The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Xu Lai wanted to test Kerrigan's strength himself, but unfortunately, none of his generals agreed.

Therefore, Xu Lai had no choice but to try to see the battlefield from Graycastle.

The Knights led by Tahan are all knights with strong mobility.

But there is one bad thing, that is, these knights are all melee fighters.

If you want to engage the enemy, you can only charge closer.

However, once the charge gets close, it is not easy to leave, and the charge cannot be initiated without sufficient distance.

Moreover, during the charge phase, Tahan and his men would have to endure attacks from the enemy's long-range forces in vain.

Therefore, Lena temporarily assigned Yan Feng and the archers he led to Tahan.

These two people can be considered old partners, and they cooperate with each other very well.

Yan Feng went forward and led the archers to attract the enemy. After leading the enemy to the appropriate position, he handed them over to Tahan to deal with them.

Tahan's forbidden spell requires more than ten minutes to cast, but Tahan does not intend to cast it.

On the one hand, the timing of casting the spell is difficult to choose. If you cast it too fast, you may hurt your own people. If you cast it too slow, the enemy is not a fool and will try to use the forbidden spell.

On the other hand, even if the enemy was trapped, he chose the largest attack range.

But after all, the legs are on other people's bodies. As long as they are not stupid enough to stay within the range of the forbidden spell, most people can eventually escape.

For the sake of a test with immeasurable results, he had to use a forbidden spell that could only be released once a month, and at the same time bear the penalty of not being able to release air spells during this month.

This time when Tahan went back, he also visited several magic guilds and supplemented some other spells.

But apart from the Air system, he has no expertise in any other type of magic, and his spirit value is not particularly high.

Destroying his air magic is equivalent to banning most of his spellcasting abilities.

It was not a particularly good time, for example, most of the enemy's forces were within the coverage area, and Tahan did not want to try rashly.

Xu Lai wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the demon army, and Kerrigan also wanted to test the combat effectiveness of humans.

To be honest, Kerrigan still doesn't look down on humans from the bottom of his heart.

Didn’t he kill several of the empire’s famous grand dukes, grand marshals, and defense ministers?

But Xu Lai used the blood of countless orcs and demons to prove his strength step by step, and he has real reputation.

For this reason alone, Kerrigan had to be cautious.

He did not even stay in Briston, but led his troops to camp outside the city.

He had heard about a forbidden spell hero on the human side.

In order to break through the City of Holy Angels as soon as possible and rush back to rescue, Kerrigan himself had just released a forbidden spell.

If it weren't for his blazing flames, the entire Holy Angel City's defenses would have been burned down, killing a large number of knights and priests.

Otherwise, that huge army of angels alone would be enough to give him a hard time, not to mention coming back for rescue.

No one knows forbidden spells better than him, and no one knows better than him when to release forbidden spells to achieve the greatest effect.

Encircling the enemy in an isolated city, and then releasing forbidden burning spells unscrupulously, this is a good way to maximize the damage of forbidden spells.

Combined with his god-level fire magic, units that were originally immune to fire will be made to bear fire damage.

Even though the Holy Angel City contained the elites of the entire human empire, they still lost completely and suffered heavy losses.

After learning that besides the magic god of Tahan, there was another forbidden spell-level wizard among humans, Kerrigan stationed his main force outside the city.

In this way, even if the enemy launches a sneak attack while the demon is resting, he and his troops will have enough time to leave the coverage of the forbidden spell, from sensing to the coming of the forbidden spell, and then to the release of the forbidden spell.

Of course, it would be best if we could kill the hero who can release the forbidden spell in one fell swoop.

It’s a pity that he can’t cast fire spells now, otherwise he might be able to try to kill it in one second.

Kerrigan, who was born as a great demon, flew in the air with his personal guard Hellboy and observed.

Unlike Xu Lai, even if he stood at the highest point of Graycastle, he could not see the extremely distant battlefield.

But there is still good news. The conventional combat forces sent by Kerrigan had basically no ability to resist under Yan Feng's harassment.

Xu Lai didn't dare to maintain communication with the two commanders on the front line for a long time, as he had to save their mana consumption.

But Tahan still needs to report truthfully how the battle goes and what results are achieved.

Xu Lai already knew that all of Kerrigan's 12 specializations were ultimate, but he only found out last night that Kerrigan possessed god-level fire magic.

