Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 255: Gray Clown Spirit and Dull Son
After leaving behind the necessary defensive personnel and asking Alduin, Nar and others to help look after the village, Levi led about 300 of his subordinates to attack, because Inspector Yakon had also said that the scale of the warring parties was not too large, and these troops were enough.
Levi cast summoning magic while hurrying on his way, and soon he led his troops closer to the battlefield.
When he saw the situation of the two warring parties clearly, he finally understood why Inspector Yakong used the word "weird" to describe the battle taking place here.
One of the sides is a troop composed of dwarves. Like most indigenous peoples or God-chosen heroes, their troop composition is relatively simple, with dwarf warriors and dwarf warriors holding the line in the front and a large number of dwarf crossbowmen shooting in the rear.
Occasionally, there are also some musketeers, advanced thunder lancers, and iron dragon artillerymen with a shorter range but able to spray flames. Their long-range firepower can be said to be very fierce, but their attack speed is much slower than that of the high elves' archers.
At the back were some naked upper bodies, with striking yellow or red cockscombs and shaved beards. They were responsible for protecting the ranged troops and two crossbows.
There were even two small helicopters hanging high in the air, constantly firing downwards.
However, these two helicopters are obviously cheap ones, because their ammunition is not bullets, but bursts of boiling high-temperature steam. Due to the short range, the helicopters need to constantly adjust their positions.
Overall, the configuration is quite complete, but like most dwarf troops, there are no cavalry units, which means they can only passively defend.
Of course, faced with their fierce firepower, most enemies can only be forced to choose to attack, otherwise their losses will become greater and greater as time goes by.
Oh, no, there are less than ten mountain goats behind the dwarf butcher, being guarded by an equal number of light-armored dwarves.
This is a very special situation for the dwarves, who are generally heavily armored and whose crossbowmen and musketeers also have strong defense. They are most likely cavalry units.
These mountain goats and another kind of giant underground lizard are the only two mounts that the dwarves can promote on a small scale.
There is no way. Due to the dwarves' short legs, extremely high weight, heavy armor and weapons, ordinary mounts either cannot carry them or they are unable to control them.
As for their enemies, they come from many different races and their numbers are much larger.
There are a large number of cavemen, goblins, murlocs, and even a few underground trolls, but there are more humanoid men with gray skin, holding battle axes, and no eyes.
Levi noticed that their stone axes blended perfectly into the night. They were all made of uncommon obsidian. In terms of sharpness alone, they could not be treated the same as ordinary stone axes.
And it seems that they have reinforcements. Previously, Inspector Yakong had detected that there were two to three hundred people on each side of the battle, but in such a short period of time, new muscular men continued to join the battle. The scale has almost doubled compared to the beginning, and this number is still increasing.
But Levi felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing, because these strong men were the Stone Blind Barbarians that Levi had wanted to beat up before.
It is said that they were once savages from the surface world, but were later transformed by an evil race called the Mind Flayers, and were forcibly turned into their current appearance. Their personalities have also changed greatly.
Now, like the Beastmen, they are a thoroughly evil camp, and quite a few of their members like to eat human brains raw. It is said that this is a bad habit they learned from their former master, the Mind Flayer.
Originally, he sent troops to scout and found that the Stone Blind Barbarian village closest to Blood Glory had nearly a thousand soldiers. If they could kill a large number of Stone Blind Barbarians in this battle, then the next attack on the other village would definitely be smoother.
But normally, although these races are all evil, it is almost impossible for them to mix together and fight side by side. Trolls feed on goblins and the like. These smelly guys are like ogres, and almost any race can be put on their menu.
But if they all have the same owner, that would be an exception.
At the back of them were some skinny guys wearing grey coats, about one meter tall, and dressed as clowns. Their weapons were also scepters with doll headdresses on top. The overall shape looked very funny.
They all had extremely exaggerated smiles on their faces, but no sound came out. Their wide-open mouths allowed everyone to clearly see their shark-like sharp teeth, which seemed to indicate that they were not easy to mess with.
At this moment, they are constantly releasing some magic towards the dwarves in front of them, and then these dwarves will laugh uncontrollably, not only laughing until tears come out, but also seriously affecting their attack and defense actions, thus giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage.
Some guys even fell to the ground and kept slapping the floor with their hands.
