With the blessing of the divine power of 200,000 believers, the bishop-level lighting technique can not only illuminate the battlefield, but also directly cause temporary blindness and dizziness when the enemy is against the light!
Even though Yang Hao was ready to turn his face to the side and close his eyes to avoid it, he still felt a golden light shining on his eyelids.
A bishop blessed by believers is truly terrifying - before this thought could sink into his heart, the sudden sound of gunfire in his ears brought him back to reality.
What's going on
He couldn't open his eyes and could only make random guesses.
As for Bishop Stephen, the initiator of "The Sun", his little plan failed.
"What on earth are those elves doing?! They would rather risk going blind and groping in the dark than keep their eyes open and aim at my priest in the light?! What kind of devils are they?! They are simply devils who are not afraid of death!"
At the moment when the illumination suddenly burst, Bishop Stephen thought he had won—
He was full of confidence, and even had his eyes wide open, ready to watch with the Griffin Knights in the sky who had not yet launched an attack, and the Crusaders around him as the golems in front of the enemy's position were destroyed by the priest's magic, and then countless zombies rushed directly into the enemy's position and started killing.
But the facts slapped him hard in the face, and even spit into his mouth:
The elf in the distance seemed to have no eyes. It continued to aim in the strong light and shot accurately at the moment the priest removed his shield.
Thunder roared again and again. The priests who had removed their personal divine barriers were still preparing their spears of light, but bullets that were thinner and more invisible than arrows shattered their barriers first, killing half of the priests into pieces and even killing some of the Knights of the Crusades who were guarding the priests.
In a hurry, the death of half of the priests directly caused the actions of the zombie soldiers to come to a halt again.
After the remaining half of the priests hastily released the spear of light, they immediately added several layers of barriers to themselves without even looking at the results.
This really surprised Bishop Stephen, and made him furious: because priests are important resources! If this continues, let alone whether those golems can be dealt with! Now it is a good question whether the priests can stably control the soldiers and not attack their own people!
Not to mention... On the enemy's position, the magic circle that flashed from time to time and caused serious damage to the zombies was another problem...
We can't delay this any longer.
After Bishop Stephen finished the lighting operation, he raised his scepter and waved it three times in a row at the Griffin Knights on standby above.
He had to have the Griffin Knights launch an attack - since the priests could not deal with the golems on the ground, he would have the Griffin Knights, who could also cast divine spells but were not priests, drop from the sky and turn the golems that were blocking the zombies' advance into mud again!
After all, it was a flying griffin! Even the elves' longbows couldn't break through the limitations of gravity and use bows and arrows to deal with a griffin falling from the sky!
Although their new weapons seem to have a long range, can they make any effective counterattack after their eyes were burned by the illumination magic just now
Although Bishop Stephen was not very confident, he was at least full of awe and expectation for the objective strength of the griffin.
As the griffin knights slowly rose, 10 invisible elves secretly found their own shelters and hid behind the Central Infantry Regiment of the Northern Expeditionary Force.
They aimed their rifles at Bishop Stephen's head and body from all directions, but found that they could not shoot except by aiming.
The divine barrier on Bishop Stephen's body was too thick.
If it is an ordinary priest, the most he can do is to make the barrier on his body appear slightly golden.
The barrier on Bishop Stephen's body was so thick that it emitted dazzling golden light all the time.
When he appeared on the battlefield, he was the most conspicuous and brightest target! But the hateful thing was that this target was now almost invincible!
hateful!
The elf warriors gritted their teeth and waited for the opportunity to come.
On the coalition's position, the elves whose eyes were blinded handed their weapons to the reserve troops, and with the help of their companions, they walked towards the elven wizard's location with their hands on his shoulders to receive further treatment so that they could return to the battlefield.
Their sacrifice brought significant results: only the golem in front of the gate of the left passage collapsed due to the attack, while the golems in the middle and right passages were still intact.
They have done their best, and the rest depends on whether the demons and the Golem reserve team can regain their foothold on the left side.
But for Yang Hao, the left side was in danger, but that didn't mean he had the energy to pay attention to things outside the sky.
The enemy's Griffin Knights were dispatched. Yang Hao's only air force was a formation of forty Hippogriff Knights.
There is an obvious gap in the food chain between the Hippogriff and the Griffin - the most direct point is that the griffins of the Roman Empire feed on the Hippogriff. Although there is a certain degree of similarity between the two, there is an extremely obvious gap in strength between the Hippogriff and the Griffin.
After all, one is a vegetarian and the other is a carnivore. As a carnivore, the griffin can even fight alone and escape from the siege of three hippogriffs, and at the same time, it can also take away a cub from the hippogriffs' nest as a trophy!
In this case, 40 Hippogriff Knights would definitely be at a disadvantage against 20 Griffin Knights from the parish... But fortunately, they are "knights" after all.
For knights, not only do the animals under their crotches need to fight each other, but more importantly, the riders riding on the animals also have to demonstrate superb fighting skills.
Although the elves' Hippogriffs are indeed inferior to the Griffins, conversely, the Griffin riders cannot compare with the elves on the Hippogriffs.
