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The scene of blood and limbs flying everywhere showed him the resolution of the people in the city to stay alive!
How could he possibly let them down!?
After adjusting his thoughts, Mo Fan shifted his attention back to the journey ahead.
The number of undead did seem to ease up a little. If they were quick enough, they would be able to secure a head start of a kilometer!
"People heading to the Dark Abyss, prepare yourself!" President Han Ji's voice echoed above the city that was drenched in the storm.
Chapter 651 - Slaughtering Wind Slash
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The tower on the walls was crowded with Magicians. Hunters, students, Battlemages, Imperial Magicians; and Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Super Magicians with Lightning, Water, Fire, Wind, Light, and Earth Elements...
"Vanguards, charge!" yelled Han Ji.
As soon as the order was given out, four Super Magicians simultaneously beat their wings. The brilliance of the wings was so outstanding that even when they charged into the ocean of undead, the others could still see the magical glow coming from them!
They dashed forward in four straight lines. The black ocean was clearly being split apart under the destructive force of the four Super Magicians, like four red carpets being laid on top of the black ocean, extending five hundred meters into the distance. It was impossible to tell how many zombies stacked on top of one another were annihilated by the four Super Magicians. Most of them were blasted into nothing instantly!
Following the four Super Magicians clearing the path as vanguards, the whole place suddenly turned blazing red!
Raging flames poured down from the sky like rain. Each burst of flame was the size of a fist as it fell from the sky. The raindrops evaporated instantly in the heat. The stormy clouds were set aflame.
An unknown number of Fire Imperial Magicians had cast the Advanced Fire Spell, Sky Flame Funeral, at the same time. As the rain of flame hit the ground, it turned the land occupied by the undead into a sea of fire, spreading wildly into the surroundings!
"Let's go!" said Han Ji, waving his hand, signaling the Imperial Magicians to move into a square-shaped formation with Mage, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo in the middle. They charged forward onto the land, flames all around them.
The formation consisted of Advanced Magicians. Each one of them was drawing a brilliant Star Constellation. The intertwining Star Patterns acc.u.mulated boundless elemental energy. The Wind Magicians were the first ones to finish channeling!
Green gusts of wind appeared around the square-shaped formation, rapidly transforming into a fierce wave that rolled across the flames and split the fiery ocean in half. As the zombies that were burned beyond recognition stumbled into the wind blades, they were cut into flying pieces and scattered across the place.
The wind formed a raft under their feet. The rolling wave dragged the group forward. Mo Fan and his crew were dragged almost five hundred meters ahead by the Imperial Magicians. The inner walls were far behind them within the blink of an eye!
The number of skeletons significantly increased around five hundred meters away from the inner city. The sinister white bones looked like powerful machinery. The skeletons still had space to move their limbs, as the place was not as crowded as where the zombies had been. As soon as they saw Magicians trespassing into their territory, they immediately raised their weapons and charged at their enemies.
The primary attack of the skeletons was the cold weapons they had created using their bones. Gleaming bone swords, long and sharp bone sabers, fists like hammers that produced loud blasts when they slammed the ground, and long arms as sharp as spears, pikes and lances...
The skeletons were of various sizes, but one could tell their age by observing the color and l.u.s.ter of their bones. Mo Fan's gaze passed the wall of Imperial Magicians ahead of him and discovered that there were lots of Skeleton Generals among the skeletons, to his dismay. Their bones were hard as steel, with icy reflections across the surface. Their eyes were the scariest, glaring at anything alive in hate and murderous intent!
As they opened their mouths, it looked like their lower jaws were about to fall off. Their teeth without gums looked extraordinarily eerie.
A Skeleton Official, its bones as reflective as a piece of steel uttered a roar, ordering the army of skeletons to charge at their enemy. Be it those that leapt into the air, those that were charging straight at them, or those that fired their bones like arrows, there were simply too many of them, leaving them with no room to dodge the attacks.
"Water Curtain!"
"Water Curtain!"
"Water Curtain!"
"Water Curtain!"
The Advanced Water Magicians simultaneously cast the Advanced Water Spell. The brilliance of the blue Star Constellation reached a distance of a kilometer. Every Imperial Magician was encapsulated by the sacred blue light.
Water Curtains that looked like thin waterfalls surrounded the formation. The front, the back, the sides; the Water Curtains had formed a tiny safety barrier around the square formation, with no visible gap between the curtains.
Mo Fan felt like he was being protected inside a watery boundary. The layers of Water Curtains prevented the skeletons from attacking. The barrier remained intact even when bone weapons were hurled at the Water Curtains. Even the attacks of the Warrior-level skeletons were nullified by the Water Curtains!
"Kill the Skeleton Official!" Han Ji commanded in a stern voice.
Mo Fan vaguely sensed a mysterious power of the Shadow Element disappearing from his side like an arrow, going right into the middle of the skeletons.
It was easy to locate the Skeleton Official, due to its enormous size. Before Mo Fan could take a closer look at the Super Magician that was attacking at lightning speed, he heard a loud explosion from the direction of the Skeleton Official.
The Skeleton Official's appearance was ugly and horrifying. Its shoulders were filled with skulls, like lumps on its skin...
