"Failed, defeated!"
Outflanked and attacked by the rebels with superior strength, the light infantry on Beyelan's left wing screamed in panic and retreated with the heavy infantry squadron that supported them. Countless rebel soldiers made earth-shattering shouts and chased the retreating enemies.
They crossed the hills and ravines, and were about to rush into the enemy's core. The battlefield was suddenly filled with dust. Along with the rumbling and roaring, the earth trembled, as if a huge monster was about to emerge from it.
The rebel soldiers stopped in surprise. The roaring sound was like the hooves of a war horse, or like a giant beast from the ancient times beating a human skin drum with its bones, slowly coming with the ferocity and cruelty of a superior person.
Nona emerged from the smoke in costume of a man and a horse.
She was riding a horse, wielding a shining silver cross sword. 16 extraordinary knights and law breakers with sequence 8 or above followed closely behind, blocking the rebels' advance route.
This team of cavalry is not large in number, but they and their mounts are all equipped with heavy armor. The armor is decorated with bright red, bright yellow and azure blue coats of arms, and is blessed with a crystal and brilliant shield. They were even joined by priests wearing pure white robes and wielding maces and shields.
They marched retrograde among the retreating soldiers, not looking at the frightened friendly troops, nor paying attention to the enemies in front of them. As soon as they arrived on the battlefield, they blocked the rebels' heavy phalanx, facing thousands of enemy troops with only 17 cavalry. But it seems that they are the side with the upper hand.
The leader, Nona, kissed her sword gently and prayed in a low voice, and a ray of light was cast in the sky. The soldiers who had gathered around her and were already fleeing suddenly heard the noble and clear call. They all stopped and cheered up. Inexplicably, I felt that my steps were light and my limbs were full of strength again.
She waved her sword and suppressed it, and the scattered infantrymen subconsciously gathered together.
Following Nona was Kurala. She appeared on the right side of the team wearing exquisite silver armor and holding a bow and arrow. The two armies on the battlefield seemed to be half stunned, watching her draw up her long bow.
The air was filled with a trembling cold breath for a while.
The first ice arrow roared out, shattering into three sharp pieces of ice during flight, and shot towards the rebels in front of the flight path.
The first arrow has not yet hit, but the second and third arrows have already left the string.
Kurala's shooting speed was dazzlingly fast, and she fired nine rounds of arrows in the blink of an eye. She moved while shooting, shooting out the dense ice arrows like a showerhead. The rebels who were attacking seemed to have hit an invisible wall and were knocked down on the spot.
After being surprised by these two extraordinary beings, the rebel frontline immediately began to waver. Their officers shouted from their horses, ordering the soldiers to attack. At this moment, an illusory shadow like black mist appeared behind him. A sickle emerged from the black mist and passed by the officer's neck.
The rebels gathered nearby screamed. Many people saw the commander's head suddenly fly into the sky, raining blood along the way. The Beyelan assassin who succeeded in the attack turned around and immediately disappeared from the place.
"Extraordinary," Nona pressed the long sword in her hand, "attack."
Following her order, Beyelan's Beyonders attacked together. They did not form a tight wall, but they rushed into the ranks of the rebels like a dozen torrents, causing a bloody storm.
Many rebels hurriedly stabbed with spears and fired with muskets, but in the chaos they could not hit these knights who came and went like the wind, and their spears smashed into shields and heavy armor. Later, Beyelan's heavy cavalry did not even wave their sabers, but just trampled on the crowd with their horses.
Ophelia gathered her own Beyonders and used them. As soon as they entered the battle, they immediately stabilized the front that was about to collapse, and even broke through the rebel formation.
The physical strength and energy of a single extraordinary person are limited. But as long as they are deployed in the right way at the right time, in the right place, it is indeed possible to turn the tide of the war. What's more, what they are targeting is the rebels' lack of mid-to-high-level combat power. When they appear, they are like rocks across the battlefield, causing the waves of rebels to splash in all directions.
Under the cover of the knights, the wizards in the team continued to attack the dense queue of rebels with fireballs. In view of the situation where spellcasting and chanting are easily disturbed by the battlefield, wizards use a large number of magic items made from dust crystals with different properties to pre-make spells. The interference caused by the chanting essentially interrupts the spiritual energy gathering and combination process that triggers the spellcasting effect, so as long as the configuration process is imprinted on a specific carrier in advance, the chanting can be skipped.
This is also the result of the research of Professor Lafayette of Medini College. High-speed chanting and power words, which were originally only mastered by a few extraordinary people, have been popularized through special magic items. In this way, when the spellcaster enters the battlefield, he only needs to charge the talismans and scrolls that have been prepared to activate the spell, which greatly enhances the wizard's combat effectiveness on the battlefield where blood is surging.
