Volume 3 Containment Operation Chapter 26: Bullying the Few with the Many
While shooting the horse first, I certainly did not forget to greet the Dark Knight, the guest of honor. Ordinary attacks would naturally not have much effect on this knight with heavy armor and high defense. The "Touch of Death" on my left hand emitted a black light, and a black mist band floated out and wrapped around the Dark Knight's body. However, the result was just as I worried about. The opponent's soul power was too strong. At the moment when "Absorbing Essence and Devouring Marrow" possessed me, a powerful mental wave rushed over violently. I had no time to launch it, and the black ribbon was completely shattered. Even I was affected by the backlash of the artifact and suffered some minor injuries.
Although I didn't have much hope for "Touch of Death" due to the huge difference in strength, I still refused to give up and launched it several times. After all, this is my most powerful attack method. I was defeated so easily and hurt myself. I was unwilling to accept it. Unfortunately, the facts are facts, and they are not subject to people's subjective will. Repeated attempts can only further increase the damage I suffered, but have no effect on the Dark Knight.
I had no choice but to give up this tactic. This was the first time I suffered a complete defeat since I obtained the "Touch of Death". Even when dealing with the fifth corpse king Carbon and the disabled black warrior summoned by Skynet, although the process was rather bumpy, I could still absorb a little bit more or less. But against this dark knight, I would be shattered as soon as I made a move. I had no chance at all.
"Dead Space" is a place where strength determines everything. Rank and status represent decisive strength. There is no falsehood or luck. Only when you really face it, can you truly experience the power of the Dark Knight. Fortunately, it will soon lose its most powerful mount, otherwise even with thousands of troops, it will be difficult to do anything to it.
The Dark Knight's skeleton horse finally died, but its entire body did not fall apart as I expected. Instead, it broke at the cervical vertebrae and its head and body were separated. First the skull head fell to the ground, and then the huge horse body fell to the ground with a bang. The Dark Knight on the horse's back also fell heavily to the ground. It seems that the cervical vertebrae were the most fatal injury to the skeleton horse.
The dark knight got up from the ground in a rather embarrassing manner, and continued to rush towards me on foot, waving his saber. However, this charging posture was not elegant, and could even be called extremely ugly, with many flaws. After all, he was once a proud knight, and he probably had no experience in foot combat. When he moved, his armor clanged, and his speed was not much faster than that of the lame black warrior. I couldn't help but shake my head. After all, it was an intelligent and advanced undead creature, but it was so stubborn that it couldn't do anything to me even on a wounded horse. Now that I have lost my mount, my strength has been reduced. If I run away, at this speed, how long will it take for it to catch up? But on second thought, there is no normal reason to talk to them. Undead creatures have no concept of time. Once they have identified a target, they may spend their entire lives pursuing it. Since there is a dispute of interests between me and it, conflict is inevitable. It can only end in a fight to the death. Otherwise, it would be really troublesome to have such a boot-hanging ghost chasing behind me.
While I was fighting with the Dark Knight, more than 10,000 zombies and more than 7,000 skeleton archers had climbed up the surrounding earthen slopes and surrounded the depression. This time, I spared no expense and concentrated all my strength to prepare for a decisive battle with the Dark Knight. I have always had to fight Old Zombies, Phosphorus, Carbon and others with my own strength, and each time I was in danger of death. This time, against a more powerful Dark Knight, I should be able to take advantage of my numbers and bully the few with my numbers.
Of course, the implementation of this strategy requires a prerequisite, that is, as I estimated, my "coercion" plus the power of "soul contract" can offset part of the influence of the Dark Knight's "intimidation" ability on these low-level undead, giving them the courage to resist. For this reason, I specially arranged dozens of zombies and skeleton archers for experiments on the way. The zombies no longer lie on the ground, but dare to stand up and fight in front of the Dark Knight. They can also move, but they are still timid and dare not attack. The situation of the skeleton archers is better, because it is a long-range attack, there is still a distance from the Dark Knight, and the impact is relatively small. Although many of the arrows shot out are weak and have a large deviation, and the hit rate is a little worse than usual, I am already very satisfied. More than 7,000 skeleton archers add up to more than 100,000 skeleton arrows. As long as half of them can play their power, they can grind the Dark Knight half to death.
