Chapter 286 (2/2)
The mage's eyes widened. ”What was the result?”
”He lost!”
”Ah?”
I smiled and added, ”She's right, I lost to Candlelight Shadow. His pet is just too much for me to deal with. But then Beauty Wind Fantasy joined me for the second round, and that time we managed to beat Candlelight Shadow.”
Luo River G.o.d of the Capital nodded. ”The two of you are able to beat Candlelight Shadow together? That's amazing!”
Lin Yixin's cheeks were red with embarra.s.sment. ”Are you taunting us?”
But Luo River G.o.d of the Capital replied with a dead serious expression, ”Absolutely not. I know full well how deadly that b.a.s.t.a.r.d is. Not only is his equipment and pet better than most people's, his skill and technique are rivaled by only a handful of players. In fact, pick any three active CGL Hall of Famers to fight Candlelight Shadow 3 on 1, and I guarantee you they'll lose ten out of ten times! Falling Dust here is the only exception!”
Both Lin Yixin and I were caught off-guard by Luo River G.o.d of the Capital's explanation. We knew that Candlelight Shadow was powerful, but we didn't know that he was that powerful. There was no reason for us to disbelieve her.
He Yi asked, ”If you know he's that strong, why are you b.u.t.ting heads with him, Beauty Luo?”
Luo River G.o.d of the Capital smiled. ”He is talented, but he is also a terrible human being. Hmph, I'm not stopping until I pay him back for what he did to me back then! It's either Purple Lily or Candle Dragon. Only one of us will be left standing in the end!”
What she said piqued my curiosity. ”What did he do to you?”
Luo River G.o.d of the Capital shot me a glance. ”It's unsightly for a top-cla.s.s pro to grow excited from gossip…”
”But I'm not a top-cla.s.s pro!”
“...”
In the end, Luo River G.o.d of the Capital didn't tell us what happened between her and Candlelight Shadow, so we started our own private discussion inside the party channel. A riveting talk later, we all agreed that Candlelight Shadow probably dumped Luo River G.o.d of the Capital and took her child with him, so she ventured all the way to the Heavenblessed Continent to take revenge. That child could be either Tempest Shadow or Blue Sky Scar.
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Finally, the seventh monster wave appeared from the gates. We couldn't see the monsters due to the thick night fog at first, but a bunch of giant earth lizards quickly burst into our view a moment later. The Earth Lizard was a big wild-type monster with a high level and suffocatingly powerful stats—
Earth Lizard (Elite)
Level: 88
Attack: 920~1100
Defense: 750
HP: 22000
Skills: Rend, Poison Spit, War Stampede
Introduction: A monstrously strong Rank 7 guardian that lives in the forest depths. After the Earth Lizards were summoned by darkness and enslaved by the Night Creatures, they became one of the many guardians of the cities of the dark.
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”f.u.c.k, a max Attack of 1100? This is getting really ridiculous…” I gasped. This is really bad. How on earth are we going to defend ourselves from tens of thousands of Earth Lizards?
Xu Yang, Du Thirteen and everyone pulled out their weapons and shouted, ”We fight to the end!”
I gave them an affirmative nod before ordering, ”Tighten our defense line and form a circle! We can't fight for ourselves any longer!”
Luo River G.o.d of the Capital also ordered her players to form battle formations just in time to defend themselves against the rampaging lizards. The moment the mobs. .h.i.t the players, they immediately raised their front claws and hit the ground!
Boom!
b.l.o.o.d.y energy tore the ground apart, and all the players who were caught within the skill range started losing HP dramatically!
Motherf.u.c.ker, this War Stampede is too much in a battle like this! At this rate, our remaining army will be routed in less than half an hour!
I hurriedly charged into the horde and unleashed Thousand Mirage Slash and Purgatory Slash. I didn't release my Dark Wasp because it would die before it could do anything useful.
Meanwhile, Luo River G.o.d of the Capital waved her scepter and cast her spells. When it came to AoE skills, no one was greater than the cla.s.sic high-level mage. Every mob caught within the spells took at least 3000 damage per hit, and it took her two or three casts at most to annihilate an entire horde. At this rate, she would enter the Top 10 after this battle was over!
Bang bang bang!
At first, the frontliners were able to hold out for a moment. But the War Stampedes kept coming, and the wave seemed endless. Eventually, the frontliners started dying faster and faster until it looked more like a bloodbath than an actual war!
Murong Mingyue used AoE healing spells at the beginning, but she quickly realized that she wasn't doing nearly enough to offset the damage being done. So she focused all her healing onto He Yi and I instead. Even then, we had to drink health potions repeatedly or risk collapsing ourselves.
Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Snowy Cathaya weren't the only ones who were being ma.s.sacred. Purple Lily had lost over half of their numbers less than ten minutes after the battle began!
Luo River G.o.d of the Capital looked like she wanted to say something, but she swallowed all her grievances and focused all her energy on killing the Earth Lizards instead.
Another ten minutes pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye, and the number of lizards were overwhelmingly bigger than the number of players. Although we had killed thousands of Earth Lizards, it was clear that we would be routed first before them.
Boom!
While I was firing a Thousand Mirage Slash and killing an entire horde of Earth Lizards, Lin Yixin shouted at me, ”Lu Chen, we can't hold out any longer. This is too much…”
I looked back and saw only a dozen or so players behind me. Dominating Heaven Blade, Song of Cloud and Water, Indigo Collar and many more were long dead, and even Du Thirteen, Chaos Moon and a few more familiar faces had vanished. I had no doubt in my mind that this war would end with the complete annihilation of the player faction.
”What should we do?” Lin Yixin asked urgently.
An idea entered my mind as I shouted. ”We create our own 'choke point'! Tell all the frontliners to form a circle around our remaining mages and priests and focus on defending only! If even that doesn't work then it's game over for us!”
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