Chapter 609 The lack of quality
The Elites fought against the enemy horde for 2 more hours and managed to get a complete route of the enemy forces !
With still nearly 100 minutes left till sunrise, it seemed like they would be able to catch just a little bit of rest before hopping on for a long days battle at sunrise.
The very thought of having to fight an intense battle the very next day , got the elites a bit disheartened as the constant high intensity fighting had left them a little drained.
Rudra's strategy made it so that the sacrifices on the player side of things was high , whereas he did not introduce the help from the church and the Hazelgroove Empire in the battle on day one.
The reason behind it was simple . The players were replaceable should the fight go past day 3 , but the NPC were not.
Hence for the NPC help , Rudra wanted to use them cautiously and with the maximum chances of survival as the chances of the elites coming out on top greatly depended on how many forces they had to spare once the wall crumbled.
The enemy still had a beyond massive army at their disposal of high quality troops and day 2 was by no means going to be as simple as day 1 , with the elites having to use their big cards early on.
Rudra had a strong feeling that day 2 would see the tier 4 forces and the strong tier 3 forces of the enemy taking command of the attack and holding off would be much more difficult .
From a tactical analysis the best formation to breach the wall was the double V or the W formation , with their being one massive centre prong with two supporting side prongs attacking the wall.
With such a formation and good anti arrow armour , the enemy could minimize damage from arrow attacks and truly cause tangible damage to the wall.
While other alternatives included the bow formation and the Trident formation.
Rudra could also predict that the enemy would focus more on one side of the four Battlefronts as the goal was to gain entry into Purplehaze city and spreading the forces thin would make no sense.
Taking all these thoughts into consideration Rudra knew that day2 was the day that would decide wether the elites had a sliver of a chance to win this war or not. As once the sun came up it would be judgement day.
Being outnumbered 2:1 in tier 4 force capacity and 3:1 in tier 3 force quality the elites faced an extremely uphill battle the coming day and everything was now upto the individual elders on each Battlefronts to secure the safety of the wall from their end.
However , hoping for the best Rudra decided to also prepare for the worst as he relayed explicit orders to Medivh on how to handle the situation if the wall was breached from any side.
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( The next day - War Day 2 )
As the sun rose , the horns of war were blown from both camps as the fighting could officially begin.
Although the war horns were only blown much later , the forces had already assembled 30 minutes prior to sunrise and started to get into formation.
For the elites this meant that their rest time was cut down even further , but there was nothing they could do about it.
If nothing else they could only thank their stars to have enough time to be buffed by priests , restore stamina and HP and get a little time to straighten their psychological state.
As the second day started , Massive Clay Golems started to roll out of the purplehaze city walls , as soon 240 golems , each atleast 80 feet in size rolled out on every single battlefront.
Some were larger , some were smaller , some had a mud color while some were purple , however the overall build of all the golems was about the same and the HP of these creatures was insanely high.
Right from the start of the new day , the elites brought out new tricks , as high dps players like the assaulters and mages accompanied the golemns onto the battlefield.
Unlike day one , Rudra now had 500,000 troops on the ground on every Battlefront for a total of 2 million soldiers on the battlefield for day 2.
That alongside the clay golems , the elites were ready to start their mission of thinning down enemy numbers while holding their ground for a second day.
The appearance of the clay golems did surprise Scar-face who had to change his initial plan of attack last moment due to the unknown variable that just appeared as he had to be patient and send a probing party of tier 2 soldiers first to understand the new card played by the enemy.
However while Scar-Face did not know what the golems were , Dronacharya knew perfectly well as to what they were.
Having vivid memory from his past life about the clay golems that were the signature of the guild that did the ancient ruins exploration dronacharya knew that this was an item that could have only been obtained from the ruins .
His mind went into a dissaray at this information as the obvious facts pointed out towards only one logical conclusion which was that the elites had already explored the ancient ruins.
However he was not ready to accept this reality , as if it were true then the elites would not only have unseen resources to be used in this war , but that would also defeat the entire purpose of him waging this war.
" No... No .... This is i-impossible , this can't be happening ... I refuse to beleive it ! ". Dronacharya acted like a man posessed as his mental state crumbled.
He finally realized the secret of the strength behind the elites!
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[ War Recap Counter ]
Blood merchant deaths in this chapter : 0
Elites death in this chapter : 0
Total force strength left alive
Merchants : 25.9/ 30 million
Elites : 9.18 / 9.2 million
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