Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 977 - 682: Cannon Fodder
Ye Ye looked toward the place where he and Nai Nai had just been standing, only to see that it had been smashed by a giant stone projectile, bricks shattered, cracks on the wall extending far...
Fragments of stone were everywhere, still burning with blazing flames, acrid black smoke rising straight to the sky.
Seeing this scene, Ye Ye’s face involuntarily paled; he shuddered to imagine what would have happened if he and Nai Nai hadn’t moved away in time.
Although it’s a game, although there’s resurrection, but... such a realistic scene brings an absolute shock to the soul.
Even though he had gradually become familiar with the rhythm and gore of the "Elf Kingdom" in battles time and again, Ye Ye’s throat still felt dry at this moment.
"It’s a catapult! They’ve used a catapult! Damn, where’s the Divine Arts defense barrier? What’s the guild doing?!"
He cursed facing Gale.
And shortly after his cursing, countless screams erupted from all parts of the city walls.
Ye Ye raised his head and then saw in the sky, meteors dragging black trails and burning incessantly.
These meteors drew a bent arc in the sky, flinging themselves toward Augus City.
In Ye Ye’s stunned gaze, these "fallen stars" smashed into various places within the city, easily shattering houses into pieces and igniting fierce fires...
From the city wall, he could see the panicked citizens inside the city, hear the cries of those human NPCs, the wail of children, and the screams of women...
Arrows continued to rain in from outside the city walls, occasionally hitting unfortunate players and militiamen, just that the former’s corpses would gradually disappear, while the latter lay still in a pool of blood afterward, never moving again.
Ye Ye even saw a few Silver Bosses, who usually toy with demon beasts in the wild, easily hit in vital spots by arrows fired from an unknown direction outside the city, directly perishing.
Worse yet, unfortunate enough to be directly struck by "meteors" coming from the sky, in the enormous roar afterward, not a trace of blood could be seen.
The mixed scent of blood and burnt char stimulated his nasal passages, causing Ye Ye to coldly shiver and wipe cold sweat off his forehead, which had somehow appeared.
He looked at players on the city walls shooting continuously towards outside the city, then looked through shooting slits at the dense crowd of grey soldiers beyond, releasing a deep breath...
At this moment, his hands were trembling.
Though before the war began, he had eagerly anticipated this feast, when the war truly arrived, Ye Ye realized that when a game is so realistic it’s indistinguishable from reality, the shock it delivers isn’t something expressible in mere words.
At this moment, he felt quite insignificant.
In this war, however strong a player might be, they are nothing more than a trivial soldier.
And just at this point, with waves of cheers, Ye Ye suddenly saw a golden beam of light shoot skyward from Folzer Fortress...
The beam shot into the sky and spread quickly toward all directions, eventually turning into a pale golden defensive shield.
The shield enveloped the entire city within, leaving only a gap less than three meters high on the vertical direction of the city walls.
A whistling sound accompanied, as more meteors dragging thick black smoke crashed down, but this time, they merely hit onto the defense barrier, causing ripples...
Afterward, under the golden glow, those meteors turned directly into ashes, disappearing completely.
"Hahaha! The Divine Arts defense barrier is activated. Let’s see how their catapult stays arrogant now! Hahaha!"
Beside him, Gale laughed.
The warrior player looked at the sky and then glanced at Ye Ye, who seemed not to have recovered, patting his shoulder:
"What are you daydreaming for? Fight quickly! Everyone is uncomfortable the first time in such a war, you will adjust soon enough!"
Hearing Gale’s words, Ye Ye nodded.
He took several deep breaths, adjusted his state, and then picked up the magic gun again, joining the battle.
With the protection of the Divine Arts defense barrier, players on the city walls felt a lot more relaxed.
Though arrows from both sides still intertwined like rain, they no longer had to worry about anything suddenly coming down from above.
Ye Ye fired chaotically toward under the city walls and ended up not hitting anyone, slightly regretting not having skilled into [Heart Arrow].
Gradually realizing that the catapult could no longer cause damage to the walls, the Red Maple Army outside also changed tactics.
The sound of horns came again as the army formation changed once more.
Masses of Red Maple Soldiers split from the crowd, carrying cloud ladders intended for siege, beginning to move toward Augus City.
"Hey hey, are they going for a forced attack now? Even without siege towers? Yezi, watch out, the best moment to harvest experience points has come!"
Gale laughed aloud.
Ye Ye nodded, pulled out a bottle of magic potion from his pocket, drank it all to replenish magic, and raised his magic gun again.
Outside the city walls, the Red Maple Soldiers moved quickly in their siege.
They seemed to be crazed, shouting and rushing toward the walls.
The players’ elemental bullets and arrows fell like raindrops, and soldiers fell like wheat, but even so, they did not stop advancing.
Yet, when these Red Maple Kingdom soldiers approached the city walls, Ye Ye frowned slightly.
These sieging soldiers, their gear seemed far inferior compared to the archers just now.
Many of them weren’t armored, but wearing coarse, black, white, or grey robes, simple hoods and white headscarves, holding only a weapon in hand.
"Is this the cannon fodder force? Light infantry?"
Ye Ye frowned and spoke.
"Eh? Does the human army also have siege cannon fodder squads? It wasn’t in the intel that heavy armored soldiers would siege, was it?"
Gale was equally puzzled.
The Segis World is primarily ruled by supernatural powers, even on battlefields, the warriors are absolutely the main force among the main forces.
Aside from certain intelligent races driving servant armies like Goblin for siege cannon fodder, most races prefer utilizing heavily armored transcendents when attacking cities.
Especially humans.
Humans from the Holy Mania Empire excel at using heavy-armored soldiers plus siege towers.
This is what players had thoroughly studied in advance, already prepared for bloody war on the walls.
At this moment, looking at these poorly-equipped soldiers outside the walls was somewhat unexpected.
However, although poorly equipped, the soldiers’ morale was unusually high...
They seemed to have thoroughly cast aside life and death, charging forward while falling without a single step back.
There were simply too many of them...
Batch after batch fell in death, yet more soldiers constantly supplemented from behind.
Finally... braving players’ arrows and magic, these seemingly crazed soldiers reached beneath the city walls.
Cloud ladders were set onto the walls, and they began climbing from below.
"Yezi, prepare to meet the battle!"
Gale reminded.
Ye Ye nodded, put away the magic gun, and drew his longsword.
The first batch of Red Maple Soldiers swiftly ascended the city walls, engaging the players in combat.
And Ye Ye confronted a short and skinny Red Maple Soldier with a white headscarf.
The soldier raised a short sword, screaming and charging at Ye Ye.
Ye Ye’s eyes flashed, thrusting out his longsword.
Surprisingly, a mere probing attack easily stabbed the blade into the soldier’s chest...
Not a transcendent!
Such a thought instantly popped into Ye Ye’s mind.
A slightly cold wind blew over, removing the soldier’s headscarf.
In Ye Ye’s astonished gaze, revealed a face full of wrinkles.
It was the face of an elderly.
Moreover, a female.
This was an old woman.
She gazed at Ye Ye with a look mixed with fear, despair, madness, and a trace of relief...
She coughed twice hoarsely, then turned to ashes.
Leaving Ye Ye, holding the longsword, standing in place...
The ones sieging were not light infantry.
They,
were civilians.
