Chapter 781 - 742: Annihilating the Demon Regular Legion
In this game, the way melee troops fight is very straightforward; slash means slash, stab means stab, without all sorts of bizarre Tornado Slashes or Chrysanthemum Stabs as melee skills. The mainframe can’t possibly support thousands of soldiers launching those chaotic melee skills simultaneously.
But now, Da Fei seems to see the legendary and extremely gorgeous Tornado Slash! It’s the unique visual effect formed by Elda and Roger Tal’s long weapons rapidly slashing with high attack speed. Large groups of wounded Flying Demons scream and perish under the whirlwind’s harvest, without even having a chance to counterattack or get close!
At this moment, Da Fei jumps up excitedly! It can work! With just those two, even though my squad has only 10-odd people, it’s no problem to slay a hundred times the number of wounded enemies! This is the power of the One-Winged Angel, this is the legendary Thousand-man Slaughter!
According to legend, One-Winged Angels, carrying the guilt of their sins, were punished by the gods and sent to the mortal world. They lost their ranks, and even the honor of fighting in the main battlefield. They walk with mortal bodies in the darkest corners of the world engaged in unspeakable work. They are executioners among angels, their cruelty often leads people to confuse them with Fallen Angels who descend into hell, so they have another alias — "Cruel Angel"!
The battle continues, the harvest persists, almost five minutes have passed, and the bodies of hundreds to nearly a thousand Flying Demons have piled into a massive meat mountain, yet there are still hundreds of remaining enemies and those not blasted by the Evil Formation! It must be said, Flying Army too clustered, making their accurate number difficult to estimate.
And Da Fei’s squad’s stamina is starting to turn red, especially Roger Tal, the more he exerts, the more it drains, even with 1200 points of Basic Physical Strength, even with the stamina skills of 4 Power Angels replenishing stamina, even with Divine Artifact Earth Dragon Boots’ 10-second 10% stamina recovery, they can’t sustain his whirlwind-like swings!
Indeed, attributes like attack speed and move speed are merely maximum values, just like running at max move speed for a long time consumes a lot of stamina, sustaining peak attack speed over time also consumes a lot of stamina!
In the end, Thousand-man Slaughter is impossible to realize; stamina is the most crucial factor limiting a troop’s enduring performance. This is true both in-game and in real ancient cold weapon warfare. The most common example is professional boxers getting exhausted in a two or three-minute match, let alone this fast-paced battle lasting five minutes!
It must be said, a harvest battle thought to be easily victorious ending up like this is truly awkward! But this is the price to be paid by fighting outnumbered.
We must rest. Da Fei immediately shouts to Elda and Roger Tal, "You two go back to the formation and rest! I’ll encircle you with our troops!"
Elda smugly smiles, "Let him rest first, then take over from me— if you all rest at once, how many seconds can your small squad hold out?"
Da Fei suddenly realizes! Indeed, I feel it’s fine when the enemy can’t fight back because of us, but if relying on us ten to stand our ground— hmph! I don’t believe a level 2 city wall-like defense can’t block these scattered soldiers.
Without further thought, Da Fei quickly withdraws Roger Tal into the crowd to meditate and rest, then without hesitation, takes out Reilly’s medical kit and pulls out the two bottles on the far right. These two bottles have been used in the match and hence registered and canceled by the match server; they can’t be used next time in a match. So just drink them now.
Damn, I’ve looked past it, why am I still hung up on the match until now? Ultimately, it’s because of the dissatisfaction in my heart. Perhaps, with just Roger Tal’s power alone, sweeping through a tactical position’s player melee army is enough? Provided— ah, let’s not talk about conditions anymore, it only dampens the mood!
With Roger Tal back to resting, half of Da Fei’s squad is exposed to the Flying Demons’ assault, the ordinary Power Angels lack long weapon advantages, though they can leverage the attack speed to first strike and instant-kill a swath of Flying Demons. However, the subsequent Flying Demons promptly follow up to strike, causing over 10 points of damage to the Angels.
Although individually the damage isn’t much, these waves of follow-up strikes add significant healing pressure on Da Fei!
Da Fei grits his teeth, "I need micro-operation!"
Indeed! While it’s impossible to operate hundreds or thousands of soldiers in pitch-black, can ten soldiers still stump me?
As time slowly passes, Da Fei focused entirely on withdrawing severely injured angels into the inner circle to rest, concentrating on directing angels to focus on healing. Da Fei feels time dragging on slowly, for the first time sensing the sheer number of hundreds of enemies, giving a never-ending anxiety of killing!
It was at this moment, Roger Tal rises tall, "I can’t wait, I want to kill with pleasure!"
Da Fei shouts urgently, "Miss Elda, quickly come back to rest!"
Elda smiles wearily, "No need, I can still hold up, let’s make one last push!"
Da Fei’s eyebrow twitches, isn’t this the best opportunity for heroism saving the day? Da Fei immediately leaps out of the formation, smiling arrogantly, "Let me hold them off, as the commander, I’m the best target for drawing hatred and attracting fire."
