Zither Emperor Chapter 567 Chapter 178 Mountain Giant Earth-shattering Part

567: Chapter 178 Mountain Giant, Earth-shattering (Part 1)_1 567: Chapter 178 Mountain Giant, Earth-shattering (Part 1)_1 It was detected too late when the arrows of the Divine Archer were shot and blocked by the enemy’s shields, circles of blood ripples had already engulfed the Flore Vanguard.

All Flore soldiers enveloped in the bloody light swelled muscles instantaneously, their eyes filled with bloodlust, charging towards the city at a pace faster than before.

It was Blood Thirst, the specialty of the Blood Mage.

Among the mages, Blood Mages are a unique existence.

They don’t possess strong individual bat abilities pared to other mages, nor do they have standout attack magic.

However, the roles of Blood Mages in a war are still much more significant than other mages.

Their Blood Thirst ability can grant extensive bloodlust effects to warriors.

Once under the bloodlust effect, a warrior’s bat ability can be instantly increased by one and a half times, while also losing their sense of pain, being fearless in the face of death.

In other words, warriors under the effect of the bloodlust will immediately bee Death Soldiers.

Of course, this es with a downside; as the bloodlust effect fades, the warrior’s life force will decrease significantly.

Experiencing bloodlust once will shorten their lifespan by at least three years.

Having facilitated their full potential, a surge of bloodlust overwhelmed over a thousand Flore soldiers at the forefront, as they charged towards Spirit City at an even faster speed.

At the same time, those in charge of filling the city moat quickly carried sandbags in that direction.

“Ming, wipe out those Blood Mages.” Ye Yinzhu growled.

He knew very well that if these Blood Mages were allowed to act freely, they would have to face an army entirely prised of Death Soldiers.

At the same time, Marshal Ancelotti also issued an attack mand.

The ballistas and catapults simultaneously roared into action, with the rattling noise filling the entire city.

Unifying his sight into a single eye, Ming shot a bolt of lightning from his cyclopic eye with a snap.

The shield in front of the Blood Mage shattered into pieces, and the next moment, the mage was turned to charcoal.

The Mountain Giant’s Innate Ability: Thunderstrike was not something that these frail mages could resist.

Under Ye Yinzhu’s mand, Ming quickly eliminated the enemy’s Blood Mages in the battlefield.

The release of his Thunderstrike immediately impressed the surrounding Eastern Military Corps, but no one had time to question its mystery at such a moment.

As Ming wiped out the Blood Mages, the vanguard Flore Soldiers, who had been subjected to Blood Thirst, had already reached the city moat.

The power of heavy crossbows and catapults was undoubtedly tremendous.

The Flore Soldiers, their speed and strength greatly enhanced by the Blood Thirst, could not even swim across the city moat before being pletely destroyed by a hail of arrows and giant stones.

Ye Yinzhu bellowed, “Cease the attack, catapults.

Archers, continue.

All mages, be ready to react.”

Despite the massive losses, the Flore continued their relentless charges, acting as if they were oblivious to the concept of life and death.

Cloud ladders were set up on both sides of the city moat.

Risking the arrow rain, numerous sandbag carriers kept moving sand and stones forward.

When one group was killed, another immediately rushed up to push the sandbags left on the ground forward.

Blood and bodies were abundantly splattered in front of Spirit City, marking the beginning of this brutal war.

Below the city, the siege equipment continued to advance.

Dozens of arrow towers were erected by Flore front.

Unfortunately, these towers could not acmodate heavy crossbows.

In terms of range and firepower, they fell far behind the defenses of the city.

At this time, even though the Flore had not yet managed to cross the city moat and pose a real threat to Spirit City, the Milanese on the city knew that this was just the beginning.

The real struggle was still to e.

The city moat was steadily being filled with bags of sand and stones, and the attacks from Flore had bee more aggressive.

Many shields were raised to block the ining arrows.

Ancelotti, in his haste, said to the armor-less Ye Yinzhu, “Count, please step back to avoid being injured by an arrow.”

Ye Yinzhu shook his head, his expression very calm, unfazed by the scene below the city.

He said, “Marshal Ancelotti, I need you to oversee the military logistics squad.

It’s crucial that we maintain the supply of all resources on the city wall.”

Down below, at least several thousand archers from the Flore Empire were firing arrows in unison.

It was inevitable that stray arrows would be released, yet Ancelotti realized quickly that Ye Yinzhu wasn’t the least concerned about these.

