Chapter 13: The Valley of Silence

In terms of overall talent, the human race is far inferior to the god race, the sea race and the demon race;

In terms of physical strength alone, the human race is relatively weak, not only can they only look at the back of the dragon race, but even races such as centaurs can crush them casually;

Compared with magical talents, it is difficult for the human race to reach the races represented by the elves and druids;

Even when it comes to stamina, the Terrans have to bow down to the dwarves.

To put it simply, if we only talk about the starting point, the Terrans are almost the weakest race on the continent, and it seems that they can't speak at all. Perhaps the only thing to be proud of is that the human race is particularly capable of giving birth and has a particularly strong ability to reproduce.

The question is, ants, rabbits, and pigs are also very reproductive, so why don't they have their turn to rule the continent?

The human race can laugh to this day, there are always some advantages that other races do not have, or are not so outstanding. Otherwise, how can the rise of the Terrans be explained?

According to the research on this strange phenomenon by different so-called dominant ethnic groups, the answer is naturally different, but one thing is basically recognized by all ethnic groups, that is, the human race is very willing to learn, and is good at learning, especially learning the advantages of other ethnic groups.

Terrans learn from the Protoss, Sea and Demons how to use their minds, enlighten their wisdom and organize their groups, learn from the Dragons the art of using power and control spells, learn from the Elves how to summon magical elements, learn from the Druids the ability to drive animals and plants, and learn metallurgy, manufacturing and construction techniques from the Dwarves.

In short, the human race has always been so open-minded and studious, and it is not ashamed to ask questions.

After a long period of accumulation and the test of big waves and sands, the human race finally rose to the strong Ioropa continent with a relatively weak body and a slightly mediocre intelligence.

In order to succeed in doing this, the Terrans relied not on brute force, but on intelligence, the wisdom of learning, and the ability to organize and coordinate. With the strategic principle of making the best use of people's talents and materials, the Terrans can fully concentrate and mobilize all the forces and resources at hand, and are good at the tactic of isolating and then concentrating firepower against a competitor.

While other races are still singing the praises of individual heroes, immersed in the glory of the past, the human race has already relied on the form of relay races, and passed on the baton of rise from generation to generation until the last laugh.

Thousands of years have passed, and before you know it, the entire continent has become the territory of the human race.

However, looking at a thousand years ago, the Holy Rank was already a top powerhouse for the human race, but in the face of the powerful demon and dragon clans, the high-end combat power was a little insufficient.

Even so, relying on the help of Saint-level warriors such as Alisson and Manuel, as well as other allied groups such as the Dwarves, the Terrans built a majestic pass such as the "Visigothic Gate", daring to face the invincible front of the Demon Alliance and resist to the end. People have to admire their courage and wisdom, and put in a lot of effort and effort, and applaud them to show their appreciation.

Feeling the difficulty of the human race, the group walked forward along the wide valley passage.

As the young man walked, he imagined the spectacular scene of the march of the demon and dragon alliance thousands of years ago, marching from here to the territory of the human race, and the three of them finally came to the bare mountain wall.

Once here, the mountains and forests disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only the scrawny and strange-shaped rocks reminiscing about the good old days.

"What these colorful pits are, no matter how you look at them, don't look like they are natural. Dawn asked, tilting her head and carefully observing the pitted depressions on the mountain walls on both sides.

The pits of different sizes, depths, and shapes that she pointed to and asked about did not seem to be the products of nature, but if they were acquired traces of man-made, they were of no use.

"Those are the traces of the fierce battles of those years. Plitander explained.

"There are a large number of high-level mages in the Terran Legion who is responsible for guarding Xiongguan, and these uneven depressions all around are their masterpieces. In order to delay the pace of the Demon Alliance's attack and inflict a major blow on the Alliance, they released their magic from the gate early, thus leaving so many 'imprints' on the cliffs on both sides. ”

Pointing to a hole in the upper right corner of the front, the old butler said: "For example, the red ones are the superimposed effects produced by the high-level fireball spells after multiple blows; the small round pits like blue ice crystals are the traces left by the high-level attack spells of the water system, such as ice arrows, etc., which change color when they precipitate more; the slightly white ones are naturally caused by metallic magic; the ones that look slightly dark and faintly colorful are the mutations produced after repeated blows by many different types of spells, and finally form today's appearance." As for the irregular, shallow pits or round holes that look ordinary, most of them are the work of trebuchets and bed crossbows. ”

