Northland Wind Chapter 4 The Wind Brought by the Little Butterfly (Part II)
Time goes back to ten minutes ago.
Edlan walked through the woods in heavy plate armor, and he vaguely noticed that the path under his feet had only been trodden recently, and from the traces of vegetation and dirt, these scattered footprints were not dwarven footprints, but more like human footprints?
Thinking of this, he was not greedy, nor did he immediately send out a yellow signal flare, because such a big movement could not only be seen by his own people, but also by potential enemies, no matter who those people were, most of the people who came to this woodland at this time were not for the purpose of tourism and scenery.
When the duration of the Truth Word Shield arrived, Adran made up another one for himself, anyway, he has a lot of "MP", he is not afraid of waste, and it is precisely because of his huge holy energy that he is not suitable for such a stealth action at all, after all, the holy light is very sensitive to dark energy, and vice versa, so he walks in the forest with such a large reserve of holy energy, even if he does not use any spells, he is destined to become the most dazzling existence in the eyes of those who are favored by dark magic.
So Adelan didn't hide himself at all, with the sword and shield in his hand, and the mantra and shield on his body never stopped, in order to protect himself well, who knows what is hidden in this broken forest.
Soon, just as Edlan was about to give up his choice and turn back, he smelled a faint smell of blood, coming from the northwest. Sure enough, something was wrong, and Edlan screamed badly, so he approached that side with cautious steps, but the closer he got there, the more he could feel the darkness and death in the forest in front of him!
Edlan instantly realized that this was a trap, whether it was against him or someone else, and it must have been specially designed to weaken the defense of Andohar.
"Rustling, rustling......" was very rhythmic, and the sound of a large number of trampling dirt and vegetation came more and more in the direction of Edlan.
Judging by the direction from which the voices came, the things that were approaching them had already surrounded themselves, and even from the direction they came from, they began to move a little! This forced Edlan to choose to lean against a large tree and start preparing with full concentration.
When the first monster appeared in Adelan's sight, he clearly saw that it was a four-legged running monster, that is, there was still some humanoid thing, the exposed bones and strong muscles would be the best protection of this monster, and its forefeet had long, unusually sharp claws that would allow it to tear through any chain mail worn by ordinary human soldiers, not to mention its large mouth full of fangs, which could be a soldier's nightmare!
Adlane knew that the monster had a scientific name, called a ghoul.
This is a kind of existence that can be transformed into human corpses by necromancers and above, and can transform human corpses into such irrational monsters, only obeying instinct to kill the living or obeying the commands of higher positions, and then form an undead army that makes the scalp tingle of any human army. They are faster, more agile than the average human infantry, and strong enough to have low defense, but good enough to make them the best and cheapest melee unit in an undead army.
Now, there were a few more ghouls coming at Edlan from all directions, so many that he couldn't count them himself, and after he used the continuous cycle attacks of Punishment, Divine Fire, Judgment, and Holy Shock to directly kill a dozen ghouls that were still on the run, he still couldn't see their offensive slowing down!
"duang!", a disgusting ghoul was mixed with something, and its head slammed directly into Adlan's Truth Word Shield, which was full of Holy Light energy, and the Aura of Punishment and the reckoning state he secretly inflicted on himself had an effect, bouncing back the same amount of the Holy Light's counterattack, burning it to death!
Adlan picked up his shield and slammed it into the next ghoul, whose claws were still charging up to give the living food a beautiful death ritual, but it was knocked away by a heavy piece of iron like a wall. It was only then that Edlan's sword pierced through the other ghoul on the right, and the light energy poured down the sword into the disgusting creature.
This time, more and more ghouls had already arrived, and Edlan felt that it was too slow and dangerous to go on like this, so he injected the highly compressed holy light energy that he had used more and more skillfully into the surface of the earth through his feet! The golden light energy spread out like water waves, forming a veritable "Land of Holy Light" within a radius of 5 meters with him as the center!
"Evil will be purified!"
One of the paladin's signature skills, devotion. Since there is no friendly damage reduction system in reality, Edlan has never had the opportunity to change the nature of his spell after developing this spell, so it is purely a dedication to the attack effect, and he has used this indiscriminate use of holy energy to burn in group combat, but now, there is no other way to live except him, so there is no need to wait for a while?
