Chapter 56: The Power of Atavism (1)
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Thanks to the passers-by on the other side, holding back the light to death, and the reward of the light of the past.
Well...... That's right, the protagonist's miserable days are coming to an end.
Although there will still be.
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"What do you say? You are crazy! A loud roar erupted from one part of the procession, causing the others to turn their heads and watch.
"Nothing...... Uh, I'm kidding Pavon, hahaha......"
After calming the attention with a lame excuse, Gava looked at Archibald with an unbearable expression and muttered, "I used to think that you just sometimes think strangely. β
ββ¦β¦ Now it seems that there is much more to it than that! He suddenly raised his voice in whispering mode, "You actually want to join Mithra's expeditionary force?" **-Teasing me!? β
"I'm not kidding you." Archibald was a little surprised that his friend's reaction was so big.
It's strange that Gava's background is very ordinary, and he has not formed any grudges with the expeditionary force in the previous wars, why did he react so violently......
"Joining Mithra's army is the only way I can avoid being pulled too far away by her in a short period of time, and I have no other choice."
Archibald thinks so.
He didn't know what Lipal's bloodline was, but the ability to manipulate that kind of Cheng dΓΉ's magic was definitely extraordinary without asking, and even if someone with a bloodline like him tried his best to catch up, it would probably not lead to anything in the end.
Because there is also a zΓ i gap between the bloodlines.
The bloodlines in the Holy Realm are very complex, there are beast warriors, reptiles, and birds and beasts; There are machines, there are sea dragons, and there are angels. If you look at it from Li Bai's perspective, there are as many as 23 of these races, excluding the Phantom Divine Beast and the Creation ZΓ o God, two races that are unlikely to exist in the Holy Realm, there are still 21 [Note]...... Quite large, and if the inheritance represented by each individual is counted, this classification is even more bloated, so there will also be a gap in the level of power between the bloodlines, and excellent races and attributes often represent a broader space for development, far from being comparable to ordinary bloodlines.
Beowulf Wolf seems to be very powerful, but looking at the vast land of Flotis, there are many bloodlines stronger than this, let alone thrown into the entire Twelve Dimensions.
β¦β¦ It is precisely because he knows that he will not be able to be strong enough to cross the space node alone in his lifetime with all his might, Archibald derived the idea of joining the Mithra expeditionary force, he calculated very clearly, with the current strength, he may not be able to have anything to do with those elite troops, but it is more than enough to only act as the lowest soldier, and it just so happens that the end of this journey is Carol City, he believes that as long as he takes the initiative to join, the other party should not refuse this request.
"But what about identity!" Gava wanted to split open the wooden head with a knife to see what was inside, "Don't forget, those of us who have been defeated in the Holy Realm want to officially enlist...... If the test of the captain level is good, if you can't pass it, then you will be the lowest cannon fodder! Do you know what cannon fodder means! It is to send to death, where you charge into battle, you must be at the front, and cover the retreat, you must be at the rear! The mortality rate is so high that it is miserable! Otherwise, why do you think everyone is not considering joining the expeditionary force? With the amount of military salaries offered by the expeditionary force, who would want to work in the reserve here for fear of losing their lives? β
Their group of soldiers seems to belong to Mithra's army establishment, but in fact, they are not officially enlisted, they are just a title, not even a number, just because they have a fixed salary to get, which is a little better than mercenaries...... But that's all there is to it.
If you want to go further, you can only choose between making some greater achievements to be promoted, or joining the expeditionary force.
The first one barely had a hope more than half a year ago, because at that time Floris was a little chaotic, and countless princes and nobles of the dead country fled with private hiding, and it was a great achievement to catch it, but as time went by, there were fewer and fewer such fat sheep, and they had almost been cleaned up, at least Gava had not heard of a hidden person being arrested for two months in a row, and it was impossible to use it as a way out.
