novelraw Chapter 270-2: Resisting the Outer Demons, the Red Armor Army Displays Divine Might (2)
Chapter 270-2: Resisting the Outer Demons, the Red Armor Army Displays Divine Might (2)
“The Outer Demons are invading… huh? Why do the demons look different this time?”
“Wait, that’s not the Outer Demons, those look like summoned creatures… What the hell? A whole army of samurai!”
“What’s going on, Lin Xun? Is this another one of your damn schemes?”
“Your summoned creatures are even more outrageous than my undead legions, damn! Forget it, maybe I shouldn’t be a necromancer at all!”
Everyone in the conference room turned to look at Lin Xun, their expressions a mix of astonishment and disbelief.
Lin Xun himself hadn’t expected the item’s power to be so excessive, it could summon a massive army of fifteen hundred troops in one go.
One had to realize that all the Outer Demons attacking a single Celestial Palace only totaled about fifteen hundred. But on the one hand were monsters from a regular chapter, and on the other, monsters from the Hell Difficulty chapter. Anyone could tell which side was stronger.
“The power of this item… truly terrifying.”
In fact, Lin Xun didn’t know that, when ordinary Apostles obtained a fifth-difficulty item, they could only ever expend one point of soul strength to summon.
A single point of soul strength would summon a five-hundred-man army, and the morale would be only 25, just one quarter of the maximum value.That meant summoning five hundred monsters with only a quarter of their full strength. While still quite strong, it wasn’t anywhere near this absurd.
According to the normal strategy for clearing the Tenshukaku, Apostles would have to kill far more than five hundred samurai monsters to acquire this item, and also face many powerful warrior bosses and terrifyingly destructive siege weapons.
The most troublesome part was that, if you didn’t first kill the Palace Master of Iya Palace or the Vice Palace Master of Iya Palace, the clan head boss would call for reinforcements from Iya Palace, bringing in swarms of onmyoji and palace master bosses.
Only after eliminating every threat and finally slaying the clan head boss, who had once been a hatamoto samurai, could you obtain this item. The difficulty was staggering.
Before everyone could continue marveling, the Outer Demon Invasion began!
[The Demon-Subduing Altar trembles faintly, and the cloud bridges and Celestial Palaces shake along with it…]
[A colossal rift tears open in the void. From within, countless blue-faced, tusked fiends resembling demons, Desire-Bearing Tushita Demons, squeeze out…]
[Behind them follow another five hundred Desire-Bearing Transforming Demons. And behind those, another five hundred Desire-Bearing Supreme Freedom Demons…]
[A thousand Outer Demons form a vast, overwhelming army of slaughter, surging toward your Celestial Pivot Palace!]
[Each Celestial Palace must face an army of over a thousand demons. The total number of Outer Demons within the Demon-Subduing Altar has already exceeded ten thousand!]
[They roar and shriek as they charge, almost upon you…]
The power of today’s Outer Demons had risen dramatically compared to yesterday, especially the monsters called Desire-Bearing Supreme Freedom Demons, each one as strong as five ordinary demons!
Although each of the other Celestial Palaces had two Apostles stationed there, the pressure was no less than the previous day.
Had Lin Xun not insisted in advance on abandoning three Celestial Palaces, it was likely one or two would have already fallen by now.
Transforming into his giant dragon form, Lin Xun continuously unleashed Dark Dragonfire Breath and held his ground with relative ease.
[You look toward the Celestial Sphere Palace. There, amid the swirling blizzard on the cloud bridge, the Extreme Frost Domain gains further power from the illusion buff, enhancing its ability to slow the enemy.]
[But relying on the power of Frostfall of Glacial Blossoms alone cannot quickly annihilate the Outer Demon army. It is only a matter of time before this cloud bridge falls.]
[You look toward the Celestial Measure Palace. The cloud bridge is already packed densely with the Outer Demon army, all of them surging forward like mad beasts toward the golden-haired, winged girl standing at the far end of the bridge.]
[The girl keeps her eyes closed. Her longbow is drawn to a full moon arc, countless golden bolts of lightning coiling around the arrow.]
[Suddenly, the Valkyrie releases the bowstring, and a thick golden lightning bolt shoots forth!]
[The lightning strikes the first Outer Demon, which lets out a miserable scream as its entire body chars black and collapses.]
[After killing one Outer Demon, the golden lightning does not dissipate but instead splits into two arcs that continue attacking the demons!]
[As the demons fall one after another, the golden lightning divides again and again, two becomes four, four becomes eight… In the blink of an eye, the entire cloud bridge is engulfed in a raging net of lightning!]
[Under the bombardment of this vast lightning web, the Outer Demons suffer devastating losses. This single attack alone wiped out over a hundred of them.]
[The Valkyrie gazed at the now-empty cloud bridge that will soon be filled with demons once more. She draws her bow again, golden lightning coiling once more…]
“Looks like there’s no need to worry about the Valkyrie’s side for the time being.”
Yesterday, Lin Xun had spent a fortune to purchase an Epic+ grade skill book, an uncommon bow skill called Judgment Lightning.
Its effect caused lightning arrows fired to generate a chain lightning effect when striking monsters, dealing massive area damage.
Since bow skills with area attacks were extremely rare, this Epic+ grade skill book was priced at only five hundred thousand Spirit Essence, practically a bloodletting clearance sale for such a high-tier skill.
With such a divine technique, the Valkyrie would never again have to fret about running out of arrows when faced with hordes of monsters.
[You beat your massive dragon wings, unleashing poisonous dragonfire down upon the cloud bridge beneath your feet, reducing the Outer Demons there to nothing…]
[You look toward the Shaking Light Palace. Amidst the thunder of war drums and the unending cries of charge and battle, you see a host of blade-wielding samurai holding the Outer Demons firmly at the front edge of the cloud bridge.]
[At the very front of the formation is a burly giant you know all too well. Its bloated body blocks dozens of Outer Demons as the two great tachi in its hands whirl about, letting nothing slip through!]
[Hundreds of spear-wielding mounted samurai charge into the ranks of the Outer Demons. As they gallop back and forth, each thrust of their spears is like a dragon. Every glint of cold steel fells another demon.]
[The mounted samurai are not fighting alone. On several battering ram carriages stand fierce warrior-samurai. The wheels of the carriages are edged with sharp blades, and as they charge, they turn into meat grinders!]
[The samurai on the carriages roar and shout as they swing their great swords, raising a storm of blood.]
[From the heavens falls an endless rain of arrows, archer samurai shooting from behind the cloud bridge.]
[Massive boulders and giant ballista bolts crash down into the Outer Demon army, erupting in gouts of blood as countless demons are smashed into mangled flesh…]
“Lin Xun, your samurai army is too damn strong. How about sending some over to help us?”
Shangguan Yu and Wang Zong were guarding the Radiant Sun Palace, supported by the Martial Star Lord’s buff. But because their kill speed was too slow, the cloud bridge in front of them had already piled up with masses of demon monsters.
At this rate, when the demon bosses spawned fifteen minutes later, they’d probably still be fighting the Outer Demon army.
Seeing this, Lin Xun checked the status of the Red Armor Army. Out of two thousand samurai troops, more than a hundred had fallen, most of them foot soldiers blocking the front lines of the cloud bridge, the lowest-tier units.
At this point, the demon army at the Shaking Light Palace had already been mostly annihilated. The Red Armor Army’s slaughtering speed was truly astonishing.
“On my way!”
Lin Xun immediately decided to dispatch the samurai troops to help the other Celestial Palaces. They had to wipe out the demon army before the demon bosses appeared!