Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 182: All-Out Attack on Dragonflame City
Players and soldiers continued to desperately assault the city gates.
Simultaneously, they heard the powerful incantations of mages from the city walls.
A massive red spell array lit up the sky, and the profound chanting lasted for over a minute.
Countless vanguard soldiers who had reached the city walls charged towards the mage with red eyes, but they were desperately held back by the surrounding Templar Knights.
The sky gradually darkened, as if being covered by a brown filter. Fierce winds howled, lifting sand and stones, accompanied by deafening roars.
Hundreds of meteors, trailing flames, descended from the sky and began an indiscriminate attack on the large area in front of the city gates.
Fire rained down, and gunsmoke billowed.
Four shields, each with a hundred-meter radius, lit up in Karallant’s army formation, and all the soldiers began to quickly gather within the shields.
At the same time, on the left side of the main city wall, near the moat.
Xing Hai, sitting in Sark’s hand, her eyes lit up with a sky-blue divine light. She gently held her hands upward, mumbling incantations and guiding the power within her body.
“Hiliya-refera-oria-aling-es…”
A torrential tide surged from the moat, forming a water wall dozens of meters high and surging towards the city walls of Dragonflame City.
Immediately afterwards, thunderclouds began to appear in the sky, with roaring electric dragons weaving through the clouds and frequently striking the city walls.
Bai Yao transformed into a lightning bird within the thunderclouds, now a thunderbird flickering with electric light. She circled freely in the clouds, and what were originally arm-thick lightning bolts became bowl-thick pillars of thunder under her enhancement.
A torrential downpour extinguished the flames on the battlefield, but the accumulated water mixed with blood, turning into flowing rivers of blood.
The sky above the entire battlefield was filled with burning fire clouds on one side and dark, thunderous clouds on the other.
Tsunamis raged and meteors rolled, resembling the end of the world.
Countless soldiers died, and countless undead crawled up from the ground. However, no one could attend to them; they were all desperately fighting for the war.
Only the Scheming Frog’s expression became solemn as he gradually moved away from the crowd, quietly leaving the battlefield with Gou Fugui.
The First Prince did not notice this scene, while Ye Hao, hidden under his cloak, gradually approached Xing Hai and Sark amidst the figures of the soldiers on the battlefield.
Xi Wei had already reached the city walls, with the Archmage who was guiding the legion-level meteor spell within striking distance, but a group of Templar Knights blocked his path.
His level had now reached fifty-eight, which was more than enough to deal with these elite Templar Knights who had just entered the Sky Knight rank.
They were all monsters, and Xi Wei, whose strength grew more terrifying with each passing day, no longer feared the special abilities of the Templar Knights.
After all, it was impossible for another existence as overpowered as the Black Sword to appear in such a short time. The Templar Knights’ modified abilities were uncontrollable, mostly manifesting as common bestial transformations.
Holding Loli, he fought fiercely with five Sky Knights, benefiting from Loli’s continuous buffs. He grew stronger with each battle, remaining unharmed.
Occasionally, when he could not dodge in time, You Ye, hidden in the shadows, would suddenly appear and use her dagger to block for him.
Ruo Yi was also engaged in combat with three Templar Knights near Xi Wei.
Compared to Xi Wei’s berserker-like combat style, Ruo Yi, wielding a golden long sword, was more like a dancing butterfly.
Her movements were elegant and graceful, her snow-white hair flying, and her beautiful figure flickering everywhere. Amidst flashes of light and shadow, she took the heads of her enemies.
The elite forces under the various lords had basically ascended the city walls, but they could only occupy a small area. The city walls of Dragonflame City were simply too long, and large sections were still filled with Dragonflame City’s garrison.
At this moment, siege ladders werefinally placed against the city walls.
The upper section of a siege ladder was propped against a gap created by the King of the Hill’s Siege Cannon. Soldiers enthusiastically raised their swords and charged up the ladder, but they would often be smashed by rolling boulders halfway up and fall back down the ladder.
Leisurely Moment cast sidelong glances at the tragic scenes, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. He kept telling himself, “This is a game, this is a game, it’s all fake.”
After blasting a section of the city wall, the King of the Hill Siege Cannon immediately began attacking other sections of the wall. Not a single cannonball landed on the city gates.
