Published: February 12, 2025
“Support my ass!” The commander of East City suddenly showed a ferocious expression. He turned around and pushed his subordinate, who had just spoken, off the stone steps of the city wall, roaring, “Go and seek help, just say... East City, the city gate is broken.”
Yes, the East City gate, which had not been attacked at all before, was suddenly breached.
No one believed it. Neither the relatively experienced commander of East City nor the defenders had ever seen such a situation. No, it should be said that they had never even considered that the city gate could be broken in an instant.
“Only leave necessary personnel on the city wall. Everyone else, come down with me to defend the city. Matar, the wall is in your hands.”
After saying this, the commander of East City led his men down from the city wall.
At this moment, all he could do was block the broken city gate. Otherwise, once the city was breached from here, even if he could eventually drive away or kill all those Easterners, he wouldn’t be able to save his own life.
If anyone thinks that Ahmed, the old king, has become merciful, they are terribly mistaken.
When the commander arrived at the city gate, preparing to defend against the enemy's attack, he saw the condition of the gate.
He found it unbelievable that there was a weapon in this world capable of cutting through a gate that had defensive enhancements, was protected by a shield, and was made from specially crafted materials sturdy enough to inspire despair!
Yes, cut through! The commander saw that the breach was not a result of the gate being broken but rather a semicircular cut directly made in the wall surrounding the gate, evaporating the gate and the bricks in a certain radius, with the cut looking incredibly smooth.
The commander of East City felt his legs weaken a bit. It was hard for him to imagine if the people outside used that weapon again, whether he and the subordinates behind him, who had already deployed all their defensive equipment, would be able to hold their ground.
They probably... wouldn’t be able to hold it, right?
What puzzled him was that there were no sounds of shouting or charging at this moment, but an eerie silence instead, more silent than before. At least earlier, when the last person charged, he vaguely heard some cheering sounds.
He thought for a moment, raised his head to look at the city wall, and shouted, “Matar, what’s going on? Have they come?”
Matar quickly responded, “Commander, you’d better come up and take a look yourself. I find it hard to judge.”
That stupid pig!
The commander cursed his assistant in his heart and looked again through the breach in the city gate. After confirming he didn’t see anything unusual, he quickly climbed up the city wall.
“Commander, look! They haven’t moved at all, not even that person from before has returned... I... don’t know what they want.”
The commander looked at the distant Cloud Summit troops. Indeed, just as his subordinate said, they looked the same now as they did before; the camp was even quieter than before. The personnel movements that had appeared previously had halted, as if everyone had fallen asleep.
He felt a headache, just like his subordinate, truly unsure of what the enemy was planning.
Yet the pressure didn’t lessen at all. The commander of East City looked at the flickering camp of the enemy and felt his heart tighten even more than before.
“Report the situation here accurately to your majesty, and let him... make the decision.”
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Ye Zhongming returned to the camp, feeling slightly fatigued.
Earlier, he had used the Staff of Nature to block the attacks from the city wall, ensuring he wasn’t disturbed, while simultaneously launching a surprise attack with the Shattered Soul Bone Staff, striking the enemy's city gate.
It was an exhilarating full-power strike.
In the past, even with Ye Zhongming’s vast mental strength, a full-powered activation of the Shattered Soul Bone Staff would nearly take his life. However, after advancing to a nine-star evolver, he could use it freely, as twice the usage would only exhaust his mental strength.