Chapter 289: A War Without Justice (VI)
The core tactics of the attack launched by the players in the fifth round were based on the "Book of the Dead" held by Qin Guan.
"Book of the Dead" is a special type of item. When the holder is the captain/team leader, the party/team members can be summoned around the holder.
This item, called a book, is actually a long scroll prop woven from the hair of a special monster, with a semi-permanent undead summoning spell engraved on it by Yang Qiu himself.
When using this item, the holder needs to consume the blue bar (mental power reserve) to activate it, and the summoned player also needs to pay a certain amount of mental power as the cost of being summoned when accepting the summon; because the consumption during activation can be shared by the summoner and the summoned, theoretically speaking, the Qin Guan holding the "Book of the Dead" can summon an unlimited number of people...
When this special item first appeared on the professional mentor's auction list, Qin Guan, a professional game anchor, saw the potential of this item at a glance and spent all he had to buy it. In the subsequent internal competition among players, this item lived up to his expectations and achieved great success.
The only problem is... in order to make good use of this special prop, Qin Guan needs to be able to reach the best location to pull people alive.
In the previous offensive operations, Qin Guan either had no chance to break into the enemy camp, was trampled to death by heavy cavalry, or was killed by the wizard boss. He neither had the time nor the thought to create an opportunity to unleash the power of this artifact.
Now, since we know that there is a super fat BOSS with epic equipment inside the enemy camp, players must make full use of various existing conditions to play tricks...
In the other world, on March 1, 1032, it was 12:20 noon.
On the battlefield, Colonel Victor, who had just deployed the Odysseus army, took out his pocket watch to check the time, then gazed far to the east, in the direction of Lionel's army's base.
There were only forty minutes left before the agreed battle time of 1:00 p.m., and Lionel's army still hadn't appeared.
"Could it be possible that... Lionel's army was really held back by those less than three thousand undead?" A thought popped up in Colonel Victor's mind that he himself could not believe.
Colonel Victor is a cautious general of the kingdom. After learning that Miss Phoenix has hired the so-called "Tarantan Undead" as mercenaries, he also made some efforts to inquire about these strange undead creatures that suddenly emerged from the Innadri territory.
They captured a group of the Church of the Fiery Sun and defeated the city defense forces of the Bartles family and the coalition forces of the Innadri nobles. Judging from their battle records, these strange undead really have the capital to make a living as mercenaries.
But the problem is that the shortcomings of these undead are also obvious: their individual combat effectiveness is not strong, their discipline is extremely poor, and their lethality is low.
When they were fighting against the Fiery Solari with a three-to-one advantage in force, these undead almost broke through their own positions. It was only because of their immortality that they exhausted the Fiery Solari's men and horses and managed to turn the tide.
When fighting against the Innadri noble coalition forces of similar strength, these undead still find it difficult to gain the upper hand in the face of the noble private soldiers of varying quality, and still have to rely on their immortality and indefatigable energy to play rogue.
The troops Lionel mobilized to participate in the war came from the border guards and the garrisons of two large cities. They were not the kind of noble private soldiers with obvious shortcomings, and their numbers were far greater than those of the undead. No matter how Colonel Victor rehearsed in his mind, he did not think that these undead could cause any serious trouble to Lionel's army.
If the cavalry raids the formation and the heavy infantry advances steadily, these undead will be helpless.
Even if they are harassed repeatedly, they just need to protect their wings - their low lethality and the disadvantage of being easily killed make it difficult for them to shake .
"Colonel!"
Colonel Victor was full of confusion when a knight from the Odysseus family came up on horseback from behind, solemnly took out a mirror from a wooden box, and presented it to him with both hands.
When Colonel Victor saw the mirror, he knew that the spellcaster behind him had discovered something unusual, and he quickly uncovered the red cloth on the mirror.
Colonel Victor was shocked when he saw the projection of the Mage's Eye in the mirror.
What the mirror shows... is the march of Lionel's army.
The enemy's spellcasters were busy chasing the undead running all over the mountains and had no time to distract themselves, so the illusionist Upton controlled the Mage's Eye and boldly approached.
High in the sky, Lionel's army, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, is marching with difficulty.
Countless undead spirits harassed the marching army from 360 degrees like flies. Inaccurate bows and arrows and faint lights of black magic flashed at the edges of the army from time to time.
