Chapter 329: Powerful Giant Legion

Hearing Francesca's answer, a warmth rose in Wayne's heart. The feeling of being trusted by others was not bad.

Since the elven sorceress trusted him so much, he would not let those who believed in him down.

Although his strength could not be fully exerted due to the seal in his body, after several years of development, he also possessed many trump cards, and his strength was not what it used to be. He didn't even need to take action himself to solve this matter.

And the reason for dealing with Nilfgaard this time, besides wanting to show the strength of the Witcher Order to other forces, Wayne also had other purposes.

According to intelligence from a sorceress he planted in the South, the reason why the Usurper Emperor was in such a hurry to attack the Kingdom of Aedirn this time was mainly pushed by a man who was disfigured and had a bounty of one million gold coins.

Perhaps Vilgefortz had made quite a lot of layouts in Nilfgaard, and his power was deeply rooted.

After fleeing in injury, this man soon gained the trust of the Usurper Emperor and even directly took on the role of one of the imperial advisors of Nilfgaard.

I don't know what reason he used to persuade the Usurper Emperor. Anyway, according to the sorceress's intelligence, this emperor had already made up his mind, and at this time, he was mobilizing the power of the entire country, and the war between the northern and southern continents was unstoppable.

Two days later, the news from Francesca also proved this point from the side.

After the elven sorceress refused the envoy of Nilfgaard, that high-ranking official of the imperial court did not say anything more, threw his hand away angrily, and soon more than 20,000 black-clad soldiers of Nilfgaard gathered on the open space outside the Dol Blathanna forest, set up camp, and prepared for the attack.

Perhaps in the eyes of the other party, even the Kingdom of Aedirn was easily defeated by them, and this elven race that could not even defeat Aedirn dared to refuse their courting, which was simply asking for death.

The reason why the Nilfgaardian army was powerful, besides possessing extremely excellent weapons and equipment, as well as good command, the most important reason was that the Nilfgaardian Empire possessed quite complete military academies, capable of providing a large number of bottom-level officers for the empire.

Under the control and command of these bottom-level officers, the excellent Nilfgaardian soldiers could not only maintain high morale but also cooperate with other troops and quickly complete the commander's orders.

In the era of cold weapons in the Middle Ages, an army capable of doing these two points was undoubtedly the most elite and combat-effective elite.

And the general commanding this army was one of the commanders most trusted by the Usurper Emperor.

Even if they were facing an elven race that didn't even have a formed unit, this commander was still quite cautious.

He did not directly command the army to enter the forest and fight the elven race in unfavorable terrain.

Instead, he did enough intelligence work, fought steadily, aimed at the location of the elven palace in the Dol Blathanna, formed a defensive formation, opened mountains when encountering mountains, built bridges when encountering rivers, and advanced toward the core area of the elven race in an orderly manner.

However, what made this commander surprised was that after marching in the forest for two days, when Nilfgaard's tens of thousands of soldiers pushed the front line to a place less than a few kilometers away from the elven palace, they still did not encounter any resistance from the elven race, as if they had all fled.

Such a weird situation made the commander feel vigilant in his heart.

He did not continue to advance rashly, but sent a large number of scouts to explore intelligence around the army to prevent himself from being ambushed by the enemy.

And just when Nilfgaard's army stopped advancing, the attack of the Witcher Order was officially launched.

First, a rumbling sound like thunder came from far away, and countless birds were startled, flapping their wings and flying into the sky.

Then, it was the feeling of vibration from small to large, which was transmitted to the ground, just like tens of thousands of heavy cavalry were galloping toward them.

Such a scene made Nilfgaard's soldiers and officers feel fear, looking at the place where the sound came from, their bodies trembling slightly.

However, as professional soldiers, the habit of obeying orders had already been engraved in their bones.

Following the commander's order, these more than 20,000 soldiers immediately picked up their weapons, quickly changed formations, and under the command of countless bottom-level officers, formed a dense spear formation to resist cavalry.

As the vibration and sound became louder and louder, soon, a huge figure first appeared in the eyes of the soldiers.

This was a knight who was over three meters tall, holding a huge two-handed sword over five meters long in his hand.

It was composed of a solid metal structure, shining with the brilliance of magic runes, and its running speed was comparable to the best warhorse. Facing the battle formation composed of tens of thousands of soldiers, its movements did not have the slightest pause, waving the giant sword in its hand, and rushed straight toward the crowd.

