Chapter 603: Chapter 369 The Future of Tianyuan City (6K)
To the west of Tianyuan City, just over two hundred meters from the city wall.
The leader of the Jackal Men tribe, a figure transformed into a giant jackal and inconspicuous among the surging waves, roared, "My boys, now's the moment for our Heimu Mountain Tribe to make a name for ourselves, follow me in the killing, storm into the human city, and ferment their blood into wine to savor the pure delight of living beings."
"Kill them!"
"Roar!"
"Awoo awoo awoo——"
No less than a dozen fourth-order Jackal Men from the Heimu Mountain Tribe used the cover of the waves to reach the city wall effortlessly, where sturdy trees struggled to grow.
Not far away, a piece of war machinery was caught in Root Entanglement, wrestling with the continuously breaking and regrowing roots.
The Jackal Men tribe leader didn't spare it a glance, but with a loud shout, he turned into a grey shadow that streaked forward, easily dodging the vine, root, and the fireballs and arrows launched by the defensive forces as they snaked towards him.
He transformed into a grey meteor, crashing against the city wall.
The Black Rock City Wall cracked, and about a dozen elite guards were sent rolling away, either dead or injured.
Other powerful Jackal Men followed suit, scaling the wall.
As soon as they reached the city wall, they became the prime target of the Arrow Towers—Mu Yuan had placed heroes such as Lu Liu, Isloa, Xi Liu, and Rakshasa in charge of the defense structures in various defense zones. Each zone had hundreds of Arrow Towers, several Thunder Magnetic Coil Towers, and a few other buildings.
They couldn't micro-manage hundreds of structures simultaneously, but they could continuously adjust the Arrow Towers' targets, utilizing defense buildings where they were most needed.
This was the advantage of having many heroes; the Lord didn't have to worry about everything. A single Lord couldn't control all the city's structures and would already be spread too thin, mostly relying on smart targeting the majority of the time.
But even as the Arrow Towers kept firing and the Thunder Magnetic Coil Towers unexpectedly struck, the city's wall defenses were still thrown into disorder, with powerful Jackal Men bursting into the interior of the city.
Boom—
A Giant Dragon descended from the sky, its enormous claws crushing a Jackal Man to the ground. Extending another paw, it repeatedly slammed down on the paw pinning the Jackal Man fighter, causing the ground to crack and golden light to spill out everywhere.
The powerful Jackal Man was killed on the spot.
Meanwhile, atop the city wall, another Giant Dragon appeared, shedding its dragon form to take on a human shape. Landing on the portion of the wall now occupied by the monsters, he gripped a massive sword and started spinning, a golden whirlwind howling as it enveloped that stretch of the wall.
Monsters shattered, others were thrown into the air.
"A Giant Dragon!"
The morale of the nearby Elves, Giants, and Territory Citizen-born guards soared instantly. Two Giant Dragons, however, could not contend with as many as a dozen fourth-order monsters, some of which were leader level.
The stronger Elves and Giants understood this truth.
But reinforcements had already arrived, with Ghost Leaders using the Underworld Ghost Market to trap enemies on all sides; one used the Nightmare Pupil Prison to obscure the minds of their foes;
As a team, the Skeleton Lords appeared, and with one sword stroke, casually took the lives of fourth-order monsters.
In the blink of an eye, half of the dozen fourth-order monsters were eradicated.
While the Giant sized tribal leader was wrestling with a Giant powerhouse, Bone Three had silently appeared behind it, wielding a white bone spear forged from its bones, barbed at its tip, and thrust it ferociously into the backside of the huge jackal.
Not far away, a blood-spurting Giant tensed up.
It was brutal.
But it certainly worked.
Bone Three, satisfied with the critically wounded Jackal Man leader, nodded approvingly, "Such exquisite timing and a fatal blow aimed directly at a weakness... It seems that I, Bone Three Wave, possess at least a fraction of Boss's style. Of course, Boss's teaching is the best."
The Giant thought: The Boss they speak of in the Black Armored Undead, such cruelty!
(Dead Bone: I didn't, I have nothing to do with this, when did I ever teach that move!)
...
South City defense line, Defense Zone Number Three.
Boom—
An enormous Snake Person Aggregation, more than a hundred meters in size and blood-red all over, had advanced right up to the city wall.
Around it, massive trees fell, crushed to fluff under the lengthy serpent arms of the Snake Person Aggregation. The thirteen-meter-tall Black Rock City Wall was just a small step for this colossal creature. It could cross over and crush it at any time.
Shadows fell, as though darkness had descended.
The Snake Person Aggregation continued to push forward. Nearby, two powerhouses from the Giant Stone Ridge—one a Fourth-order Mountain Giant, the other a Fourth-order Mountain Unloading Giant—struggled to stop the huge Snake Person's slow advance.
Then,
"Crack~ Crack~ Crack~"
A Domain spread out, as white bones pierced the earth like a forest.
Above the Forest of White Bones, a Tianyuan Powerhouse clad in silver-grey armor, with tattered Bone Wings and wielding a giant sword shrouded in dark aura, was staring at the Snake Person, massive as a mountain before him.
The Soul Flame in its pupils erupted, as it raised the white bone sword high.
"Transform!"
Bones flew up into the sky as if they were droplets of rain suspended in midair, then began to converge toward the small figure in the center.
Rib after rib extended outward;
The vast torso was quickly assembled;
The figure supported by the bones rose to a hundred meters in the air, with the final pieces clicking into place, the Giant's eyes suddenly illuminating like spotlights.
The White Bone Giant stood firmly upon the earth.
"This form, this figure..."
The Vampire Marquis who had just extracted a fourth-order Boss's heart widened his eyes in shock.
In the distance, Frost Giant Dragon Sario roared in anger, "Bone Four, this brat, actually dared to cosplay Boss!"
And it was strikingly similar, nearly indistinguishable from Boss's own form during his fourth-order phase.