Chapter 40 Li Qing's Counterattack
The man shook his head:
"My ability is limited now. I can only kill four. After that, I won't be able to deal with the gnolls and kobolds behind them."
Chu Zhong gritted his teeth:
"Kill him first, then talk."
The wizard nodded, said nothing, but raised the staff in his hand and began to chant something.
A red light appeared in front of him and quickly turned into a vortex of flames. A dazzling red beam of fire flew out of the vortex and hit the nearest werewolf undead.
Hero spell - Blazing Ray, which fires three high-temperature blades of fire in succession, causing fire damage to the target. The first blade of fire has an additional spell penetration effect.
A normal Blazing Ray spell only fires one ray of high-temperature flame. This mage also upgrades his second heroic skill to LV2. After adding two more points of heroic expertise to strengthen it, he can fire three Blazing Rays at a time. The first one has spell penetration, which can cause fatal damage to targets with strong spell resistance.
The first scorching ray directly melted a fist-sized hole in the neck of the werewolf undead, and the second one completely melted through its neck, and its head fell off.
Killed instantly.
Li Qing stood on the stone pillar and saw it clearly. When the head of the werewolf undead warrior fell off, his eyelids could not help but twitch.
All I can say is that when a mage hero goes to extremes and puts all of his hero skill points and expertise points into one spell, the burst is too powerful in an instant.
Based on the power of this spell, Li Qing suspected that even a fourth-tier soldier would not be able to withstand a single blast of heat ray.
With four consecutive spurts of heat rays, four undead gnoll warriors were killed.
Even the undead with no vital signs cannot withstand this kind of attack that can directly melt through their bodies.
After four shots, the mana is exhausted and the mage hero temporarily loses his combat effectiveness.
Of course, it's fine to use the remaining mana to cast some zero-ring spells such as Light, but this will not affect the battle situation.
There were seven gnoll undead warriors in total. After killing four, three were left.
But these three rushed over together with the large group of gnolls and kobolds behind them. While they had to face the undead gnolls, they also had to face nearly two hundred gnolls and more than four hundred kobolds.
Almost in an instant, the two deployed troops collided head-on and started a fight.
The average rank of Chu Zaizhong's troops was not inferior to Li Qing's, and he also had many second- and third-order soldiers, but he did not have that many elite and elite template soldiers, and his troops of the same rank were weaker than Li Qing's.
However, his number of people was large enough, about twice that of Li Qing, which made up for the gap.
In order to deal with these three third-level horror template jackal undead puppets, Chu Zhong directly mobilized about a quarter of his troops, using swords, spears, stabbings and arrows to attack them. Although they could not be killed immediately, the large number of people also blocked the attack of the three undead puppets.
On the other side, the infantry formed a shield wall, with spearmen behind and archers at the end, firmly blocking the gnolls driven by the gnolls.
Although the gnolls were numerous, their individual strength was weak. The moment the two sides engaged in battle, the front row almost all fell backwards.
In addition, he had more than a dozen cavalrymen, who also began to gallop on their horses, trying to attack the enemy's rear row and split up and eliminate small groups of ogres.
Chu Zhongzhong was standing in the back row and saw this scene, and he felt relieved.
"There's no problem here. As long as we can stop Li Qing's counterattack, we can win this time."
He deliberately turned his head to look at Li Qing on the wall of the city, but saw that Li Qing still had a smile in his eyes.
My heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly didn't feel so at ease anymore.
At this moment, a roar that made his heart skip a beat suddenly came from the direction of the gate of the Werewolf tribe in front of him, and then he saw an extremely tall figure suddenly rushing out from behind the gate.
"Huh?"
Li Qing was surprised for a moment. He recognized that the figure was the werewolf leader who was shot by Xie Zhu's arrow before, but his appearance had changed greatly compared to before.
His height suddenly expanded from about two meters to about two and a half meters, and his body became stronger.
The blood-colored magic pattern on his body has been completely activated, with blood flames burning, and he looks like a devil.
With just a glance, Li Qing knew that this guy's strength was much stronger than before.
After this guy rushed out, he charged forward recklessly, knocking away all the gnolls and dog-headed men on the road. He rushed towards Chu Zaizhong's infantry line like a tank.
Chu Zhongzhong's expression changed immediately and he shouted:
"The first infantry squad is ready to form a battle formation!"
"All archers change their targets and focus their fire on the new target!"
At this moment, he already regretted letting his mage hero use up all his mana, otherwise he could have blocked it.
"You're doomed!"
Li Qing could tell with just one glance.
Although Chu Zaizhong's troops were large in size, they had a fatal flaw: they did not have any powerful warriors comparable to Long Shou.
