Volume 6: Turmoil (Remastered) Chapter 68: Another Battlefield (6)
Raphael arrived much earlier than Mikael expected.
The crumbling walls were finally rescued by the main force of the expeditionary force, and Raphael arrived nearly a day earlier than the two days that Otellus had expected at the beginning, saving the two legions with barely two thousand men left.
Especially when that tall banner was erected, Odellus and Mikael, who had been fighting continuously for more than three hours, couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Your Highness Raphael, here, why did you bring the shelter with you!" After a brief break, Oetilus asked, puzzled.
"The staff committee believes that in order to better complete the cleanup of the inner city, the shelter must be moved forward, so I came right here!" Raphael's smile is very healing, making people feel as comfortable as a spring breeze, and many players are willing to stay in the Angel's Covenant for this smile.
"But you've moved too far this time!" This sentence, Oeterus did not dare to say.
"Your task is complete, go and rest, the next battle to attack the Cloud Sky Tower, you still need your strength!" Raphael patted Odyrus on the shoulder.
Otellus wanted to say something, but Mikael grabbed his arm and dragged him down, Raphael didn't care, smiled sweetly at the two, and then went back to arrange the affairs of the shelter.
"Why are you stopping me?" After being dragged out by Mikael for more than ten meters, Oedilus shook off the other party's hand, "Don't you know the level of danger here?" Look at our previous defensive battles, with the assistance of the location and siege equipment, we also fought so hard, His Highness Raphael risked his life, I must not watch this lead to the failure of the mission! ”
Mikael sighed: "So you are still the same, your strength is good, but your political sensitivity is simply unacceptable!" Do you think that His Highness Raphael decided to do so out of impulse? ”
"What do you know?"
"It's just a little bit of time before you know! The reason why His Royal Highness Raphael has set up the shelter here is precisely to thwart the calculations of those who only know how to dig the foot of the wall! ”
"Nonsense, of course I know this, the shelter is set up outside the war zone, and the whole cleanup work is a centripetal attack, which will eventually compress the range of activities of those void monsters to smaller and smaller, and the shelter is set in the center of the war zone, then it will form a spread attack that blooms in the middle, and those monsters will subconsciously move towards the outer city and those places with more space in the field area!" Odyrus looked at Mikael angrily, "But on the other hand, isn't this throwing His Highness Raphael and our main forces into this bottomless pit and being flanked on both sides?" ”
"That's why the shelter is here!" Mikael sighed and said, "Don't you understand the game!" ”
Of course, Oeterus could see how a person who could be a guild leader could not even have this ability.
For a large number of guilds, which account for the majority of the number of people in this expedition, centripetal attack is definitely their preferred method, by constantly pressing the void creatures into a small space, players can continue to concentrate their strength, and at the same time limit the movement range of those heroic void creatures, which is absolutely advantageous for players who can only rely on the number of these hero-level existences. What's more, under this kind of centripetal attack, in order to complete the task, the Angel Covenant will never waste time like ordinary guilds to slowly clean up the void creatures in the encirclement, so in order to enter the control center, the Angel Covenant has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain this vulnerable passage to the Cloud Sky Tower.
In this way, the Angel's Covenant has become an unlucky bastard for those guilds, and all the pressure is on the Angel's Covenant, and those guilds only need to easily advance a little bit on the periphery, and gain a lot of experience, materials, and the drop of heroic void creatures.
The key point is that the Angel's Covenant cannot yet oppose the demands made by the Staff Committee, and the Shelter is moved forward in favor of all players, except for the Angel's Covenant, there will be almost no objections, and if Raphael refuses to agree, he will inevitably be hated by all players.
And in the face of the conspiracy of the staff committee and those guilds, Raphael was also very clever to use the same means as a counterattack.
Didn't you ask the shelter to move forward? That's great! It's not interesting to move forward for a thousand or two kilometers, just come to the middle of the flower! The Angel's Covenant and the NPC army directly set up the shelter in the center of the core area, and the player legion started to attack centripetally from the periphery, so that the void creatures in the inner city and the core area were surrounded on both sides, and the enemy was on their backs.
In that case, where will these void creatures fight back? It's very simple, it's weak over there, these monsters will fight there, persimmons pick soft pinching this truth, even if it's a brainless void creature, they will subconsciously make this decision.
Compared to the Angel's Covenant, which has a large number of elite troops, it is obvious that the strength of the legion composed of players with uneven strength is obviously worse. Although these void creatures have no brains in the first place!
Some people may think, aren't these two ways the same? The Angel's Covenant has trapped its power in the monsters of the core area!
The crux of the matter is shelter, what is shelter? It is the only place where players are resurrected, and after the player to which the player legion belongs dies, resurrection in the periphery and resurrection in the core area are completely different results, the former can allow them to paddle, be lazy, and then return to their guild depending on the situation, looking for opportunities to continue to pick up cheap; And the latter, as long as it is a player with a normal brain, it is impossible to watch the shelter being attacked by those monsters.
In other words, by moving forward through a simple shelter, Raphael not only defused the machinations of the guilds, but also kidnapped all the players, forcing them to stand with the Angelic Covenant against the void creatures.
In addition to this, Oedilus felt that His Highness Raphael might have other considerations.
"In this way, those hero-level void creatures will be slowly squeezed out of the core area, without our assistance, it is difficult to eliminate these hero-level existences by relying on those player legions alone, and it will become very difficult for those guilds to make a fortune from these monsters, which is of great benefit to the Angel Covenant to continue to maintain its status in the human race after this mission!" The more Odyrus thought about it, the more it made sense.
