Volume 4 Chapter 3 Monster Attack (3)
After all the undead monsters were destroyed, the monsters' attacks temporarily stopped. However, this was definitely not the end of the siege, but only the beginning. At this time, the liaison sent a message that the other three directions of the city were also attacked in a similar way to us, but the situation was even worse. Those gangs did not take strong measures to prevent players from leaving the city. As a result, the city was now in chaos. Because there were many people leaving the city, it was not necessarily that they could not defeat the undead army, but their efficiency in killing monsters was far lower than ours. The battle was not over yet, and more players died in internal PK due to the competition for equipment than those killed by monsters!
I was very annoyed after hearing this. If we continue like this, how can we defend the city? But there is nothing we can do about it. Controlling West City is already the limit of the Thunder Alliance's ability. After pondering for a while, I ordered the liaison to tell the leaders of each gang to find a way to get the players back to the city as soon as possible. The monsters attacking the city are obviously stronger than the previous batch. When the monsters above level 50 appear, we have no chance of winning without the protection of the city wall.
Well, I can only give you honest advice. As for what countermeasures they can come up with, I have no control over it. Now I can only try my best to defend West City. As for the final outcome, it is beyond my control.
One thing that bothered me right now was that there were a lot of monsters and equipment dropped by players outside the city. What should I do with these equipment? If I send the brothers of the Thunder Alliance to clean up, even if we don’t want any of them and give them all to other players, we will inevitably be criticized. In the face of interests, no one will care about the facts. They will always speculate maliciously: the Thunder Alliance took the lion’s share, the Thunder Alliance kept the fine products privately, the Thunder Alliance’s distribution was unfair, and I didn’t get the good equipment... I couldn’t help but criticize the game company. If you want to attack the city, just attack the city. It’s better not to drop any equipment. You also doubled the drop rate. It’s obvious that you want to destroy the unity of players! But if we just guard the city gate like this and no one goes to pick up the equipment, people will also blame the Thunder Alliance for harming others and not benefiting itself.
After thinking again and again, he could not find a good solution, so he had to instruct the alliance members to pass on a message to the players: "Don't go out to pick up the equipment outside the city now. It is estimated that there will be more powerful monsters attacking soon. Leave the equipment there and let the Yin Yang Master cast the spell of "Golden Sword" to attack the monsters. Anyway, the equipment above the gold level will not explode and will not be refreshed quickly. After the siege is over, everyone can leave the city freely. What kind of equipment they can pick up depends on luck."
Although this plan is also unsatisfactory, it shows that the Thunder Alliance has no selfish motives. I will ignore the players who are muttering and talking. Whatever you think, I finally have a clear conscience. At the same time, I smiled bitterly in my heart. Why should I be the one who takes advantage of me to organize the defense of the city? I can just lead the alliance members to mix with ordinary players. If I can defend, I will defend. If I can't, no one can blame the Thunder Alliance. Now, the siege has just begun, and countless grievances have been made (blocking players from leaving the city and equipment problems). Once the city is lost, I will be accused of incompetence because it is your Thunder Alliance that is in charge of the command! But no one will ever consider whether my orders will be implemented. In short, I can't escape the role of taking the blame!
Alas, I am still not mature enough. I act on impulse without thinking it through...
Before I can continue reflecting on myself, the fourth wave of monsters is coming!
This time, countless monkeys came. Monkeys were seen running all over the mountains at an incredibly fast speed. In an instant, they were not far from the city wall!
I gave orders hastily, and the Onmyojis released their spells one after another. However, the monkeys were much more agile than the previous monsters. Although the vanguard was slightly blocked, the monkeys behind quickly dispersed, bypassed the range covered by the spell, and continued to charge forward!
Archers and magicians also launched attacks one after another. The scene was extremely spectacular. You have to know that there are hundreds of thousands of players in Pojun City, and the number of people defending the West City alone exceeds 100,000. Considering that 40% of the players are ranged professions, that means more than 60,000 arrows (archers can generally use triple shots) and 20,000 spells were shot out!
However, an attack of this scale is not so ideal in killing monsters. It's no wonder, because we are not facing those mountain monkeys and macaques below level 40, but the iron-armed macaques and giant apes above level 50, which are more than 15 levels higher than the average level of players!
