Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 329: Means of Glory
It is almost beyond doubt that Glory will use the "God's Domain" to trap me and even the three main forces of the Tongxin League, Afeng and Xue Wuxia. It is also the best tactic to concentrate superior forces and defeat us one by one, which will give them a greater chance of winning. Although I know they will do this, there is no better way to escape the constraints of the "God's Domain". There is no need for close contact. The target can be taken into the "God's Domain" at a distance of dozens of meters. Unless there are enough people to surround ourselves tightly, as long as there is a gap that can be covered by the white light, there is no chance of luck. At most, we can only use all our skills to kill the person who took us into the "God's Domain", forcibly break the siege of the "God's Domain" and return to the field, and try to delay as little time as possible. However, once I, even Afeng and Xue Wuxia, the three main forces of the Tongxin League, were unable to participate in the battle, facing the crazy attack of the Supreme Honor and the Holy Heaven, which held two artifacts respectively, it was almost impossible for the remaining contestants to completely resist the offensive and avoid casualties. It was very likely that they would end up with the same ending as the last group finals. The strength of our Tongxin League has certainly made great progress. Xue Wuxia holds the artifact "Thunder God Chisel", and I also have the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Locking Array" and the pseudo-artifact "Yellow Spring Gate" cultivated to the top form. However, Glory has not stopped moving forward, and its strength has also been greatly improved. Their outstanding performance in various games before has even exceeded our original estimates. It can be said that we are facing great difficulties in defeating them and regaining the honor of "the world's number one mercenary group". We can only do our best, but there is not much chance of winning.
If we were to fight head-on, I wouldn't be afraid of Glory, but once they played dirty tricks and used the "Domain of God" to restrict my performance, leaving me with no place to use my strength, that would be very troublesome. The hope of the Tongxin League to defeat the enemy rests mostly on me. With the strength of Afeng and Xue Wuxia alone, it's already quite difficult to protect themselves, and there's basically no hope of defeating Glory. Glory will definitely not give us the opportunity to fight them with all our strength. The safest way is to adopt a defensive counterattack tactic and send out twelve heavily armored warriors to set up an "iron bucket formation" for defense. In this way, even if I or even Afeng and Xue Wuxia are temporarily taken away from the stadium by the "God's Domain", the other team members will be able to hold on for a while, and will not be taken away from the stadium by Glory as in the last team finals, where they suffered heavy losses in a short period of time - "God's Domain" can only deal with a single target, such as the "Iron Bucket Formation", "Seven-Star Arrow Formation", "Overlord's Forced Bow" arrow formation and various magic formations formed by players. The members of the formations are connected to each other as a whole, and the "God's Domain" is powerless. It cannot ignore the existence of the formation and separate the players who participated in the formation. Therefore, if you want to break the defense of the "Iron Bucket Formation", you can only rely on your strength to attack from the front. There is no shortcut to do it easily.
In view of the fact that all the players in Glory are Knights of Light and Priests of Light, we have also made corresponding adjustments to the lineup. In addition to the twelve heavy-armored warriors who form the "Iron Bucket Formation" including me, Afeng, Xue Wuxia, and Chu Bawang, and the two water magicians Qingqing Liushui and Yinzhuang Sugu, the remaining three participating members are replaced by three archers, Yun Wuying, Nan Feiyan, and Xiaoniao Yiren. In the last half-game, the main formation of Red Moon was the "Frost King Hard Bow" arrow formation supported by the little match boy who holds the "Elf King War Bow". It is good at long-range attacks. Naturally, we will not show off our skills in front of Guan Gong and compete with them in archery skills. Therefore, we sent out three knights who can quickly attack, such as the Guardian of the Heart. Now facing Glory, there are many cardinals participating in the battle, so we can naturally use the longer attack distance of the archers to suppress them as much as possible. Anyway, there is the "Iron Bucket Formation" protecting the outside, and the iron wall-like defense can even effectively intercept attacks from the air. The defensive function attached to the formation forces the opponent to break through the protection of the "Iron Bucket Formation" before they can get close to their own members protected in the formation and directly attack them. Therefore, it is relatively safer to fight with such a lineup, and will not be quickly defeated by the powerful lineup of Glory.
