Chapter 1376: The Iron Cutter Cavalry Tests Their Might
At the frontline, Heaven’s Rain asked me while carrying her spear, "Are we really going to fight them?"
I said firmly, "If Dark Mercenaries charges us, we will. Perhaps Little Piglet is no longer who he used to be. Perhaps hatred has twisted his mind enough that he no longer cares about his fellow countrymen!"
Swhoosh!
I raised the Chill of the Nine Provinces into the sky. The light of the Ancient Divine Armament was so bright that even the darkness kilometers away from it was chased away. Then, I roared on top of my lungs, "Prepare for battle and take them out!"
Chiang chiang chiang...
Rows and rows of Dragonlight Cavalrymen unsheathed their weapons and empowered themselves with defensive skills such as Immovable, Will to Protect, Protective Aura and more. Most of these skills only increased their Defense between 10% to 30%, but it was better than nothing. Moreover, Heaven’s Rain’s Knight General also boosted their Defense by 100%. Finally, the Dragonlight Cavalry enjoyed higher priority when purchasing equipment from the guild warehouse with contribution points, so their equipment was very elite!
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While Amber Pupil and a large group of Iron Cutter Cavalry were charging down toward us from the middle of the hill, Little Piglet was hesitating and gripping his weapon tightly. In the end, he gnashed his teeth together and uttered, "Screw it, we may as well do this now! It was always a matter of time before we clashed against Ancient Sword!"
The ground trembled, and red maple leaves with dew water on them became attached to the horse hooves thundering across the canyon. It almost looked like a sea of blood was flooding toward us. Little Piglet led at the forefront while everyone else followed closely behind him. His men’s equipment and mount had all been strengthened by the Northern Alliance, so they were no longer just former elite players of Purgatory Mad Dragon.
When they were just 40 yards away from our formation, snowflakes began dancing around Little Piglet’s sword. He avoided me and fired Ice Breaking Slash at our sides. His timing and grasp of distance were perfect, and he was able to deal an incredibly amount of damage—
272988!
221993!
213734!
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Even with the Dragonlight Cavalry’s fortress-level Defense, they still lost a shitton of HP to Little Piglet’s skill. Moreover, he had increased his splash effect by 75% with his Divine General Skill, so the entire group immediately dropped to 25% or so HP.
"Die!"
Little Piglet pulled at the reins of his Ink Qilin and caused it to jump into the air. While airborne, he unleashed Ice Ray Flurry at a dozen or so Dragonlight Cavalrymen and killed them in an instant. In response, our men immediately spread out and thrust their Barrier Breaks at him from every direction.
"Hehe…"
However, ripples suddenly appeared on all four of the Ink Qilin’s hooves, and it pushed itself away from the incoming attacks almost as if it was on solid ground. As a result, no one was able to land a single hit on him.
……
Boom boom boom!
The Iron Cutter Cavalrymen in front of me screamed as three flaming bade auras him them. One extremely accurate Myriad Swords Obliteration later, dozens of them were dead before they ever hit anyone. At the back, Beiming Xue ordered loudly while shooting the Xuanming Bow, "Spiraling Arrow Blade + Mountain Stagger Arrow + Shock Arrow! Drag them down from their Iron Cutter Warhorses!"
Several thousand Dragonlight Archers loosed their arrows at once, making life hell for all the enemy frontliners who were unfortunate enough to be in the line of fire. However, they couldn’t dismount everyone because the enemy vastly outnumbered us. It was why Little Piglet was able to attack us with impunity.
While fighting at the forefront, I activated the Xuanyuan Art and removed 50% HP from all Dark Mercenaries’ players within 1000 yards of me. At the same time, I roared, "Kill them as quickly as possible! Use your Ancient Divine Skills!"
I was already activating my Heavenly River Transformation and summoning the Xuanyuan Slash before I even finished my own sentence. After I found the perfect angle, I dropped the skill and evaporated hundreds of Iron Cutter Cavalrymen into dust in an instant. It was like a mini version of the meteor that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction.
On the other side, Beiming Xue activated her Ancient Divine Skill, Houyi’s Fury, and turned countless earth, rock and trees upside down. Not only did hundreds of half-health Iron Cutter Cavalry die to the attack, she triggered her Xuanming Flame and burned even more of them to near death or totally dead.
Heaven’s Rain swung her spear in a wide arc and fired a Tiger Wing Slash that drove Little Piglet himself a dozen or so yards away from the frontline.
Moonlight Stone ordered the Holy Mages, "Stop using the Sea of Flames! It’s just a waste of a cooldown! Hit the enemy with God Devil Break, and remember that it has an area of effect of 50 yards! Lock onto the areas with the most enemies and kill them all!"
Bang bang bang…
A ton of starry vortices exploded among the Iron Cutter Cavalry. The mages with Heart of the Holy Mage already had insane Intelligence, and these particular mages were among the upper echelon of our main guild. Little Piglet hadn’t predicted this, so he lost over a thousand Iron Cutter Cavalrymen in just a few minutes’ time.
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"Fuck!"
