Chapter 652: The Uninvited Guest (I)
Years later, Saul was still filled with emotion when he recalled the scene, and by that time he had become a powerful, respected commander. But when he recalls his first battle with the orcs on the ice field, Thor still sighs.
"To be honest, at that time, we saw so many orcs rushing towards us like a tide, and we only felt that we were finished, there was such a big mistake in the first actual battle, the other party was ten times more numerous than us, and we only relied on a dilapidated fortress, at that time, everyone was actually very complaining about the lord, although he still seemed very calm, but I just thought that he was just forcibly calming. But when the lord intervened, I finally understood where his confidence came from............... I've never seen such a powerful, terrifying force, and those strong and powerful orcs tremble like sheep in front of the lord......... Soon, it was all over. ”
Rod's figure jumped down from the city wall, turned into a black shadow and rushed towards the orc clan in front of him, seeing this scene in front of him, many half-demon descendants exclaimed, although they had followed Rhodes for training, but they had not fought side by side with Rhodes, so they didn't know the strength of this young lord, and at this moment they saw him go alone to face nearly three hundred orc cavalry, and they couldn't help but cry out, but it was Lando and other people who had been fighting with Rhodes for a long time at this moment they seemed very calm, They didn't panic like the half-demons, but quickly prepared to attack with Rod's attack.
And seeing Rod's figure, the orcs were also excited, they had just been hung by John's cavalry for a long time, but they didn't even catch a hair. Returning to the fortress, he fell into the conspiracy of these human beings, suffered heavy losses, and had already held back the fire in his belly, and at this moment he saw that there was a human who was not afraid of death and dared to rush up by himself, and these orcs suddenly rushed up with a howl, in their opinion. The emaciated human in front of him was nothing to mention, but they still grabbed him, broke his hands and feet, tortured his body, and made him die in endless pain, only in this way could they vent the wrath of these orcs!!
"Human! Bobo, kill!! ”
Looking at Rod who rushed in front of him, Bobo's eyes revealed an unprecedented fierce light. He shouted angrily and reached out, trying to grab the human in front of him and smash him to the ground. However, at this time, Rod suddenly raised his head and glanced at him expressionlessly.
A flash of cold light.
The overwhelming brilliance of the stars rushed to his face, and the sharp and sharp sword qi roared towards the orc patriarch in front of him, facing this sudden scene. Bobo was completely defenseless, and saw the whistling and shining light tearing at the huge body of the orc in front of him without stopping. Blood splattered, and in the next instant, Bobo's huge body flew high and fell to the ground backwards.
But at the same time, Rhodes had already begun to act.
The moment the orc patriarch was blown away, Rhodes quickly charged forward. Neither the orcs nor the members of the elite group could keep up with his speed at all, and only a series of afterimages were seen flying through the white snow, and in the blink of an eye, Rhodes was already in the middle of the orc cavalry. Although surrounded by dozens of huge orcs, Rhodes did not panic in the slightest. Because this is the situation that summoned swordsmen, who are listed as one of the three major single-brush classes in the Dragon Soul Continent, like to face!
"Roar!!"
The orcs' fighting nerves were not slow at all, and when they saw Rod's sudden appearance, they didn't even have time to be surprised before they instinctively raised their weapons and smashed them towards Rod. But those heavy and huge weapons did not hit the original target, in the face of the huge weapons that fell head-on, Rod just turned sideways, able to dodge the orc's attack, and then he stretched out his right hand, and soon, bright red cards appeared from it, and then, the hot flames completely erupted from Rode's hands.
"Boom!!"
The bright red and dazzling firelight mixed with the heat and impact spread out in all directions, and even the orcs who had surrounded Rhodes suddenly retreated backwards in fright, but at the same time, with a howl, the hellhound rushed out of it, and its three large mouths were overflowing with burning flames, rushing towards the orc in front of them.
"Monster! Fire! Monster!! “
The appearance of the hellhound suddenly frightened the surrounding orcs and began to retreat in panic, as an ignorant and backward race, the orcs are the most afraid of these abnormal existences, although in terms of strength, the current hellhound is only able to clean up two or three orcs, but these orcs have never seen this kind of creature that should only live in hell, at this moment when they saw it suddenly appeared suddenly frightened, they howled in horror and began to retreat. However, the purpose of these orcs did not succeed.