The lineup of the Glory team has also been adjusted to some extent. It is no longer the usual majority of light priests or light knights, but an evenly matched half. Ten light paladins, ten cardinals, especially several light paladin players whose strength is not too outstanding in Glory and whose performance is not very impressive, have also appeared in the mercenary group war finals. Their role is self-evident. They are definitely not the real masters who have intentionally hidden their strength before. They should be shouldering a special mission to take me, Afeng, and Xue Wuxia into the "God's Domain". In addition, there is another thing that we are deeply afraid of, which is the performance of the ten cardinals headed by Saint Heaven, but we don't know what special abilities they will display with the help of the powerful combination props that the light priest profession is best at, which can further enhance the combat effectiveness of the Glory contestants.
In order to allow both sides of the final to fully exert their strength and to present a more intense and exciting game to the players and spectators who came to watch the game, as the curtain call of the last "World Heroes Conference", according to the new rules, we were given a half-day break. We first finished the qualifying of the last eight of the "Top Ten Mercenaries in the World". In the competition for the third and fourth places, Fearless defeated Red Moon and finally ranked among the top three, saving a bit of face for the Neutral Alliance. Galaxy of Real Madrid and Longteng of Longxing Tianxia also became one of the "Top Ten Mercenaries in the World" without surprise. However, because Longxing Tianxia put more energy on the affairs of the resistance alliance, and lacked some luck, except for the two artifacts he held, there is still no second official member of the 30,000 Longteng who can get another artifact, which makes the strength slightly decline at the current stage when heroes are rising together, and they can't even enter the top four, and finally only won the "Seventh Mercenary Group in the World". It is worth mentioning that Hua Mantian also participated in the mercenary group war, but because the Huadu Mercenary Group had been destroyed, it lost the qualification to participate independently. The Sun Never Sets Mercenary Group wanted to unite with Yamato Spirit, obtain the "Prince Order" by completing specific mercenary tasks, and upgrade the Sun Never Sets to a super mercenary group of 30,000 people. The merger with Huadu was also secretly obstructed and sabotaged by our Tongxin League, so Hua Mantian had no choice but to give up the Huadu Mercenary Group that he had worked so hard to create, dismissed most of the members, and took a group of elites to join the Sun Never Sets of Yamato Spirit. Yamato Spirit paid a compensation fee, arranged for some of the original members to withdraw from the Sun Never Sets, and vacated the quota for Hua Mantian and others to join. They succumbed to the position of deputy leader of the Sun Never Sets, barely possessing a certain amount of power in name, so as not to be helpless, and in the end, they might not even be able to qualify for the tenth-level Knight of Light. The backbone of the two old mercenary groups was assembled, which further strengthened the strength of the Sun Never Sets, and they achieved good results in this mercenary group war. Although they lost to the Fearless Mercenary Group in the quarter-finals, they defeated Longteng and Yinhe in the subsequent qualifying matches and won the title of "the fifth mercenary group in the world". However, most of the glory was attributed to the Yamato spirit as the leader. For Hua Mantian, a proud and arrogant person who used to be a powerful person but now has to "live under someone else's roof", I am afraid that he will not have much sense of belonging and identity with his new identity, and it is impossible for him to be happy.
