I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 265-2: The Dragon-Slaying Siege Ballistae, Shattering the Demon-Subduing Seal (2)

[You raised the Thunder Dragon Staff-Spear and drove its tip into the Forbidden Jade Seal…]

[With a cracking sound, visible fissures spread across the jade seal, then branched out like a spiderweb.]

[The Forbidden Jade Seal crumbled into a pile of powder. In the depths of your awareness, you seemed to hear countless Outer Demons roaring in wild exultation…]

[The sealing power of the Demon-Subduing Altar has drastically weakened. You know that soon, innumerable Outer Demons will pour forth from the altar…]

[Please return to your assigned Celestial Palace at once to repel the invasion!]

This time, Lin Xun didn’t choose the defensive point inside the palace. Like everyone else, he stood guard at the front of the Cloud Bridge.

He immediately summoned a Three-Headed Lion to stand before him, then began casting his ultimate spell.

[You raised two staves and chanted a long, intricate incantation…]

[…]

[The Demon-Subduing Altar began to quiver, and with it, the Cloud Bridge and Celestial Palace trembled without cease…][A gigantic rift split open in the air. From within crawled countless Desire-Bearing Defender Demons, their faces green and tusked, shaped like fiends…]

[Each stood three meters tall, clad in eerie green flames, brandishing polearms and tridents as they surged out like a tide. Nearly five hundred filled the breach!]

[Behind them came another five hundred Desire-Bearing Trāyastriṃśa Demons, and behind those, five hundred Desire-Bearing Night Demons…]

[Over a thousand Outer Demons charged straight for you, and these fifteen hundred were only one-seventh of the total army!]

[Tens of thousands of Outer Demons squeezed through the rift, pouring toward the seven Celestial Palaces like an endless tide!]

[They screamed and howled as they advanced, their approach imminent…]

One wave’s vanguard plus the main force amounted to five hundred. With all three waves combined, that meant fifteen hundred.

If yesterday was still a small-scale skirmish, today was a real war!

[The Three-Headed Lion before you roared, its massive body forming an iron wall to hold back the Outer Demons’ assault.]

[But the sheer numbers were overwhelming. Before long, it was covered in hideous wounds, its blood dyeing the Cloud Bridge red…]

[You spoke the final syllable of the incantation…]

[In an instant, starlight erupted…]

[Countless Outer Demons were bathed in annihilating starlight. Within that searing brilliance, they shrieked and began to evaporate and die!]

[When the light finally dimmed, a vast clearing stretched before you. Of the thousand-plus demons attacking the Celestial Pivot Palace, nearly a third had perished in that cataclysmic blast!]

[The remaining demons still charged forward in a frenzy. But in that brief moment, the Three-Headed Lion’s injuries had completely healed. With another roar, it braced itself to meet the onslaught again…]

Lin Xun pressed Falling Starlight once more. With two more area-clearing ultimates, he could wipe out all the demons attacking the Celestial Pivot Palace.

[…]

[When the starlight faded, a vast empty clearing appeared before you once again. Of the countless Outer Demon army, only four to five hundred remained.]

[The Three-Headed Lion let out a roar, a note of excitement echoing in its voice, it seemed to sense victory was at hand.]

[You felt a trace of fatigue…]

“Lin Xun, come help me over here first…”

Li Xingyue suddenly called out. The usual calm and composed demeanor of this female superior was nowhere to be seen, her beautiful face was tinged with urgency.

Her Shell was that of an assassin, poorly suited for area attacks. Even though she had deliberately learned AoE skills before tackling this Easter Egg Chapter, facing an endless tide of Outer Demons alone on the Cloud Bridge was still pushing her to her limit.

[You looked toward the Celestial Sphere Palace to the side. Your gaze pierced the drifting clouds to see that the Giant Door Star Lord had already fallen back to the very end of the Cloud Bridge.]

[The bridge itself was crammed with dense hordes of Outer Demons. The Giant Door Star Lord’s demon-slaying speed clearly could not match the demons’ advance, her situation was far from optimistic…]

[Will you hurry over to assist?]

Lin Xun ordered the Three-Headed Lion to hold the bridge, then swiftly returned to the Celestial Pivot Palace.

He switched to the Palace Master Shell to summon the shikigami Snow Woman.

He handed over all the President’s equipped staves for her to use.

The yokai woman transformed in an instant, now cloaked in a robe and mantle, wearing a demonic mask, wielding two staves like a true archmage.

Snow Woman’s entire body was covered so thoroughly that even in reality it would be hard to spot anything unusual, let alone in the game.

He ordered Snow Woman to stand guard with the Three-Headed Lion and pose as the President Archmage, while Lin Xun himself transformed into a dragon!

[You have possessed the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit!]

[You opened your jaws wide and let out a piercing dragon roar…]

[…]

[The pitch-black giant dragon burst through the gates of the Celestial Palace. With a beat of its wings, you soared into the sky!]

[Please select which Celestial Palace you wish to assist…]

[On the Cloud Bridge of the Celestial Sphere Palace, savage Outer Demons were packed shoulder to shoulder. The Giant Door Star Lord swung her massive cross-bladed scythe again and again, every stroke not only knocked aside several steel forks thrust at her but also cleaved three or four demons to pieces.]

[Yet such a pace of killing was paltry in the face of the demonic horde.]

[The Giant Door Star Lord had already retreated to the very end of the bridge. The Outer Demon army was about to set foot on the palace grounds…]

[Suddenly, a dragon roar split the sky. Torrents of pitch-black dragonfire rained from the heavens!]

[The black dragonbreath swept across the Cloud Bridge. Before that searing, venomous fire, hundreds of demons shrieked as they dissolved into putrid sludge…]

[When the dragonbreath finally died down, the bridge was empty, only the Giant Door Star Lord remained at one end, while hordes of demons waited at the other.]

[The Giant Door Star Lord tapped her toe lightly against the ground. In a flash, she reappeared at the bridge’s front, resuming her defense against the invasion…]

“I’ll buy you dinner tonight~”

The black-stocking lady threw you a grateful look before turning back to hold the bridge.

“Kid, I need help too…”

Wang Zong, who had been bragging about the lack of difficulty moments ago, now decisively called for aid, his former swagger nowhere to be seen.

[You looked down upon the Sixth Celestial Palace, the Radiant Sun Palace. The Martial Star Lord was swinging his two colossal hammers in a blur, each blow crushed several Outer Demons into pulp.]

[Yet even he was slowly forced back under the demons’ assault, about to be pressed to the bridge’s end…]

Isn’t this getting a bit too hard?

Lin Xun wondered silently.