Chapter Twenty-Four: Cloudsdale
After sweeping away the Heroic Soul Store, Jin Tao began to build the Holy Dragon City, first building all the creature nests, and then building all the functional buildings in the city.
Looking at the fully built Holy Dragon City, Jin Tao was proud for a while, looking at the still many remaining gold coins, Jin Tao did not hesitate, opened the city store, first bought a fifth-order creature nest construction site, and moved the wall nest on the cliff platform to the castle, but the rebuilt wall nest was only primary, and Jin Tao spent some resources to upgrade it to a high level.
Recruiting all the troops in the newly built creature lair, the strength of the Holy Dragon City immediately increased a lot.
Jin Tao drove the two undead creatures recruited mummies and demons to the cliff platform, on the one hand, to let them act as guards there, and on the other hand, he was afraid that they would stay in the city and reduce the morale of the entire army.
"Wow, I finally saw the living dragon, I have to say, it's really big" After arranging the whereabouts of the undead troops, Jin Tao found the four dragons he had just recruited.
"Lord Lord, I don't know what you have to say" The one who spoke was the highest-ranking holy dragon.
"It's nothing, it's just that I haven't seen a giant dragon before, that's why I called you over" Jin Tao didn't expect the holy dragon to speak human language, and he was a little embarrassed to be asked.
"Oh, by the way, tomorrow I will lead the team out to kill wild monsters, you guys should come along" When the four dragons left, Jin Tao thought that he would go out to kill monsters tomorrow, so he thought about taking the four dragons with him.
Early the next morning, as soon as Jin Tao came out of the congress hall, he saw the troops that had been reorganized and directly ordered the troops to set off.
"It's really comfortable, this is the true charm of the hero's invincibility" Jin Tao, who was staying behind, looked at the troops fighting in front of him, and felt relieved.
Since the beginning of today's battle, Jin Tao has not participated in the battle, but is only responsible for being in the rear of the troops, providing attribute bonuses to the fighting troops, and commanding the battle by the way.
This is also the real core of the hero series of games, with a wave of the hand, thousands of armies, all in control, the edge of the point, invincible.
Looking at the holy dragon and poisonous dragon flying in the air, spit out a mouthful of dragon breath from time to time, and the purple dragon sent out a magic attack from time to time, breaking up the enemy's formation, and Thor led the thunderbirds to follow behind him, wantonly harvesting the enemies below.
Relying on its strong defense and speed, the crystal dragon rampages through the enemy's formation, and from time to time uses its sharp claws and teeth to attack the enemy who stands in its way.
From time to time, the Magic Mage unleashes a group blessing or curse spell to bless his troops or weaken his enemies.
The phantom shooter, which is also a long-range unit, can accurately hit the enemy, harvesting the lives of the remnants of the enemy, and can be described as a master of grabbing people's heads, and the more than 200 stone-throwing dwarves on the side are divided into two groups to carry out concentrated fire attacks, and they can also kill two enemies each time.
Nomads and wild boars, as melee troops, were supposed to rush to the front of the battle, but their scarcity meant that they could only play on the sidelines, a little better than the thieves who could only watch the show from the sidelines.
"Amy, you bring back those thieves, nomads and wild boars, let them go back to the city, such a small number will not have any effect at all"
After the battle, Jin Tao looked at the corpses of the crusaders on the ground, and his heart was extremely comfortable, and he enjoyed this way of fighting with eating experience very much.
In one day, Jin Tao led his troops to take a total of six wild monster points and occupied two resource points, it is worth mentioning that during this period, Jin Tao also subdued a group of more than 300 half-orc troops, which greatly strengthened the long-range attack capability of Jin Tao's troops.
In the next few days, Jin Tao and the others have been sweeping through various wild monster spots, gaining a lot of experience and resources, and at the same time, many wild monsters have joined Jin Tao's troops, making Jin Tao shout Long live the European Emperor.
