Chapter 146: A Tough Opponent
South of Lothar, White City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the darkest corner alley in the city, with dilapidated houses and mossy walls, two figures appeared.
One of the thin figures fell to the ground, he didn't dare to look at the other party's bloody eyes, and shouted into the air in a panic: "I don't know, please let me go, I really don't know anything!"
"A year ago, in the middle of July, there were suddenly so many more records of going out of the city to the woods, why?" asked Brand, without a hint of emotion in his voice, as if the person begging in front of him was just a stone.
"I don't know......" The thin man fell to the ground, his clothes stained: "White City is a gathering place for adventurers, every day, every day, there are many adventurers coming and going, how can I know if there are more or ......fewer adventurers"
"Think carefully!" Brand said in a deep voice, "Around the seventeenth and eighth of July last year, what suddenly attracted so many adventurers, since you are a habitual thief here, you must have heard the relevant rumors, think about it!" said a frosty cold air that enveloped the thin man: "I can't think of it, and there is no need to keep you." β
"I think, I think!" the thin man recalled, trembling desperately, "last summer, July, July, adventurer...... Suddenly more ...... They must have found a treasure in the Gangdi Forest, a rare ore !!."
"You're dealing with me...... Or do you think your little thoughts can be hidden from my gaze?" Brand frowned, "Since you don't value your own life......"
A hint of blood red appeared in the frosty cold that enveloped the emaciated man.
As the blood-red stained his body, the thin man burst into a writhe, twitching and rolling desperately on the mud.
"I was wrongβ!! sir, let me think about it again!!" he screamed.
"Think like this, you still have half an hourglass time, don't prevaricate with me anymore. Brand said indifferently.
The man on the ground gritted his teeth and gasped desperately, his eyes bulging like dead fish, and the bruises on his face twitched uncontrollably, making people wonder if his head would explode in the next moment.
"I, I know!!" he finally screamed, trying to continue but couldn't resist the pain and screamed: "Ah!!hhhhh
Brand waved his hand, and the frost and blood that enveloped him vanished.
The thin man didn't dare to delay, and said weakly: "They said that one night there was a violent fluctuation of magic power in the depths of the Gangdi Forest, and they said that there was a high-level professional battle there, and everyone thought that they should be fighting for some treasure, and the news spread, and many people wanted to try their luck......"
"Where is the fighting?" Bland asked.
"The little one doesn't know!! the thin man subconsciously screamed: "Don't, don't kill me! Old Lille must know !!"
"Who's Old Lille?" Brand, grabbing the other man in the air, forcing him to look into his bloody eyes.
"Old Lille is the best hunter in town, he must know where last year's battle took place, he lives in Gulfstream Lane!" he looked at Brand with a shudder in his bloody eyes and pleaded, "Don't kill me...... I won't say anything......"
Brand casually threw the thin man to the ground, and the cold wind swept through, and he was no longer seen in the alley.
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"Fifty Steps?!" Inside the Battle Data Tower of the Viktor Combat Command Academy, Morin couldn't help but exclaim.
What kind of trial ladder, he feels that it takes luck to survive the thirty steps, and he has to consume most of the soldiers, what is the difficulty of the fifty steps?
"Fifty Rank may be a little low, but if you can reach Sixty Order, you will definitely get enough authority. Oran said: "After all, what you want to check is the information of the Blood Moon War, and the permission requirements are high, and you are not from our academy, and there are even fewer ways to increase the permission." β
"If it weren't for the significance of the Trial Ladder, you might not even have the opportunity to increase your authority. Orlan patted the boy on the back encouragingly, "The Nightmare Beast is the embodiment of chaos and the main enemy we face on the Frontier of Order, and to show that we value the command of the chaos more than the command of the simulated battle, the reward of the trial ladder is raised so high. Otherwise, you may not even have a chance to increase your privileges. β
"But can I really pass the fifty or even sixty steps? Even if I spend the next two months on this training, I'm afraid there is no hope. Maureen said with some regret.
