Chapter 193: Battle
In the Kingdom of Light, the fourth doppelganger did not stay long, but entered the half-plane through the Kingdom of God and returned to the main plane.
Shepard, seated on the throne, leaned slightly, his arms propped up on his legs, and pondered the news that the unicorn goddess had brought back.
Meleth came quietly from outside the temple, this quiet, gentle, kind and intelligent goddess was admired by all believers, even if she had nothing to do with the main god Tonatiu, the earthly church had already regarded her as a god, and even the position in the three temples had been quietly adjusted.
Shepard knows what the believers do, but Melers has no objection to this, so he also remains silent, he used to walk around with a handsome face, about a hair as simple as eating and drinking, but Melers is not such a casual woman, she is incarnated from the spirit of nature, although her character is weak and kind, but it does not mean that she is very casual and frivolous, in the face of such a serious woman, Shepard's crooked ways in the stomach can't be used, and simply rely on time to let everything be natural.
Anyway, everyone knows in their hearts, and it is the most common thing for the gods to come to fruition.
Meles saluted slightly, and when there was no one around, she only called Shepard's real name: "Shepard, what news did the unicorn goddess bring?" ”
The fifty-meter-tall God of Light was silent for a while, and said in a deep voice: "The gods of the God of Knowledge faction have conveyed goodwill. ”
Meleth was surprised, "But, didn't you say that the God of Knowledge and the Lord of Dawn had a good relationship, and that the two of them had joined forces during the Age of Chaos?" ”
"So I think there's something going on...... It's just that I can't guess yet. Shepard said slowly: "Ogma's stubborn conservatism is spread among the humans of the main plane, such a god will not easily turn his back on friendship and friends, and the same is true of the teachings of the unicorn goddess, the treacherous god who betrays her friends is not the main god she will serve." ”
"So, what do we do now?" Meleth worried.
"What should I do?" Shepard muttered to himself, suddenly sat up and laughed, "I will send down an oracle and start fighting!" The kindness of the God of Knowledge has revealed too much, and I will let the kingdom go and fight this one! As long as you win this battle, everything will be settled! ”
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Above the wilderness, the two armies confronted each other.
All plans, calculations, tactics, and strategies must be implemented in actual combat in the end, not necessarily upright, nor necessarily a large army hedge, but must be swords facing each other, bows and spears flying, magic and ballistas resonate.
Shepard sits in the rear, which is not only to stabilize the morale of the army, but also the last killer weapon, and it is Hunter who leads the vanguard to the sharp task.
"Everyone!" He was covered in armor, all of which were high-end goods of the elven clan, and his own strength was strong, standing there more eye-catching than a military flag, and Hunter roared, and this roar could be heard for miles.
"The glory of our Lord shines upon us, and the light and the sun will shelter us forward! Pick up your weapons, burn your blood, and charge with me! We are invincible! ”
"Roar!" Thousands of people roared angrily, and the battle cry reached into the sky: "Invincible! ”
The appearance and momentum of the natives caused a riot on the side of the Dawn Church, and the difference between the war pattern that the adventurers were accustomed to and this kind of frontal anal that did not hesitate to kill or be wounded without fear of death was so great that the adventurers who originally planned to shoot arrows, throw spears and throw stones according to the old three methods, and then pull out their weapons to pick them up.
The priests of the Dawn Church had no choice but to consume the limited magic skills of the day to bless some of the ordinary warriors who belonged to them, and as for those holy warriors, they were all elite and the last hole cards, and they could not be consumed as consumables.
The adventurers hesitated, and the hundreds of ordinary soldiers on the side of the Dawn Church fearlessly rushed forward in the face of the kingdom, but the number of pioneers in the first wave of the kingdom army was also thousands, so the comparison seemed a little bleak on the side of the Dawn Church.
Fortunately, the old church has a lot of money, and compared to the royal army's leather armor, which is already considered an elite equipment, many of the soldiers of the Dawn Church are wearing half-length armor or chain mail.
Although the adventurers were reluctant to rush forward as cannon fodder, it was okay to gather hundreds of adventurers with long-range weapons, as a long-range support for the warriors of the Dawn Church, they shot bows and crossbows at the Kingdom Army in the rear, and some of them threw short spears and axes with great skill.