As the skulls fell off its body, its building-sized body exploded too!
"I'll send you off once I clear the obstacles!" a loud voice came from within the army of skeletons.
Green wind blades appeared in all directions all of a sudden, at least a thousand of them, slashing randomly among the skeletons. The explosions and flickers of solid air instantly killed thousands of skeletons.
The bones were broken into pieces, fell to the ground, and stacked up into a thick layer of 'snow'. When Mo Fan thought the Spell had come to an end, the thousand blades that seemed to be scattered across the place suddenly gathered in the hand of the shadowy figure from before!
"Thousand Wind Blades!"
"Slaughtering Wind Slash!"
The shadow's aura grew tremendously, his hands were holding a sword made out of the wind blades that had slaughtered thousands of skeletons just a moment ago!
The slashing sword swept forward, emitting a crazy light together with a fierce airflow. The ocean of skeletons ahead was suddenly split in half by a line. Both the skeletons and their Skeleton Generals were broken into pieces, scattering across the ground!
The power of the Slaughtering Wind Slash left the younger Magicians with wide eyes and gaping mouths. The Spell had completely cleared a few hundred meters of the path ahead!
Chapter 652 - Clearing a Path with Brute Force!
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
"Well done, Elder Ling Xi!" yelled Han Ji in excitement.
It had been a while since Han Ji had participated in a thrilling battle against demon creatures; basically ever since he was promoted to the president of the Clock Tower Magic Association. The endless demon creatures in their surroundings and the fearless comrades at his side reminded him of the battles he had once fought against the sea creatures at the shorelines of the nation.
"For the Ancient Capital!" The shadowy figure turned out to be a glamorous woman. Her waist was tied with a blue silk cloth. Both her drifting hair and the silk ill.u.s.trated her determination to kill. She must have been quite a talented beauty back in the days.
The woman was the Elder of the Hunter Union, Ling Xi. Her status was higher than a Senior Hunter. Even though she was on the list of authorities that were initially going to be executed, it did not stop her from having the resolve to clear a path for the sake of the Ancient City.
That spell was the real ultimate of the Wind Element. Zhang Xiaohou's primary Element was Wind, too. It was his first time experiencing the strength of a Super Wind Spell. The deadly formation consisted of a thousand wind blades, and the Slaughtering Wind Slash had almost slashed the ground in half. Zhang Xiaohou always thought Wind was more about utilizing its agility to harass his enemies, but after witnessing the attack, he could not help but have a new understanding of the Wind Element!
A real Wind Magician would leave nothing alive within several hundred meters. The wind blades would simply cut apart every single enemy within their range!
Zhang Xiaohou was utterly impressed by that strength. His eyes were filled with the anticipation of achieving the Super Level.
"Protection on both sides, full speed ahead!" Han Ji's voice came into everyone's ears.
Squads of Magicians with different magical glows appeared on both sides of the Imperial Magicians. Perhaps they were not strong enough to kill hundreds or thousands of undead with a single Spell, but when their Star Orbits and Star Patterns combined together, the storm of Spells they cast could still match the strength of a Super Spell as they blasted the lines of undead coming from both sides!
The place ahead was covered in bones. The Imperial Magicians continued to press forward. Elder Ling Xi had cleared a long path ahead, allowing the Imperial Magicians to advance smoothly.
The Water Curtains were not a static defense, either. They followed the formation as the Magicians moved forward. The blue barriers flowed like waterfalls around Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo as they advanced, shoving the undead that managed to break through the defense away!
"Zombies, a large pack of zombies is coming!" some Commander's voice echoed in the sky above the army of Magicians.
Mo Fan and the others had already traveled a kilometer. The land between the inner walls and them was covered in corpses, the spectacular scene was utterly breathtaking.
Obviously, clearing the path was not enough. They had just finished slaughtering the skeletons, but a large group of zombies was already heading toward them. They were initially attracted to the small gate where the volunteers were. Either the volunteers were all dead, or the undead commanders with higher intelligence had realized that their group was actually the main force, and had sent the zombies after them!
The army of undead was mostly made up of zombies, so the incoming army looked like a black ocean. Whenever they attacked, they would surround their target and isolate it like an island. The path leading back to the city was already blocked off.
"The Mountain Zombie is sending the zombies over here. They are coming, prepare for battle!" The Commander was a Psychic Magician, using Psychic Voice to make sure that everyone could hear him.
Glancing into the distance, even though the black tide of zombies was still a few hundred meters away, it felt like they were about to overrun them. The Light Magicians had barely cleansed the presence of death surrounding them, but a new wave was already spreading in their direction with the zombies!
"Poison, It's a Poison Storm!"
A poisonous storm was sweeping toward the humans before the army of zombies even arrived. The poisonous mist turned into a storm, which rapidly consumed the groups of Magicians...
The inner city was shaking from the movement of the zombies. The people behind the golden barrier watched the army of Magicians being devoured by the poisonous storm...
Black, black everywhere, even the magical glow surrounding the Magicians had disappeared, let alone their tiny figures. It looked like an enormous poisonous beast had just swallowed the whole army of Magicians into its stomach. The people felt a chill go down their spines as the place fell into dead silence!