"Master, we can't go any further, there is a cloud city there, there are many angels and a large number of knights and priests guarding it, with our current strength, we can't take it at all" Amy, who was in charge of reconnaissance, found Jin Tao and reported a message to Jin Tao.
"Cloudsdale! Lots of guards? Could it be that with our current thousands of troops, plus the four dragons, we can't take it down" Hearing that it was Cloud City, Jin Tao asked a little unwillingly.
"Master, the guards there are too strong, the leader is an eighth-order supreme archangel, and there are more than fifty archangels and one hundred units of angels, and the number of knights and sacrifices is no less than two thousand units" Amy saw Jin Tao's eagerness to try, and quickly reported the opponent's strength.
", there are so many, let's change directions, one day I will take that Cloud City" Jin Tao was taken aback by the number of guards in Cloud City, and finally said a few cruel words unwillingly, and then obediently changed the direction of travel.
Time passed day by day, and a new week came, with the addition of the troops they had just recruited, Jin Tao and their advance speed was getting faster and faster, and every day thousands of units of wild monsters were killed by Jin Tao's troops, or under the dual effect of Jin Tao's diplomacy and strength, they joined Jin Tao's troops.
Time is always merciless, and it has never stood still for anyone or anything.
Jin Tao has been fighting in the Holy Dragon Realm for a month, and his strength has snowballed, and now in his troops, except for the undead creatures who have been sent back to the castle, basically the other eight major races can see his figure.
Fortunately, during this time, Jin Tao's experience has improved a lot, and he has raised his leadership skills to the grandmaster level, which has increased the morale of the troops by ten points, otherwise, so many races would have mixed together, and there would have been a rebellion long ago. (Morale is positive, troop attributes increase, negative, attributes decrease, there is a chance that troops will turn into monsters)
As the strength of the troops increased significantly, Jin Tao thought of the Cloud City he had discovered before, so he turned around and walked in the direction of Cloud City.
This time, Amy didn't stop it, because now Jin Tao's troops, just the troops of the third order and the lower miscellaneous soldiers of various races subdued, have no less than 20,000 units, most of which are long-range, because a large number of melee miscellaneous soldiers have been lost in the battle.
The number of other fourth-order and above main forces has also reached nearly 5,000 units, and there are nearly 10 units of seventh-order troops.
Although there is still a gap compared to the high-level combat power on the side of Cloud City, the huge number is enough to make up for the gap.
It took a full day for Jin Tao to lead his troops to the place where Cloud City was located.
Without any pause, all the melee miscellaneous troops launched a charge, followed by melee units above the fourth order, and the ranged units began to form formations and began to slowly move forward.
All the troops above the seventh order were placed last by Jin Tao so as not to be attacked by the key and cause unnecessary losses.
At the beginning of the battle, Jin Tao's miscellaneous troops were cut apart by the collective charge of the knights, but although the losses of the miscellaneous soldiers were great, they also successfully limited the movement speed of the knights, creating opportunities for the main forces behind.
As the main force of Jin Tao's side joined the battle, the long-range troops on both sides also entered the attack range, and the sky was full of flying axes, bows and arrows, and energy balls, making the battlefield dim for a while.
As a strategic class, the magic mages began to reflect their existence value at this time.
Several curse spells are applied to the enemy's class, weakening the enemy's strength.
There are also a few blessing spells blessed on your own wrong, improving your own strength.
Under this increase and decrease, the knights who fell in the encirclement began to suffer a large number of casualties.
Suddenly, a huge white light curtain enveloped the entire battlefield, and immediately, the cursed magic on the guards of Cloud City was cleared, and the injuries were quickly recovered, and even those knights who died in battle were resurrected.
", no wonder angels are called the most inexplicable troops, not to mention the strong attributes, but also the ability to increase morale by stepping on horses, the most outrageous is this resurrection technique, Lao Tzu worked hard for a long time, and everyone pulled it up at once, and the previous losses were all in vain" Watching the guard's angel shoot is a large-scale resurrection technique, Jin Tao was angry at the time and scolded.
