The terrain of Novak Mountain is mountainous, similar to lava terrain, and requires climbing up.
However, there are no volcanoes or lava that can erupt at any time, so the impact on human soldiers is only 50%.
The 50% impact is just within the elimination range of the intermediate pathfinding technique. There is no additional effect of weight when people climb mountains, and the burden of walking is about the same as on the plains.
Of course, although the burden is gone, a hillside is a hillside.
There are no roads, and there are protruding rocks everywhere. Even a rock on the flat ground will block the way, let alone a mountain road.
Even with intermediate pathfinding skills, the troop's traveling speed is greatly affected.
Especially for knights, it is even more difficult to perform, and charging can only be done in a relatively gentle place at the foot of the mountain.
Fortunately, the main force in this battle is not the knights.
The infantry went first, followed by the archers, followed by two priest regiments, flanked by the third and fifth knight regiments, with Xu Lai's headquarters, the sixth knight and the priest regiment in the middle.
The wizards in the tower and the elven archers were followed by two knights on the left and right.
Of course, this is when going up and down. When going up the mountain, you cannot go up in the prepared formation.
Hausen led some infantry and shooters to charge first, and Archbishop Kemler personally led a group of priests to support them.
After they established a certain foothold on the hillside, the follow-up troops followed up.
As the commander of the army, Xu Lai cannot be too far forward. If he is too far forward, he will easily be surrounded.
You can't be too queen either. If the forward is too far away, without the bonus of the legion commander, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
In the past, when the temple's army appeared at the foot of the mountain, hell would inevitably attack.
However, this time, the devil from hell disappeared, leaving Xu Lai and the others to occupy a stable hillside.
The reason why Mount Novak is sacred is that apart from itself, no plant or tree on it can be destroyed.
Therefore, if the devil wants to throw rolling stones or logs, he can only transport them up the mountain by himself.
Obviously, Hell did not stock these supplies on the mountain.
Even if you have a foothold, fighting on the mountain is different from that on the ground.
If the morale at the front collapses, the escaping soldiers will be blocked by the soldiers at the rear. In the end, in order to survive, they will either become the vanguard of hell, or jump from the mountain and go to hell alone.
Therefore, the battle on the mountain is particularly difficult and dangerous, and we must go all out.
Xu Lai couldn't stay behind, so he led his troops and the Sixth Knights to move forward.
Nowak Mountain is very big, and the holy mountain used for pilgrimage is not very steep.
But tens of thousands of troops went up the mountain, and it still seemed extremely crowded.
It was at this time that the demon that had been lying in wait for a long time finally appeared.
A telephoto warlord wearing only heavy armor appeared from the mountainside where they were lying in ambush, but they did not move.
On the mountainside, one after another, huge flame trolls quickly rolled down from the top of the mountain.
Fire trolls and lava trolls are units that are good at long-range fire attacks.
But they are not only good at long-range attacks, they are also good at melee combat.
Especially the high-level Balrog, whose whole body is burning with raging fire. Any unit that comes close will suffer considerable fire damage unless it is immune to fire.
These fire trolls and lava trolls took the initiative to give up their advantage at high altitudes and used the force of their downward roll to quickly approach the human infantry in the front row.
The forbidden magic ball was handed over by Xu Lai to the tower hero Master De Ai. What he was carrying in the glove compartment at this time was the war shackles that locked the heroes of both sides.
However, although Master Deai is behind, the effect of the magic ball has already been produced, which means that these flame trolls and lava trolls cannot use their own fire magic.
They can only use the flame balls secreted by their bodies to attack the enemy from a distance, or after getting close to the enemy, they can use their burning flesh to fight the enemy hand-to-hand.
Fire trolls and lava trolls, which have the characteristic of not reducing damage in melee combat, are not afraid of melee combat with warriors of the same level.
Not to mention that they are not ordinary flame trolls or lava trolls, and the average level of the infantry standing in front of them is one level lower than them.
Although the average level 5 heavy shield infantry has good defensive power, its attack power is somewhat poor, making it difficult to quickly defeat the opponent.
However, before the flame trolls rolled down, the sky was once again filled with intense holy light.
With the Forbidden Magic Ball around, neither the enemy nor one's own side can cast spells.
However, one advantage of the Temple Alliance troops is that there are enough priests to apply sufficient status to the friendly forces before equipping the magic ball.
Far more powerful than the Knight's Blessing, the advanced blessing comprehensively increases the offensive and defensive attributes, increasing the attack and defense by at least 20 points. If released by the Archbishop himself, it can increase by more than 30 points.
Healing spells can no longer be used, so replace them all with Blessing of Life. The addition will not be much. On average, each infantry will gain 50 points of health. Hell's long-range troops are fire demons, flying troops are fire elves, and the most annoying fire spell is the Fire Aegis.
