Volume 9: Outbreak Chapter 26: Backstab (6)

In the world of Ntagre, each race has its own unique advantage that will keep them from being eliminated from the brutal competition. In tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, changes in the natural environment, adjustment of social structure, and growth in the size of ethnic groups will have an impact on this advantage, thus developing the unique culture and characteristics of each race, and finally creating a powerful and splendid dynasty.

And the most representative of them is human beings!

When the human race came to the world of Ntagre from their native Rajess, this almost featureless race was considered by the indigenous races of this world to be unable to exist in the world of Ntagre for a long time, and would soon disappear in the river of time. This is not nonsense, in terms of reproductive ability, human beings are not as good as kobolds and jackals, in terms of individual strength, human beings at that time could even be ranked at the bottom of various races on the mainland, in terms of lifespan, only less than a hundred years of life makes elves such an immortal species sneer, even dwarves and dwarfs have a longer life than humans, in terms of learning ability, human beings are not too large brain capacity and backward means of knowledge acquisition make this race directly put on the title of "imbecile".

But it is such a featureless race, but now it has become one of the four major races in the entire Entagri world, and together with the elves, it is known as the pillar of the Orderly camp, and its every move affects the situation of the entire continent.

The reason for this is because human beings have "adaptability" far beyond other races!

Throughout the world of Ntagre, only humans will actively adapt to the environment, rather than sticking to their own old rules and not knowing how to change. After tens of thousands of years of continuous development and evolution, the original single form of human beings has been divided into four major branches: highlanders, northland people, forest plains and barbarians. The first three branches of the human race now constitute the entire human race, while the last branch, the barbarians, gradually degenerated into beast-like existences, drinking blood, difficult to communicate, and scattered in several wildernesses on the continent, stubbornly guarding the last bit of living space.

In the entire human race, the highlanders and the Morihara people occupy more than eighty percent, of which the highlanders still retain some of the characteristics of ancient humans, they are tall (generally about two meters), strong, thick hair, light complexion, and the Morihara people are human beings in the process of migrating to the south of the continent, slowly evolved from the highlanders, the Morihara people are relatively short (about one meter eight), vigorous, dark skin, and sparse hair. Many anthropologists believe that the emergence of the Morihara people was due to the fact that humans at that time were adapting to the climate of the southern part of the continent and hiding themselves better in the forest.

The Northland people, on the other hand, evolved from some of the humans who stayed in the northern part of the continent, and their hair was thicker, shorter, and their skin was whiter, which was an adaptation change in order to better survive the winter in the northern part of the continent.

Despite this, there is no difference in blood between these different races, and the descendants of the Highlanders and the Moribara have the same probability of inheriting their paternal or maternal characteristics, which is very different from the races of the other Ntagrean worlds.

For example, there are also multiple species of trolls (forest trolls, sand trolls, ice trolls, etc.), and it is almost impossible to give birth to offspring between different species, and even if they are born, they are mainly based on the paternal bloodline, and rarely have the characteristics of the maternal bloodline.

Another example is the elves, the germlines of the long-eared ones can almost become the most in the world of Entagre, so far, there are more than 100 species of elves that have been confirmed, and among these germs, only less than ten can intermarry with each other, and the other germlines have almost completely become different races, with extremely strong reproductive isolation, therefore, some scholars have always believed that these germlines should not be included in the ranks of elves.

This strong adaptability also allows human beings to use the environment and various external factors to develop a unique culture, which has become more of a military aspect due to the long-term war in the world of Entagre, in short, some unique types of troops.

Other races also have their own unique killer skills in this regard, but they are far less numerous and fickle than humans, such as the dwarves, the copper-bearded dwarves of Ironforge are famous for their powerful forging abilities on the continent, and the most powerful force of this dwarven clan is known as a kind of heavily armed dwarven warriors known as the Treasury Guards, they are more powerful than the dwarven bear cavalry, wearing a full set of dwarven secret armor and holding heavy dwarven war hammers, guarding the dwarven vault in the depths of Ironforge Castle. Another example is the Hammer Dwarves living in Hammer Mountain, they are the only group on the continent that domesticated griffins into mounts, and griffon cavalry is the unique class of Hammer Dwarves.

