Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 387 - 387 185 Constructs _2

387: Chapter 185: Constructs _2 387: Chapter 185: Constructs _2 “Form up!

Engage the enemy!” Lokhak dropped the halberd from his shoulder and shouted at the warriors.

Well-trained warriors immediately formed a square formation in response to the command, uniformly raising large shields around the perimeter to protect their comrades behind them.

Archers set up crossbows behind the shields, while the soldiers at the innermost part of the ranks pointed their long spears straight into the deep darkness, toward the eerily glowing orange arc that had just lit up.

Even in the midst of this sudden turn of events, without need for Leon to remind them, Kovis’s flying swords whooshed around the formation, illuminating the uninvited guests emerging from the shadows.

At the front and rear of the group appeared two metal statues with bodies curled up upon themselves.

These statues had no heads, sat crouching with both legs, and had their arms wrapped around each other.

The metal shells were mottled with rust, revealing a yellowish-copper texture underneath where the light shone.

As for those densely swarming things, they were a group of slender…

robots covered in rust and copper constructions?!

Am I on the wrong movie set?

Leon saw the odd shapes of the mechanical constructs and was momentarily astonished, wondering if he and his army had somehow traveled through time again.

Those nearly human-height slender copper machines had gaps in their torsos that leaked an orange-yellow light.

Their lower bodies were supported by three arched pointed feet, and what looked like skeletal arm structures extended from both sides of their bodies.

In place of hands were double-pointed pickaxes connected to rotating joints.

Gasps of shock and low exclamations of awe rose among the soldiers.

Warriors from the Three Kingdoms were stunned by monsters they had never heard of before; they couldn’t understand how a bunch of iron clumps could come to life and move like living things.

But these delicate metal hook-shaped mechanisms, with three feet, paid no mind to the crowd’s amazement and continued to unceremoniously quicken their pace, charging towards the soldiers’ square formation.

The high-raised arm-pickaxes clearly weren’t raised to welcome guests.

“Release the arrows!” Lokhak bellowed.

The crossbowmen pulled their triggers, and the sharp crossbow arrows flew dense and fast from behind the shield wall toward their respective targets.

Accompanied by a cacophony of clinking and cracking, these arrows, capable of piercing skin and breaking bones, caused the three-legged machines to wobble slightly.

However, either the arrows merely left dents and scratches on the three-legged mechanical bodies or they got stuck between the hollow parts of their slender shells, evidently causing no effect on the mechanical constructs.

As for the two giant statues blocking the paths forward and back, the removal of rust by the crossbow arrows was akin to giving them a polish.

No one was surprised by the outcome of this probing attack; even the soldiers knew that arrows were virtually ineffective against metal.

Lokhak immediately ordered the crossbowmen to drop their ineffective light crossbows and draw out their nail hammers and swords from their waists, readying themselves for close quarters combat.

In a brief moment of surprise, Leon didn’t continue to focus on the rushing three-legged mechanisms.

There were quite a number of those magically nimble little mechanical bodies, but they were not particularly swift, and judging by their size and structure, though they were a danger to the ordinary person, they posed limited threat to the genuine Knights of Valor.

But the problem was, if the Herren could animate these strange little copper figures, then it was almost certain that the two massive metal statues at the front and back of the troops were not inert, and if those figures of such size and weight started moving…

that would be the real trouble for everyone.

The next second, a teeth-grating vibration emanated from the two metal statues at both ends, and the sound of gears rolling inside seemed to confirm Leon’s suspicions.

But perhaps due to years of disrepair, he saw that the two giant statues laboriously gathered their limbs as if stuck, the joints opening up quite stiffly.

Strike while the enemy is weak; Leon had no intention of waiting for the enemy to complete its transformation.

He entrusted command of the army entirely to Lokhak and reached for two black Netti Cards from his pouch.

He activated the Boiling Heart and at the same time, infused magic power into the Heroic Spirit Card.

Behind the soldiers, a flash of light coalesced into Canis.

Leon had no time to explain the situation to the confused-looking Wolf Family Young Master surveying his surroundings; he ordered the knights to split up and act immediately.

