Chapter 599: Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch (1/2)
The girl obeyed the advice and retreated back to the battle line safely. She was being bombarded by Spiraling Arrow Blades and Galaxy Storms, so she would have died in less than three minutes had she chosen to stay at the frontline.
High Fighting Spirits, Li Chengfeng, and Xu Yang also followed her lead soon after. Staying close to the battleline meant that our priests were close enough to heal us. On the other hand, it also meant that our archers, tamers, mages abd more could enter the enemy’s range. There was no avoiding it though. Whatever we did, we were definitely going to sustain some heavy losses this time.
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Bang!
The Stormy Waves War Boots shook the ground as War Crush ravaged the dozen of Hall of Immortality fighters around me. The triple-hit skill was still pretty powerful, even after all this time.
I held my Cyan Netherworld Sword in front of me and assumed a Guard stance. At least dozens of arrows hit me before I broke out of it and launched a Thousand Ice Slash at the enemy. The mages and archers shook like leaves, and any archer who was caught in the blast zone was basically as dead as a dodo. Some mages survived just barely thanks to their Magic Shields.
Behind me, Chaos Moon asked, ”Aren’t you coming back, Lu Chen?”
”No!”
I answered firmly. I was currently at the center of our defense line and about 15 yards away from our formation. If I stayed here, I could cause havoc to the enemy and make them feel like there was a fishbone lodged in their throat. But if I withdrew, then the four subguilds would be able to come together as a cohesive unit and attack us with everything they got. Therefore, I had to stay there and protect my guild by denying them a chance to organize.
Seeing that I was unwilling to retreat, Chaos Moon smiled and ordered, ”Moon Dew, grab twenty priests with you and heal Lu Chen indiscriminately!”
Moon Dew nodded. ”Got it!”
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”Attack! They’re going to break any moment! Charge!” yelled a subguild leader with his sword raised.
A group of evil-looking dudes immediately heeded that order and charged. They were actually able to pass through our firewall of arrows and spells and engage our fighters at melee, but their bravery was met by a thousand cold steel wreathed in flaming cones. They were all Barrier Breaks!
Thud thud thud...
Screams filled the air as hundreds and thousands of players dropped like flies. Everyone’s heads were alight with magical shimmer as countless fireballs landed on both sides. The battle was intense and bloody, and because both sides held a key advantage of our own—the enemy had superior numbers, and we had superior power—the amount of lives lost was positively insane!
Li Chengfeng’s eyes were so red it almost looked like they were bleeding. He angled his sword and shouted mightily, ”Reverse Scale Slash! Get back to your homes…”
Boom!
The skill stabbed into the enemy crowd with a draconic roar, killing a lot of people. He immediately followed up with a Dragonbone Flurry that deleted a couple of low-health magic knights who had survived the Reverse Scale Slash.
Li Chengfeng was furious, and High Fighting Spirits was no different. Ignoring the dozen of Blazes sinking into his body, he marched forward, summoned a powerful gale and unleashed his signature move, Xiezhi Howl. It was as if a hurricane had descended to the earth as all the enemies around him were diced into bits.
Swhoosh swhoosh swhoosh...
However, the subguilds of Hall of Immortality weren’t lacking in combat awareness. They lined up. A dozen or so magic knights timed their Charges and successfully stunned High Fighting Spirits. At the same time, the mages and archers immediately turned their firepower on him in hopes of deleting a key player from the surface of the earth.
High Fighting Spirits could do nothing but glare angrily at the enemy. Suddenly, a cyan, rock-ike energy wave hit the magic knights surrounding the barbarian warrior and elicited painful screams from them. It was none other than Chaos Moon’s AoE skill, Rock Crush. A follow-up Mountain Stagger Slash from Xu Yang later, no one was left standing any longer!
The three great experts of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls had annihilated almost a hundred players in an instant. The counterattack was so ridiculous that the Hall of Immortality players who saw it actually forgot what they were doing for a second. No one was expecting Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls to pack so much firepower they seemed to outdo even Candle Dragon in this department.
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”Attack! Kill the noobs on the battle line first and focus down their priests next. Without healing, even their greatest fighters are just trash!”
An angry-looking subguild guild leader shouted while waving his staff, ”There are only 7000 of them! Our four subguilds will be the laughingstocks of the city if we lose to them! Do you want to disappoint our leader, Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch? No? Then fight till your very last breath!”
I couldn’t help but grit my teeth. Motherfucker, I should’ve known that these guild leaders weren’t idiots. Their plan was simple but deviously effective: wipe out our low-level frontliners first and kill our priests second, no matter the cost. Well, he was spot-on. Without healing, even the best of us were just trash in the face of overwhelming numbers.
”Hold the line! Do not let the fucking trash take even a step past us!” High Fighting Spirits shouted on top of his lungs while swinging the Invincible.
The enemy guild leader immediately retorted, ”Fuck you, you are the trash!”
”Oh yeah? You and your entire family are trash you trashy fuck!”
The verbal battle ensued just like that, and all the players on both sides started swearing all kinds of obscenities on the enemy. They only wished that they could turn their saliva into Galaxy Storms and turn their enemy’s face into a pulp.
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