Darkness is indeed a considerable challenge and nightmare for ordinary people at this stage!
All kinds of ferocious and cruel carnivores, strange monsters and even demons and ghosts are all associated with people and the night. In addition, civilians in the lower society usually use various scary stories to "fear education" their children - such as going out at night.
If you are captured by a monster, a big bad wolf will come and eat you if you don't sleep, etc...
Even if the former children have grown up and even become strong and courageous soldiers, the fear rooted deep in their memories will still have a subtle impact on their actions and judgments!
The soldiers selected by Lathander are indeed not bad compared to the soldiers stationed in Karava City. Since they are the private soldiers of Count Laman's family, their average physique is even slightly stronger~
However, as soon as they entered the area covered by the dark sky, an uncontrollable slight commotion broke out among the team. Fortunately, several team leaders jointly suppressed it, which prevented the pathfinding team from mutinying and fleeing on the spot.
But in the pitch-black darkness, even if there were torches in the team, the flickering flames could only illuminate a mere two or three meters in front of them. Further forward, the flickering flames would fade away and disappear... as if
There is some invisible monster hiding in the darkness, swallowing up every ray of light...
This is the distinct impact of the power of "magic" on combat!
Even if it is an auxiliary spell with no lethality, as long as it is used properly, it will still cause a major obstacle to the enemy - especially when the opponent learns that this impenetrable darkness is caused by the enemy's magical spell, and there are more
When the terrifying and ruthless undead monsters are hidden, the morale of the team is simply reduced!
The dozens of soldiers probably didn't even realize that as they continued to go deeper into the darkness, their progress was getting slower and slower... At the same time, around their team, more and more undead monsters were already appearing.
Surrounded in darkness~
This is the comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of humans and undead at the front-line command level:
The undead side relies on the soul control of the superior commander, and can indeed form a surgically fine control within a certain range! As long as the high-ranking person who is the commander has a clear and thorough observation of the battle situation, then in the battle it is equal to the overall situation
The eyes of the sky are opened! It is easy and extremely difficult for the opponent to hide from the opponent's detection...
In comparison, the human side appears to be much weaker. Not only is it significantly weaker than the undead side in terms of spell power, but even "exploring the path" requires dozens of human lives to be attempted.
As more and more undead gathered around the path-exploring troops, the messy sounds of all kinds of clattering sounds could no longer be hidden~
It's just that instead of being happy after finding the enemy, the human side was frightened by the various strange sounds that kept coming from the darkness. The entire team had stopped subconsciously, almost every time.
Every soldier held his breath and just opened his eyes as wide as possible, as if he could see the enemy's ferocious face from the darkness...
Finally, the stalemate was completely torn apart by a shrill wail that sounded like a signal!
Several level three undead souls took the lead in charging, flashing into the crowd of human soldiers like half-empty ghosts in mid-air, and started ruthlessly killing the surrounding soldiers~
And the skeletons and corpses that gathered little by little on the periphery stepped forward in unison, holding up a variety of "weapons" in their hands and tilting all their jealousy and anger towards the living just a few meters away...
Just like the undead village that Liu Yifei and the others captured before, once you get deeper, it feels like an endless "dark sky". If you really want to strictly calculate, how much space can it cover?
After all, this is just a spell used by a few apprentice-level necromancers to use the death resentment of dozens or hundreds of local people. If a strong man like Liu Yifei breaks through... it will be completely different in a few breaths.
It is possible to force a breakthrough~
But if a mortal gets involved in it, especially if he is frightened and unable to move forward at all, then this darkness will seem to truly become boundless, until it completely engulfs the living...
Doesn’t Lord Shisui Knight know all this?
No, of course he did~
But he also knew that if it was the same "dark spell" as before, it didn't seem to be able to block all kinds of sounds - this was the "fighter" that Shisui Knight found!
Although he was unwilling to personally take risks to test the details of his opponents, he also understood that if his opponents were not allowed to taste any "sweetness", it would be difficult for them to find suitable attack opportunities.
No, the previous fifty people were the "bait" he sent out deliberately - even if these soldiers would suffer heavy losses in the enemy's first round of attack... But there should at least be some movement, right? It can't be true.
Was it to be completely wiped out by the enemy without a sound?
No, the wailing of the soldiers from the front clearly pointed out the direction of the attack to the water knight: "The whole army is on alert!! Torches! Throw!!!"
The Shisui Knight gave an order, and several simple instruments at the back of the team threw some burning firewood bundled together under the operation of the soldiers on the side. The soldiers in the front of the team also threw a large number of torches in their hands into the darkness.
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This was what the Shisui Knight had specially prepared during the team's break - although Jenny went north with them, the two sides had no friendship after all, and the Shisui Knight couldn't directly ask the other party to do anything. In the military
In terms of arrangements, we can still only consider our own strength as much as possible.
With some experience from Liu Yifei's previous battle, the way Shisui Knight came up with was to use flames to pave a "bright road" as much as possible in the dark magic world - it was indeed a bit stupid, but in
Without the support of reliable magic power, torches and other lighting objects are already the easiest to find~
Dots of firelight like stars fell like rain. Although each flame could not illuminate a large lighting range, and even many torches that did not burn well were helplessly extinguished in the wind, this kind of worthless thing was not enough.
The Water Knight has indeed prepared a lot. Now that he is exchanging quantity for quality, he has actually torn a looming path of light into the sky that should have been as dark as ink!
It was a pity that the previous group of soldiers were affected by the darkness and their route deviated slightly while marching in the sky. They were not straight ahead of the road as expected, so they naturally missed this escape route.
Fortunately, the torch path illuminated the periphery of the undead army, which clearly pointed out the location of the enemy. After two more rounds of torches and firewood throwing, the Shisui Knight roared, and immediately fired two rounds of covering crossbow bolts.