But these powerful weapons can be called killer weapons, and there is almost no change in the entire history of the dwarven race for tens of thousands of years, whether it is in the first era of elven dominance, or in the second era of the rise of all races, or in the third era of opposing factions, the dwarves have never changed, stubbornly guarding the ancient traditions.

But human beings are completely different, in the process of the rise of human beings, kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, because the territory of the rule is constantly changing, the types of troops used by human beings are also constantly changing, and a certain class of troops either suddenly appears because of accidental factors, or suddenly disappears because of the destruction of the kingdom.

Now, with the collapse of the Griffin Dynasty, mankind has entered the period of the Twelve Kingdoms, and these kingdoms have developed unique types of troops on the basis of the Griffin Dynasty, relying on their own characteristics, which has made mankind present a feeling of a hundred flowers blooming for a while.

The Kingdom of Sadalin, located in the northeast of the entire human power, has become the country with the largest number of half-blood elves and half-elves on the continent because of the unique half-blood elf bloodline of its royal family. Its unique Condor Archer is recognized as the most powerful ranged class in the human race, and is not even inferior to the elven Hawkeye Hunter and the Dwarven Sniper.

The Condor is a special fifth-order soldier, their biggest feature is that it is far beyond the strength attributes of ordinary archers, the bow of the Condor is made of special materials, through a special process to manufacture a giant longbow, usually need to be folded to carry on the body, after unfolding, this is called the eagle bow of the giant longbow, the length is more than three meters, and the distance between the bowstring and the bow arm is nearly one meter.

The arrows used in the carved bow are a special type of arrow called the Eagle Feather Arrow, which is all forged from alloy, mixed with some Mithril, and has a variety of enchantments attached to the arrow, the arrow is mostly an inverted toothed jagged arrow, and the arrow feathers are carved feathers. These feathers come from the eagle birds of prey raised by the Condor Shooters, which can provide feathers for the Condor Shooters in normal times, participate in battles as the Condor Shooters' pets in wartime, and even serve as aerial scouts to share their vision with the Condor Shooters.

The powerful strength attribute and the giant eagle bow also allow the condor to have a range and accuracy far beyond ordinary archers, there are records that the condor shooter's hit rate on targets within 500 meters can reach 99%, and the farthest even has a record of hitting the enemy at a distance of 1,300 meters, although this distance is not as good as the sniper distance of 1,800 meters for a dwarf sniper, but for an archer, being able to do this is enough to shock!

At this moment, as the early morning sun slowly rose, one of the condor archers under the command of Viscount Nott brought the commander the bad news that several outposts had been attacked.

In just one night, more than one hundred and thirty outposts were destroyed, and black smoke rose everywhere on the Monas hills, which was the signal for the werewolves to burn the outposts, which made Viscount Nott, as the commander of the coalition forces, angry and deeply worried.

In the camp, Baron Portman from the kingdom of Raphinha comforted: "Viscount Nott, although the actions of those werewolves were beyond our expectations, as long as our legion is still there, the Monas Hills will not become a hunting ground for those wolf cubs. ”

"I'm worried about the guards at those posts! After many blows in the past few years, the kingdom has lost a lot of military strength, and now even sending a legion here has to rely on the assistance of your country, and last night's attack is bound to cause the kingdom to lose a lot of soldiers, those are elite veterans! "Viscount Not, who is more than fifty years old, is full of sorrow, although he is only a viscount of the Sadalin Kingdom, but he is indeed an old qualification among the nobles, starting from joining the army at the age of twenty-four, but now he has a full thirty years of military career, and he knows very well what the situation of the Sadalin Kingdom is today.

"It's imperative to send troops to check on those outposts, and maybe find some survivors!" This time the troops were mainly sent to the Saddarin Kingdom, and Baron Portman was only an auxiliary, and whether in terms of age or combat record, this baron was not Viscount Notte's opponent, so he naturally dominated the other party.

