998: Chapter 319 The Union of Water and Fire Overes the Sky Demon (Part 1) 998: Chapter 319 The Union of Water and Fire Overes the Sky Demon (Part 1) The Wicked Scythes and Ghouls descending from the sky were like moths to a flame, hurtling towards the Flames Burning the City within.
The air was filled with their crazed screams, and a massive Breath of Death burned within those flames.
Ye Yinzhu didn’t even glance at the situation inside the city before he immediately issued the second attack mand, “All Water Attribute Mages, prepare.
Water Curtain Sky Lines.”
The Wicked Scythes and Sky Demons lacked defensive power, and while the Flames Burning the City spell was unfolding, most of the Sky Demons managed to react and take flight again, avoiding the fate of being roasted Sky Demons.
But the Wicked Scythes were not so lucky.
They could not actually fly, only glide.
But no matter how they glided, they could not avoid the tendency of their bodies to descend slowly.
That allowed the Flames Burning the City to exert its maximum effect.
The fragile bodies of the Wicked Scythes tumbled and burned in the flames, and when their fiery corpses fell from the sky, most had already turned to ash.
Even if a few Wicked Scythes were stronger and managed to push through the flames, once they landed, their scorched bodies hardly retained their original Offensive Power.
And waiting below were the Dragon Cavalry, the strongest human warriors responsible for clearing duties inside the Fortress.
The thick Dragon Spear, the robust Machino the Iron Dragon, and the swiftly flying Eric Minlong became a nightmare for these survivors.
Under the attack of the Dragon Cavalry, these surviving Wicked Scythes only lived a bit longer than their rades.
As the lowest abyssal creatures, it was impossible for them to have any other fate.
In terms of power and status, Sky Demons were far higher than Wicked Scythes among the Abyssal Creatures.
Therefore, when they saw the horror of Flames Burning the City and felt the sweltering heat damaging them, aside from those Sky Demons who had descended too quickly and fell into the spell’s effect, most of the Sky Demons managed to escape, rising back into the air.
However, their bodies, to a greater or lesser extent, sustained some burns.
After all, heat rises, and they were diving at that time, so being affected was inevitable.
Over the Ryuzakinus Fortress, the sky was pletely dyed red by the flames, the scorching air currents even momentarily made it impossible to feel the life breath of the Eternal Tree and the turbid air of the Abyssal Plane.
In that moment, the entire Ryuzakinus Fortress resembled an erupting volcano, unleashing its rage.
On the front battlefield, the enemy had already begun their attack.
Ghouls climbed while Demon Spiders served as bridges for the Abominations, constantly spewing out strands of web that connected them to the Fortress ramparts.
The webs from one or two Demon Spiders naturally didn’t matter much, but as the strands increased, a white layer of webs formed a slope connecting the city walls to the ground.
The large bodies of Abominations had already leaped up, and relying on the stickiness of the webs, they didn’t slip down, and their strength wasn’t truly hindered by the webs, allowing them to charge step by step towards the Fortress City Head.
A green Plague pervaded the body of the Abominations.
Even before they reached the top of the wall, the foul stench was already nauseating.
Despite the extraordinary dispelling capabilities of the Tree Spirit Druids, which greatly reduced the effect of the Male Witch and Female Witch’s attached Magic Power, their dispelling had no effect against the Plague.
Before their eyes, Ghouls and Abominations had already stormed onto the city head.
Ghouls weren’t a threat to Human warriors, their bone claw attacks were not even as strong as the Wicked Scythe’s, and even with the added effect of Blood Thirst, they weren’t frightening.
They attacked merely with their numbers, and very few truly managed to reach the city head, constantly with many Ghouls getting blasted down, some stuck to the webs, others falling directly from the city head and shattering to pieces.
But when the Abominations, the main fighting force, appeared atop the Fortress City Head, the Human Alliance faced their first arduous battle.
Even the most ordinary Abomination stood around six meters tall, at least three times the height of a Human warrior, and they possessed terrifying strength, not something that ordinary soldiers could withstand.
As the total Abomination count reached around a hundred thousand and more began to storm the city head, casualties appeared amongst the Human warriors.
Abominations swung their Big Hooks, constantly dealing massive damage, while the weapons of Humans found it hard to cause any significant lethal injuries on them.
The battle had entered an intensely heated phase.
The effect of Flames Burning the City gradually dissipated, leaving behind only the hot air and a large number of Wicked Scythe corpses burned by the fire.
No other traces could be found.