Wang Qiyong is a stealth hero and has no frontal combat capability.
His close combat ability is not weak, but a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. It is impossible to let the lord go to the front line unless the enemy is defeated.
The key is that his personal strength is equivalent to that of a third-level elite infantryman. It is difficult for him to fight against a werewolf undead warrior alone, and a strengthened third-level hero will definitely not be able to beat him.
The fact is that it is impossible for him to go up and fight this powerful werewolf hero in person.
More than fifty archers concentrated their fire in one round, and most of the arrows hit the rushing werewolf leader Larson. However, at this moment his physique was very strong, obviously stronger than before, and most of the arrows were actually bounced off by his tough flesh, and the few that penetrated only one or two fingers deep and did not hurt him at all.
This aroused his ferocity even more. He roared and knocked away the ogre in front of him, then jumped seven or eight meters high.
Berserker hero skill, leap slash.
He jumped directly over the front line of soldiers and jumped into the rear, splitting an archer in half with one sword. The flying blood made him even more crazy. After roaring to the sky, he quickly turned his body while holding the sword.
Berserker hero skill: Demoralizing Roar, which reduces the fighting spirit and strength of surrounding enemies.
Berserker hero skill: Whirlwind.
Although there is only one sword, it is no different from having two.
The sword blade turned and swept across, and the archer's leather armor was no match for it, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
"Cool!"
As heartbroken as Chu Zhong was at this moment, Li Qing, who was standing on the city wall watching the show, felt happy.
"You deserved it for trying to sneak attack me!"
A round of whirlwind swept through, killing at least fifteen long-range shooters on the spot and injuring more than ten. Although they were not dead, their combat effectiveness was affected.
After the whirlwind slash, Larson swept his sword horizontally, intercepting and cutting a wounded archer into two pieces. The cruel scene frightened the surrounding wounded soldiers so much that they retreated one after another, and the other uninjured archers also quickly dispersed.
A berserker charging into a group of archers is like a wolf among a flock of sheep.
At this moment, the weakness of not having powerful warriors on hand was exposed. Chu Zhong had no choice but to transfer the five third-level elite imperial infantrymen he had carefully trained from the front row. He couldn't sit idle either, so he followed with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other.
Seeing this, Li Qing whispered to Xie Zhu beside him:
"Watch the opportunity and snipe the stealth hero in his hand."
Then he said to the Dragon Guard in front of him:
"Find an opportunity to come over and take a breath of dragon's breath. Your target will be other than the other lord. You can do whatever you want."
Li Qing said that he would definitely take revenge if he wanted to. Since Chu Zhongzhong had already done it on the first day and had actually taken action, he should not be blamed for doing it on the fifteenth day.
Don't say you didn't suffer any losses.
He was just lucky. If he had been a little slower and got stuck, he would have been finished.
Anyway, as long as you don’t do anything to Chu Zhongzhong himself, it will be fine.
The protection of the academy only protects the war lord apprentices themselves, but not their subordinates. If you are killed due to lack of ability, no one will stand up for you.
Moreover, for the War Lord's apprentice, as long as he is not dead, he can make a comeback.
If the troops are gone, they can be trained again; if the heroes die, they can be recruited again.
It is worth mentioning that normal heroes and professional apprentices will be protected, but if the heroes and professionals have already pledged allegiance to a war lord apprentice, they will not be protected.
After all, life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God.
You have chosen to fight for your future, and your life or death depends on how strong your life is.
After receiving the order, Long Shou still stood beside Li Qing, while Xie Zhu took out an armor-piercing steel arrow from behind and put it on the bow, but did not pull the bow. Instead, he was observing.
There is no chance now.
The stealth hero under Chu Zhongzhong's command was always in semi-stealth mode. It was difficult to find and lock onto him under the cover of darkness. He would suddenly appear behind the jackal from time to time and strangle him with his two daggers.
He is not fast, but very efficient. He will kill one person every time he appears.
This assassin-type hero is the nemesis of magic and ranged professions. If he is not killed, even if Chu is defeated, he will still have the strength to continue to interfere with them.
Li Qing was not in a hurry to urge him. There would always be a chance for such a thing to be done recklessly.
With the combined efforts of five third-tier elite imperial infantrymen, plus Chu Zhong's own support, they were able to barely divert the attention of the werewolf leader away from the archers.
The two swords kept swinging, the iron shields were hit with bangs, and from time to time, the infantry was repelled by the huge force.
But two enemies are no match for four. Every time they repelled an infantryman and wanted to make the final move, Chu Zhongzhong and other infantrymen would always come forward to interfere and intercept them. For a while, no one could do anything to anyone.
