Chapter 731: Shredded Defense (1/2)
I could feel a scorching heat approaching me as the flaming rock flew toward my direction, so I steered my mount to the side to dodge it. The maneuver was ridiculously simple to pull off because the Armored Ice Qilin Horse had a high turn rate, and I glided out of harm’s way like I was drifting.
However, the flaming rocks exploded in the middle of the Dragonlight Cavalry behind me and caused a ton of direct and splash damage. Practically every damage number rising above their heads was above 10k; a deadly number for the Dragonlight Cavalry because their average HP was between 50k to 90k only. There was no way they could hold out for long if this continued!
I swung my sword and fired Thousand Ice Slash in front of me. At the same time, I shouted, ”Speed up! Speed up! We’ll reach the Fire Catapults in just half a minute! Be sure to destroy them as a group for maximum efficiency! The Fire Catapults must be destroyed no matter the cost!”
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Boom!
This time, a flaming rock launched in my direction moved too swiftly to dodge. Burning with anger, I swung the Cyan Netherworld Sword right as it was about to make contact!
Bang!
To my surprise, my swing actually split the rock in half. However, the burning oil still spilled across my body and deleted over 30k HP in an instant. How deadly!
Not far away, Vienna’s Sorrow shouted, ”Intercept them, riders! Don’t let them get close to the catapults! Archers, stun them with your Shock Arrows and Mountain Stagger Arrows! Dammit, where the hell did the Chinese find these elite mounts? Who even are these people?? I’ve never heard of them before!!”
The elite cavalry of the Northern Alliance charged us from the sides in an attempt to surround us. We paid them no heed and continued charging forward.
Bang bang bang!
Three cavalries slammed into each other at once. The sound of horse meat smashing against horse meat was unpleasant to say the least.
Suddenly, Li Chengfeng raised his sword and shouted, ”It is time! Hoof Trample!”
Every Dragonlight Cavalryman activated their mount skill once and injected the fear of death into the enemies. The next moment, every magic knight who was too close was one-shot where they stood. This one engagement had reaped almost a thousand lives in one go!
”Keep charging! Magic knights, keep your shields up and use your Holy Shields to resist the enemy’s Mountain Stagger Arrows!”
After I gave the order, He Yi, Gui Guzi, Heaven’s Rain, Diamond Dust and every other magic knight rushed to the forefront and raised their shields in front of their chests. The golden light surrounding the equipment signified the usage of Holy Shield!
Bang bang...
After tearing down the enemy’s defense line like paper, I became the first player to launch Burning Blade Slash at a Fire Catapult!
Chiang chiang chiang!
19838!
26376!
31043!
One more swing and two swipes from the Phantom Wolf King later, the Fire Catapult’s 100k HP dropped all the way to zero!
He Yi, Gui Guzi, Li Chengfeng and the others had also begun attacking the Fire Catapults. The Dragonlight Cavalry were able to tear down the Fire Catapults one by one, but it wasn’t without losses. Countless people died to the enemy’s arrows, magic and flaming rocks, but not a single person had run away in fear. To us, this was a do-or-die battle we would never regret committing to till the end of time!
……
Bang bang bang!
By now, practically every Dragonlight Cavalryman had been hit by at least a dozen of Mountain Stagger Arrows and Shock Arrows. Their stats were high, but it was only a matter of time before they were stunned and gave the Northern Alliance cavalry the chance to use their Barrier Breaks and kill them. Barrier Break was a skill that ignored a huge percentage of Defense, and even with stratagems like Knight God boosting that stat to obscene numbers, and it was also the main skill that killed our Dragonlight Cavalry.
Thud!
A shot deleted the final sliver of mount tenacity of a Dragonlight Cavalryman fighting next to Gui Guzi and caused him to drop to the ground. But instead of waiting for death to claim him, he bravely rushed into a group of archers and killed seven or eight people before more arrows finally claimed his life.
”Fuck!”
Xu Yang’s eyes turned red when he saw this. Charging left and right like an unstoppable truck, he shouted, ”Tighten our formation and don’t get separated! Don’t let the enemy divide and conquer us!”
It was at this moment my avatar activated its Purple Dragon Howl and fired its draconic energy. After tearing three Fire Catapults in one go and entering the three-second period of weakness, it was killed by a hail of arrows. It was simply too fragile without Ghost Deity Armor.
I saw a thick swath of enemy archers and mages in front of us. The few Dragonlight Cavalrymen who tried to charge them were torn to shreds by their arrows and magic. Worse, I saw at least 5 mages carrying a red banner behind their backs, meaning that they were Heroic Bannermen. Almost all of them wore more than two Earth-grade items on their person, and they were the bane of all mounted players, even those as strong as the Dragonlight Cavalry.