novelraw Chapter 584: War Game
Chapter 584: War Game
"Good! We can!"
The false king William pondered slightly, then nodded in agreement. Unless absolutely forced to, he also didn't want to break through to the Sixth-tier so quickly. Although that sounded very good, if there wasn't a solid Empire down below, or at the very least a solid Kingdom to provide massive amounts of Resources, and most importantly Collective Sanity, a Tier-6 Immortal wasn't that carefree either.
Because the enemies they would have to face at that time would also be more powerful, mysterious, and treacherous.
The higher the level reached, the more important Collective Sanity became.
At this time, Karl and the false king William together simultaneously took out a Battle Simulation Card. In an instant, the Battle Simulation Cards enveloped their respective legions and the surrounding environment, using this to form an illusion that could almost pass for reality.
"Let's begin. I will make a Combat Breakthrough to the Sixth-tier."
As soon as the false king William spoke at this time, his self within the illusion had already made a Combat Breakthrough, transforming into the Sixth-tier. With ridiculous ease, he blasted Karl and Hulk to death. Following that, just like Old Vere that day, he destroyed the majority of Karl's legion, but three thousand of the Cavalry with the strongest combat power escaped.
"What is your explanation for this?"
The false king William frowned.
"Because this is exactly how I deployed them. I came out to negotiate; could I really not have a backup plan? At this moment, these three thousand Cavalry have already retreated fifty li. Once I die, they will rapidly retreat towards the Locke Mountains. Among them is my successor. Li Wei will very happily accept them."Falcon Karl said cheerfully. Truly, he had come just to court death, and from the bottom of his heart hoped the false king William would break through to the Sixth-tier. Sometimes, absolute military force was indeed unsolvable, but if used at an inappropriate moment, the consequences would also be tragic.
At this time, everything in the Battle Simulation Card's illusion was still continuing.
Thirty minutes of time could only allow Old William to arrange the affairs behind him, and then he would be forcibly taken away from the Ascension Continent.
Princess Mary acted as the army supervisor, and his Crown Prince Cruz inherited the throne. Subsequently, the entire army marched west.
"Annihilating your 140,000-strong legion is enough for my side to promote two thousand Fourth-Tiers, and simultaneously promote two Rank 5s. With a total troop strength reaching fifty thousand, destroying your Falcon City and destroying Li Wei will be ridiculous ease. I want to see how he defends against this."
As he spoke, within the illusion, Falcon City was indeed easily captured. Princess Mary's Magic Domain was nearly invincible. Then they began to fiercely assault Kahndorf Fortress.
Unsurprisingly, Kahndorf Fortress was also taken in one go, because there basically weren't any defenders here at all. Li Wei seemingly had no intention of stubbornly defending this place.
"Why didn't Li Wei stubbornly defend this place?"
Old William felt something wasn't right and immediately asked. This shouldn't be ah. Kahndorf Fortress was an important mountain pass restraining the Locke Pass. This Li Wei couldn't be planning to fight a guerrilla war, right?
"Kahndorf Fortress currently still belongs to me. This fellow Li Wei is very slippery. How could he possibly occupy Kahndorf Fortress without going through formal procedures? He won't leave even the slightest bit of leverage against him for me."
Falcon Karl said cheerfully. Although this was only a battle simulation illusion, although this fellow Li Wei made him very displeased, currently being able to use Li Wei to push forward the negotiations was still extremely valuable.
Because the Soldiers under him could no longer die in battle and be Resurrected again. Several consecutive years of fierce battle—although they could all be Resurrected, it damaged their foundation too much.
At this time, within the battle simulation illusion, Cruz's large army charged into the Locke Pass. But in reality, due to terrain restrictions, there was simply no way for too many troops to pour in. Therefore, when the Ness River suddenly erupted with terrifying flash floods, it forced Princess Mary to go all out and freeze the flash floods. Otherwise, at least several thousand Soldiers would be washed away by the flash floods.
This was determined by the terrain.
Of course, this was harmless.
The flash floods would even flow backward and, in turn, flood Liwei Keep.
But right at this moment, within the battle simulation illusion, Great Fireballs soared into the sky one after another. At a speed of five per second, they smashed towards Cruz's large army. In just less than three minutes, Cruz's large army suffered nearly ten thousand casualties.
"This is impossible. You're Joking!"
At this moment, Princess Mary finally couldn't help but shout angrily, "Although I am unable to free up my hands due to needing to freeze the flash floods, I still have two Fourth-Tier Mages under my command, as well as a Spellcaster legion composed of a full one hundred Rank 3 Casters. How could we possibly suffer such massive losses in the magical confrontation phase!"
"Calm down, you old woman!" Black Hawk Hulk slowly opened his mouth.
"You also have to look at the deployments of both sides first. Although Li Wei's subordinates only promoted one Fourth-Tier Mage over the past eight years, he constructed and Upgraded two Level 4 Mage Towers in Liwei Keep, constructed and Upgraded two Level 3 Mage Towers in Hathaway Fortress forty li away, constructed a Tier-2 Mage Tower in Fierzway Fortress to the north, and also cumulatively constructed six Tier-2 Mage Towers in the three Fortresses even further north."
"Nonsense! Does having more Mage Towers mean you can win? Once my Magic Domain pushes over, any level of Mage Tower will lose control!"
"That's right, exactly. But Liwei Keep's foundation is built using Five-Star Stone Mine. Including all the main city-level Fortresses he subsequently constructed, all their foundations are built using Five-Star Stone Mine. They can exempt Magic Domains across all terrains and all weather."
