Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 297 Attack
The moon outside the Scarlet Spire was shredded.

This was exactly what Nemesis saw when he folded his wings and landed on the observation platform. The blue dragon Abronris hovered in the eye of the sandstorm thirty miles away, its jagged back piercing through the clouds, and purple lightning flowed between its keels. Every time a lightning bolt struck, tons of sand and gravel were magnetized into sharp crystal spikes, playing the song of the sandstorm in the strong wind.

"The seventh calibration is complete." Basu's hoarse voice came from the sound transmission array. The brand on the chest of the red-robed wizard was oozing tar-like substances. "But the Scarlet Eye left a monitoring worm in the energy pipeline. Those data streams..."

The tip of the scroll dragon's tail swept across the black crystal rune, and the three-dimensional structure of the entire spire suddenly unfolded in his mind. Thirty-six thousand arcane circuits were like glowing blood vessels, and seven hundred and forty-nine of them were replaced with his dragon language spells. But in the deeper energy channels, the monitoring code implanted by the Scarlet Eye was disguised as a harmless data stream - those eyeball-shaped energy balls would blink every thirteen seconds.

"Keep up your show, Basu." The Scroll Dragon carved an anti-prophecy spell on the stone wall in dragon language. "Remember not to reveal your true colors before the replacement troops arrive."

A sharp sound of metal friction suddenly pierced into the sea of ​​consciousness. The scroll dragon turned his head suddenly, and his golden vertical pupils penetrated the fifty-mile sandstorm, and saw the iron chariots of the Iron Jaw Fortress gathering under the moonlight. A group of priests cut their palms with daggers and dripped burning black blood on the skull battle flag. The blood beads fell to the ground and turned into screaming shadow spiders.

They wore the holy emblem of the Dark Sun.

"Interesting. The Dark Sun Church actually sent someone to intervene directly? The followers of a madman really can't be judged by common sense." Nemesis narrowed his eyes, obviously a little surprised by the appearance of the Dark Sun priest.

Finally, at dawn, a loud noise broke the silence of the night.

"Come out and die! The murderer of my daughter!!"

When Abronris's third eye opened in the thundercloud, the magic alarm of the Scarlet Spire exploded into pieces. The blue dragon's jagged back pierced through the clouds, and purple arcs of electricity leaped between its keels, magnetizing the gravel into millions of suspended crystal spikes. Nemesis hovered on the top of the Scarlet Spire, leisurely looking at the giant dragon flying in the distance.

The first wave of lightning will arrive in thirty seconds. "Basu's voice came from the sound transmission array. The red-robed mages were running between the towers, adjusting the alchemical cannons to the air, "It is recommended to activate the seventh chain barrier."

The tip of the scroll dragon's tail drew three silver arcs in the air, and a honeycomb shield suddenly appeared on the outer wall of the spire. This was the protective magic circle of the Mage Tower, and each hexagon was flowing with the glow of magic from different schools. The blue dragon's ball lightning fell at this moment, but was decomposed into raw magic power the moment it touched the shield, and was injected into the underground cage along the arcane circuit, which was the final gathering point of more than 20 living furnaces in the Scarlet Spire - the bio-energy mana pool.

"Zentalin infantry square enters firing zone number three!" A red-robed wizard's warning was drowned out by the explosion. The skull flag of the Ironjaw Fortress had been planted two miles away from the spire. The heavy infantry advanced steadily with tower shields engraved with magic-absorbing spells, and the Dark Sun priests chanted blasphemous prayers at the back of the queue.

The skull flag of the Iron Jaw Fortress pierced the eastern sand dune. Thirty siege crossbows were raised at a 45-degree angle at the same time, and the poisoned arrows glowed dark red in the moonlight - they were magic-breaking arrows soaked in blue dragon saliva. Lord Grumak stood on top of the iron chariot, and the Dark Sun Holy Emblem cast a bloody spot on his breastplate.

"Release!" The moment the lord swung his sword, the priests cut the prisoners' throats. Blood seeped into the sand to form the smiling face totem of Xirik, and the crossbow arrows were wrapped in black flames when they left the string. The roar of the blue dragon and the thunderstorm came at the same time. Abronris folded his wings into a cone and swooped down from a thousand meters high, aiming directly at the silver dragon perched on the top of the tower.

