Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 297: The fisherman benefits?
Levi made the decision to continue the attack, and his subordinates naturally had no objection. Even Cai Jin happily agreed.
Because she knew very well that if the Sun Knight and others joined the battle together, it would certainly make the battle easier, but at the same time, with more people, there would be more people to share the spoils.
Although she had gained access to additional troops after acquiring the village and constructing some buildings for recruiting soldiers, she still had no advantage among the crowd. It made little difference whether she was there or not. At most, the harpies could harass the opponent's back row.
But if the Sun Knights don't come, their status and the spoils they can share after the war will increase rapidly!
Levi glanced at her and didn't care too much. People always have selfish desires. As long as this selfishness does not affect their own plans, that is enough.
However, as they continued to move forward and as the scouts continued to send back information, their expressions changed slightly.
They originally thought that the drow and vampires would fight evenly, and then their fresh forces would wipe out both sides and occupy the God-given buildings. But now it seems that they underestimated the cunningness of the drow and their fighting power.
It was clear that at the beginning of the war, the forces of both sides were similar, and even during previous reconnaissance, the Drow side was slightly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. But now their total force seems to be approaching two thousand.
Apparently, after the initial alarm caused by Nar, Lily and the others, the drow had been prepared and even set up some ambushes.
Looking at the bright side, it was the undead who blocked the sword for them and triggered the enemy's ambushes.
But the bad thing is that the situation on the battlefield has been reversed. Many vampires have begun to flee, and some drow have begun to clean up the battlefield. It is obvious that the battle will not be over for long, and they may not be able to reap the rewards!
Although this should be partly because the God-given building is located in a circular valley, the drow have the advantage of terrain, which is not particularly conducive to attack, but the fact that they defeated the Silver Blood Army so easily shows that the drow's fighting power is unquestionable.
"Levi, what should we do? Should we continue with the original plan?"
Looking at Cai Jin with a serious expression, Levi thought about it for several times, and finally nodded vigorously.
"Continue the attack, but change the details a little. Take out the decorations we obtained from the Silver Blood Army and the followers of Visharoon. Since we want to muddy the waters, we need to put in more effort!"
Then he looked at Stump and Rune Blacksmith Hans again. Undead and other evil creatures had appeared in the armies of Sun Knight and Thousand Thief before. Moreover, most of the drow themselves were of evil camp and cunning minds. The entire race was full of betrayal.
They judge others by themselves, so if it is for their own benefit, even if Levi, a high elf, is in cahoots with the undead, the drow are entirely likely to believe it.
But if the dwarves appeared at this time, it would easily arouse the other party's suspicion.
Because the vengeful dwarves will never compromise with their evil enemies until their hatred is settled.
However, their way of settling hatred is usually to kill all enemies, which leads to a common understanding among almost all races that it is almost impossible for them to fight side by side with an evil race like the Undead.
So he could only let Hans and Stump act as the reserve team temporarily to protect their own rear line, and at the same time be alert to other possible enemies. After all, this is the Underdark, and no place is safe unless in their own village.
Although Hans felt a little regretful that he could not go into battle to kill the enemy himself, he was still very touched by Levi's trust in him. He immediately patted his chest and promised that he would guard the rear. At the same time, he also asked Levi to kill more drow, and it would be best if he could kill his share as well. Levi naturally agreed with a smile.
Tree Stump was a little disappointed. He had wanted to take the opportunity to show off his strength in front of his big brother Levi and grab some more spoils. Although he was nominally a reserve team, he knew Levi well. Unless something unexpected happened, he probably wouldn't have a chance to play...
Cai Jin's eyes lit up immediately, because she quickly understood what he meant.
In the previous battles, they obtained a lot of decorations that could indicate the identities of those guys, but they were all junk with no attributes.
But Levi told them not to throw it away or sell it, and even asked them to collect similar things as much as possible, because if they wore it on themselves, they would definitely have an illusion without having to ask for it.
In this world with gods, these things cannot be used casually.
However, considering the possible consequences, Levi and Cai Jin were smart enough not to use it. But it doesn't matter, they all have younger brothers and sisters, and they took on this task very proactively.
Especially Suifeng, he had dared to call the greenskin god, Gruumsh, a one-eyed dragon . In comparison, now he is just wearing some special decorations, which is nothing at all!
So less than ten minutes later, when the drow elves had just killed the last vampire, they were very surprised to find that a large number of elves, harpies and greenskins appeared, and then joined the battle without saying a word.
The ornaments on their bodies showed that they were actually reinforcements of the Undead, not just the Silver Blood Army, but also followers of Visharoon!
