Chapter 1 It Pays to Invest

You get what you give. To get something, you have to give something up.

If Fang Senyan and the others wanted to get the biggest share of the spoils of war on this battlefield, then the investment they made had to be substantial. Otherwise, why would the Sea Alliance and the Blue Light Team be willing to take a subordinate position? A big fist can exert pressure, but it can’t win people’s hearts.

At this time, the mammoth war elephant that Fang Senyan and the others redeemed was purchased with a silver storyline badge given by Sauron, so it was not an ordinary, run-of-the-mill product. It had its own name: “Evil Tooth” Royal Demonized Mammoth!

This terrifying behemoth was at least one and a half times as strong as an ordinary mammoth in terms of defense, attack, and hit points, and it could provide thirty riding positions on its back. Most notably, it had four unique tusks, and even just walking slowly created an impressive spectacle.

On the right side of “Evil Tooth's” body were tattooed distinct black snake and red shield designs. These tattoos were drawn with the blood of slaves captured by the Haradrim, which not only provided amazing magical defense, but also activated the vengeful souls hidden within the tattoos to attack whenever “Evil Tooth” killed an enemy, using the enemy's blood as a sacrifice.

When purchasing Evil Tooth, the thirty riding warriors on its back were also included. These warriors could be selected by the buyer, such as Fang Senyan, and included shield guards, javelin throwers, and archers.

Shield guards were specifically responsible for guarding the vital points at the back of the demonized mammoth’s head, and could also heal it during battle. Javelin throwers had tremendous power, and their thrown javelins could pierce through the armor of knights. Although the Haradrim archers, who were skilled in mobile volley fire, were slightly less powerful, the strange toxins soaked on the arrowheads were very troublesome, even for elves familiar with various plant medicines. Even they were somewhat helpless, because this toxin was like the breath of a Ringwraith, and only herbs produced in the southern jungles could cure it.

Therefore, Fang Senyan didn’t want a single spearman. He equipped two shield guards, and the rest were all archers. For the current situation, injuring the enemy was undoubtedly more of a headache for them.

More importantly, when Fang Senyan took the most important command position on the back of the war elephant, he immediately felt an indescribable dark divine power permeating him, and he had a mind-to-mind connection with this demonized beast. It seemed that Fang Senyan could feel its pain and joy, and at the same time, Fang Senyan received a prompt:

“You are riding the “Evil Tooth” Royal Demonized Mammoth.”

“Your talent abilities will be partially returned to this huge war elephant, and will disappear when you are not riding it.”

“According to your talent abilities, the Royal Demonized Mammoth will receive an additional bonus of ignoring 10-50 points of the enemy’s attack damage, depending on the enemy’s attack power.”

Seeing this prompt, Fang Senyan couldn't help but ask his team members to try it one by one.

After Aziz sat on it, the bonus given to the Royal Demonized Mammoth was a powerful strike aura, which increased the critical hit rate of the archers sitting on it by 10% and the range by 10%.

After Zi sat on it, the bonus given to the Royal Demonized Mammoth was to increase the range of its dark roar ability by 50% and reduce the consumption of magic power by 50%.

After Ronnie sat on it, the bonus given to the Royal Demonized Mammoth was a passive ability called combo, which gave it a chance to attack one more time when attacking.

After Sanzai sat on it, the bonus almost made people’s eyes widen. It could actually allow this guy to court females even when he wasn’t in heat!

As everyone knows, animals usually have mating seasons and non-mating seasons. To be honest, it is very rare for creatures like humans to be in heat three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Many solitary animals only gather together when they are in heat. Once the mating season is over, there is a high probability that they will fight when they meet. For example, tigers, leopards, bears, etc. are all like this. The cubs are raised by the mother. The father finishes sowing the seeds, pulls up his pants and leaves.

However, the mating season of female mammoths is only a short month. If a male approaches during the remaining eleven months, it will be considered indecent assault and will be met with the strongest counterattack. Even if they are not strong enough, they will definitely resist desperately. Therefore, for “Evil Tooth,” the Royal Demonized Mammoth, the enhancement ability that Sanzai gave it must be the most important, without exception.

Because of this, although Sanzai’s bonus was laughable to Fang Senyan and the others, and almost the most useless, it was a pity that the Royal Demonized Mammoth Evil Tooth obviously didn’t think so. When it realized that Sanzai was embarrassed and planned to get off its back, this guy roared angrily and protested his dissatisfaction with various non-violent and uncooperative methods, including hunger strikes and headbutting the wall.

