Chapter 39 Head-on battle
Surrounded by gray-red flat stone land, divided into many blocks by canyons and faults, scattered with piles of stones and strange-shaped boulders.
On the height of this stone land, a burning golden sun hung, dyeing the entire sky yellow.
The scorching sun distorted its vision and made the air shine.
Brian stood on a huge rock, facing the dazzling glory, looking at the enemy troops raising sand and dust in the distance, and recalling information about the enemy quickly in his mind.
Life in Shadow Planes for decades has taught the ghosts that if you want to survive, only everyone in this society knows the role they play and works hard as a whole for the development of the city.
Therefore, although the hierarchy of Yinhun City is very strict, it attaches great importance to talents.
Everyone hopes to use their greatest ability to fight for the security and survival of society. When every free citizen reaches the age of high school (13 years old), he will undergo a specific set of tests to determine his abilities.
Once the potential of a ghost person is discovered, he will be trained to improve these potentials until he is an adult (18 years old), and at this time he begins to use this as a full-time career.
Occasionally, some ghosts show amazing development in other skills over time. At this time, the decider will conduct a second test on him, and sometimes it will change the initial choice of these people.
However, this situation is extremely rare because the test methods of magic and magic talent are extremely precise and accurate.
In the social class of the Ghost City, only those with talents of magic and magic can gain a respectable status in the city's army.
Although the authority and importance of the spellcaster is located below the city lord, it is far above ordinary people.
The name of Arcane of the Ghost City comes from the ancient Neseril's name for wizards and warlocks, who and Shar's priests are the backbone of the city.
Responsible for various academic institutions, training talented people, and obeying the orders of the princes to support various tasks.
There are about 2,000 arcane priests and priests in the city, of which about 500 are transformed ghosts.
A spellcaster with a high status will not commit the death penalty even if he slaughtered ordinary citizens at will. At most, he will only be replaced by a considerable fine and free 996 labor service.
However, if the caster is involved in the magic pet who deliberately kills other casters, in serious cases, he will even be sentenced to death or imprisoned by the spiral court of the floating city, a judgment agency specifically targeting the caster.
It is obvious that ordinary citizens are not even as good as magic pets in the ghost empire.
So far, these ghost arcane and priests are a relatively powerful part of this group, with the highest authority among the various arcane and priest organizations.
Most ordinary people who do not have magical talents who want to join the army can only start with low-level soldiers, but for those with ability and intelligence, there are a lot of opportunities to be promoted to officers.
After all, during the long stay in the shadow plane, the city of Ghost was attacked countless times by various hostile creatures, and the army was always troubled by these shocks.
Now that Yinhun City has returned to the main material world, the Supreme King has already issued an order to order the army to expand its troops as quickly as possible to prepare for war.
In Brian's impression, the regular army of the Ghost City has about 6,000 soldiers, most of whom are descendants of Neserel, and about 500 are truly transformed Ghost City people (including all officers above lieutenants).
Although the Supreme King was the commander-in-chief of the army, the army was divided into small groups, commanded by the twelve ghost princes and the Supreme King's hand, Hajj Horner.
Among the countries on the mainland, the number of 6,000 troops may not be eyeing these rulers, but when you know that in the strict system of the Yinhun City, the profession level of every official soldier born is at least at level 3, you will understand their true terribleness.
The typical ordinary soldier in the ghost city is about level 3, the lieutenant is above level 5, and the captain is about level 8, and since the captain, he has advanced professional Dark Guards.
The army of Ghost City is getting closer and closer, and Bryan can even see the polished bone bows of slaves who act as vanguards, the iron tips of spears and the flags fluttering in the wind.
Obviously, the Ghost Empire also inherited the slavery system of Naserel's period.
Some of these slaves were civilians who had no useful skills or talent at all, while others were criminal citizens who were not guilty of death, but the main source was humanoid slaves, the most typical of which were orc slaves.
In addition to their slavery, Brian felt that the magic selection of the Ghost Empire was worthy of his reference.
Therefore, in the case of the assassination of Shadow Guard Krisanna, the reason why he let the other party go was that in addition to breaking the alliance between Desud and Hajjhona, his real purpose was to win over this ghost prince.
This is a very long plan, and he is not confident enough to succeed.
However, from the current situation, we can see that he has successfully planted a seed in the heart of this ghost prince.
As for whether it will sprout, everything will go with the flow.
After all, he killed Desude's youngest daughter. Even if his long life made this ruthless father no longer have the so-called affection, it does not mean that the other party will have no grudges.
Then, Brian no longer thought about it and began to go all out to face the army of Yinhun City.
Because today's well-prepared battle will determine whether he can completely gain a foothold in the Enoak Desert in the future.
"General Obert, prepare for battle!" Brian looked at the Purple Dragon Knight who was waiting for battle below.
"clear!"
The purple dragon knight Obert had a solemn expression, bowed his head slightly to him, then drew out the long sword from his waist, shouted to the 500 purple dragon guards, "Soldiers, the time for bloody struggle has come!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Before is the army from the Ghost City. They are going to invade the territory of the Kingdom of Cormier, spread evil faith, and attempt to make our people fear and die under the shadow of the evil god!"
