Chapter 465: Sword Dancer's Advantage
The sword masters were hiding in the ranks of the Scarlet Knights, completely blocked by the tall Scarlet Knights riding war horses. Compared to the Scarlet Knights who killed thousands of demons with one strike after charging, the twenty sword masters were as inconspicuous as twenty drops of water merging into the sea.
However, the inconspicuous sword masters soon made the demon nobles feel insecure.
After each of them locked a demon earl, the twenty sword masters all launched the leaping flash skill. Although this skill, similar to Maiev's flash, has certain limitations, it cannot be denied that it is convenient.
There was not even the faint light when flashing. The twenty demon earls locked by the sword masters only felt a flash of black shadows, and blood elves with lean bodies, cold eyes, and long and sharp swords in both hands appeared in front of them.
The sword masters who suddenly appeared had no intention of greeting these demon earls. When they were surprised at how the blood elves in front of them rushed in under the protection of their own demons, they quickly attacked their targets.
In the more than one month of rapid development of the blood elves, the Arcane Axis building has been built to study and strengthen the attributes of various blood elves. The elite sword dancers have now reached the cloud level only in terms of panel attributes. Although they are a little different from the demon earl in strength, they are of the same level.
The characteristic double swords of the sword dancers have become able to cause double damage to two enemies at the elite level. Under the sudden attack, half of the sword masters succeeded directly and killed the demon earl who was their target.
The remaining half, although they failed to kill the target with one blow, also caused serious injuries to the demon earl. Then these sword masters took advantage of the situation and quickly killed their targets.
As for the demon earl's men, they could not intervene at all. The sword masters have stabilized the sword dance, and there is no dead angle in the attacks around them. The demons who want to rescue their masters are not strong, and they are crushed by a burst of cold light after entering the attack range of the sword masters.
Yes, those who can serve as subordinates of the Demon Earl will naturally not be stronger than their masters. The swordsmanship master can easily seriously injure or even directly kill the Demon Earl. Even if he has the advantage of appearing suddenly and almost sneaking, it is not something that ordinary demon soldiers can resist.
After killing the first batch of twenty Demon Earls, none of the twenty swordsmanship masters were injured, and they all disappeared as abruptly as they appeared. Leaping Flash can be used three times in a short period of time. They all launched a second jump to the next target.
The swordsmanship masters killed the first batch of Demon Earls in a flash. Most of the demons were attracted by the Blood Knights who were charging head-on, and did not notice the existence of the swordsmanship masters at all.
In addition, the troops of the demon nobles were originally independent, divided into small teams to guard against each other, and they did not care about the lives of the other demon nobles.
Therefore, the death of the twenty demon earls did not alert the demon nobles, so the swordsmanship masters' second round of sneak attacks was still successful. Just like the replica of the first round of attacks, the sword masters used the leaping and flashing attacks to directly break into the enemy formation and took a little effort to kill another 20 demon earls.
Next, there was only one more use of the leaping and flashing attack, but the sword masters did not jump to the front and back of another group of demon earls to continue assassinating, but changed their targets.
The death of 40 demon earls in a short period of time made nearly half of the demon nobles' troops without a commander. The rest of the demon nobles also found something wrong and became alert. If they wanted to penetrate the enemy formation and assassinate again, the 20 sword masters would probably die among tens of thousands of demon troops after they ran out of leaping and flashing attacks.
However, withdrawing directly like this did not conform to the sword dancers' innate desire to kill as a branch of the army that advocates offense. Even without looking at each other and communicating with their eyes, the 20 sword masters tacitly divided into four groups and used the last use of the leaping and flashing attack to jump to the outermost edge of the demon nobles' large army.
However, the place where the sword masters chose to jump was not just the outermost. They were divided into four groups, and each group of five sword masters found the four demon marquises on the outer periphery.
Even after being strengthened by the technology studied by the Arcane Star Axis, a single sword master still could not pose much threat to the demon marquis who was one level higher than himself. But when the five sword masters attacked together, the effect was completely different.
Although the demon marquises were all at the level of the sky and had a preliminary ability to predict danger, they only had one chance to attack in a hurry. And this time, the opportunity to attack was blocked by the tacitly coordinated sword master group, who used a sword curtain to defend.
Immediately afterwards, at four places on the outer periphery of the demon noble army, the sound of eight sharp swords piercing the flesh sounded. After forty demon earls were buried by the sword masters, four demon marquises were also killed soon after.
