Gavin's thinking spread out and he started researching spells on the battlefield, but it did not affect the power of this nine-ring spell at all.
The thunderstorm that enveloped the battlefield was much larger than imagined.
Normally, the diameter of the revenge storm is two hundred and fifty meters. Now let alone five hundred meters, even if it is one kilometer, some people will believe it.
The reason for this situation is not that Gavin has extraordinary abilities and the extraordinary storm of revenge he unleashed. Well, it does have something to do with it, because the power in the way of war is not exerted directly, but through his The strengthened Auling Mage Tower is indeed a little six times more powerful than the normal one, but it is not as powerful as it is now.
There is not one storm of revenge now shrouding the battlefield, but two. The other one is Ms. Catherine, the first elect from the Goddess of Strategy. Her core profession is also the exclusive sacrifice of Ms. Strategy, the Holy Strategist, and she has the ability to cast priest spells. Ability, when she saw Gavin taking action, she naturally cooperated immediately.
When two identical nine-ring spells appeared in the air at the same time, they actually produced a wonderful chemical reaction, and connected to become a spell that surpassed the nine-ring spell. Not only did the coverage area become larger, but the power they could control also increased dramatically. .
Putting aside everything else, the six lightning bolts that could only be summoned originally increased to ten bolts. Not ten bolts in total, but Gavin and Catherine each could control ten bolts.
These lightning bolts have extraordinary lethality against those blood predators and blood ragers. They can't even dodge them. They can hit them accurately every time. Whoever allows them to have the physique to absorb thunder and lightning now will absorb thunder and lightning into their bodies no matter what. , let alone when someone is consciously manipulating it.
It's not just the Storm of Vengeance that is affected by the bonus. The thunder summoning spells and thunderstorms performed by druids and priests will also be affected by the bonus of the Storm of Vengeance. After all, they are all using the same power now.
Those blood plunderers are naturally the first priority targets.
Less than two-thirds of the Blood Reavers can withstand three summoned thunderstorms and lightning strikes (3*5D10=150), and less than one-third can withstand four. Only those who can charge after taking five in a row are the only ones left. The two chosen predators were the result of their crazy use of the blood power from the surrounding soldiers, including the blood predators and blood ragers, to strengthen themselves.
They can become the temporary gods of the predator Garagos not only because of their powerful strength, but also because their temperament is very suitable for the predator. Even if the degree of fit is not high, when they accept the power of the predator, they will Will be highly influenced by his character and become selfish, violent, predatory and destructive.
Therefore, accepting to become the chosen one of a certain god is a very serious and prudent matter.
Moreover, these two Predator Chosen obviously have the ability to dominate other Blood Predators and Blood Berserkers. When they find that there is a thunderstorm targeting the Predator Chosen, the surrounding Blood Predators will step forward and jump. He stood up and directly used his body to catch the thunder.
In this case, their weakness in absorbing thunder and lightning has become an advantage. Thunder will naturally be attracted to targets that are closer to it and run away directly around the corner.
Those blood predators wanted to do the same thing and let the blood ragers bear the thunder for them, but the success rate was not high because the thunder struck too fast. Before the blood ragers could react, it had already hit the blood predators' heads. superior.
The violent storm that lasted for half a minute in the second half of the Revenge Storm directly brought the war to a brief stagnation. Whether it was the attacking army of marauders or the flexible Red Falcon Knights, they all wisely stayed where they were and no longer acted haphazardly. of movement.
The physical line of sight blocked by the violent storm made even dark vision useless, and it was impossible to see clearly the other person's appearance even when they were face to face.
If you act rashly, no one knows whether you will encounter an enemy or a comrade in the next second. Once you plunge into the enemy, you will be beaten to death in minutes.
In this case, let alone actions, even sounds should be made as little as possible to avoid becoming the target of long-range attacks.
But this half minute bought precious time for the conquerors' army to make arrangements.
The main body of the conqueror army on the Bridge of Humans and Gods is not within the scope of the revenge storm, and they are relatively bulky. It will take time to rearrange their formation.
The Pioneer Army of the Pioneers is desperately pulling out to free up the position at the west bridge entrance, while the Pioneer Army of the Amputees are switching defenses with the armed immigrants of the Conqueror Army.
The vanguard of the amputees moved to the entrance of the West Bridge, and the defense here was handed over to a hundred tower chariots and the armed immigrants attached to them.
Although the possibility of either the Cormyr Kingdom's Purple Dragon Legion attacking them or an army of monsters emerging from behind is very low, as a believer in Ms. Strategy, she will never place her hopes on others or odds and make careful decisions. response plan is the most correct choice.
This is not only the case at the east bridge entrance. When the Amputator Pioneer Army rushed out from the west bridge entrance, a hundred tower-type chariots also followed and formed new vehicles at the previous location of the Pioneer Pioneer Army. Wall defense line, once something goes wrong in the battle ahead, they can retreat back to the Bridge of Humans and Gods.