But this situation did not last long. With the second round of demoralizing roar from the werewolf hero Larson, the surrounding besieging infantry were terrified, and he grabbed the sword and launched a second round of whirlwind slash.
The third-level infantrymen had iron shields and solid defensive scale armor on their bodies. Two quick whirlwind strikes only knocked the shields out of their hands, and sparks flew from the scale armor.
By the time they recovered from their fear, only two elite infantrymen were cut and one was killed by a leaping slash.
Chu Zhong was fine . With the hero template, he was extremely resistant to negative states such as fear. He avoided the blade early when the werewolf hero used whirlwind slash.
But many elite soldiers were injured and their siege was broken.
Seeing this scene, Chu Zhong's eyes flickered, and he was already thinking about whether to cut off his tail to survive.
Pull a part of the troops to cover the rear, and the main force will withdraw first.
There was no other way. He only had these few third-level elite infantrymen, and the rest were a mixture of first and second levels. He didn't have the strength to confront the werewolf hero head-on, and if he wanted to surround and kill him, the losses would be greater than he expected.
The key is not necessarily being able to kill.
What's more, Li Qing is watching closely from the side. If the losses are too great, even if they win later, they won't be able to keep the fruits of victory.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was not worth it, and the balance in Chu's heart had begun to tilt.
At this moment, he subconsciously looked towards the city wall not far away and saw a tall figure jumping down from the city wall and rushing towards him.
Chu Zhong was stunned for a moment, then immediately shouted:
"First Squadron, First Squad, Second Squad, be careful."
Long Shou approached quickly, opened his mouth and a vortex of flames appeared in the distance.
Chu Zhongzhong immediately recalled Long Shou's fire breath during the previous exam. His face immediately changed and he shouted again:
"Disperse!"
However, Long Shou did not spit out dragon breath immediately, but instead accumulated energy and continued to approach. When he reached a certain point, he suddenly turned his head and spit out a dazzling ray of dragon breath as Chu Zhong's expression changed drastically.
"No!"
Amid Chu Zhong's desperate cry, the dragon's breath ray instantly crossed a distance of fifty meters, passed through the scattered infantry, and hit the face of the robed mage hero not far from Chu Zhong.
Unimaginable high temperature flames hit the defenseless face of the mage hero. The extremely high temperature quickly burned the flesh and blood, and the entire head turned into a fireball.
A mage without defense is no better than a first-level infantryman, so how can he withstand a high-energy ray from Long Shou?
After a few seconds, the dragon's breath ray disappeared. The mage hero's head was still burning. His body swayed a few steps and fell down in Chu Zhong's desperate eyes.
Li Qing had previously told Long Shou to let him choose his own target.
For Long Shou, the biggest threat to him is this mage hero.
The power of those four three-shot flame rays was too strong. If they all hit him, he would definitely not be able to block them.
The death of the mage hero made Chu Zhong decide to retreat. He suppressed the pain in his heart and quickly issued a series of orders.
He left more than fifty infantrymen to cover the rear and prevent Li Qing from possibly pursuing him, and then ordered the remaining troops to prepare to withdraw from the battle.
After a brief buffer, Long Shou opened his mouth and took a deep breath to start the second round of charging, his eyes looking at the second stealth hero under Chu Zhongzhong.
At this time, Wang Qiyong had already received the order and retreated from behind the jackals. Although he was still in stealth mode, Long Shou's perception was far superior to that of ordinary people and he could roughly grasp his approximate position.
The second breath he exhaled was aimed at an open space not far from Chu Zhongzhong.
The hot ray flew across the sky but did not hit the target. However, the firelight dispelled the surrounding darkness and a human figure emerged .
The moment he appeared, a faint light flashed in the void, and an arrow flew across a distance of nearly 150 meters and hit the human figure. Blood spurted out, and the powerful force directly knocked the human figure away. When he fell to the ground, his human shape appeared again. A fine steel arrow shot into his lower abdomen and went out through his back.
It was Xie Zhu's powerful attack.
When Long Shou started to charge his breath for the second round, he started to draw his bow and charge.
With the sniper's 100% range bonus, he can accurately snipe the target even at a distance of more than 150 meters.
There was no discussion, only tacit understanding.
The moment he saw Wang Qiyong being shot to death, Li Qing couldn't help but applaud.
After killing these two heroes, plus the losses just now and the losses in the subsequent breakout, Chu Zhongzhong's strength was halved on the spot, and his competitiveness plummeted instantly. By then, he would probably fall outside the top ten and would no longer be a threat.
