Chapter 921 - The Bloody Battle (Part 1) (1/2)

Towards the Orcs’ immense attack, the humans were somewhat disadvantaged.

Although they had advantages in many areas such as in the training and equipment of their troops, the Orcs had their gods as well as their crazy, immense morale that was being sustained. Nearly every Orc had at least one or two auxiliary spells on them thanks to the Orc gods, and this immediately mitigated all the original advantages that the humans had.

Since both sides were somewhat even now, the deciding factor for the outcome of this battle would be battle spirit and the command of the higher-ups.

As for tricks, well, on a battlefield where numerous people were being killed, there wasn’t much space or time for that.

After all, there was a saying that said, “only bravery wins in war.” Tricks and sly calculations would only work on paper or in theory.

For example, in this current war, there was no way to win unless everyone put in their all and fought with all their strength and courage. There was no time for either side to think up strange tricks anyway, and all the humans and Orcs could do was to fight with brute strength.

“Hold down the fort! I repeat, hold down the fort!”

“They are our ancient enemies; we must kill those stupid Orcs today! I can’t wait to slice all their heads off!’

“Men of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs aren’t afraid of war, let’s go!”

“Use every tool you have! We won’t need them after this war anyway!”

Amidst the shouts of the humans, many were also yelling “priest!” or “pontifex!” at the top of their lungs.

All along, the patron saints were the most important supporting pillars of the combat spellcasting system. This system differed from spell systems that required one to use their own magic. The spellcasting system only required the approval of the supporting gods to execute infinite amounts of spells. Even if the number of spells exceeded the safe amount that one could execute, they could continue to cast them. As to whether this would harm oneself, well, did it matter if they lost the battle in the end? Casting more spells to harm more enemies was more important at this very moment.

Furthermore, within the spellcasting system, there were many areas of auxiliary spells. On the battlefield, this sort of large scale auxiliary spells was way more powerful as compared to normal killing spells.

Spells were not invincible. A killing skill could be utilized, but it could be stopped midair by archers. This was especially since in this big battle of the humans and Orcs, unless one did not care for one’s own safety and directly used large-scale spells such as earthquake spells to create chaos, if not, divine spells such as “Chaotic Magic Flame,” “Great Collapse” and “Meteorite” did not really stand a chance of hitting the enemy’s frontier.

This was why balancing between gain and dispersal of spells was the biggest issue that the spellcasters had to settle in this war. In such a case, divinity was more important and advantageous as compared to spells.

This was why in big battles like these, divinity spellcasters were extremely active. This was how it was on the Orcs’ side where the pontifexes, shamans and priests, who were the divinity spellcasters, were praying fervently, using their channels of communication between the gods and the people to bring down infinite amounts of Divine Power and convert it into large-scale auxiliary spells. This would allow all the bodies of the Orc troops rushing forward to be bathed in color, and this was akin to holographic armor.

However, it was different for the humans. The spellcasters of the spell system were trying their best to defend against the spells of the Orcs. However, the divinity spellcasters were extremely bewildered and lost. They had of course tried praying in hopes of getting Divine Power to convert to spells as well. However, their channels of communication with the human gods had suddenly become unclear and murky. Although they could sense the vague existence of the gods, they were unable to receive any Divine Power.

This made the human divinity spellcasters extremely panicked and lost. In their confusion, they could only continue to pray hard. This was not because they thought that mere praying would help to change this strange situation. It was more that apart from praying, they were at a loss as to what else to do.

This was the nature of divinity spellcasters: once they lost connections with the gods, they would be reduced and lose the power to cast any spells.

Watching this, the Legendary Masters of the humans could no longer sit back and relax.