Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 458 - 209: The Shock Ceiling of the Territory’s Elite Goblins_2

The grandeur of the battle stirred excitement in everyone’s hearts.

Audrey no longer conserved her Spiritual Energy, and began to fully unleash the Dark Energy Prayer. The vast Spiritual Energy enveloped each Undead Soldier, their intensity steadily climbing, their forms becoming resilient, their bones sharp, and their entire bodies were covered in powerful black-red Spirit Patterns.

At this moment, the territorial army was unstoppable. Especially the elite human armies, which left people in awe.

No one had ever experienced such a brutal and intense battle, and no one knew the limits of the territorial elite melee army.

Terion thought that after two days and nights of battle, the territorial elite melee army was already at the end of its strength.

But the army he thought was at the end, managed to frontally crush hundreds of thousands of green skins without showing any signs of collapse.

Yuyu came to Lin Rui’s side for the third time and asked, "Are we deploying the Territorial Essence or not? Didn’t you say this would decide the outcome?"

Lin Rui looked at the fiercely contested battlefield ahead, took a deep breath, and watched countless Rare Level and Heroic Spirit Level warriors fight like humanoid tyrannosaurs, cleaving and tearing through the green skins with their blades flying.

Furthermore, there were many Lord-level, Catastrophe-level, and even Epic-level supreme tier units creating waves of carnage, relying solely on their powerful physique for the slaughter.

The current situation was such that if the fight continued, the melee soldiers might fight the green skins for three days and nights, cutting through them and purging all demons.

Every unit could exceed its limits after burning their will, displaying astonishing combat power, yet the territorial army’s power was evidently overwhelming, making it impossible to gauge its true extent.

If the green skins had no means of salvation, Lin Rui might not even need to deploy the Territorial Essence, taking a gamble.

That’s right, Lin Rui and Galo were overseeing the [Historically Significant] trait. Although triggering this trait would spawn additional tens of thousands of green skins, the territorial soldiers would also receive a cyclical restoration effect!

This would allow all soldiers’ Life Value and Spiritual Energy Value to fully restore.

It was equivalent to returning the territorial army to its best state, ready to face the remaining millions of green skins and those newly spawned ones.

This would turn the prolonged battle into a turn-based battle.

But currently, the soldiers were too strong; various shields, recovery, and damage reduction were causing the green skins to collapse across the line, and the banners symbolizing the Golden Pansy Domain fluttered majestically, demonstrating their military might.

Yuyu happily said, "It looks like we might not need it after all, no need for risk. If nothing unexpected happens, by nightfall tomorrow it should be enough to crush all the green skins, then a brief rest, and prepare for the Plane War."

"Don’t jinx it! If nothing unexpected happens, then something will surely go wrong!"

Indeed, before Lin Rui’s words dissipated, numerous tall units suddenly pushed aside the green skins blocking their path from the rear and charged furiously towards the encircling human troops.

Hundreds of Tier Seven Stone Giants!

This number of monster infantry fiercely impacted the Golden Pansy Domain infantry phalanx, instantly tearing through a section of the defense line.

Galo swiftly bent his bow and shot strong arrows, the arrows piercing directly through the Stone Giants’ chests, killing them one by one.

But the appearance of the Giants seemed to sound the green skins’ counterattack horn, a massive number of even taller elite Black Beastman troops wielded double-bladed battleaxes and launched a fierce assault.

The frenzied battleaxes violently swept through the Black Banner Guard’s formation, causing chaos in the phalanx.

Yuyu’s eyes widened in an instant: "What’s going on? How can the green skins press our army? This is unreasonable! Given the same scale, with our army’s elite level and well-equipped status, no one should be able to take the upper hand. This is very unreasonable!"

"There’s nothing unreasonable about it." Lin Rui swept his gaze across the green-skinned army: "This should be the green skins’ hero initiating the counterattack. They’ve been accumulating for so long, waiting for the family army’s Spiritual Energy to deplete and their physical strength to exhaust."