After a difficult bargaining process, the two parties finally reached an agreement. Sanzai could not ride it during combat, but after the battle, Sanzai had to stay obediently on Evil Tooth's back and not move...

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Half an hour later, Evil Tooth, draped in extremely heavy metal chain armor, slowly walked towards Minas Tirith! Each step of its huge hooves trampled down caused the earth to vibrate slowly. Surrounded by a large number of pirates and warriors, although this looked like a large and powerful force, it also appeared to be a disorganized rabble.

At this time, their movements had long attracted the attention of the Human Alliance, but at this time, most of the trebuchets had been damaged, and coupled with the bad weather, there was no way to use them. By the time the opponent passed through the damaged city gate and entered the interior of the first layer of city walls, they had already entered the blind spot of the trebuchets, making them completely useless.

Because the Human Alliance retreated to the fifth level, the range of ordinary soldiers was not enough to attack Fang Senyan and the others, but the contest between contractors had already begun! Aziz was naturally a leader in his own right, but his brilliance was overshadowed by the elven prince Legolas. This guy's forest arrows were incredibly powerful, and a large part of Fang Senyan's loss was caused by him.

Seeing the terrifying number of casualties caused by Legolas, Fang Senyan also felt a headache, and even regretted that perhaps he should have chosen Legolas as the target of the hunt? But to be honest, if he had to choose between Aragorn and Legolas, the former was still more valuable.

However, just as the two sides were exchanging fire, the demonized mammoth Evil Tooth had already begun to run at full speed, dragging its clumsy body and slamming forward with force. Even more astonishing was that Evil Tooth's head was fitted with a ferocious steel armor, with a large number of sharp steel needles on it. Then, in the midst of the slight vibration of the earth, Evil Tooth crashed head-on into the second city wall of Minas Tirith!

This collision could be said to be like an earthquake, causing the entire city to tremble. Evil Tooth’s strange power, coupled with its head's special equipment for ramming the city walls, immediately caused smoke and dust to fly on the second city wall, and terrifying deep cracks appeared!

The main reason for this was that Minas Tirith had put most of its energy into reinforcing the first city wall, and the first city wall of Minas Tirith was indeed worthy of the four words "impregnable." If it hadn't encountered the incredibly powerful Grond battering ram, it would still have been almost impossible to fall.

However, precisely because everyone believed that the first city wall could be said to be indestructible, the remaining six city walls became symbolic existences. Since Minas Tirith was built, the first city wall could be said to have been repaired and maintained every year, but the number of times the remaining city walls were maintained was very few!

At this time, Evil Tooth slammed into it fiercely. Amidst the flying smoke and dust, it was indeed dizzy and staggered back dozens of steps, but amazing cracks and holes had appeared on the city wall. While Evil Tooth was resting, a group of ogres hired by the contractors also swarmed up with giant things like iron hammers, loyally playing the role of demolition workers. Their actions were to continue to expand the results of Evil Tooth's impact, and secondly, to clear away the annoying stones, cooperating very tacitly.

It is worth mentioning that, among the three ogres that Fang Senyan and the others had hired before, one of the black-eared ones actually survived and successfully advanced. This guy was now wearing armor and rushing to the front, commanding and being tired, roaring and cheering, and full of energy.

With the close cooperation of the two sides, and because the attacking range of the Human Alliance was insufficient, the second city wall was breached in a short period of time. As everyone knows, the second city gate of Minas Tirith is on the far right of the city wall, and the third city gate is on the far left of the third city wall. At this time, once the second city wall was opened, it was equivalent to Fang Senyan and the others not having to detour when advancing, and they could directly attack the third city gate head-on!

Under such circumstances, Fang Senyan and the others were not greedy. After Evil Tooth crashed down the third city gate in one go, they directly retreated. Fang Senyan was not a greedy person in the first place. If they went deeper, they would enter the range of most of the enemy's fire, and what they would have to deal with next would be an extremely hard city wall rather than a simpler city gate, so they simply withdrew their troops to rest and make a long-term plan.

More importantly, Fang Senyan had now shown another trump card of his, and fully demonstrated the power of this trump card, so the headache should be for Jazz and his gang! If they can’t find an effective way to deal with it, then just stare and prepare to die!