Evolving Silver Dragon - Chapter 122
Chapter 122: 120 Torsion Ballista 1
Translator: 549690339
As a legendary witch demon who had lived for thousands of years, it was hard to estimate how many abilities Moray had mastered, perhaps even he himself couldn’t count them all.
Originally, Otto had considered directly devouring Moray, but it carried a certain risk.
Not to mention the immense benefits that Moray and Sofia’s magical research had brought to the Land of the Soaring Dragon, Otto worried that directly devouring Moray would not provide him with much help.
Because fundamentally, this guy was only one-tenth or maybe even less, of a legendary witch demon.
Although their memories were the same, their strength was vastly different from the real Moray.
Who knew after devouring him, it would only provide some low-level spells that were a dime a dozen.
That’s why Otto had him train some kobold magic apprentices, and through trial and error, proved a point.
By having others learn from Moray’s memories and related knowledge, and then devouring this kind-hearted person willing to give himself for Otto.
After completing this process, Otto could master some practical abilities he needed.
For this, he needed a lot of clever fellows to act as Moray’s apprentices.
Just relying on the monsters in Nolan Forest was clearly not enough, even the smartest goblins and lizardmen couldn’t match an intelligent dwarf or halfling.
Perhaps with the increasing demand, even higher-quality grand mages would be needed.
But before that, he needed to deal with the trouble that the Thunder Legion posed.
With them standing in the way, it was impossible to transport a large number of excellent slaves from the Black Gold City smoothly.
It seemed they would need to speed up the pace…
The next day, at Otto’s request, the Soaring Dragon Legion began to increase the speed of their march.
As before, they encountered hardly any obstacles on the road, not even a single sentry post was discovered.
This was clearly not normal.
Perhaps this was the calm before the storm, the great battle was seemingly drawing near!
Soon, the Soaring Dragon Legion found their opponent, and things started to become troublesome.
Upon receiving the news, Otto personally flew into the sky to observe the situation of the Thunder Legion, finding that they seemed to have gathered all their forces here.
Just by looking at it, it was clear that Koru, the leader of the Thunder Legion, had a simple strategy.
Since they didn’t have an advantage in numbers, instead of a head-on confrontation, finding suitable terrain for defense was the better choice.
They had even dug some shallow trenches and used the dug-up dirt to pile up low walls next to the trenches.
The trenches and walls were makeshift works, but together, they were remarkably high.
What was even more important was that these bastards had actually built some crude but practical-looking structures.
For instance, a dozen arrow towers, or some rudimentary catapults.
Only monster races like minotaurs and ogres, with their huge size and strength, could manage to set up so many things in such a short time.
What concerned Otto even more was that these bastards had somehow found a few well-crafted large ballistas.
These terrifying heavy weapons were hidden in the rear, and if it weren’t for Otto flying in the sky, they might have been difficult to spot.
He had good eyesight and soon spotted some humanoid creatures near the ballistas.
These creatures were extremely thin and small, and they looked out of place compared to the various monstrous creatures around them.
Upon closer inspection, they seemed to be dwarves or other humanoid creatures.
So, did the Thunder Legion have allies?
If this was true, it wouldn’t be good news…
Just as Otto was thinking this, a ballista aimed at him, who was flying in the sky.” Bang! ”
Even high in the sky, Otto could hear the sound of the crossbow strings vibrating when the attack was launched, which showed how powerful this thing was.
Before he could think too much, a huge arrow with a metal arrowhead had already flown to his chest.
However, relying on this alone to take him down was not sufficient.
Otto quickly flapped his dragon wings, and his body swiftly shifted to the side at an angle.
“Whoosh!”
With a fierce breaking sound, the thick arrow grazed the air next to Otto and flew high into the sky, disappearing from sight.
The force was enormous; if it had hit him, even Otto’s astonishing scale armor defense likely wouldn’t have protected him.
This didn’t seem like the technology common monster clans could master. Fortunately, it didn’t seem capable of a continuous attack, and the speed of reloading the arrows was average.
Just as Otto was thinking this, the rest of the dozen or so ballistae had already adjusted their angles and aimed at him.
A two-headed ogre wearing a gray robe was angrily staring at Otto from beside the ballista. He was the one who had given the command to attack.
Seeing the movement of these ballistae, Otto immediately changed direction to avoid disaster and flew back to the airspace of the Soaring Dragon Legion.
Afterward, Otto immediately called for Gaz and Link who had spent some time in the Thunder Legion.
Sasharu and Sophia were also present, while Morey was busy preparing magic puppets for Otto, so he wouldn’t show up for a while.
After listening to Otto’s description of the ballistae, Link frowned and said, “It sounds like a torsion ballista.”
“Torsion ballista?”
As Otto was confused, Link explained, “It’s actually a technology from the imperial people, and there are merchants in Black Gold City selling this kind of war weapon. ”
“The empire?”
Otto looked at Sasharu next to him, and the old lizardman was also confused.
It might be difficult for him; after all, Sasharu had never left Nolan Forest in his entire life.
Gaz quickly explained, “He’s talking about the Felkorde Empire, which is very far from us and a powerful country made up of pure humans.
However, due to a civil war between two crown princes a hundred years ago, the Castilla Empire emerged from within.
In Black Gold City, we generally refer to them as the Western Empire and Eastern Empire. Torsion ballistae are sold in Black Gold City, but it is mostly handled by merchants from the Farrand Kingdom.
Almost all human countries now know how to make this weapon, so it can only fetch a good price among the backward tribes in the Dragon Bone Wasteland.
Moreover, if you buy a ballista, they will also give away slaves who know how to maintain and use them on a daily basis.”
Hearing this, Otto finally understood.
“So, these ballistae were likely purchased from Black Gold City by the Thunder Legion?”
Gaz nodded in confirmation, “I think so, Your Majesty!”
If it indeed was as Gaz said, then the situation wasn’t too bad.
Although the ballista was powerful and accurate, it took a long time to reload, and there were a few of them.
However, it was hidden in the core position of the Thunder Legion, making it difficult to destroy these war weapons.
More importantly, the flying monsters of the Soaring Dragon Legion didn’t have an advantage when facing a large number of blue-headed chimeras. Therefore, if the battlefield lethality of these ballistae was indeed astonishing…
“I might have to take matters into my own hands!”
That was what Otto was thinking..
