Chapter 338 – Defending the City (2/2)

“Whoever died here, whether from the human or demon army, weren't weaklings. In a group, even the lowest rank of soldiers can be a headache. Gather all the mages and try to kill them all from a distance,” Bai Xiaosheng said.

Luckily, the players had several hundred mages who survived since they had been the priority targets for protection in any team. Bai Xiaosheng sent all of the mages to the eastern wall which was the main side of the city and also the focus of the siege.

Spells fell like rain, reaping the lives of the demonized skeletons like sickle reaping wheat. The mages’ AoE attacks were the most suitable against these low defense and low HP creatures, but the number of mages was too few. Despite everyone attacking with all their might, two-thirds of the skeletons arrived at the wall.

“Go, kill with your lives on the line!” Bai Xiaosheng ordered.

The gates opened and the players rushed out. Some directly jumped off the wall into the skeleton herd.

These skeletons were just perfect grinding targets for the current players. Everyone had no scruples about putting their skills into practice.

Whoosh! A golden halo descended. Fatty rose another level and was now 57, one step closer to the 6th enhancement.

Golden halos fell one after another. After fighting so many days in Heavens Scar, most players had reached the point where they only needed a bit more experience to level. However, many also had already lost one or two levels already, so this one level was only a little consolation.

Over a hundred thousand skeletons was an easy source of experience for the players. However, as the saying went, when there were enough ants, they could kill an elephant. This many skeletons posed a certain threat to the players. Often, there were players being swept into a bunch of skeletons where they were ganged up on and killed. Moreover, unlike the warrior skeletons at the front, the mage and archer skeletons appearing at the rear were much more dangerous. After roughly a hundred players died, everyone retreated into the city and let the long-range classes bombard the skeletons.

This defense battle was on an entirely different level compared to a newly-established base siege where a wave only came after the previous one was annihilated. This time, the players had to defend the city for ten full hours against demonic creatures who kept coming. If they didn’t hurry and finish off this wave, it would add a burden to the next one.

After throwing in their best for nearly an hour, when the second wave started to appear on the horizon, the players finally wiped out the majority of demonized skeletons, leaving only a few fish who had slipped through the net, but it didn’t matter.

“Only nine hours to go. Persevere, everyone!” Bai Xiaosheng encouraged.

The second wave was made up of a kind of Demonic tiger with strange and complicated magic patterns on their skin and black miasma flowing out from their bodies. It was quite an eerie sight to behold when tens of thousands of Demonic tigers bubbled up from within a soundlessly advancing, big, black, smoky mass.

“The Demon race are all these kinds of Demonic creatures? No humanoids?” Fatty asked.

“In the Demon realm, humanoid demons belong to the high-class races. At the beginning of every battle, they always send out creatures like these tigers to be cannon fodder.” It was surprisingly Zhang Feihu who answered Fatty’s question.

Since they had been too pressed for time to remember to setup traps outside the city, the tigers smoothly approached the wall and paused outside the attack range.

Woooo… A long horn sounded. The Demonic Tigers roared unison and raced towards the wall.

“Prepare to attack!” Bai Xiaosheng shouted.

The players on the wall were a bit nervous. Anyone would be when facing so many Demonic tigers coming at them all at once. Compared to the demonized skeletons, the tigers looked much more intimidating.

“Kill!” Once the tigers entered the attack range, the archers were the first to fire, then the mages with their spells, and lastly the other classes with their limited long-range skills.

“Graaawgh!” When the players attacked them, the Demonic tigers also retaliated. Their method was direct and simple, that was, they spat out bowl-sized black fireballs at the wall.

Being bombarded by tens of thousands of Demonic tigers at once, the wall shook, but just a little. If anything, it was still a main city wall. The wall only lost a layer, which peeled off after being burned to a crisp without further damage, making the players’ hearts skip a beat in terror.

Compared to the demonized skeletons, the Demonic tigers possessed much higher defense and attack. The players held no advantage over them attacking from a distance, especially when they were so pressed for time. After an impromptu discussion, everyone decided upon opening the gate and sending out the melee players, which inevitably led to a vicious fight. A thousand players died before the second wave ended.

The third wave was actually maneater flowers, a magic flower that relied on their sharp teeth and venom. Upon arriving at the wall, they spewed thick masses of corrosive mucus. And then sizzles were heard as smoke rose, and big holes appeared on the wall.

“What a shame I have no fire magic.” Fatty glanced at the Elemental Skill Book. He had pretty much all water magic thanks to the Water God’s Mystery Codex, but fire was still the most effective when dealing with wood monsters like these flowers.