Chapter 738: Behemoth (1/2)
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Winter Pine Forest was a desolate map with polar climate. Its plants were needle-leaved because of the coldness of the earth, and sometimes it snowed even though it was located right next to the ever-hot Horse Hoof Valley. The map was designed to be a weather phenomenon in the game.
I rode at the front as we made our way across Winter Pine Forest. The map was incredibly huge, and we managed to take out a couple of Northern Alliance parties we ran into on our way. However, we couldn’t help but feel a sense of unease at the sound of distant battles cries coming from somewhere.
”Lu Chen, do you really think Li can fight the Titan God himself?”
High Fighting Spirits licked his dry, cracked lips once before continuing, ”Li only has 5000 Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen and a bunch of riders with random mounts. Titan God is a famous veteran, and he is protected by a team of elite cavalry. He might even have reinforcements. When I checked the surroundings of Horse Hoof Valley earlier, I saw many regiments of Northern Alliance cavalry roaming the perimeter of Dragonbone Mountain Range. It won’t be hard for them to slip into Sky City or Wind City’s domain.”
I exhaled a little before replying, ”Trust in your brother. I have faith that Chengfeng will not lose to Titan God!”
Gui Guzi nodded as well. ”Yeah. Li is a guy who can beat me over 80% of the time. There’s no way he’ll lose to a nuisance like Titan God!”
I smiled and fell silent once more.
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Dawn City as a whole was so gigantic that, even after all the Northern Alliance players that had crossed the border and entered its domain, we could still spot some mobs here and there in Winter Pine Forest. Of course, no one was interested in grinding right now. It had almost been half an hour since we reorganized, and the itch for battle was starting to creep up our fingers again. The sooner we found a Northern Alliance party to kill, the better.
I looked at the players beside me. I had sent away most of the Cyan Tiger Cavalry and riders to aid Li Chengfeng, so there were only 1700+ Dragonlight Cavalrymen, 20k riders and 20k foot soldiers left in our party. The archers, mages, priests, bards, tacticians, assassins and tamers also added up to a total of 40k+ troops.
I nodded and felt my heart growing heavier. This war was far more desperate than anyone could’ve imagined.
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Suddenly, a cacophony of thundering hooves came from the distance. A short while later, a swarm of elite cavalry with blood-red IDs appeared at the horizon where the forest lay. The cavalry belonged to the Northern Alliance; the Korean cavalry of Burning City to be exact. There were about twenty thousand of them or so!
”Prepare for battle!” I raised my arm and barked out.
Beside me, Ling Xueshang said while staring to the front, ”Hmph, I knew this would happen. While Hero City and Chariot City are mounting a direct assault, the Koreans are circling around the back and looking for an opportunity to ambush Snowy Cathaya’s backliners. I guess Beauty Lin is too busy to notice this.”
The corner of my lips curled upward as I tightened my fist and yelled, ”Alright, let’s save Snowy Cathaya from this crisis, everyone! It looks like the enemy hasn’t spotted us yet, so hide yourselves in the forest to our left and right now! Cute Little Naughty, I want you and the eighth subguild to spread out and ambush them after we disrupted their formation with Shock Arrows. Dragonlight Cavalry, charge the enemy when they least expect it. Mages and archers, give it your all when the battle begins. We must annihilate them all in ten minutes at most!”
Everyone hid themselves behind the foliages after receiving my orders. The assassins of the eighth subguild spread out and assumed positions as well.
By now, the Korean riders were getting closer and closer to our position.
Creaaak…
Beiming Xue drew her Dragonbone String until it resembled a full moon and waited for the enemy to arrive. Beside her, the archers did the same with the light of Shock Arrow brimming from their arrow tip. Shock Arrow was much more useful than any other archer skill when attacking a cavalry troop that was on the move.
”Big bro?”
Beiming Xue turned around and requested permission to begin the assault with her eyes.
I waited for almost ten seconds before finally giving her the nod.
Beiming shouted, ”Loose!”
Shock Arrows immediately flew out of both sides of the path and stunned the enemy magic knights!
Bang bang bang bang…
The riders at the back couldn’t reined in their horses in time, so they instantly rammed into their companions in front of them and fell into disarray for a time. A rider with a blade scar on his face swung his weapon and shouted angrily, ”Ssibal! Ambush! Charge them and take out these archers!”
The riders were just about to turn around and make a move when red lights exploded from the back of their heads. It was Cute Little Naughty and her assassin party making their move. First, they dipped their weapons in poison and hit the enemy with Blade Vortex after stunning them. Then, they CC’d them even longer with Blind and Cold Blood. No class was better than assassins when it came to dishing out single-target damage, and the enemy cavalry fell into even bigger disarray because of it.
Chiang!
I pulled out my sword and ordered with a smile, ”Dragonlight Cavalry, the time to continue our conquest and annihilate these bangzi is now!”
I rushed toward the enemy with He Yi, Gui Guzi, Chaos Moon and the others right beside me. As usual, the Dragonlight Cavalry was buffed by Royal Road, Martial God, Knight God and Knight General. Since there wasn’t enough Dragonlight Cavalrymen to use all our buffs, I added another 300 mages into my party. Martial God’s 200% attack power boost applied to Magic Attack as well, so even the lousiest mages could transform into great weapons of destruction.