Chapter 474: The First Victory
Compared to war puppets, stone puppets, and stone golems, which mainly focused on defending against enemy charges and employing harassment tactics, the emergence of the Destroyers posed a real threat to the lives of the Bull Totem Warriors. Faced with these aerial units, comparable to large armed helicopters from their past life, these powerful orc warriors—capable of fighting single-handedly against silver-ranked strongmen and capable of collective charges that even gold-ranked strongmen had to avoid—were utterly defeated! They could only cower and take hits passively, unable to even retaliate.
Seeing the Bull Totem Warriors once again suppressed and on the verge of collapse, the two strongest orcs rushed to rescue them. The number of these elite orcs was extremely limited; they could afford no more losses!
But their opponents, Kelthas and Carlisle, naturally wouldn’t let them interfere. “Not even think about it!”
Carlisle wielded a precision steel longsword, his masterful swordsmanship erupting once again, leaving the orc sword sage overwhelmed. Not only could he not assist his allies, but he also had to activate his own domain in advance just to buy some time.
This was already the third longsword Carlisle had used; the previous two had been destroyed, causing minor trouble to his opponents.
Although the domain of this orc sword sage covered a much larger area than those of the long-established human legendary sword sages, its rules were inferior, offering little restraint on enemies—its effects were mostly focused on self-defense and attack. This was a common weakness among legendary strongmen of orc races, who weren’t known for their wisdom. Though their individual abilities might far exceed those of ordinary humans, they lacked the spirituality and finesse of human and elf strongmen when it came to mastering domains and the principles behind them.
“Daring to show off such a domain? Let me show you what a true domain is!”
As soon as he spoke, a bright red domain unfolded within the orc sword sage’s domain, quickly spreading to cover the entire area.
The orc sword sage’s domain was merely a force-based domain with slight enhancements to agility and defense, whereas Carlisle’s Blood Battle Domain could greatly suppress his opponent’s strength while maximizing his own power. Enhanced by divine forces, its rule-based power had reached levels close to that of a demi-god domain.
After all, through his journey in the Totem Continent, he had obtained several fragments of divinity, greatly boosting his divine power. His own realm had also reached a stage where he was on the verge of attaining demi-god immortality! So, it wasn’t surprising that he possessed such strength.
Looking at the Gold Orc Priest, Kelthas had already summoned his famous ultimate ability, the Fire Phoenix, forcing the Orc Priest to the side of the battlefield so that he could not support the Bull Totem Warriors. The Orc Priest was quite strong; although his actual combat power was inferior to that of his opponent Kelthas, he was able to hold his ground thanks to the numerous shamanic artifacts and divine spells bestowed by the true gods. His situation was actually much better than that of the legendary Orc Swordmaster. Even after these priests who were originally shamans became full-fledged clergy, they could still use those shamanic artifacts and spells. The reason was that the original Orc Shaman Priests were a class that existed between clergy and ordinary spellcasters, with their powers derived from the natural spirits in the lands and forests of the main world. Later, these evolved into the Spirits of Ancestors. By venerating these ancestral spirits akin to totem gods, the shamans gained the ability to cast spells, leading to the development of the Ancestor Spirit Totems—those very totems that Ughash used to unify the Orcs after becoming a god. This time, the Gold High Priest from the Bull Tribe also brought out their tribe’s Orc God Totem, but for safety reasons, he did not bring it onto the battlefield to avoid damage from attacks by the human side. Moreover, aside from the Bull Tribe’s Bull Totem Warriors and warriors above the Gold rank, even with their orcish strength, they could not carry those heavy totem poles weighing thousands of pounds into battle. Usually, they were pulled by orc carts, with strong warriors guarding them. At that moment, the Orc God Totem stood among the high-ranking Orcs watching from outside the battlefield. After the dictator Ughash regained his godly status, the range of the Orc God Totem’s influence expanded greatly, allowing the Orc Priests to enhance their powers using the totem’s strength even hundreds of steps away from the battlefield. This power doubled the abilities of the Orc Priests, bringing them to the level of Gold-tier masters, enabling them to compete evenly with Kelthas, who had the Fire Phoenix’s assistance. However, the Orc Swordmaster, who was not a Shaman Priest, did not have such advantages. Having spent over a hundred years in the Darklands and having countless battles under his belt, he had honed his swordsmanship far beyond that of ordinary legendary swordmasters. How to fight was ingrained in his instincts; his moves were spontaneous, seemingly random, yet unpredictable and exhausting to counter.
Anyone who fought against Carlisle would experience a nightmare-like sensation, as if they were merely a small mound of earth, utterly unable to overcome a towering mountain. During those brief few minutes of combat, the Orc Sword Saint had already gone through countless life-threatening crises; the slightest carelessness could result in instant death. After Carlisle shattered his steel sword for the fifth time and used it as a weapon, the now-experienced Orc Sword Saint’s seemingly foolproof sword energy shield unexpectedly failed. It turned out that the steel sword his opponent should have been wielding had somehow been replaced with a blood-red longsword, its divine glow indicating that it was a sub-divine artifact. Despite the Orc Sword Saint’s powerful sword energy shield and the thick, durable metal of his sword, forged from various minerals, it could not withstand the piercing power of a sub-divine artifact! Pierced through his sword and struck straight in the chest, the Orc Sword Saint was filled with disbelief, resentment, and disappointment. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t utter a word, before Carlisle’s Blood Demon Sword drained his strength, vitality, and even his soul. When Donald designed this sub-divine artifact, he took Carlisle’s fighting style and domain attributes into account, and naming it the Blood Demon Sword perfectly matched its abilities. Although it lacked any powerful attack skills beyond the Blood Demon Slash, which required sacrificing the owner’s blood, its ability to absorb the life force and even the soul of living beings to enhance itself made it a growth-oriented sub-divine artifact whose value was comparable to that of three ordinary sub-divine artifacts! Having absorbed the essence of a legendary warrior, the Blood Demon Sword shone with a dazzling red light, its power clearly increased. With a few more such warriors absorbed, it might even rise to the level of a true divine artifact!