Chapter 281: Powerful Cards (1/2)
”Roar roar roar!”
The cacophonous howls of the Heaven-devouring Greedy Wolves assault our ears as the beasts surged toward us. The distance between the player and monster factions was shortened to just a hundred steps in the blink of an eye!
Rustle rustle…
Stepping on the bloodstained ground, I walked forward until I was four or five yards away from the battle line. I was trying to draw as many Greedy Wolves to myself since I had 1165 sheet Defense and Ghost Deity Armor which made me, for all intents and purposes, a 1350 Defense warrior. These wolves probably couldn’t pierce my Defense, but the same couldn’t be said for the players behind me. 1020 Attack was just too high for most of them!
Clang!
I pulled out the Purgatory Sword. The Outstanding weapon kept ringing melodiously as it glowed with a blinding light.
Behind the battle line, Beiming Xue drew her bow and stared toward the distance, calculating. The moment the Greedy Wolves entered the ideal range, she immediately shouted with a crisp voice, ”Archers, aim high… fire!”
Thwish thwish thwish thwish...
Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls still had almost a thousand well-organized archers, and iron-tip arrows rained on top of our enemies like locusts with every twang of the bowstring, swishes lingering in the air.
”Far Shot” was a skill that made an archer aim about 45 degrees relative to the ground before releasing the notch. Although the archer wouldn’t be able to lock on a target, effectively making it a random attack, it was still a trump card that gave an archer the power to kill an enemy from a mile away.
Of course, you would have to be very lucky to hit a target that far, so the skill was situationally useful at best in most scenarios. But in a large-scale battle like this, it was one of the most critical skills an archer could have. Almost a thousand of archers released their arrows at once under Beiming Xue’s orders, and the deadly projectiles rained on top of the incoming mobs with almost 100% accuracy!
Thud thud thud...
The arrows tore through the Heaven-devouring Greedy Wolves’ Defense, sank deep into their flesh, and dealt a ton of random damage. However, it wasn’t enough to stop their charge. Arrows still sticking out of their bodies, they kept running until they were close enough to pounce toward us in a rage!
I charged forward toward the forefront Heaven-devouring Greedy Wolf and unleashed Thousand Mirage Slash!
Boom!
Eight sword auras hit the pack of mobs in front of me and caused them to squeal in pain. Most of them died immediately due to the insane amount of splash damage the skill did, increasing my war point count dramatically. This was the fifth wave, and every mob yielded around 5 points. I have to become MVP of this event!
78!
102!
101!
……
As I thought, they could barely pierce my Defense. They dealt so little damage that HP potions, Regeneration of the Undead and Tenacity of the Undead were all I needed to stay alive throughout the fight!
It was like I had transformed into an impenetrable frontier fortress, drawing away at least 20% of the enemies’ firepower away from my battleline. It was easy for me to kill the mobs too because I was knee-deep in Greedy Wolves, and my Purgatory Sword had 20% splash damage. Every time I attacked, a couple of Greedy Wolves took damage at once. My killing efficiency was drastically improved to say the least!
Behind me, He Yi, Xu Yang, Gui Guzi, Du Thirteen, Beauty Chaos Moon and the rest of the defenders were protecting our backline. Xu Yang and Du Thirteen still needed some healing to stay alive, but He Yi and Gui Guzi felt absolutely no pressure whatsoever. The good news was that Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls lost very little men during the first few waves, and our priest number was very healthy. As a result, it turned out to be a very easy battle.
Even Murong Mingyue had changed roles to a damage dealer temporarily and dished out one Hellish Rockfall after another. Her DPS was amazing, and it would’ve been even better if she could move out of the defense line and rain hell on the main bulk of the horde. It was too risky though.
He Yi’s Firelight Mouse was also having a field day behind the shield formation. Tail flickering with flame, the little mouse kept chirping and jumping at the same spot as it cast Sea of Flames again and again, roasting the enemy mobs alive. Yep, it’s getting scarier and scarier as its level increases!
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”Roar roar!”
A pair of Heaven-devouring Greedy Wolves pounced toward a Level 72 warrior, launched four Rends in total and one-shot the poor guy. Unfortunately, he wasn’t strong enough to halt the Greedy Wolves’ advance. Priests’ heals had cooldowns, so there was bound to be a window of opportunity for the mobs. If someone was caught with their pants down in that short period, all they could do was pray they were tanky enough to survive, or die!