Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 94: Attacking the Blood Emperor
This stubborn and "faithless" Houston is so annoying. We have already lost the qualification to soak to it, and it has never taken the initiative to attack. It is clear that it just wants to survive the remaining hours of the challenge. But it still refuses to give up, lingers nearby, and is very patient, constantly looking for opportunities to launch surprise attacks, and must kill Hades. It drags me down and I can't rest. I have to be vigilant at all times and keep guarding Hades to accompany it. I really don't know what benefits Hades promised it to make it so willing to work so hard?
When Houston killed another level 6 volcano spirit, absorbed its soul energy, and turned back to continue to tangle with me, I couldn't help but question it: "Houston, you have won the challenge and obtained the immersion qualification you wanted. We are not a threat to you. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to end it peacefully? Why do you continue to attack us and must kill Hader?"
Houston still refused to "communicate" with me, and kept changing positions outside the range of my "mental attack", trying to bypass my defense, but directly attacking Hader behind him, forcing me to continue moving with it. Such a battle was really boring.
I originally wanted to test Houston's attitude to see if there was a chance to impress it and win it over, but I was turned down again. It also tried to launch several surprise attacks to show its "never give up" attitude, which made me even more angry. If soft words don't work, then try some hard tactics, intimidate, and threaten with "force." "I didn't expect you to be so 'loyal' to Hades and willing to work for him like this. Of course, being a running dog of the Hades Dragon King will definitely have its benefits. But don't forget that I'm not someone you can mess with. Not to mention that Khufu, Taotao, and Qitlei are all stronger than you, even Silando, Dizang, and Gonzalez are not much worse than you. You should have seen it before, I have subdued three more subordinates who are qualified for immersion, and my power is constantly expanding and strengthening. And Silando and the other three are still 'free' and can spend the next few months. Continue to challenge the qualification for immersion. Although you have obtained the qualification for immersion now, if I join hands with any of the three of them, I believe you will definitely lose the direct confrontation. At that time, you will still lose the qualification for immersion that you have worked so hard to obtain. You are also a smart person, and you should know the reason very well. Why do you have to force me like this and make things difficult for me? Even if for some reason you have to surrender to Hades, you don’t have to offend me so badly, right? Why don’t you take a more conciliatory approach and leave some kindness between each other so that we can meet again in the future. "
Although he adopted a tough attitude and relied on his strength to "intimidate", Houston was, after all, an intermediate level eight strength, and was considered an outstanding and promising fellow among the alien undead on the volcano. He did not want to give up hope of saving this "lost lamb" until he was forced to do so. So, he changed the subject in the end and still gave it a chance to back down, to see how firm its "loyalty" to Hades could be.
"Don't worry about it," Houston finally broke the silence and responded to me. But what he said was definitely not what I wanted to hear, "Don't threaten me. It's useless. The wise and intelligent Lord Hades has already made arrangements for these. Even if you take away my immersion qualification, it is impossible for Silando, Dizang and Gonzalez to kill me. I can still regain the immersion qualification by challenging others. And with the strength of Khufu, Qitlei and others, they probably dare not take the initiative to initiate the 'Underworld Dragon Challenge'. As long as I work hard for Lord Hades, I can choose to accept the 'Underworld Dragon Challenge' at any time when I have the immersion qualification. "I will definitely pass the challenge and get the qualification to enter the middle area of the 'Hell Magma Pool'. The losses incurred during this period of time due to repeated competition for the qualification to soak can be made up quickly and will not affect my development. Therefore, even if you have the power to kill me in the future, Lord Hades will never give you the chance to kill me. Although you have a little strength, it is still insignificant compared to Lord Hades, the supreme ruler of the 'Hell Volcano' and the tyrannical Hell Dragon Clan. If you insist on being hostile to Lord Hades, there will definitely be no good results."
Houston's words were full of pride and disdain for me. It seemed that he was deeply "poisoned" and was absolutely devoted to Hades, which made me completely give up the idea of recruiting him. At that moment, I didn't say anything more. I covered Hades and used "mental attack" to keep the deterrence on Houston, supplemented by "blood mist technique", and patiently dealt with him. As long as I didn't make any mistakes and ensured a sufficient supply of mental power, Hades would only lose, but he would never worry about his life. This challenge can only end in a "peaceful" way.
After enduring the challenge for a day, under my strict defense, Houston's plot to kill Hades was ultimately unsuccessful. He only defeated Hades and won the eleventh place in the immersion qualification. But now he no longer has to hide like before and avoid my pursuit. He can walk around the city openly and swagger in front of me. Seeing the successful appearance of Hades' most loyal lackey, I couldn't help but get angry - just wait and see, you want to get rid of the immersion qualification challenge and avoid my threat through the "Nether Dragon Challenge", I will never let you do so. If I don't completely deal with you, how can I establish my prestige on the "Hell Volcano" and intend to compete with Hades until I replace its dominance?
