Chapter 1640: This Is Murder (1/2)
Chapter 1640: This Is Murder
Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh_
The human bridges built under Gong Sun Liang's suggestion worked.
Large groups of Gong Sun Lang's warriors climbed up over the bodies of their comrades and reached the city wall, launching offensives.
Gold Crow Clan warriors on the city wall and the warriors on the human bridges formed two strong battle formations, like two sturdy metal walls as they bumped violently into each other. Long spears lunged and blades hacked towards each other, heavy axes clanged against thick chains, and strong shields squeezed each other, with dazzling fire sparkles darting everywhere.
The weapons pierced heavily on the shields. On the surfaces of armors and shields, defensive spell symbols sparkled one after another, covering every warrior's body with a faint glow. The weapons with all kinds of lethal spell symbols glowed dazzlingly as they lunged towards the defensive screen based on the city wall and generated shrill noises.
The warriors from both sides were all elites, at the same power level. But soon, people realized that something was wrong.
When the weapons of Gong Sun Lang's warriors landed on the bodies of Gold Crow Clan warriors, the armors and shields of these Gold Crow Clan warriors shielded their owners perfectly. No matter how hard the enemies tried, these Gold Crow Clan warriors would tremble slightly at most, with their armors and shields remaining perfectly undamaged.
However, when Gold Crow Clan warriors' weapons landed on the enemies' bodies, brighter sparkles would be generated and louder sounds would be caused. Wrapped in streaks of raging fire, Gold Crow Clan warriors split the shields of their enemies and shattered their armors. Not long after the battle started, many warriors under Gong Sun Lang's command had their shields torn into pieces, armors penetrated, then were killed by the Gold Crow Clan warriors.
Broken bodies fell from the ladder tops. Watching this, some commanders roared in both fear and anger. Clearly, Gold Crow Clan warriors were far better equipped than the enemies. Compared with the armors, shields and weapons used by Gold Crow Clan warriors, Gong Sun Lang's warriors felt that they were fighting with wooden boards and sticks.
Maguspriests with better eyesights found something wrong with the spell symbols sparkling on those armors, shields, and weapons. For example, a basic defensive spell symbol system was composed of thirty-six connected spell symbols. But, when Gong Sun Lang's warriors were under attack, the numbers of the spell symbols sparkling on each warrior's armor was smaller than thirty-six!
The defensive spell symbol system on each of these armors was incomplete. The spell symbols on each armor weren't connected, and as a consequence, the defensive power of each set of armor was largely weakened.
The lack of spell symbols was still acceptable, but these Maguspriests were stunned when they discovered quite a large number of gravity spell symbols on the armors, shields, and weapons used by Gong Sun Lang's warriors. The only purpose of these gravity spell symbols was to increase the weight of an object. No one would be stupid enough to use gravity spell symbols on armors, except for reverse gravity spell symbols. Reverse gravity spell symbols could reduce the weight of armors, allowing warriors to wear heavier armors and to have greater defensive powers! For example, an average-level human warrior could only bear a one-inch-thick armor. But, with the reverse gravity spell symbols, the thickness of some important areas of his armor could be increased by over half an inch, and the defensive power provided by this armor would increase by ten times!
No one was stupid enough to use gravity spell symbols on armors to make them heavier, because gravity spells on the armor couldn't do any help to a warrior, but would slow a warrior down and largely weaken him!
”What the hell?” A Gong Sun Family commander grabbed a warrior of his and ripped off his armor. Picking up the chest armor, which was the thickest part of a whole set of armor, this commander raised his sword and hacked on it. Along with a loud crack, the five-inch-thick chest armor was easily cut into two. This chest armor seemed to be especially heavy and strong, but in fact, it was hollow, for about four inches thick!
The actual thickness of this chest armor was one inch!
How could such a thin armor with an incomplete defensive spell symbol system ever provide its owner a great defensive power? Those gravity spell symbols increased the weight of this armor and made its owner believe that this was a pure alloy heavy armor! No one would ever discover this secret!
”Damn you!” Looking at this hollow chest armor, all commanders from Gong Sun Lang's army were stunned.