"Were…were they wiped out, just like that?"
"I can't see anything, apart from zombies."
"So it still comes down to this, leaving the barrier is only going to get us killed."
The Magicians left behind to guard the city, and the civilians waiting with hope, suddenly fell silent. They could not make any noise despite the strong urge to burst into tears.
The small gate was covered in bodies and fresh blood, and the battle to the north had disappeared inside the poisonous storm. The whole city was dumbfounded.
"There's light, look, there's light!" a Battlemage standing on the walls suddenly yelled.
"There's light indeed...the storm is weakening, oh! It's disappearing, the poisonous storm is disappearing!" yelled another Battlemage.
More people on the walls soon saw the sacred golden light bursting out from the storm. It was like ten thousand golden rays piercing through the body of an enormous poisonous beast. The poisonous storm slowly dissipated, split apart by the light...
Golden rays shone upon the Magicians. Dense Star Orbits, Star Patterns and Star Constellations had constructed the most spectacular magic formation on the battlefield, its brilliance lighting up the whole place with a formidable aura!
"They are fine. The Light Magicians managed to cleanse the poisonous storm. They are preparing for a counterattack!"
The first voice erupted from the walls, before it spread further into the inner city and across every street and refugee shelter.
The majority of the people were not at the walls, and thus they were unable to see the situation of the battle between the humans and the undead. However, as they listened to the roars of the people on the walls, they could feel their hearts hanging in their throats. The traditional method of spreading the information across the city using shouts made their hearts beat rapidly.
Kill them, kill them all! The ocean of undead was no match for the protectors of mankind. Even though the number of undead was ten, even a hundred times higher than that of the Magicians, it would never extinguish the raging flames inside the Magicians' hearts after their city was invaded!
"Hail Magicians, Hail Magicians!"
"Hail Magicians! Hail Magicians!"
The Magicians had become the people's hope. When the undead was massacring them and trampling their homes, only the Magicians were able to butcher these demons!
When the people trapped in the inner city saw the overwhelming number of corpses on the ground and the army of Magicians moving into the distance, they completely vented their anger toward the humiliation from the disaster. No one was willing to be trampled on or surrender to the undead. Even when they were at a disadvantage, even after losing half their city, the Magicians would surely avenge them!
The people were deeply moved by the unyielding Magicians and the path they had cleared, and burst into an uproar hot-bloodedly… who cared if the path could not lead them to dawn!?
Chapter 653 - Tremble, the Mountain Zombie!
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
"The zombies are too many, it will be difficult to break through them," Councilman Zhu Meng's voice came from above.
Mo Fan looked up and saw Zhu Meng and his mighty pair of stunning fiery wings flying above.
In addition to that, he was also wearing the same lightning armor he had worn during the battle in Hangzhou. The purple lightning flickering on the metallic surface turned him into a sky knight of Lightning and Fire. As the Imperial Magicians were advancing on foot, a flying phantom would fall from the sky to the ground almost every second, and that was in fact Zhu Meng's doing!
He did not summon his Spear Equipment this time. Otherwise, the lightning spear would further enhance his image as a lightning-fire flying knight...
"Don't worry, I got it! Green Eye, let's go!" said a familiar voice, who turned out to be Senior Hunter Du Xiao.
There was a huge roar, the people on the trembling ground quickly stepped to the side. Mo Fan turned to his side and saw a gigantic blue beast moving past him. The runes on its skin were astonishing. Its muscles were as huge as boulders, its entire body was displaying an overwhelming sense of explosiveness!
Looking up again, Mo Fan saw a man standing on the head of the beast. His hair was drifting in the wind, and his black eyes flickered coldly. The overwhelming number of zombies was nowhere enough to destroy the man's determination!
The beast lunged forward, smashing the smaller zombies, and rammed into a Corpse General with its giant horns. The Corpse General that was as strong as an ox was punctured by the horns, before it was sent flying into the distance with blood splattering in the air.
Behind Du Xiao and his beast Green Eye, a bunch of Summoned Beasts appeared out of nowhere. Those around four meters tall were Blood-rune Savage Wolves, a White-armor Battle Beetle, aRock-seal Devil, and a Scorpion-tailed Scaled Beast. As for those over five meters, or even ten meters tall, they were the Banyan Demon General, Tyrant Snow Spirit, Rampage Blood Bird...
Du Xiao's Green Eye was the commander of the Summoned Beasts on the ground. The beasts charged forward and could instantly kill most of the zombies with a single bite or claw swipe. In comparison, the Green Eye was a lot fiercer. The impact produced from a single stomp would turn over a hundred zombies into minced meat. A single swipe of its claw would knock the zombies into the fresh cracks in the ground!
The zombies were poisonous and had no fear of dying. The Magicians would have a hard time utilizing their Magic after they were surrounded. Even when they were firing their Spells continuously to blast the zombies, those that managed to escape from the net would still drag their remaining body parts toward the Magicians. The Summoned Beasts were the perfect solution to tear the zombie walls apart. The clumsy zombies were no match for the fierce Summoned Beasts when it came to close combat!
