Chapter 14: The Petrified Monitor Lizard of World War II
"The first batch, in. Sal gave an order, 200 cannon fodder, 200 slave warriors, and 100 soldiers entered the lizard cave one after another, and searched within 30 meters of the exit, and then almost shoulder to shoulder densely defended the perimeter, and absolutely no lizard could sneak in without alarming the defense line. As for attacking from 30 meters away, the petrified monitor lizard is not that powerful. Their petrified gaze generally works within 10 meters, and those with a range of 20 meters are geniuses among geniuses, and 30 meters is too much of an overrun.
A second group followed, expanding the defensive line to a range of 50 meters for all slaves to enter.
"Remember what you have to do, and call for reinforcements as soon as you spot the enemy. The others were on the spot and were not allowed to run around. Mike gave his final instructions, and this time he was protected by the many soldiers led by Goku, and he didn't need to lie near the exit and look through the mirror like he did last time. Fifteen fireball mages, led by Shadurellna, will carry out bombing missions under Mike's command, and an Elder Teslon, who has mastered fifth-order spells, will cast spells on his own as appropriate.
In the rear, Cliven led 10 priests, 10 mages, 150 warriors, and 100 slave warriors to hold the entrance to the Lizard Cave in case any family enemies came to cause trouble.
"Number 9, take someone to the right. "The commander, Marshal Saar, gave the military order.
"Yes!" Lieutenant 9 immediately led 20 Knights of Truth and 50 slave warriors to bring the 400 cannon fodder and 200 of the family slaves who were "inspired" by the mercenary group all the way to the right and set up a defensive circle. These people are "more reliable" and will only be consumed last.
"Gina Fi, take someone to the left. "The commander, Marshal Sal, gave another military order.
"Yes!" Lieutenant Gina Fiye immediately led 5 priests, 30 dark elf warriors, and 50 slave warriors to the left and set up a defensive circle. Their mission is to contain the runaway slaves and restore them as quickly as possible.
"The New Blood Formation is leaving!" Commander Marshal Thrall waved his dragon claws. The so-called new blood brigade is a slave that has recently been bought with a lot of low-quality spies, so it should naturally be consumed first.
Encouraged by the spears, three hundred cannon fodder lined up hand in hand, with a torch for every ten people, and began to pull the net to search tremblingly with small short legs. The slave fighters were also afraid, but the slaves were not so obedient, someone had to do things, and the leaders naturally did not risk their lives, only by them. Fortunately, they are not the first line, and their safety is guaranteed.
In the inner ring of the defensive line, 40 Knights of Truth and 10 Dark Elf warriors led by Goku protect Mike and other spellcasters. In the outer ring of the defense line, the mercenary group of "elites" and slave warriors, a total of 100 people, guarded 600 slave cannon fodder in four batches, ready for them to take over their unfortunate compatriots or perform more important tasks.
The human flesh net advanced very slowly, only about 100 meters in ten minutes. Mike and other "important figures" also advanced so far under the stars of the Knights of Truth, and the slave substitutes followed suit, while the left and right wings remained in the rear.
Although the speed of advancement is a bit slow, Mike feels that it doesn't matter if he is slow, as long as he doesn't slip through the net.
There was no fighting during this time, and it seems that the petrified monitor lizards were completely non-existent.
"The Mutant Boss is very intelligent and can command other petrified monitor lizards. "The Chief of Staff, Captain Shadurilna, reported the situation.
"Under my wise leadership, all petrified lizards are paper tigers. "The commander, Field Marshal Sal, was full of confidence.
The army marched on.
Suddenly, the torches at the left end of the line stopped moving, and the slave cannon fodder began to shout in panic, and the formation was thrown out of order. Goku immediately shoots an arrow and finds a lizard.
"Hmph, it's finally there. Mage Team 1, give me a bang. "Sal pretended to give the order, and the person who carried out the law was not under his control at all.
16 Dark Elf mages, one Tesron Elder acting alone, and the other three were divided into five teams, codenamed One, Two, Three, Four, Five. Five teams take turns, Mike blasts fireballs or magic missiles, and they follow. At the first and third order spell slots, they memorized these two kinds of magic. Other spell slots are at your own discretion and can be used on your own as appropriate.
Mike had already made a move before Thrall's order, and Team 1 followed him closely, with 4 fireballs covering the scene of the incident.
