The Shadow Arrow struck the light barrier, exploding into a large cloud of black mist, the continuous muffled sounds blending together.
The shield shook violently, and Zhao Tiedun's feet dug two shallow furrows in the city bricks, but he did not retreat even half a step.
The Shadow Bolts were all blocked, but several fine cracks were left on the shield.
"Healing Prayer!" The young female priest in the group, dressed in a white robe, tapped her staff lightly.
A soft golden light landed precisely on Zhao Tiedun, and a shallow burn mark on his shoulder caused by shadow energy quickly healed.
Immediately afterwards, she raised her staff again, and a second ray of holy light fell on the surface of the shield.
A pale golden light film quickly covered the shield, temporarily sealing the fine cracks and covering it with a layer of light golden light film.
"Blessing of Divine Shield, the cracks in the shield are temporarily sealed," the priestess's voice was clear and urgent, her staff still tilted at the angle after the spell was cast. "Don't take so many attacks head-on, find an opportunity to counterattack!"
"Pierce through the clouds!" Almost as soon as the priest finished his healing prayer, the female archer behind Zhao Tiedun moved.
She tied her hair in a ponytail, drew three silver arrows from her quiver, and drew the bowstring taut.
The three arrows, once released from the bow, split into nine silver beams in mid-air, raining down on the necromancer on the slope like a storm.
As the silver rays struck the shield's surface, seven of them were deflected by a layer of purple light. The spell deflected them, causing them to glide past the shield's edge and into the pile of broken bones below the city wall.
But the remaining two hit their targets; a mage's shield was hit repeatedly in the same spot, causing fine cracks to appear.
The female archer frowned slightly: "The probability of a deflection is too high."
She didn't stop, and drew two more arrows, this time deliberately shooting them at different angles.
"It's working, but not enough!" The female warrior's voice came from the side, "Old Li, finish it off! Don't let it breathe!"
The two-handed swordsman responded and leaped directly over the edge of the crenellation.
He raised his two greatswords high above his head, and a layer of crimson flames ignited on the blades—【Flame Slash】.
He hurtled towards the archmage whose shield had cracked, like a burning meteor.
When the greatsword struck the mana shield, the spell deflection effect kicked in again, changing the angle of the blade.
The archmage's body tilted backward from the impact, but his left hand was already raised, and a shadow strike slammed directly into the two-handed swordsman's chest, pushing him back two steps.
Just as the archmage attempted to readjust his posture, the female warrior vanished from her spot.
The next second, she appeared out of thin air behind the archmage, drawing her longsword with one hand, the blade aimed straight at the back of his neck.
The moment the sword tip touched the shield, the purple light membrane suddenly slid, triggering a spell deflection.
The sword's edge was deflected slightly, slid past the archmage's shoulder, and missed its mark.
The battle on the slope with the five bone snakes instantly turned into a brutal tug-of-war.
The battle raged from the top of the slope to the middle of the slope, and then back to the ramparts, resulting in a protracted and stalemate.
The bone spikes on Bone Snake Slope were leveled layer by layer by the aftershocks of the battle, and shattered skeletons and charred city bricks were scattered all over the ground, with a suffocating aura of death permeating the air.
...
At the same moment that the twenty-five necromancers rushed toward the city wall, the sky above the west gate tower also began to change.
Four Death Lords, four Bone Dragon Kings, ten Liches, thirty Bone Dragons, and twenty High-Rank Death Knights.
All the high-ranking undead forces simultaneously rose into the air from behind the lines, like a rising shadow that obscured the remaining dark gray sky beneath the deep purple dome.
With an oppressive force that could suffocate anyone, it crashed down on the west gate tower of White Pagoda City.
Isabella, standing on the city wall, glanced up but didn't turn around. She simply uttered two words: "Confront us."
The staff of the wind god in her hand drew a silver-blue arc of light in the air.
A violent current of air gathered wildly beneath her feet, causing her robes to billow and her long silver hair to be lifted upwards by the wind.
At the same time, the Wildfire Spear in Lin Feng's hand suddenly trembled, and the flame crystal embedded in the spear tip burst into a dazzling red light under the deep purple sky.
With a push of his feet, he shot towards the figure with nine golden halos in the sky like an arrow.
The figure also rose at the same moment, and the two rising trajectories formed two nearly parallel diagonal lines in the air, which converged at a high altitude, like two light trails approaching each other.
Isabella followed closely behind, but she was about two hundred meters lower than Lin Feng. Although she was heading in the same direction, her trajectory was different as she flew toward another figure with four golden rings.
On the city tower, the other eight figures at level forty also took to the air at the same time.
Suleiman and Edmund flew side by side at the forefront, heading straight towards a Death Lord and two Bone Dragon Kings.
The other five figures each locked onto the remaining high-ranking undead, with silver, gold, and dark gray lights colliding and intersecting in the air.
At the same time, Jiang Zhaoyue, Jiang Yelan, and the last fourth-level expert joined the fifty-four third-level human experts who possessed the ability to fly.
They quickly formed ranks at an altitude of 500 meters, facing off against mid-level combat forces such as liches and bone dragons, and collided with the undead aerial echelon opposite them.
In just three seconds, the entire aerial battlefield was completely divided.
At an altitude of 1,000 meters, the dark red and dark gray collided head-on for the first time. The shock wave spread downwards from the top, like a silent ripple, pushing aside the surrounding clouds.
Eight hundred meters away, silver-blue and dark purple light stretched into an intersecting band, and wind blades and shadow arrows collided and shattered continuously in the space between the two.
Between 600 and 700 meters, seven figures were engaged in a fierce battle with the Death Lord and the Bone Dragon King. The sounds of metal colliding with bones were broken into intermittent muffled thuds in the high sky.
Between 300 and 500 meters above sea level, the figures of level 39 powerhouses moved between gray energy blasts and shield lights, making that battlefield denser, more chaotic, and faster.
There was no dialogue, no respite, on the battlefields everywhere.
Each side presses towards the opponent from a highly staggered position, only to be pushed back, and then pressed forward again.
...
Above the sky, the fierce winds howled, and the 800-meter-high sky became a battleground for wind and shadow.
Isabella's staff of the wind god shimmered with light, while opposite her, the Lich King Sazar's bone staff flickered with ghostly flames, and an aura of death surged like a tide.
A pale golden shield appeared on both of them at the same time; it was the 【Mana Shield】 granted by the golden set.
Converts 150% of maximum mana into a shield, increases mana by 2000, increases resistance by 10%, increases spell deflection defense by 200 while the shield is active, and automatically converts excess healing into shield value.
There is also an active skill, 【Elemental Unity】, which, when activated, causes the entire body to glow with golden light for 10 minutes, with a 30-minute cooldown.
The shield gains damage reduction equal to the caster's total defense.