Hunter roared, everyone raised the round shield they carried, and approached the top of the block, only to hear a loud sound of arrows, most of the bows and arrows were blocked, but from time to time there was a scream, there was always an unlucky egg was shot, and there were naturally comrades who had time to save him to pull him back, and those who were too late could only be lost.
The adventurers only had time to shoot two rounds, and the forwards of both sides collided together in the shouting kill, and the adventurers put away their long-range weapons, and they could no longer refuse to fight, so they could only roar and kill.
There are more than 2,000 people on the side of the kingdom army, leaving 300 as reserves, and the remaining 700 are also killed, the adventurers are superior in numbers, and their courage is getting bigger and bigger, although the kingdom army is rigorously trained and the formation is stable, but after all, the war experience is insufficient, and no matter how elite the team is, it must be tempered in blood and fire, and for a time the kingdom army has suffered countless casualties, barely maintaining the front.
The priests of the Dawn Church were overjoyed when they saw this, and the epic priest immediately prepared a divine technique, prayed for the divine power of the Lord of Dawn, and waved his hand to drop a large light of judgment, and the target was Hunter, as long as he killed the strongest of the natives, the overall situation would be set immediately.
The holy light fell from the sky, like a fan-shaped shroud in the past, targeting Hunter and dozens of people around him, the new knight leader did not have a few people, but there were many old subordinates and old comrades beside him, at this time, a few people on the side raised their swords and slashed the enemy, fearlessly facing the power of the alien gods who fell into the sky.
Hunter laughed, he broke through not long ago, he could neither borrow divine power, nor the power of the awakened bloodline nor the elemental power, and there was no secret technique or inheritance that could control the extraordinary power, in the face of such a situation, it can be said that it was very dangerous and passive, but there was no fear on his resolute face that was baptized by wind and frost at a young age, and his eyes were still sharp and firm, and he regarded death as a way back.
"Raise your shield!" He shouted, and everyone raised their shields in unison, they were on the battlefield, and the two sides were stuck, and they couldn't dodge such an area attack at all, so they could only resist hard.
Rumble!
The white light exploded, and the attack of positive energy should not have harmed non-evil creatures, but the divine power changed the attributes of positive energy, so that all the existence of the Lord of Dawn who did not believe in it would also be harmed.
There were a few crackling sounds, the shields in the hands of nearly half of the warriors and knights were broken, the sound of broken arms was clearly audible, Hunter coughed up blood and spit on the ground, the shield he used was made by the elves, and it was still largely intact, but his arm was so shocked that he couldn't lift it for a while.
With a sip, a sword stabbed to death the adventurer who rushed over to pick up the bargain and held a two-handed axe, and Hunter glared viciously at the pastor of the Dawn Church in the distance.
The epic priest snorted coldly, knelt on the ground and prayed to the Lord of the Dawn sincerely, what he had just used was already the strongest divine technique he could use when he was unprepared, but after being weakened by the will of the mainland, he could only let the natives die on the spot, although a few people were seriously injured and fractured, but how could such results be satisfactory, so he immediately decided to pray for the divine power to descend and release stronger divine arts, so that these natives could know how to revere the majesty of the true god!
When the attention of both sides was drawn to the battlefield, the other two teams slowly approached from both sides of the battlefield, it was the men of the Kingdom Army that had been divided in advance, Freman and Arsa each led their own men, and when they reached the edge of the battlefield, they unceremoniously launched a charge.
If the siege on three sides was already alarming, then when thousands of kobolds mixed with humans, goblins, barbarians, lizardmen, and other aliens appeared from the rear, the side of the Church of Dawn was left with despair.
The strategy of encircling on all sides is not sophisticated, but only takes advantage of the expeditionary force's ignorance and superiority over the natives.
Shepard's two doppelgangers also quietly approached the battlefield, adding up to at least five epics to join the battle, although the strength of the Dawn Church is not bad, but there are only three epics, the Dawn priest who was hiding in the rear was the first to be assassinated by the clones, and then although he fought hard with the epic paladin, he was still slashed at the end, and Tom, who followed Freeman to besiege the paladin, also broke through and became the first epic alien professional of the Church of Light.
The outcome of this battle could have been predicted before the war began, but it was also the first time that the kingdom and the church had fought against an evenly matched opponent, and it was Shepard's goal to let the kingdom's side see the potential of the expeditionary force, so as not to be confused by the current prosperity and become lazy, and forget the core of serious development.
