usatvline Chapter 175 City Defense Field and the People in the Mud City
Chapter 175 City Defense Field and the People in the Mud City
The city defense force field is a useless and twisted invention.
First of all, building it is a big hassle.
After all, none of the other forces in the small kingdom of Wommza, or even the entire North, have people like Abes and Kronos who deconstruct the rune group and make efforts for modularization, let alone the theoretical basis for splitting it up and applying it effectively.
The foundation is not strong, and the ground shakes the mountains.
The most basic magic shield now has a range of 200 to 500 feet. Under special conditions, it has been said that the range can be increased to 1000 feet.
Regardless of which one it is, it requires a base that is at least fifty feet long and wide. The larger it is, the more complex it is, and the larger the area occupied by the rune set.
If we don't know how to split the rune groups, it means that the larger the area of the city and castle, the more spheres of different sizes will be needed to build a number of bases that are at least fifty feet long and wide.
Carving runes, maintaining runes, gold powder and copper wire, glazed jade...
To fill up the city, the cost is so high that even a small tycoon like Bad Zegna who has integrated an entire city cannot afford it.
Only a place like Raven Castle, which although covers a slightly larger area but is still a castle-level place and plays an important military role, has sufficient supply funds to build a city defense force field.
Besides, do you think that having money is all you need?
Nonono, the tragedy has just begun.
Since both are defensive magic releases, they absolutely repel each other.
Once they are blended together, at best they will produce serious and distorted magic area effects, destroying the areas where they intersect.
In serious cases, the rune part that releases magic power will be directly damaged and need to be repaired at a costly cost.
This means that in practical applications, the limits of construction can only be tangent to each other but not intersecting.
And using multiple tangent but non-intersecting balls to fill a castle or city, which is usually an irregular shape?
You know it's impossible without even thinking about it.
Regardless of whether there is a mathematical solution, even with the current level of surveying and mapping, there will definitely be a lot of gaps and loopholes in the end.
Not only is it expensive, it also fails to completely wrap the entire frame and leaves gaps and holes. Isn't this technology useless?
On the other hand, if Abes and his team wanted to build the same city defense system, it would be much easier.
As long as you spend a little time analyzing the functions of the rune group and know how to adjust the parameters, you can change various important parts such as the radius of the sphere, output efficiency, etc., and then you can create an overall sphere with the city center as the center and the city coverage radius exceeding some as the radius.
Not only is the cost of construction much cheaper, but there is no need to worry about mutual repulsion and eventual destruction.
The final problem with the city defense force field is energy supply.
Without the magic crystal-related technology developed by Sister Agatha, that is, without this kind of physical magic crystal that is easy to produce and supply, they would have only one energy supply method to choose.
Spellcasters...
Of course, the efficiency of magic crystals is like burning coal, while the efficiency of spellcasters is almost like a living little sun.
But spellcasters are human beings, they need to rest and eat.
Moreover, as human beings, we have thoughts and ideas.
A tool with a heart is no longer a qualified tool.
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However, even though the city defense force field is so useless, it is a means of survival for Raven Castle in desperate situations and an unconventional choice.
Therefore, the request conveyed by the defenders on the city wall using flag signals was still rejected.
there are many reasons.
How can you start off with a great result, or expose your underwear at the beginning?
Secondly, as mentioned above, since the city defense force field in Crow Castle is a sphere that can only occupy a range of two hundred to five hundred feet, once it is activated, it cannot be moved or mobilized throughout the castle, and personnel can only move within the sphere.
To put it bluntly, the use of this thing is to use it at the last moment, at the critical moment, as a trump card to restrict both the enemy and us within a certain range.
Of course, another reason is that the command did not believe the information conveyed back by the soldiers on the city wall.
A large group of mages is coming?
Indeed, releasing a magical city defense force field is indeed the most effective way to deal with large numbers of mages.
but……
Are you kidding me!
There are quite a few mages in the royal capital, all of whom are stationed on a floating island called the Mage Tower.
But how could your Sludge City be able to invite so many wizards to serve you?
Even if you spend a lot of money and beg for help, you will get it.
