"Prepare for the battle." Salin said expressionlessly and ordered the pirates to re-check the weapons and put all the steel crossbows on arrows. Because the time for refining weapons was too short, these steel crossbows were of little significance to puppets of the headless knight. There were too many ordinary black puppets, so they did not actually have much significance.

The pirates didn't know how powerful the black puppet was. They just heard reports from two scouts. The two scouts easily killed four black puppets, and the pirates were not so nervous.

More than a hundred pirates put their guns up, stretched them, and walked forward in the snow, just like knights a thousand years ago. However, these pirates were transformed several times and still had a ferocious face, and they were obviously not good people.

This place is more than 500 miles away from Salin's destination. The ruins of the Second Dynasty are in the middle of the chaotic swamp. It will take at least two days to reach this speed.

Salin can no longer be faster. The pirates are not at a high level, and the rapid march has too much impact on their combat effectiveness. Daniel simply rode on the undead Pixius and no longer rode a skeleton war horse.

The sky is always cloudy in the chaotic swamp, and the reflection of the snow is not dazzling. There are no hills here and the vision is extremely wide. The pirate who is a scout did not walk more than ten miles away this time, but walked cautiously within the cold vision of Sarah.

After walking nearly a hundred miles westward, there were hills ahead, and Salin ordered to stop and have dinner.

It is not as cold as the south. Even for lunch, you have to set up a simple camp and raise a bonfire. If the bread and dry meat that the pirates carry with them are not heated, they can't swallow it. The pirates didn't dare to drink at this time, so they boiled hot water on the bonfire, threw the tea into the iron pot, and directly cooked turbid tea.

Tea is a specialty in the south, and pirates are used to drinking tea, but good tea is too expensive, so they can only drink inferior powder. For those who live on the sea all year round, not drinking tea will almost immediately get sick.

On the hillside, on a slope more than 100 meters high, the snow was extremely thick. Along with the bonfire in the distance, something immediately wriggled under the snow.

The scout who had no rest soon discovered an abnormality on the hills, immediately took out the small flag and waved it from afar. The pirates were still very skillful in the mastery of flag language, and someone immediately rewarded it to Salin.

"Well? Let the people from the first to fifth teams build fortifications, and we are waiting here." Salin didn't expect to go to the hilly areas to fight the black puppets. The terrain here is flat. Even if it is lost, the skeleton warhorse will run faster than the black puppets, and it is difficult for even the headless knight to catch up. If you enter the hilly areas, the skeleton warhorse will have less advantage.

The pirates busy cooking immediately took action separately. The so-called fortifications are actually building a temporary fortress with snow. This is nothing to the magician. After the snow is under high pressure, it will condense ice directly. After the ice is compressed by magic, it is harder than steel. If the compression level exceeds the critical point, it will be transformed into black black ice, which is harder than most metals.

Salin was not at that level, but it was still possible to build a temporary fortress that was stronger than a brick and stone castle. After all, there were only more than one hundred people under his command, and more than one hundred skeleton war horses, so there was no need to occupy too much space.

The pirates received shovels from Sarah and immediately went to accumulate combat fortifications with snow.

The three kings made up their minds to observe the combat power of humans today, and they all hid in Daniel's commander's flames and refused to help. Daniel commanded Pixar to help the pirates trample out of the solid foundation on the snow.

Soon, a snow castle with a length and width of 200 meters was built. The wall of this miniature castle was about five meters thick, and Salin began to use magic in sections to condense the hard snow into ice. The pirates dug out soil under the snow, mixed with the charcoal ash burned by the bonfire, and spread it on the ground. The ground was no longer smooth and suitable for humans to move around.

The exterior wall of the Ice and Snow Castle is as smooth as a mirror. Salin releases repair water outside the city wall and freezes it. If this city wall is touched by a black puppet, it will suffer huge damage.

The water of Salin's restoration can last for about two months, and the validity period is enough to last until the end of the battle.

Aini was not idle. He refined iron arrows in his tent. This time he used the old method to use the family's alchemy model to transform the arrows of steel crossbows for the pirates. Now his level 5 magician is full of mental power and will not have the same mistakes as before. Moreover, the pirates carry not many iron arrows, and one-third of them have been refined a long time ago, so Aini doesn't have to be so anxious.

In the sky, a double-headed eagle flew from afar. The black magician discovered Salin's team and finally couldn't help it and wanted to observe it up close. How could Salin make it come true.

The flying height of the two-headed eagle is about 800 meters, and Salin's magic cannot attack that far distance. He quietly summoned Zola and asked, "Are you shooting the crossbow arrows accurately?"

"Very accurate, if it's an alchemy crossbow."

"Will you use an alchemy crossbow equipped with an alchemy telescope?"

"Alchemy telescope? That's a good thing, sir, can you give me one?"