Amber Pupil’s eyes turned bloodshot as he jabbed an angry finger at the mages, "Those mages have Heart of the Holy Mage! First and second party, follow me to cripple the enemy’s mage party with Ultimate Strength Break! There are only 2000 of them or so, so it’s not impossible!"
About 2000 Iron Cutter Cavalrymen immediately joined him and started charging toward our Holy Mages.
I narrowed my eyes before ordering, "Out of the way! We’re going to annihilate the Dark Mercenaries on the southeast side! Don’t worry, Moonlight Stone and the Holy Mages will be able to annihilate the 2000 cavalrymen themselves!"
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While the Iron Cutter Cavalry was charging toward the Holy Mages at high speed, Moonlight Stone was pursing her lips tensely and making some quick but accurate calculations in her head. She said, "We’ll do this according to our training program. First line, shields up!"
A row of several hundred Holy Mages rushed forward about a dozen or so meters and raised their scepters. Then, they began chanting mysterious words before firing their Fireballs, God Devil Breaks, Galaxy Storms and more at the incoming Iron Cutter Cavalrymen. However, both their hit rate and their damage were severely affected by Far Shot, so they weren’t able to do too much damage.
Amber Pupil began smirking. "Ready, charge!"
The second the hundreds of Iron Cutter Cavalrymen at the forefront used Charge, Moonlight Stone ordered with a smirk of her own, "First line, Blink to safety now! Second, third, fourth and fifth lines, lock onto the zone in front of the enemies and use God Devil Break!"
Swhoosh swhoosh swhoosh...
An astonishing scene happened. The first line of Holy Mages Blinked 40 yards to the back before the Iron Cutter Cavalry could hit them with their Charge. As mentioned a long time ago, users couldn’t move for a very short moment upon reaching the end of their Charge. As a result, these Iron Cutter Cavalrymen could only watch in fear and despair as the combined magic of over 1700 Holy Mages fell toward them from the sky!
Boom boom boom…
Bloodcurdling screams filled the sky. That was 400 Iron Cutter Cavalrymen gone just like that!
"What…"
Shocked and disbelieving, Amber Pupil muttered in despair, "This can’t be… this can’t be… G-go, second party! Charge as before and be ready to use your Ultimate Strength Break the moment you’re within range!"
However, the second attempt went down exactly the same as the first. Thanks to Moonlight Stone’s orders, the second line of our Holy Mages—it was because the first line hadn’t regained their Blink cooldowns yet—Blinked backward to dodge the enemy’s Charge while the other 4 lines unleashed their spells. It was a complete massacre. Our tactics completely triumphed over the enemies, and not a single Iron Cutter Cavalryman was able to breach through the death zone of God Devil Breaks!
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Little Piglet was stunned by what was going on as well. A second later, he uttered through gritted teeth, "Shit, Ancient Sword’s mage tactic is too OP! Amber Pupil, get the fuck back over here, you retard! You don’t waste my brothers and sisters like that!"
I had to stifle a laugh while I was cutting down the Iron Cutter Cavalrymen around me. The tactic the Holy Mages were using had been created by our beautiful guild leader, He Yi herself. Her skill might not be super-tier, but she was absolutely one of the smartest people in our guild. The greater her understanding of the game became, the more perfect the tactics she created were getting.
Rivers of blood ran across the grass. The 15k Iron Cutter Cavalrymen were able to deal a considerable amount of damage to the Dragonlight Cavalry, but it came at the cost of far more damage to themselves.
Finally, the number of friendly corpses on the ground exceeded Little Piglet’s limit. He attacked a nearby Dragonlight Cavalryman one last time before shouting, "Lu Chen, enough! Give the order to stop this battle already!"
I immediately raised my Chill of the Nine Provinces, "Handsomes and beauties, cease fire! Cease fire now!"
My words carried a lot of weight in the guild. One might say that my authority was almost as high as He Yi’s. My players stopped fighting immediately, and Little Piglet barked down the Dark Mercenaries who were looking to exploit this situation. 15k Iron Cutter Cavalrymen had rushed down the mountain, but less than 5000 of them would be making it back after less than 15 minutes of battle. Even the survivors only had around 50% HP. I had cast the Death of Xuanyuan Art twice during the battle, so one might say that all those who were affected had lost at least one life to me. After all, there was only so much War God Recovery and potions could do to mitigate a 100% HP removal.
Beiming Xue rode up to the front and called out to the retreating Dark Mercenaries with her bell-like voice, "Feel free to come again, lads!"
Amber Pupil shivered all over but didn’t shoot back a retort. The Iron Cutter Cavalry had suffered horribly under her Xuanming Bow, and no one was willing to provoke the seemingly cute and innocent little devil who massacred so many of their kind.
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"Report!" I said.
Tiger Leopard Knight walked up to me and said, "We lost 1417 Dragonlight Cavalrymen in total. The Dragonlight Archers and Holy Mages are unhurt…"
I nodded. "Not bad. It’s a 1:7 ratio even though we went head-to-head against Little Piglet’s trump card. Though, the Iron Cutter Cavalry’s offensive and defensive abilities are very impressive. They would have been able to give us a proper fight if they had bard buffs and priest heals."
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