"Kill!"
Fatis charged at the very front.
Of course, being at the very front only meant he was half a horse-head ahead of the Swadian Knights and Swadian Heavy Cavalry beside him.
He hadn't completely broken away from the formation of the Swadian Heavy Cavalry cluster behind him.
Because Fatis knew very well that once he broke away from the formation of the Swadian Heavy Cavalry cluster beside him, it would mean being isolated, it would mean actively giving up the Swadian Heavy Cavalry cluster's most powerful charge capability.
If these Undead Monsters surrounded him then, he would be in considerable danger.
But now, with the charge of the Swadian Heavy Cavalry cluster beside him, Fatis was quite safe.
Just like now.
Fatis pointed the lance in his right hand forward. The Swadian Warhorse beneath him also galloped forward rapidly. With his left hand, he held up his fan-shaped shield to block the continuous rain of arrows shooting out from the black mist. He let the arrows hit his shield, his chainmail, his armguards, and the chainmail boots he wore, making crackling sounds.
He still showed no sign of being moved at all. Instead, he used his feet to push against the stirrups and heavily kicked the horse's belly.
To make the warhorse beneath him understand his intention.
To gallop even faster.
And from the preparatory trotting charge stance, within about 20 meters of the black mist, he entered a full-speed charge stance as his pace quickened.
As the surrounding Swadian Knights and Swadian Heavy Cavalry all matched his frequency and entered a full-speed charge stance.
A flood like a breached dam had appeared on this battlefield, rushing into the vast stretch of black mist.
Whistling as it arrived.
"Kill!"
Whether it was Fatis or the Swadian Knight Heavy Cavalry beside him, they all raised the nearly three-meter-long lances tightly gripped in their right hands and tucked under their armpits.
Pushing the armored Swadian Warhorses beneath them, they crashed headlong into the black mist.
And saw the Skeleton hidden within the black mist.
Then came the lance flashing with white Holy Light flames, pointed at the Skeleton in front. There was no intention to aim; he simply tucked the shaft tightly under his armpit and thrust it straight in.
Following that were the crackling sounds of countless Skeleton.
The sharp lance, loaded with white Holy Light flames, easily pierced through the bony, skeletal bodies of the Skeleton, which were filled with negative energy.
And with the momentum of the heavy cavalry charge, the Skeleton were unable to offer even the slightest resistance to the charge of these heavy armored cavalry clusters. They were instantly shattered into pieces by the terrifying force applied to their scattered skeletal frames.
Some Skeleton directly hit by the lance were even covered by the white Holy Light flames, instantly bursting into white flames.
In a short time, they were burned to ashes.
Quite miserable.
But even more miserable were the hundreds and thousands of Skeleton within the black mist.
Even though the Skeleton in the black mist organized themselves into groups, and even Skeleton pikemen formed makeshift pike formations, raising their already decayed three-meter-long pikes and actively obstructing the charge of the Swadian Heavy Armored Cavalry cluster.
But this resistance was extremely weak and powerless.
Even the Swadian Knights and Swadian Heavy Cavalry, even when they saw the pike formations appearing before them in the black mist, showed no fear on their faces. Instead, their ferocity was ignited. Gritting their teeth, they tightly gripped the lances in their hands and charged head-on into the pike formations.
Like a collision between Mars and Earth, they directly relied on the excellence of their armor, the sharpness of their lances, and the aid of the Holy Light flames attached to their lances, crashing straight into the pike formations formed by the Skeleton pikemen.
Instantly, the already decayed weapons in the hands of the Skeleton pikemen shattered with crackling sounds.
Then, when they struck the chainmail of the Swadian Knights and the chainmail of the Swadian Heavy Cavalry, they shattered instantly, causing no obstruction to these Swadian heavy armored clusters and inflicting little damage. Apart from the resulting debris getting stuck in the gaps of the small iron rings, which might make the subsequent cleanup work more difficult, there was no other trouble that could make the Swadian heavy armored cavalry clusters feel uncomfortable.
Instead, these Skeleton pikemen, because the weapons in their hands were directly shattered by the impact, and even because of the immense reactive force, their arms were instantly fractured and torn from their bodies.
Then, as they looked at the Swadian heavy armored clusters already close at hand, and who were raising the lances in their hands and thrusting them at them.
Everything was over.
Even if the lances of these Swadian heavy armored clusters didn't hit the Skeleton, they didn't string the Skeleton together like beads on a string and then let the attached white feast burn the Skeleton directly into piles of ash on the lances, scattering them among the horseshoes beneath their feet.
Simply relying on the collision force generated by the Swadian heavy armored clusters themselves, the fully armored Swadian Warhorses.
Instantly crashed any Skeleton appearing in front of them into piles of useless broken bones.
These Swadian Warhorses, relying on the impact force formed by their armor and the momentum of their charge, were like heavy siege rams moving at high speed.
They crashed the Skeleton into nothing but bone fragments scattered everywhere.
None whatsoever!
"Simply perfect." And on the balcony of the main castle building in the Castle District, Shen Mu watched as a line of steel city walls suddenly appeared on the battlefield, crashing into the black mist, and then, like a vacuum cleaner, completely shredding and tearing apart the black mist in front of them.
Not to mention the Skeleton within, they were no match at all, and they couldn't even create resistance to the charge of this Swadian steel cluster.
They were directly reduced to bone fragments scattered everywhere, swept away in large swaths.
And to Shen Mu, it felt as if these Swadian Heavy Cavalry groups were like erasers. Wherever they charged, it was like a drawing board that had been erased, completely wiping away all the black stains.
So, on this battlefield, seen from above, one could see that the continuous black mist that had previously spread outside the eastern city wall began to break apart due to the charge of the Swadian cluster, who were holding their lances high and using white Holy Light.