The dispute over the "Hell Volcano" has been temporarily resolved. The next trouble will be the "Underworld Dragon Challenge" on the 15th of next month. There is still a month left, so there is no need to rush. We need to take down the Blood Emperor Vincent first. With tens of thousands of blood wizards to be subdued, we can also get a blood robe for Qingwu Feiyang, further enhancing the strength of our "Northeast Dead Alliance".
However, according to the situation detected by Feiying and a group of ghost kings, we are not optimistic. As the emperor of the blood witch clan, second only to the blood lich, the blood emperor Vincent is obviously more difficult to deal with than the former blood emperor Dadabenon. There are more than 100,000 blood witches in the vast territory, and its direct subordinates should be at least 20,000. Moreover, it has received more than 10,000 blood witches who defected to it after Dadabenon's defeat. Among them, there are many elites with strength reaching the lower level of level 7. It can be said that the army is strong and powerful. In addition, Vincent probably estimated that he might be attacked and has strengthened his vigilance. At the same time, he learned the lesson of Dadabenon's failure and knew that the enemy was used to breaking through key points and might launch a surprise attack from the sky. Therefore, the 20,000 to 30,000 blood witches directly under him were densely stationed together, one next to the other, leaving almost no gaps. Usually, they kept their eyes up to the sky and focused on the air. In such a situation, if I choose to launch a surprise attack from high altitude, with my existing air combat force of more than 200 Terror Dragon Knights, I would be afraid that most of my men would be killed before I even get close to the Blood Wizards under their vigilant and intensive magic attacks, and it would be impossible for the surprise attack to be successful.
A simple air raid is no longer effective, but Vincent's fat piece of meat must not be given up - if you act too late, you will probably be snatched away by Qiu Shui Chang Tian and Tian Xing who have been chasing closely behind and eyeing him covetously. After consultation with several strong backbones such as Qing Wu Fei Yang and Wang Duan Tian Ya, it was decided to take a two-pronged approach, using a breakthrough on the ground to tear open and disrupt the blood witch's defense line, distract their attention, and then look for opportunities to supplement with air raids at the final decisive moment, implement fatal strikes, and strive to kill Vincent in one fell swoop. Of course, after having experienced it once, the feint attack on the periphery should not have much effect on Vincent. Although some of them are not worth the loss of the blood witch, in order to win the final victory, they can only launch a strong attack on Vincent's territory, focusing on attacking its direct corps. If its strength is not weakened to a certain extent, it will be difficult to pose a threat to it.
In order to unite and help more undead wizards and give them the opportunity to subdue the blood wizards, we adopted Qingwu Feiyang's suggestion and further expanded the scale, absorbing more than a hundred undead wizards to participate in this operation, and gathered more than one million undead troops. We used a mixed army composed of corpse wizards and terror knights to besiege Vincent's territory layer by layer to ensure that we can exert strong pressure on the blood wizards and defeat their resistance as soon as possible. At the same time, we recruited more than 100,000 terror knights, with the terror lion knights as the main force. I used all my men, together with more than 20,000 terror bulls and terror dragon knights gathered by some other undead wizards as the main attack, rushed into the blood wizard's territory from the ground, and directly approached Vincent's direct army. At all costs, we must create a suitable opportunity for the air combat force to raid.
After a few days of preparation, we once again provoked the "Undead War". At the beginning, we launched a strong attack from all four sides and rushed into the blood witch's territory. However, the other three sides were steady and advanced step by step to attract the blood witch's counterattack and minimize casualties. The assault corps composed of more than 100,000 terror knights broke through from key points along the way, quickly rushed into the blood witch's territory, and killed Vincent's direct corps in the central area.
There are a lot of blood witches, and they have the advantage of terrain. The attack of the Terror Knights encountered fierce resistance. The deeper they charge, the more fierce the attack. In such a large-scale melee, the role of an individual is really limited. The one who rushes to the front may be attacked by dozens or even hundreds of blood witches in the next moment, and not even a piece of wreckage will be left. Now is not the time to be a hero. Khufu, Silando and others will no longer charge in the front like they did in the last attack on Dadabenon. According to my order, they will temporarily hide in the large army and wait for the opportunity to move. Under the situation of ensuring their own safety, they hope to play a greater role at the critical moment.
As for the blood witches with semi-free status in the periphery, we are still reluctant to kill too many. We usually choose to force a breakthrough and kill our way to the depths. We don't waste time to deliberately clear them out. Fortunately, they are fighting on their own and lack unified command, and they can't organize a more effective resistance. Although they have caused us a lot of trouble and caused some casualties, they have not shaken the foundation of the assault corps. The main force is still there, especially the more than 20,000 Terror Bulls and Earth Dragon Knights. Under the cover of the Terror Lion Knights, they are lurking in the middle of the team. There is almost no loss, and they can effectively fight against Vincent's more than 20,000 direct blood witches.
