The fortress of Krips was completely surrounded by an army of skeletons, which could not reach the nearby steep mountains. Everywhere else was covered with white skeletons, forming a sea of bones.
Among these skeletons, some giant elephantine skeletons began to appear. These creatures were massive, weighing thousands of pounds, and there were tens of thousands of them. Qin Han did not know where he had obtained these terrifying large creatures; even Nie Yan had never seen them before.
Qin Han stood atop a mountain directly opposite the fortress of Krips, overlooking the land. The mountains and plains were filled with skeletons, seemingly ready to completely engulf the fortress.
He revealed a sinister smile. Six million skeletons would definitely leave the fortress of Krips devoid of even a blade of grass. Once Krips was dealt with, the forces of the Mone Consortium would begin to take over the territories of the Bullman Tribe.
“Boss, when we were organizing our forces, we assigned Light and Darkness Eternal Sin to attack several southern fortresses of the Bullman Tribe located in the Granland Empire. However, they were somewhat evasive. I think there might be something suspicious going on,” said Divine Sword Invincible beside Qin Han, carefully observing Qin Han’s expression.
“What do you think they are planning?” Qin Han’s face looked somewhat displeased.
“I dare not guess randomly,” replied Divine Sword Invincible, not daring to speak too directly. “Previously, when the Bullman Tribe sent people to harass us, both our forces and Sacred Guardians suffered heavy losses, while the Light and Darkness Empire remained unscathed.”
Qin Han glared at Divine Sword Invincible, who immediately fell silent in fear.
Qin Han had indeed suspected the Light and Darkness Empire before. He had already begun to suspect them when important meeting information had mysteriously leaked out on several previous occasions. His spies hidden within the Light and Darkness Empire had discovered some evidence, but at this critical moment, internal strife might not be a good thing. The Light and Darkness Empire had more than 200,000 players, nearly a quarter of the total number of players under the Mone Consortium’s forces. If problems arose, it would have widespread repercussions.
“Order the Light and Darkness Empire to launch an attack. If we don’t receive news from them within three hours, let them know the consequences!” Qin Han said coldly.
Divine Sword Invincible revealed a barely perceptible smile. He had successfully shifted the most arduous tasks onto the Light and Darkness Empire, allowing his own forces to relax a bit and conserve their strength.
With a sharp, piercing whistle splitting the sky, the endless army of skeletons surged toward the fortress of Krips, marking the beginning of a grand siege.
The walls of the fortress of Krips were over sixty yards high and extremely thick. On the walls were over a hundred iron-armored catapults. Countless iron cannonballs were hurled into the air, screaming as they crashed down, sweeping across the battlefield with waves of frost.
A myriad of spells exploded in the sky, radiating dazzling light and sweeping across the battlefield.
The skeletons’ assault could truly be described as relentless; they were utterly fearless, stepping over the corpses of their fallen comrades, inching closer to the walls. Among them, the elephantine skeletons, with their immense health, reached the base of the walls, continuously ramming them, creating cracks until eventually they were destroyed by concentrated magical attacks.
It was still very difficult for Qin Han to destroy the fortress of Krips by sheer force. The catapult units of the Divine Sword were advancing toward the battlefield and were expected to arrive within an hour at the latest.
Nie Yan and others stood atop the walls directing operations. The number of skeletons outside was simply too vast, seemingly endless, and among them were many very troublesome elite-level creatures.
Just as one wave was taken down by magic, another endless wave surged forward.
“Archery towers, attack! Give them everything you’ve got!”
A dense rain of arrows whistled through the air, piercing into the army of skeletons. Immediately, a large area near the walls was cleared.
Some of the elephantine skeletons used their long tusks to fling skeletons into the fortress of Krips, immediately causing chaos.
“Warriors, Paladins, hold the line! Don’t let them threaten the Mages and Priests!” Nie Yan commanded sternly in the party chat.
“Understood!”
The warriors and paladins inside the fortress quickly surrounded the skeletons that had flown in.
Qin Han made some adjustments to his tactics, adding some configurations to his forces and devising methods to attack the fortress. Nie Yan clearly felt that the pressure of defending the fortress had increased significantly. Fortunately, the walls of Krips were strong enough to hold for now.
“Boss Nie, those elephantine skeletons are too troublesome. They have too much health for us to take down,” a player shouted anxiously.
Nearly ten thousand elephantine skeletons slowly approached the fortress of Krips.
“Does anyone still have an ultimate spell?” Nie Yan shouted in the party chat. Ultimate spells had extremely long cooldown periods, sometimes taking a month or two to cool down again. Tang Yao, Xie Yao, Desire, and others had already used their area-wide ultimate spells and had not yet cooled down.
“I still have one,” said Bad Guy Who Can’t Die.