At this time, the sword masters were already on the periphery of the entire demon army. Although they could no longer use leaping attacks for a short period of time, they were out of danger.
More importantly, the large group of sword dancers following the Scarlet Knights also caught up at this time. Although nearly 2,000 Scarlet Knights caused considerable losses to the demons in the first round of attack after the charge, they were outnumbered after all, and they soon fell into a bitter battle.
Less than 2,000 Scarlet Knights were completely inadequate in front of the nearly 50,000 demon soldiers who were still attacked even after a round of attacks. Although it was not as bad as the previous metaphor, it was steel nails piercing wooden stakes.
The Scarlet Knights who formed the front arrow formation tore a big hole in the formation of the demon army, and the next step was naturally up to the sword dancers.
Although the number of sword dancers was not large, only a few hundred more than the Scarlet Knights, their killing ability after rushing into the enemy formation was terrible.
As a relatively basic type of soldier in the blood elves, the experience required for the sword dancers to advance was not particularly large. Although most of the experience was given to the witches, the core soldiers of the blood elves, resulting in only 20 sword dancers advancing to the elite level to become sword masters, there are still quite a few elite sword dancers.
Elite sword dancers can already use sword dance skills. Although not as constant as sword masters, the attribute of being able to cause damage to all enemies around at the same time is the same.
Not to mention survivability and fighting ability, just in terms of output, the damage that sword dancers can cause in a short period of time is terrifying.
Twenty sword masters assassinated forty demon earls and four demon marquises, causing nearly half of the soldiers in the demon nobles to lose command. As assassins, the sword masters naturally knew the location of the demon soldiers who had lost their command, so they led the sword dancers to kill those demons.
Countless sword lights flew on the battlefield, and for a moment, even the bloody knights who had just caused considerable losses to the demons were eclipsed. The lances that stabbed out seemed very powerless in front of the thousands of sword lights that suddenly lit up.
Relying on the characteristics of the double swords and the sword dance skills that most sword dancers already possess, the damage caused to the demon army by the sword dancers' attack this time is no less than the charge of the Scarlet Knights just now.
Of course, this does not mean that the sword dancers' troops are more valuable than the Scarlet Knights. Without the Scarlet Knights' previous charge to tear open the formation of the demon army, the sword dancers could not break into the enemy formation and play their characteristics of killing on all sides.
The demon nobles' troops are fighting on their own, which gives the sword dancers great convenience. In particular, the opponents chosen by the sword dancers are often those demon soldiers who have lost their commanders.
In some small-scale battle formations, there are many scenes where ten elite sword dancers break into the formation of hundreds of demon soldiers, followed by dozens of sword lights flashing, and hundreds of demon soldiers fall down in an instant.
However, the sword dancers can cause great damage, but they are also very easy to lose. Except for the first round of attacks launched by the Blood Knights who broke into the enemy camp along the path opened by the Blood Knights, few sword dancers were killed. In the subsequent melee, the number of sword dancers began to decrease rapidly.
There was no way. Even if the technology studied in the Arcane Axis strengthened the armor of the sword dancers, the characteristics of this type of soldiers meant that their armor was not much even if it was strengthened, and it was still an armor type without armor, and they could only use their bodies to resist attacks.
The sword dancers who did not reach the elite level to become sword masters and could not use the sword curtain killed the enemy quickly, but they also died and injured quickly.
In a few minutes after breaking into the enemy camp, the sword dancers' troops lost one-fifth of their troops, and 500 people died.
However, the losses they brought to the demon troops were ten times their own losses - that is, 5,000 demon soldiers were buried with these 500 sword dancers.
Most of this was due to the first round of attacks. Like the Blood Knights, the characteristics of the sword dancers are often most effective when they launch the first attack. In this respect, the melee arms of the blood elves are somewhat similar to Cheng Yaojin.
When it comes to sustained output, we have to look at the blood elf magicians, the main force of the blood elves. Seeing that the blood knights and sword dancers were in a bitter battle, Yu Fei did not hesitate to order the blood elf magician troops to start attacking.
I am depressed. The Internet at home was inexplicably disconnected. I went to the Internet cafe in the middle of the night to upload. There is only this chapter today, and I will make up for it tomorrow. Thanks to the book friend Jiuyou Pipa for the evaluation vote!