Chapter 3577
The Difference Between Offense and Defense
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When the Second Legion clashed with Atlatomé, they confirmed their battle lines. In this high-speed collision, the two sides entered into a complex web of intersecting battle lines.
Although it's impossible to estimate how many soldiers are fighting in this situation, a long-range attack is destined to fail and will not be able to eliminate the enemy, so the only option is a close-range attack.
"The Second Trajan Legion, with its super-fast reflexes, I'll see if you can really react in time!" Activating the remaining military spirit of the legion to the fullest extent and enhancing the weapons in her hands, Atalanta led the entire legion's soldiers into a burst of power.
Instead of using a long spear with a longer attack range, they directly used a scimitar, which was more convenient and easier to use.
The seemingly short curved blade, combined with the control of the essence of heaven and earth, the addition of cloud energy, and the willpower condensed on it, was rapidly consumed by the pouring out of military soul power.
The soldiers of the Atlas-Tooth Cavalry Legion could even use their scimitars to unleash wave after wave of sword energy.
At the same time, due to its extreme attack speed, the Parthian knight unleashed more than a dozen attacks in an instant, turning the originally linear sword energy into an effect similar to a wall.
Under this attack, which was almost like an entire wall being pushed towards them, the Second Trajan's Legion, possessing superhuman qualities and reflexes, also squandered their willpower and fully unleashed their talents, using the weapons in their hands to block and deflect the attacks.
However, the will attached to these attacks still had an effect on the soldiers of the Second Trajan's Legion.
Although the Second Trajan's Legion's willpower was greatly inflated due to Trajan's appearance, the soldiers' third talent—the ability to fully utilize and leverage willpower—was still somewhat lacking, resulting in some delays in this battle of willpower.
The Second Trajan's Legion, relying on their exceptional willpower, spent a little time immuneing the Parthian Knights' willpower attacks, using superhuman reflexes to block and deflect the force.
It seemed like they were capable of dealing with the Parthian Knights, but in actual combat, the Parthian Knights' attacks with their scimitars were not limited to these ranged strikes; they also launched close-range attacks.
A moment of distraction or carelessness during the struggle of willpower can be extremely dangerous in such situations.
Seeing the Second Trajan's Legion's counterattack and response, Atlas Tomé knew that his guess was correct, and also knew that the legion in front of him was very troublesome.
If the long-range attack is indeed chosen to activate the ultimate skill of the army spirit, the soldiers from the Second Trajan's Legion, after resisting the willpower with their willpower, will still be able to use their skills and reflexes to deal with the subsequent arrows.
Even if they are momentarily disoriented under such attacks, they can quickly recover and return to the battlefield if no one finishes them off.
However, if the distance between the two sides is reduced and the power of the general's soul is invested in close combat, this slight lapse in concentration and carelessness, as well as the confrontation of wills, will create opportunities for the Parthian knights to attack and completely wipe out Trajan's army soldiers.
Although Trajan's Legion was a super elite force with three talents, it was not a Legion of the Soul. It did not have death resistance or unlimited stamina, and it would die if it was stabbed in a vital spot.
Therefore, with the two sides' battle lines intertwined, Atlas Tomé's all-out offensive momentum, fueled by the power of his military spirit, crumbled in just a few breaths, decimating most of the fighting forces of the Second Trajan's Legion. Trajan's Legion, which had been advancing bravely and fearlessly under Trajan's command, saw almost all of its soldiers near the battle lines slaughtered in a mere few breaths.
This level of casualties resulted in the loss of more than half of Trajan's army...
Trajan's army, which had already suffered considerable losses in the battle against Babak's army, has now been hit by this kind of blow, and its overall strength has dropped to less than two thousand.
This was the smallest total force size since the founding of Trajan's army.
Even during the internal strife and chaos of the past, the Second Trajan's army had never suffered such enormous losses.
"Is this a targeted attack by the Imperial will?" Observing the rapidly changing battlefield and witnessing the losses suffered by his own legions in the front-line combat, Trajan instantly discerned Atlatomé's modus operandi and realized that Parthia's power had truly been unleashed!
Parthia's imperial will was truly mobilized.
"Very good, very good!" Feeling this familiar power of the imperial will, Trajan laughed on the spot, and then unleashed his full power.
During this period, by leveraging its external reach and internal command structure, Trajan rapidly gained actual command of several surrounding Roman legions.
Now is the time to make use of these legions.
Through coordination and power transfer, the power of several legions was directly amplified on the remaining soldiers of the Second Trajan Legion. Then, the innate power of the Second Trajan Legion soldiers was fully stimulated, leading the entire Trajan Legion, the remnants of the Trajan Legion, to shatter the limits of the world.
"Now, the offense and defense are reversed, annihilate them!" After seeing that his operation was successful, Trajan directly gave the order to the Second Legion, allowing this legion, whose strength could surpass the world's upper limit, to attack their former opponent once again.
Upon receiving the order, Camillo felt the surging power within him, the immense losses suffered by the entire legion, and the rapidly rising momentum.
Driven by the desire to avenge his comrades, the belief in defeating the enemy, and the recognition and loyalty to Trajan, Camillo launched an attack with all his might, without any restraint!
Camillo, whose individual strength was not particularly outstanding to begin with, also possessed a power comparable to that of a world-breaking level under the blessing and accumulation of this great power, so he directly set his sights on Atlastomé.
They attempted to use this immense power to directly eliminate Atlatomé and deliver victory to the great Emperor Trajan.
"Trajan? He should have disappeared long ago, so let him disappear!" Atratome focused his gaze on Trajan, seeing that the Second Trajan's Legion, which had suffered huge casualties, was able to unleash its power instantly.
Amidst the bewildered gazes of the others, Atalanta simply drew her spear, mobilized the entire legion's power, and unleashed a surge of energy that tore through the clouds of war overhead, propelling her into the sky. (End of Chapter)