Chapter 806

The Holy See's soldiers fled in all directions, and the infantry on the Gabellan army's left and right flanks finally moved.

They advanced rapidly on either side toward the front. Seen from above, they looked like the two jaws of a giant iron pincers, clamping down viciously on the Holy War Army trapped in chaos.

Perhaps to avoid accidentally striking their own advancing troops, those mysterious fireballs finally stopped appearing. But the balance of victory had already tipped completely toward Gabella, and the Holy See's Holy War Army had lost without a doubt.

The Holy See's disorganized soldiers became prey for slaughter, but the war elephants continued rampaging wildly, remaining a nuisance to the Gabellans.

Several ballista carts were wheeled out.

The Gabellans, despite suffering defeat after defeat, had been studying ways to deal with the Holy See's war elephants. The ballista carts were one such method.

But to lull the Holy See's commander into complacency, and also to assess the effectiveness of the magical attacks, these lethal weapons had not been revealed from the start.

When a specially made armor-piercing bolt shot into the first war elephant's head, the Giant Beast did not even fall immediately. The shaft protruded half a foot from the back of its skull, hanging with viscous blood and fragments of its lenses, yet it still staggered forward for more than ten paces. Only when a second bolt pierced the soft flesh at the gap in its belly armor did it crash to the ground.

The Gabellan ballista formation unleashed an endless clatter of mechanisms from the hills, while heavy bolts wove an iron rain through the air. The war elephants were clever. Some wrapped their trunks around the shafts and tried to pull them out, but the arrowheads designed specifically for killing elephants were