Chapter 16: Five Legends, Knightly Glory
Ten years of penance is better than an adventure...... Or ten years of hard work, it is better to win the lottery at one time.
No matter what others think, anyway, Zhu Peng feels like this at this moment. It is already the fifteenth day of the Demon Tide Storming City, and no matter whether the Demon Castle can be defended in the end in this battle, at least the Chinese Warrior Association has achieved a feat that the other Wizard City Junior Academies have not been able to accomplish.
The best record of those secondary academies before was only enough to hold on for a week.
Half a month has passed, looking down from the top of the tower, the monster frenzy is as boundless as the beginning, and it is really like a long sea.
But in fact, there are still changes, the elite monster bosses, mutated monster bosses, and even the odds of the dark gold boss rushing into the city are gradually increasing with the passage of time.
These powerful monsters have a certain independent will, although they will also follow the direction of the world's will to rush to the city without fear of death, but their self-control allows them to be in the middle of the team or even the rear, so as not to be the lowest cannon fodder in the battle formation from the beginning.
Above the city, this side of the Chinese Warriors Association is good to say, the sixth special effect of the jade seal of the country: "The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the society" is fully activated, as long as Zhu Peng is still in this dragon city, the soldiers of the Chinese Warriors Association will continue to receive the triple blessing effect of "Blessed by Mandate of Heaven", "High Morale", and "United as One".
Although the fifteen days of fierce bloody battles were extremely tiring and difficult, these 1,000 warriors also experienced their rapid growth in the battle, just like a high-intensity retreat and penance, although the mental load was large, but the huge gains from the same period of time diluted the mental and physical fatigue.
In just half a month, their professional level has generally been promoted to fifty or sixty levels, which is the progress achieved by other professionals on an annual basis, and each level has obtained four to five high-attribute points, which is much higher than the adventure career of ordinary professionals.
Because the income per unit of time is high enough, the morale can naturally be stabilized, not to mention that the fighters of the Chinese Warriors Association themselves are more warlike than the professionals of the academy.
The two thousand Soul Slave Legion led by Zhu Peng and Buqi are also in a similar situation, those alien war insects of the Soul Slave Legion are as intelligent as beasts, and they don't have too much independent will to load, so they are still relatively easy to say, and they can really fight to the last soldier.
It is the coalition forces of the secondary academy that are in trouble, which is also of course, although the high-level professionals of these subordinate academy are also experienced in a hundred battles, and they really talk about the quality is not necessarily inferior to the Chinese Warrior Association's thousand warriors too much, but they do not have the superior additional conditions that the Chinese Warrior Association's thousand warriors have, but they have a great disadvantage: there are many orders, and the top level lacks an absolute leadership authority.
With the increasing frequency of the monster boss rushing to the city, the warriors of the Chinese Warrior Association and the Soul Slave Legion are the two aspects of any city defense point that has a problem, under the command of Zhu Peng on the wizard tower behind him, a little power is divided from all directions to help the city defense point strangle the boss of the city, everyone is a brother who is like each other or a zerg who simply has no self-will, in this case, there is no problem between you and me.
However, the coalition of the Subordinate Academy is different, at first the morale is high, but as the exhaustion stacks and the morale is weakened, many of the colleges are willing to sweep themselves up, but when they are in trouble, they want other colleges to help.
Coalition forces, in fact, are not a very good term in military terms.
At first, the coalition forces of the Second Duty Academy wanted to stay in the city as long as possible and improve their achievements on the front-line battlefield, but as their morale became more and more sluggish, they could hardly hold up the normal rotation time, and even almost broke through the defense line several times.
Fortunately, Zhu Peng was prepared for many hands from the beginning, and the Desert Death Army, which had never been stained with blood in the city, charged back, and forced the scattered defense line back, and there was a soul slave army ready to attack behind him.
In fact, the coalition forces of the secondary academy still have a large number of war potentials that have not been fully exploited, and the reason why they were broken through the defense line is because a certain defense line was suddenly impacted by several powerful monsters, and the support of the other secondary coalition forces was not timely, coupled with the ever-changing situation on the battlefield, and the high-level commanders passed the buck to each other, it was not easy to have the phenomenon of the whole army being defeated.
After a few such incidents, Zhu Peng simply directly arranged for the Soul Slave Legion to rest nearby and not return to the beast pen after changing guards, although the effect of this rest is almost good, but at least double insurance, when there is a problem with the Soul Slave Legion of the Second Rank Academy, the Soul Slave Legion can quickly take up.
