Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 338: Southward Expedition, Westward Disturbance
The main reason why the compatibility with the Hell Dragon is so low is probably due to the restriction of the "Life-Chasing Spear" skill unique to Heinrich, the ninth Ghost Knight King. Unlike the arrows of the Ghost Archers and the spears of the Ghost Lancers, which can be made from the bones of other undead creatures, the five spears behind Heinrich can only be made from the body of his mount as raw materials. Only in this way can the spear that best suits the user's wishes be made, which is conducive to the stronger power of the "Life-Chasing Turtle Spear" skill. Heinrich has a single dark attribute, and can only make and use dark attribute spears, which are incompatible with the fire attribute of the Hell Dragon. He has no ability to make fire attribute spears from the body of the Hell Dragon, or it is difficult to effectively exert the power of fire attribute spears. If I forcefully transform the level 10 upper Hell Dragon and Heinrich, even if I succeed, other abilities and skills may not be affected too much, but the "Life-Chasing Spear" skill will definitely be useless. Although it is a pity, I can only give up the plan of assigning the level 10 upper Hell Dragon to Heinrich as a mount and find another bone dragon to replace it.
The most suitable mount for Heinrich is naturally the Black Dragon King with dark attributes. Fortunately, I have never given up exploring the "Dragon Bone Mountain" area, searching everywhere for the traces of the Level 10 Black Dragon King. My hard work has paid off, and my unremitting efforts have finally yielded some results. In addition, I did not hesitate to spend some gold coins to purchase information about the specific location of the Black Dragon King from those professional Undead Wizard search teams. Not only did I get some more low-level and mid-level Level 10 Black Dragon King subordinates, I also found and defeated a few upper-level Level 10 Black Dragon Kings. It is not a problem to separate two of them as mounts for the Ghost Knight King. After checking the compatibility between Heinrich and the upper-level tenth-level Black Dragon King, it was found that they were indeed a perfect match made in heaven with a very high degree of compatibility. He was quite confident that the transformation could be successfully completed, so he killed the acquired mount of the Black Bone Dragon that Heinrich had subdued by himself, and performed the transformation technique on it and the upper-level tenth-level Black Dragon King, successfully transforming the innate Ghost Pegasus (acquired Black Bone Dragon) the Ninth Ghost Knight King into a Black Dragon King Ghost Knight King with a nature between the innate and acquired. Although the tacit understanding between Heinrich and the Black Dragon King's mount after the transformation is still not as good as the innate ghost Pegasus, it is obviously stronger than the previous acquired black bone dragon mount, and some minor flaws in riding skills seem so insignificant compared to the much-enhanced strength - the strength of the tenth-level upper-level Black Dragon King itself is far better than Heinrich's original mount, the ghost Pegasus. Even if it has been transformed into a mount and lost most of its independent consciousness, its basic fighting instinct is still there, which can effectively help Heinrich fight, and the role it can play is not much inferior to that of an ordinary tenth-level upper-level ghost knight. In particular, the enhancement of the mount's strength allows Heinrich to make the flying gun more quickly, and the time required is shortened a lot. The power of the "life-chasing flying gun" is also relatively enhanced. All of these have further improved Heinrich's strength, even better than before.
After successfully transforming Heinrich into the Black Dragon King Ghost Knight King, the next one is naturally the shadow that is "connected" with him and almost inseparable - the Pseudo Ghost Knight King Haishar. He also has the skill of "Chasing Life Spear", so he cannot assign the upper-level tenth-level Hell Dragon to him as a mount. The most suitable one is still the upper-level tenth-level Black Dragon King, which also has a relatively high degree of fit, and the transformation is also a great success. There is another Black Dragon King Pseudo Ghost Knight King under his command. In this way, the strength of Heinrich and Haishar has been significantly enhanced. Even if they encounter the challenge of the real and fake Ghost Knight King combination ranked in the top few, they can still have the strength to fight, and they are truly qualified to dominate the Ghost Knight Kingdom.
As Tianxia Yi has entered the final stage, the struggle between the Church of Light and the alliance of resistance forces is becoming more and more intense, making the human world more and more turbulent. There are constant disputes, big conflicts, small frictions, you take advantage here, I get benefits on the other side, and a lot of news is made every day, which has increased the sales of Tianmei a lot, and constantly set new sales records. It makes those irrelevant neutral professional players also watch the fun, and even under the influence of the general environment, it also drives the anger of some neutral forces. Everyone takes revenge, and those who have grievances return grievances. Those who fight to kill each other also participate in the chaos, presenting a chaotic situation of heroes competing for strength and victory.
