Chapter 1817

No problem, killed them, so I killed them.

Zhao Chi closed his eyes.

Then opened them and continued looking at the system.

This time, a total of 1,021 allied units died.

The number of Tier 5 soldiers who died was actually not small, higher than Tier 4 and Tier 3.

After all, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility; some things can only be done by the strong, which is naturally more dangerous and results in more deaths.

Of course, all the dead were allies of the World-Breaking Army; Zhao Chi's side had zero casualties.

Zhao Chi had considered this outcome, but hadn't expected it to actually come true.

After all, Pang Hai was an enemy with 50,000 combat power; Zhao Chi really hadn't expected full survival before the battle.

But this certainly doesn't mean Zhao Chi's combat power is overwhelmingly strong.

Nor does it mean Pang Hai is weak.

Pang Hai really is very strong.

Although Zhao Chi despises his methods, purely in terms of combat power, he really is stronger than imagined.

If it were an ordinary person, it would truly be hard to deal with those 3,000 self-destructing female elves.

Their movement speed is extremely high.

Speed comparable to Zhao Chi's female soldiers — that really counts as top-tier fast.

Not many people can escape their pursuit.

They're practically ultra-high-speed autonomous cruise missiles.

That's truly terrifying.

Dodging is impossible.

Moreover, their evasion is also extremely high.

They're really hard to hit.

Zhuang Ya and those female mages' fireball accuracy was actually decent.

Fixed-point shooting hit rate could reach over 97%.

Hit rate against moving targets could also stay above 80%.

But facing the female elves, the hit rate dropped to less than 20%.

And at that time, the self-destructing female elves hadn't even been sped up a second time by the opposing hero Shi Zhe; otherwise the hit rate might have been even lower.

So it's also very hard to eliminate them from long range.

That's even more terrifying.

And not only that.

Those female elves look completely like victims, covered in wounds, not even wearing clothes, looking truly pitiful.

And they really do look like they escaped, easily causing people to let their guard down; many people seeing their appearance might hesitate, only attacking when close, or even not attacking at all.

So they also make people careless.

Besides that, they can also control the timing of the explosion.

Just now when chasing Tang Ruan, their bellies were clearly swollen almost to bursting, but after Tang Ruan shook them off, they became slim again.

That was truly unexpected.

Most importantly, the damage is too much.

500 points of area-of-effect attack damage.

Area-of-effect damage!

500 points!

1,000 points at point-blank range!

The damage is too much.

If it weren't Zhao Chi, any other lord encountering those 400 female elves for the first time would definitely lose a swath of soldiers.

And not to mention other lords — even Zhao Chi's female soldiers, if they hadn't fused with that 4,800-durability armor, that explosion might have also killed quite a few, not merely blasted them flying and knocked them down.

After that explosion, several front-line female soldiers indeed had very little HP left, extremely dangerous.

And that was only 400 of them.

Not to mention the 2,600 female elves that came after.

Actually, even now Zhao Chi hasn't thought of a particularly good solution.

Probably can only rely on ranged soldier formation volley fire.

For example, Su Qin's Energy-Gathering Arrow plus rapid fire.

Fortunately, these female elves are very fragile, almost dying in one hit.

But what about melee?

Melee soldiers truly have no way to deal with these female elves.

At least Zhao Chi hasn't figured it out yet.

The only thing he could think of is using skeletons to detonate them.

The only time Zhao Chi genuinely faced them head-on was that first batch of 400 female elves; for the later 2,600, he could only count it as avoidance — he didn't dare let the female soldiers engage them directly.

If they really fought head-on, at least 200 female soldiers would probably be blown up.

Maybe even more.

In a sense, Zhao Chi actually also evaded this clash of strength.

The opposing lord Pang Hai himself isn't a combat-type lord; he's more like a sorcerer who can boost his territory's combat power.

And this was only from those self-destructing female elves.

Pang Hai still had 30,000 goblins.

Goblins really are weak in melee.

But there's no helping it — it's a racial disadvantage.

Their race's advantage lies in sheer numbers.

The standard goblin refugee count is 7, which is 40% higher than the 5 refugees of humans and other races.

Moreover, all their soldiers have enhanced javelin ability.

More numbers, stronger javelins.

Formed into a javelin sea like this, the power is genuinely impressive.

Javelins hit hard, but their range is short.

Yet Pang Hai actually turned this greatest disadvantage around, and even surpassed the range of ordinary bows and crossbows.

Zhao Chi didn't see any range-enhancement info on the captured javelins, so the javelin range boost must come from faction technology or a hero skill.

No matter which route achieved it, it's quite impressive.

Besides range, Pang Hai additionally enchanted javelins on such a massive scale.

No wonder the gold coins captured this time were pitifully few — aside from the factor that Pang Hai died and no gold could be looted from his system space, most of his money was probably spent on enchanting.

This was definitely the right call.

Spending money on one's own combat advantage is absolutely correct.

A formidable enemy.

Too bad he ran into Zhao Chi.

This battle's difficulty rating is Easy.

Zhao Chi had long anticipated this.

After all, on paper the combat strength was roughly 140,000 versus 85,000 — the advantage was overwhelming.

The difficulty is definitely Easy.

Battle performance refers to the entire World-Breaking Army as well, and receiving a Perfect rating is considered very high.

But after all, the difficulty is low, so no matter how good the performance, it's hard to earn a "Dream" rating.

The battle result is also good — a complete victory is a high rating too.

Likewise, it still suffered from the difficulty penalty.

If the difficulty were Normal, the battle result might have been Epic-tier.

But there's no helping it.

And if it really were Normal difficulty, the lord of the World-Breaking Army might not necessarily have won either, and of course it would also be very hard to earn an "Epic" rating.