All in all, the situation is not as desperate as 19 to 19, but it is still a worrying 40 to 60.
We can only look forward to the performance of the Hippogriff Knights - Yang Hao raised his command knife high, and the next moment, the Hippogriff Knights who were on standby in the forest and gathering their strength flapped their wings and flew away according to his command.
They were trying to gain height. In order to avoid being targeted by the opponent's magic, they had been hiding in the forest. Now that Yang Hao needed them, they naturally needed to fly high into the sky to fight the griffin.
The griffin's advancing speed was not as fast as the Hippogriff's rising speed. However, if the Hippogriff Knights had to rise to a high altitude to gain the height advantage before attacking the griffin, the golems and melee troops below would most likely be ravaged and directly collapsed.
Faced with the choice between seizing the height and protecting the lives of his comrades, the captain of the Hippogriff Knights chose the latter.
"Let's stop their magic and dives!" He drew his longbow on the Hippogriff. "Hopefully we can survive until rifles suitable for use on the Hippogriff are manufactured!"
"Then I will definitely snatch the gun from you and use it myself!"
"I never thought that there would be a day when I would have to protect a group of dirtbags?! But speaking of which, is that griffin in heat? I think his dick seems to be getting hard!"
"My girl is still reserved."
Elves are not as simple as humans imagine—especially for those Hippogriff Knights. These elves who have adapted to flying freely in the sky have the freest souls in the world.
They rose from below to meet the swooping griffin riders, they drew their bows to their full length, and the elves in the front even threw away their elven longbows, took out halberds or scimitars for aerial combat from the saddles of their hippogriffs, and then rushed towards the griffins with howling voices.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
The crossbows fired by the Griffin Knights and the arrows fired by the Hippogriff Knights flew towards each other's enemies at the same time.
Feathers and flesh were shattered in the sky. The Hippogriffs might not be able to gain an advantage over the Griffins in a single fight, but they would form groups to surround the Hippogriffs directly so that their masters could jump directly onto the Griffins' heads.
At this time, the knight sitting on the griffin will throw down the ballista launcher, draw his sword and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the elf.
Although the elves have superb fighting skills, standing on the back of a griffin, which is more difficult to conquer than the fiercest horse, to fight with its master is a dangerous thing for the elves, which means they risk their lives.
Not to mention, the equipment of the Hippogriff Knights and the Griffin Knights is different. If the Hippogriff Knights are rangers wearing leather armor and focusing on flexibility, then the Griffin Knights are a whole tin can, a plate armor knight flying in the air.
This makes it difficult for the elves' scimitars to pose a fatal threat to the griffin riders - but there is a saying that goes.
If you fly high in the sky wearing such heavy clothing, you will definitely die a miserable death when you fall to the ground.
"Let's fly! Let's fly!"
He knew that the scimitar could not cause effective damage to these iron cans, and he could not display the agility that the elves were proud of on the narrow and chaotic back of the griffin.
The elves chose to fall from the sky while shouting words that even they did not understand.
One after another, the elves who managed to climb onto the backs of the griffins were pierced through the chest by the knights' weapons and then dragged into the abyss. Corpses that had been fighting in the air fell from the sky one after another - some were elves, some were knights, some were griffins, and some were even hippogriffs.
Sometimes, the griffin will do everything in its power to save its master, but those eagles who know their master is doomed will wrap themselves around the griffin's wings and die to prevent the griffin from taking any further action.
A griffin can easily break free from the control of one Hippogriff, but what about two or three
In particular, some of the Hippogriff Knights circling outside were holding longbows. Under the threat of the longbows, the surrounded Griffin Knights were gradually annihilated.
In the end, there were only four Hippogriffs circling in the sky, and only two rangers were left riding on the Hippogriffs.
They paid the heaviest casualties to eliminate the threat from the air for their comrades, which made Bishop Stephen in the distance look livid and also greatly encouraged their comrades.
But the crisis did not only come from the sky. The passage on the left side of the camp was already in danger. Seeing that the wooden fence and the city gate were about to be destroyed by the zombies, Yang Hao had to order the ancient tree to beg the elves to create a battle space for him, so that the golems who served as the reserve team would have a chance to walk out from behind the wooden door.
The ancient tree responded to Yang Hao's call, but before the ancient elven tree could exert its power, Yang Hao saw that the demons guarding the passage on the left had shown signs of collapse and escape.
"I've always said that these ordinary villagers who are not even soldiers should not go to the battlefield at all!"
Yang Hao gritted his teeth and took his command knife, preparing to go to the left channel to personally serve as the commander. At this moment, he suddenly felt a gentle force surging from the bottom of his heart, which made his anger disappear without a trace, and was replaced by peace and tranquility.
It's Teresa's tranquility—
Yang Hao was stunned for a moment, then turned around and found that Theresa, who had appeared behind him at some point, was panting as she released her magic while handing several enchanted bullets to the rifleman on standby.
"Yang Hao—listen to me! I can take their power back!"
Facing Yang Hao's gaze and the thousands of words that she had to hold back in her mouth, the nun just smiled haggardly.
