A hundred miles outside the city walls, the previously bright sky was suddenly covered by dark clouds. Countless black gases appeared, followed by beings with no facial features. Some floated in the air, some stood, and some crawled on the ground.
After these ghost creatures appeared, there was no movement. They maintained specific formations, gazing at the distant city walls. Though their faces were blank, their eyes were filled with eagerness.
A hundred miles outside Fengle City, it was the same. Every player could see a rapidly increasing number, which represented the player count of ghost creatures attacking Fengle City this time.
100,000
500,000
1,000,000
…
Soon, a terrifying number, 800, appeared above the group of black shadows.
"Welcome, Hall Master…"
A terrifying dark cloud suddenly dispersed, transforming into a black avian creature with a wingspan exceeding thirty meters.
However, the creature was shrouded in black mist, making its appearance completely indiscernible.
"Human Star Domain, hehe. A million years have passed, and previously, the Divine Star Domain stood as an obstacle. I never expected the Heavenly Dao to bestow such a gift upon our ghost race this time. After a million years of dormancy, our ghost race has finally the opportunity to surpass the Divine Race!"
"Humans, my food! Are you ready to be food!"
The avian creature roared with laughter. Wisps of black mist, fanned by its wings, quickly turned the surrounding land into a dead zone, and skeletons rose from the ground!
The nearly tens of thousands of ghost creatures, observing the avian creature's actions, let out shouts of encouragement. The skeletons that rose from the ground instantly doubled, then quadrupled, then octupled…
"What's happening! Why is the number of these ghost creatures increasing again?" Ding Yi stood on the city wall, her face changing dramatically as she watched the numbers fluctuate wildly. She was clad in a leather jacket, with a legendary repeating crossbow slung across her back.
"It should be a skill. Otherwise, this kind of pause wouldn't occur! I wonder if the traps of the Vanguard Camp are effective against these ghost creatures," Liu Hai said with an equally grim expression.
"No matter what demons or monsters they are, if they come, they shall stay!" Li Chenxu was much more nonchalant.
At this moment, the enemy's numbers rapidly climbed to over nine million! Some players on the city walls even felt a sense of retreat. The concept of 'ghosts' was simply too psychologically taxing for humans.
"Haha, my children, the auspicious hour has arrived. Attack!" The Ghost Hall Master waved his wings, and millions of skeletons swept towards Fengle City like a collapsing flood. The remaining eight million ghost creatures advanced steadily behind them. Da Feng Novel Network.
A hundred miles was neither far nor near. However, with the skeleton army as cannon fodder in the front, they could conserve some of their true essence.
Whoosh…
Tens of thousands of red and yellow lights merged into the skeleton horde, instantly making them more energetic and significantly increasing their speed.
Support classes!
Under the skills of these support classes, the million-strong skeleton army's speed, attack power, and defense increased dramatically.
"General Liu, do we need to deploy our warrior units?" Although Ye Yun had instructed them to deploy melee units only when the enemy entered within a kilometer of the city walls, Ding Yi, participating in large-scale combat for the first time, was extremely nervous with the current army of over nine million.
"No, we must wait until they are at the city walls, at least when our ranged attack units can reach them. If the distance is too great, then our soldiers will truly be fighting alone…"
"System Prompt: Fengle City has defeated the enemy's summoned unit, Skeleton General*1, gaining 5200 experience points and 1 Gold Coin."
…
A system prompt suddenly appeared in the eerily quiet city channel, followed by a deluge of prompts that filled the screen.
Defeating enemy units granted experience points. For units killed by city defense structures, the experience points were allocated to the city's experience pool, which players could later exchange for contribution points.
This…
The ranged players on the city walls watched as arrows flew over their heads and arcs of electricity flashed. They were all utterly bewildered.
"The Palace Master's vision is truly beyond our comprehension. It seems he had arranged everything long ago. The enemies are still over thirty kilometers away, aren't they?" Li Chenxu couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle as he observed the arrow towers and lightning towers that struck nearly twice per second.