"You don't have to worry about that. Oran replied: "You only need to survive the thirtieth order, Professor Bolburn will give you a command training instrument, that is a good thing, it can connect to the training core of our academy from a distance, and when you return to Iluvita, you can still slowly challenge this trial, and you can also consult the battle materials through it." β
"So, practice honestly for two days, and then survive the thirtieth step first. β
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The "Orlan Turnover Special Training" is worthy of the training plan formulated by Captain Oran himself, involving a total of three major projects and twelve small command training items, each training goal is extremely detailed, and the difficulty is much greater than Morin imagined.
What's even more powerful is that under the persistence of the young man's gritted teeth, he actually completed all the items, I really don't know how Orlan can see what kind of training level he can reach.
By the time Morin returned to his lodgings in the middle of the night and lay down on the bed, he was so tired that he didn't even want to move his fingers.
These conducting training were simply more tiring than physical training, and the boy's head felt like a whole piece of frozen wood that had been cut into sawdust and squeezed together, and he couldn't tell what it was like. Barron and Marcus didn't share a room with him, and he couldn't sleep without Barron's snoring, so Merlin pulled Hei out of the ring again, and finally fell asleep listening to the sound of black chirping.
Unconsciously, his spiritual power grew silently, and he gradually climbed towards the third step......
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The official tournament of the Command League officially kicked off on a rainy day, and the entire island was lit up with magical enchantments, like a transparent dome to keep the rain out, and the first round of the tournament was divided into 32 teams, divided into two days, and played simultaneously in eight arenas around the island.
The match of the Silver Tree team is scheduled for the next day, against the Black Shield team of Luram Academy, and Captain Damon, who drew the lot on behalf of everyone, is not less down by Jody, because Luram Academy is a rather difficult opponent to deal with.
It's not that it's very strong, the Black Shield team is also a team that hovered between the official round and the group stage in previous years, and the ranking is similar to the Silver Tree team, the reason why everyone thinks it's tricky is because the Luram Academy is a small number of dead academies, and the Black Shield team is an out-and-out team of dead students.
As we all know, the combat command style and class composition of the deceased are very different from other order races, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are self-contained. First of all, most of the dead classes do not have the attribute of morale, which means that the troops will not break up no matter what kind of losses they suffer. Secondly, the individual strength of the deceased class is generally worse than that of other classes of the same rank, so the size of the unit with the same combat ability value is larger than that of the other races. In addition, the deceased's war chess cards often have some death magic for corpses, which can be used to replenish the source of troops once they win a certain battlefield and obtain corpses.
Many members of the Silvertree team, including Morin and Tierna, had not trained specifically for the deceased, and found that they were suddenly a little scrambling to face such an opponent, so Morin found Orlan and asked him to help choose a special training room for everyone to get familiar with temporarily.
For this reason, none of them went to watch the games on the first day.
The next morning, the sky was still not clear, and it was gloomy and it was like rain was going to fall at any time.
With eight matches taking place at the same time, matches like these two lesser-known teams don't attract many spectators, and apart from Barron and some of Illuvita's exchange students who come to support their own academy team, there are only a handful of people in the stands.
Equino didn't seem happy, presumably seeing the Dead members of the Black Shield Clan, which reminded her of life in the Dark Castle of the Dead Lord.
Under the auspices of the sacrifice of the Elemental Temple, the two teams saluted separately, and Merlin quietly looked at the other team's team members, and immediately couldn't help but get goosebumps.
The deceased who takes the body of the deceased as the body and shapes the soul with the secret of magic is actually not a race, but a collective name for a class of races, and the dead summoned by different types of death magic belong to different races of the dead, and it is rumored that there are still conflicts between different races in the country of the dead.
Among the twelve members of the Black Shield team, there are different races of the dead, such as ghosts, corpse witches, black knights, and vampires like Aeminor, and there is even a spider demon whose name is Maggie, who is the captain of the Black Shield team.