The monkeys quickly rushed to the foot of the city wall, and then began to flexibly climb up along the smooth wall. Although many of them were shot down, we still couldn't stop tens of thousands of monkeys from climbing up the wall.
Without a doubt, it was time for the soldiers to come into play! Without my order, all the soldiers raised their weapons and chopped down the monkey heads that popped out of the wall!
I didn't take action, but observed the situation. Fortunately, generally speaking, most warriors could easily fight one or two monkeys alone. On the city wall, the number of players was several times the advantage. Basically, no monkey could successfully climb over the wall. They would just show a little bit of their faces and then be hacked down.
I don't need to worry about the monsters. I leaned over the city wall and stared at the densely packed monkeys climbing on it. I was looking for the boss among them. Whenever I saw a guy with golden or white long hair, I would call my brothers and aim their bows and magic at me. If the boss climbed up, it would be impossible to break the city, but it would cause some casualties .
Under the conscious and targeted long-range attacks, most of the bosses fell down wailing halfway up the wall. The few that "went against the wind" were also seriously injured. As soon as they jumped off the wall, the higher-level players cheered and rushed over. Now we have the advantage, the monsters can't rush in, and we can easily solve the problem by simply besieging the boss. Moreover, the explosion rate has doubled. Each boss will drop a lot of things, which are dropped in the city. It's like delivering to your door. Naturally, whoever picks it up is lucky.
As for the city gate, it is guarded by the most elite brothers of the Thunder Group. I have absolute confidence in them to deal with monsters of this level.
About 20 minutes later, we wiped out all the monsters. The corpses of the monkeys piled up thickly at the foot of the city wall. Except for a few low-level players who rushed up to take advantage of the situation when we were besieging the Boss, we had almost no casualties. But the news from the other three gates was not so good. Although I reminded most of the players to retreat back to the city before the monsters attacked, tens of thousands of people were surrounded by monsters before they could enter the city and died outside the city. In addition, some monkeys followed the retreating players and rushed into the city gates, which also caused a lot of casualties. Until now, there are still some monkeys in the city that have not been completely eliminated.
After hearing this news and comparing it with our battle record, the players realized how important my command was, and how correct my orders to strictly prohibit fighting outside the city and block the city gates were. Some dissatisfied voices immediately disappeared, and now everyone truly recognized my leadership.
However, I was in command of hundreds of thousands of unorganized and untrained soldiers. Regardless of whether they obeyed my orders or not, there was no coordination at all during the battle... If all of them were at the level of the Thunder Regiment, the monkeys' attack just now, with segmented continuous shooting, would have made it impossible for a single monster to climb up the wall!
Monkeys are relatively easy to deal with, but I noticed that up to now, no super boss has appeared, which means that the siege battle is still in the warm-up stage, and the real test is yet to come!
Just as I was racking my brains over how to arrange tactics to maximize the players' combat effectiveness, there was a loud "bang" and a thunder exploded above my head, and then I felt two or three chills on my face.
The rainstorm that had been brewing for four hours finally came down!
The players defending the city suddenly exclaimed: "Another monster is coming! Desert stone monster! And stone giant! The game company is too shameless, is it necessary to release such monsters?"
To the west of the Jinglei League’s headquarters is the Kunlun Mountains, and continuing west across the Kunlun Mountains is an endless desert that separates the eastern and western continents. The main monsters living there are these monsters whose bodies are made of stone. There are also a small number of these monsters in the Gobi Desert north of the Yuelong River. Unexpectedly, they would appear in groups during the siege.
Desert stone monsters, a bit like the ancient dinosaurs Stegosaurus, but with three rows of bone plates on its back, horns on its head, and its body made of sharp rocks, it is a moving weapon, level 65. Stone giants, three-meter-tall humanoid monsters, with well-defined muscles made of hard granite, holding a crude but huge stone hammer, which is powerful enough to smash a knight below level 30 into pulp with one blow, and is a level 70 monster!
