Chapter 438 (1/2)
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”Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls is about to make a move…”
October Rain's long eyelashes trembled a little as she gazed toward the distance. ”Right now they have three Famous Generals: Lu Chen's Martial G.o.d, From Water's Royal Road, and Beiming Xue's Bow G.o.d. It's bad enough that all three skills are one-man-army skills, but He Yi's Royal Road especially can reduce all stats of all enemies within 1000 yards of her by 25% or more. It's so disgusting…”
Warsky followed her gaze and let out a snort. ”It's fine, my Hegemon increases my allies' crit rate by 30.3%, so you currently have 50% crit rate. With your Heartpiercer, there's no reason we can't hold back Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls…”
The corner of October Rain's lips turned upward a little. ”I see. Well, prepare for battle!”
”What's wrong, Little Rain? Did you lose your patience and confidence somewhere?” Warsky turned to look at her.
October Rain leaned against the wooden pillar of an arrow tower and stared at the Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls players moving purposefully across the battlefield. In that moment, she actually looked less like a fearless CGL Hall of Famer and more like a helpless girl. Shaking her head at Warsky's question, she answered, ”No, I haven't lost my patience. It's just… Warsky, you need to understand that Falling Dust is the one leading Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls; and if that wasn't bad enough, he's rapidly returning to his peak form. Do you understand how terrifying this is? He… he wasn't called the Little Heavenly King for nothing, you know? In a world where both Lin Fan and Frivolous Scholar are retired, there's no greater player than him. If I had a choice, I would never stand on the opposite side of Falling Dust.”
”Is that so? Would you like to cross over then?” Warsky smiled.
”You know I can't do that…” October Rain smiled a little. ”If you haven't helped Rich October back then, I couldn't imagine what would have happened to my guild back then. So I'll do my best to help you and conquer half the world for Warsky Alliance. Of course, whether your ambition will come true depends entirely on heaven's will…”
”Hehe!”
Warsky chuckled before pulling out his sword without warning. He then walked to the edge of the wall and shouted to the players on the ground, ”Stay alert and prepare for battle, brothers! Players of Warsky Alliance, I want you to head to the eastern and western gate respectively and defend against Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Snowy Cathaya! Friends of Warsky Alliance, please stand guard at the other two gates and stop all non-allied forces from invading our territory, thank you!”
……
The battle could break out at any moment. An all-out war was finally about to start.
My sword pointed to the ground, I looked behind me and smiled at my allies. ”Come on, let's go check out how much Warsky Alliance has grown, and how tough that city gate is!”
”Yeah!”
I took point as Li Chengfeng, Chaos Moon, Xu Yang, Du Thirteen, Gui Guzi, He Yi, and many more followed behind me. Everyone who joined me on the a.s.sault was a frontline veteran. Those who were too weak didn't follow us because they would only be one-shot by the undead archers on the watchtowers.
I raised my arm to cover myself as the enemy archers used Far Shot. However, they dealt very limited damage because Royal Road had reduced their stats and buffed our own at the same time. They were incapable of piercing our defenses at all.
When we got close to the entrance, we realized that the iron gate was even tougher than we imagined. It had 3500 Defense—so high that the average player wouldn't be able to pierce it at all—and a hundred thousand HP in total. How long do we have to attack it before it finally falls?
Inside the territory, a high-level archer shouted, ”Use Shock Arrows and stun Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand and From Water! Quickly!”
The incessant tw.a.n.g of bowstrings prompted me to swing my sword in front of me and parry away some of the shots. My current stats were so high that not a single Shock Arrow managed to stun me, so the moment I got close I raised the Heaven-stealing Sword and fired a Thousand Ice Slash to the edge of the territory!
Boom!
The fighters of Warsky Alliance were standing behind a line of wooden fences, and many of those who were caught by my skill were frozen in ice. Moreover, I had 15% critical rate right now, so critical attacks were no longer a rare occurrence to me. At least a dozen or so people were one-shot by the crit Thousand Ice Slash, and even more dropped to red health!
”Chirp chirp…”
He Yi's Firelight Mouse had fully matured by now. Shaking its tail and throwing a sea of fire into the enemy players, it confirmed kills on all the players I had managed to bring to low health. This was just the first exchange, but Warsky Alliance had suffered huge casualties already. Still, when I ordered the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf to attack the gate, it failed to do too much damage. The problem was that the gate had insane Defense, and my pet barely had any defense-piercing ability!
I ran up to the gate and used Pardon. Then, I followed up with a basic attack!
MISS!
4894!
Not bad considering the circ.u.mstances. Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun was the next player to test their mettle against on the gate, but even his new Ardent Thunder Blade dealt measly 1452 damage only. Xu Yang let out a bark of laughter when he saw this. ”Eighteen, how are you doing so little damage when you have a 2-star Spirit-grade blade? Watch me!”
One strike later, it was Xu Yang's turn to be embarra.s.sed—674!
Li Chengfeng did 1429 damage, He Yi did 1984 damage, and Gui Guzi did 1845 damage respectively to the gate. It was one seriously tough gate. However, I was pretty sure that it would go down in no time if our mages and archers were here to a.s.sist us.
Currently, elite high-level archers had an average Attack of 1400 or so. If we factored Beiming Xue's Bow G.o.d into the equation, they could deal as much damage as an archer with 2800+ Attack. Against a target with 3500 Defense, they could do over 500 damage per hit. It was definitely doable.
As discussed earlier, Li Chengfeng approached the fences, launched a Reverse Scale Slash on the players on the other side, and withdrew immediately. He gave them no chance to get close to him and retaliate. Eighteen Steeds and You and Yun also worked together with Gui Guzi to take out dozens of players by combining his Rock Smash with the latter's Aurora Thrust.