Chapter 610: Gangster Cavalry (1/2)
The shadow of a cyan dragon burst out of the ground with a draconic roar and devoured a Hall of Immortality warrior standing in front of Du Thirteen. The poor warrior was completely caught off-guard when a huge damage number popped above his head—15092!
It was the Dragon Vein Art, the signature move of our miraculous tactician, Lu Buyi! His attack power increased drastically ever since he obtained the Burning Fan, and now he hit harder than even most mages. The warrior felt like dying when he realized that it was a tactician who deleted a huge chunk of his HP.
“Fuck! You’re just a puny tactician…”
The angered warrior pounced toward Lu Buyi in an attempt to kill him, but Du Thirteen hit him with Barrier Break first and one-shot him where he stood. In the city, a group of lovely ladies immediately cheered in excitement, “Wah, the guild leader is so cool!”
Du Thirteen gladly accepted the shower of compliments while I watched silently from the sidelines. As the saying went, it is much easier to change rivers and mountains than a man's character. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before Bloody Mercenaries turned into his fan club completely. The only question left for me now was whether Mamate battled for the other side. If he did then, phew, Du Thirteen’s predicament was hardcore to say the least.
Li Chengfeng walked up to me with a serious look on his face. Gazing to the distance, he said, “To think that this single Galaxy Breaker Mage could drive us to the sorry state we’re in… ahhh. It looks like Beiming Xue is the only ranged ace we have. Everyone else is…”
I nodded. “Yeah. Candle Dragon has God’s Dance, Snowy Cathaya has Shadow Chanel, Purple Lily has Luo River God of the Capital, and even Hall of Immortality has Galaxy Breaker Mage. But we… Moonlight Stone still has a long way to go. It’s not something that can be rushed though. Top-tier mages have always been an ultra rare commodity. Let’s just wait and see what the future has in store for us.”
Li Chengfeng grinned. “Hall of Immortality and Rose of the Holy Domain’s main forces are still alive, and they are attacking the west wall with everything they have. We stalled them for so long that both sides have suffered huge casualties, so I’m expecting them to launch a do-or-die assault any time now. If they don’t, time will run out, and the ultimate victory will belong to us!”
“That’s right. That is why we must protect our city for the last 4 hours with everything we got!”
“Yeah!”
Our situation was as bad as ever. Our army was fully composed of our main guild, Bloody Mercenaries, and our eight subguilds, and after several hours of intense battle we had lost over 50% of our army. Right now, we had 30000 or so able bodies left to defend the city, and a large number of them—over 8000 fighters beneath the walls and over 5000 ranged players on the walls—were concentrated on the west wall. They were the biggest numbers we could muster under these circumstances, but it was 13k versus 200k. The disadvantage was all ours even with a wall keeping us and the enemy separate.
“Here they come again…”
Holding his Rainbow Spear by his side, Gui Guzi spat once on the ground before asking, “Do or die indeed. It’s another big army, and they’re charging us all at once. What do we do, boss? We continue defending to the death, or?”
I thought for a moment before answering, “I don’t think we can hold out like this for much longer. Their city buster, Wing Breaker, is dead, their Thunder Chariots and catapults have been destroyed, and the only siege weapons they have left are harmless things like ladders and siege towers. Let’s do it this way: I will continue defending the city with 6000+ fighters. You, Heaven’s Rain and You and Yun will lead 1000 Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen to ambush the enemy from the flank. Don’t try to stick to them, just kill a bunch of their mages and archers every time you go in and out of their formation. Let’s give Rose of the Holy Domain and Hall of Immortality a taste of the Cyan Tiger Cavalry’s superior mobility.”
Gui Guzi replied with a smile, “Sure. The boss is wise!”
Heaven’s Rain also replied with a cheerful smile, “Why do I feel that big brother Lu Chen is so much smarter, reliable, and manlier than big brother Little Gui…”
A helpless look immediately overrode Gui Guzi’s expression. “I’m pretty manly, alright? You wouldn’t say this if you saw me in a brick fight.”
Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun laughed. “Yes, he’s so manly that he took a brick to the head and slept for an entire hour that day he got into a fight for Xue Lu. If Lu Chen wasn’t as tanky and courageous as he was, our Little Gui would be working at a brothel as a prostitute right now…”
Gui Guzi bared his teeth at him. “Fuck, anyone who brings that up again will have to fight me, okay?! Cyan Tiger Cavalry, follow me! It’s time to run outside and open a path to victory for our guild!”