of the Empire's Army
Green fire burned on the stone slope below the fortress, which greatly prevented the imperial army from continuing to build up the slope.
The stone slope was already almost thirty meters high. The height of the walls, for the most part, was about thirty-five meters, if we exclude towers and other similar structures from the calculation..
The difference between the stone rise and the fortress walls was now no more than five meters.
But these five meters were now a veritable bottomless abyss. The green fire created by the goblins was extremely dangerous and almost impossible to extinguish. Not to mention the human body, even steel would be melted by this flame in a couple of seconds.
Although this green fire was not like white phosphorus, which could burn for a very long time, the goblins on the walls of the fortress threw bottles on the slope endlessly, which caused this green fire to not be extinguished for a second.
And while they fed the green flames, the dwarves wielded crossbows and fired bolts endlessly at the imperial army..
The soldiers of the empire under the walls suffered heavy losses. Many died before they could do anything. Their flesh-and-blood bodies couldn't handle the green fire, shrapnel, or crossbow bolts.
To make matters worse, due to the impact of the green flames, the rocks on the slope began to melt and slowly turned into a dark red liquid that was a kind of magma.
The Imperial army was in a very difficult situation. She couldn't attack or retreat. The casualties have already reached over eighty thousand people. Retreating at such a moment with such colossal losses would deal an irreparable blow to the army's morale.
Army Commander Carlos stood in front of the green fire and looked at the gradually melting rocks.
*Whistling~*
A bullet was fired at Carlos. Carlos drew his sword and the bullet immediately shattered.
He could no longer count how many such small pieces he had chopped into pieces.
Since Carlos was the commander of the empire's army, many of the contractors of Apocalyptic Paradise were thinking the same thing.
The bounty on his head was obviously very generous.
Carlos didn't even look in the direction of the Apocalyptic Paradise contractors. He only looked at the gradually melting rocks.
— This is simply unthinkable... I hope it was worth it. All of this cost us ninety thousand gold sheets. If these alchemists wanted to maintain their status in the empire, they shouldn't have made a mistake.
The gold plates that Carlos mentioned were the main and most expensive currency of the empire. A single gold leaf could provide a family of five with everything they needed for a whole month.
A few days before the war broke out, Carlos applied for a shipment of special materials from the Empire. Since the Empire couldn't produce them on its own, it decided to purchase them from the Alchemist's Association.
The Alchemist Association was established in a territory under the empire's rule, but if one wanted to get something from the association, they had to pay for it, and even during the war, no one could get anything from the association for free or at a discount.
If someone offended the association, not to mention their various designs and familiars that were invented by the association, once the relationship between the two parties worsened, the association might even go to the extreme step of moving its headquarters to the territory of the Tribal Union, and the union would clearly welcome them with fervently open arms.
If someone needed to buy something from the association, they could only start preparing the money. Fortunately, the Alchemist Association was very kind and gave a 40% discount on everything purchased by the empire's military and sold everything at the cost price of the royal family.
Before this battle started, Carlos clearly understood that this could happen, as he had already fought with the Tribal Alliance for too long, and how could the alchemists from the association not know about the temperature of the union's green fire?
Since Carlos had decided on such an attack, it meant that he had a plan. He was willing to send the warriors to their deaths, but he clearly wouldn't send them to a useless death.
The height of the stone slope began to melt rapidly. From the original thirty meters, it melted down to about ten meters.
The red magma slowly flowed down, and the stone slope became smaller and smaller.
Under the empire's walls, a magma lake about a kilometer long was formed right in the moat.
They've trapped themselves.
Standing on the walls of the fortress, Tauren Amster frowned. He couldn't understand why Carlos, who was always so difficult to deal with, would make such a mistake. Judging from the current situation, the empire no longer had a chance to break into the fortress. If this kind of one-sided slaughter continued, the empire would suffer a hitherto unseen defeat in just one hour.
But Amster's guess wasn't entirely accurate. Already, the morale of the empire's army was unstable. If Carlos wasn't on the front line, the empire's warriors would have already started fleeing from the battlefield.
The Empire's army began to slowly retreat. Although everyone understood that in a war, they could die at any moment, no one wanted to die in vain.
At the imperial army center, Su Xiao was checking the magazine of his sniper rifle. He killed more than fifty dwarf crossbowmen. Unfortunately, they quickly learned from their mistakes, and now, with the exception of shots, they always hid behind walls or simply lay on the floor of walls, which did not allow him to easily kill them.
After inserting the magazine, Su Xiao pulled the trigger, and the new dwarf crossbowman lost his head.
Just as this already dead dwarf started to fall on the wall, an arrow, five bullets, and some kind of spell flew into his body.
Since the dwarf crossbowmen were now only leaning out to shoot, they were literally being hunted down.
Fortunately, Su Xiao was fast enough, but his opponents sometimes made him get distracted.
Looking through his scope, Su Xiao saw a large magma lake under the fortress. He wanted to rush inside the fortress. There were a lot of weak enemies inside. If he could get there, this battle would be over, and the sacred oak branch would end up in his pocket.
But it was impossible to get inside now. Even if Su Xiao had high stats, he still wouldn't dare to resist the magma.
The temperature of ordinary magma ranged from 700 to 1,200 degrees. The magma under the fortress was created with this green fire and had a greenish-orange hue, so it clearly had a much higher temperature.
Su Xiao was puzzled. In this battle, he had experienced the full force of the bomb with this green flame. The shield he created with 500 mana points was burned through in less than 4 seconds. If he wasn't fast enough and ran out of range of that fire, he would have been burned alive.
If Su Xiao wasn't careful enough, he would die.
Carlos clearly had to be aware of the power of this green flame, so why did he choose this strategy?
While Su Xiao was observing the magma through his optical scope, he suddenly saw for a moment a red five-pointed circle with a fist-sized star inside on the surface of the magma.
That circle with the five-pointed star disappeared in the blink of an eye. If Su Xiao wasn't strong enough and didn't look at this place, he wouldn't have been able to detect this circle.
— The pentagram? A spell? Su Xiao frowned and pondered, trying to memorize the appearance of this circle, and began to draw it with his fingers on the ground next to him.
Quite quickly, Su Xiao restored the appearance of this magic circle.
— It's not a magic circle. It has too many points in its foundation, so the mana won't be able to spread through it in good proportions. It's more like... The Alchemy Circle?
That's right, Su Xiao felt that it was more like an alchemy circle rather than a magic one. Although it looked like a magic circle, there were several points that worked independently of the others, not as a single unit.
But why did an alchemy circle appear on the surface of the magma? The goblins had a hand in it?
Su Xiao stood up. It suddenly occurred to him that the magma giant might have risen from this lake at any moment.
*Gurgle-gurgle-gurgle~...*
The magma began to boil.
The goblins in the fortress were the first to notice this anomaly. Their leader, the goblin inventor, began to carefully observe the changes in the magma near the walls.
— Stop, stop throwing bottles and launching barrels! The inventor goblin shouted, seeming to have seen something truly incredible. "Carlos, you bastard, how many alchemists did it take you to create such an alchemy circle? And you used those rocks as a cover?
The goblin inventor was very angry.
This was the first time he had ever lost to someone in alchemy.
— Everyone prepare for battle! The shrill voice of the goblin inventor echoed across the wall, but the dwarves and orcs around him were confused.
— Amster, get ready, Carlos and his army will be coming up soon!
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