Chapter 174: The Father Of The Cleaver Class
Anse immediately detects the detailed information of the eight-claw turret:
【Modified magic cannon, construct, level 6 magic cannon turret…】
The cannon master actually integrated a large cannon into the magic cannon turret, abandoning traditional gunpowder and instead using the magic cannon turret to provide arcane energy as propulsion to launch heavy shells, with a maximum range of 2400 feet（720 meters）.
The magic cannon turret acts as a launcher, sacrificing spell attack for ultra-long range and excellent mobility.
‘It can be played like this?’ Anse had to admire the cannon master’s creativity, flexible application, emphasizing practicality.
This is clearly a self-propelled, self-aiming, self-firing cannon!
However, this is not unsolvable.
Loading the shells requires people, and firing and aiming the magic cannon turret also requires the nearby cannon master to control it; kill them, and everything will be resolved easily.
“Boom boom boom——”
The cannon fire grew increasingly dense, with most of the magic cannon turrets staying 200 meters away, firing solid shells with high accuracy, each hit on the gate creating a pit.
After a few shots, the thick metal gate showed slight deformation.
The remaining few magic cannon turrets surrounded their perimeter, clearly acting as guards.
Illyas had a cold expression: “We can’t let them keep bombarding like this!”
“Don’t worry, their target is us.” Anse pointed diagonally downward.
Among the magic cannon turret group were thirty or forty cannon loaders, and dozens of meters further back were a dozen cannon masters, with dozens of professionals standing around them, eyeing them menacingly.
Given the Amn people’s scheming, this battle must involve magical items like anti-magic arrows. If the two unfortunately fell into the enemy group, facing a siege by multiple advanced professionals, the chance of escaping would be slim.
But ignoring it absolutely won’t do; once the city gate is breached and the army enters the city, Jacqueline Castle won’t hold either.
Anse could cast at most twenty-plus fireballs; if all used on ordinary soldiers, he would be powerless against those professionals and could only flee.
He originally wanted to use wall of force to protect the city gate a bit, but the wall of force has small coverage and short duration, so it wouldn’t make much difference.
After thinking for a moment, he mobilized mana and focused on spellcasting.
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「Metamagic: Quick Cast, Extend, Reach」+「Elemental Summoning-Earth Elemental」!
Accompanied by a resounding dragon speech, the soil 100 meters ahead trembled slightly, then quieted down again.
Illyas was secretly puzzled; if it were someone else, it might be a spellcasting failure, not unusual, but Anse was different—he was terrifyingly stable.
The Amn side was equally vigilant, even the cannon fire pausing.
Suddenly, the ground beneath the magic cannon turret group exploded violently, and a massive stone monster over four meters tall leaped out from the earth, swinging both arms to smash two magic cannon turrets flying almost simultaneously.
The turrets twisted, the cannon barrels deformed, clearly unusable.
Before others could counterattack, the stone person twisted its body, swinging its arms continuously; two head-sized stone balls flew from its hands, one hitting the farthest magic cannon turret, smashing its two legs with a bang.
The other hit a professional gunner’s chest, sending him flying several meters, chest collapsed, blood spraying from mouth and nose, dead silently before even landing.
【Target Death, gain 50 combat experience】
“Earth Elemental!” a cannon master exclaimed, turning to run, ignoring even his own magic cannon turret.
The other cannon masters did the same; they were semi-spellcasters, but after the magic net collapsed, all their abilities relied on the magic cannon turret, leaving their personal combat power pitifully weak.
Besides, a broken magic cannon turret could be repaired, but a dead person had nothing.
The Amn professionals were startled but not chaotic; melee fighters advanced slowly, while others nocked arrows or threw javelins, launching ranged attacks at the earth elemental.
But arrows and javelins had little effect, at most chipping off some fragments.
The earth elemental ignored them, swinging its rock fists to smash the magic cannon turrets.
Anse nodded in satisfaction, both surprised and delighted.
「Elemental Summoning」 originally required one minute of casting time, normal quick cast metamagic useless, but empower quicken metamagic worked, summoning the earth elemental from the elemental plane in just a few seconds.
That earth elemental probably hadn’t figured out what was happening and came over in a daze; fortunately, its intelligence was only 5, so being a bit confused was fine as long as it obeyed.
After receiving the command, the earth elemental directly used 「Earth Glide」 to launch the assault, showing excellent combat instinct.
Possibly due to the Oath of the Giant Noble, the summoned earth elemental was stronger, challenge rating 6, with double the duration in the material plane.
On the battlefield, the earth elemental easily destroyed over a dozen magic cannon turrets; it excelled at destroying objects and buildings, with double damage on every punch.
Facing the approaching professionals, the earth elemental shrank its body, sank into the ground, and vanished.
It had a unique sense called “tremorsense,” allowing it to detect enemies on the surface even underground.
The Amn professionals immediately grew tense, spreading out to avoid ambushes.
Dozens of seconds later, a cannon master watching from afar suddenly sensed something off with the ground; before he could react, a large hand emerged from the earth, grabbed his legs, lifted him up, and slammed him down with a bang.
After a muffled thud, the cannon master’s body sank a foot into the soil, eyes burst, blood spraying from all orifices, flesh limp.
【Target Death, gain 175 combat experience】
The earth elemental dropped the corpse, its lower body emerging from the soil, chasing the other cannon masters.
The cannon masters scattered in panic, but couldn’t escape.
Don’t underestimate the earth elemental’s challenge rating; its strength and constitution reached or exceeded 20, with astonishing athleticism, and with proficient 「Rock Throw」, hunting a few spellcasters was like chopping vegetables.
Moreover, the earth elemental had high life and armor, immune to poison, exhaustion, paralysis, petrification, poisoning, coma, and other negative effects; it wouldn’t tire even after fighting all day, a natural counter to squishy classes.
Even the challenge rating 10 werewolf leader from before would have to run if it encountered this, probably losing in a head-on fight.
Anse stood on the city wall, his smile somewhat smug.
Actually, his first thought was to summon a dragon spirit, but considering the combat environment, he chose the earth elemental instead, and the effect was surprisingly good.
It could only be said that class counters truly exist!
A group of professionals scheming against two sorcerers, with equipment and class compositions very targeted, but against the earth elemental, these preparations were almost useless.
The earth elemental fears thunder, but the enemy didn’t even have a normal-level spellcaster—truly laughable.
Experience prompts flashed continuously in Anse’s mind; in this short time, three more cannon masters had died.
By now, the other cannon masters had run far, out of rock throw range, and the professionals from behind had caught up.
But the earth elemental showed no fear, turning to meet the enemies; despite its massive size, it wasn’t clumsy, each punch carrying immense force—no professional dared to block it directly, all choosing to kite.
“Bang——”
A warrior failed to dodge, raising his shield to block, but was knocked down by the stone person’s punch, followed by another that smashed him into a meat patty.
【Target Death, gain 275 combat experience】
The others were horrified, moving even more cautiously, preferring not to attack rather than let the earth elemental touch them.
The professionals played to their strengths, gradually forming tacit coordination; relying on a few advanced professionals, they soon stabilized the situation.
The earth elemental’s life and armor exceeded even a challenge rating 9 treant, but its reaction was slow, unable to dodge the professionals’ attacks; over time, its body became pitted and uneven.
Seeing this, Anse immediately commanded the earth elemental to break through forcefully, using rock throw to force back enemies, then using earth glide to hide underground.
Hiding wasn’t fleeing, but shifting the battlefield to avoid encirclement.