Since the "World Heroes Conference", our resistance alliance has been working hard to pacify the Eastern Continent, striving to completely destroy the Cathedrals of Light in all the main cities of the Eastern Continent in the shortest possible time. Because the development focus of the Church of Light is on the Southern Continent, coupled with the destruction of the Huadu Mercenary Group, the representative force of the Eastern Continent, and the hopelessness of reconstruction, it directly led to the resignation of the former Vice President of the Senate Hua Mantian. Without a leader, the local light forces in the Eastern Continent have become even weaker. In the face of the fierce power of our resistance alliance, it is difficult to organize a strong and effective resistance, and it cannot bring us more trouble. We have won every battle. In just three months, we have completely destroyed the Cathedrals of Light in all the cities of the Eastern Continent, and pacified another continent. We are one step closer to completing the first mission of the ultimate battle between light and darkness.
However, for our resistance alliance, pacifying the northern and eastern continents can only be said to be a small test. The real decisive battle will depend on the offensive and defensive battles in the southern continent where the Church of Light focuses on defense. If we cannot completely destroy all the Cathedrals of Light in the main cities of the southern continent within the limited time gate, that is, before August 1 next year, and formally complete this most important prerequisite, then our resistance alliance will not be qualified to start the ultimate battle with the Church of Light. All previous efforts will be in vain and we will be defeated without a fight. The next period of time will be a real battle between the two hostile forces of the resistance alliance and the Church of Light. It will determine whether our resistance alliance has a chance to laugh to the end. There is no room for slackness. We must wake up and go all out. Fortunately, the resistance alliance has proved through a series of outstanding performances that we are fully capable of confronting the Church of Light head-on. It is hard to predict who will win. No matter how fierce the Church of Light is in the southern continent, it has never dared to rashly attack the Desert Eagle's Prideful Sun Mercenary Group and the two main cities controlled by our resistance alliance, preserving the spark of the struggle. In addition, the triumphant progress in the northern and eastern continents has also been a great deterrent to the neutral forces. Those neutral forces whose positions are not firm enough and whose intentions are to speculate have been cautious, and at most they dare only flirt with the Church of Light in secret, but dare not openly cooperate with the Church of Light. Time and time again, they have thwarted the Church of Light's attempts to "peacefully seize power" in one or even several cities by themselves or by supporting local pro-light forces, so that the situation in the southern continent is not too bad. Otherwise, once the control of the city falls into the hands of the Church of Light or pro-Light forces, they can openly issue orders to prohibit players of our resistance alliance from entering. In this way, if we want to attack the Cathedral of Light in the city, in addition to the stationed Light NPCs and the rescuing Light players, we will also be hunted down and attacked by all the NPC guards in the city, making it much more difficult to destroy the Cathedral of Light.
Of course, the Southern Continent is worthy of being the area where the Church of Light has made great efforts and focused its defense. Whether in terms of the strength of the reinforcements, the speed of response and the way of response, it is far beyond the reach of the previously pacified Northern Continent and Eastern Continent. The first attack launched by our resistance alliance against the Cathedral of Light in a main city of the Southern Continent encountered extremely tenacious resistance from the Church of Light. They not only hired a large number of neutral NPC guards to rush over for rescue as soon as possible, but also quickly and timely gathered the main force of the light players, violently attacking the defense line we arranged outside the church to block the attack, and successively forcibly broke through the interception and rushed into the church, which greatly relieved the pressure of the light NPCs stationed inside the Cathedral of Light, helped them to stabilize their defense, and made it impossible for our elite commandos to kill those light NPCs as soon as possible. With the various magic arrays of light deployed in the Cathedral of Light as assistance, and even the Church of Light spending huge sums of money to further strengthen it, the Cathedral of Light in the southern continent has a stronger protective function, which greatly limits the strength of the top players of our resistance alliance. Even my ability is greatly restricted, and there is no way to perform better. After all, attacking the cathedral is different from the group competition participated in by the Tongxin League. I am no longer the core of attack and defense. The other participants are also unwilling to play supporting roles. They are eager to show themselves. Now is the most critical moment to determine the qualification to advance to the tenth level of the profession. Almost all competitors who have both ambitions and hope to get what they want are trying their best to seize every opportunity to earn more merit points and win more points for their qualification to advance to the tenth level of the profession. As a result, my "Great Pyramid Sky Cage and Earth Locking Array", a large-scale auxiliary attack array that does not distinguish between enemies and friends, is not very popular. Under the premise that other teammates are unwilling to be restricted like the enemy and easily be taken advantage of by me, they cannot deploy facilities and exert their due power. They can only attack with conventional means and cooperate with other teammates. In the previous battles to pacify the cathedrals in the Eastern Continent, we were able to kill the NPCs of Light stationed inside the cathedrals relatively smoothly because of our strength and the fact that the reinforcements and resistance of the Church of Light were not timely or tenacious. However, when we moved to the Southern Continent and faced the Church of Light's almost all-out rescue, the intensity increased too much. Although we had made the most adequate preparations, we still underestimated the strength of the Church of Light's counterattack. In the end, the outer defense forces were unable to withstand the impact of the Church of Light's reinforcements and were rushed into the cathedral by too many Light players. As a result, our elite commando team persisted in fighting to the end and killed most of the Gwangju NPCs, but still failed in the end. The entire army was overthrown and we failed to successfully complete the task of destroying the Cathedral of Light.
