Chapter 1 The Stone Forest Town's Defense

The sea of demonic beasts surrounded Stone Forest Town.

Monsters were everywhere the eye could see.

The siege of Stone Forest Town was directly uploaded to the official website by members of the Tianzang Guild hidden in the town, allowing all players in the Star-Moon Kingdom to watch.

"There are too many monsters! It's the first time I've seen so many powerful ones. Can Zero Wing Guild defend against them with so few people?"

"Zero Wing Guild is probably just putting on a show. These monsters are too strong in terms of level and strength. It's impossible for any guild town to withstand them. It's just bad luck for those who bought arena memberships and private residences in Stone Forest Town."

"Giving up such a large town so easily? Shouldn't Zero Wing Guild try to resist? If they give up so quickly, who would dare to move into their towns in the future?"

"That's right. I'm definitely not buying a private residence in a Zero Wing Guild town. There's no guarantee at all!"

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Players watching the video were shocked by the spectacle of the demonic beast army, and they began to criticize Zero Wing Guild's attitude of surrender. They sneered that Zero Wing Guild was the number one guild in the Star-Moon Kingdom, but they didn't even have the courage to fight the monster army. What was the point of being so strong?

This made players who had wanted to join Zero Wing Guild hesitate.

Even some members of Zero Wing Guild began to leave the guild.

"Wanting to give up Stone Forest Town and reduce losses? It's not that easy." Yi Xiao Du Zang sneered as he looked at the forum on the official website. "I want to see how long you can endure."

Zero Wing Guild's decisive decision caught him off guard, but by posting the siege battle live on the official website forum, Zero Wing Guild had to face a choice.

Either preserve the guild's strength and abandon Stone Forest Town, or defend the town with all their might, greatly damaging the guild's strength.

The former choice was good, but Zero Wing Guild's hard-earned reputation would be ruined, and they could forget about any future development.

If Zero Wing Guild wanted to continue developing, they had to defend this siege battle with all their might!

He didn't need Zero Wing Guild to send all its members to Stone Forest Town. It was enough if they could transfer some members from the White River City residence. By then, Zero Wing Guild would lose both Stone Forest Town and the beast pens, and the title of the number one guild in the Star-Moon Kingdom would no longer be related to them.

Then, their Tianzang Guild could replace them and become the new ruler of the Star-Moon Kingdom.

Just as the players watching the video on the official website were discussing, the demonic beast army suddenly launched an attack.

The demonic beasts surged towards Stone Forest Town, and the earth trembled.

"So magnificent!"

Everyone was stunned by the wave-like offensive.

This was a true demonstration of the human-sea tactic.

With so many monsters, even the town's turrets and the Stone Forest Town's unique magic towers were just a drop in the bucket...

No wonder Zero Wing Guild took the initiative to give up. Perhaps they had foreseen this result.

"Hmm, look, Zero Wing Guild seems to have brought out something?"

"Aren't those small ballista carts?"

"It seems Zero Wing Guild was somewhat prepared."

"What's the point of being prepared? The turrets and magic towers aren't enough, so what can small ballista carts do?"

Seeing that the monsters were less than 3,000 yards away from Stone Forest Town, some players watching the battle in the town suddenly noticed many small ballista carts on the city walls and couldn't help but sneer.

Small ballista carts were easy to move, but their power was average, and they didn't have the destructive range of turrets. They might be good against players, but against monsters that were numerous and had thick hides, they were a joke.

But some people hadn't finished speaking.

The scene on the city wall shocked everyone.

One wall alone had nearly twenty small ballista carts, and all four sides added up to almost eighty...

"How is that possible? These are small ballista carts!"

Everyone was stunned. Even the major guilds watching the battle through the live video were shocked beyond words.

Ordinary players might not be clear about the value of war weapons, but the major forces knew very well that these small ballista carts might not be as good as goblin cannons, but they weren't easy to obtain.

To take out nearly eighty small ballista carts at once was something even super guilds couldn't do, but Zero Wing Guild had done it. It was incredible.

Before everyone could recover from the shock, they saw that these small ballista carts had already loaded arrows that were two meters long, with scarlet magic runes carved on them. They were obviously special arrows that couldn't be easily purchased from NPC merchants.

With a series of whooshing sounds, Stone Forest Town spewed out scarlet flames from all directions, directly facing the rushing demonic beast army.

Boom, boom, boom...

The demonic beast army was engulfed in flames that covered a radius of 15 yards, not much different from the shells fired by the turrets.

The demonic beasts at the front were knocked back and suffered serious injuries. Elite-level demonic beasts lost more than a third of their health on the spot.

After one round of arrows, the turrets and magic towers also launched their attacks. Magic and shells rained down, far more powerful than the arrows, especially the magic towers' attacks. A beam of seven-colored light swept across the center of the demonic beast army, comparable to a Tier 4 large-scale destruction spell. Monsters below the Lord level were instantly killed.

Three beams of seven-colored light swept across, instantly killing more than seven or eight thousand demonic beasts, leaving a large gap in the dark mass...

Because the small ballista carts had a short cooldown, another round of arrows fell, once again repelling the rushing demonic beasts.

The frantic arrow attacks wiped out almost all the elite demonic beasts at the front.

Before the demonic beast army could reach 2,500 yards from Stone Forest Town, their losses exceeded 30,000. The terrifying defense stunned all the players.

"Too strong! Is this the defense of Stone Forest Town?"

"Zero Wing Guild is too overpowered! They actually have so many small ballista carts. If there weren't so many strong monsters, they would have all died before reaching the walls of Stone Forest Town!"

The spectators were dumbfounded, and their previous views of Zero Wing disappeared like smoke.

"How is that possible? Why does Zero Wing Guild have so many small ballista carts?" Yi Xiao Du Zang stared at the live broadcast, clenching his fists. Stone Forest Town's continuous attacks were more like a sweeping operation than a defense. Although Yi Xiao Du Zang was surprised and puzzled, his expression quickly recovered. "Good, very good! So you have such a good trump card. Unfortunately, the demonic beast army you're facing this time is different."

Although a large number of small ballista carts provided an amazing defensive effect, causing the demonic beast army to lose many monsters below the Lord level, once these small ballista carts were approached by monsters, it would all be over.

"Interesting! I thought you Zero Wing had given up. Since that's the case, how will you deal with this move?"

Standing at the back of the demonic beast army, Qi Yi Tao sneered and waved his hand. Another large wave of demonic beasts rushed up. This time, the number was much smaller, but the quality was very high. Most were leader-level monsters or higher, and even all the High Lords charged up.

Before, the monsters were too crowded, making them easy to attack, but now, the number was greatly reduced, and the monsters had enough space to dodge, making it difficult for the small ballista carts to hit them.

Seeing the leader-level demonic beasts getting closer and closer.

On the magic towers of Stone Forest Town, two Intermediate Magic Pulse Cannons were added. Their size was significantly larger than the Beginner Magic Pulse Cannons. These were the two cannons Shi Feng had obtained from the Fallen Ark.

"Target the dense area in the center of the monster army. Fire!"