Chapter 149: Chapter 105: Breaking Through 7 City Shields
"That Cyan God is bullshit! It’s all fucking hype!"
"They were defending a small city, and the fucking NPCs still flattened their walls?"
"They even lost half the damn city!"
"What a bunch of hacks!"
Shen Fei started to leave, heading out to attack the city alone.
While commanding his Hero, Zhang Fei, and the eighty thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to form a defensive line against the monsters pouring from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Wang Dapang also posted the picture he had just taken of their successful city capture on the Forum. Beneath the picture, he posted a line of text: "Celebrating the Qing City assault team’s capture of a Neutral City under the leadership of the Cyan God!"
At that moment, only twelve teams were left still fighting on the leaderboards. The rest had all failed. The Qing City team was the first to capture a Neutral City.
This should have been a moment for celebration and pride, but what Wang Dapang hadn’t expected was that after he posted the news, he was met not with respect and cheers but with a flood of slander and ridicule.
"Yeah, right!"
"What a joke. The video isn’t even complete. Who the fuck knows how you actually got it!"
"Exactly! Look at our Songhai City’s defensive battle. It was completely transparent and aboveboard!"
"That’s right, Songhai City was defending a large city, too! There were over a hundred bosses!"
"Our Divine Capital assault team is no slouch either! We have a large city in the bag! Right now, our assault on a medium city has also entered its second phase!"
Led on by certain instigators, everyone began to think that Qing City was washed up. The live stream of the battle scene was stingy and incomplete, and many clips were shrouded in fog. Halfway through, the live stream just cut out. When they claimed to have successfully captured the city, all they showed was a single picture. Moreover, in the picture, the city had no walls and half its buildings were destroyed. Who knew if it was even real?
At this point, the rankings on the city assault leaderboard were determined by battle live streams, with no impartial third party for on-site confirmation. Qing City’s video was incomplete, and the Neutral City was a complete wreck. Who could say if their claim was true?
Soon after Wang Dapang posted the picture and the news, Qing City’s ranking didn’t rise—it actually fell, dragged straight to the bottom. Countless people were saying that Qing City was faking it.
What the hell!
Wang Dapang was speechless. They really didn’t have a complete battle video. The person streaming the first phase of the battle had been killed midway, which was why the latter half was missing. As for the video of the second phase, when they succeeded, only he and Shen Fei were on the battlefield. He hadn’t even had a chance to start recording.
Until they could show detailed pictures of the captured Neutral City, Qing City’s evidence was incomplete. Right now, Wang Dapang had to set up a defense formation in front of the Heaven-Reaching Tower; he had no time to go over ten kilometers away to take detailed pictures and videos of Peter’s Castle, which was waiting to be claimed. He couldn’t clear up the situation at the moment because he had no proof. And the longer he waited to clarify, the worse the slander would get.
Screw this!
Fed up, Wang Dapang decided ’out of sight, out of mind’ and logged out of the Forum. Shen Fei had left in a hurry, leaving the rest of them to defend the Heaven-Reaching Tower. The picture he had just posted hadn’t gotten the expected reaction, so he didn’t want to look at it anymore.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
They didn’t know why Shen Fei had left, so the remaining people could only focus all their energy on defending against the monster tide. However, everyone did know that the castle had just been captured. They were all looking forward to Shen Fei wiping out the monster tide in one fell swoop so they could go tour their newly captured city.
They didn’t know that the danger was actually mounting.
"Go!"
"Use your full power!"
"Unleash that attack you used to shatter half the city wall!"
300 kilometers outside Qing City, the assault on a small city was activated.
Upon entering the three-kilometer range of the city, Shen Fei summoned twenty Defense Towers, including the Star-Slaying Tower and the Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect Tower, and began bombarding the City Shield. At the same time, he ordered the white-faced man beside him to attack as well.
"As you command!"