However, what really made Zhu Peng personally feel that it was not the increasing maturity and improvement of the combat power of the warriors of the Chinese Warrior Association, but the second promotion of the Ghost Staff and Wrath of the Lich King.
With the progress of killing and blood sacrifices, their huge magic power continues to recuperate, and after successfully killing enough monsters that rush to the city, the first to change is the sniper dragon archer corps with the largest number of direct kills.
A heavy crossbow hero who had survived a bloody battle suddenly bloomed with a strong and majestic aura, and in the white-gold demonic flame light array, his body became taller, his armor and the heavy crossbow in his hand became more gorgeous and magnificent, and a blood-colored cloak appeared behind him: Sniper Dragon Shooter Hero, Legendary Legion Leader.
After completing his own evolution, not only did the legion commander recover from his injuries and his combat power skyrocketed, but the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the sniper dragon shooter regiment under his leadership also began to rise sharply.
Half a month of bloody battles have passed, even if the protection is good and there is a defensive advantage, the number of soldiers of the sniper dragon shooter regiment has dropped to more than a hundred, but at this moment, under the leadership of this legion hero, they have re-strengthened their combat effectiveness because of better command and cooperation.
The second one to evolve is the Rainstorm Archer Jebe, who turned into a giant bow and shoulder armor, and his bald head with pale skin all over his body, and the name of Rainstorm is really worthy of his name on his body.
The third evolved is the Blood Axe Destroyer: Tyrant, a bearded two-axe warrior with a whip on his head, who is a strong attack even in the Legendary Rank, and is furious and terrifying.
The three Heroic Legion Captains are all of the legendary rank, and Zhu Peng can clearly feel that the heroes of the Wolf Blood Shaman and the Wing Dragon Legion are also being nurtured...... It took him decades to slowly cultivate six or seven Legendary-level summoning demons through the God Eater system, and the whole process can be described as exhausting and exhausting. Now, in just half a month, a monster storming the city can directly give birth to five or even six legendary-level summoned lifeforms.
Zhu Peng's feeling is as if he worked hard and saved 500,000 yuan without eating or drinking for ten years, but accidentally won the first prize of the lottery with a prize of 5 million.
Of course, the heavier the windfall, the thinner the number of lives.
In the East and West of the 21st century, those who get rich through the lottery often end up not very happy, and the Eastern world is a little lighter, especially in the West, where the cultural atmosphere is more public, and those who get rich through winning the lottery will either die or be poor after spending extravagantly.
This is not a lack of poverty and complaints, but a fact that has been counted.
Only through their own efforts to earn wealth, can be true and clear can be recognized and controllable wealth, the good and bad workers through a moment of luck to get rich, this windfall will corrode its own life, just like those on the earth in the 21st century, such as Saudi Arabia and other oil exporters, because as long as the oil can be sold to obtain huge profits, so the whole country can not become a strong country. Because it is so easy to make money, it becomes unnecessary to develop industry and agriculture, and without an industrial and agricultural base, the whole country will of course not be strong...... This is to fall into the trap of resources, both for the country and for the individual.
The monster frenzy rushed to the city, which is actually closer to the catastrophe in essence, Zhu Peng led the whole city to defend it, of course, if he can't hold it, the city will be destroyed and killed, but if he can hold it, he will also get the same income, after this battle, the total number of high-level monsters in the entire Fourth Realm will be greatly reduced, and Zhu Peng directly won the precious time for the sect to attack the Fifth Realm for at least ten years.
A few days later, during a battle with a giant corpse boss, a Pterodactyl Heroic Warrior completes his final evolution in mid-air after completing the final blow.
The armor draped on his body turned into golden heavy armor, and the light of the fighting spirit was entangled on his body, and the dragon under the seat directly evolved from a pterosaur to a true dragon form: the pterosaur legion, the dragon knight, and the human and the dragon cooperated, and the existence of such strength was by no means a weak person even in the legend.
This was followed by a wolf-blood shaman who completed his final evolution, the wolf-blood shaman Guwu.
As a result, he has the ability to apply poison on a large scale, and the terrifying wolf venom spreads and spreads with the contact between monsters until the poison completely fades, and its overall battlefield lethality is almost not inferior to that of a legendary wizard of the regular level.
The only pity is that the Valhalla Desert Reaper Army, there are too few kills, although it is currently the only fully formed unit among the six legions, unlike the other troops, at least nearly half of them have been lost, but they are not only unable to finally evolve into a legendary legion leader, but in the future, with the end of the battle of the Demon Castle, the entire army will be beaten back to the prototype.
