Chapter 648 - Fiery Bird (1/2)
Ryan fled very quickly.
The wings on his back weren’t for him to fly but to accelerate.
They had a special feature that could let him move faster when they were flapped. He had always charged with the acceleration of his wings to approach the enemy.
It was the first time he used them for fleeing.
His body that weighed several tons destroyed everything in his way like a tank. He was frightened. He had never felt the fear of death so vividly in his life.
Having no time to bother with the dense ice blades on his body or his bleeding wounds, he simply ran to the rear after he escaped from the tornado. As a result, the ten thousand bone devils under his command fled too.
In the eye of the tornado, Roland saw that he had half of his mana left and then localized the nearest enemies, before he “walked” to them.
At this moment, things weren’t looking very good for the army of devils.
They had gotten a tough nut to crack.
The players, on the other hand, also realized that the devil troops weren’t as strong as expected. They were strong individually, but their battle formations were a mess!
They were simply divided into three layers: the front line, the middle army, and the ranged troops in the rear. Their only tactic was to charge forward brainlessly.
The fire devil swung his giant axe heavily again.
An ordinary human Shield Warrior would’ve been pushed into the soil by his force.
However, the iron wall made of the connected shields absorbed some of the attack and bounced the rest back.
Even he couldn’t break such a linked defense, not to mention the other devils.
That was exactly the power of teamwork.
It was also the technique that the players were most familiar with.
On the left flank, the devil troops were stalled by a storm of summoned creatures, who distracted the attention of more than ten thousand soldiers.
It was impossible for them not to be distracted.
Those girls were really strong.
A hundred of them summoned more than ten thousand beasts, including the flying ones and those on the ground.
The summoned beasts were divided into three waves and attacked the enemy in different groups. A thousand summoned beasts were killed in each attack, but they could kill two to three hundred devils.
The lost summoned beasts would be re-summoned very quickly.
Also, while the summoned beasts seemed closely connected, they had been divided into squares of three hundred members.
They would disperse if they were under the attack of a large AOE spell. After all, the Summoners had always considered Roland their potential enemy, and what was best about Roland?
His unbelievable AOE damage and mobility. As for his Elemental Embodiment, which terrified the other classes, it was not a big deal to them.
The Elven Summoners were never scared of anyone in terms of “duration.”
Therefore, they secretly practiced and created a formation that would alleviate AOE damages. It turned out to be useful in this war before they could use it against Roland.
It was quite effective… Only a tiny number of the summoned beasts were hit by the devils’ magic dust attacks.
But Solisa was still not satisfied.
It was effective, but not as effective as expected. Roland’s blue fireball had an effective radius of destruction of more than a hundred meters, not counting the damage of the resulting heat waves.
Those devils, in comparison, only had an effective range of no more than twenty meters. They were far too weak.
Solisa commanded her guild members to distract and lure the devils on the left flank, slowly reducing the number of enemy soldiers.
It wasn’t exactly slow… About a hundred devils were killed by them every two minutes.
However, compared to Roland’s efficiency, it was truly a little bit slow.
Fatter Cat on the right flank also engaged the devils with members of other guilds.
They also put the Shield Warriors in the front to block the enemies while the archers and spellcasters behind them attacked.
Just like that, the hundred thousand devils were unable to press on.
Lawrence chopped his axe heavily into the shields again, but he still failed to break the defense of the human Warriors.
Enraged, he stepped back and took a deep breath. He then blew at the shields.
Black and red flames squirted out of his mouth and enshrouded the three Shield Warriors before him.
The devils nearby were so scared that they quickly moved away from the flames.
After spewing out the fire, Lawrence smiled.
The flames from the fire devil were hot and sticky. If a human being was set ablaze, they would be writhing on the ground and screaming miserably until they were burnt to death two minutes later.
However, the three human Shield Warriors didn’t move at all even though furious flames were burning all over their bodies.
They didn’t retreat or cry out in fear.
They were as quiet as if the flames didn’t exist!
Lawrence felt that something was wrong. Seriously wrong.
Demons could ignore their pain too, as long as they went berserk.
But what was wrong with those human beings? If they had gone berserk, why were they still where they were without losing their rationality?
At this moment, support spells, including Dispersion, Minor Healing, Middle Healing, Enlivening, etc., were cast on them from behind.
Very soon, the flames were put out.
Their heavy armor and their faces were blackened. Their eyebrows and hair had burned away… It was not until this moment that Lawrence realized that their eyes were closed just now.
Now that the flames were extinguished, they suddenly opened their eyes.
After the simple movement, the burned skin at the corner of their eyes revealed a few cracks. New flesh was growing under their pink skin.
Their eyes were extremely bright.
They looked at Lawrence, anger and disdain in their eyes as if they were saying, “Is this your best?”
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Because of the healing spells from behind, the three of them seemed blackened but were actually fine.
New skin was already growing quickly under the damaged areas. The excruciating pain had been reduced to one-tenth and was no different from mosquito bites to the Warriors who had been slashed at all the time.
It was uncomfortable, but bearable.
Such an attitude really got to Lawrence.
He finally realized why Ryan kept saying that something was wrong with these people before the battle.
Something was indeed wrong.
He stepped back and looked around.
He realized that, not only was he incapable of breaking in, but his soldiers were being killed by remote attacks, including those on the left and right flanks.
The tornado back there was drawing close too.
Suddenly, he realized he had been surrounded by the humans.
He was surrounded by twenty thousand people?
The moment that idea popped up, he realized that he had to run.
Having no time to give out commands, he turned around and fled like Ryan had.
The devils were truly brave, but only when they were winning.
Actually, the devils had never fought a losing battle in the human world.
For them, war only had two results: great victory and great failure. There was nothing in the middle.
Indeed, the devils had long realized that something wasn’t right.
The fall of the Mage legion and Ryan’s escape had disturbed them.
However, the devils adored and followed those who were strong. They would persist as long as their boss was still here.