Nemesis collided head-on with the blue dragon's breath, and the rainbow shield refracted the energy into seven schools of magic: the silver shield of the protection system bounced off the main shock wave, the flames of the transmutation system rebounded to the left wing of the Iron Jaw Fortress, and the three crossbows turned into scrap metal in the explosion.

"The second wave! The Living Furnace is fully activated!" Basu pulled open his burnt cuffs, revealing his severed arm. The Red Robe Mage Corps drew an inverted pentagram array on the ground, and the alchemical cannon poured liquid mithril into the cracks. The sand suddenly bulged into spikes, stringing the two hundred Zhentarim soldiers together like a candied haws of blood and flesh - this was a terrain mutation triggered by directing the blue dragon's lightning into the earth veins.

"Tsk, a bunch of barbarians, dare to attack my Scarlet Spire!" Basu spat, and the master of the Sel Necromancer School slammed his staff to the ground, and the deep foundation of the spire suddenly resonated with the cry of thousands of ghosts. At the same time, the spell that blinded the tower spirit was quietly lifted, and the Scarlet Eye immediately noticed the fact of the Zhentarim's invasion.

"In the name of Sazastan!" He roared and tore open the rotten flesh of his left arm, revealing the amethyst embedded in the arm bone. Thirty-seven mithril skeletons rose from the summoning circle, and each bone was engraved with the emblem of the Red Robe Mage Society - this was the standard "licensed undead combat unit" of the Cyre military.

The vanguard cavalry of the Iron Jaw Fortress was running into a wave of bones. The iron hooves of the warhorses crushed the skeletons in the front row, but the crushed bones suddenly exploded, releasing a dark green poisonous mist. Within three breaths, fifty heavily armored knights turned into twitching corpses and stood up again, with bone vines with barbs coming out of the gaps in their armor.

"Second sequence, projection of rot sacs." Basu drew a rune of decay in the air with the tip of his staff. The scarlet eyes of the tower spirits immediately responded to the command, and hundreds of shooting holes opened on the outer wall of the spire, spraying out glass balls filled with corpse fluid. These biological weapons from the undead factory in Sel exploded above the enemy camp, and the skin of the Zhentarim soldiers who were drenched in the poisonous rain immediately festered, becoming new materials for the undead army.

Lord Grumak roared on the iron chariot: "Purify with holy fire!" The Dark Sun priests hurriedly raised the obsidian holy emblem, but as soon as Xirik's dark flame touched the skeletons, the scarlet runes of the Red Robe Mages suddenly lit up in the eye sockets of the undead - the built-in counter-spell of the necromancer unit was instantly triggered, transforming the blasphemous flame into phosphorescence that strengthened bones.

"Damn it, do you have to use the negative energy holy fire?" Grumak cursed loudly, wishing he could pry open the priests' heads to see what was inside.

The mechanical voice of the tower spirit echoed over the battlefield: "Illegal intrusion detected, execute Article 14 of the "Special Regulations for Cyre Wartime." Twelve bone dragon spines stretched out from the foundation of the spire, transporting a steady stream of coffins to the front line. When each coffin exploded, three heavily armed corpse wizards stood up. These undead wearing red robes and emblems skillfully formed battle formations and used barbed bone shields to resist the battering ram of the Iron Jaw Fortress.

Abronris tried to use lightning to clear the undead, but found that the blue dragon's breath was deflected by the defense matrix controlled by the tower spirit. The Scarlet Eye projected bloody holographic text on the surface of the spire: "In accordance with Article 3 of the "Anoak Magical Conflict Convention", registered military undead creatures are protected."

"Red Robe Bureaucracy." Nemesis sneered as he flew across the battlefield, his claws sweeping away the shadow lizard cavalry that tried to sneak attack Basu. The Tome Dragon noticed that a corpse wizard had a Sel military badge hanging around his neck - it was clearly the red robe recruit who had just died last week, and now had become a highly effective weapon of the School of Necromancer.

(End of this chapter)