The monsters were running and leaping under the city, and the soldiers of the previous side were on the front line to bloody slash and kill their opponents, and while looking down at the increasingly familiar picture, Zhu Peng's private crystal ball vibrated and flickered.
"Hey, Sister Han, why are you so free to contact your little brother today?"
Li Jingxuan is a generation older than Zhu Peng's master Zhang Yuanfang, but Zhu Peng and Han Fangxue are the same person, because if anyone dares to call each other Grandma Han, I am afraid that they will be hit by the sword.
turned on the virtual image, and at the same time Zhu Peng was also observing the battlefield, but when Han Fangxue's miserable and pretty face appeared, Zhu Peng's expression was straight, but his attention was all pulled back.
"Sister Han, what's wrong? aren't you guarding the sect?"
"I'm fine, at least I can stand in front of you with my hands and feet...... There was an assassin-type demigod who explored the sect and was discovered by Li Lu, and a few of our old guys teamed up to fight with him and killed him on the spot. Although Han Fangxue's face was pale, she still couldn't help but reveal a little smugness between her words, she could kill a demigod in a legend, even if it was a beating, it was still a very high honor.
“...... In other words, the news of the sect master's absence can't be blocked?" Although Han Fangxue's words were not finished, Zhu Peng directly came to the answer.
"That's right, although we successfully killed that demigod assassin, but I'm afraid the news has already spread, I don't know what the consequences will be, you have to be careful everywhere, is the war going well?"
"The war is going well, the monster frenzy is approaching the end of the crossbow, Sister Han, you calm down and recuperate, I will protest to the Government Council, after this battle, the sect will have hundreds of more legendary-level martial sects and hundreds of high-level professionals, which is enough to suppress the situation." Zhu Peng said after pondering for a moment, he talked to Han Fangxue for a while, and then hung up the crystal video.
(Which sect will send a demigod assassin?Purgatory Island?Knight Perseverance Academy?In any case, I can't tolerate the slightest negligence in this battle in front of me, otherwise it will be a complete loss.) Holding down the stone wall of the window eaves with the palm of his hand, the cold touch slightly eased the anger in Zhu Peng's heart.
At present, the best solution to the matter is to follow the body of the demigod assassin, find the sect behind the scenes, threaten it, or seal the interests, and suppress this matter for the time being.
However, the momentum of a legendary great wizard and several legendary martial arts sects besieging and killing a demigod, even if it is forcibly suppressed, the news that Li Jingxuan is not in the sect may not be blocked.
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On the twentieth day of the monster storming battle, there are still ten days left before the end of the "enhanced version of the Radiant Throne", and the monster frenzy under the city is still the same as it was at the beginning, except for the more and more monster bosses and dark gold bosses in it, it is still a black pressure that is boundless, and the terrifying magic power has turned into a substantial spiritual pressure on the hearts of all the defenders.
"Anyone who feels overwhelmed may withdraw from the battle after submitting an application, and although all the proceeds after this war are no longer relevant to you, and a large fine must be paid, I pledge in my personal name that I will not settle it afterwards and will not allow your list to appear in any document submitted to the Council. ”
"The above is already the limit of what I can do for you within my purview, then, whether to go or stay, you can consider and decide for yourself. Zhu Peng made such a public statement to the coalition forces of the Second Rank Academy, not because he wanted to cut off his arm, but after 20 days of defending the city, the morale of the coalition forces of the Second Post Academy had weakened to the bottom, and in addition to the battle itself, the overturning between the top leaders of the coalition forces of the Second Post Academy was also an important reason for the continuous decline in the morale of the coalition forces.
"Deputy Sect Master Zhu, how can you say that? Make such a statement? You are shaking the morale of our military. ”
"Get out, an army that has had a series of camp roars, an army whose morale has been at the bottom, and still dare to talk about the morale of the army in front of me? Give you three more days, if you can't adjust it again, just get me out of the demon castle." The skin pupils narrowed slightly, just overflowing with murderous aura shocked the representative of the sub-official in front of him, whether it was the strength of the individual or the power in each other's hands, the two sides were not at the same level.
As the morale of the Subordinate Academy coalition collapsed, the pressure on the city defense gradually fell on the elite warriors of the Chinese Warriors Association and Zhu Peng's Soul Slave Legion.
The Throne of Radiance said that it only has an obvious effect on the demigods and below, but there is still a basic suppression of the demigod-level dark lifeforms.