"What do you want this?"

"Of course I'm watching the beauty take a bath!" Zola seemed to have forgotten the pain of yesterday and returned to her original appearance. Salin wanted to kick him away. Alchemy telescopes were difficult to make, requiring advanced crystals, and magicians carefully polished with magic. Telescopes made by ordinary craftsmen always had visual deviations, and they could not be used to equip them with weapons.

"I want you to shoot the thing from heaven." Salin did not answer Zola's words. If Zola did well, he would give Zola an alchemy telescope. Anyway, Zola's woman around him would have serious consequences whenever Zola saw it. Neris, Shika, or Rex would give Zola a profound lesson.

Alchemy crossbows equipped with alchemy telescopes, also known as sniper crossbows, are strictly prohibited from being produced by all four empires, and no weapon merchant dares to sell them. The nobles are worried about their lives, and this thing makes ordinary people have the power of a magician to shoot professionals below level seven at a distance of about one mile.

Unless the target being targeted has the perverted mental power of Salin alive, it is difficult to detect.

There is a complex magic array on the alchemy telescope that can lock the target. The crossbowman aims very easily, which is what the nobles fear the most.

Salin didn't care about this. Rex could not object to him making such a weapon at first sight. However, Salin only secretly made one. If this thing spread, I don't know how many people would die unjustly.

Zola took the alchemy crossbow handed to him by Salin. The alchemy crossbow was nearly one meter wide, but it had no support. It was completely controlled by the power of the crossbowman. Zola easily fiddled with it twice, turned the thorn wheel, put the alchemy crossbow on it, and began to adjust the alchemy telescope on the crossbow.

This crossbow arrow is a high-end product. The arrows are covered with hollow magic patterns, and the material is dark golden. After the wheel of the thorn is rotated, the magic array on the alchemy crossbow was triggered at the same time. The six magic cores lit up faint light, quickly consuming energy.

Zola did not dare to neglect, so he raised his hand and aimed the alchemy crossbow at the two-headed eagle flying in the sky. In the telescope, the two-headed eagle's weird red eyes were clearly visible.

Zuola's arms were as steady as a mountain, without trembling at all. He pressed the button on the magic circle, and the six third-level magic cores immediately became darker, and a dazzling light lit up in front of the alchemy crossbow.

This is the real alchemy crossbow. The crossbow arrow carries the power of level 2 magic, and at the same time it has the powerful impact of physical attacks.

One attack consumed six third-level magic cores. On the battlefield, such weapons are of course meaningless. Nearly a thousand gold coins can only kill one target. Unless they are assassinating the enemy's general, the gain will not be worth the loss.

Salin knew that the two-headed eagle was difficult to refine, so he was willing to spend so much money to destroy the eyes of heaven.

Purple flames emerged from the hollow arrow of the alchemy arrow, without any sound of breaking through the air, and came to the two-headed eagle like lightning. The black magician who controlled the two-headed eagle did not react at all.

Zola's movement was too fast, and he almost raised his arm and shot the alchemy arrow out.

The hard crossbow plus the second-level magic may not be the most powerful attack, but the speed of this crossbow arrow shot more than the intermediate-level magic, which is too fast. Unless you see it when Zola aims, you can only rely on the mental power of the profession to perceive it.

Bang!

More flames were ejected from the hollowed-out magic pattern of the alchemy arrow, and the shaft penetrated deeply into the abdomen of the double-headed eagle. Zola did not aim at any head or neck. First of all, for the puppet, it may not be a vital point. Secondly, the double-headed eagle, as the name suggests, has two heads. One arrow cannot hit two targets at the same time.

Zola's archery is enough to be the dominant force when he can aim at an instant at a distance of 800 meters and hit the abdomen of the double-headed eagle. He practiced archery hard, in order to assassinate the duke. Even in Yunliu Palace, no one knew that his archery skills were no worse than sword skills.

Within two hundred meters, Zola did not need to use an alchemy telescope to help, and could accurately hit insects the size of her nails.

Purple fire was spewed out of the seven orifices of the two-headed eagle at the same time. The magic on the alchemy arrow was activated, instantly destroying the core of the puppet. A ball of black smoke was sprayed out, and it was burned by the purple flames in a flash, leaving nothing left.

"Oh, I don't know how many souls it is." Salin sighed when he saw the two-headed eagle falling. Refining the two-headed eagle requires a lot of souls. This thing flies very fast and he can't catch up with it. The black magician relies on the two-headed eagle to detect the enemy situation and is invincible. But this time, the black magician did not expect that Salin would have banned weapons, and there was an archery expert by his side.

"Sir, it doesn't matter whether a person dies or not, whether the soul is there or not."

Zola returned the alchemy crossbow to Salin, feeling a little reluctant.
Chapter completed!