With the light of the explosion, everyone saw the location of more lizards, and Mike led the 2 teams to bombard again.
"Warriors Team 1, rush me!" Marshal Sal waved his dragon claws.
The 150 kobold substitutes on the left side of the perimeter of the line were chased away by the Overseers, crying and rushing over to fill in to prevent any lizards from rushing out. Whoever dares to run slowly, immediately serve with spears!
Because the number of lizards seen is not large, and the size is not very large, the fireball strike ends here. When the kobold substitute rushed up, no living lizards were found.
So they formed a team on the spot, ready to move forward again after forming the team.
But before the ranks could be assembled, the right flank was also attacked.
Everyone concocted according to the law, and fired two rounds of fireballs at the scene of the accident, pressing the 150 kobold substitutes on the right side of the outer line of the defense.
"Hmph, in front of the wise me, just reptiles still dare to play tactics, it's really a piano to the cow!" The wise Marshal Thrall didn't realize his slip of the tongue, and continued to command with a domineering spirit.
In this battle, although the Tesren family sent the most troops, they were mainly defending against possible spoilers in the rear, so they handed over the command to Mike and others to a limited extent. Mike wanted to lead the army himself, but considering that he would also lead the mage on a bombing mission, he gave the military power to Thrall.
Although he was a frequent recruiter, Saar was extremely enthusiastic about recruiting, training, and directing operations. Mike's time as an all-powerful time-traveler and noble master is too precious, Goku spends a lot of energy on the defense of the camp and training powerful warriors to be his successor, and Sermena is unlikely to compete with Sal for leadership due to his status, so Thrall is often able to monopolize power, and the general game is very high. With a year and a half of command experience, although he still goes off the line from time to time, in this situation where he is strong and the enemy is weak, he basically does not affect the overall situation.
Immediately afterwards, the center was also in chaos, and the slaves began to run around.
"Warriors Team 3, on!" Marshal Sal commanded.
This is within the plan, as long as the battle line can be maintained, it will be pressed with cannon fodder, and after the battle is over, the formation will be stabilized, and then continue to advance. If the battle line cannot be maintained, retreat to the hole and reorganize the army. At present, although there are three attacks, they are all small characters, and the battle situation is acceptable.
The petrified monitor lizard six or seven meters long appeared on the left flank, and the substitutes ran around crying and screaming, and even the Overseers could no longer restrain them.
Elder Teslon's move is a level 5 spell monster that immobilizes the monitor lizard for the time being. He is the only mage in the Tesren family who has mastered the 5th order of spells except for the chief mage of Nime, and the main reason for this visit is to deal with monitor lizards to reduce damage, and the mutant leader is handed over to the mercenary group.
"4 teams, 5 teams bombard!" Mike led the shot, followed by 6 other dark elf mages, each of whom fired a fireball at the monitor lizard. No matter how tenacious its vitality is, it can only die on the spot when it can't move.
The confrontation ended quickly, but the formation was out of order, and I don't know if I missed many lizards.
But this was also in the plan, and I was not prepared to fight.
Marshal Saar ordered the whole team to be dragged away with all the wounded and corpses, and the whole army went to the cave to rest and recuperate, and then fought again in half an hour. Slaves who run around and don't obey orders don't care, shout at them to assemble at the entrance of the cave on their own, and if anyone dares not to return before the battle, they will be considered enemies!
Because the soldiers of the Teshlon family guarded the exit, there was no other exit from the cave, so it was impossible for a slave or a lizard to escape. Therefore, if the slaves did not want to die, they had to obediently go back to slavery.
The results are easy to count, and the lizards died fourteen. A giant monster six or seven meters long, three monsters four or five meters long, seven medium monsters about two meters long, and three small monsters about one meter long.
The losses were also quickly counted, only in approximate amounts.
More than 20 slave soldiers were killed and more than 30 were injured, basically caused by friendly fire.
Slaves, cannon fodder, two hundred dead, three hundred, wounded. Only thirty or forty of them were petrified or bitten by the lizards, and the others were either swept by fireballs, disobeyed by the Inspectors, or beaten and trampled on each other.
The two kobolds awakened the arcane bloodline at the moment of life and death, and they were able to cast zero-level spells, so they didn't need to continue to fight.
