Chapter 421 The Fall of a Legend
Greso has awakened his talent for perceiving danger, and his sixth sense is extremely sharp. Recently, the shadow of death has been hanging over his head all the time.
At this moment, it has reached its limit. Greso knows that he will die here.
When he was close to death, Greso suddenly put aside the gains and losses and decided to fight a big battle with humans. It would be best if he could kill Duke Harland and take the enemy with him.
Richard saw that the ogres began to reorganize the team, and immediately ordered the soldiers to line up and wear armor. With the help of the auxiliary soldiers, the professional officers put on magic armor one after another. Richard wiped his exquisite enchanted long sword and then swung his right hand violently.
"Attack!"
The guards immediately issued an order, and Harland led the army to slowly move.
Archers began to pull bowstrings, soldiers raised scorching ray guns and death ray guns, and Harland led the first round of long-range projectors to attack and hit the opponent. Although the ogres were thick-skinned, they lost about a hundred people in this round of attacks.
At the same time, a few professional ogres raised giant magic crossbows and fired more than a dozen heavy crossbow arrows. This heavy crossbow arrow has extremely strong lethality. Because it is powered by magic crystals, its penetration is far superior to that of bed crossbows.
When the giant crossbow arrows came, the soldiers of Harland raised their force field shields for protection. Although the force field shield has strong defensive capabilities, it has both magic defense and physical defense, but facing the attack of this heavy magic crossbow, the second-level force field shield can't stand it at all.
In an instant, a small gap appeared in the infantry of Harland, and about 20 to 30 people were killed or injured.
With such an exchange ratio, the number of ogres is small and they can't stand it at all.
Seeing that the soldiers of Harland are about to launch the second round of attack, Greso roared and accelerated his pace with more than ten high-level ogres.
The high-level ogres have extremely strong physical strength. Once they rush into the formation of the soldiers of Harland, even if they succeed in killing the opponent, there will be a lot of casualties.
Although Sophia took away the Starlight Necklace, the main force of the Harland Mage Corps is in the north road.
Seeing more than a dozen high-level ogres rushing up, Richard immediately ordered to take out the iron golems from the space props. The magicians manipulated twenty iron golems to block the high-level ogres.
The iron golems held back the high-level ogres, and the high-level professionals in the Harland army seized the opportunity to attack and cooperate with the iron golems to hunt down the opponents.
During this period of time, both sides launched a second round of attacks. This time, the long-range attackers of Harland once again achieved a good attack effect. After two rounds of attacks, the number of ogres has been reduced to about 500. And only a few dozen soldiers of Harland were killed or injured.
However, after two rounds of attacks, the distance between the two sides has been close to about 40 to 50 meters. The speed of the ogre's charge is very fast, and the distance of 40 to 50 meters is not enough for Harland's soldiers to fire another round of volleys.
The Harland soldiers in the front row inserted the enchanted bows and arrows into the ground. They raised the force field shield and turned from archers to sword and shield soldiers. Some soldiers with high throwing skills seized the opportunity to throw alchemical bombs. Alchemical bombs fell accurately on the path that the ogres had to pass.
Harland led elite soldiers who were proficient in various tactics. Veterans could serve as sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, archers, and throwers.
Alchemical bombs exploded in the ogre population, raising clouds of smoke. After a round of alchemical bomb attacks, the ogres suffered another batch of casualties.
The ogre team mustered up their courage and rushed through this bloody road desperately.
Seeing that the ogres were about to rush over, the magicians in the mage group released various spells such as spider web, grease, fireball, and fear.
There were about 80 magicians who accompanied the Northern Army to fight this time. The lethality of a round of spells released by a mage group of more than 80 people was already very prominent.
Although the military mage group was not of high professional level, with only about 20 people who could release fireballs, the first round of spell attacks still caused a large number of casualties to the ogres. The casualties visible to the naked eye were as high as 50 to 60 people.
Despite the heavy casualties, the ogres attacked Harland's army without hesitation. In an instant, seven or eight ogres were pierced into blood gourds by the enchanted spears.
