Chapter 1037: Blood Fiend War Drum (1/2)
A cool breeze blew across the plains and caused the grass to sway a little. Swallow Ear Canton was situated next to Undead Hills, and at least a million God’s Domain’s players were entrenched at the latter right now. We had no plans of fighting them to the death on Undead Hills, however. They were the locals here, so they had to know the terrain far better than any of us. The obviously superior strategy here was to attack Swallow Ear Canton directly and force God’s Domain to engage us on the plains.
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The ground trembled beneath our cavalry’s hooves. Our 14k-strong Dragonlight Cavalry and 5k+ Dragonlight Archers had fought several fierce battles and slain countless, but our losses were minimal up until this point. We had lost single players, but none of our military units had been lost so far, so we were fully capable of assuming the forward position of this war. The moment we began the assault on Swallow Ear Canton, Purple Grape City was sure to dispatch their strongest force as well. As the saying goes, good steel should be used to make the blade of a weapon.
We stopped about two kilometers away from Swallow Ear Canton. Waiting in front of our formation, He Yi waved her spear once and said quietly, ”Third uncle, please set up our war drums!”
”Yes, guild leader!”
The representative of our production players, third uncle, responded with a beaming smile before giving the order. A group of cloth-armored production players immediately rushed forward and took out all sorts of strangely shaped materials from their bag. They worked as 10-man parties, and a bit of tinkering later, they created a red drum that let out a red ripple when it was complete. It affected every allied player within a 1000-yard radius.
Ding~!
System Notice: You are buffed by Bloodfiend War Drum. Increases Attack by 10%, attack speed by 5%, movement speed by 3%, and Defense by 5%! This buff automatically disappears if you leave its 1000-yard range!
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”Holy shit…”
Purple Marquis goggled at He Yi in disbelief. ”Guild leader From Water, does… does this buff apply to all Chinese players? These buffs are absolutely amazing!”
He Yi nodded. ”Mn.”
Luo River God of the Capital asked smilingly, ”Why didn’t you use it earlier, sister? We might’ve taken down the Impassable Great Wall much sooner and lost much less men…”
He Yi shrugged helplessly. ”I would, Sister Wang Luo, but the requirements for the Bloodfiend War Drum to take effect are extremely stringent. For starters, it can only be produced by a Rank 10 territory. Two, it can only be erected on a completely flat terrain with no elevation or depression on the ground within 1000 yards. This means that it’s usable only on very specific maps like this one.”
Stranger of Three Lifetimes said smilingly, ”Well, better late than never. The idiots from Purple Grape City are in for a treat when they meet us on the battlefield again.”
”Yeah!”
He Yi smiled back.
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Very soon, under He Yi and Xu Yang’s leadership, our guild had set up around 20 or so Bloodfiend War Drums on the battlefield and spread the buff to a large part of the plains. I had no doubt that our side would possess the superior stats when the battle began. Also, Purple Grape City had no idea about the effects of the Bloodfiend War Drum. I couldn’t wait to see their faces when they engaged us.
Speaking of Purple Grape City, I shot a glance at Undead Hills and saw no movement from the enemy at all.
I sucked in a deep breath and asked everyone, ”Does anyone have an idea how the enemy will want to face us?”
”I don’t know…” Hot and Sour Noodles shook his head.
Moonkiss blinked once before replying, ”It doesn’t look like God’s Domain is making a move. Red Maple may be staying out of this plains battle.”
Luo River God of the Capital agreed, ”It wouldn’t be a surprise. Red Maple is an extremely calculative man. He won’t allow his remaining 100k Wildfire Riders to die here.”
Beiming Xue pointed to the distance. ”Time’s up, everyone. Here they come!”
”Mn!”
Swallow Ear Canton had a total of four gates, and all four of them opened to admit a ton of red-named cavalry and ranged players. We actually didn’t recognize a large majority of their cavalry troops, and even their archers looked very different from usual.
The ground trembled beneath their movement. A while later, cavalry troops riding war horses with skin as red as a burning sky entered our vision. The riders were clad in scaly armor that looked fairly tough, and almost all of them were close to Level 180!
”Damn!”
Li Chengfeng swore as he clenched his fists. ”I recognize them! They’re called the Fiery Scale Cavalry, and they’re the ace cavalry of the second best guild of Purple Grape City, Era of Strife! They number around 170k , and the guy standing at the front is a Level 192 warrior called Copper Spear, also their guild leader. Tsk tsk, they sure think highly of us. To think that they would send the second best guild in the Japan server to fight us as well!”
”That’s not all…” Stranger of Three Lifetimes pointed her scepter to the east. ”See that? That’s the true threat we have to watch out for…”