Xu Lai wanted to test Kerrigan's skills personally, but unfortunately, none of his generals agreed.
So, Xu Lai had no choice but to stay on Gray Castle and try to see if he could see the battlefield.
The Chivalry led by Tahan are all knights and have strong mobility.
But one disadvantage is that these knights are all melee fighters.
If you want to engage the enemy, you can only charge and get closer.
However, after the charge is close, it is not easy to leave. Without enough distance, the charge cannot be started.
Besides, during the charge stage, Tahan and the others still had to bear the blows from the opponent's long-range troops.
So, Reina temporarily assigned Yan Feng and the archers he led to Tahan.
The two of them can be considered old partners, and they cooperate with each other very well.
Yan Feng will go forward and lead the bow cavalry to attract the enemy. After leading the enemy to a suitable position, Tahan will handle it.
Tahan's forbidden spell requires more than ten minutes of casting time, but Tahan has no intention of casting it.
On the one hand, the timing of casting the spell is difficult to choose. If it is too fast, it is easy to hurt your own people. If it is too slow, the enemy is not a fool and will get into the forbidden spell.
On the other hand, even if the enemy was trapped, he chose the maximum attack range.
But after all, the legs are on other people's bodies. As long as they don't stay stupid and stay within the range of the forbidden curse, most of them can still escape after all.
For a trial with immeasurable results, he directly used the forbidden spell that could only be released once a month, and at the same time had to bear the penalty of not being able to release the air spell for this month.
When Tahan went back this time, he also visited several magic guilds and added some other spells.
But except for the air system, he does not have any other magic specialization, and his mental value is not particularly high.
Abandoning his Qi spells is equivalent to banning most of his spellcasting abilities.
The timing is not particularly good. For example, most of the enemy's troops are within the coverage area. Tahan does not want to try rashly.
Xu Lai wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the demon army, and Kerrigan also wanted to test the combat effectiveness of humans.
To be honest, Kerrigan still doesn't think highly of humans.
Weren’t the famous Grand Dukes, Grand Marshals, and Ministers of Defense of the empire all killed by him?
But Xu Lai used the blood of countless orcs and demons to prove step by step that he was powerful and had a real reputation.
On this point, Kerrigan had to be cautious.
He did not even stay in Bristone, but led his troops to camp outside the city.
He had already heard about the Forbidden Curse Hero on the human side.
In order to break through Holy Angel City as soon as possible and rush back for rescue, Kerrigan himself had just released a forbidden spell.
If it weren't for his blazing flames that burned the city, the entire defense of Holy Angel City was burned to the ground, and a large number of knights and priests were burned to death.
Otherwise, just the large angel army would be enough for him to drink a pot, let alone come back for rescue.
No one knows the forbidden spell better than him, and no one knows better than him when to release the forbidden spell to achieve the greatest effect.
Encircling the enemy in an isolated city, and then unleashing the Forbidden Spell to Burn without restraint is a good way to maximize the damage of the Forbidden Spell.
Coupled with his god-level fire magic, units that are originally immune to fire need to bear fire damage.
Even the elites of the entire human empire in Holy Angel City still lost completely and suffered heavy losses.
After learning that in addition to Tahan's Dharma God, there was another forbidden spell level mage, Kerrigan stationed the main force outside the city.
In this way, even if the enemy launches a sneak attack while the demon is resting, he and his troops will have enough time to leave the coverage of the forbidden spell from the time it is sensed to the arrival of the forbidden spell to the time the forbidden spell is released.
Of course, if you can kill the hero who can release the forbidden curse in one fell swoop, that would be the best thing.
It's a pity that he can't cast fire spells now, otherwise he might be able to try it for a second.
Krigan, who was born as a great devil, flew in the air with his bodyguard Hellboy to observe.
Unlike Xu Lai, even if he stood at the highest point of Gray Castle, he could not see the extremely distant battlefield.
However, there is still good news. The conventional combat forces sent by Kerrigan basically have no ability to resist under Yan Feng's harassment.
Xu Lai did not dare to maintain communication with the two commanders on the front line for a long time, and he had to save their mana consumption.
But Tahan still needs to report truthfully how the battle went and what the outcome of the test was.
