Chapter 444 High-spirited
At the front of the temporary position, nearly a hundred heavily armored warriors were fighting fiercely with a large number of mutants. Their weapons, armors and fighting styles were all completely different, and their previous cooperation was not a tacit understanding. , this team that has everything from players to NPCs, from rookie adventurers to professional mercenaries has only one feature, and that is that it is tough enough.
It is literally the tough one
These warriors wielding heavy weapons and wearing heavy armor will not die even if they stand still and let the mutants bite them for a while. Falling off, these down-to-earth iron cans are obviously harder than those iron cans that have to consider the feeling of the mount after getting up.
Including the big-eared mosquito who was responsible for delivering the order, all the members of the heavy-duty interceptor group were stuck in front of the position, attacking the swarming mutants. This process has been okay so far. It went well, because until the moment when the Holy Knights rushed into the position two minutes ago, the people who were carefully concealed and chose relatively safe positions had not officially fought against the mutants, because even those monsters that were left behind by the large army, most of them They are all rushing towards the main force
However, when the Paladins charged all the way from the third enemy area to the mountain pass, the situation was completely different.
A group of living creatures with good health and surging life force can obviously have a great impact on the mutants. Compared with the three battle sequences on the front line that are almost exhausted, they are in the best condition and have a smaller number of people. The relatively small group of Paladins was naturally more attractive. Even if they directly killed nearly a thousand mutants with just one charge, they could not stop their 'enthusiasm' and 'pursuit'.
So a large group of mutants were directly brought back to the mountain pass by the knights from the center of the battle.
The mission of the Heavy Interceptor Group is to recover and buy time for the Paladins who have just completed a charge to regroup. This is why its members are priests and priests in addition to heavy warriors.
“Pay attention to self-protection and interception! Our task is not to annihilate the enemy, but to prevent a monster from breaking through the defense line.”
Priest Furman, who was supposed to stay at the back with other clergy, squeezed in at some point, roaring loudly while waving his mace in the air and striking hard, constantly knocking away the mutants rushing at the front. He said in a loud voice: "Don't waste your energy. Think about why Pastor Hei Fan asked everyone to reduce consumption as much as possible. We will stay here for a long time!"
As a chief priest who should not be good at hand-to-hand combat in theory! , this middle-aged orc with a very fit figure is simply too fierce. The sleeves of his wide priest robe are rolled up to his shoulders, revealing two strong and strong arms that have been single for many years. They are usually used to perform magical arts. The magic hammer hit each and every one of their heads hard, and the blow was extremely painful.
“Thank you, brother.”
The high-level paladin Gelbin appeared beside Furman at some point and smiled at him: “I told you before , the path of a knight is far more suitable for you than the path of a priest."
Furman wiped away the brain splatter on his collar, took a small step back and stood behind Gelbin, shrugged and said: "I'm just a bastard with no ambitions. Instead of training, patrolling, and fighting every day, I prefer to worship idols, eat, and wait to die. Your way of chivalry cannot attract me."
Gelbin raised his hand and waved a nearly five-meter-wide sword light, directly cutting more than twenty mutants into more than forty pieces. He shook his head and said: "Let everyone retreat a little. I will try my best to leave this time." I’ll help you kill them more.”
“No problem.”
Fullman laughed and warned the dwarf paladin in front of him while organizing everyone to move back. But you just launched the joint purification, so you should try to take it easy and don't be too tough."
"I know it in my heart. It's you who really need to take it easy, Fuhrman, please try your best to make these good guys as good as possible. Girls, let’s survive a few more.”
Game time PM15:25
After a brief reorganization and recovery, the Paladins launched a second round of charge at the temporary position at the mountain pass. They passed through the passage vacated by the heavy interceptor group and returned to the third enemy area where the main force was located. After passing by, Gelbin single-handedly killed more than two hundred mutants before leading the team away, greatly reducing the consumption of the remaining warriors. In the first round of charge, he led the knights to charge within five breaths. The large number of monsters gathered at the front of the battle line were dispersed, which relieved a great burden on the heavily armored warriors who stayed here and continued to hold on.
