Child of Destiny

Pathogen Formation.

It was a special battle formation that Shin had created to fight against those veteran players of «War Tactics» Online.

Since Shin was just starting in the game at that time and was quite new to such strategic warfare, he often struggled fighting against veteran players of that game.

He usually used regular formations and standard strategies from the military rule book when competing against those players at that time, but he mostly got countered when he encountered some strong veterans of the game.

If not for his sharp intuition to sense the intentions of his opponents most of the time and respond to each of their tricks correspondingly, then he would most likely lose all those battles.

At the same time, this also led him to create special strategies unique to him to counter specific situations during those battles, particularly when facing the veteran players of the game.

Among the strategies that Shin had created, the Pathogen Formation was one of his signature battle formations.

It neither had a proper form nor a noticeable pattern, but it was very tricky to deal with once it was properly set up.

Just like what its name had suggested, it was a battle formation that seemed to be a disease or illness caused by microorganisms.

It was a type of hidden battle formation that was very hard to catch and could slowly eat away at the formation of their opponents without their notice.

When it was set up properly, it was already too late for the opposing side to do anything since it was impossible to stop.

Shin used this formation to counter certain strategies and battle formations of his opponents. The more complicated the opposing formation, the more effective this formation could be, especially when the ‘microorganisms’ he had scattered hid themselves among the ranks of his opponents.

It was quite hard to set up since it required quite a lot of preparations, particularly when scattering the ‘microorganisms’ on the battlefield.

Not only did the person who was using this strategy need to be very familiar with a lot of battle formations and skilled at setting them up, but they also had to be good at grasping certain opportunities that only came in an instant.

Knowledge, timing, and precision were the main requirements for using this strategy.

Shin had no problem with the first requirement since he grew up in the Springfield Household, which was a Military Family. They had a huge library meant for military tactics, especially strategic warfare and battle formations.

He had accumulated enough knowledge in this area, making it easier for him to read the formations of his opponents.

As for the latter two requirements, his sharp instincts and intuition to read the situation were more than enough to compensate for this area.

Then how could Chaotic Luck use such a complicated strategy and battle formation?

The answer had always been simple.

With this guy’s luck, scattering the ‘microorganisms’ was as easy as scattering grains on the fields.

As for the knowledge about a variety of battle formations, Chaotic Luck never needed it since he could just randomly place the ‘seeds’ wherever he wanted, and things would go according to his plan.

Shin did not tell Chaotic Luck about these requirements and just told the latter about the essence of formation.

Whether Chaotic Luck could learn the essence of such a strategy was all dependent on luck, which was the only thing that this guy had never lacked.

Shin was always curious about what would happen if Chaotic Luck had become proficient at using this battle formation. Even he was not confident of what would happen when that time came.

However, he was quite confident of one thing.

There would be utter chaos on the battlefield once Chaotic Luck started using such a formation actively.

Even Shin, who was the creator of the strategy himself, could not tell where the scattered ‘cores’ of the formation were located.

Just imagine how hard it was for the opposing side to find them.

“Let’s see how this so-called rival of Immortal will handle this,” mumbled Shin with interest.

…

Back on the battlefield, Mandos was thinking hard about how to deal with the current situation. But despite doing whatever he could, he could not find the cause of the sudden turn of events, making himself somewhat helpless.

He felt like there was some sort of parasite that was eating away at the foundation of his battle formations, making him unable to respond to the scattered attacks of his opponent.

He was not sure what it was, but he was confident that the problem lay in the formation of his army.

“What a scary thing. I guess I have underestimated this rookie a little too much,” he mumbled as he started taking Chaotic Luck even more seriously. “I guess there is a reason why the system kept debating whether this guy is still a rookie player or a maverick ranker.”

With this thought in mind, Mandos started shaking his head and mumbled. “I guess I have to reorganize my forces from the start.”

He was originally planning to launch an ambush on Chaotic Luck with the hidden units that he had released earlier. But it looked like it would be a little troublesome given the current situation.

If he let this continue, who knew if the opposing side would be the one launching an ambush against him?

Putting all these into consideration, he decided to deal with the situation at hand first.

He had already figured out the way to escape his current predicament, but it would cost him quite a large amount of mana in exchange.

However, he did not have much of a choice given the current situation that he was in.

“Come back!”

With a loud call, all his summoned undead on the field were recalled aside from the Bone Dragon that was still fighting against the three blazing skeletal beasts in the sky.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

It was at this moment that he noticed some elite skeleton soldiers mixed in the ranks of his forces, seemingly looking dumb after losing their targets.

“Huh!? Since when have these guys mixed into my formation, and how come I don’t notice them at all? I can’t even find them up until now,” he mumbled confusedly, further mystifying the mystery before him.

However, he did not have much time to dwell on this topic as Chaotic Luck had already regained his composure, caused by the disappearance of his opponent’s force.

He quickly reorganized his legion and ordered them to launch a coordinated attack.

Seeing this, Mandos quickly resummoned his undead army and swiftly gave out a series of commands to organize his forces.

“Now that I have seen such a trick of yours, I will not fall for it for a second time,” he said before casting a series of buffs on his army, which also put a special brand on their back that made them distinguishable.

He might not have the idea about the trick that his opponent had used to ‘infiltrate’ their ranks, but he believed that he would be able to avoid it from happening again, so long as he was careful enough.

Moreover, he was planning to use a different battle formation this time, utilizing the elven knowledge that he possessed to link the individual strength of his undead creatures and form a unique formation.

With the magic formations drawn on the bodies of the undead creatures that he had summoned, linking to one another, the powers that they possessed suddenly rose by a large margin.

The weapons that they were holding also turned into elemental weapons of different varieties.

At the same time, all the undead creatures had also transformed. Some of them had increased in size, developing a bulky and muscular build, while others became much thinner, yet retained agile bodies.

The rest, on the other hand, had gained more elemental powers. Their appearance also became like that of dark elves.

…

Drow were a dark-skinned and white-haired subrace of elves that were connected to the underworld or abyss.

They were different from the usual Dark Elves, who majored in dark magic and shadow elemental powers.

Drow were also commonly called the Fallen Ones of the Elves due to most of them failing to fight against the temptation of dark powers.

However, they still maintained a certain boundary and did not cross the line that led to the power of corruption and demons.

Most of the Fallen Elves were Drows, but it was not always the case.

Some of them were just like Mandos, who walked on the path of necromancy and fused them with other forms of power.

Drows were quite powerful even among all the subraces of the elves.

At this moment, these elven undead that Mandos had just summoned seemed to have shared a great resemblance to the Drows that most people knew.

Having these elven undead on the opposing forces, Chaotic Luck could not help but frown deeply as he knew that this was going to be different from earlier.

He could sense that the opposing side was plotting something, but he could not figure it out.

Remembering the words that Shin had told him to trust his instincts, Chaotic Luck took a deep breath and started summoning a more powerful undead.

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