I frowned. In Kunlun Mountain, my leveling targets were monsters of level 65 to 70. However, I would avoid them if I could, and never provoke them easily. Even with my abnormal attack power, it was still difficult to kill these monsters. They were not much easier to fight than the bosses of other monsters of the same level. Moreover, their attack power was amazing. As long as there were more than seven of them surrounding me, I couldn't handle them even with the Tiger King suit. The only weakness was that their agility was too low, their attack speed was very slow, and their hit rate was not high.
The rainstorm came very quickly. At first, it was just a few drops. But in less than a minute, it poured down like a torrential rain. The sky and the earth were connected by thousands of water lines. In an instant, puddles of water accumulated on the ground. Countless bean-sized raindrops hit them, stirring up sparkling bubbles, which soon burst and disappeared. The sky was brighter. Looking out, it was all white. The stone monsters were also gray and white, and looked blurry. It was difficult to determine the location of the monster group.
I wiped the rain running down my cheeks and muttered curses in my heart. With such heavy rain, the magician's fire magic and the Onmyoji's fire attribute spells can no longer be used. The archers' accuracy will also be greatly reduced. Damn it!
However, everything has its pros and cons. Water-attributed spells become doubly powerful in this environment. As the Onmyojis chanted their spells, the already wet ground in front of the city wall turned into a quagmire. The heavy bodies of the desert stone monsters and stone giants sank into it, and they couldn't struggle out until the spell effect wore off. The monster group, which was already advancing slowly, almost completely stopped. There seemed to be an invisible boundary in front of them. As long as they walked to that position, large groups of monsters would slowly become shorter and disappear.
However, there are not many Onmyoji players, and we are facing hundreds of thousands of monsters! When all the swamps are filled with monsters that exceed the capacity limit, the monsters behind will step on them and slowly but unwaveringly advance towards the city wall!
All Onmyojis dared not relax, and they kept making hand seals and chanting incantations while replenishing their magic potions. As soon as their spellcasting was interrupted, the spell effects would quickly disappear, and the monsters trapped in the mire would break free, creating even greater pressure on us!
There are less than two thousand Onmyoji in total, but they trapped seventy to eighty thousand monsters. This effect was achieved with the help of the rainstorm. Unfortunately, with their level and mana, the damage they can cause to such high-level monsters is extremely limited. It will take at least half an hour or more to slowly torture the trapped monsters to death. Before that, they will have no time to deal with the remaining two hundred thousand monsters!
When the monsters approached within a distance where their silhouettes could be clearly seen even in the rainstorm, the archers released their taut bowstrings. Suddenly, there was a whistling sound, and arrows broke through the waterfall-like curtain of water and hit the monsters in the front row!
The clanging sound could not even cover the sound of wind and rain, but this was not the result we wanted! The arrows shot at the stones broke and scattered all over the ground, instead of piercing the flesh and hanging on the monsters like normal arrows, sometimes piercing the target like a hedgehog. The elves with good eyesight could see that these stone monsters only had a few scratches on their bodies. An arrow could only deduct a dozen HP points from them, and some could not even break through their defense, forcing them to deduct a little HP. Compared to the tens of thousands of HP of such a high-level monster, they were almost unscathed. This defense was too abnormal, wasn't it?
The magicians also took action. Most of them chose electrical magic or water magic. With the help of the environment, these two types of spells were more powerful than usual. However, the magic defense of the stone monsters was equally amazing. The water spells were okay and did not cause much damage, but the attached freezing effect froze a group of monsters, which did play a role in blocking the advancement of the monsters. However, those lightning spells that matched the thunder and lightning in the sky and were much louder than usual, when they hit the monsters, the damage was only slightly stronger than that of the archers. However, one feature of electrical magic is that the upper and lower limits of its power vary greatly. A few of them exerted the greatest power, and it happened that many people concentrated on attacking a monster, and they did destroy a few of them. Everyone found that these monsters were not indestructible, and morale was slightly boosted.
Damn it, it's all this damn weather! In fact, the stone monster is most afraid of wind magic, but in this environment, wind magic is also weakened. Although it is not as hard to cast as fire magic, its power is also limited, and it may not be better than electricity and water magic.
