Murphy was crazy tonight.

In Midnight Blessing, the vampires' combat power is frighteningly increased.

Although gnolls are also adept at night combat, their kobold minions are also rested at night, and being attacked can cause chaos and cause them to be completely less destructive than they are during the day.

The Blood Vulture Clan spearheaded, and the Thorn Clan's assassins soon followed.

Their goal was very clear, and they didn't bother to assassinate ordinary gnolls, and under Vesta's leadership, the White Mountain Assassins targeted only those hunting priests who could unleash their bloodthirsty magic.

The Thorn Nightkin are the most dangerous assassins on the continent in the night, and none of them, relying on their super talent for passive stealth, as long as the hunting priests they are targeting don't even want to run.

Compared to these stylish assassins, the pirates of the Blooddread Clan are not so sophisticated.

They like to fight with the wind, and they pick on the chaotic kobolds, and the hunting priests will not use the precious "long-range ineffective totems" on the kobolds cannon fodder, which leads to the ruthless damage inflicted on the kobolds after the Blooddread pirates enter the ruins of Position 2.

The vampires are bound to reclaim their positions, so tonight's battle is in expulsion mode, and it's easy to do that with Tracey, a golden psyker.

But Lord Heather is also a vampire.

After she heard that the three clans of Blood Vulture, Blood Terror and Thorn were united on the front line, she quickly brought the elite blood knights of the Blood Alliance clan to "participate in the grand event".

Lord Heather's appetite was clearly greater than Murphy's, and she hoped to take advantage of the darkness to fight into Position 1 and retake it.

But this is obviously not possible.

Even if there are two goldenrods in charge, it will not be so easy to attack the No. 1 position that has been completely occupied and defended by the jackals.

The two armies had already entered the level of hand-to-hand combat, bayonets were red, and the No. 2 position became the front line for the two sides to fight, and every trench, every impact pit, and every underground tunnel was a battlefield for both sides.

The commander of the gnolls is clearly cunning.

It knew that this kind of interlaced battle line could nullify the firepower advantage of the Black Flame Pass, and that Lord Heather would not be able to smash a cannonball on his own head no matter how crazy he was, so this kind of close-range deathmatch could make the most of the Gnoll's numerical superiority at the moment.

The vampire enchantment that loomed over Position 3 was a big problem, but when the Claw Splitter Mother arrived, it would definitely be wiped out.

All the jackals need now is to wait!

The Black Flame Pass has been completely cut off from the outside world, and the place has been trapped, and the Blood Alliance clan and their allies can either retreat or face the onslaught of the Black Plague on this death position.

"Bang"

At dawn on Position 2, Major Ron, who had been invited to come over for a "hunt", grabbed a large-caliber dwarven revolver with one hand and smashed the head of the downed Gnoll Assassin in front of him.

The major killed very well, and turned back to the several soldiers who followed him, boasting:

"This is the 100th gnoll that Lao Tzu killed in the Black Flame Pass!"

"Just blow it, Major."

A veteran with a trench gun quipped:

"That's the 30th at most, of course, if you count the Iron Captain's record, that's barely enough for 100, or do you count the kobold's head as well? Is this some strange way of calculating the merits of the children of the powerful? ”

"Get out, you bastard! Aren't I allowed to brag? ”

Ron cursed, causing a group of veteran oilboys to laugh.

The vanguard he led were all elite selected from the Pioneer Legion, and although they were not as powerful as vampires and did not have the characteristic of being afraid of death as foreigners, they had the advantage of being very skilled and perfectly coordinated.

A squad of Plantagenet Vanguard can easily kill several times as many enemies as long as they occupy favorable terrain.

Of course, the veterans weren't joking.

Compared to the disgraceful Major Ron, who fell and sprained himself, his adjutant Captain Iron Hand was significantly better and outstanding.

Captain Robinson is already tall, this guy is said to have some mountain blood, in short, his martial arts skills are very good, and he is carrying a battle axe to charge in front of him at this time.

A gnoll brute rushed over to sneak up on the captain while he was fighting with the enemy, but the captain ignored it, and his reaction to the slashed knife was quite extreme, raising his left arm to block it.

With a bang, the gnoll's blade slashed into the captain's arm, making a metallic crash.

This froze the brute.

But then the Iron Captain slashed the enemy in front of him with an axe, and without his own weapon, he turned around and pounced on the sneak attacker and crushed him to the ground.

The left arm is raised, and the snow-white folding blade pops out with a click.

Under the gnoll's wide-eyed gaze, the "steam-like mantis knife" pierced down like a loaded bullet under the pressurized thrust of a miniature steam furnace, and thrust into its eye socket with a pop, piercing the hard skull.

There's also a skinny gnoll assassin ready to sneak up.

But the Iron Captain turned around and clasped its neck with his trademark "Iron Hand", and a white column of air erupted from the back of his arm, pinching the assassin to death with five fingers.

