Chapter 448: Attacking Strategy For Black Iron City (1/2)
Chapter 448: Attacking Strategy For Black Iron City
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Zhou Bao used the gifted skill of Phantom Body to perform this move. With a flash of his body and a leap, he disappeared from the battlefield and eerily reappeared inside the Black Iron City, to then vanish again.
Everyone was startled, but they were on a battlefield so they couldn't stop thinking about what just happened and the war soon began again.
In the Sea Area, there are all sorts of demons, and some of them develop marvelous powers. No one ever knew how many kinds of demons there were in the Sea Area, nor how many different powers they could develop. Thus, even though it was pretty impressive, it was not that shocking when Zhou Bao used his Phantom Body Skill. Moreover, the defending side seemed quite confident about guaranteeing the safety of Black Iron City. As long as the troop of the opposite side didn't break in and send one or two experts inside, the forces defending the Black Iron City could handle it.
Hence, the war went on.
Meanwhile, Zhou Bao started jumping from one space crack to another thanks to his skill. After a few minutes, he successfully drilled several holes on the inhibition of Black Iron City. Although those holes and cracks made were repaired in an instant, Zhou Bao still managed to slip through one of them and entered the fortress.
”It's true that you can't trust what you hear until you experience it. This damned place is really disappointing!” Zhou Bao said while entering the city and facing a great let-down. How come this was called a city? It was worse than a mountain village: it was merely a stretch of deserted land with no roads or paths, just a natural basin between two mountains. The only unique feature of this basin was that it was strongly guarded by those surrounding high walls.
”Seems this is just a piece of land protected by an inhibition!” Zhou Bao thought. Then, he started inspecting the place carefully. Luckily, although it had no buildings and did not resemble a city at all, it still had some living creatures, and all of them were considerably powerful.
Zhou Bao entered in without making any sound at all due to his Phantom Body Skill. All of the experts inside the City were now focused on defending their city so they didn't pay much attention to him. They were all on the walls: 10,000 to 20,000 experts packed together; even though Zhou Bao had prepared for this, he still gasped at this frightening sight.
Among them, you could find from level eight or nine experts, up to some with high cultivations who were all Genuine Immortals. Well, of course, most of them were Individual Immortals in the Metaphysic Realm, and they were was about 8,000 or 9,000. Despite their various forms and differentiated weapons, they all had the same enraged face that showed a strong resolution for fighting back, as if they were ready to dash forward and die with the outside attackers.
Intense fighting and a lot of killing were gathering around the walls of the Black Iron City, which made Zhou Bao even feel an upsurge of excitement.
But he quickly stifled down that excitement and instead a trace of despite appeared on his expression as he said, ”After becoming Immortals, why do they still bother to fight each other? How boring is that!”
After letting all his disappointment out, Zhou Bao swiftly headed to the front gate of the city wall, where the battle was most intense: the forces gathered there were the strongest ones with six or seven Genuine Immortals, who were standing there with stern faces, ready to reinforce into the battle at any time. But at that moment, they seemed to be in an conflict. Among them, there was a Genuine Immortal whose half face was covered in black scales that looked particularly emotional. Holding his breath, Zhou Bao slowly approached them and eavesdropped all their arguments.
”Senior brother, we can't go on like this. These cowards seem determined to capture those foreigners, and they won't stop until they reach their goal. Thus, we'd better hand them over. Anyway, they are that important to us!”
The one who spoke was the Genuine Immortal with black scales on his face, whom Zhou Bao was heeding just now.
So far, Zhou Bao had more or less figured out the whole story of this battle: The people in the Dragon Abyss Prison were divided into two groups: the ones who were The Rolling Dragon King's mortal enemies and had built up this Black Iron City to resist the Heavenly Calamity that might be launched; and the other group was also formed by captives of The Rolling Dragon King, but they had wavered to the side of Rolling Dragon King and started working for him as his hatchet men, hoping that this might help them to obtain freedom. Therefore, the current situation was that a part of them was eager to protect Ji Yeyue and her lot, while the rest wanted to hand them over, and that's why such a violent war broke out.
After such an extended battle, both sides had suffered losses. However, the losses of the group who intended to protect Ji Yeyue, were already higher than expected. Thus, the defenders of the Black Iron City began to have internal conflicts. Some of them wanted to turn in Ji Yeyue and her lot, such as this Genuine Immortal.
”We can't do that. Once the Black Iron City takes someone in, they become members of the City. If we trade some of our people for safety today, this will happen again and again in the future. If one day they ask us to hand you over, should we do it?”