Then came the front army assault!
Seeing that the undead monsters are still gathering to attack, it is basically certain that the pathfinding troops have not completely collapsed, or they have been surrounded by the enemy and cannot evacuate even if they want to... In short, we can roughly estimate the location of our own soldiers and the coverage of the crossbow arrows.
The attack is quite targeted and will not blindly kill one's own people.
The advance of the front row of soldiers was quite orderly amidst the coordination of non-commissioned officers at all levels. The formation was not hurriedly scattered because there were friendly troops ahead who were being besieged by the enemy... In this way, the necromancers on the opposite side were able to lay down their weapons in advance.
A little dirty trick was completely useless——
Cannon fodder undead such as skeletons and corpses do not need to breathe. Therefore, if there is time, the undead army can even hide a large number of its own soldiers under the ground, easily allowing the opponent to misjudge the size of its own army, and then
Suddenly "transform" an ambush army at the right time to complete a thunderous strike!
In addition to severely damaging the morale of the biological troops and blocking the reconnaissance attacks of lower-level troops, the "Dark Sky Curtain" may also be considered to provide cover for one's own cannon fodder~
After all, if a large amount of soil is turned over to hide the soldiers, the traces on the ground will be difficult to cover up, and with the dark sky covering it, at least for those who go deep into it, the safety of their feet will not become their main concern.
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If the human army were to attack in large numbers at this time and their formations were scattered, the undead from the ambush suddenly coming out might indeed launch a surprise attack on them.
It's a pity that Shisui Knight's military formation is strict and the command system is not in chaos. It takes a moment for the cannon fodder-level undead to break free from the floating soil. Instead, it has become the priority target of the surrounding soldiers - the front is being massacred.
Although the friendly forces are worth rescuing, how can we abandon these enemies who are so close at hand?
and……
Targets that are inconvenient to move are too tempting!!
It's a pity that the human army has just entered the scope of the dark sky at this time, and is still a hundred meters away from the wall of Nitang Village. It is difficult for the elite skeleton archers gathered in the village to successfully attack, otherwise the human army that stopped to sweep away the cannon fodder undead would be really incomparable.
A good target...
Here, the bottom-level fighting forces of humans and undead are finally fully engaged. Knight Shisui and Jenny are still outside the dark sky to observe the situation.
On the other end, in Nitang Village, next to the desecrated corpse pit that Liu Yifei had visited before, there was almost the same scene. The only difference was that there were only two heads here, and the necromancer who presided over the entire formation was also
Only two people...
The sheer numbers are not enough to arouse the fear of the necromancers, but the previous fall of friendly forces gave them a big wake-up call - these humans in front of them are capable of completely defeating all their defenses in a short period of time.
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Why do you say this?
Because one of the characteristics of the undead spells is that it can use the soul spells, which are excellent in itself, to achieve a more convenient and long-distance communication effect!
In a kingdom with advanced spell technology, ultra-long-distance information transmission is actually a research topic that everyone will continue to pay attention to - not to mention serving the kingdom, even the spell caster itself does often need someone who can
A means to help them transmit information over long distances.
But another problem that limits the promotion of this type of technology is consumption - everything has a price! If a short sentence is instantly transmitted across thousands of mountains and rivers, it will consume tens of millions of gold coins or even other extremely precious materials.
What... Then how broad is the application scope of this technology?
This point seems to be more advanced in the Kingdom of Dia. After all, almost all necromancers are not proficient in soul magic. The difference is just how proficient it is~
Under this premise, the necromancers can develop their imaginations through various taboo studies, so naturally they have a series of means to transmit ultra-long-distance information through soul fluctuations and concentrated mental power.
When the human army arrived here, the large-scale dark sky spell fluctuations in front disappeared, and the low-level undead engraved with the soul marks of the wizards ahead disintegrated... This series of phenomena all showed that just a few days ago, the front guard
Several wizards and the strongholds they guarded have been destroyed.
The news itself would not touch the local wizards too much... but the problem is that the guys in front of them didn't even have time to send back any news, and even they themselves couldn't escape...
This shows that their opponents are already so powerful that they are almost unstoppable! They can strike them with thunder in a short time (big misunderstanding)!
However, since the two days before the fight, the spirits of the two local necromancers had already tightened up. Especially when they saw a human army coming...the first priority they thought of was to contact the rear immediately!!
Even Jenny inadvertently noticed the follow-up of the undead army. Why wouldn't the undead themselves first contact the nails that they still entrenched in the human world?
In fact, because Diya's military operations are bound to receive regular rewards, the follow-up army has already learned that their forward expansion is not going well, and even suffered a slight loss in their expansion momentum after being suppressed.
Because of this, the two subsequent undead villages became completely "quiet" and received orders from the rear, requiring them to hold their current strongholds and wait for reinforcements, so that the undead side did not take any drastic actions during this period...
Although the situation in the Green Field area has been eased some time ago, the problem is that after the forwards were attacked head-on by the human frontier troops, the rear army naturally increased its threat assessment to the human troops in front of them!
Although there are some minor frictions between the humans of Erathia and the elves of Eli, when it comes to big issues, the two races are still quite firm allies.
This time Dia's real target is actually the Eri elves at the other end of the Tularion Forest!!
For Dia, the country of the undead, Eli is really an overly rich meal, whether it is a powerful elf, a holy and powerful unicorn or a legendary dragon... these creatures, whether they are alive
Whether they are dead or not, they are all what Diya longs for!!
If you want to plunder enough flesh and blood sacrifices in a big battle, you must first hold back the elves' reliable allies!
In this way, there will be the current Battle of Green Fields...
