In a mountain depression south of Plantos Town, Swordsman Chester led more than 2,000 cavalry to surround and annihilate a group of ghost-striped red ants.
Taking advantage of the cavalry's flexibility on the grass, the Great Swordsman of Chester has cleared away a large number of ghost-patterned worker ants on the periphery of the ant colony. Now nearly ten thousand ghost-patterned worker ants have gathered together to form a huge circle.
There are more than thirty ghost-striped male ants in the center of the soldier ants, and they are surrounded by a ghost-striped queen ant with a pair of huge dark green compound eyes.
This ghost-striped ant queen floats in mid-air, with magnificent runes flashing on her body. Three pairs of insect wings tremble alternately, appearing translucent, and emit a low buzzing sound.
The ghost-striped male ants below form a circle, with the tail ends of all the male ants facing the center of the circle and their heads facing the outside, so as to resist enemies rushing from all directions.
Great Swordsman Chester saw these ghost-patterned soldier ants crowded together very densely to resist the charge of the cavalry, and immediately let the cavalry wander in the outermost circle and stopped attacking the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
The grass was littered with corpses of ghost-striped worker ants with their heads missing, and some horses were covered in acid and fell to the ground. They were still tied with saddle covers that had not been removed in time, and there were bite marks all over their bodies.
The battle has been going on for several hours. Tens of thousands of ghost-marked red ant knights have strangled until now there are only nearly ten thousand soldier ants left. There are no ghost-marked red ants continuing to surge up from the mountain pass of Plantos Town. This ant colony has entered
In the huddled state, the queen ant in the center area restrains them together.
The cavalry couldn't tear apart the defensive formation, so they couldn't continue to charge inside.
Two thousand cavalrymen and nearly ten thousand ghost-patterned soldier ants surrounded the center. According to Swordsman Chester's understanding of ghost-patterned red ants, these ghost-patterned red ants were obviously waiting for the night to come.
So the Great Swordsman of Chester immediately decided to lead three hundred swordsmen to attack from the front.
The queen ant floating in mid-air emitted a ripple-like aura that spread outwards, continuously emitting spiritual power.
The ghost-striped soldier ants are arranged very closely under the control of the queen ant.
The three hundred swordsmen brought by Great Swordsman Chester are all first-level swordsmen. Although they are not equipped with complete sets of magic patterns, all of them have very sophisticated weapons and equipment.
This group of swordsmen graduated from the Bena City Advanced Swordsman Academy and participated in the reserve training of the Luther Legion's Construct Swordsman Corps. They usually train hard in the training camp. As long as these swordsmen wear magic pattern constructs,
By equipping them, you can form a team of constructed swordsmen.
If this group of swordsmen and ghost-patterned soldier ants fight one-on-one, they can basically have some advantages. They have mastered some team fighting skills, so they are much stronger than these ghost-patterned soldier ants.
Every six swordsmen form a team, and these teams almost always advance and retreat together during battle.
Each of the ten teams is led by a squadron leader. These squadron leaders are all the best in the swordsman reserve force, and their strength is quite outstanding.
Occasionally, a giant ghost-patterned soldier ant appears on the opposite side, and basically the swordsman captains gather together to kill it.
The great swordsman Chester held a double-edged sword in his hand and led three hundred swordsmen directly into the ant colony, like a wedge driven into the cracks of the trees.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants controlled by the queen ants rushed out like crazy, rushing out in groups to fight against these swordsmen.
The sharp long swords were almost always swung in unison. Wearing ordinary light armor, all the swordsmen were very flexible, and their bodies were light as they jumped around the battlefield.
The ant colony was soon torn open. The great swordsman Chester was surrounded by light blue fighting spirit. He stood at the front of the team and threw out a three-foot-long light blue sword energy from the giant sword in his hand.
When the sword blade comes into contact with the body of the ghost-marked soldier ant, the hard armor will be shattered into pieces immediately.
The Great Swordsman Chester rushed forward for dozens of meters in one breath, and did not stop until four ghost-marked male ants came up in front of him.
Behind him appeared the shadow of an angel holding a giant sword. The great swordsman Chester held the sword in both hands and raised it high above his head. The shadow of the angel became more solid, exuding a sacred aura, and
Raising the giant sword several meters long in both hands above his head, the pure white wings of the angel's shadow were fully opened, and with a sacred aura, the five-meter-long sword struck towards the four ghost-patterned male ants.
The ghost-striped male ants came forward with their dark red giant pincers at the same time, and circles of magic stripes emerged from their abdomens, which kept lighting up.
The angel's giant sword contained the full blow of the Chester swordsman. A white sword fell down with the giant sword, changing from a vertical slash to a horizontal sweep in mid-air. The giant tentacles of four ghost-patterned male ants were
The angel phantom instantly cut off three of them, and the last one was also broken into half.
