Mythical Three Kingdoms

On the other side, Sheni Pei, who had taken Gao Lan and Sunx Quan to mop up the Fifth Lark Legion on the flank, also had a face as black as the bottom of a pot.

As for the ability of the Fifth Lark Legion, the Sassanid Fars had informed them in advance; everyone understood that if this legion really tore apart the flank and then drove the rabble into the Central Army, then Parthia would truly be finished. This legion’s destructive power amid a Rebel Army was simply too monstrous.

So Zhuge Liang directly ordered Gao Lan, who was developing toward Heavy Infantry, and Sunx Quan, who was leading the Elite of Danyang, to go reinforce the Parthian flank and force the Roman Fifth Legion out.

After all, Gao Lan’s Legion Talent could be restored, and the Elite of Danyang were insanely strong at long-range attacks. Forcing the Fifth Legion out by brute force wasn’t impossible; on the contrary, it was highly likely.

Yet what happened on the flank was far beyond the Han Army’s expectations. By the time Gao Lan and the others rushed over, the Parthian flank had already been torn apart by the Romans; even Datis had been stabbed off his horse, and Ardashir hadn’t even managed to touch a single hair before taking three arrows and one spear.

In short, the flank had basically collapsed. Even when Gao Lan and Sunx Quan charged over, they were unable to rescue it, and in the darkness the Fifth Legion actually blended into the Parthian Rebel Army and launched an attack toward the Han Army.

This kind of disgusting, one-strike-kill tactic directly pissed Sheni Pei off. He forcibly drove the Parthians out of the way, then activated his Spiritual Talent and yanked out a thousand Vanguard Death Soldiers, loaded up Cloud Qi Arrows, and, regardless of whether there were people there or not, swept the ground with a rain of arrows.

The Fifth Lark Legion itself wasn’t some hard-assault legion; when the main army wasn’t in chaos, its destructive power was practically the weakest among all the Dual Talent Super Elite Legions. But once the army fell into confusion, this legion’s destructive power would skyrocket in a straight line.

Even so, it didn’t change the fact that this legion was a glass-cannon legion. Granted, including the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, any legion that ran headfirst into the Zhirui Vanguard was also basically glass, but other legions still barely had some means to resist a Military Spirit Legion; the Fifth Lark Legion had none at all.

Enraged, Sheni Pei directly spread his main army out in a straight line and pushed westward from the east. Since they were using Cloud Qi Arrows, there was no such thing as "consumption" to worry about. Regardless of whether there were people or not, they just conducted area-coverage shooting. With the Elite of Danyang’s cooperative observation methods, if they spotted anything off, they immediately dumped a thousand Cloud Qi Arrows on it.

Who cared whether it was the Fifth Lark Legion or not; under this kind of steamrolling attack, anything that looked even slightly suspicious would be shot dead. So it didn’t take long for Sheni Pei to stabilize the flank.

However, just as Sheni Pei continued advancing, trying to drive all possible Roman 5th Lark units out of the camp, his own Spiritual Talent disappeared.

"I... Sima Zhongda, are you brain-damaged?" Sheni Pei felt a breath jam straight into his chest. At the rate they’d been killing, another One Quarter Hour at most would have been enough to completely drive out the Fifth Lark Legion, and now his Talent had actually been sealed.

The instant Sheni Pei’s Spiritual Talent was sealed, the manifested Vanguard Death Soldiers also froze for a moment. The rain of arrows gradually thinned and then slowly faded away.

"Ardashir, order your main army to blanket the ground with arrow rain!" Sheni Pei immediately turned his head and barked the order. They absolutely could not allow that bunch from the Fifth Lark Legion to take advantage of this chance to charge into the main camp. If things got thrown into chaos again, with the situation as it was now, they themselves might get dragged under. What a disgusting Talent.

In fact, the moment the Vanguard disappeared, the Parthians on this side, such as Ardashir and the others who had Soul Reflection abilities, had already lost their own abilities.

