Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 922: The Blood Battle (Part 2)

After about half an hour, the Orcs also pushed their reserve team forward.

Although the battleground was extremely vast and big, to the hundreds of thousands of troops, it was not big enough. Be it humans or Orcs, they were unable to send in all their troops at one go to fight this battle.

Of course, the troops that had originally sent to the frontline were definitely the most elite. After all, it only made sense for each side to try to gain an advantage from the start. Since the first wave of battle did not lead to any direct victory or loss, both sides had no choice but to divert the battle into continuous frontier battles and wars of attrition.

It was like a grinding disc of flesh and blood.

The Orcs troops were not as well trained as the humans. When their reserve troops had stepped onto the battlefield and the war-weary, drained frontline troops begun to retreat, the humans coincidentally inserted a fresh wave of reserve troops as well, increasing their level of attacks greatly. With that, the humans secured their victory further, and the Orcs could not fully react in time.

The tired and retreating frontline Orc troops had no choice but to continue fighting against the well trained, elite troops of the humans.

Within a few seconds, the Orcs’ most elite line of troops suffered heavy damages, and the famous and well-known soldiers were almost totally defeated to the point of no return.

The Emperor of Orcs watched the battle scene in silence. He did not give any orders but allowed the various races’ experienced veterans and strategists to form their own discussion groups and make decisions.

He knew that he was not someone who was very good at scheming. As compared to the previous emperor, his strength was amassing experience and prestige. In terms of war, he was only able to show his face but was not really the best person to give advice on what to do as that was beyond his capabilities.

Most of the famous Orc generals were like this as well. During war, all they could say was “follow me,” “follow my lead,” “let us go forth”... One could trust them to charge ahead and not retreat, but if one wanted them to be able to react and adapt quickly or come up with new solutions, well, that was really beneath them.

Of course, it was about the same for the humans. Nevertheless, they had the advantage of having many elite humans to choose from. Out of 300 people, it was definitely more likely to find elites as compared to a group of 100 people. Furthermore, the human society’s literacy rate was much higher than that of the Orcs, successfully creating many more elites.

This was why although the human generals were a little less experienced in war as compared to the Orc generals, they still could observe the battle and size opportunities better.

At this very moment, the Orcs continued to use discussion groups to come up with decisions before anxiously activating their reserve troops. In the end, three-quarters of the frontline troops, which bore the brunt of the battle, were unable to continue fighting alongside the reserve troops in the second wave, which almost certainly meant that the Orcs were doomed.

Reality was not a game. If a troop was about 10% damaged, it could rejoin the battle after some recuperation. If it was about 30% damaged, it would need to be replaced by new troops or re-organized. If more than 50% of the troops were damaged, not only did they need to recuperate and re-organize, but the recuperation would also take a long time for them to regain their battle morale. If the troops were 75% gone, well, that was almost akin to total failure, and it would be hard to even regroup them into other troops as the low morale would influence others negatively.

Such a troop would require a long period of recuperation, and the soldiers would require a period of living in peace to rid themselves of their battle scars and fears before they could return to the battleground. Watching the originally mighty frontline troops retreat with faces of confusion and fear, the Emperor of Orcs became extremely stressed and had on a blank and dull expression.

He knew that for these troops, they would no longer be able to rejoin this battle.

When the Orcs had been attacked during their change of troops, they had suffered great losses. In their need to hold down their fort till the reserve troops arrived, the Orcs’ frontline troops had sacrificed much and had to be brave for the sake of their race. Now that reinforcements were here, they naturally lost this bravery as they were no longer running on adrenaline.

This was akin to the many brave souls on the battlefield who became extremely suspicious of everything and fearful after war. After their initial bravery had faded away, all that was left was paranoid and fear due to post-traumatic stress disorder.

The elder Emperor of Orcs did not say much and simply stood under his royal flag and watched the battle unfold quietly. Towards this battle, he did not have much opinion and was simply concentrating on getting the Orcs to give their all. If they could win, that would of course be best. However, if they lost, he himself would die in the battle as well and wrap up the entire sorry end of this battle. As to whether the Orcs had a fighting chance to win... Well, he had no guarantee about this.

The various Orc gods had not told their own strategies to anyone else, even the highest-ranking among the Orc people, the Emperor of Orcs. The Emperor of Orcs had only just gotten the news that the mighty Master God of the Orc God System, “Sky Devourer” Lefon had perished along with the Human God System’s “Light Field” when the Orc God System’s Endless Field had collided with it.

According to the Orc gods’ plans, this method would greatly reduce the strength of the human gods. Now, all that was left to do was to gather the supporting troops of the various other races which had gathered and to combine them into a joint effort of killing and ending the lives of the injured human gods.

Of course, beasts, which were the most desperate, were the fiercest out of the lot. This was especially so for ultimate powers such as the God of Light. Although the eruption of the Human God System’s God’s Kingdom caused him to be severely injured, he was still hard to fight against. This was why the various Orc gods had also sworn this time that they would give their all and use all their best techniques to defeat the God of Light and kill him at all costs.

It was only with the death of the God of Light did the Orcs stand any chance of winning this battle.

Before that, all the Orcs needed to do was to kill with all their might. While the human gods were distracted by their loss of their God’s Kingdom and were temporarily unable to communicate with the human gods, they could quickly attempt to reduce the fighting power of the humans. If one made some simple calculations, one would be able to see that if both sides reduced the other side’s strength, it would mean that both sides would simply be reducing human strength by using the killing of innocent lives.

As time passed slowly, the battle slowly shifted in favor of the Orcs instead of the humans. The advantage of the auxiliary spells of the Orcs was simply too great.

Before the Orc troops entered the battle, they would apply auxiliary spells to their bodies. This allowed them to be stronger and more agile. This gave them more morale in their hearts as well. Their weapons were made dangerous; their armor was solidified. They were even able to self-heal to a certain degree when injured, allowing them to fight for a longer period of time.

In comparison, despite the fact that the humans had intricate weapons and training, their natural physical capabilities were definitely lesser than that of the Orcs. Now, with the Orcs stacking the odds against the humans with their auxiliary spells, it required a few humans to fight one single Orc.

During the early part of the battle, the humans still had their spellcasters to provide spells for them as aid. However, these spells were limited in quantity, and the spellcasters were worn out very soon. The various tools that the spellcasters used also needed time to recharge and could not regain their original state so quickly. With the Orcs’ continuous usage of auxiliary spells, the gap between the Orcs’ and humans’ abilities widened, and a disparity was created between the two races in battle.

Despite the determination of the human troops who continued to fight fearlessly, they were slowly defeated bit by bit, one step at a time.

At each new stage of the battle, fresh blood flowed, and towards the end, both sides’ troops ended up fighting in a sea of human and Orc corpses, which littered the ground.

This bloody battle was really one that worried everyone and created much unease.