A large amount of light brown liquid gushed out from the wound in front of the head of the ghost-striped male ants. With the hissing sound of the ghost-striped male ants, the pure white archangel disappeared above the head of the great swordsman Chester...
Streams of acidic rot sprayed out from the mouths of these ghost-striped male ants, but the Great Swordsman Chester jumped forward suddenly, stepped on the back of one of the ghost-striped male ants, and continued to rush towards the central area of the group.
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At this time, three hundred swordsmen, led by the captains, separated to both sides, forced the ghost-patterned soldier ants in front of them to retreat a few steps, and forcibly opened a passage dozens of meters long.
The four commanders, with their elite cavalry, rushed from the outermost edge of the ant colony to the ghostly patterned male ants in the center...
At this moment, Great Swordsman Chester had already seen the ghost-patterned ant queen in mid-air.
The ghost-striped ant queen realized that she might be in danger and quickly flapped her wings to fly upward.
How could the Great Swordsman Chester let the ghost-striped queen ant escape at this time? He stepped on the back of the male ant and jumped into the air. He pulled out a dagger from his leg and threw it out smoothly. The dagger was left with an afterimage.
The dagger made a crisp sound as if it had hit a piece of glass.
One of the wings of the ghost-striped queen ant was shattered with a large gash. It was unable to maintain balance in the air and staggered down slowly from mid-air.
Several ghost-striped male ants wanted to turn around to protect the queen, and at the same time they rushed towards the great swordsman Chester,
A group of knights also rushed up from behind the great swordsman Chester, and their spears were heavily inserted into the joints of the ghost-striped male ants.
The ghost-striped ant queen landed on the back of a ghost-striped male ant, a faint magic pattern flashed across her body, and her dark green eyes slightly emitted a magical light.
'mental shock'
Great Swordsman Chester felt that the fighting spirit around his body was dispersed by an invisible force, and then he had a splitting headache, as if countless steel needles were inserted into his head.
At this moment, he lost control of his body and almost fell.
He was in a daze. He relied on his own balance to avoid the claws and bites of the ghost-marked male ant next to him. He forced the fighting energy in his body to move, stepped on the ground with his feet, and quickly retreated with an afterimage.
The ghost-striped ant queen once again fired a black ray from her eyes...
Swordsman Chester's vision went dark, and he instantly lost all five senses of his body.
'A huge round mountain appeared in front of him, and his body returned to its original state. He lay at the foot of the mountain, watching countless ghost-patterned red ants pour out of the caves at the foot of the mountain and rush into the ground.
In the Monster Forest of Forkargiel.
He looked at his light body and realized that this was the ghost-marked ant queen's innate ability: illusion.
Swordsman Chester had also heard about the innate ability of these ghostly patterned ant queens, and had been prepared beforehand.
I just didn't expect that I was wearing a sobriety pendant and was actually pulled into the environment by the ghost-striped ant queen.
On the battlefield, how could he dare to hesitate? He endured the heartache and hammered his chest hard, and activated a rune stone embedded in the magic pattern structure...'
All the shadows in front of the Great Swordsman Chester disappeared, and he saw only the tentacles of two ghost-patterned male ants that were very close at hand.
The body of the great swordsman Chester turned into a phantom, and appeared above the head of the ghost-patterned male ant in the next second. The double-edged sword in his hand brought a white sword energy and struck hard on the head of the ghost-patterned male ant.
A huge wound was left on the hard armor.
If it were other monsters, the Great Swordsman of Chester could kill them with this sword.
But the armor of this ghost-patterned male ant was too thick, and the sword only opened a two-foot gash. The great swordsman of Chester had no time to make up for it, and jumped up quickly to avoid the attacks of other ghost-patterned male ants.
Attack, slashing at the ghost-patterned ant queen not far away.
A ghost-striped male ant stood in front of the queen, and the figure of the great swordsman Chester who rushed towards the ghost-striped ant dimmed until he disappeared.
The next moment, Great Swordsman Chester raised his sword with both hands and his body rose into the air.
Then it was like a falling meteor, hitting the body of the ghost-striped ant queen...
A moment later, the great swordsman Chester held the head of the ghost-striped ant queen and stood on the back of a ghost-striped male ant.
The battle situation in the ant colony also changed accordingly, with the cavalry and swordsmen gradually taking the initiative.
Under the leadership of the great swordsman Chester, a group of ghost-marked male ants were gradually strangled by the swordsmen.
Just as Great Swordsman Chester led his men to clean up the mess on this battlefield, three green magic flares flew over the pass of Plantos Town not far away.
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Surdak climbed up the pass and came out of the bloodstained city wall. The city was in a mess, with broken armor and scattered weapons everywhere, and some wooden frames carrying rolling stones also collapsed.
