Chapter 30 Complete the fifth round of challenges
This time he used the kite tactic, found an extremely empty valley, and used the imperial heavy cavalry to charge back and forth in the valley.
The Empire's heavy cavalry are all covered in scale armor, and their defense cannot be broken by ordinary skeletons.
The twenty-three cavalrymen formed a platoon and charged, crushing all enemies along the way. Countless skeletons were smashed to pieces by the sound of their horses' hooves.
Even if he was trapped in a group of skeletons, he could still force his way out by relying on the weight of his warhorse and knight.
However, the physical strength of war horses is still limited.
One or two charges can easily get away.
After three or four charges, it was obvious that the escape speed was slowing down.
Later, Mo Wenxi changed his tactics and no longer charged directly into the battle formation, but instead swept around the edge of the front line of the undead tide.
This tactic was indeed good, but as the undead tide slowly advanced and slowly filled up this wide valley, their tactical space became smaller and smaller, until there was insufficient space left for the cavalry to use their cavalry, and they had to retreat deeper into the valley.
They distanced themselves in the canyon, turned around and launched another charge.
Each time, a large number of skeletons can be crushed, but the fearless and tireless sea of skeletons continues to step on the corpses of other skeletons.
In this narrow canyon, it is not easy to rush in and turn around.
In addition, the cavalry's physical strength was not as good as before. In every charge, one or two cavalrymen would fall into the sea of skeletons and be unable to escape, and would eventually be submerged by endless bones.
If this were on a large open plain, the twenty-three cavalrymen could use kite tactics to slowly eliminate these undead souls.
If the road in this challenge space is very long, the twenty-three riders also have the opportunity to keep going, and it is not impossible to complete the challenge after paying a certain price.
However, this is not a great plain and the canyon length is limited.
After fighting and retreating for more than ten kilometers, the cavalry came to a valley at the bottom with a diameter of six or seven hundred meters, and there was no way forward.
Mo Wenxi led the remaining 18 cavalrymen around the bottom of the valley, then looked at the seemingly endless tide of undead pouring out from the valley entrance. He was silent for a while and chose to give up.
When he shouted those words to the sky, time in the entire space seemed to freeze, and the tide of undead pouring into the valley stopped as if the pause button had been pressed.
“I really can’t accept this!”
Mo Wenxi took a last look at the undead hero riding a skeleton horse that was pouring into the valley with the tide of the undead. Everything in front of him began to distort until it disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was already in an unknown room.
The instructor and several teaching assistants were looking at a huge light screen in front of them. It showed three split screens, with a dozen apprentices standing behind it.
Mo Wenxi immediately understood where this was and was about to check the light screens of the other students who had not yet been eliminated, when his mentor Nie Yang looked over and waved to him.
Mo Wenxi immediately walked over, and Nie Yang said to him:
“Do you know why you failed?”
Mo Wenxi was silent for a moment and said:
"Not strong enough!"
"Wrong. Your strength is sufficient, but you don't have enough information about the battle opportunities and battlefield, and you lack the determination and courage to fight to the death. In this battle, you have two chances. The first chance is in the first battlefield. When the undead heroes enter the Great Valley, if you can organize a charge and use the cavalry heroes as the core to kill the undead heroes before they enter, you will have a chance to win."
"The second chance is in the last valley. At that time, the number of undead armies will be smaller than before. Not only will you have the opportunity to kill the undead heroes, but you can also break through the enemy formation from the weak point after the undead army breaks into the valley and escape."
"You didn't seize both chances. You didn't have the determination and courage to go all out. You were afraid of losing too much."
"You want to win without any loss with only 23 cavalrymen against 4,000 undead? Dream on!"
Instructor Nie Yang scolded Mo Wenxi mercilessly.
"After this class, reflect on it carefully and review it yourself. Now let's see how they operate."
After saying that, he turned around and continued to look at the light screen, and happened to see the scene in the middle where Long Shou's dragon breath burned a large number of skeletons and a large amount of bone fragments on the ground into ashes.
When he saw the wall that cut the canyon in half, Mo Wenxi was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the wall in the light curtain and shouted:
"Teacher, how come Li Qing has a wall? He is cheating!"
Nie Yang said calmly without even turning his head:
"You changed your troops, too."
But Mo Wenxi still refused to accept:
"I changed the troops but didn't cheat like him. How can I gather civilians to build the wall here?"
"He didn't call in the civilians."
"This is impossible."
Nie Yang turned around abruptly, his eyes gleaming with brilliance. An inexplicable pressure made Mo Wenxi speechless:
"Are you questioning me?"
Mo Wenxi paused and whispered:
"Students don't dare!"
"snort!"
Nie Yang snorted coldly, turned around and said:
"I allow you to question, but before you question, please provide evidence and don't just speak without thinking."
