Chapter 486: Heathcliff's First Battle
In the forest, the sound of fighting continued, and while most of the mercenaries fled in panic, a few chose to resist in desperation.
For example, the group of more than a dozen mercenaries in front of Heathcliff is a special case, these mercenaries seem to be a small team, and after converging, they plan to concentrate their forces to break out, but they are hit by Heathcliff and Major Alex. The first thing they met was that the major directly used alchemy to block the retreat of these mercenaries, and then persuaded them to surrender in the tone of a soldier, and then these desperate mercenaries ignored the muscular brother in front of him and directly pulled out their weapons and began to resist.
For Heathcliff, since the other party wants to give himself a chance to practice, it is better to play with them, and by the way, see how strong the body he set for himself in the game after coming to the other world.
The various skills in the game have been transformed into memories and experiences, and the number of characters is materialized into the various physiques of the body, and Heathcliff, who was once Kayaba Akihiko, is constantly adapting to the new body, enjoying the excitement brought by the real battle, and the sword and shield have cooperated with each other, and the battle mode with both offense and defense is matched with the memory and experience gained from the game, and in terms of swordsmanship and tactics, the current Heathcliff is definitely the top warrior in the continent.
During the battle, Heathcliff had crossed his shield to block the mercenary's battle axe, and the long sword pierced directly into the opponent's lower abdomen through the gap below, and the mercenary staggered back a few steps with the blood coughed out of his mouth.
After hitting the other party hard, Heathcliff immediately gave up the target in front of him and stared at another mercenary who was wielding a flail trying to avoid the minotaur warrior, in the battle just now, Heathcliff did enjoy the thrill called real, sure enough, no matter how good the game is compared with the real reality, there are always some flaws, when the blood in the mercenary's body splashes on Heathcliff's face, the warmth and fishy smell began to strongly stimulate the perception of Gong Neng.
"Damn~ Give me death. โ
The mercenaries, who were forced by the minotaur to retreat one after another, saw Heatscliff rushing towards him. The flail in his hand swung like a whirlwind and smashed over.
As long as Heatscliffe has crossed his shield to resist no matter how strong the attack is, even if he is facing a god, he can reduce the damage by 50%. This special ability, which can be called a BUG, made the power of the mercenary's flail become like a feather falling on the shield, and the reflexive Heathcliff directly smashed the mercenary in the face with the shield, directly causing the poor guy to lose two front teeth and pass out.
"You fought very bravely~ It seems that you should have had a lot of combat experience before. Major Alex, the powerful alchemist, said to Heathcliff with some appreciation, and Alex could see that Heathcliff was not a first-time recruit.
"Haha~ Actually, in a real sense, this is my first time on the battlefield. โ
Heathcliff smiled helplessly, and said that when he was designing the SAO game, he had to log in to the game from time to time to test the attacks of various NPC monsters. After the SAO game was running normally, he trapped tens of thousands of players in the game and lived with them for two years, among which he didn't know how many monsters he had killed. But this qiฤ is all virtual, and this time he is on the battlefield in the real sense.
After beating a few mercenaries, the rest were either killed by the Minotaur tactics and elven archers, or in desperation they dropped their weapons and surrendered. Heathcliff and Major Alex continued their way towards the town to search for any mercenaries in hiding, reminiscing about how they had felt during the battle.
Heathcliff felt that there was nothing wrong with killing and fighting, and that he would not blame himself for a long time just for killing someone, like those who have lived in peace for too long. After all, although it was indirect in the game, Heathcliff also killed more than 4,000 players. Since Heathcliff was able to play the entire game to the end under the torture of his conscience, killing an enemy now was not a psychological burden for Heatscliff at all.
When I was a child, I dreamed of the scenery of another world, dreaming of becoming a brave man to defeat the demon king, and now when my childhood dream became a reality, I really came to another world, not only that, but also became an excellent warrior in the game I designed, Heathcliff only had great joy in his heart, if he said that one day he would eventually lead to death, then Heathcliff hoped that he could leave his own legend in this other world and die like countless heroes!
