997: Chapter 318: The Enemy Finally Arrives, Battle 1 (Part 2) 997: Chapter 318: The Enemy Finally Arrives, Battle 1 (Part 2) A circle of dispersal spread out, instantly returning the battlefield, which had just bee lively, to silence.
Both sides knew that this was merely a probing attack, and the real decisive battle was still far from beginning.
The Abyss Army halted in place without making further movements, simply encircling the fortress with a watchful gaze.
It was unclear whether they were waiting or discussing methods of attack.
Seeing the Tree Spirit Druid’s dispersal achieve the expected effect, Ye Yinzhu couldn’t help but tightly clench his fists.
Without such magic assistance, the enemy would have created some pressure on the alliances merely by continuously summoning lower-ranked creatures.
Now, if they wanted to breach the fortress, they would have to rely on their own strength.
Ye Yinzhu’s understanding of the Abyssal Plane was the deepest among the alliances; he knew well that once Abyssal Creatures were destroyed, the dissipation of Death Energy would gradually weaken the strength of the entire Abyssal Plane.
His decision for this passive defense strategy was meticulously thought out.
Passive defense had several advantages.
First, executing almost sneaky defense allowed the alliances’ battle strength to be maximally leveraged, protected by the natural aura of the Eternal Tree, and unrestricted by the environmental constraints of the Abyssal Plane.
Second, passive defense helped minimize allied casualties; even if some died in battle, they wouldn’t easily bee sustenance to strengthen the Abyssal Creatures.
Instead, it allowed for constant attrition of the Abyssal Creatures.
It seemed like the war involved the fortress resisting the entire Abyss Continent, but in reality, the alliances had the full support of the Ryuzakinus Continent, backing them with a channel.
This war of attrition, relying on powerful defense abilities, would surely inflict maximum damage on the Abyssal Creatures.
Third, by deciding to defend this way, Ye Yinzhu aimed to draw in all of the enemy’s main forces and weaken them to better implement his subsequent plans.
The initial battle was a success, and cheers erupted extensively along the city walls; the Tree Spirit Druids had bee the heroes of this first battle.
Ye Yinzhu calmly observed the enemy forces and issued several mands.
Despite the victory in the initial battle, he was far from relaxed.
The enemy’s numbers were enourmous, and they likely hadn’t launched a full-scale attack yet because they were contemplating the most effective method of attack.
Just then, the aerial forces within the Abyss Army suddenly moved.
Countless Sky Demons accelerated and gathered from all directions toward the high sky.
Ye Yinzhu stated grimly, “Fire Mages prepare, Flames Burning the City.”
All the mages were inside the fortress, not on the walls.
They were the alliances’ most valued resources.
Having had experience bating Faran, Ye Yinzhu knew the critical role these mages could play.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he would never put the mages on the frontline.
The Sky Demon Army suddenly accelerated, rushing toward the fortress like a vast swarm of dark clouds, pletely obscuring the green moon in the sky.
They were at least a kilometer high, and in just a moment, they had covered the entire airspace of the fortress.
Ye Yinzhu did not issue an attack mand.
A distance of one kilometer wasn’t conducive for most magic attacks.
He had thoroughly studied the enemy types from the Abyssal Plane that held numerical superiority; although these Sky Demons currently looked fearsome, their wave-like attacks needed to be within a hundred meters to be lethal.
At their current altitude, they couldn’t pose any threat to the inside of the fortress.
However, something unexpected occurred.
The amassed Sky Demons did not dive to attack; instead, from their backs, numerous creatures, like tiny black dots, began spiraling and gliding toward the fortress.
Given that there were millions of Sky Demons, the release of these gliding entities felt like a rain of blackness, creating an atmosphere so maddening and oppressive it was almost driving people insane.
Ye Yinzhu’s pupils suddenly contracted, surprised by this attack method of the Abyssal Creatures.
He could clearly see, with his vision, that those drifting down from the Sky Demons were low-ranked Wicked Scythes.
Not the summoned Wicked Scythes from before, but real Wicked Scythes, which possessed slightly more powerful offensive ability.
With millions of Wicked Scythes flying down from the backs of Sky Demons toward the city, they undoubtedly intended to bypass the solid city walls.
After all the Wicked Scythes were released, a million Sky Demons also simultaneously dived down toward the interior of the fortress.
Simultaneously, the Abyss Army surrounding the fortress moved.
Led by Ghouls and Abyss Demon Spiders, followed by a vast number of Abominations, male witches, female witches, and many other plex troop types, the enormous army of tens of millions accelerated and charged toward the fortress’s defenses.
