Chapter 342 – Fierce Battle (1/2)
As soon as the Fatty finished speaking, Eagle Rise’s expression became quite spectacular. His face flushed red as the blood in his body rushed straight to his head in fury, but then he suppressed it.
”Good, very good. Open your eyes wide and see how I take down this city,” said Eagle Rise as he laughed icily. ”And afterward, I will treat you lot, very, very well. The Altar of Death awaits your souls.”
Fatty scoffed at his threat, and the other players didn’t take it seriously either. After all, humans and demons were natural nemesis, they’d had to fight sooner or later.
”Charge!” Eagle Rise waved his hand. A shrill eagle screech resounded from nowhere, and the Demon Eagle army slowly marched towards Hero City.
“Uncle, next is up to you. Nothing more I can do now,” Fatty jumped off the wall and told Bai Xiaosheng.
“Alright, isn’t it just a few hours? Watch how I defend it.” With a wave of his hand, Bai Xiaosheng signaled the assembled players to prepare for combat.
The Demonic creatures in the previous waves could not compare with the Demon Eagle soldiers, and this already showed from their line-up. No matter how they moved, the Demon Eagle soldiers stayed in relatively complete formation and their attacks and posture were consistent and neat.
In comparison, the players had the feel of amateurs. Although those of the same class would group up in one place to attack, they were still a mess, unlike the Demon Eagle soldiers who acted exactly the same on orders.
The two sides carried out bitter slaughter. The priests threw healing lights here and there at the melee players, and the melee players didn’t disappoint their effort. They tightly blocked the gap on the wall, not letting the Demon Eagles cross the line even by a little bit.
In the rear of both armies, archers, mages, and other long-range classes faced each other from a distance. Every time they moved their hands, countless arrows and magic soared through the air and landed on their enemies. This kind of confrontation looked even more sensational as terrifying murderous intent flashed under all kinds of dazzling, colorful lights.
Casualties were heavy after over an hour of struggling. Over fifty thousand players died while the Demon Eagle army lost half of their soldiers.
“Time to end this.” Eagle Rise raised his knife-like brows. He finally decided to make his move.
A huge silver Demon Eagle with a wingspan of 100 meters appeared in the sky. With a shrill cry, Eagle Rise, in his true form, opened his mouth and spat out hundreds of fist-sized silver balls.
Bang bang bang… The air shook and earth ruptured, blood and gore splattered, and plants withered everywhere the silver balls passed. All players in the wake of this attack were insta-killed.
“Screeeech…” With a cry, Eagle Rise gathered his wings and dove down.
“I’ll have to trouble you to stop him.” Bai Xiaosheng hastily turned to Zhang Feihu.
“Leave it to me.” Zhang Feihu nodded and swung his blade, smoothly sending out a crescent blade light.
Puff! The blade light struck Eagle Rise, who screeched painfully and lost a big patch of silver feathers. He fell from the sky with a deep wound on his stomach.
“Flying Tiger Execution Blade? You’re Zhang Feihu? Aren’t you already dead? Oh, I see, the Tower of Heroes took your soul in,” Eagle Rise immediately deduced Zhang Feihu’s situation after recognizing the Flying Tiger Execution Blade.
”Eagle Rise, long time no see. Let me see how much progress you’ve made.” Zhang Feihu crossed his arms, and a tiger with a pair of wings on its back appeared under him. Flapping its wings, the tiger flew to the sky, taking him to confront Eagle Rise.
”Hum, you are but a ghost who’s been dead for thousands of years. Today, I will wipe you out of existence completely.” Eagle Rise pounced at Zhang Feihu. The strongest weapon of the Demon Eagle clan was their talons and beaks. These two things of Eagle Rise gleamed with golden light, drawing golden streaks across the air as they reached Zhang Feihu's head in the blink of an eye.
Clank! Zhang Feihu parried the attack with his blade. The two then began an aerial battle.
“General to general, soldiers to soldiers. We should do our job.”
With Eagle Rise gone, the rest of the Demon Eagle generals, although still stronger than players, weren’t strong enough to insta-kill them. The assembled team of Fatty and a bunch of expert players crept through the battlefield into the opponent's army.
“Hey, Eagle Airstrike, wanna duel?” On his white horse with his outfit white, RighteousBloodCleansestheSilverSpear sought Eagle Airstrike.
“Why not?!” Eagle Airstrike flashed his body and turned into a black Demon Eagle, tangling with RighteousBloodCleansestheSilverSpear once again.
“Heh, bro, how about a friendly one-on-one?” TheFugitive waved at another general as he ran in a direction.
“Humph! You dare provoke me? Seeking death!” The general of interest spurred his mount after TheFugitive and the two gradually left the battlefield.
One-on-one, players were no match for the Demon Eagle generals with the level gap between them, but there were only so many Demon Eagle generals against hundreds of expert players. All of the higher-ups in the guilds handed control of their members to Bai Xiaosheng, while they themselves gathered to handle the enemy generals.