Undead souls were constantly killed and turned into white light by the light cavalry guarding the two wings and the spellcasters flying in the sky, but this could not scare off the undead souls' harassment; they still approached the enemy's center persistently, desperately and unremittingly.
Colonel Victor's mouth gradually opened wider.
He saw a troop of light cavalry guarding the flank disperse several undead who were trying to approach the center of the army. However, as soon as the light cavalry charged past, the undead, who had lost many of their companions, turned back and charged towards the main enemy force without hesitation, like moths to a flame.
The undead who could only wander around did not give up the fight completely. When the light cavalry had to disperse for a short time due to the terrain restrictions, the fleeing undead would rush towards the lone light armored cavalry in an orderly manner, and skillfully pull the opponent off the horse, lift him up and carry him away...
These undead spirits hindered the enemy's march so frantically and devoured the enemy's huge body so recklessly and selflessly - no wonder Lionel's army was unable to resist the battlefield!
Colonel Victor felt a surge of warmth in his heart, and all his resentment towards the Undead Mercenaries for refusing to follow orders and obey was swept away. He suddenly drew out his command knife and pointed it towards the east, shouting angrily: "Send the order! Target Lionel's position in the east, and attack with all your forces!"
The dead players who were passing by the battle battlefield suddenly saw that the friendly troops who were standing still as the background board were actually moving, and moving to the east. They were horrified: "What the hell?!"
These zombie-running players quickly accelerated and ran past their allies, shouting in the team channel as they ran: "Attention! The allies on this side of the battlefield are moving! They are coming to steal the monsters!"
"Have you found the boss? Hurry up! Our friendly forces are coming!!"
Each of them found a hidden location to command and dispatch, and Entropy Bu Zeng & Miao Bi Sheng Hua were shocked: "What the hell? Can the system go to this extent to fix a bug? It can even distort the original battlefield plot?!"
During the Crescent Manor mission, due to the forced intervention of the friendly NPC Pretty Boy (Brother Lowell:...), the vampire boss that was finally captured only dropped one blood essence. This painful lesson is still fresh in the minds of all the players present at the time; the thousands of players who were still alive became nervous and rushed like crazy to the place where the enemy had the most people and the most concentrated defense forces.
This sudden high-intensity counterattack caught Lionel's side off guard, and a few lucky players actually managed to break into the central position.
A player who used the Wind Control Technique to jump into the red-named NPCs looked up and saw the prince of the duchy surrounded by a large group of guards. He was dressed much more gorgeously than the other red-named NPCs. He almost cried with joy: "Fuck, I found it! It's here! There's a group of cavalry monsters wearing silver helmets surrounding me!"
Before being hacked to death by the infantry, the player still managed to give a location hint: "Next to the hill at the seven o'clock direction! There is a rock wall on the hill! It's right below!"
Miaobishenghua jumped out from his hiding place while putting on his equipment: "Attention everyone! Anyone nearby, rush to the bottom of the hill at the seven o'clock direction! Vanilla, don't put on your equipment, blend in with the crowd, everyone protect Vanilla!"
"Put on your gear if you have good equipment! Find a way to attract the hatred of that wizard boss!"
"Everyone, keep at least a quarter of the blue bar, anger bar, and energy bar!"
After giving the instructions, Miaobishenghua raised her double-attribute staff, jumped to a particularly conspicuous place and cast skills at the monsters she could attack, successfully attracting the attention of the fire spellcaster in the air, who flew over and took her head.
The player community is not a monolithic entity. They often engage in group PK, verbal battles, throwing dirty water on each other, and slandering each other.
But in such a large-scale battlefield activity, in the face of the temptation of epic equipment drops that are "brushed out" for the first time in the current game version, no one would be stupid enough to risk the public outrage of all players on the server by doing something that would hinder the team.
Even Brother Lahong, who was usually so stupid as to make Qin Guan lose his mind, sent his capable men Huanling, Mingfeng Chunpu and Chenmi Xuexi to protect Qin Guan. He put on all his equipment and ran under the nose of the wizard BOSSS.
Under the cover of a large number of players who risked their lives, Qin Guan, who carried the hopes of all players, wore only basic equipment, tightly hugged the "Book of the Dead" tied around his wrist with a nylon strap, and rushed towards the center of the enemy army.
