Chapter 392: Blade General
Steven is Swiss. It has a high prestige in Europe, and it is a saint in the local area. The saint mentioned here is not just a metaphor, but a fact. Steven served as a guard of the Vatican Guard for a while when he was young, and at that time, martial artists on the earth were still rare, and it was still a rare thing to have internal force ability. One day, Steven discovers that he has the ability to speed up the healing of his own or others' wounds. Of course, from the perspective of today's martial artists, the ability to accelerate wound healing is not uncommon. In fact, every martial artist can more or less promote the healing of his wounds faster than ordinary people, and the subtlety master is even more obvious. But most martial artists can increase their speed by about one-third compared to ordinary people. The reason why Zhang Fei said that Lang Tianya is special and a little perverted is because his healing speed is dozens of times faster than that of ordinary people. Although Steven was not as perverted as Lang Tianya back then, he was very special. Not only is he autonomous, but he can also speed up the healing of other people's wounds. And the healing rate is about twice as fast as the average person.
When he discovered his ability, he hurriedly reported it to his superiors. The superior officer reported it to the Holy See. After careful scientific research by the bishops, his abilities were finally recognized as a miracle, and he was exceptionally promoted to military officer. So in addition to defending the Holy See, he also performed holy miracles part-time. Later, he discovered other special abilities such as the ability to ignite fire with his fingers, the ability to break through heavy stone walls with his fists, and the ability to elicit a frenzied reaction from his listeners when he made a sound with internal force. This made his miracle performance even more miraculous and wonderful, and the Holy See attracted a large number of people to respect the religion. In recognition of his outstanding performance, he soon received an official title from the Holy See: St. Steven.
But with the increase of warriors in the world, his so-called holy miracles have gradually become no longer fresh. Later, the miracle performance brought him no longer glory, but embarrassment. He also came to understand that he was not the only one favored by God, and that many others had the same abilities as him. So he worked hard to get through the work of the Pope and the bishops, and resigned and left the Vatican. Although he gave up his job as a full-time saint, his heart as a Christian to promote the Dharma to God and serve the people has not changed. After leaving the Vatican, he organized a group of like-minded warriors to form a civilian ambulance team to help those in need. Later, with the increase in the number of refugees going to Europe, shipwrecks occurred frequently. So this ambulance team completely turned into a professional organization to fight smugglers off the coast of Europe, protect refugees, and search and rescue people who have fallen into the water.
But Steven was still not satisfied, and he felt that he could do more. He entered the world very early, and his status among European warriors was like Guo Songshan's status in China. He also has a high prestige, and there are still a large number of ordinary people in Europe who still regard him as a saint, and if there is a dispute between the general European warrior gangs, most of them will ask someone to mediate with him, and he can always help them solve problems and disputes with his kindness and wisdom. Slowly, his name as a saint became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. But he felt that with his strong internal strength, he could only fish out the drowning people every day, which was really a bit overkill. But he is unwilling to participate in the struggle for power in Europe itself, nor in the fight against extremist terrorists in the Western world and the Middle East. At this moment, he heard about the forbidden area, and was immediately overjoyed, fighting alien monsters was still very much in line with the religious principles he believed in. So he recruited many European volunteers and came to Alaska.
The establishment of the Anti-Monster Alliance has a lot to do with Steven's arrival. Prior to Steven's arrival, the defense around the exclusion zone was the responsibility of the U.S. military. But the task of fighting monsters is mainly the responsibility of the Force Alliance in the United States. After he arrived in the forbidden area, many martial artists from all over the world came to visit, which greatly relieved the pressure on the Force Alliance. With the increase in the nationality of the warriors, the Anti-Monster International League came into being. At that time, Steven's prestige was unmatched, and everyone unanimously elected him as the commander-in-chief of the Alliance. However, he said that in order to respect the hard work of the Force Alliance, and the restricted area is located in the United States, the position of commander-in-chief of the base camp should still be held by the Force Alliance. This is also the reason why David is the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Monster Alliance with a medium level of internal strength.