All of Kerrigan's 12 specialties are ultimate. Xu Lai has known this for a long time, but he only found out about Kerrigan's god-level fire magic last night
Fallen Angel After the attack, Xu Lai contacted Archbishop Duer overnight and learned all the secrets of the breach of Holy Angel City.
Although the City of Holy Angels was breached, His Majesty the Pope once again forcibly performed the divine art at the expense of himself.
But this time the gods descended to preserve the remaining power in Holy Angel City, not to continue fighting the devil.
The remaining tens of thousands of priests, more than 3,000 priests, more than 1,000 knights, and about 800 angels in Holy Angel City were transported by the Pope's divine power to the Southern Cathedral, which was still intact.
Currently, the temple is temporarily governed by the Patriarch of the Southern Cathedral, Archbishop Manis Crimson.
Among Xu Lai’s acquaintances, Lina’s master, Archangel Gilad, disappeared, Neil from the Capital Cathedral, and Kemel, the Patriarch of the Northeast region, all died in the battle.
The several knights who stayed in Holy Angel City suffered even more severe losses. The least one regiment lost more than half, and all members of the first knights were killed.
Even Elena's master, the high priest Xu Lai first met, and Ryan who was later promoted to Archangel, died in the Holy Angel City.
Xu Lai didn't dare to tell Elena this news. After their master and apprentice separated from the grassland, they actually never met again.
In the temple, among the remaining Crimson Archbishops, except for Wright and Xu Lai, who were old acquaintances, the rest were not familiar with Xu Lai.
However, since in Hantan City, Wright forced Xu Lai to send troops but Xu Lai did not agree, the two sides also had their own bad blood.
It is said that the last order from the Pope is for them to go north to join the knights and priests who stayed in Qingfeng City.
However, this order seems to have been forgotten after the death of the Pope.
When Knight Commander Morrison mentioned it, Wright dismissed it on the grounds that eggs should not be put in one basket and that at this time, the fire of the temple should be preserved.
Even Wright, Xu Lai's old acquaintance, said this. The others had no friendship with Xu Lai at all, and even several archbishops who supported heroes, and there was no reason to refute.
Actually, it doesn't matter to Xu Lai whether they come to meet up or not.
The most he can do is regret the remaining few hundred angels. If he can recruit these 800 angels, his angel army will be able to fight against Kerrigan.
Now, Xu Lai could almost only control the sky above him. Once he left this area, he would not dare to let his angels and demon legions confront each other. The good news is that the god-level skills that Kerrigan possesses are temporarily unavailable.
But any fire spell, even a fire spell released with a spell scroll, has no effect.
The special effect of Kerrigan's god-level fire magic is flame breakdown, which can eliminate 25% of fire resistance.
All spell damage must undergo resistance reduction after experiencing magic resistance.
This kind of resistance is different for everyone. For example, the alpine people who belong to the tower camp who have lived in the snowy mountains for a long time have natural frost resistance.
There is also the flame skin that comes with the devil, which is also a type of resistance.
Although humans in other areas do not have this natural resistance to water and fire, they also have natural resistance brought by their constitution.
Especially for a knight with extremely high physique like Xu Lai, even if he does not have any natural resistance, high physique can bring at least 15%-20% resistance reduction.
As for those fire-immune units, such as firebirds, phoenixes, and seraphs.
They are equivalent to having 100% fire resistance and are therefore immune to all fire damage.
However, when facing Kerrigan, who possesses god-level fire magic, even the flame-immune Seraph will suffer 25% fire damage.
Including black dragons that are immune to level 1-5 magic. As long as this spell is a fire spell, even black dragons that are immune to magic will still have to bear 25% of fire damage.
Those like Xu Lai have no natural resistance, and they will be directly reduced to zero or even negative values.
After the resistance is negative, the body will become vulnerable to certain attributes and need to withstand additional damage.
Take the general level 6 knight as an example. The knight itself is a profession with relatively high physical growth. Knights of this level usually have a resistance of more than 10%.
After being penetrated by flames, the flame resistance is -15%, making the person vulnerable to fire damage. For 100 points of fire damage, at least 115 points of health will be deducted, or even more.
The bad news is that there are only 27 days until Kerrigan can cast fire spells again.
When the time comes, Kerrigan will run to Graycastle and put one there. Even if Xu Lai is not trapped, he will have to give up Graycastle.
Without the support of god-level fire magic, Kerrigan and his troops, who could not release fire spells, did not show much crushing strength.