"Due to the interweaving of powerful spells with various attack attributes, pouring down like a torrential rain on the path of this demon's attack, completely destroying all kinds of vegetation growing on the surface of the mountain wall, and finally even the solid mountain rocks can not withstand it, in addition to these ugly pits, there is also an incomplete crystallization phenomenon, so it has permanently become this appearance of no grass. In fact, there are more potholes on the ground, and some of the roots of the deer are buried more than a meter deep, but they were forcibly pushed down and filled by the attacking demons, otherwise we don't even have a flat place to settle today. ”

Normer and Dawn secretly smacked their tongues, how dense and powerful the spell attacks had to be to damage the mountain wall to such a tragic state, and after thousands of years, they were still bare and ugly, and not even a small sapling or grass could grow.

The intensity of the fighting back then can be imagined.

Thinking of the "rain of spells" pouring out of their heads like a torrential rain, pouring such a terrifying lethality, both of them had a toothache for the demon clan who risked death to pass through this necessary passage and attack towards Xiongguan.

This is the horror of high-level magicians, which makes people smell and change.

The more well-trained, well-organized, and densely formed the troops, the more suitable they are for high-level magic strikes, no need to aim and locate accurately, as long as they summon a powerful enough magic, and throw it at the enemy military formation in the distance, a wide range of indiscriminate spells shroud the attack, and the lethality is huge, ensuring that it is beyond the expectations of both the enemy and the enemy, and it is definitely the best means of legitimate murder, and there is no one.

Normo and Chenxi observed carefully, recalled the teachings of the division commander in the past, and thought silently, in the face of the condescending high-level spell attack from the city pass, the marching demon alliance army had a headache, it was completely conceivable.

The means of dealing with it are actually very limited, there are only a few of them, either the high-level mages in their own army open their magic shields and shelter the surrounding soldiers, or they are targeted to arrange high-level warriors or mages to intercept and directly destroy and resolve all kinds of spells that come from the air.

There are pros and cons to both approaches.

The advantage of the former is that you don't have to consider the specific type of incoming spell, and you don't have to worry about its number, whether it's a fireball or an ice arrow, it's all left to the magic shield to deal with, as long as the mana required to maintain the existence of the shield has not been exhausted, the safety of the soldiers in the protective circle is guaranteed.

Correspondingly, its shortcomings are also very obvious, the magic shield that continues to suffer from a variety of different spell attacks will inevitably consume a large amount of mana, which requires a sufficient number of magicians in the coalition to replace the counterparts who support the shield at any time.

The advantage of the latter is that the mana consumed is relatively much less, whenever there is a certain type of spell attack in the air, the coalition will send the magician who can best restrain this type of spell to intercept it, because it is targeted, not only the effect of resistance is relatively significant, but also the mana consumed by a single mage is basically limited, as long as there is enough time for rest, meditation, and master the rhythm of rotation, the mana consumed by the group of magicians in the army is very limited and very controllable.

The disadvantages of this interception method are that it is difficult and dangerous, and once the interception fails, the time left for the coalition to intercept a second time is extremely short, and it often only takes one miss, which will cause a large number of casualties among ordinary soldiers without the protection of magic shields.

You must know that the level of the Terran mages on the border is also quite high, and they have rich experience in fighting, and the offensive spells they issue cannot be like the low-level mages, with clear trajectories and easy to judge, slow and easy to volley, but are extremely targeted, with high combat value, and are very difficult to deal with.

For example, the high-level fireball technique summoned by a twelfth-level Terran fire mage is not only large enough, numerous and powerful enough, but the most important thing is that it can also change the strike route and adjust the flight speed at any time according to the mind of the spell operator, especially the maneuver at the end, which is simply unguardable. If you want to intercept this kind of high-level fireball with unpredictable trajectories, you not only need to send a number of allied mages with slightly higher strength one or two levels to deal with it, but also fight with the opponent for micro-manipulation and fighting tactics, and even consume several times more mana and effort.

