Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 655

Chapter 655: 655

Chapter 655: Slaughter and Harvest [V6C185 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]

Seeing Song Zining retreat with injuries, Qianye made a prompt decision to leap into the swarm of dark races below the wall . The might of his Oceanic Vortex erupted in full force, eliciting miserable cries from the dark race soldiers within a several dozen meters radius . The low-ranking soldiers were immediately crushed to the ground . The cannon fodder were deformed and perished quickly under the great pressure . Finally, the high-ranking warriors were able to struggle for a bit, but they could only hold out for a couple of moments .

Only ranked experts could resist the power of Qianye’s Oceanic Vortex, albeit barely . Just like that, the three relatively calm viscounts became evident in their midst .

Qianye stepped forth and slashed out thrice with East Peak, each strike in a different direction . And everywhere his blade fell, a viscount would fall—there was no escaping his strike no matter how they struggled or dodged .

Qianye immediately grew weaker after the three strikes . He wasn’t overzealous for battle, either, and simply jumped back into the fort .

That which Qianye had used was the sword art he had comprehended, Sweeping Calm . The move was simply too tyrannical, and up until this point, Qianye could only unleash three strikes . He was still a long way from calming the eight directions . After going all-out just now, Qianye felt an emptiness inside him as he returned to the fortress—he had already exhausted most of his origin power .

But Qianye’s slaughter of the three viscounts had intimidated the dark race army below the walls . No one dared give chase when he returned to the walls .

Qianye stood atop the fort and gazed coldly at the enemies . Countless dark race warriors were intimidated by his aura and actually didn’t dare approach the fortress . As such,an odd, empty space appeared below the walls .

At this point, a cold but majestic voice echoed through the land, “A bunch of useless trash! I’ll give you one hour to take that fortress or else everyone will be put to death . ”

The voice was cold and mechanical without the slightest of emotions . His tone was incomparably natural even when he was talking about putting a ten-thousand strong army to death . Who knew how many similar orders he had issued in the past?

However, the backbone of the fortress defense force was made up of Zhao clan elites . Among them were a fair number of officers brought in from the Fire Beacon Corps . These people had fought countless battles against the dark races, so how could mere words scare them?

The dark race warships attacking from the skies were struck repeatedly . Two corvettes burst into flames at almost the same time and fell to the ground .

That voice snorted deeply in anger . Soon afterward, a beam of prismatic light shot out from the command vessel and traversed thousands of meters toward the fortress .

At this moment, another clear voice rang out in the sky . “Attacking the juniors? What skill! Come, come, come, Zhang Xuandao is looking forward to a battle!”

These words hadn’t even ended when a figure rushed out of the imperial fleet and into the clouds . A green figure also flew out from the Evernight fleet and followed suit . Dark clouds suddenly billowed in the skies as the two divine champions began fighting .

Now that even the general was in action, the subordinate experts didn’t dare remain indifferent . They immediately pressed their armies on and launched a fierce attack . They also split off an army to circle around the fortress and chase the retreating Zhang clan forces .

Qianye had just caught his breath when the dark races once again swarmed over like tides . Moreover, this time, they were extremely fierce and attacking with reckless abandon . Right from the start, origin bullets, cannon shells, and ballistae poured onto the wall like rain . In the blink of an eye, the soldiers beside Qianye had fallen in droves .

Qianye had just raised a heavy shield when he heard sounds akin to rain striking banana leaves—the density of bullets was almost unbelievable . Even someone of Qianye’s strength could feel his hands trembling somewhat .

He stretched out a leg and flicked a crate of hand grenades . His free hand then blurred into countless afterimages as he removed the safety pins . The dozens of explosives froze for a split second in the air before they were sent flying with a single wave . The grenades exploded in the air, sending a rain of shrapnel pouring into the soldiers below . This effectively mowed down large swathes of enemies .

“Grenade!” Qianye roared . Two Zhao clan veterans immediately rushed over with two crates of explosives and placed them in Qianye’s reach . Afterward, they ran back to fetch more . However, they were only halfway when a stream of bullets sent them flying off the wall, never to rise again .

The battle was extremely intense at this stage . Qianye watched the soldiers beside him fall one by one as he tossed out crate after crate of grenades . Every time those nets of firepower flickered into existence, a small area would be cleared out in the dark race army .

At first, the ranked officers and high-ranking soldiers would attempt to block Qianye’s grenades . However, there were simply too many grenades exploding at the same time . They gave up on intercepting them after a couple of tries .

At the height of the battle, Qianye reached back for grenades but found nothing . There were only empty crates around him, and there weren’t any soldiers, either . He was the only one left defending this stretch of the wall .

He gave up defending the segment at this point, and with a quick roll, he soon vanished behind the fortress walls . Following his retreat, dozens of high-ranking dark race warriors rushed onto the wall, prepared to charge into the fortress . But they felt a chill run through their vitals before they could take the next step, and soon, their vitality began flowing out rapidly .