The apprentices were speechless.
Stepping back, Mo Wenxi looked at Gongsun Jin and Chu Zhongzhong and asked in a low voice:
"You came first. Did you see how he built the city wall?"
Gongsun Jin shrugged and said:
"He didn't build it. He just had a space treasure that had a pre-built wall inside. He put it down to block the valley entrance before he started."
"Isn't this cheating?"
Chu Zhongzhong raised his head and glanced at Mo Wenxi, with a hint of contempt in his eyes:
"If you lose, it means you are not as skilled as your opponent. You can even change your troops temporarily. What's wrong with him putting down the items in his treasure?"
"He just changed the terrain. He didn't bring any powerful weapons or more troops."
Mo Wenxi was speechless for a while, and suddenly uttered:
"Fuck, if this is the case, won't he be the final winner of this class?"
After saying this, he, Gongsun Jin and Chu Zhongzhong looked at each other and could see the gloating in each other's eyes.
"It made me laugh to death. When Zhang Jishan and Cao Wenyuan came out, I found that they had been fighting for a long time, but in the end the first place was already taken by someone else. I don't know how they felt."
"But then again, no one expected Li Qing to be so strong. I thought he just had excellent mental talent and his background was average so he shouldn't have much competitiveness. I didn't expect him to give us such a big surprise."
"So what? He just occupies the advantage of location. His real strength is not stronger than ours."
"That's right. This class has various restrictions, and many of our methods cannot be used at all."
While they were chatting here, changes occurred again in the challenge space .
Chief Zhang Jishan's tactic was to consume the power of the undead tide by fighting and retreating. At the beginning, he chose several places in this nearly ten-kilometer canyon that could be used for attack or defense, and then relied on these terrains to continuously defend and consume the power of the undead tide.
The idea is to consume most of the undead first, and then have a decisive battle at the bottom of the valley.
Everything went very smoothly at the beginning. Thanks to the powerful fighting ability of the three indigenous heroes, the killing efficiency was very high.
By the time he reached the bottom of the valley while fighting and retreating, most of the Undead Army had been lost, with less than two thousand left, while he himself had only lost five of his men.
Although the remaining troops had consumed a lot of physical strength, they still had the strength to fight.
Moreover, Zhang Jishan has made the decision to fight to the death and is determined to complete the challenge at the cost of the lives of this troop.
As long as we can successfully complete the fifth round of challenges, all the losses will be worth it.
You have to know that he has hundreds of troop promotion runes and a large number of monster cards for upgrading. Even if this batch of troops is completely lost, he will just spend time training another batch.
With the determination to die with honor, Zhang Jishan began the final deployment of troops.
On the other side, Cao Wenyuan had already started the final battle earlier than Zhang Jishan.
Including himself, there are a total of four heroes with immediate combat capabilities, three melee heroes, and one second-level magic elemental summoner hero.
This profession is good at dealing with elemental creatures and can summon various elements to assist in battle, which can be considered a kind of summoner.
Cao Wenyuan, the elemental summoner , specializes in fire elements, so he can only summon fire elements. The summoned fire elements are stronger, last longer, and the total number of summons is also increased. He can summon at least 3-5 third-order fire elements.
The third-level fire elemental was already able to cast the wizard's signature fireball spell. This elemental summoner used special super-magic techniques to summon two rounds in a row. A total of 10 fire elements stood behind the troops, continuously throwing out fireballs that exploded in the canyon.
After using this metamagic technique, you will not be able to summon again for the next few hours.
But it was enough. It had summoned two rounds before, and nearly half of the skeletons had been burned before being killed by the dense rain of skeleton arrows.
Now that he has rested enough for the next two rounds of 10 third-order fire elements, and with all his subordinates fighting to the death, Cao Wenyuan is confident that he can complete this round of challenge as the fastest.
However, just before Zhang Jishan and Cao Wenyuan launched their counterattack, Li Qing had already ordered Long Shou, who had recovered all his strength, to attack, targeting the Undead Knight hero.
At this time, due to the death of a large number of skeletons, there were less than two thousand skeletons left. At the same time, the undead hero had arrived less than a hundred meters away from the corner of the front line.
After Long Shou had almost recovered, he jumped from the city wall to the right side of the valley wall. His five fingers grasped the protrusion on the edge of the valley wall like steel. In addition, this part of the valley wall was not a cliff, so he could hold his body and move.
After several jumps, he passed the corner. The Undead Knight, who was only seventy meters away from him, raised his head. The blue soul fire flickered under the black helmet. He raised the bone sword in his hand, and invisible waves spread. All the skeleton archers nearby raised their heads at the same time, and quickly raised the bone bows in their hands to shoot at Long Shou.
