Volume 5: The Ancient Glorious Empire Chapter 59 Promotion War!
The City of Sparks covers an area larger than the most prosperous international metropolis before the mysterious arrival of the Blue Planet. Its pavilions and palaces are magnificent, and there are sacred mountains and fairylands everywhere, as if it were a scene that only existed in mythology.
Indeed, if we put aside the disaster caused by the evil god, everyone in this era can be said to be like a dragon.
Mystery brings disaster, but also brings new life.
However, compared with other level eight oasis cities, Spark City seems small, several times smaller.
This is not because time is too short to build. When it comes to infrastructure, Xinhuo is a professional.
However, Fang You had to leave enough space outside the oasis.
This time, he not only wanted to elevate Oasis to a high position and gain exclusive power, but also wanted to take this opportunity to strangle a large number of evil spirits.
This is a trial!
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It was a sunny and windy day, suitable for overcoming the tribulation.
The awakened ones belonging to various combat corps began to check their equipment, collect combat potions and props, and followed their corps leaders to the city walls they were responsible for guarding.
They were silent, and the only sound between heaven and earth seemed to be the thumping of their boots. They climbed up the city wall in black battle suits with flame patterns. In the sunlight, their backs were elongated, as majestic as the city wall, blocking the thick gray fog outside.
At the same time,
Ordinary people in the Spark City are also evacuating to shelters in an orderly manner.
There was not much panic on their faces, as they were already very used to such incidents. It was just an evil attack on the city, and who hadn't experienced it a few times?
They are also pioneers of the Spark City and have their own beliefs and pride.
Perhaps, they are too weak to help at all when facing the siege of the city by the evil spirits, but they still have the next generation! They will train their sons and daughters to become warriors and heroes who can kill the evil spirits!
"Master, everything is ready, please give the next instructions!"
Xiao Huan's voice became less cheerful and more solemn and serious.
She changed into a serious combat uniform and placed her right fist across her chest in salute. At the same time, she used the power of virtual reality to materialize a three-dimensional image of the Spark City, which marked the operating status of each corps, each shelter, and each defense ritual.
Xiao Huan has been connected to the defense system of Spark City.
Fang You looked at his watch and saw that there were still 16 minutes and 35 seconds left before the scheduled time.
After waiting for a while, he said, "Activate all the Dawn Lighthouses."
Buzz——
Invisible ripples spread out.
The pure white towers standing in the city began to emit warm dawn light with protective power. The light enveloped the entire city, covering the magnificent city with a golden battle suit, making it look like a god or a saint.
The next moment,
"when--"
The alarm bells are ringing.
Fang You raised his right hand high, holding up the Heart of Oasis.
The world's power accumulated in the Spark Oasis burst out at this moment, as if the raging fire was about to lift the entire oasis into the air.
The power of the law was also poured in at this moment, giving Oasis the final push for advancement.
Boom boom
The gravel shook, the trees swayed, and the wind and clouds changed.
An invisible force spread out in an instant, and the outermost part of the oasis, which symbolized the vitality of the earth, was spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, covering the dead earth and driving away the thick gray fog.
The newly born land is still relatively barren, but there are still some new greens on the bare land, and some young shoots are beginning to grow tenaciously. As long as it takes a period of management, land reclamation, and nutrients, this land will become more and more fertile.
According to the experience of Oasis Six to Seven and Oasis Seven to Eight, the oasis land will continue to spread until it reaches a certain critical point, which will cause the gray fog to counterattack.
But the promotion from eighth to ninth is different!
The oasis's promotion had just begun, and the outermost land had only expanded twenty or thirty meters when the gray fog outside began to boil violently.
The gray fog quickly became thicker and more active, like a giant wall formed by 10 million snakes and pythons intertwined and entangled. They twisted, squirmed, and danced! Just looking at it made people's scalps numb and their rationality plummeted.
At this time, the dawn lighthouses standing in various places in the city burst into an increasingly dazzling light.
This light is like little suns, trying its best to dispel the dark haze.
Under the protection of the light of dawn, the defending soldiers did not suffer too fierce an attack of filth. However, even though dozens of dawn lighthouses were built in the city, the sky of Spark City quickly darkened. Thick dark clouds covered the sky, and the dark clouds pressed down on the city, making it seem as if they could not breathe.
The entire process of all these changes in the celestial phenomena took only a few tens of seconds.
After this brief, oppressive darkness, the ground began to shake violently, and the rubble outside the city wall trembled non-stop. The entire magnificent city began to tremble uncontrollably, but under the protection of the golden ritual light shield, the city was still as solid as a rock, and no building had cracks due to the strong earthquake.
"The evil spirit has appeared!"
Someone spoke.
Inside the command center, the Black Blade No. 1 incarnation was sitting there, staring coldly at the reconnaissance screen without blinking under his mask.
Thousands of "detection eyes" gather images from all sides here for generals to command and judge.
"One million level."
"Three million level."
"Six million level."
"The number is still continuing to rise, and the trend shows no sign of slowing down!"
At this time, one detection screen after another went dark and the vision was lost.
