Chapter 13: The Battle of Cold Stone
One of the factions with the lowest requirements in all aspects, the Warrior Oud has always been the most numerous of all the warfare classes on the continent of Navia. Especially in mercenary groups, the warrior Oude is often the mainstay of all mercenary groups.
In the hierarchy of the warrior system, the warrior professions of 1 to 3 are called reserve warriors, and the warrior professions of 4 to 6 are: tenacious warriors, predators, and indomitable warriors.
Warrior classes at levels 7 to 9 are: Rage Fighter, Dreadnought Fighter, and Bloodthirsty Fighter, who are often referred to as Fighters, or Fighters. The warriors who have successfully promoted to the rank of fighter are required to master how to control their emotions at this stage, turning anger into strength and fear into invisibility, becoming the most fearsome blade on the battlefield.
Soldiers of the 10th and 12th levels are known as the courage of "one man is the key, ten thousand people are not open", as long as there are such fighters in the army, they can often easily break the army and kill the enemy, and return triumphantly. As for the warriors who have reached level 12, it is rumored that they can slay dragons alone. Therefore, warriors of level 10 to 12 are called "braves" - the brave who breaks the army, the brave who triumphs, and the brave who slayers the dragon.
- "A Detailed Explanation of the War Professions on the Navia Continent: Warrior Chapter"
Garoosh led his tribe to stop in a clearing about a dozen miles away from Cold Rock City, secretly praying to the ancestors that his enemies would appear sooner. Today was the day of the promised battle with the humans of Cold Rock City, and he couldn't wait to win it.
I don't know if Garush's prayer was echoed by the ancestors, and after a while, the cold stone heavy gate slowly opened.
The first to emerge was the most elite heavy infantry in the Bledsoe Empire's infantry formation, the Stone Lion Legion.
They were dressed in gray-black full-body plate armor with a dark background, and held a huge long shield about a person high, with a shield of different sizes in the center of the long shield and on the left chest of the armor.
The other hand raised the heavy spear with a thick fist diagonally, and at the end of the black and heavy hard steel, the tip of the spear forged by cold star iron flashed a little cold, making people feel the coldness of death in the air.
The soldiers of the Cold Stone Lion Legion walked in unison, no one talked during the whole march, and there was no noise of weapons and shields colliding, with dark body armor, which invisibly gave people a sense of solemnity that could not breathe.
Shishi, which means solid and unbreakable, represents protection and stability. As a border town of the Bledsoe Empire, Cold Rock City is more than just geographical. In addition to serving as the first barrier to protect the Garente Empire, the rich mineral resources of Cold Stone City are an important support for Bledsoe's military and smelting industries.
Every year, the minerals mined from Cold Stone City alone can support the manufacture of 40% of the weapons and armor of the Bledsodi ** Division. Therefore, in order to protect this city of great significance to Bledsoe, the most elite heavy infantry regiment of the empire, the "Stone Lions", is stationed here all year round.
At the same time, this is also the reason why, after hearing that Leng Shi was repeatedly harassed by Garnt, the Byzantine decided to go to the army in person.
Cold stones, no room for error.
In fact, the Stone Lion Legion is also famous in Navia, but because Bledsoe's knights are too shiny, so they are overshadowed, after all, in many places, Bledsoe is also called the "knight country".
Of course, part of the reason is that among all the human forces, the Stone Lion Legion may be able to claim the title of king. However, if we take the whole of Navia as a stage and compare it with other races, the innate inferiority of some human races cannot be easily concealed.
For example, the Hammer Guards of the Dwarves, the Silvermoon Praetorian Guards of the Elves, and the puppet pioneers of the gnomes, these are all legendary infantry regiments that have carved their mark on the history of Navia, and even experienced the first baptism of the Abyssal Calamity. If you want to compare with these troops with very different styles and characteristics, the Shishi Legion undoubtedly has a long way to go.
Even in modern times, dwarves and elves have migrated north of the Misty Forest, and the gnomes have no idea where to hide to continue their epoch-making inventions. The most famous of the Minotaur tribes, the Wrath of the Earth and the Orc Tribe's Blood Guards, once the ace of the Orc Empire, are still slightly superior to Bledsoe's Stone Lions.
However, from another point of view, the infantry regiment as a human can be compared with these strongest infantry divisions in the Navia continent, and even in history, which in itself is an affirmation for the soldiers of the Shishi Legion.
Behind the stone lion warriors, groups of archers in tan light armor marched out of the city gate in a neat phalanx. They carried half-man-tall crossbows and delicate horns made from the conch of a conch, a specialty of the coastal city south of Bledsoe, around their waists.
