the last king of darkness

Chapter 322 The Brightest

The matter of the ancient gods was temporarily put aside by Rhodes. This is not something that can be handled now. The most important thing right now is to guard the lighthouse.

After returning to the lighthouse, Lannister explained the current situation to Rhodes in detail.

Since the underground world was opened, demonized ants have swarmed out, almost submerging the Trident River area, causing a huge threat to the surrounding areas.

When the support from the Temple of Fire arrived, the situation improved a bit, at least the lighthouse as a stronghold did not fall.

A part of the battle group has assembled and is preventing the spread of the demonized ants.

As the guardians of Lighthouse No. 20, their main task is to prevent powerful monsters from breaking into the periphery and causing blows to the fighting group.

Lannister said: "Most of our battle groups are low-level combatants. They can form a powerful combat force through a specific battle formation, and monsters above the strong level will destroy this formation and cause huge casualties."

"This is also our main task here, to intercept all powerful monsters within the line of sight of the lighthouse."

"Yes." Celie rarely refuted him, "We have to support until the main force of the legion arrives."

Rhodes asked curiously: "Is our main force strong?"

"Of course, the psychic energy linked by the super-large battle array is overwhelming, and the materialized psychic light is endless. As its psychic energy hub, it is at least a second-level combatant."

"Once the main force arrives, these ants will be crushed."

Rhodes blinked. He hadn't seen a legion-level battlefield yet, so he didn't quite understand their fighting style.

But judging from their tone, the main army seems to be able to easily eliminate the crisis in the Trident River area.

"How many such legions do we have?"

Celie said first: "There are eight core armies, the city defense armies have three core armies, the conquest armies have four, and the knight order has one."

Lannister nodded.

"This is our core strength. When they show their full state, they take the son of fire as the core, supplemented by seven extraordinary guardians, twenty inhuman level, fifty strong men, leading twenty-seven thousand Thousands of fighters form a supreme battle array."

"The seven sons of fire lead seven major legions, and the four great knight commanders lead the knight regiments, making a total of eight core legions."

Rhodes asked expectantly: "Is this the main force of the legion supporting us? Can I see the Son of Fire?"

Celie said regretfully: "No, it's not, the crisis of the Trident River is not enough to dispatch the core main army. Under special circumstances, we generally don't gather so many combat forces together, it is too powerful It's too heavy, and we don't usually use that much power, even during the Kuroshio."

"Our defensive area is too large."

Lannister explained.

"Our combat power must be spread over a large area, defending every one of our strongholds, towns, and settlements."

"The mobility of combat power is very important. It is our basic principle to rationally allocate every combat power and maximize the use of every bit of power. This is how the Temple of Fire was born."

Xi Li said regretfully: "We usually disassemble the core legion and use it. Most of the time, the son of fire is used as a separate super combat force to support various places to deal with various super threats that are difficult to deal with."

"Unless a catastrophe strikes, the Inner Legion will not be assembled."

Rhodes was a little disappointed, thinking that he could see the legendary scene of the Son of Fire fighting.

Celie paused, then continued.

"This time it is the regular main army that came to support the Trident River area."

"Although it is a routine, their strength far exceeds the upper limit of the crisis. Although there are many demonized ants, they are relatively powerful. The queen ant is a very special monster, but it is far inferior to the dusk we have fought in the past." Legion, Sigles bug army, troll wave and other monster groups."

She punched the air with a fist.

"There's nothing wrong with crushing these bugs."

Lannister nodded and continued: "The problem now is that we must support until the main army arrives, otherwise the lighthouse will be destroyed, the demonized ants will be destroyed everywhere, and our hard-won achievements will be destroyed. The progress of the expansion will be greatly affected.”

"Yes."

Celie said sadly.

"The trouble we have now is that we don't have enough strength. There are only more than 20 fighters in the No. 100 lighthouse, and only eleven fighters have surpassed the seventh level. The three of us can only be regarded as quasi-third-level fighters. It is too difficult to deal with the demonized king ant. , Those guys have thick skins and shells, and they spit acid, it's really annoying."

Rhode finally smiled.

"Don't worry, I'm here, no matter what kind of broken ants it is, come and kill as many as you want."

Celie forced a smile and didn't seem to be moved.

