Chapter 782: Phantom Shadow Oath Guard Contract Monthly Votes Plus [
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The line that Murphy drew for the battlefield was already a river of blood, the corpses of the slain jackals were piled up together and even blocked the advance of the following troops, and the jackals at the back had to throw the corpses of their compatriots into the deep valley next to the shattered mountain in order to continue to move forward, and Murphy took the patriarch’s personal guards and stood guard at the position and kept on killing until the wee hours of the morning, and it was only after the Nords and the Golden Spire people had retreated that Murphy took the vampires and slowly retreated back into the valley.
At this time, the wounded and civilians in the valley had already been evacuated through the pit, at this moment tonight when there was a tragic war going on both inside and outside the valley, even the jackals who didn’t worry about manpower couldn’t possibly spare more people to chase those retreating towards Baphomet Canyon when they were attacked in all directions.
Xugerson also quickly came back to its senses, and it realized that the Transylvanians hadn’t really launched this surprisingly large-scale counterattack in order to crush the Jackals.
They were just trying to gain an undisturbed window of time for the transfer.
But knowing that didn’t help much; the pit system leading to Baphomet Canyon had been clutched in the other side’s hands, and the Jackals and Dogheads had spent a great deal of effort not being able to fight their way in much less map out the inner workings.
This system is as complex as a labyrinth of pits is simply a challenge to the jackals’ wisdom ceiling, Xu Gerson also personally went to the pit to see, it is very skeptical that even if the opposite side of the pit drawings in front of them, the jackals may not be able to read and understand.
The Transylvanians have really played out the Dogman’s underground digging tactics, but as long as the Valley of the Shadow is in hand, those Transylvanian pits can be controlled by the Jackals.
Sending a large number of Dogheads through a unified entrance to infiltrate the interior, even if it took some time, it would always be possible to pinch this complex and effective pit system in their own hands, turning the enemy’s advantage into their own, which was the right way to wage war.
Now that the battle has come to this point, there is no need to worry about the side of the Shadow Valley.
In that terrain, even if the rebels had gotten their hands on new weapons with strong firepower, there was no way to turn the tide of the battle, and the Jackals would definitely be able to take the valley, so after the attack on the base camp, Xu Gesen took his reserves and killed his way back to the camp.
But instead of trying to retake the camp, it flew to order those Jackals who had escaped the underground explosions to withdraw to the periphery.
The battle here, even if it was fierce, was just a ghost trick used by the Transylvanians to buy time, and following their steps would definitely turn this place into a lousy battle, and Xugerson didn’t need this camp anymore.
The capture of the Shadow Valley would give the Jackals one of the best strategic bases in the Barren Hills region, and the next goal was to send a large army to Baphomet Canyon to join up with the Hass Supervisors there, and break through the Nords’ defenses there in one fell swoop.
When the Jackals really pushed into the Filthy Swamp, the Transylvanian side would no longer have any means to resist the Jackals’ Black Plague from stepping into the center of the continent.
Both sides knew very well that the next big battle after the Valley of the Shadow would be the decisive battle between the two sides.
Just as Murphy withdrew to the entrance of the pit with the clan leader’s personal guards, he received a truly bad news:
“What did you say? The vanguard of the Winter Wolf Legion was wiped out? Didn’t they withdraw just now?”
Murphy looked at Adele in front of him as he questioned:
“Why didn’t they enter the pit?”
“Because the dog-heads, master, while the jackals are attacking on the surface, their dog-head servants haven’t given up digging, and the Earth Priests are exhausted, they are powerless to stop the dog-heads’ frantic digging underground.”
E-sister said hoarsely:
“The Dogheads charged out right next to the Nords’ barracks, Colonel Fraser witnessed the whole thing, and he tried to get the warriors under his command to go to support them, but now that area was overrun by the Dogheads in a very short period of time, and there is no way for us to take any action there, master.
Those Dogheads that blocked the retreat of the Nords are cooperating with the Jackals to rampage through the valley, and it’s hard to fend them off with the minefields we’ve laid out.
It’s time to retreat.
You must pass through the pit immediately, and I will stay behind to direct the aftermath.”