So without even waiting for Suifeng to speak, the female drow battle priest, who had skin as dark as the night and slightly bluish, white hair, red eyes, wearing armor like Cindy, holding a war hammer and a round shield, and decorated with spider-shaped jewels all over her body, instantly became furious.
"Damn you Silver Blood Army, damn you followers of Visharoon, you keep coming to provoke us again and again, do you really think that Ostak City is easy to mess with?"
"And you damned 'goblins', who have submitted to the vile undead, may the light shine upon you!"
"Spider Queen's favorites, kill these vile creatures!"
Suifeng, who was walking in front, was stunned by the scolding. He almost forgot all the lines he had prepared for a long time.
Levi couldn't help but grin. Although he had heard that female drow elves might be the most vicious women in the entire world, the members of the Moon Singers had treated him very kindly before. Now he had truly seen the pure-blooded drow, and they were indeed some vicious trolls.
Fairies generally refer to fey creatures born from concepts and nature. Some are very ugly, some are very stupid, and basically 99% of them have no fathers or mothers.
The drow are extremely afraid of light. Although they are not as likely to be directly killed by the sun as the low-level undead, they are very likely to become blinded and dizzy. This sentence is also a very vicious curse among the drow. With a little translation, it can basically be equivalent to "I'll sun you to death."
Compared to this drow priest, the other natives who could only curse "hateful" and "damn" before were really too kind...
But he just listened and didn't take it to heart. Just like many times before, he always believed in one idea: killing the other party is more effective than scolding him ten times.
He even felt a little relieved, because as soon as he heard the other party's words, he knew that the drow had obviously had a lot of friction and conflicts with these undead before!
In addition, due to the influence of the Spider Queen Rose, betrayal and suspicion have long been deeply engraved in the blood of the drow elves. Once they encounter a slight opportunity, the other party will immediately take the bait, because she has already had suspicions, and their actions only deepen and confirm her suspicions!
So even though Lily and other elves were very angry, he still calmly began to deploy his troops and cast various auxiliary magics.
Cai Jin also immediately sent out her greenskins and bear goblins and began to form a formation on the flanks of the ogres.
In fact, she has figured it out in the past few days. Since she plans to get rid of the mark of the Red Cloud Tribe on her body, it is naturally inconvenient for her to keep these greenskins and bear goblins any longer. She can just use them as cannon fodder!
After being stunned for a while, although he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he still tried to shout out a few key lines: "Damn black-skinned bean sprouts, we, the Silver Blood Army, have tolerated you for a long time. I really want to see if you will still be so arrogant after you turn into an ugly ghoul!"
Another catwoman also took the opportunity to shout, claiming that Velsharoon's followers were looking for some drow to serve as test subjects in order to create some new undead.
It would have been fine if they didn't speak. Once they spoke, the drow priests became even more angry. "You have gods as your backers, don't we? And we are the more powerful Spider Queen Rose!"
So she immediately started a war of words and scolded Suifeng harshly. Amid the curses and roars of the drow priest, hundreds of drow soldiers and drow warriors had already formed neat formations and, under the leadership of an equally large number of drow captains, began to prepare for battle.
The larger number of grimlocks and cave trolls, who served as slaves, servants and soldiers, took the lead in charging to buy them time.
Many powerful evil races like to use cannon fodder, and the drow are no exception.
There were also dozens of female drow holding spider staffs, who began to command a large number of giant spiders, including blade spiders, web-weaving spiders, ghost-faced spiders, black widows, etc., to join the battle. The total number was probably more than five hundred.
They are a profession unique to the drow elves - drow spider masters. Basically, they have several skills related to spiders such as poison and webs, and they are basically at least tier 4 soldiers.
In addition, they have at least a dozen and at most twenty to thirty level 2-3 giant spiders under their command, which means that even if they appear alone, they are already very tough opponents for ordinary indigenous adventurers. Now that dozens of them appear at once, it becomes even more difficult.
However, Levi happened to know one of their weaknesses, which was insignificant in normal times, but could play a significant role in such a large-scale battlefield...
There are even dozens of low- and mid-level demons and devils among them. They were originally mortal enemies who would fight to the death when they met, but now they are all enslaved by the drow and have to fight side by side.
At the end of the drow army were dozens of combat priests using war hammers or snake-head whips as weapons, as well as a dozen male mages.
The drow is a matriarchal society, with women acting as priests and priestesses, while most men can only serve as cannon fodder warriors. A very small number of talented men will become mages, but their status is still much inferior to that of female priests.
