Chapter 304: The One Who Communicates with the Ancient Great Wall
"Hoo! Hoo!!!"
"Hoo! Hoo!!!"
The Summoning team was indeed formidable, but in the face of the Netherworld Laborers' fearless charge, they were clearly ineffective.
The Netherworld Laborers had dry, yet iron-hard skin. With a single stomp from their monstrous strength, even a Mage would be splattered with blood and gore.
As crimson blood splattered beneath their feet, the Netherworld Laborers became even more excited and deranged. This was completely different from their previous appearance of being toiling, pitiful, and tragic. Perhaps, having been suppressed for too long, the accumulated grievances in their hearts could finally be unleashed!
Summoned beasts were struck down in droves, blood splattering everywhere, and bones littering the ground. All the defenders on Zhenbei Pass could hardly believe it—those Netherworld Laborers, who looked like mere slaves, were actually terrifyingly strong. Even killing just one was incredibly difficult for the entire Summoning vanguard.
"Retreat!" Bin Wei saw the situation and decisively issued the command.
"If they retreat, there will be no one to block the city gate," Chang Yi said.
"Don't make meaningless sacrifices, retreat!" Bin Wei repeated.
"Yes… yes!" Chang Yi dared not say more and immediately ordered the Summoning unit to retreat.
The vanguard was meant to boost morale, so Zhenbei Pass had invested heavily in the Summoning unit. Who would have thought that this first wave of attack would be devastated to such an extent? How could this not be a blow to the morale of all the Guardian Mages of Zhenbei Pass?
It was so difficult to kill even one or two, and the Netherworld Laborers numbered over two thousand. Could this Zhenbei Fortress City truly hold?
"How could these things be so strong?!" Chang Yi looked at the corpses of the summoned creatures, his face filled with shock.
Even the War General Level Northern Frontier desolate beasts of the past would never have been able to withstand such an attack. Could it be that every single one of these Netherworld Laborers was stronger than a War General Level demon?
Following this, Bin Wei ordered a full-scale bombardment.
At the same time, Bin Wei also displayed her own power.
She stepped into the air, her graceful figure carrying a heroic aura as she flew onto the city tower. A giant demonic orchid bloomed in front of the city tower, growing in just a few seconds to a height greater than the city tower itself.
Bin Wei landed on this giant demonic orchid, her gaze sweeping over the Netherworld Laborers, her black eyes fixed on the Ancient Great Wall that lay across Zhenbei Pass!
The Ancient Great Wall still lay there silently, like the spine of a continuous low mountain range, suddenly stretching out a mountain ridge across the horizon, winding for several kilometers, immensely magnificent.
In fact, at this moment, the Ancient Great Wall was easily scaled by those Netherworld Laborers, just as Zhao Manyan had said; they were purely for show.
"Sealing Gate Array!"
Bin Wei's eyes gradually turned gray, completely matching the color of the Ancient Great Wall. And at this moment, the Ancient Great Wall, which had been lying silently on the ground, suddenly rose sharply!
Bin Wei was able to come here naturally because she had a special connection to the Ancient Great Wall.
Zhao Manyan watched in astonishment. How could he have imagined that the ancient relic lying silently on the yellow earth also contained massive Earth-element magic!
The Ancient Great Wall rapidly rose from the ground, transforming from a low mountain ridge into a giant rock dam, its height directly exceeding the city tower of this fortress city, feeling as if it directly sealed up to the sky!
The magnificent aura made the people of Zhenbei Pass Fortress City incredulous. They had been here for so long and had never known that the Ancient Great Wall was a defense line like a sky-dam. Even the Netherworld Laborers were helpless against such a majestic and unyielding steel defense line of the Ancient Great Wall!
The stones of the Great Wall were incredibly sturdy. No matter how the chains of the Netherworld Laborers struck against it, they could not leave the slightest mark on the rocky skin of this Ancient Great Wall. The Netherworld Laborers gathered all their strength, wanting to push down this city wall, yet the Ancient Great Wall stood there like a rock mountain screen, unmoving.
"Follow me!" Commander-in-Chief Bin Wei called out loudly.
Demonic orchids continuously grew, extending straight along the mountain-dam of the Ancient Great Wall, forming a bridge of petals that led directly to the top of the majestic Ancient Great Wall defense!
People were in shock, and it wasn't until a long time later that Army Commander Chang Yi and his adjutant suddenly snapped back to reality. They hurriedly led the military Mages to step onto the demonic orchids and rush towards the mountain-dam of the Ancient Great Wall.
Many of them did not know the true face of the Ancient Great Wall.
Even Lingling saw it for the first time.
It had long been rumored that there were special inheritors in the country who possessed the ability to manipulate the Ancient Great Wall. In the past, when people had just emerged from the Totem Beast era, the Ancient Great Wall was the most important steel defense line of the Central Plains. At that time, people's enemies were also demon tribes and empires. Many people did not understand how such an ordinary Great Wall could become the greatest reliance of ancient nations in the Northern Frontier?
And today, everyone present finally understood.
The entire Zhenbei Pass Ancient Great Wall stretched for several kilometers, but the Ancient Great Wall that rose high to become a sky-dam was only two kilometers. The remaining silently lying Ancient Great Wall, under Bin Wei's control, began to slowly enclose from both sides, sealing all the vanguard Netherworld Laborers into a limited area.
There were about seven or eight hundred Netherworld Laborers in the vanguard. They did not know that a colossal steel body had sealed them off, like enemy soldiers lured into an empty four-sided city. Three sides were insurmountable giant walls, and their retreat was completely sealed by Bin Wei's Earth-element magic, thoroughly cutting off the connection between these Netherworld Laborers and the Netherworld Howler Toad.
"Within the sealed gate, gravity will increase, and they won't be able to jump up. The ancient city wall cannot be maintained for long. Now, use all your strength to eliminate them!" Commander Bin Wei stood on the demonic orchid, issuing the command again.
After seeing Bin Wei control the Ancient Great Wall to form this sealing defense line, people's perception of Bin Wei had undergone a drastic change. This was probably the oldest and most powerful Earth-element defensive magic array in Huaxia. They witnessed it with their own eyes today and even fought on the ancient wall. How could this not make people's blood boil!
Even those who had been unconvinced by Bin Wei before now had no complaints.
The sealed-off Netherworld Laborers crashed around like headless flies. The Netherworld runes on their bodies became scattered, as if they had lost some connection with the Netherworld Howler Toad.
With the descent of a Fire-element Gaoyi magic, the great fire instantly burned seven or eight Netherworld Laborers to death. Army Commander Chang Yi immediately showed excitement and shouted loudly, "Attack the Netherworld Laborers whose runes have faded! Their magic immunity is quite weak!"
Several team leaders heard this. They directed the destruction Mages to aim at the Netherworld Laborers with scattered runes. Indeed, these Netherworld Laborers were far less resistant than before. After several rounds of elemental bombardment, they were immediately blasted to pieces, obliterated amidst the interwoven lightning, flames, and strong winds!
"What's going on??" The adjutant noticed that the Netherworld Laborers' strength had greatly diminished and showed a puzzled expression.
"I know! It must be a unique Netherworld hardening skin curse mark. Haven't you noticed that the runes on the Netherworld Laborers' bodies and the bumpy curse marks on the Netherworld Howler Toad are very similar? The Netherworld Howler Toad and these Netherworld Laborers have a master-slave relationship. It's the Netherworld Howler Toad who bestowed upon them that hardening skin Netherworld curse mark. Once their connection with the Netherworld Howler Toad is severed, they are just a group of ordinary Netherworld creatures!" Zhao Manyan said with sudden realization.