Chapter 142: A Turning Point in the War
Although Ryan is retreating, it does not mean that he has given up hope, on the contrary, Ryan has been using magic to attack the hurricane formed by the Beast Emperor Andreas with the blade storm in the process of retreating.
In Ryan's heart, the reason why he uses "slow" to describe it is because the lethality of the Beast Emperor Andreas's blade storm is huge, and it continues to be indestructible, but because he has to rotate forward, his movement speed is naturally reduced a lot, which is also the biggest reason why Ryan can also adopt the strategy of walking and fighting patiently to find the shortcomings of the Beast Emperor's move.
If the hurricane created by the Beast Emperor Andreas can reach the lightning speed of the Beast Emperor himself when he launched an attack, and the distance of a few tens of meters is only a flash, then let alone Lane, I'm afraid that even all the humans on the entire royal viewing platform will be crushed by him, right?
Since the Beast Emperor's stunt is not perfect, Ryan firmly believes that there must be a weakness in it that no one knows, but he has not discovered it yet. But the biggest problem now is that if this is just an ordinary adventure of Ryan, he can still try slowly, meticulously and patiently, but now Ryan is on the main battlefield of the war between humans and orcs, and behind him is Queen Catherine, the spiritual leader of mankind, and Her Majesty is not able to move his position, because it will cause a devastating blow to the morale of the entire human army, so Ryan is in a dilemma.
In the face of the surging beast army, in the face of the invincible storm of blades, Lane's heart once again surged with an infinite desire for power, maybe his strength is stronger, he can turn the tide, right? And now, the determined Lane can only stand there, helplessly watching the enemy approach him step by step, and he can't do anything.
Ryan's mentality seems to be back to last year's Atlético Royale, when Catherine Randy flies high in the air and recites a large number of magic spells, all Ryan can do is cast his magic with all his strength to try to tear apart the protective magic around Catherine before she can complete her powerful attack magic, because only by directly attacking Catherine herself can it be possible to interrupt the magician's casting before she can finish her magic.
That time, Ryan lost, and lost so badly that he was almost powerless. To be fair, the disparity in strength gave way to Ryan and his teammates without much complaint after the game, but in Ryan's subconscious, for the first time, he began to crave great power.
Just like Ryan's wish since he was a child, Ryan hopes to have enough strength to protect his family and friends around him, which is why he was able to persevere in Galib's almost perverted training, and it is precisely because he is the only student in front of Galib that he met Drane by chance and embarked on a different path of learning magic.
Everything seems to be going well, and Ryan can't find any opponents in his hometown at all, but under the influence of Galib and Delaney for many years, he has not shown much strength like his childhood playmates, which has also developed Ryan's creed of "keeping a low profile in peacetime and going all out in wartime".
When Ryan ventured out of his hometown, he faced little hindrance, whether it was the robbers who stood in the way or the hordes of wind wolves, whether it was the rebels of Senate or the undead of Elmida, they were all destroyed by Ryan's perseverance.
This also made Ryan develop a kind of self-confidence, which was the rich reward he received in the wandering between life and death, he felt that he "should" be able to protect his family and friends, and his childhood dream could probably come true, right?
So Ryan accepted Victor's suggestion without hesitation, said goodbye to his first girlfriend, and embarked on an adventure with Alendor again. This time, the improvement of his strength can only be explained by the use of "flying techniques", especially during the years of Thor's Fortress, Ryan gradually completed his offensive and defensive system:
In terms of attack, Ryan focuses on using magic missiles to hit the opponent first, and from the beginning of the battle, he uses lightning or fireball techniques according to the number of opponents to desperately suppress until the opponent is crushed by his huge amount of magic. In terms of defense, the instantaneous stone skin technique, the mirror technique, and the misleading technique that can be used freely at critical moments can allow Ryan to protect himself in a battle. And the best defense is offense, as long as Ryan's overwhelming magic surges, where will his enemies have a chance to fight back?