Seeing the Dark Knight rushing over, I urged Taotao to fight and retreat, luring it to the earth slope behind me. I dared not use "Sperm Absorption|Marrow Devouring" anymore, and could only cast "Cloud of Death" to attack. It had no way to get rid of this possessed red cloud. Even if it only caused extremely small damage to it, the advantage was that the release speed was fast and it could be accumulated. As long as time was long, small amounts could become a lot.
I retreated to the top of the slope. Near the foot of the slope, there was a square formation of 500 zombies, standing tall and waiting for the Dark Knight to approach. At the top of the slope behind, there were 500 skeleton archers, with bows and arrows, ready to attack at any time. There were also 100 zombies standing nearby just in case. The surrounding earth slopes were all in this formation. While attacking the Dark Knight, I also had to induce it to continue slaughtering. On the one hand, I could buy more attack time for the skeleton archers behind me and try to fire the skeleton arrows in my hands. On the other hand, I could consume its physical strength. The battle with Carbon had already proved that no matter how powerful it was, once it ran out of physical strength, it could only be slaughtered. This time was different from the previous times. It was a specific system task without time limit. The battle with the Dark Knight was initiated by me. It was still subject to the death time and the daily online time limit. I didn't have that much time to spend with it. I could only strive for a quick victory and solve it as soon as possible at all costs.
The Dark Knight seemed very surprised that these low-level zombies dared to stand in front of him and block his way. He paused while running and strengthened his "intimidation" against them. He felt the mental shock waves rushing in from the air. The zombies suddenly became agitated. Some zombies even bent down and posed as if they were about to lie down. The formation was faintly disintegrating. I reacted quickly, concentrating on emitting "coercion" and attacking the Dark Knight, trying to offset part of the "intimidation" effect. At the same time, I encouraged the zombies through the "soul contract" in the dual identities of the master and the fifth corpse king to increase their mental resistance.
After a struggle, although the Dark Knight had a slight advantage and forced the zombie not to move, its pace of advancement slowed down a lot, showing that most of its energy was invested in this. Moreover, I was not without the ability to fight back. Although the zombie was repeatedly "threatened", it was not frightened. Its trembling body still stood in front of the Dark Knight. Under my instructions, the skeleton archer in the back seized the opportunity when the Dark Knight's attention was distracted and launched a fierce attack from above. The hit rate was also improved a lot, and the arrows hit its armor one after another. Of course, one thousand eight hundred arrows would not cause much damage to the Dark Knight, but if it continued to be hit by tens of thousands of skeleton arrows, even if it had an iron body, I am afraid that several holes would be gouged.
Seeing that he could not force the zombies to surrender and was also attacked by the skeleton archers, the Dark Knight began to run wild, just like the last time. I felt his frenzy and anger again. As a proud Dark Knight, no superior could tolerate having his authority challenged by such low-level creatures. He brandished the broken saber in his hand, rushed into the zombie horde and began a ruthless massacre.
One by one, the zombies were split in half, some with their heads and bodies separated, and some cut in half. The Dark Knight was like an unmanned space, venting his anger to his heart's content. No zombies could stand wherever he passed. However, they were originally the victims of the war, and they continued to gather around him. Although they did not dare to attack, they used their bodies to build a defense line to block the Dark Knight's attack.
A total of five hundred zombies were easily slaughtered by the Dark Knight, which made me fully realize the power of their individual strength. If it had a mount, it should be able to easily knock away the zombies blocking the road and rush in front of me quickly, and would not be entangled by these slow-moving zombies at all. At that time, I could only flee in panic without any capital to fight back.
The skeleton archers on the top of the slope had almost used up all their arrows. I ordered them to retreat slowly, and then drove Taotao to the side. The Dark Knight targeted Taotao, and I was not afraid that he would not chase me. There was still a team of zombies lined up in the middle to block his advance. The dignity and honor of the Dark Knight would not allow him to avoid it. If he wanted to get through, he had to force his way through.
