48 heroic knights, facing an enemy that was almost a hundred times their own, launched a heroic charge and achieved almost the same results as their own number.
From this point of view, the Empire is the victor in this trial.
But judging from the results, the more than 40 lava trolls that were killed did not die completely, but turned into 150 level 5 fire demons.
For consequentialism, it is a small defeat for mankind.
And if both sides expand the scale at the same time, the human side may not be able to ensure that the results will change.
It's fine to have a decisive battle in a plain area. If the terrain isn't big enough, the knights can't disperse.
The Lava Troll fireball not only does extremely high damage, but also explodes. If it cannot disperse, the casualties will be horrific.
However, both sides gained something from this round of attack.
Krigan has a new understanding of the terrifying speed and damage of human knights.
In his heart, the 100,000 cavalry led by Tahan were definitely more terrifying than the royal knights in Lionheart City.
In comparison, most of the Royal Knights are conscripted knights, and everyone wears the best equipment. Their overall attributes and combat effectiveness are stronger than that of Chivalry.
However, the Royal Knights are not led by heroes as powerful as Xu Lai and Tahan.
Talents, flags, treasures and god-level offensive techniques, the gap opened up cannot be bridged by one or two levels.
Twelve knights, who were at least half disabled, rushed into more than 3,000 lava trolls commanded by Kerrigan himself, and killed more than 40 lava trolls.
If the knights in Lionheart City had such terrifying speed and impact, his demon army would have been dispersed long ago.
On Tahan's side, he also figured out one thing.
Although Kerrigan's fire spell has been temporarily sealed, his god-level fire magic has not.
As Kerrigan's enemies and also within the coverage of Kerrigan's heroic domain, Tahan and the others still need to bear additional fire damage.
Secondly, Tahan also glimpsed part of Kerrigan's abilities.
For example, that attribute is extremely important for all combat troops, morale.
The speed and impact that surprised Kerrigan and was extremely fearful in his heart did not achieve the effect he wanted in Tahan's eyes.
Krigan has never seen a knight with high morale, but Tahan and his knights are victorious in every battle and have high morale.
In Tahan's eyes, these knights under his command should be faster, have stronger impact, and should trigger at least some critical hits. They should never just kill more than 40 lava trolls.
Besides, as far as the result is concerned, although mankind can only be regarded as a small defeat, it is a defeat after all.
Especially for his army, which has almost never been defeated, even if it only suffers a small loss, its morale will not be indifferent.
Whether it was to lower morale a little, or to realize his shame and then be brave, Tahan could understand it, but he just couldn't understand the peace at this time.
On the battlefield, Tahan could not invest too many knights at once.
Even if it is possible, since it cannot be dispersed, there is absolutely no advantage that can be obtained from the devil.
Therefore, there was no third round of testing, so Tahan chose to stop his troops and go back to camp, and then report to Xu Lai after the battle report came out.
We failed to gain an advantage this time, and the bodies of the knights who died in the battle must not be retrieved.
Unless Tahan wants to hire more knights for these dozens of corpses.
Tahan didn't know that Kerrigan was above him, just like Kerrigan couldn't spot the general at a glance among the bunch of knights.
Neither party deliberately revealed their identities, although both parties were very confident in their own force value.
Tahan evacuated carefully, with all units in an orderly manner and covering each other. He even waited for Yan Feng and his horse archers to replenish their ammunition.
Kerrigan had no intention of pursuing him, and he pushed back several demon generals who were about to make a move.
Even some of his demon heroes wanted to catch up and cast some fire spells on Cregan's behalf, but he refused.
Currently, Kerrigan is not willing to expose too much of his own strength.
After learning that the Gate of the Abyss had been destroyed, Kerrigan was furious and immediately led his troops back as soon as the war was over.
However, at this time, Xu Lai and the others had already retreated and were working hard to build the defense of Gray Castle.
At this time, Kerrigan calmed down.
He knew very well that without the supplies from the Gate of the Abyss, there would be no way to provide much troops just by relying on some of the currently converted hell cities.
Now every bit of combat power in his hands must be used to the extreme, and there is no room for squandering.
For this reason, he specially sent people to find Mendis's men and persuaded them all to come back.
