Self-knowledge is something that is very important for martial artists, but most people don't have it.

It is true that we have mentioned several times in the past that "morale" can play a role in combat, but it should be noted that the relationship between this psychological level of self-motivation and mental energy and the actual battle is very complex, and it is not absolute but more relative.

When the strength of the two sides of the battle is almost the same, morale can change the tide of battle. Even in some extremely fortuitous circumstances, the disadvantaged side was able to turn the tide of battle by relying on amazing morale and the will to fight.

But the relationship between this kind of spiritual and psychological level and actual strength is complementary - in layman's terms, the martial artist who can inspire such a strong will to fight is usually not bad in his own quality.

In any case, just shouting louder to increase the momentum is the illusion that it can improve combat effectiveness.

Forever.

It will only be an illusion.

"These ...... Idiot!" Mira could tell from his twitching eyebrows that her teacher was very unhappy right now.

The giant ghouls that evolved from the haze of flesh and blood on the battlefield, slaughter and death were attracted by Henry's scheme.

The sage's plan was to reduce some pressure on at least the part of the people who were close to them on the central battlefield, but after seeing these giant ghouls turn around and run to the periphery, many ordinary soldiers misjudged that this was an opportunity.

Their courage was commendable, shouting and cheering for themselves, and they rushed towards the creepy monster.

Sneak attack from behind, but only a few armor-piercing weapons such as axes and guns have managed to penetrate.

They hurt it, but they couldn't kill it completely.

And wounded beasts are often the most dangerous.

It's not the cowardly escape or the active malice of stumbling on one's own people, but this kind of reckless courage that doesn't know his own strength and the strength of his opponent, and only roars with blood, also makes the sage's efforts in vain.

In the bloody and chaotic battlefield, the humans are unable to escape, but the muscular giant ghouls are able to move by jumping. Each of its falls can cause considerable casualties, and even the soldiers who react are clever enough to quickly raise their spears when they leap up, with their tails in the dirt, and the ghouls who die after the spear tip piercing its abdomen will crush the soldiers below.

It's too high a price to pay for a kill. And that's not even counting the fact that the dead soldiers are soaked in the black bodily fluids of the ghouls, and then they will become more dangerous than the ordinary undead, and come out of under them to kill like crazy.

Incorrigible.

That's the only word that fits into this chaotic battlefield.

Thousands of soldiers, hundreds of people fighting with all kinds of undead creatures in the small area in front of them alone. These people have very different thoughts and personalities, so no one can predict what kind of actions will be made at what time and at what time.

There are too many variables.

Henry continued to distance himself with his actions, and he tried again to lure the giant ghouls out to avoid them from causing more damage. Orno covered him with magic, and our Loan girl stood at her side, not knowing for a moment what to do.

This is a scene that is fundamentally very different from the street battles, skirmishes and even one-on-one duels that are common to mercenaries.

The girl was involved for the first time.

Although she had encountered it several times in Avenella before, at that time, both she and the Sage were members of the command hierarchy and did not personally participate in the battlefield.

It is only when you get close enough to feel all the sensory messages, and feel the myriad of thoughts, choices, and decisions that are intertwined on this vast battlefield, that you can truly realize that it is different from all the battles you have experienced so far.

Predicting your opponent's actions and judging your opponent's choices are important messages in skirmishes and one-on-one duels, but there is no room for them to play in the chaotic main battle battlefield.

You don't have any tricks to play with, and you don't have any ideas to work with. The only thing that can be done is to react.

Constantly reacting.

If you are attacked, you will block, you will fight back, and you will be attacked again after you counterattack.

Until you can't react to the last moment and fall to the muddy ground, or survive and become proficient in it.

The reason why ordinary soldiers don't understand swordsmanship is that in addition to the fact that most of the main battle weapons are long poles and swords are relatively expensive, this is also an important reason.

Hands on.

Shiver.

Unlike soldiers with relatively simple ideas, Mira is self-aware.

Henry taught her not only swordsmanship and various other combat techniques, but also a whole fine fighting system. And the actual combat that the girl has experienced so far, if you count it carefully, I am afraid that there are more young men than these young men who are five or six years older than her on average.

