AWB Chapter 597 Fierce Battle at the Barbarian Camp 2
Chapter 597 Fierce Battle at the Barbarian Camp 2
The shards bounced back and struck the shield of the barbarian warrior at the forefront, instantly freezing the shield surface with a thick layer of ice. The runes flickered twice and then went dark.
The soldier was pushed back two steps by the impact, but he never lowered his shield.
The instant his figure vanished, a ray of starlight burst forth from the tip of his right index finger.
The golden beam pierced through the breastplate of the shield-bearing warrior on the left—with a 50% spell penetration threshold, the bone plate breastplate only delayed the warrior by 0.1 seconds.
The beam of light entered from the center of his chest and exited from his back.
A level 79 Barbarian front-line shield warrior instantly empties the health bar.
Sold out instantly.
"Left wing cover!"
Someone in the barbarian formation roared in the barbarian language.
The soldiers in the second rank immediately stepped forward to fill the gap, without pausing their movements.
The second stellar ray has been fired.
The beam pierced through the shoulder armor of the replacement warrior and the chest of the archer behind him who was re-aiming—one through two.
Two white lights lit up on the ice surface almost simultaneously.
After the archers in the back row were killed twice, the barbarian's firepower rhythm paused noticeably.
Lin Tian drew a tactical command in the air, sending Celia a pre-marked location coordinate.
Celia sent a confirmation to his mind.
The next second, Shadow Thorns burst forth from beneath the frozen ground, precisely entangled the archer squad that was regrouping on the right side of the camp.
Thorns glided silently across the ice, the reflection of the ice masking the movement of shadows.
The archers didn't realize their feet were entangled until their ankles were bound, their movement speed dropped by 30%, and their firing rate was disrupted for at least two rounds.
Little White swooped down from the clouds.
The dragon's body fully unfolded in the air, and its breath swept across the barbarian camp's assembly area on the left.
A layer of white frost formed where the ice-blue energy pillar passed.
The barbarian's ice crystal weapons resonated with the Ice Lord's talent—the ice crystal battle axes in the hands of the two warriors exploded on the spot, and shards pierced their own arms and shoulders, causing their health bars to drop slightly.
The two barbarian warriors, having lost their weapons, had to retreat and draw short axes from the spare weapon slots at their waists.
The barbarian leader then appeared.
Instead of rushing out in anger, he stood quietly by the fire in the center of the camp and observed for a few seconds.
His eyes weren't the blood-red of an orc blinded by the Bloodrage spell, but a calm, icy blue.
Those eyes swept quickly across the battlefield, then looked up and accurately locked onto Lin Tian's location.
He raised his hand and pointed in Lin Tian's direction, his voice carrying through the cold wind: "Spread out! Spread out to the left and right!"
"The left wing will bypass the ice ridge and attack his rear, while the right wing will suppress that flying pet—ignore the shadow skills, attach all anti-stealth materials to the bowstring, and use rune arrows to block his stealth path!"
The barbarian formation switched within three seconds of the command being given.
Lin Tian quickly assessed the situation: This leader was able to dismantle all of the opponent's attack chains within a few rounds; this battlefield analysis speed had exceeded the AI capabilities of elite monsters.
We can't let him continue to command.
The stellar rays erupted again—the third time.
A golden beam of light tore through the air and shot toward the leader's chest.
Just as the beam was about to hit, the leader suddenly sidestepped—the judgment of anticipation and dodge was completed almost simultaneously with the attack command.
The beam only hit his right shoulder, shattering a piece of the ice crystal on his bone armor and reducing his health bar by nearly half, but he didn't fall.
"Hold the line—no retreat!"
He raised his giant axe and charged towards Lin Tian, the frost energy wrapped around the axe blade so thick that it began to dissipate outwards.
The force of that axe strike was enough to cleave through the armor plating of a standard Allied siege vehicle.
Lin Tian's gravitational field unfolded ahead of schedule.
All things in the universe - gravity.
An invisible force field suddenly pulled the leader's center of gravity forward, causing his charge trajectory to deviate. The giant axe smashed into the ice half a meter to Lin Tian's side, blasting open a crater with a diameter of two meters.
The streaks of light from the leaping stars swept across the leader's head.
When Lin Tian landed, he was behind the leader—back to back, at zero distance, with his right hand directly pressing on the seam of the bone armor on the leader's back.
The fourth stellar ray.
A critical hit from a point of close range with your back turned.
A golden beam of light entered the leader's back and exited from the center of his chest.
The ice crystal fragments on the front of the bone armor were blasted open from the inside, and the health bar dropped from nearly half to zero.
The massive body froze in place, the giant axe slipping from its grasp and crashing onto the ice with a dull thud.
All the ice crystal fragments on the bone armor shattered and fell onto the ice surface with a crash, like a broken ice mirror.
The corpse vanished in a flash of white light, leaving behind a fist-sized fragment of an ice crystal core, several gold coins, and a piece of armor of decent quality on the ground.
After the leader fell to the ground, the barbarian camp's defenses were thrown into real chaos.
The firing rate of the archers in the back row dropped significantly. They lost their tactical command and coordination, and the crossfire cover turned into individual combat.
Lin Tian did not escalate the battle further—he had already obtained reconnaissance intelligence and the leader had been killed; continuing the fight would only waste mana and skill cooldowns.
He put the ice crystal core fragment dropped by the leader into his backpack, and casually swept in a few broken pieces of bone armor from the ground as well.
The Stellar Leap was activated, and the streak of light zigzagged back and forth four times between the ice ridges, with each landing point calculated in advance.
Celia blended back into the shadows, and Little White folded its wings and swooped down from high above, landing on Lin Tian's shoulder.
The sound of horns echoed throughout the camp.
The first snow wolf cavalry unit had already rushed out of the camp, but Lin Tian's retreat route had been planned before the battle began—the first false direction fooled the three dire wolves that rushed out first. By the time they caught up to the ice ridge on the north side and found that the trail had broken, the real Lin Tian was already in the ice hills area several miles to the west.
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Return to the Great Gorge City.
The western sky was burned a dark red by the sunset, forming a stark contrast with the cold white ice fog on the frozen ground to the east.
Qin Zhi and Ke Lin reviewed Lin Tian's reconnaissance records in the council chamber.
Both of them read very carefully, especially the barbarian leader's original words, which Qin Zhi listened to Lin Tian repeat twice.
"The barbarians rejected the orcs. This was unexpected."
Colin put down his notepad, looking somewhat surprised.
Based on the coalition's previous assessment, the barbarians and orcs shared many similarities in racial attributes and survival needs, making an alliance highly probable.
"Temporary."
Qin Zhi said that her fingers unconsciously tapped twice on the table.
"His reason for refusing is the Orcs' bad reputation, not that he wants to side with us. If the threat from the Ironclad Den increases and the Barbarians can't hold on, they might still go back to the Orcs for help—and then the terms won't be the same as before. The Orcs will raise their prices, and the Barbarians will be forced to accept them."