The last official duel between our old enemies, Tongxin League and Glory, finally began. Both sides summoned their pets first, arranged the battle formation according to the plan, and made the final preparations before the battle. Chu Bawang and other twelve heavy-armored warriors set up the "iron barrel formation" at the first time, protecting me, Xue Wuxia and other four magicians and Yun Wuying and other three shooters in the formation, while Afeng stayed on the periphery, relying on the "iron barrel formation" to freely choose the way to fight according to the situation. Facing such a strong enemy as Glory, I naturally did not dare to have any reservations. I summoned Rosberg first, so that it could summon Heinrich to fight, and I summoned the demon spirit Feiying to possess it, and used "instant teleportation" to hide far away in the corner of the stadium, trying to protect myself as much as possible. Then I immediately used the "blood change" ability to summon Pharaoh Khufu first, and then quickly absorbed 40% of the mental power stored in the two "magic storage rings". He continued to summon the remaining eleven pharaohs, two lower-level ten ghost knights and an upper-level nine black bone dragon, and ordered Khufu and the eleven pharaohs to set up the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Array" at the designated location. Even if it comes to the final moment of counterattack, as long as the formation is temporarily removed, they can be let go. As for the "no-fly zone" function, except for some pets and the undead minions I summoned, the only one who was most restricted by it was Afeng, the air combat knight. Compared with the ten light paladins of Glory and the angels summoned by the ten cardinals, we still have a lot of advantages fighting in the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Array".
After that, I did not summon Taotao as I did in the past. I directly activated the "Touch of Death" to entangle the Black Bone Dragon and began to absorb its mental power. The clear flowing water and silver-clad white water were also healing me and restoring my health, as well as replenishing my mental power through the "transfer" magic. I had to hurry up and summon more undead minions, so that even if I was sucked into the "God's Realm", I could rely on my powerful strength to kill the Paladin of Light who presided over the "God's Realm" as soon as possible, break through the blockade and return to the arena to fight, so as to prevent other companions from being defeated by the Supreme Honor.
On the Glory side, after summoning their respective pets and the descended or possessed eight-winged holy angels, the four cardinals quickly formed a battle formation and used a set of combination props called "Angel's Light" that had been used many times in previous games. It could shoot a white light to cover the summoned or possessed eight-winged holy angels, making the possessed holy angels wear a light armor or hold a lightsaber, and the descended holy angels would wear a light robe or hold a light staff, becoming incomplete eight-winged war angels and eight-winged cherubim. "Angel's Light" can be controlled by a maximum of twelve priests of light, or six, eight, or ten people, and at least four priests of light are required. According to the performance of the previous game, Glory did not seem to have collected all of them, and at most only eight priests of light were used to launch "Angel's Light". During this period, the formation cannot be scattered or broken, otherwise the incomplete battle angel or cherubim will disappear. In addition, the number of light priests who activated the "Angel's Light" and their respective strengths determine the time that the additional battle angel or cherubim can maintain, especially the increased combat power after the blessing. Glory activated the "Angel's Light" at the beginning, which shows that they also attach great importance to our United Alliance. However, ten cardinals participated in the battle, but only sent four people to form the "Angel's Light" and did not try their best. This inevitably makes us feel puzzled. What are the remaining six cardinals going to do? It is impossible for them to fight on the front line. This is not the strength of the light priests. Is there any more powerful formation ready to be set up? Moreover, the strongest holy angel not only did not participate in the formation of the "Angel's Light", but did not even use the "Angel's Advent". He just summoned his pet white tiger to guard him. This behavior seems even more weird, which makes us more suspicious that Glory has hidden more threatening means, waiting to deal with us.
The "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Formation" has been set up, and Khufu and the eleven great pharaohs are in one group. The twenty of us players rely on the "Iron Bucket Formation" to gather together and respond to each other from afar, taking corresponding countermeasures according to the offensive of Glory. Especially Khufu and his team, they have the function of "Formation (Position) Conversion", and their actions are more flexible. They can not only cooperate with us to resist the offensive of Glory head-on, but also harass and contain the opponent behind the enemy, especially those priests of light. As long as they break into the formation, no matter where they are, they may be attacked by Khufu and the great pharaohs at any time, which will pose a greater threat to them. Moreover, the Paladins of Light and the angels summoned to descend have lost the ability to fly at high altitudes, and can only fly low on the ground, which has also affected the advancement speed and attack methods to a certain extent. It bought me a little more time to replenish my mental power as soon as possible.