Although he could communicate back and forth with Shen Fei, the white-faced man could not refuse his commands. As Shen Fei launched his own ultra-powerful attack, the white-faced man unleashed his Invincible attack.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Ten seconds later, the small city’s Shield, with its two million health, was shattered by Shen Fei and the white-faced man with overwhelming force! Neither of them held back. Against their full-power assault, the 2,000,000-health Shield didn’t stand a chance!
With the City Shield broken, the white-faced man, under Shen Fei’s command, let out a WHOOSH and his body transformed, activating Dharma Heaven and Earth. He charged toward the countless drones pouring out of the Technology City. The white-faced man took the front line, drawing attention away from Shen Fei.
Meanwhile, Shen Fei controlled his Detection Tower and immediately began searching for the location of the Heart of the City. With his prior city-sieging experience, he already knew the fastest way to complete the first phase of the attack.
Found it!
After a few minutes, the Detection Tower’s radar-like, full-dimensional scan located the city’s glowing, yellow, cylindrical Heart of the City within the Technology City ahead.
BOOM!
Once the location was found, Shen Fei immediately activated his twenty Defense Towers, unleashing their ultimate attacks in the direction of the Heart of the City. He couldn’t be bothered with things like preserving the city’s buildings! Right now, he had only one goal—speed!
SWOOSH!
SWOOSH!
SWOOSH!
As endless rays of attack rained down, the city’s defenses activated. From the still-intact city walls, tens of thousands of drones took flight, forming a barrier above the Heart of the City. Hemispherical metal domes rapidly merged, forming layer after layer of defense above it.
BOOM!
But it was useless. They were all like paper! The combined attack from twenty powerful offensive Defense Towers was something the enemy could not block! All the drones, electromagnetic nets, and metal walls in the attack’s path shattered like paper in an instant.
WHOOSH!
A massive torrent of attacks poured into the hall where the Heart of the City was located. With his Attack Power at maximum, the unrestrained Shen Fei didn’t pause for a second. Bolstered by the experience from capturing the first city, his instantaneous, super-charged rush to one-shot the target succeeded!
[Ding!]
[The Heart of the City of the Neutral City, Silicon Gold City, has been shattered!]
[Ding!]
[First phase of the Neutral City battle complete! Victory!]
[Please assign personnel for the second phase defense of the Neutral City capture as soon as possible!]
[The second phase of the Neutral City defensive battle will begin in one hour!]
[Please prepare in advance!]
[Reminder: The number of attacking NPCs will be ten times the number of defending NPCs. Domain-type items cannot be used during the defense!]
[City defensive battle countdown: 00:59:59]
[00:59:58]
[00:59:57]
[00:59:56]
As the endless attacks bombarded the city, Shen Fei’s panel opened once more.
There’s not enough time!
Seeing the countdown begin, Shen Fei frowned instantly. He had to capture eight Neutral Cities in the next five hours. But the transition from the first phase to the second for this small city included a one-hour preparation time. Normally, this would be a good thing, as it would leave ample time to prepare for the second phase of the defense. But right now, for him, who was in a race against time, this was very bad! Never mind the time the defense itself would take; if he had to wait an hour for each small city, five hours would absolutely not be enough!
Start them all at once? Defend eight cities at once? No, defend nine cities at once?
He had no time to marvel at how the white-faced man had just used his ultimate to tank for him, drawing countless attacks. After realizing there wasn’t enough time, a thought instantly flashed through Shen Fei’s mind. To Seal the Heaven-Reaching Tower before the monster tide pouring from it grew too strong to handle, he had to capture the remaining eight cities within five hours. To achieve that, he had to quickly clear the first phase of each siege by coordinating with the white-faced man and using overwhelming attacks.
Then, he had to spend the majority of his time on the more time-consuming second-phase defenses!
At this moment, the only way was to start the second phase for all the cities at the same time, defending them all simultaneously. And while defending eight Neutral Cities, he also needed to defend the Heaven-Reaching Tower in Qing City. As the monsters from the tower grew stronger, the others would inevitably be unable to hold the line, and he would have to step in.