"Thirty kilometers away, and they are almost all one-shot kills. What is the attack power of these arrow towers?"
Although they were high-ranking members of the Dragon Palace, none of them, except for Zhou Ningdong, could see the specific attributes of these city defense structures.
Ghost Race Faction.
"What is happening? Where are all these arrows and electrical strikes coming from!" The Hall Master exclaimed, unable to comprehend the nearly four hundred arrows per second. He couldn't even discern the specific information of his own forces due to the extremely rapid update frequency of each piece of data.
"Hall Master, these seem to be attacks from the enemy's city defense structures," a general, clad in pale gray, said in a gruff voice from atop a crawling creature.
"City defense structures? This… could it be…"
The Hall Master was greatly alarmed. He suddenly recalled a system prompt of cosmic level before the battle. Back then, he had scoffed at whichever fool spent so much gold on upgrading city defense structures when they could have used it to purchase attribute points.
"It must be. However, the number of such structures should not be large, otherwise, the number of single attacks received wouldn't be so high. Hall Master, our Ghost Shadow team requests permission to sortie." The tiger-like general rumbled, a flush of excitement rising on his featureless face.
"Granted! For the rest of the forces, do not hold back. Charge behind my skeleton army! Mang, lead your twenty thousand subordinates on a detour and attack Fengle City's south gate! Li, attack their north gate!" The Hall Master roared in fury as he witnessed the skeleton army suffer over fifty thousand casualties in less than two minutes.
Normally, he wouldn't bat an eye at a loss of fifty thousand, let alone a hundred thousand or a million. But ever since they entered the attack range of Fengle City's defenses, the advance speed of his skeleton army had been significantly reduced. In two minutes, they had only advanced about two hundred meters! If they were to reach the city walls over thirty kilometers away, even a million cannon fodder skeletons, let alone several times that, wouldn't be able to withstand such attrition!
While all players in Fengle City were preoccupied with the ghost army's movements, no one noticed that nearly ten thousand black smoke figures separated from the main army. Then, the black smoke on their bodies gradually disappeared, and eventually, even the figures of these over ten thousand individuals vanished.
"Ghost Shadow Team! Objective: Destroy the enemy's city defense structures on the walls and assassinate enemy leaders. Depart!" The tiger-like general, seeing only phantom figures visible to those of his own profession, couldn't help but smirk.
The Ghost Shadow Team had always been a sharp arrow in the Hall Master's hand. Since the opening of the Heavenly Dao, they had immediately gathered all the Ghost Shadow class players on their planet. For three years, they had assassinated countless powerful enemies for the Hall Master, relying on this stealth ability!
As the tiger general spoke, the over ten thousand phantom figures transformed into a torrent, their speed twice as fast as the augmented skeletons!
Soon, they bypassed the skeleton horde. Seeing that the arrow towers did not attack them, they couldn't help but feel amused.
"General, these arrow towers can't detect us. I feel like this is openly handing us gold coins."
After the adjutant spoke, the entire team became excited. That's right, an arrow tower of level thirty-something! How much gold would it be worth to dismantle one?
Charge!
It was worth dying to charge and dismantle a tower!
The over ten thousand phantom figures seemed to have drunk bull's blood, charging forward in a straight line at full speed.
Whoosh…
Suddenly, four consecutive arrows, each a meter long, whistled through the air, killing the four fastest Ghost Shadows and simultaneously kicking up stone fragments that instantly killed the surrounding phantom figures.
The Skyhawk Arrow Tower's rapid fire and splash damage!
"Fengle City Announcement: Congratulations to Fengle City for defeating the enemy's Deputy-level General 'Ghost Snake', gaining 2 million experience points and 900,000 Gold Coins."
"Fengle City Announcement: Congratulations to Fengle City for defeating the enemy's General 'Ghost Tiger', gaining 2.35 million experience points and 1.2 million Gold Coins."
Liu Hai: …
Li Chenxu: …
Two consecutive red, city-wide announcements left everyone on the city walls stunned.