Chapter 974: Paying Homage to the Dead

Translator: alyschu

"What the hell is wrong with you undead? They don’t even do too much damage! This is so disgusting!" Chaos Moon swore on top of her lungs.

I was about to say something when I noticed that the body parts tossed into our formation started glowing red. In fact, it was shining brighter and brighter. Finally realizing that something was amiss, I shouted, "Watch out! Something’s wrong with these body parts!"

Everyone looked to the ground in shock. By now, all the rotten body parts had swollen up like balloons!

Once they reached a critical point, they exploded like a bomb and dealt incredible AoE damage to everyone around them!

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

I took three hits in a row and nearly blacked out from the pain. The explosion had a radius of 5 yards, and the damage was absolutely crazy—

89932!

78822!

81278!

Those motherfucking things nearly one-shot me!

I looked around and noticed that High Fighting Spirits was the only one still standing next to me. The dozen of Dragonlight Cavalrymen standing next to me had all been killed by the explosion! Not far away, He Yi, Chaos Moon, Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi and more looked just as flabbergasted as I was. They too had less than 10% HP left in their health bar.

"What... what in the flying fuck is this...!"

After downing a Rank 10 Saint Spirit Potion, I shouted, "Dragonlight Cavalry at the back, move up and form a line now! Motherfucker, I’m going to slaughter these despicable undead!"

Thankfully, my shout broke the crowd out of their shock and made them take action. The Dragonlight Cavalry at the back also rushed forward and formed a new line of defense. The damage we took from the explosions was devastating, however. What should’ve been a controlled situation quickly turned precarious once more!

......

Bang bang bang...

The Rot Eaters continued to slam into our shields, and the siege weapons continued to throw more exploding body parts at us. The amount of damage we suffered was severe to say the least. The one silver lining we had was that the body parts took at least 2 to 3 seconds to detonate, so we at least had a small window to escape to safety. As for me, I straight up batted the body parts flying my way into the horde of Rot Eaters, killing two birds with one stone.

Unfortunately, the body parts kept coming, and the explosions kept killing more and more of our guild members.

......

I activated Great Earth Transformation and surrounded myself with three guardian swords. At the same time, I fired off a Silver Dragon Storm that engulfed a horde of Rot Eaters. At this point, everyone was pissed off at the death of their comrades. In fact, Gui Guzi was so angry that he pointed his Spear of the Knight God at the sky and shouted, "Sophie you cruel, cowardly bitch! What kind of Purgatory Sovereign hides behind her siege weapons!? Get down here and fight us if you dare!"

𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

I looked at him with an aghast expression, "Dude, she can hear you!"

"Wait, what?" Gui Guzi exclaimed in shock, "I was just venting..."

In the sky, Sophie looked down on us coldly before falling suddenly toward the ground. When she was about 20 meters above the ground, she skidded to a halt, pointed her sword at us and declared, "Foolish ants, do you really think you can stop me?"

She swung her sword, and a crimson sword aura flew straight toward us!

BOOM!

A shocking amount of damage numbers popped above many people’s heads—

297277!

271882!

312982!

......

Players dissolved into white light all around us. That one strike had one-shot almost a hundred Dragonlight Archers and wiped out 20 meters of our battle line in the blink of an eye! The fury of the Goddess of Death had completely exceeded our expectations. Only those with over 300k HP and 10k Defense stood a chance of surviving this attack!

Pa!

After the attack, Sophie rose back into the air, stared at the city with no mercy in her eyes and shouted, "Be crushed, you corrupt and hypocritical royals! And you, Karinshan, get out of your city now! You will surrender Duke Carrance to me so I may take revenge for Frosty Night Town, or I swear I’ll crush Sky City into bits!"

The city remained silent despite the Purgatory Sovereign’s demands. The NPC archers drew their bows in full and waited for Sophie to move close enough for them to land their shots.

......

Still flying higher into the sky, Sophie waved her sword again and shouted, "Filthy insects, the time for you to act has arrived!"

Movement occurred inside the city at around the same time. A beautiful commander wearing dark blue armor appeared in the city, and it was the commander of the Frost Army, Ziyan. Putting her right hand on her sword and raising her left, she ordered, "Griffin Legion, move out! Tear down those sinful siege weapons and crush those inhuman devils!"

"Jiejiejiejie..."

Bird screeches filled the air as the dark gray-colored Griffin Legion took to the skies. Almost a thousand of them had taken off at once, and they looked like dark clouds that blotted out the sky. The hammer-wielding riders swung their weapons and fired bolts of lightning onto the siege weapons, crushing them into tiny pieces.

While the NPCs waged war against one another, I shouted, "He Yi, Little Gui, take a thousand Dragon Cavalrymen and follow me! We’re going to destroy the catapults! We’re all going to die if they keep this up!"

"Got it!"

I and the elite riders of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls ignored the Rot Eaters and made a beeline for the catapults. The moment we got into range, we instantly shattered our first catapult with Burning Blade Slash, Reverse Scale Slash, Purgatory of Ice and Magma and so on.