Before, it was just defending one small city! Now, he had to defend nine cities, including large ones and a central city. This was the only way!
Screw it! If I can’t hold them, I’ll just grab everyone and run! Eight vehicles, eight Celestial Horses... I’ll save as many as I can!
Under the pressure of time, Shen Fei’s only option was to start the defense of all eight Neutral Cities at once. He had to do this! It was the only way!
Do it!
Defending nine cities at once... conveniently, besides the one spare, the Teleportation Gate Tower had exactly nine Teleportation Gates.
WHOOSH!
Having made his decision, Shen Fei gritted his teeth and immediately took action. There was no time to hesitate or think! He just had to do it!
"Let’s go!"
Recalling his Defense Towers, Shen Fei took the white-faced man and, in the blink of an eye, teleported to another Neutral City. The small Technology City where he had just completed the first phase still had an hour of preparation time. For now, he didn’t need to worry about it.
[Ding!]
[You have entered a Neutral City’s alert perimeter.]
[Do you wish to initiate the Neutral City assault battle?...]
Arriving before another Neutral City, Shen Fei clicked "Confirm" before the text on his personal panel had even finished appearing. At the same time, with a WHOOSH, he deployed his twenty Defense Towers.
The second city was one on the grasslands that resembled a collection of yurts. With a clear objective, Shen Fei had already unleashed a concentrated barrage of attacks while the white-faced man transformed and charged forward to draw the defenders’ attention.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Five seconds later, the second Neutral City’s Shield also shattered. It was the same old routine. Next was to quickly find the Heart of the City. Once it was found, he would bombard it with everything he had!
[Ding!]
Three minutes later, Shen Fei’s panel opened again. A series of text notifications reminded him to prepare for the second city’s defensive battle in an hour.
WHOOSH!
WHOOSH!
WHOOSH!
And so, Shen Fei dragged the white-faced man along, rapidly moving between the cities within a 2,000-kilometer radius of Qing City. A little over half an hour later, he had cleared the first phase for seven cities, including two medium-sized ones. These seven cities had all begun their countdowns to the second phase.
WHOOSH!
Standing before the last one, a large Neutral City a full twenty kilometers long and wide, Shen Fei gritted his teeth and stepped forward. The alert perimeter for a large city was ten kilometers, and the attack/retreat range was 100 kilometers.
"Yang City!"
The name of the last large city was revealed: Yang City. This was an ancient Huaxia city. Its thick, square walls stood over a hundred meters tall and were densely packed with arrow towers, watchtowers, ballistae, and cannon carriages. All sorts of defensive armaments lined the massive walls, which were over a hundred meters wide and stretched for more than forty kilometers. Outside the walls was a moat a full two hundred meters wide. Along the moat’s edge, cheval de frise and iron spikes glinted coldly.
Yang City... the capital of the Xia Dynasty?
Shen Fei remembered. Yang City was the capital of the Ancient Xia Dynasty, which ruled the old Xia Country before the Shang Dynasty.
Let’s do this!
The overall strength of a large city was dozens of times that of a small city. But the situation had forced his hand. Shen Fei couldn’t stop. There was less than half an hour left before the second phase of the first Technology City began. He had to be fast! Before the second phase of the first city began, he had to clear the first phase of the large city before him. Otherwise, it would be even harder to fight!
SWISH!
Having conquered seven cities, the now incredibly practiced white-faced man immediately activated his ultimate and charged toward the walls of Yang City the very moment Shen Fei stepped forward. With equal practice, Shen Fei once again deployed his twenty Defense Towers.
RUMBLE!
An endless barrage of combined attacks smashed against Yang City’s City Shield, which had a whopping ten million health.
*(PS: I thought about it, and I won’t go into detail on the other city sieges. It would slow down the pacing, you guys might not enjoy it, and it would waste your subscription money. Also, just to let everyone know, this major plot arc about capturing the Neutral Cities should be wrapping up by tomorrow’s update...)*