The players gradually came to their senses. After all this effort, the city gates were far more difficult to breach than the walls. What was their purpose then? To be cannon fodder?
They watched as the siege ladders, built with lives, were ascended. They saw a soldier, whom they considered an NPC, fearlessly climb onto the city wall.
But he was immediately cleaved through the chest by a blade from a defending soldier and fell straight from the wall before them with a muffled groan.
Blood spurted from his mouth, and his fading pupils still burned with tenacious fighting spirit.
The Players looked up again and saw more soldiers following closely behind. Under such a charge, there would always be soldiers who could climb the city wall using the siege ladders.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city wall, a tall siege tower was slowly being pushed forward by soldiers.
This heavy siege equipment was taller than the city wall, and from a distance, it looked like a small building.
Countless arrows rained down like a swarm of locusts, embedding themselves in the sturdy door of the siege tower.
Once a Magic Cannon or a powerful magical skill was fired, the Legion Mages inside the siege tower would immediately unleash magic shields to resist.
Inside the hazy siege tower.
A dense mass of attacking soldiers were crammed together, their faces hidden beneath cold helmets, standing ready. Arrows continuously struck the front door, making a “dada” sound.
Suddenly, with a slight tremor, the siege tower stopped. The door in front slowly opened, revealing the garrison on the city wall. Behind them were the city mages who had already prepared their deadly spells.
“Kill!”
Someone shouted, and the attacking soldiers leaped from the siege tower. Swords clashed, flashes of magic erupted, and a fierce battle began on this section of the wall.
Below the siege tower, an unending stream of soldiers charged up using the tower’s stairs.
The players, inspired by the fighting spirit of the attacking soldiers, also had their eyes reddened, pushing the siege battering ram with all their might.
If they could have broken open the city gates sooner, perhaps there wouldn’t have been such tragic sacrifices.
Leisurely Moment tightly gripped the handles of the siege battering ram, his tiger’s mouth going numb from the impact of the city gate.
He numbly rammed it again and again. Suddenly, a dull metallic sound of movement came from the city gate.
“Clatter—Buzzzz—”
The players rejoiced. Had the city gate finally been breached?
But they discovered that the city gate was not shattering in the middle or toppling backward; instead, it was being pulled upward.
The gap in the gate gradually widened. The leading soldier quickly ordered the players to push the siege battering ram forward to jam the gate and prevent it from closing.
At this moment, a thunderous roar of killing suddenly came from behind the players.
Countless soldiers, carrying shields and weapons, pushed past the players and entered the city gate. From inside the gate, they counterattacked the city walls and engaged the garrison on the walls in combat.
Only then did the players understand: The siege ladders outside the city wall had been successfully deployed. Combined with the fierce bombardment of the siege cannons, the attacking soldiers had climbed the city wall and, under the cover of the elite knight forces, gained control of the city gate’s mechanism.
If not for this, the sturdy gates of Dragonflame City would not have been breached so quickly.
Now that they had broken into the city, was victory within sight?
They thought with delight, surging into the city along with the charging soldiers.
However, they never expected that after finally entering this city gate, there was still a strong inner bailey.
The archers and Legion Mages of the garrison were already in position on the inner bailey. A sky-covering rain of arrows and magical light rained down upon the players and soldiers who had entered the city.
The attacking soldiers at the front were instantly turned into porcupines by the incoming arrows and fell to the ground, or were pierced through like skewers by ice cones and turned to ashes by flames.
Leisurely Moment had no time to dodge. The soldiers behind him continued to charge forward desperately, dragging Leisurely Moment and the other players along with them.
He had no choice but to swing his sword with all his might to resist the arrow rain.
However, his Qi was quickly depleted. He felt a massive force on his shoulder, and then his thigh felt like it had been struck by a giant hammer.
Although he felt no pain, Leisurely Moment knew he had been hit by an arrow.
His health plummeted rapidly, his arm became heavier and he could no longer lift it, finally collapsing slowly to the ground.
His vision turned gray. Leisurely Moment’s energy body looked at the soldiers who were still charging forward and silently prayed.
Having come this far, they must take Dragonflame City!
Please refer to this for a general idea. The city wall structure is basically like this.
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