118: Chapter 118 Terror Strikes

The ones charging at the very front were no longer disorganized cannon fodder.

Their formation carried a faint sense of "order" driven by brute force, making the Bronze-tier monsters fade into the background.

Over a thousand Silver-tier monsters, with even more hideous forms and filthy energy nearly condensing into substance, formed the backbone of the charging wave.

Rage and a crimson hue dictated by a higher will flickered in their eyes. The sheer murderous intent brought by their collective charge made the air on the city walls feel thick and cold.

However, none of these were the main focus.

Lin Tian's gaze was drawn like a magnet, fixed firmly on a terrifying figure in the center of the beast tide that resembled a moving mountain.

It was a giant ape over thirty meters tall!

Its entire body was covered in an ugly hide of interwoven dark red and charcoal black, looking as if it had been skinned and then scorched. Its muscles bulged like rocks, yet they twisted and writhed as if living creatures were burrowing beneath the skin.

It had no fur; instead, countless hideous bone spurs jutted out from its joints and spine, dripping with corrosive slime.

Most terrifying of all was its head, which seemed to have been forcibly imbued with demonic features. Within its eye sockets were two spheres of burning sulfurous flames, and its bloody maw stretched almost to its ears, revealing interlocking teeth that glinted with a cold metallic sheen.

With every step, the earth trembled violently, leaving behind a deep footprint that emitted black smoke.

Fear Demon Ape. The name returned by the Detection Spell was simple and direct, but its level made Lin Tian's heart suddenly contract: 9-Star Gold!

And that wasn't all.

Surrounding this Fear Demon Ape, which looked like a demon god descending upon the world, were nearly a hundred figures. Though slightly smaller, they exuded the same suffocating Gold-tier pressure, guarding it like loyal sentinels.

There were Demon Leopards wreathed in blood-scented winds with claws flashing with an eerie light, monsters with the lower bodies of spiders and the twisted torsos of women, and stitched monstrosities pieced together from countless rotting corpses...

Their levels ranged between 1-Star and 4-Star Gold, but together they formed a Gold-tier combat cluster capable of crushing the defensive lines of most Lords!

"Hiss..." Even though Lin Tian was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but gasp at this lineup, his scalp tingling with numbness.

One 9-Star Gold, nearly a hundred 1-to-4-Star Gold, thousands of Silver, and tens of thousands of Bronze... Is this a fucking "beast tide"?

This is practically a nation-ending monster army invasion!

In his mind, thoughts collided frantically like lightning.

A comparison of strength flashed through his heart: having just survived two bloody battles, Lin Feng had broken through mid-battle to reach 1-Star Gold, his Blazing Sun Battle Intent growing even stronger.

Lin Yan had been making steady progress and had reached the peak of 9-Star Silver.

As for Lin Yin... thanks to her Legendary quality foundation and previous accumulation, she was already 5-Star Gold! Under his own command, there were also several thousand Epic-tier troops and an army of nearly a hundred thousand.

On paper, it seemed... they could still put up a fight?

But the enemy's high-end combat power, especially that 9-Star Gold Fear Demon Ape, provided an overwhelming sense of pressure!

"We can't face them head-on; we have to find a way to split them up and take them out one by one..." Lin Tian's eyes grew sharp as he forced himself to analyze the situation calmly.

"All Archers, target the Silver-tier and lower monster clusters! Cover fire, maximum firepower, fire!"

The command was given, and the remaining arrows on the wall once again poured out like a swarm of locusts. However, this time, the effect was dismal.

Those Silver monsters were faster, more agile at dodging, and their protective filthy energy was thicker.

The arrows of ordinary Moon Shadow Archers were hard-pressed to cause effective damage unless they formed an extremely dense rain of arrows; most were deflected or evaded.

Only the Pale Moon Hunter arrows imbued with Armor-Piercing Thorns or Decay Spores, along with the elusive Dimensional Rending Arrows of the Void Ranger, could occasionally claim the lives of some Silver monsters.

But compared to that massive number, it was just a drop in the bucket.

As for the Bronze grunts, although they were still being harvested in swathes, they now served more as "meat shields" and "background filler" for the Gold and Silver monsters.

The stalling effect of the Archer units was negligible.

The beast tide approached the city walls rapidly with an almost crushing momentum.

The 9-Star Gold Fear Demon Ape, in particular, seemed completely indifferent to the ant-like resistance on the wall. Its sulfurous flaming eyes coldly swept over the wall and finally seemed to lock onto the direction where Lin Tian and Lin Yin were located!

It let out an even more violent roar toward the sky, as if declaring destruction.

Then, moving its hill-like giant legs, it ignored everything else and led the core group of Gold monsters and a large number of Silver elites.

Like an invincible battering ram, it charged straight and violently toward Lintian City!

The heavy footsteps sounded like the war drums of the Grim Reaper, getting closer and louder.

The city walls groaned under its steps, and fear, like a cold tide, tried to drown the hearts of every defender.

That terrifying figure, over thirty meters tall and carrying the power to destroy everything, was already at the city gates! The true test had only just begun.

At a distance of a hundred meters from the wall, a thick "black ray" erupted from the demon ape's mouth.

Boom!!!

That viscous, twisted torrent of dark erosion, which seemed capable of swallowing even light, surged from the Fear Demon Ape's sulfur-flaming maw and slammed without any fanfare into the towering walls of Lintian City!

Time seemed to freeze for a moment.

The next second.

Crack... Rumble!!!

Lin Tian's pupils constricted as he watched that section of the wall—which had been high hopes, cost a massive amount of stone, and stood ten meters high and five meters thick—

Annihilate and disintegrate before his eyes starting from the center, like a cracker smashed by a giant hammer!

It wasn't cracking; it was decomposing!

The sturdy wall bricks and heavy stone melted and vaporized the moment they touched the Dark Erosion Torrent, like ice and snow under a scorching sun!

A huge gap over ten meters wide, with jagged edges still sizzling with black smoke, was suddenly torn open!

Broken stones, dust, and hundreds of soldiers standing on that section of the wall who hadn't had time to react were all thrown into the air by the explosion's shockwave, falling back down as a rain of bloody wreckage.

"No!!" Lin Tian's heart felt as if it were being squeezed hard.

But the Fear Demon Ape's "greeting gift" wasn't over yet.

Behind it, all the predatory Gold-tier monsters, as if receiving the signal for a general offensive, let out their respective roars simultaneously!

Rotten venom projectiles, sharp bone spur storms, scorching sulfur fireballs, earth-tearing shockwaves...

A variety of different but equally lethal long-range attacks, like celebratory fireworks, focused their fire on the newly opened gap in the city wall!

Bang! Boom! Thud!

The already fragile edges of the gap suffered heavy damage once again. Rubble flew everywhere, and the gap was further widened and torn until it was large enough for dozens of Gold monsters to swarm in side-by-side!

Through the permeating dust, the crimson, greedy eyes and terrifying fangs stretching to the ears of those monsters outside the city were already clearly visible!