After the incomplete war angels and cherubim were blessed by the "Angel Light" one by one, the participating members of Glory did not hesitate at all, with the Supreme Honor personally leading the charge, rushing forward quickly and breaking into the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Formation". Angels in the Human World and the other nine Holy Knights of Light followed closely. Even the ten cardinals did not lag behind and rushed into the formation together. It was obvious that they were planning to press forward in a big way, just like in the last team finals. Once I or Afeng and Xue Wuxia were trapped in the "God's Domain", they would attack with all their strength, taking the opportunity to cause us more casualties and strive to occupy an advantageous position in one fell swoop. It is impossible for us to stop those Paladins of Light from approaching, but we can use the bodies of the heavily armored warriors who form an "iron bucket formation" as cover to block the attack line of their "God's Realm" as much as possible, and avoid being directly illuminated by the white light that absorbs us into the "God's Realm". Although this can only hide for a while, facing the attack threat of three or four Paladins of Light, no matter how careful we are, they will definitely find an opportunity to launch the "God's Realm" to trap us. But the longer the delay, the better, so that I can summon more undead subordinates. Even if we are trapped, we can break through the "God's Realm" as soon as possible, and we don't need to endure for fifteen minutes to escape.
When I summoned Ebola, Wu Ma, and Gu Ben again, and was continuing to activate the "Touch of Death" to absorb spiritual power, under the fierce attack of Supreme Honor and others, the "Iron Bucket Formation" could no longer provide us with more stringent protection. With such a close distance, they should be able to find many opportunities to launch the "God's Domain" to absorb me, but those few Paladins of Light did not take action immediately, as if they were waiting for a better opportunity. At this time, the cardinals of Saint Heaven also resisted the constant harassment launched by Khufu and others under the protection of their pets and the angels of advent, and slowly approached and stayed a hundred meters away from the "Iron Bucket Formation". In addition to the four cardinals who formed the "Angel Light", the other six cardinals, including Saint Heaven, seemed to have formed a formation - with Saint Heaven as the center, the other five cardinals surrounded him, chanted a spell, and each threw out a prop, which met in the air and turned into a dazzling golden light. Then I saw that the actions of Holy Heaven seemed to be performing "Angel's Descend", but the time it took was too long, probably at least five times the time of the normal "Angel's Descend". Then the golden light dissipated, and an angel suddenly appeared in the area where the golden light group was in the mid-air. The body was not too big, just slightly larger than the ordinary holy angel, but the body was emitting a faint golden light. What was particularly eye-catching was that there were six pairs of twelve light wings growing on its back. There was only one in the whole "World". Only the Angel of God Michael had such an image. I was well-informed and recognized it at the first time. This was indeed the Angel of God Michael, but it was not his original body, but one of his clones. When the "Dead Spirit Scepter" was unsealed, I had fought a battle with Michael's God's clone. It can be said that I had a deep memory and confirmed his identity as soon as I saw him.
At that time, Michael's divine clone hidden in the "Death Scepter" was not that powerful in my current strength, but it was weakened by the dead old man after all, and it was sealed in the dark artifact, so its strength should not be too strong. This time is different. Michael's divine clone was directly summoned by six powerful cardinals headed by Holy Heaven with the help of special combination props. It is equivalent to having a part of the effect of the ultimate magic of light "God's Advent". Its strength must not be too weak, at least it should not be below the eight-winged war angel or cherubim who surpass the tenth level, otherwise Holy Heaven would not summon him in such a crucial final. As for the strength of this descending Michael's God's clone, although I was eager to know whether the "Iron Bucket Formation" could resist it, I no longer had the chance. After the God's clone was successfully summoned by Holy Heaven, a Paladin of Light used the "God's Domain" on me. A white light and air flow swept past, taking me and my undead subordinates into the "God's Domain". From the corner of my eye, it seemed that Afeng and Xue Wuxia were also directly attacked by the "God's Domain". It seems that Glory really wants to continue this strategy of cutting off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and defeating them one by one. It wants to trap the three giants of our Tongxin League first, concentrate its strength to eradicate our wings, so that we can't stand alone after we get out of the predicament, and have no hope of winning the final victory.