For the army of conquerors, the Bridge of Humans and Gods was their castle and fortress. Gavin and the others originally designed it according to this concept.
The remaining one hundred tower-type chariots were not idle, but were staggered in two rows on the Human-God Bridge to prevent enemies from appearing on this side of the river.
After the Pioneer Pioneer Army and the Amputee Pioneer Army assembled in the west, they did not rush into the battlefield rashly. Instead, they used a mobile vehicle formation to form a huge encirclement, like an iron pincer, towards the already seriously injured people. The shrinking monster army pinched him.
Their combat purposes are very clear. One is to provide long-range fire support for the main force on the battlefield. These side trucks are also equipped with vehicle-mounted heavy-duty ballistae. However, due to the formation, they can only shoot outward through the reserved shooting holes. , when the sidecars enter a moving state, they can fire freely.
The second is to prepare for further annihilation of the enemy's main force and new tactics. When the enemy is completely defeated, they will become two walls, preventing them from escaping from their own defense line.
If you look down from the air, with the west bridge entrance of the Bridge of Humans and Gods as the center, a huge pocket array is taking shape.
How much power this pocket formation can exert depends on the two kings in the center of the pocket and whether they can defeat the Predator's Chosen One and the Blood Predator Corps he leads.
A spell is a spell. It gathers natural phenomena quickly and dissipates quickly, even if it is a nine-ring spell.
One second it was still storming, and the next second the wind stopped raining because the magic power was exhausted. Although the sun was not shining brightly, at least the sight was no longer affected in any way.
Then the fiercest battle broke out the next second.
What I said before about not operating in the dark is limited to people with normal thinking.
Neither the Predator Garagos nor his followers were in this category. The two Predator Chosen actually took advantage of the violent storm and rain to cover their traces, and rushed forward based on their memories in an attempt to launch a surprise attack.
This crazy approach has pros and cons.
The advantage was that they had shortened the distance between them and Gavin, especially the two Predator Chosen, who were only a few dozen steps away from Gavin and Catherine.
The person who touched Gavin was not the Earth Spirit Chosen who came towards him at the beginning, but the Jackal God Chosen.
The earth spirit chose to touch Catherine's side, and there was a perfect misalignment between the two.
The disadvantage is that there is a serious disconnect among the army of marauders. The number of blood marauders guarding the Earth Spirit has shrunk significantly. Originally, there were at least two hundred blood marauders and six to seven hundred blood berserkers around them.
Now there are at most a hundred Blood Reavers surrounding them, and the others are either still in place, scattered along the road, or they are running in the wrong direction, running to both sides or away from Gavin and Catherine. go.
But neither the Jackal Predator God's Chosen nor the Blood Predators cared. They had no intention of waiting for the troops behind them to catch up, and directly launched an attack on Gavin and the others - even if they had the slightest chance. Hesitation is a form of blasphemy against Garagos the Despoiler.
Because his war philosophy is to move forward without hesitation or retreat. Those are behaviors only performed by the weak, and they will all become targets of plunder.
"Steel Tornado!" Whether it was the Jackal Predator God's Choice or the Blood Predator, before officially launching the final attack, they all made the same action, and the blood cloak behind them was swung forward.
Some parts split directly from above and reunited, creating thick blood phantom arms in the blink of an eye, each arm holding a blood phantom scimitar.
These blood phantom arms holding scimitars are in groups of five, bent like a fidget spinner, with the scimitar blades pointing outward, forming circles like wheels.
This form is the holy symbol of Garagos the Despoiler.
It was like a whole body, spinning and moving forward in the form of wheels, with a sharp whine. Even if it did not have the physical characteristics displayed by the blood cloaks before, no one would regard them as innocuous shadows.
This is another exclusive ritual ability of the Predator, Iron Whirlwind, which is a five-ring spell.
These steel whirlwinds float in front of the user, and begin to advance in sync with the user's forward motion, whining and spinning to launch attacks.
Due to the different composition of the soldiers, Gavin and Catherine showed different coping methods.
"Gather and set up shields." Under the command of several hobgoblin giant commanders, the hobgoblin giants scattered around the Lizard Queen quickly gathered on both sides of the lizard queen, with ten people forming a team of ten combat teams.
The large battle shields in the hands of these hobgoblin giants overlapped each other and formed a huge wall shield, which tightly covered them.
And dozens of steel whirlwinds and blood predators rushed up and slammed into their wall shields.
boom! boom! boom! boom!
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
All of a sudden, all that echoed in my ears was the sound of steel clashing, accompanied by the harsh sound of metal friction.
When the steel whirlwind chops, there are obviously traces of dragging. If it chops on a flesh and blood body, it will not be as simple as a wound, but a large gash will be cut directly.
The most important thing is that the attack method of this thing is so unique. It moves in circles and attacks.
Its speed is not particularly fast. It basically takes three seconds to turn once. But the problem is that it is composed of five bloody phantom arms holding scimitars. One turn is equivalent to cutting five times.