But do you want them to be driven like soldiers, pushed to the front of the team, and set fire to burn down the city’s defenses?
dream!
Everyone knows that mages are proud and arrogant, and warlocks are arrogant and proud.
[Explore again, report again! 】
The new news was delivered to the city wall, and the soldiers on the wall were a little confused about it.
Could it be that I was really under stress?
Moreover, after the group of "mages" burned all the things they had placed outside the city, they did not rush forward as they had imagined, using flying magic to launch a horrific bombing on them, but retreated silently.
After retreating, several catapults were pushed over to the cleared area.
Catapult... isn't this more familiar?
This is the normal siege process.
After the catapult is moved out, it takes a certain amount of time to load it with power, launch it, and conduct test firing and adjustments.
If you gain some advantages after throwing, the next action is to let others follow you, and after a few times, the day will end like this.
And if you choose such means to attack their sturdy Crow Castle, you must be prepared to swallow your teeth after it is knocked out.
As soon as the situation returned to the scope they were familiar with, the soldiers of Crow Castle suddenly felt extremely relieved, as if the suffering they had endured in these days no longer mattered.
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Coming from the direction of the Ooze City, there were not only troops from the royal capital passing through, but also some people from the Ooze City.
Although Bad Genia believed in the character of Lord Abes and believed that he would not attack Guo by taking advantage of his position, some people in Mud City did not think so.
However, they knew very well that the soft foundation of the Mud City was not enough to build a city wall, and even if the enemy really wanted to attack them, they would not be able to withstand it.
Sending troops is just a way to make yourself look more respectable.
Besides, even if they were friendly forces, and they were passing through to attack the enemy's Crow Castle, where General Paddy was, they would have to show some appreciation.
Flowers, fruits, money and food, this is called professionalism;
If they can also contribute and help their allies win, then they can also share in the joy.
Among them, it was Bard's intention to mix in another group of the Minqiu tribe.
In this case, one group of the Wenqiu people will follow the adult in person, while another group will witness the terrible weapons under the adult's command.
After all this, these stubborn races had no choice but to figure out which direction would allow them to live and work in peace and contentment in the Mud City.
When the people from the Slime City first approached, they were somewhat disdainful of these people from the "Royal Capital".
Seven or eight hundred people... that's not a very large number.
They probably don't know that this group of people have been following Abes ever since he robbed the slave base where the lizardmen held human captives.
The pressure of the battlefield... absolutely everyone of them has experienced it.
The wolf packs, the lizardmen's strategies and attacks, the attack and defense of the two fatal walls of the royal capital, and the battle scenes between the lizard giants and General Paddy and his elite officers.
It can be said that although they still retain the feeling of being civilians and ordinary people, their actual experience and psychology are absolutely different from those of truly ordinary citizens.
Moreover, the discipline that Abes had emphasized before entering Sweet Leaf Town made them persist until they entered the royal capital.
As for Jiawei Ling, who is in charge of this aspect, he has always been very active in bringing his close friends to do the somewhat boring work.
Such regulations and such a team of supervisors were enough to give them a spiritual awareness far beyond their time. They entered the royal capital, although it was only the capital of the small kingdom of Wommza, a small country on the northern border, but their spirits were not corrupted.
Only those who have passed the test both physically and mentally can be considered truly qualified people, capital people, in the team under Abes's command.
The equipment they carried also surprised the friendly forces from Slime City who came to help.
This was no longer the critical moment like the previous attack on the walls of the royal capital, so naturally they were not wearing the simple iron vests that could be made with a single press, but more refined, real studded iron armor.
The rate of wearing armor was the highest they had ever seen.
And when they found out that armor could be worn by every ordinary person, and even those who came to help had the hope of getting one or two iron vests, they were even more shocked.
"Give us these things?" they looked up in surprise and asked.
The one who answered them was one of the leaders of this army.
It's a tiefling. It's actually a tiefling!
Although almost all the people in the North knew that these bloodlines were not their problem, but scars left by 333 years of tragic experiences, the capital... actually let a tiefling be the leader of the army?
This tiefling was, of course, Philip, the candidate that Abes had arranged long ago.
