Chapter 65 Complex
When the army led by Semir crossed the Yonghui barrier, Richard knew that the war was finally over.
The hardest stage turned out to be not the siege of the legend, but the short moment of holding the Yonghui fortress. With a mere few hundred men defending such a long defensive line, and at the same time having to withstand the impact of tens of thousands of Hulan warriors at both ends, even if Richard has a geographical advantage, even if the strength of his men far exceeds that of Hulans, its hardships and tragicness are far beyond imagination.
Richard stood with his sword in hand, watching as countless Hulands were exiting the Continental Bridge fortress, and watched as Semir led the warriors into the entire fortress like a tidal wave, and began to clean up the battlefield and hunt for hidden enemies. The Hulan battle has now opened, and on the way to the Divine Nest, there is no such natural danger as the Continental Bridge. With his large number of followers and the Knights of Formation, Richard was confident that he would crush an army of any size in the open field.
He turned his head, but saw a scene that he didn't want to see. Throughout the Yonghui Fortress, there were corpses overlapping each other. Most of them are Hulans, but there are also many corpses of elite Darkblade Knights and Constructed Knights. Richard closed his eyes, unwilling to count the corpses, a number he simply did not want to face. However, the wisdom and real talent are cold, and the number of casualties is given without the slightest emotion. Among them, the elite Darkblade Knight is the best statistic, and as long as you count the number of people who can still respond, you can know how many have died in battle.
The elite Darkblade Knight who can also respond is ...... Eighty-four.
This number made Richard feel a little dizzy, but he was telling him in his heart, which was absolutely true. At the height of the battle, Richard more than once ordered the elite Darkblade Knights to cover their followers and construct the Knights with their own lives. Even so, the Constructed Knights were killed in a total of more than a dozen horses. Many of the followers were also seriously injured, and later even Io and Nayu went into battle with chains, and the two priests fought extremely fiercely, and it seemed that they were not under the knights of the Constructed, but their real role was not hand-to-hand combat after all, and it can be seen that the battle was hard.
I don't know how many times, Richard felt that he could no longer swing even a knife, but all the time, Richard felt that there were eyes watching him, from his followers, from the Costume Knights, and even Richard had the illusion that his eyes would come from the elite Darkblade Knights. Richard knew that if he fell, or was unable to fight, the last of these people's fighting spirit might be gone. So Richard gritted his teeth and continued to slash, and even another after one stab. At some point, a ray of power will emerge from the well of the stars, rejuvenating Richard.
In the eyes of the Knights, Richard seemed to be fighting forever, and they were so enthusiastic about it that they threw themselves into the battle of forgetting their lives and death. And the knight in costume is fighting to the death, and Richard, as the leader, would rather die than give up first.
This is how miracles are made, and miracles are never done by one person.
Although it was a miracle, the number of casualties still made Richard feel distressed. But Richard knew that this was the best he could do, and even Gordon, in his heyday, had not been able to trample the Yonghui barrier under his feet. Now that Richard has captured the entire plane's supposedly unfallable fortress, how can it be possible without paying the price.
Richard wanted to take two steps, but as soon as he moved, his body reminded him that it was the knife that was supporting him, not that he was sticking it into the ground. At this time, in Richard's gaze, Lina came over and stood beside him. The dragon mage's expression was very complicated, as if he wanted to say something, but he refused to say anything.
Richard's gaze slowly swept over the entire fortress and asked, "Lina, although this fortress is difficult to fight, it should not be impossible for Gordon and you to take it." How is it that after all this time, the battle line is still here?"
At the mention of Gordon, the dragon mage's face became even more complicated, her gaze fell on the side, she didn't dare to touch Richard's line of sight at all, and said in as calm a voice as possible: "At that time, Lord Gordon was not unable to attack the Yonghui Barrier, but was reluctant to construct the knight in his hand. At that time, Hulan still had two legendary powerhouses, and in a big battle that day, although we were seriously injured one and beat the other away, we also suffered losses. Moreover, Hulan has no special products at all, no resources of special value, and we don't know what to do with the entire plane. In addition, Lord Gordon doesn't have much money, and it will take a lot of time to make up for the loss of a few Constructed Knights. And you're different. ”
Lina's implication was that Gordon was far less wealthy than Richard, that he could casually pull out a hundred horsemen and lose a dozen horsemen in a decisive battle. Gordon could never afford such a loss. And the elite Darkblade Knight, who is also a rare elite in Lina's eyes, lost most of it in this battle, which is definitely a huge loss. On the other hand, Lina also complained a little about Richard's loser. In her eyes, Hulan is just a place where she can steadily produce millions of dollars a year, and there is no other value. Richard's losses in this battle, even if he occupied the entire plane, I am afraid it would take decades or even hundreds of years to make up for it.
