“My Queen, the enemy's rear bombardment is still ongoing. We have already lost 3,000 main Zerg units and over 20,000 locusts,” Brain Bug No. 1 suddenly reminded Xia Jin.
“That fast?”
She immediately sensed the connection; indeed, the losses were that high.
Just in the time it took to storm the walls, that many Zerg had been killed by high-density magic crystal cannon fire.
Behind Xia Jin, twenty ultralisks and a hundred ravagers were still on their way. Although nydus worms made travel convenient, they were still in the laying phase; moving that fellow a thousand kilometers was still somewhat slow.
In the sky, because the enemy had thrown their entire air force into the fray at once, the Swarm's air superiority had been suppressed.
Everyone was currently waiting for the upgrades to finish; all they could do for now was barely hold the line.
After all, sending pre-upgrade Zerg into the fray was a losing proposition.
So, for now, they were doing their best to mix locusts into the main force, purely to fight a war of attrition and stall the enemy.
Streaks of magical light also flew down from within the city.
Occasionally, a few high-tier mages would unleash a large-scale spell, covering a radius of a hundred meters.
For instance, Xia Jin saw a Tier 7 mage use a Freezing Spell. The name was simple and unadorned, but it instantly turned a massive area of Zerg into ice sculptures.
The crucial part wasn't just the freezing; the temperature plummeted to eighty degrees below zero, freezing the Zerg from the inside out and essentially paralyzing their biological functions to the extreme.
Then, a flurry of arrows rained down, causing each of these frozen Zerg to explode as they were pierced through the heart.
While she was leisurely watching the battle, a man suddenly approached the city defense officer.
Seeing the armor on this man's shoulders, the city defense officer's expression shifted, and he immediately knelt. “My Lord.”
“As things stand, there's no other choice. Go find a group of elites, at least Tier 7. Also, notify the Imperial Guard to send twenty Tier 8 experts for support.”
The man drew the longsword from his waist.
The blade was snow-white and translucent, looking like a weapon straight out of a fantasy world.
This man kept his aura restrained, but just standing there gave off an extremely terrifying feeling.
...
The city defense officer acted immediately.
A few minutes later, the message was sent to the rear, and nearly two hundred experts arrived at the back of the city wall.
160 Tier 7s and 20 Tier 8s.
Seeing these people with his own eyes, the man nodded inwardly.
Although Tier 8 experts weren't as rare as Tier 9s, the total number in the entire country only added up to just over two hundred.
While that number sounded terrifying, in reality... it was very deceptive.
Excluding the commanders of the twenty-odd legions, the rest were basically all in the Imperial Guard and the capital's legions.
Each of the three elite legions was equipped with several Tier 8 experts.
Digging deeper, most Tier 8s were quite old. Their talent was insufficient, and they had only barely reached this level in their forties or fifties, some even using potions to force the breakthrough.
After fifty, the strength of most warriors would show a downward trend.
It could be said that for most, Tier 8 was their peak.
And these Tier 8 experts were very hollow, not meeting the standard Tier 8 recognized by the Kingdom.
There were no more than thirty true Tier 8s in the entire Kingdom; they received special treatment even when meeting the King.
“This time, you will follow me to perform a decapitation strike on the enemy commander.”
The man gripped the hilt of his sword, his face resolute.
“Yes, sir!”
The experts before him were undoubtedly true elites.
Even if the majority were pseudo-Tier 8s, it wasn't difficult for them to burst forth with corresponding strength for a short period.
“Given the difficulty of taking the enemy leader's head from the midst of ten thousand soldiers, this assault will be supported by fire cover from two hundred Tier 7 cannons and five hundred mages. Therefore, this mission must succeed. When you see the Princess, show no mercy. She has long ceased to be human. She has destroyed our homes and is the true enemy of the Kingdom.”
“Understood!”
The group shouted in unison.
Boom!
At that moment, a baneling was lobbed nearby. After rolling a few meters, it exploded.
But the moment the shockwave hit the group, it was blocked by an invisible force.
“Listen for my countdown. 3, 2, 1... Go!”
Suddenly, the 181 people scaled the wall together and leaped out at extreme speed.
Countless fire and lightning spells descended from the sky, clearing a hundred-meter area in front of the wall in an instant.
Innumerable shells and even more spells fell, beginning to clear an unobstructed path ahead.
The moment they landed, these 181 people erupted with sky-piercing light and began charging toward the position where Xia Jin's projection sat at incredible speed.
She stared blankly at the scene.
It was like an unstoppable juggernaut, magnified countless times, barreling forward. Occasionally, Zerg that hadn't been killed by the bombardment or spells stood in their way, only to be instantly shattered by the impact.
The group didn't slow down at all, approaching at a speed of at least 200 kilometers per hour.
In other words, they would reach her position in less than a minute.
“Ridiculous.”
Sensing them with her mind, she immediately felt an exaggerated amount of pressure.
“Tier 9, Tier 8...”
The leader was a Tier 9 expert.
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