Several of the stronger warriors looked back with difficulty . Only then did they realize that Qianye had appeared amongst them at one point . The sword in his hand looked rather slow but had actually stabbed through their vitals in the blink of an eye . The dark race warriors who had charged up the walls thus lost their lives .

Qianye swung the sword sideways and swept the petrified corpses down the wall . Then, he looked around at the surroundings .

A dozen or so airships were roaming about in the skies . Most of them were small, agile vessels since the bigger ones had been called back to tangle with the imperial fleet . The fortress guns were extremely fierce in firepower . Two turrets had been destroyed already, but the defensive fire remained stable due to the all-out activation of the hidden rapid-fire cannons and ballistae . Several flaming whips formed a flaming net which struck repeatedly at the Evernight warships .

At this moment, the fortress had been surrounded by the dark race army . Most of the walls had been breached, and the enemy soldiers were pouring inside like tides . However, the Zhao clan defense forces were well-experienced in war . The fortress walls were merely the first line of defense . The fortress itself was like a giant maze . After entering it, the dark race invaders found themselves under attack from all sides . Zhao clan soldiers would appear from every door, every window, and every rooftop .

Even with a natural advantage in terms of physique, the high-ranking dark race soldiers couldn’t handle the beleaguerment . Their casualties began stacking up rapidly .

The wall under Qianye and Song Zining’s guard were one of the few segments that hadn’t been broken through . The soldiers around them were fighting and slowly retreating toward the two .

At this moment Song Zining had already jumped into the fray . The spear in his hands shuttled about like a silver dragon, spitting out a faint glow from its tip . The attacks were so sharp that none of the high-ranking warriors could take a single hit . Even those swept by the rear end would find their bodies cut open . The ranked warriors had it easier, but they still couldn’t block an all-out thrust from him .

Song Zining was surrounded by countless floating leaves . Most of them were illusions, but a couple of them would turn into sharp blades from time to time and reap the enemies’ lives .

Song Zining’s smile was nowhere to be seen, and his expression was as calm as still water . He slaughtered with all his heart, the silver spear and domain complementing one another flawlessly .

It seemed like Song Zining’s killing efficiency was much greater than Qianye's, but he had already used up all his killing moves . Even his domain was only deployed in its most basic form in order to reduce consumption . At the same time, it was also to prevent the dark race experts launching a focused attack on his domain .

Meanwhile, Qianye looked somewhat miserable . In fact, that was the case since the very beginning . He had mostly relied on grenades and various gunpowder weapons to defend against the incoming enemies . He had only expended origin power when he was killing the three viscounts, while most of the time, he merely relied on his powerful physique to kill enemies . Hence, his strength had been well conserved .

Seeing the dark races gain momentum, Song Zining finally ordered the soldiers around him to retreat into the fortress’ interior, while he remained to guard the rear . A river of blood flowed below his spear as he entrenched himself at every step of his gradual retreat . The path leading to the fortress walls was filled with dark race corpses after Song Zining had passed through .

The battle was at its fiercest when Song Zining suddenly felt the pressure on him decrease sharply . The soldiers in front of him fell down one after another . He looked back and saw Qianye on a certain high ground, the gatling gun in his hand spitting out tongues of flame and clearing out a large area in front of Song Zining .

Song Zining immediately retreated into a small alley and brought his subordinates toward a cannon turret . The cannon turrets and kinetic towers in the fortress were the most important areas, and the defenses were exceptionally powerful . They were more or less a fortress within the fortress . The Zhao clan defenders had set up powerful units to guard these nodes . Song Zining was naturally clear about all this, so he went to support one of them immediately after retreating from the wall .

With the fortress wall lost, the pressure on the defense side increased exponentially . Qianye was already half-mad with all the fighting . The entire fortress was his battlefield, and anything could become his weapon . He appeared unpredictably here and there; from east to west . When the great army assembled and charged into the fortress, Qianye threw caution to the wind and used his Oceanic Vortex and Life Plunder to clear out an entire area . Meanwhile, Spatial Flash and Sweeping Calm became the nightmare of every Evernight expert . Even a first-rank viscount would be killed on the spot without enough time to react .

Within moments, the casualty rates skyrocketed among the dark races . If there were any statistical reports at this time, the numbers would be enough to shock the commander .

The dark race experts finally became more vigilant after the repeated deaths . They no longer dared to attack wantonly and, instead, paid rapt attention to their surroundings . They would suddenly turn back to guard against Qianye’s sudden appearance .

The experts were pivotal in the assault . Once they became apprehensive, the entire dark race momentum started to fall .

At this point, Song Zining was standing atop one of the turrets and looking down at the entire fortress . However, Qianye was already insane and was simply fighting by instinct . He had long since stopped contacting Song Zining, and the latter couldn’t find him, either, as he flashed about the battlefield .

Although he couldn’t find Qianye, Song Zining couldn’t help but draw in a breath of cold air after seeing all the corpses appearing out of nowhere on the battlefield .