In addition, there is another reason. Although most players have obtained some equipment, most of them are garbage without additional attributes. If a large number of forgers reach level 50 and can forge gold equipment, the equipment can have an attribute of "additional damage" of a certain amount. This additional damage ignores defense, so even if the attack power is not enough, it will not be completely ineffective! Thinking about it this way, I can understand the feelings of those players who are willing to go out of the city to grab equipment at the risk of their lives.
Finally, the group of monsters advanced to the foot of the wall. Hey, these monsters are not nimble monkeys and should not be able to climb the wall. How will they attack?
The answer came out. The desert stone monsters used the horns on their heads to ram the wall foundation. Under the crazy impact of tens of thousands of monsters, the tall and solid city wall under our feet also trembled slightly. Oh my God, it turns out that each desert stone monster is a battering ram!
This won't do! No matter how strong the wall is, it will collapse sooner or later if it is continuously impacted! I yelled like crazy: "Magicians! All magicians, use ice magic on the desert stone monsters! Freeze them all! Archers! Magic archers, shoot them with ice arrows! Slow down their speed of hitting the wall! Quick!"
The order was quickly passed down, and all the players were extremely nervous. The magicians and archers carried out my orders to the letter. Frost arrows, ice rain, ice roar... all means of attack with freezing effects were unleashed, and the result was as expected. Most of the monsters were frozen, and the frequency of impact on the city walls was greatly reduced. Although the monsters could be thawed in a few seconds, as long as the ice magic on the city walls continued to be fired, the attacks on the city walls would be limited.
This method was also quickly conveyed to other gang leaders by the liaison officer, hoping that under their command, there would be no trouble in the other three sects!
However, there are even more troublesome stone giants... Yes, they can't climb walls, but they can build human ladders!
Three-meter-tall stone giants, one standing on the shoulders of another, and five of them stacked together are as tall as a fifteen-meter-high city wall!
I raised Tiger Soul high and shouted, "Brother warriors, now it's up to you to use your bodies to block the monsters' attacks!" Then I aimed at the stone giant whose head just popped out in front of me and chopped it down with a knife!
A huge recoil force came from my hand. Damn, this guy's rock head is too hard! But Tiger Soul is a divine weapon after all. Not only is its attack power extremely strong, but it also reduces the target's defense by 20%. This knife forcibly split a crack on the opponent's forehead, deducting 3,000 HP!
Humph, no matter how strong your defense is, you can’t withstand four of my swords!
Suddenly a white light enveloped me. It was the priest blessing me. My attack power became stronger!
Another stab, this time, the blood loss exceeded 4000!
The stone giant's movements were slow. I chopped it twice before it raised its stone hammer and smashed it down on me. I dodged it easily and chopped it back with one blow.
A critical hit, double damage! The stone giant made a cracking sound and exploded into countless rock fragments. In three strikes, I killed a monster!
Before the second stone giant climbed up, I glanced around. Fortunately, since many places under the city wall were occupied by desert stone monsters, there was not much space left for the stone giants to build human ladders. Only about ten thousand stone giants could attack the top of the city at the same time. Tens of thousands of melee players basically surrounded one monster and fought it. Although the stone giants had strong attack power, their attack speed was too slow. It was not difficult to avoid them as long as you were careful. Even if you were accidentally hit, you could just quit the battle and take some medicine. Only a few with too low levels were killed instantly, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Well, forget about the others. I'll just be responsible for the "ladder" in front of me. The stone giant suffers from the disadvantage that he can't move while standing on the human ladder. It's the most satisfying to chop down this kind of target. It's no different from the wooden stakes in the training room!
Suddenly, I heard players exclaiming and screaming not far to my left. I turned my head and saw, damn, it was a Boss Cyclops rushing towards me!
How could ordinary players possibly stop such a high-level Boss? In my estimation, the combat power of the Cyclops is not much worse than that of a D-level Boss, especially its skill "Giant's Fury", which can instantly stun a large number of people around it! This Boss did just that, knocking out all the players who blocked it, and then smashed the heads of two players into pieces with its mace, and then rushed up the wall. Once the breach was opened, the stone giants behind it climbed up one after another, and now four stone giants have climbed over the wall!
I felt something was wrong, so I said to my brother behind me, "I leave this to you!" and rushed over.
