Chapter: Chapter 306: The Impending Storm
Chapter 306: The Impending Storm
Just as Yan, the most handsome, joined the Blood Rose Squad, the last ray of sunset disappeared below the horizon.
The players on the city wall, who had been clamoring, felt a sense of change and fell silent in unison.
“Whoosh—” The wind roared.
In the dim wilderness, the torchlight on Karari City’s walls was dazzling. A rustling sound of rolling sand and stones came from all around, like silkworms nibbling on leaves, but this time it was the undead emerging from the earth.
A pair of eerie green eyes floated around, as if signaling. In the darkness, more and more eyes lit up, spreading across the wilderness outside Karari Royal Capital.
“The Undead Siege has begun!”
A player shouted loudly.
The previously quiet city wall lost its tranquility and became boisterous again. All players took their positions. Their mission was to delay time for King of Winter (Xi Wei)’s retreating army as much as possible.
Within the Deathly Shadow Cloud, Angus gazed in the direction of Karari City. He felt that a large portion of the life energy within Karari City had vanished. There was only one reason for this decrease in life energy: the human population inside Karari City had significantly decreased!
“Have they evacuated?”
Angus muttered to himself. Since the main human force had chosen to retreat, it only indicated that they feared the strength of the undead. The humans left behind to defend the city were merely cannon fodder to buy time.
“They still underestimate the undead’s methods of tracking the living… In any case, let’s deal with these cannon fodder on the city wall first.”
Humans were always like this, greedy and selfish.
These unfortunate souls on Karari City’s walls, even knowing they were doomed, still stubbornly remained to defend the city. One could only attribute it to the pathetic nature of royalty.
Angus sneered and issued the command to attack to the Undead Legion.
This time, he deployed all his forces.
Including the Skeletal Knight Legion, the entire undead force numbered as high as thirty thousand.
Moreover, an endless stream of battlefield corpses were being animated by the undead aura spreading everywhere.
The number of undead would continue to grow like a snowball as they moved along the way.
Angus still did not personally approach Karari City’s walls.
Although Karari City was now empty, he couldn’t rule out the possibility that it was a trap deliberately set by the humans, aiming to lure him in.
Angus would not fall for it.
If his subordinates could solve a problem, he would absolutely not expose himself unnecessarily.
Hundreds of years ago, he had been dealt with by a cunning old fox from the Church of Light.
At that time, the entire core strength of the Church of Light had evacuated, leaving behind only some ordinary divine personnel.
And in that branch church, which seemed to have been abandoned, a Cardinal deliberately stayed behind. The moment he led the undead army closer, he unleashed Divine Descent.
The Divine Descent Technique, activated by a Cardinal’s life and soul, was pure and potent. It temporarily propelled the Cardinal to Legendary-grade with immense divine power.
Combined with the fact that the power of the God of Light had a strong suppressive effect on undead power.
This led to…
After that near-death escape.
Angus became extremely cautious in any battle he faced.
Unless he had completely grasped the situation of the enemy.
However, now, the enemy’s soldiers’ ability to “resurrect” and similar “unkillable” characteristics made him even more careful.
Even the Deathly Shadow Cloud that enveloped him did not appear on the battlefield this time. Instead, he dispatched a large number of blood crows to circle around Karari City’s walls to scout the situation from afar.
To ensure the undead army could conquer Karari City’s walls in one fell swoop, Angus ordered the undead army to halt when they were seven to eight hundred meters away from the walls. Countless skeletal warriors began to gather. They connected and integrated using their bones, eventually transforming into living bone ladders.
These living ladders looked bone-white. Since the skeletal warriors forming the ladders were still alive, those walking on them could feel the “creaking” sound of their bones wriggling.
The undead army began to line up, their deathly aura soaring into the sky, almost obscuring the vision of the human garrison on Karari City’s walls.
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Amidst the noisy cawing of the blood crows.
The momentum of the undead army had reached its peak.
Although Angus did not know the idiom “strike while the iron is hot,” he had led the Undead Legion in battles for many years. Moreover, when he was still a Gold Dragon, he had commanded allied forces of the prime material plane against demons.
He knew very well.
The initial period of a battle was the easiest opportunity to break through the enemy.
The appearance of the undead was undoubtedly hideous and terrifying. Even just standing there in an attacking posture would bring heavy psychological pressure to normal creatures.
Angus intended to use this point to strike at the morale of the human garrison on the city walls.
Compared to the first siege.
The undead’s aura had become even more arrogant.
Siege bone catapults were lined up. Gargoyles and specters hovered in the sky, wailing and occasionally letting out menacing screams at the players on the city wall.
At the forefront of the Undead Legion.
A Champion Level Undead Knight, seated on a giant bone rhinoceros, held a three-meter-long great axe. The Undead Ghost Fire in his eye sockets burned fiercely, swaying slightly with the northern wind howling across the wilderness.
The power displayed by the undead at this moment shocked the players far more than before.
Just the monster in front, whose undead form and mount were almost as tall as the city gate, had already made them gasp.
Previously, some players had analyzed that the first siege by the undead was merely a probing attack, and this time was the real general offensive.
This seemed to have been confirmed.
The Undead Legion was not to be trifled with, and the players were indeed shocked. However, this shock did not last long. Soon, the players snapped out of their stunned state and became excited.
They were players.
They could not die, so what was there to fear!
Angus’s attempt to display the might of the Undead Legion and psychologically pressure these players was undoubtedly a failed endeavor.
The players had already started to get impatient.
“If I record the battle scene and upload it online, do you think I’ll get invited to work at a movie company? Will I become famous instantly?”
“Brother, record it and send me a copy. I can still use it to get a thrill when it’s quiet late at night~”
“Why did the undead stop? Are they scared…”
…
A young soldier tightly gripped his shield and long sword, his lips trembling. He cautiously reminded him.
“Big… Master, these undead should… should be showing off.”
“I know they are showing off.”
The warrior player next to him appeared nonchalant. He glanced at the young soldier whose legs were trembling and kindly advised him,
“Are you sure you want to stay here and fight with me? His Majesty Winter hasn’t established the bidirectional teleportation array yet. If we can’t hold on for even a minute, you’ll be utterly doomed. It’s still not too late to leave now.”
