Chapter 190: Holy War
Between the Cloud Mountains and the Sharp Tooth Forest, there is a beautiful valley woodland. This is the edge of the mountain range, and the forest is sparse, with white rocks exposed on the slopes and low bushes everywhere.
It's the best of the year, with flower-filled meadows and the occasional flock of wild sheep perched here. However, at this time, such a quiet place was now ruined by an atmosphere of solemnity.
Birds flew up from the forest in large numbers, and a large number of animals were fleeing in a hurry, and it was not their natural predators, not the vicious predators, but two human armies that were fighting and killing each other.
Nestled among the pine woodlands and hills are an abandoned temple and small camps. And around this hidden camp, two armies are fighting fiercely.
The cries of battle, the screams of death, and the clashing of weapons echoed all around, and it was these murderous sounds that dispersed the animals of the land far away.
"For my lord!"
Groups of warriors, all in full armor, all armed with two-handed greatswords and two-handed war hammers, rushed to the camp in the middle of the woodland in a not-so-neat procession.
These warriors were tall and fanatical, and they all wore the striking silver and white twin sword insignia. Anyone who has a little understanding of the situation on the mainland will understand that these soldiers, all of them are knights affiliated with the newly-born Church of the Lord of Killing, they are all followers of the newly-born Lord of Killing, and all of them are composed of paladins and quasi-holy warriors.
"Killing supreme!"
"For my lord!"
With a firm declaration, the samurai of the newborn Lord of Slaughter fell silent, and one by one, they fought towards the front, the center, and the fiercest position of the battle.
Their opponent is an army that is also dominated by humans. The army, wearing a black jawless skull insignia, relied on the defense of the camp, aided by assassins, thieves, and dark guards, to fight the samurai of the Lord of Slaughter.
In just ten minutes, the two sides left many corpses on the battlering array. Broken weapons, broken armor, broken limbs, flowing blood, as well as blood and corpses in the summer heat emitted a foul smell that permeated the entire war, creating a smell of killing.
Viconia, the dark elf in light leather armor was on the front lines, and she was now covered in sweat and looked excited. In the fierce battle, although she had light armor on her body, but in the repeated charges, she had been cut open several bloody wounds, although the bloody wounds had solidified, but the wounds left by the assassin's poisonous sword emitted an unpleasant fishy smell.
But Viconia didn't feel the slightest discomfort, the smell of blood and killing that permeated the battlefield made her feel excited, it was not only the fighting instinct inherited by the Night Elf bloodline, but also her faith, her master, and the praise of her killing!
As a dark elf who had defected from the underworld, as a former priest who had abandoned her faith in the Rose Spider, Viconia had fallen into confusion and emptiness for a while, and although she felt happy and happy about the peaceful and peaceful life on the surface, the life without the pillars of her faith still made her feel uncomfortable for the former priest.
As a dark elf, even a dark elf yearning for a peaceful life, the nature hidden in her blood will make her want to fight and kill. So when Dugu Feng became a god, she immediately converted to this newborn Lord of Killing and became a mid-level priest of the Lord of Killing.
Viconia gripped the sword in her hand, her eyes locked on one of the other Assassins. It was an ill-faced assassin who roamed the battlefield like a viper, and with every attack, a warrior would fall under his sword.
While Viconia was looking at the other party, he had already seen two warriors from his own camp fall to the ground, unknown whether they were alive or dead. As if noticing Viconia's gaze, the Assassin raised his head slightly, gave Viconia a defiant expression, and then hid behind the heavy warrior.
Viconia sneered, gripped the hilt of his sword, and slammed into a second charge.
"It's all a bunch of amateur recruits!"
The commanding knight on the side of the Lord of Slaughter sneered, and then with a wave of his hand, thirty cavalrymen rushed in, and suddenly, the heads of the blocked enemies immediately flew out, and the blood fountain rushed into the air. The main purpose of these cavalry was not to destroy the enemy. Instead, it will crush the enemy's organizational counterattack and divide it into a local advantage of fighting more with less, and completely annihilate the enemy's army.
"Kill! Kill! ”
The warriors of the Lord of Slaughter seem to be more easily stimulated by the killing aura of the battlefield, and in the killing aura that pervades the battlefield, one by one the warriors forget their fatigue, fear, and pain, and bravely rush forward and fight hard.
Although the army belonging to Shirek, the Prince of Lies, has many powerful assassins, dark guards, and thieves, in this orderly, group-spending war, the superiority of individual force is greatly reduced. The Church of Cirek, accustomed to fighting in small groups, is clearly at a disadvantage in the face of the opponent's group attacks.
