Chapter 759: Gods of Destruction Arrive (1/2)
The sound of mechanical springs unloading entered our ears, and a moment later countless rocks erupted all over the place. As it turned out, the Northern Alliance had grown so frustrated that they actually started bombarding the battlefield regardless of friendly fire. Clearly, they weren’t expecting mere tens of thousands of people to put up so much resistance that they couldn’t approach the palace entrance at all.
”There isn’t much time left. Dispatch all our troops and hold nothing back! All forces are to focus down the northern entrance to the palace and occupy it within an hour!”
Vienna’s Sorrow pointed to the front and declared grimly, ”I refuse to believe that tens of thousands of people can hold back our twenty-million-strong army!”
……
The war had entered the annihilation phase since a while ago. Most Chinese parties were slaughtered like prey, and our numbers dwindled rapidly in just a short time. There were nearly 7 million of us before the walls were breached. That number had dropped to 70k+ in just an hour, while the enemy was still 22 million strong. There was just no comparison.
Purple Marquis and Moonkiss never came back. I didn’t even have a clue where they were right now. The remnants of Snowy Cathaya were blocking in front of the entrance and coordinating with Beiming Xue and Luo River God of the Capital to create zones of suppressive fire, squeezing out every ounce of strength from their bodies to protect the Life Barrier. It was literally the last barrier standing between us and defeat.
”Charge forward! Slaughter the group before you!”
Some distance away, a mounted player carrying a blood-red banner and war axe with the ID ”Blade of Kings” pointed at his enemies with a smile. ”Knights, take turns charging and stunning the enemy. Archers and mages, I want you to hit the guild leader of Righteousness with Mountain Stagger Arrow, Devil Piercing Arrow and Dragon’s Roar. I heard that he’s the supreme tactical commander of the China server, so taking him out will destroy the enemy’s morale!”
The man himself charged toward Hot and Sour Noodles after giving the order.
Chiang!
Hot and Sour Noodles was in the middle of pulling out his weapon out of the chest of a Northern Alliance player he stabbed when the “Stunned” icon appeared above his head. It was a Heroic Bannerman, Blade of Kings, who had stunned him.
”Protect the guild leader! Protect the guild leader!”
The few remaining Greedy Wolf Cavalrymen tried to rescue their guild leader, but Blade of Kings swung his war axe and left a trail of fire in its path, knocking back the Greedy Wolf Cavalry and deleting at least 20k HP per person. His Attack was simply too high.
Swhoosh!
Hot and Sour Noodles’ eyes widened, but there was absolutely nothing he could do while he was still stunned. He recovered after taking an axe to the shoulder that cost him 10k+ HP, but another three blurs rushed in and stunned him yet again. Blade of Kings’ subordinates had very good coordination, it seemed.
Thud thud thud...
After three Barrier Breaks pierced Hot and Sour Noodles’ body, Blade of Kings laughed and hit him with one last Triple Slash, ”Die, you dogshit supreme commander!”
Crack crack crack!
The battleaxe bit into the supreme commander’s flesh repeatedly. Hot and Sour Noodles never had the best Defense to begin with, and his opponent was a super expert no less. There was no chance he could turn this around.
The destroyed supreme tactical commander fell off his horse and died just like that.
……
”Uncle’s… gone!” He Yi informed me.
I nodded, the sense of helplessness in my heart expanding even greater than before. Although the enemy was grinding down our forces to paste, we couldn’t spare the energy to save anyone. The Dragonlight Cavalry had to charge the enemy’s formation repeatedly to keep their ranged players at bay, so they were literally a kilometer away from Righteousness when they were attacked. They couldn’t save Hot and Sour Noodles even if they wanted to.
A mad laughter broke out from the crowd. ”Hahaha, taste my power and be crushed!”
A Level 162 sixth-promotion mage was swinging his scepter and killing droves of Chinese players with just one Galaxy Storm. He also carried a blood-red banner behind his back. He was the Heroic Bannerman ”Grief of the Dark”!
Just like Blade of Kings, Grief of the Dark was a peak-level player from Titan City and an absolute headache to all those who had to face him. The number of Heroic Bannermen had been decreasing steadily since the war entered its final phase, but due to natural selection all those who came this far were almost as good as Vienna’s Sorrow himself. As a result, the pressure on our shoulders kept increasing instead of decreasing.
Bloodcurdling screams filled the air, and the remaining hundred or so players of Righteousness all died in the hands of Blade of Kings. With this, Righteousness had been annihilated and officially knocked out of the Nation War!
”Kill!”
Gui Guzi shouted as he charged left and right and penetrated enemies with his spear again and again. He Yi, Chaos Moon, me and the rest of our frontliners had been tossing out their AoE skills freely, controlling the amount of enemies in the area in front of the palace entrance. We were literally the last line standing between the enemies and our backliners such as Beiming Xue and Luo River God of the Capital.
Suddenly, Chaos Moon pointed to the horizon and cried out, ”Hey, look! Someone carrying the banner of China is coming over from the wing? Who’s that?”
Everyone looked at the direction she was pointing in unison. It was Dominating Heaven Blade riding atop a black warhorse and leading his faithful generals and dozens of elites riding toward us. They all looked like they had been through hell; their HP half-missing and their weapons chipped and their armor torn in multiple places.
Dominating Heaven Blade shouted encouragingly as he swung his blades, ”Our destination is right in front of us, everyone! Once we make it to the palace entrance, we’ll be able to meet up with Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Snowy Cathaya! In less than 4 hours, the Nation War will be over, so let’s give it our all to protect the palace entrance and keep Dawn City out of the hands of the northerners! Don’t even think about hesitating!”
However, the group barely made it to the perimeter when a Sea of Flames suddenly hit them out of nowhere. It was cast by none other than Grief of the Dark himself. The mage then chanted something we couldn’t hear and summoned a bunch of cyan-colored earth spikes from the ground!