Chapter 354: Desperate Resistance on the Great Plains (5)
Fierce skirmishes began again, and even though the armor and wall abilities of these Templar Knights kept their swords unharmed, the velociraptors beneath them couldn't.
The beast's size and athletic posture made it impossible for them to be protected by 100% armor, especially the joints and soft abdomen that were still damaged by the elite Axon's sophisticated weapons.
Under the fierce charge of the elite Ah Xun, the speed of the Templar Knights' charge was visibly reduced for the first time, at least hundreds of knights fell from their horses, and the two on both sides turned over after knocking down a dozen steppe people, waving their weapons and continuing to fight, but the knights who rushed to the front were drowned in the rolling iron hooves and could no longer be seen.
The thousands of Templar Knights who were left behind spontaneously took out their big bows and shot with precision in all directions, covering their comrades to move closer behind the team, forming a battle formation back to back.
Philip didn't see what Arthas was doing, he only heard him roar, and the riding spear in his hand was like a basilisk that instantly stretched out five or six twenty-meter-long edges, and the two or three hundred elite Yuan Ah Xun who were blocking them and their mounts turned into a pile of minced meat, and then were crushed by the iron hooves of the velociraptors.
One of the soldiers behind the Holy Knight Augustine was armed with a large white bow, and each arrow would let out a roar like the roar of a tiger, penetrating a distance of hundreds of meters, pulling a blood line in the elite ranks of the steppe, and everyone in this blood line shattered into a blood mist, causing the surrounding steppe people to avoid the area of death in terror.
Philip suddenly noticed that there were more than two dozen knights on the left behind Arthas, always gathered together, as if preparing some strange ritual.
Guarded in the middle, a knight who looked like a woman solemnly chanted something on a small jar in his arms, and then from the small jar stretched out a black-green rattan with purple stripes on it, which looked like a monstrous python.
The rattan stretched out into the air, getting longer and thicker, until it was a hundred meters long and hung over the heads of the hundred or so knights who were the arrows of the charge.
The rattan stretched out countless branches, also growing longer and thicker, and they swayed their bodies, like a living giant net, intercepting most of the arrows fired by the steppe people in mid-air.
There were many elite Ah Xun who had awakened at speed and wanted to break into the ranks of the Templar Knights from the air, but they were all entangled in these giant python-like rattans, and the originally sharp scimitar slashed at these rattans with a golden sound, leaving no trace.
These Ah Xun struggled as hard as they could, but they were wrapped tighter and tighter until their necks were tightened, their eyes bulged, their whole faces turned purple and they lost their breath, and they still had a look of fear before death.
The same woman, the knight behind Augustine, showed another miraculous skill, and as she chanted, dozens of green kingfishers flew in all directions.
The kingfisher's turquoise body is as clear as jadeite carved feathers, and its agile eyes sparkle with holiness.
As if they had a mind, the kingfishers flew to the wounds of the wounded knights and velociraptors, and a drop of green liquid wrapped in gold threads welled up from their eyes.
Any wound touched by this green liquid is visible to the naked eye in just a few breaths, and even if it is not completely healed, it reveals fresh flesh.
With each tear shed, the kingfishers shrank a little in size, until they became the size of a peanut after lingering on a dozen knights in a row, and then disappeared into the air with a crisp chirp.
In just a few minutes, hundreds of Templars and thousands of velociraptors were restored.
In addition to these two women, the others were not to be outdone and showed their stunts one after another.
One of the knights near the edge flicked the red whip in his hand, and with each flick of the whip's tail, an invisible shockwave erupted from the whip.
All the grassland Ah Xun who was shrouded by the shock wave seemed to be hit head-on by some kind of strong beast, and flew backwards into the team with a scream, smashing over a piece.
After just a dozen lashes, a vacuum appeared in this area of more than twenty meters, allowing the knights to rush forward without the slightest obstruction.
The other two knights, who were unusually thick and tall, and looked similar, took off their armor at the same time, and roared heroically, and the already strong muscles on their bodies swelled even more, and they also grew long hairs like steel wires, turning into two giant bears with black and gray backs and two meters high.
The two giant bears left the queue on the left and right, and ran to the flanks of the team with their sharp claws, and launched a frenzied killing in the ranks of the steppe Axun.
The heavy mane on his body made him fearless of slashing by swords, especially the striking crescent-shaped white hair on his chest, which would bounce off even if the black steel arrow was shot on it.
