Chapter 996: Retaking the Fortress

Translator: alyschu

"Should we wait for The Monarch Descends and Blazing Hot Lips?"

Gui Guzi looked behind them and said, "There are at least several hundred thousand Purple Grape City players in White Fortress. I’m not sure we can take it with our numbers."

However, I looked toward the front and said, "It’s fine. We’ll ride up the walls from the inner section, occupy the high ground and wait for reinforcements!"

"Okay!"

I unsheathed the Purple Ying Sword and shouted, "It’s time to take back the fortress. Kill!"

Behind me, the Dragonlight Cavalry pulled out their weapons and shook the clouds with their battle cries. Although we were only several thousand strong, our morale was about as high as it could be. White Rose Fortress was ours to take.

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On the fortress, a commander from Purple Grape City called out to his troops, "Archers, mages, switch to the Far Shot mode and prepare to stop them! All mounted players are to get to the ground and block the enemy now! Notify all players inside the fortress that war is upon us!"

I had checked out White Rose Fortress’ blueprints before. From a bird’s eye view, It looked just like a square-shaped city. As long as we occupied the walls, we would hold all the cards, and all the advantage.

"Full speed ahead! Don’t let them shut the gate on us!" Gui Guzi shouted while charging.

Countless arrows and magical spells rained our way, but we simply blocked them all with our shields without losing any speed whatsoever. Dragon Soul Protection already increased our defense, but the Far Shot mode itself also reduced damage. As a result, the ranged attacks barely tickled us.

The commander clearly didn’t expect us to be as tanky and speedy as we were. He hurriedly barked out a new order, "Riders, forget blocking the enemy! Shut the gates now!"

Unfortunately, it was already too late. Several thousand Purple Grape City mounted players had already galloped out of the gate and were charging toward us.

Close-ranged combat had always been our forte, and we carved through the Purple Grape City riders like a hot knife through butter. In fact, now that I thought about it, this might be the first true battle our cavalry experienced since we swapped out our original mounts for the Dragonscale Beasts. Not only that, the 1000 Dragonlight Archers behind us fired their Skypiercers into the sky and killed many enemy riders as a result.

I became the first person to slip past the gate before it was shut completely. I looked around and saw a dozen or so players pulling at the winch and attempting to shut it.

After I killed them all with Burning Blade Slash, Gui Guzi appeared behind me with a mad laugh. I pointed to the right and ordered, "Little Gui, you and your men scale the walls from the right while I go from the left! Let’s occupy the high ground first before we do anything else!"

"Got it!"

Most of the mounted players on the walls were dismounted because their mounts didn’t do well on stairs. That was not the case for the Armored Ice Qilin Horse or the Dragonscale Beast. Ignoring the enemy’s attack, I rode all the way up to the walls and fired Thousand Ice Slash at the enemy. At the same time, I summoned my apparition and made it use Purple Dragon Howl!

"Roar!"

All the players on that particular section of the wall were annihilated in an instant. Behind me, Heaven’s Rain showed up with the Dragonlight Cavalry and occupied it in no time. It wasn’t long before we had taken all the walls of the fortress.

"All mounted archers, shoot the players inside the fortress!" I pointed.

It was a good day for the Dragonlight Archers. The walls were too high for the enemy archers and mages to hit them from the ground. On the other hand, they could shoot with greater range and power.

While this was going on, Gui Guzi, Heaven’s Rain and I continued to expand our control while reducing Purple Grape City’s. The Dragonlight Archers also used Skypiercers and Spiraling Arrow Blades to bombard the Purple Grape City players who were now trapped at the center with nowhere to run.

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Gui Guzi couldn’t stop grinning seeing that the situation had fallen completely under our control. While cutting down enemies left and right with his spear, he said with a laugh, "Boss Broken Halberd, we have retaken White Rose Fortress!"

"Not yet..." I replied with a worried tone before sending He Yi a message: "How goes the battle at Black Coast, Eve?"

She replied, "It’s fierce. Cyan Earth City sent a lot of powerful guilds to attack us, and it’s still a statemate even though we’ve been fighting them at Cyan Tiger Forest for 7 hours straight. What’s wrong?"

"I’m attempting to take control of White Rose Fortress in order to crush Purple Grape City’s next move, but the amount of troops I currently have is not enough even with The Monarch Descends and Blazing Hot Lips’ 100000 players. If Red Maple and God’s Domain attack us now, we may lose White Rose Fortress a second time."

He Yi fell silent for about a minute before she replied, "Alright, I just told Xu Yang to amass an army of one hundred thousand and meet up with you. You should speak to him directly for more direct orders. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to send you Chaos Moon, Li Chengfeng, High Fighting Spirits, Beiming or Lian Xin any time soon because we need them, and Snowy Cathaya is on the brink of falling apart. The good news is that the Indians will be forced to retreat if we manage to withstand this assault. Their losses are just as bad as ours."

"Got it. Thanks!"

After that, I contacted Xu Yang directly and asked him, "How’s the rallying going, brother?"

