ps: I'm a little stuck today, so I'll upload half of it first, and I'll have to hold back the rest, or try to rewrite it with a different idea tomorrow~
In addition, I am very grateful to all the book friends who lost their monthly tickets this month, and they silently collected the number of forty... Thank you, thank you, thank you~
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Speidel Fortress, a second-level small-scale fortress in the east-east direction of the southern border of the Kingdom of Solna, is located on a crescent-shaped tin sandstone mountain called "Grey Mountain", not far away from another one called "Spero"
Together with the secondary fortresses, they form the observation hub on the southeastern border of Solna.
To the south, there is the Xeris Fortress, which is the largest in the southern border of Solna. To the north, there is another large sixth-level fortress called "The Wail of the Bones"!
The main surveillance target of Speidel and Spero is the swamp area southeast of Solna, a black forest swamp called "The Wailing Forest"~
The overall shape of the Hero Continent is like an irregular disk, and the westernmost part is the "cursed land" that no one has been able to cross since the beginning...or at least no one can cross it alive.
The elves call it the "Endless Forest", which means that this mountain forest is boundless, like another unknown world~
The ghost tribe calls it the "Sighing Mountains", which means that even if they are immortal and have almost unlimited time, the undead alien race can only sigh in the face of this infinite vast mountain forest...
In the south of the entire continent, along the rugged and steep coastline, lies the "Forest Sea" that has nurtured the elves for tens of thousands of years. The northwest of the Forest Sea, east of the Sighing Mountains, and the large territory in the north have become a paradise for the undead to roam.
The vast area east of the White Bone Land and north of the Forest Sea is divided into two large territories.
Everyone has long been familiar with the "Eastern Great Plains" [compared to other forces, it can be called the "Central Great Plains"], as well as the swamp tribe whose living environment is relatively harsh...
Tell the truth~
The home of the undead is shrouded in the endless darkness of the sky all day long. There is no starlight, sun or moon, and the earth is paved with countless dead bones and rotten corpses. It is indeed not a beautiful place~
However, this place is definitely a paradise for the undead and the necromancers!
At least here, the undead clan can exert almost unlimited power, especially the powerful and terrifying Necromancer, who is almost a symbol of invincibility!
However, among the swamp people...
You can only use one word to describe the overall environment there - sinister!
Quite sinister~
Even for those swamp people who have lived here for generations.
For NPCs born and raised in the swamp tribe, this is a place that can swallow their lives if they are not careful, and can make their bones disappear!
For players, overcoming the dangerous local environment has almost become the only and most severe test of whether they can survive and grow here!
Compared with the "big clans" such as humans, elves, undead, and dungeons, the swamp clan's sphere of influence is relatively smaller, only about four-fifths of the elves. However, even with such a large territory, for swamp clan players,
It is also a high-risk area for "a wide range of events"!
The Swamp Tribe has never been a large and prosperous tribe... Although the Wolf-headed people and their close relatives "Kobolds" can generally give birth to multiple children, the number of the lizard-people as the backbone force has been difficult to grow~
It is precisely because of this that the power of the Swamp Clan has been difficult to expand. Although they have also raised a large number of powerful war beasts to supplement their army, the country's population has always remained at a low level...
Strictly speaking, the Swamp Clan does not even have a "country" in the true sense!
Swamp people and barbarians can be said to be obviously weak races in the "Heroes Might and Magic OL" game... The reason is not because of the relatively insufficient number of reincarnations of players or the size of the territory, but because of these two races.
I haven’t been able to enter the Kingdom Age yet!
The people of the swamp live in settlements and free trade alliances, while the barbarians are a little bit behind, simply a backward civilization under the loose rule of tribes and tribal alliances...
After tens of thousands of years of inheritance, it is still unknown why these two races have become like this. However, this situation has obviously had a considerable impact on the players of their internal games, and in the past year, these two races have become
The NPC forces of the race are relatively "behaved" on the entire continent~
And it is precisely because of this reason that the Kingdom of Solna has not put the most complete effort into building external defense strongholds in this direction. Many fortresses just choose suitable locations to build small observation bunkers, such as the current Si.
The "Twin Moon Fortress" formed by Pedel and Spero...
Of course, Liu Yifei may still feel that "certain" beings in the Swamp Clan may be a little too active and care about him a little bit more. However, it has to be said that these are indeed two relatively quiet big clans around the world.
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Looking from Speidel to the "Wailing Forest" at the end of his sight, Liu Yifei silently sighed...
I think he was still a newbie who didn't know anything at the time, so he inexplicably accepted an unfinished task from Emoni. He was asked to explore the reason why the undead creatures in the territory suddenly became violent...
All in all, by some strange combination of circumstances, I actually got into a fight with a super boss in the swamp tribe, an awesome guy named "Dragon of Chaos"!