And the second way, joining the expeditionary force, can immediately enter the army establishment, get a formal military salary, the amount is much higher than the current salary, and at the same time enjoy good benefits in reserve resources such as weapons and armor - it seems quite wonderful, but ...... If it weren't for desperation, no one would consider doing it.
It's not about hatred of the aggressor...... There are indeed many such people, but most of the people who will consider this second way meet the conditions for enlisting in the army - that is, young and middle-aged men, they have not been incorporated into the army by the original country or lord to fight against Mithra's invasion for various reasons, and naturally they have not died in battle, plus the darkness fell a year ago, many people are even facing problems of survival, and the idea of national hatred has long been lost and I don't know where to go.
Floris was not a resource-rich world in the first place, and even before the invasion, the living conditions of the people here were not high, and they would not deliberately hate Mithra in the absence of a blood feud. If you don't choose, you will officially enlist for no other reason, just fear of death.
The army does not raise idlers, how much strength and how much work, in this time when the fire of aggression is burning more and more, they naturally need a huge number of soldiers to replenish, domesticate the alien monsters in the conquered holy realm, and recruit qualified recruits are all desirable means, but these new recruits and supplementary troops naturally cannot be compared with veterans in terms of treatment. The mortality rate of recruits is extremely high, in a cross-border level war, there are too many monsters they have not seen, there are too many accidents they don't know how to deal with, it is precisely because of the lack of concept and experience corresponding to cross-border wars that they often do not necessarily survive one out of ten.
Once a new army is given the order to charge or rear, it usually has only one result, and that is to destroy it completely, and not a single one is left, and all of them are dead.
In the face of this kind of mortality, it is really normal for them to be unwilling...... Nonsense! Willing people are not normal, okay!
Gava felt that Archibald was abnormal! Quite abnormal! His brain must have been burned by the illusory fire of love!
"Pavon, I can understand your mood at the moment, but I'm uh-"
"Gava?" Archibald was stunned, and the horse that Gava was riding did not know what had tripped over it, and the impact of inertia caused him to fly out of his saddle.
"It's good that I haven't left the wetland grassland yet, otherwise I will definitely get injured this time......" Riding on horseback, looking back, seeing his friend struggling to get up after rolling a few laps on the thick lawn, Archibald couldn't help but sigh, "The weight of this armor is not light......
"But, ...... his horse?" He continued to look at where Gava's horse had tripped and fallen, only to find that there was no sign of any creature behind him.
Not to mention just two horses, there is not even a hare in sight in the grassland under the wet and cold wind!
"It's gone!" His eyebrows tightened sharply, and he quickly tightened his reins and ordered his horses to stop, and almost at the same moment he heard a chaotic shout from ahead.
"Hell, what is this!!"
"How can there be so many potholes here?"
β¦β¦ Gava was not the only one who was unlucky, and several warriors suffered similar troubles, as their horses fell into a deep pit hidden under the dense grass when their horses fell into the air when they dropped their front hooves, and the lucky ones, like Gava, did not get stuck in the stirrups and were thrown to the grass by inertia. But there are also people who are unlucky...... Some of them fell into the cave with the war horses, and the jaws of the worse ones smashed directly into the edge of the pit, and the bones of their necks were broken instantly, and there was no need to save them.
"There really was an attack!" Lilith also grabbed the reins for the first time, forbidding the horse to continue to move forward, in this situation where she couldn't see the trap clearly, no matter how she turned, she couldn't completely avoid the risk, so it was naturally better to stop immediately, but before she could think about what to do next, the other horse galloping in front of her, or the person on the horse, made her face change instantly, and she couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
"Bai Senpai!"
The snow was flying, and the person on the horse was Li Bai...... Her half-hung riding skills seemed to have become a life-urging charm at this moment, and the dead horse under her crotch seemed to be greatly frightened, and refused to stop no matter how much she dragged her, but carried her to the left and right for a while.