But even so, the heavily armored interceptor group that had attracted the attention of the mutants still felt tremendous pressure after the knights left, and the tremendous pressure was expected.
Although the number of enemies has been reduced again and again, most of them are gathered in the middle of the mountain road where the large army is located. However, despite this, there are only two hundred people, including nearly half of the clergy's heavy equipment. The interception regiment is still not much relaxed. They do not have Hei Fan who is always at the forefront for immediate command, they do not have a variety of professional cooperation, there is no room for further retreat, and there is no reserve team to rotate with them.
To make matters worse, according to the original plan, the nearly a hundred clergy at the rear could not fully treat and recover them, because the Knights, as the core combat force, would still be there after the third charge. Back here, the latter's condition should theoretically not be much better at that time, so the priests, priests and other healing professions in the team must have at least 40% spare capacity.
This is the reason why Mo Tan strictly prohibited them from speeding up without authorization. You must know that this team is originally boundless water, and if it fails, it will easily lead to the end of the entire army being annihilated.
But there is no way. From an overall perspective, the Holy Knights are one of the most powerful core combat forces of the United Forces and most likely to achieve a large number of results. Motan must maintain their combat effectiveness as much as possible and maximize their effectiveness. To bring out its value, simply put, it means to let them charge for a few more rounds.
And since they have to charge repeatedly, in addition to the three enemy contact areas, there must be a position that can allow the knights to get rid of interference, restore their physical strength, reorganize the team, and have enough space to accelerate.
This is the position of the Heavy Interceptor Regiment.
So, facing the mutants who are no longer dense but still a considerable number, they must hold on and hold on until the last moment, until the third stage of the Requiem ends or the entire army is annihilated. In addition, There is no third way.
Everyone present knew this, but they came anyway.
If the number of people had not been limited to reduce the possibility of unnecessary complications, there might have been even more applicants.
This is not because truth, kindness and beauty, selflessness and dedication, responsibility and courage, sacrifice and belief are the norm in this world. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The vast majority of people cannot achieve this level, and it is precisely because of this , those dazzling figures will become even more dazzling at critical moments.
To give a not-so-appropriate example, if we only read the reports, we might think that airplanes are too dangerous a means of transportation. Almost every once in a while, one or two accidents occur. But in fact, the accident rate of airplanes is much lower than that of trains and cars. Of course, I have to say that the accident mortality rate of this thing is also too high.
And it is precisely because the probability of airplane accidents is small , so it will be highlighted when something goes wrong. If this thing is like a car, dozens or hundreds of accidents can happen every day
Well, then no one would dare to ride on it.
All in all, those people with lofty ideals who are highlighted are actually very rare, so rare that they are almost as rare as airplane accidents, so they are highlighted in a particularly dazzling way, not because of their large number or large proportion. Think about it, the total number of survivors in the entire Misha County is hundreds of thousands, and the combined force only has a total of just over 2,000 people. This ratio of numbers is actually very revealing.
Heroes are unlikely to become mainstream at any time.
So those talents deserve our respect, recitation, and portrayal.
Game time PM15:39
Big-eared Mosquito, who had just retreated and rested for less than two minutes, rushed forward again. Although his physical energy value was less than 30% and the effect of the life potion was beginning to decrease, he still walked forward with weak hands and feet. After entering the position, two NPC warriors were replaced. They were a young adventurer couple, or a pair of young adventurers who just became a couple some time ago. They were originally in two completely different adventurer teams. He served as the main soldier, but ended up getting mixed up in the joint force by accident. With their extraordinary skills, they were both selected into this heavy-duty interception group, and fought bloody battles with those mutants who could not be killed no matter how hard they tried. Now.