Of course, while Jin Tao was scolding, he still had a little expectation in his heart, looking forward to his troops, and a strong lineup after a large number of angels joined.
"Adults don't have to worry, a resurrection technique like this, they will reach the limit after using it once or twice at most" It was an angel that Jin Tao had subdued in the wild, but the lone angel, facing Jin Tao's army, under the influence of diplomacy, only asked for three hundred gold coins (ninety percent reduction in diplomacy) for the surrender fee, and joined Jin Tao's troops.
"Okay, Amy, order the ranged troops, give priority to attacking the sacrifice, the melee troops will do their best to trap the knight, and transfer the magic mage back" Jin Tao heard the angel's words, his heart was a little calm, and he put down and changed his tactics.
With the change of Jin Tao's ranged troops, a formation split into two, changing the target of the attack, and the sacrifice began to die in large numbers.
Losing the long-range support of the rear sacrifices, the knight troops also began to fall into a bitter battle.
After less than ten minutes, the angels guarding Cloudsdale once again used the group resurrection technique, and after using this resurrection, a hundred units of angels began to rise into the air and join the battle.
"Ranged troops, retreat, after getting out of the range of the sacrifice, kill the angels with all your might, all the troops above the seventh order, all go to protect the ranged troops, don't let those angels break through easily" Looking at the angels who seemed to be a cloud of white clouds flying towards Jin Tao's long-range troops, Jin Tao quickly adjusted his formation.
"Whoosh...... Whoosh ......"
Countless long-range attacks shrouded the angel troops in the air, and a wave of attacks took the lives of more than a dozen angels, and then the angels began to scatter and no longer gather together.
"Long-range formation attack, concentrated fire attack" Seeing the scattered angels, Jin Tao breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the scattered angels can reduce some casualties, they no longer have a chance to break through the defense line of the seventh-order troops.
Under Jin Tao's attribute bonus, the angel troops, who are also seventh-order, can only cause forced damage to Jin Tao's seventh-order soldiers, and without the advantage of numbers, Jin Tao believes that they will not be able to break through the defense line they have arranged.
With the mass death of the angels, the remaining archangels, after using the last weakened version of the resurrection technique (less angels) to resurrect the dead angels, also joined the battle.
With the resurrection of the angels, the defense line formed by Jin Tao failed, and a large number of angels rushed into the long-range troops, quickly killing these vulnerable troops.
"Magic Mage, it's time for you to play, use all the rest of your magic for me"
More than a dozen magic mages who had only made one move at the beginning of the battle were always arranged by Jin Tao at the back of the battlefield, in order to wait for the angels to exert their maximum value after they had consumed their magic power.
As one blessing or curse after another was cast, the angels' attacks began to weaken and slow down a lot.
On the other hand, Jin Tao's troops, with the blessing of magic, became faster and attacked more smoothly.
The battle lasted until the evening, and after some statistics, Jin Tao showed a wry smile.
Nearly 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers, only the average number remained. The melee classes are almost all dead, and the ranged classes have suffered heavy casualties.
The losses of the troops of the fourth order were not too great, and there were more than three thousand units left.
Three of the troops above the seventh order also died, but with the efforts of the original angels of Jin Tao's troops and the angels who had just been recruited, two were resurrected, and in the end only one red dragon was lost.
After a battle, Jin Tao's mid- and low-level combat power lost more than half, and the high-level combat power was intact.
The losses are huge, but the gains are not small.
First of all, Cloudsdale, this seventh-order creature lair didn't run, and then there was a lot of experience points, and many ranged troops had increased their levels, all thanks to the large amount of killing experience provided by the seventh-order troops, but there was no gain, and they were all used to recruit angels.
In addition to these, Jin Tao also harvested a treasure - Blazing Sky Wings, speaking of which, this is the first treasure that Jin Tao harvested in the wild.
Blazing Wings
Level: Tier 4 Treasure
Attributes: Can make heroes gain the ability to fly, and the effect is equivalent to level 5 magic flying thaumaturgy.