Chapter 107: The Short-sighted Skeleton Hero
Being attacked from both sides by the lava crystal dragon head-on, this group of seven or eight thousand undead collapsed faster than the Undead Hero could have imagined.
Fortunately, the main force has arrived. A blue crystal skeleton hero with blue crystals all over his bones and blue flames burning on it, over twelve meters tall, walked into the battlefield surrounded by many subordinates.
He dragged a giant blue bone sword that was more than fifteen meters long. After briefly sweeping the battlefield, he immediately ordered the elite troops in the central army to support the defeated vanguard.
His eyes fell on the raging lava crystal dragon, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, and then he said in a cold voice:
"A dragon beast dares to attack our army. It really doesn't know how to live or die!"
He raised the huge bone sword in his hand and shouted loudly:
“Bless me!”
A group of skeleton wizards around him cast spells at the same time, summoning a huge magic circle. The surging power of death boiled in the magic circle, turning into gray-white tornadoes and injecting into his body.
With the blessing of magic, the skeleton hero was wrapped with gray-white wind ropes that shuttled back and forth between his body surface and bones, and some were wrapped around the giant sword.
After the blessing was completed, the skeleton hero raised his sword and strode towards the lava crystal dragon.
"So brave?"
Li Qing was quite surprised to see the skeleton hero rushing towards the lava crystal dragon, his heart full of surprise.
“Is this crazy?”
"This is a high-ranking dragon!"
The undead hero's extremely powerful actions made Li Qing a little confused for a moment.
For a moment, he even doubted whether he had seen it wrong. The rank of the skeleton hero shown to him was sixth level. Was it fake? In fact, he was an eighth or ninth level top-level extraordinary undead hero.
There is no reason. I don’t know how he can be so brave as to challenge a superior real dragon head-on?
Although he was confused, the skeleton hero was not pretending. He really rushed towards the lava crystal dragon with sword in hand without looking back.
Far away, the man holding the sword in both hands suddenly leaped fifty or sixty meters high. The aura of death expanded in the air and quickly gathered towards the sword, condensing into a forty-meter-long death sword that fell towards the lava crystal dragon.
At this moment, the Lava Crystal Dragon had just finished breathing out a breath of dragon's breath and was unable to breathe out a second time for a while. His huge dragon tail slapped the ground, and he raised his head to face the 40-meter-long sword that was coming down, and his dragon claws met it.
"boom!"
The sword condensed from the death energy slashed directly into the lava crystal dragon claw, and instantly collapsed into gray-white death energy that scattered .
But in this pervasive deathly aura, a blue crystal sword slashed fiercely between the dragon claw fingers.
"Dang!" With a loud, teeth-grinding sound, a large piece of blue crystal light exploded above the top of the lava crystal dragon. The strong impact even washed away the death energy.
The blue crystal skeleton hero held the sword in both hands and maintained a downward posture, watching his full-strength attack only shatter a few scales in the dragon's claws. The soul fire in his eye sockets shook violently, showing his inner unrest.
"How can this be!"
But the Lava Crystal Dragon didn't care whether he was shocked or not. The huge dragon body stood up, and the huge force pushed the Blue Crystal Skeleton Hero backwards. He woke up instantly, drew his sword and wanted to retreat.
But the sword blade was stuck between the dragon's claws, and could not be pulled out even with the power of a higher-level true dragon.
The dragon's breath brewed in his open mouth and throat, scaring the skeleton hero so much that he dropped his sword and ran away.
"boom!"
The blazing dragon breath sprayed out and quickly spread in all directions after landing on the ground. The area hundreds of meters in radius instantly turned into a sea of fire, burning the skeleton hero so hard that he jumped around and rolled backwards.
The dragon's head rose, and the dragon's breath also rose and sprayed at the rolling skeleton hero.
The raging flames swept like a high-pressure water gun, and the area within a radius of several hundred meters was enveloped in a sea of fire.
The horrifying dragon flames washed the ground, and the blue crystal skeleton hero was covered in flames. The blue crystalline bones were burned black, and he let out a silent cry of pain.
In the distance, an abomination whose body was even larger than the skeleton hero changed direction and approached this side. A blue ghost only about three meters long floated up, with a blue halo blooming under its feet. It raised its hands and pressed them lightly, and a green beam of light flew out from the lava crystal dragon.
Hero skill, Life Drain: can forcibly extract the target's vitality to replenish itself.
However, this heroic skill only lasted for two seconds. With a roar from the Lava Crystal Dragon, the green life beam was shattered.
The ghost hero leaned back, his figure quickly faded, and turned into a faint shadow as he pounced towards the Lava Crystal Dragon.
At the same time, many skeleton mages united together and, under the leadership of an elite skeleton mage, began to cast various undead spells, including weakness, slowness, powerlessness, curse, sleepiness and other negative spells against the lava crystal dragon.
