Chapter 176: Millions of troops & tens of thousands of souls, pierced!
Lugal proudly raised his head and opened his arms towards the sun, as if he was embracing the world, or as if he was trying to bring everything in the world under his control.
As he moved, the sound of crisp horse hooves suddenly rang out in the battlefield space filled with yellow sand.
The dust that covered the sky was instantly torn away by an invisible giant hand. When the last wisp of dust dissipated, everyone gasped in shock at the scene before them.
On the endless battlefield, countless warriors dressed in bright silver steel armor appeared quietly, and the air was filled with a strong bloodiness that belonged only to an army that had experienced hundreds of battles.
"Is this... a million-strong army?" Hua Ling was forced back half a step by this powerful momentum and couldn't help but start to worry.
Although Lugal claimed that the soldiers before him numbered a million, the actual number was only tens of thousands at most. But even so, Hua Ling was not sure if he could stop them all.
"Soldiers, don't be afraid, charge for me!" Lugal's command rang out like a loud bell.
Suddenly, the war horses neighed, and the crowd quickly gathered into a silver torrent, rushing towards Hua Ling and the imperial fairies protected by her behind her, raising billowing dust wherever they went.
"Not good, Ye Luoli magic, endless life, spirits are linked together, and there are forests of flowers."
Faced with such a surging torrent of troops, Hua Ling did not dare to slack off at all. If what she had summoned before was just a few thick vines, then what she summoned now was an entire thorn forest.
The silver torrent collided violently with the green wall, screams and cries echoed, and debris flew everywhere.
Countless soldiers charging in the front row fell under the thick and sharp thorns, and were ruthlessly crushed by the soldiers and horses rushing in like a tide from behind.
Hua Ling couldn't bear to watch this cruel scene, but out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of Lugal on the throne, looking uninterested and even slightly dissatisfied.
"This guy! How dare he! How dare he trample on life like this!" Seeing Lugal's indifference, Hua Ling felt an unprecedented anger in his heart.
As the mother of life, Princess Ling knew better than anyone that those soldiers summoned by Lugal were clearly souls, living fairy souls!
"You sinner who plays with souls! If you behave like this, there will be no place for you in the fairyland." Hua Ling shouted angrily at the arrogant Lugal while struggling to survive on the consumption of the flower forest.
But who would have thought that Lugal not only did not get angry or regret after hearing this, but he even propped up his chin with interest, "Princess Ling, you are indeed much more interesting than those soldiers."
"I'm not playing with souls. Look, they all volunteered to become the cornerstone of my grand cause." Lugal casually pointed at the fanatical eyes of the soldiers below.
"For the king, all sacrifices are worth it, and all deaths are meaningful." A soldier he pointed at suddenly roared at the top of his lungs.
As he howled, the soldiers around him also took the oath.
As if infected by this crazy emotion, fairy soldiers in the surging crowd kept waving their arms and cheering for Lugal in the air, which finally converged into a deafening shout.
"Crazy, crazy, are they all crazy?" Both Hua Ling and the fairy from the Royal City Patrol who always insisted on standing with her looked at the crazy scene with disbelief.
What on earth are they doing this for?
In fact, if Yue Heng were here, he would tell everyone that these tens of thousands of fairies had already been thoroughly brainwashed by feudalism and had lost the ability to think for themselves.
They blindly believed whatever Lugal instilled in them and regarded it as the supreme principle, especially the idea of the supremacy of the monarchy.
Listening to the shouts, Lugal suddenly laughed wildly, "See, I said they were willing. Besides, even if I really played with souls, so what? Didn't the Alliance still take me in?"
"You!" Hua Ling was so angry at his shameless remarks that he was speechless. His hands became chaotic and the army took the opportunity to break through the dozens of meters long thorn defense line.
"Damn it, I was so careless." Hua Ling regretted himself.
At this moment, the captain of the patrol team, the agile female fairy who had received Min Yun, suddenly walked quickly to Hua Ling's ear and whispered something.
Hua Ling frowned and said with some embarrassment: "Is this okay? It's a bit cruel."
"Can't you bear to see their souls suffer from restlessness? Besides, you can't hold on for much longer, right?" The patrol captain revealed the dilemma Hua Ling was currently facing.
It is true that Princess Ling's health bar is almost the thickest in the entire fairyland, and her method of absorbing the life energy of the fairies is really strange, but her position is still that of an auxiliary fairy.
Therefore, it is easy to be overwhelmed when facing such a large-scale attack.
Besides, a thick blood bar does not mean more immortal power. In fact, just releasing this thorn forest has exhausted most of Hua Ling's immortal power, not to mention having to resist the continuous advance of the army.
There is no other way but to take a risk.
"I understand." Hua Ling finally nodded, then raised his hand and waved it, and the green vine wall that originally blocked the army instantly covered the entire ground.
The soldiers on the opposite side are controlled souls that cannot be liberated, while we are all living fairies. We should choose the lesser of two evils.
She made a difficult choice.
On the battlefield,
"The wall is falling, brothers, charge!"
"We can go this way too. Brothers behind me, follow me!"
The fairies in the front row shouted excitedly upon discovering that the vine wall had turned into a vine net. A large group of fairies in the back row also dispersed and continued to advance from both sides of the empty space.
Although there were still countless fairies in the front row who fell to the ground because their horses were tripped by vines, the casualties were obviously much less than before, and the advancement speed was also much faster.
"Princess Ling, it's now!" suddenly, the patrol captain shouted.
"I understand, thorns, stabs!" Hua Ling gritted his teeth and raised his right hand with determination.
In an instant, the thorn net that was originally half covered by the bodies of the soldiers suddenly raised countless sharp wooden thorns from the ground, directly piercing the fairy above, including her horse.
This wave of surprise attacks caught Lugal's troops off guard. Countless bodies of soldiers were hung in the air, and when the sand and dust blew, they swayed gently like wind chimes, which was indescribably weird and eerie.
The patrol captain is betting now.
She gambled that without Lugal's direct command, the army would subconsciously choose to split up and outflank the enemy when faced with the thorn wall that suddenly turned into a thorn net.
After most of the army entered the range of the thorn net, the remaining vines that were originally buried underground were instantly transformed into spikes to launch a surprise attack.
This is the trench and barbed wire tactic commonly used in World War I. At this moment, it once again exerts its deadly power in this fantasy wonderland battlefield.
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