Chapter 177 If melee doesn't work, switch to ranged combat, and if ranged combat doesn't work, switch to spirit combat
"Damn it!" Lugal, who had been sitting leisurely on the throne in mid-air since the beginning of the battle, broke his defense for the first time. He slammed the armrest of the throne and stood up suddenly.
"Okay, okay, I never thought that Princess Ling would use such a vicious method. You are very different from before. But next time, I will not show mercy."
Lugal glared at Princess Ling fiercely, waved his hand and ordered the remaining surviving soldiers to retreat quickly. Then, regardless of the soldiers still hanging on the wooden thorns, he directly used his immortal power to destroy a large area of thorn nets.
"These small ground nets alone can't stop us. If you want to protect those imperial fairies, you alone are not enough!"
The crisp sound of branches bending covered up the sound of the body being crushed. Yellow sand, wood chips and the fairy's remains intertwined and finally merged into a pool of dark mud, just like the countless fairies who had fallen here.
Hua Ling and the patrol captain watched all this quietly and did not try to stop it.
They knew that the tactic of barbed wire and trenches had been used once, and the enemy was prepared, so they would not be fooled by the same trick again.
"It's so cruel." However, seeing those soldiers being ruthlessly crushed, the kind-hearted Hua Ling turned his head away and dared not continue watching.
Although she knew that the souls of those soldiers had been freed, this scene still challenged her bottom line.
She didn't understand why Lugal was so cruel to his own people when these soldiers were clearly his own. Didn't he have any feelings?
In contrast to Hua Ling, the patrol captain standing nearby was indifferent. "The king once told us that power can turn people into evil spirits."
"From the moves, the fairy's attributes should be related to royal power, and the essence of royal power is exploitation and oppression. As a powerful person, how could he care about the lives of consumables like soldiers?"
The captain's tone was calm, as if she had already expected this scene to happen, but while speaking she kept looking back, her brows tightly furrowed, as if she was thinking about something.
But before she could sort out her thoughts, Lugal's side launched another attack.
"Soldiers, in order to prevent them from playing any more dirty tricks, from now on, everyone will switch to long-range attacks!" Lugal's voice resounded throughout the battlefield with unquestionable majesty.
As soon as the words fell, the soldiers on horseback immediately conjured up large standard longbows, and the moment their fingers touched the bowstring, an arrow flashing with a cold light appeared out of thin air.
Obviously, these bows use immortal power as their arrows.
"Oh no, everyone, defend quickly!" Upon seeing this, the patrol captain immediately turned around and yelled at the team members behind him and other imperial citizens who were pulled in.
Once Lugal's royal space is activated, all living things within the range will be pulled in.
However, since the empire relied on the city walls for defense, when it was pulled into the space, a small half of the Huayan Mirror Palace was also pulled in.
Therefore, the current situation on the field is that Hua Ling's side relies on the thick city walls and height advantages to defend, while Lugal's side relies on the advantage of numbers to carry out a very simple siege battle.
Logically speaking, in a normal battle, whoever occupies a high position is more suitable for long-range attacks, but unfortunately this is a fairyland, and although not all fairies can fly, they can definitely float.
The maximum suspension height is enough to significantly level out the impact caused by the terrain difference, which is why the captain is so nervous.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, hide behind me! Ye Luoli magic, the spirit of life, the heart of the soul, the rainbow of the soul."
Hua Ling held the staff horizontally in front of him, and first covered the giant web he had woven before with another layer of thorns to strengthen the protection. Then he summoned the soul rainbow to build a more airtight protective shield behind the web.
Seeing the protection put up by Princess Ling, all the fairies of the empire spontaneously huddled together and shrank behind Hua Ling, then one after another formed a human string and finally put their hands on Hua Ling.
They all understood one thing.
Rather than raising their own defenses which might be useless and finally being hit by a flying arrow, it would be better to place all hopes on Princess Ling who is a great fairy.
As a great fairy, the protective shield created by Princess Ling is definitely stronger than theirs. They only need to transfer their remaining fairy power to Hua Ling without reservation.
Moreover, hiding behind the fairy can minimize the range of attack.
It is impossible for all the arrows shot by Lugal's side to be concentrated on the protective shield created by Princess Ling. After all, the range of an object's surface that can withstand attacks is limited.
What's more, when so many arrows are shot at the same time, they are bound to collide with each other in the middle. It is very likely that many arrows will be shot down by their own arrows before they hit the protective shield.
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"Attack!" With Lugal's order, thousands of arrows that had been prepared long ago were fired at the same time, like a swarm of locusts passing by, making it impossible to see anything else.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Countless arrows rained down on the double-layer thorn net, instantly riddling it with holes, like a porcupine covered with thorns.
As the impact force continued to increase, the wooden protective net groaned in pain and creaked under the heavy load, as if it could break at any time.
Looking at the increasing number of arrows piling up on the protective net, a smug smile reappeared on Lugal's face. He sat leisurely on the throne, waiting leisurely for the protective net to break on its own.
In his opinion, this net would not last long.
However, after a minute, the net did not break; after ten minutes, the net still stood there firmly.
Lugal's expression gradually turned ugly, and his smile disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"What's going on? Haven't you eaten? Pull the bow farther!" Lugar shouted at the soldiers below in anger.
"Yes!" The soldiers did not dare to resist, and immediately exerted all their strength to pull the longbow, which was already fully stretched, even further, and the arrows that flew out were also particularly powerful.
But in fact, the fact that the protective net was not broken was not because the soldiers were not working hard enough, but because of Princess Ling's little trick.
The thorns themselves have excellent toughness and can relieve some of the force caused by high-speed impact.
In order to ensure the protective effect, Hua Ling set the first layer as soft vines and the second layer as hard vines. The protective effect of the overlapping of soft and hard vines is naturally far beyond imagination.
The most important thing is that Princess Ling and the people of the empire are still continuously supplying immortal power to help the vines regenerate. It can only be said that Lugal's idea is a bit simple.
Just as the Empire was breathing a sigh of relief, the figure on the throne sneered, "Do you think I can't do anything to you like this? Let's not talk about how much immortal power you have left. There is one thing you seem to have forgotten..."
"I am a spiritual fairy."
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