Chapter 323 – Heavy Cavalry (1/2)

The Rainrevelers cavalry had about 2000 people. Considering how these 2000 players had varied ability, in this kind of large-scale battle, sending them out to confront the enemy army head-on was basically sending them on a one-way trip.

Fortunately, before their annihilation, they cooperated with a portion of mages who also came out and successfully destroyed all of the siege equipment.

In big battles like this, mages always dealt the most damage. However, they were also the weakest, with low defense and slow escape speed. If the mages were to go destroy the opponent’s siege equipment alone, the enemies would have dashed over and finished them before they could get the targets into their attack range. That was why Rainrevelers had their cavalry and mages cooperate.

Qi Luoyu’s heart ached to watch the cavalry that her guild poured in resources and effort to raise all lose a level, but felt lucky at the destruction of the siege weapons, which alleviated the pressure on her side.

Seeing the front wall of the base already crumbled along with the towers, Chalete slightly waved his arm. The drums sounded more urgent as the undead army started to advance more quickly.

The first to attack the players were the undead archers who released their arrows in an arc. The rain of arrows was so dense to the point that it blotted out the sky.

“Shields up!”

The very front rows of players all raised their shields high. Clinks and clanks resounded as the arrows struck large steel shields. Aside from the knights at the front, others who could use shields all held up their shields above their heads.

Several hundred players died in this round of attacks. Many were pierced into hedgehogs while some were smashed dead by the rubble from buildings that were damaged by the arrows.

“Counter! Archers, fire!”

Following Qi Luoyu’s command, the archers quickly assembled into formation and fired arrows in retaliation.

During the advance of the undead army, the mages and archers of both sides exchanged rounds of attacks and suffered casualties, with the players being the suppressed side with very heavy losses.

“Tsk, this is a base siege? It’s simply a grand legion war, alright?” At the sight of the properly aligned teams on both sides, Fatty didn’t know what else to say.

The Rainrevelers kept dying and returning. Some had died twice, or even three or four times, but their fighting spirit was still boiling as they did their utmost to defend the base.

Don!

The drumbeat suddenly changed. The undead army neatly parted to two sides, making way for a troop of cavalry in heavy armor.

Heavy cavalry!

The players held their breath at this sight. Heavy cavalry had always been an effective weapon on the battlefield. Unless there were a mage legion or another heavy cavalry troop to counter them, hardly anything could stand in the way of heavy cavalry.

This 'heavy cavalry' didn’t refer to the 4th class enhancement of Knight, but the specialized cavalry of the armed forces which cost enormous resources to train. Each heavy cavalry regiment demanded several times the resources as compared to a normal cavalry team.

The undead heavy cavalry had their heads fully covered under helmets that only revealed two eyes, thick and solid full-body armor, and mounts that were also wrapped in a heavy layer of defense. Aside from the small gaps at the joints, their defense was thorough. An average attack barely sapped a bit of their health.

About 2000 heavy cavalry marched to the drumbeats in a precisely uniform fashion. This dense dark mass imposed a great sense of pressure on whoever looked at it.

“Mages, attack!”

Following Qian Xiaoqian’s lead, a team of mages issued all kinds of magic that flew towards the heavy cavalry.

The heavy cavalry suddenly emitted a canopy of black. All of the magic that came into contact with this black glow instantly vanished without a trace.

“Forbidden magic!” a player exclaimed in shock.

Forbidden magic was a special kind of magic that could write off the majority of magic attacks, hence its rarity and difficulty to obtain. It was not on any class skill list and few people were able to chance upon a forbidden magic scroll. But seeing that many undead cavalry cast it at once meant that it was obviously not a scroll’s work.

All magics were now rendered useless as all 2000 heavy cavalry were capable of forbidden magic. The faces of the Rainrevelers players all sank.

“Forbidden magic, forbidden magic!!” Qi Luoyu’s expression was ugly as she repeated those words between gritted her teeth

“Earth mages, Mire Trap, go!”

Qian Xiaoqian remained composed and continued to command the mages.