Chapter 597: Mountain Stagger Slash (2/2)
Chaos Moon smiled sweetly at them and said, ”What are you waiting for, brothers from Vanished God City? I’m here…”
The players of Throne Seeker immediately lost their self-control and rushed her. Naturally, the end result was a Rock Crush to the face and plenty of injuries. Truly, men were creatures who could give up their lives for women.
Twenty yards to the right of Chaos Moon, a fearsome general was brute-forcing his way in and out of the enemy swarm. He was of course High Fighting Spirits. His offensive and defensive stats were drastically increased by our bards, and he exploited the advantage to the max by pouncing at the enemies like an animal. Every time he swung his battle axe and executed the Xiezhi Howl, an empty ring would appear around him, filling up with new waves of enemies. The man was like a vacuum or a black hole! On top of that, he occasionally tossed his axe to the distance and killed lines of players! It was a boomerang skill!
”Axe Boomerang!”
Boom!
Again, Invincible tore through the enemy and reaped dozens of lives before finally flying back to his hand. Grinning, he abruptly sped up toward a magic knight and chopped off the poor bastard’s head with Barrier Break. The skill penetrated 60% of his target’s Defense, so there was absolutely nothing he could do at all.
High Fighting Spirits was an animal, the kind that people set up warning signs for. He wasn't the only animal in Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls though. For example, fighting on the opposite side of the battlefield was Xu Yang, the other animal of the guild!
Today, Xu Yang’s level, equipment, and skill were nothing like his former self. He wielded a 3-star Outstanding Spirit-grade sword and wore a metal armor that was surrounded by the indiscernible glow of a protective skill, and reverberating with the sound of a faint, beastial roar. It was the Ironback Bear Armor, a skill book that he picked up after killing the Ironback Bear King, a Purple Gold Rank boss with Gui Guzi. At max rank, it boosted his Defense by 15% and Magic Resist by 9%. It was an incredible skill.
”So eager to die, you bastards?!”
Xu Yang shouted as the image of a green mountain rock appeared about 5 yards away from him. It was the AoE skill, Mountain Stagger Slash!
Mountain Stagger Slash had a smaller attack radius than many AoE skills, but it was valuable because it ignored 30% of the enemy’s metal armor defense. This meant that it was more effective against mounted players, and it could delete Mount Tenacity really, really quickly. It was very similar to an archer’s Mountain Stagger Arrow, except that it was better.
Boom!
The magic knights and warriors standing on the wrong end of the Mountain Stagger Slash broke into tears. One of them cried, ”Is he really Hot Sun, the noob of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls? How is he so strong now…”
Xu Yang shouted and killed another high-level magic knight with Barrier Break. For a few seconds, the man looked positively unstoppable. Then the enemy’s elite mages started focusing their attention on him and gave him their tenderest Galaxy Storms and Dragon’s Roar. It was Xu Yang’s turn to cry as he ran back to his priests for healing.
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The battle was ridiculously intense, and both sides were giving it everything they had. A while later, it became clear that Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls held the absolute advantage both in terms of firepower and defense in a direct engagement. Unfortunately, there was no avoiding casualties in a battle like this, and our fighters, archers, mages, and priests died despite our best efforts. This was war, and it was impossible to fight a war without bloodshed.
The battle lasted for almost an hour or so. Eventually, the flames of war started subsiding, and after losing over 80% of their players, both the first and the second subguilds of Throne Seekers finally admitted that they were no match for us. Both guild leaders raised their swords and commanded, ”We lost. Withdraw!”
However, to everyone’s surprise, a Level 136 magic knight suddenly broke ranks and galloped toward the subguilds. He shouted from far, far away, ”You will not withdraw! You will fight to the last man! Did you think you can challenge the throne without sacrifice? Moreover, there are 10000 of you and 7000 of them, and you didn’t even kill five hundred of them! You think a battle result like this is acceptable? Fight! Fight to your last drop of blood! Don’t worry, your sacrifice won't be for nothing, for Hall of Immortality is the next to go!”
The speaker was none other than the guild leader of Throne Seeker himself, the Level 136 magic knight ”Emperor’s Equal”. He was an uncle, and a respected one, because his subordinates were so ashamed that they instantly changed course and attacked our formation again.
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In response, I raised the Cyan Netherworld Sword and said, ”If they’re so eager to die, then there’s no need to show mercy from our side! Kill them all!”
In less than five minutes, the one thousand or so players with incomplete parties all died before our feet. Without their priests, archers, and bards to support them, their charge could only be described as suicidal.
Standing at the front, I sucked in a deep breath and ordered, ”Xu Yang, count our casualties…”
Xu Yang nodded and did as commanded. A short while later, he reported, ”We lost 312 warriors, 45 archers, 12 mages, 41 tamers and 9 assassins. That’s 419 casualties in total. We’re still doing fine.”
I let out a sigh of relief before saying, ”This is just the beginning. The strongest guild of them all, Hall of Immortality, hasn’t acted yet. Thank goodness we chose to intercept them here, or else… Anyway, I’m sure they’ll be sending out their real elites very soon!”
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A few minutes later, lines of players with red light shining from their shoulders started creeping across the horizon. It was a guild emblem with a bloody skull on it; the symbol of the Hall of Immortality. Their numbers were great, and their class composition was sound.
Gritting his teeth, Li Chengfeng uttered, ”Damn, would you look at that. The first, third, fifth, and sixth subguilds of Hall of Immortality have all stepped into the open. That’s got to be 30000 people at least! Tsk tsk, this will be a hard fight for sure…”
Resting his battle axe on his shoulder, High Fighting Spirits chuckled. ”So what? It’s just one death.”