Chapter 368: Chapter 272: Attacking the City! The City's Strong Defensive Abilities!_2
And below, in the city, the Wokou, after a wave of powerful collective spellcasting, wanted to use the same spell comparable to a Minor Forbidden Spell again, which would require continuous casting time.
This period was the best time for the Spectral Dragon Legion to attack the protective barrier.
Thus, over four thousand Spectral Dragon Replicas dove straight down, their bones as hard as iron, striking the protective array, causing ripples of light to shimmer.
The relentless impacts made the barrier's light flared greatly, yet not a single crack appeared.
Compared to the town's protective barrier, the one in the major city was stronger, and it would continuously replenish the energy lost on the barrier, mending any cracks that appeared.
The Wokou on the city walls and within the city surely wouldn't just watch the Spectral Dragons collide with the barrier; the moment the dragons hit the barrier, they unleashed a flurry of attacks.
Unfortunately, only a few attacks could deal substantial damage to the Spectral Dragon Lord BOSS, but the accumulation of small attacks – a burst of assault – could still reduce about one percent of its health.
It was after the Replica took a wave of heavy blows, attracting a round of strikes from the city's garrison, that the true form of the Spectral Dragon sneaked up and unleashed a breath of "Death's Eye" onto the barrier.
The Aging Curse, with a hundred percent trigger rate, together with the attacks from thousands of Spectral Dragons, caused severe fluctuations in the protective barrier!
The corrosive power of the Aging Curse erupted instantly, almost immediately covering the entire defense barrier with dense cracks!
Even some areas, overwhelmed by the corrosive force, directly broke open dozens of breaches!
Kulong naturally would not miss such an opportunity, immediately commanding dozens of Spectral Dragon Replicas to rush into the gaps and into the city, then regrouping to start hunting the Wokou, driving these civilians to assault the troops.
Unfortunately, the protective barrier of such a large city could continuously heal itself, provided it had enough energy. The dozens of breaches in the barrier existed for only about ten seconds before they were sealed and repaired.
The Spectral Dragon Replicas that entered the inner city numbered less than a hundred.
Moreover, the Wokou within the city responded very quickly, immediately deploying a team of two thousand to encircle and attack these Spectral Dragon Replicas.
Unfortunately, the average rank of these Wokou troops was only between Second Order and Third Order, which meant their ability to damage a Lord BOSS was ultimately limited.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
And the majority of the Wokou forces were stationed on the city walls, forming arrays capable of conjoint spellcasting, so they simply couldn't be redeployed.
Therefore, the task of this more than two-thousand-strong army wasn't to slay the invading Spectral Dragons but to try their best to contain and prevent these skeletal creatures from causing slaughter and destruction in the city.
For a moment, the battle drifted into a temporary stalemate.
However, this stalemate was very brief. As Kulong sensed the massive convergence of various magical elements, he immediately ordered the true Spectral Dragons to scatter and evade.
As for the Replicas constantly diving and striking the protective barrier, they were meant to be the targets for the enemy's attacks!
Lord Zi, floating ten thousand meters in the sky, was now squinting, having pulled out several Fourth Order scrolls, ready to activate them to strike at the barrier at any moment.
Just now, a bout of undead dragon breath unexpectedly shattered dozens of gaps in the barrier, a pity indeed as he was still ten thousand meters up in the air and not prepared to strike; otherwise, if a few Fourth Order scrolls were activated and thrown down, at least a massive breach could have been blasted open, letting more Spectral Dragons into the city.
One could say a great opportunity had just been missed.
Therefore, Lord Zi pulled out the items, readying himself, while signaling the Black Dragon Sister to reduce altitude, descending to two thousand meters above the city and beginning to circle the entire city.
The enormous power of his spirit, coupled with the "Elemental Map" and "Death's Eye" detection, could essentially scan the city clean.
Using Death's Eye's ability to judge the strength of life essences, Lord Zi quickly located the gathering place of the strong within the city.
