172: Chapter 172 The Weakness of Assassination Techniques!

The members of the Black Death Group were almost all at or above the Liangyi Realm, and each of them had mastered the Black Death Assassination Technique, moving with the agility of ghosts.

They wove through the battlefield, killing everyone they saw; many allied soldiers died under their blades.

Soon, they had cut their way to the front of the position held by Regiment Commander Zhao Xin. The tricky part was that because these people were so agile, even with Zhang Ran commanding the Artillery Battalion to conduct saturation bombing...

...most of the star crystal shells were ultimately dodged by them.

As soon as the Black Death Group entered the battlefield, the situation immediately shifted.

Although the Langliu Battalion was elite, it was ultimately no match for such a truly elite force, and the defensive line was soon pushed back by more than twenty meters.

Even the brave and battle-hardened Regiment Commander Zhao Xin found it difficult to deal with the members of the Black Death Group.

Seeing Regiment Commander Zhao Xin holding his long spear, he was attacked in turns by several Black Death Group members, and before long, he was wounded.

At this rate, it was only a matter of time before the position was breached.

Morpheus watched the scene, looking completely at ease.

He did not yet know that Li Mo was in charge of Height 212, but he understood that Height 212 was a crucial strategic area, so he immediately ordered: "Once the front position is breached, everyone is to assault and occupy that height immediately. No matter the casualties, you must take that height!"

"Yes!"

Watching the position of the Langliu Battalion on the verge of being breached, Zheng Jiahao could no longer sit still.

"Li Mo, let me take the 1st Battalion! I've been wanting to teach these bastards a lesson for a long time! We can't hold back our strength any longer!"

Li Mo nodded in agreement, because once the position of Regiment Commander Zhao Xin was breached, it would be their turn to face the Black Death Group directly.

Given the current situation, only the 1st Battalion could be sent to support them.

But before Zheng Jiahao set off, Li Mo specifically gave him some instructions.

These matters concerned the weakness of the Black Death Group.

As everyone knew, the most prominent feature of the Black Death Group was the cultivation technique they practiced: the Black Death Assassination Technique.

This ghost-like technique was extremely troublesome on the battlefield.

Zheng Jiahao himself had practiced the Black Death Assassination Technique. This assassination technique could create multiple clones; on one hand, it could confuse the enemy's vision, and on the other, the clones possessed a portion of the original body's strength, which was why it was so formidable.

Li Mo had long studied the Black Death Assassination Technique because he understood that as long as they were in a hostile relationship with the Black Earth Tribe, they would sooner or later have to face the Black Death Group.

Through Li Mo's research, he finally achieved some results.

Although the Black Death Assassination Technique was powerful, it had a fatal weakness.

That was, although the Black Death Assassination Technique could create clones, once clones were created, the strength of the original body would be weakened.

Creating a few clones was equivalent to weakening the original body's strength by a corresponding amount.

In other words, as long as one could find the original body of a member of the Black Death Group, one could easily defeat them.

Of course, most people actually understood this weakness, but the difficulty lay in how to find the original body.

After all, the clones created by the Black Death Assassination Technique were almost identical to the original body, with no differences whatsoever.

However, while watching Zheng Jiahao demonstrate the Black Death Assassination Technique once, Li Mo discovered that such clones could actually be marked by quicklime!

That time, Zheng Jiahao was performing the cloning technique; his clone accidentally got some quicklime on it, and Li Mo was surprised to find that no quicklime marks were left on the clone!

This discovery surprised Li Mo for a long time; one had to know that the clones created by the Black Death Assassination Technique possessed the exact same physical properties as the original body.

In other words, the clones would bleed, sweat, could be killed, and so on.

But strangely, quicklime sprinkled on the clone left no traces, yet it could still leave dust on the original body.

Li Mo couldn't figure out the reason, and only the creator of the Black Death Assassination Technique could probably provide the answer.

However, this simple discovery easily broke the weakness of the Black Death Group.

As long as a large amount of quicklime was deployed on the battlefield, the original body and the clones could be easily distinguished, and dealing with the Black Death Group would be much easier.

Coincidentally, Li Mo had long prepared quicklime to deal with the Black Death Group; dozens of bags weighing over a hundred kilograms of quicklime were now sitting in the temporary armory guarded by the 3rd Battalion!

Hearing Li Mo say this, Zheng Jiahao immediately felt confident.

Zheng Jiahao cupped his fists, then immediately led over a thousand brothers from the 1st Battalion toward the position of the Langliu Battalion.

At this moment, most of the position of the Langliu Battalion had already fallen, with only Regiment Commander Zhao Xin leading a few hundred men struggling to hold on.

The next moment, in front of the vast battlefield, a cloud of dust suddenly rose, completely covering the entire battlefield.

Seeing this scene, the staff officer beside Morpheus suddenly said: "What is this? Is Great Xia planning to use poison?"

"But our members of the Black Death Group have basically undergone specialized toxicity tests and have already developed antibodies to most viruses; this kind of poison won't work on them at all!"

"Besides, warriors above the Liangyi Realm have basically reached the peak of cellular activity, so most poisons won't work either! Hahaha!"

The staff officer looked relaxed, as if mocking Great Xia for using such inferior methods.

However, Morpheus's face turned livid, and he snorted coldly: "That's not poison! That's quicklime!"

"Quicklime? Commander, why is Great Xia scattering quicklime?"

The staff officer didn't know the principle behind it and looked full of confusion.

But Morpheus understood it very well.

Li Mo's accidental discovery had completely broken the fatal weakness of this ace force of the Black Earth Tribe.

The Black Death Assassination Technique was probably created one hundred and fifty years ago.

In fact, creating clones was not unique to the Black Death Assassination Technique.

Many techniques had the characteristic of creating clones, but most of the clones created by these techniques were made of spiritual energy and possessed no physical properties.

Although these clones also possessed a certain amount of strength, they would collapse at a single touch once attacked.

Therefore, clone-type techniques were actually extremely weak.

Only when clones possessed the same physical properties as the original body did they have true lethality.

The expert from the Black Earth Tribe who originally created the Black Death Assassination Technique had tried a large number of drugs in order to attempt to use spiritual energy to create clones with physical properties.

Finally, after experimenting with a large amount of drugs and chemical substances, he succeeded in creating clones that possessed the exact same properties as the original body.

That was the reason why practicing the Black Death Assassination Technique required taking a large amount of drugs and chemical substances.

But coincidentally, the only weakness of these drugs and chemical substances was quicklime.

There was one thing Li Mo hadn't guessed: quicklime would not only reveal the original body of the members of the Black Death Group, but it would also cause their clones to revert into clones made of spiritual energy, becoming extremely fragile!