But she doesn't see the future.

No matter how hard she tried to think about it, the conclusion that Luo An Girl could come to was that once she was caught in this whirlpool, there was only one way out.

She felt fear.

But the back of Henry seen in his eyes was like a fish in water in this haze.

"Hiss——!!"

The sage's plan succeeded, and the two giant ghouls abandoned the ordinary soldiers and rushed towards him. He didn't intend to kill all of these monsters on his own, the three of them were actually approaching the direction of the Scotti wall while fighting, and Henry's actions were actually active defense.

Rather than being caught off guard by a sneak attack, it is better to move sideways towards the enemy and take the initiative to attract and solve it.

This is the safe approach, as any other plan of our Sage Sage.

But this can only be based on the premise that the practitioner is him.

- He knows those things.

Mira realized this after the first giant ghoul was slain by Henry's sword.

Although they had been plagued by these creepy monsters on their previous journeys, there was no actual melee fight against such a giant ghoul, except for the one who was killed by Orno in the distance in the dense forest.

But Henry was familiar with its habits and various aspects.

He knew exactly how this thing would react, and was always able to achieve what he wanted with a slight movement.

"Bang-bang-" The sage swooped down with a sudden feint to the left, causing the ghoul to swoop down and claw through the dirt. It opened its mouth wide and pressed its whole body low, if Henry had really sprinted to the left and tried to flank it, he would have been intercepted and killed by this much faster guy at this moment.

But as if he had foreseen all this, he retracted in an instant after the feint, and then stomped on the ground at a wide angle, and came back with a diagonal blow from left to right and bottom to top.

The movement of the two sides was so fast that it seemed to others as if the ghoul had crashed into Kramer himself.

The sharp blade is indestructible at high speeds, slicing through the end of the palate and then out of the back of the head at a smooth angle.

Despite his heavy and cumbersome cape, and in the snow, Henry walked flawlessly, avoiding the black bodily fluids splattered from the sliced half of his skull.

He knew those things.

I recognize it, and I am familiar with it.

That's why I'm able to fight these "unknown" monsters that make ordinary soldiers scramble and don't know how to deal with them.

Fight like a dance.

He is the one who dominates the ball, and the opponent is the partner who reluctantly dances this dance of death to his rhythm.

The body is huge and ugly. With teeth and claws, he has a fierce personality.

The muscles are powerful enough to tear an unprotected human in half, and the cuticles of the epidermis, which are several millimeters thick, are enough to hold out most human weapons except for heavy main battle weapons.

Combining all the elements of evil, anyone with a little experience will understand that all sides are giant ghouls born to kill efficiently.

In addition, there is a strong tendency to attack and the ability to react quickly based on the slightest movement.

It's simply the worst enemy a human soldier can imagine on the battlefield, the most terrible nightmare but—

"They are nothing compared to the nightmare of Aurora. The elf said this, and Mira and Orno continued to march south together. To the girl's relief, the war horse that had thrown her off before stopped not far ahead, it was forgotten due to the intensity of the battlefield, dozens of meters away, shouting and killing, roaring, wailing, metal colliding, slashing and slashing were in full swing, and only a few distances away, this war horse stood alone in the snow and no one cared.

The strange sight froze both Orno and Mira for a moment, but they had seen enough strange things today, so the girl quickly grabbed the reins and controlled the horses, and then made Orno ride them together to increase his ability to move.

Due to the scarcity of resources, the elven mage's own horses were given to other knights. And Barrow, who had disappeared since the beginning of his entry into the battlefield, was left alone at the edge of the forest.

He was a human who had been attacked but had not fully transformed into a ghoul, and the black liquid that flowed through his veins gave him the same ability to evolve and transform as a ghoul. Therefore, if this kind of flesh and blood is blurred and the best ghoul evolution feeding field, if he is allowed to get close, it is likely that Orno will not be able to continue to suppress, he will completely transform, and then start attacking his own side.

The elves still kept this man, and in addition to using him as their own guard, it was more or less a sense of atonement.

"—big magic?" Mira glanced back at Henry, who had also noticed the fact that the two of them had found the horses after slaying the ghoul, nodded to this direction and ran after him with a broadsword in one hand. And the Luoan girl faced the cold wind and asked Orno a rhetorical question.

