My players are so fierce.

Chapter 269 268. Two-front combat and return scroll - additional update for the brothers "Huo Zheng is very good" [1820]

What "War Correspondent" Da En can see, Murphy can also see, and even see it more clearly than small players.

His other pair of eyes is always patrolling high in the sky and looking at everything happening on this land. Even when Wolfsbane invaded the Scarlet Castle, Reifno's eyes were never far away from Murphy's territory.

In fact, Murphy noticed the movements of the gnolls in the Under Armor Hills as soon as they moved.

The gnoll warlord Kenbot Bonegnasher seems to know the art of fighting very well. Wolfsbane's attack happened last night. He can be sure that Scarlet Castle suffered damage as a result. Now is a good time to launch a full-scale attack.

In a sense, Ken Porter's strategy is absolutely correct.

If Murphy's men are really brave men recruited from the local area, then the chaos last night will definitely have a significant impact on the defense of Scarlet Castle at this juncture, and even directly trigger an irreversible defeat.

But fortunately, Murphy's warriors only live every three days, so the vampire lord is not actually worried about the upcoming decisive battle.

It will take two days and two nights for the players to regenerate, but to be honest, their current number cannot play a key role in a decisive battle between the two sides on this scale.

At least on the frontal battlefield, it is difficult for players to form a strong force that they can rely on.

Murphy and Tris knew this very well. They did not stop their arrangements just because the players were completely damaged. At this time, in the Adventurer Guild camp in the ruins area of ​​the inner city of Scarlet Castle, important personnel under Murphy They are all gathered here.

In front of them lay a huge diamond-shaped psychic object. It was like a crystal clear natural gem carved into an exquisite shape with hundreds of facets.

But if you look carefully, you can see that every facet of this thing is carved with complex spiritual patterns. Driven by Tris waving the serenade staff, this thing suspended in the air is undergoing final fine-tuning.

"Serenade Barrier! A strategic item that has protected Cadman City for the past 400 years."

Miss Femis explained to the administrators who were unfamiliar with psychic energy and this land:
"What is placed in front of you is one of the seven cores of the barrier. The main core is placed here. The other two psychic transformation cores are placed in the outer city. These three cores can already reorganize the Serenade barrier and provide us with The city has created a shield as strong as a city wall.

You'll see it soon. "

"About seven seconds later, to be precise."

Tris continued quietly, and then as she held the Serenade Scepter and struck it in the air, the main core was activated.

It is like an awakened living creature. In the shimmering light of the spiritual patterns on it, it begins to absorb the free spiritual energy in the environment and creates a wonderful resonance with the two cores placed in the outer city.

So under the surprised gazes of Miriam and Professor Malcolm, streaks of scarlet light were penetrated into the sky. Taking the sky in the middle of the head as the source point, an eggshell-shaped psychic shield slowly spread out in all directions. It took about a few minutes for the entire Scarlet Castle to be enveloped.

"We only have three cores on hand, so we can only support this layer of barrier.

The complete Serenade is a composite protective force field composed of three layers of barriers. At present, the protection strength of this is basically equivalent to that of an ordinary city wall, so it can only be said to be okay, far from outstanding and perfect. "

Cuisi patted the Serenade protection core with great dissatisfaction and started to operate. The charming Blood Vulture Grand Duke said to the people around him:

"The remaining four cores are still buried in the sewer chambers in the inner city. Considering that there are many ghouls and ghosts there and we don't have enough manpower to bring them out, we can just make do with them. "

"I've never seen anything so exaggerated in Port Chardeau."

Miriam said softly:

"Can it stop the [-] jackal vanguards that are coming towards us?"

"Do you think that [-] Jackal gangsters who lack siege weapons and are very poorly organized, basically equivalent to sluggish stragglers, can capture the original Cadman City?"

Femis asked back, Miriam shook her head and said firmly:

"With the original thickness of the city's walls, even without the barrier, they would still have to be twice as thick."

"That's fine."

The eldest lady said in a brisk tone:
"Don't worry, Tris is just very arrogant. The current strength of the barrier will not be worse than the defense of Cadman City's wall. But the problem is that we can't just defend.

This shield will not protect us forever. "

This sentence made Professor Malcolm, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, frown again. He tasted a hint of ominousness in it, so he pushed up his glasses and asked seriously:

"what do you mean?"

"Let Maxim explain this. He is the military commander here."

Murphy carefully observed the moving ritual stone and tried to analyze the principle of the barrier and said without looking back:
“Mark, report to our administrative officials on our currently available defense forces and our overall plan to combat the Jackals.