The result was naturally ineffective. This was a real dragon, not the dragon beast they thought it was.
Speaking of which, the Lava Crystal Dragon does look like a dragon beast from the outside, but it has no wings and is not a real dragon at all. The Skeleton Hero initially thought that it was a crystal lizard that had awakened the power of a red dragon, and never thought of the Lava Crystal Dragon as a higher-level real dragon.
That's why he dared to fight alone, hoping to kill the dragon beast head-on on the battlefield and undermine the enemy's morale.
Unexpectedly, he kicked the diamond slab and was crushed in the first encounter, almost killed instantly.
Several heroes' men came to the rescue and finally broke the Lava Crystal Dragon's breath. A breath of dragon burned him so much that smoke came out of his body, and his beautiful bones were carbonized and turned gray, and the calcium fell off. But at least he bought some time, and he didn't rush up immediately after the breath, so he managed to escape.
After escaping, the skeleton hero immediately ordered the front-line troops to split into two, one part served as cannon fodder, and the other part retreated. The central army that was about to leave the camp defended on the spot, and the entire army contracted to defend.
After being beaten, he finally realized that this was not a dragon beast, but a real dragon.
He had some idea in mind and knew that with the cooperation of the real dragon, they would definitely not be able to win in a field battle, so he decisively ordered a defense.
The front row had no support and was crushed like a whirlwind. The Lava Crystal Dragon swept over with its second breath, and most of the 3,000 skeletons and zombies at the rear were killed, and it pushed past directly.
But at this time, the main force of the undead had retreated to the gate of the camp. The previously slow siege vehicles, bone catapults, etc. just drove to the gate of the camp and lined up to form a line of defense.
The troops regrouped for a standoff.
Li Qing took a look, gathered 70 second-level senior imperial infantrymen, took out thirty Imperial Dragon Scale Heavy Infantrymen and forty Imperial Elite Mo Dao Soldier Promotion Cards to unlock them, and then took out the 70-arms direct upgrade card pack to complete the promotion for them in one go.
Seventy fifth-level melee soldiers were newly promoted. After they returned to the team, he had a total of 102 fifth-level dragon-scale heavy infantry and imperial elite Modao soldiers.
Together with 337 fourth-tier imperial heavy infantrymen, the number of elite melee main forces exceeds four hundred.
The troops were reorganized, with the golem in the center taking on the main task of attacking and resisting damage. The troops were divided into two, arranged in a standard mountain shape and advanced head-on, actively launching an attack on the camp with nearly 20,000 undead.
Li Qing stayed in the rear, and when the two sides approached, he quickly took out arrow towers and placed sections of city wall that were ten meters wide and ten meters high on the battlefield. Long-range archers climbed up the wall and attacked from above.
The two sides approached each other rapidly, with stones and smoking fireballs flying overhead, and iron and bone arrows raining down.
There was a series of crisp clanging sounds, and the fully armed soldiers blocked the rain of bone arrows.
After so many battles, he had already accumulated rich combat experience and knew how to face the enemy's rain of arrows, not to mention that his armor was so good.
A wave of arrows rained down, but there was no damage at all.
The undead army has no defense at all, and the skeleton zombies can only rely on their bodies to withstand the attack.
The rain of arrows is fine, as the undead have no vital points and cannot be killed, but the fireball spell of the Dragon Vein Snake Mage Corps is unstoppable.
At least three hundred dragon vein snakemen were promoted to the third level or above. More than three hundred fireballs were bombarded everywhere. The battlefield seemed to be washed by artillery fire. Explosions occurred one after another. Countless undead were blown to pieces or even burned to charcoal.
The undead side also has wizards, about twenty or so corpse wizards, and their signature spell is Death Cloud.
However, this Death Cloud Spell is somewhat different from the wizard's five-ring spell Death Cloud Spell. Its power is not fixed at five rings, but depends on the strength of the corpse wizard.
When a corpse wizard's strength is only at the third level, its power is smaller than the authentic Death Cloud Technique. When a corpse wizard's strength is at the fifth level, its power is the same as the Five-Ring Death Cloud Technique. A corpse wizard can be promoted to an extraordinary great corpse wizard, and his power and killing range will also increase.
Death Cloud is a pseudo-instant death spell. Any creature within the range will be killed instantly if their physical fitness is not up to standard.
Even if one's physical fitness is high enough to pass the immunity, he or she will still suffer a certain amount of damage from the power of death.
Normally, it is difficult for ordinary humans to be immune to the Death Cloud Spell. Even professional soldiers find it difficult to be immune to the Death Cloud Spell of corpse wizards above level four or five.
But unfortunately, Li Qing's strategic talent can increase his subordinates' physique by 30%, strength by 30%, speed by 30%, resistance by 30%, and immunity to hypnosis and fear.