After seeing this, Levi and the others roughly understood why the Silver Blood Army was defeated so easily and so quickly, because these drow were all elite.
However, they are not without weaknesses. The most obvious one is that most of the drow wear chain mail instead of full-body heavy armor. Their defense is relatively weak whether it is against enemy arrows or the ogre's clubs.
As for magic, there is no need to mention it. Equipment that can resist magic is still very rare, and it is almost impossible to popularize it on a large scale among regular troops. These drow are naturally no exception.
Moreover, the drow have almost no soldiers who use spears as weapons, so their infantry appears to be somewhat vulnerable when fighting against cavalry or larger monster-like soldiers such as ogres.
In other words, Simon and his companions were temporarily sent back to Bitao Village by Levi to pick up the witches Tiva and Leonidas to complete this week's copy, otherwise their charge would definitely have exerted considerable power.
Another thing is that their long-range weapons are basically all crossbows, or hand crossbows with low attack power and range. There are almost no bows and arrows. Their deterrent power and lethality are definitely not comparable to those of Donna and others.
This is certainly due to the characteristics of the Underdark. These weapons are not particularly suitable in most cases, but their current location is a relatively empty circular valley. After Levi and his men occupied the entrance to the valley as soon as possible, the drow will definitely pay a price for it.
However, this place is no more than sixty meters away from the rock wall above. If Caijin's harpies try to launch an attack, they will inevitably suffer long-range attacks from the drow, but there is nothing they can do about it.
With Levi's stinking cloud spell, the battle officially began, but the drow mages immediately countered and eliminated it with wind spell before it took effect.
Levi was not too surprised. This kind of magic was very useful in many cases, but its weaknesses were also obvious.
But Donna made some gains. After a wave of arrows, she killed more than ten drow spider masters in seconds.
As they died, densely packed swarms of creepy-looking little spiders suddenly jumped out of their bodies and pounced directly towards the surrounding drow.
This immediately made them panic. Although the health and attack power of these little spiders were not worth mentioning, their claws were poisonous, and because they were too small, it was difficult to kill them quickly with ordinary physical attacks.
At the same time, the giant spiders that had been able to barely form a neat formation suddenly fell into chaos.
Some of them started to run away, while others caught the nearest target. Regardless of whether the opponent was a drow or a spider, they launched a fierce attack, causing further chaos.
Levi immediately laughed. That’s right, the biggest weakness of the drow spider masters would only be fully revealed after their death.
All spiders, big and small, that have been under their control have a high chance of falling into a state of madness for a short period of time due to the death of their master, and launching indiscriminate attacks on everything around them.
As for those little spiders in their bodies, although they are a bit disgusting and make them look a bit pitiful, this is probably the price they have to pay.
Except for the good drow who believe in Eilistraee, other drow are almost all evil.
There was a little story circulating among the natives that if there were 100 drow captives and they were all killed, some might be killed by mistake, but if only 95 were killed, there would definitely be more than one who slipped through the net.
So no matter how miserable he looked, Levi didn't have much sympathy.
The drow priest couldn't help but curse, but she had no intention of saving her companions or stabilizing the situation. Instead, she cast a dark spell and hid herself in it immediately.
Moreover, unlike those used by the previous necromancers, her dark magic was like a magic tortoise shell that could move quickly with her. Levi watched helplessly as she carried the large tortoise shell on her back and trotted to the rear of the drow army.
At the same time, other drow priests and drow mages made almost the same moves, and some drow captains and elite drow also followed suit.
They even threw out some extra black fog to confuse the vision. For a moment, a large area of the battlefield was dark, which greatly affected the sniping efficiency of Donna's archers.
The night elves' natural darkvision allows them to see through the drow's dark magic, but it is not enough for them to see through the dark fog formed by magic.
And for the high elves, the light emitted by the Holy Light of the Archon and the minerals on the surrounding walls was not enough for them to see through any darkness.
But creatures like the Grimlocks and giant spiders will hardly be affected. The former have no eyes at all, and the latter do not entirely rely on eyes to see. They rely more on their keen sense of touch and smell to capture prey.
Levi asked Suifeng to try to use wind-making magic to fight against it, but it was obvious that the speed of their blowing wind was not as fast as the speed created by the other party.
Dark magic is one of the talents of the drow elves. Almost all drow can use this skill quickly and well, and ordinary wind magic is completely ineffective against it.
However, this move was of little use to Lily. She used a flash blast to clear the darkness in a small area. While causing damage to the drow in it, it also caused them to be briefly blinded or even dizzy.