Hunting in all directions, the Dawn Church suffered heavy casualties, no one escaped, the priests and holy warriors were all killed, and those warriors and servants who were not descendants of the church were thrown into the captive camp together with the adventurers who were captured alive, among which those who could use supernatural power were mentioned separately, and those who were willing to submit asked the God of Light to witness and swear an oath, and those who were unwilling had to be killed on the spot, and the soul asked the revenant to guide the soul to take him to the underworld for a turn and then become his guard.
If it ends like this, it can be regarded as an acceptable result, except for the large losses of the Divine Guard, especially the two thousand people who followed Hunter to confuse the enemy, more than 20 people were killed and wounded by the Knights of the Cathar, and four or five hundred casualties were killed or wounded by the Divine Guard.
It's a pity that things are not so simple, the earth-shattering roar suddenly sounded, the power of evil and chaos swept over, on the battlefield that was being cleaned, the dead corpse suddenly trembled, and the kingdom army who was dragging the corpse next to him was surprised to check whether it was the surviving robe, but only saw the strange eyes that did not look like a living person, and the resurrected person who pounced fiercely.
"Bastard!"
The screams rang out one after another, and immediately the Kingdom Army that was finishing was in chaos, and Shepard, who was sitting calmly in the rear, stood up and scolded angrily.
Turning his head and instructing the knights to take precautions and kill the undead who were revived by the power of evil, Shepard stomped under the scepter in his hand and soared into the sky, flying into the air, and saw the silent laughing demon projection in the distance, looking at the black light condensed in its hand, which emitted incomparably evil power, obviously still wanted to do something.
The strength of this demon is comparable to that of a legend, and no one in the kingdom can match it except him, so Shepard did not summon any help, and the third and fourth clones on the ground have already rushed towards the demon as fast as a leopard, and the second clone holds the scepter in his hand to contact the body, and decides that if necessary, he directly kills this demon back into the abyss.
There seemed to be a small sun suddenly in mid-air, gold, white and red luster mixed together, and the figure condensed by this divine power flew towards the demon at an extremely fast speed, and the incomparably domineering divine power became thicker and thicker, and when it was still hundreds of meters away from the demon, Shepard pointed his scepter, and the light of divine judgment as thick as a bucket pounced on the demon projection.
The demon roared and roared out filthy language full of evil and blasphemy, and the filthy words drifted out like substance, connecting into strips of light flying around it, and when the light of judgment fell, the bands of light transformed by blasphemy words connected into a tight barrier of black light, and the sound of the explosion echoed with the positive energy and purifying power of the divine light of judgment, and the explosion resounded for dozens of miles.
The third doppelganger in the wild ran pulled out the elven longbow from the half-plane, pulled the bow like a full moon, and the purification power condensed into a slender arrow the thickness of the baby's arm, and the figure who was running wildly suddenly paused, and then raised the bow to aim, and as soon as the bowstring in his hand was loosened, the arrow of light flew out with a sound of breaking the air.
Like a bridge of light suddenly appeared in mid-air, the white light with an arc swept across the distance in space between breaths, at first glance it seemed to link the doppelganger with the demon projection, but in fact it was an afterimage left by flying too fast, but how could the demon be deceived by the afterimage, although the original blasphemy had been exhausted when blocking the light of judgment, but the evil aura on his body lit up layer by layer, and suddenly there were more than a dozen evil auras around his body.
With the power of curse and chaos, the extremely vicious evil aura resonated with each other, and the arrow of light slammed into the invisible barrier with a loud sound, and more than a dozen evil auras flickered and dimmed, and the front end of the arrow rotated rapidly, and the buzzing sound was clearly audible.
The demon's methods were naturally more than these, but the geography and environment were not in his favor, so he did not dare to delay, but just stomped his foot on the ground, and the huge footprints suddenly sank into a deep pit, and the edges were as if they had been burned and corroded, full of filthy evil breath.
The fluctuation of the space then opened the gate of the other world, and more than a dozen high-level demons of different sizes jumped out of the gate of the other world, but it was the hand of this demon in the abyss, and now that the projection strength has increased, it can also consume power to summon his subordinates to the main plane, and naturally no one dares to refuse the demons under his hands.