This is really going to cost me my life~
At the beginning, Liu Yifei had a lucky thought that "it's nothing, as long as he doesn't go to the Swamp Clan, it will most likely be fine." However, since the last time the Chaos Dragon Nature took a mysterious trip to the hinterland of Solna, he has been somewhat confused.
Suffering from a sense of crisis, now that he thinks of "what the swamp people are doing", his heart beats faster and he breaks into sweat~
No way!
The more he understands the game, the more he understands the terrifying power of the so-called "legendary level", and the more he understands what the "power of chaos" is, the more he worries about when that scary guy will come to his territory to cause trouble...
....
To be honest~
For an opponent of this level, Liu Yifei really didn't know if it would be enough to use all his trump cards to confront him. In terms of strength, that guy must be Levin who was falsely stronger than the one Liu Yifei killed before.
Ski is much stronger~
A veteran strong man who has survived for n years, a legendary existence with the power of a true dragon, a real immortal old monster. And he also possesses the power of chaos...
I guess this guy can compete with epic beings among ordinary humanoid creatures, right?
Absolutely super powerful...
"Hey~"
Standing at the top of the city and overlooking the wailing forest, Liu Yifei finally withdrew his slightly frightened gaze and instead focused on the troublesome situation in front of him.
The "call" of the leader of the Harpers, or the current leader of the Green Tide Corps, has been fully responded to by the elven players!
It was only two hours since the series of war instructions were issued. Spedel had already gathered... a terrifying number of elven player corps outside!
Fortunately, this time the NPCs did not act stupid again. The large number of elf players gathered in the periphery finally caused the defenders of the "Twin Moon Fortress" to be on alert, and at the same time, they tried their best to seek support from their superiors~
However, I don't know if it is because the invading enemies are only "elf refugees", but the reinforcements received by the Double Moon Fortress are quite sparse. Only the Howling Bones Fortress in the north temporarily reinforced a group of skeleton hunters and a group of
A mid-level vampire. And two mid-level great corpse witches from the army...
Frankly speaking~
If you are facing an army of ordinary players, these troops are more than enough!
With the two-moon fortresses as horns and strong geographical advantages, these troops are enough to resist five times more enemy attacks or strategic advances.
But what they have to face this time is an endless wave of elf players!
In a terrifying wave of attacks involving tens of millions of people, it’s really strange that this small number of people can survive~
On the other side, although Liu Yifei and his Free Corps also have a large number of people, the terrible thing is... there is no room for them in the Shuangyue Fortress...
A two-level small fortress!
It covers only three-quarters of the area of a two-level small city. It was already very impressive to be able to cram a hundred thousand people into it.
Do not consider activities such as space]~
But for the more than 4 million players of the Free Corps, it is simply not enough~
And if the player is placed in the wild... it is equivalent to a wild encounter!
The Free Corps was overwhelmed by tens of millions of elf players, and there was no way to survive...
How to fight this battle is a headache even for Liu Yifei! Let alone the ordinary commanders below~
However, even so, Liu Yifei still tried his best to regain the disadvantage, and the first decision he made was to have one million dark warriors each go offline on the two main thoroughfares in the north and south of Shuangyue Fortress.
The value of warrior professions in defensive warfare is relatively low, especially when the defending party is forced to fight in open areas, the value is even lower. It is easy to be directly overwhelmed by more enemy charging troops, or
He was kited to death by the enemy's long-range troops~
And the choice is to go offline, which is still a strange card at a critical moment!
It's a pity that the value of this strange card is almost reaching its limit~
Those Corps players who accepted the order have been offline for at least half an hour!
This is a great test for the players’ patience!
They were about to fight, but they were kept offline and on standby. That kind of psychological oppression and complaints against the commander would cause some discord within the team~
However, Liu Yifei can no longer care about anything else. All he can do is to use all his strength and use any means to create more opportunities to kill the enemy!
To this end, Liu Yifei even took out a large number of super crossbows that he had secretly hoarded until now!
This batch of powerful crossbows actually came from the copy of the Lost Heroic Spirit that was cleared a few months ago. Among the blowout rewards for the final clearance. These batch of powerful crossbows that far exceeded the general specifications were so coveted by Liu Yifei that he finally shamelessly suppressed them.
.It was only thanks to him and Xuelan that they opened the maximum warehouse space in the Jiuxin Empire that they managed to "luck" back.
Hand crossbows have always been standard equipment for non-standard long-range units for medium and long-range fire suppression.
Generally speaking, there are no academic, skill, or occupational restrictions. As long as the strength and agility attributes meet the requirements, the hand crossbow is allowed to be equipped regardless of the player's level!
As an offensive weapon, the hand crossbow has many advantages such as precise aiming, powerful strikes, powerful piercing, and a certain probability of armor penetration!
If there are any shortcomings...
First of all, the price is extremely expensive!