With caster support, armies can even have firepower and mobility beyond that of artillery.
After the Extraordinaries led by Nona entered the battle, the most violent areas where the rebels attacked were immediately met with a fierce counterattack, and they had to retreat leaving a large number of casualties.
Beyelan's Beyonders did not go deep, and after expelling the rebels, they retracted their formation.
"Fortunately," Kulala breathed a sigh of relief and said to the people around him. "It seems that we can hold on until sunset without the appearance of our extraordinary beings. Once the rebels retreat, we will build a camp on a nearby hillside. We can definitely hold on until the main force arrives."
Although the battle situation is developing in an optimistic direction, Ophelia's bright eyes watching the battle have become more vigilant:
“The rebels lack high-end combat capabilities and have been avoiding direct confrontation with us in the past.
"Why did they assemble their main force to attack us this time? And they also carried out long-distance detours with forced marches. Today's battle is at a stalemate. When our reinforcements arrive, will the rebels who have been traveling long distances safely withdraw from the battlefield?"
She bit her lip and tapped her forehead with her fingers:
"If I were the coach of the Rebels, I would definitely consider the difficulties caused by the lack of high-end combat power before taking such an adventure.
"So, where do you get the reinforcement?"
Before he could finish his words, an earth-shaking roar came from the battlefield where the two sides had just fought fiercely. The grass soaked in blood squirmed like waves.
The ground rippled violently like melted butter, and then a large amount of soil rolled up like waves, forming waves of soil more than half a meter high and pushing toward the vicinity.
Such an astonishing anomaly reminded all the Extraordinaries at the scene of the earth-burrowing demonic insect in the book. Only monsters that lurk more than ten meters underground and use special powers to dig forward can have such momentum. Once it breaks out of the ground, the collapsed soil will easily swallow everything on the ground.
"Run away!"
The nearby Byyelan sergeants all shouted. Even if they have never seen the Earth-Drilling Demon Bug, they have heard of this monster in the absurd horror stories spread in taverns and military camps. The unknown fear immediately gripped them, and the soldiers who had been fighting bravely just a few minutes ago dropped their weapons and fled from their front. Even Nona, who had a powerful shield, had to take shelter temporarily.
Amidst the panic shouting, many people seemed to hear an ethereal and illusory "ding dong" echo. This psychic phantom sound appeared so out of place on a messy battlefield.
Nona, who was leading the team, was a little panicked at first, but after hearing this "ding dong", her nervous mind relaxed. Because she knew that this was a sign of the actions of her own powerful transcendent. This echo is the psychic ripple produced when Ophelia's magic eye is cast on the target.
The fluctuations in the layers became more and more violent, and the huge monster below was about to stretch out its ferocious and ugly body. Suddenly, the vibration weakened for no reason, and a shrill wail came from the rumbling roar.
This terrifying sound cannot be described in words. It is a strange sound that everyone here has never heard in their nightmares. The violent earthquake was actually weakening amid this strange scream.
"What happened!~" the soldiers exclaimed. The monster that was about to burst out of the ground seemed to be curling up in pain. Finally, the howling subsided, and the muddy, wet ground became dry, hard and cracked. The gap is getting bigger and bigger, and it is tearing open on both sides like a cliff.
"hiss--!"
The last scream came from the deep cracks in the ground, causing all the listeners to feel the desperate and unwilling pain resonating in their chests, almost giving them a splitting headache. Those who were close to it glanced in horror, only to see a huge, indescribable black shadow curling below. Only a corner of its body is exposed, and its huge mouthparts open like petals and spit out globs of foul-smelling juice. It can already make people imagine a complete and terrifying image.
Ophelia's magic eyes stared at the cracks in the earth, seeming to penetrate the barriers of layers of soil to see the monsters below. Only those senior Beyonders noticed that in the shocking earthquake and howling just now, her magic eyes had torn the monster's spirit apart and twisted its brain into pieces inside its thick limbs.
"As expected of you!" Kulala praised loudly in the echo crystal, "Earth-boring insects, as long as they don't let them come out, it's nothing. Your mind whip can actually kill mythical creatures!"
Hearing the compliments from her companions, Ophelia's face turned pale, and her usual vigorous temperament became weak.
She had just activated her magic eyes, locked onto the monster underground, and then used the powerful supernatural ability "Psychic Whip" to attack its brain. However, the result was beyond her expectation.
Strange, when did my ability become so strong? In the past, the most effective effects were dizziness, fear and trauma. Why could it be fatal in the face of a mythical creature like the Earth-Drilling Insect? What weakened it?