With a sudden leap, Long Shou jumped directly into the group of skeletons and crushed several skeleton warriors. Then with a sudden collision with two skeletons, he jumped several meters out and crashed into the group of skeletons again.
A layer of flames appeared on his body in mid-air. After he landed, he opened his mouth and exhaled, and a stream of hot dragon breath spurted out towards the front.
The fan-shaped dragon breath swept across, burning large pieces of skeletons to ashes. He rushed into the end of the charred ashes and jumped down again.
At this time, he was less than fifty meters away from the Undead Knight, and he could already see the Undead Knight raising the bone sword covered in black air and pointing it at him.
After landing, the magic patterns on Long Shou's body became brighter again, and when he opened his mouth, a vortex of flames emerged, and a dazzling flame spurted out.
But this time it was not a cone-shaped dragon breath, but a thin column of flame that swept over the heads of countless skulls, crossed a distance of fifty meters in an instant, and hit the black bone shield that the Undead Knight quickly raised.
"boom!"
The bone shield melted through directly, and the remaining force hit the chest of the Undead Knight. The black bone armor quickly turned red and burned, and the red color quickly expanded .
The Undead Knight sat on the skeleton warhorse motionlessly and took the blow. The blue soul fire in the pupil of the helmet shook violently, and the gray breath of death rose from the gaps in the bone armor. The whole body was shrouded in a large cloud of gray fog, indicating that it was not easy for it to take this blow.
The dragon's breath ray that spanned fifty meters lasted only one second before disappearing. The gray mist on the Undead Knight's body slowly faded, revealing a basin-sized molten pit on his chest with carbonized red bones inside. A large amount of death breath seeped into the molten pit to repair itself.
Without waiting for the Undead Knight to make any other reaction, Long Shou gathered his strength again, and another dragon breath ray sprayed at the original position of the Undead Knight's chest.
This time there was no bone shield to block, no armor to defend, the blow pierced directly through the Undead Knight's body, the flames quickly spread from the hole to all sides, the Undead Knight roared and stood up on his horse, both the man and the horse were covered in flames, turning into a fire knight.
Then it quickly burned and turned into a charred ball and scattered.
The dense but orderly undead army fell into chaos the moment the hero died, and the attack was obviously no longer as determined as before.
After killing the Undead Knight, Long Shou quickly retreated.
I only used dragon breath three times just now, and I still have more than half of my physical strength left. I have enough physical strength to use conical dragon breath to clear a way forward and kill my way back.
When he came back, Li Qing immediately took out an egg-sized crystal of flesh and blood essence to restore Long Shou's physical strength. He then took out a ray of almost tangible clear light and pressed it on Long Shou's forehead to restore his consumed mental strength and spiritual fatigue.
Dragon's breath doesn't just consume physical energy, it also consumes mental energy, just not much.
In addition, the soul will be exhausted after fighting for a long time and spewing dragon breath many times.
This clear light is the soul essence collected before, one unit at a time, and now there are a total of 15 units accumulated.
Quickly recovering, Long Shou became full of energy again, opening his mouth and releasing a conical dragon breath to clear the area.
At the same time, Li Qing ordered all troops to pick up their weapons and jump off the city wall in preparation for a counterattack.
Once the undead hero died, although there were only 1,700 to 1,800 undead left, they were quickly wiped out with the dragon's breath clearing the area.
Every six breaths of dragon's breath consumed 90% of his physical strength. Long Shou would come back and take a crystal of flesh and blood essence plus a soul essence to restore his physical strength and soul fatigue, so that he could continue to push forward with full energy.
The rest of the troops followed behind and specifically cleared out the fish that escaped the dragon's breath.
After consuming two flesh and blood essences and two soul essences in succession, Long Shou killed his way through the undead tide in one breath, killed his way to the back of the tide, and then killed his way back again.
Just wait to kill these remaining fish that slipped through the net...
"good!"
Mentor Nie Yang was in a good mood when he saw this scene and gave a rare exclamation of praise.
The assistant coaches standing beside him nodded one by one, but Abram said:
"Using the essence of flesh and blood is fine, but using the essence of soul continuously is too extravagant."
Gongsun Jin, who was standing behind them, rolled his eyes when he heard this.
This is more than just luxury, it's a waste of money.
What is pure soul essence? It is the top raw material for magic potions.
Soul essence is actually not difficult to obtain. The difficulty lies in how to completely purify the remaining spirit and will in the soul, as well as the soul imprint. This is a raw material that even legendary wizards have to spend a lot of effort to obtain.
Under normal circumstances, it would only be used to prepare top-level potions, or to concoct ink unique to magic pattern constructs. No one would use it to restore soul fatigue and mental strength. It was too damn extravagant.