In addition to the warriors of the Lord of Slaughter, there were also priests from the Church of the Lord of War, Anne.
The priest of Anne's Church, who watched as an observer, did not move at all about the battle, and sat back and watched some soldiers being killed by the assassins and thieves of the opposing side, which was actually meaningless, in the orderly cluster battle, as the number of participants increased, the strength of the individual and the meaning of victory and defeat were greatly suppressed, and only strict discipline, superb cooperation, and the spirit of not fearing death were the guarantee of victory in the war.
At a time when the whole world was accustomed to the experience of small group battles, no one knew better than the pastor of Annene's Church how to command an army to victory in a large-scale battle.
"Poison gas!"
"Stinky Cloud Technique!"
Ciric's side, which had fallen into the disadvantage, finally couldn't help it, and the hidden priest and mage suddenly made a move, and suddenly a cloud of green gas covered the field.
Immediately afterward, another fireball shot out repeatedly.
"Boom!"
A ball of fire exploded on the flat ground, and the scorching power expanded, instantly turning an unlucky warrior into charcoal. However, the sudden magic attack did not confuse the warriors, and the warriors who had undergone strict military training quickly rushed forward to replenish the positions of the dead warriors, and there was not the slightest hole in the entire battle line.
"Wind Making!"
The army on the side of the Lord of Slaughter reacted quite quickly, and immediately caused a storm to blow all the poison gas away.
Then, there was a barrage of crossbow bolts and magic to deliver targeted covering strikes against the mage's positions that had just been exposed.
Most of the time in the world of Feron is dominated by skirmishes. Therefore, with the exception of the Magic Empire like Netheril, almost most of the battles of countries and organizations are limited to small-scale adventure form battles, so the mages in this background are actually extremely inexperienced in large-scale legion battles.
In skirmishes, spells such as spider webs and stinky clouds can often play a very important role. However, in large-scale battles, this limited number of spells can play a limited role in killing and controlling the field.
Therefore, in the Anien's Church's theory of ordered warfare, the role of the "war mage" mage does not appear as an all-powerful battle mage, but is professionally subdivided into different roles such as reconnaissance, turrets, support, etc.
"Fireball technique, three stacks, one, two, three, put!"
After a wave of targeted elimination of the opponent's spellcaster, the mage who had been suppressed for a long time in the rear immediately threw dozens of fireball spells according to the order.
The power of a single fireball technique is limited, but after special calculations, after the superposition of the order, even the superposition of ordinary fireball spells has created the effect of heavy artillery cluster bombardment!
"Boom"
The first group of clusters bombarded by, and groups of local warriors who were fighting bravely were suddenly directly shattered by the covering firepower, and at this moment, whether it was ordinary fighters or ordinary warriors, the elite assassins and dark guards hidden among the warriors were all torn to pieces under the covering fire bombardment!
Looking at the opponent who was still fighting hard just now, and in the blink of an eye, it was destroyed under the cover of cluster fire, and ordinary soldiers couldn't help but look dumbfounded, and even faintly rose a trace of fear.
However, such an impactful scene has long been accustomed to knights and mages who have been in a hundred battles. Especially for the priests who belong to the Church of Annene, the Lord of War, they have long understood that whether it is an army or magic, as long as the number is gathered to a certain extent, there will be a terrible qualitative change.
"Kill all enemies."
Seeing that the enemy's camp was breached, the knight at the head immediately issued a total order. The wars of religion are incomparably cruel wars, there is no compromise, no mercy, only the ruthlessness of life and death.
"For my lord!"
"Killing supreme!"
The warrior wearing the silver and white sword badge suddenly shouted a slogan and charged over!
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The battle soon ended, and the warriors began to clear the battlefield, and all the warriors involved in the battle were happy because this time they had successfully cleared out the camp of the Church of Shirek that had taken root in the forward battlefield.
Shirek, the Prince of Lies, was the lucky one who rose to prominence in the Sage's Havoc, and at his peak once took over all the priesthoods of the three gods of death, tyranny, and killing, and his godhead once reached an unprecedented level of godhead19. But after being stripped of the priesthood of death and tyranny, he had fallen from the strongest divine power in the realm to the level of ordinary powerful divine power.
And this time, Dugu Feng succeeded in sealing the gods, and he directly and completely stripped all the killing-related priesthoods of the original Baal from him, directly knocking him off the throne of powerful divine power and falling to the level of medium divine power.
Now Ciric only has the four priesthoods of lies, conspiracy, fraud, and illusions, and can no longer call for wind and rain and do whatever he wants as before.