Chapter 1244 Soul Descent

On the battlefield, the fighting had entered a fever pitch.

As expected, Feng Bujue's previous lie that "we have cut off three-quarters of the enemy's supply lines" was gradually failing.

Although his words did boost the morale of the kingdom's army for a while, such mental support was difficult to maintain for long in the face of reality.

Of course, the vast majority of the kingdom's soldiers were prepared for this.

They weren't fools. From the beginning, they hadn't completely believed Feng Bujue's words. Everyone understood that since the redundant army could open the first batch of detonation tunnels, they could naturally open a second, third, or even the *n*th batch; even if Feng Bujue was telling the truth, the end result wouldn't change, because the enemy's forces would eventually replenish...

Frankly speaking, the soldiers treated Feng Bujue's remarks as a kind of "placebo," just like someone with an incurable disease using morphine to relieve pain... accepting it and allowing themselves to gain temporary peace.

"The enemies on the west side have already approached the city walls."

"The squad led by Pumpkin Head has been completely wiped out..."

"The vampire and Bigfoot troops are about to collapse. The sweepers have injured their progenitor."

"The Ancestor of the Black Dragons has been critically injured and is on the verge of death. He has now transformed into human form and has been sent to the magical emergency room."

"The goblin self-organized suicide attack squad has completed its mission..."

One bad news after another was delivered to the command post, but the king wasn't there at all.

Mr. Hanji, who had rested for a while, had returned to the battlefield and was almost single-handedly holding off the enemy forces on the south side.

Indeed... his shit-control ability had no limit, but his stamina did, and his ultimate moves had a cooldown period... Under the offensive of thousands of redundant soldiers and three sweepers, even someone as strong as Mr. Hanji could only barely hold on.

And Feng Bujue's partners were also deep in battle, scattered everywhere, fighting against the redundant soldiers.

In the eastern sky, Dianjue Wang had transformed into the "Ancient Devil Guardian" form, like a giant bronze bell, combining physical and magical attacks to block the enemy's impact.

In terms of combat power, Lao Wang was the only one of the NPCs Feng Bujue had encountered who hadn't lost power in the war; unfortunately... his power was inherently incomplete.

Since leaving the Gate of Emptiness, Dianjue Wang had been in a "recovery period." His appearance represented the degree of his recovery; during Season 2, he looked like a child, but now he had the appearance of a teenager... To return to his "prime state" in the previous era, he would theoretically have to wait until his appearance matured into that of a middle-aged man.

In short, Dianjue Wang's "transformation" was actually "overdrawing" his power, but the situation was such that he had no choice...

Looking at the north of the city wall, the Billy Brothers and Xiao Tan were both fighting there...

To be honest, the Billy Brothers could play a very limited role in this battle, because they basically could only rely on Bill's melee combat ability to eliminate enemies; even though Bill's combat power was impressive, almost taking down an enemy with a few punches and kicks, in this large-scale battle with a huge disparity in numbers, such a speed of killing enemies was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

As for Billy, who was skilled in abilities such as "illusion" and "mental," he was helpless against the redundant soldiers, who had no "self-awareness" at all; if his body was still there, he could have used his telekinesis to participate in the battle, but... the Fighting Demon had destroyed this possibility two years ago.

As for Xiao Tan... his speed of killing enemies was even faster than Bill's.

After some exploration, Xiao Tan had figured out various methods to "instantly kill" the redundant soldiers; his attack was a typical "assassin-style" attack, using the least cost, the fastest speed, and the highest efficiency to instantly kill the enemy.

But... even so, relatively speaking, his efficiency was still very low.

In the face of an army as dense as dark clouds, this method of killing monsters "one by one" was definitely inferior to AoE (area of effect), which was an obvious truth...

For example, Mr. Hanji's wave of shit hit more than twenty enemies, killing five of them and injuring more than a dozen... Even if those injured were ignored, he had killed five enemies in two seconds.

And Xiao Tan and Bill's method of killing monsters was to move, attack, retract, find the next target, move again, attack again... Not to mention that the enemies weren't living targets, and even the weakest of them would have some reaction, even if the enemies were just a group of living targets... Being able to maintain an average speed of killing one enemy every four seconds was pretty much the limit.

That is to say, using that method of killing monsters one by one, killing five monsters would take about twenty seconds... Compared to Mr. Hanji's efficiency, it was a whole ten times worse.

In fact, this was the biggest problem facing the Monster Kingdom in this battle...

In terms of individual strength, the Kingdom Army was definitely much stronger than the Redundant Army. In terms of "one-on-one duels," as long as they didn't face the Sweepers, any soldier of the Kingdom Army could win one victory after another.

But how long could this "winning streak" last? Ten matches were possible, but what about a hundred? A thousand? What about facing multiple redundant soldiers at the same time?

This question was like "How long can a thousand martial arts masters hold out against the imperial court's million-strong army?"... War isn't a martial arts duel. In large-scale battles, area-of-effect attacks are much more important than the ability to fight one-on-one.

However, AoE skills definitely consume a lot of energy. If they could be used without limit, Mr. Hanji alone could solo all the mobs.

The battle had lasted from dawn until now. Those dragon clans (relying on their body size and magic energy), mages (of various races, using area magic), and Void clans (technological races using plasma weapons) in the King's army who had area damage capabilities were basically at the end of their ropes. Their physical strength, magic power, and energy... After such a long time, they had also used up almost all of it.

At this moment, when another new batch of redundant soldiers emerged from the sky, despair... finally descended again.

After persevering for so long, when the body's fatigue had reached its limit, seeing a large number of enemy reinforcements whose numbers had not decreased at all... this feeling became the last straw that broke the soldiers' psychological defenses.

They began to fear, not fear of dying... but fear of living, of living in this purgatory-like eternal night.

"Don't give up!" But, in the midst of the despair, there was still a voice that said firmly, "As long as we hold on until Feng Bujue returns, we can win."

As the voice fell, Xu Huai Shang's figure had already appeared on the west city wall. Facing the defense line that was about to be breached, she also revealed her trump card – [Soul Descent].