Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cat-Man Illusionist
Varref's actions startled the leaders of the other two caravanserais, and of course they heard the roar of the gold-cracked stones, but before they could figure out what was going on, the well-known caravan master, who had previously looked like a cunning fox, had already drawn the knife at his waist and went to gather his caravan guards.
However, they soon figured out what was going on.
Because at the east entrance to the assembly point, a series of flickering fires and explosions suddenly exploded in the tent workshop, accompanied by the characteristic hoarse roar of the cat people.
The two leaders glanced at each other, and also pulled out the scimitar at their waists, before the two of them became the caravan masters, they were actually old mercenaries who had exhausted their potential, otherwise they would not be able to protect the caravan from Lugoin to Rogue Camp.
Therefore, each of them actually still has a certain amount of combat effectiveness.
Now that the enemy is coming, they naturally have to use their own usefulness, so as not to be considered a useless burden by Variif and refuse to allow them to follow tomorrow.
So they looked at each other, and each returned to the caravan to gather his men, and soon each of them rushed to the front line of the battle with his own troops.
However, when they arrived at the front with their men, they were stunned by what they saw.
I saw a huge wall of sand rising out of thin air, directly in front of them, firmly blocking the way they wanted to rush to the front line to support.
The sand wall was so thick and long that it could not be penetrated with a spear, and the two sides were connected to the two terraces that held the assembly point, making it impossible to get around.
"How is this good?" Seeing this scene, the leaders of the two caravans immediately panicked, but they didn't know that Varref, who had gone to support Xue Hua with the guards and professionals, had also encountered this scene.
A huge wall of sand tens of meters high suddenly blocked in front of them without the slightest warning, and no matter how much the knife and axe could make this sand wall shake in the slightest.
Even the insect swarms that were fighting the cats were separated by the sand wall that suddenly appeared, and only the dragons flying in the sky still bombarded the cats' positions without hindrance, causing huge casualties to the cats.
But what is puzzling is that even the insect swarm is trapped by the sand wall, but the cat people come and go freely between the sand walls, as if the sand wall does not exist at all.
"What kind of plane? First they formed a group, and now they are coming to build a wall? Is this Diablo 2 or Diablo 3? Xue Hua glanced at the wall in front of him rather annoyed, and was about to get the thunder beast out and directly crash into these damn sand walls, when Isha sent him a message in the mind of the main nest.
"Lord, these walls are non-existent, they are only misguided by some kind of visual and tactile perception of psionic energy, and the Inspector King Worm has seen through these flawed illusions and figured out the location of psionic disturbances."
When Xue Hua heard Isha's words, he was stunned at first, and then reacted violently.
He's been tricked!
"Hold the grass! No wonder! I should have thought of it a long time ago... The sand wall dozens of meters high is not afraid of strong acids and collisions! This level of skill is not only capable of being displayed by legendary professionals! ”
He scolded secretly, and quickly connected to the field of vision of the monitoring king insect, and sure enough, he found that there was no so-called sand wall in front of him at all, there was nothing there, but there was a trace of blue smoke screen quietly spreading over the battlefield.
He also saw that Varif and the other two caravan leaders were leading people in the other two directions of the battlefield, they were sweating profusely and desperately stabbing and slashing the air in front of them with their weapons, and even on Varref's side, there were mages who kept throwing fireballs towards the empty ground in front of them.
"This Nima, the coverage is really big enough!" Xue Hua amazed and commanded the Superintendent Wang Worm to look back along those psionic smoke screens, trying to find the opponent's casting location.
Soon, he saw from the field of vision of the monitoring king insect that just above the platform behind the assembly point, hundreds of cat people appeared at some point.
They surrounded five strange catmen wearing tattered lilac cloaks and each holding a cloudy crystal ball in their hands, while those who looked like spellcasters raised their hands holding the crystal balls and twisted their bodies in strange movements.
And as they moved, a trace of blue psionic smoke screen slowly floated out of the crystal ball.
"Got you! Dhaka! Follow the Mother Worm! You've been blinded by illusion! ”
Xue Hua roared in the mind of the main nest, and Dehaka, who was scurrying around in the sand wall maze with a group of zerg units, hurriedly retreated behind a worm mother when he heard this, and turned off his own perception, allowing the worm mother to take it out of the sand wall maze.
"I found them! Dominate! The swarm! Scatter them! Shred them! Grab their essence! Dhaka roared, and slammed the swarm headlong into the cat-people tribe as they advanced toward the rallying point.
"Isha! Start orbital bombardment! Blow up those pretending cats for me! ”
"Understood, Juggernaut, the orbital bombardment order has been given, and the Leviathan weapon system is being charged......
The Leviathan weapon system is fully charged, orbital bombardment, launch! ”
The moment Isha blurted out the word launch, a huge dimensional hole opened in the dark night sky at the wound on the mesa against which the rally point was resting.
Then, a soft sound connected to five "pops" was heard, and five dark green spores the size of a small dining table flew out of the dimensional hole and smashed into the top of the mesa at an extremely fast speed, almost in no particular order.
Immediately after, a terrifying and violent explosion came from the top of the mesa, and a green light rose into the sky, and a large amount of debris fell from the mesa and smashed around the mesa.
Fortunately, there was still some distance between the caravan and the plateau, otherwise the merchant's goods would have been unlucky.
One earth-shattering explosion after another accompanied by a flash of dark green light pillars came from above the mesa, and the green smoke screen almost enveloped the entire mesa.
Everyone stared blankly, watching as the green smoke screen cleared, and the entire terrace was cut off by half its height.
They didn't even notice that the sandwall barrier in front of them had disappeared without a trace.
However, it doesn't matter if they don't pay attention to this at the moment.
Because Dehaka had already led the swarm to quickly defeat the main force of the Catman Legion, the leader of the champion monster with special affixes also fell under the air attack of the alien dragon and the flank attack of the cockroach swarm.
In the end, only an extremely small number of cat people took advantage of the chaos to escape into the misty darkness of the night.
The cat-man tribe of more than 5,000 people was wiped out in less than ten minutes.
Moreover, they were able to hold out for so long despite the superior strength of the swarm, basically relying entirely on that strange sand wall illusion.
After the illusion is cracked, the scene turns into a one-sided slaughter.
"There is no essence...... I don't like it, these creatures ......" De Haka walked up to Xue Hua, kicked the cat-man corpse on the side in disgust, and said in a very unhappy tone.
"Okay, okay, don't tell me that so much of the essence of the giant beast before has been digested by you, then you can eat it too much~" Xue Hua rolled his eyes.
The way the primitive zerg absorbed the essence was basically by eating.
Eat the essence of the opponents they defeated to gain the power of evolution.
It's primitive and not efficient, but they're stubbornly unwilling to compromise on this issue.
Dehaka shook his huge head, didn't answer Xue Hua's words, just waved his small, thin right hand, and let a cockroach crawl in front of Xue Hua.
"The swarm has found some, loot, things that are of no value to us."
"Okay, as long as it's valuable to me..."Xue Hua rolled his eyes and reached out to flip on the cockroach's back.
There are very few things that he can look at now, so he just habitually flips through them.
This time, however, he turned over a strange piece.
"Huh? What is it? ”