Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 67: Financial Resources
In the world where William originally lived, there were talented RTS professional players who could issue rough action instructions to dozens or even hundreds of units at the same time through dazzling multi-line operations. There were even more abnormal players who could complete the exquisite micro-manipulation of each unit in the chaotic battle situation.
At this moment, William, whose willpower and computing ability are dozens or hundreds of times greater than those of ordinary people, controls the [Mirror Shadow] clones that are already connected to his own consciousness as easily as controlling his own fingers at the same time.
He constantly switched his perspective on the battlefield, calculating the casualties of both sides, and commanding his "one-man army" in order to wage a literal war with the enemy's seemingly endless army.
(No. 4 and No. 37 reinforce No. 2 who is facing the "massacre" alone)
(There are too many miscellaneous soldiers. Use No. 4 to release the storm spell [Howling Wind] to clear a small area.)
(The load of the Holy Spirit Disc has reached its peak. Outputting legendary spells requires continued destruction of the original structure.)
(The estimated degree of damage, if regarded as the price of killing "massacre", is completely within the acceptable range)
(No. 72, No. 56, and No. 69 cover the flanks and block the reinforcements from the surrounding Dead Blood King Clan)
(After knocking down "Massacre", use [Short-Range Flash] to hand Judgment II to No. 2 to complete the kill)
The above almost machine-like precise and indifferent thoughts took shape in William's mind almost instantly, and then turned into clear instructions and handed them to his subordinates' [Mirror Shadow] clones to execute. William felt that he had turned into a high-speed computer at this moment, constantly calculating the resources he had, analyzing the weaknesses of the enemy formation, and optimizing the configuration of the offensive plan.
The price of being able to control so many clones at the same time is that William can hardly spare any mental power to communicate with the star realm and open the magic channel of his etheric domain. Fortunately, the magic power William currently uses to maintain those clones all comes from the "Holy Spirit Disc" on his back. In a sense, this is equivalent to William carrying an extremely powerful magic furnace.
As for casting spells, basically, forget about casting divine-level spells. The mental power William could spare right now was barely enough to cast a legendary-level spell. Moreover, the magic power needed to cast spells needed to be provided by the magic channel opened by the "Holy Spirit Disc" - the magic power consumption of maintaining more than ninety clones was already the limit of the "Holy Spirit Disc". Now, even if he cast an apprentice-level spell, he would have to permanently wear out the durability of the "Holy Spirit Disc" as a price.
If that were the case, William would have no chance of withstanding the endless onslaught of the Moon Realm Army with his army of less than a hundred men. Even if each of his clones had 80% of his basic attributes, the magic casters who could not cast magic could only be considered as dozens of high-level infantry at best.
But if they were wearing a full set of divine clothing, the situation would be completely different.
"For Lady Camilla! For hunger and corruption that forever roam the land!"
Accompanied by a sticky roar as if there was a mouthful of phlegm stuck in the throat, hundreds of Plague Walkers and thousands of swollen zombies, led by seven staggering demons, advanced to the left side of the battlefield like a slowly moving city wall, instantly squeezing out the detour space on the entire left wing of the battlefield.
For William's Holy Spirit Army, the pressure brought by the Lady of Hunger and Corruption, a force that relies on numbers and strong resilience, is much more difficult to deal with than the flashy and surprise-minded troops under the Whispering Queen and the Red Desire. He can't defeat the brainless zombie army with ridiculously high blood volume by killing the opponent's key nodes.
Moreover, if the battle drags on too long and the plague effect of the "Shambling Demon" is stacked, William will have to consume precious mental energy and the durability of the "Holy Spirit Disc" to carry out wide-area purification.
(No. 14, unlocks the special skill [Ghost March] of the weapon [Black Death General's Death Blade])
(On the 20th, activate the purification effect of the accessory [Phoenix Pendant] to expel the flesh and blood curse of the Shambler)
After feeling the pressure from the left wing of the battlefield, William made this decisive judgment.
As a result, the left wing, which had become weak under the impact of the Legion of Hungry Ladies, suddenly appeared out of thin air with six huge ghost sabers surrounded by countless resentful souls. They floated like floating cannons around William, who was wearing skeleton armor and had a cold light flashing in his eyes.
"A power that can only be used once a day... Then, for now, please return to the world, soldiers of General Black Death."
William, who was wearing skeleton armor, said softly.
As he finished his words, the six ghost sabers circled around their owner like lawn mowers, cutting the bloated zombies surrounding him into piles of minced meat.
And after each swollen zombie is crushed, a hideous resentful soul will condense a little bit. With the nourishment of about five or six swollen zombies, a resentful soul lingering around the saber can gain enough strength to break away, and appear in the world as a ghost dragging a black saber and wearing the uniform of a soldier of the ancient Blackwater Kingdom during the Silver Calendar period.
"Come to think of it, I've never seen in the game before how many dead ghosts [Black Death General's Blade] can summon when it is fully released. This is really an eye-opener..."
After the six ghost sabers wreaked havoc for a brief period of time , all the resentful souls lingering around them disappeared, and then they fell to the ground and stabbed around William, who was controlling them, as if they had exhausted all their strength.
All the resentful souls from before turned into solid ghost soldiers. They held sabers in their hands and fought against the swollen zombies and plague walkers on the left wing of the battlefield. There seemed to be... hundreds of them.
Seeing this, William himself was a little surprised.
This artifact, called [Black Death General's Blade], came from the ancient Blackwater Kingdom. It was created by a general who once mirrored the God of Death Vera through ritual magic. The effect of the weapon is that it can summon the ghost army under the general through killing and sacrifice.
However, in the game, the conversion effect of this equipment is extremely poor. Basically, you have to kill several enemy units to summon a ghost of very average strength. And due to the function of the game cabin and the player's first-person information receiving ability, if you don't count the background that cannot be interacted with, generally speaking, the number of units that can actually appear on the same screen in the game is generally no more than a hundred.
Therefore, even if William killed all the hostile units in a certain map for testing, he could only summon a dozen or twenty ghosts in the end. This combat power was not even cannon fodder in the later battles.
But now, when William activates the special effect of this weapon again, there are no restrictions.
Hundreds of ghosts with 80% physical damage reduction are enough to hold off the Hungry Lady's front line.
Similar situations occurred in every corner of the battlefield.
Although William's clones cannot use spells, the equipment they carry, whether it is the magic weapons forged by the powerful in the past, the enchanted artifacts made by legendary craftsmen, or the holy objects blessed by the Holy Spirit, or even the magic artifacts cursed by the Void King; even if we don't calculate the attribute benefits they bring to the wearers themselves, the special skills that come with many weapons and equipment are enough to greatly affect the battle situation.
The skill effects of some equipment are even comparable to divine-level spells.
Of course, equipment skills that are too powerful usually have limitations of one kind or another, such as having to be fully charged, or having an independently calculated, long CD (usually a day).
But because players can only wear one set of equipment in the game - even if they can stop time to change equipment, the player's backpack space is limited. The special skills of those equipment can only be regarded as supplements in battle, and they can't really be used as the main means of output.
But when everything in this game becomes a reality, when William can use the "Holy Spirit Disc" to provide himself with magic and freely control his [Mirror Image] clone through the Holy Spirit's holy image, everything will be different.
If the Moon Realm Legion before us represents those Void Kings, it represents the extension of the power of those Moon Realms.
Then William, who possesses all the powerful equipment that can be collected in an era, represents the most refined killing technology in the entire world.
Or to put it another way, he was using his own "financial resources" to smash these Moon Realm monsters to death today.