When the players changed from disorderly harassment to purposeful actions, His Royal Highness the Prince of the Principality failed to realize that the crisis was approaching.
For the elite Lionel professional soldiers, the individual and group combat capabilities of the undead are indeed not worth mentioning... If these undead were not particularly fearless of death and so crazy that it is difficult for people to predict their intentions, it would be difficult for these undead to cause any substantial damage to Lionel's army.
The number of harassing undead was reduced to less than a thousand, and the army's marching speed increased slightly. His Royal Highness, who was full of irritation and anger, rode his horse to the front of the guards, worried about the approaching time of the scheduled battle and whether his own army would have time to deploy its formation.
His Royal Highness's heart suddenly skipped a beat when he discovered that more and more undead were converging towards the central army and advancing towards him at an extremely high speed.
"Are these bastards targeting me?" His Royal Highness subconsciously wanted to step back.
The dragon-blood horse retreated half a horse's length, and His Royal Highness the Prince loosened the reins again.
The undead advanced towards the center of the army, and countless soldiers also retreated towards the center.
The number of our soldiers is several times that of the undead.
As the white light that the dead undead transformed into continued to flicker, the number of undead continued to decrease rapidly.
"--It doesn't matter." His Royal Highness suppressed the panic that was rising in his heart. "Even if they rush into the position, it won't have any effect. They will be cleared out soon."
The prince, who had built up his confidence due to the absolute numerical advantage, even had this thought: "If I had known that these undead were targeting me, I might as well have acted as bait and gathered these guys together to kill them all at once. This would also let the entire army know that I, the prince, am not just here to gain credit for nothing."
His Royal Highness, with his head held high, maintained the sacred dignity of the principality's royal family, looking down upon the remaining undead who had barely managed to rush into the central army position after more than half of their men had been killed.
“If those good-for-nothing brothers could see this scene, no, if the nobles of the principality could see it, no one would support those good-for-nothing brothers of mine.” His Royal Highness was vaguely proud of the general demeanor he displayed in public.
The last dozen or so undead seemed to be completely unaware of their own tragic fate of being annihilated, and they still charged forward fearlessly.
Qin Guan, who had been protected in the middle the whole time, finally rushed to within thirty meters of His Royal Highness the Prince of the Principality.
"Get ready!" Qin Guan, who had lost half of his health after taking some splash damage, roared and pulled open the scroll before the last few teammates died, "Accept the summons!!"
The prince, feeling relaxed, saw one of the remaining undead suddenly slam his jaw and pull open something that looked like a magic scroll tied to his wrist bone.
Scrolls that can record semi-permanent magic are rare items, and ordinary people may not be able to recognize them when they see them, but the prince of the principality and the prince's guards cannot fail to recognize them.
Before the prince could react, the guards around him rushed towards him with a drastic change of expression.
Brilliant white teleportation lights exploded densely in the central position of Lionel's army, and 2,637 players in the group were teleported to the scene at the same time.
Due to the large number of summons and the large number of players teleported, most of the players had no place to stay and were respawned on the heads, shoulders, horsebacks, and shields of Lionel's soldiers...
It was so packed that there was no room to even turn around.
"Fuck, this is outrageous! I can't see anything!"
"Can I be penetrated when I teleport? Can I almost lose my first kiss when I teleport?!"
Brother Lahong, who had just been blasted back to the rear, opened and closed his eyes and saw himself face to face with a handsome NPC with a horrified face, and he was teleported to the neck of the NPC's horse and was riding on it. He was a little confused at the time.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that this handsome NPC wearing flashy silver-plated armor was actually the "epic equipment NPC" that everyone had been thinking about.
The ecstatic Lahong brother quickly pulled off the nylon strap hanging on his belt and shouted excitedly: "Quick, quick, catch him!"
It wasn't just Brother Lahong who was "refreshed" to "overlap" with His Royal Highness the Prince. There was also one who was squatting on the horse's head, two who were on the horse's buttocks, and one who was on His Royal Highness the Prince's shoulder.
After these players adjusted to their strange positions, they also hurriedly pulled off the straps hanging on their belts like Lahong, and hurriedly tied up people and took off equipment...