Our resistance alliance failed in its first attack on the Cathedral of Light in the main city of the southern continent, which was heavily guarded by the Church of Light. From the course of the war, the Church of Light assembled almost all the masters of the light players in the east, north, south, and especially the western continent, and responded correctly in the shortest time. The reinforcements came quickly and the counterattack was quite fierce. After all, the southern continent is not like the northern and eastern continents. After more than a year of repeated suppression by the Church of Light, the local dark forces are left with only the Sun Mercenary Group of the Desert Eagle, which is alone and lacks the necessary support. As the saying goes, it is difficult to support the local light forces. As a result, our resistance alliance lacks enough footholds in the southern continent as a cover, and the actions are easily monitored and controlled by the Church of Light, so that they can take precautions in advance. It can almost be said that we have no advantages in terms of time, location, and people. It is conceivable how difficult it is to complete the task of destroying the cathedral. This is also the reason why the Church of Light decided to abandon the Northern and Eastern continents, to gather heavy troops for defense, and to use the Southern continent as a place for a decisive battle with our alliance with the resistance forces.
Although we suffered a setback, victory and defeat are common in the military. The strength of the Church of Light is not inferior to that of our resistance alliance. We did not expect to be able to defeat the Church of Light smoothly. We will inevitably have days of pride and days of loss. We should not be arrogant when we win and not be discouraged when we lose. Our Dark Council, led by Long Xingtianxia, has already reached a consensus on this and has given all members of the resistance alliance a shot in advance so that our morale will not be broken by this defeat. We carefully summed up the lessons learned from the failure of the first attack, regrouped, and soon changed our target to launch an offensive against the Cathedral of Light in another main city, and once again launched a full-scale attack, hoping to win the battle and achieve the goal of destroying the cathedral.
In terms of the number of people mobilized and the intensity of the attack, this time the offensive was more fierce, almost mobilizing all the expert players of the resistance alliance to participate. A clear division of labor was made in advance, and everyone performed their duties. The organizational work was quite complete, and everyone was dedicated in the action. The combat effectiveness was obviously stronger than the last time. However, the Church of Light once again took advantage of their "home advantage" and made accurate predictions about our attack actions and specific attack targets in advance, so as to adopt targeted arrangements. As soon as the battle began, we encountered fierce resistance and impact from the rescue forces of the Church of Light. We still could not buy enough time for our elite commando to kill all the light NPCs stationed inside the Cathedral of Light, making the action once again a protracted war. The two sides fought fiercely, with countless casualties, and no one could take advantage. The light players could not repel the attacks of our resistance alliance, and we were also unable to wipe out the light NPCs in the church in one fell swoop, presenting a stalemate. The battle lasted till the end, and many players died in the melee. The remaining players also exhausted their energy. Neither side was able to achieve a better result. Seeing that things were hopeless, our resistance alliance had to call off the battle and return. Although on the surface, the result was better than the last disastrous defeat, at least our resistance alliance did not suffer much in the frontal battle. The number of casualties on both sides should be similar. In the early stage, our resistance alliance even took some advantage. With the continuous arrival of the reinforcements of the Church of Light, they gradually turned the tables. However, they still failed to complete the scheduled task of destroying the Cathedral of Light. In fact, our resistance alliance once again experienced setbacks.
The two consecutive setbacks in the offensive were unprecedented. They immediately poured cold water on the overly optimistic members of the Dark Council and the Resistance Alliance, and also declared the impracticality of the "quick victory theory" that was once so popular. They began to look at the struggle with the Church of Light in the southern continent more rationally and soberly. In terms of overall strength, the resistance alliance today is basically the same as the Church of Light. However, as the main attacker, if we cannot take advantage of the unexpected initiative and resolve the battle in the shortest possible time, and delay too long, we will have to switch to a direct offensive and defensive battle with the Church of Light. Using the strong defense function of the Cathedral of Light itself and the assistance of the neutral NPC guard forces hired in the city, the Church of Light will have the advantage of being at home. It can be said that it is quite difficult to defeat them and complete the task of destroying the Cathedral of Light. We must find a way to disrupt the defense system of the Church of Light, so that they cannot rescue the Cathedral of Light in time, or gather too many troops, which is under attack in the southern continent. Only in this way can our resistance alliance have a greater chance of successfully destroying the Cathedral of Light with the help of the Church of Light. For this reason, Long Xing Tianxia proposed a suggestion that while carrying out the "Southern Expedition" plan, a part of the personnel should be specially dispatched to carry out the "Western Disturbance" operation, so as to contain the actions of the Church of Light and create a better opportunity for us to destroy the Cathedral of Light in the southern continent.