Utilizing our high mobility to the max, we rounded a corner and headed straight for the next catapult. Everyone was buffed by Royal Road or Knight God, so we weren’t lacking in Defense or Attack. We cut down all the mobs standing in our way, used Barrier Break in unison and destroyed yet another catapult.

As the catapults broke one after another, it seemed like the undead’s assault was finally halted for now. Unfortunately, the moment we saw a ray of hope, a chorus of draconic roars immediately crushed it into pieces. Gigantic black shadows descended from the clouds, and they were none other than Bone Dragons. There were at least a hundred of them or more. Are you kidding me? You call them filthy "insects"?

"Oh no, the dragons have arrived!" Unrest spread among the people like wildfire.

Even Gui Guzi looked paralyzed with indecision. "Shit, what do we do now?"

I hurriedly turned my mount around while ordering, "All troops, return to our formation! We will work with the Dragonlight Archers and stall the Bone Dragons as much as we can! They cannot be allowed to attack the city as they pleased!"

"Got it!"

As we rushed back to the city, Ziyan barked another angry order to her Griffin Legion, "Griffin Legion, wipe out those Bone Dragons! Don’t let them harm the city!"

The Griffin Legion made a sharp U-turn and flocked toward the wave of Bone Dragons. They exploited their superior numbers and surrounded Bone Dragons with 10 to 15 Griffins for each. Although the Bone Dragons were strong, there was only so much pummeling they could take. Screaming in pain, one of the Bone Dragons retaliated, caught a Griffin in its jaws and tore it to pieces, causing bright red blood and innards to rain from the sky.

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Suddenly, a red light flashed across the neck, no, multiple necks, of Griffin Riders, beheading the brave warriors instantly. It was Sophie taking the fight to the Griffin Legionherself. They didn’t even get the chance to let out a scream before they were dead.

That wasn’t all Sophie did either. Pointing her palm at the riders of the Griffin Legion, she fired a series of Wind Blades and Ice Blades that tore into dozens of brave warriors at once. Sophie was a Purgatory Sovereign, and there was absolutely nothing they could do to withstand her attack.

More than half of the Griffin Legion was killed in an instant. Ziyan’s eyes burned with rage, but there was nothing she could do to help her soldiers—or was there? She abruptly snatched a longbow from the archer next to her, injected a kind of flaming energy into the bow, and fired a flame arrow straight at Sophie!

"Hmm?"

Sophie let out a grunt of astonishment before turning around and slapping the arrow out of the way. She glared at Ziyan murderously and asked, "Do you seek death, little girl?"

The air stirred, and a seemingly infinite pressure pressed against all our bodies. Then, Sophie shot toward Ziyan like lightning and swung her sword!

Ziyan hurriedly raised her sword to block the attack, but it shattered on impact. Blood spilled out of her mouth as she was sent skidding across the ground. She couldn’t even block one strike from Sophie properly.

"Foolish girl!"

Sophie stomped down on Ziyan’s stomach and sent a tremor across the entire wall. Then, she pressed the tip of her sword against the commander’s chest and said, "Allow me to send you to hell with this one strike!"

Tears of humiliation trickled down Ziyan’s cheeks. She was a famed commander of the continent, and yet she couldn’t even endure one hit from Sophie.

Right before Sophie was about to kill her, a gust of wind wrapped around her sword and stopped it from moving. At the same time, a beautiful figure appeared on the wall. It was none other than the queen of Sky City, Karinshan!

Chiang!

Blade clashed against blade, and Sophie’s sword was knocked away from Ziyan. Karinshan glared at Sophie while saying, "Why have you crawled out of your hole, Sophie? And what’s with this sudden assault? You used to be a human yourself! A woman who was known as one of the Ten Heroes!"

Sophie smiled. "How does it feel to be the regent of a country, Karinshan? With so much power in your hands, I bet you can’t even feel the helplessness of the weak, can you?"

Karinshan uttered with bloodshot eyes. "I fought for the weak my whole life!"

"Is that so?"

Sudden hatred erupted from Sophie’s eyes as she growled, "If that is true, where were you when the one thousand civilians of Frosty Night Town were killed? Where were you when Duke Carrance called those people heretics and burned them on stakes? WHERE WERE YOU!? If you haven’t forgotten all your honor as a citizen of the empire, you will give me Carrance right now! I will withdraw my army once I’ve offered his head to my dead mother!"

Karinshan shuddered from head to toe. "What did you learn, Sophie?"

Sophie said coldly, "Coldblade told me everything, Karinshan. Surrender Duke Carrance now. This is your only choice!"

Beside Princess Karinshan, Ziyan struggled to her feet and said, "Carrance is the symbol of honor of the empire! He’s also our only Sword Saint of Stars left! We cannot give him up to this devil!"

Sophie broke into a manic smile. "Then you leave me no choice but to burn everything in Sky City into ashes!"

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Meanwhile, a Bone Dragon had moved close enough to the ground to give Li Chengfeng and Gui Guzi a dragon breath bath. I hurriedly threw my sword at the miniboss's neck and dragged its aggro to me while they were recovering. At the same time, I ran to a position where the archers could shoot it.

Beiming Xue smiled. "It’s an Immortal Rank miniboss, people! Shoot it down! With some luck, we might get Immortal-grade equipment out of this!"