Chapter 659 - Lets March into Our City! (1/2)
The city!
After the Grand Reaper was defeated by the Fallen Angels, there were no other powerful creatures standing in their path in completing the city. Everything went on smoothly, without any further incidents.
Everyone was focused on grinding the oncoming specters again and again for Experience Points as the city was being built brick by brick. Slowly, under the protection of the eager players, the first human city in the Underworld had finally been built.
Now, there were countless men surrounding the mighty city.
After hearing the news about the wonderful leveling spot from the Five Leagues, the players had all flocked over as quickly as they could. There were new players who had recently advanced to Level 50, the players who were close to the Fallen Angels League. Everyone had now traveled to the Underworld to witness this historical moment.
Over three hundred thousand players had gathered around this city.
This great scene was recorded as videos and uploaded onto the official forum of ”Honor and Glory”. High Tier players were all overwhelmed by excitement after witnessing this.
In the meantime, the Demon Faction players, especially Maverick Vatican and Satan's Salvation, had also commenced Project Pioneer while watching all of these on the forum. To them, Project Pioneer was easy as pie.
***
At 10 pm on the eighth day since the Fallen Angels first commenced Project Pioneer.
As blue flames slowly cloaked the city walls, a strikingly gorgeous city was finally completed by the Artisans within. All of this took a whopping seven days!
As soon as the entire city was being enveloped by the blue flames, like Edgar's barrier cloaking his camp, the specters surrounding the city started to diminish in number. The players who had been guarding the defense lines could feel that the Undead's attacks were becoming weaker and weaker. The Elementalists could see, via their Elemental Perception, that some gaps had started to appear amongst the Undead Hordes' formations.
The Undead Horde's reinforcement was diminishing by the minute as the Skeletal Dragons and Vampires turned tail and retreated from the area.
This long battle was finally ending.
***
The airborne specters had mostly retreated.
About three minutes later, the players who were guarding the defense lines could finally see parts of the sky that were blocked by the airborne Undead Horde.
After a few more AoE magic spells, the specters outside of the defense lines were almost eliminated. Although there were a few more specters flocking over because some players were still flying in the sky with their Angelic Wings stretched out, it was like moths rushing into the fire, there were basically no other threat looming around the city anymore.
Seeing this, the players on the ground started to retreat from the frontline. They turned toward the city and watched the blue-flame barrier sparkle around the city walls—they didn't want to miss the chance to witness the historical moment of the completion of the first human city in the Underworld.
In the meantime, the airborne players too had flown over with their Angelic Wings and flying pets, observing the completion of the city below.
Then, four pillars of blue flames suddenly danced around in the sky, forming a huge circle. At the same time, various Elements too had started congregating toward the blue flame.
The blue flame and the Elements fused together and trembled above the city, sending waves and waves of Mana outward! Then, the huge blue-flame circle swiftly dropped a powerful wave of Mana from the sky, encasing the mighty city.
In an instant, the city vanished under everyone's nose. What was left were just hundreds of blue flames hovering in the sky.
The spectating players' jaws dropped as they witnessed a huge city disappear before their eyes.
”Huh?”
”The heck? The city's disappeared?!”
Looking at the hovering blue flames, countless players cried out in confusion…
Of course, Qin Ruo and the players who were familiar with the Underworld were not surprised to see this.
Setting up a camp or city in the Underworld would definitely attract endless waves of Undead Hordes.
The Fallen Angels had only handled the ordinary Undead Hordes that were attacking them in that seven-day period… if the attacks kept coming, who knew what other kinds of super powerful specters would come knocking their gates? There could be more specters that were more powerful than the Liches coming their way. Perhaps, there could be several more Divine Specters that were stronger than the Grand Reaper slowly inching toward their mighty city.
If the city was openly seen by the specters, they would keep coming to siege the city and it would be a matter of time before the powerhouses of the Underworld took notice of this city and reduce it to rubles.
These blue flames, these were Qin Ruo's counter-measure to shift the specters' attention. In fact, many Champions in the Mythical Continent had thought of the same method after seeing Qin Ruo bringing the ashes of Evildoer back to the Mercenary Guild.
Using Mana Cores, Qin Ruo and his companions could create a massive stealth barrier and hide their city, keeping it out of specters' sight.
This was the only way for a human city to survive in the Underworld.
This was the only way for humans to acquire a fighting chance in defeating Hades' forces in the Underworld.
***
”The Fallen Angels League has successfully completed Project Pioneer!”
Within seconds after the city was hidden by the barrier, a loud system message was heard by every player in the Underworld. No… it was heard by everyone in the Mythical Continent too!
In an instant, every player who was online was shocked and excited by this system message.
The players who were fighting monsters in leveling grounds, hunting for treasures in dungeons, shopping in markets… they had all stopped tending to their tasks at hand…
”Damn!”
A Berserker was cursing loudly as he struck down a specter in the Buried City.
”I knew it! I should have joined the Fallen Angels when I had the chance. F*cking hell! Look at our Clan now. We have less than 2,000 men and we don't even have 80% of our members coming online at the moment. And look at them! They're a League with over fifty thousand people! And they've got more than 95% members online!”
”95%? Are you blind?”
Another passer-by threw him a glare and corrected him.
The Berserker was shocked after hearing this and quickly summoned the system to check. And there it was—the glaring 99% online members of the Fallen Angels League.
”F*cking hell!!!”
The Berserker couldn't help but sigh deeply after barking out a loud curse.
”Why didn't I join the Fallen Angels back then?”