"Well, don't you think it's weird. ”

"How could a human or elf that originally weighed only a few tens of kilograms become such a large monster weighing hundreds of kilograms or even a ton, increasing in size more than ten times, but it happened in a very short period of time. ”

"Even though I don't have a body temperature, I can move flexibly in the ice and snow without being frozen. ”

"And he has just completed the transformation, but he immediately has the judgment ability and reaction speed that he can only possess in a hundred battles - of course, none of this will work for him. Horno glanced back, and Henry dodged the attack with a short body before slashing a ghoul with a single sword.

"It's true—" Mira reflected when Orno reminded her.

"According to the laws of nature, such a creature cannot exist. Shortening the evolution cycle of millions of years to just one month, and increasing the volume by more than ten times from a small body at once, it is impossible for these energies to appear out of thin air. ”

"So it's, man-made—ride!" Mira pulled the reins to the right, and a giant ghoul was attracted by the swiftness of the two of them, but the girl suddenly realized that the reason why it attacked the cavalry more was to focus on targets that were more combative.

"Yes. ”

"Magic, although it seems to you humans that it was created out of thin air, is actually a principle that we all have to follow. ”

"Spending, planning, and arranging, there is no escaping the laws of physics, and the most common elemental magic is actually 'artificially reproducing physical phenomena'. ”

"Air, fire, water, and even thunder and lightning that are difficult to grasp all need to follow the laws of physics, and do your best to induce the reproduction of this physical phenomenon with magical power, and use it to strike your enemies. ”

"And the one who escapes, or even defies the laws of physics, is unique, and 'creates' everything at will, we call it—"

"Black magic. She spat out the word faintly, and Mira was a little sluggish.

"Is this what the witch controls...... the girl muttered, while Horno grabbed her waist with one hand and fired a small but swift blade of wind with the other.

"She is something that goes against the world as we know it, or rather the intellectual unity that transcends all the races in the world today. ”

"Because we can't understand, everything seems like a fantasy. ”

"I see, is that what you mean by 'a product that violates the laws of nature'....... Ah—" the girl said, but then she remembered the complicated relationship between the witch and Orno, and opened her mouth to apologize.

"I've said it all, you don't have to sympathize with me for this kind of thing. ”

"My union with that person was wrong, and the result of birth was wrong. ”

"But I don't regret it. She said word for word, and Mira didn't understand what Horno meant until then.

"It was he who taught me the emotion of your human love, so that even though the result was wrong and brought bitterness and hatred. ”

"But I won't deny love itself. ”

"I'm thankful that he taught me all this. ”

"Is that so......" Mira hung her head, a little ashamed of her own childish and shallow thoughts about the other party.

Orno is far more mature and stronger than he thinks.

"Anyway—" The elf seemed to notice her attitude, and she lowered her tone, "I'm telling you this to let you know how strong the enemy is next, and to give you ideas for the future. ”

"The world of me and your teacher is out of reach for you now, but one day you will step into it. ”

"Click-" She rolled over and dismounted, and Henry on the other side killed two ghouls at once with a series of slashes.

Orno lifted his side hair, his long blond hair fluttering in the wind, revealing a faint halo silhouette in the white snow. For the first time, she pulled a small twig out of her pocket—it was her staff, and the elf was ready to do it.

"Theirs, the world—"

Magical brilliance flickered, and silver greatsword swung out.

With overwhelming combat power, the two slaughtered a dozen or so giant ghouls that Henry had led along the way in a matter of minutes.

The wind blew, the snow fluttered gently, and the sage stuck his sword in the snow, and his black cloak swayed.

"As an appetizer, barely qualified. Orno put away his staff, and the three of them had reached the door of the command tent, and in the midst of the crowd scurrying around and stunned by the astonishing scene, Konstantin approached.

"......" He silently glanced at the shocking pile of corpses, then raised an eyebrow at Henry.

"I think red is still for you. ”

The sage shrugged his shoulders in response, and then flicked off Kramer's bodily fluids and retracted his sword.

Mira also turned and dismounted, and the four of them walked towards the camp where the Duke of Julionde was.