For ordinary drow who have never seen the sun, her light magic is simply too dazzling.
Sally next to him immediately followed up with a fireball, blowing away dozens of drow on the spot.
Levi was not to be outdone, and his flaming skull began to wreak havoc in the drow formation like a mad buffalo.
In this kind of large-scale battlefield, the mage has this advantage. Sometimes, you don't need to see the enemy's specific position. You can just throw magic randomly and don't have to worry about it missing.
Then he added an ice storm to hinder a large area of drow.
He wanted to see, when some of the drow were slowed down, would the other side wait for them in order to continue to maintain their formation, or simply give up on them and line up again?
But no matter what, it can bring certain advantages to our side.
But their outstanding performance immediately attracted the enemy's attention. At least thirty or forty blue, green or purple flames floated over slowly but quickly, and finally landed on them successfully.
Although this did not cause them any harm, it made them emit light like human candles, making them the most obvious targets in the dark area.
This is exactly the second innate skill of the drow elves - demonic fire!
However, Levi and his companions already knew that the enemy would use this trick, so the priests cast purification spells to remove the light on their bodies. At the same time, they quickly retreated as soon as possible, because according to the tactics of the drow elves, the demon fire was just the beginning!
Sure enough, the next moment, seven or eight spider webs fell from the sky, followed by poison rays, Rose's claws, spider curses, plague swarms and a host of other powerful evil magics that the drow favored the most , which came crashing down on them.
Although the mages were well prepared and managed to dodge successfully, the drow used a saturation coverage attack, so many melee troops around them were killed instantly, including two ogres and a silver guard.
No matter whether they have thick skin and strong flesh or strong magic resistance, it makes no difference under this kind of concentrated magic fire.
Seeing this, Levi couldn't help but become more cautious. Although he had collected a lot of intelligence and made targeted defensive measures, when the actual battle started, he found that the threat from the opponent was even greater than he expected.
Fortunately, Cai Jin had already commanded the harpies to pounce. Although the opponent's priests were all wearing armor and looked very capable of fighting, they were now all hiding in the black fog and were not easy to target.
But even if a blind cat catches a dead mouse, as long as they can rush in and delay some of the enemies for a while, they can also reduce a lot of pressure on their own side.
Her other sisters, commanding their fox girls, cat girls and other types of soldiers, began to try to make a detour from the side.
They are all known for their agility and are good at fighting in the dark. In this situation, they will surely be able to play a certain role.
Donna also immediately ordered the archers to fight back. Normally, due to the magic cover, she could not see the specific position of the enemy. But when the enemy launched an attack on Levi, if she could not catch the enemy, it would be a dereliction of duty for her!
So after a wave of volleys, although no screams were heard, the most obvious thing was that hundreds of giant spiders on the battlefield had gone crazy again, and the fate of their master was also very obvious.
Levi's heart suddenly moved when he saw this. If this is the case, maybe he can take advantage of it a little bit...
At this moment, the melee troops of both sides also collided with each other. For a while, the sounds of curses, screams, weapons colliding, and flesh being torn were endless.
Both sides suffered heavy casualties instantly, but after taking a closer look, Levi felt relieved. With the support of his military rank, the Silver Guards were still very capable.
Most of those killed on the spot were the greenskins and bear goblins under Cai Jin. Suifeng and his elf troops also had casualties, followed by some celestial creatures.
On many occasions before, the celestial creatures had made great contributions and even changed the entire battle situation more than once.
However, as the war escalated rapidly, the enemy's strength continued to grow. Except for the Tiger Envoys who were still quite powerful at the moment, the other celestial creatures, whether it was the Yakong or the Gaiding Clan, were somewhat powerless.
Because after losing the bonus he gave to summoned creatures, their attributes did not have much advantage among the same level of troops.
Due to their racial talent - martial arts, the high elves have very good defense among the same level of soldiers, but most of the celestial creatures have no armor and can only rely on their own fur.
It may not be very obvious in normal outdoor fighting, but in a positional battle like the one they are facing now, their weakness in this area will be magnified countless times.
Levi noticed this, and Xiaotian and the guards naturally noticed it as well, so even on the battlefield full of dangers, they couldn't help but look at each other.
It was this one glance that made them instantly understand each other's thoughts.
When they were summoned creatures, they had attribute bonuses from Lord Levi, so they seemed very capable. However, after they became ordinary soldiers recruited, their true colors were revealed.
This situation must not continue, otherwise the reputation of their respective races will be damaged. Otherwise, how can they be worthy of Lord Levi's trust and cultivation?
