Chapter 119 The Powerful Three Prophets
I never thought that the prayer of the goddess of justice could also be applied to the goddess of darkness!
The goddess' kiss will drive away the god of death and bring hope of life. The warrior swears by blood to uphold justice and gain strength and courage - this really sounds like a righteous god!
No wonder these people believed in heresy so easily - these guys probably believed that the dark goddess they worshipped represented justice...
Fight for justice?
I'm afraid those heretics think the same way! They may think they are the righteous side!
Because the goddess of justice Astalia does not have the ability to resurrect those who died in battle!
This prayer, when used on the Dark Goddess, does seem to be more in line with the actual situation...
These heretics begged to die on the battlefield, as if they had sworn an oath with their own blood. The Dark Goddess did indeed drive away the god of death, giving them hope of life, allowing these guys who had lost their lives to stand up again, and giving them violent power and the courage to not fear death at all!
However, perhaps they were also deprived of something else at the same time - these people seemed to have lost their minds.
In other words, they gave their souls.
Godric also saw this scene, and he naturally understood that it would be impossible to have a safe confrontation and a war of attrition! The three prophets could actually bring people back to life!
"Kill them quickly!"
Godric gave the order with a look of fear on his face, but the soldiers behind him hesitated for a moment - no one had ever seen such a scene, it was too horrible!
Soon, several men tore off a large amount of their skin, turning into a mass of red flesh and blood. They picked up weapons on the ground and began to hack and kill people around them.
But they seemed to have completely lost all consciousness - they were actually chopping down their own people...
Li Ang had just led his men to chop off the heads of two or three Fallen and gathered his own new recruits into the team. Then he saw several Fallen killing each other. He immediately stopped the team and began to retreat.
It seems that the resurrection technology of the Three Prophets is not very perfect... These "Fallen" seem to be unable to distinguish between friend and foe?
That's true, if these fallen ones could be completely controlled, then the three prophets would have already become the three queens!
More and more men in underwear stood up, screamed, tore off their skin, and then fought each other...
These Fallen who could not distinguish between friend and foe could not cause any effective casualties, but in any case, they did scare the coalition forces.
After all, this kind of thing of resurrecting from the dead and shedding skin in a group seems too scary...
Hundreds of devils covered in red flesh and blood were fighting each other in a mad state. The entire battlefield looked like real hell.
Although the troops of the coalition army all came from the border, and the border troops who had been fighting for a long time were brave and courageous, the problem was that the enemies they had faced in the past were basically humans, or occasionally a few Noldor elves - except for their longer ears, the Noldor looked like humans.
But these people in front of me don't look like human beings...
Not to mention these soldiers, even the lord felt a little uneasy when looking at them.
"Back off...back off! Get away from them! Don't come over here!"
Li Ang shouted loudly, stopping the Allied Forces who were about to advance, and led his team to quickly retreat to a position where there were no corpses.
The soldiers of the coalition forces were already hesitant and were not rushing forward very fast. When they heard the lord's shout, most of them stopped.
"Lord Godric, order the entire army to retreat!"
Seeing that Godric seemed to be stunned, Leon rushed to Godric and shouted, "Tell the troops not to go over there, they are killing each other!"
Godric reacted immediately and used the command flag to order the troops to stop advancing and retreat slowly.
But if a large army of 1,500 people received an order to retreat while advancing, it would definitely disrupt the formation.
This was not a modern army that had been trained in formation for a long time, but a mixed army from five lords, so naturally they could not be as flexible as one's own arm. Moreover, they had originally planned to attack, so the formation was relatively far apart.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the Allied Forces hesitated for a moment... otherwise they would not have been able to pull back after rushing forward.
But now, the formation of the coalition forces is still a little messy.
And at this moment, the prayers that enveloped the battlefield came to an abrupt end.
The Prophet's Legion stopped praying, and their troops began to disperse at an incredible speed. From behind the female soldiers, a large group of strange soldiers in blue-gray armor rushed out.
These were two hundred flayed men wearing heavy blue-gray armor but without a single piece of skin on their heads.
Perhaps the fire in the camp burned their black cloaks and robes, so they appeared directly on the battlefield without wearing helmets.
At first glance, apart from the armor they were wearing, they looked no different from the Fallen who were killing each other!
If I had to say something different, it might be that the flesh of the fallen who had just shed their skin looked brighter red, after all, their blood was still flowing...
The heads of those skinless female soldiers in heavy armor looked like a dried reddish-brown color.
These women were wearing heavy armor, but they ran very fast - they took advantage of the disruption of the coalition army's formation and launched a quick charge!
The heavy armor they were wearing looked to weigh at least fifty pounds, but they could still charge faster than most adult men!
Behind them, the Prophet's Legion split into more than a hundred teams with Doombringers as the unit, and dispersed at an unimaginable speed, rushing after those skinless heavily armored female soldiers!
The two sides were only 300 meters apart, and such a charge would only take a few tens of seconds. The coalition army's formation was not very neat, and there was no time to reorganize.