The holy energy that began to spew from the surface began to scorch all evil creatures on its surface, and soon, the ghouls running in this area found that their limbs began to melt, and their bodies were also out of balance, and many ghouls immediately fell to the ground, further purified by this "land of holy light", and were soon burned to ashes!
The radius of 5 meters is already the maximum range of the Holy Energy he can currently control on the surface, even if he injects more Holy Energy, he can't control it, but will waste it in the land, and eventually dissipate and waste it in vain.
This golden "Land of Light" lasted for nearly 30 seconds, and Edlan felt that the Holy Energy in his body was also a little unstable after maintaining such a large output, and he stopped this high-range skill that was enough to kill any undead creature of ghouls and below.
"Bang-" The Divine Nova that had been condensed for a long time exploded, shaking back the swarm of ghouls that were surging towards him one after another! At this time, Adlane roughly counted in his mind how many ghouls had launched this kind of "suicidal" charge against him just now, which was a number that made his scalp tingle, 150-200!
There are more than 100 dedication skills that only 30 seconds have died, and the rest of him is still dancing with his hands and feet in battle, using the blessing of various anti-injury skills, and killing 5 or 60 of them. But in front of them, there are at least hundreds of ghouls who have just been shaken away, shaking their heads in place and then throwing themselves into a new round of "suicidal" charge!
Edlan quickly thought about the current situation, although the Holy Nova can do good area damage, and it can also shock back the enemy, which is really useful, but on the whole, the Divine Nova is very wasteful, and the diffuse energy release is not directive, and a lot of energy is wasted. As a result, a single skill with the same amount of "MP" can ensure that a ghoul can be killed in one hit, but it will take at least 15 times to use the Holy Nova.
The most important thing is that it is a waste of time, Adlane feels that he has such a big pomp on his side, and it must not be low on the side of several other people, although he didn't see them launch any flares, but the devil knows whether they have a chance to send it, not every soldier is like a paladin who is naturally restrained by the undead unit, especially during the period when the undead just broke out, due to the unfamiliarity with the opponent, many soldiers died, which is a very painful thing.
Therefore, Adelan has to find a way to protect more soldiers who have experience in fighting the undead, so as to increase the chance of victory.
So, a certain traverser cheated on the extreme range attack skills developed by the paladins of later generations, and then used it almost at all-
Holy Storm!
Adelan clenched the weapon in his hand and injected the Holy Energy into it, and the spell model was constructed, and the Holy Energy poured out with him as the center of the circle for several weeks, but Adelan stumbled and looked extremely embarrassed, because he was stunned by himself......
However, this is much smaller than the amount of Holy Energy he consumed when he first simulated the Awakening of the Ashes, and it also very accurately fixed the spell model, which was several sword-like energies condensed from Holy Energy and spun around his body like a tornado!
This repeated cutting like a spiral blade wrenched the brainless ghouls into pieces in an instant!
This later paladin's unique martial art, but the later paladins chose the hammer as a spell model, rather than the sword he chose, which made Edlan secretly develop a very long time, but the actual use is very small, because this thing will make him feel very dizzy, this reason does make him very speechless, even if he wants to use holy light to treat, this dizziness cannot be ruled out.
So after this powerful skill was developed, he had to find a way to reduce the number of rotations as much as possible, and at present, he could only do at least 5 rotations before he could form a wall of wind composed of this storm-like divine blade and maintain it for 10 seconds.
But in this case, 10 seconds was enough, and Adelan recovered from that disgusting state, and those brainless ghouls almost played themselves to death, and they instinctively rushed towards Adelan without intelligence, but they were almost torn to pieces by this holy storm!
The remaining few "rangers", Edlan with the bombardment of punishment and healing spells, also easily cleaned them all up!
This sudden and brief conflict came to an end.
In this battle, Adelane felt that at least one-third of the Holy Energy in his body had been used, which was related to his lack of familiarity with his skills, and he had wasted too much Holy Energy to do useless work. To put it simply, he still used 100 MP to exert a 50MP skill effect, which has been like this since he was five years ago, but after five years to now, except for the "new gadgets" he has groped out by himself, he has not made much progress in terms of proficiency, what is this?