Whenever there is a dark gold boss rushing to the city, the Thunder Insect Legion in the city and the magic guide artillery array on the city head began to fire with all their might, not to bombard the dark gold boss but to temporarily cut off the follow-up of the monster frenzy with strong firepower, and after greatly reducing the pressure on the city defense, gather the masters on the city head to complete the siege and kill.
The Chinese Warriors Association's group of fighting masters is the Ten Eagles group headed by Zhu Peng, after these twenty days of continuous bloody battles, many of the Ten Eagles have accumulated injuries and even suffered disabilities, but it is as if the sword will become more and more sharp after tempering, these ten legendary martial arts sects have a better will than ordinary people, and after these twenty days of high-intensity battles, everyone has made great progress.
Don't talk about them, even if they are a thousand elite warriors of the Chinese Warrior Association, many of them have been directly sublimated from the third order to the Martial Sect in these twenty days of bloody battles, and the qualification level of the Ten Eagles is often superior, and under the same tempering, their benefits are of course greater than the same period last year, but they themselves are legendary martial arts, so although the combat income is huge, the combat power is bonus, and it is difficult to break through in the realm for a while.
In short, with Zhu Peng leading them to forcibly kill the dark gold boss, the process is not easy, but it is not too dangerous. It's just that unlike ordinary monster bosses, dark gold-level bosses can't run, and behind them is a monster frenzy under the city, and after being injured, they jump backwards into the demon tide, and it's difficult to complete the real kill.
The Soul Slave Legion does not have a group of masters, but there are soldiers of the same category such as war bee worms, fifty war bee insects that have been strengthened to the fourth order pierce their brains, and even if the dark gold boss is not dead, it is often poisoned unclear, and they often choose to retreat, if they are forced to stay, it is not far from dying in battle.
Among the Zerg slave legions brought by Butch, there are also twenty-five fourth-order city guard giant insects, which were originally used to fill the gaps in the city's defenses, but because of the special effects of "United as One" and the solidity of the steel walls of the demon castle itself, they were basically brought over in vain and never been used.
The main body of the Soul Slave Legion is the third-order mantis knife insect, and after this twenty days of bloody battles, it has lost to the extent that there are only more than 900 left, and more than half of the battle losses are so that the Heroic Spirit Legion summoned by Zhu Peng with his wand must all be filled in the battle line on this side, otherwise it will be a little unable to hold it.
For this result, Zhu Peng is still basically satisfied in his heart, at least the sect's descendants are well protected, and the morale is relatively high and stable, as for the soul slave army...... It's enough to buy another batch after the light, for wizards, this is itself a cannon fodder unit, and it is used for consumption.
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The twenty-fifth day of the bloody battle of Liancheng, night.
In the past twenty-five days, Zhu Peng only took a break in the secret law hall on the top floor of the Witch Tower at the very beginning of the war, when the battle line of the Sub-Servant Academy was on guard, and the rest of the time he was all mentally focused looking down, casting all kinds of powerful spell support at any time, and even simply copying his sword and flying down and cutting it.
I don't know if it's because of the effect of the jade seal of the country or Zhu Peng's own prestige, as long as Zhu Peng makes a move, needless to say, the Chinese Samurai Association will not say it, even the morale of the second-incumbent coalition side will be high, and the whole army will work together to suppress the demon tide, in the past 25 days, not only the ghost wand has tasted blood sacrifices, but Zhu Peng's two heavy swords of darkness and blood killing are also killing without calculation, and a large number of monsters have been harvested.
It's just that tonight, Zhu Peng somehow felt a little uneasy in his heart. Standing on the top of the tower and looking down, the purple and gold dragon pupils in his eyes appeared, but as far as the eye could see, there was no particularly powerful monster arrogance, and tonight was not the night with the largest number of dark gold bosses peeping.
(Could it be that I'm too tired...... As he pondered, he waved his wand and threw a curse of aging, and above the city, the bald and bearded man of the Blood Axe Destroyer's legion leader tyrant was wielding a blood axe in his hand that was one size larger than his subordinates to fight against a monster leader who had landed in the city.
The Legendary Rank Heroic Spirit relied on his geographical advantage to slash and slash a monster leader who was forcibly demoted like a snake or lizard, gaining the upper hand in a short period of time, and then slashing the opponent down the city quite cleanly. Of course, it contains the assist effect of Zhu Peng's spell.
