"boom!"
A loud explosion ca from the communicator, followed by a piercing busy tone.
Tang Qi's knuckles turned white as he gripped the communicator.
He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the trembling in his heart, and quickly switched channels.
"Groups 3 through 5, abandon the original evacuation route."
"All troops should assemble at the breach in the western city wall."
"Establish a defensive line and provide shelter for civilians."
"Rember, we must get as many civilians out as possible."
"clear!"
"clear!"
Smoke and dust billowed above the ruins.
The first group of civilians who rushed out of the Ashihara slum stumbled and fell on the broken concrete blocks. When their feet finally touched the unpaved wasteland outside the city walls, many of them collapsed to their knees and wept bitterly.
That's the air of freedom.
It slled of gunpowder, but it was a thousand tis sweeter than the rotten, moldy deathly aura of the city.
"Run! Don't stop!"
Soone in the crowd shouted, shoving those who had stopped moving due to agitation, "It's not safe yet! Keep running west!"
However, just as the following crowd was preparing to surge out through the gap...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Heavy footsteps, accompanied by the roar of machinery, echoed from the smoke on either side of the breach.
Hundreds of city guards, like a black iron wall, quickly sealed off the breach.
The dark muzzles of guns and the gleaming magic blades were all pointed at the unard civilians.
"Everyone, get back!"
The city guard commander's icy voice blared from the loudspeaker, "Anyone who dares to take another step forward will be killed without rcy!"
The piercing alarm blared, accompanied by a red laser sight that flashed across the faces of the crowd.
The previously excited crowd was instantly doused with ice water, and a deathly silence spread.
Fear is ingrained in our bones.
Faced with these violent machines that usually hold the power of life and death over them, the instinctive reaction of ordinary people is to tremble and retreat.
So people stopped in their tracks, while others began to retreat in fear, and the once orderly torrent of waters began to flow in a chaotic backsurge.
"No...don't kill ..."
A woman holding a child collapsed to the ground in terror, desperately covering the child's eyes.
The city guard commander watched this scene with a cruel sneer.
They really are a bunch of scoundrels.
They'll obediently kneel down as soon as the butcher's knife is brandished.
"Three seconds left! Those who do not retreat will die!"
"three!"
"two!"
Just as that final "one" was about to be uttered, just as everyone thought the escape was about to end in a massacre.
"Go to hell, kill them all!"
A loud shout, like a thunderclap, rang out from the crowd.
Dozens of figures rushed out of the refugee line without warning.
They were dressed in the most ordinary, worn-out work clothes, and so were even disguised as beggars, but the aura they exuded at this mont was like a sharp blade being drawn from its sheath, revealing its full power!
Those were agents of the Great Xia Kingdom lurking among the crowd, as well as civilian professionals who refused to sit idly by and wait for their doom.
"Brothers! Kill!"
"To carve a bloody path for the people!"
A middle-aged man disguised as a cripple suddenly threw away his cane, clenched his fists, and two balls of blazing fla instantly condensed in his palms, transforming into two fire dragons that roared as they charged toward the city guards' defenses.
"boom!"
A burst of flas erupted.
The once orderly formation of the city guards was instantly torn open.
Imdiately afterwards, ice spikes, wind blades, ground spikes... all sorts of colorful skill lights blood in front of the crowd, slamming heavily into the city guards.
"Those who don't want to die, charge out!"
The fire-wielding warrior roared as he unleashed his skills, turning back to the stunned crowd and yelling, "Leave these bastards to us!"
"Even if I have to bite them, I'll hold them off!"
This scene deeply moved everyone present.
It turns out that these high-and-mighty "old-tir soldiers" can also bleed and be defeated!
The instinct for survival once again overca the fear.
"Charge!"
"Let's fight them!"
The crowd surged again, like a flood bursting its banks, rushing wildly outwards through the gaps torn open by the professionals.
...
Inside the underground command center.
Tang Qi stared intently at the red dots on the screen, each representing one of his own n's numbers that had been extinguished, his eyes bloodshot.
The communicator was filled with a cacophony of reports.
"A report! The breach has been made, but the enemy's firepower is too heavy. We need reinforcents!"
"Three groups have suffered over half their casualties! That commander is a lightning mage, we can't hold on!"
"These civilians are running too slowly! They're sitting ducks!"
Tang Qi's fingers flew across the control panel, his voice hoarse yet terrifyingly calm: "Groups five and six, abandon flank harassnt and push forward with all your might! No matter what, hold the breach!"
On the screen.
The battle at the western city wall has reached a fever pitch.
The city guards clearly hadn't expected so many tough guys to be hiding among this group of "ants." Caught off guard, they quickly adjusted their tactics.
On the high ground behind, several heavy magic cannons began to charge, their muzzles flashing with a chilling blue light.
The city guard commander stood on high ground, his face gleaming coldly. He brandished his long sword, pointing it directly at the crowded people below.
"A bunch of ignorant insects."
"Since you want to run, then you'd all die here!"
"fire!"
Buzz—!
The air vibrated.
Three thick beams of magical light, carrying a destructive aura, roared out, their target the most densely populated area of the crowd.
This single shot will instantly vaporize at least several hundred people.
Tang Qi's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart skipped a beat.
It's too late.
There was simply no ti to intercept it.
At this critical mont.
A slender figure, like a black lightning bolt, leaped up from the terrified crowd.
She was a girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old.
She was wearing an ill-fitting, oversized hoodie, and her once delicate face was covered in dust. Only her eyes shone with a frightening brightness, revealing a resolute and fierceness that was completely out of character for her age.
Facing the magical beam that was powerful enough to destroy a tank, she did not flinch. Instead, she opened her arms and let out a childish yet sharp roar.
"Get out of here!!!"
boom!
An extrely dense black energy suddenly erupted from her body.
That wasn't ordinary dark magic, but a purer, more domineering destructive energy that seed capable of devouring all light.
Black energy instantly condensed into a giant shield in mid-air.
"Sizzle sizzle—!"
The magical beam slamd into the black shield, producing a teeth-grinding scraping sound.
The light was dazzling, and the energy was overflowing.
The little girl's body trembled violently in mid-air, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, clearly indicating that she was under trendous pressure.
But she did not back down an inch.
"Break...for !"
She gritted her teeth, her eyes instantly turning pure black.
The black shield suddenly shuddered outwards.
Boom!
The three beams of magical light were abruptly shattered by the earthquake, turning into countless points of light that vanished into the air.
The ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) entire room fell silent.
Both the city guards and the fleeing civilians stared blankly at the small, thin figure suspended in mid-air.
No one expected that the one who blocked this fatal blow would be a little girl who didn't look like she had grown up yet.
Natsu Rinku!
This unremarkable girl, in this desperate situation, finally revealed her terrifying fangs as an SS-level talent possessor.
After blocking the attack, Natsu Rinko did not land and catch her breath.
Her dark eyes were fixed on the city guard general on the high platform, the killing intent in them almost overflowing.
"kill!"
With a swift movent, she transford into a blur and charged directly into the city guards' position.
User Comments
0 comments from readers