Chapter 604: Unwavering Loyalty (1/2)

Bang, bang, bang...

Mounts, armor, and weapons continued to collide against each other incessantly as the fighting started to turn exceptionally savage. Even the Cyan Tiger Cavalry couldn’t escape unscathed during this second big collision. Even as they were reaping the lives of their foes, a few of them started to drop off their mounts as well. The battle had turned white-hot!

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This continued for a whole twenty minutes and the field of battle, which was about three hundred yards away from the city gates, had turned into a river of blood. As the Cyan Tiger Cavalry ruthlessly hunted them down, Hall of Immortality’s five thousand elite Ghost Riders were ground down into nothing. The biggest nightmare for these fleeing troops was Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun’s Famous General Skill, Flying General, which boosted the speed of his party fourfold. He flew across the battlefield with his men like a grim reaper, reaping lives wherever he went. All notions of escape were instantly banished from the minds of the players who were caught by him. Hall of Immortality’s horsemen stared at him with shock and horror as they cursed at him, “Fuck his grandfather! This uncle is way too fierce!”

Fury bloomed on Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun’s face as his killing blows grew even more savage and he started to leave even more dead bodies in his wake.

It was at this moment that even more tiny dots started to appear on the horizon. The main forces of Hall of Immortality, Throne Seeker, and Rose of the Holy Domain had finally arrived. Their troops seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see as they started marching toward the city. As I surveyed the oncoming troops, I saw that this army was at least three hundred thousand strong, and this was even after we had killed about eighty thousand of them!

Beep!

I immediately sent a message to Gui Guzi: “Little Gui, don’t get too caught up in fighting! I need you and your men to retreat now!”

“Got it!”

The distant Gui Guzi raised his Rainbow high in the air as he let out a roar of laughter and yelled, “Comrades, Boss Broken Halberd has beat the gongs and signaled for us to retreat! We’ll let these pathetic stragglers live. It’s time to return to the city and prepare for the next wave of challengers!”

Gui Guzi chuckled as he said, “So? What do you think, boss?”

I nodded my head in approval. “That was an outstanding performance! Our guild didn’t spend so much blood, sweat, and tears to build this cavalry troop for nothing! All of you have brought glory to Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Sky City today!”

Li Chengfeng stared at the distant enemy as he laughed. “I think that not even five hundred of those Ghost Riders managed to escape. Tsk, tsk, that was a beautiful fight. You killed more than 4500 of them in a single engage! Well done!”

Heaven’s Rain rested her broadsword against her shoulder as her grin grew even wider. She said, “Guild leader, we worked really hard, aren’t you gonna give us a reward?”

I chuckled, “You want a reward? Fine! After this defense of Dark Moon City, every single member of the Cyan Tiger Cavalry will be rewarded with additional fifty thousand contribution points!”

Heaven’s Rain’s tiny mouth dropped open before she squealed in delight. “I just entered the guild, so my contribution points are really lacking! Is the guild leader really going to give all of us fifty thousand extra points? Hey, wait a minute… you’re the vice leader! Are you sure you can make such promises?”

Li Chengfeng and High Fighting Spirits immediately broke out into huge bouts of laughter. As he wiped tears from the corner of his eyes, Li Chengfeng said, “Our pretty Rain, that’s the one thing you don’t need to worry about! Right now, the guild leader and the other vice leader are away on business, so Lu Chen’s word is his bond. Hahaha!”

Little stars appeared in Heaven’s Rain’s eyes. “Wooow! So big bro is the one charge right now, huh! Hahaha, he’s such a restrained person! In guilds like Flower Room and Mad Dragon, even a puny division leader already acts like the biggest shot in the room! Ah, big bro is so humble and restrained! He’s crazy humble!!”

I laughed out loud. I drew my Cyan Netherworld Sword and pointed it toward the distant Hall of Immortality players. I shouted, “Brothers and sisters, prepare for battle! Once we manage to repel this first wave of attacks, we’ll charge together with our cavalry! Let’s kill Hall of Immortality’s men and plunder their women! After that, we’ll go to Vanished God City and wreck their homes!”

Li Chengfeng hefted his sword. “Damn! That sure sounds restrained and humble.”

Heaven’s Rain: “...”

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The huge army finally started to reach the outskirts of Dark Moon City ten minutes later. They had enough people to completely surround the city and then some.

Li Chengfeng sucked in a deep breath. “Holy shit. There’s at least 500000 people here! Fucking hell, there are really a lot of people in Vanished God City, huh! They really are enthusiastic about creating subguilds over there huh…”

I nodded my head. “That’s right. We honestly pale in comparison. Even building a single subguild makes me wanna die a little…”

Li Chengfeng chuckled as he said, “Well, the two of us are more suited to fighting than building. Let’s wait until Eve comes back before we start talking about building subguilds again…”

“Sounds good to me.”

Xu Yang hefted his sword and said, “Are we going to retreat back into the city so that we can take cover under the city walls? If too many of us warriors are outside, we’ll become easy targets for their mages and archers.”

I shook my head and replied in a grim voice, “We can’t retreat, especially those of us who are here at the western wall! We need to defend this place or die trying!”

“Why?” Xu Yang asked. He was quite taken aback by the vehemence in my voice.

I stretched out a hand to point at the enemy formation before I said, “Xu Yang, look over there. These guilds came prepared to fight today. They even brought some siege weapons to the party. You see those ebon vehicles slowly trundling toward us? The system database calls those Thunder Chariots. They deal extreme damage to city walls and it’ll only take them three minutes of continuous fire to destroy one. Can’t the smiths in our subguild also make those?”

“Fuck!” Xu Yang gritted his teeth. “Yeah, your judgement is always right. Thank goodness that we didn’t decide to withdraw back into the city.”