"Meet the enemy!" "Stop them!"
There were many shouts from the coalition forces. These experienced border troops knew that they could not retreat in this situation and had to engage in battle to meet the enemy!
They had been arranged in teams of knights before, and now they formed a formation to meet the enemy head-on.
Ralph's rangers were also divided into more than a dozen formations and began to patrol on both sides - they were horse archers, and mounted archery was their specialty, so it would not be worthwhile to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
At this time, Godric's archers were still in a relatively forward position. Facing the rapid charge of the Prophet's Legion, they had to retreat after only firing two rounds of arrows. The knight formations stepped forward to resist the rushing heavy-armored skinning monsters.
These spontaneous responses were all correct, but the only problem was - as teams of knights faced the enemy head-on, the already somewhat untidy formation suddenly became very sparse!
And those Doombringers led the female soldiers and ran all the way. After the two sides engaged in a battle, they did not attack the front-line troops, but directly bypassed the heavily armored skinning monsters in front of them and passed through the gaps in the Allied Forces!
Then, each squad of female soldiers directly faced off against a knight formation - they obviously wanted to engage in comprehensive hand-to-hand combat with the smallest units of the coalition forces!
It seems that the Legion of Prophets clearly knew that the Fallen would kill each other uncontrollably. Their strange ritual was not for the Fallen to kill the United Army, but for this moment!
They first gathered together, waiting for the allied forces to disperse their ranks and surround them;
Then let those underwear men rush over to die, and then summon the Fallen on the battlefield to disrupt the formation of the coalition army;
Then they took the opportunity to charge forward, turning the battlefield into a melee!
The Three Prophets' ability to respond to emergencies is truly extraordinary!
Judging from the behavior of those Doombringers before, the female soldiers of the Prophet's Legion are probably not good at fighting in formations - they are not regular troops and probably have not received formation training.
Moreover, including the Doombringer, the IQ or knowledge level of those female soldiers should not be very high. They are just good at seducing and deceiving men. A truly smart or knowledgeable girl would not be deceived like this and lose her dignity.
But from the Lord's personal experience, the individual combat capabilities of these doom-bringers are indeed very strong - and they are not afraid of pain, and probably not afraid of death either.
Given their skills and their fearlessness of pain and death, the Prophet Legion would surely be happy to turn the situation into a melee!
People who cannot feel pain may lose the ability to protect themselves from danger, but in a melee, people who cannot feel pain are very scary - as long as they are still alive, no matter how badly they are injured, they have 100% combat effectiveness!
Moreover, the fighting spirit of the cultists who have been brainwashed by heresy must be terrifyingly high...
Using a few hundred unequipped cannon fodder to achieve such results must be a great deal for the Prophet Legion!
The battlefield suddenly turned into the melee that the three prophets wanted, and the way the three prophets dealt with it was obviously very effective - a team of six or seven people led by the Doombringer could fight against a dozen men in a knight formation on equal terms in the melee!
Leon led his team and did not disperse, and no doom bringer came to find them. The doom bringer targeted those knight formations, and no one rushed into his team of hundreds of people to seek stimulation.
But the lord did not support the other knight formations. Instead, he quickly led his team back to Godric to act as a guard to prevent Godric from being beheaded.
Because at this time, there were not many people around the commander Godric - only the more than one hundred guards led by Amy were protecting Godric.
The heavy infantry from Bailu Fort held off the skinned monsters, and some rangers and Changhe Town sentinels supported them.
All other troops, including Ralph, had formed into knight units and were fighting fiercely with the doom-inducing teams.
It seemed fair - this group of more than one hundred knights just happened to face off against a group of more than one hundred Doombringers...
The three prophets were riding on tall horses and were very conspicuous. They stood still and did not approach the battlefield. They only had about a hundred people behind them, but they were obviously better equipped.
It seems that this is the team of Prophet's Legion confidants who were responsible for organizing the army and killing the disobedient people when the fire broke out.
They seemed to be staring at Godric's flag, but did not get close. After all, Godric was surrounded by a large army of more than 200 people.
Godric also saw the three prophets: "Leon, do you think we can handle the people around the three prophets?"
The Lord shook his head directly: "I feel that if we rush over, it will only end in a melee..."
"I think so too..." Godric pointed at the skinless female monsters who were not sure whether they could be considered human beings or not: "Are those wearing heavy armor also Fallen? They look like skinned women?"
"Those are the ones I saw in their camp before. They are probably the blood-sworn priestesses who swore a blood oath to the God of Darkness and abandoned their bodies to pray for strength..."
Li Ang answered while observing the situation on the battlefield.
"But those bloodsworn witches don't seem to be crazy..."
Godric looked at the few Fallen who were still killing each other, and then looked at the Bloodsworn Witches.
"Those blood-sworn witches are not only not crazy, but they can also patrol in groups and can even speak... Maybe they are completely different from these fallen ones. I feel that they are not dead... but alive!"