“Kovis, Olivia, Canis!

Smash that…

‘Magic Statue’ behind us!

Be careful.”

“Leave it to me.”

Olivia responded in a deep voice, gripping the Victory Sword without hesitation, and took the lead, charging out of the army formation.

Kovis summoned the Friendship Longsword back into his hand and followed closely behind.

Canis scratched his head, asked no questions, and with a clang, he hoisted his heavy Riding Spear, catching up with the two.

As a spirit of the Netti Card, he wouldn’t die anyway, and naturally, he didn’t care what the enemy was.

He only needed to know where the enemy was, and how many to kill would be enough.

“Larian, come with me to try and take that one down!”

“Understood.”

Just as the knights of Avalon went to battle in separate ways, charging toward the two headless giants struggling to move, a large number of Three-legged Mechanisms, swinging their pointed pickaxes, stepped into the range of the torches’ light.

In the stationary shield formation, a synchronized battle cry rose from the soldiers as they thrust their spears with all their might.

The spear forest ruthlessly met the golden bronze creatures that didn’t dodge or seem to possess any intelligence.

The tips of the spears collided with the rusted steel exterior and brass mechanisms, creating a symphony of resounding clangs.

Some were knocked to the ground by the smacking spearheads, as their three legs and pickaxe arms flailed, trying to right themselves and stand up.

But more of them were just slightly impeded by the spears and then continued marching with a clatter, striding directly toward the shield wall.

Pairs of pickaxe feet crashed down on the soldiers’ large shields like mining equipment, with a series of cracking sounds, leaving astonishing dents and numbing the left arms of the frontline warriors.

However, the frontline warriors didn’t sit idly by; while their comrades on either side battered the enemy with spears, they swung their personal close-combat weapons into the fray.

Led by Hawk and Zabron, the Heavy Armor Guards parried the attacks with their shields clanging, swinging their weapons in retaliation.

Their sharp swords caused the Mechanicals to reel back with minimal effect, whereas the weighty Nail Head Hammers in the hands of guards like Zabron managed to hammer the Three-legged Mechanisms to the ground with force.

“Attack them in the middle of their bodies!” Hawk roared loudly amidst the battle cries, reminding his comrades.

His nail hammer aimed straight for the metallic creatures’ chests from the beginning.

And just as he had tested and guessed, the moment the thin steel shell of the creature’s chest caved in, Hawk heard something shatter, the orange light in the crevices of its torso went out, and the metal “creature” collapsed to the ground as if it had lost all life…

Standing in front of the formation, Lokhak swept his all-steel Halberd, sending several of the approaching, unflinching three-legged bronze creatures flying.

Hearing Hawk’s call, he turned his weapon around, leveraging its long handle to flip a Three-legged Mechanism over, then stomped down hard with his foot clad in plate armor steel boots, crushing the metal chest.

With a thud, the crushed fracture appeared to burst some sort of crystal inside.

Observing the metallic “corpse” that no longer moved, Lokhak laughed loudly, finding the hard creature’s weak spot, he realized there was nothing difficult about dealing with these strangely intimidating opponents…

Two knights, one light and one heavy, dashed toward a Magic Statue that was just getting up.

Larian’s long sword sliced precisely through the three-legged creature’s skeletal limbs, with the Moonlight Blade cutting open the exposed joints.

The swirling blade sliced through the vulnerabilities, dismantling the obstructive Mechanical into parts.

Leon was not as elegant as his counterpart.

Seeing the pickaxe head coming at him, he simply dodged the attack and then grabbed the arms of one of the machines, leveraging his boiling knight’s brute strength at the moment, he swung the Three-legged Dwarf Mechanism in a circle and hurled it forward.

A series of heavy impacts cleared a path.

Leon, beside the Giant, drew the Pseudo-Thorny Sword and held it in front of him.

Ancient spells were recited from his lips, the Demon Rune instantaneously wrapping the blade.

Intense flames burst forth in the dim shadows, turning the long sword into an orange-red Flame Blade.

The Molten Flame Sword was already mastered, held in Leon’s hand.