Chapter 198
Chapter 198 The Flame Demon
The light of flames flickered in the woods far away. Intense fires ravaged about.
The death cries of the accompanying mercenaries and the angered roars of the spellbreaker knights could be heard clearly!
The expression on the middle-aged radiant knight’s face suddenly changed. He had no time to be entangled with Bloody Mary. Immediately, he charged towards the battlefield in the distance.
As part of the army’s higher ranks, he knew very well that there were only two spellbreaker knights in the squad there. Facing the terrifying Flame Demon with such a force would definitely result in heart-rending casualties.
If one were to form an analysis based purely on the Grade of the individual, both the spellbreaker knights and the adepts were at the First Grade, and should have the power to kill each other. Theoretically, the two spellbreaker knights facing the single First Grade adept on the battlefield there should have the advantage.
Unfortunately, such an idealistic comparison had never proven true.
On one hand, you had the evil adepts that came from a powerful plane, while on the other you had close-combat knights from a weak plane. If one were to remove the hampering effect of the plane’s suppression, a First Grade adept could be said to have an absolute advantage against a spellbreaker knight of the same grade.
Every time the were assaulted by adepts, the first casualties were always the mercenaries in the squad. The knights, on the other hand, were able to retreat while using their powerful strength to fight, as long as their opponents weren’t the more powerful and terrifying adepts. Besides being a little flushed, most of the time there wouldn’t be any threat to their lives.
However, if the attacking adept had bad luck and bumped into a squad with a radiant knight, the position of cat and mouse would immediately be reversed. The three adept casualties had died at the hands of radiant knights in this fashion.
The adepts that continued to intercept enemies were either quick at escaping, had resilient physiques, or looked on cautiously before they made any moves. As long as they were able to do any one of those, they were able to keep their lives and not die humiliatingly in a dark corner of the forest.
Meanwhile, Greem had his army of elementium scouts. Along with his unique Fire Teleportation ability, which made him the perfect fit for such a chaotic and messy battlefield, he constantly obtained kills left and right.
Most other adepts had to be careful and repeatedly probe the enemies, even if they found a squad, so as to not fall into the hands of radiant knights. However, such caution very easily caused the target to be aware of their existence, causing a perfect hunt to become a meaningless chase and pursuit.
The knight squads in the forest would call for help from each other. If they realized their companions were being pursued, the nearby squads would rapidly hurry over to reinforce them. When that happened, it was the adept’s turn to run!
Such a process of probing, counter-probing, pursuing, and counter-pursuing was the least efficient means of fighting.
However, Greem had enough eyes in the sky to simultaneously track two or three different squads at the same time. Regardless of how well the radiant knights’ impersonations were, some clue that exposed their identity would reveal themselves under Greem’s complete and absolute monitoring.
Thus, Greem had plenty of time to choose prey that he could devour in a single bite, as well as set up traps beforehand. As the unnecessary probing and hesitations were eliminated, Greem was able to obtain great results every time he struck.
His chosen prey would never have a chance of escaping, which also saved him from going through the process of pursuing and hunting them down. As long as he was able to control and delay the squads nearby to prevent them from reinforcing his prey, then even two spellbreaker knights were not enough to stop his slaughter.
If it wasn’t for the Scroll of Voodoo having a cooldown that limited the flurry of spells, and if it wasn’t for Greem reserving nearly half of his strength to deal with any unforeseen events, his destructive speed might even increase further.
Even so, the terrifying name of the Flame Demon was quickly spreading amongst the knights.