The mand ability of the Abyss Army’s leader was much stronger than expected, as this full-scale attack clearly aimed to coordinate internal and external forces to crush the fortress’s defenses in one fell swoop.
If any side gained the upper hand, it would mean a devastating blow to the fortress.
Cruz’s anxious gaze immediately fell on Ye Yinzhu.
Although he was an Imperial Marshal of the Landias Empire, neither he nor the other marshals had ever encountered such a massive battle against ten-million-strong unfamiliar Abyssal Creatures.
Watching the enemies launch an overwhelming attack like a storm, Cruz couldn’t help but feel somewhat panicked.
However, Cruz quickly saw Ye Yinzhu’s icy eyes, the eyes devoid of any emotional fluctuation.
“Warriors on the wall, prepare to meet the enemy.
Tree Spirit Druids, activate full dispersal, directed outside the city.
Claw Druids, activate Roaring Skill.
Fire Mages, target the sky, unleash Flames Burning the City.”
A series of mands, acpanied by powerful soul energy and sound waves, entered the fortress.
The orders were concise and pelling, and with them, the warriors would no longer be confused.
The iron forest on the city walls reappeared.
Beside the Tree Spirit Druids, the massive Claw Druids also stood up.
With angry roars resounding, circles of yellow halos enveloped the warriors atop the wall—it was the Claw Druids’ Roaring Skill.
Under the influence of the Eternal Tree, the power of the roar had increased, enhancing strength by twenty percent and offensive power by thirty percent.
In an instant, it boosted all the warriors within range to their peak bat state.
The Tree Spirit Druids unleashed their dispersal skills without reservation, careful not to let the dispersal affect the Roaring Skill just granted to their allies.
When deploying the dispersal, they initially jumped up from their position on the walls and then released the dispersal downward toward the city’s base.
Piercing screams erupted massively within the enemy camp, circles of dark red halos blanketing the Abyssal Creatures surging toward the city walls.
Blood Thirst, Madness, Acceleration—all sorts of support skills were released from the male and female witches as if they needed no death energy, enshrouding the three main bat species: ghouls, Demon Spiders, and Abominations, hastening their attack on the fortress.
Yet at that moment, the outside attacks were not the most threatening.
After all, there was also a well-equipped human army of a million waiting atop the walls for the enemy’s assault.
The fatal threat came from the millions of Wicked Scythes dropping from the sky.
They might not destroy the human Alliance pletely, but once they penetrated into the fortress, everything inside would be devastated, and the chaos would provide the enemy an opportunity to exploit.
What Ye Yinzhu didn’t know was that this tactic of airdropping Wicked Scythes was actually his own invention.
Three years ago at the Demon King’s Conference of Power Transition, controlled by Gao Suba who had taken possession of Ye Yinzhu’s original body, he had deployed a Golden Wicked Sickle in a gliding kill against a rival Demon King.
Although ordinary Wicked Scythes were not as powerful as the Gold ones, their body proportions were pletely the same.
With scythes thicker than their bodies, when they descended from the sky, they could perform the gliding action and thus descend more slowly—giving them the element of surprise.
Ye Yinzhu of course didn’t know these things, and he had no time to think about them at this moment.
As he watched the Army of Wicked Scythes spiral downward and the Ghouls quickly follow, the Mages inside the fortress finally sprang into action.
At Ye Yinzhu’s first call to prepare, the Fire Mages had already picked up their wands.
As they saw the enemy forces reaching the battlements, chants of spells began to resonate simultaneously within the fortress.
The sudden drop of Wicked Scythes was startling indeed, but they, after all, could not dive directly like the Sky Demons, so there was a distance from the ground when the Sky Demons descended.
It was during this interval that a vast expanse of red brilliance turned the sky a fiery red.
The massive Fire element coalesced into a powerful burst of Fire Magic that filled the mid-air instantaneously.
Without needing Ye Yinzhu’s specific instructions, these Mages mostly from Faran unleashed the Fire Magic in a carpet-bomb method in the sky.
Flames Burning the City, this was a Forbidden Curse rank Fire Magic.
Its unit offensive power wasn’t very strong, but it had a significant area of coverage.
An Advanced Blue rank Mage casting Flames Burning the City could cover thousands of square meters.
And when all the Fire Mages within the fortress unleashed this magic simultaneously, almost over three-quarters of the airspace above the fortress was pletely engulfed in flames.
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