In this way, even if you die, you will have no regretsโโ
Half an hour later, the battle had come to an end. There was no more noise in the forests around the town, and the ground was littered with the corpses of mercenaries. Thirty or forty mercenaries who survived were driven to the center of the town to be guarded, and almost all of these injured mercenaries lowered their heads and showed frightened expressions, looking at the frost and snow elves and minotaurs with weapons in their hands around them.
"Take all the captives to the outpost first, and then gather them together and send them to the Arnold Mountains. โ
Ash and the others are still chasing down the escaped mercenaries on the front line. For the time being, the disposition of the captives could only be coordinated by Major Alex.
"Lord Alex, what about those mercenaries frozen in icicles. An elven scout asked.
Alex touched his chin and said, "Check if there are any survivors inside, and if so, unfreeze them and escort them to the outpost." โ
This time, the power of the small compound frozen realm circle has been weakened a lot because it is dealing with humans, and Yalin's request is to capture as many people as possible as a reserve labor force to avoid confronting the dragon alliance after the end of the rookie protection period in the future. It is not possible to find a shortage of labor after obtaining population resources from elsewhere.
Although the power has been reduced, there are still many mercenaries who were killed by the cold in the first place and failed to enter a state of suspended animation, but there are also lucky people. When the Snow Elf inspected, he found that there were three icicles in a clearing in the barn, and one of them was Garnat, the leader of the Eagle Mercenary Regiment.
The other two were young women dressed as warriors, both of whom looked to be in their early twenties, with upright features and beautiful faces, and their well-trained bodies showed a strange allure like that of a female leopard. It's just that the situation around these three people is a little strange, the ground is full of mercenary corpses, and most of these corpses have been killed rather than frozen to death, and it is obvious that there was internal strife here before.
"What the hell is going on? Is there a civil war among these mercenaries?" Major Alex, who had been hiding in the tunnels since just now, didn't know what was going on, but soon an elven scout brought an order from Kim Bradley to quickly thaw the two female warriors and bring them back to the outpost.
With the wizard in hand, the elven scout had just stepped forward to thaw one of the female warriors when the icicles suddenly created many cracks from within. When the elven scout saw this, he immediately stepped back vigilantly and pulled out the dagger at his waist, and some of the busy elves and minotaurs around him also quickly took out their bows and arrows and aimed their weapons at the icicles with growing cracks.
Heathcliff, who was still looking at the female warrior in the icicle, immediately raised her shield in front of her, and said while retreating: "Everyone stay away, beware!!"
As soon as the words fell, the icicles exploded instantly, and the flying ice cubes shot out in all directions like bullets, causing a lot of damage to the surrounding elves and minotaurs. One of the ice cubes focused on the cross shield in Heathcliff's hand, causing it to take several steps back before it steadied itself, and Heathcliff felt a dull pain even if the shield was against his arm. It can be seen how terrifying the speed and force of the ice cube flying just now were!
The female warrior frozen in it walked out with a low roar like a resurrected demon, and the next moment the female warrior in another icicle also broke free from her restraints, carrying a huge two-handed sword almost as tall as herself, and walked towards the crowd step by step. There was frostbite all over her body, and there were some ice cubes left, but the female warrior just stared at the people around her like a beast driven by primitive instincts.
"The archers are in position!" Heatscliffe ordered Major Alex, who had been slightly injured by the ice.
The two female warriors in front of him did not look like humans from any angle, and the terrifying aura emanating from their bodies made Heatscliff feel the cold hairs all over his body stand upside down. And the creatures' instinctive reaction to danger made Heathcliff's mind instantly breed the idea that they must be killed!!
Otherwise, your own side will die!
After the Ice Archer placed the arrows solidified by ice crystals on the bowstring, Heatscliff gave the order without going against his will: "Release the arrows!!"
A rain of arrows flew out like angry waves, but the two female warriors made an astonishing move, not only did the two of them not have any defensive moves, but even put down the two-handed swords in their hands and let the arrows pierce their bodies, and in an instant, the bodies of the two were covered with dense arrows, among which arrows even pierced into the eye sockets of the two, but even so, the female warrior still maintained a strange calm, just stood quietly in place and did not move.
What the hell is this?
Heathcliff, who was preparing for defense for a while, didn't know what to do. (To be continued......)