Therefore, fire-bending magic must be arranged, and it cannot be a low-level fire-bending magic. It must be the ultimate fire-bending magic spell released by Master Deai himself, which reduces fire damage by 50%.
But in this case, he still has to bear 50% of the fire damage. Xu Lai changed into rune pattern trousers, so only the anti-magic cloak and resistance are still in effect.
Even if Haosen has high-level resistance, the infantry in the front row still has to bear 25% of fire damage.
What to do? Arrangement of spell defense shield.
The priests cast spells in groups, and the infantrymen set up shields one by one. On average, each infantryman has a mana shield with at least 300 points of durability.
After deducting direct resistance and physical damage reduction, this 300-point durable mana shield can at least help this group of infantry offset nearly 3,000 points of fire damage.
This is not over yet. The most important healing technique of priests has completely lost its effect during combat.
Therefore, they changed all the mana into a state that can be exerted.
Even Holy Spirit Yuzuo, who has little effect on infantry but can maximize damage, is added to all infantry without any care.
Demon Bane with extra damage bonus to demons, attack acceleration that increases attack speed, etc.
After careful craftsmanship by the priests, each of the fifth-level heavy armored infantry has been transformed into a little superman.
Even if the ultimate attack and ultimate defense are offset by each other's demons, with the blessing of Xu Lai's advanced tactics, the attributes are no less than those of the trolls who are one or even two levels higher than them.
The only drawback is that these small supermen are short-lived and not lasting.
The spell shield with the weakest effect can only last for 2 hours at most, and even the demon nemesis, which lasts the longest, only lasts for 8 hours.
It’s not that there are no stronger spells, but in order to take care of the most units, I chose the most cost-effective spell.
This also means that if you cannot gain an advantage in a short period of time, it will become increasingly difficult to fight in the future.
The flame trolls rolling down were blessed by the hell hero Karl.
Karl is not a simple man. He is one of Sellon's right-hand men and is known as the best defensive lord in hell.
This guy is a terrifying Balrog. His specialty is the Gog, Magog, Fire Demon, Fire Troll, Lava Troll and Balrog and other creatures under his command. He has extra attack, defense and speed.
Karl is a Balrog who is very good at and loves physical attacks.
Ordinary Balrogs, even if they don't have any brain capacity, can instinctively master some fire spells.
Karl, the Balrog, is different. His brain is full of muscles.
Using the non-reducing damage characteristics of the fire demon in melee combat, he threw the flame troll and lava troll into the center of the enemy, and then died and split. This was his original strategy.
Of course, ordinary hell heroes cannot replicate such tactics.
Although the fire demon does not reduce damage in melee combat, as a long-range unit, its defense and health cannot be compared with melee combat, so it actually suffers in a real fight.
Only Karl, who has full offensive and defensive skills and specializes in fire demons, has such an ability.
Although the catapult cannot be placed on Novak Mountain, rolling the flame troll down is the same. Anyway, it will be thrown out to death.
Originally, there was no problem for a group of flame trolls and lava trolls to bully a group of low-level infantry on a narrow mountain road with Karl's talent and specialization bonus.
Even if there are more humans and they rely on their numerical advantage to kill these fire trolls and lava trolls, they will not die, but will split into more fire demons, and the more they fight, the more they will fight.
Karl led the rest of the fire demons and launched a long-range attack on the mountainside from a high position on the mountain. He couldn't even think of how the enemy would rush up.
However, the rich holy light floating from the sky made Karl frown tightly, and a bad premonition lingered in his heart.
Sure enough, under the blessing of the Holy Light, a group of heavy shield infantry armed with heavy shields but only one-handed swords, each one seemed to have been drugged, attacking fast and hard.
Having dealt with the temple so many times, Karl is sensitive enough to the holy light. He can know that this light is the sacred prayer from the crimson bishop without even feeling it.
Not to mention him, even Sellon in the Emerald City glanced sideways at Novak Mountain from time to time. The rich holy light gave him an inexplicable sense of panic.
The effect of the sacred prayer came again, this time, it was even stronger than what was felt in the Stone Castle before.
The ultimate prayer allows everyone to increase their attack and defense by 25%, to at least 15 points.
The attack speed and movement speed are also increased by 25%, and they are also at least 4 points, which are more than what they were in Stone Castle.
Coupled with Xu Lai's talent for speed and the attack acceleration effect of the priests, the heavy armored infantry in the front row, who originally had a slow attack speed, seemed to have been drugged.
The heavy armored infantry has the demon nemesis effect and adds nearly 100 attack points not counting offensive skills. Every sword is like cutting tofu.
Obviously they are flame trolls that are far superior to ordinary flame trolls, but in front of a group of level 5 infantry, they look like level 4 Magog.
No, it was like the third-level Gog, who was slaughtered like a chicken. (End of this chapter)