Compared with the calm expressions of the Northern Alliance forces who were on the offensive side, the Luskan people on the defensive side had much more complicated senses.

Especially Marshal Kurth who was lucky enough to escape and ascend to heaven under the giant hammer of the legendary female dwarf and the "rain of light arrows" of the elf priestess on the cliff.

Marshal Luskan, who was wrapped like a mummy under his armor, was holding his hands on the solid city wall and looking at the Northland Allied Forces on the wasteland outside Chen Bing City. His eyes were empty and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Since the fall of Cliff Hill, the entire city of Luskan has become turbulent.

The wealthy families who were able to escape early had already fled further north on high-priced smuggling ships to Ice Peak Island or even Icewind Valley north of the Spine of the World.

Ordinary civilians were recruited in large numbers by the Luskan garrison through various unconventional means as militia to help defend against possible attacks from the south.

This stain undoubtedly caused the non-spellcaster faction headed by Marshal Kurth to come under tremendous pressure and accountability from the Arcane Brotherhood and even Luskan as a whole.

There are even spellcasters who openly impeached Marshal Kusi. It is very likely that he has been bribed and bribed by the Southern Allied Forces and secretly turned to those Northlanders.

Otherwise, how can one explain why the Cliffhill Assistance Defense Plan, which emptied almost half of the entire Luskan alchemy ammunition depot, was declared lost even after a day of fighting?

And this defeated general actually has the nerve to come back!

And the reason he claimed at the Provisional Military Tribunal for the defeat was that the Jackal Commander of Zeelandia secretly sneaked into Cliff Hill and mixed a large amount of energy potions into their meals, which caused the entire command system to directly

into collapse.

This answer immediately plunged the military court assembly into an incredible uproar.

Speaking of energy potions, almost everyone in them has used them secretly. At the same time, this 'buff potion' from the hands of the drow in the Underdark was once tacitly understood to be one of the sources of the small treasury in many of their waists.

But when had I ever heard of someone using this thing to ‘poison’ it for military purposes?!

That night, in the face of passionate arguments and accusations from the members of the Brotherhood, the old marshal who had guarded the north for Luskan for more than forty years and had repelled the orcs from the Spine of the World several times, was in all the

With disbelief in his eyes, he took off his pants, revealing his crotch which was still blurry and miserable after being mosaic-ed.

As a result, the scene of the temporary military court meeting, which was originally noisy, suddenly became audible.

Because this old marshal, who is over sixty years old, has proved the 'purity' of his camp in a fierce way that completely throws away his self-esteem and face.

The food intake of legendary warriors is not even much lower than that of ogres...

Due to the excessive intake of energy potions in a short period of time, coupled with the continuous fights with Hotz and the legendary female dwarf, the local blood pressure was too high.

So our Marshal Kusi...

He... was blown away...

Marshal Kusi, who shed two lines of tears, trembled, straightened his waist, looked around at the participants who were looking sideways and couldn't bear to look at them, and said as if he was deeply saddened:

"You arcanists... don't you pride yourself on pursuing the relationship between truth and argument?

"You can take samples from my body for testing now...

"I really...didn't lie...

"These people from the North are far meaner than imagined!

"If you go to greet the Northland Allied Forces with this attitude...

"Hehe...hahahahaha...hahahahahaha..."

This most ridiculous military review meeting since the founding of Luskan ended hastily in the desolate and infiltrating laughter of Marshal Kuth.

The Arcane Brotherhood, which has always used violence as a deterrent, uncharacteristically did not impose immediate punishment when faced with such a major defeat. Instead, it announced that Marshal Kurth was reinstated and that all culpability would be discussed after the war.

Xu Fan, who has the right to vote, probably feels that... Marshal Kuth this time has really paid too much for Luskan...

However, as this ridiculous defeat spread throughout Luskan, Marshal Kurth's reputation became inevitably tragic.

Something like 'the war general without a queen', 'the blazing marshal of Luskan', 'the blood-stained Kurth' and so on.

People can only clearly see that Marshal Kusi has gone through a lot of changes since that night.

Even the marshal standing on the top of the city at this moment looked quite forlorn.

"They only have about 30,000 people, and most of them are cavalry. In theory, they should not have the conditions to attack the city."

Rima Duo, the Lord of the East Tower, looked at the clearly separated Northland Allied Forces outside the city and analyzed them with a frown.

"Don't forget that they also have more than 200 steel golems. If those steel monsters charge in groups, our city wall will be just a decoration." Another Luskan Marshal Balam immediately retorted.

"But their fatal flaw is equally obvious. I have asked the mages to memorize the fossil as mud spell in advance, which can restrain their charge very well. So don't worry, they will not attack the city easily. Their fundamental purpose is just

The only solution is to besiege Luskan to force the president to withdraw troops from Moon Shadow Island and return reinforcements, as long as we do not give the other side a chance in the subsequent confrontation and harassment."