Coupled with the continuous shooting of the ranged archers on the eastern city wall at the Skeleton outside the eastern city wall, which were the black mist.
Outside the eastern city wall.
The originally imposing black mist was rapidly receding, or rather, being dispersed.
Adding to this, the light from the Holy Light Torch Tower of the Holy White Council, combined with the Holy Light effect produced after using the Holy Light Enchantment Scroll.
Anyone with discerning eyes could see that the massive Undead Monster army's attack outside the eastern city wall had been thwarted, and because the loss of Undead Monsters was simply too great, they were now forced to begin retreating.
After all, before, the Undead Monster army could still damage the Deherim city wall, and could form ramps made of bones to attack the city wall.
But now, with the Swadian heavy armored Knights sweeping the Undead Monster army on the flat terrain outside the eastern city wall.
Even if the Undead Monster army was numerous, they were already forced to start withdrawing from the eastern city wall due to the disruption caused by these heavy armored cavalry clusters. They couldn't even attend to the ramps and began to concentrate their forces to resist the impact of the heavy armored cavalry clusters.
Otherwise, if they remained in loose infantry formations of hundreds as before.
How could they withstand the impact of heavy armored cavalry clusters?
Among these Undead Monster armies, there were indeed some Wood Elf Skeleton with tactical experience serving as command nodes. Although their intelligence was not high, they understood basic tactical arrangements.
Crucially, Ludwig was also among them, transmitting his will to the Wood Elf Skeleton serving as command nodes, making them control the lower-level Skeleton to form pike formations, archer formations, formations for assault, resistance, and defense.
The purpose was to use the last capabilities of these Undead Monster armies to delay the charge of the Human Clan heavy armored cavalry clusters, who were charging like a destructive force, tearing apart all resistance from the Undead Monster army.
To delay for a certain time and space, allowing Ludwig to retreat quickly.
"I must leave quickly. My magic consumption has been too great, and the accumulated extraordinary power around me has also been depleted too much after the three spells I cast earlier."
Ludwig was now frantically fleeing. His figure truly seemed like a translucent ghost, rapidly moving through the black mist, trying to leave the immediate vicinity of the eastern city wall.
At this moment, he also felt some regret, feeling that he had been too careless before, actually rushing to such a close distance to the eastern city wall.
As a result, when he wanted to leave now, he found that the space to leave had become limited to fleeing further east due to the Human Clan cavalry flanking from both the south and the north. But fleeing to the furthest east was also the longest distance.
It was as if he had brought trouble upon himself.
But there was nothing he could do.
Ludwig could only grit his teeth and retreat quickly.
However, just when he had retreated halfway, for some unknown reason, he suddenly felt a special sense of palpitation in his heart. Of course, he had no heart and no true biological emotions; this was just a powerful sixth sense bestowed upon him by the death spirit rules.
And this feeling also made Ludwig subconsciously hide behind a group of Skeleton while running and fleeing rapidly.
This was a group of Skeleton with shields and longswords, belonging to the assault force, but they happened to be able to serve as humanoid defensive shields under Ludwig's control, forming a shield wall to protect Ludwig.
However, just as these Skeleton with shields and longswords had formed a shield wall, in less than half a second, a series of sharp screams appeared from the sky.
As a Wood Elf, Ludwig was not at all unfamiliar with this screaming sound.
Because this screaming sound was the whistling sound produced by arrows tearing through the air after being shot. At this moment, it was getting closer and closer to the area where Ludwig was located from the sky. Before he could react, he saw white light spots appearing in the black mist, so much so that the dense black mist tried to avoid them, causing large holes to appear, and then they fell among them like the heaviest downpour, with crackling sounds.
Leaving those Skeleton who had originally formed a shield wall completely defenseless, they were pinned down by the dense rain of arrows hitting their bodies.
Then the white flames appearing on the arrows began to engulf these Skeleton.
Burning them directly into ashes.
"How is this possible? How could those Human Clan cavalry reach here so quickly?" Ludwig was even more shocked at this moment, watching the Skeleton who had formed a shield wall being burned directly into ashes.
He couldn't help but grit his teeth and look up towards the west.
And just ahead, he suddenly noticed that those Human Clan cavalry archers, who were like centaurs, were not only drawing their bows and arrows to cover the surrounding Undead Skeleton with a rain of arrows.
Many Human Clan cavalry archers also drew the Nomadic Scimitars in their hands, also covered with white flames, and were wantonly slashing among the groups of Skeleton.
Each slash caused the Nomadic Scimitar to erupt with dazzling white light.
Leaving the resisting Skeleton with no ability to fight back, their bones were directly cut off by the Nomadic Scimitar, and then covered by the white flames on the Nomadic Scimitar, finally burning directly into bone ash all over the ground.
Although the charge capability of these Human Clan cavalry archers was not strong, their ability to fight in close quarters and shoot arrows from a relatively long distance.
Instead, brought Ludwig a greater sense of crisis.
After all, those Human Clan heavy armored cavalry clusters were like axes, capable of cleaving through any enemy formation in front of them.
But as long as you didn't get close, there was no danger.
But these Human Clan cavalry archers, who held bows and arrows, Nomadic Scimitars, and spears, and were like centaurs, were different.
These Human Clan Knights were like thrown axes.
Not only were they incredibly powerful.
But you also didn't know where the thrown axe would land. As long as it landed on you, you would definitely be severely injured.
Ludwig looked at the Human Clan cavalry archers who had directly broken through to his surroundings, looking as if they wanted to meet up with the Human Clan heavy armored clusters, and felt an increasing sense of suffocation in his heart.
The last time he felt this way was during the End War, when the order faction he represented was about to be defeated. (End of this chapter)