As for physical attacks such as large crossbow arrows and boulders, they can only rely on the strong to intercept them, so as not to crush the entire team of soldiers into meat sauce and skewer them into skewers.

Before the capture of the pass, the demon alliance on the attacking side can be said to be in a rather passive and disadvantageous position, and every time they take a step forward, they will be severely beaten and pay a heavy price.

After a fierce battle, the loss ratio and consumption of the offensive and defensive sides are not at all on the same order of magnitude.

"After the battle, the existence of the one who commanded the vanguard of the Demon Coalition Army named this valley that would not grow in the future 'Valley of Silence' to mourn the soldiers of the coalition who died in this battle. Plitander's voice became muffled, and the word "silence" could not have been more apt to describe the scene in front of him.

Normer agrees with the name, carefully observing the mountain walls on both sides, identifying the wounds of war that have not been erased over the years, and the art of war and the examples taught by his former teacher.

The traces left in front of you are enough to illustrate the problem, and if you are willing to use your brain to think carefully, it is enough to think of the specific tactics adopted by the offensive and defensive sides from the ruins of the ancient battlefield that exude a desolate atmosphere, so as to analyze the way to deal with each other and crack it.

Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. Linking theory with practice is the only way to victory, there is never a shortcut to the right path, and blindly coveting quick and convenient things can only lead to haste but not attaining it, and putting it into a war that tests life and death, and the slightest mistake is often a disastrous end for the loss of teachers and the destruction of the country.

From the analysis of the various traces left on the ancient battlefield, the demon alliance army that marched towards the hinterland of the human race thousands of years ago not only opened a large range of powerful magic shields, but also sent a large number of strong people to intercept them, and even destroyed the magic and physical attacks issued by the human side in advance.

Only in this way can we explain why there are so many traces of attack on the mountain walls on both sides, and the damage level is so thorough.

For example, the cliff next to him is more than 20 meters high from the ground, there is a strip blue depression that is tens of centimeters deep and more than ten meters long, which is clearly caused by a water spell attack such as a large ice arrow, and when it is about to reach the top of the demon coalition army, it is intercepted by the strong man of the coalition army, and rebounds to the top of the mountain wall, destroying the trees along the way, not to mention the permanent damage to the solid mountain wall.

For example, in the middle of the mountain wall on the other side, there is a circular fire-red deep pit, with a diameter of more than ten meters, which is undoubtedly the original flight trajectory of the high-level fireball technique, which has changed from smashing into the coalition array to crashing into the cliff on one side, forming such a terrifying depression, silently telling the powerful skill of the fire caster, and at the same time, it also reflects the superb and precise magic control of the demon interceptor.

And then to the hundreds of holes that appeared in a certain mountain rock, due to the age, I can't distinguish the original color of the holes, and I can't see the specific depth of each hole, but relying on the current situation that the traces are so densely distributed and the holes are of different depths, it is estimated that it is either from the gold system, or the large-scale heavy attack spell of the water system, which was intercepted by the strong of the demon alliance head-on, and the consequences of detonating too much in advance.

The head-on collision of two powerful spells, it happened that the caster was a chess opponent, and their strength was equal, and no one could suppress each other, so after a short stalemate, it inevitably triggered a violent explosion, so a large and powerful horizontal shock wave was formed, which swept across the nearby mountain wall in a devastating manner, leaving a striking mark on future generations today, reminding future generations that the protracted war thousands of years ago was how cruel and tragic it was.

In addition to the soldiers of the two armies who are unlucky, there are also innocent flowers and trees.

More cruel and thorough than the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, the countless powerful magic in the two armies' formations, as well as the powerful boulders and crossbow arrows at the head of the city, washed this beautiful valley like a violent storm, sweeping both sides of the originally vibrant mountains, how could the fragile vegetation withstand such a terrifying power cover, it could only be helpless and tragic ushered in the catastrophe.

After the war, Mother Earth, who nourished all things and gave birth to all living beings, left this ugly and discolored "scar" that made people see it, and the green mountains and green valleys lived up to the name of "doomsday" later.

With only cold stones left, no trees to live in, and no birds or other creatures, this rather long valley presents an eerie, bleak silence from top to bottom, and once you enter this valley, people seem to have stepped into a world of silence.

A trio at this moment.