Chapter 490: Lin Bing Dou Zhe (1/2)
The earth of Sky City suddenly rumbled with the sound of horse hooves. Then, hordes of Night Creature riders appeared from the spatial bridge and charged straight toward our allied NPC legions!
Cavalry troops! The last monster wave were cavalry troops!
The riders were high-rank Asuras in dark cyan armor. They wielded a long spear in their right hand and a rusted broadsword in their left hand. They wore helmets, but there was a slit in the metal that revealed their blood red eyes. Although they were undead, I could see that their skin was intact, and they had all the features a human should have. In that sense, we were very similar to each other.
Ding! As I thought, a new entry in my combat log informed me that my Deterrence and the enemies’ Deterrence canceled each other out.
My pupils shrank when the first undead rider entered my range. I immediately shared its stats screen in the guild channel—
Coldblade Death Knight (Shadow)
Level: 155
Attack: 1950~2440
Defense: 2400
HP: 200000
Skills: Charge, Stomp, Blade Sweep
Introduction: Once the noble knights of humanity, the Coldblade Death Knights were changed into the elites of the Hell Legion after their souls became corrupted. Their skeleton was enhanced, and they retained the skills they learned when they were still human. They were the ace of Coldblade’s army.
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“Fuck…” Li Chengfeng sounded a little dazed. “I know it’s a level 155 Shadow-rank mob, but this Attack is still ridiculous. This is going to be bad. I’m not even sure if the NPC armies can stop this…”
“Mn. Watch our for the Coldblade Death Knight’s charge, and Priests, be ready to heal at first notice!” I barked out the orders.
The earth shook like thunder as countless Coldblade Death Knights rushed toward us. Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, Snowy Cathaya and The Monarch Descends—there were only 5000 of us left now—had joined together to form the strongest defense line we could make. The saying “without the lips, the teeth feel the cold” fitted this situation perfectly. Working together was the only chance we were going to survive this, and even then it was only a small chance.
The tension was palpable as we waited for the Coldblade Death Knights to hit us. When the high rank riders were about 50 yards away from us, they abruptly used Charge and hit our defense line indiscriminately. All our mounted players—Gui Guzi, He Yi, Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun and so on—held up their shields and withstood the Charges with everything they got. All was lost if they failed to withstand even the first round of assault.
“Die for the glory of the infinite storm!”
A Coldblade Death Knight opened its mouth and shouted savagely. After the Charge, its two-handed broadsword burst into flames, and it slashed at a row of players and dealt an insane amount of damage—
6894!
7021!
4459!
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Everyone’s Defense was different. I had high Defense, so I didn’t lose more than 3000 HP, but the others didn’t fare nearly as well. One of our players lost over 7000 HP after enduring just one Blade Sweep, and he wasn’t facing just one enemy. He was killed instantly when the rest of the Coldblade Death Knights activated Blade Sweep as well!
“Aaahhh…”
The screams of death filled the air. This was just the initial clash, and over 10 of our fighters were one-shot already. Our Priests never even got the chance to heal them.
It was because the Coldblade Death Knight’s Attack was too high, and they had the AOE skills to make use of it! It was terrifying in a battle like this!
My eyes turned red as I threw three fiery sword auras to the center of eight Coldblade Death Knights. Then, I froze them all with Thousand Ice Slash so that they couldn’t escape from our Archers’ attacks!
It was worth noting that Beiming Xue had equipped the Burning Shadow Bow already. The level 120 Spirit-grade weapon’s Attack limit was over 800, it had an Outstanding Property that enhanced critical damage by 20%. Beiming Xue’s total critical rate was over 25%, so she was able to deal critical damage to the mobs quite consistently. It wasn’t long before her DPS attracted the eyeballs of everyone who was paying attention. She dealt at least 15000 damage every time she scored a critical hit, and when she used Evil Spirit Volley that number was multiplied by the number of mobs she hit! It was an epic sight to say the least!
Li Chengfeng curled his lips as he praised Beiming Xue. “The Dark Archer truly is one of the founding members of Bloody Mercenaries. Now that I think about it, the Dark Archer, the Undying Knight and the Undead Swordsman were all in Bloody Mercenaries, right? Tsk tsk, without your prodigious workshop, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls would still be nameless to this day.”