Although the Detection Eye has the ability to turn invisible, it can still be destroyed. When the evil is overwhelming and fills every inch of space, the Detection Eyes along the way will be ruthlessly crushed.
However, this was expected, and the generals in the command center did not change their expressions.
Just staring at the strange and evil waves, estimating the distance.
Black Blade gave the order, "Start charging the Weird Crystal Cannon."
On the giant cannon tower over 130 meters high located behind the city wall, circles of light representing the energy level lit up.
Between heaven and earth, there was a terrifying energy that made people's hearts flutter.
Although it is also called the Weird Crystal Cannon, this is the fourth-generation cannon developed by Master Wang Chui's team. It is the most lethal of the current conventional warfare weapons of Xinhuo.
Compared with the first-generation strange crystal cannon, the fourth-generation cannon has an upper limit on lethality that has increased dozens of times, has extremely high energy utilization, more stable weapon operation, a wider coverage range, and so on.
When countless evil spirits rushed out from the gray fog wall and stepped onto the oasis, and the forefront was only three kilometers away from the city wall, the huge evil crystal cannons that were ready to fire emitted a deafening roar.
Then, blazing white light, bright enough to pierce the eyes, bloomed from the evil tide, like a giant inverted bowl that continued to grow larger, annihilating everything within its coverage area and sending out terrible shock waves in all directions.
The gusts of wind swept up rocks, toppled trees, and surged toward the city wall like a wave, crashing into the light shield that was flashing with golden runes.
When the aftermath gradually dissipated, all that remained in the world was a huge pit and the sparse and evil debris in the pit.
The rest were all destroyed and dispersed.
Including the strange crystals and materials that can be collected from the body of Guixie.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Even if the mythical demigods took action, it was impossible for them to just kill the evil spirits and leave the materials behind. Killing a few could control them, but killing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands would be impossible to control! Not to mention the evil crystal cannon.
The battle to defend a city can harvest a large number of destiny points and mystery points, but it will also inevitably lose a lot of materials.
Where there is gain there is loss.
Although for other forces, the battle to defend the city only resulted in losses and no gains.
After the giant ghost crystal cannon fired a round of salvos, it stopped firing and allowed the ghosts to continue their charge.
At this time, the elite soldiers stationed on the city wall began to shoot freely. They used either strange weapon fire guns or strange weapon bows and arrows, or dozens of awakened people used instruments to amplify and use a certain spell skill at the same time, merging into a large spell and falling into the strange evil tide.
Boom——!
A low chime echoed in the city.
Outside the city, the roar of artillery fire continued.
The evil ones fell.
The evil ones continued to charge fearlessly.
The evil creatures rushed to the base of the city wall, constantly hitting and bombarding it. Even if their bodies were turned into dust in an instant, they still continued to attack.
He is fearless and unafraid of death. No, he has no concept of life and death and is evil and has no rational emotions. He is indeed terrifying.
The volley of fire from the Weird Crystal Cannon thinned out the Weird Evils, but before long, another group of Weird Evils came rushing in. Looking far ahead, it seemed that there were not many empty spaces that were not filled with Weird Evils.
And this is just the beginning of the promotion war.
The calamity of promotion is indeed so terrifying!
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The scale of the evil wave has far exceeded the wave that was guided by the Black River myth and hit Xinhuo Academy that day.
Several Seven-Star Evil Shadows have appeared in the wave, and the number is still increasing.
The pressure of the city defense ritual is quite great.
However, the defense of Spark City was far greater than that day. Not only did they not improve their high-end combat power, but they also had basic city defense weapons, such as the number of Weird Crystal Cannons, Light Energy Towers, and Brilliant Swords, which far surpassed that of Xinhuo Academy.
After all, Xinhuo Academy’s “skill points” are all focused on strategic retreat.
The evil group kept charging forward and were constantly destroyed.
War weapons with large-scale destruction, such as the Weird Crystal Cannon, did not fire continuously. It was because they were too expensive, and each shot would burn thousands or tens of thousands of Weird Crystals.
As a result, the mythical strongmen stationed in various sections of the city walls also took action one after another, bombarding the evil tide with large-scale killing skills such as Thunder Handprint, Sky Fire Meteor, Nine Heavens Sky Thunder, and Meteorite Falling from the Sky.
This is the most cost-effective way of guarding.
After all, the mythical strong not only has a very wide killing range, but also has a life energy recovery speed far exceeding that of ordinary awakeners.
Having one more myth can save a huge amount of strange crystals.
However, only the Spark City, which is guarded by dozens of myths, is willing to pour precious mythical power on ordinary evil spirits.
The most beautiful figure on the battlefield is none other than the red-haired Ilohi.
No one knows how to kill monsters quickly better than her!
She stood in the sky with her hands open, her clothes fluttering, her hair flying in the wind, and the ripples in the space behind her spread out for hundreds and thousands of meters. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of flaming meteorites fell from the sky and slammed heavily into the evil wave.
The damage caused by this attack is comparable to a salvo of fire from hundreds of strange crystal cannons.
After firing the next round, Yiluoxi did not stop, but circled half a circle and went to another defense zone to continue pouring out blazing sky fire. She wanted more people to see her invincible heroic figure.