“You go ahead, I’ll stay here.”
Murphy looked towards the position of the Nords’ position, he shook his head and handed the battle helmet in his hand to Bonnie beside him again said to Adele:
“The intelligence officers under your command proved their worth in the previous battle, you will have to take them to retreat back to the Wolf’s Castle to prepare for a sluggish battle there in the middle of the swamp, I had promised my warriors and soldiers here that I would stay in the Valley of the Phantoms to be the last to evacuate.
I made a promise I will keep.”
“You are in a fit of pique, you are our leader and there is no reason for us to put you in such danger!”
Adele said as she stepped forward with some agitation:
“Transylvania still needs you!”
“Adele.”
Murphy stared into her eyes and said:
“Do as you’re told, now! Pass my orders to Colonel Fraser, I need the Goldfinch artillerymen to set up fire on the Winterwolf position in Baffant Canyon, there’s still a battle to be fought there next.”
“Me.”
Adele bit her lip as she nodded, glanced at Murphy but ultimately didn’t have the heart to kiss him goodbye in public, turned and left the area with her heir, Dana.
“You should have been more forthcoming.”
Bonnie whispered next to her:
“She was on the verge of tears.”
“Hmph, the person who got punched in the bed by Lord Yvette and cried might as well shut up.”
Murphy teased:
“Weren’t you fierce in the past? Bonnie, why were you taken so easily by Yvette? I heard that you rested for a whole day and night to get over it.”
“I refuse to answer that question to you, I’m just emphasizing that I didn’t concede defeat to that Blood Alliance Goblin!”
Bonnie grimaced back, but refused to remove her helmet, supposedly because Yvette had left a little “souvenir” on Bonnie’s face before she left.
Murphy was no longer concerned about this, he flew into the sky to look at the situation in the valley, farther away, he could already see the Jackal’s bipedal flying dragons in the air fighting with the blood vultures vampires, and on the ground the smoke rolled representing the Jackal and the dogheads were breaking through.
Behind the Vampire Lords, weary believers were moving the shrines of the gods away from the area so that these sacred objects would not be defiled by the Jackals, and Miss Bikki, whose armor was covered in battle marks and whose cloak was tattered and torn, was limping to help her best friend, Knight Raven, to evacuate the shrine of the Holy Spirit of the East.
It was the last of the things to be removed.
At the entrance of the pit further away, the last batch of KPA soldiers were also waiting in line to enter the pit.
They were also carrying the Earth Priests who were generally in a state of disembodied unconsciousness; these Silver Dwarves had probably never been so tired, and even on this bleak battlefield, the muffled snores of these guys were just as noticeable.
They are the busiest group of people in the twenty days of the Shadow Valley, these dwarves chose to come to the Shadow Valley to continue to resist because of the fall of the Black Flame Pass, they blamed themselves for losing the Mother Goddess of the Earth’s holy land, but their outstanding performance during this period of time makes even the most harsh people can’t pick out the faults, without the Earth Priests, on the Shadow Valley’s broken terrain, it’s a miracle that they can last for a week! Without these Earth Priests.
Murphy also saw the nominal mistress of the Shadow Valley, Lisa, and her husband, Captain Merkel.
The two young half-elves had grown up fast during the years of war.
Before this war took place, Lisa was a small rookie lord who sat on the sidelines and fiddled with unseemly plots in her hometown, and even thought of running away from the battlefield from her position at the Black Flame Pass, while Merkel was a young husband with a high heart but limited strength.
But now, Lisa had become a qualified commander for the Phantom Half-Elves, who had performed valiantly in several battles, and had been complimented more than once by the commanding officer for her great generalship.
As for Captain Merkel, he was even more impressive, he had become the most powerful archery guide recognized by the hunter players, and had also relied on his courage and skill to kill several Hunting Chosen in the pitched battle a few days ago.
He had paid for it with his left foot, but that did not detract from the man’s bravery.
The couple should have been evacuated with the heavy losses of the Shadow Rangers, but instead they stayed in front of the gravestones of their forefathers, with Lisa half-kneeling to bid farewell to the tombstone of Lady Mona, the Freehand who had founded the Valley of the Shadows, and Mekel accompanying his wife with an elven warbow on his back.
