The patter of rain still echoed in the sky above Tania City. Sometimes, there would be bursts of rumbling lightning and thunder, and then vague shouts of death echoed around the city.
, even the dark night of the city was gradually occupied by the gradually rising noisy atmosphere. Different from the liveliness exclusive to the city during the day, the atmosphere that appeared near the city walls at this time was also filled with a bit of chilling and bloody atmosphere.
It felt like some of the wounded and corpses that had been carried off the city began to gradually pass in front of the players who came here as more and more combatants appeared: "...What is going on? Someone is attacking the city.
Already?"
"Who dares to attack us at this time? Do you not want to live anymore?"
"Soldiers! Where are our principality soldiers? Why haven't any soldiers spawned yet?"
"There was a riot in the city just now. It seems that spies from the empire have sneaked into our city. Although I don't know the specific situation and details, but..."
"This siege was probably done by the Imperials."
Looking at the southern city where the fighting was the fiercest, Wuxing Quetu, who rushed to the city from the Jianghu station, commented in a low voice: "Of course, the word 'sneak attack' seems more appropriate."
"What about losses? How about losses?"
"I heard that the riot started from the Hall of Heroes." A member of the Jianghu who followed him replied in a low voice: "But we can't know the more specific situation."
"With our current reputation in the principality, we can't even ask?" Wu Xing Que Tu asked with a surprised look on his face: "Are they still treating Jianghu as outsiders? What other secrets are they hiding from us?"
"It seems that your intelligence work is still not enough."
Before the member of the arena could say his answer, a swordsman in green who slowly walked out of the darkness with another group of players appeared on the other side of the city wall: "Do you need our help?"
"Why are you here?" Wuxing Quetu cast his disdainful gaze on the other party's head: "Aren't you very busy at Tingyulou? Why are you still interested in coming here to join in the fun?"
"After all, we are encountering a siege battle that only happens once in a century, so we naturally need to come over and participate." Lou Tingyuman, the president of Tingyulou, replied with a smile: "What if the Fars Fortress appears again?
If we didn’t participate in something like that, wouldn’t we have to regret it for the rest of our lives?”
"You were also one of the participants in the last battle of Tania." Wu Xing Que Tu's eyes showed a bit of contempt: "Although we encountered some twists and turns, you are also the undoubted victors, what?"
"Aren't you satisfied with this little record between countries?"
He looked at the approaching swordsman in green and the blue sword in his hand, and his scrutinizing eyes gradually became serious. Lou Tingyu, who was being stared at by the other party, did not seem to have any sense of being scrutinized.
He looked at the city head diagonally above where the sounds of fighting continued to sound: "Hmm, the fighting seems to be very fierce."
"...I heard that people from Lanshan were also discovered. It seems that they are serious."
"Oh? Where are they? Has Cangyun Barrier come too?"
"His figure has not been found yet, but as the current number one guild in the empire, their participation in the war is inevitable."
Touching his nose to hide his eyes, Wuxing Quetu, who did not move forward, replied in a low voice: "The empire's investigation team also discovered their involvement before. It can be said that the current Lanshan is almost involved in the empire's
It is impossible for them not to be present for all important matters and such large-scale actions."
"Now that Wings of Freedom has disappeared, Arashiyama has become your biggest enemy."
He let out a burst of inexplicable laughter and walked to the building next to the steps at the bottom of the city. Tingyu said without looking back: "It's true that I'm getting better and better, brothers in the world."
"……What did you say?"
"I thought you would make progress after we caught up, but I didn't expect you would stop moving forward in the end."
Faced with the sharp and murderous sight that suddenly appeared on Wuxing Quetu, Lou Tingyu's actions were as indifferent and calm as ever: "There are not many opponents worthy of taking action in the free world. I thought that you in the world can fight
After Wings of Liberty retired, he truly became the overlord of this world. Unexpectedly..."
"Are you also the type of lazy people who become stronger when they are strong and become weak when they are weak?" Realizing that there was no chance of arousing public outrage, he turned sideways with a nonchalant expression on his face: "If you look down on Lanshan, then find someone
We, who are stronger, will act as our opponents."
"You?" Wuxing Quetu looked at each other with raised eyebrows: "With all due respect, you are not enough to attract our attention now."
"Attention is mutual." Lou Tingyu looked back and his eyes fell on Wuxing Quetu: "Didn't your Jianghu only send you to participate in the war? Not even a high-level Jianghu showed up."
"They are all busy with other things, you should know that." The murderous intent in Wu Xing Que Tu's eyes became more and more intense: "At this time, the only people who can still make trouble in the game world are you Ting Yu
Lou is such a small fish and shrimp."
"Xiao Yu Xiao Xia? Ha." Finally put away the smile on his face, Lou Tingyu turned his unkind face back: "Feel free to be arrogant and proud, but who is Xiao Yu Xia Xia?"
"We'll see."
A harsh crackling sound then sounded above their heads, accompanied by a bolt of lightning and thunder that suddenly appeared above the thick rain clouds. The thunder then passed through the sky at a speed that was completely impossible to follow, and struck heavily.
The ground fell on the top of the city where the two groups of people were: "Ahhhhhh!"
"This, this is" the screams from the combatants above came to his ears, and the wide-eyed Wu Xing Que Tu opened his mouth involuntarily: "What is this? Is it normal thunder? Or is it normal thunder?
Thunder magic?”
"Of course it's the power of magic." He said his words without looking back. He stepped onto the city wall with his hands behind his back and listened to Yu's voice saying proudly: "The Principality of Ernifia has always been revered as a magical country.
But no one has ever truly realized the greatness of the magical power this country possesses, so I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to let you experience it."