However, after several rounds of fierce bombardment, Ilohi had to rest.
It's not that she's wilted.
She still had 30% of her life energy left, but she had to keep it in reserve in case she had the opportunity to show off but didn't have the energy to do so - ahem, the main instructor said that when dealing with ordinary evil spirits, you must remember not to let your energy run out. She wasn't afraid of the instructor, but what the instructor said did make sense.
Well, that's it.
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The number of evil spirits was so huge that it seemed endless. But the difficulty of the promotion war was not just in terms of numbers.
As time goes by, the number of Seven-Star Evils that appear also increases.
If the Seven Stars Evil Spirits foolishly charged forward, the Mythical Powers would take action and quickly kill them. However, some Seven Stars Evil Spirits, including a few Six Stars Evil Spirits, were good at ultra-long-range attacks. They did not need to set foot on the oasis land. They could attack the Spark City from dozens or even hundreds of kilometers away just by being in the gray fog.
Horrible energy continued to attack from afar.
There are myths that try to resist, but if they defend for too long, they will lose. Humans don't have the resources to fight against evil.
At this time, a strong man is needed to take action, go deep into the evil waves alone, and kill these high-level evil spirits that can pose a great threat to the defense rituals.
This is the second difficulty in the promotion war.
If they are not careful, the Myth Team that goes deep into the enemy's territory alone will also perish!
More than a dozen myths, including Xitina, Xing Jinglei, Poli, Mingdeng Mage, Roland, etc., either formed a team or rushed into the evil tide alone to kill the seven-star evil spirits hundreds of miles away.
Xitina's whole body was burning with blazing golden flames. She was eager to fight, but sometimes she killed too much. She went in and out of the evil tide seven times, in and out seven times, and then forgot to go home.
Xing Jinglei transformed into a small giant several meters tall and carved a bloody path through the evil tide.
However, even though the evil attacks did not break his defense, they greatly restricted his speed. His charge speed became slower and slower, as if he was being buried in the evil tide.
"day!"
"Master Shiben's Body-Splitting Dance."
This skill was highly compatible with him, and Xing Jinglei had already practiced it to a high level. He didn't need to dance awkwardly in the evil tide, just a few exaggerated tremors in his chest muscles, followed by a half-squat with his legs apart, his left hand pressed tightly on his right shoulder, and his right shoulder quickly pushed up, returned to its original position, and then pushed down... In just a few steps, he met the prerequisites for the Split Body Dance.
In an instant, his muscle strength continued to increase, and his skin cracked and healed in an instant.
His momentum surged, and a faint red flame rose from his body. As he pushed his shoulders up and down during the Body Splitting Dance, he smashed all the evil spirits around him. The next moment, he shot out, as if he had smashed the space. He suddenly arrived in front of the target, the Seven Stars Evil Spirit, and kicked it hard with a light red wave of air...
Bang!
The space shook.
The entire body of the Seven-Star Evil, which was larger than a mountain, was shattered, and countless huge corpses were scattered everywhere, crashing down on the surrounding evil spirits.
Xing Jinglei shook his shoulders and tore a few small evil spirits into pieces. "Humph, who said I don't have any output!"
Time passed, one hour, two hours, three hours...
The evil waves are still coming from all directions.
The soldiers had already lost count of how many evil spirits they had killed. If they had not been mentally prepared, this endless battle to defend the city with no end in sight would have been enough to drive them to despair.
It was as if the whole world was filled with dense evil, and their oasis was the only remaining isolated island.
Sooner or later, you will be swallowed up by the endless waves of evil.
There may not be so many evil spirits in the entire domain!
Of course, this statement is not appropriate.
Normally, there is a limit to the number of evil spirits in a region, and he can use his divine sense to scan and find out. However, Fang You has tried it before, and when he killed evil spirits in a large area, the more he killed, the more evil spirits there were, and there was even an indescribable great terror.
The environment at this moment was different from when he went deep into the gray fog alone to kill people, but there was one similarity.
It is the appearance of Gui Xie!
The evil spirits did not gather from all over the region, and even the promotion of Spark Oasis did not cause much momentum in the Falling Star Region. Only the mythical beings could sense that the energy fluctuations in the region were a little abnormal.
These strange and evil things appeared out of nowhere in the gray fog hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of miles away from the oasis.
After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, the awakened ones and myths defending the city have been rotated, and the scene outside the city is still the same as it was two days ago.
The sky was covered with evil.
The earth is littered with broken bones.
The evil at the end of the sight is still charging.
But the lack of change also shows that after two days and two nights of hard fighting, the entire Spark City was not damaged at all! Whether inside or outside the city!
It was inevitable that the defending soldiers were a little tired.
Compared with the promotion wars of hegemonic forces such as Yuntu Kingdom and Shuiman Kingdom, the fact that Xinhuo was able to survive the first two days without any injury is a miracle and a manifestation of strength.
For two days and two nights, Fang You had not rested. From time to time, he entered a "pseudo-high-level divine consciousness posture" to overlook the battle situation from afar.
At this moment, changes can be seen in the distance.
“The big one is coming.”