However, the confidence that Ryan has built up through most of his efforts in the past half a year seems to have been trampled on again, this time by Andreas, the Beast Emperor. When facing the first sword master in the history of the orcs, Ryan obviously felt the pressure, and without the help of Allendo and others, Ryan could not even resist the attack of the Beast Emperor on his own.
Ryan knows that the situation he is encountering now is the same as his previous enemy, and the reason why this situation occurs is all because the strength of the Beast Emperor is far above Ryan and others, Ryan attacks, and the Beast Emperor may also be afraid, but he is not afraid, but every time the Beast Emperor makes a move, Ryan has to deal with it with all his might, otherwise it may be an ending of dying on the spot.
What Ryan didn't know was that his mind at this moment had actually gone to an extreme. It is true that Ryan is still not the opponent of the Beast Emperor after putting in the effort, but what does it matter? An opponent like the Beast Emperor, how many people are there in the entire continent? The opponents who can reach this level have paid enough effort and price, whether it is the Beast Emperor Andreas or the Queen Catherine after being reversed, the price he or she paid is unimaginable for Ryan.
This is also because Ryan does not know about these situations, if Ryan knows that Catherine was known as a rare magical genius for a thousand years, and when she escaped from Alexandria's palace, she would not be able to compare to Ryan now. If the current Ryan faced Catherine at that time, Ryan would even need to release a magic missile to defeat the opponent.
After hundreds of years of magical research as a lich, Catherine was transformed into a human by her teacher, the demigod Lich Converse, if it weren't for the limitations of the human body, Catherine would not have been able to use several powerful dark magics, otherwise with Catherine's strength in the lich form alone, even one person would have destroyed a human city.
As for that Beast Emperor Andreas, it was almost impossible for him to become a Sword Master, and if he was asked to do it all over again, he might not be able to succeed. Originally, Andreas's father had a total of seventeen sons, and Andreas was not the best among them, but after the elimination of various methods such as the secret method of orc shaman sacrifice and the cruel natural environment, Andreas became the only descendant of his father and was successfully promoted to the Juggernaut.
Of course, it is impossible for Ryan to know all this, and after all, Ryan is still young, he is not yet 18 years old, and he has not experienced enough in terms of psychology and life experience, although he usually behaves more like a wise old man who has experienced the vicissitudes of life, but it is only influenced by Drane and Galib, in his bones, Ryan is still a young man full of blood and passion, so Ryan will personally lead the team to support Jonas regardless of Luke's order, so when the war is unfavorable, he will take on the responsibility that does not belong to him at all in his heart。
In this kind of large-scale war, no matter how strong a person is, it is difficult to affect the entire battle situation, the beast emperor's sword storm is full of power, but what really makes the orcs threaten the royal viewing platform is the decay of the human regime itself. The bloodline of the former kings has declined, the mighty empire has begun to degenerate from the bone, the officials are corrupt, the nobility is arrogant and extravagant, and the army is untrained...... Even from the Northern Thor Fortress to the imperial capital of the Empire, there was no defense at all, as it was 200 years ago.
So when the orcs in the north made a comeback, most of the empire that seemed to be huge collapsed at once, which is the real reason for the outbreak of this imperial capital defense war, so it is not surprising that humanity has been at a disadvantage in this war.
Ryan may be able to lead the victory of several battles, but when facing the entire battle, especially in the final main battle between the two sides, Ryan's strength is not enough to make up for the huge difference between the military strength of humans and orcs.
In fact, all this should not have happened in the first place, the orcs have a sword master, don't the human beings have a warrior who can match it? The answer, of course, is no. So when the Beast Emperor Andreas's blade storm was less than nineteen steps from the top of the Royal Viewing Platform, a golden light burst out from behind Ryan, fearlessly facing the hurricane full of blood and death, and wrenched with the latter.
"It's General Orlando!" I don't know who shouted, and this sentence made Ryan turn his attention to the battlefield again. General Orlando held his sword "Passion" in one hand and the lion-patterned crossheart shield symbolizing his status as the head of the Royal Knights in the other, and his body was shrouded in a large cloud of golden light.