After this battle, the slaves finally understood who was more deadly, and discipline improved significantly.
The mages used mana pearls to restore the spell slots that had been consumed, and Mike pretended to recover as well. In fact, he didn't have to do this, that is, he didn't want others to figure out how many spell slots he had.
"Leader Tang Seng, the battle is going well. "Adjutant Shadurellna smiled skillfully, and the spell barbarian was lucky enough to kill the giant lizard so smoothly.
"That's natural, the mercenary group has experienced a hundred battles, how can this small scene not go well. "Mike, this is not all nonsense, if every time the goblins are captured, it is a battle, how can the mercenary group be battled.
"Then please. "Shadurellna confirmed another piece of information, the Armed Merchant Regiment was really a mercenary group before.
After half an hour's rest, the tactics of the Sanzang armed merchant group remained the same, but the more than 400 slaves who had been defeated last time were contained on the left side of Jinafei's place for treatment and pacification, and then 450 were separated from the 600 "more reliable" slaves on the right flank, of which 300 were placed on the periphery of the defensive circle to prepare to fill the position, and the other 150 and the 150 slaves who had not rushed up before formed a large human flesh net to search.
This time, the petrified lizard is playing sniper instead of hard fighting. One is petrified here, one is petrified there, and it just doesn't show its head.
Marshal Thrall ordered to speed up the speed, and whoever dared to rub it off would be served by the warlords. Thanks to the spear's encouragement and the lesson of blood, the kobold moved much faster.
By three-quarters of the way through, the slaves had lost thirty or forty, but the petrified lizards could not sit still, so they made dumplings if they continued like this. And so they broke through again.
After a short but fierce exchange of fire, the slaves again disorganized, and Marshal Saar once again retreated.
This time, the lizards left behind nine more corpses. Two big monsters with a length of four or five meters, two middle monsters with a length of two meters, and five monsters with a length of about one meter.
The merchant family alliance rested again.
According to the statistics of the battle situation, the total casualties of the slaves did not exceed two hundred.
"It seems that the casualties will be much less than expected. Adjutant Shadurellna laughed.
"Under my wise command, casualties are rarely taken for granted. Marshal Thrall replied proudly, not knowing that his status had just risen to the level of a "stupid dragon" to "a stupid dragon of some use".
The third time the net was pulled, and the first rout was replaced, and whoever dared not was immediately executed for war crimes. The last one hundred and fifty slaves on the right flank and the one hundred and fifty men who did not rush to fill their positions last time served as reserves.
This time, the formation was not chaotic, and two monsters with a length of two meters were killed. Only 30 were killed or wounded.
After that, the dragnet searched back and forth three times, but no movement was found.
"It seems that the big picture has been decided. Mike sighed. The dark elves are really still too inconvenient and too closed, otherwise they wouldn't be so wasteful, and such a simple matter has not been solved for thirty years.
"The mutant leader is not dead, so we can't take it lightly. Adjutant Shadurellna said. Although she said so, she also felt that the spell barbarian and the stupid dragon who were somewhat useful were going to make a meritorious service.
This time the rest was longer, the slaves ate, and the three hundred "more reliable" slaves were each issued a spear.
So far, a total of five kobolds have awakened the arcane bloodline at the moment of life and death, can cast zero-level spells, and have received magic healing and do not need to continue to fight.
This made Mike sigh, it seems that the gene lock is indeed a problem.
An hour later, the coalition forces struck again. Three hundred "relatively reliable" slaves were armed with spears to form a large net, which stabbed the ground every two steps to prevent lizards from being too well camouflaged. When you encounter a hole, you will send a substitute to drill into the exploration, and if you can't get out, you will blast fireballs into the hole to attract wolves.
In the face of this level of search, the mutant leader and his disciples and grandchildren have no luck no matter how cunning they are.
After all the holes that could enter the kobold were guarded and searched, the mutant leader's position was locked, in a complex cave with five exits.
Mike blasted a fifth-order Death Cloud Technique into it, wanting to see if he could kill insects with one hit. This spell lasted for a full ten minutes, and it was extremely poisonous, and ordinary people would die in a few seconds even if they held their breath and entered the poison cloud. But this mutant leader doesn't know if it's an immune toxin or what's going on, so it can be said that he is strolling around in it.