In fact, the guild leaders had targeted these heroic-level monsters from the very beginning, and ordinary void creatures didn't have much oil and water, and for those large guilds with large personnel, only the drop of heroic-level existence was worth the price they paid.
Of course, if Yu Bin was here, he would scoff at this, because he knew that these hero-level void creatures didn't have any oil and water on them, and at best, they would drop some rare materials.
The void creatures are not those races on the continent of Entagre, these creatures living in the void only have the desire to survive, and have no other purpose, the only goal of their actions is to devour energy to make themselves stronger.
As a result, players don't have to expect to get any gear or gold from a Void creature, which drops some Void Essence and rare materials that can only be found in the Void.
Of course, the creep-heroes of the Void still provide more than enough XP!
"That's not all!" Mikael said, "I learned from Vice President Bell that shortly after our departure, the scouts discovered that a large number of undead had entered Sky City through the portal, and that the chaos camp was likely to strike, and they would not have watched us succeed!" ”
"A lot?"
"Huge!" Mikael replied, "It is said that there are at least two million, although most of them are low-level cannon fodder such as skeleton zombies, but it will undoubtedly involve a lot of our energy, plus those chaotic camp players who entered Sky City before, the wild area that has been cleaned up is likely to fall quickly." ”
"Supplies and supplies look dangerous!" Otellus immediately understood the consequences of the influx of undead, until now, a large amount of materials consumed by the expeditionary force every day were transmitted from the fixed teleportation array located in the field area, and the temporary portal could not take on the function of continuously transporting logistics materials, and once the field area fell, it would naturally mean the cut off of logistics supplies.
"In the case of the appearance of the undead, those guilds will most likely choose to clear the field area occupied by the undead first to ensure the safety of the logistics supply line, which will once again prolong the time of this operation, which is not the result we want." Mikael shook his head, "So, while the news of the appearance of the undead has not been widely leaked, His Highness Raphael took the first step to move the shelter to the core area, not only to force those guilds and players to stand with us and clear out the enemies in the Sky Tower as soon as possible, but also to drive those void creatures outward, so that they and those undead dog-eat-dog, both lose!" After all, after we take control of the Sky Tower and the Void Protective Barrier is activated, those heroic Void creatures will not be able to easily draw power from the Void, nor will they be able to break the Void Protective Barrier and escape back to the Void, and they will still be in our pocket in the end! ”
"Worthy of His Highness Raphael!" Odellus exclaimed, "In that case, the next step is to enter the Sky Tower, right?" Camila: They should have secured the location of the Sky Tower gate! ”
"That's right! So our task is to have a good rest, with those players here, the shelter doesn't need us to keep too many troops, and His Royal Highness Raphael will definitely use all his power on the Sky Tower. As for the shelter, hehe, as long as those players don't want to be left out of the final victory, they can only defend the shelter with their own lives! ”
In fact, this somewhat sinister ploy was not devised by Raphael himself, including moving the sanctuary forward to the core, all of which was Sylbey's suggestion.
"In addition to the above benefits, we can also get one of the biggest advantages!" Sylbe said to Bell and the others, "So far, the number of hero-level void creatures that we have discovered and recorded has exceeded two hundred, this is a very powerful force, if we continue to advance step by step in the previous way, it is very likely to cause these void creatures that have never cooperated with each other to merge, or even worse, once they hide in the Cloud Sky Tower, if they want to eliminate those hero-level existences in the small space inside the Cloud Sky Tower, the difficulty will not only increase by several orders of magnitude!" And driving them outside can not only prevent these hero-level beings from causing trouble when we attack the Cloud Sky Tower, but also to avoid some kind of unstoppable accident! ”
"An unstoppable accident?" Yang Xiaolong asked puzzled.
"That's right! According to the information we have obtained, to access the control center, you need to first reach the Cloud Sky Pavilion at the top of the Sky Tower, and then enter the energy supply mechanism located on the 70th floor of the Cloud Sky Tower through the teleportation array there, the holy fire is actually the key to open the energy security lock, and after the energy supply is restored, the entire Sky City can return to its normal state, and all the defense facilities can start working. Sylbe pointed to the map in his hand and said, "And I personally think that based on the strength of the Void creatures we have eliminated so far, there are likely to be legendary Void creatures in the Energy Supply Agency. I don't think you want to be halfway through the boss fight, and then a hero-level mob suddenly pops up, right? ”
The thought of what Sylbe was talking about made everyone feel a little creepy.
"Of course, this is the worst-case scenario, it is likely that there are no monsters in the Sky Tower, but we can't pin our hopes on this possibility!" Silbe comforted, "I don't think it's a bad thing to think about the difficulties a little more!" ”
"I don't have to doubt it, I think!" Raphael said, "What Lord Silbert said is not something that could happen, but something that will happen, in fact, until now, we have not found any Void Lord, I think, if nothing else, the Void Lord who commands all the Void creatures in Sky City is in the Sky Tower, or even in the underground energy core. ”
The thought of facing a legendary-level, or even legendary-level Void Lord in the end, everyone's faces turned pale, who knows what kind of ability that kind of enemy will have!
"Fortunately, our goal is to reactivate the control center of Sky City, as long as the energy security lock is opened with the Holy Fire, the power of Sky City can help us suppress these powerful void creatures!" Raphael didn't want them to lose their courage before they saw the enemy, "In the end, I will contain the Void Lord, and no matter what the cost, I will reactivate the energy system of Sky City!" ”