The ogres were very powerful, especially the ogres who had awakened their bloodline. Their strength was at least 15 points. They charged like human tanks and knocked Harland's army formation crooked in an instant.
Once the ogres broke through the hardest shell, they could cause considerable casualties.
Before the ogres fought with Harland's army, the casualty ratio was about 300 to 60. About 5 to 1, but when they got into a hand-to-hand fight, the casualty ratio suddenly became 1 to 5.
Despite the heavy casualties, Harland's army was very determined to hold the ogres.
Although the battle between the two sides was short, it was extremely cruel. In the blink of an eye, blood was flowing.
The shouts of the two armies echoed in the wild, and a group of crows flew up from the woods and circled in the air. Crows are scavengers and are unwilling to give up the abundant food in the wild.
Grezo led the charge himself, but was stopped by the Iron Golem and Wilde. Although Grezo survived the starlight bomb attack yesterday, his vitality dropped by one-third and his magic power was consumed by 80%. Because the time was too short, he has not been able to recover until now.
Because he cannot use too much magic power, Grezo can only use the power of the ogre's body, and his combat power is weakened by about 70% to 80%.
Relying on physical strength alone, although Greso was slightly stronger than the ninth-level knight, he could not quickly defeat Wilde and the Iron Golem.
Seeing Richard in the distance wearing high-level enchanted armor and commanding the battle calmly, Greso tried his best to repel Wilde, then turned around and rushed towards Richard, even ignoring the defense of his back.
Seeing Greso rushing over, Richard was not panicked and cast a teleportation spell on himself.
In an instant, Richard appeared where the Iron Golem was, and the Iron Golem moved beside Greso.
The Iron Golem raised its arms and smashed Greso's head fiercely. This sudden change made Greso unable to dodge, and he could only raise his arms to block the attack of the Iron Golem.
Although Greso was powerful, he was a flesh and blood body after all, and the hardness of his bones and muscles was not as good as the super magic metal.
The arms of both sides collided fiercely, and a hole suddenly collapsed under Greso's feet, raising a large amount of dust.
Greso turned around and attacked Richard again, shooting more than a dozen enchanted arrows head-on. The archers were all archers from Harland's army. Those who could equip this kind of arrows had to be at least level 4 in archery.
More than a dozen arrows were extremely accurate and hit Greso almost in no particular order, but Greso's skin was very thick. Even if he used enchanted arrows, he couldn't shoot through because his professional level was not high and his strength was not enough.
After being blocked by the arrows and seeing Richard once again pulling away, Greso roared wildly, took out the alloy short axe from his waist, and threw it at Richard. The alloy short axe spun rapidly in the air, making a soul-stirring scream, drew an arc, and chopped off Richard's head.
Seeing the short axe flying, Richard immediately released the flying technique to himself and avoided the flying axe.
Generally speaking, Richard did not dare to use the flying technique on the battlefield. If he used the flying technique on the battlefield, he would easily become a living target for the archers. The reason why he used it in this battle was to take advantage of the ogre's lack of long-range projection power.
Although the two sides fought for a short time, the ogre had suffered about 400 casualties. After a brutal hand-to-hand fight, Harland's soldiers also suffered more than 500 casualties.
At this moment, the number of ogres was less than 300, and there were also some old, weak, women and children. Even if the old and weak ogres still had combat effectiveness, compared with Harland's army, their strength was far from enough.
As soon as Richard flew in the air, a dozen ogre crossbowmen raised their magic crossbows and planned to aim at Richard. Unexpectedly, Harland's archers took the lead and started shooting the ogre crossbowmen. At the same time, Harland's mage group also released a round of spells, and the main target of this round of spells was the ogre crossbowmen.
Dozens of spells were cast at the ogres, and the most lethal were more than 20 fireballs. A large number of fireballs exploded near the ogre crossbowmen. In an instant, seven or eight ogres operating magic crossbows were killed or injured.
The remaining ogre crossbowmen had just escaped from the fireball explosion, and now they were facing the attack of cold arrows. Although the professional level of Harland's archers was generally not high and they could not shoot the legendary ogre, ordinary ogres did not have such strong defense.
After two rounds of attacks, there were only three or four surviving magic crossbowmen left.