After the fallen angels' attack, Xu Lai contacted Archbishop Durr overnight and learned all the secrets of the Holy Angel City.

Although the City of Holy Angels was breached, His Holiness the Pope once again forcibly performed the divine descent technique at the cost of his own life.

But this time, God's descent was to preserve the remaining forces in the City of Holy Angels, not to continue fighting the demons.

The remaining tens of thousands of priests, more than three thousand priests, more than a thousand knights and about 800 angels in the City of Holy Angel were teleported by the Pope's divine power to the Southern Cathedral, which had remained intact.

Currently, the temple is temporarily governed by the Patriarch of the Southern Cathedral, Archbishop Mannis Crimson.

Among the acquaintances Xu Lai knew, Lina's master Archangel Gilad was missing, Neil from the Capital Cathedral, and the Northeast Patriarch Kemiller were all killed in the battle.

The losses of the several knightly orders that remained in the City of Holy Angel were even more tragic, with the smallest number of knights losing more than half of their men, and all the members of the First Knights were killed.

Even Elena's master, Ryan, the first high priest Xu Lai met and later promoted to archangel, died in the Holy Angel City.

Xu Lai didn't dare tell Elena this news. After they separated on the grassland, the master and disciple had never seen each other again.

In the temple, among the remaining Crimson Archbishops, except Wright and Xu Lai, who were old acquaintances, the others were not familiar with Xu Lai.

However, ever since Wright forced Xu Lai to send troops in Hantan City and Xu Lai refused, the two sides have had grudges.

It is said that the last order from His Holiness the Pope was to have them go north and reunite with the knights and priests who remained in Qingfeng City.

However, this order seems to have been forgotten after the Pope's death.

When Knight Commander Morrison brought it up, Wright rejected it on the grounds that all eggs should not be put in one basket and that the fire of the temple should be preserved at this time.

Even Wright, an old acquaintance of Xu Lai, said so. The others who had no friendship with Xu Lai at all, including several archbishops whose heroes they supported, had no reason to refute.

In fact, it doesn’t matter to Xu Lai whether they come to meet up or not.

At most he felt sorry for the few hundred angels left. If he could recruit these 800 angels, his angel army would have the capital to fight against Kerrigan.

Now, Xu Lai can only manage the sky above his head. Once out of this area, he dare not let his angels and demons fight against each other. The good news is that Kerrigan's god-level skills cannot be used for the time being.

Any fire spell, even one cast from a spell scroll, will be ineffective.

The special effect of Kerrigan's god-level fire magic is flame penetration, which can eliminate 25% of fire resistance.

All spell damage, after experiencing magic resistance, will also be subject to resistance reduction.

This resistance is different for each person. For example, the mountain people who belong to the tower camp and have lived in the snow-capped mountains for a long time have a natural resistance to frost.

There is also the demon's own flame skin, which is also a kind of resistance.

Although humans in other regions do not have this innate resistance to water and fire, they do have natural resistance brought about by their physique.

Especially for a knight with extremely high physique like Xu Lai, even if he has no natural resistance, high physique can bring at least 15%-20% resistance reduction.

As for those fire-immune units, such as Firebird, Phoenix and Seraph, etc.

They are equivalent to having 100% fire resistance, and are therefore immune to all fire damage.

However, when facing Kerrigan who possesses god-level fire magic, even the fire-immune Seraph will suffer 25% fire damage.

This includes the black dragon that is immune to 1st-5th level magic. As long as the spell is a fire spell, even the black dragon that is immune to magic will still suffer 25% fire damage.

People like Xu Lai, who have no natural resistance, will be directly reduced to zero or even negative values.

When the resistance becomes negative, the body will become vulnerable to a certain attribute and need to withstand additional damage.

Take a general 6th-level knight as an example. The knight itself is a profession with relatively high physical growth. The resistance of a knight of this level is usually above 10%.

After being penetrated by flames, the flame resistance is -15%, making the body vulnerable to fire. For 100 points of fire damage, at least 115 health points will be deducted, or even more.

The bad news is that there are only 27 days left before Kerrigan can cast fire spells again.

By then, if Kerrigan comes to Graycastle and sets one on him, even if Xu Lai is not trapped, he will have to abandon Graycastle.

