Chapter 260: Hurting Others Hurts Yourself First? One Hall Loses, One City Falls?
“How can they still have so many people?”
Standing on the city wall, Huang Lang looked at the grey-clothed people six kilometers away, not knowing what they were discussing. His brows furrowed tightly, and he could hardly believe his eyes.
The previous nearly thousand grey-clothed people had already caused Furious Wind Town heavy losses. Although the overall number of martial artists had not decreased much, the number of Bone Forging Realm experts had dropped by nearly one quarter.
With Blood Condensation Realm unable to act, Bone Forging Realm experts were the core combat strength. Once all Bone Forging Realm experts were wiped out, the remaining Organ Refining Realm martial artists would be nothing more than fish on the chopping block.
Now there were another thousand grey-clothed people. If they fought another battle, the losses of Furious Wind Town would be unimaginable.
“What is there to fear from them? At worst, both we and Star Tower City will use our foundations and have the martial artists carry heavy ion bombs to perish together with them. I don’t believe their numbers can exceed all the martial artists in Furious Wind Town!” The tall Flame Horn Tribe woman at the side said, full of madness.
“Alec, what do you think?” Huang Lang could not help looking at the middle-aged Mountain Ridge Race man beside him, who wore light blue second-tier alloy battle armor.
The middle-aged Mountain Ridge Race man, as the vice city lord of Star Tower City, could be said to be Star Tower City’s representative and the one presiding over the overall situation in Furious Wind Town.
Alec gritted his teeth and said, “I have to request instructions from the city lord on this.”
Having martial artists carry heavy ion bombs to perish together was something only done in desperate situations. Now, just to deal with a thousand grey-clothed people, they wanted to resort to such means. If this spread out, it would become a joke among the major cities.
But this matter was indeed as Huang Lang worried.
If they really had another death match with this group of grey-clothed people, that was also something they could not accept.
“Fine, then let’s request instructions from the leader and the others.” Huang Lang nodded in agreement.
Soon, Huang Lang and Alec made some preparations and went to the resting place of Zhuo Gu and Lie Shan, the two Blood Condensing Realm experts, and explained everything in full.
Originally, such a small matter did not need to be reported to the two Blood Condensation Realm experts, but the battle with the grey-clothed people would affect the subsequent battle with the City of Light Chasing, so they had no choice but to come and ask specifically.
“Last time they sent out more than ten vice city lord level experts in one go, and this time there are another thousand people. It seems this group of grey-clothed people truly intends to fight us to the death.” Zhuo Gu frowned slightly after listening to the report.
He had originally thought the grey-clothed people mentioned by those caravans were only difficult to deal with because they hid in the Mountain of the Dead, making their tracks hard to find. But now it seemed the strength of these grey-clothed people was much greater than expected.
“Use it.” Lie Shan, after pondering for a moment, said from the side, “I may not know who these grey-clothed people are, but since they dare attack Furious Wind Town, then however many come, that many will die.”
“Yes!” Alec bowed and left the room.
As Alec, Huang Lang, and the others left the underground secret room, a trace of anger appeared on Lie Shan’s face.
“If not for the rules of the domain city, that group of grey-clothed people would not be so arrogant. Afterward, I will definitely inform the clan leader, and then we will properly deal with these grey-clothed people!” Looking at the list of the dead that Alec had brought, Lie Shan was filled with fury.
A battle of less than one thousand people had already cost Star Tower City over a hundred Bone Forging Realm experts and two vice city lords. Such losses had not occurred even when facing tens of thousands of monsters attacking a town. Yet now, because of a group of grey-clothed people, the losses were so great. If this spread, it would definitely become a laughingstock among the major cities.
“This time, having those martial artists use heavy ion bombs to perish together should be able to teach those grey-clothed people a lesson.” Zhuo Gu shook his head slowly and said, “Instead, that super genius who came from the domain city this time is the key to this great battle. With that super genius possessing strength equal to Blood Condensation Realm, if you of Lie Shan’s side have no means to counter him, then in this war, our Holy Blood Mercenary Group can only withdraw.”
From the beginning, he had not cared about the matter of the grey-clothed people. They were only a newly emerged faction. No matter how many Bone Forging Realm experts they had, could they outnumber a city?
In contrast, the super genius invited from the domain city was different. Strength equal to Blood Condensation Realm and the ability to actually oppose Blood Condensation Realm were worlds apart.
If no one could stop an expert of Blood Condensation Realm level, then this war would be nothing but a joke.
“Brother Zhuo Gu, rest assured. Big Brother Hu Lei has already paid a huge price to order a batch of berserk potions from outside the domain.” Lie Shan said with a smile. “As long as we have that batch of Type 3 Rage Potion, even that super genius will have no way to stand against us.”
“You mean that newly developed potion from the Tianhe Domain?” Zhuo Gu’s expression showed surprise.
“Yes, that potion.” Lie Shan nodded, his smile widening.