He did not deal with Barton, and even encouraged him. His actions were not like a demon at all.
His anger towards Xu Lai has not diminished at all.
But Kerrigan also knew very well that he should not continue to entangle with Xu Lai at this time.
The Western Empire controlled by Xu Lai no longer has much oil and water, and Kerrigan can no longer open the door to the abyss on his own.
If he wanted the Gate of the Abyss to open again, he would have to make another large-scale sacrifice, just like when he rebuilt the Gate of the Abyss in Bristone.
Without the sacrifice of more than a million souls, his body sleeping in hell would not have more strength to tear open another hole.
Sacrifice on a scale of more than one million is not that easy to do.
Even if the Western Empire could still plunder a million people, how could he guarantee that there would be no casualties when the demons were driven out?
What does he do to ensure that these chaotic demons will take a human as a snack from time to time?
Only in the Northern Empire and Lionheart City can he achieve what he wants.
But now he brought his main army to confront Xu Lai. The Lion Heart City that had just been captured did not have enough guards.
After the news spreads, the Northern Empire, even the Southern Empire, and the Eastern Empire may all be interested in Lion Heart City.
This city has always been a symbol of the human empire, not to mention that it also has a capital, a royal palace, and the ruins of a temple.
Reason forced Kerrigan to calm down, which was the main reason why he had not launched an attack after so many days of rushing back to Bristone.
Even if he couldn't cast spells, wouldn't he be able to find a demon warlock who could cast spells under his command?
Kerrigan was not determined to fight Xu Lai to the death, because if he failed, he would have no way out.
Kerrigan watched the cavalry unit retreat in an orderly manner, but he was thinking about how to capture this cavalry unit.
To capture this cavalry unit, you must choose a suitable terrain, and Ash Valley is the most suitable.
But now that the two entrances and exits of Ashen Valley are in Xu Lai's hands, it is naturally impossible for him to introduce human cavalry into Ashen Valley.
Since Xu Lai gave up Bristone, who was almost within easy reach, it means that he does not want this burden at all.
If Kerrigan wants to take down this cavalry unit, it seems that he can only force the enemy to fight with a large army.
However, after the battle in Lion Heart City, he left half of his power in Lion Heart City, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of demons were his last fortune. Cregan didn't make up his mind until the knights completely disappeared from sight.
Xu Lai's guess was correct. Kerrigan may still think that he has an advantage, but he no longer has the confidence to be invincible.
Xu Lai, who had been waiting eagerly, also fell into silence after receiving Tahan's report.
Unlike Kerrigan, he has never felt that he has an advantage over the devil.
So, he has never been very confident, and he was not affected by the news of this failure.
After synthesizing all kinds of intelligence and taking stock of the battle report data, Xu Lai got Kerrigan's rough data guess.
The opponent's god-level fire magic has been confirmed.
In addition, there must be ultimate defense skills, and there must be ultimate archery skills.
Otherwise, those lava trolls, as spellcasting units, would not have such a long casting distance.
When Kerrigan responded, he did not show the movement speed of the troops, so it is not clear whether the logistics skills are there.
But judging from the formation of those lava trolls, at least there should be tactics.
Of course, these specializations may also belong to Barton, the commander of the lava trolls. Kerrigan just needs to be his legion commander like Xu Lai.
So in terms of specialization data, basically all combat specializations can be included.
After all, even if Kerrigan didn't learn, there must be heroes under him who did.
The focus of Xu Lai's calculations is still the attributes that Kerrigan and other heroes actually gave to the demon soldiers.
"I remember that in the treasure files of the temple, there was a pair of artifacts mentioned, called the "Spirit of Imprisonment" and the "Hourglass of Bad Luck."
The function of these two artifacts is to imprison the morale of the enemy and ourselves. As well as luck, morale and luck are no longer affected by the battlefield and cannot take effect.
Having Hellboy there can reduce our luck by at least 3 points.
With Seraph and Holy Light. With knights, heroic knights and other units, human troops naturally have more morale.
I think Kerrigan should be carrying the spirit of imprisonment, but he does not use the hourglass of bad luck."
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After thinking about it, Xu Lai first deduced an artifact on Kerrigan's body.