Of all the war professions in Navia, if there is one that is the most demanding for the congenital conditions, it must be the shooter. In the level 12 archer Ode, except for the elves, the highest achievement of any other race can only reach the level of a level 9 Windranger.
Perhaps it's due to a birth vision defect, a sense of the direction of the wind, or something like that, or because it's too rare for a mortal to be favored by Artemis, the goddess of the moon who is in charge of the hunt. All in all, for thousands of years, no one has been able to break this shackle.
In the hierarchy of the archer system, the archers of grades 1 to 3 are the same as other war professions, and are commonly known as trainee archers, while the shooters of grades 4 to 6 are the main force of the army's medium and long-range troops, and people usually call them "archers", named after "hunting", "war" and "jungle";
Shooters at levels 7 to 9 can do no missing shots, and it can basically be said that they have reached the critical point where the shooter is Oude, so they are also called "marksmen", considering that shooters at this stage prefer to travel in the way of a lone ranger, and are self-reliant by hunting down wanted criminals with bounties and the like.
Therefore, the shooters at this stage were given titles more similar to bounty hunters - Demon Hunter, Avenger, Windranger.
As for the level 10 to 12 marksmans, they only exist in the elves. When elves encounter some tasks that require them to leave the forest and go out to human society, they usually send their best marksmen to them.
The elves who went out wore a wide hood to hide their pointed ears and overly handsome faces, and they carried longbows made of oak, and often lent a helping hand when they met those in need, and for this kindness they earned the beloved title of Ranger.
The Ranger is the best evaluation of the noble deeds of the elves.
In the Elven Clan, shooters who reach level 10 will have a suffix at the end of their name, level 10 is "Light Wind", level 11 is "Shadow", and level 12 is "Firmament". For example, this year's Elven Regent, his name is - Castill, Greenleaf, Firmament.
As for the existence of the highest point in the archer system of Oude, there is only one such sentence in the "Detailed Explanation of the War Profession on the Navia Continent".
"Under the sky, there is nothing to hide. ”
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It didn't take long for the sound of iron horses behind the crossbowmen's phalanx to sound, and the world-famous Bledsoe knights began to appear. The knights' weapons and shields were polished by the squires, shining in the sunlight.
They are dressed in silver-white armor, and the sword of justice, which symbolizes truth and glory, is engraved in the heart of the armor's torso, signifying that chivalry will always be remembered in the heart. Just as armor protects one's body and one's life, so knights will always guard their oath and cherish their lives.
This may be one of the reasons why Bledsoe's knights are the best in the world. "Humility, mercy, justice, honor, sacrifice, valor, spirituality, honesty. "The ancestor King Darren led his people and guarded his people with this spirit, and his descendants continued to pass on this spirit and spread it to every corner of the kingdom. Eventually, the man with both strength and conviction came out and became the spokesperson of this spirit, the knight.
On either side of the hilt of the Sword of Justice, a pair of golden wings flare outward, marking the knights' belonging, Bledsoe, the land of the winged lions.
Even on horseback, the knights' spines stood straight like green pines, and they ran quickly but orderly to their positions, flowing to the wings of the ranks like water at a fork.
Garoosh observed the movement of Cold Stone City from afar through the "vision technique" cast by the shaman around him, and although he had to admit that Bledsoe's army seemed to be much more elite than he thought, Garoosh did not think that a mere human could stop the warriors of his own clan.
Besides, I have long heard that there are many people among human beings who like "face engineering", and perhaps the army on the opposite side is just a show, which can be defeated in one blow and is useless.
Just as Garoosh was thinking this, he suddenly felt that the temperature around him seemed to drop by a few degrees suddenly, which made him feel excited, and then, a roar that seemed to sound in his ears bloomed like thunder rising from the ground, Garoosh only felt his head sink, the vision technique was interrupted, and the shaman beside him also let out a muffled snort, and then the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
The snow-white Winged Lion King glanced disdainfully in the direction where the Garente army was, although Alatius originally just wanted to ignore it, but the other party's inquiry was too unscrupulous, and the feeling of always buzzing around like a small flying insect still made it quite unhappy, so he directly used his strength to forcibly cut off the opponent's spell, so that the caster was counterattacked.
At its side, the Byzantines led the knights from the royal city to form the final phalanx of the ranks.
Human armies and orc tribes are separated by air, and it has been a long time since there has been a war between different races on this scale on the continent of Navia.
The battle of cold stone is about to break out.
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