Refining the Heavens 4 (炼天四)

Chapter 51: Paramount Unit

No one knew when the Saint Empire troops planted all these booby traps, but the time needed to set them up must've been considerable. The weakness of the War God Tattoo is time. When Esley asked Kairos for a solution, this is the answer the young commander had come up with. While it's impossible to fully defend their rear, Kairos lined the whole area with all kinds of time-consuming defensive formations. Besides the Weapon Formation and the Five Elements Shield array, there are also Lucas Flare's Ice World Array that could slow down invaders and his Hundred Sword Array that could freely control to attack enemies. Of course, without his heirloom jewelled sword, the Sword Array is only an imitation that could control merely twenty swords and with less firepower. The replicated jewelled sword used to set up these arrays are all created – almost too effortlessly – by the Master Smith, Siegfried.

Besides that, there are numerous Lee Hei's Black Needle Spheres scattered across the ground, each containing over ten thousand specially prepared poisoned needles, and countless activated stratagem plates contributed by everyone in the Snowdrifts that had such treasures. These treacherous treasures were thrown across the field, hidden under a layer of snow. When the barbarians stepped near them, they will be dragged into all kinds of illusionary or binding arrays.

Of course, all these protections had to be placed together in order to grind down the lifespan of the attackers. Otherwise, those near-immortal fighters under the effect of the War God Tattoo couldn't be stopped.

Of course, the booby traps had to cover both ground and air to be effective, and thus only very limited areas could truly be protected and thus it only accounts for twenty percent of their rear.

The remaining eighty percent had to be covered with Time Runes. Of course, it's impossible to draw that many Time Runes and keep them activated with Spirit Stones so they are limited to sixty seconds – or five hours of draining - to deter the entire suicide squad that the Frosthral have. Avoiding the Time Runes will be their downfall, but, the enemy doesn't know that and they are fooled by the success of breaking through one barrier after another, not knowing that only more layers awaited them.

To make such preparation this under the eyelids of the menacing Frosthral Feudal State troops can only be described as unthinkable.

Reynold took a look at this and his expression instantly turned aghast. The Saint Empire soldiers did not just arrive! If the siege just began, then who lay down these traps?!

At this time, the Briar Root Cannons had just been pushed into position and the cannoneers fire their first shots under the command of the White Emperor.

Green seeds the size of human heads flew with sound barrier breaking speed and dug deep into the ever-growing soil mound bridge that the disgusting Cave Troll are building.

Instantly, poisonous thorny roots expanded with alarming speed and grew into the ground to kill the Cave Trolls. Whenever a creature was touched by a thorn, hideous and painful boils appeared across its flesh. The pain crippled the victim as roots started growing across its body, wrapping it up like a deadly net, covering it completely and consuming it.

Instantly, the mound stopped growing and had signs of breaking apart.

But within the soil and rock heap there are frenzied activity. As many trolls as the roots kill, more will take their place. A super colony of Cave Trolls cannot be underestimated. The reason why monster horde is feared as a calamity is because of the sheer numbers of deadly creatures present.

Instead of becoming frightened by the Briar Roots, a vicious gleam flashed across the trolls' eyes. After the initial few hundred that died, the remaining the trolls started chanting, all of them are A ranked creatures or above.