Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 289 - 138: The Second Divine Chosen Knight and Rare Materials for Forging Divine Chosen Weapons
This made Su Li realize he had greatly underestimated the power of the Divine Chosen Level.
Although he had countless intimate interactions with Divine Chosen Level Knights, he never truly understood how formidable their defense was.
Just like this terrifying two-legged flying dragon, the Blinding Radiance only weakened its melee combat level, reducing its fighting ability to that of a champion range, yet it didn’t mean its solid defense and formidable life energy had also fallen to a champion level.
The blades, spears, swords, and halberds of the Elite Knights could only leave a cut of a dozen centimeters on its body. Compared to its several tens of meters tall frame, this was merely a surface wound, even unable to affect its blood vessels and bones.
Only attacks at the champion level could deal effective damage to its tough body. After all, the charge of a champion-level knight mounted on a Half Griffin already demonstrated its power on Skaven Blood Fury.
The attacks from Captain Constantine and the Half-Lion Griffin Knights made Sandarion stagger each time.
Meanwhile, the Dwarf Thundering Musketeers had converged, unleashing firepower from all directions atop nearby high grounds. The lead pellets from firearms could only penetrate a dozen centimeters into its body, dealing minimal damage, but the firepower was too frequent and steady. With each volley, dozens or even hundreds of pellets hit Sandarion’s body, equivalent to several knight charges.
More importantly, the appearance of the Dwarf Firearms Soldiers indicated that the battle was already decided!
Sandarion, surrounded and charged by the Corona Knight Order, could see nothing and only felt more terrified: "Impossible! Impossible! What happened? How did my legion lose so quickly?"
Hilude, holding a Rune Sword and riding a Griffin, slowly emerged from the blood-soaked battlefield. As Sandarion and the Hesse Territory’s Elite Knight Order fought intensely, and once the artillery was no longer a threat, Hilude decisively plunged into the fierce battleground.
As a Divine Chosen Level Knight, every strike from her could shatter a monster, directly severing it with powerful blows. Even strong foes like the Human-Skinned Wolf charging at her were easily sliced in two with a casual sword swing.
From the rising sun to the high noon, Hilude fought bravely with blood, slaying over 30 Human-Skinned Wolves, 6 Forest Giants, 3 terrifying Giants, and hundreds of weaker Gnolls and goblins.
The blood dyed her entire armor and battle robe red, yet it also invigorated her blood, successfully activating the Divine General state.
When the 30-meter Divine General appeared on the battlefield, wielding a Giant’s corpse with reckless abandon, the monsters crowding the gap in the wall utterly collapsed!
The densely packed Beast Herds before the gap were her best targets for rampage. Wielding a Giant’s corpse, one strike would crush dozens of monsters to pieces.
Facing the onslaught of a Divine Chosen Level, not even the sturdiest Dwarf Shield Array could withstand three hits, and a group of exhausted Gnolls and goblins saw their morale plummet with every earth-shaking attack.
Sadly, Hilude was still only at the Divine Chosen Level; unable to use Bloodline Skills after activating the Divine General state. If she were at the Legendary Level, she could use a powerful Sword Slash during the Divine General state. A mighty Golden Sword Qi could instantly slice open a tall mountain, and the combat momentum would be as if the world were collapsing.
Nevertheless, the innate [Induces Fear] and [Frighten the Enemy Army] effects during the Divine General state were enough to shatter the monsters’ morale. When Hilude turned on the densely packed monsters at the gap, the last defending monsters utterly collapsed.
She then led the Knight Legion, pursuing the fleeing Giants, Giants, and Human-Skinned Wolves, with elite units at high speed.
Under her command, hundreds of knights, along with numerous mounted Attendants, pursued for a dozen miles, killing any potent monsters that could pose a future threat to Hesse Territory, leaving a trail of defeated soldiers’ bodies stretching nearly 20 miles.
Most monsters on the battlefield had already been cleared, and those surviving by luck fled to the edge of the battlefield, praying to escape back into the forest.
Sandarion was the last among the defeated soldiers still resisting.
Hilude raised her Sword to advance and slay him, but at that moment Marshal Oerstein, also soaked in battle blood, raised his Warhammer, stopping her and saying, "Let me handle this; everyone back off. I’ll duel with it!"
Hilude hesitated for a moment, then decisively withdrew her Rune Sword, retreating to Su Li’s side.
Su Li immediately looked at her with concern, asking, "In your view, can Marshal Oerstein defeat it?"
He was indeed resigned; these knights just loved doing such things when victory was already assured, commanders deciding not to end the battle, opting instead for a one-on-one duel.
It seemed that in this world, regardless of faction, they all loved to do such things.
Often, battles where victory was decided were overturned in a turn of events.
Hilude looked at the battlefield ahead, where a large number of brilliant knights and Armed Attendants slowly withdrew from alongside the monsters, surrounding the area tightly like an iron barrel.
In the cleared field in the center, dozens of corpses lay strewn about. The massive two-legged flying dragon and the Warhammer-wielding Knight Oerstein stood on opposite sides, glaring fiercely at each other.
Their conditions didn’t seem great; both of them were covered in large patches of blood and gore, their thick blood obscuring the original appearance of their armor.