"The Purple Dragon Knight is the sharpest sword in the Kingdom of Cormier. Under the Purple Dragon's banner, tell me what to do now?!"
Under the passionate declaration, Brian immediately activated the inspirational ability attached to the Purple Dragon Seal Ring.
A spell light flashed by.
A purple flag transformed from magic and the big flag raised by the flag bearers fluttered in the wind and flew.
The flags fluttered in the wind and flew over the long pole, and the purple dragon's giant dragon seemed to be spreading its wings and soaring on the flag.
"Sweep away all evil!"
"Fight for Mokou Town!"
"Fight for the honor of the Kingdom of Cormier!"
500 purple dragon guards waved their swords to the sky and shouted loudly.
Sweat flowed down the soldiers' cheeks scorching with sunshine, and the burning passion spread in the queue. They seemed to feel the glory of the past rolling by their side, wrapping them in it.
——"Supernatural Ability: Boost morale!"
——"Supernatural Ability: The Ultimate Resistance!"
Sharp long swords faced the sun that dyed the entire sky golden yellow, and the scorching glow shot directly on the Purple Dragon Knights and their bright armor. Combined with these high-pitched words, even Brian felt an inspiring force.
【Boost morale (Course Ability): Starting from level 2, the Purple Dragon Knight can give an inspiring speech to inspire nearby allies, each affected ally, including the Purple Dragon Knight himself, to gain 2 morale saving throws, with 10% increase in attack and weapon damage when fighting the effects of Charm and Fear.】
[Final Resistance (Professional Ability): Starting from level 5, the Purple Dragon Knight can use high-pitched words to inspire his army to have heroic spirit. When using this ability, driven by the desire to fight, the Knight's own physical strength will be greatly improved, and the same is true for his allies.]
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From this we can see that the Purple Dragon Knights are the perfect battle leaders. They stand on the front line with weapons in their hands to give orders and know how to motivate the army to achieve victory in the battle.
At the same time, a raging war song sounded. In the center of the army, the war song singer from the Church of God of Knowledge, dressed in silver and white armor, and with the help of powerful professional abilities, he chanted an extremely high war song.
——"Supernatural Ability: Song of Toughness!"
——"Supernatural Ability: The Song of Furious!"
In an instant, the roar of fighting, the roar of death and howling of war, like a storm of rage, rushed by the battlefield, sweeping allies and enemies into the roar of singing.
The Singer of War, the advanced profession of the bard, an elite leader who completely abandons the ability to cast spells and tends toward military thinking.
As the fury music was activated by the Singer of War, everyone around seemed to have forgotten all the pain and fear. Facing the surging enemy, endless fighting spirit burst out in their eyes.
“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...……”
The bugle sounded, passionate and long, like the scorching wind from the desert, making people's blood surge.
As the horn sounds gradually faded, the echoes of the bowstring filled the gap.
The archers who were ambushed in advance on both sides of the road sprinkled a rain of arrows, and the slaves, mainly orcs, began to run desperately, roar while running.
The sharp arrows and crossbows were exporting madly towards them like hail, hundreds and thousands of them, and countless in an instant.
At this moment, the casters, mainly composed of war mages and priests of the God of Knowledge Church, took out their respective magical items and scrolls, and released prepared attack spells and divine arts.
——"Spider web technique!"
——"Greasy!"
——"Fireball!"
——"Thunder Summoning Technique!"
——"Death Cloud Art!"
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Accompanied by the emergence of spell lights.
Large pieces of greasy oil and spider webs emerged on the ground, and the speed of the charge slaves quickly slowed down as soon as they stepped in.
Immediately afterwards, thunder clouds condensed in the bright sky, and shining arcs of electric fire broke out in the enemy group with the scorching fireballs.
The arcane storm of flames and lightning intertwined, raging all enemies within the range frantically.
Finally, a cloud of death like a thick fog covered the wind creation technique and harvested the few remaining enemies.
The first wave of tentative attacks dominated by slaves in the Yinhun City were wiped out. They were unable to even reach the opponent's 50 meters range, and fell under spell attacks one by one.
The short-term advantage did not give Brian any relaxation.
Because he knew that this was just a means of using the opponent's considerable slaves, while testing their strength, he also used the means of consuming their magic.
The ghost mage, the dark guard and the constructed creatures are their greatest threats.
Fortunately, for this battle, he made sufficient preparations and even bought many magic scrolls of about three rings at all costs.
On the other side of the battlefield.
The dark guard Gallon looked at the slave who had been cleaned up on a large area. There was no slight fluctuation on his cold face. He pulled out a giant black rune sword and ordered:
"After the test, release all the gargoyles and gargoyles, and the whole army attacks!"
With a command, more than 200 stone golems, flesh golems, and more than 500 gargoyles were all activated.
The eyes of these constituent creatures also flashed with strange red lights. The black gargoyles flew into the sky, and the constituent golem formed a torrent of steel, covering the black knights and ghost mages behind them, and pounced on the army of Mokou Town.
Chapter completed!