The sparse crossbow arrows could not threaten Richard at all, because Richard could use spells to walk in the air.
After avoiding the attack of the ogre, Richard immediately released the fireball spell on Gresso.
Because of the awakening of the two talents of powerful spellcasting and flame body, the fireball spell released by Richard was far more powerful than the standard magic. The killing effect has exceeded the standard seven-ring magic.
The fireball fell from the sky and hit Gresso's chest accurately, burning his skin.
Having survived the starlight bomb yesterday, Gresso's vitality was originally insufficient. After suffering multiple consecutive attacks today, his vitality has dropped to about half.
Just as the battle between the two sides was coming to an end, Harland led the flying troops to launch the final raid. At this point in the battle, the ogre crossbowmen had been completely lost, and without air defense, the ogres could not withstand the dive attack of the wyverns.
More than 20 wyverns released the dragon fire breath spell, and more than 30 ogres were burned to death in an instant. At the same time, dozens of lion ducks also released spells. Under the raid of the flying troops, more than 100 ogres were killed and injured in a short period of time.
If it were a melee, killing 100 ogres would require 500 to 600 casualties. However, under the attack of the flying troops, the ogres seemed to have become crispy, and countless deaths and injuries occurred in an instant.
Seeing that the ogres were about to be slaughtered, Greso saw that there was no hope of breaking through, so he could only order the ogres to flee in a scattered manner. However, facing the pursuit of Harland's flying troops, only a very small number of ogres could successfully escape the pursuit.
Just as Greso turned around and prepared to escape, Richard immediately released the magic chain to entangle Greso.
Greso turned around and threw a flying axe at Richard again.
The flying axe attacked, and Richard could only choose to avoid it and interrupt the magic chain spell.
Greso finally got rid of the restriction of the magic chain. Wilde, Lost and other officers took action one after another. For these high-ranking knights, the distance of 100 meters was almost reached in the blink of an eye.
The two high-ranking knights took action at the same time, blocking Greso's escape path.
At the same time, Richard was in mid-air, releasing a six-ring magic chain lightning spell at Gresso. Richard was promoted to an eight-ring mage. After his mental power broke through 60 points, he awakened the talent of lightning body. This talent is similar to the talent of flame body, and has a strong bonus effect on lightning type spells.
Although the lightning staff was in Wendini's hand, the lethality of Richard's chain lightning was better than that of nine-ring magic.
Seven or eight lightning bolts were extremely fast, and they hit Gresso's abdomen almost in no particular order. In an instant, Gresso's vitality was only about a quarter left.
At this time, several magical lights flashed in the army led by Harland. The ones who took action were Butler and Eve, who commanded the mage group.
Eve was an elf mage who had been promoted to the seventh ring, and Butler also had a very high talent.
At this point in the battle, the top leaders of the Mage Corps were free to fight. Eve released the seven-ring magic rainbow spray on Gresso, and Butler released the petrification spell on Gresso's feet.
Gresso's magic resistance was extremely high. The petrification spell did not turn Gresso's feet into stone, but it also caused severe pain and numbness in his feet. The rainbow spray spell once again severely damaged Gresso, causing him to lose about one twentieth of his vitality.
Gresso resisted two spells and tried to repel Wilde and Lost. Just as he was about to escape, two steel golems rushed up and stopped Gresso.
The steel golems were thick-skinned and powerful, and were excellent meat shields. The two steel golems rushed up, causing Gresso to be unable to seize the opportunity and successfully escape from the siege of the crowd.
Several people below restrained Greso, and Richard continued to release powerful spells in the air, including Fireball, Fire Dragon, Lightning, and Thunder.
Now the spells released by Richard are as powerful as those of legendary magicians. Even if the legendary ogre has high magic resistance, it still can't hold on and dies under Richard's Thunder.
The legendary ogre was killed, and the mission was finally completed successfully.
After winning this battle, members of the Harland Mage Association released healing spells for the wounded, and the field hospital quickly set up tents to operate on the wounded. The remaining soldiers cleaned the battlefield, collected the bones of the dead officers and soldiers, and collected materials from the ogre, and were busy until noon the next day.