"This thing is said to be a monster created by a hybrid petrified monitor lizard and a demon again, and it is very likely that it is not afraid of toxins. Sadurilna said. One of the scientific research priorities of the former second family is to improve the strength and IQ of the heterogeneous hybrid, and as a result, the strength and IQ have both increased greatly, otherwise it must not have been overturned.
"It doesn't matter. It's up to Semena. "Mike: They've been talking about a couple of scenarios for this kind of situation. Sermena's spell has been useless until this time, summoning animals with strong combat power and not leaving corpses, and it works well to stack monsters. Otherwise, the hole is too narrow, and after two or three are petrified, the road will be blocked, and there will be no way to kill the enemy.
Sermena summoned a bucket-thick python and a poisonous snake with a thick bowl, and then brushed the thick skin of the half-blood monster with the first-order magic tooth Buff, and everyone also brushed various buffs to enhance their combat power, while also putting on a blindfold to prevent them from being easily killed by petrified gaze, and then let them drill holes together to fight the mutant leader.
The mutant leader is very brave, killing one after another, and is quite invincible. Sermena used all her spells and summoned three pythons, four poisonous snakes, five ferocious weasels, and six black bears, all of which were killed by the mutant leader. But it doesn't matter, there are also dark elf priests who can summon basin-sized spiders, and everyone has a lot of mana pearls, although the 4th order can't use up the giant python, but it is okay to use the 3rd order recovery spell to attract the ferocious weasel and spider.
The mutant leader continued to be heroic for more than half an hour, and when he fought the eighth spider of the seventh priest, it didn't seem to be the one who had the last laugh.
Marshal Thrall sent a kobold scout to check on the situation, and found that the mutant leader was not dead, but he was bleeding a lot from multiple serious injuries on his body, and he didn't even have the strength to crawl.
"Don't live your mouth. Sermena hurriedly ordered, she was afraid that Thrall would do something to domesticate the mutant leader.
As a result, the mutant leader of the petrified lizard, who had occupied the cave for nearly thirty years and no one could control it, died in humiliation under the spear of an unknown kobold.
"How's it going?" asked Kliven Martial Arts, who was guarding the entrance to the lizard's cave, urgently. Although there has been news that the overall situation has been decided, it is still not reassuring until the end.
"We're done, it's your turn. Shadurilna looked slightly excited. Taking down the Lizard Cave would be of great benefit to both the family and herself.
"Great, you guys go back and rest first, and we'll take care of the rest. Cliven waved his hand, and the warriors immediately divided twenty men out to redivide the surviving slaves, some of them back to the families, and some of them to be left for construction.
Whether the Tesren were there to dig holes and build holes or do something else, the omnipotent traverser and high-end mage didn't care at all, he cared about another thing: how to get Saduril away.
Mike originally just thought that Sadurierna was unusually beautiful, and wanted to exchange combat experience with her in simple terms, but after some exchanges, the high-end master felt that he should abandon the worthless XX plot and include Sadurierna in **.
Although Cecilia is cute and Lori, her skills are quite average, and she often has to take the initiative to not go up or down, and Mike must press her under him, so that the two can really enjoy happiness.
Kena'er is young and beautiful, and her skills are not bad, which makes Mike like it very much, and he deeply regrets that she is pregnant and has a daughter.
Gina Fei's bodybuilding skills are superb, which already makes Mike feel that the trip is worthwhile.
But Shadurellna made Mike feel like the three were weak......
If it can be said that the appearance can be said to have its own merits, and the figure can also be said to have its own flavor, then the difference in skills is very objective. From three minutes to two hours, Sadurilna can keep your fighting spirit high and quickly end the fight whenever you want to rest.
With a bewitching appearance, a perfect body shape, and extraordinary sleeping skills, one can be an Mike, and Shadurella has all three, and other defects are naturally no longer defects.
'I didn't eat the legendary Daiburg Garley before I crossed, but after I crossed over, I ate Shadurella, which is the Rolls-Royce of dark chocolate, which can be regarded as making up for a wish. ’
The omnipotent traverser and the high-end master slept with a smile.
Shadurilna waved for Gina Fi, who had come to help, to clean up the battlefield. She knew the mind of the spell barbarian but didn't care, as the top courtesan of Faturi, she had little real power in the family but a very high status, and it was impossible and didn't need to "fly away" with the strange barbarian to go to any messy place.