The powerful blow caused the soldiers who followed the captain to cheer.

Shouting the nickname "Iron Hand", they lunged around with a morale boost to drive the kobolds out as they tried to retake the crater.

"Major, it's getting dawn! The vampires are retreating, and we should retreat too. ”

Captain Robinson withdrew his weapon, pressed it back into his arm, turned back and pulled his battle axe from the corpse of the gnoll behind him, and turned back to Major Ron, who had just killed a gnoll hunter, and shouted:

"If the vampires withdraw, we won't be able to hold this position alone."

"But it's something we've worked so hard to get back, so I'm not going to give it away."

Ron moved his neck.

Surveying the terrain from all sides, and finally pointing to a small plateau behind him that had been hit by a meteorite, he said:

"Let the brothers withdraw there! Backed by the Blood Vulture Clan's enchantment as a defense, we will hold on for a few more hours, and if we can't stand it, we will retreat into the enchantment. Iron Hand, we're here to fight! To put it mildly, killing a few more jackals will make your military achievements even more. ”

"Well, I don't really care."

Captain Iron Hand shrugged his shoulders and escorted his commander back back, and he whispered:

"As long as I can bring you back safely, I will be promoted, this is what General Soros promised, so for the sake of my future, Major, you had better not do dangerous things."

"Hey, I'm not here to gild like Frazier, I'm here to fight, do you understand?"

Major Ron snorted, rather spirited.

However, this good mood quickly disappeared after dawn.

As everyone had suspected, after dawn the vampires retreated, and the gnolls launched an onslaught to try to retake the positions that had been robbed of them during the night, and the cubs were so fierce that the soldiers who remained in the positions were driven back to the barrier within two hours.

But they didn't dare to chase after them.

Because the Bloodrats had planted a lot of mines in the night, the reckless charging gnolls calmed the angry Overseers after reimbursing four teams.

They sent kobolds who were sensitive to what was buried in the ground to clear the mines, and then they were killed and wounded by mortars by the "iron barrel boys" who were hidden by the KPA.

By the afternoon, a new batch of supplies had been sent from the Arsenal of Transencia to the front, and the soldiers of Translancia had stepped out of the barrier and began to reinforce the pesky trenches they had dug with wood and barbed wire.

By dusk on the first day, the entire No. 3 position had been reinforced with barbed wire.

Several Gnoll Overseers sent kobolds to test the barbed wire, but they couldn't even get close enough to get shot by their hunters.

This is an artificial obstacle that prevents the Jackals' infantry from exploiting their numerical superiority.

Seeing the new tactics that the Translancians came up with, the Gnoll Overseers were also a little numb.

They don't have tanks, they can't ignore the barbed wire fence and continue to charge, and the damn night is just around the corner, and if nothing else, tonight is another vampire night raid.

Then the moment the sun set, Murphy told the jackals with practical actions.

Don't doubt that the night has become a hell for the gnolls!

Tonight was almost a repeat of last night's battle, with the Gnoll vanguards being repelled by the combined forces of the four vampires in the night, but unlike last night, when the next morning came, some areas of the recaptured Second Position were also heavily fortified with barbed wire and trenches.

And this time, the Transancians sent special soldiers to guard there, so that the gnolls would have to pay several times more to regain their positions during the day than before.

They do have a steady stream of kobold cannon fodder to drive, but if the defenses of the entire Black Flame Pass are strengthened in this way, then they will consume all the kobolds they have on hand, and the Claw Splitting Clan will not even be able to break through this damn tortoise shell.

After several commanders under Lord Heather came to Position 2 to observe the battle and saw with their own eyes the excellent performance of the barbed wire and trenches in defensive battles, the blacksmiths of the Black Flame Pass were quickly given new jobs.

Make barbed wire!

The more the merrier!

At the same time, Lord Heather completely opened up his inventory, and placed more than 150 automatic hunting crossbows on Position 3 as a firing point, which was very similar to the heavy machine gun in place, making Murphy's Position 3 a "wall of sighs" completely.

What's even more terrifying is that the situation that the jackals fear most is fast coming to fruition.

Lord Heather mobilized all of her Servant soldiers and remodeled her remaining nine-fold position in the rear, apparently determined to complete the final defensive upgrade against the Black Flame Pass.

In Murphy's words, the pass is getting infinitely closer to the "otherworldly Verdun", and Heather and his other commanders seem to have made up their minds to turn it into the most terrifying "flesh mill" the continent has ever seen.

"It's long overdue!"

Murphy lowered his telescope in the trench at Position 3 and said to President Natalie beside him:

"Our soldiers will strike in a moment!

The goal this time is to recapture Impact Pit 217, which has changed hands four times, following the pattern of operations in Pits 203 and 209! We can't allow it to be occupied by the gnolls for long, there is an entrance to the pit near it, and once they get their hands on it, the kobolds will start an underground offensive.