Lannister said calmly: "Rhod, I checked just now, and your psionic energy has only recovered about one-third, and according to my observation, the power of your previous psionic cannon is superimposed. The energy output is not very high, it doubles about every two seconds, and you need to last at least ten seconds to cause damage to the king ants."

"So, if you are not fully equipped with spiritual energy, you'd better not use that move. If you don't have time, your spiritual energy will be wasted in vain."

Rhodes gave him a surprised look.

"I just used it once in front of you, your observation skills are so keen."

Lannister pushed his glasses and said flatly, "Thank you for your compliment, but I won't give up Celie to you."

"Shut up! Big liar!"

Celie shot him a savage look.

"If you bring this up in front of me again, I'll cut you off."

I don't actually want it... Rhode wisely didn't say this.

He thinks it's okay for Celie to be a friend, but it's okay to be a lover. He doesn't like this type, especially the one who will be cut off every now and then, and can't sleep well.

The Lannisters have also been quite clever in sidestepping the subject.

"The No.20 lighthouse is relatively close. There is only lighthouse No. 37 in front, and there are lighthouses 46, [-], and [-] behind. We are actually under a lot of pressure."

"Mr. Churchill also said just now that apart from the king ants, the monsters in Trident Hanoi were also alarmed."

"The current situation of other lighthouses is not very good. If it is not necessary, we'd better not ask for help to avoid adding pressure to other lighthouses."

"Especially Teacher Churchill, he is dealing with the most dangerous demonized king ants near the entrance."

"And according to my calculations, you can use that kind of psionic cannon about once every three days, so I decided to implement the following strategy."

He paused and said seriously.

"Under normal circumstances, let go of ordinary soldier ants, large worker ants, hunt king ants, and monsters in Hanoi with all your strength, but you can only hunt one at a time, and let the more ones go."

"Until your spiritual energy recovers, we will fight with you as the core and carry out a comprehensive hunt."

Celie nodded, although rather reluctantly.

"That's the only way. Although it puts more pressure on our rear, we also tried our best. It's better than the collapse of the lighthouse and countless casualties."

Hearing such a reasonable suggestion, Rhodes just smiled slightly.

"Don't worry, I still have a lot of means."

"Listen to me, don't let any one go, anyone who enters the line of sight of the lighthouse will die, as I said."

Celie's eyes lit up for a moment. She has a violent temper and wished to kill all the dirt that got into her eyes. Letting the monster pass was just a helpless move.

What Rhodes said was exactly what she wanted.

Lannister looked at Rhodes with a considering look.

Of course he is clear about the miracles created by Rhodes, and it is impossible for someone who can enter the Temple of Fire not to understand what these words represent.

Without absolute certainty, it is impossible to put one's teammates in such a dangerous situation.

He thought for a few seconds and asked, "Rhode, can you tell me your methods? I can formulate corresponding tactics to cooperate with you in fighting."

"Uh……"

Rhodes thought for a while, all his means other than psionic power came from dream creation.

After Mephis was free, he had created quite a few dream creations, so many that he didn't even have a concept.

When Lannister asked such a question, he really couldn't answer it for a while, so he could only temporarily enter the dreamland to take stock.

Hmm... There is one resurrection stone, the divinity has 79 points, and seven can be made. The resurrection location should be set here at the lighthouse.

There are more than 700 wooden puppets and more than 100 flesh puppets, and there are enough summons.

There are more than 50 flesh and blood armors, and I can maintain the state of flesh and blood armor all the time.

There are more than 30 soul defenses, which can resist more than 30 fatal injuries.

There are still 10 Kales Tongwen Heavy Cannons, which can create 10 big explosions, or 1 super big explosion.

There are 2 Heralds of Destruction.

This thing burns life and explodes spiritual energy. If you use it, you will die. It must be used with the resurrection stone.

In addition, there are countless conventional supplies, and there is no problem with basic supplies.

The only pity is that there is no spiritual bullet, and the condensing light cannot be used, and there is one less sure-kill method.

However, he still has a way to suppress the bottom of the box.

Once it was a last resort, he used [Awakening] crazily, shooting around with infinite psionic cannons, killing gods when he saw gods, killing monsters when he saw monsters, and finally blew himself up in the void, destroying all monsters in ashes.