In the first half of the night of the twenty-fifth day, everything was quite peaceful, but in the second half of the night, when people were most tired, the siege of the monster frenzy gradually strengthened, but this is also a normal change, the strongest state of the monster is different from that of humans, but it happened to be stuck when the soul slave army and the sub-official alliance changed guards, making the whole change of defense process quite difficult, Zhu Peng stood on the top of the witch tower and frequently cast spells, adjusting the rhythm of the whole army.
"Your Excellency, Mr. Faendak of the Knight Fortitude Academy and several representatives have made a joint request to see you, and they are very eager to report directly to you important information about the survival of the city. "In the process of casting the spell, a virtual light curtain suddenly appeared out of thin air on the side of Zhu Peng in the Secret Law Hall, and a wizard apprentice of the Chinese Warrior Association reported in it.
After Zhu Peng cast several range-of-range aging curses downward in a row, he frowned and said, "It's impossible for me to go down to see them now and let these guys go to ...... Wait a minute. ”
Because of the stalemate below, the relatively chaotic city change of defense, it is impossible for Zhu Peng to leave the Secret Law Hall at this juncture to meet with several representatives of the Junior Academy, because among them is Faendak, Zhu Peng still has a lot of respect for this talented old knight, so he doesn't want to directly refuse the other party's request.
At the moment before almost subconsciously letting them come up, Zhu Peng looked at the faintly chaotic city defense below, and the inexplicable sense of uneasiness in his heart suddenly became strong.
"My lord, am I asking you to go directly to the Secret Law Hall?" the deputy sect master was halfway through his words, and the junior apprentice, who was a communicator, did not dare to make up his own mind, he asked suspiciously.
(The conventional art of war is nothing more than a summary of the experience of marching and arranging, and the real masters of the art of war, they are better at using various conditions to lay out the momentum in favor of the own side, and through the influence of this situation, let the opponent act at the pace of the own side...... If you want to be clever in boxing, you must also take advantage of the situation and use it hard. When I was practicing boxing at a young age, Master's words lingered in my ears and melted into my heart.
(Today, they are mentally exhausted, they are difficult to handle military affairs, and they say that they have information that is vital to life and death...... If I do this, will I also be influenced by the momentum laid down by the other party, and finally make the wrong choice?)
"Tell Fan Wendong that the rest is canceled, the whole army is dispatched, and at the same time, Wu Pagoda has entered a state of first-level combat readiness, and anyone who approaches without permission will be killed. While giving military orders, Zhu Peng also reminded the sorcerers Butch and Kogas at the head of the city through a spiritual connection that if the conjecture in his heart was correct, then today was the most dangerous and difficult moment of the battle.
Fallen, this dark piece laid by the Abyss Demon Dragon King has been raised, but I don't know where it will fall!
At the same time, when the entire legendary Witch Tower was guarding and the Dao Defense Barrier was spreading and spreading, several representatives at the bottom of the Witch Tower, led by the old knight Faendak, were waiting for Zhu Peng's decision.
"That hairy boy is really too much, he is already arrogant like this before the battle is over, and he dares to ignore the joint application of our people. By the way, old Dack, what is the information so urgent that you called us all overnight, and you were so busy that you couldn't tell what was going on. The representative of the Black Iron Sword Warrior Academy, who was fat and bald and loved to learn the proverbs of the Chinese relics, looked at the defensive enchantment raised by the entire tower, and asked Faendak with silver temples beside him with some doubts.
Faendak is extremely prestigious among the representatives of the Vice-Rank Academy, he has participated in the defense of the Demon Castle several times, he is very old, his strength is relatively strong, his command talent is outstanding and he is very discerning, in these things, if the coalition army of the Vice-Rank Academy is not supported by this old knight, I am afraid that it will be scattered long ago, and it will not at least maintain the basic army structure as it is now.
However, today, Faendak's attitude was a little strange, he didn't pay attention to the words of the fat and bald middle-aged man beside him, but looked up at the layers of defensive enchantments spreading around the Witch Tower, knowing in his heart that if he didn't make a move, he might never have a chance to make a move again.
"This young man on the tower is really outstanding in terms of brain power and reaction...... People have already reacted, and you stupid people are still ignorant, it is indeed not for nothing that we joined forces to suppress the Chinese Warrior Association led by Li Jingxuan back then!" sighed softly, pressed his palm on the hilt of the sword at his waist, and the next moment the silver light lingered and flickered.
In the room, when the gorgeous sword light stopped, the ground was covered with the corpses of the representatives of the major junior academies, and the old knight with a silver frost head, he stood in front of him with a thin sword in one hand, and whispered softly: "For, knight's glory!"