Five knives in three seconds, this is already a very terrifying attack frequency. A legendary warrior can only do five knives in six seconds. Don’t think it is very slow. The one knife here refers to a chopping action from top to bottom, not that kind of attack. A small chop. Although such an attack has attack speed, it is difficult to have enough power to support it and pose a sufficient threat.
If such an attack is placed in a dense crowd of monsters or people without armor or only wearing light armor, the steel whirlwind will be a killing whirlwind. Blood will spray wherever it rolls. There will be severed limbs and corpses everywhere. There is no way a flesh and blood body can withstand the crazy cutting of this thing.
However, it is obviously not easy to use when encountering heavily armored warriors like hobgoblin giants. Not only do they have thick and large shields, but they also have tailor-made thick and large armors. Their defense power is astonishing, even if they break through the shield protection. It can't break through their heavy armor protection.
Their only function is to provide cover for their creators, allowing them to approach the shield walls of the hobgoblin giants and attack them.
But even for those Blood Reavers, these hobgoblin giants who have gathered into battle groups are a hard nut to crack. They are proficient in coordinated operations. After forming a shield wall, they do not just stand there stupidly, but Constantly moving, those Blood Reavers are not necessarily facing the same hobgoblin giant every time they defend and attack. Even if they cause some damage to him, they will still face an intact one next time. Yes, those injured hobgoblin giants will always be guarded in the center.
This kind of coordinated operation not only exists among these teams, but also cooperates with each other. As those Blood Reavers attack, they will suddenly find that they have been flanked by two or three hobgoblin giant teams. When they reached the middle, there were hobgoblin giants and large weapons thrusting from all directions. There was no way to dodge or break free. The large heavy shields squeezed them.
These blood predators are more than three meters tall, which is absolutely astonishing against ordinary people. They are in a rolling posture, but against the hobgoblin giants with an average height of three and a half meters, they are an outright disadvantage.
There is no advantage in numbers, equipment, or tactics.
It would be strange if the Blood Reaver was not suppressed and beaten.
Catherine's response was simple and direct. Countless dispelling spells were thrown at the steel whirlwinds. Most of them had just formed and dissipated on the spot before flying a few meters.
A small number of those who succeeded in the confrontation were almost completely disintegrated before they could fly in front of the Red Falcon Knights. The second round of dispelling magic was thrown down again.
The exclusive spells of God Slander are also spells and can also be restrained by dispel magic.
This is a typical exchange of small for large, a three-ring dispelling magic for a five-ring spell, a very cost-effective deal.
After all, these blood predators are improvised high-level cannon fodder. Compared with the real predator-specific priests, they not only lack a large number of real professional abilities, but also lack experience in using spells.
Many spells pay attention to the timing of use. Only under special circumstances and special times can the power of this spell be brought into full play.
Instead of laying out all the spells so openly and using them as auxiliary offensive weapons.
The rest of the battle was exactly the same as before. The knight's moves combined with a large number of lightning attacks turned these blood predators around.
The situation on their side was that they couldn't keep up with their speed, their abilities were restrained, and their tactics were restrained. Naturally, they were suppressed and couldn't hold their heads up.
Now it is an army against an army, a general against a general, and the king wants to see the king.
The same steel whirlwind was displayed by the two Predator Gods, and its power was naturally different from that of ordinary Blood Predators.
It was composed of a super-large arm holding a super-large scimitar, with a diameter of more than three meters. When it was rotated, the power was quite terrifying, and the dispelling magic was useless against it, because it contained the power of plundering.
In front of this super-large steel whirlwind, even the Lizard Queen was so chopped that she couldn't hold her head up. She could only shrink her neck and let it chop at her fat pile. From time to time, she controlled the fat to surge and cut the injured or injured ones. Squeeze or cover.
Ever since the naval force that raided the distant sea swamp failed and returned to the Bridge of Humans and Gods, entering into the process of ascension to the Goddess of Strategy, even if Gavin let go of his direct control over her, she would be as honest and obedient as she wanted. How well-behaved.
Just kidding, this is a true god. Even a being who has just been promoted to a weak divine power is not someone he can provoke.
The giant dragon only dares to be called the top predator in the material plane, but it is not called the multiverse. Even the ancient dragon has to obediently lower its noble head in front of those demigods, let alone her. A half-assed person who has already been controlled by others has no money to make any more troubles.
Especially after witnessing the terrifying combat power that the conqueror's army subsequently unleashed, she realized that her defeat this time was not unjust at all, and that the strength of both sides was not at the same level at all.
If she had cooperated sincerely with the hags in the Dark Castle and the Distant Sea Swamp before, she might have had a chance to have a good fight with the conqueror's army. Let alone any one party alone, any two parties would be completely tortured.
Their failure was not simply a matter of strength, but also a failure of tactics, strategy, and planning.
The opponent was walking in front step by step, plotting every move against them. Even if the predator Garagos intervened and launched a divine war, there was no chance of a comeback. She knew how tough the young man standing above her was. The temporarily promoted divine choice will hardly pose a threat to him.
(End of chapter)