The spider demon is a kind of deceased creature born by the splicing and summoning of human and demonic beast corpses, ranking in the sixth sequence of the dead, the individual talent is almost as strong as the bone dragon, it is considered a natural nobleman among the dead, but it can be transformed into a human form like Maggie, although the figure looks like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, but the black bone spurs still extend from her naked back, just like a spider leg with teeth and claws that makes people shudder.
It's no wonder that the other races don't like the dead very much, and this dark atmosphere really doesn't make people happy to get along with. It seems that vampires like Aemeno are already the closest race to humans, and in terms of appearance and temperament, they are not much different from those noble children who don't bask in the sun all day long.
Under the hazy sky, a white mist rose from the wide metal square, and the simulation battle officially began.
There is a very disadvantage when fighting against the army of the dead, ordinary long-range attack units cannot achieve the desired effect, like the skeletons and walking corpses of the main combat arms of the first and second order, the number of arrows in the parts other than the head does not matter, and although the low-level marksmen of the dead are not very accurate, they can also cause good results by relying on a large number of people who do not know fatigue and shoot for a while.
For this reason, Dimon and Senior Jody specially adjusted the simulation cards for everyone before the war.
The battlefield is still shrouded in a haze that needs to be explored, and judging from the environment around the current base camp, it should be relatively flat forest terrain, and the defending side will receive a certain bonus.
Senior Dimon is in charge of the overall situation, and orders are issued like flowing water.
Morin remained at the vanguard of the team, leading his troops to the seventh resource point in the center of the battlefield. The deceased class has many advantages and disadvantages, of course, the overall slower speed is the biggest weakness, so the formation change on the battlefield is relatively simple, which is exactly the strength of the teenager.
Sure enough, when Morin led his troops to rush to the resource point, the enemy troops had just emerged from his scout's field of vision, and Morin was overjoyed and hurriedly began to lay out the defensive line while occupying the resource point. However, as the enemy forces got closer, the smile on Morin's face faded.
I saw that in the scout's field of vision, a phalanx of skeleton soldiers surged densely like ants, denser than the wolves in the trial ladder before. Each of them held a long scimitar and a round shield, and was draped in simple standard armor, and their steps were neatly identical, even if the enemy team was still not all visible.
"Captain Damon!" Morin asked, feeling that the other party had more troops, and he couldn't judge the situation.
"Adjust the formation and prepare to retreat," Dimon frowned and said, "The other party may have pressed the main force, Morin don't fall in love with the battle, Jodi, try to attack at the fourth resource point." β
"The scout line is advancing intensively, and the high-level scout team begins to infiltrate, and the field of vision is explored as quickly as possible......"
"Resource points produce soldiers, temporarily give up magic, and prepare for tug-of-war......"
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Indeed, as Dimon expected, this battle lasted all day, from the gloomy morning to the fall of night, the Black Shield team did not use the regular start from the beginning, and directly rushed to the middle to fight in the middle, but was seen through by Dimon Senior to pull the defense with a side attack.
Morin has always played the role of the main attacker, basically from the beginning of the battle to the end, standing on the command platform of the control tower, Rao is a teenager has had a lot of training experience and still feels tired.
In the end, though, it was Team Silvertree who won the race.
They actually won quite hard, and even if the two teams didn't really decide the winner at the last minute, they still relied on the rules to win: after the match time ran out, the simulated enchantment counted all the resources and troops on the field of each team, and the one with the highest combat ability value was the winner.
The Silver Tree team won with Xiaoyou in the final value, which made several members of the Black Shield team quite unconvinced, and the opponent's spider demon captain Maggie gritted his teeth after the game, and the bone spurs on his body couldn't stop trembling, which made Mo Lin's heart beat in shock.
This match was the latest of several matchups, and after the game, the tired Captain Dimon immediately went to participate in the draw for the second round, and then brought bad news to everyone.
In the next round their opponents, the Victor Combat Command Academy, the Griffin Sentain.