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Chapter 452 - 252: Three Thousand against Five Thousand, the Advantage is Mine!

Chapter 452: Chapter 252: Three Thousand against Five Thousand, the Advantage is Mine!

Many soldiers quickly assembled, all of them ordinary soldiers with strength around the Foundation Establishment Stage, not those powerful Daoist Soldiers.

More importantly, their numbers were not large, totaling only three thousand soldiers.

Gu Shanhai and the other four had some status, each one a Ten-man Captain, commanding ten soldiers each, though their strength was also not high. However, with this identity, many things became much more convenient.

After all, above them, there were only Centurions and Chiliarchs, and as for those commanders and the like, that was fully beyond their consideration—they were just small squad leaders responsible for leading charges.

And Gu Shanhai had also come to understand what this assembly was for: a barbarian sneak attack.

The barbarians had already arrived at the gates of Wulaoguan, currently issuing challenges.

Wulaoguan was just a minor pass, not a significant one. Typically, it was garrisoned with Daoist Soldiers and military masters, but they had been transferred away not long ago. It would take three days for them to return.

During these three days, they had to hold the line.

To retreat would mean death, and not to retreat was the same—it meant they were being urged to put up a fight.

The reason to fight was simple: among the five thousand barbarians, there were a hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers composed of barbarians. Without the leadership of a military master, they might not be able to fight a hundred on one, but defeating ten each was no problem.

Therefore, in reality, just these one hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers could overrun these three thousand soldiers.

Gu Shanhai also learned about the capabilities of the Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers through his status as a Ten-man Captain. Besides having relatively strong bodily qualities, they also carried three abilities.

When attacking, there was Spirit Ghost Slash, which could inflict damage to the soul passively, and Ghost Slash, which could weaken the enemy to some extent—both of these were passive skills that remained effective as long as the Daoist Soldiers’ inner Daoist energy wasn’t exhausted.

Aside from these, there was also an active skill called Wraith Scream, which emitted a piercing howl that directly attacked the soul and mind. Any ordinary soldier hit by it was sure to die.

These were just Daoist Soldiers without a military master’s leadership. Should a military master appear, then these hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers could form a Ghost Pattern Banner, boosting their strength even further, and the more Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers there were, the greater the boost from the Ghost Pattern Banner.

And this was just one of the basic abilities of a military master.

Military masters and Daoist Soldiers constituted the Transcendent system of this world: one Daoist Soldier might not be much, but ten thousand Daoist Soldiers led by a military master were a tremendously powerful existence.

Of course, there were differences between Daoist Soldiers and gaps between military masters.

"Boss, if you can dodge then dodge during the battle, don’t rush to the front," Li Chen transmitted a reminder to Gu Shanhai from afar.

The four had planned a lot, thinking they would be assigned to the same squad, but unexpectedly they ended up each leading their own squad, so they didn’t have the capacity to give Gu Shanhai a hand.

So all they could do was advise Gu Shanhai to be careful. As for the task, the four were now somewhat uneasy about what kind of instance this actually was—the difficulty was enormous.

Gu Shanhai also responded in turn, telling them to just take care of themselves.

He was certainly not going to die; even if they couldn’t win the fight, he could just run far away and plant himself in the ground.

In this respect, he was quite experienced.

However, for him, a hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers were not a big deal—I could resolve the issue with a wave of "pocket world".

These leaderless Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers were about the level of the early stage of the Purple Mansion, capable of killing these mere Foundation Establishment stage soldiers, but in individual combat, they likely couldn’t beat the Cultivators of the Xuanzhen Realm unless they relied on numbers.

"Charge~"

The cry rose to the heavens as Gu Shanhai, following orders, also charged out.

He didn’t stand out particularly, using the standard-issue weapons and armor of Wulaoguan, relying on his own strength to slack off in a remote area.

As for the ten soldiers under his command, he didn’t know them at all, having never communicated with them from beginning to end, and these ten seemed to be old hands, slacking off behind Gu Shanhai.

On the other hand, the four Purple Gold Club players exerted themselves greatly and achieved excellent military results.

As a result, they caught the attention of the hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers.

"A hundred Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers probably won’t be able to kill them, after all, they’re top-tier players. They might not be able to beat me, but they should be able to best these lower-tier Daoist Soldiers."

"The possibility of wiping out the Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers isn’t great; at most, half of them will die."

These were Gu Shanhai’s internal tactical analysis of the battlefield, noting that the four players’ collaboration was quite in sync.

He also knew their thoughts: they wanted to make a name for themselves in this battle and then advance quickly from Ten-man Captain to Centurion. With greater authority, they would have more say.

They could even have Gu Shanhai transferred under their command to protect him as a leveling assistant—there were professional ethics in this regard.

It was not about making a one-time profit but securing returning clients, especially for someone like Gu Shanhai, who had a lifestyle of increasing attributes with potions—in their eyes, his combat strength was weak, and they were very keen to continue the cooperation.

"The first battle is won; the barbarians are retreating," Gu Shanhai acutely sensed that the barbarians, having had twenty-three of their Ghost Pattern Daoist Soldiers jointly killed by the four players, were beginning to consider retreat.

Sure enough, they soon sounded the retreat and withdrew their troops.

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