Dialogue on the battlefield
Ah Hen's expression changed a little. Enkidu's offer of such conditions was a complete disgrace to him. If Enkidu lost the duel, the Uruk legion would have to retreat, which would be equivalent to a great victory for the Empire of Eygut. If Ah Hen lost, Enkidu did not request for the Eygut Army to surrender. He only requested for them to withdraw from the defensive line and not engage in battle. Ah Hen would resign from his position as commander-in-chief and Supreme General. This would be his personal failure.
But Ah Hen was very clear about the actual situation. There were no conditions to speak of. If he lost, he would not have the chance to resign and would only die on the battlefield. But under such circumstances, if he did not agree to the duel, people would inevitably say that he was greedy for power and was unwilling to stand up for the country.
At this moment, Gilgamesh, who was standing on the platform, said: "I have prepared the documents and asked everyone present to bear witness. If Enkidu is defeated in the duel, the Uruk legion will withdraw from the Eygut Army."
Ah Hen wanted to drag Gilgamesh off the platform and give him a good beating, but on the surface, he smiled and said: "Enkidu, I have also issued an invitation to a duel, but not with you. Please call Marduc here!"
As soon as these words came out, the army was in an uproar. There were people on both sides saying all kinds of things, and the battlefield was filled with a buzz. Gilgamesh and George shouted at the same time, and the army returned to silence. Ah Hen did not wait for Enkidu to reply and laughed in a loud voice: "My apologies, my words have blasphemed the gods you believe in. Warriors are not to be insulted, and Marduc will not accept an invitation to a duel from a mortal like me. I take back what I said just now.
But I do want to issue an invitation to a duel. Enkidu, I know your intentions very well. If I refuse your request, people will accuse me of being greedy for power and refusing to stand up for the country! So I now declare that if anyone dares to say that, I will duel with him! The battle of tens of thousands of soldiers is not a battle of strength. As the commander-in-chief, how can I decide the outcome of the battle with you, a personal guard captain? If you really want to prove how strong you are, then go to the docks and compete with people to unload goods. I believe that no one on this continent is your match. "
The Eygut Army roared with laughter, and Enkidu was enraged, waving his broken sword at Ah, "You coward!"
But his voice was immediately drowned out by the war drums and the thunderous sound of horse hooves. When Ah said the last sentence, he had already raised his hand and waved forward, giving the order to charge. This time, he suddenly gave the order to launch an attack on the Uruk Legion. He leaped high into the air and landed on Medanzo's chariot. His personal guards also charged into the center of the battlefield.
Enkidu was still standing between the two armies, and he was alone. It was the best opportunity to encircle this supreme warrior, and Ah Ke did not want to miss it. Although he had refused the invitation to duel, Ah was not the least bit afraid. His chariot charged at the forefront, and before the chariot arrived, he had already leaped forward, waving his iron staff to attack Enkidu.
This scene was witnessed by everyone. Although Ah had refused to duel, he was still the first to charge towards Enkidu on the battlefield.
Enkidu stood in the center of the battlefield. The Eygut Army was already charging at him, but the Uruk Legion had yet to reach him. Could he turn around and run away before charging back with his men? The arrogant number one warrior of the continent naturally would not do such a thing. With a roar, he swung his broken sword at Ah's iron staff.
Before the sword and staff could collide, a dazzling light exploded, and a huge shockwave spread out in all directions. The same scene had already happened several times in the battle between the two. Enkidu stood firmly in place, while Ah, who was pouncing in midair, was sent tumbling back. It was not easy to be sent flying. Enkidu's sword was meant to kill him, but Ah was already prepared with the help of spatial magic. Although he had used all his strength in that attack, it was actually a counterattack.
How could Enkidu allow Hoodlum to escape from his grasp? With a roar, he charged at Hoodlum and swung his sword at Hoodlum, who had yet to land on the ground. However, the sword did not hit its target. Instead, several rays of light flew towards Hoodlum, each of which contained different kinds of magic attacks. Some were like angry roars that attacked the mind, some were like huge waves, some were like cracks in the ground, and some were like blades of air condensed into a gale.
Three rays of light blocked the sword in the air, while two rays of light went straight for Enkidu. At first glance, it was obvious that there was an ambush. Not to mention that the ones who could launch such attacks were at least supreme warriors who had undergone the second awakening of power. Moreover, the weapons they used were not the standard long swords of the personal guards.
Since Enkidu had come, there was no need to hide the supreme warriors in the personal guards. Medanzo brandished his snake-tooth dagger, Gabriel brandished a silver battle axe, Blaze used a sharp magic spear, and Peter used a long sword engraved with strange patterns. As for the chief supreme warrior of the Shrine of Isis, Ankh, he even took out his long-handled wolf fang sword. As he waved it, a heavy sound of wind and thunder could be heard.
The five supreme warriors surrounded Enkidu as soon as they made their move. The center of the battlefield turned dark in an instant. Even the horses within a hundred steps could not stand still. The personal guards did not continue to charge. Instead, they formed a defensive formation in the distance, holding spears and shields. A curtain of light rose outside the shield wall. Ah stood behind the shield wall and did not participate in the battle.