With the combination of physique and resistance, even a new recruit can be immune to the instant-kill effect of Death Cloud.
So when the Corpse Wizards began to cast spells to fight back, casting clouds of death spells that exploded in the human formation, leaving no one dead in the human formation. The Corpse Wizards who cast spells were stunned for a moment, and for a moment they were hesitating whether to continue casting spells, or...
After just a few waves, the front line of the undead army could not withstand the fierce bombardment of the dragon vein snake people and began to collapse.
The undead are not afraid of death, but the losses on the front line are too great, with a bunch missing here and a group killed in explosions there. The tattered front line cannot stop the frontal advance of the elite humans.
In particular, many rock golems, led by four iron golems, forcibly chiseled their way into the undead army and killed their way in with brute force.
Undead are not afraid of death, Rock Golems are even less afraid of death, and they are tougher than you.
Even if there were a large number of abominations and large resurrected beasts blocking the way, they could not stop the seven-meter-long and wide platinum sword of the Iron Golem, which was as big as a door panel.
How could a body of flesh and blood possibly go head-on with a body of steel? A one-meter-wide and seven-meter-long fine gold sword, pushed by a five-meter-tall steel body, could cut an abomination of the same height in half with one sword.
Although the two super-large abominations that are over ten meters tall cannot be cut in half with one sword, one sword can easily cut off large pieces of rotten meat.
With a few cuts back and forth, the abomination that was over ten meters long was cut into large pieces of meat.
On the battlefield, the performance of these four iron golems is simply explosive.
It is totally worth the tens of millions of dollars cost.
It's a pity that we don't have much capital. If we had hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, we could get dozens or hundreds of steel golems and put them on the battlefield, and we could sweep the battlefield directly.
But it’s not a big problem. I can make them anyway. When this experience is over, I will have some capital on hand and can make some more.
As for accumulation, if you get a few at a time, you will have a lot over time.
There were no surprises and no variables. The golem army, led by the iron golem, was the spike, with several hundred elite infantrymen above level four as wings, more than five hundred dragon vein snakemen as assistance, and the lava crystal dragon chiseling from the other side. They just rushed forward and killed their way into the undead camp.
The skeleton hero at the back saw that the situation was hopeless and tried to escape, but was intercepted by Long Shou and Long Fa, and a team of elite cavalry chased after him.
After several struggles, the Lava Crystal Dragon finally arrived and killed them.
Then, the Undead camp, having lost its hero, collapsed and frantically chased the defeated soldiers until they fled too far to be caught up.
A glorious victory!
The war is over, and the battlefield is being counted.
Li Qing was waiting in the temporary camp of the undead , and soon An Erqiu sent a battle report.
"66 killed in the battle, including 5 dragon snakemen, 49 disabled, injuries not counted, 17 rock golems damaged (repairable)."
“ Not bad!”
Using the few to defeat the many, and achieving a great victory with just this little loss, there is nothing wrong with that.
The bodies of those who died in battle were burned directly.
The injured can recover.
Some of the disabled can recover, but for others there is no way and they can only be arranged to retire.
Compared with the losses, the gains are very rich.
This battle alone greatly increased the strength of all troops, and most of the members were able to be promoted again.
110 new fourth-tier imperial heavy infantrymen were added, and after the promotion, the total number of heavy infantrymen alone reached 442.
Among this group of heavy infantry, many were promoted early. After experiencing many major battles, they have accumulated enough combat experience. As long as they have a fifth-level troop unlocking card, they can be promoted immediately.
Archers and cavalry are similar, both have large numbers of soldiers sufficient for promotion.
The cavalry killed a lot of people when they were chasing the remnants, and combined with their previous accumulation, all the second-level lancers had enough combat experience to be promoted to the third-level imperial heavy cavalry.
It cost more than thirty-four million to complete the promotion.
Li Qing was in a good mood looking at this group of elite soldiers who had been trained with great effort.
He also had the ability to cheat, was very powerful, and had good luck, so he was able to train this group of soldiers without too much loss.
If it were someone else, a huge number of soldiers would be lost in one battle.
There are no battlefield arrow towers or city walls to cheat on the battlefield. Once the enemy has an advantage in manpower to surround or go around from behind, the archers in the rear will suffer heavy losses.
Without powerful top-level combat forces like the Dragon Guardian Dragon Method and the Lava Crystal Dragon, if the enemy has strong men or war beasts, he will have to use the lives of his subordinates to deal with them.
If a normal war lord apprentice wants to train fourth or fifth level soldiers, he really has to risk his life and use a huge base to achieve it.
There were a lot of things in the undead camp, but most of them were useless to him. Only a small amount of collected steel and stone materials were useful, which Li Qing easily put into the space in his palm, converted into cubic products and put away.
Then, he took out the trophy light ball and took out a blue bone treasure chest from it.