The reason why Big-eared Mosquito rushed to replace the two of them was not because his physical condition was much better, but because he felt that compared to NPCs, the cost of becoming a 'hero' for a player like him was relatively low. It's relatively cheap, so it's better to be proactive when there is a possibility of 'sacrifice' at any time.
After all, my sense of pain has been weakened to some extent. Even if I was pulled out and chewed, the pain would not be there. At worst, I would have accidentally offended the neighbor's big wolf dog.
And no matter how severe the death penalty in the game Innocence is, it seems to be a good deal if you can exchange the results of two months for someone else's life of twenty or thirty years.
【Wait a minute, aren't they NPCs? Aren't they data? Why would I think of such a thing as ‘twenty or thirty years of life’! 】
After knocking several mutants back with the big sword in his hand, Big-eared Mosquito suddenly thought of this problem.
"If you think like this, you seem to be at a loss again!"
He muttered in a low voice, but still used an [Intercept] to rush to the lizard man guy not far away, and used His shoulder armor, which was about to be smashed, blocked the opponent's claws, and he removed the mutant's arm with a backhand sword. He spat bloody spit on the ground: "Forget it, but please have a clear conscience." Let's do it."
Big-eared Mosquito, who calls himself an 'active little gangster', twitched his lips and felt that now was the most high-spirited time in his life, for the time being.
Game time PM15:42
The first casualty of the Combined Forces Heavy Interceptor Regiment appeared. An orc warrior with two large wounds in his abdomen quietly stopped breathing at the front of the position. He did not reveal his fatal injuries until the end, in order to let those behind him The clergy, whose eyes were about to burst but had to make careful calculations to save more magic power for everyone's treatment.
Game time PM15:47
In the next five minutes, the number of victims of the heavy interception group quickly exceeded double digits. Under the wave after wave of mutant attacks, Seven players and four NPC warriors fell on the front line one after another. If the great priest of the Abundance Sect had not used two large-scale healing spells to relieve some of the pressure in time, this number might have doubled again.
At the same time, the Paladins who were charging in the third wave also suffered victims.
A war horse wailed and fell heavily to the ground. One of its hind legs fell to the ground in half a minute. I was bitten hard by a mutant before and lost a large piece of flesh and blood, although this one The well-trained mount still ran desperately for thirty seconds under such circumstances. Several paladins from the Dawn and Plenty Cult nearby also used some emergency magic to help stabilize the injury, but in the end, its speed was still unstoppable. He slowed down to avoid it, and was eventually dragged down by seven or eight monsters, tearing and scratching him.
"May the gods bless you!"
The knight roared loudly the moment he fell to the ground, then stood up in embarrassment, half-kneeling on his horse, which had more air coming out and less air entering. Next to his partner, while gently stroking its mane, he threw the nearly three-meter-long lance in his hand to the ground, pulled out the cross sword from behind, and looked calmly at the dozens of surrounding animals. Mutants coming over: "Come on."
This is the middle area between the enemy area and the mountain pass. There is a certain distance from both sides. There are nearly a thousand mutants distributed unevenly. This person It was impossible for the straggler knight to reach a safe position alive, so the moment he fell to the ground, he was already prepared to die in battle.
It is impossible for the comrades to stop charging. Every well-trained knight will not be so emotional and will never save a straggler in such a way that will inevitably cause a large number of casualties.
He knew this very well, so the sentence "May the gods bless you" just now was not so much a reminder to his comrades to continue charging and not stop, but a sentence of comfort to everyone. The comfort of identity to the living.
And then, as Gelbin said before, the curtain call ended in a way that a knight could only dream of.
"And you, my dear."
He slowly closed his beloved horse's eyes that were no longer in pain, and smiled: "The gods are also with you. "
The next second, the young knight waved his sword and rushed towards the monsters who were only a few steps away from him.
His eyes are clear and bright, his steps are quick and powerful, and his waist is as straight as a javelin.
Until he was completely overwhelmed by countless mutants, his smile was still so high-spirited.
441: End
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