"If they are alive... then there is nothing to be afraid of! Leon, I'm going to kill those blood-sworn witches! After destroying those heavily armored monsters, the rangers and archers can dominate the battlefield!"
"Amy, stay away... Leon, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the three prophets' team. You can lead them away, but don't let them enter the battlefield!"
Godric seemed to have strengthened his confidence and made a decision. He took his guards to defeat the group of heavily armored female soldiers first.
He had also seen that the strongest forces of the Prophet's Legion were the Doombringers and the Bloodsworn Witches - and they were particularly good at individual combat.
Each Doombringer is slightly stronger than the average Mettenheim Greatswordsman, and can definitely gain the upper hand against ordinary knights.
In fact, almost each of them is now fighting one against three, or even more - but they are still not at a disadvantage!
The power of the Bloodsworn Witches seemed extremely terrifying - their power definitely exceeded that of Klose, and might even be comparable to that of Alaric the Noisy One whom Leon had met before!
It’s just that those bloodsworn witches didn’t wear helmets, and their combat skills were far inferior to those of the Doombringers.
However, the heavy armor they were wearing obviously had a very high defensive power, and the rangers' arrows could not penetrate it!
You know, the bow used by the Horn Summoning Rangers is the famous Eagle Strike Bow - this is a top-notch bow, and each one is a family heirloom of the Ranger Group members and is not for sale!
Unless you shoot the Blood Oath Priestess in the head which is not protected by a helmet, it is difficult to cause any harm to them!
But such a chaotic situation obviously did not support the rangers and Changhe Town sentinels to aim carefully.
In hand-to-hand combat, their strength advantage is particularly terrifying.
These scary-looking guys wield two-handed sabers, and can often cut through shields with a single swing, or even easily knock the weapons of infantrymen away.
There were only about 200 heavy infantrymen in the coalition army. They were obviously no match for the Blood Oath Witch. Currently, they were barely holding out with the support of some rangers and Changhe Town sentinels.
Leon also thought that there was nothing wrong with Godric's decision. Except for the blood-sworn witches, the rest of the Prophet's Legion only wore chain mail or leather armor.
If they could kill those Bloodsworn Witches, they would be able to free the Horn Summoning Rangers and White Hart Fort Archers from the melee, and then organize long-range firepower to clean up the battlefield.
The three prophets had been keeping their eyes on Godric, and when they saw Godric leading his team to besiege the Bloodsworn Witch, they also rushed towards Godric's flag.
"Amy, you go to Changhe Town and ask the garrison to go out of the city for support. I will go to deal with the Three Prophets' troops!"
The Lord looked at the position of the three prophets on the opposite side: "Logically, the Changhe Town garrison should be able to see the situation here... Ask them why they don't go out to fight!"
Indeed, one can see the figures of people on the wall of Changhe Town from here. In fact, they can be seen at a distance of about four miles, but they are not clear.
Besides, the previous fire was so obvious, but Changhe Town had never had any troops leave the city to receive reinforcements!
Amy knew that Leon didn't want her to be in danger, and she was not the kind of girl who would act recklessly. After nodding to show that she understood, she took a few guards on horseback and made a big circle, avoiding the battlefield and heading towards Changhe Town.
Leon led his team and made a detour, blocking the three prophets before they joined the battle.
"Brothers, shoot!"
The lord would not charge forward foolishly. From a distance of nearly a hundred meters, he began to order his archers to shoot arrows.
Such a long distance would definitely not result in any effective results, but it successfully attracted the attention of the three prophets.
The Three Prophets have a dozen Doombringers under their command, and the other eighty-odd trusted female soldiers also look calm and indifferent. They are obviously their elite troops.
There are about a hundred people on each side, and it seems that they are evenly matched?
However, these women are neither afraid of death nor pain, and their fighting ability is completely beyond common sense, so Li Ang does not intend to confront them head-on.
He just wanted to hold them back.
However, there are only three prophets and those doom-bringers riding fast horses, and those trusted female soldiers are all infantry archers. If we can get them out of the way, maybe we can fight them?
After the three prophets noticed that Leon's team was shooting arrows, they immediately launched a fierce charge towards them - the three prophets personally took to the battlefield and rushed over with those doom-bringers.
"Is it so direct? Brothers, retreat!"
The lord led his troops and ran away, looking back as he ran, intending to retreat a short distance and then try to besiege the three prophets.
But then, he saw a horrible scene...
It was a knight, probably one of Godric's men. He had just dealt with a doom bringer and noticed the three prophets.
While the three prophets were charging at Leon and their attention was not on him, the knight charged one of the prophets from the side with his lance .
But after seeing him, the prophet holding the huge broad-bladed knife simply swung her hand, and the knight who had already rushed in front of her was knocked away by the knife!
Yes, this fully-armed knight was knocked several meters away by a casual blow of the sword!
Blood sprayed in the air and splashed on the prophet's armor. But the death of the knight did not even stop the prophet from charging. It was like slapping a mosquito to death!
This kind of fighting power is too terrifying. Li Ang feels that he is definitely no match for this...