The berserk potion developed by the Tianhe Domain could be said to have broken the balance of the martial artist world. With just one bottle, a person’s strength could skyrocket. Perhaps that super genius from the domain city was formidable, but when faced with a group of Extreme Bone Forging Realm experts who had taken the Type 3 Rage Potion, he would still die with resentment.
The Type 3 Rage Potion could easily allow an Extreme Bone Forging Realm expert to possess, for a short time, the strength to contend with a Blood Condensing Realm master. As for him, a genuine Initial Stage Blood Coagulation expert, if he truly faced a group of people capable of contending with Blood Condensation Realm, he would die on the spot, let alone a so-called super genius who was not even at Blood Condensation Realm.
“If that is the case, then I am relieved.” Zhuo Gu looked at the confident Lie Shan and resumed his cultivation.
Outside Furious Wind Town, on the other side, over a thousand players had gathered.
“Captain Luo, is your resurrection point set up?” Fang Zhen looked at the increasing number of martial artists on the city wall and could not help asking Luo Wu Shang in the burrow.
“It is done. Everyone can come and bind now.” Luo Wu Shang nodded.
Their several teams, in order to take this town, had spent a huge sum to purchase resurrection devices from the hall master. Each one cost two hundred energy crystals, and each core disciple could only purchase once. For this, one of Zhang Qing Wei’s purchase quotas was used.
It could be said that for Furious Wind Town before them, Tianwei had really brought out all they could.
“Finally done. Now we can properly have some fun with the other side.” Yi Ye Fu Yun said, his face full of excitement.
“Alright, let’s all bind quickly.” Fang Zhen was a bit excited as well. “This is a place with over one hundred thousand martial artists. If we don’t hurry, once those NPCs push through here, all the great benefits will be gone.”
This time, merits were not based on how many enemies players killed, but on how much loot they brought to martial arts halls to redeem. Right now, every martial artist in Furious Wind Town was wearing at least B4-grade battle armor, with many in B6-grade armor.
Although a set of B4-grade battle armor could only redeem ten merit points, the advantage lay in quantity.
One hundred thousand martial artists meant one million merit points, while becoming an officer required only one hundred thousand merit points. Taking Furious Wind Town would allow at least ten officers to be born.
With Tianwei taking seventy percent, each team could secure an officer quota.
Once they became officers, the qualification to establish garrisons would be within reach. At that time, they could recruit freely, without worrying about the later entry of large guilds and major consortiums.
In less than ten minutes, over a thousand people finished binding.
Shortly after the players finished binding, they soon discovered that Furious Wind Town had actually taken the initiative to send people charging toward them.
“What is going on? Can these NPCs take the initiative to attack?”
“Damn, it looks like those NPCs are holding bombs!”
“These NPCs are insane! They don’t even plan to leave us a complete corpse to loot after we kill them?”
“Shit! This game task is too ruthless. They don’t even plan to leave us any loot.”
The players grew anxious as they watched the martial artists carrying heavy ion bombs.
This version event depended on loot to exchange for merit. If everything was blown up, they would get nothing at all.
“Hahaha, look! Those grey-clothed people are scared!”
“Too bad being scared is useless. Today, none of them will leave alive!”
On the wall of Furious Wind Town, Huang Lang, Alec, and the other senior officials looked at the grey-clothed people in utter chaos in the distance and could not help but laugh.
They had thought these grey-clothed people were fearless lunatics, but now, seeing them panic at the sight of martial artists holding heavy ion bombs, they felt indescribably pleased.
“Shit! We can’t let them blow up first! Everyone who can self-detonate, come with me! As long as we explode first, those battle armors are ours!” Li Tianxing from Mythical Paradise looked at the charging army of martial artists and used Heaven-Treading Steps to rush forward.
“Right! All beginner martial artists draw their fire. Those with large-area skills, attack when you can. As long as we kill them first, their loot will be preserved!” Fang Zhen reacted and immediately commanded.
In High Martial Arts Descend, bombs were the ultimate in physical destruction. Once they exploded, nothing was left. But if someone was killed by internal force, the person would die while the battle armor and weapons would not be significantly damaged. The power of internal force lay in penetration, harming the opponent at the energy level.
Members of the major teams quickly reacted, rushing to engage. They tried to gather these martial artists while maintaining a certain distance so the martial artists could not self-detonate first.
For a time, Li Tianxing and the others, who had mastered internal force self-detonation, rushed straight into the crowd, detonating themselves before those martial artists could use their heavy ion bombs.
As the players lured those martial artists, Luo Wu Shang, in the rear, struck once she saw the moment was right.
Heavenly Severance.
With just one sword, she took away more than a hundred players and at the same time killed dozens of martial artists holding heavy ion bombs.
This scene of battle left Huang Lang and the others on the city wall stunned.
They could not understand what these grey-clothed lunatics were thinking.
Using self-detonation to counter self-detonation, using mutual destruction to counter mutual destruction, and the key point was that the grey-clothed people killed more of their own than enemies. This made Huang Lang and the others seriously suspect Luo Wu Shang and the others had grudges against their companions and were now taking the opportunity to settle them all at once.
