Chapter 498: The Call of War! (1/2)

Chapter 498: The Call of War!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Rumble!

The earth shook as Wang Chong led his army of one thousand clan experts, six or seven hundred regular Tang army soldiers, and several thousand hired experts. As they emerged out of the forest, the distant Tibetan cavalrymen were dumbfounded.

”What's going on here? The Tang actually came out on their own!”

In the distance, Dengba was flabbergasted, not daring to believe his own eyes.

The Tibetans had no infantry; they relied completely on cavalry to contend with the Great Tang. As a result, although the Tibetans did not have as many soldiers as the Great Tang, they still presented a great danger.

For a mixture of Tang infantry and cavalry to go against a regular force of three thousand Tibetan cavalry, had they gone crazy?

”Hahaha, Dengba, do you see it! You've overestimated those Tang men! It seems that they only managed to wipe out our comrades by relying purely on luck and numbers! But even this sort of luck has its limits!”

That muscular and tall Tibetan commander gave a hearty laugh.

He had originally still been a little cautious. After all, this group of Tang soldiers truly did seem a little different from the rest.

But it now appeared that he had been overthinking things.

”Carry out my order. Activate the Yak Halos and have the entire army charge! I want to crush these Tang soldiers into paste to vent my rage and avenge the deceased soldiers of our empire!”

The Tibetan commander clenched his fists, his eyes glowing with a vicious light while a sort of feeling began to boil up inside his body. It was the call of war.

”These scoundrels… are dead for sure!”

The warhorses neighed as that stalwart Tibetan commander led the charge, leaping out from the ranks. Behind him, more than three thousand Tibetan regular cavalry began their charge.

One echelon, two echelons, three echelons… in the end, thirty echelons began to surge toward Wang Chong's army like mighty waves.

The air over their heads grew hazy, as if some invisible hand was twisting. In a few moments, a massive, white, vaulted, and mobile fortress had appeared over the heads of the Tibetan cavalry.

The moment this white fortress manifested, the Tibetans began to exude a crushing weight. But their speed… was not affected in the slightest!

With a clattering of metal, Halos of Thorns began to shoot out from the bodies of the Tibetan cavalry, theses thousands of Halos of Thorns forming into a giant halo formation that accompanied the Tibetans in their charge.

Crash! Waves of energy began to gush out from behind them. In these brief moments, the Tibetans had reached a terrifying speed and were dragging a massive white wave of energy behind them.

”It's here!”

Some distance from the Ü-Tsang army, Wang Chong's eyes flashed. Even from this distance, he could feel the oceanic might of the Tibetans, but Wang Chong remained utterly unmoved.

These three thousand Tibetans were a test for his army. If it could not deal with only three thousand, then it would not be able to deal with the Ü-Tsang–Mengshe Zhao army, nor would it be able to influence this important war.

If these people could not even do this, then they were useless.

Now, it's time to try out the power of the Halo of Dusk Stallion! Wang Chong quietly said to himself.

The Halo of Dusk Stallion could boost the strength, speed, and dexterity of all the soldiers in his army, but those were not its only effects.

Of all the supreme halo techniques in Kunwu Training Camp, Wang Chong wanted only the Halo of Dusk Stallion. It hadn't been only because of its ability to boost the strength of his soldiers. What was more important was that it was also an extremely powerful offensive halo.

However, a more powerful halo also needed a correspondingly powerful cultivation level to support it.

The first layer of the Halo of Dusk Stallion was still too low. While it did offer a greater boost than normal war halos, its strength was still limited.

But when the Halo of Dusk Stallion was upgraded, it was never just a simple boost in power, but a massive leap in quality as well.

Unfortunately, upgrading the Halo of Dusk Stallion had always been difficult. It needed to absorb a large amount of mental and physical energy from the martial artist. When Wang Chong cultivated the first layer of the Halo of Dusk Stallion, he had only needed to be at Tier 1 of the True Martial realm, but to upgrade it, he had to be at Tier 5.

This difference of four tiers did not manifest in merely a pure numerical increase.