Keep it simple. "

"Okay, master."

The loyal servant wearing full armor turned to look at Miriam and Professor Malcolm. He said in a deep voice:

"At present, the preliminary training of 500 people of the Cadman People's Army under my command has been completed, and the number of registered trained militiamen is about 1000. This is the data calculated after counting the five collective farms that are still under construction, and there are The residents are already on their way to Scarlet Castle, and we cannot leave them outside the city.

That can only serve as extra food for the jackals.

I also talked with President Natalie, and she promised me that the Witch Hunter Chapter can gather 500 elite rangers. This is all the large-scale military power we can use. "

"In other words, the real combat strength is only 2000 people."

Professor Malcolm sighed, shook his head and said:
"It does sound shabby, but considering the current total number of people in the earldom, this is already quite militaristic, so it's impossible for us to fight in the wild with the gnolls, right?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next."

Maxim nodded and explained:
"Mr. Murphy and I have repeatedly deduced that on the Scarlet Castle side we should rely on the defense of the Serenade barrier, gather effective forces, and harass and attack the [-] jackal vanguards rushing towards us in the form of safari.

But we cannot fight a protracted war with them!
What we have to do is to confine this part of the barbarian vanguard to the Earldom of Cadman and attract them near Scarlet Castle, because according to Lord Murphy's strategy, what follows will not be a battle of annihilation, but a battle of defeat.

Transia is about to enter a massive construction phase, and these gnolls can become quite a consumable item. "

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Maxim's statement immediately aroused the surprise of Ms. Leonia, who was observing the Serenade barrier next to her. The arrogant bow knight said bluntly:

"Are you kidding me? We don't even have enough people to fill in the gaps between Jackal's teeth. You should be more pragmatic and not want to capture prisoners in a whimsical manner.

This is a military power gap of more than ten times!

Even the Blood Alliance Knights did not dare to be so generous. "

"This is not arrogance or ignorance, rude moon elf, you'd better listen carefully to the end!"

Tris said quietly.

Maxim also ignored the arrogant knight's doubts. During this period, he often had private confrontations with Leonia. He knew that the arch knight's arrogance did not stem from his nature.

That was just an outward manifestation of her complex character, and there was no malice in her questioning.

Maxim always respects and learns from those who are stronger than him, and Leonia's loyalty and strength are the objects of his learning.

He went on to explain:

"Ms. Lenia is right. Based on our current military strength compared with the Jackals, we cannot win under any normal war rhythm. Therefore, the best way to calm down this decisive battle is to find another way. And my master There was a secret plan a long time ago.

I don’t know if you have noticed that there is one thing that we can take advantage of in the current Transia, and that is the unstable mapping relationship between the real world and the star realm.

I am not a professional psionicist myself, so I am not responsible for explaining the specific principles. I just want to clarify to you that we will trigger a small to medium-sized astral tear in a specific area in three days!

It will be deployed at the core of the current Jackal camp according to precise calculations. Even with the worst killing power, it can kill thousands of elite Jackals at once.

More importantly, an astral tear on such a scale would create a zone of psychic chaos in the Gnoll camp, which would effectively isolate the Gnoll warlord Ken Porter from the army under his command.

This is our next course of action.

That is a two-front battle!
While holding back and resisting the enemy in Scarlet Castle, Lord Murphy personally led his warriors to perform a difficult beheading operation.

Once we successfully execute it, the gnoll army will disintegrate from its core.

Given the chaotic racial nature of the Jackals, it is impossible for them to re-elect a warlord to take charge of the overall situation in a short period of time. As external pressure continues to increase, the big Jackal gang that is still united will collapse in a very short period of time. .

I asked Professor Malcolm, and he told me that this is a tactic often used by the civilized coalition during several black disasters.

It has been historically proven to be quite effective. "

"The Knights of the Blood Alliance did often use this beheading tactic when fighting against the Jackal tribe in the Dark Mountains. It is indeed very effective, but I doubt whether you can complete this difficult beheading."

Ms. Lenia said hesitantly:

"They sent out [-] vanguards, but there are still an equal number of elites in the camp. Even if your astral tear can be launched smoothly, the time left for you to act is quite limited.

The most important thing is that the Blood Eagle Clan and the warriors of Transia have just suffered terrible losses. Do you have enough elites to complete this plan?
How about me? "

"We do! And how can we trouble a distinguished lady to put herself at risk for such a thing?"

