Chapter 383 – Hand-to-hand (1/2)

It took years to establish a main city. Although Sky City had undergone some transformations under Fatty’s reign, the duration was too short. The fact that only the peripheral defenses had been built left an opening for the Heavenly Hound Corps.

The one million-odd troops of the Heavenly Hound Corps split up to encircle Sky City.

A mass of ten thousand people already looked endless, let alone a million. Such a huge Sky City was completely surrounded by the Heavenly Hound Corps and the players who followed it, who shouted loudly and attacked all at once.

A huge hound hovered in the sky just east of the city. It was about ten meters long and eight meters high, with a pair of black wings that spanned twenty meters. Currently, the hound was baring its fangs and roaring towards Sky City. On its back sat a man in armor, holding a two-meter long, narrow combat knife. Instead of attacking with the others, he looked towards Sky City as though waiting for something.

“The captain of the Heavenly Hound Corps, Wisteria New.” Iron Eagle slowly stood up, his gaze crossed over the distance of thousands of meters to meet Wisteria New’s.

“Marshal of the Xuanhuang Ancient Country’s Blood Eagle Army, Iron Eagle.” Wisteria New grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.

Iron Eagle stamped his right foot and leaped up into the air. Wisteria New gave a loud smack, and the hound under him flapped its wings, heading towards Iron Eagle with a roar.

“Soldiers to soldiers, generals to generals, we cannot just stand and watch the show.” Lin Xi smiled faintly and jumped up to intercept the next Divine expert hidden in the Heavenly Hound Corps.

Lei Ao and the rest also shot out one after another to confront some NPCs whose strength was significantly higher than that of the players. With the fight between Iron Eagle and Wisteria New as the center, they gradually pulled their battlefield away from Sky City.

Bolts rained like locusts. The crossbows on the city wall were all the heavy types like ballistae, each shot could skewer three to six enemies. Under their bombardment, numerous Heavenly Hound soldiers fell like dumplings. What was worse was the turrets, which used magic stones as its energy supply, enabling an even more horrendous power. Every time a light shot out in a straight beam over 10 meters wide, those who were hit would simply vanish on the spot.

Asides from that, there was also a special kind of magic tower that released a specific type of magic – offensive, defensive, or various debuffs, causing great damage to the Heavenly Hound Corps.

“Go! Move forth, and their crossbows and turrets are useless!”

“We rush into the city, and they will only be lambs to be slaughtered!”

All the Heavenly Hound commanders shouted loudly. At this moment, it was a head-on competition of power and no other means or tricks. With their number of over a million, the Heavenly Hound Corps and Sun Dynasty players outnumbered and could easily outplay those in Sky City, who were sitting ducks in the air with only destruction as their final destination.

Siege warfare was just that cruel. Before approaching the enemy, a large number of soldiers were already lost. When the casualties reached 40%, the Sun Dynasty side finally approached Sky City.

“Long live Sun Dynasty!” A Heavenly Hound soldier on his horse stepped into Sky City. Although he was immediately shot to death by arrows from a nearby player, he was a great encouragement to his comrades.

One after another, soldiers climbed into Sky City, and the battle gradually shifted from long-range to hand-to-hand combat. When a Heavenly Hound soldier successfully landed in Sky City without being killed by the players above, the whole Heavenly Hound Corps burst into cheers.

“Shoot, shoot, shoot them!” bellowed Jiangdong’s LittleOverlord who brandished his Heaven Painted Halberd, poking a Heavenly Hound soldier off his mount. When this soldier fell to the ground, a foot stomped down on his head, and then there was a bang as the head blasted open like a crushed watermelon.

Flicking out their swords and hearing by the melodious metallic hum drifting around them, the four brothers of the Great Four Gates, with faint smiles on their faces, roamed like the wind around the battlefield. Blood splattered everywhere as Heavenly Hound soldiers fell like wheat in harvest.

Suddenly, a 100-meter-long fire dragon appeared in the air. It was magic jointly cast by the mages assembled by Fierce Dragon TheTalent from his guild. The dragon screamed and meandered, and any living things that came into contact with it were reduced to ashes.

A rumble resounded where Qian Xiaoqian, wrapped in lighting and standing on the back of her lightning bird, murmured something and waved her staff. Lightning bolts as thick as arms struck down at the Heavenly Hound army amidst crackling noises, those soldiers were paralyzed and fell.

A book hovered in front of Purple Bell. As she pointed a finger, the book opened and issued hundreds of small swords that whizzed through the bodies of thousands of soldiers from the Heavenly Hound Corps. In their miserable howls, these soldiers exploded into lumps of meat.