The dark shadows began to distort, and tentacles sprang out of the shadows, wrapping around the stout bodies of the Slowe and orcs, restricting their further movement.
But that's just the beginning.
The heavily armored centaur knight burst out with a spear in his hand, stabbed one of the orcs next to him with a single shot, and then swung his spear and threw the huge corpse into the air, then turned the spear and charged at another enemy. Even the little mermaid didn't know when it floated in the air, and the ice edges around it were spinning like arrows.
With their sluggish brains, they couldn't figure out for a while what this human was only one person when they came in, but in the blink of an eye, they "transformed" so many strange things, which suddenly made the orcs frightened, not to mention that the hellhound and the nether tentacles are all products of hell, and they are naturally not very good-looking, which deepens the fear of the orcs.
"Human, devil!! Mankind! Devil!! ”
After facing this unbelievable scene, the confidence that the orcs had been raised by the patriarch's rebuke was finally gone, and they let out a panicked cry and turned to flee from the terrible black-haired human. Even the half-demons stood on the city wall in amazement, looking at what was happening in front of their eyes, they had never seen Rhodes in battle. I didn't expect him to have such a strange fighting method——— what kind of combat skill is this?
However, the others did not become panicked by this, and after working with Rhodes for so long, almost everyone knew what they should do, and Lijie and the other spirit masters had begun to chant in a low voice, and golden symbols began to flash in their hands, blending and connecting with each other. A golden chain was formed. At this moment, Lando and his rangers also raised their longbows and aimed at the enemy in front of them. While the orcs fled in terror, they also attacked at the first opportunity.
Lijie stopped chanting, and then the girl's hands gently pushed forward, and with Lijie's movements, a golden dazzling ball of light flew out of the girl's hand, leaped through the air, and hit the back of the orcs, quickly. I saw that the small ball of light suddenly extended rapidly to both sides as it landed, and soon, a golden barrier appeared out of thin air, completely blocking the retreat of the orcs.
And Lando and other rangers are not idle, they know that without the assistance of John's cavalry team at the moment, they can only rely on themselves to deal with these orcs, so the magic arrows in their hands are also flying towards the orcs for nothing, and for a while, I saw all kinds of lightning and thunder among those orcs, and fireballs exploded and scattered in all directions. The panicked orcs who were already frightened by Rhodes' strange moves were even more panicked at the moment, and they wanted to escape. But they couldn't break through the invisible barrier in front of them, and behind them, centaurs and hellhounds also pounced on them from both sides, attacking the orcs.
The situation turned one-sided in an instant.
This is not surprising, Rhodes is currently at level fifty, and even the summoned elves under his command are leveling up quickly. In addition to the summoned elves such as the soul bird, whose quality is too low and can only rely on the elemental attribute power to add some minor trouble to the opponent, the strength of the summoned elves such as the Hellhound and the Centaur has been greatly improved, and the defense of the Nether tentacles has also increased to fifteen points, which is almost the peak of an elite card. Because this means that unless it is the strength of the master above the peak. Otherwise, neither spells nor swordsmanship can break through the binding and defense of the Netherworld Tentacles, not to mention these orcs, if it weren't for Rhodes' lack of strength to spread the Netherworld Tentacles throughout the battlefield, I'm afraid that at the moment, these orcs would only be able to stand in place obediently and be shot in line.
The situation on the field reversed, and the people who were originally defending in the fortress finally launched an attack on the orcs in turn, and seeing that there was no way to retreat, those evil and terrible monsters and humans attacked themselves again, and the orcs also aroused their ferocity, they turned around one after another, howling and pounced on everyone.
However, it was also their last charge.
The three-headed Cerberus sprang through the snow, its mouth wide open, and it burned, and the sulfur-scented flames erupted from the Hellhound's mouth like a furious wave, enveloping everything in sight. The flame-scorched orc did not scream and dodge as before, on the contrary, it completely ignored its own burned skin and fleshy chest, and reached out to grab the neck of the hellhound, holding the dark monster in its hands.
