Chapter 660: Storm of Destruction (2/2)
“Yessir!” all of them cried out in unison.
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He Yi’s elegant eyebrows started to knit together as a worried expression appeared on her face. “Candlelight Shadow looks really confident, but where does that confidence come from?”
Xu Yang shook his head and replied, “I don’t know. We’ll have to charge in first to find out!”
He Yi: “...”
At this point in time, the siege towers were less than fifty yards away from the city walls, but all of us were feeling very nervous. The players on top of those walls were evidently feeling as nervous as we were, because once we got within forty yards of those walls, Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch’s furious roar echoed from them. “Focus your fire and destroy those towers!”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless arrows and spells started raining down on the siege towers. Brilliant explosions of light lit up the night sky as skills erupted all around the towers. Fireballs and spears of ice slammed into them with a relentless fury and even the ground itself started to shake.
Unfortunately for the defenders, even this cavalcade of blows couldn’t shake the siege towers as they slowly advanced. After all, if one could so easily destroy a siege tower that required an obscene amount of money to build, then they wouldn’t be worth it at all!
Li Chengfeng brandished his sharp sword as he ran over and yelled, “High Fighting Spirits, follow me! We will charge in from the centermost tower. We need to get rid of those bastards as soon as possible!”
High Fighting Spirits let out a spirited yell as he hefted his battle axe and charged over. The two of them led nearly two hundred of our elite warriors into the centermost siege tower and prepared to launch their assault. Meanwhile, Stranger of Three Lifetimes got off a tower and activated her Magic Shield. She advanced ahead of us, her Magic Shield deflecting countless arrows. However, its durability was hardly going down despite the beating it was taking. Mages of this level really was overpowered!
The durability of a Magic Shield factored in the rank of the skill and, more importantly, Magic Attack of its user. The higher a mage’s Magic Attack, the tougher their shield would be. A strong mage’s shield wouldn’t waver even under a storm of spells and arrows. Stranger of Three Lifetimes was one of the best mages in the game, so breaking her shield would be no laughing matter!
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I turned around and raised my sword in the air as I said, “I need a Famous General to charge in with me!”
Chaos Moon immediately leaped out and grinned. “Me! Me!”
“Okay, let’s go!”
The two of us led a few hundred players up one of the siege towers. We heard the sound of gears creaking and clicking as the siege tower started to trundle toward the nearest city wall. Huge metal chains held up a gigantic metal drawbridge that was ten meters wide. The moment we neared the city walls, the chains would release this drawbridge and it would slam into the top of the walls, allowing us to charge across it. Of course, that was easier said than done. Everything would be decided in the next few moments.
We could see the siege tower beside us through the gaps between the metal drawbridge. I could feel the energy radiating from High Fighting Spirits and Li Chengfeng as they eagerly waited for their siege tower to reach the city walls. They looked full of confidence this time. The previous attempt to use ladders to scale the city wall had put a huge damper on their mood, but the inexorable advance of these siege towers had raised their spirits once more.
We were inching closer and closer. There were only twenty yards between us and the city walls now. Everyone’s heart started thumping in their chest as the drawbridge in front of us continually shuddered under an unending barrage of fire and ice. The huge metal plate had been hit with so many fire spells that it started to glow cherry red.
Chaos Moon brandished her sharp sword as she stared at me with anxious eyes. Complex emotions were warring in those beautiful eyes of hers.
I glared at her and said, “What are you looking at?”
Chaos Moon rubbed a hand across her chest uneasily as she said, “I have a bad feeling about this…”
“Oh?”
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Before she could even give voice to her thoughts, we saw God’s Dance activate her Magic Shield in front of us and raise her staff high in the air. Arcane and mystical characters flowed from her lips as the weather itself started to change.
“O’ great God of Storms, I beseech thee! Rouse the eye of the storm from its long slumber and let its destructive power rain upon this realm once more. Storm of Destruction!”
Boom!
A bolt of furious lightning fell from the heavens and split the ground apart. A gigantic storm immediately swirled into life as it tore apart the siege tower that was nearest to the walls. Broken parts, shattered words, and fragments of metal swirled in the air as many warriors from our guild started wailing in agony.
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“Fuck!”
My eyes widened into saucers. Li Chengfeng and High Fighting Spirits had been in that siege tower!
“God’s Dance, you bitch! Fucking hell, I’m gonna kill you myself!” I growled as my hand curled into a fist.