Without the support of god-level fire magic and unable to cast fire spells, Kerrigan and his troops did not display any overwhelming strength.

The horse archers, whose attack was accelerated by Tahan, were extremely fast. In each round of shooting, not all of them hit the target, but at least most of them could be hit.

The range is extremely long, farther than that of Lava Trolls of the same level. After the damage is halved, with the damage reduction of the Ultimate Defense, although not much damage is caused, it is always at an advantage.

In the past, as long as there was output, even if the output was low, it could cause considerable casualties through continuous accumulation.

But things are different now. About 500 fallen angels flew out from the demon camp.

These fallen angels no longer possessed divine powers, but although they were corrupted, their fighting power was not reduced at all.

Not only did their combat effectiveness not decrease, they even gained an additional healing ability.

Of course, this healing ability is only for units from the evil camp.

It is a great harm to humans and warriors of other holy camps.

The fallen angels, using fel energy, can heal the undead, dungeons, and demons.

More than 10,000 horse archers shot out all their quivers, which only consumed a lot of the fallen angels' mana. At most, they sent some demons to the incubation pool to heal.

Correspondingly, the demons were unable to achieve any results.

The long-range troops sent out by Kerrigan didn't have the range to reach the target, and even less the speed.

The only ones who can compete with the archers in speed are demons and fallen angels.

Kerrigan did not allow the demons and fallen angels to attack. After all, humans did not use any top-notch forces.

As for the Winged Demons, they are just there to serve as food, so there is no need to send them out to drain our own morale.

This round of probing by both sides yielded no other results except for finding out the ultimate logistics, ultimate archery, and the devil's ultimate defense, which were already known information.

Xu Lai did not appear on the battlefield, nor did the Angel Alliance. The only thing that had a significant impact on the battle on both sides was the flag of the Knight Wind Legion.

On Kerrigan's side, the troops were almost in a state of standing still. Not only were most of the troops not mobilized, but even the artifacts and various props were not used.

Tahan was very dissatisfied with this result. He personally organized a team of people and launched a charge against the fallen angels who appeared on the front line.

This is a team of recruited brave knights, their level is 8th. With the bonus of Tahan's talent, they are more powerful than ordinary 8th level warriors.

What's more, they are still in a charging state at this time. As long as they are not killed, any damage can only be converted into their offensive ability.

A large number of brave knights charging forward is extremely terrifying. Kerrigan and his men already knew this when they were fighting against the Western Empire.

And with the bonus of the Knight's Wind flag, the bonus of Tahan's talent, as well as the bonus of attack acceleration and full morale.

The speed of this team of knights far exceeded any cavalry charge the demons had ever seen.

The key point is that this team of knights not only accelerates quickly, but also reaches a speed limit that far exceeds that of ordinary brave knights.

For knights, speed is life and damage.

Before they even reached the attacking distance of the lava trolls' straight arrows, the group of lava trolls couldn't wait to throw out huge fireballs in their hands that were as big as bathtubs.

But this was just a test, so Tahan only selected a team of brave knights, with a total number of less than 50 people.

Therefore, these knights were not distributed densely with each other, and the huge fireball with group attack effect did not cause exaggerated damage.

But even so, the damage inflicted by the lava trolls is extremely exaggerated.

Kerrigan didn't send too many lava trolls, only about 3000.

Among these 3000 lava trolls, only the few hundred in the front row can fully unleash their firepower.

But with a volley of fire from these hundreds of lava trolls, the twelve knights in the front row in a cone shape were instantly killed on the way to the charge.

You know, these knights have an extra 5-point physical bonus from the God of War statue, as well as the blessing of the sacred blood bottle from the legion commander Xu Lai.

In the second round, even more knights were attacked. Not only were all 24 knights in the second row killed, but the 12 knights in the last row also had less than half of their health left due to splash damage.

However, the lava trolls did not have time to launch a third round of attack as the knight's speed was still too exaggerated.

From the time he started accelerating to the attack distance, it only took about 5 seconds to cross the three or four hundred meter battlefield.

The last 12 knights used their speed and the damage they suffered to convert all of it into horrific damage.

With the terrifying blessing of god-level offensive techniques, they instantly tore apart the bodies of the lava trolls in the front row.

And with the help of the charge, the damage was reduced a lot, tearing the second and third lava trolls apart. (End of this chapter)