Chapter 00052: Silverwhite Pass
# Silverwhite Pass
Chapter 52
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 52: Silverwhite Pass
Demon Lord Calendar, year 648.
April 25th, afternoon.
Silverwhite Pass.
After marching through the wilderness for two days and one night, Viola led all the troops under her command to Silverwhite Pass, arriving before the Winter Wolves could head south.
The terrain here was very suitable for an ambush.
Both the left and right sides were steep rock walls, with only a gap less than a hundred meters wide that needed to be defended.
In the morning, the Mages in the army had used Fireball to blast the mountain walls on both sides, causing a large amount of rubble to pile up in the pass.
This wasn't done to completely block it off, but to make it difficult for the Winter Wolves to move after entering.
The soldiers, meanwhile, carried the oil barrels they had brought and spread flammable oil all around the pass, bringing almost all the oil that could be collected from the entire Leon Territory.
This was because Winter Wolves were very afraid of fire.
Their thick fur would catch fire at a touch, so using a fire attack was a highly effective method.
These preparations were all based on Reina's suggestions.
Although she herself humbly said that she had only fought Winter Wolves before, in reality, she was extremely knowledgeable about their habits and weaknesses.
By the way, Wendy did not come.
After all, in this kind of battle, this young lady couldn't be of much help.
"Quick, move the rest of the oil up! We're almost out of time!"
"Yes!"
The soldiers were busy with the final preparations.
Some of them would use ropes to climb the steep rock walls on both sides of the pass.
From there, they would throw down flasks of oil or shoot flaming arrows from a commanding height.
This terrain was truly perfect, like a natural city gate.
If the successive Lords of Leon had been even a little bit decent and allocated funds to build a real city wall here, they could have ensured the territory wouldn't be affected by the monsters from the northern snow plains.
But obviously, compared to the lives of the commoners, the successive lords were more willing to keep the money in their own pockets.
So the most troublesome part was that the pass could not be completely sealed.
Even with the rubble obstructing the Winter Wolves' advance, the front still had to be defended by men to prevent the Winter Wolves from entering the territory and endangering the commoners.
Viola took on this most arduous task herself.
She led the majority of the soldiers to form up here, and even she herself was mentally prepared to fight on the front lines.
The royalty of the Avarus Demon Kingdom were all like this.
When it came to war, they were braver than anyone.
The King and the Crown Prince had also died in battle this way.
Wendy had sent Reina over not only to provide professional knowledge on dealing with Winter Wolves, but her ultimate mission was to watch over Princess Viola.
She absolutely could not let anything happen to her.
The preparations proceeded in an orderly manner, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the battle to begin.
As expected, the Winter Wolf pack would arrive at Silverwhite Pass after nightfall.
The darkness was a somewhat unfavorable factor.
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Viola and her people were already waiting in formation at Silverwhite Pass, and as for Li Chengxi...
Well, you could say he was waiting in formation too.
After closing the shop, he went upstairs specifically to turn on his desktop computer, watching Silverwhite Pass on the big screen.
Not only that, he had also specially prepared popcorn and soda.
He even used a small electric grill to make some barbecue for himself, sitting in front of the computer as if waiting for a blockbuster movie to start.
"Are they not here yet... It's almost ten-thirty."
The sky in the game had already turned completely dark.
Many of the soldiers standing on the cliffs had lit their torches.
The Mages also shot several large light orbs into the sky, which seemed to serve as flares.
Due to the four-hour time difference between the game and reality, it had just become night on their side, while it was almost late night on Li Chengxi's side.
Grabbing a handful of popcorn and stuffing it into his mouth, just as Li Chengxi was about to check where the Winter Wolf pack was, he saw a pack of fluffy huskies appear at the top of the screen.
They're here! They're finally here!
He could see that Viola's soldiers had also noticed the approach of the Winter Wolves.
Many of the soldiers who had been resting on the spot immediately stood up and formed ranks.
And from the hands of the Royal Guards responsible for commanding the soldiers, rings of light burst out and expanded one after another, enveloping all the soldiers in the entire formation.
Although Li Chengxi had decided not to intervene directly unless necessary, it wasn't as if he did nothing at all.
He had granted the Royal Guard the Divine Art of Blessing.
This Divine Art could boost the combat effectiveness of friendly troops within the spell's range.
Although the increase wasn't large, it was a comprehensive boost.
On a battlefield of this scale involving entire armies, this boost would be very significant.
The only thing that was a bit jarring was that the Royal Guards using the Blessing either shouted, "Shit!" or "Damn!".
Although the style was strange, it could more or less be considered a morale boost... right?
The Winter Wolves' movement speed was still quite fast.
By the time Viola's side finished applying their buffs, the vanguard of the Winter Wolves had already approached Silverwhite Pass.
Then, their speed dropped abruptly because of all the rubble on the ground.
Viola did not order her men to immediately ignite the oil spread around the pass.
Instead, she first covered them with a volley of ordinary arrows.
Li Chengxi could see it very clearly from his side.
A large pack of Winter Wolves was turned into pincushions.
"Viola is very clear-headed, she knows there are more behind them."
If she lit the oil now, it would be impossible to inflict enough damage on the Winter Wolves that followed.
Li Chengxi had a 45-degree top-down view, so of course he could clearly see the size of the wolf pack.
But Viola was seeing it from a first-person perspective, and with the poor light of the dark night, from her point of view, the wolf pack was probably just a teeming black mass, making it impossible to see where it ended.
Even when facing a large pack of man-eating beasts, Viola remained clear-headed and rational, which was very rare.
As volley after volley of arrows swept over them, the number of Winter Wolf corpses in the rubble pile grew larger and larger.
However, more Winter Wolves charged forward head-on, braving the rain of arrows.
It was said that the number of Winter Wolves exceeded two thousand, while the number killed now, to put it generously, hadn't even reached three digits.
The end of the battle was still a long way off.
Li Chengxi, who was just spectating, then noticed a herald run to the bottom of the rock wall and shout something loudly to the soldiers above.
Immediately, the soldiers on the rock wall shot flaming arrows downward one after another, igniting the oil in the pass.
A great fire flared up in an instant.
The Winter Wolves that were only focused on charging forward head-on were quickly burned to a crisp.
Li Chengxi looked at the barbecue skewer in his hand and decided to put it down for now.
"Still a little early, but it can't be helped. Viola can't see how many more are behind them."
This fire directly burned the Winter Wolves' vanguard to ashes.
Just as Reina had said, this pack of oversized huskies practically caught fire on contact.
If the Winter Wolves were too close to each other, the flames would even spread further.
Of course, the Winter Wolves weren't that easy to deal with.
It was said that Winter Wolves had high intelligence.
There was a very outrageous saying that a Winter Wolf could sell the barbarian hunting it to human traffickers...
In addition, since they were called monsters and not feral beasts, it meant that the Winter Wolves actually had some special abilities.
A little further away, the Winter Wolves that were not affected by the flames did not slam on the brakes when facing the deadly fire.
They knew very well that even if they stopped, the ones behind them wouldn't be able to stop, and would instead push them into the fire.
So, the Winter Wolves facing the flames opened their mouths one after another, spitting out extremely cold liquid and frigid air.
The range of a single Winter Wolf's spray was not large, but when hundreds or thousands of them spat their breath together, the range was outrageous.
"Damn! The fire can be frozen?"
Li Chengxi almost stuffed the popcorn into his nose.
He clearly saw the flickering flames being sealed by ice, and a pack of Winter Wolves used this method to quickly pass through the oil-covered area.
As expected of a fantasy script, it really was unscientific, but quite magical...
(End of this chapter)