Chapter 218: The Hands of the Royal Family (Part II)

Rex is not like Saleen. She is the head of a country, and hundreds of thousands of people depend on her for their livelihood. Every move, every decision she makes, is responsible for these people. Ge Yi can take risks for wealth, but Rex can't.

So she rested for three days in Strandberg, ostensibly to loot the storehouses, but in fact to observe the movements of the nearby legions.

Strandburg is only a small city, and in the nearby big cities, there will be a teleportation array connected to Holy Rock City, which may not be able to teleport humans, but it is not a problem to teleport items and sounds. Three days was enough time for Holy Rock City to react.

The day after Rex stormed Strandburg, the city of Holy Rock got the news.

In the Prince's Palace, Sephiroth was full of gloom, and did not have the fury that others had expected. He was not stupid, and knew that Rex's move meant a break with him, even at the cost of going to war.

The Grükos had never seen anything like this, and in Sephiroth's opinion, the ever-shrewd Rex should learn to back down. But Sephiroth made a mistake. Not only did Rex not back down, but he also directly captured Stranburg, and Nash's life and death are unknown.

Sephiroth stayed in the palace for a whole day, without any official business, until the next evening when he sent a message to the lord of Guderian's city: let him go.

Sephiroth is well aware of the strength of Bitterwater County, and Rex's soldiers are not weaker than the court swordsmen of Holy Rock City. A forced siege would collapse the situation in Phoenix. Now that the coalition forces of the countries of the East China Sea have not yet been dealt with, Sephiroth can no longer let any accidents happen in the north.

Three days later, Rex received word that an army of about fifteen banner regiments was marching towards Sun City to attack the last fortress of Phoenix.

In fact, Sun City has been besieged by more than five swordsman battalions, and this one and a half swordsman battalions passing over is just icing on the cake. Rex breathed a sigh of relief, Sun City couldn't hold it at all, because the nobles of Phoenix didn't keep the mages of Sun City, and the mages had already left.

Guderian's army did not storm the city because it did not want to wreak havoc on the city of the sun. Holy Rock City defeated Phoenix, not for hatred, but to take over the land. Sun City is also a thousand-year-old city, with huge value, and if it is destroyed by war, it will be worth the loss.

Rex understood that it was Holy Rock City that had backed down and let himself cross.

Rex did not hesitate and immediately gave the order to march. She had brought with her 10,000 troops, 10,000 auxiliaries, and thousands of immigrants. Now there are more than 4,000 more captives. More than 30,000 people marched north of Phoenix.

At this time, something unexpected happened to Rex, and many nobles from Phoenix came to take refuge along the way. Some of these nobles have not rebelled against Holy Rock City, and some have not lost their land, and it is impossible for Holy Rock City to kill all the nobles of Phoenix, and some of them will definitely be wooed.

These nobles came to Rex, and they brought their own armies and some loyal lords.

Although it is said that these petty nobles brought only a few hundred troops at most, they could add up to more than 5,000 soldiers. With the addition of a few lords, Rex's ranks grew to more than 50,000 men.

The people brought out by these nobles are not for nothing, many of them are craftsmen, and those who can follow the nobles to leave, at least the nobles have supported the artisan families for more than ten generations, and their skills are exquisite.

Even the peasants who followed the nobles made Rex very hot. There is a special type of peasant, similar to a magic apprentice, who has mastered some agronomic skills. It allows the land to grow more food.

Rex's ranks grew larger and larger, and by the time they reached the Phoenix border, they had grown to 100,000 men. If it weren't for the countless supplies she had prepared in advance, the magician would have been ten times the size of an ordinary army, and would not have been able to deal with so many people.

It's already March, but it's still snowing north of Phoenix, and if these civilians don't have high-end military tents, countless people will freeze to death.

Rex's expenses were directly multiplied several times, but fortunately, the nobles fled from Phoenix, and they all asked Rex to help take away the grain that had been stored for many years.

Rex didn't lose money, she also got a lot of crop seeds, magic fertilizer hoarded by nobles, and metal ingots in warehouses. There were even some nobles who commanded their subordinates to tear down their houses and take everything they could.

Rex couldn't be happier, these nobles had completely given up hope in Holy Rock City, and they knew they couldn't resist it, so they took refuge in themselves. In fact, the empire has already begun to split, starting with Phoenix, and it is because of its own appearance that it has become so violent.

Merlin's prophecy seems to be coming true step by step.

On the sea to the northeast, the battle ended in less than five minutes. The four sixth-level mages flew towards the dragon wreck battleship, and the bow of the dragon wreck battleship, and in the mouth of the dragon's head, a dead gray light suddenly appeared. The shield of a sixth-level mage was instantly pierced, and he fell straight into the sea.

