landbeastnovel Chapter 18 Fire Wall, PLUS
Chapter 18 Fire Wall, PLUS
Before Kevin could finish speaking, Elena suddenly let out a scream:
"Kevin! Watch out on the left!"
It turned out that while Kevin was distracted by mocking Rom, a small snow leopard covered in frost armor silently leaped onto the city wall from somewhere, taking advantage of the blind spot of the nearby watchtower.
The monster leaped forward and attacked Kevin from the side.
When Kevin heard the warning and looked up, a foul stench hit him, and a gaping maw was already inches away.
Kevin didn't even have time to raise his staff, and could only desperately raise his arm to block.
Tear it apart!
The claws instantly tore through Kevin's robes and cut deep into his shoulder.
"ah--!"
Kevin let out a scream as the force of the impact sent him flying, rolling five or six times on the ground before crashing heavily into the battlements and nearly falling off the city wall.
"Holy Light!"
At this critical moment, Elena raised her staff, and a blinding pure white light shot out instantly.
Almost at the same time, Jack also threw out a cyan [Wind Blade].
"boom!"
The monster was scorched by the blinding holy light, its body emitting acrid white smoke. Then, it was struck hard in the abdomen by Jack's wind blade and staggered off the city wall.
However, without Kevin's fire wall to suppress them, the monster horde below the city wall gathered again to launch an attack, instantly plunging the area into chaos.
A dozen or so demonic wolves and mutated beasts used their companions' bodies as springboards to climb up to the edge of the city wall once again.
A pair of enormous claws gripped the battlements tightly.
Roar--!
The roar was right next to us.
"It's over! The defenses are about to break! There are too many monsters!"
The guards cried out in despair as they watched the monsters surge towards them like a tidal wave.
The captain suddenly drew his longsword from his waist, his eyes bloodshot, and roared with a death wish:
"Brothers! Draw your swords! Fight to the death! Defend Silver Town!!"
...
On the other side, Elena saw Kevin's bloody, mangled wounds that were shrouded in black mist, and she was so anxious that tears almost fell from her eyes.
She hurriedly ran to Kevin's side, knelt down, raised her staff, and began anxiously chanting the incantation for Healing.
"Elena!"
Kevin grabbed Elena's wrist tightly, his face contorted in pain.
He pleaded through gritted teeth:
"Don't...don't worry about that!...The walls can't be held! Elena, come with me! To my house...there's a sturdy bunker beneath my house!"
Kevin glanced in horror at the approaching herd of beasts, his voice trembling:
"Silver Town...it's all over tonight!"
"Forget about them... Hold me up, let's run for our lives!"
Elena's heart skipped a beat. "No... I must defend Silver Town!"
Kevin was furious, and he didn't care about Elena's determination to sacrifice herself for Silver Town.
At this moment, all he wanted was to escape into the bunker with Elena.
Because only Elena can heal his injuries!
Kevin knew very well how terrible the monster's poison was. If Elena insisted on staying here and dying in the monster's mouth, he would probably not live for more than a few days, just like that old man Hamelin!
"Stupid woman!" Kevin gritted his teeth and grabbed Elena's arm.
"Come with me!"
Just as Kevin was pulling Elena along, he suddenly felt a blinding red light flash before his eyes.
Immediately, a burning, stinging pain came from his face and the back of his hand.
"It's so hot!"
"What is that?!"
Elena also felt the heat on her back and quickly turned around.
Outside the city wall, a huge wall of fire was floating!
It was a wall of fire that made no sound, as pure as flowing lava... twice as high and three times as wide as the one Kevin had just cast.
Although the flames burned very quietly, the terrifyingly high temperature caused the surrounding air to distort violently.
"hiss!--"
The monsters that had just climbed to the edge of the battlements screamed in agony as their claws were instantly charred and they fell to the ground howling in pain.
"Oh my god! It's so hot!"
Even the guards on the city wall were forced to retreat repeatedly by the scorching heat.
"It's the mage's Fire Wall spell!"
The captain of the guard was the first to react, and excitedly raised his longsword in celebration.
"Young Master Kevin is still casting the spell! Thank goodness! He's held on! We're saved!"
"Long live Young Master Kevin!"
...
Kevin, who was sitting on the ground, looked completely bewildered.
His staff had been lost somewhere long ago when it was knocked away by the monster.
Logically speaking, the fire wall spell he just cast should have dissipated and disappeared long ago as his magic power was interrupted! How could it still exist?
What's even stranger is... how come the size and heat of this wall of fire are even greater than what I'm releasing?!
Just as Kevin was filled with questions, a mocking voice came from above.
"Hey, you country bumpkin. Open your eyes and look carefully!"
Jack stepped onto the wall and struck an extremely cool pose.
Even though the wall of fire so close by had singed his bangs and made them curl slightly, he still endured the heat and, with a proud look on his face, shouted loudly in the direction of Kevin and Elena:
"Let me show you what a real fire wall looks like!"
"It's you?!"
Kevin didn't react for a moment, clutching his bleeding shoulder, staring at Jack as if he were a monster:
"You...you're a fire mage too?! Isn't that a second-tier wind mage badge on your chest?!"
"idiot."
Jack rolled his eyes, too lazy to explain.
The perceptive Elena suddenly widened her eyes.
Because she clearly sensed that the source of that massive fire elemental magic was not in Jack at all!
She looked in the direction of the magical fluctuations and saw a tall, slender figure standing at the very front of the city wall, with his back to them and his right hand raised high. It was... Rom!
"How is this possible?!"
A storm raged within Elena.
She remembered clearly that when her teacher Cassius visited Blackrock Town, he mentioned Hamelin's apprentice.
The teacher lamented that although Hamelin was skilled in array formations, he had poor judgment and had taken on a useless person who couldn't even sense a trace of magic as an apprentice.
However, the fire wall spell right in front of us is the real deal.
How could a magic failure cast a fire wall spell that is more powerful than that of a second-tier mage?
...
To Elena's astonishment, Rom was staring at his system panel, conducting his routine "project review."
"Hmm, the range extends to cover twenty meters, the defensive area is OK."
"The glowing effect and the pre-casting animation have been removed, and all the saved magic power has been converted into pure high-temperature burning... The damage is just right, but the temperature on the back is a bit too high. I'll optimize it next time."
"Fire Wall 2.0 can be considered a preliminary success in optimization. However... it consumes 10 points of computing power, which is still a bit too high in energy consumption."
With one hand maintaining the newly optimized Fire Wall spell, Rom was rapidly typing code on the virtual panel in mid-air with the other.
The original code for Fire Wall still suffers from the same old problems: praying to the god of fire, requesting elemental resonance, setting the glowing color of the defensive barrier... it's all redundant and useless code.
He deleted all that nonsense and used the saved system resources to enhance the two core parameters: Scale and Temperature, which created the massive firewall before him.
However, Rombe knew very well that this was far from enough.
How big can such a defensive firewall be, no matter how large?
The city wall on this side of Silver Town is several hundred meters long, and the monsters outside are waiting for their chance to strike.
This wall of fire is like a sitting duck; monsters can easily bypass it and launch attacks from other angles of the wall.
He couldn't just stand here forever, wasting 10 computing power points each time he set up a firewall, could he? Besides, he only had about 20 computing power points left.
"Since static defense is too inefficient, let's make it dynamic," Rom thought to himself.
So, he had a sudden inspiration and came up with a brilliant idea.