She pointed at the body of the Griffin Knight that had fallen into the camp during the previous aerial battle. A faint golden light was emanating from the body, and the golden light was gradually flying towards Theresa's body under the guidance of a line.
The closer it got to Theresa, the purer the golden light became, and finally it turned into a soft white light instead of golden light.
Yang Hao immediately understood what Theresa meant—she wanted to create an advantage for herself by seizing the power of the Church of Light.
"I'll have someone retrieve the bodies that were hung in the camp! Theresa, will you just stay here? I need to personally supervise—"
"No! You can't leave! You have to stay here and command! Finn has already led the team to suppress it personally!"
"Wha… I see."
Finn has passed
Yang Hao glanced at the passage on the left and found that the demons there had indeed calmed down under the influence of the tranquility spell, and some of Fen's elven rangers also provided support from the rear, so he felt temporarily relieved.
He stood back where he should be, looking at the bishop's sedan chair in the distance with his head held high.
Now the Northern Expeditionary Force is still using zombies to deplete its own strength. The bishop himself and the elite Knights of the Church have not made any moves. Even the regular troops who are still advancing slowly but not in a hurry to join the battlefield are watching the fire from the other side of the river.
This decisive battle has not yet ended, and may not even be halfway through - just as Yang Hao was thinking so and pondering countermeasures.
He suddenly saw the Knights of the Church in the distance split into two. One group, which was larger, stayed where they were to protect the bishop's sedan chair, while the other, which was smaller in number, trotted towards the left passage on their side.
Are they planning to charge and break through our defenses while the golems in the left channel are defeated and they don't have the energy to attack and seize the position
Just as Yang Hao was hesitating whether to risk letting the reserve howitzer Gorem tear down the gate and fence wall on the left side of the camp and rush forward to seize the strategic position to stop the Knights' charge, the ground began to tremble.
The ancient elven tree began to demonstrate its power in war.
Chapter 11: The God of Light betrayed me!
The charge of the Knights of the Church motivated the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Force, which was watching the fire from the other side. They began to swarm towards the gap in the left channel of the coalition forces that was about to be broken by the zombies.
In the organization of the parish, the Knights of the Church were the best equipped land units among the regular troops. They were heavily armored, and even their horses were covered with metal horse armor.
It was precisely because of the heaviness of this armor that the Knights did not notice the unnatural deployment of the elven coalition when they launched the charge.
When their iron hooves trampled directly on the backs of their own zombies, they did not notice the waves of vibrations coming from the ground that were not caused by the iron hooves.
They held their lances horizontally, and their bodies were shining with the luster of various divine arts that they had prepared in advance.
Even if they saw their companions being shot down by the elves' riflemen, they would not fall into fear. They had only one goal -
That is to break through the weakest left line of defense of the coalition forces, let the consumable zombies exert their last bit of energy, and then let the energetic regular troops rush in and start a massacre.
Then, unaware of the elven magic, they stepped into a trap.
This was also the first time that Yang Hao truly saw the power of elven magic.
There is no record of the power of elven magic in any of the Roman Empire's records—
The Romans believed that elves' magic was essentially the same as human magic, except that due to their own lifespans the spellcasting process was more sophisticated and the spellcasting power was more powerful, that was all.
They believe that elves are natural masters of enchanting, but it also takes time to enchant weapons.
They believed that the elves were essentially throwing fireballs just like humans, after all, that was how humans understood magic—
In fact, even when Yang Hao lived in Caparia, he didn't find anything special about elven magic.
Now he understood.
The magic of the elves lies in the transformation of the terrain.
Moreover, the core casters of elven magic are not the elves, but the ancient trees.
Along with a rumbling sound, the ground on the left side of the passage was covered with excessive magic power.
A large amount of magic power was transformed into the "wood" magic power among the four major magics, causing one thick vine after another to rise from the ground. Under the power of nature, they penetrated the stone armor of the corpse soldiers and formed a natural "roadblock" in front of the cavalry's charge.
Then, the vines grew further under the influence of magic, completely changing the terrain of the left channel in less than a minute.
There was no longer any so-called "left passage". The entire trench on the left was a thing of the past, and even the zombies that once howled in the trench were completely a thing of the past.
What appeared before the Knights of the Church was a living wall over ten meters high made entirely of "living vines".
Caught off guard, the Knights rushed into the vines, and after smashing the thorny vines in front of them, they fell into the mud.
These vines, fueled by magic, have the power to directly penetrate stone armor, and naturally can be further grown to penetrate the armor of the Knights.
They took root and sprouted on the knight's armor, drilled into the armor with screams of extreme terror, and used the knight's flesh and blood as a new base to grow new vines outward.
The intertwined vines slowly expanded the border of the forest forward. The only remaining archers of the regular army of the Northern Expeditionary Force subconsciously wanted to use fire arrows to fight against the uncontrolled growth of vines, but they found that their fire arrows could not do anything of value except mark the high wall of vines.
Not only were the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Force confused, but Yang Hao was also confused as he stood there.