The horse archers, who were blessed with attack acceleration by Tahan, were extremely fast. Not only all of them hit the target in each round of shooting, they could at least hit most of them.
The extremely long range is farther than the lava troll of the same level. After the damage is halved, there is the ultimate defense to reduce the damage. Although it does not cause much damage, it has always been an advantage.
This should be put aside in the past. As long as there is always output, even if the output is a little lower, it can cause casualties that cannot be ignored through continuous accumulation.
But today is different from the past. About 500 fallen angels flew out of the demon camp.
These fallen angels no longer have divine power, but their combat effectiveness has not been reduced even though they have been corrupted.
Not only did their combat effectiveness not decrease, they even had an additional healing ability.
Of course, this healing ability is only for units in the evil camp.
For humans and other warriors of the holy camp, it is a great harm.
Fallen angels, using evil energy, can heal the undead, dungeons and demons.
More than 10,000 horse archers fired the quivers they carried, which only consumed a lot of fallen angels' mana. At most, they sent some demons to the incubation pool to heal their injuries.
Correspondingly, the devil also failed to achieve any results.
The long-range troops sent out by Kerrigan cannot reach the range, and the speed is even less reachable.
The only ones who can compete with the horse archers in terms of speed are demons and fallen angels.
Demons and fallen angels, Cregan did not allow them to attack. After all, humans did not use such top power.
As for the Winged Demons, those are just delivering food, so there is no need to send them out to consume their own morale.
A round of testing by both sides yielded no other results except for the ultimate logistics, ultimate archery, and devil's ultimate defense techniques that were already known.
Xu Lai did not appear on the battlefield, and neither did the Angel Alliance. The only thing on both sides that had a greater impact on the battle was the flag of the Knight Wind Legion.
On Kerrigan's side, the troops are almost in a state of standstill. Most of the troops have not been mobilized, and even the artifacts and various props have not been used.
Tahan was very dissatisfied with this result. He personally organized a team of men and launched a charge against the fallen angels who appeared on the front line.
This is a team of heroic knights recruited, level 8. With Tahan's talent bonus, they are more powerful than ordinary level 8 warriors.
What's more, they are still in a charging state at this time. As long as they are not killed, any damage can only be converted into their offensive capabilities.
The charge of a large number of heroic knights is very terrifying. Kerrigan and the others already knew this when they fought against the Western Empire.
With the bonus of the Knight's Wind flag, the bonus of Tahan's talent, as well as the bonus of attack acceleration and full morale.
The speed of this group of knights far exceeded any cavalry charge the demons had ever seen.
The key point is that this group of knights not only accelerates quickly, but also reaches the upper limit of speed, which is far beyond that of ordinary heroic knights.
For knights, speed is life and damage.
Without even reaching the direct attack range of the lava trolls, the group of lava trolls couldn't wait to throw out huge fireballs as big as a bathtub in their hands.
But this was just a trial, so Tahan only selected a team of heroic knights, with a total number of less than 50 people.
Therefore, these knights were not densely distributed among each other, and the huge fireballs with group attack effects did not cause much exaggerated damage.
But even so, the damage done by the lava trolls is extremely exaggerated.
Kerrigan didn't send many lava trolls, only about 3,000.
Of these 3,000 lava trolls, only the few hundred in the front row can express their firepower to their heart's content.
But with just one volley from these hundreds of lava trolls, the twelve cone-shaped knights in the front row instantly fell to death on the way to the charge.
You know, these knights have an additional 5-point physical bonus from the God of War statue, as well as the blessing of the sacred blood bottle from the legion commander Xu Lai.
In the second round, more knights were attacked. Not to mention all the 24 knights in the second row, the 12 knights in the last row were only killed due to the splash damage. Less than half of his health remaining.
However, the lava trolls did not have time to carry out the third round of attacks, and the knight's speed was still too exaggerated.
Starting from the start and accelerating into attack distance, it only took about 5 seconds to cross the battlefield of three to four hundred meters.
The last 12 knights used their speed and the damage they suffered, all converted into horrific damage.
With the terrifying blessing of god-level offensive techniques, they instantly tore apart the body of the lava troll in the front row.
With the support of charge maintenance, the second and third lava trolls were torn apart with much reduced damage. (End of chapter)