This is the means by which the Dragonwreck Battleship deals with the enemy's giant battleship, after one launch. It will take six hours to launch the second time. In other words, it can basically only be used once in a battle, and this extremely penetrating magic ray has no attributes, or the attributes of the chaotic element. Activating this magic ray does not require a magic core with special attributes, but it does require a large number of magic cores.

Originally, this was something that was researched when the magic cannon casting technology was lost, but unfortunately it had no practical significance. After all, magic rays that can only be fired once in a battle are almost worthless.

No matter how big the attack power is, it's useless, it's a single attack.

However, when used on the sea, it can't be said that this magic array is wastewood, and this kind of attack of the dragon wreck battleship only needs to deal with the enemy's strongest defense battleship, or flagship.

One attack, defeat the biggest threat.

These four sixth-level mages were also unlucky, they actually gathered together and flew towards the dragon wreck battleship, which happened to be in the attack route. This magic ray doesn't have any lock-on power, and is meant to deal with large targets. The targets worthy of the activation of the magic array are basically big guys a hundred meters away, but the four magicians flew side by side, holding a magic shield that was enough to defend against the alchemy crossbow, and it was also more than twenty meters wide.

The Jade Skeletons judged that the danger of these four sixth-level mages was no less than that of a giant battleship, and immediately activated the magic array. The undead don't feel sorry for any money, and this shot is like hitting mosquitoes with a magic cannon. Directly hit the body of a sixth-level mage, and the vitality in this mage's body was instantly replaced by the chaotic element, and the dead could no longer die.

The remaining three mages didn't know that this attack was a one-off, so they immediately dispersed in fright, and pounced on the dragon wreck battleship from three directions.

The monstrous dragon wreck battleship was covered in huge cyan scale armor, breaking through the waves in the water, as if it were a transformed dragon.

One of the magicians landed on the foredeck, just over ten meters away from Saleen. After all, flying in the sky, the elements were somewhat unstable, and he did not release magic condescendingly. Anyway, the young mage on the deck wouldn't be more than level five, and he didn't mind settling the battle with melee magic.

This mage is very experienced. He could see at a glance that Sika was not a swordsman, he had not cultivated any sword qi, and he was only a mage below the fifth level, so he didn't have to worry about it at all.

Empiricism kills people, the moment the gray-robed mage landed on the boat, Saleen had already released the water in the gourd, and the six-meter-long turquoise water instantly weaved into a dark water ball in front of him, and this water ball flew towards the mage, and behind the water balloon, was Sika who jumped up.

The sixth-level mage's talisman magic shield is a rare stone dust technique, which is the only defensive magic in the intermediate magic that can rival the Ice Pattern Armor. The only drawback is that it is one level higher than the Ice Pattern Armor, and the consumption is ten times larger. But for a sixth-level magician, this consumption is not serious.

It stands to reason that only advancing to the fourth level of the water flow cutting will not be able to break through the defenses of the stone dust technique, but the water flow of Salin is alive and can be manipulated at will, let alone consume his magic strings. The deformed balloon slammed into the magic shield, sending out four spikes like snakeheads, plunging into the black stone dust.

The turquoise water was shortened in an instant, and the black was stone dust but it also collapsed. Sika swung her club and pounced, and the sixth-level mage instantly unleashed a wind blade and blessed himself with an ice pattern armor. In his hand, he immediately had a magic wand.

The young mage on the opposite side instantly broke his stone dust technique, making him serious. The Wind Blade was to kill the warriorwoman, and the magic wand was to deal with Saleen. This staff has a seventh-level magic stored in it, enough to kill a great magician.

But he underestimated Xika too much, and it was a joke that a three-pole wind blade would want to kill the Battle Priest. Sika was wearing armor made by Salen with water alchemy, and even if he resisted hard, he could almost resist it. This was not for ordinary soldiers, but for Salin to refine his best materials.

However, Shika didn't want to take any chances, and a water-streaked shield instantly flicked off her left arm, blocking the Wind Blade's attack, and then, her club struck the sixth-level mage's ice-streaked armor.

When the stick hit the Ice Pattern Armor, dozens of spikes bounced up at the top, and the Ice Pattern Armor shattered with a click.

Shika this stick. Directly broke the mage's waist. You must know that Sika's club once broke more than a dozen water shield shields of Salen in a row, and the intermediate magic could not defend against it at all.

If you want to fight with Shika, you can either use the way of a swordsman, hand-to-hand combat, or learn to be an archer and dodge. If you resist hard, the end is certain. In Sika's stick, there are not only the materials on the dragon's body, but the main material is the original set of metal cubes of Faeron, and the mysterious metal is all integrated into Sika's weapons, and in terms of materials, it is no less than a demigod.

Because of refining this weapon, Fei Lun was directly promoted from a sixth-level mage to a seventh-level magician, and everyone who underestimated it with this stick died, and no one was an exception.