At this time, the clowns would come up one by one, with their mouths wide open, as if they were sucking something invisible to the naked eye.
But despite this, the clowns only had smiling expressions at this time, and their eyes looked extremely cold.
On the contrary, the cave dwellers all had sad faces or simply no expression, and they looked haggard and empty overall.
The two warring parties, one side was laughing loudly, while the other side was silent. No wonder Supervisor Yakong said that the situation was very strange.
Levi saw the situation at a glance: "It's a tier 2 magic - Tasha's Laughter. Those guys are gray clown spirits that feed on laughter. They are tier 4 monsters!"
There are thousands of types of magic, and not all of them are used for attack or defense. Tasha's Laugh is a typical example of magic that cannot cause any damage.
But once you hit it, its effect may be much more practical than ordinary water arrows, ice blades, etc.
Of course, the versatility of this magic is limited. Fools with low intelligence, or animal enemies, etc., may simply ignore this magic. As for constructs, undead creatures, etc., that goes without saying.
But in this case, it is completely understandable why such a ragtag army appears before us.
If the target is successfully fed with laughter after being cast this magic by the Gray Clown Spirit, their charm attribute will be temporarily reduced. When it is reduced to a certain level, they will become expressionless and start to work for the Gray Clown Spirit.
Those in this state are called "Sons of Dullness" and they will lose the ability to feel emotions unless the gray clown spirit that controls them is killed.
As for spirit creatures, they can be understood as magical creatures born from concepts or nature. Theoretically, all things in the world can become spirits.
The water sprite embodies the beauty of nature, the dryad represents the heart of the forest, the war dance sprite represents the power and cruel nature of battle, and so on.
Clownfish are generally believed to be creatures born from laughter, but they do not bring laughter to the world. Instead, they try to constantly take away the laughter of other creatures.
Compared to ordinary creatures, most of them have some special abilities and are more resistant to attacks, and have a certain resistance to both physical and magical attacks.
The only thing that puzzled Levi was that, under normal circumstances, the range of the mages' Tasha's Laugh was only a dozen meters, and the gray clowns needed to hit the enemy with the clown staffs in their hands to accurately and smoothly cast this magic. Because this was their innate magic, it had certain limitations.
But now they can perform it from a distance of more than ten meters. Is it because they have all been upgraded, or is it that there are heroic units among them that give them special abilities?
But it doesn’t matter. Even if they enhance the casting distance of this move, can it still compare to my magic or Donna’s rain of arrows?
Apart from Tasha's Mad Laughter, the Gray Clown Spirit is just a little bit more resistant to attacks, and other aspects are not worth mentioning at all!
"Lisadiran, Simon, lead the cavalry to go around from the back and try to attack those gray clowns, but be careful to keep your distance and be careful of their magic."
"Luna, take the female hunters to check the situation in the rear. If the enemy still has reinforcements, try to intercept them while ensuring your own safety. At the same time, contact me through the Monitoring Archon. Well, I will let the celestial creatures and the Silent Shadow help you ."
"Donna, Cindy, Elegy, you take the others and keep moving forward."
After quickly issuing a series of orders, Levi himself led the druids who had transformed into Storm Crows and soared into the sky, ready to cast magic on the enemy. Xiaotian naturally also brought the Legion's sub-kings with him.
For the dwarves, it is not easy to be immune to this magic, because it mainly looks at intelligence, followed by level, and then magic resistance. This makes it difficult for dwarf warriors who are naturally resistant to magic to be immune.
But for Levi and the druids, they can basically ignore it, because the gray clown spirit's various attributes are very average. Although its class is not low, its intelligence is almost impossible to match theirs.
If someone really gets hit by accident, besides being unlucky, there is only one possibility: it was an elite or even a hero among the enemy who took action.
Levi thought for a moment and deliberately told the druids not to fly too high, but to keep a distance of about twenty meters.
That's right, he was fishing. In this way, the magic of ordinary gray clown spirits would not be effective on them. Once it was effective, it must be their leader.
The subordinates quickly obeyed the order, and the two sides who were in a state of war also discovered them one after another.
But their reactions were completely different. Although the Gray Clown Spirit still had an exaggerated smile on his face, they sent out some of their members to fight.
However, the cavalry archers led by Lisadiran and Julia had already set out, scattering rain of arrows as they moved, which forced the gray clowns to constantly adjust the direction their troops were facing.
