Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 420 - 174: Divine Chosen Level Caster · Arriving Like Falling Heaven, Departing Like Fleeing Lightning (Part 3)
The blindness effect caused it to lose all vision, but it felt the enormous force from the shield with extraordinary clarity, like a powerful blow twice its strength fiercely smashed into its chest, flattening its entire body in an instant.
Fortunately, it did not have to suffer any more pain. A sharp golden flash directly cut off its head.
Hilude slew the powerful champion leader of the River Giant with just one blow, instantly exciting the Knights to cheer enthusiastically.
Tiberus raised the War Axe and followed behind Hilude. Seeing this scene, he shouted to the sky: "Chief Steward, you are mighty! Our attack has succeeded, even with a frontal assault, we’ve pierced through the monster’s defense."
A large number of River Giants are in a panicked retreat!
Originally, they had the opportunity to rival the humans, potentially dealing heavy damage to the Knight Legion, at least at the beginning of the fierce battle between the armies, they had successfully done so.
But the courage and morale of the River Giants could not compare to the steel-hard human knights. When a Chosen One stepped forward, they could not restrain the fear-inducing effect and could only turn and flee.
If external forces did not intervene, these hundreds of River Giants would be slain by the human knights on their retreat path, resulting in another unilateral slaughter.
And clearly, the hidden caster in the Black Water River cannot accept such a brutal defeat!
These River Giants clearly had the strength to defeat the human knights, yet due to lacking the courage of humans, it turned into a unilateral massacre and rout, resulting in hundreds of River Giants dying tragically by the riverbank.
To prevent this scene, the hidden caster in the Black Water River finally emerged from the turbulent torrent.
It was an enormous dark green figure, almost twice as tall as ordinary Giants. Even standing in front of a Giant, it did not seem inferior in height.
And as it appeared and walked ashore, a skyward stench permeated the entire battlefield, even the sensitive-nosed Gnolls at the opposite river bank couldn’t bear the stench, falling to the ground convulsing.
The human knights also saw this terrifying figure clearly. Its head and face were extremely ugly, its skin showed a sickly grey-green color, covered with dirt and scars, eyes deeply sunken, flickering with sinister red light, seeming to be able to perceive the fear in people’s hearts.
The hair was long and messy, like a tangle of dead branches, hung with various filthy objects, emitting a nauseating odor, its mouth had sharp fangs, these fangs were uneven, with edges as sharp as knives, capable of easily tearing the flesh of prey.
Contrary to its ugly appearance, its figure was extremely large, limbs sturdy and powerful, arms and legs bore sharp claws, these claws could easily tear through enemy armor and flesh, and the faint green light shining indicated that they were venomous, once scratched, the wound would quickly rot.
Its raised back bore huge bone spikes, these bone spikes were like blades, able to cause fatal damage to enemies. It also carried a rough net on its shoulders, containing various dead things. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
But it did not wear scale armor and iron skins like the other River Giants, instead wore ragged clothing patched from various animal furs and fabrics, stained with dirty blood and mud. Multiple potion bottles hung around its waist, filled with various poisons and curse potions, which through the twisted stump holding human skulls and potion bottles in its hand could greatly weaken the enemy.
Rong’en Priest took a deep breath and said in shock: "River Giant Witch! The Green Dragon actually hired such a dreadful creature."
Hilude remained calm and said, "Just as I suspected, the hidden caster is a River Giant Witch, only it could hide in the turbulent river waters without us detecting."
"This should be the mercenary army hired by the Green Dragon."
In this world, almost every force hires various mercenary armies, humans have the Free People’s Corps, other races naturally also know how to hire powerful beings to help them fight.
Giants usually roam in the wild, hunt animals or prey on travelers and livestock. Although they are easily distracted and slow-witted, their fighting ability is very strong, so they’re a favored hire by many forces.
The Green-skinned Tribe often "bribes" these Giants to join their Waaagh! and offers them opportunities to eat human shrimp, dwarves, and many other enemies, even the tribe’s Goblins.
River Giant Witches, though rare, are not impossible to hire. When the Wind of Magic prevails, River Giant Witch will respond to the Wizard’s summons, a Wizard can bind the Witch’s will.
Forest Forces and Beastmen will use Goblins hung at the end of long fishing lines as bait to lure the Witch out of its nest. Once the Witch’s belly is filled, she will happily accompany the monster tribe into the battlefield. There, the Witch’s greedy nature, immense strength, and sinister ability to curse numerous enemies make her a formidable opponent.
Rong’en cautiously said: "Chief Steward, the River Giant Witch’s strength is not below the Divine Chosen level. She is likely the strongest Divine Chosen level external aid hired by the Green Skin, we must approach cautiously!"
But Hilude completely ignored Rong’en’s reminder, she clenched her long sword and said sternly: "I have been going through great efforts, attacking at all costs, just to entice her ashore, today she must be slain in battle, thoroughly eliminating future troubles!"