KPA soldiers brought sappers to complete the erection of positions there.

Can you and your witch hunters fend off the gnolls while they are doing their earthwork? ”

"Of course."

Natalie wore an oak helmet and nodded decisively, but beside her there was a player in leather armor with a shotgun on her back who was curiously probing her brain, obviously for the first time in a war of this magnitude.

His Excellency Raven is clearly a "non-combatant".

But when the frontline players were in the process of resurrection, he still followed the Avalon Order to the battlefield in the name of "taking care of the sick", and this morning he was lucky enough to kill a gnoll with his own hands.

"You, stay here!"

Natalie went to prepare to attack, but the crow followed her, but the elder pointed to her feet with a look of disgust.

With the crow's combat power that can't be lifted on his shoulders and can't be picked, it is definitely a drag oil bottle to rush out with him, and he himself knows this, so he can only obediently stay in the trenches, and he also found a steel helmet that I don't know where it came from and put it on his head, like a classic "line-filling baby".

"Governor, your weapon is repaired!"

Murphy was going to patrol the position to boost morale.

Morale is important in trench warfare, but as soon as he gets up, Dorothy, who has wrapped herself in a dumpling, flies down with a chainsaw sword and hands Murphy with both hands for the renovated thing.

She said:

"Old Flywheel said he made improvements to the chainsaw sword, and I didn't understand the terminology he said, which meant that it shouldn't break that easily."

"Okay, let me see."

Murphy reached for his chainsaw sword, which turned out to be a little heavier than before, and he glanced at the exterior and saw that the old flywheel had added a few devices to the handle of the thing that he didn't recognize, and had thickened the blade and replaced the gears.

After the item identification was opened, the entry for this thing jumped into my eyes:

Name: Unnamed, Halfling Chainsaw Sword, Atypical Mechanical Melee Two-Hand Sword

Quality: Seiko [Precision Instruments] Commander

Traits: Kinetic Cut, Indestructible, Three-Stage Shifting, Engineering Reinforcement, Gold Energy

Item Effects:

One. Melee Overlord:

After the Chainsaw is activated, any melee action will have [Tear· MAX] Enhanced, it has a high chance to trigger the [Dismemberment] effect, and inflicts a series of statuses such as [Panic], [Fear], and [Rout] on the opponent.

This state can be maintained until the fuel is depleted.

Two. Flywheel Modification:

The old flywheel despised this outdated design from 100 years ago and spent thirty minutes perfecting it.

The original single-acting steam oven was modified to a linkage structure, which increased the speed of the saw chain by 20%, and a three-speed mode was designed for the weapon, which can adjust the weapon's cutting speed by pressing the handle.

When changing speed upwards on each level, the weapon's operating speed is increased by 10%, energy consumption is increased by 20%, and the destructive power is greatly increased.

At the highest speed, this weapon will additionally increase the [Thermal Slash] effect, and the hot Chainsaw will inflict [Burning] and [Burn] on enemies.

In addition, the old flywheel has been enhanced with engineering techniques to enhance the weapon's durability and durability, and the chance of the weapon breaking down is now greatly reduced.

Three. Enchantment of Love:

Although Governor Murphy didn't ask for more status to his chainsaw sword, Lady Trace, who couldn't sit idle, was still reluctant to let her cutie go into battle with a tabula rasa weapon.

She took the time to complete the enchantment for the weapon, which can now be connected to psionic energy to inflict [Psychic Shock] on offensive behavior, and the weapon activates the enchantment every time it is full of blood, and applies [Dread] to all nearby enemies.

Maker: Ninth Weapons Laboratory under the Military Instrument Manufacturing Bureau of the Port of Chardo

Item Description:

[Fetish is our tradition, even for the sake of this enchantment, you should probably give it a name, anyway, how long are you going to drag it out? Poor Tracey is over four hundred years old, and can you bear to let her spend her five hundredth birthday as an old virgin?

Wow, you're really vicious, aren't you? 】

"Who's vicious, bastard!"

Murphy held the chainsaw sword in his hand, trying not to look at the provocative instructions, he stroked the scarlet fear runes on the sword's shell, which had been inscribed by Tracey herself, and whispered:

"But you do need a name, well, let's call you 'Scarlet Witch.'"

"Your Excellency the Governor! Pit 219 has been breached by kobolds, the soldiers over there are surrounded, and we need to rescue them! ”

A vampire descends from the sky and reports bad news to Murphy.

The Governor glanced back in the direction of Position 2 Tunnel 19, where a collapse had just taken place, apparently the kobolds had used their burrowing tactics to carry out a wave of surprise attacks.

What the hell!

Of course, it's also suitable.

"Good time."

Murphy flapped his wings and flew out with his newly named "Scarlet Witch", trying out his new weapon and spreading sarcasm on the kobolds by the way.

They did it themselves!

(End of chapter)