"Although thunder and lightning magic is a type of wind magic, the difficulty and level of casting it are quite high." Wu Xing Que Tu, who calmed down for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "There is no such level and level in the city.
The magician, which expert came to help?"
"So your Jianghu intelligence has seriously lagged behind." The figure near the top of the city wall became closer and closer. Lou Tingyu, who was walking in the front, suddenly spread his arms: "This is not some humble magician.
The magic that can be used."
"This is a power that can only be controlled by miracles from ancient magic."
The surrounding scene was once again illuminated by the white color across the sky, and another thick bolt of lightning instantly struck the south of Tania's city wall. Several Arashiyama members had just taken advantage and captured one of the city's head positions.
Then, as the lightning approached, it turned into pitch-black charcoal, and together with the huge air wave, it fell towards the darkness on the other side of the city wall. This proved for the second time in a row that the lightning and thunder at this time was not accidental.
, both warring parties from the Principality and the Empire hesitated for a moment. The Cangyun Barrier standing under the city wall also frowned and called back the figures of another group of players who had just wanted to rush up again.
: "Stop attacking for the time being. If you go up again, you'll probably be rewarded."
"But if we stop attacking"
"We have been harassing people for some time."
Shaking his head and interrupting his subordinate's words, Cangyun Barrier's eyes then fell on the billowing black clouds above the city bathed in the rain: "Even if it is slower, the preliminary plan should have been completed by this time.
As the first step, both the underground sewer team and the aerial teleportation team should have successfully infiltrated Tania by now."
"Unless we can solve the problem at hand, we have no chance of winning against this high-level thunder magic." He shook his head, and then raised his giant shield into the darkness in front of him:
"Let's start by solving the lightning magic... Lu'an, do you know the source of these lightnings?"
"We have no such information."
Zhao Luan shook his head, lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "And as far as we know, they probably don't know either."
"They were walking underground, so they should not have been attacked by similar attacks." Cangyun Barrier hid his gaze behind the raised shield: "But this does not mean that the underground is safe. If the defense in front of them was the opponent's
It has been planned, so they will definitely make corresponding preparations underground."
"In other words...the underground waterway is the main battlefield?" Zhao Liu'an nodded with understanding: "They are the ones who really have hope of breaking through to the city?"
"These defense systems in front of us are too powerful, as if they were originally designed to deal with the empire." He raised his shield and started to join the advancing team. Cangyun Barrier replied without looking back: "No.
With the same level of magic and more manpower, we are just a group of cannon fodder now."
"As the president, I will make one last attempt. You and your people will retreat first. If I die and return to Taran Town... let's move to another battlefield together."
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"Pfft! Huh, huh, huh, huh..."
In a certain area of the Tania underground waterway, a human head suddenly emerged from a dark pool of water. The head, which was covered with heavy armor, panted for a long time before confirming.
After there was no danger around, he slowly groped to the shore: "I didn't expect that there are really unexplored places... Phew."
The head pushed the raised body out of the water, accompanied by a heavy and dark shield: "Those behind, you can come up, right? I don't seem to have any way to notify them."
Another sound of water coming out interrupted his murmurings, accompanied by the long white hair that caused large splashes of water. The Snow Spirit Magic Ice that appeared along a certain hidden waterway also panted breathlessly.
Appearing behind Gedman, he turned over and jumped into the dim passage beside him: "...As expected."
"It's convenient for those who carry light weights." Goldman threw his shield aside and moved his slightly limp body: "Why did you come here first? Aren't you afraid that Yuomeng guy will slip away?"
"He won't run away alone."
After saying this inexplicably, Xue Ling Huan Bing looked up at the surroundings of the passage: "So I don't have to worry about him. If he doesn't want to follow, then let him fend for himself."
"Don't say it's him, even I don't believe there is really a road here." Gedman wiped the water on his face vigorously: "How did you determine that there is a hidden area here?"
"Of course it's based on the sound we heard before." Hiding the hilt of the sword at his waist, Xue Ling Huan Bing turned to look at the inside of the passage: "The violent explosion, coupled with the previous
The vibrations... they should all come from this direction."
"It's thanks to the water channel in Baitania that we were able to find this hidden secret passage at the vent where the water seeped out." He looked back at the patch of water that had emerged before and fell silent.
After a moment, Goldman nodded with a melancholy look on his face: "But if it's a voice, it would be difficult for anything to be transmitted."
"Don't be too entangled in this problem, just follow me." Xueling Huanbing has begun to explore in this new area that cannot be found on the map: "According to my sixth sense, we are getting closer and closer.
The closer you get to them, the better...well."
"There seems to be a passage here." The figure stopped in a dark corner in this direction. The woman with slightly raised eyebrows then focused her attention on the ancient steps leading to a certain direction under her feet: "But
It’s blocked.”
"So many fallen rocks... must have been caused by collapse." Gedman, who shuffled forward, observed hard for a while: "It looks like a place that has been abandoned for a long time, and no one has been there for a long time.
Here it is... huh?"
"Is there any sound inside?" He steadied his breathing, then calmed down and listened: "Is it... the sound of the wind? No, no, there seems to be some conversation..."
"Is there anyone in there?"
After looking at each other for a while, the two people made their own voices in unison, and then their separate inspection movements appeared in front of these passages that were tightly blocked by rocks, and then slowed down as time went by.
He stopped slowly: "...No, there is no other way through."
"Do you want to continue moving forward? Maybe we can go around somewhere else..."
"You can go both left and right, which way should we go?"
"Don't let me choose, I have difficulty choosing... etc."
As if sensing the emergence of some strange situation, Xueling Huanbing suddenly turned around and said, "Over there."
"They're starting to move again."
This chapter has been completed!