"Danger! Stop! For the experience of dealing with crisis situations, Lilith can be said to be extremely lacking, her mind is now blank, she can only let out a meaningless cry like this, and then watch the frightened horse carry Li Bai farther and farther, and in the blink of an eye, she will be separated from her by almost thirty meters.
Lilith's shout came from behind, and she frowned when she heard Li Bai's ears.
"I ...... I've been working hard to 'drive'...... This brainless horse, doesn't it understand what I mean...... Stop! "No need to ask, Li Bai must be extremely regretful at this moment.
Regret why she didn't talk to Morana more about the essence of riding.
β¦β¦ If she had known that the other party would set such a trap on the way to go, how could she practice driving the horse with such a casual attitude?
Not to mention the profound two-handed mop (?) At least know how to stop it in an emergency!
(Huh?) οΌ
Li Bai, who was cursing the stupid horse under his crotch in his heart, was suddenly stunned.
(It seems that the custom of using this sound to make horses stop...... It's really not these holy realms...... Target...... This. οΌ
"In other words, this guy really doesn't understand my orders...... Belch!!!? β
As soon as she finished speaking, her poor pony also stepped on the air with one hoof, and the man flipped on his back, carrying her with him...... Falling into a dark cavern that looked very deep at first glance.
The moment she fell into the cave, the changing scenery in front of Li Bai's eyes gave her a glimmer of light.
She suddenly felt that this scene seemed familiar, as if it was ...... Is it a certain ...... Card?
"Is this a hole? What is the usual trap? A series of encounters after coming to Floris flashed in front of his eyes one by one, time slowed down in front of his thoughts, and it was just a moment of effort, and a look of clarity appeared in Li Bai's eyes...... She already knew how to overcome the current crisis.
(I see, is this also taking advantage of the laws of the Holy Realm...... οΌ
(Okay, let's put my ideas to the test.) οΌ
Holding the horse's neck, he quickly pressed the inside of his knee against the horse's back, and pulled his feet out of the stirrups with force, and Li Bai, who was still churning with the horse in mid-air in the last second, immediately broke away from the balance. She took the initiative to push the horse's body, allowing the reaction force to carry her slightly more than two meters into the air, and then lowered her head to observe the bottom of the cave.
It's a lot of work to say, but it's actually a matter of seconds...... She and the horse had fallen more than halfway through the cave at the moment, and were about to touch the bottom. The depth of this cave is quite unscientific, it is about the same as the height of a three-story building, how can ordinary lives fall and be half dead, Li Bai instantly mourned for those soldiers who had fallen...... Judging by the weight added by the rather inconvenient armor and weapons on their bodies, I am afraid that they will not be able to get up from this fall.
"But this kind of trick is too tender to use against me!" Li Bai's eyes froze, and the illusory power immediately surged towards her slightly raised right foot, which was still wearing the pair of black stockings that Morana had given her, but the power of the void only evolved a circle of dragon's claws around this right foot in an instant.
With the faint power generated by the phantom, she exerted her strength at the moment when her left foot was about to step on the ground, raised her left leg, and stepped on the right foot fiercely.
βStampingΒ· Destruction! β
"Boom!"
The dragon claw phantom exploded quickly the moment it touched the ground, and the terrifying power spread violently to the surroundings with that ground as the center, and the pothole barrier that was originally roughly a "barrel" type immediately collapsed and shattered into scattered stones and dirt under the impact of this force, and then continued to be further shattered into more subtle gravel and sand, and the air was shaken up by the power that continued to escape.
In just a blink of an eye, a huge sinkhole with a radius of more than 20 meters appeared with the place where Li Bai's right foot was stepping on the dot, and the slope of its edge was no longer the original 90 degrees but greatly reduced...... The sheer expansion of the area makes what should be a deep ground look flat!
"It's ...... What the...... The edge of the ...... pit was not far from where Lilith was standing, and the red-haired girl was constantly washed by waves of air mixed with grass clippings and dust, and she didn't dare to move, only staring blankly at the center of the huge pit.