"And without the influence of the Magic Domain, they also densely constructed so many high-level Mage Towers in such a small area. This is a nightmare for any invader."
"If it were The Plains with broad terrain, we could still resist through Siege Troop Carriers. But this is the fringe area of the Locke Mountains ah. The large army cannot spread out, nor are there enough Siege Troop Carriers to bear the damage and defend. Then facing the dense attacks of that level from four Mage Towers, no matter how many Spellcaster legions you have, how many Fireballs can you block?"
"In a single sentence: you either let the flash floods erupt and wash away a few thousand people, or let the Fireball bombardment blast a few thousand people to death."
"Under the terrain of the Locke Mountains, the directions, methods, strategies, and tactics you can use to attack are only those few. And Li Wei has already been operating here for eighteen years. Casually—east, south, west, north, up, down, left, right—including that you can utilize the Sky Griffin Legion. Oh, almost forgot. Between you and me, the Sky Griffin Legions were mutually wiped out as early as five years ago. People can be Resurrected, but Griffins cannot."
"But you probably don't know either, Li Wei has ten five-star Sky Griffins under him."
"In fact, Lady Royal Consort, at this moment you are actually already dead."
As soon as Black Hawk Hulk's voice fell, Princess Mary within the battle simulation illusion had indeed died!
Instant-killed by ten consecutive Origin Arrows. She was very smart and possessed extremely high intelligence. If she were in her peak state, killing her would be very difficult. But her Sanity was currently insufficient, and she was trapped by the large army, forced to freeze the flash floods. Then, upon being distracted for a moment, being instant-killed was also normal.
"Impossible! I carry enough Magic Crests on my body. I have enough time to unleash Blink!"
Princess Mary's Defense Broken a bit, which was also commonly known as becoming red in the face with anger and anxiety.
Her Sanity was too low.
Black Hawk Hulk smiled and didn't speak, but in his heart he was a bit scared after the fact. Although the illusion formed by the Battle Simulation Card would have a certain probability of distortion, it was generally not a problem. This Li Wei indeed possessed the ability to instantly kill a Fifth-tier Epic.
How close! He had originally wanted to finish off Li Wei back then. Fortunately, he was stopped by Karl.
Because judging from the situation in the battle simulation illusion, Li Wei's Instantaneous Peak Perception was afraid to have already reached 40 points.
At this time, ten massive Sky Griffins indeed appeared again within the battle simulation illusion. These were sky-level major strategic killing weapons possessing both offense and defense in one body. They possessed multiple combat tactics. They could carry Mages into the sky to release various magics from the air to launch ground attacks, and they could also carry Rangers into the sky.
They could carry ten people at one time.
At this moment, Li Wei's side was carrying a full one hundred Tier-3 Rangers.
They pulled up directly to a high altitude of ten thousand meters, raining a barrage of crazy shots down at the ground. Their priority targets were the so-called Mage teams.
Moreover, this attack wasn't an ordinary arrow rain resonance, but a Legion Skill Resonance. Its lethality was so great that Princess Mary—whose heart was overcome with fury and whose Sanity was Next to Nothing—was left speechless. Because this was the truth.
Speaking of these one hundred Tier-3 Rangers individually, they could be casually pinched to death. But once their Tacit Understanding reached the level of being able to release Legion Skills, and from a high altitude of ten thousand meters, and with Sky Griffins providing magic immunity—yes, as Magical Creatures, the greatest characteristic of Sky Griffins was 95% All-Element Magic Immunity.
Therefore, under this situation, besides waiting for death, there was only running away quickly.
Motherfucker, couldn't bear to watch.
The situation within the battle simulation illusion directly collapsed. With Princess Mary dead and the Mage group wiped out, the remaining troop types were mostly wiped out by Great Fireballs and flash floods. Even Cruz died in battle.
Because in the battle simulation illusion, Jiang Xinran betrayed them. She killed Cruz and took his head to surrender to Li Wei.
So there was no need to look anymore.
If one wanted to defeat Li Wei, there was only one method. And that was to have Old William go into the Locke Mountains, make a Combat Breakthrough to the Sixth-tier, and kill Li Wei up and down until nothing remained————
But was that meaningful?
Old William let out a long sigh, fully revealing his old age. He was also once a heroic ruler of a generation, the main character of a time, his glory unmatched. Yet as a result, today he unexpectedly couldn't do anything to a rising star.
No, Li Wei's kind of defensive structure could still be broken. There was no need to break through to the Sixth-tier, no need to look at the battle simulation illusion. As long as he personally led a 150,000-strong army, assuming Karl's large army wasn't restraining him from behind————
Or more accurately, if he hadn't led his large army to restrain Karl, Karl would also similarly be able to Calm and Composed take down Li Wei.
But his son Cruz truly couldn't defeat him.
So didn't the matter just get stuck right here?
This person called Li Wei truly had a freaking knack for finding every possible opening.
"15%. You said it!"
"My words count, Uncle William. I have always been this generous. If there are no objections, let's sign the peace treaty. I give you ten days. Please be sure to evacuate!"
"Fine, let it be so!"
Old William no longer said anything. He signed the peace treaty, returned the Pioneering Card, and triggered the Global Proclamation. From this moment on, he transformed back into King William of the Locke Kingdom. This entire ordeal had at least eliminated the three great Dukes within his country.
But whether he specifically earned or lost, only the heavens knew.
It could only be said that he cut his losses in time.