But it was obvious that they were not good at this, so in less than ten breaths, there was obvious chaos and disconnection in their team.
The races, heights, classes, etc. of the cavemen, goblins, and grimlocks are very different, so it is not easy for them to work together.
Simon immediately led the cavalry to speed up their movement, preparing to look for an opportunity to break through. The cavalry unit he led was relatively small in number, but the more this was the case, the more he had to find the right opportunity and play the greatest role.
Originally, he came to protect Cindy in order to repay a favor, but now Cindy is getting stronger and stronger, and he doesn't have to worry about her anymore. He should also work hard to become stronger and not be left too far behind by Cindy!
The dwarves were in a commotion at first, and then a loud voice with a hint of surprise rang out: "Is that Brother Levi? It's me, the stump!"
Levi raised his eyebrows immediately. No wonder such a dwarf army suddenly appeared nearby. It turned out to be the tree stump that he had just communicated with yesterday.
Now it seems that he is doing quite well. Although the Gyrocopter is only a Tier 4 unit and does not fire normal bullets, the requirements for recruiting it are much higher than those for units of the same tier.
After all, they represent the technology of the dwarves. Whether they are powerful or not is another matter, but their rarity is indeed quite high.
Looking in the direction of the voice, Levi barely spotted a dwarf waving at him.
I have to admit that this guy Stump did a really good job of keeping secret. Judging from his appearance alone, he was almost indistinguishable from the other dwarf warriors around him.
However, Levi knew that this did not mean that Tree Stump was low-key, but that he had to be so because the ratmen who were fighting with his dwarf clan were from the Eshin clan, whose greatest characteristic was that they produced a large number of assassins.
It is said that these humanoid rats once went to the Cathay Pacific and the island nation of Nibon for further studies, and learned many tricks from the assassins and ninjas there.
He didn't know whether the rumor was true or not, but the ratmen of Clan Aisin were indeed very good at assassination, and some of them could use the large Guandao unique to Zhendan, and some even had special smoke bombs, so the rumor should still have some basis.
The reason why the stump disguised itself as such an ordinary person was probably because it had experienced many assassinations and was a little scared.
He immediately responded with a smile: "Got it, now let's join forces to kill these enemies!"
"Haha, okay, Brother Levi, I'll also show you how I've developed over this period of time. Hans, it's time to move around!"
"Ah, I've been patient for so long!"
Hearing what Tree Stump said, another ordinary-looking dwarf with a big beard also responded loudly. Then he took out a stove that was still burning with flames from somewhere and hit it hard with a hammer.
"Taste my forging fire!"
Along with the crisp sound of collision, Levi discovered that flames were burning on the weapons of the dozen or so dwarves in the front row. For a moment, not only did it make the enemies opposite them who were afraid of light and flames retreat a little, but their attack power also increased significantly.
He was suddenly more surprised. This guy who looked like a hero unit turned out to be a rare rune blacksmith?
As we all know, dwarves are naturally resistant to magic, so they are almost unable to use any magic, and this is true for many of their subspecies.
This forced the Chaos Dwarves to kidnap demons in an attempt to borrow their evil power, and forced the Gray Dwarves to turn to studying more difficult psychic powers, etc.
But after a long period of hard work, the dwarves finally achieved some results. They used their hammers as a medium to engrave the power of magic into rune seals, and stimulated them when needed to create a magic-like effect. They called it rune power, or simply rune magic.
The rare objects that Levi had obtained before, such as the lucky rune, the fire rune, etc., were also the products of this situation.
Although their number is far less than the hundreds or thousands of magics, and there may be less than 10 commonly used rune magics, their advantage is that they can be released on multiple friendly forces or enemies at one time with the help of special magic furnaces, magic anvils, etc.
Unfortunately, even for the dwarves, this technology cannot be popularized on a large scale, and almost only heroic units can master it. This leads to not only the chosen heroes being very eager for it, but many indigenous people also regard rune blacksmiths as guests of honor.
From this point of view, Stump has developed quite well. It was able to recruit a rune blacksmith. He may have had some other adventures.
However, my own growth is much better than his!
"Ice storm!"
As he took the lead in taking action, the druids also released magic such as wind blades and lightning arrows, which smashed towards the gray clowns.
Although I wanted to go fishing, if I could just kill all the gray clowns directly, then this battle would be over faster!