Elda says no more, forces herself to reaper a group wipe. What Da Fei said is true; the commander is always the primary target for enemies to prioritize in killing. Suddenly, a large number of Flying Demons swoop towards Da Fei!
Hmph! I’m merely baiting you, how can I be easily surrounded! Da Fei rushes swiftly around the troop, then, above his head, "-13!" "-16" "-14" damage values line up!
Brothers, endure! Every time I take a hit, my troops take one less hit. This is when I, as the commander, make an impact! When my Titan’s Spear is ready again, I’ll fight fiercely!
Finally, the battles that should be won will ultimately be won. The flashing blades ceased, and the last enemy fell. At this moment, Da Fei’s entire army was at full health and stamina, yet without a single loss! And the anticipated system prompt finally arrived:
——System Prompt: Battle over! You annihilated the Lava Blood Lake Guard Corps 5th regiment, you gained 2.64 million experience, you received 1,264 pieces of Demon Essence! You obtained the mission item "Hell Regular Army Order"!
——System Prompt: You have systematically destroyed a regiment-level Demon regular army unit, you achieved the "Legion Annihilator" achievement, your Command Power +100, Life +20, Attack +2, Defense +2, Magic Power +2, Knowledge +2.
——System Prompt: Congratulations! You achieved the "Victory of the 17th Battle," gaining a Command Power reward of +10
——System Prompt: Congratulations! You achieved the "Victory of the 11th Glorious Battle," gaining a Command Power reward of +20 and Personal Life +20.
——Hell Regular Army Order: The Legion Token for the 5th regiment of the Lava Blood Lake Guard Corps, with a history of 10,000 years, 473 wins and 164 losses. A proof of systematically annihilating enemy forces. Submitting the enemy’s Legion Order to the Kingdom or a relevant faction can earn merit and reputation rewards.
Da Fei was startled, eyebrows raised, Regular Army Legion Order! Damn, no wonder the fight was so hard, it turns out I was facing the legendary regular army! 1,264 pieces of essence! Meaning this regular army is all elite troops that are guaranteed to drop essence!?
My goodness, if it weren’t for Elda’s Divine Arts blasting their Life Limit to nothing, under normal circumstances my dozen or so people wouldn’t be enough even as toothpicks! And luckily, this regular army had no hero leading them! Otherwise, they wouldn’t have foolishly charged to their death.
The regular army was mentioned in the previous text, it’s the exclusive army of NPC forces, the legion number, like the achievements of the Sea Monster Hunter, can provide additional attributes to the regular army. The longer the army’s history and the more illustrious their battle record, the more attribute bonus from their numeral. (Note: Chapter 401 "Legendary Regular Army")
So players facing NPC regular army have three major disadvantages: 1, The powerful high-level heroes of the NPC forces, 2, The unique elite units of the NPC forces, 3, The high-level attribute bonus from the numeral.
Of course, there’s a fourth disadvantage: It’s almost impossible to gain experience and spoils of war without annihilating the regular army, especially against regular army led by heroes who can both fight and run. And the reason Da Fei could annihilate it is likely because this regular army was given the order to "hold to the death"!
Players can of course join regular armies, but once joined, they must accept the task instructions from NPC superiors, which equates to losing freedom.
Speaking of which, Jilrien also mentioned trying to help me join that so-called Elf Kingdom Special Forces "Nature Guardians," I wonder how the arrangement is going? If it’s troublesome, it doesn’t matter if I don’t join.
In any case, getting my hands on a merits-inviting Legion Order and over 1,200 pieces of essence when I most lack troops is truly a blessing in disguise. Who knows how many rewards handing in a Legion Order can get!? And more importantly, annihilating the Guard Corps, all the Fallen Angels will be rescued by me, my military strength will be unprecedentedly enhanced! Haha, mwahaha!
Uh, wait a minute!
There are just over 10 minutes left before the next round of the tournament, I don’t have time to go back and hand in the mission? Can I possibly not go rescue them and just return now? Otherwise, next time I come it might be a hero-led regular army.
Da Fei couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh, I’m still struggling with what to leave and not to leave. If I knew this, I shouldn’t have beaten that Korean!
Well, whatever happens, happens. Maybe Roger Tal can easily achieve a Thousand-man Slaughter by cutting players, who’s afraid of whom?
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At this moment, the Dragon Slayer Guild Command Center.
The countdown to the start of the next round has already begun. Although the Dragon Slayer Guild’s contestant Shadow Dragon is fully prepared to go all out, there is not much advantage against the Russian Zone’s Dwarf Ivan. The swift assault of the Dwarf Clan is the bane of the slow-burning Undead Race, and regardless of the terrain, the Undead will never have the advantage over the Dwarves, with a high chance of losing. And against Sweden’s Thor’s Hand, there’s even less chance. The whole world knows what the Swedish team is up to now.
Then, what if it’s against Da Fei? At this moment, Ma Yinglong looked at Da Fei’s grayed-out and unreachable name on the friend’s list, falling into deep contemplation.
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