In order to deter the werewolf tribes in the Garibel Valley, this military operation, the two kingdoms dispatched a total of nearly 100,000 soldiers, including 70,000 in the Sadarin Kingdom and more than 20,000 in the Raphinha Kingdom.

And their opponent is a second-line army from the Sa Anlotte Undead Empire, compared to the ancient and traditional Dia Empire, the Sa Anlotte Undead Empire is a little weird, this empire was originally a research organization established by a group of wizards in the Necromancer Association who study undead constructing, but because the Necromancer Association has not paid enough attention to undead constructing for a long time, in order to obtain sufficient resources for their own research, This group of maverick necromancers one day declared their independence from the Wizarding Guild and relied on the undead constructs they had accumulated to occupy a neutral area outside the borders of the Dia Empire, and subsequently established the Sa Anlotte Empire.

For this reason, although the Sa Anlotte Undead Empire is called an empire, it does not have an emperor, and his supreme ruling body is an institution called the Imperial Council, which is also a research group, and is called by the name of the Undead Structuring Society.

And in the Sa Anlotte Empire, it is full of all kinds of maverick, even called perverted undead, they take the study of various undead creatures as their main purpose, and devote most of their energy to the improvement, combination, catalysis and other fields of undead creatures, at the same time, this undead empire is also famous for its brutal and terrible torture methods.

There is a famous saying in the Sa Anlotte Empire that speaks volumes about the characteristics of this empire: every bone can be used to create terror!

Therefore, although the undead legion confronting these two human legions is only a second-line corps, and the number is less than 200,000, it is even more than a human in strength, more than half of the soldiers in this second-line corps are undead constructs, and most of the rest are some necromancer apprentices and regular troops responsible for protecting this group of apprentices. This is also the combat style of the Sa Anlotte Empire, unlike the Dia Empire that likes to use the Sea of the Undead for flat pushing, the Sa Anlotte Empire likes to invest a large number of undead constructs in battle, including gargoyles, various undead golems, combined undead creatures, and even abomination, using these disgusting undead constructs to form a physical and mental double blow to the enemy, and the wizard apprentices in the corps who go out with the army can use them to repair these constructs, and even directly create various undead constructs on the battlefield.

By the way, this is also the most common exam method for the necromancer apprentices of the Sa Anlotte Empire, they throw these apprentices into battle, and if you can win and come back alive, it means that you can already graduate, as for those who can't graduate, they have already died on the battlefield!

"Of course, I won't let those wolf cubs run wild behind my back!" Viscount Nott gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "But I'm more worried about whether this is a sign that those wolf cubs have changed their course and decided to join this war and attack us with the undead army on the other side!" ”

For a long time, the werewolf tribes of the Kingdom of Sadarien and the Garibel Valley, the competition around the Monas Hills is mainly based on small-scale battles, and the battle for each outpost is carried out back and forth, if the kingdom can ensure the safety of the outpost, it means that a small area centered on the outpost will be under the control of the kingdom, otherwise it will become a hunting ground for werewolves. Large-scale wars, although they do break out, are not mainstream.

Especially with the increasing number of outposts of the Kingdom of Sadarin on the Monas hills, the range of werewolves is becoming more and more oppressed, and the kingdom's army with sufficient intelligence and logistical support can often inflict a lot of casualties on the werewolves when fighting head-on, which is an outweigh the loss for the outnumbered werewolf tribes, so in recent years, large-scale wars have rarely occurred.

This time, the reason why the kingdom made the decision to exert military pressure was also because of those outposts. As long as the outpost is still there, the kingdom's army does not have to worry about being cut off from retreat, and logistics and transportation can also be guaranteed, so when facing the undead legion, Viscount Nott does not have much fear in the face.

But if werewolves join in, it's hard to say! These werewolves know the Monas Hills well, and if the werewolves send a large force to attack behind them while the undead legion is holding them back head-on, it will undoubtedly be a huge threat to Not.

The fact that hundreds of outposts were destroyed in one night undoubtedly exacerbated Nott's worries, and in his opinion, in order to achieve this effect, the werewolves would need to send at least thousands, if not tens of thousands, of troops, which undoubtedly showed that the werewolves wanted to join the war.