Pastor's Tantra

March 30th, Xingti.

The heavy snow after the winter division was upgraded still did not stop.

The battle on the frontline Black Hawk battlefield has completely subsided - under this heavy snow that can block sight and sound, it is impossible to execute any tactics.

Many times, as long as you take a step, you can suddenly see no one and hear no sound. But it is impossible to stay in place and wait for the snow to bury yourself... You can only walk around in a lost state. Then it is easy to mistakenly enter the opponent's camp and be caught directly.

The result is that the more you tend to defend, the greater the advantage.

The wizards of the Narcissus Principality are good at positional warfare. They can also control the power of these magical snows and integrate the power into their own spells.

At least 70% of the army composed of Black Hawks is seriously lacking in spellcasters. The warriors have no way to deal with this, and can only reluctantly use ritual arrays to protect the camp and cover the spell search.

In this situation where the snow blocked the road, supplies could not be delivered to the front line at all. The only water source was frozen by the magicians using spells from afar, and the only way to get water was to rely on alchemists to melt the ice. The demon scholars had already done their best to maintain the concealment ritual.

The alchemy puppets were completely unable to drive due to the lack of mana sources - the alchemist's own mana was not enough to support the actions of so many alchemy puppets, not to mention that the heavy snow that could block perception had made the alchemy puppets completely blind, completely unable to act independently, and could only be operated at close range.

Even the power of those necromancers was greatly weakened.

Since the winter division was promoted... just overnight, the mana required for most necromancy suddenly became water attribute. Although the mana pool of the profession itself has also changed from pure earth to half earth and half water, the path characteristics that have been chosen cannot be reversed.

Those path characteristics built around the earth attribute mana pool... such as the terms such as earth affinity or earth container, were instantly useless. Now the earth attribute mana can only be used to use the preservation spell and petrification spell, but cannot be used to drive the undead. Those wands and other equipment that increase the earth attribute mana have also lost most of their meaning.

They are clearly the attacking party, but now they seem to be in a siege.

A week after the heavy snow, they have not been dispatched for three or four consecutive days. The morale of the front-line troops suppressing the rebellion of the Narcissus Principality has dropped to the freezing point, and they are only half a step away from mutiny.

Originally, at this time, the military police should deal with these illegal soldiers to suppress them... But at this time, even the military police stopped and kept a wait-and-see attitude. It seems that they have some ideas of their own.

At this time, the herald who had been lost in the heavy snow for several days finally came late and issued a retreat order.

They suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and began to prepare for retreat.

When they evacuated the camp, such a large number of personnel were mobilized, so they were immediately detected by the magic tower.

More than ten kilometers away, the mages launched a wave of bombardment on them - they used magic to roll up heavy snow, condense into a blizzard mixed with invisible wind blades, and an ice storm mixed with high-speed boulders. They also summoned the elemental life army from a distance, constantly firing ice spears for harassment and interception.

Even with the spell enhancement of the mage tower, the spell accuracy at this distance is close to zero. Only this kind of large-scale spell that does not select a target can be slightly useful. However, they can actually only play a slight interference role, and the actual lethality is close to zero.

But the result is - too useful.

The retreating Xingti Army lost the last morale because of this wave of spell attacks and was directly defeated. Then it quickly turned into a rout. All commands were almost completely ineffective, some casters were even trampled to death, and more casters could not keep up with the speed of retreat and were left behind and completely lost.

In addition to the spellcasters, many soldiers chose to disperse and move forward when fleeing because they were not clear about the direction and were afraid of being left behind, and they got lost as a matter of course.

Compared with those who were directly killed by these long-range strategic spells, there were many more people who lost their way.

The first batch of soldiers who returned to the fortress in front of Black Hawk Territory was less than one-third!

At this time, the chaos in the rear finally reached the front-line soldiers.

Valentine VII and VIII died in succession - although Valentine VIII's excuse to the outside world was "seriously ill and needed to stay in bed for a long time", everyone knew that he was killed and was about to be transformed into the Son of the Moon. The so-called bedridden was just an excuse that no one believed.

Compared to letting the Son of the Moon inherit the throne, what the soldiers could not accept was that Valentine VIII "died of illness" only a week after he succeeded.

