Chapter 2643: Chapter 882: Three-Day Miracle · The Second Day’s Story (Part 1)

"Lord Kuder is here personally, and he will temporarily take command of this position in the upcoming battles. The central frontline has also been attacked, but the intensity of the fight there is far from as crazy as here."

"He has withdrawn half of the reserve forces from there and brought them to our position. The manpower issue has temporarily been alleviated."

"Additionally, the Vanguard Camp of the Goldenrod Kingdom on the furthest western segment has sent reinforcements. Their defense line, which borders the Smugglers’ Forest, has not been attacked, so Colonel Fraser personally brought some artillery and sufficient ammunition to help defend."

After a whole day of mad assault, the Jackalmen finally paused their desperate offensive. During this precious battle interval, Adel came to report the situation of the position to Murphy, who was sitting cross-legged in front holding his battle sword.

At this moment, Murphy was no longer in his charming and handsome posture; his leather armor, hair, neck, and even his face were covered in blood stains. To leave Murphy, who possesses the Crimson Ability and can manipulate blood forces, in such a disheveled state shows the ferocity of the battles he faced today.

Though the handsome vampire was not injured, the exhaustion from the mental level still made the Governor too lazy to say even one more word, instead seizing the time to restore his energy.

Potential is still burning, the fusion of power continues, the realization of techniques fills the mind, and every second, mischievous thoughts about techniques and power emerge, making Murphy a bit less agile and a bit more indifferent than usual at this moment.

He said hoarsely:

"What are the losses at the positions?"

Adel hesitated for a moment, not answering immediately.

She glanced at those "mountains of corpses" being cleared by the soldiers in front of Master Murphy.

Murphy did not retreat a step here, facing the human wave attack of Jackalmen directly. Among the bodies piled together forming "hills," there were no fewer than twenty of silver rank, mostly hunting voters attempting to assassinate Murphy.

The Iron Elites had the honor of being personally dispatched by the Vampire Governor. As for the ordinary Jackalmen and Gnolls, they couldn’t even withstand Murphy’s full-force battle using Crimson Ability and Bloodstorm to unleash AOE damage. In such a scenario where ordinary soldiers contact and die, even the Jackalman general, who doesn’t take human lives seriously, couldn’t send barbarian soldiers to drown Murphy.

Thus, by the last moments of the battle today, Murphy’s combat pressure was greatly relieved.

But what replaced it was that the battle damage in the trench areas on both sides of Murphy had reached a level even the Governor was resistant to think about. He knew the casualties at his positions were terrible, but seeing Adel so silent, Murphy’s brow tightened nonetheless.

"Tell me, Adel, what’s the loss of my soldiers?"

He asked again.

E Sister gritted her teeth but ultimately chose not to hide anything. She said softly:

"The People’s Army Third Coalition stationed here has a death rate of over 40%. Including the wounded and missing, the formation is practically annihilated. A third of the Blood Vulture Clan members fighting alongside you on the position stepped into eternal silence, but the new members who were saved by the initial embrace of fellow clansmen today on the battlefield barely make up for the losses."

"The commander here and his deputy were blown away by the Gnolls’ demolition tactics. The supporting Earth Priest and shamans underground blocking the Gnolls’ tunneling also suffered over 60% battle damage."

"You don’t need to worry about the morale of this position because, with your encouragement, the newly supplemented warriors have okay morale."

"But if tomorrow is still this intensity, I’m afraid..."

Murphy didn’t bother asking how many Jackalmen were lost; the question was meaningless.

Huggesen, wanting to end everything under this defense line, has enough manpower to squander, but Murphy does not.

To truly combat through the calculation of battle loss ratio and killing efficiency, even throwing all the Maginot Line’s defending army of less than a hundred thousand people wouldn’t be enough. Moreover, to coincide with the attack of this position, Huggesen launched coordinating attacks on all lines that might face attacks, and other positions couldn’t spare more manpower to support Murphy.

Kuder coming here personally to oversee actually represents the decision of the Civilian Protection Officer in this regard. Perhaps it is also some form of compensation?

"Relay the message to the rear, prepare the militia group to get ready for battle."

Murphy closed his eyes, steadying his breath again, and said:

"Where is Nifytelli now?"

"Arriving at the position in two hours."

Adel replied:

"She brought over the members of the Moon Cult in Westerburg City. According to your request, a spirit-summoning ceremony covering the entire position is soon to be arranged here."

"I only give her one hour!"

Murphy stood up, looking at the swamp along the line that had come alive again under the night. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

After a day of heavy artillery bombardment, it had turned from a mud-splattering swamp into flat ground, but this hadn’t managed to crush the Jackalmen’s combat will. The Master of Hunting was obviously extremely pleased with today’s battle; it even pulled part of its attention away from the Ligurian Peninsula and invested it here.

Compared to Gehrman Bonebite massacring timid half-body men there, it’s still Transylvania’s sufficiently brutal and bloody "war drama" that is more appealing.

Under the gaze of the Divine Spirit, though the Jackalmen have lost at least three times the manpower at Murphy’s positions, their morale is miraculously maintained at a high combat spirit at an abnormal level. Moreover, under the consolidation of the appointed Grand Marshal, all Jackalmen forces on the western segment of the defense line have been concentrated here, clearly aiming to launch a more terrifying assault to break through this stumbling block.