Edlan didn't know, but he hadn't rested for long before he heard the sound of the horse's hooves in the forest, and the suspicious Edlan decided to hide behind a tree to see the situation, but it didn't take long for the horse to start moving from running to approaching in his direction with small steps.
It was an unridden war horse, Adelan knew from the shield on the horse bag that it was their group, the horse's mood seemed to be settled down from the moment he saw Edlan, he could see that it was afraid before, and now it was like instinctively running to a safe place, recognizing Adelan.
This war horse has a shield, and the five people who set off have already taken to the road with their own shields, so it can only be said that this is Sassarian's horse......
"Looks like Thassarian is not in a good situation......" Edlan muttered to himself, he subconsciously rolled over his horse, "A warrior like him shouldn't fall in a place like this!go, man, take me to your master!" he kicked the horse in the belly, turned the horse's head, and with the help of the holy light, let the horse temporarily get rid of its fear, and ran along the way it came, towards the outskirts of the woodland.
As for the original mission of finding the dwarves, pull it down, unless it is a mortar team of 100 dwarves, and they also use their muskets to defend closely, they can still survive the crazy ghoul frenzy attack just now, but with those dozen or so dwarves, their fate is destined to be very miserable.
And now that this is a conspiracy, Edlan no longer hesitates, he wants to rush back to the side of the road as soon as possible and send a signal for everyone to gather and prepare to evacuate, who knows how many ambushes there are in this broken forest.
Soon, Edlan rode to the edge of the forest, disgusted by the tall and fat body and disgusting appearance, this recognizable monster came into his sight through the woods, and the fluctuations of the evil magic gave him a natural desire to destroy the evil in his body.
Getting closer, closer and closer to the forest path, Edlan had already seen Thassarian lying on the ground being wrapped in dark green evil magic by the black-robed man next to him, he knew what that meant, it was the necromancer transforming its own undead monster!
It's too late to grieve, and it's too late to see how the death of Sassarian will change the "plot" behind, just like a subconscious action, the incomparably hot holy energy is condensed in the palm of his hand, Edlan kicked the horse's belly hard, the war horse was in pain, spread his legs and ran, and at the same time, a very hot holy energy fell from the sky and slammed Sassarian's body that was wrapped in evil magic!
"Necromancer, whoever you are!
Edlan shouted angrily, facing the two hateful hooks, his shield and the Truth Word shield neutralizing the opponent's two attempts to disrupt his charge.
But in the next second, the black-robed necromancer was laughing, his body was already shrouded in a piece of ice, and almost at the same time, his hand had condensed the magic power into a very thick ice cube!
In the same way, Edlan was not a man to sit still, and as the two Abominations approached Edlan with heavy steps, the shield in his left hand was infused with holy energy, making it look like a large gold nugget that radiated golden light!
The shield was thrown hard, Avenger's Shield!
The golden shield passed through the gap between the two big men and smashed the black-robed man, not only completely shattering his ice shield, but also causing him to fly upside down for more than ten meters, and he himself was interrupted at the last moment due to the spell casting, and was counterattacked by the turbulence of magic power, and the magic of the riot was rampant in his physical strength, and it was a difficult thing for him to even stand up, so for a while he didn't have any combat ability at all.
The black-robed man couldn't imagine that he was beaten like this by a physical melee professional like a paladin at this distance! He needed time to ease the chaotic flow of mana in his body caused by the spell being forcibly interrupted by an external force, which would kill him! So he could only use his spiritual command to let his two "pets" go up and kill the paladin.
At this point, Edlan gently turned the horse's head to move slightly to the left, avoiding passing between the two big men and being caught between them, he didn't want to be smashed into flesh by such an unreasonable force.
Just as the abomination on the left swung its burly arms, a machete the size of an adult raised high and was about to swing it at Edlan, a hammer condensed from Holy Energy larger than its head stitched with different corpses slammed down on top of it!
Hammer of Sanctions!Holy energy slams an opponent's head, enough to stun an elephant for a few seconds.
However, the Holy Light's bonus to the undead made the abomination of the Holy Energy's violent impact instantly lose all ferocity, and it staggered like a drunk, and very cleverly fell behind it, crushing the other abomination that was coming towards Adelan to the ground!