He didn't see the appearance of Rod, who was standing behind at the moment, raising the pitch-black long sword in his hand.
Looking at the orc in front of him, Rod raised his eyebrows slightly, a smug smile appeared from his eyes, he raised the nightmare in his hand, and a dazzling soul light emerged from the sword, and then, Rod threw it forward.
Countless meteor-like swords pierced the air and stabbed forward, and the strong air currents swept up the snow on the ground, and for a while, the snowflakes flew in a row, and the piercing sound of breaking the air whistled through, enveloping the figures of the orcs.
In the next moment, a wisp of bright red suddenly appeared in the original white snowflakes, and then, the incomparable explosive air flow tore through it, and the bright red flames swallowed the white snow, as if an oil painting had changed color in an instant, and the pillar of fire that rose into the sky soared into the sky.
The battle, too, ended completely at this moment.
After that, the orcs were completely frightened, and they were even more defenseless in the face of the joint attack of Thor and Marfa and others who came from behind, originally in the previous attack, they were killed by the magic trap set by Joey with Lando's magic arrows, and Rod's shot immediately added more than three hundred corpses to the orcs, and the remaining orcs could not fight against the well-equipped elite group at all, but it was swept away in a moment.
That's why Rod is so confident in this fight. In fact, if he had only come to destroy the orcs, Rhodes would not have needed anyone's help at all, as long as Celia, Celestina, Greyhill and Madaras were present, he could have fought his way into the fortress. Then as soon as the forbidden aura opened, the four legendary levels jointly attacked, not to mention eight or nine hundred orcs, even eight or nine thousand orcs had only one way to go. The difference in the level strength of the two sides is here, and it is useless for you to have a hundred times more people.
But in order to train the cooperation of his subordinates in actual combat, Rod has not made a move. It wasn't until he saw that the situation was not good, and he chose to take action to deal with these orcs. But Rod was not happy, because although in the first attack, his subordinates coordinated very smoothly. However, it was not possible to test the full set of tactics. Although this set of tactics has also been practiced in the case of the rear army being fought alone by everyone because they can't arrive in time, but it is based on the situation that the main force is pinned down by the enemy and can't free up their hands or is defeated, in this case, Rhodes has only three options, the first is to retreat directly, relying on the Otherworldly Gate they built under the fortress of the Land of Atonement, Rhodes and the others are almost equivalent to using the Scroll to Return to the City to teleport back directly, and run away if they can't fight. This is the essence of guerrilla warfare. The second is to have Rhodes cover the rest of the retreat, although Rhodes is only level fifty at the moment. However, relying on the four cards in his hand, Rhodes is actually equal to the power of the legendary level, although the unlocking of the four cards at the moment is not enough, even if the forbidden aura is forcibly improved, it is only the level of the primary level of the legend, and it cannot reach the existence of the great killing weapon that can use the original of order in the middle of the legend, but Rhodes is confident that with the current average low NPC level and combat power in this world. Unless he encounters the existence of the three archangels, the four demon generals or the dragon soul inheritor, he is not without the power to fight.
The third option is to hold on to the stronghold, hold on to it, wait for the main force in the rear to arrive, and then cooperate to carry out a flanking attack. Originally, Rhodes planned to use the third tactic to see the situation and hone his subordinates by the way. But John's sudden disappearance still made him feel a little abnormal, so he simply ended the fight completely, and then thought about these troubles.
"Mr. John............ Where did you go? ”
Lidge stood beside Rhodes, looking uneasily at the surrounding ice field, but there was still no sign of John's cavalry unit in the distance, which should have been there a long time ago. And after cleaning up the battlefield, others also gathered around, everyone's expressions were different, but their doubts were the same——— although it was not a major task to exterminate the orcs, but this was the first time that everyone really cooperated tactically in actual combat, but John disappeared halfway inexplicably, which made many people feel very dissatisfied. They, like Rod, are eager to see if their new tactics can succeed. Originally, it went smoothly before, but there was such a moth in the back, which caused Rod to take action to solve the battle himself. Although this is also a part of the tactics, there are still people who feel uncomfortable, if they are facing the undead army under the dark dragon, then Rhodes can help. But these orcs turned out to be so embarrassed, it's really unreasonable.