But this trick will cause the world to slide into the abyss at an accelerated rate, and will reduce the divinity he gets next time.

It is best not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

After taking stock, Rhodes became more confident.

After considering the language, Rhodes briefly introduced his methods in a language they could understand.

Of course, the ultimate means of borrowing from the void was not mentioned, so as not to cause misunderstandings.

But even with his existing methods, the eyes of the two of them would light up.

"it is good!"

Lannister made up his mind at once.

"Just as you said."

He cut down with one hand and made a beheading motion.

"Kill all monsters that come within range."

"Come one to kill one, come one to kill another!"

With a snap, the three hands clasped together.

The three looked at each other and smiled.

"Our lighthouse is the brightest!"

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In the next few days, they strictly implemented Rhodes' tactics, and the results achieved even exceeded their own expectations.

Generally speaking, the defense range of a lighthouse is its line-of-sight range.

At the top of the lighthouse, there is usually a psychic sensor. Any monster with a psychic level above three entering the range will be sensed by the sensor and displayed on the psychic crystal.

The range of the sensor is called the line-of-sight range, which represents the limit distance that the "eyes" of the lighthouse can see.

This is the area under the jurisdiction of the lighthouse.

The NO.20 lighthouse is a larger lighthouse, and the range of the spiritual sensor is larger, so there are far more monsters entering its range than other lighthouses.

Neither Churchill, the guardian nor Tyrion, the regional commander, thought that the No. 20 lighthouse could handle all the monsters that entered the range.

Their thinking is similar to that of Lannister, they only think that they can hunt and kill powerful monsters as much as possible while ensuring their own safety.

But what they never expected was that after a few days, they suddenly found out.

The eastern area suddenly became the area with the least pressure in the entire area.

It's an incredible thing.

As the origin of the disaster, the exit of the dungeon tends to the east side, and the pressure on the battlefield on the east side should be the greatest.

They began to clean up the battle situation, trace the source upwards, and find the reason.

Then, they suddenly found out.

NO.20 lighthouse, did not let go of a monster.

This is a vacuum point, and all the monsters that entered the range have never come out again, so that the NO.17 lighthouse directly behind it has nothing to do, and even has time to help the lighthouses on the left and right sides.

"Are these three brats so powerful?"

Churchill felt very incredible.

Although he already knew that Rhodes was very powerful, he had made a special trip to help him out of the crisis, and agreed to fight side by side with him.

But in the bottom of his heart, he didn't think that the current Rhodes was qualified to fight alongside him.

At least another ten years of growth is needed before this little guy is qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

But the phenomenon of No.20 lighthouse showed that even though he had reported the highest expectations, he still seemed to underestimate Rhodes and overestimate himself.

Yes.

Churchill does not need to verify, knowing that all of this must be related to Rhodes.

He personally took care of the other two little ones, so he knew their roots.

He has a very accurate vision of people, and he can tell who can achieve what and what limit they can reach.

Only Rhodes, he can't see the details, can't see the limit.

The third-level commander Tyrion also felt incredible. He had dealt with Rhodes in the Battle of the Kuroshio, but he still couldn't believe that he could make such an achievement.

This is not a regional battle during the Kuroshio, but a hall-level mission.

From the perspective of the degree of crisis, the two may be similar, but Rhodes' status is different, and the pressure he bears is different.

"Are you sure it's him?" Tyrion asked.

"Correct."

Churchill replied gruffly. He tapped the ground with a sledgehammer, and the loud roar added to the persuasiveness of his words.

"It can only be him."

"I'm going to the NO.20 lighthouse now."

said Tyrion.

"Look at what's going on. If conditions permit, I will adjust the regional strategy, centering on the NO.20 lighthouse. Maybe we can achieve greater results and completely change our terrible situation."

Churchill tapped the ground again, and the ground jumped like a drum.

"You'd better hurry up. The queen ant is too much of a threat. Its spiritual power is increasing exponentially. In a few days, even if I find it, I won't be able to fight it head-on."

Tyrion's face was gloomy, and he only answered one word: "Yes." Then he turned and hurried away.

Churchill raised his hammer and ax again, left the temporary command center, turned around and sank into the rapidly rolling black mist.

(End of this chapter)