Xu Yang replied, "Give me five more minutes. In five minutes, The army and I will depart for White Rose Fortress and reach you in about half an hour. I also borrowed 50000 Bloody Mercenaries elites from Du Thirteen and another 50000 from the subguilds, so that’s 200000 troops in total, hehe!"

That was joyful news. "Hahaha, well done! I’ll be waiting at White Rose Fortress!"

"Okay!"

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This was just the beginning, but the war had already proven itself to be most exciting!

It didn’t take long for The Monarch Descends 7000-strong cavalry to arrive. Beauty Purple Wind Chime was so brutal that she commanded her army to charge toward the enemy in a straight line. Together, we worked together to slaughter the remnants of Purple Grape City. When Eyes Like Water arrived with her thirty thousand troops, the battle became even more one-sided as a matter of course.

"Time to go down and clean up the enemy, people. Kill!"

The Dragonlight Cavalry and I joined our allies and attacked the enemy. Half an hour later, all 300000 Purple Grape City players inside the city were slaughtered at the price of just 20000+ troops. Most of these players were The Monarch Descends cavalrymen too.

After I returned to the walls, I walked to the section facing toward the outside and stared at the Purple Grape City parties marching toward us and ordered with a smile on my face, "Dragonlight Archers, shoot them the second they enter your attack range! Tell them with your arrows that they are not allowed to do as they please on China’s soil!"

Everyone pulled their bowstrings and waited. When the Purple Grape City magic knight at the forefront of the party arrived beneath the gate, he called out with a smile, "Guys, open the gate, please! We’re here to help!"

The only response he got was a face and body full of arrows. Before he died, he squeezed out a comment from his throat, "What the fuck!"

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After he died, the players at the back reacted with a furious cry, "Shit! White Rose Fortress has already been retaken by the Chinese! What else are you waiting for, people! Attack! This fortress belongs to the Yamato!"

On the walls, Eyes Like Water said with a smile, "All mages and archers, do not conserve your MP and arrows and shoot them with everything you have. We can always resupply later. Show these people that their dream of occupying our home is just that, a dream!"

A ton of firepower rained down the sky, and as expected the Purple Grape City players were unable to withstand it. The Skypiercers of the 1000 Dragonlight Archers were especially deadly. Gui Guzi’s Knight God buffed the Attack of everyone in his party by 225%, and Skypiercer was a super AoE skill. It wasn’t long before several thousand players were turned into several thousand corpses. Wounded and wary, the remaining Purple Grape City players withdrew out of range and set up temporary camps. There were at least a couple hundred thousand of them.

"Holy shit, there’s so many of them..." Gui Guzi commented.

I frowned a bit before replying, "Fuck, this isn’t good. Our numbers are too few. Once they bring their siege weapons, it’s only a matter of time before White Rose Fortress falls, no matter how strong its walls are."

Gui Guzi asked, "You must have an order for me, right?"

I nodded. "When the enemy’s siege weapons show up, I want you to head down there with our cavalry and charge the enemy. We cannot allow them to approach the city no matter what. We need time, and we will have it even if we must sacrifice ourselves."

"I understand. We all do!"

"Very good!"

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It was at this moment I received a message from the opposite wall. "A huge number of Purple Grape City players are approaching this side of the wall! They’re going to launch their attack any time now!"

After I bade Gui Guzi a hurried goodbye, I took Heaven’s Rain with me and ran all the way to the opposite wall. I arrived just in time to see a long stretch of dust clouds and a great number of red-named riders charging toward us. After I activated Dark Pupils to extend my vision range, I swore, "Fuck! Speak of the devil!"

"What’s wrong, big brother Lu Chen?" Heaven’s Rain asked.

I pointed at the riders and said, "That’s God’s Domain!"

"Ah..."

Everyone knew that God’s Domain was the number one guild of Japan. A true king of guilds, it had over 50% of Purple Grape City’s experts under its thumb. Frankly, I didn’t think that we would be able to hold them off with our current numbers. A simple glance told me that there were at least a hundred thousand of them.

At the forefront of the formation, Red Maple laughed with killing intent in his eyes, "Cyan Frost, you sure that the leader of this army is Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand?"

"Absolutely!"

The ice knight said with a smile, "Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand attacked White Rose Fortress immediately after he massacred those idiots from Tail Feather Palace. He definitely deserves his title as China’s Divine General. His luck ends here, however. There is no way he can stop our main forces with just one hundred thousand troops!"

Red Maple smiled lightly. "Hmph, you think too lightly of my appetite, Cyan Frost. I want more than just one hundred thousand players!"

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I grinded my teeth but unsheathed my weapon anyway. I shouted, "Prepare for battle!"

It was at this moment I heard a new rumble from the right side of the forest. The next moment, Xu Yang and his cavalry burst into the open.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Haha... that’s big brother Xu Yang!" Heaven’s Rain cheered.

I pointed my sword forward and ordered, "All Dragonlight Cavalrymen, ride with me! We will meet up with Xu Yang and attack God’s Domain together! Hmph, to think that this would be the place of our first clash!"