Even though some of them dodged, many enemies were still hit on the spot, but this showed the natural advantages of the elves.
Although they are only wearing a thin clown costume without any protective function, roughly speaking, their magic resistance is between 10-15 points, and their physical defense is even higher.
This makes the druids' attacks very ineffective, and Levi's ice storm is even worse, because the ice storm can cause one blunt damage and one cold damage to the target, of which the blunt damage is regarded as a physical attack, while the cold damage is a magical attack.
But the gray clowns are good at both aspects of defense, which just happens to restrain Levi's magic.
Fortunately, Levi didn't expect to be able to defeat the opponent with just one magic. He could just kill all the miscellaneous soldiers first and deal with these guys later.
So he asked the druids to change their target and kill those trolls first, and then slowly deal with the other side.
He didn't care, but the tree stump in the distance looked shocked.
Although he had roughly guessed from previous communication and a lot of information on the forum that Brother Levi would be very strong now, he never expected him to be this strong!
This magic covered at least all enemies within two hundred square meters, which was a scene he had never seen before.
Moreover, the power was quite strong. Many goblins and cavemen were killed instantly on the spot. Even for those who survived by chance, some of them had frost on their bodies, which significantly reduced their speed. It was obvious that they were in a deceleration state.
With such great power, it is no wonder that the dwarves have so many regrets about not being able to use magic.
He wanted to say something else, but someone on the other side couldn't hold back.
Following a wild and malicious laugh, four or five ordinary-looking gray clowns stood up, raised their ridiculous clown staffs, and pointed at the druids who were flying the lowest.
The two druids didn't even shake and were directly immune to the magic, but the other three druids immediately fell uncontrollably.
Even though they had turned into storm crows, their eyes were still full of smiles, and their whole bodies were constantly twitching, obviously they had been hit.
The dozen or so Stoneblind barbarians below immediately clenched their weapons, staring hungrily. It was obvious that as soon as the other party landed on the ground, they would directly chop them into pieces with their axes.
But since he was determined to fish, how could Levi not be on guard at all?
The Legion's Archons, who had been waiting for a long time, swooped down and rescued the druids. Then Xiao Qi cast a spider web spell to cover the three gray clowns. Donna in the distance also shouted, and a rain of arrows followed.
There was no doubt at all that the several gray clowns and their nearby minions were all killed instantly. It was obvious that they were just elite units and not heroes at all.
After their death, many of the surviving dominated people around them paused in their movements at the same time, and the dwarves who were fighting with them keenly sensed the opportunity.
Stump roared and ordered a counterattack. The rune blacksmith once again used his special skills to temporarily strengthen the attacks of the dwarves on the front line. Simon, who had been waiting for an opportunity, ordered a charge without hesitation.
Even if we get rid of the control of the gray clowns, they are still in the evil camp, so just kill them all!
Some of the reckless Grimlocks immediately launched a counterattack with roars. These guys, who looked roughly human, were actually closer to beastmen, or could simply be classified as humanoid monsters. They had always maintained hatred towards other humanoid intelligent creatures.
So even though they are now confused and have not yet fully recovered from their shock, they do not reject fighting and killing at all.
Instead, some more cunning goblins and some timid cave dwellers began to quietly try to slip away from the sidelines. In addition to their strong reproductive capacity, another important reason why this weak race of theirs could survive until now and retreat immediately when they saw the situation was not good was also the fact.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Levi directly ordered all his troops to attack, because the current battle was just the beginning.
While they were fighting, Luna had already opened up a new battlefield elsewhere with the huntresses and celestial creatures.
The village of the Stoneblind Barbarians that he was still thinking about yesterday seemed to have been completely captured by the Gray Clowns. They were all controlled and turned into emotionless "Sons of Dusk". They were now pouring out of the village in an endless stream, trying to support the battlefield here.
Then after the current battle is over, he will immediately go to support and take over the opponent's village.
Having just occupied the Glory of Blood, they immediately went to another village. According to the rules of the Underdark, they were able to slightly intimidate other surrounding forces.
After receiving support from the surface world, things will surely be much safer. With the protection of Alduin and Nar, he can almost withdraw from here and return to the Beastmaster Castle.
Of course, if during this period, there are still some short-sighted forces that dare to act wildly and then become another achievement of Blood Glory, then it will be even safer!