With the end of the first wave of battle, the over one thousand martial artists sent by Star Tower City were all annihilated. Aside from a very few who managed to detonate heavy ion bombs, the vast majority were killed by the grey-clothed people.
As for the several hundred grey-clothed casualties, they were either from self-detonation or killed by their own people. Those truly killed by heavy ion bombs were very few.
“Do we still need to send more people?” Alec felt a chill as he looked at the remaining more than one hundred grey-clothed people.
As a veteran vice city lord of Star Tower City, he had seen countless brutal scenes, but he had never seen anything this ruthless.
When he sent those suicide squads to perish together, he had already felt he was being cruel.
Compared to these grey-clothed people, however, he was an angel.
He seriously suspected these grey-clothed people were not human at all. They killed their own more readily than the enemy, with absolutely no sense of comradeship, as if companions were just tools to be used as much as possible.
They seemed not even to know what death was.
Directly sending suicide squads with heavy ion bombs to perish together left him feeling inexplicably at a loss, as if they had come out on the losing end.
“Send the next wave!” Huang Lang gritted his teeth. “The ones left are all experts. If we do not clear them out, our losses in a frontal battle will be no less than before.”
He had seen through this group of grey-clothed people and even somewhat understood why the caravans feared them.
Demons.
These grey-clothed people were definitely a group of demons crawling out from the abyss. As long as they could slaughter, they would not even spare their own.
If they really had to fight such demons, he dared not imagine how great the losses of their Holy Blood Mercenary Group would be.
“Second wave, move out!”
Alec thought for a moment and felt Huang Lang was right. Although the number of grey-clothed people had greatly decreased, all of them were experts. If they were not quickly eliminated, they would become a major threat.
Immediately, a second wave of more than a thousand martial artists carrying heavy ion bombs charged.
Boom, boom, boom!
Though dawn had come, under the effects of the heavy ion bombs, it was as if many suns had appeared on the ground, illuminating all of Furious Wind Town.
Just when Huang Lang, Alec, and the others thought it was finally over, only an hour later, another group of grey-clothed people appeared outside Furious Wind Town, still numbering over a thousand.
This time, Alec and Huang Lang again ordered heavy ion bombs used immediately. After sacrificing nearly two thousand martial artists, they once more killed all the grey-clothed people.
But the result was that, an hour later, more than a thousand grey-clothed people appeared again.
For a whole day, whether it was Star Tower City or the Holy Blood Mercenary Group, they expended all more than thirty thousand heavy ion bombs. The number of dead martial artists exceeded forty thousand, leaving Furious Wind Town with nearly half its martial artists gone.
“Madmen. Are all these grey-clothed people mad?” Alec looked at yet another group of grey-clothed people in the distance and was on the verge of losing his mind.
To deal with their single Furious Wind Town, the number of grey-clothed casualties was not much less than theirs. The key point was that the vice city lord level experts among the grey-clothed people had to have died in the hundreds, even thousands.
Even for a domain city, such losses would be hard to accept, yet the grey-clothed people kept sending wave after wave to attack. He could not understand what they were trying to do. Was it worth paying such a price?
“Retreat.” Huang Lang looked at the grey-clothed people outside the town and said through gritted teeth, “We have no more heavy ion bombs. If we keep fighting like this, without Blood Condensation Realm joining, we will be wiped out.”
“Retreat?” Alec looked again at the gathering grey-clothed people in the distance, his heart full of anger and helplessness.
If the grey-clothed people had sent tens of thousands of troops and thousands of vice city lord level experts from the start, he would have run without hesitation. But they had not done so. Instead, like demons, they chose to constantly wear them down, making withdrawal impossible.
“If you do not retreat, then we will. This battle cannot be fought. Our combat strength is not on the same level at all.” Huang Lang, seeing Alec still hesitating, said firmly, “As for the leader, I will explain.”
“Alright, I will go with you.” Alec understood that if they continued like this, they might win another one or two battles, but by the time they wanted to retreat, it might be too late. That was the terrifying part of these grey-clothed people.
In less than ten minutes, by the time Luo Wu Shang and the others charged into Furious Wind Town, it was already empty. Not to mention martial artists, there was not even an apprentice left. The town of over one million people had been completely evacuated.
And not only Furious Wind Town was emptied. Even the Star Tower City army that had been fighting on the frontline suddenly received orders to fully retreat, leaving the people of the City of Light Chasing, who had been locked in bitter combat, stunned. They had no idea what Star Tower City was trying to do.
Maple Forest Town, nightfall.
“How is the investigation at Furious Wind Town?” City lord Di Luoya asked the returning leader of the seventeenth regiment, Yinuo. “What is going on with Star Tower?”
“Gone.” Yinuo replied somewhat nervously.
“Gone? What do you mean?” Di Luoya raised his brows, very dissatisfied with Yinuo’s answer.
“I mean physically gone.” Yinuo hurried to explain. “When we arrived, there was not a single living person left in Furious Wind Town. All we could see was that Furious Wind Town had experienced an unimaginable battle. The number of dead martial artists was at least several tens of thousands, and we also detected a large number of heavy ion reactions…”