“Say a prayer for Adele.” Murphy walked over and whispered:
“I know she wants to say goodbye to her mother as well, but her character doesn’t allow her to show weakness after all she’s been through.”
“I know, Adele and I are very close, my Lord Lord.”
Lisa opened her eyes, she looked to Murphy and after a few seconds of hesitation she whispered:
“But can we we ever come back? My Lord Lord, by leaving we are giving up our homeland to the jackals, will we ever be able to return to our home someday?”
“Of course!”
Murphy replied affirmatively:
“We are only leaving temporarily, we never said we would abandon this place, the Valley of Shadows is the border of Transylvania, and I am the Governor of Transylvania, the day I became the Governor I swore an oath to my territory, I will not allow anything to be taken away from this land that has suffered so much anymore.
And the Valley of the Shadow has never yielded.
This place will be the grave of the Jackals one day, I can be sure of that and it is never too far away, and when it is, you will be able to return here with your people and your warriors clad in glory and rebuild your homeland.”
“Well said, Lord Governor!”
Lady Water’s voice rang out from behind her with a hint of exhaustion.
Murphy turned around and saw the reindeer that Fire Zigo had changed into carrying his wife to this place, Fire Zigo’s body was full of wounds and blood stains, and Lady Water’s battle armor was even covered with slashes from sharp weapons, she must have fought for a very long time, making her arms trembling as she gripped her bow and arrows.
At this moment, Lady Shui seemed to have completely shed her soft side as a woman and a mother, striding along in her tattered battle robes like a true white knight.
In the eyes of Murphy and Lisa, Mrs. Water half-kneeled in front of the tombstone of “Free Hand” Ms. Mona, she removed her battle helmet and solemnly swore:
“I am about to embark on the path of guardianship set by Avalon for the White Knights, but guardianship must have a goal, that day when I received the emerald green gale from Ms. Natalie, I was still a lost soul, but now I know what I should fight for.
The Silvermoon Corps has been seeking to make the Valley of the Shadow our stronghold.
But if we want to be recognized by this land, we must pay for it!
Therefore, I hereby make an oath!
The entire Silver Moon Regiment will remain in the Barren Mountain region and continue to resist until the Valley of the Shadow is restored to light, and we will dedicate everything we have to recapture this valley, and we will be able to obtain the blessing of the Valley of the Shadow in our future victories.”
“Hmm, what a great vow of resistance.”
Murphy nodded in satisfaction as he looked at Lisa and said:
“So, Mistress of the Valley of the Shadow, what do you say in the face of the warrior’s oath?”
“I will witness and fight alongside them.”
Lisa said in a hushed voice:
“I have never truly had the loyalty of the Valley of the Shadow, I have spent the first half of my life immersed in the drama of playing a queen, perhaps it is time for me to step out of the drama and truly fight for my dreams.
All greatness must be tempered, just as true gold must always be burned by fire.
On our return to this valley, I will grant the Silvermoon Regiment permanent residence and stewardship here, and I will share the power in my hands with these brave and beautiful foreigners!
This is the promise of the Mistress of the Valley of the Shadow, and this land and its hosts bear witness to it!”
“I will witness your vows as well, but now it is time for you to go.”
Murphy glanced back at the army of jackals that had already crossed that town in the Valley of the Shadow and was coming towards the entrance of the pit, he took out his chainsaw sword and said to the people beside him:
“Bonnie accompanied me to stay here and give the final ‘blessing’ to the leader of the Jackal people, the others enter the pit and do what they need to do, remember to activate the explosives planted inside the pit and blow up the place! We can’t leave our pit to the Jackals.”
“What about you?”
Firenze asked nervously as he supported his tired wife:
“The space here is blocked, Lord Murphy, and how are you going to get out of here without taking the pit?”
“Is this look in your eyes that you’re worried that I’ll kill myself in shame for failing in front of the Jackals?”
