In the center of the mage guards, the mage who'd been planning to use the scroll of Arcane Eye switched to another scroll and cast a spell called Arcane Eye on himself. This spell allowed the mage to see the light of spells that were originally invisible. They could also judge the strength of their opponents or the power of their spells based on the intensity of the light.
The mage stared at the other side for a moment and worriedly said to the high-grade mage in the middle of the group, "Sir Principal, the four ogre priests are all high-grade priests above level 11. One of the five mages is a level 13 high-grade mage, and the other four are all mid-grade mages above level 8.
"Those new Ogre Warriors are all powerful warriors with a total Profession Level of 9 …"
Principal Pei Di, who'd been silent, frowned and said, "What are these ogres trying to do?
Even if they defeat us and destroy this army, what good will it do them?
It'll only lead to an even stronger massacre.
Why are they doing this? "
After saying this, he paused and said, "There must be some scheme behind this. Prepare to retreat. I'll test them first. If it doesn't work, I'll retreat with Auston."
Saying this, he extended the magnificent staff in his hand. With a short incantation, two portals appeared in front of the knight army.
With a series of heavy footsteps, a few steel golems walked out of the portals.
After a total of four steel golems walked out, the portals closed.
Pei Di's spell wasn't a summoning spell. These steel golems had been placed in his' mage mansion 'beforehand. When needed, Pei Di only needed to open a portal to his mansion in the astral plane to summon these steel golems.
Golems were a special type of magical construct.
According to Feng Chou's understanding, these so-called constructs were like otherworldly robots. However, these robots used mana as their driving force.
The biggest difference between constructs and robots was that the core of a construct's intelligence wasn't artificial. Instead, it was the soul of an intelligent being. The soul that'd been tamed and modified by a mage was forcefully injected into the construct, giving it basic intelligence and the ability to understand simple commands.
The difference between magic golems and ordinary constructs was that magic golems were immune to magic. Of course, they also lost the ability to cast spells.
Steel Golems were an advanced breed of Golems. Their bodies were made of fine steel and had strong defensive capabilities. It could be said that Steel Golems were the tanks of this world. They had strong defensive capabilities and equally powerful strength. The only drawback was that because of their heavy bodies, they were not fast enough. As long as the terrain allowed, warriors of the same level could easily engage in guerilla warfare with them.
But on the battlefield, the weakness of the steel golems was no longer a weakness. The tank-like steel golems were simply invincible in a cold weapon battlefield that required a dense formation.
When the four steel golems appeared on the battlefield, the human warriors immediately cheered.
But they seemed to have rejoiced too soon.
After the four steel golems walked out of the portal, they lined up in a line and pressed down on the Ogre.
Just as the morale of the human warriors was greatly boosted, two Ogre Mages flew up. They did not fly very high, only to a height of less than two meters above the ground, so that they could see over the heads of the Ogre army in front of them. Then, they raised the wands in their hands and activated the spells stored in them.
Wands were the advanced version of magic scrolls.
The circuit structure of spells could be divided into three types from easy to difficult: linear structure, planar structure, and three-dimensional structure.
Among them, level-0 spells and low-level spells were the simplest linear structures.
Mid-level spells were planar structures, which meant that many linear structures were required to form a mid-level spell.
These two types of spells could be built on planar scrolls.
But from level-6 onwards, planar structures could no longer meet the requirements of spell structure. Three-dimensional spell circuit structures had to be built to meet the requirements of building high-level spells.
Three-dimensional spell structures could not be built on planar scrolls.
Therefore, the highest level of spell scrolls was level-5.
Wands were a tool that replaced spell scrolls to store three-dimensional high-level spells.
Unlike scrolls, wands were not disposable products. They could be recharged and used repeatedly by a Mage.
Unlike ordinary magical items, wands did not have the ability to recharge themselves. Moreover, only Mages could use them. Their structure was simpler than magical items of the same level. Therefore, wands were much cheaper than magical items of the same level.
After the two Ogre Mages finished casting their spells, they quickly returned to the ground.
What was strange was that their spells did not seem to have any effect. Nothing seemed to have happened on the battlefield.
Just as the soldiers were puzzled, the four steel golems suddenly seemed to have crashed into something.
It was as if an invisible wall had appeared in front of the steel golems. The steel golems tried to move forward, but they were blocked by the invisible wall.
These low-intelligence steel lumps kept trying to move forward, but they were constantly knocked back.
Seeing this, Headmaster Pei Di coldly said, "This is the Mana Prison. The enemy knows us very well. This is a trap. Mages, retreat. Mage guards, form into small groups and support the knights. Delay the enemy!"
"Yes!"
"Yes, sir!"
After giving the order, Headmaster Pei Di took a step forward. It was as if he had passed through an invisible door. In the blink of an eye, he appeared beside Sir Auston Antalya, who was in the safest position of the knights.
This was the effect of the level-4 spell, Anywhere Door.
Sir Auston Antalya was placed in the middle of the last row of the knights' formation.
After Headmaster Pei Di teleported to Sir John Aston's side, he grabbed his shoulder without hesitation and was about to activate the level-5 spell, Teleportation.
At this moment, something strange happened. The two knights beside Sir John Aston suddenly raised their hands and shot two rays of green light at them.
These two rays of light hit Sir John Aston and Headmaster Pei Di respectively.
In the next moment, the light of the Teleportation spell flashed past Pei Di and Auston, but nothing happened. The spell had failed.
The spell that had hit Auston and Pei Di had failed.
It was a spell called "Dimensional Anchor".
Dimensional Anchor: level-4 spell. After hitting the target, it will anchor the target in the current space, preventing the target from teleporting or traveling to other dimensions.