Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 921 - The Bloody Battle (Part 1)

Chapter 921: The Bloody Battle (Part 1)

Towards the Orcs’ immense attack, the humans were somewhat disadvantaged.
Although they had advantages in many areas such as in the training and equipment of their troops, the Orcs had their gods as well as their crazy, immense morale that was being sustained. Nearly every Orc had at least one or two auxiliary spells on them thanks to the Orc gods, and this immediately mitigated all the original advantages that the humans had.
Since both sides were somewhat even now, the deciding factor for the outcome of this battle would be battle spirit and the command of the higher-ups.
As for tricks, well, on a battlefield where numerous people were being killed, there wasn’t much space or time for that.
After all, there was a saying that said, “only bravery wins in war.” Tricks and sly calculations would only work on paper or in theory.
For example, in this current war, there was no way to win unless everyone put in their all and fought with all their strength and courage. There was no time for either side to think up strange tricks anyway, and all the humans and Orcs could do was to fight with brute strength.
“Hold down the fort! I repeat, hold down the fort!”
“They are our ancient enemies; we must kill those stupid Orcs today! I can’t wait to slice all their heads off!’
“Men of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs aren’t afraid of war, let’s go!”
“Use every tool you have! We won’t need them after this war anyway!”
Amidst the shouts of the humans, many were also yelling “priest!” or “pontifex!” at the top of their lungs.
All along, the patron saints were the most important supporting pillars of the combat spellcasting system. This system differed from spell systems that required one to use their own magic. The spellcasting system only required the approval of the supporting gods to execute infinite amounts of spells. Even if the number of spells exceeded the safe amount that one could execute, they could continue to cast them. As to whether this would harm oneself, well, did it matter if they lost the battle in the end? Casting more spells to harm more enemies was more important at this very moment.
Furthermore, within the spellcasting system, there were many areas of auxiliary spells. On the battlefield, this sort of large scale auxiliary spells was way more powerful as compared to normal killing spells.
Spells were not invincible. A killing skill could be utilized, but it could be stopped midair by archers. This was especially since in this big battle of the humans and Orcs, unless one did not care for one’s own safety and directly used large-scale spells such as earthquake spells to create chaos, if not, divine spells such as “Chaotic Magic Flame,” “Great Collapse” and “Meteorite” did not really stand a chance of hitting the enemy’s frontier.
This was why balancing between gain and dispersal of spells was the biggest issue that the spellcasters had to settle in this war. In such a case, divinity was more important and advantageous as compared to spells.
This was why in big battles like these, divinity spellcasters were extremely active. This was how it was on the Orcs’ side where the pontifexes, shamans and priests, who were the divinity spellcasters, were praying fervently, using their channels of communication between the gods and the people to bring down infinite amounts of Divine Power and convert it into large-scale auxiliary spells. This would allow all the bodies of the Orc troops rushing forward to be bathed in color, and this was akin to holographic armor.
However, it was different for the humans. The spellcasters of the spell system were trying their best to defend against the spells of the Orcs. However, the divinity spellcasters were extremely bewildered and lost. They had of course tried praying in hopes of getting Divine Power to convert to spells as well. However, their channels of communication with the human gods had suddenly become unclear and murky. Although they could sense the vague existence of the gods, they were unable to receive any Divine Power.
This made the human divinity spellcasters extremely panicked and lost. In their confusion, they could only continue to pray hard. This was not because they thought that mere praying would help to change this strange situation. It was more that apart from praying, they were at a loss as to what else to do.
This was the nature of divinity spellcasters: once they lost connections with the gods, they would be reduced and lose the power to cast any spells.
Watching this, the Legendary Masters of the humans could no longer sit back and relax.
Of course, there were divinity spellcasters amongst them as well who were aware of why channels of communication had been lost. The Legendary Masters were not ordinary people, and they were updated on current affairs beyond the Main Plane. Many of them were already aware of the big news within the Human God System, and they all couldn’t help but be impressed with the determination and extremity of the Orc gods.
Using the collision strategy right at the start was just plain crazy!
On the other hand, it could be said that crazy people were often the strongest…
In the battle between the gods, these human Legendary Masters were helpless. However, in this battle of the people, they were able to help out.
They thus gathered up all the Legendary Masters and rushed off towards the frontier of the battle together.
The power of the Legendary Masters far surpassed that of the normal humans. With the wave of a sword, they could attack within at least a ten-mile radius and no matter how many defense spells were on the enemy, no matter how thick the enemy’s armor was, as long as the enemy was not as strong as the Legendary Masters, they would die an instant death.
With the activation of over 50 Legendary Masters, fresh blood rained down, and within a few minutes, 1000 to 2000 Orc soldiers had died at their hands.
However, the advantage they could exploit from their status was only for this first round of battle.
Seeing as the human Legendary Masters had stepped up, the Orc Legendary Masters of course entered the battle as well to stop them.
Statistically speaking, the Orcs did have much fewer Legendary Masters as compared to the humans. Even if they added up the Legendary Masters of the supporting troops’ races, there were only about 30 odds of them. 30 odd people against 50 was definitely disadvantageous.
However, if they converted their strategy to defense and prolonging the battle, they could draw out the battle, and thus, the difference in numbers would then matter less. As long as the Legendary Masters of the humans were being held back, the human troops would not be able to defend against the Orc troops at all, who had the help of auxiliary spells.
This way, victory would definitely belong to the Orcs and allow them to triumph overall.
Behind the human frontier, “Goddess of Bravery,” who had arrived at the frontline as the commander and was watching the entire battle, paused in silence before giving a new order.
“Activate the reserve team and secure the frontline.”
This was not an expert move by any means, but it would do for now.
The human troops, of course, obeyed this order. Lines and lines of reserve troops arrived at the scene quickly and took over from the heavily damaged frontline troops.
Once these fresh troops had entered the battle, they immediately secured the outcome of the war. Despite the help from spells on the side of the Orcs, they were greatly damaged, and the spells had been diminished from the intensity of the ongoing war. Towards these fresh faces, they no longer had an advantage.
The frontline troops who had stopped down were being brought to the reserve camp for recuperation, where they meditated and were treated for their injuries. With the comprehensive treatments, they only needed to rest for one to two hours in order to fully recover before they were able to rejoin the battle. This was due to the humans having ample resources to treat these soldiers to ensure that they could sustain the battle for a long period of time.
Of course, within this period of time, the humans needed to regroup and re-discuss their strategy. Those lines of troops which had suffered huge losses were temporarily dispersed as together, they were low in morale. These soldiers were then regrouped into new lines of troops before being sent back to fight.
They were then able to use their newly developed anger and bitterness to empower them to wave their swords and fight harder to forget their humiliation earlier on!