Murphy said in an odd tone:
“The Jackals blocked space so that I can’t teleport, but I can still fly out on my own wings, I didn’t leave before not because I couldn’t, my warrior as you know, a lord like me retiring also has to have a ‘send off ceremony’ that fits his status.
Go.”
After saying that, the Lord Governor spread his bloody wings and swooped forward, his own small players had made such a sincere oath of guardianship, how could he himself as the mainline NPC be worse off before withdrawing?
So, find a place with lots of people and go on a killing spree!
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“Pfft.”
The headless body trembled and fell to the ground, causing blood to be scattered everywhere, and even flying broken flesh and twisted armor smashed to the ground.
The high speed rotation from the brutal saw blade of the chainsaw sword would slice through anything it touched with ease, and in the face of such offensive power, the hardened bones that the jackals prided themselves on were nothing more than that.
Not to mention the fact that the one who was using this brutal weapon was a vampire weapon master, making the heavy and poorly maneuvered thing into an art in his hands, Murphy expressionlessly flung the blood dripping chain saw sword in his hand, and around him was a field of sliced up corpses.
Jackal’s, Dogman’s, Wolf’s and a hunting voter’s body was cut into four pieces, but the whole battlefield is less bloody, probably because when they died the blood has been extracted by the scarlet secret energy and was transformed into a weapon to hurt other jackals, perhaps from Maxim’s power of piercing to get the inspiration, in the distance from Murphy’s farther place, those are made of the scarlet spears of the blood convergence were stuck all over the ground.
And under each spear there was inevitably a corpse.
It was a very bloody scene, making the scene look just like the scene of the battle of the King’s Sword Fence.
After the last jackal was hacked to death by Murphy, no new enemies were seen coming up, perhaps even the jackals were in fear of this strange vampire lord, more than five hundred jackals were killed in a short period of time of course it wasn’t Murphy’s work alone, the Archduke’s close guards led by Bonnie also contributed quite a wonderful kill.
They, the vampires, stood guard in their previous position, small in number but deterring the jackals that came over, making these barbarians stop in front of that scene of carnage, a dead silence as you look at me and I look at you.
Murphy didn’t wear a helmet for this battle, after all, he needed to let the jackals see for themselves how the Transylvanian lord fought in order to engrave his ferocious image in a more ruthless manner in the jackals’ minds, which would be beneficial to his reputation, however, both Bonnie and Villancer thought that this was a bad idea, after all, after Murphy unleashed the Astral Rip that reduced the Black Flame Pass to ruins, his great name had long been spreading among the jackals’ society.
A vampire who had personally overthrown an army of more than 100,000 Black Plagues and gotten a great chief killed was fully qualified to be recorded in the Jackals’ own history books, if they really had such a thing .
But Murphy felt that fame was something that could never be “livered”, and making the enemy more afraid of himself was a good thing at all times.
“Bang.”
The heavy chainsaw sword braced against the ground as Murphy stood over the piled up jackal carcasses.
He leaned on the brutal weapon that was still smoking and dripping blood, and his blood-colored pupils swept over the jackals in front of him, like an invisible whip striking at the hearts and spirits of these guys, mixed with the blood-colored scent that hadn’t yet dissipated beside him, and almost congealed into a substantial aura of fear.
Those timid armed dog-heads and even some smaller jackals didn’t even dare to meet Murphy’s eyes, but the moment they lowered their heads they would be berated and beaten by the jackals beside them.
Asshole!
Don’t bow down to the “jackal’s demon of destruction”!
It’s a sign of cowardice!
But even those who tilted their heads back tried to avoid looking Murphy in the eye, which might not have been called fear, but there was no doubt that with everyone quieted down and waiting for Murphy to speak, they were already a few heads short.
This is not to blame for their weakness.
After all, whoever faces a ruthless man who killed more than 100,000 jackals in one night will feel afraid, this is a magical continent, who knows after Murphy did that thing will form a special similar to the “jackal nemesis” special power?
“What are you guys doing here, neither fighting nor retreating? Stare me to death with your eyes?”
Murphy’s black hair swayed around his shoulders as he chided:
“Let your leader come here! I have a few words for it . Uh, are you guys not moving because I didn’t say ‘please’?”
(End of chapter)