By his side, the burly man who had summoned thunder and lightning just now was semi-sideways in front of him, effectively blocking any stray arrows from passing him.

Even when arrows were shot from the side, he could easily deflect them with a slight lift of his hand.

The most shocking thing was that he was using his own body to block the arrows.

When arrows hit him, they couldn’t cause any harm, but only produced dull thuds.

By now, the forty thousand soldiers of Flore’s vanguard had reached the foot of the city.

At the front were heavy armored infantry transported by war chariots.

Although these infantrymen were slow, their defensive power was astonishing.

Each man carried a tower shield taller than himself.

Upon reaching the city moat, every three of these heavily armored infantrymen, by some method, managed to align their tower shields to form a sturdy defensive line.

Even heavy crossbows had a hard time penetrating their half-a-foot thick massive shields.

Ye Yinzhu watched this scene below the city with cold eyes.

The people of Flore were using the standard siege tactics that he had detailedly read about.

The tower shields were not for attacking but to minimize their harm as much as possible.

With these shields up, the damage to the Flore soldiers in the rear could be reduced by one half or even two-thirds.

Meanwhile, various siege equipment from the Flore side was rapidly advancing.

As soon as the city moat was filled, it would be the time for the people of Flore to launch a full-scale attack.

In order to enter Spirit City and achieve their goal of sustaining war through war, the people of Flore were now fully mitted, ready to stake everything on one throw.

“Catapults,” Ye Yinzhu ordered in a loud voice.

The catapults, which had stopped firing at his mand before, were drawn up again.

With creaking noises, tens of huge rocks were hurled down from the sky towards the opposite bank of the city moat.

Screams filled the air for a moment.

Although the tower shields had astonishing defensiveness, pared to the giant rocks hurled by the catapults, it was terribly inadequate.

The throwing power of the catapults was perfectly demonstrated on them, even stopping some of the siege equipment that was advancing too quickly.

Ancelotti, although not a famous mander, was undoubtedly an experienced official.

Seeing that the tower shield wall was smashed into pieces by the catapult, he immediately manded the archers on the city wall to speed up their firing.

At this time, the archers didn’t even need to aim, they only needed to keep releasing arrows, as the Flore soldiers are too many.

Even a blind man could have bee a divine archer at this moment.

Kusler stood behind Flore’s army, silent, watching the horrific war unfold.

He knew that this battle itself was a war of attrition.

The soldiers of Flore were paving their way ahead with their lives and blood.

At this point, he had no other options.

To advance, he had to pay the price.

“Marshal, is it time to send our mages?”, suggested a military counselor standing next to Kusler.

Kusler shook his head, replying, “No, it’s not time yet.

What we need to do now is to drain the opponent’s defensive weapons and use this time to fill the city moat.

Otherwise, even if our mages can fully suppress the enemy, there is no chance to storm the city wall.

Get someone over.”

“Marshal,” A messenger greeted, bowing.

“Deliver my order to the vanguard.

At any cost, they must fill up the city moat within half an hour, even if it is with their bodies.” Kusler’s voice was cold and stern.

Everyone knew he was not joking.

The charge of the people of Flore became even more fierce.

As one row of the tower shields fell, another quickly rose up.

The pile of corpses by the city moat grew larger and larger.

An entire hour passed.

During this time, the vanguard of Flore Empire had paid the price of at least five thousand lives.

However, their sacrifice was not in vain.

The city moat of Spirit City had been filled up to half, and more bodies of Flore people than sand and gravel were filling it.

The archers of Spirit City had switched to the third round of archers on the city wall.

Each batch of archers would only retreat when their arms were so sore they couldn’t lift them anymore.

The killing power of the heavy crossbow was the most amazing.

But the accumulation of heavy crossbow arrows was the least.

When this arrow, which was an inch thick, was released, if it hit at the right spot, it could even shatter the tower shield.

Once shot into the crowd, it would take at least several lives.

Apart from the heavy crossbow, three rows of archers were firing arrows in a continuous, almost seamless cycle.

Countless arrows rained down on the city, constantly harvesting the lives of the Flore people.

Ancelotti said solemnly, “Lord Earl, according to the current situation, it won’t be long before our city moat is filled by Flore people.

At that time, they will launch a more ferocious attack.

If my judgment is correct, Flore people are waiting for that moment to launch magic on us.”(To be continued, for further reading please go to .

There are more chapters and please support the author, support for genuine reading!)