After this steel knight rushed out of the forest for more than a hundred meters, with the violent shaking of the trees in the forest, hundreds of armored giants with a height of eight or nine meters also rushed out of the dense forest.

When these giants in full metal armor, holding giant weapons, and with a body size dozens of times larger than ordinary people, saw Nilfgaard's soldiers, they seemed to see lambs waiting to be slaughtered, immediately let out a earth-shaking excited roar, and while waving their weapons, ran toward the position of the military formation.

Although the numerical gap between the two sides was more than a hundred times, these giants had no fear at all. Running wildly, each stride was five or six meters long, which was not inferior to well-trained warhorses.

Such a scene stunned Nilfgaard's soldiers. Unlike the Northern Kingdoms where monsters were rampant, because of the population density, the number of monsters in the Nilfgaardian Empire was quite small, many species had become extinct, and most of them were some humanoid monsters with not very strong strength.

Like this group of giants with a body size close to ten meters, let alone seeing them, they probably hadn't even heard of them.

The unknown was the most terrifying. Although the soldiers were numerous, the huge gap in body size and the equipment that looked quite excellent showed the powerful combat effectiveness of the other party.

Looking at the giant legion rushing over like a tsunami, every Nilfgaardian soldier's heart was immediately filled with heavy pressure.

However, things were even worse than they imagined.

Before the steel knight in the forefront and the terrifying giant legion rushed into the military formation, Nilfgaard's soldiers suddenly found that a cluster of fire-red clouds suddenly gathered in the sky above their heads.

Countless huge stones burning with flames, dragging comet-like fire tails, were falling at high speed from a height of hundreds or even thousands of meters, and the target of these giant stones seemed to be the defensive formation they formed.

"Spells, it's a wizard's spell."

"Quick, officers, bring the dimeritium equipment equipped for you."

"Their spells are just empty shells. As long as there is dimeritium, these spells cannot harm us."

However, before the commander's words were finished, those burning giant stones hit the ground under the action of gravity.

Just like powerful shells, these giant stones not only smashed any obstacles under them into fragments, but the shock wave formed by the impact could even directly smash nearby soldiers into meat paste.

These thousands of meteorites came fast and went fast. Except for those that did not hit the target, among the more than 20,000 people's military formation, probably only one or two thousand people died directly under this powerful magic. The role played by the so-called dimeritium in the face of this kind of physical falling magic was minimal and fundamentally could not save the lives of those soldiers and officers.

And although this spell was not very lethal, the most important result it caused was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, not only severely hitting the morale of Nilfgaard's soldiers but also disrupting their defensive formation that was ready to go.

Not long after the meteorite magic ended, before the soldiers could recover from the shock and fear,

The steel knight rushing in the forefront had already waved his giant sword and rushed into the crowd.

I don't know how powerful this magic knight was. Under his giant sword, whether it was an officer wearing armor or a soldier holding a shield, all were like tofu, breaking at a touch, and being cut in two.

Even without using a giant sword to attack, under the attack of this steel knight, even if it was just a fist, or just a collision of the body, it could easily smash soldiers into a group of meat paste.

His body size was not as good as the steel giants behind him, but this magic knight was like the sharpest knife, cutting into the military formation composed of tens of thousands of soldiers with an unstoppable posture.

And after those steel giants who followed him entered the military formation, the hell of Nilfgaard's soldiers descended.

Their black armor, which they were proud of, was like paper in front of the giant weapons of these giants, vulnerable to a single blow.

And the weapons in their hands, no matter how hard they tried, could only leave some sword marks on the opponent's armor.

This was not a gap in materials and craftsmanship, just because the thickness of the armor on these giants had exceeded several times that of ordinary human armor. Unless a large engineering machine like a bed crossbow was used, human strength was not enough to break such steel defense.

Under such an absolute disadvantage, the outcome of this war soon appeared.

And above this bloody battlefield, Wayne, Francesca, and the elven sage Ida were flying in the sky, looking at the battle below coldly.

Ida's expression was cold, seemingly not surprised by the combat effectiveness shown by the giant legion.

"Your legion is powerful, Wayne."

"However, these giants cannot be immune to curse or poison-type magic. Under the damage of these dark magic, they will not persist longer than humans."

Wayne rolled his eyes in his heart upon hearing this, feeling quite interesting about this elven sage's arrogance.

"I know this very well, Ida."

"Now, my chamber of commerce is fully acquiring dimeritium. It won't be long before my giant legion can possess the power to resist magic."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 330 =====