At this point, it was useless to worry. Regardless of whether the "Iron Bucket Formation" could withstand the fierce attack of Glory headed by Michael's God's clone and Supreme Honor, the only thing I could do was to kill the Paladin of Light who trapped me in the "God's Domain" and return to the field as soon as possible. Unfortunately, when being absorbed into the "God's Domain", the opponent would automatically escape from the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Formation". Otherwise, under the effects of "Enclosure" and "No Air Defence", it would be much easier to kill him. He clearly wanted to trap me and delay time, and he would definitely not take the initiative to break into the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Formation". He would try his best to avoid me and avoid direct conflict with me to ensure his own safety.
There is still no little angel in the "God's Domain". It seems that it is still a single enhanced version of the "God's Domain" with a one-sided enhanced space transfer function. It relies on the combat power and space transfer ability of the Paladin of Light to try to trap me for fifteen minutes. If you want to break through such a "God's Domain", the easiest way is to use the "Gate of the Underworld" and rely on the undead subordinates of the tenth level that continue to emerge to attack together. The opponent is only one person, and he is guaranteed to be unable to launch space transfer again. He will be killed by me in a short time. However, there are still Supreme Honor and Michael's God's clones on the field that need to be dealt with. It is a bit too wasteful to spend the limited fifteen minutes of the "Gate of the Yellow Elephant" here. It will not be good for the future battle. I can only endure it for a while and use the existing human resources to kill the Paladin of Light.
Summoning Ebola, who was possessed by Xiaobai, he used "teleportation". His whereabouts were unpredictable and extremely fast, but he could not be locked by the Paladin of Light by space conversion. In order to lock the agile flying Fire Ghost King Guben, he also needed to spend a little more time. Although the two of them would not be the opponent of the Paladin of Light riding a tenth-level upper-level magic pet and possessed by an incomplete war angel even if they joined forces, they could effectively harass his actions and make it impossible for him to get rid of Ebola and Guben's entanglement. The "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Locking Formation" was temporarily useless because of the opponent's deliberate escape. The only ones who could fight were Wu Ma, Heinrich and two tenth-level lower-level ghost knights. While the Paladin of Light was harassed by Ebola and Guben and could not avoid their pursuit in time, they rushed forward together to launch a siege, making the Paladin of Light overwhelmed and unable to spare time to launch space transfer. He could take care of this but not dodge that, and it was impossible to completely avoid the attack and constantly suffered damage. Under the protection of the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Lock Formation", I was not in danger of being attacked. I urged the "Touch of Death" to wrap around the black bone dragon and continue to absorb mental power. After it was full, I summoned Haishar first and rushed over to fight with Heinrich. With the special ability of "telepathy", we exerted stronger combat power and brought greater threats to the Paladin of Light. Whenever he wanted to use space transfer to transfer the strongest Heinrich or Haishar, he would always be attacked by the other one at the right time. He was either forced to interrupt the space transfer action or was chopped by a knife, which increased the damage to him and brought him more and more trouble. Then I summoned Taotao and rushed forward to make up a number, making the Paladin of Light even more overwhelmed. If I didn't make the right choice, I would mainly focus on the strongest Heinrich and Haishar, and try to transfer them away to avoid too much close combat with them. I'm afraid the damage I suffered would be even greater.
However, with Taotao's participation in the battle, and Wu Ma's resolute use of the "Undead Disintegration Technique", the combat power of the first level was increased, and the attack on the Paladin of Light was further strengthened, not giving him any time to breathe. I even issued an order to dismantle the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Locking Array". While the Paladin of Light was trapped in one place and could not get rid of it for a while, Khufu and the eleven great pharaohs quickly rushed over, and after approaching the Paladin of Light, they reorganized and set up the "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Locking Array" to trap him in the array. With Khufu and the eleven great pharaohs participating in the siege, with his strength, he could no longer use the pseudo-artifact to improve his combat power, and he would definitely not be able to hold on for long.