The position where Li Bai stood.
"Did I do this?" Looking at his right foot on the ground in amazement, Li Bai couldn't believe that this heaven-like destruction was actually done by himself.
She looked up and looked through the glow of a few fluorite stones scattered on the ground, and saw the shadows of some potholes around her.
The land was oppressed, and the dust, gravel, and grass clippings were washed up to the edge of the outerer pit, and the air was fresh where she stood.
Her horse had been lifted several times by the force of the waves, but had not been seriously injured, and was lying on the sidelines, trembling with fear.
Its biological instincts told it that at this moment, the person in front of it, the scent of the dragon that kept escaping from herβwas full of mortal danger.
Li Bai took a deep breath of the fresh air, and the hands that fell on her sides were infused with new strength by her, and they were clenched little by little.
The changes brought about by "casting spells" according to the bloodline can be described as terrifying, but she doesn't dislike anything.
On the contrary, she wished that the more horrors came, the better.
"Hehe......" The corners of his lips were cracked, revealing a slightly hideous smile, and Li Bai turned his head to look further ahead of the original route.
The lush grass obscured her view from this angle, but judging by the shouts and crashes that came through, the chaos there still did not subside.
However, since even the shouts of killing were mixed in, it was undoubtedly suing her, and the attackers had already come to the door.
"My emotions seem to have been suppressed for too long." Li Bai walked out of the dirt pit with a little trembling steps, and his blood-red eyes were already staring at the dozens of goblin assassins who were fighting with the soldiers a hundred meters away.
"So, shouldn't I...... Just the right release? β
These goblins are all wearing black tights similar to ninjas, their faces are wrapped in black scarves, and they are armed with sharp long and short knives, and their bodies are fast and difficult to catch, and they can often find the opponent's defensive holes in a few contacts, and use the sharp tip of the knife to pick into the gaps in the opponent's armor, and then wipe it to seal the throat.
More than a dozen bodies have fallen on the steppe, none of which were assassins.
And rightfully so.
As a card elf, the attack power of the "Goblin Assassination Force" is 1300 points, which has long surpassed the strongest Captain Thor in the team on the surface, not to mention that they can see in the dark, and they are completely unaffected by the darkness, and the rest of the warriors whose values fluctuate below 1000 naturally cannot have the slightest chance of resistance, and their struggle is doomed to be in vain, nothing more than delaying the time of death.
But Archibald didn't think so.
He had several wounds on his shoulders and arms, bleeding from it, and he was armed with a dagger and a shield, and it took almost a lot of effort and strength to withstand the rapid and rapid attacks of the assassins, his broadblade had been severed, and his hardwood shield was covered with deep cuts...... It is certain that it will not be long before the shield, which has protected his vital parts several times, will also be scrapped.
Am I going to die here......
The sound of his own intermittent heavy breathing, mixed with the heavy beating of his heart, was amplified countless times when it reached his ears.
Archibald raised his hand and blocked a ferocious slash again, but lost the last barrier the next moment.
His shield was shattered.
Rare...... I found my ideal in life.
It's really unwilling......
With this thought in mind, Archibald slowly closed his eyes, preparing for the impending death.
But the scorching air and the screams of the assassins forced him to open his eyes again.
This time I opened my eyes to the maximum.
The assassin who had been invincible a second ago had been swallowed up by a huge orange-red fireball, and in the face of this sudden attack, it had no time to resist, but let out a short and rapid scream and was completely bombarded into a charred corpse, and the orange-red tongue of fire danced greedily on the corpse, until it burned it to the point that there was not even a trace of flesh left...... Only then did it reluctantly dissipate in the air.
Archibald stared at the enemy's fallen position in a daze.
The grass had already been completely vaporized by the heat, and the ground had been scorched black by a brief period of scorching heat.
Bursts of heat mixed with the clammy and cold wind covered his face, giving him a strange sense of comfort.
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