Amidst the heavy protection, two "personal guards" behind Ah raised their staffs. Along with the chanting, not only did the brilliance of the personal guard's shield wall connect like an iron wall, but there were also twisted lights and shadows hovering in the sky. When one of the five supreme warriors was shaken away from the battle by Enkidu's sword, light immediately sprinkled on his body. Whether it was healing magic or blessing magic, they were the highest level of magic, performed by the ninth level supreme mage without hesitation.
In the battle between the supreme warriors and Enkidu, it was difficult for the people outside to intervene. The impact and explosion of energy caused the battlefield to be in a state of chaos. It was almost impossible to target Enkidu and attack him individually. Large-scale indiscriminate attack magic could not be used, but the two ninth level supreme mages could take turns to help in this way.
This was already the greatest power that Ah could invest in this part of the battlefield. Even if they could not kill Enkidu, they would exhaust him to death. If they could not exhaust him to death, they would at least trap him to death! It was believed that there were few people on the continent who could gather such a powerful force to deal with an enemy alone. Although the bravery of an ordinary man could not be relied on, to the extent that Enkidu was strong, he was a terrifying existence on the battlefield.
Sometimes the proportion of casualties was not large for the whole army, but a small breakthrough would cause a chain breakdown of the battle formation and the soldiers would panic and trample on each other. Many major defeats were caused by this. This kind of large-scale battle often lasted for a whole day. If the commander could not calmly mobilize the various ranks of the battle formation to charge and defend, it would be troublesome if they lost their footing.
Therefore, Ah had to trap Enkidu and prevent this almost invincible supreme warrior from leading an elite force to break the front line of the Eygut Army. In the previous two battles, Enkidu had also wanted to do this, but Ah had risked his life to stop him.
In the center of the battle formation, the battle began. Ah's personal guards stood in formation, while the chariots on both sides had already begun to charge, colliding with the Uruk Legion's charge. The sound of fighting in the wilderness was like a tsunami, and the final battle had finally begun.
Enkidu was not afraid at all under the siege of the experts, and he was even cursing in the midst of the battle. His curses were drowned out by the huge impact, but Ah did not need to listen to know that he was cursing at himself. Instead of fighting him head-on, he used this kind of method to gang up on him. Enkidu's entire body shone with a golden light. Only half of the heavy broadsword was left, but when he swung it around, he could vaguely make out a complete, golden greatsword.
Wherever his sword swept past, several supreme warriors would be pushed back by a surging force. Even the supporting magic arts seemed to have lost their magic and turned into a pure collision of magic. What kind of martial art was this? It was pure and simple, but it was superb! It could no longer be described as a body art. It seemed to contain the power of the world's most brilliant magic arts. Just the transformation of the broken sword into its full form was already beyond the comprehension of a warrior.
No one could take on Enkidu's seemingly illusory broadsword head-on. They could only surround him and cover for each other, barely trapping him in place. If not for the two supreme mages helping them, it would have been difficult to stop Enkidu from escaping. Ah's face was gloomy. Enkidu's strength had once again exceeded his expectations. In just a few days, the supreme warrior had become even more powerful. His power was like an undercurrent surging in the sea, almost unfathomable.
If Enkidu wanted to escape, it would be difficult for the five supreme warriors to trap him until the end of the battle. Enkidu, on the other hand, was willing to fight under siege because he was confident that he could break through the layers of obstacles and kill the five supreme warriors who had been watching the battle with their iron staff in their hands but did not lend a helping hand to Enkidu.
He was the commander-in-chief of the army and had to oversee the overall situation. He also had to protect the two supreme mages behind him from sneak attacks. More importantly, the other master of the enemy, Gilgamesh, was slowly approaching. Ah and the two ninth-level supreme mages were waiting for him.
After Enkidu fell into the siege of the masters, Gilgamesh, who was on a high platform in the distance, also saw the situation clearly. He knew what Ah's intentions were, and he had absolute trust in Enkidu, so he was not too worried. However, the commander of the Uruk legion could not allow Ah to arrange the battle so easily. He floated down from the platform and boarded his chariot.
At the back of the Uruk legion's formation, a man flew into the air with a staff in hand. Like George of the Eygut Army, he took over the command of the army. He was a seventh-level supreme mage from the Marduc Shrine of Uruk. The staff in his hand was slightly curved, made from Humbaba's ribs.
Gilgamesh was not the only supreme mage in the Uruk legion, but the other masters were overshadowed by him and Enkidu. People rarely even heard of their names.
Gilgamesh boarded his chariot. Enkidu was already in the middle of the battle. There were no horses in front of the luxurious chariot. Gilgamesh pointed with his staff, and the chariot strangely started moving on its own. The bodyguards walked in front of the chariot with round shields and long swords in their hands. The shields flickered with brilliance, not only forming a defensive formation, but also emitting a cold light that seemed capable of piercing through all obstacles.
