Chapter 1829: Tactics
Li Yao quickly arranged the tactics and finally said: "Iron Tower, choose a favorable position, as long as you hold the guard captain, do not provoke the hatred of the other ogres. The others in long-range professions, follow my positioning and listen for orders to manage your point of view."
Everyone was in sync, quickly dispersing. The patrolling ogre first noticed something amiss, then shouted loudly.
Subsequently, the sleeping ogre guards also woke up, and began to attack the mercenary squad members who were assaulting them.
The squad members deployed their skills, dragging these ogres toward Li Yao's direction.
The team members are very clear in their division of labor. Those with many control spells used their abilities to slow down the melee fighters and kite them.
The less mobile professions attracted hate from ranged opponents, constantly managing their perspective or rolling to evade simple spells.
Soon, dozens of ogres were gathered towards the gate.
Ka ka ka ka ka…
The melee was faster, but ranged only needs to ensure the target is within shooting distance, naturally maintaining a longer range.
The leader among them, dressed in half-body armor, was evidently the captain of this group. Iron Tower directly unleashed an Iron Fist strike, knocking down this leader, and the hatred of the ogre guard captain turned to Iron Tower. Iron Tower immediately leaned against the back of a stone column, and a healer circled the column, ready at any moment to heal Iron Tower.
The melee ogres at the forefront trampled onto the traps, turning directly into heaps of solid ice.
These traps are goblin-engineered creations, categorized as large traps, and are engineering items. Once frozen, they're nearly killed outright; immobile upon freezing, they can only die slowly, with external attacks being blocked out.
Simply put, it's like a mage's ice block, just irreversible.
In a moment, most of the melee ogres were frozen, only twenty-some ogre sorcerers and a few ogre shamans remained.
"Everyone come over, manage your perspective."
The squad members quickly reached the doorway, then stepped out to avoid attacks outside the door. The priest swiftly cast spells to recover everyone's health.
Several more ogre sorcerers were frozen, and the captain roared: "You idiots, there are traps ahead! Don't charge, come help me kill this iron lump, then rush out to sound the alarm."
The ogre sorcerers suddenly realized and hastily turned around.
"Death Knight, group pull, don't let them go forward."
Following Li Yao's command, the death knight who was hiding behind a pillar quickly ran to a suitable spot, directly activating group grip. Instantly, all the ogres were pulled to his side, followed by a spread of blood-boiling plague.
While Li Yao was speaking, he also charged forward, kicking an ogre shaman flying. While the ogre shaman was flying out, it crashed into and shattered the totem that had just been planted. Li Yao had long determined its landing spot; an ice trap awaited there, and an ogre shaman was trapped by the ice trap, as long as they don't attack, with Li Yao's rank suppression, the ogre would basically remain frozen.
Then Li Yao swung his tentacles, sending another ogre shaman flying: "Two mages, polymorph the shamans that were hit."
As he spoke, Li Yao launched his second kick, sending a third shaman flying. The two mages exchanged a look and divided the targets, each using polymorph to transform two shamans.
The scene only had two ogre shamans left, the mist beside Blood Rose suddenly disappeared, then a blood mist enveloped one shaman, transforming into a bloody lotus that trapped the ogre shaman.
"Focus fire shaman first." As Li Yao spoke, his dark touch swung, shattering the various planted totems of the shamans.
Everyone immediately began to focus fire, although these were elite troops, facing strong players' focus fire, they could only endure two rounds of attack.
With relentless attack, all the shamans were quickly resolved.
"I can't hold up with all these demons the damned sorcerers summoned, I can't bear with so many creatures' attacks."
The death knight shouted, his health fluctuating wildly, extremely unstable. In fact, he was already very powerful, able to withstand attacks from over a dozen ogre sorcerers and their summoned demons, truly strong.
"Those who can control opponents, each choose a target to control, paladin and priest switch." Li Yao commanded. He couldn't summon any pets; all were stationed at the front giving momentum to the strong. He didn't dare take this risk rashly by summoning pets, so encountering a challenging situation, he still needed to bear it himself.
"My undead pets can be summoned to fight but they haven't been completely refined yet; forcibly summoning them would make the pets enter a fatigued state, unable to be summoned again for a short period." Blood Rose loudly stated.
"Then summon them; afterward, your pets won't be needed." Li Yao said.
"Understood." Blood Rose chanted incantations, and the sinister undead figurines on her shoulder seemingly came alive, transforming into blood light and landing on the ground.
One by one, the undead appeared, each choosing demons summoned by sorcerers to charge forward. Then a gigantic ogre skeleton also appeared, and its joining accelerated the hunting of ogre sorcerers.
"Boss, switch back the holy knight, I also can barely hold on, this captain is too perverse." Iron Tower smiled wryly.
The holy knight is the king of single healing, the top healer for tanks, while the priest excels in group healing. It's not that the holy knight heals better than the priest, but their functions are different.
Li Yao glanced, at this moment Iron Tower was covered in fist weapon marks, pitted and gnarled.
The ogre captain had fists on both hands, punches like the wind, each punch leaving a fist mark, Iron Tower's steel arms had become distorted.
"Holy knight protect him, Blood Skeleton pull the captain away." Li Yao adjusted the tactics.
The protection blessing instantly cleared the hatred, and the blood skeleton of the camp-level blocked before the captain. Although not completely refined, taken out for a fight even barely could not exert full power, but at least withstand for a while still doable.
But it was already enough; this time provided Li Yao and his team the period to eliminate those sorcerers, and gave Iron Tower the time to restore their body.
When all ogre sorcerers were slain, the fate of the ogre captain was already sealed; the ogre captain was quite something, quick in attack with high attack power, also capable of stacking damage.
However, when two tanks alternated to resist his attacks, his stacked damage was less frightening, and after a quarter of an hour, the ogre guards' captain finally fell to the ground.
This ogre was quite decent, dropping three dark gold items and three golden ones, though decent stuff, Li Yao cared little, directly letting Blood Rose distribute them. The mercenary brigade was joyful, while Li Yao focused his attention on the cargo robot…