I slashed the Cyclops with a knife, but only lost more than 2,000 HP. Wow... It's really too abnormal. Apart from me, I'm afraid that few players in Fantasy can break its defense. The Cyclops also hit me with a stick. I didn't dodge and deliberately took the stick, which deducted more than 600 HP. Awesome! Without the Tiger King suit, I'm afraid I can't withstand five sticks!
I fought and retreated at the same time. A few players nearby wanted to come up to help. I shouted, "I'll deal with this guy. You guys go and fill the gap!"
Fortunately, the Cyclops' brain was not very smart. With my deliberate provocation, he gradually moved away from the crowd and came to a slope leading to the city wall.
I saw a dozen players following the Cyclops. I knew without thinking that they were here to get some bargains! Such a high-level monster, even if it's not a super boss, should be able to drop some good equipment, right?
I was furious. I risked getting hit by the giant's club, rushed past it, and ran towards the dozen people and said, "I'll leave this guy to you. I still have to go to the top of the wall to command. If you kill it, I think you can get some good equipment!"
Sure enough, when they heard that there were good equipment, green light flashed in their eyes, and they rushed towards the giant regardless of the difference in strength.
Humph, you want to get good equipment? I don't know if you have the luck to do so!
However, in order to let them delay for a while at least, I still gave them some advice: "It's not fast, so you should focus on fighting it in a mobile way, it will be easier to defeat it!" After saying that, I ran towards the city wall without looking back.
I hurried back, and the gap had been blocked by the players' hard fighting, but three Cyclops rushed in from other places!
I don't have the ability to clone myself, but I have calmed down and figured out how to command the players to deal with the Cyclops. I immediately ordered people to pass on the order: "If a Cyclops rushes up to the city wall, let it in, send a few archers to deal with it, and use ranged attacks to lure the Boss away! Lure it into the city! Soldiers must immediately plug the gap that the Boss broke through. As long as you don't let the monsters rush in, you can do whatever you want to the Boss that is brought into the city!"
Haha, this method is absolutely effective. In the treasure hunting activities organized by the Thunder Alliance, dozens of alliance members can kill a D-level Boss. No matter how strong the Cyclops is, it is still not as good as the D-level Boss. Although its defense is a bit abnormal, and although the cooperation of ordinary players is far inferior to that of our alliance members, as long as these Bosses and minions are separated, at most a few hundred or thousands of people will be sacrificed, and the hundreds of Bosses among hundreds of thousands of monsters can be solved.
I was feeling proud when I suddenly received the news: "The city gate has been lost!"
Oh my god! No way! When the wall is breached, the monsters will rush in one by one at most. As long as the command is proper, it is not difficult to plug the gap. But when the city gate is lost, the monsters will pour in by dozens or even hundreds. Once the monsters entering the city reach a certain scale, it will be difficult to recapture the city gate!
I didn't dare to delay even a bit, and hurriedly gave the order: "All teams in the Thunder Alliance, send half of their people down, and each team will bring two hundred players, and follow me to block the city gate!" I didn't even bother to wait for the team to gather, I summoned the unicorn, rode it, and rushed down the city wall.
When I ran to the city gate and took a look, my scalp went numb. No wonder I arranged the strongest elite of the Thunder Group to garrison here but couldn't stop the monster. It turned out that the super boss Stoneman King appeared! This guy is a C-level boss! It is larger than the average stone giant, and the weapon in his hand is a beheading axe. The surface of his body is no longer rock, but a mineralized crystal, shining, and his savage physique is like the Titan in Greek mythology (in fact, there are monsters like Titans in Fantasy, but they are special products of the West, with a level of up to 100). No one can handle this perverted guy. C-level Boss and D-level Boss are not the same concept. A level 40 player will basically kill him instantly.
Unfortunately, the one hundred elite soldiers of the Thunder Corps that I stationed at the city gate were killed by this guy, and only about twenty archers and magicians were left standing far away and attacking desperately, trying to lure it away. However, the AI level of the C-level Boss was enough for it to make the right judgment. It simply ignored these attacks that were weaker than mosquito bites, and guarded the city gate tightly, commanding the army of stone monsters behind it to rush into the city continuously!
