Hundreds of figures covered in dark blue ice armor slammed into the Dark Knights' army formation, which had not yet fully stabilized, like cold hail.
The sounds of bones cracking, armor shattering, and teeth-grinding ice crystals piercing flesh all merged into one in an instant, drowning out the wind and snow.
The first row of knights were dented along with their shields. Their solid black armor became as brittle as thin paper under the impact of pure power and cold starlight, and blood mixed with frozen ice crystals splattered everywhere.
The momentary chaos claimed the lives of at least dozens of elite knights.
"withstand!!"
The officer's roar exploded amid the screams, carrying a kind of rage after being attacked and a calmness that he tried hard to maintain.
He swung his sword backhandedly and chopped off an ice-armored dwarf who was rushing towards him. The powerful dark magic collided with the solid ice, exploding into a ball of dazzling sparks, which pushed the dwarf back several steps, but only left a deep mark on the ice armor.
"Don't let yourself be overwhelmed! Shrink the shield wall! Suppress with the magic troops! Push back!"
The Knights displayed a frightening quality.
After the initial casualties and confusion, the soldiers in the front row paid no attention to their fallen comrades.
Immediately block the broken gap and use broken shields and even the corpses of companions to forcibly support the defense line.
The heavily armored soldiers in the back row immediately moved forward, and new shields that were larger and more powerfully enchanted were quickly erected.
The dark wizard in the back kept chanting, and a large number of weakening curses and frost resistance weakening auras fell on the group of dwarves.
More sticky binding spells like mud began to spread on the ground, trying to slow down those tireless and painless ice armor monsters.
With their huge organizational and numerical advantages, the Dark Knights managed to hold their ground in the face of this torrent of attacks.
The soldiers roared and covered each other, forming a death zone with dense spears, heavy swords and foul dark magic.
Dwarves who advanced too deep had their ice armor shattered, their movements became stiff and slow, and some even exploded.
The officer gasped and quickly scanned the area where he was entangled and bound by the huge net.
That was supposed to be where Torge was imprisoned!
But now it's empty!
Only a few broken strands of starlight and dark chains lay scattered on the remaining ice on the ground, gleaming with a faint ember light.
The frozen soil in that area, which was originally as hard as iron, was plowed into deep grooves by the violent struggling force. Now, only a huge empty pit and flying ice chips remained.
Torge is missing!
As hundreds of dwarves launched a suicide attack, he broke free from his restraints and disappeared in the chaotic battlefield, as if melting into the ubiquitous ice fog.
Veins throbbed on the officer's forehead, and the suspicion in his heart was overwhelmed by a greater shock.
He didn't believe that Erg could slip away silently, especially with such a huge body!
But this is the fact, the core goal disappeared from his sight again.
What made him, and all the surviving dark knights, feel even more chilled was the fighting style of the dwarves before them.
This group of dwarves, eroded by starlight and supposedly losing their minds and turning into wild beasts, attacked violently and fiercely, like tireless machines that were not afraid of death.
However, they are not fighting blindly on their own!
On the contrary, there is a kind of cruel precision in its advance and retreat!
Whenever the Knights' shield wall tried to push forward, there would always be a group of dwarves who would crash their bodies into the most critical support points at the critical moment, using ice armor and brute force to counterattack.
Even if it is pierced and shattered, it will still create a brief chaos, creating an opening for other dwarves to attack.
If a dark wizard appears on the flank and gathers to cast a spell, several dwarves will force their way through, under the arrows and magic shot from their shields, and attack the vulnerable wizard.
They retreated without hesitation, and would never return to help even if their companions were killed nearby.
Instead, they quickly used the terrain or corpses to take cover, reorganized their formation, or launched another assault from an unexpected angle.
Their coordination was seamless, each movement like a part of the most sophisticated war machine, without any hesitation, fear or mercy.
There was no verbal communication, but it seemed as if there was an invisible will controlling the entire battlefield.
This doesn't look like a chaotic mob at all!
This was clearly a group of war puppets that were highly efficient and ruthless to the extreme, even... more perfect than the Dark Knights that he had carefully trained and maintained with honor and discipline!
A chill, far colder than the icy wind in the Frostwhisper rift, quietly crept up the officer's spine.
This is not the fear caused by the power gap, but the strangeness and horror of the existence in front of us.
The Knights of the Dark Church and the Star Ice Despair Dwarf Array launched a brutal fight at the edge of the cold pine forest.
The sound of ice colliding with black armor, the roar of spells and the roar of dying voices drowned out the howling of the wind in the rift valley.
The Knights relied on their tight organization and powerful heavy armor and spells to withstand the dwarves' ruthless tactical attacks with difficulty. The front line kept shaking and casualties continued to increase.
At the edge of this chaotic battlefield, next to an ice crevice slightly away from the main battle zone, a small group of soldiers were guarding Enzo and Anna, who were locked in forbidden magic shackles.
Their attention was completely drawn to the deafening battle in the distance and the constantly splashing ice fragments.
At this moment, the snow and rock shadows behind them seemed to move silently.
With the help of Xiao Mu's perfect environmental mimicry, Mark's figure suddenly appeared like a shadow blending into the background!
Without any unnecessary movement, he thrust the cross into the ground, and the Holy Judgment followed suit.
Then the healing scroll held in his left hand was instantly torn open, and soft white light generously poured onto the team of guards.
Almost at the same time as Mark took action, Monica's figure slid out from the shadows on the other side like a ghost.
A lot of the purification dust used by the Dark Church to restrain shadow magic had been consumed in the previous fight against Anna, and it failed to completely cover this area at this moment.
With deadly precision, her dagger silently pierced the back of the neck of a guard who was facing away from her.
The pure healing light poured into the bodies of these dark knights who had been tortured by the Holy Judgment and the Blasphemous Mark, like pouring cold water into boiling oil!
“Ugh—!”
The strong backlash of magic power caused this small group of soldiers to become stiff instantly, their blood vessels dilated, and they fell to the ground and twitched in pain as if they had been electrocuted.
The last guard turned around in shock, and before he could utter half a syllable of the alarm in his throat, he was knocked to the ground by Enzo.
Although their strength is suppressed by the magic-suppressing collar, the dwarf warrior's physical fitness far exceeds that of ordinary humans!
Enzo used his heavy body to suppress the opponent and smashed his head hard to the ground!
"Go!" Monica's voice was as low as the wind, and she cut off the connection of the magic-suppressing collar on Enzo's neck with her backhand.
Enzo immediately jumped up, grabbed the warhammer and smashed it hard on the head of the suppressed guard again. At the same time, Anna also broke free from her restraints.
This series of changes happened in just a breath.
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