Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 419: Chapter 174: Divine Chosen Level Caster: Falling Like Heaven, Departing Like Lightning (Part 2)

But the assertion of the above power is built on the premise that the soldier indeed possesses a superior strategic vision. If he makes foolish suggestions on a tense battlefield or disrupts the fight itself with untimely remarks, he will face penalties and even incur the wrath of the Goddess.

No knight dares to claim that his understanding of tactics surpasses that of the Sun Goddess’s Chosen One.

Moreover, War Saintess Hilude personally charges forward, and none of them dares to risk the Goddess’s wrath by stepping forward to question Hilude’s deployment.

Sure enough, when a large number of knights began to charge, the River Giants, who had been staring blankly and drooling, were drawn to the spectacle. Seeing the Knight Order slaughtering their brothers, they roared and charged forward.

Every step of the Knight Order’s charge was bathed in blood. Hilude had already fought through three layers of blood, her entire body covered in the blood of the River Giants, even her perfect Vibranium Rune Armor emanating hissing black smoke.

Behind her, a large number of Corona Knight Order knights had triggered the ability of [Steel Fierce Sun], fearsome arcane magic exploded in place, appearing as though the area was being bombarded by artillery, or like rounds of golden suns rising on the battlefield.

The immense explosion power was something even the River Giants couldn’t withstand, being blasted directly into pieces. The rumbling sound of the explosion was like the roar of thunder, shaking the earth and mountains.

Su Li stood on the city wall, looking at the intense battle to the north, taking a deep breath: ”This war is fought so fiercely, how has it reached such a brutal extent so soon after it started?”

It is known that the explosion of Steel Fierce Sun, although capable of using the Divine Grace of the Sun Goddess to blast monsters into fragments, also generally means that a powerful knight was wounded or even deceased! It can be considered akin to a suicide bomb.

The successive explosions left the riverbed riddled with holes, flames rising, so intense that even without binoculars, one could see how fierce the battle to the north was.

Oerstein observed for a while before his eyes suddenly lit up, saying: ”I finally see Hilude’s intention. She keeps slaughtering monsters head-on; she’s forcibly activating her [Blazing Blood: Divine Power Descent] ability!”

[Blazing Blood: Divine Power Descent]?

”Isn’t that about activating the power of the Divine General? What is she doing? What makes it worth such a huge effort?” Su Li immediately raised his monocular to look at Hilude charging at the forefront. At this time, her Vibranium Rune Armor was already damaged, the stomach acid of the River Giants corroding the armor on her shoulder, her fair shoulder was riddled with holes, and in some places, even charred bones were exposed.

Su Li couldn’t imagine the level of pain she must be enduring in such circumstances, yet she showed no sign of stopping, biting a vial of Earth’s Blood Potion to accelerate the healing of her wounds, then continued her fierce assault on the monsters.

Even when the giant claw of a monster had swept towards her head, knocking off her helmet, she showed no trace of fear, slicing through the claw with her longsword, riding the half griffin into the dense herd of beasts, facing the attack of over a dozen River Giants yet remaining unperturbed.

Just what Su Li witnessed personally, there were already as many as 17 River Giants slain by her and the half griffin she rode!

And all this greatly deepened the fear among the monsters. Though they had a great advantage when wallowing in the mud, their attack power was immense, posing deadly threats to the Knights, even the Chosen Ones risked falling when surrounded by hundreds of River Giants.

But the prerequisite is that these River Giants must be fearless like humans, continuously charging forward!

In this world, human courage is innately at a level akin to mythical creatures, especially those who believe in Yurik and Redema, whose courage, determination, and loyalty crush countless monsters, appearing as fearsome beings in the eyes of the monsters.

At least these River Giants, with their low intellect and purely instinct-driven actions, possess neither the courage nor the morale to compare with these steel-strong elite human knights.

Compared to these nail-hard human knights, River Giants resemble a soft mass of sludge — although somewhat tough, their hardness is insufficient, easily penetrated frontally.

Without strong support, they cannot dare to fight fearlessly when surrounded by human cavalry. On the contrary, when they saw a single female knight charging into the formation, defeating over twenty massive River Giants on her own, fear inevitably arose, and dozens of foolish River Giants turned tail and fled at once.

This utterly infuriated the boss of the River Giant Warband. Roaring, it wielded a Vibranium Rune Staff and charged at Hilude.

”Damn human sprout, I’m going to smash you to pieces, first snapping apart your thighs to feast on, then turning your leg bones into our weapons!”

With a furious roar, its massive form suddenly leapt high, brandishing a terrifying Vibranium Rune Staff with a fierce whistling through the air, like Mount Tai crashing down towards Hilude.

It was confident about the female knight’s strength not matching its own, believing if she dodged, its bone-spiked left claw could sweep her from the horse directly!

However, Hilude’s reaction stunned it. The woman didn’t dodge, raising a golden shield to meet the attack head-on. In the instant before the Vibranium Staff collided with the golden shield, the shield erupted in blinding light. Then all the knights’ shields seemed blessed by the Sun Goddess, reflecting dazzling rays, making Ugma feel as if his eyes were being blinded, with extreme light bringing extreme darkness.