Dense swarms of ghost-striped red ants kept climbing up from under the city wall. Andrew stood on the city wall, waving the butcher's ax in his hand, and split open the heads of some ghost-striped red ants that had just poked their heads out of the city wall.
A thick layer of corpses of ghost-striped red ants has been piled up at the feet.
The veterans next to them also lined up in a row, standing behind the wall, holding the knight's spear in their hands, constantly stabbing the ghost-marked red ants that climbed up.
The veterans cooperated with each other tacitly, and even if occasionally some ghostly patterned soldier ants avoided being assassinated by spears, they would be decapitated by the knight's sword.
Dozens of bed crossbows placed at the top of the city have suffered varying degrees of damage. Samira is leading a group of archers to repair the bed crossbows at the top of the city.
Surdak walked to the oil tank on the city wall and saw that all the oil barrels here were empty, and there were heavy burn marks under the city wall. It was probably that all the kerosene here had been used up.
Fortunately, Suldak came to Plantos Town this time and put several barrels of kerosene on Thunder Rhinoceros. Now he carried it to the top of the city and poured it in along the oil filling port at the top of the city without hesitation.
Unfortunately, they only brought six barrels of kerosene. This amount of kerosene was far from covering the entire city wall. They only lit six bonfires under the city.
As the fire burned below the city, the ghost-striped red ants that were climbing the city wall were quickly forced back, and the defense pressure on the city wall was instantly relieved a lot.
The veterans kept throwing the corpses of ghost-marked red ants on the top of the city on the fire. With the burning of the blazing flames, these ghost-marked red ants began to emit grease all over their bodies, and the fire became stronger.
Fortunately, the damage to the bed crossbow on the city wall was not too serious.
After dismantling and repairing, 30 of the 36 bed crossbows were barely restored. The wooden racks on the top of the city where the giant crossbow arrows were stored were not damaged, and those giant crossbow arrows can still be used.
As the bed crossbows were restored one by one, the range of the bed crossbows covered the mountain walls on both sides, and the city's defense was basically stabilized.
The two commanders Intas and Hampton led their cavalry in the square below the pass to block the counterattack of the ghost-striped red ants in Plantos Town.
Seeing that the situation at the top of the city had basically stabilized, Suldak asked Andrew and Samira to guard the city wall, and led Gallatin to the square below the pass. The cavalry on the battlefield here were relying on two Thunder Rhinoceros.
Resisting the attack of ghost-striped red ants.
Obviously, the number of ghost-marked red ants in the town is obviously insufficient, and it is no longer possible to form a large scale in the square.
Surdak ordered all the cavalry to take turns to camp and rest in the square under the pass. This was mainly because after fighting for most of the day, these horses were already exhausted and needed to drink water, feed, and rest to regain their strength.
Almost everyone in the cavalry was injured, and everyone urgently needed to wash away all the acid stains on their bodies.
Under the pass wall, the veterans of the cavalry battalion discovered some locked warehouses.
The cavalry kicked open a locked warehouse door, and there were stacks of giant crossbows stored inside, as well as boxes of fine steel arrow clusters, rows of brand-new alloy bows, repeating crossbows, etc.
Seeing that the place was quite clean, Suldak asked the veteran to place three camp beds in the warehouse. He hung a few lanterns in the warehouse and the room suddenly became bright.
Then, without Suldak's orders, the veterans moved all the ghost-patterned soldier ant heads collected on the battlefield to the warehouse.
The cavalrymen of the other two cavalry battalions also followed the example of this group of veterans and brought over the heads of all the ghostly patterned soldier ants and ghostly patterned male ants.
"Okay, let's follow the old rules and treat the seriously injured first. This time, the seriously injured from the three cavalry battalions will be lined up together..." Suldak ordered his subordinates.
There are a total of 1,800 cavalry in the three cavalry battalions. Most of the cavalry have suffered injuries to varying degrees. Surdak wants to rely on the 'Holy Light Technique' for treatment, even if all the holy breath in his body is consumed.
It's definitely not enough if it's dry.
So this time Surdak directly changed his strategy. All the wounded will receive the blessing of the 'Divine Blessing Body'. On the contrary, only the seriously injured cavalry will receive more detailed treatment, including cleaning wounds, suturing, and holy treatment.
Phototherapy, etc.
This time we attacked Plantos Town and harvested enough sacrifices.
We still don’t know how many fierce battles will be fought in the future, so we can’t be stingy at this time.
Commanders Intas and Hampton came out of the temporary treatment room and realized that the cavalry under Commander Suldak were so brave because this cavalry battalion was not afraid of injury at all.
As long as the wounded soldiers persist on the battlefield... they will survive.