Published: February 8, 2025
The team responsible for guarding this direction of the city gate is Meng Xiangjiang's "Elegant Knight Corps." This is a name he has just given; he wants a brand new start!
This is the most powerful force in Cloud Port, without a doubt.
While the other four forces may not be too far off from the Elegant Knight Corps, the first position is not something anyone would question.
Moreover, this does not even account for the hidden strength of the Elegant Knight Corps.
The heavenly phenomenon war department initially entered the Inner City from here, starting a raid that had a perfect beginning but no perfect ending.
Everything was disrupted by the sudden sea beast tide.
Meng Xiangjiang and the heavenly phenomenon war department, or rather, the T1 Resistance Zone to which the heavenly phenomenon war department belongs, had long been in contact. To some extent, he is also considered a member of the Resistance Zone.
For certain reasons, Meng Xiangjiang knows that Cloud Port, or the Inner City, is part of the plan brought by the heavenly phenomenon war department. It is intended to become a high-level base, which is of great importance. If it were to be captured by sea beasts, the manpower and resources needed for reconstruction would be small matters, but time might run out.
Meng Xiangjiang is not a core member of the Resistance Zone; he does not know the fundamental reasons behind everything, but he knows that once the plan succeeds, he, being from Cloud Port, will surely be reused and perhaps even rise to a core position.
Thus, when the heavenly phenomenon war department began to eliminate the sea beasts within the Inner City, he personally stationed himself at the city gate to withstand the incoming sea beast tide.
Previously, Meng Xiangjiang had felt he was doing quite well, having arranged this place, and even several sections of the surrounding walls, in a very appropriate manner in a short time. It could almost be said to be the most perfect defensive formation.
However, the beginning of the sea beast assault dealt a heavy blow to his confidence.
The sea beast attacks were too fierce! Within two minutes, a large number of sea beasts had climbed the city walls, and he and his team could not effectively stop the sea beasts from approaching.
Fighting up close, battling the sea beasts in terms of numbers and casualties is something human survivors dread the most.
But who would have thought it would turn out like this?
The flame-throwing equipment, which had been quite effective before, was directly frozen and damaged by several cold ice masses, and the shooting speed of the giant crossbows built by craftsmen was simply insufficient to withstand the surging beast tide. From the start of the sea beast assault to them climbing the walls, the defensive crossbows had only fired three rounds before becoming utterly useless.
The long-range professions and firearms that once posed significant threats to sea beasts now seemed powerless against several new sea beast varieties they had never seen and the exponentially increasing numbers.
It was as if overnight, all of humanity's defensive weapons had become ineffective.
Compared to the Ying City Coalition, the attack of the sea beasts at the city gate was evidently much stronger. Three huge mutated sea whale men stood amongst the sea beasts, constantly attacking the large defensive equipment at the city gate. The massive flame-throwers were destroyed by the mouths of these mutated creatures.
The numbers of mutated octopuses, humanoid crab soldiers, mutated sea worms, nagas, and other sea beasts far exceeded those on the Ying City side.
Moreover, it felt as though the previous beast tide, which varied in scale, was merely testing the strength of the Cloud Port Alliance. Once the sea beasts understood humanity's trump cards, they launched this targeted attack.
This feeling appeared without any basis in the minds of every soldier guarding the city. This was their sense of facing this sea beast tide—extremely suffocating, targeted from all sides.