776 Final Battle Part 1 (2/2)
The theory behind this spell was copied from Roland's Dawn Holy Light sword. He felt that only him being able to use it would have too many limitations, so he repeatedly modified the spell formula until this lower-level version of Dawn's light was born.
But due to the lack of the highest-quality resources and Myth-ranked weapons, and because ordinary priests wouldn't possibly have as much affinity for Holy Light as Roland, this so-called Saint-rank level spell actually had Level 4 difficulty along with requiring a tremendous upkeep.
Despite this, once the Southern Sect proved with experiments that this Divine Art was incredibly effective against undead and Chaos Abyss residents, the Southern Sect unhesitatingly began to practice this spell for standardized use.
It was required that the priests learn this high-level spell in just a short few weeks. Even with Roland's total support in providing spell formula information, this was still incredibly difficult. The Southern Sect had utilized its full power and resources in order to activate 15 ”suns” here today. In fact, even the Southern Sect's pope was personally here leading things on the eastern battlefront.
That was right, the Southern Sect was out here in full force, with more than 70% of its main forces and Holy Light job classes.
Meanwhile in the sky, scorching hot dragonbreath, blueish-white icy dragonbreath, corrosive green smoke dragonbreath, and so on kept streaking through the sky. The armored dragons charged at the forefront. The infamous evil color dragons were actually fighting for the sake of the humans here.
The undead army's numbers were obviously diminished after suffering losses in multiple battles. While low-level forces could easily be reobtained, bone dragons were permanently limited in number. Shupnus had no way at all of replenishing bone dragons, since he was unable to return to the Death Planes.
Dawn's light kept shining as the weakened bone dragons found themselves locked in combat with powerful dragon knights. These bone dragons were instantly defeated before they could even react. This time, the dragon knights had also received advice on the primary weak spots on a bone dragon's body from the ancient bone dragon Gricasio, which helped to make the dragon knights' attacks even more effective.
”Bone dragons have two primary weak spots. The first is the spine as hundreds of bones are connected there, making the spine bone an exquisite yet fragile bone. A simple blow will cause the skeleton to come apart. The other weak spot is the wing bone…
”The weak spot of a gargoyle? Those are mostly created from corrupted statues, and they're just rocks, so they don't have any obvious weaknesses. But since they are made from stone, they're half earth elemental and half undead creatures, so they're really afraid of wind element attacks which are strong against earth, along with petrification magic that can make them lose their undead property. Petrification can turn them into real statues again, equaling an instant KO.”
The Northlands' undead advisors unhesitatingly revealed all sorts of undead troops' weaknesses. The human command center even contacted Dragon City in Bardi to deal with the undead aerial forces which were the greatest threat. This color dragon Dragon City managed to send five Copper and Bronze Dragons that possessed strong petrification magic.
The current battle proved that these pre-combat preparations were highly successful. The Copper Dragons were tremendously effective at eliminating gargoyles.
The few bone dragons present were having an even more pitiful time. The new devil commander didn't value the undead's most precious high-level troop at all. The bone dragons received a forced command to ”eliminate the human mages no matter the price”, meaning that they could only attack and not retreat. These bone dragons were instantly surrounded by a much larger number of dragons, and were instantly eradicated.
The bone dragons kept falling apart, turning into dust in death before even landing on the ground. The flying bone dragons and gargoyles were defeated so swiftly that they couldn't even act as cannon fodder. The devils following right after them weren't even able to use them as a shield, and thus directly faced the dragons' attacks.
And after stopping the enemy's aerial forces, Bardi's royal dragon knights and Auland's White Wolves simultaneously showed themselves under Dawn's illumination.
They directly charged into the devils' formation. These brave warriors wanted fresh blood on their metal weapons to wash away the humiliation from the previous days.
Strategically speaking, the eastern battlefront was only supposed to occupy the enemy's attention, but the moment that the devils showed any weakness, the humans would instead change plans to an all-out assault.
Currently, I should have been on the sidelines of the battlefield and observing, but I was astonished by some news that I suddenly received.
”Leona has gone missing? Karwenz isn't even letting go of his own woman and child?”