“I do too,” said Black Hell.
“I’ve got one as well,” said the newly joined Elven elemental mage, Mo Jiu.
That left only three ultimates. Nie Yan thought for a moment and said, “Hell, you take it.”
Black Hell nodded and walked toward the top of the wall.
“Wait until they get closer!”
Black Hell looked into the distance. A swarm of massive creatures was slowly approaching. They possessed sharp tusks and immense strength. If they reached the walls, the fortress would be in danger.
A thousand yards, eight hundred yards, six hundred yards…
Black Hell began chanting his spell, uttering a series of incantations. After ten sets of syllables, the sky suddenly became illuminated with holy light. Within the holy light, it seemed as if a magical gate was slowly opening. A giant beam of light descended from the sky, covering an area of five hundred yards in diameter.
Within the beam of light, countless undead screamed in agony.
The beam lasted for more than twenty seconds before slowly subsiding. The players atop the fortress of Krips looked ahead. The area outside the walls had been cleared significantly. The elephantine skeletons that had been there moments ago were nowhere to be found; they had all been purified.
Qin Han, standing atop a distant hill, saw this and couldn’t help but curse, “Damn it, another ultimate spell! It never ends with these ultimates!”
There were simply too many Magisters and Holy Priests in the Bullman Tribe, more than enough to drive anyone crazy.
“Keep attacking! I don’t believe this fortress can’t be taken down!”
The skeletons continued to surge toward the fortress of Krips, quickly filling the area that Black Hell’s holy light had cleared.
With so many skeletons, it was truly impossible to kill them all.
Just as Nie Yan and others were overwhelmed by the endless waves of skeletons, he received a message from Guo Huai: the catapult units of the Divine Sword were only ten minutes away from the fortress of Krips.
They arrived so quickly!
A glimmer of barely noticeable light flashed in Nie Yan’s eyes. He had been waiting for this for a long time.
The distant army of skeletons slowly parted to the sides. At the edge of the plain, a unit of over a hundred catapults advanced toward the fortress of Krips. Although the number of catapults was not large, if concentrated on a single point of the walls, creating a breach would be very simple. Once a breach was made, the fortress of Krips would be in danger, and the flood of skeletons would pour in.
The slowly advancing catapults placed immense pressure on the players of the Bullman Tribe.
“Boss, what should we do? They have catapults coming this way.”
The players of the Bullman Tribe looked toward Nie Yan.
Nie Yan smiled faintly and said, “I have my own plans. You all just focus on dealing with the skeletons below the walls.”
Nie Yan’s calm smile gradually eased their anxious hearts.
On a distant mountain peak, Qin Han looked at the busy figures atop the walls of Krips and then at the slowly advancing catapults below, revealing a chilling smile. Thief Nie Yan, let’s see what you’ll do this time! These hundred or so catapults were meant to be sacrificed. As long as they could breach the walls, their mission would be complete. No matter how many catapults the Bullman Tribe had hidden inside the fortress of Krips, it would be useless! They would still be overwhelmed by the sea of skeletons!
He carefully controlled the army of skeletons, keeping them far away from the catapults to avoid any disturbances between the skeletons and the players of the Divine Sword.
The hundred or so catapults were getting closer and closer to the fortress of Krips, now only about a thousand yards away. The fortress would soon be within range.
Watching the slowly approaching catapults, Nie Yan sent a message to Guo Huai, “Guo Huai, it’s time to begin.”
“Understood!”
At this moment, many mage players appeared on the mountains surrounding the plains outside the fortress of Krips. These were all members of the Bullman Tribe. They emerged from the forests, looking down at the plains below. The endless sea of skeletons was a horrifying sight. They scattered in various places on these steep mountain cliffs, where someone had created numerous open platforms on the rocky walls. On these platforms, magical arrays were set up.
There were as many as two or three thousand such platforms on the nearby mountains, and setting up all these things was undoubtedly a massive project.
Before coming here, these mage players had no idea why these mountains had been transformed like this.
Bad Guy Who Can’t Die and Desire Leading Youth led a force of six or seven thousand high-level mages, who quickly dispersed.
“Form groups of five. You all already know what to do,” said Bad Guy Who Can’t Die in the group chat.
“Understood, Boss Bad Guy.”
All the mages immediately got to work. They formed groups of five and stood on these platforms, positioning themselves perfectly within the magical arrays. Holding scrolls as activation items, they began chanting incantations. With the magical arrays at the center, intense magical fluctuations began to occur around them.
One second, two seconds… ten seconds passed. One by one, catapults appeared on these platforms. In total, there were over a thousand catapults, appearing out of nowhere.
Even the players who had personally completed the teleportation magic could not believe their eyes. They had actually moved over a thousand catapults to the mid-slope of the mountains. It was simply a miracle.
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