Rimado, the Lord of the East Tower, seemed to be analyzing quite confidently, and then he asked Marshal Kusi for his opinion in an extremely friendly manner:

"Kuth, what do you think?"

"They...have already called."

Ku Si looked at the sky with a somewhat bewildered expression.

"ha?"

Whether it was Rimado, the Lord of the East Tower, or others, they were all a little confused when they heard Kusi's words.

The opponent obviously hasn't moved yet! Could it be that this guy has a small head, which makes it difficult to use his big head recently?

"Look at the sky, lions... griffins... so many griffins!"

The archers on the arrow tower warned in panic.

"Oops! Our intelligence is wrong. How could there be so many gryphon knights in the North?" Rimado, the Lord of the East Tower, suddenly said solemnly.

This was the first time he had seen such a large-scale attack from the air in so many years of life.

Soon, these griffins, which seemed to come from the clouds, approached the sky above the city-state and began to swoop down.

"Archer, throw at a 45-degree angle!"

"Spellcaster team, prepare the evocation spell!"

The orders were passed down one after another.

But at this moment, Ku Si suddenly issued an anxious warning:

"Damn it! These despicable Northerners! Rimado! Let your people intercept those black jars! Alchemical explosives! Those are alchemical explosives!"

He didn't say that it was their Luskan alchemy explosive, otherwise these mages would be so angry that they would have cerebral hemorrhage and die from headshots...

But if these alchemical explosives were allowed to be thrown onto the city, it would be all over!

Kusi's eyesight was obviously not very good. It was only when the griffins approached the city and started to attack that he realized that the jars pulled by the claws of the monsters were somewhat familiar.

After he finished his warning, the griffins, who were not afraid of the oncoming arrow rain, took the arrows that were unable to go up in their beaks and bit them off with frivolous contempt, and then began to shoot at them under the command of the knights on their backs.

Throwing it accurately at the top of the city, it made a sound of "Didi Di Di" in mid-air.

That's because some of the alchemical explosives themselves were brought by Hotz and the others from Zeelandia. These 'air-dropped bombs' look similar to the relatively primitive black jars in Luskan, but there is a wind at the end.

The device of the wing is part of the fuze. It will explode automatically after the wind wing rotates a certain number of times.

Suddenly hearing this warning, a group of Luskan casters almost vomited blood in anger. You should have said such an important thing earlier!

But even though the arteries on his forehead were squeaking under the high pressure, his subordinates did not hesitate at all. They canceled the original spells at the risk of backlash, and instead used 'scorching ray' and 'fireball' to snipe from above.

of alchemical explosives.

Perhaps it was the first time for Fischer and the others to engage in air raids. They had little experience, and they kept in mind Levi's principle of not affecting civilian areas in air raids. They poured bombs on the city wall with a relatively high density.

This also allowed Luskan's 'Defensive Spell Blocking' to achieve excellent results.

For a moment, the city walls of Luskan were filled with fireworks and black dust and smoke, roaring like thunder.

And the Luskans soon discovered that the power of these alchemical explosives after reacting with the fireball was much less than they expected...

It's like it's damp.

Therefore, even if there were scattered black cans that could not be intercepted and fell on the city wall and exploded, they would not have produced fatal power, at least they would not have had a destructive impact on the structure of the parapet.

This made the Luskan mages who had achieved their first achievement very excited and filled with pride:

The ones who really control the situation on the battlefield still rely on their spell casters.

Just as the smile bloomed in the corner of his eyes, a wisp of black smoke floated in front of him... The smile froze on the spot.

"Oh my God! What...what does this smell like..."

His face couldn't stop turning red and green, and he couldn't stop vomiting.

The disgusting smell is like a mixture of feces and urine that has been fermented for several days, enough to make people ascend to heaven...

"Ah... I feel so dizzy...

"Excuse me, Krampus! These despicable Northlanders...

"They actually put poison in the shit! Ugh..."

For a time, the entire female wall was filled with smoke, and a group of defenders who had not been seriously damaged by the bombing were vomiting.

A mage wanted to open his mouth to recite a spell and cast a spell, but he accidentally took a few breaths in and out. He immediately rolled his eyes, fell to the ground, fainted, and twitched all over. It seemed that the spell cast failed and caused backlash.

Some militiamen were so unbearable that they covered their mouths and noses and rolled down the steps. If they had escaped from the battle in normal times, they would most likely be beheaded by the knights who oversaw the battle.

It's just that at this time, the knights supervising the battle were too busy to take care of themselves. If it weren't for the honor of their family, they might have fled from this ghost place with a stench that towered into the sky.
To be continued...