Published: February 11, 2025
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The "two-in-one" operation involved posthumous children who had previously evacuated, mixed with some earth evolvers.
These individuals were not supposed to participate in the battle due to their unsuitability for such high-intensity tribal warfare.
There were many reasons for this unsuitability. Some were too old and lacked the stamina for prolonged combat, while others had disabilities that hindered their mobility.
Some were tasked with educating the next generation, serving as living repositories of knowledge. Others were women, children, and teenagers, representing the future hope of the posthumous children.
A few earthlings had low evolution levels but possessed skills in shooting or ranged attacks. Previously, due to the imbalance in strength, they were not allowed to fight here.
Yet, these individuals had successfully executed an attack that silenced the Temple of Dawn just moments ago.
This war was a life-or-death struggle between the Temple of Dawn and the posthumous children, a crucial battle determining whether Cloud Summit Villa could secure resource bases in the future compared to other factions.
Everyone wanted to take part.
Despite their lack of strength, their desire to fight was intense; they were not afraid of death and were willing to sacrifice themselves for the Royal City.
After careful discussions, the king zun and Ye Zhongming agreed on a small plan: to allow these individuals to play their part at a specific moment.
It was proven that this group, numbering in the tens of thousands, could accomplish things that made everyone take notice.
Just moments ago, it was these people who used tens of thousands of arrows or ranged abilities to instantly slay the elite cavalry squad that was the first to charge into the Royal City.
This exemplified the power of collective action.
Individually, none of these people could compare to the knights in the templar order; the gap between them was vast, with a single knight capable of killing hundreds of these individuals.
The arrows they shot or the abilities they unleashed were perhaps insignificant to the knights.
However, when the volume of these attacks increased to the point where evasion became impossible, what was once insignificant turned deadly.
Tens of thousands versus two thousand may seem like a significant numerical advantage, but this is not a math problem; each cavalryman only faced a few arrows at a time. They were not charging in a line, and the arrows weren't aimed at each knight one by one.
If one were to describe it, the arrows and abilities acted like another cavalry force, colliding with the first.
The final outcome was mutual destruction, with both sides suffering heavy losses.
However, the Temple of Dawn lost an elite squad of two thousand, while the posthumous children and Cloud Summit coalition lost tens of thousands of arrows and energy skills.
In that moment of confrontation, the posthumous children achieved a complete victory, but this method could not be used again.
With the Temple of Dawn now on guard, the templar knights would certainly shift their focus to defense. Their reinforcements included ranged units, which would devise ways to suppress the forces inside the city.
Once trapped, those without strong abilities, some even disabled, would swiftly fall victim to the law of the jungle.
Thus, after completing the attack, they quickly retreated to Earth, where Xia Lei was waiting at the Time-Space Gate.
The subsequent matters were to be handed over to their comrades.
Many stole a glance back at the city as they left, looking at their fighting companions within as if to imprint this moment in their minds.
The second Temple cavalry charged in under such circumstances, followed by a third.
However, at this moment, due to the failure of the Temple of Dawn's air force, the city wall's defenses began to turn their guns towards the troops outside.
Even though they were similarly attacked by the Temple's ranged units, the absence of aerial threats allowed them to suppress the temple's forces, inflicting heavy casualties on the advancing cavalry.