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The once prosperous Pan Shi City was now filled with silence, its noble clans long gone, leaving behind deserted estates.
Within the city, the abandoned included the subjects, alien races, small families, rchants, and the stationed troops.
Apart from the three hundred thousand professional army and over five thousand fifth-tier epics stationed by the Old Witch, the rest of the locals were rely the exploited lower class.
At this mont, in the sky, the Ghost King summoned by the Artifact Spirit Long Banner was still entangled with the Three-Clawed Blood Dragon.
anwhile, the Blood River covering the entire city began to increase its corrosive intensity.
As ti passed, the city defense barrier upheld in the sky started to show countless cracks, crawling over the protective barrier like a spider web.
Bit by bit, the power of blood seeped through the cracks, transforming into wisps of red mist, slowly dyeing the barrier blood red.
The pungent scent of blood spread slowly and persistently throughout the entire city.
"Roar!"
At this mont, a more than three-ter-tall Demon Soul erged from the Artifact Spirit Long Banner.
With a human body and beast face, it wielded a massive axe exuding chilling ghostly qi.
The aura at the peak of the sixth tier, combined with terrifying strength, slashed the axe onto the barrier with violent energy.
Under the enhancent of the Blood River, the terrible energy erupted with extre power.
The sound of "crack" resounded where the axe struck.
A gash over ten ters long tore apart the already crack-filled city defense barrier, blasting open a breach.
In the next mont, countless Demon Souls whistled out from the Artifact Spirit Long Banner.
The dense swarm of Demon Souls, carrying terrifying ghostly and chilling qi, poured into the breach.
Ultimately, the Demon Souls broke into Pan Shi City.
At this ti, in a small courtyard of a family in the southeast of the city, a group of rcenaries gathered there.
"The surroundings have been cleared, and an illusionary formation has been set up; outsiders can’t see our actions."
"Good, then let’s start releasing the portal now. Brothers, success or failure is decided in one move, so please guard the entrance vigilantly."
The rcenary leader glanced over the mbers of the rcenary group, then took out the pre-prepared array plate from the inventory.
"Don’t worry, boss, the three hundred thousand professional army and the vast majority of fifth-tier epics have been distracted, as for the twenty or so guards, they’re just silver spears in appearance."
"Exactly, boss, rest assured to proceed, since we’ve also prepared, even if ten fifth-tier epics ca at once, they wouldn’t easily pass our blockade."
"Ninth is right, success or failure hinges on this, winning ans glory and luxury, becoming a lord, losing, well, we’d just start over!"
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Looking at his rcenary subordinates, the leader smiled reassuringly, and then without hesitation, he injected his spiritual power into the array plate.
Instantly, a silvery-white glow with a hint of pale blue spread from the array plate.
Almost in an instant, the space sealed earlier was slowly pried open by a powerful spatial force, tearing it bit by bit.
The entire space fluctuated, changing from stable to turbulent, until spatial rifts appeared.
The pitch-black spatial cracks gradually fragnted the surrounding space, and then a tall, pale-blue portal slowly condensed in this fragnted space.
With the activation of the array plate, the space fluctuations nearby beca extrely intense, naturally sensed by the fifth-tier epic warriors in the distance.
Without hesitation, five fifth-tier epics not integrated into the formation rushed towards the southeast of the city like long rainbows.
Seeing this area unchanged, yet sensing intense spatial fluctuations, the five imdiately knew this area had an illusion laid out long ago.
A massive fla was released by one person, crashing into the southeast district.
The fire spread, transforming into a sea of fire descending from the sky.
The surrounding buildings were ignited instantly, quickly spreading in all directions.
Yet in this section of the southeast district, there was no fla burn.
Apparently, so defensive formation was set up here, thus shielding it from the high-temperature flas released by the Fla Burn skill.
The five exchanged glances, then launched powerful skills toward this fla-free area.
Explosions of "boom! boom!" resounded in this area, yet no smoke or dust rose.
Instead, this area seed out of place with the world.
All around, everything burned in flas, but not a single red glow appeared in this area, adding to its strangeness.
And at this mont, the rcenaries guarding the site had long set up their battle formation, using the power of a protective array plate to barely uphold a small barrier.
The flas from above burned the small barrier, rely consuming part of the barrier’s energy before being forcibly extinguished by a force.
Subsequent combined attacks by the five bombarded the small barrier, causing it to totter and develop many cracks.
anwhile, the powerful energy affected the surrounding structures, collapsing many of them.
As for whether any people existed in the collapsed buildings, that was not the concern of these rcenaries at all.
They had started evacuating people or alien races around to this side since they prepared to act, even offering so incentives.
Most people simply ran away once they got the benefit.
Unfortunately, so stubborn idiots liked to haggle, trying to extort more benefits.
So, whether those fools died or not was of no concern to these rcenaries!
The war had now started, they, the [Land of the Dead], had sent troops to invade the whole of Pan Shi City, sweeping across it like dry weeds.
At this point, if there were still those courting death, would it not be fulfilling their wishes to let them perish; doing otherwise would hurt one’s conscience!
The five epic warriors saw that a round of attacks had no effect and had even failed to break the illusion.
Exchanging glances, they began more frequent attacks, using skills with three tis more power.
Regarding the option of directly entering to check, none of the five even ntioned it.
What if sothing terrifying was lurking within the illusion? If they rushed in, wouldn’t that be the sa as seeking death?
Having beco old hands under the Old Witch, they naturally put their own lives first at all tis.
Risk-taking was impossible, they would only dare to perform long-range attacks from afar and conduct a covering strike.
As for whether the covering strike might diminish the attack, that was unavoidable.
At this mont, the rcenary leader had successfully opened the portal and was cautiously maintaining its stability.
Seated outside the city, Zi Liyuan imdiately reached the temporary parade ground in the military camp.
The Dread Knight King Lord’s team had long assembled, and seeing the portal open, they imdiately rode into it on their skeletal horse mounts clad in heavy armor.
The entry of the Black Cavalry into the city unleashed combat power beyond what any ordinary fourth-tier corps could withstand.
Moreover, each horse of the Dread Knight King bore a Wraith Mage clad in a black robe!
With these wraiths, various enhancing spells, curse spells, and protective spells naturally stacked upon the Dread Knight King.
This could increase their combat power by at least fifty percent!
With a complent of five thousand, along with the replicas, this comprised a cavalry unit of thirty thousand!
Able to fully contend with over a hundred fifth-tier epic warriors of the Human Race.
Even if they couldn’t defeat a hundred such riders surrounding one fifth-tier, they could still hold their ground without a hitch!
As the Dread Knight King entered the city, especially with the Nightmare Knights joining, the terrifying black-armored heavy cavalry charged directly from the southeast district.
Where they passed, they wielded their slaughtering blades high, rcilessly cutting down the stationed army soldiers around them.
In no ti, those second-tier stationed troops transford into bloody fragnts under the hooves.
The five fifth-tier epics were blocked by the Nightmare Knights leading a hundred trusted black cavalry.
The Nightmare Knight, at the peak of the fifth tier, single-handedly blocked three epic warriors of the Human Race, while the other two were surrounded by the hundred trusted black cavalry.
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