After Guo Songshan's arrival, Steven took the initiative to restrain his light, gave up his position and respect as the number one master, and retreated behind Guo Songshan's huge shadow. He did all this naturally and smoothly, without a trace of mud and water. He once laughed at people and said that although he had been taught by the Pope himself for many years, he was unabated in murderous intentions, so he could only be satisfied with killing monsters in the forbidden area, and his power and status were all floating clouds. In short, Steven is a person who is almost perfect in morality and character, even Guo Songshan, a seemingly loyal elder, after getting along with him for a while, has to be full of respect for him, and feels that this person is worthy of the name of a saint.
Steven's team is the oldest team in the Anti-Monster League, its predecessor was composed of some volunteers from the American Force Alliance, and then people continued to die, and new members continued to add in, and the members of this team have taken on a completely international form. Although the personnel are changing, the style of this squad has not changed since Steven took over. Steven devised his own unique set of tactics for it based on his abilities.
The squad consisted of one hundred and thirty-four people, divided into eighteen groups. Each team consists of seven people, and in front of them are two tall and stout Nordic men, who are shield strikers, mainly responsible for resisting the frontal impact of monsters, if the opponent is too weak, such as a novice soul eater with only two or three hundred kilograms, they can also cooperate with two people to fight back directly. Behind the two of them was a relatively short hand, who relied on his nimble skills to hide behind two large shields, and was responsible for sneaking up on the lower limbs of the Soul Eater with his internal force.
On the two flanks of the Shieldstriker's sweep are two pikemen, and the spears they wield were designed by Steven himself for the Eater's defensive features. This gun is three meters long, and it is an internal force firearm that can be fired, and it is also a bladed spear that can be pierced. Another special feature of this gun is that a one-meter-long soft tentacle of internal force alloy is installed on the tip of the gun, making its overall length four meters. When used, the spear holds a spear thrust, when the alloy tentacles touch the monster scale armor, the pikeman feels like his fingers touch the scale armor, then he will pull the trigger, fire the bullet, when the bullet is fired at the monster, the monster will instinctively change the thickness and angle of the scale armor, and this change, the pikeman can feel according to the tentacles, at this time, he has to timely put the blade of the spear at the front of the scale armor and stab down, in this case, it is difficult for the soul eater to complete the angle of the second change armor, so, Most of the time, they will be pierced by a spear.
At the back are two swordsmen, armed with rapiers and agile hands, who are the ones who deliver the final blow. When a spearman plunges a spear into a Soul Eater, the monster reacts by reaching for the shaft of the spear, at which point the swordsman steps forward in time to stab the sword from under their armpit into their heart, or from the side of their neck into the back of their head.
This kind of battle formation is formed after years of training. In fact, it can also be said that it is a last resort. Because the masters of subtlety are limited after all, and ordinary martial artists can't fight against the soul eaters who are still very flexible with their rough skin and thick body method, and in desperation, this kind of combat method is slowly formed. Normally, seven people have no problem dealing with one or two Soul Eaters. Although casualties were inevitable, they still had the power to help the masters withstand years of attacks from the Soul Eaters.
Zhang Daochang once used this tactic as an example to prove his theory. He said that if the Soul Eater really wanted to break through the human blockade, there were many ways. For example, you can go straight over the surrounding mountains. With their abilities, it shouldn't be a problem. For example, even if you don't send high-level monsters, then send more low-level monsters, you can easily mess up the tactics of this kind of group, and kill these warriors and turn them on their backs. But they did not do this, but patiently sent only a limited number of troops to accompany the warriors in the exercises. From this point of view, what Zhang Daochang said is not unreasonable. This is also the reason why Guo Songshan is skeptical of Zhang Daochang's theory.
Now, Steven's team had lost a third of their strength after the Soul Eater's bone spur blow, but instead of stopping, they increased their speed and quickly crossed the middle ground. Before colliding head-on with the Soul Eater tide, the groups broke their separate battles, with nearly thirty shield strikers running side by side in front of them with heavy shields, forming a high-speed wall of shields.
Just as the two armies were about to collide, Steven in mid-air suddenly waved his wand, and a strong light shone towards the army of soul eaters. Then the strong men in the front row squatted with their shields, and the pikemen in the back row jumped out with their guns, and then at the same time as more than 30 gunshots, more than 30 spears also accurately pierced into the chests of more than 20 monsters.