The other people leading the team were: Gaviling who participated in the artillery training, Adechi, the warlock who was Philip's mentor and friend, and Anivia who came to help because she had nothing to do at the moment.
As for Kronos, now that Abes is gone, all kinds of things will naturally fall on her shoulders, just like what happened in Sweet Leaf Town.
"First it was a town, and now it has to include a capital. After a while, the Sludge City will also be integrated. Do you also need to rely on me..."
At this moment, she might be learning rune knowledge while feeling annoyed that the hero casually entrusted the burden to her.
In short, in response to the questions from the civilians of Ooze City, Philip smiled and answered, "Yes, I told you that you don't need to come with us, you just need to borrow the road. Now you insist on going to the battlefield with us, how can you not wear some protection? It just so happens that there are a batch of things that were eliminated before in the inventory, so I'll give them to you."
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The nobles are all Sabis, and the royal capital, where the nobles gather, is a huge methane pool.
Except for their beloved city lord Bard, all other nobles are...
The people of Slime City who have benefited from the reform have always believed in this.
Although the city lord has begun to explain to them that the capital has changed hands and that the people in charge of the capital now are good people who are determined to safeguard freedom and dignity just like them, many people in Slime City still cannot change their minds so quickly.
This is even more true now, when we heard that people from the royal capital wanted to pass through here to launch a campaign.
But now...
They may not understand what productivity is, or what process flows and assembly lines are.
But they knew that the team in front of them was willing to give them protection and protect them.
They suddenly remembered what Lord Bard had said during the promotion these days, "I've said it many times, they are different."
Yeah, it's very different.
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If the common people began to clearly understand the changes in the people of the "Royal Capital" because they were wearing iron vests, then they would be able to clearly understand the changes in the people of the "Royal Capital".
Then the changes of the Minqiu people who followed in the team and were specially arranged by Bad to witness it with their own eyes began with the display of weapons.
First up are those fire-breathing gauntlets.
A member of the Minqiu tribe came closer, split his arms, formed a worm-like shape, and crawled tentatively towards the flames.
The result was naturally predictable. The Minqiu clan, who were afraid of fire and easily flammable, saw the part of his body that was split off quickly shrank and curled up in the flames.
After seeing the miserable state of his limb, the Min-Qing male no longer had any intention of taking it back.
If I take this back, I will be tortured by the feeling it conveys for a long time.
Although the Minqiu people have almost no sense of pain and are rarely injured by physical factors, it does not mean that they will not feel uncomfortable.
The feeling of wearing it on a dehydrated, charred body is probably like wearing a prosthetic limb, awkward, inflexible, and possibly causing phantom pain.
"What a terrible weapon..." So he gave up trying to retract that part of his limb and instead waited for it to grow back.
With these peculiarly shaped flamethrower arm armors, the efficiency of the "Royal Capital" people in clearing the battlefield space is extremely amazing.
They quickly cleared out the unnecessary stuff and pushed the catapult out.
As soon as this new thing came out, the Wenqiu people started to pay attention to it again.
The first question is, the shape of the catapult in front of us seems to have changed a bit?
Where do animal tendons go?
What are those circles of thick iron wire?
Did it take two or three people to load the ammunition? And it had to be capstan-powered instead of just pressing it with hands. Was this catapult so laborious?
The stones inside were also strange in shape; they were actually huge metal balls.
The people of the royal capital are indeed arrogant and extravagant. They don't even use stones to throw stones, but instead use large polished iron balls. Do they only have so much steel?
How come it loosened up suddenly? It seems to be placed farther away than the ordinary catapult. Can it really hit the target?
The answer is of course yes.
"put!"
With the sound of "bang" as the capstan was loosened;
Then there was the slight buzzing sound of the metal spring instantly releasing itself, “hum”;
Then, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", a number of metal spheres the size of heads broke through the air, drew long arcs, and fell into the distant city walls inside and outside.
Is this the end? Metal ammunition seems to be less useful than stone...
The next moment, boom! boom! boom!
Continuous and shocking explosions broke out inside and outside the walls of Raven Castle.
At the end of the sky, there were explosions and flashes of light, like the wrath of gods.