Of course, compared to the three sides, the one that suffered the greatest loss—no need to say, it was definitely the Romans. No matter what, the Parthian main army here was an Elite Troops group with at least One Talent. On the Roman side, a lot of auxiliary troops were actually just Miscellaneous Soldiers, though with the wide-ranging buffs from the Eagle Banner and the sharp edge of their Elite Legions, they had been beating Parthia down. But now that the Eagle Banner was sealed, Rome’s disadvantage immediately showed.

After all, the biggest difference between the Roman Eagle Banner and the Han Army’s Legion Talent lay in the fact that the Eagle Banner’s buff covered a much wider range, but mainly enhanced the Eagle Banner’s own legion and radiated out to those ordinary legions that served as Auxiliary Legion to the Eagle Banner Legions.

With the Eagle Banner’s blessings and the Will inherited by the Main Battle Legions from the Eagle Banner, as long as the Roman Legion Soldiers’ basic quality met the standard, under this kind of buff they could quickly gain Combat Power equivalent to Talent Elite troops with One Talent.

The greatest impact of Sima Yi destroying the Eagle Banner wasn’t that the strength of those Dual Talent legions dropped, but that the five Auxiliary Legions led by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Legions, along with the six Auxiliary Legions under Ganasis, all turned into trash.

More than eighty thousand Elite Soldiers equivalent to Talent troops, combined with tens of thousands of Dual Talent troops—Ganasis saying he would wipe out Parthia wasn’t actually a joke. It’s just that now, with Sima Yi having destroyed the Eagle Banner, the Romans only had the Fifth and Ninth, two true Super Elite Legions, left; the Fourteenth barely counted as a Super Elite Legion, and below that were the Fifteenth and Twenty-Second, two regular Eagle Banner Legions.

Two Super Elite Legions totaled only fifteen thousand, the Fourteenth Legion had seven thousand, Ganasis’s own command had five thousand; counting the other two legions, the Romans were down to only forty thousand who could still fight this round.

After Vologases V of Parthia linked up with the Sassanid Fars, the slightly more than one hundred thousand Elite Troops of Parthia finally had a chance to come out on top in this battle.

Yet before they could rise to prominence, a great terror that all Inner Qi Manifestation experts could sense suddenly appeared. A pillar of Golden Light erupted straight up, and a Huihong aura swept over dozens of li.

"Could this be the power of a Roman Demigod?" Omzada felt an inexplicable chill of fear. At such a distance, just the aura transmitted over made them feel a heavy oppression; the opponent’s strength was far beyond their imagination. How could a Demigod be this much stronger than them!

Compared to Rome’s purely-cultivated Inner Qi Manifestation experts, Parthia’s side had been in plenty of Battles, so they could more clearly detect the terror in Lyu Bu’s aura.

"Yuanbo, what’s wrong with you?" Sheni Pei gazed into the distance at that golden light, and out of the corner of his eye he saw the look of sheer horror on Gao Lan’s face and asked in confusion. It was just a Breakthrough Level expert; it wasn’t like he’d never seen one. The Trap Formation and Gao Shun could definitely hold him off. Why was Gao Lan wearing such a horrified expression?

"Is this what Breakthrough Level is?" Pan Zhang muttered to himself as he felt the pressure in the wind. The strength far exceeded his previous estimates.

"That’s Marquis Wenn! I don’t know how that guy came back after Shattering the Void, but that is absolutely Marquis Wenn. In this world, you might not be able to distinguish other experts’ auras, because they very likely can’t kill you. But if you can’t tell that this is Marquis Wenn’s aura, and you go up to face him alone, you will be beaten to death!" Gao Lan, rarely, showed genuine panic. Lyu Bu—this was simply not someone mortals could deal with, all right.

"Lyu... Lyu Bu? Didn’t he Ascend?" Sheni Pei was also startled; he still knew how ferocious Lyu Bu was.

While they were exchanging their fearful comments, the Sky Dome shattered...

Gao Lan stared, dumbfounded. Although he had long known how Lyu Bu had Ascended, seeing the moment when the Sky Dome shattered with his own eyes—those who had seen it were all scared stiff, those who had only heard of it were stunned, and those who had never heard or seen such a thing were on the verge of going insane this time.