This is common knowledge in Norland that almost everyone knows about plane warfare. The starting point of the natives of the plane to consider war is life and death, but the Noland superiors need to think about input and output, and it is not the entire plane that is called success. In the vast majority of cases, it is wise to occupy a part of the plane and then move on to defense, and then open up new planes. Because at a certain stage of dimensional conquest, the input will skyrocket, but the harvest will not increase much.
As for why there was such a strange feeling that Richard was a loser, Lina didn't think about it.
Richard did not respond, though.
When Lina hurriedly looked over, she realized that Richard had passed out at some point. She panicked and began to search for priests all over the world. As a result, Io and Nayu were both caught by her, almost pressing on Richard. The two priests carefully examined it for a long time before declaring that Richard would be fine, but that he had been injured too much and his body was too depleted. Facing the strange gazes of the two great priests, Lina was at a loss, and only by looking at them fiercely could she not lose her momentum.
Io and Nayu glanced at each other and smiled heartily, and heckly they let Rina see their own smile clearly.
In an instant, the red dragon Carlo almost flew and roared in the night sky again!
When Richard awoke, he was greeted by a completely unfamiliar environment, with a strange wooden ceiling painted with exotic murals. He thought about it for a while, and then he realized that he should lie in the fortress of the Continental Bridge on Hulan's side. Richard struggled to sit up from the bed, and was surprised to find that the wounds on his body were close to healing, and there was a tingling and itching sensation everywhere. He had only undergone a simple divine treatment, and the wound was able to heal so quickly because of the hydra's ability to recover. Richard tried to move, but felt that there was no dark wound left on his body, and he was relieved. As soon as Richard's heart was relieved, a thunderous sound immediately sounded in his belly, and the huge hunger pang controlled him, making him want to gnaw on the head of the bed!
Richard barely managed to control himself, stumbled to the door, and told the guards to bring food as quickly as possible. The first deliveries were bread and bacon, which were immediately cleaned up by Richard. But this only made Richard feel more hungry, and he immediately urged the guards to bring more food. After adding meals five times in a row, Richard swept the amount of food from more than a dozen strong men into his stomach, and then he barely felt half full. He was still hungry, but his stomach was completely full, and his super digestion couldn't kill so much food. Richard's hunger now is actually a thirst for energy everywhere in his body. Looking at the empty dishes on the table, Richard missed the dark blue and the royal family's extremely high-energy food.
As soon as he was able to move freely, Richard went to visit his followers one by one.
The splash lay quietly, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was pretending to sleep. Standing beside her bed, the battle priest, Io was now sweating through his heavy clothes, his face was full of exhaustion, and his hands were pressed on top of the girl, and the divine light could be seen falling on her like mist and rain, and then absorbed into it.
Seeing Richard come in, the battle priest gathered his divine power, let out a sigh of relief, and said to Richard, "Are you awake? This guy, how to put it, is really ruthless to himself!"
Richard's heart tightened for no reason, grabbed the battle priest, and asked eagerly, "What's wrong with her?"
Io snorted and said angrily: "What's the matter? All the internal organs in my stomach are about to crumble into slag! Saving her is almost like resurrection, I really don't understand her, how can she use her body to block the knife? Not to mention for you? If you follow my idea, it would be best to let a knife cut you directly." ”
Richard stopped and solemnly said to Yiou: "Thank you!"
Io was stunned for a moment, and finally didn't say anything, just shook his head and left the room.
The room was left with Richard and the girl. Richard walked to the side of the bed and saw the girl's eyelids move, she was obviously awake, but she didn't open her eyes.
At this moment, the girl is not wild, but with a little weakness, and there is almost no blood on her lips. Richard knew the power of the Sanctuary Killer's full blow, if it weren't for the girl's particularly strong physique, I am afraid that it would not have lasted the battle at all. And Io is no longer the battle priest he used to be, he and Nayu have wandered on the line of life and death many times in Faro, and finally scraped together enough sacrifices to let quicksand raise the level ceiling for him and Nayu once. So now Io is already an eighteenth-level priest, and even so, saving the splash intact has almost exhausted all of Io's divine power.
When the girl flew between the knife and Richard, she did not hesitate at all, completely by instinct. Even if she had a hint of thought, she didn't have time to block the knife. Thinking of this, Richard couldn't help but sigh.
ps: This should have been a change that should have been sent out at noon, but it has been less recently, so it was sent out in advance. It didn't change at noon.