Gilgamesh's chariot was followed by a team of mages. Unlike the teams of mages in other legions, these twenty mages held staffs in their left hands and rode on horses. They all had curved Damascene swords hanging from their waists. It was rare to see a priest equipped with a weapon, but they were actually equipped with a scimitar used by cavalry to charge and slash. They all wore light armor engraved with divine runes, and when they used divine runes, a protective shield would appear around their bodies and horses.
It was not easy for Gilgamesh to train this special team of bodyguards. They were all advanced mages and could charge on horseback. In the distance, Ah watched Gilgamesh and his bodyguards approach and narrowed his eyes. He was paying attention to the strange team of mages behind the chariot. They could directly charge on the battlefield without the protection of warriors. It was a pity that there were only twenty-four of them.
Ah knew that Gilgamesh was not only a ninth-level mage, but also a sixth-level warrior. Not to mention magic, just in terms of martial arts, this governor was even stronger than the average supreme warrior. This was because he was born with divine power like Enkidu, but the path of practice was different.
According to Goliath, Gilgamesh was the only supreme mage he knew, and he had gone through the second awakening of power to practice body arts from the beginning. But Ah knew another person, Crazy 'Ole's early disciple, Bair, who was also a ninth-level supreme mage and a sixth-level warrior. Bair was not invincible. He died under the secret encirclement of a group of masters of Eygut, so Gilgamesh was not invincible.
But Bair and Gilgamesh took a different path. Bair explored the power of two sides of the same body, and after many detours, he finally made a discovery. What Gilgamesh did was another kind of experiment, which was to practice body arts from the beginning after the second awakening of power with the achievements of a supreme mage.
Now it seemed that the governor was not only trying it himself, but also secretly training a group of mages to do the same. He held a second awakening ceremony for a group of advanced mages and let them learn low-level body arts. The successful ones were the twenty-four personal guards that Ah was looking at now.
These personal guards were wearing armor and helmets. When they put down their helmets, Ah could not see their facial features clearly. But when he looked carefully, he felt that two of them were very familiar. He had obtained a strange ability from the Underworld, which was to feel the inner emotions of others. This ability was not effective on everyone, but there was no problem using it on these two people. The two people's emotions were very complicated, and they were even in a state of contradiction.
In the face of such a fierce battlefield, who would have the time to think about other things? They were Abel and Cain of the personal guards. These two brothers were Ah's personal disciples, and they also practiced the power of two sides. After becoming advanced mages, they were praised by Gilgamesh and promoted to the position of priests of the Shrine and priests of the Uruk legion.
With a little disguise, they easily passed the second awakening of power and joined this special team of personal guards. In the past, Gilgamesh would not let this team of mages go to the battlefield like this, but for some reason, he did not hide it anymore and let them go to the front line on horseback.
When Aragorn noticed the two brothers, they were also using message magic to play dirty. Cain said to Abel, "My brother, today is the final battle, and we are finally going to the battlefield. Our benefactor is over there, what should we do?"
Abel replied, "Of course we will kill the enemy when we go to the battlefield. If we are unlucky enough to face our benefactor, we will only defend and not attack, and we will not reveal our identity. We will repay our benefactor's kindness and not make things difficult for him. Besides, with our benefactor's ability, if we really meet him, we will not be able to fight back at all. It will be good enough if we can dodge. "
Cain asked again, "Yesterday, the governor asked you about the secret of our training. Why did the second awakening of power go so smoothly, and why did we practice body arts so quickly? The governor's eyesight is very sharp, and I feel that I can't hide it anymore. In today's battle, the governor and Lord Enkidu will fight at the same time, and our benefactor will definitely die! The power we practice may really become a secret forever. What should we do? "
Abel asked in return, "My brother, what are you trying to say?"
Cain: "In fact, the governor and Lord Enkidu have long known that our benefactor is a magician, and they must have been prepared to deal with it. After our benefactor dies, if the governor asks about the secret of our training again, how should we deal with it? "
Abel: "This is war, and the result is not something you and I can control. How can you say that our benefactor will die? If the governor asks, we will answer as we should. We promised our benefactor not to say his name, and we can't say what he taught us. Since we have made a promise, and we have obtained today's status, we must abide by it. "
Cain: "If our benefactor dies in battle, no one can teach us anymore. Even if our benefactor doesn't die, he will not be able to teach the profound achievements of this power to the enemy. But the governor of Gill is an invincible hero on the continent, far stronger than our benefactor. Even if we don't say our benefactor's name, we can still offer the secret of the power of two sides. Not only can we get more, but we can also continue to ask him for advice. "
Abel said resolutely: "No, we can't do this. This is not in line with our beliefs, and we will be trapped forever. My brother, as long as I am alive, I will never agree to do this. Moreover, the governor of Gill is asking me, not you! You don't have to worry, I naturally know what to do. "
Cain was a little unwilling to give up and asked again: "The governor of the city asked a few times, but he only asked you. He never thought of coming to me at all! We both practice the power of two sides, but you are always a level higher than me. Whether it is divine arts or body arts, you are better and faster at mastering them. Did your benefactor teach you more secrets, including the cultivation of higher level achievements? "
Abel sighed: "Brother, how many times have I said it, really not, we have all received the same teachings. If you stop thinking about these things, maybe you can achieve the same achievements as me. "
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