Hand crossbows of the same grade [in terms of grade and attributes] are generally about three to five times more expensive than bows! And this is the system price. If the player buys it by himself. The popular products are better, but the best ones can really scare people to death.
, it can be sold for more than ten times the sky-high price!
It’s just that it’s expensive to buy, but the key is that it’s also expensive to use~
The arrows of hand crossbows are much finer than those of bows and arrows. The price of ordinary quality crossbow arrows is comparable to that of fine-level arrows. This directly restricts the widespread popularization of hand crossbows~
Another pitfall is the slow attack speed.
The excellent craftsmen of the human race can produce "repeating crossbows" with a high rate of fire. But that is also the result of sacrificing attack distance and attack power. Anyway, hand crossbows will never be able to compare with bows and arrows in this aspect~
Ordinary hand crossbows are powerful enough, but these super powerful crossbows brought back by Liu Yifei...
Really worthy of the name of strong crossbow!
The basic range of two hundred meters is the limit of all long-range attack weapons Liu Yifei has heard of so far. It is comparable to the inhuman attack range of city defense artillery and war machinery!
The reason why a war machine is a war machine is its inhuman attack power, and its attack distance determines its incomparable value~
Even if there are limitations such as high cost, complex requirements, extremely difficult to move, etc., the value of war machinery in actual wars is still incomparable~
And when a batch of hand crossbows also have the attack range of second-level war machinery...
That was almost a disaster!!!
Of course~
It’s for the elf players on the opposite side...
The number of this batch of hand crossbows was less than 8,000, but they were absolutely extremely rare. Liu Yifei did not dare to let such treasures go out. So in the end, he only selected 8,000 players among the "local citizens" of Plague City, and then
After promising a large number of follow-up rewards and discounts, and recording everyone's ID information, I dare to distribute this batch of secret materials~
However, this alone is not enough. In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the players, Liu Yifei also spent his own money to smash a batch of crossbow arrows into it!
After all, these people were expected to obey orders and it was unreasonable to ask them to pay, so Liu Yifei had no choice but to spend money to hire people to "earn military merit"~
Not to mention, the effect of this "special force" is quite amazing!
Under the control of a large number of assassin players, the continuous rain of crossbows turned into a real rain of death. Its super astonishing attack range even caused the opposite elf players to yell at each other~
It's a pity that Liu Yifei's intention to cause a commotion on the other side and to kill a group of enemies first before the war finally came to nothing~
Because they gained absolute control in terms of numbers, the elven players discovered a very simple but very effective way to retreat from the enemy~
That's the druid's call of the wild...
This place is adjacent to the Wailing Forest. Even the place where the Twin Moon Fortress is located is not strictly the Land of Bones, it is just the surrounding barren land. Therefore, the effect of Call of the Wild is better here!
And the enemy's first counterattack...
It was an unforgettable scene for millions of players on both sides of the war!
When countless cyan spiritual birds came out of the sky amidst the mingled but almost deafening chants of the druids, what kind of bird flock was there?
It is simply a terrifying "tide of birds" that can drown the enemy alive!
The cyan spiritual birds, ten times the number of druids, rolled over the ground like a swarm of heterochromatic locusts, and then left no grass behind...
In fact~
If the assassins were not slow and Liu Yifei reacted in time to make them retreat immediately, I am afraid that these rare crossbows would have to be left there for a while~
After experiencing an effective expulsion, the elf players on the opposite side simply changed their formation strategy. They asked the druid players to stand on the outermost edge and recruited their animal companions to act as sentinels on the outermost edge of the army.
A vast zero-gap defense belt was formed!
What makes people feel even more terrible is that when the general attack is about to be launched, the animal companions summoned by these enemies are also slowly pressing forward...
The military strength in Shuangyue Fortress has been accumulated to the limit~
In fact, let alone the Double Moon Fortress, millions of undead players have already rushed over and completely occupied the crescent-shaped gray mountain highland where the Double Moon Fortress is located.
Facing the tens of millions of elves' aggressive elves, the war potential of the undead has been tapped to its limit. Even countless wandering players who have not yet had time to reorganize and join the free corps have rushed over one after another, just to fight to the death with the elves.
war!
Boom~
Suddenly, there was a dense sound of footsteps on the ground~
Next…
Boom boom boom boom!!!
An astonishing sound like a thunderous vibration came towards my face, and even the entire fortress, the entire crescent-shaped plateau, and the surrounding ground within several miles shook together!
The stones are jumping and the mountains are swaying~
Facing the pace of tens of millions of people stepping on the ground, just "standing in front of this team" made countless players feel the huge pressure of heart tightening and breathing stagnation!
When seeing a large, densely packed crowd of people pressing towards our side like a wave, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear easily. Even Liu Yifei still felt that he might be swept up by this huge wave in an instant.
A smash!
War, in its most naked and truest form, is displayed in front of everyone...