With a sudden wave of his right hand, Edlan's simulated Ash Awakening Skill once again spurted out the surging Holy Energy along the blade towards the two Abominations who fell to the ground, allowing them to use the most ferocious Holy Energy to scorch this monster that should not exist in the world!
At this time, the war horse carrying Adelan had only run past the two abominations, and in a short distance of nearly a hundred yards, Adelan had made so much consumption in this short period of time, which couldn't help but make him feel that the holy energy in his body had been emptied by a third! But in the face of a necromancer and two abominations, it was very worthwhile to get such a result that was like a rebellion! After all, if he died, no matter how much holy energy he had in his body, it was useless.
Edlan's choice to bypass the two thick-skinned abominations naturally has his choice, after all, when dealing with large units, never think about anything that can kill them with a single blow, unless the difference in strength level is so large that the advantages and disadvantages of the poor size can be ignored, or it can be completely killed at the vital parts when it has no resistance. Otherwise, when fighting against large units, it is necessary to wear them down little by little, so that they can be weakened to a certain extent before they can launch a major move to make meritorious contributions.
And there is also an important reason, never let a spellcaster calmly cast spells, this is the iron rule in battle, so after temporarily paralyzing the two abominations, Edlan chose to pounce on the necromancer who fell to the ground and convulsed.
Two instantaneous spells smashed over, and accurately hit the necromancer, who was still enduring the magic backlash, couldn't move at all, and could only let the holy light cause damage, and his black robe was burned clean by the holy energy, revealing his bony body.
Essentially, although necromancers use evil magic, they are still human, so the light does not add a damage bonus to them, but what happens when they infuse a necromancer who is in a state of demonic backlash?
"Quack, quack...... You...... In the end, it will ...... Minister...... Obey, die, die...... Death, the ......"
When Edlan pulled the reins lightly, the war horse stopped, and he blasted the fifth holy energy on the necromancer, his original shriveled and withered body began to glow as if it had been filled with holy water, but the original magic power in his body was indiscriminately impacting, which made the two energies begin to entangle, collide, and impact each other, and finally overwhelmed this body......
"Bang-" exploded, and an evil necromancer completely disappeared from this world......
Edlan had an iron face, at this time he didn't have the mood to kill the boss and then think about touching the corpse and picking up equipment, he set his eyes on the corpse of Thassarian on the other side, a blue and white soul was floating on his corpse, it waved at Edlan, and then slowly rose into the air under the guidance of a gentle ray of holy light, and finally dissipated......
"Thank you, Lord Edlan, for saving Arthas......"
As if it were a long-cherished wish of his soul, Adline heard Thassarian's murmuring echo through the brutal forest paths......
In the next battle, under the effect of keeping a distance at the speed of a war horse and almost a full set of long-range divine spell damage, it took Adelan less than two minutes to kill these two abominants in the style of "flying a kite", and the holy light energy used to completely purify them consumed a portion of his reserve of holy energy, which made Adelan's holy energy reserve reach the lowest point since he came to this world, 10%.
After that, there was no need for yellow flares to rise into the air, half an hour was not long, not too short, when Adelan was lucky enough to find another horse that did not run far, and put Thassarian's body against his horse, the last royal guard who escaped from the forest saw that he was holding his last breath, and after seeing that Adelan was safe and sound, as if relieved, the body that was not tall but covered in blood fell down heavily......
No one was spared in this battle except Edlan, he didn't know who the necromancer he killed was, he only knew that these royal guards who had been with him day and night had been separated from him by life and death, although he saw the death of the real war when he quelled the orc riot, but at this time, the death of familiar people around him would make him feel extremely sad, and he couldn't even name anyone except Thassarian.
"I said that I used red ...... when there was danger," Edlan's lament to himself came to an abrupt end, because he realized that the mission of these royal guards was to protect themselves, and if they fired red flares, they would inevitably attract the strongest self in their group, and when the time came, it was not a call for help, but a harm to the target he wanted to protect.
It's just a prince's order, it's just a group of coarse men who can't read a few words and use their lives to fulfill the promise of this order......