Yan Feng touched his chin and said: "Although we were not attacked by the lava trolls, they have made counterattacks.
It's just that we are faster and can't survive the demon's fireball throws. Before arriving, they had already broken away from the limit distance.
The limit attack distance of these spell-casting units is almost the same as ours, and both of us have ultimate archery skills.
So I think Barton or Kerrigan must have a treasure that increases the range.”
Spells generally have hit effects, but if they exceed the casting distance, they will lose control and become more difficult to hit than arrows beyond the limit distance.
"The defense of those demons is far beyond that of ordinary demons. They cannot only have the effect of ultimate defense. I estimate that there are more powerful defensive treasures.
My knights, even if Morale is imprisoned, and the damage is not limited to killing more than 40 lava trolls."
Tahan added immediately.
“As the Lord of Hell, it is normal for Kerrigan to have some super treasures and artifacts on his body.
Moreover, Kerrigan possesses a god-level talent for fire magic, so he must have an artifact that can increase fire damage.
Now that his fire spellcasting ability has been temporarily sealed, he may replace this type of artifact when he actually fights.
In other words, even if we have now calculated the rough attributes that Kerrigan gave the soldiers, we must make a higher estimate when the actual decisive battle comes. ”
Yu Lan also added at the end.
Everyone’s guess, although I have calculated the approximate bonus on the lava troll, it only confirms it again. Kerrigan's power
Moreover, he easily threw out 3,000 level 7 lava trolls today, which is enough to illustrate the strength of Kerrigan's troops.
For a time, even Xu Lai, who had previously planned to take the initiative to attack, fell silent, wondering whether he should give up Graycastle's advantage.
Both sides were shocked by the strength of the other side and turned against each other. Instead, they invariably ended up in a stalemate.
Of course, this so-called stalemate is just that neither side dares to rush into the main force for fear of directly leading to a decisive battle.
But the small movements of both sides did not stop for a moment.
On Kerrigan's side, the restoration of Bridgestone is in full swing.
Repairing Bristone will make it easier for Kerrigan to move between the two cities.
Secondly, it also allows the demon troops to have a relatively stable rear area and make it easier to obtain supplies.
Xu Lai was even more exaggerated. Kerrigan only repaired Bridgestone, but Xu Lai directly attacked the Gray Castles.
The city defense was already impregnable, but Xu Lai would continue to add bricks and tiles to it.
He also spent a lot of money to recruit a group of hard-working archmages and asked them to install fire-resistant wards for the two military fortresses.
Holy Angel City also has a magic barrier, but it still cannot block the powerful destructive power of the forbidden spell.
Xu Lai didn't expect a group of archmages to be able to set up a fire-resistant barrier that was powerless even against forbidden spells. He just needed to be able to sustain it for a while longer.
Once Kerrigan plans to release the forbidden curse, Graycastle should not be able to defend it.
But Tahan is still between Bristone and Graycastle, let alone whether Kerrigan dares to cross the army to release the forbidden curse.
Even if he came and succeeded, Xu Lai only needed to buy this time to retreat.
After the large army leaves, the worst possible thing to do is wait until the forbidden curse is over before coming back.
As long as the demon troops on the ground cannot get past the Wind of Chivalry, even if the flying demons occupy Graycastle first, Xu Lai is confident that he can take it back again.
And as the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand behind a dangerous wall. Kerrigan is the Lord of Hell, so there is really no need to take such a big risk personally.
In addition to the construction of the city, Kerrigan split his most powerful demon army into three teams.
The first team is the largest and strongest, with a full 800 Hellboys staying by his side.
The other two teams, each with 500 great demons, and the fallen angels formed three teams to kill the human cities near Graycastle.
In order to deal with these three groups of people, Elvi can only transform into a firefighter and fly outside all day long.
Fortunately, on our own territory, neither demons nor fallen angels dare to fight against Elvy.
Because even if there are no heroes around Elvy, the rescue will definitely come much faster than the demons.
But even if the demons didn't dare to take action, Elvi and a team of angels drove away three teams of demons, but they still had to take physical strength potion as food every day. Xu Lai looked even more distressed. (End of this chapter)