Every steppe Axun who collided with him was torn to pieces like a weak sheep, which reminded Philip of Victor of the Alpine tribe.
There was also a knight who didn't look like Ward, with a thin build, but he had condensed spikes from outside his armor.
Each spike was half a meter long, and with the wave of his arm, it shot out hundreds, like a humanoid Gatling.
All kinds of strange and powerful abilities made the already sharp charge of the Templars even faster, like a hot knife cut into cream, piercing, tearing, and crushing the formation of the steppe Axun.
In just a quarter of an hour, the elite steppe Axuns seemed to be somewhat overwhelmed, allowing the Templars to approach the distance of Turissa and Ranridolan less than 500 meters.
And although these ordinary Ah Xun in the back are still surging forward to fill the vacant seats, they have obvious fear in their eyes.
Turissa couldn't stand it any longer, he refused to be stopped by his guards, and stood at the front, twenty round Horcruxes shattered into powder in front of him, and a strange wave spread around him as the center of the circle.
Behind him, hundreds of black-robed steppe people chanted some strange ballad, and their faces showed a pious smile as if they were about to ascend to the kingdom of God, and the next second their bodies exploded into a blood mist, and then towards the twenty taller, naked warriors gathered together, the scene was extremely bloody, and at a glance it was a very evil ritual.
These warriors absorbed these blood mist like black holes, and their stature grew taller and larger, turning into blood giants as high as ten meters in just one minute.
The blood mist and minced flesh formed their new bodies, and faintly they could still see hearts beating in the strong muscles, and thick and hideous blood flowing from the thick and hideous veins, like pythons wrapped around the surface of the blood giant's body, looking as ugly and disgusting as the abomination in Philip's previous game.
Then these blood giants roared unintelligible syllables, and rushed out of the array of steppe people, trampling to death hundreds of Ah Xun who had no time to dodge along the way.
This process of expansion continued, making these blood giants even taller and thicker.
By the time they approached the Templars a hundred meters, they had grown into monsters nearly twenty meters tall.
With a 10-meter-long log in their hands, they kicked several knights away, sweeping through the ranks of the Templar knights.
Since the beginning of the war, the powerful Templars have finally had an adversary, and there have been massive casualties.
No matter how strong they were, they were still flesh and blood, and the huge logs smashed on their bodies, sending many knights who had no time to dodge and their mounts flying into the sky, their bones shattered and blood spurting from their mouths.
The knights quickly stopped charging and dispersed, but their arrows were of little use against the blood giants, and even if a piece of flesh exploded on it, the wound would heal quickly.
Even the previous guard, who was able to shoot a burst arrow, only caused one of the monsters to lose an arm, and it didn't take long for a new arm to form a new arm stretched out from the fracture.
The Blood Giants howled and charged into the ranks of the Templar Knights, each controlling a radius of several hundred square meters.
In just a few minutes, more than three hundred knights and velociraptors were knocked away by these monsters, and the originally indestructible armor was easily torn apart in front of the power that exceeded the limit, and the blood flowing from the wounds continued to collect on those monsters, mending the wounds cut by the knights, but it didn't seem to be as useful as those steppe people.
Thankfully, twenty meters seemed to be the upper limit for these giants, and the extra blood didn't make them continue to grow bigger, except for repairing their damaged bodies.
The formation is too scattered, and the aura of war unfolds in the form of squads, but the effect is much worse, with Templars dying every second, and all kinds of seemingly powerful abilities seem powerless against this unreasonable and evil monster.
The most annoying thing is that despite their tall stature, they don't look clumsy in the slightest, and their speed doesn't look much different from ordinary people.
These monsters are twenty meters tall, which means that they are much faster than expected, and not even much slower than the Speed Awakened.
Except for being a little brutal, it seems that their sanity has not been affected much, and their combat skills are very skillful.
Only Arthas's basilisk-like lance blew one of the barricades in two, but even then the blood giant was not dead, struggling to crawl towards his lower body, as if he could recover at any moment.
And the knight who turned into a black giant bear was also kicked away by a blood giant, and rolled more than a dozen times after landing on the ground, his strong forelimbs bent at an irregular angle, and he passed out, and the black hair on his body gradually disappeared.
The gray giant bear fought a blood giant with the cooperation of his companions, but it also left a foot-long bloody mouth in his ear.
The massive vine unexpectedly played a huge role, tightly wrapping the two blood giants together and burrowing beneath the earth, holding them firmly to the ground.