Chapter 620 Upper Hand , Rudra's Test
Losing such a heavy portion of the blood merchant army , scar-face was naturally not happy at the developments and while the situation demanded that the forces retreat and regroup , he was not at all happy about it.
The war conch was blown and the out of shape blood merchant army steadily disengaged from battle and retreated back to their own camp , bringing a temporary stop to the fighting at day3.
The war pact that he and Rudra signed was only effective for 3 days and 2 nights which meant that even after the sun went down today there would be no system compulsion to disengage the fight , only a 10 minutes cooldown period to mark the expiry of the war contract.
This meant that from here on out the war would have no breaks and there would be no more chances for the troops to gain a breathing room.
Scar-face knew the implications of this full well , as from here on out one would enter the final phase of the fighting which would be an intense struggle to decide a winner.
From his experience in the war so-far , scar-face understood 2 things perfectly well!
1) Shakuni had to be taken out by hook or by crook as he was the backbone of the entire army.
2) No matter the loss , no matter the cost , even if the tier 2 legion had to die like cannon fodder , the next time the army went out , from every single side of the battlefield , there should be holes in the Purplehaze city walls on all four Battlefronts.
The wall fighting gave the Elite archers and machine operators cover to keep mounting damage without putting themselves in harms way and was the only reason why the blood merchant death count was so high.
Scar-face had no doubt in his mind that should the tier 4 generals go all out they should be able to punch a hole in the walls through their own special moves and that was all that mattered at the moment.
Although they did not have the same ridiculous amount of soldiers to be killed after the recent massacre that they suffered they still had more than enough to win this war.
The blood merchants had underestimated the elites , although Scar-Face was careful and he thought that he had probed the elites strength to the limits , he was wrong.
On day 2 there were not many unexpected cards revealed by the elites except the betrayal of dronacharya and even when the wall on the Western front fell , the formidable hand cannon's existance was not revealed. Rather on day 3 there was still such a massive surprise waiting for them.
Scar-face hence realised that he has underestimated the elites who still had such a trump card hidden . The enemy had truly hidden their strength quite deep.
It was a tactical blunder as the formation in which the blood merchant army was marching and the timing which the enemy chose to attack everything was perfectly designed to work against the merchants as they walked right into the trap shakuni set for them .
Scar-face now respected Rudra for the fine schemer that he was and gave him bonus points for stretching this war for so long . However this also made him the target with the highest bounty on his back , and now Scar-face was coming to claim it .
The dark shaman who also had personal interest in Rudra had now recovered sufficiently as to fight with his full power as he asked Scar-Face a simple question " I only have three giant barbarians left to summon , what do you wish to do ?".
Scar-face felt a pinch in his heart at this news , as the giants were the most effective weapon to topple the walls that the blood merchants had in their arsenal.
The giants were unstoppable inside the city as well , however with only 3 of them left to summon they could not cover all 4 Battlefronts.
Taking a deep breath he said " All the generals listen to me carefully. This time we roll out in the arrowhead formation , no matter the losses within the next 2 hours i want all of you to have infiltrated the wall from your respective sides. No matter the cost of troop death.
For the southern , western and eastern Battlefronts there will be one giant with each of you whereas me and the shaman will personally fight the battle at the nothern front and blast that gate right open for our troops to enter.
THIS IS IT!
NO RETREAT !
NO MERCY !
GLORY TO LUCIFER !!!!!! ".
" Glory to Lucifer! ". The generals shouted in unison.
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( A few moments later )
Rudra was making his own speech at the elites camp as he made it abundantly clear for the soldiers standing alongside him that this was their last chance to have a moments rest , as from the time that the blood merchant army came out again . This war would enter its final phase.
As far as Rudra was concerned , phase one was now complete and everything from here on out was a bonus as the intended effect of shrinking the enemy army size had already been achieved.
Now if the Elites could somehow manage to hold-onto the wall until nightfall , it could be said that the odds would complete tilt in their favour.
The elites enjoyed 1 hour of rest after which enemy movement was spotted as the blood merchant army reorganized themselves into a new attacking formation.
This time the army was spaced properly , making their density quite low and there were cavalry and tank units layered out with the attacking squadrons as they took a mysterious arrowhead shape in their marching approach.
Rudra instantly realised the genius of the marching formation as he commended scar-face to come up with such a creative solution to minimize loss of human life on his end , as the war restarted for the final time .
While on the nothern Battlefield there were no giants , the other three Battlefields instantly recognised their biggest targets and focused on the giant club swinging beasts that threatened to run amok in their territory.
Shockingly , all 24 generals of the blood merchant army were out fighting this time alongside their full tier 3 legion and the resulting force was an extremely formidable army that was impossible to resist.
Providing cover to the giant , four generals and 5000 tier 3 captains cleared the path for the giant to simply walk unopposed as without taking too much damage , as within 30 minutes of the war restarting the giants had reached the 1 km line and were progressing towards the wall steadily.
While a brutal battle ensued between the foot soldiers and the arrowhead legion , the crafty formation in which scar-face arranged them made the battle pretty evenly matched , as the casualties to incoming arrows was minimized.
The cavalry were the damage dealers that had mobility , the infantry were the cannon fodders that took the pitfall when needed and the tanks were the protectors that ensured that the more valuable troops like archers and wizards did not fall prey to useless stray shots.
Karna , Neatwit and even Jhonny faced the same problems of helplessness as within one hour after the war restarted , all three Battlefields of South , west and east were breached by the blood merchants as the fighting spilled into the city.
Naturally for the elites the priority was to take down the giants and unlike last time when they allowed the giants to run amok within the city , the elites were better prepared for such an event to occur this time and took care of it early on.
Building harpoon like devices attached with ropes , the moment the giants entered the city , thousands of Elite soldiers shot their bodies with harpoons and pulled the giant down with all their strengths to eventually topple them down before bombarding their fallen back with bombs and handheld pulse cannon shots for the kill.
However although the giants were killed , the fighting did spill inside Purplehaze city and losses started to mount quickly on both ends.
Rudra had only given one command to the elders before the war and that was to minimize NPC deaths until day 3 was over and hence every high risk role was assigned to the players who had the highest death toll amongst everyone.
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( Meanwhile on the nothern battlefield )
Rudra watched three flairs being shot up in quick succession not one hour after the war restarted as he felt worried as to why all 3 Battlefronts saw their walls fall in such a quick succession .
However before he could worry about the why? , Two distinguished gentlemen slaughtered an army of tier 3 elites like cutting paper as they made their way towards Rudra's location.
Out of the two , Rudra naturally recognised scar-face as he had already seen him multiple times in his past life as well as while signing the war contract , however the person with the human skeleton head necklace and black furcoat was someone he had never seen in his life.
Rudra activated the eyes of truth and understood the potential of both of these men .
Scar-face stood at the pinnacle of tier 4 at level 477 , while the other man was at level 469.
Undoubtedly extremely influential figures in-game and unmistakably hostile towards him.
Naturally Rudra did not back-off seeing the two as he activated his aura skill and crossed his swords as to taunt the duo into attacking.
However while everyone else in the world may see the black smoke around Rudra as a visual aura skill. The dark shaman felt the aura of death coming from Rudra strongly.
The shaman's lips hence curved in a Malicious smile as he said " servant of Hades , Alas we meet! ".
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