Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 417 Monster
Unlike the relatively flat terrain west of Slovens, the east of the town is a large area of ​​low hills, extending northward to the broken area with gullies in the central part of the ice field. The southern expeditionary army chose to camp in the west in order to use this natural barrier to slow down the giants' encirclement on the eastern front.

At this moment, a dim and invisible silver shadow passed through the dense forest covered with rime on the hills. Not only did his footprints not remain on the snow, but even the vibrations generated by the air disappeared into thin air in a strange perception of time and space distortion.

In a moment, he traveled a distance of a hundred miles and appeared on the top of a mountain very close to the Ninth Legion of Giants.

The blurred light and shadow solidified into Lucia's face. He came to the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance. The majestic army formation of the Amodiya tribe stretched out from the foot of the mountain all the way to the east.

The flags fluttering in the wind were like dark clouds before a storm, and the camps stretching for hundreds of miles seemed like a raging fire burning the earth. Even though they were several miles apart, one could clearly sense the temperament that was completely different from the giant troops they had fought before.

The Ninth Legion was one of the seven new legions established after Callelius temporarily redivided the troops. Except for the First Legion commanded by him personally, the other six were named after the ranks of their ancestors.

At the southernmost end of the battlefield, towards Lord are Olivia's 6th Legion and Heldren's 8th Legion, on the western front are Mocero's 3rd Legion and Adonis's 10th Legion, and on the eastern front from south to north are Amodia's 9th Legion, Calerius' own 1st Legion and Hilber's 4th Legion.

When the ancestor personally took charge and several first-generation generals replaced the original third and fourth generations in large numbers to temporarily serve as mid-level officers, the already impressive combat effectiveness of these seven legions underwent a complete transformation.

Looking at the entire history of wars in the border areas, leaving aside those ancient events that cannot be verified, in the past thousand years, apart from the Eastern Expedition Army of the War King Gefulei, there has been no other army with such a high proportion of heroic-level combat power.

Last time, Gefulai led the Eastern Expedition Army to flatten most of the border areas. This time, Karelius also has the confidence to sweep across the north and compete with the three dynasties that are at their peak.

Lucia narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at the layout of the Amodia camp. Although the outside world had rumored that the Ninth Ancestor was known for her tyranny and lack of wisdom, and was far inferior to her brave and resourceful brother, a careful observation would reveal that the rumors were not entirely true.

At least from a military perspective, Amodia's arrangements were quite professional, even not inferior to those of many generals from the three major dynasties in the south who had actually received military school education.

At first glance, the entire camp is defending the outside while being weak inside, with a large number of strong and well-equipped high-level giants arranged in the outer circle, and the inner circle housing second-line troops and food and supplies. According to traditional tactical views, as long as the opponent has a considerable number of elite mobile troops, they can break through the outer defense circle and go straight into the core of the camp, burn the supplies, defeat the weak soldiers, and even break through the center and drive the defeated soldiers to disperse the entire camp.

But Lucia was no longer at the stage of just looking at the surface. After more than half an hour of careful observation, he noticed that there were great anomalies in the flow of materials and personnel in the camp.

The inner circle, which should have had worse treatment and less material rations, instead had a constant influx of transport teams, while the outer circle, which had stronger combat power, could only wait for the transport teams to return from the inner circle before receiving rations. In other words, all supplies in this camp were supplied to the inner circle first, and the outer circle only had to eat the leftovers of the inner circle.

There is only one explanation for this unreasonable phenomenon - those seemingly shabby little tents in the inner circle are filled with at least dozens of hero-level units.

This method was not very clever, and the reason why it was easily discovered by Lucia was because the Giant King's Court was indeed still a half-makeshift team and had serious inadequacies in control over high-level combat power.

If it were Lucia's Northern Expedition Army, the heroes would have been eating and living together with the main force. If they wanted to conceal their true colors, they could have simply put on the clothes of ordinary soldiers or even civilians, and pretended to be sentinels standing guard, pretended to be guards patrolling, and pretended to be wounded soldiers shouting in the medical tent. In other words, the giants still followed the law of the beasts where the strong prey on the weak and the hierarchy was strict, and therefore had to maintain the superior treatment of the high-level giants at this critical juncture.