At the same time, almost everyone had the same question, that is, where did John's cavalry go?
The battle plan, everyone knows in advance, and they are also very clear about the strength of John's cavalry troops, although in terms of individual strength, the cavalry is not as good as the elite group, but the strength of the collection is not to be underestimated, if they are killed by the orcs because of play, then everyone is a hundred do not believe it, but if this is not the case, then how to explain it?
"Boss, do you want a few brothers to look for it?"
At this time, Joey also flipped the dagger in his hand and ran in front of Rod, and the face that was always hippie and smiling now looked much more serious.
"The brothers just checked the corpses of those orcs, and they didn't find any loot, I don't think John's kid should be defeated by the orcs so easily, maybe something happened?"
"Ah, Commander, look at that!"
Just as Rhodes was about to nod his head in agreement with Joey, Anne, who had been looking around boredly beside her, suddenly jumped up, and then she reached out and pointed ahead. Everyone looked in the direction of Anne's finger, and then they were stunned——— only to see a black dot appear on the horizon of the ice field, running all the way towards everyone. The speed of the black dot was not slow, but it seemed to the anxiously waiting crowd to be impatient, and they stared at the black dot with their eyes wide open. But at this time, Rod frowned, with his strength and special physique, Rod had already seen that the black dot was indeed a cavalryman under John, but what made Rod feel strange was that this cavalryman looked uninjured all over his body, and there was not even a trace of battle. But the expression on his face was so anxious, what happened?
Soon, the cavalry galloped from a distance, and saw the corpses of Rhodes and others and those orcs standing in the snowfield, this cavalryman's eyes lit up, and he immediately rode his horse and whipped to Rhodes's side, and he himself didn't even wait for the war horse under him to stop completely before he hurriedly rolled down, and then hurried to Rhodes's side.
"My lord, my lord, it's great to see that you are safe and sound............ Me, we're in trouble! ”
"Calm down."
Listening to the cavalry's stammering words, Rod raised his eyebrows, and then he whispered, and when he heard Rode's words, the cavalryman also paused for a moment, then took a deep breath, stabilized his mood, and then he spoke again.
"Lord John, they're surrounded!"
"What?!"
Hearing this, many people couldn't help but shout, but Rhodes waved his hand to signal them to be quiet, and then he looked at the cavalry in front of him and motioned for him to continue. According to the description of this cavalry, everyone quickly knew what had happened——— it turned out that this cavalry had run away because he was afraid in the process of luring the orc cavalry before, so he was not able to return immediately when John was summoned, and this cavalryman naturally knew that John's military discipline was very strict, so he also desperately wanted to return to the team before John reorganized his team and rushed to the fortress.
But he didn't expect that at this time, an accident suddenly happened, and a group of mages and warriors came out of nowhere, surrounding John and the others. Seeing this scene, the cavalryman was also a clever man, he hurriedly stopped, turned over and dismounted, hid behind the snowy hills and secretly observed the situation, these people were menacing, and it seemed that John did not dare to confront them head-on, the two sides just clashed for a while, and soon John and others were disarmed, and at this time this lucky boy also found that something was wrong, so he hurried back to the fortress, wanting to report the matter to Rod.
"Disarmed? Who dares to be so bold? ”
Hearing this, Marfa said in amazement.
"We are the personal soldiers of the lord, and even the local legions do not have this power!"
Hearing this, many people nodded, as Marfa said, they were no longer mercenaries at the moment, but private soldiers, and private soldiers were under the direct jurisdiction of the nobles and were not subject to the constraints of the local legions. Even if there were local legions on the border who felt that they were suspicious, as long as they reported the name of the lord of Rhodes, the ordinary army would never dare to detain them, but now, this group of people actually dared to do so?
Rhodes was not as surprised as Marfa had shown, he just calmly listened to the cavalryman's words, and then asked.
"Do you see who they are?"
"Yes, yes, sir, I see it clearly."
In the face of Rod's inquiry, the cavalryman gasped and stammered.
"He, they're ............ The army of the Land of Light. (To be continued.) )