Chapter 668: Circling Toward the Enemy’s Back (2/2)
Blue Sky Scar sucked in a deep breath of cold air as his eyes drilled into me. He calmly said, ”Then let’s continue our battle. Candle Dragon will neither compromise nor surrender! Let’s have it out then, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls! Let’s see how much you’ve grown since the last time we beat you!”
He Yi brandished the Blade of the Earthen Soul as she laughed. ”You’ll definitely be in for a surprise then! Everyone! Form up and prepare to attack!”
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A voice rang out from behind us. It was the leader of Blazing Hot Lips, Stranger of Three Lifetimes. ”Oh, is it time for a duel of long-range firepower? Alright, it’s my turn now…”
I nodded my head appreciatively before retreating together with Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, and He Yi. A few minutes later, Stranger of Three Lifetimes walked forward with a veritable horde of mages and archers. They took up position along the side of the river as she turned toward us and laughed. ”Hey, I want the powerful Dark Archer Beiming Xue to join me as well! Let’s show them what for!”
”Alright!”
Beiming Xue activated Bow God as she led a squad of a hundred archers forward. They took their place besides Stranger of Three Lifetimes and prepared to attack.
After that, Stranger of Three Lifetimes gave a sharp command and all of the archers and mages from our side moved five yards forward and unleashed a shower of destruction. A storm of arrows, fireballs, wind blades, and Galaxy Storms fell toward the Candle Dragon formation as their own long-range players started attacking as well.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Huge blasts of light and magic rippled across both sides of the river and the earth itself seemed to be shaking from these raucous explosions. Spiraling Arrow Blades and Galaxy Storms were the main stars of the show as they tore many players to shreds.
It seemed as if most of the archers from both sides were downed by those skills the very instant the battle started. Even though their Defense and HP were higher than mages’, archers didn’t have shields of any sort, so they really couldn’t take many hits. Thus, all archers had to rely on their agility to dodge attacks, but there was no real way to dodge magic attacks, and many of them died in the opening salvo of the battle.
This brutal exchange continued for nearly ten minutes as countless long-range players died on both sides. They were dropping like flies and even the high-level archers in Beiming Xue’s squad were not spared. Most of them had already died and only Beiming Xue, who had exceptionally high Defense and HP for an archer, had managed to survive without breaking a sweat.
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”This won’t work! We’re losing people way too fast…” Stranger of Three Lifetimes said as her staff danced in the air.
As she launched Galaxy Storm at the enemy’s best mage, God’s Dance, she continued, ”Lu Chen, think of something! We can’t keep eating losses like this. Candle Dragon really has a lot of players and there are quite a lot of them on the outside. We are the ones attacking, so we can’t afford to take these losses. Candle Dragon is also tying us down right now, and if another guild takes this opportunity to enter the territory hall, then all of this will be for naught.”
I immediately spurred my Ice Qilin Horse forward and hurled my sword out again. Another Sword Boomerang spun through the air and even God’s Dance was forced to retreat from it. Candle Dragon’s attacks faltered for a moment, but there was no way that I could suppress their long-range attackers on their own. It was a pipe dream to think that I could Sword Boomerang Candle Dragon to death.
I stared across the river to see that the players from Throne Seeker were also fending off enemy attackers at the edge of the city. The enemy players seemed to be from Gods of Destruction. Dominating Heaven Blade heroically ran forward and cleaved enemy players with his huge blade. It was clear that he was buffed to the max as he yelled in a loud and exaggerated voice. ”My fellow comrades, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Blazing Hot Lips have been held up by Candle Dragon. Now’s our chance to rush into the city and take over the territory hall. Everyone, follow me!”
Emperor’s Equal roared out an angry retort, ”Follow your sister! Do you think that I’ll just let you waltz into the city!? You’ll have to step over my dead body to get in!”
The battle burned hotter and hotter, devolving into a savage brawl!
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I opened up my minimap and quickly looked it over. After that, my eyes lit up as I turned to Gui Guzi and said, ”Gui Guzi, do a quick count of how many Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen are left. Also, find out how many riders we have left that are over Level 130!”
Gui Guzi instantly replied, ”Boss Broken Halberd, we still have 1350 Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen who are ready for battle. Our main guild also has over 5000 riders who are above Level 130. What’s your plan, boss?”
I nodded my head and said, ”Open up your minimap and take a look at this. There is another way to get across this moat. There is a stone bridge to the south of us that connects directly to the back of this little fort of theirs, and it can’t be destroyed. It seems that Candle Dragon was too focused on retreating that they didn’t see they could be flanked from farther back. We can use the superior speed of our cavalrymen to swiftly circle around the moat and launch an attack from behind! If we can pull that off, victory is ours! Candle Dragon wouldn’t be able to hold up against attacks from both sides even if their army was a hundred thousand strong!”
Gui Guzi’s lips curved up into a wicked grin. ”Okay, I’ll immediately assemble the men!”
Five minutes later, the remnants of the Cyan Tiger Cavalry assembled together with 5000 other riders from our guild. On my command, our entire group of cavalrymen flew toward the south!
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When we reached the stone bridge, it became clear that Candlelight Shadow had managed to find this weakness as well. A troop of 1000 players had been stationed there to defend it. However, it was clear that they had just arrived and hadn’t gotten into proper formation yet. A vicious grin formed on my face as Heaven’s Rain, Gui Guzi, He Yi, and I led our troops straight into the teeth of this shabby mess of a formation!
We conquered the stone bridge with ease and as I waved my sword forward, over 6000 cavalrymen thundered toward the back of Candle Dragon’s main force.