"Indeed, a great city is worthy of its name; there are really many Fourth Order warriors, and what's more, all these Fourth Order individuals are harboring spectres within them – this is somewhat outrageous."
Onmyoji professionals are one of the most common professions in the empire, so these people like to raise spectres to do their bidding.
Oftentimes, each Fourth Order warrior would raise several Shikigami, with the stronger ones capable of reaching the peak of Fourth Order power.
They had ambushed and annihilated three thousand Wokou outside the city, including more than five hundred Fourth Order warriors; yet now, the number of Fourth Order warriors gathered within the city was no less than three thousand.
"Such a large city really is a tough bone to chew, we must open a large hole in the barrier, then directly kill our way inside, and destroy it from within, otherwise..."
Wanting to directly destroy the protective barrier of such a large city is basically unrealistic, because the barrier's repair speed is simply too fast.
Just now, the thousands of Spectral Dragons' death dragon breaths nearly triggered the Aging Curse effects at the same time, yet only managed to shatter dozens of gaps in the protective barrier, and it was repaired within just a few seconds.
Lord Zi's Spectral Dragon Legion at this moment simply does not have the capability to break the protective barrier!
However, the Spectral Dragon Legion are all his contracted summoned creatures.
So, as long as he personally takes the risk to charge into the city interior, and then summons the entire Spectral Dragon Legion into the city, resolving the issue from the inside, then it would be much simpler.
"No wonder the Coalition of Nations plans against the Great Xia Empire, they need to work with those big family clans, having them act as insiders. So the protective force of a big city is actually this strong."
Zi Liyuan now somewhat understands, the city's defenses, you have to know, within the whole Blue Star, in engraving protective arrays, the Great Xia Empire is second to none.
That is to say, the cities within the Great Xia Empire, their defensive forces are definitely stronger than those of the cities in plasters nations.
"Indeed, I am still too weak."
Lord Zi thought that with a legion of over a thousand Spectral Dragon Lord BOSSes, he could sweep through most Wokou cities, only now realizing how wildly imaginative his own ideas were.
However, this Wokou city of a million people must be cleanly destroyed, as this relates to his subsequent plan to bombard Tokyo City!
"Kulong, after the opponent's big move is over, launch the death breath of the entire group again!"
"As you command, Master!"
Kulong in the high sky has not participated in the battle from the beginning, but has been hovering in the air, commanding the overall situation.
The Wokou within the city, relying on the capabilities of the protective barrier, are completely exposed to his sight, preparing various combined spells to strike.
The next moment, over a hundred beams of light once again soar into the sky, bombarding the Spectral Dragon replicas' legion.
But with the magic elemental beam bombardment from the beginning, the replicas this time are not concentrated, but spread out.
Therefore, this time the hundred beams of light only killed a little over two hundred replicas before their energy was exhausted and they dissipated into nothing.
Kulong, who had been waiting for the opportunity, immediately ordered the replica army to collectively charge at the barrier, while his true body closely followed, prepared for the death dragon breath.
"Roar!"
The replicas' collision, the Spectral Dragons' death dragon breath, nearly struck the protective barrier at the same time, instantly triggering the Aging Curse, once again shattering dozens of gaps in the barrier.
Right at the moment when the gaps appeared, two peculiar blue light swords descended from the sky, piercing directly into the two largest shattered gaps in the barrier!
Amid the "crack" of shattering sounds, the original gaps of twenty to thirty meters instantly expanded into gigantic holes several hundred meters across!
"Roar!"
Kulong and the Black Dragon Sister, the moment the hole appeared, dove in a swift plunge.
In just a blink of an eye, two Giant Epic Bosses broke into the city interior, leaving four huge claw-print craters on the concrete surface!
"Come forth, my Spectral Dragon Legion!"
Dissolving the contract, re-summoning, all in one go!
A massive summoning Array formed around Zi Liyuan, and amidst the thunderous roaring of the dragons, one after another Spectral Dragon Lord BOSS charged out from the summoning Array!