Four Split Personalities

Game Time PM15:59

Thirty-four minutes after leaving the Hodir Pass, the Holy Knight Order that had thrice cut through the Mutant Groups finally returned to this place. Except for a few High-Level Knights who could still hold on, most of the knights almost ’fell’ off their horses upon arrival. They struggled to pull up their face armor, their faces a mixture of exhaustion and determination covered in sweat. Even though they were barely maintaining formation seated next to their mounts, they all looked ready to collapse, appearing as though they could fall at any moment.

The Priests, Clergy, and Nuns of the heavy intercept troop were the first to meet them, extolling the gods and exerting all their effort to restore their vitality. A few injured soldiers who had no strength to return to the frontline also came over to help, clumsily bandaging the wounds of the battered warhorses.

The successful returnees of the Holy Knights numbered less than four hundred, a decrease of over sixty compared to their first arrival at this place, and that was under the premise that Motan had concentrated resources to protect them as much as possible.

If the Knight Order had been deployed into the battlefield at the most difficult moment on the frontline, it would have been impossible for the nearly ten thousand Mutants congesting the mountain path to be breached so easily three times. In front of those Monsters packed so densely as if piled upon one another, even with the High-Level Knights serving as the spearhead and the blessing of [Combined Purification], it would be very difficult for the knights to complete the assault smoothly.

It’s like using a ballpoint pen to poke the principal’s caricature or a mock exam paper - stacking them together to poke versus spreading them a few centimeters apart to poke represent completely different challenges. The latter might be completely penetrated under the fury of students’ powerful arms and grudges, but the former would be hard to break through with fury alone.

Motan’s decision to have the heavy intercept troop control their speed to delay the Knight Order’s entry was not only to reduce their exhaustion but also to take the opportunity to eliminate as many Mutants as possible during this period, decreasing their density and creating an environment on the battlefield more suitable for a mass charge.

He was largely successful. Before the Knight Order with [Combined Purification] entered, the Mutants that had been reduced to less than seven thousand offered no coherent resistance. Not only were over a thousand of them chopped down like vegetables, but the knights also completed their first charge without any casualties.

But that was only the first charge...

When the Holy Knights began their second charge, which was when they resumed their advance from the Hodir Pass heavy intercept troop’s position toward the third enemy contact zone, the effect of [Combined Purification] had dissipated, and everyone’s vitality began to slowly yet surely decline. With no possibility of stopping midway, the knights, who could no longer achieve one-hit kills, only managed to kill over seven hundred Mutants this time. Although there were still no casualties, they felt their equipment become ’heavier’, their concentration increasingly harder to maintain, both their physical strength and spiritual power rapidly deteriorating.

Then, after less than five minutes of brief rest and resupply at the third contact zone, they began their third round of charging under the cover of a mass of spellcasters from the allied forces.

The third charge, in a not so good state...

Although the Clergy had done their best to restore and heal them, it was merely a slight replenishment of vitality, healing some superficial wounds. As for the mental exhaustion, only half a box of Alchemy Potion delivered by Luna’s people to the frontlines was available, which was not even enough for each person to have half a sip.

It wasn’t that it had no effect; it was just difficult to make the knights’ accumulated fatigue completely disappear. Even if they temporarily regained a good amount of vitality by overexerting their potential, they consumed it very, very quickly.

After all, this was not any high-end battlefield. Apart from a few elites, the vast majority of the allied forces were Low Rank or even apprentice Professionals, and even the proportion of Middle Rank ones was not high. The enemies were simply Mutants that were just several times stronger than ordinary people, without thought, intelligence, and almost without vital points.

Within this level of amateur skirmish, it was already quite an achievement for the allied forces’ healer team to have done this much. Even for Motan to have played out so many tricks was quite a feat.

In short, when the Knight Order began their charge, the battlefield had long abandoned any tactics and had fully entered a stage of desperate struggle.

The heavy intercept troop fiercely blocking the Mutants, the three combat sequences enduring the major forces of Mutants in the contact zones, the support sequences on both sides of the mountain wall who had run out of ammunition and started throwing down boots, false teeth, and belts, and the Knight Order continually executing high-density group charges - everyone had only the option to ’deadlock’ left.

From Game Time PM15:47 until now, starting with the sacrifice of a Lower Order Holy Knight from the Sun Sect, within a mere dozen minutes, over sixty knights fell on the way they came, and the heavy intercept troop responsible for their cover...

"From two hundred to one hundred and ten people? And amongst them, a large portion are healers without front-line combat capability?!"

Gasper, gasping for breath, approached Big Ear Mosquito, who kept spitting out blood, pulled out a high-quality [Date Pill] he had obtained during a mission, and stuffed it into the latter’s mouth, shaking his head and said, "No, this won’t do. At this rate, you guys will definitely exhaust yourselves. I’ll go ask Knight Ger for a favor, see if he can think of something..."