Hundreds of thousands of Wicked Scythes truly plummented to the ground, less than one third, and most of them lost their ability to attack.
The Dragon Cavalry didn’t even need to directly attack them; merely by the trampling of their dragon mounts, they already had enough to destroy them.
A large number of Wicked Scythe skeletons and broken scythes appeared within the fortress.
In midair, about three-quarters of the original number of Sky Demons, not knowing whether they had received an order, split off one third and directly charged toward the area below.
Ye Yinzhu’s gaze was always on the Sky Demons descending from the sky.
Upon seeing that only a third had been sent out, his expression unchanged, he manded, “All stationed troops within the city, defend your positions.
Qin City’s long-range attack legion, fire at will.”
Since it was not the full number of Sky Demons, magic couldn’t be wasted.
The mages’ magic was limited, and although they had the natural essence brought by the Eternal Tree within the fortress, the recovery rate here was ultimately slower.
The number in Qin City’s long-range attack legion had also expanded to fifty thousand.
Under Peja’s leadership, they appeared in various defensive works within the fortress.
When that one-third of Sky Demons dove down from the sky, the first thing that weled them was a barrage of arrows.
The shockwaves released by several hundred thousand Sky Demons finally came crashing down.
The shockwave of a Sky Demon was similar in nature to a Crescent Blade, possessing a not insignificant cutting force and also carrying a certain corrosive effect.
Unfortunately, as they swooped down, the arrow rain brought by the fifty thousand strong long-range attack legion gave them a baptism.
The greatest characteristic of Qin City warriors was that all possessed Douqi, especially after a baptism of divine dragon energy, their overall strength rose by Three Ranks.
The arrows imbued with Douqi were pletely capable of penetrating the Sky Demons’ defensive power.
Therefore, as the Sky Demons launched an attack, at least thirty thousand were shot down by the long-range attack legion’s arrows, and a small number of flying Sky Demons were hit by arrows, just not in any vital spots.
However, Qin City’s long-range attack capability was not as simple as just Peja’s legion; among all the races, one possessed the innate ability that enpassed precision – they had remarkable vision, and their mastery of archery was beyond any other race.
Those were the Elves.
The Elf Archers, all concealed within various corners of the fortress, were part of a contingency plan Ye Yinzhu had arranged early on.
What was the greatest disadvantage faced by the Ryuzakinus Alliance Army against the Abyssal Creatures?
It was the air force.
This was also why Ye Yinzhu, after establishing the fortress, had always opted to maintain a defensive posture.
No type of troop’s mobility could pare with that of an air force.
A reckless offensive would have to withstand the enemy’s air force constant bombardment and pursuit.
Although the Alliance had Zither Emperor’s Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, in face of millions of Sky Demons, Ye Yinzhu would never allow the Zither Emperor to sortie rashly—the Zither Emperor was the Alliance’s important assurance for winning this war.
Therefore, in order to withstand the enemy’s air force, Ye Yinzhu deliberately retained all mages and the long-range attack legion within the fortress, and, naturally, the Elf Archers were also long prepared.
The number of Elf Archers was not as large as Qin City’s long-range attack legion, totaling around fifteen thousand along with the Horned Hawk Knights.
But, the Elf Archers possessed abilities in archery unmatched by human archers—precision and speed.
In the time it took a human archer to shoot one arrow, an Elf Archer could loose three, and with extreme accuracy at that.
The Sky Demons reacted swiftly.
After pouring down a round of firepower, causing some damage to the fortress, and inflicting certain damage on the heavily armored suits of the Dragon Cavalry, they immediately withdrew.
As such, the human warriors only had time to unleash one barrage of arrows.
But the Elf Archers, who had been waiting for them, launched their attacks as they descended, predicting their trajectory, with fifteen thousand Elf Archers firing four volleys.
Moreover, their attacks were so accurate as to be breathtaking.
Apart from hitting the same Sky Demon repeatedly, almost every elven arrow struck precisely at the Sky Demons’ vitals.
Their chosen targets were also very tricky—the eyes of the Sky Demons.
No matter how tough the body, the eyes are vulnerable, and not even the creatures from the Abyss were an exception.
After the round of long-range attacks concluded, the number of Sky Demons that had swooped down was reduced by a third.
The gains they achieved pared to their losses were almost disproportionate.
If a Sky Demon’s shockwave hit an ordinary person with no defensive power, it would be a sure kill.
However, the craftsmen within the fortress had already entered the air-raid shelters built underground upon detecting enemy troops.
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