Going out to fight once, the monarch changed twice - who are we fighting for?

In the most crucial battle to suppress the rebellion, the army chose to retreat, and a rout occurred during the retreat, which also meant that the independence of the Narcissus Principality was unstoppable.

So, the generals of the Black Hawk Territory began to have their own ideas.

- Compared with the local army of Star Antimony, they themselves are the main body of the entire Star Antimony Army. Originally, they lacked upper-level extraordinary people, but now after the "warrior" profession reappeared, the number of extraordinary people and upper-level extraordinary people in the Black Hawk Territory suddenly increased sharply.

Not long after this, Black Hawk has already produced two fifth-level warrior extraordinary people of its own, and the number of fourth-level extraordinary people has tripled!

Originally, most of them belonged to hunters, a profession that is particularly good at long-range attacks, and can attach will and mana to long-range weapons for precise attacks and enchanted attacks. Whether it is a bow, a crossbow, a pistol, a rifle, or even a cannon, they all fall into the category of "long-range weapons".

They can turn the powerful but inaccurate artillery weapons invented by alchemists into precise attacks. Alchemists also made powerful hand cannons for them as individual weapons. These weapons, which have no aiming ability at all, combined with the professional abilities of hunters, can become long-range attacks with a very high hit rate within a certain distance... because the shells can turn.

Just like the crosshairs will stick to people.

Although at extremely high speeds, this kind of fine bullet absorption cannot hit 100%. However, it is definitely enough in the battlefield environment.

However, a big problem is... they are "hunters" after all.

They are extraordinary people who adapt to the Tao, and hunters who are supposed to hunt wild individuals such as beasts, monsters, demons, and dragons.

Although their abilities are suitable for war, they are not considered as practicing the Tao at all, and they are not in line with the conditions for upgrading their professional level... In other words, they can't gain experience from this mode. Most hunters stop at the third energy level - and they are already at the second energy level when they graduate.

But now, a large part of hunters have transformed into warriors.

Although they have lost the ability to induce long-range weapons, the accumulated experience has not been wasted. Warriors themselves have various abilities that are beneficial to combat - strong vitality and natural proficiency in weapons are the key.

After all, they have been engaged in the work of warriors, but there is no corresponding profession. Once they are employed, almost everyone is a "genius".

Just like an old artist who has accumulated many years of artistic experience, if he has just embarked on the path of transcendence after he is over fifty years old, he will definitely be able to continuously advance in the path of beauty.

Except for those who are at the forefront and the most intense battles, they dare not advance because they are afraid of being attacked at night... Others who have materials to carry out the ceremony can basically advance immediately.

The Black Eagle Territory is completely different from before - they are no longer used as cannon fodder because of the lack of a large number of upper-level extraordinary people. At the same time, they are not afraid of being attacked from both sides by Narcissus in the north and Star Antimony in the south.

In fact, on the same day that the army retreated... Narcissus Territory had already announced the re-establishment of the country.

The mages used magic to send this news directly to the surrounding countries immediately. Avalon and Iris immediately sent a message to express their congratulations in a reserved manner.

Without sending anyone to ask Lionheart City, several military nobles of the Black Eagle Territory led a team to the Narcissus Principality on the second day of the retreat to discuss the release of prisoners in a diplomatic manner - those spellcasters who were left behind in the rout and frozen in the heavy snow were basically captured.

After all, for the Narcissus Principality, which has a large number of Moon Children, letting these high-quality blood sources die outside would be the biggest loss.

And these military nobles did not encounter any obstacles or difficulties in the Narcissus Principality... Even though they had only officially withdrawn for a day or two, one-third of the soldiers had not even returned to the frontline fortress.

Because long before the withdrawal order was issued... they had already prepared for peace talks.

It was just that they could only move out after the first batch of soldiers arrived at the fortress.

After all, these military nobles of the Black Eagle Territory all had scarlet eyes.

——And in the Narcissus Principality, those mage lords who warmly received them also had eyes of the same color.

Unlike the Moon Sons of Xingtan.

They did not believe in the feast master, nor were they so greedy for pleasure... but believed in Sister Sasha and the Blood Sky.

Baptize everything with sacred blood——