But then again, being able to do this not only proved that the Ninth Ancestor was definitely not as stupid as rumored, but also sounded a wake-up call to Lucia - the enemy was fully prepared to deal with the surprise attack.

If he were a little more arrogant and complacent, thinking that he was invincible after winning a few local battles and treating the Giant King's Court as worthless, it is entirely possible that he would suffer a major setback in an insignificant surprise attack.

By then, Amodia would not need to defeat him. She only needed to let the dozens of hidden heroic giants suddenly rush out, and the elite troops on the periphery would squeeze in desperately, delaying the Southern Expedition Army for a few hours, and she would be able to hold out until a large number of high-end combat forces including Kalelius from the First Legion came to support.

This was the mistake that Calerius had been waiting for, Lucia's mistake. Under the premise of unequal tolerance, any insignificant mistake could cause him to lose the entire war. Before the feint attack, he still had to pull the defense of the Ninth Legion first - Lucia thought, if he just let his more than 8,000 soldiers rush over so simply and crudely, he would be sad if one more person died.

But a feint attack is such a disgusting thing. If you hit too hard, it will be difficult to retreat. The feint attack will turn into a strong attack and you will lose yourself. If you hit too lightly, the opponent will not feel any pain and you will not be able to attract other enemy forces to come to the rescue, then the tactical significance of the feint attack will be lost.

The tactics must be both massive and ruthless, and they must be able to strike and retreat immediately without giving the opponent a chance to take advantage. This is probably impossible to do on a conventional battlefield, but Lucia has fought with the giants so many times in recent days that she has gradually formed an immature plan.

He took out his pocket watch and checked the time. It was 10:15, and there were still 45 minutes until the agreed time for the raid.

Within forty-five minutes, he had to create a large-scale chaos to disrupt Amodia's entire military formation and create a safe enough attack space for his own 8,000 cavalry.

The real strategic purpose of this battle was to make Callelius and the six ancestors believe that he was here for Amodia's head.

On this battlefield, only the death of the founding giants is a loss that Kalerius cannot afford. Only threats of this level can overturn the encirclement of the seven legions and create an opportunity for the troops to enter Lord.

Therefore, he must not be the first to take action.

Lucia spread out four silver wings that sparkled with dazzling light, and disappeared on the spot as she flapped them gently. When she reappeared, she was less than one kilometer away from the north gate of the camp.

He restrained his breath to the extreme, stretched out a palm, opened it towards a woodland near the camp gate, and whispered an ancient and solemn spell.

Today, there are very few magic spells that require him to recite incantations. After his magic perception talent was upgraded to the same level as the Full Moon Queen, all kinds of textbook-level super magic skills are completely at his fingertips, including silent and instant magic.

But among the vast magic sequences he mastered, there were still a few rare ones that retained the noble casting conditions, one of which was the Starry Sky Oracle inherited from Esti.

Theoretically, the only effect of this type of magic is to open a void wormhole at the location designated by Lucia, and summon star beasts of varying quantities and qualities according to the mental power invested.

But this time, the void wormhole opened by Lucia was obviously a little different.

In the deep wormhole glowing with purple-black light, a strange mass of flesh covered with scales, tentacles, and horns struggled to invade reality from nothingness. At the same time, many powers and physical characteristics belonging to star beasts appeared more and more on its surface.

The jagged and bumpy meteorite armor, the dense bone spurs protecting the joints, the sharp and strong tail and the sharp and hard horns, and the crystal eyeballs filled with terrifying magic energy.
Beads of sweat appeared on Lucia's forehead. He did not attract those followers of varying quality from the starry sky. Instead, he used the power of the starry sky oracle, life magic and dragon language magic at the same time, and tried for the first time to make the ability of the memory battlefield creation work in reality!

The star beast group, which should have been huge in scale, was gradually integrated into a heroic creature with amazing power under his "shaping".

No, it would be more accurate to say that it is a monster rather than a creature.

(End of this chapter)