Another square formation of 500 zombies was wiped out, but the Dark Knight still pounced on me. I released the "Cloud of Death" and retreated behind another square formation of 500 zombies. The Dark Knight roared at me but had to chase after him.
In this way, the dark warrior killed another group of zombies. Seeing that the time for resurrection was approaching, I led it down the slope again, ran back to the center of the depression, made two circles, then jumped off the horse, let Taotao escape as far as he could, and then I disappeared in the "Dead Space", and resurrected in the room of the residence.
After resurrection, I didn't dare to stay for long. I rushed outside the base and found a wandering demon fox to die. Soon I appeared in the depression of the "Dead Space". Taotao had disappeared, and the Dark Knight was still chasing him with clumsy steps. Without my presence on the scene, the zombies and skeleton archers who were closer all lay on the ground, intimidated by the "intimidation" of the Dark Knight.
I didn't dare to trap the Dark Knight with the "Orb of Chaos". The "Blinding Fog" certainly made it difficult for him to escape, but I couldn't attack him either. Instead, it gave him time to recover. I could only use this method, relying on his persistence in Taotao. In fact, he had to do so. A Dark Knight who lost his mount was equivalent to losing his status. In order to maintain his honor, he must find a new mount as soon as possible. Otherwise, if he exceeded a certain time limit, he would be hunted down by other Undead Knights. No matter whether he entered the "Dragon Bone Mountain" or snatched it from other Dark Knights, it would be a life-and-death situation for them with their greatly reduced strength. It would be extremely difficult to succeed. They finally met a "soft persimmon" like me, who bullied me and had no way to deal with it. It was difficult to break its defense, so they must be reluctant to give up.
I hurriedly summoned Tao Tao and continued to lead the Dark Knight to the slope, forcing it to attack from the bottom up, increasing its physical consumption and slowing down its forward speed, so that the skeleton archers on the top of the slope would have enough time to fire all the arrows in their hands and then retreat calmly. After all, it is much easier for me, the fifth zombie king, to subdue zombies, and I don't want to sacrifice these skeleton archers easily.
The Dark Knight showed amazing endurance and perseverance, chasing me and slaughtering three thousand zombies. Finally, he gave in, his limbs became weak, his whole body was trembling, and he staggered when he walked. It looked like he would fall down at any time. The remaining one-third of the round shield was completely shattered after countless resistance and collisions. The saber in his right hand also hung limply on the ground, no longer held high in the air as at the beginning. His physical strength was almost exhausted.
It seemed that it didn't want to kill me, but how could I do that? I was having a big sale this time and gave it to it for free. With a command, I sent out a thousand zombies to actively move forward. Although they didn't dare to attack, they would trap the Dark Knight to death even if they squeezed me.
The Dark Knight barely swung his saber and killed dozens of them, but he no longer had the strength to swing his arms. Faced with the zombies swarming in, he could only release mental shock waves and try his best to use "intimidation" to prevent them from approaching. This did have a certain effect. The zombies around him retreated and did not dare to approach within a radius of five or six meters. No matter how I urged them, the zombies were still submissive and could not break in front of the Dark Knight.
However, this gave the Skeleton Shooter a chance to shoot at the Dark Knight without any scruples. The Dark Knight's entire concentration might have been used to resist the attack of the zombies. In addition, his physical strength was about to be exhausted. He had no reaction to the arrows and could only use his body to withstand the attack.
I mixed into the zombie group and once again launched the "Touch of Death", which entangled the Dark Knight's body. This time its reaction was slow and its resistance was weak, and it was actually sucked up by me. Although it was soon shattered again, it relaxed its "intimidation" against the zombies at the same time, and the zombies took the opportunity to break free from my control and rushed over. Just as I strengthened the "intimidation" and wanted to force them back again, my "Sperm Suck|Marrow Devouring" entangled it again, forcing it to distract itself to deal with it. In addition, the Skeleton Archer was also constantly harassing it, forcing it to be unable to cope with it. The consumption of mental power increased sharply, and its ability was slowly weakening.