Finally approached Vincent's direct army. As soon as they entered the attack range, thousands of bullets were fired in front of them, launching intensive magic attacks, weaving a tight firepower network. In the face of such a fierce counterattack, there is no possibility of taking shortcuts unless we stop moving forward, and we can only rely on our strength to break through. After each wave of intensive magic attack, dozens or even hundreds of Terror Knights will be killed. This is the price we must pay for choosing to attack the Blood Witches, whose average strength is not weaker than that of the Terror Knight Commando. Relying on the geographical advantage and organized offensive, the Blood Witches have brought the power of long-range magic attacks to the extreme, and the effect of the counterattack is almost beyond our imagination. Fortunately, we did not act arrogantly before the war, and gathered more than 100,000 Terror Knights to participate in this assault. These losses can still be borne. Otherwise, we may not be able to disrupt the defense line of more than 20,000 direct Blood Witches according to the predetermined plan, and create opportunities for the Terror Dragon Knights hiding in the sky to launch a surprise attack.
The Terror Knights still had a huge advantage in numbers. They stepped on the corpses of countless companions, endured fierce attacks, and rushed forward one after another, desperately, and finally got close to the blood witch. Facing these subordinates directly under Vincent, they could not show mercy like they did to the blood witches on the periphery. One after another, the sabers whistled and slashed down, and dozens or even hundreds of blood witches were killed. One piece of position after another fell and was lost. All the blood witches were killed wherever they passed, leaving no one alive - only by putting enough pressure on Vincent, he would make mistakes in a hurry and reduce the danger and loss during the "raid".
Just like when I attacked Dada Benon, I still chose to ride on Taotao's back, guarding the sky above the blood witch to catch the fighter, and constantly commanding the actions of my terror knights to try to achieve the greatest results. Since I had to kill a large number of blood witches, there was no room for mutual humility on the battlefield, so I naturally would not miss the opportunity to earn seniority points. Seeing that the seniority points were close to 100%, I would soon be able to advance to the eighth-level profession. This "Undead War" against the Blood Emperor Vincent was the best opportunity. After having obtained a "Blood Emperor Robe", the reason why I was willing to contribute all my high-level terror knights and do this "loss-making" business that was destined to not recover the "investment" was to be able to earn full seniority points as soon as possible, advance to the eighth-level Undead Grand Mage profession, and continue to maintain the honor of "the first player in "Tianxia" to advance to the eighth-level profession".
Compared to Dadabenon, Vincent seemed more calm and experienced. Even when his subordinates were hit hard, he did not show any signs and personally directed his subordinates to fight. The blood witches were not panicked at all and still stood firm at their posts. They had obviously learned a lesson from Dadabenon's defeat and were unwilling to lose their composure and leave me an opportunity to take advantage of.
However, compared to the last time, our strategy has changed. We no longer care about the loss of the blood wizards and launched a strong attack with heavy troops. This is probably what Vincent did not expect . As the battle continued, the Terror Knights suffered heavy casualties, and Vincent's direct blood wizards also suffered heavy casualties. We swept a quarter of the area. After I took the lead in sending the Terror Bull and Terror Dragon Knight formations into battle, the blood wizards' defense became more tight and the speed of the advance increased.
As our range of activities became larger and larger, Vincent could no longer hide and began to frequently mobilize his men to intercept the Terror Knight more effectively. Although it did not show up publicly, the Blood Witch's mobile defenses showed that it must have a relatively complete and fixed Blood Witch team guarding it, which was enough for us to infer its approximate location. Immediately ordered the Terror Knight to strengthen the attack on other areas and try to tear open the Blood Witch's defense line. At the same time, Khufu, Silando and others led a team of Terror Dragon Knights to prepare for the attack. Once they found a suitable fighter, they immediately cooperated with the Terror Dragon Knights to launch a double attack on land and air to kill Vincent in one fell swoop.
When the blood witches directly under Vincent were scattered and could no longer organize dense anti-aircraft firepower, more than 200 terrifying dragon knights circled down and launched a surprise attack on the blood witch group where Vincent was hiding. Our judgment was indeed correct. Vincent was indeed hiding in this group of blood witches. After several attacks, he could no longer hide and launched the "Illusion Blood Barrier", covering an area of 60 meters. Relying on the blood witches beside him, he vowed to resist to the death and insisted on fighting with us.
Having accumulated experience in dealing with the "Illusion Blood Barrier" twice, this close-range attack also had the participation of the powerful Khufu, who had an absolute advantage. Vincent's stubborn resistance only delayed the defeat, increased the casualties of both sides, and could no longer save the defeat. After a fierce battle, Had, who had just lost the qualification to soak and was full of depression, first cast a "fire curse" on it, and then seized the opportunity in the melee and sent it to real hell with a "hellfire bomb".
Because it was my men who killed Vincent, and the Blood Emperor's rank was higher than that of the Blood Emperor, in the "Dead Space", according to the rule that high-level equipment automatically replaces low-level equipment, the "Blood Emperor's Robe" was automatically removed from me and fell into my hands. I then put on the "Blood Emperor's Robe". Its additional attributes, apart from the "Phantom Blood Barrier" that I could not cast, also increased the mental power limit by 500%. My strength was improved a little bit, and it was worth the huge price I paid.