The battle had already lasted almost three days and nights, and although the soldiers were immune to Spiritual Damage, they were not immune to fatigue!

Especially since they were not simply crushing low-tier units, a lot of fights involved fierce engagements against powerful green-skinned units, significantly consuming stamina.

In fact, long before the counterattack, except for the Holy Grail Knights who never fatigue, the remaining soldiers had already shown signs of weariness.

Wearing heavy Power Armor, yet their Spiritual Energy was depleted, driving the armor was extremely taxing, they had been fighting monsters for two days and nights, and no one could maintain peak combat capability in such battles without fatigue.

Moreover, the green skins’ Mage Corps also began to exert force, bombarding the family army fiercely.

Green spirit magic bombardment kept falling, and the family soldiers’ Life Value quickly declined.

The Knights of the Territory had received Spiritual Immunity after passing the first test of the Holy Grail Champion Divine Hall, whereas the Black Banner Guard lacked this trait.

But they couldn’t have such a trait; they had to withstand damage and then retaliate.

This time, the exploding green skin shamans suffered greatly under this trait; several dozen goblin shamans exploded suddenly after casting spells.

This scene looked like they had made a mistake in casting, resulting in magic backlash.

And Lin Rui finally found their hero among the Green Tide!

A Tier Seven Epic-level Stone Giant War General, and a Tier Nine Disaster-level green-skinned Great Shaman!

Whether there might be hidden heroes beyond this was still uncertain.

But even merely exposing these two units, Lin Rui was already feeling overwhelmed!

The Tier Seven Epic-level Stone Giant War General was manageable with some effort.

But the Tier Nine Disaster-level green-skinned Great Shaman, he truly had no solution!

At this moment, after observing the battlefield for a while, the Tier Nine Shaman directly started to exert force, a dark stealthy attack struck down, the frosty Spiritual Energy carrying green eerie lightning, fiercely blasting the family troops, except for the Spiritual Energy-immune Knights, whether Black Banner Guard or Crimson Chalice: Battle Priestess, Dawn Fanatic, or Holy Hall Maid Guard all were smashed into pieces.

Within a range of over a thousand meters, green Spiritual Energy spread, leaving no grass.

But the Black Banner Guard’s retaliatory effect against Tier Nine mages was notably ineffective.

With Tier Nine crushing Tier Four, there was almost no cost.

Lin Rui took a deep breath and said to Yuyu, "Go to the territorial affairs hall and begin strengthening the Territorial Essence. I’ll go up to hold it off."

"Hold it off! With what? You’re only Tier Four! It won’t be much harder for it to crush you than it was to crush the Black Banner Guard!" Yuyu urgently stopped him and said, "Send the Knights! They’re immune to Spiritual Energy. Now is the time they should charge forward and take down this hero. It’s the Knights’ mission! From the day they became Territorial Knights, they should have been prepared for this. Sacrificing hundreds of Knights to acquire a Hero’s Heart is worth it for any territory!"

Lin Rui didn’t argue back; even the mightiest Knights could be mass-produced. Hundreds or even thousands of Knights might seem a lot, but as long as resources were invested and more cycles spent, they could be replenished. However, a Hero’s Heart is rare and hard to come by!

If sacrificing only hundreds of Knights could take down this Tier Nine Great Shaman, even Lin Rui wouldn’t hesitate. In this brutal world, sacrifice is the foundation of the empire, blood is the empire’s fertile ground. Every force needs a spirit of fearlessness to grow.

This is true not only for soldiers, but for the Lord as well.

Lin Rui resolutely said, "Enough talk. Relying solely on the Knights, they can’t break through the immense green skin army formation. I must help them carve a path of blood, reaching the green skin Shaman directly. You head to the territorial affairs hall immediately and begin strengthening the Territorial Essence without delay!"

The next moment, Lin Rui gripped his longsword, jumped over the fierce battle line between both sides, and charged into the massive green skin army formation, heading directly to the Tier Nine Great Shaman.