Chapter 1 The Fading Barrier

As the magic barrier enveloping Ancient Rock City gradually dissipated, the watching crowd in the distance stared dumbfounded, speechless in the silence.

They couldn't believe that such a powerful defensive magic array could be completely shattered by three severely injured Saint Magic Dragons.

"Damn it! How could this be!"

Beast Emperor watched the disappearance of the magic barrier, his face unspeakably gloomy.

The magic barrier could be said to be a city's protective umbrella. Without this umbrella, anyone could enter and exit the city and wreak havoc.

Before Beast Emperor could react, Aqua Rose raised the staff in her hand.

"Small ballista carriages forward! Attack Ancient Rock City with all your strength!"

As soon as Aqua Rose issued the order, two hundred small ballista carriages advanced towards Ancient Rock City.

Ancient Rock City originally had defensive structures, but after being controlled by the Evil God's Temple, the Fiends and Evil Beasts didn't know how to operate them. They were practically just decorations. Without the counterattack of defensive buildings, the small ballista carriages faced no threat at all.

Soon, Ancient Rock City entered the attack range of the small ballista carriages.

*Shu shu shu…*

Immediately, two hundred explosive arrows shot out, passing through the tall city walls like raindrops and landing inside Ancient Rock City. Then, a series of explosions echoed throughout the city.

With just one wave of arrows, many of the buildings on the outskirts of Ancient Rock City were razed to the ground…

"How dare they!" Beast Emperor watched as many of the houses used by the Fiends for rest were destroyed, his heart bleeding. He then commanded all the Evil Beasts and Fiends, roaring, "Charge! Destroy all the ballista carriages for me!"

At this point, Beast Emperor didn't care about city defense. He only wanted to destroy all of Zero Wing's small ballista carriages.

The attack of the small ballista carriages also caused the Evil Beasts and Fiends controlled by the NPCs to move, directly following the Evil Beasts and Fiends controlled by Beast Emperor to kill Zero Wing.

In an instant, a dark, wave-like mass of Evil Beasts and Fiends charged towards Zero Wing's army.

The Zero Wing members in front of the small ballista carriages felt their scalps tingle.

However, Aqua Rose didn't care. She directly ordered the activation of the mobile defensive magic array. Suddenly, a magic barrier enveloped the entire army.

"Ballista carriages, attack these monsters with all your strength! Everyone else, cooperate with the ballista carriages to eliminate them! Flying Shadow, the three of you, hold back those Legendary monsters!"

As Aqua Rose's orders were issued, everyone quickly reacted and began to move.

Although there were many of these monsters, and their levels were very high, they also had a defensive magic array on their side. As long as the defensive magic array existed, these Fiends and Evil Beasts couldn't harm them, not to mention the two hundred small ballista carriages providing output.

For a time, the small ballista carriages continuously outputted, and arrows bombarded the monster piles of Evil Beasts and Fiends, exploding. Grand Lord-ranked Fiends and Evil Beasts were forced to retreat in the face of these arrows. Lord-ranked Fiends and Evil Beasts were severely injured upon being hit, and Leader-ranked Fiends and Evil Beasts were instantly killed.

The Zero Wing members were frantically outputting behind the defensive magic array.

However, the Fiend and Evil Beast army didn't stop. They continued to attack the defensive magic array to consume its energy.

As one Fiend and Evil Beast after another was killed, the energy of Zero Wing's defensive magic array was rapidly decreasing, forcing Aqua Rose to be ready to replenish magic crystals at any time.

Roars, battles, explosions, for a time, these became the main melody of this hilly area. Individual strength seemed insignificant at this time. Only the large-scale destruction magic of the magic units seemed to have some effect.

The spectacular scene of the battle stunned the players who came to watch.

Some dark players who originally wanted to ambush Zero Wing's army stood quietly in place, none daring to rush forward.

Because the level of this battle had exceeded their understanding of player battles.

Personal skill had no meaning at this time, because as long as they dared to rush up, not to mention whether they could reach the Zero Wing members, just the small ballista carriages would be enough to handle, coupled with the existence of the defensive magic array, they couldn't even touch the Zero Wing members and would only become living targets for Zero Wing's army.

While Zero Wing's army was engaged in a long war of attrition with Beast Emperor, Shi Feng finally led his thousand-man legion to a location not far from the Dark Witch Tower.

The Dark Witch Tower was located next to a small lake in a valley. Backed by mountains and facing water, the environment could be said to be very good. Originally, this was a very nice small town, but after a necromancer took a fancy to this place, he turned it into a dead town and built the Dark Witch Tower here to specialize in death magic.

As time passed, this small town became a gathering place for dark forces, and now it has become one of the resting places for dark players in the Orc Empire.

However, when Shi Feng approached the Dark Witch Tower within 3,000 yards, the Dark Witch Tower suddenly sounded an alarm, alerting all the players inside the Dark Witch Tower.

"Who dares to come to our dark players' gathering place?"

"It should be a team that accidentally took the wrong path, right? Otherwise, who would dare to approach this place besides us dark players?"

"Took the wrong path? It's just as well. I haven't completed my kill quest for today. It's not bad to use them to test my blade."

The dark players inside the Dark Witch Tower laughed and joked about this, feeling that the player team that came to the Dark Witch Tower was simply stupid. Before coming to the Orc Empire, they didn't even investigate which places in the Orc Empire were off-limits.

As a gathering place for dark forces in a neutral map, there are corresponding alert measures. Because dark forces are very weak in the entire God's Domain Continent, in order to protect themselves and survive, they will take precautions. When the number of normal players approaching the gathering place exceeds one hundred or there are other NPCs, the gathering place will issue a warning.

"They really came." A man wearing a black robe and bandages all over his body, sitting in the bar drinking fine wine, couldn't help but reveal a trace of a smile. He then looked at a beautiful woman sitting next to him wearing a deep blue robe, like a noble lady, "I wonder, Guild Leader Shen Yin, are you going first, or should I?"

"Although I really want to avenge the last time against Zero Wing, I am now more curious about how capable Beast Emperor's high disciple is, that Beast Emperor is willing to pay any price." Shen Yin glanced at the black-robed bandaged man and said with a faint smile.

Beast Emperor, that old fellow, is now very famous in the industry. After all, being able to control an army of Evil Beasts and Fiends cannot be underestimated by any force, and Chen Yuan himself, although he has no fame, is highly valued by Beast Emperor, even to the point where his cooperation conditions with Dark Soul are to provide Chen Yuan with the resources he needs as much as possible.

Willing to invest such a large amount of resources in one person shows how much Beast Emperor values Chen Yuan.

Now that they have known each other for a while, their Dark Soul doesn't know anything about Chen Yuan. Now that Zero Wing has arrived, it is a good opportunity to see Chen Yuan's ability, and she naturally can't miss it.

"Alright, let's treat this as the beginning of mutual trust between us." Chen Yuan nodded, then raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. "It's almost time. They should be very close to the city walls. Let's go over too."

Saying that, Chen Yuan got up and left, and Shen Yin also took more than a dozen of his subordinates and followed behind.