Murphy turned around, waved his hand and said:

"I have sent an invitation to the mountain tribe where my warriors belong, and in two days there will be another elite group that is not afraid of death to participate in this battle.

Countess Femis and I, as well as Baron Kuder, will personally lead them into the battle.

Another advantage we have is that the three of us have experienced the entire process of Cadman City being engulfed by the Astral Plane. We are familiar with fighting in the shadow of the Astral Plane and know how to protect ourselves from the washout of dirty psychic energy.

I don't think gnolls can learn this by themselves.

Except for my warriors, this battle does not require the participation of other forces. This is not to look down on you, but because while I am taking risks, you also have to shoulder quite dangerous responsibilities.

Astral Rip
Even small and medium-sized astral tears cannot be completed easily. The amount of spiritual energy required to destroy the mapping relationship between the material world and the astral world is astronomical.

Of all the means we currently have, there is only one thing that can do this in a short time. "

While others watched, Murphy patted the core ritual stone suspended above the ground beside him and said:
"That's it! The fact that three psychic cores can support the barrier covering the city means that they can also be used as a temporary source of psychic energy.

Before the operation begins, we need to temporarily overload the three psychic cores at the same time to provide a psychic storm that can break the astral barrier.

Tris will be responsible for promoting this ritual, so you don't have to worry about this.

But this also means that while the three psychic cores are recovering and re-supporting the shield, the entire Scarlet Fort will be undefendable.

I know that in that case, asking you to fight with 2000 soldiers against [-] gnolls will undoubtedly lead you to death, but this is the case in Transia.

Now is the time when we cannot survive without fighting.

Everyone, we are once again standing at the crossroads of destiny."

"Have you ever had a fight that was easily resolved?"

Baroness Miriam complained:
"I have followed you all the way, and I can basically confirm that you have settled and built a house at the crossroads of destiny. Murphy, your bad luck has infected everyone."

These words made the lord roll his eyes, but he had nothing to say. President Natalie behind Miriam smiled and asked:
"So, how long do we need to hold out under the vanguard attack of the Jackals?"

Murphy looked at Tris, the psychic master made an estimate, and she said:

"The minimum is one hour, the maximum is three hours. The psychic transformation cores of this level will not be damaged so easily, but it will also take more time to restart them."

"Then how long will your beheading operation take?"

Count Andrei, who was still recovering, looked a little pale and asked:

"Do you need help from the Thorn Clan, which is good at assassinations?"

"No, you stay here to defend the city, we need you more here."

Murphy shook his head and said:
"I will end the battle as quickly as possible, but no matter how fast it is, it may take several hours, and my warriors and I cannot quickly transfer back."

"There is a way, use this!"

Tris took out something from the psychic bag and handed it to Murphy. The lord was surprised when he took it in his hand and activated the item identification, and a label popped up:
Name: Tris's prototype "Return Scroll"

Quality: Alchemy consumables
Effect: Bind the return coordinates to the return scroll. Using the scroll within its allowed range can release a temporary portal that allows 1-3 people to pass through and send the user back to the bound coordinates.

hint!

The psychic spell of this item is based on Mrs. Trish's research on the theory of psychic teleportation. It has not yet been finalized. In addition, due to the unique instability of psychic teleportation when passing through the astral realm, there is a small chance of using this item ( About 1%) allows the user to enter the [Star World Lost] state.

hint!

The item's return coordinates can be tied to the tester's most recently visited save point.

Producer: [Grand Duke Blood Vulture] Tracey Cavendina Jia Lorraine Lesembra
Item description:

[Do you know why there has never been a mature teleportation system in this world?Use this scroll once and you'll know why.If you are very lucky and are sent to the astral world, then don’t rush back to the material world and take a look at the rare scenery of the astral world.

Oh, by the way, another name for this thing is the 'Star World One-Day Tour' one-way ticket. 】

"Emmmm, I think this thing seems a bit risky."

Murphy blinked and said to Tris:

"How about we try another approach?"

"I didn't let you use it!"

Tris rolled her eyes and said:
"Let them use it, and then submit some usage experience and reports to me. I'm still waiting to improve my teleportation technique. As long as they use this thing often enough and give me a detailed enough experience, then what you have done before I am also confident that I can make the 'Hearthstone' I mentioned.

As for risk
Don't worry about the risks!

The exploration of psychic mysteries is always accompanied by risks. It is rare to have a group of warriors under your command who are not afraid of death.Look, what a good guinea pig. "

(End of this chapter)