139: Chapter 139 The Shocked Long Ao

When the clock hands pointed to exactly ten o'clock in the morning.

On the Warning Tower's virtual map, which usually only displayed subtle green dots and small areas of yellow dots.

In the northwest direction, about twenty-five kilometers away, a dense cluster of deep red light dots suddenly erupted without any warning!

It wasn't just one or two, but hundreds of them!

Every red dot represented a powerful energy reaction. The largest one among them shone so brightly and had such a high energy level.

It was only slightly inferior to the Gold 9-star Fear Demon Ape from the night of the beast tide, steadily reaching the terrifying level of Gold 8-star!

The rest of the red dots were also all between Gold 1-star and 7-star!

The piercing sound of alarms instantly rang out simultaneously in the Warning Tower and the Lords Mansion!

“They're here!”

Lin Tian stood up abruptly, a sharp light exploding in his eyes. There was no panic at all, only a cold expression that said, "Just as I thought."

He understood instantly who the visitors were.

With flying units of such scale and quality, who else could it be but that “Legendary Black Dragon Lord” Long Ao, who had been talking big?

“Quantity around a hundred, highest Gold 8-star, the rest Gold 1-7 star...”

Lin Tian's brain worked rapidly, comparing his own combat strength.

After successive battles and resource allocation, Lin Yin was now Gold 7-star;

Lin Feng was Gold 4-star; Lin Yan was Gold 2-star;

Among the soldiers under his command, nearly fifty people had also broken through to Gold 1-star.

More importantly, he had Lin Feng's “Command of a Thousand Armies,” the newly formed Scarlet Flame Mage Regiment, ten times the enemy's troop strength, high walls, and City Defense Giant Crossbows!

“On paper, we are not weak—we even have the advantage!”

Lin Tian took a deep breath, suppressing his boiling fighting spirit, as his steady voice spread throughout the city:

“Enemy forces approaching from the northwest, distance twenty-five kilometers! All troops, follow the first air defense plan and move into combat positions!”

“Archers, Mage Regiment, mount the walls!”

“Heavy Armored Spearmen, Earth Spirit Guards, assemble outside the city gates, prepare to meet possible impacts!”

“Holy Spirit Priests, healing nodes in position!”

“Lin Feng, be ready to form the array at any time!”

“Lin Yin,”

He looked at her side, his tone solemn, “That Gold 8-star Black Dragon leader, and that Long Ao, I'll leave them to you. Find an opportunity for a one-hit kill!”

“Understood.”

Lin Yin drew her bow and notched an arrow, moonlight flowing over the bowstring. Not a single ripple could be seen on her cold face, only absolute focus.

She tilted her head slightly, as if she could already hear the dull, thunder-like sound of wings tearing through the air from the distant horizon.

Lintian City, this massive war machine, instantly entered its most efficient state of operation.

Everyone knew that the first lord duel after the server merge—the moment to test the true mettle of this newborn giant city—had arrived.

The morning of the tenth day, amidst the joy of harvest interwoven with the dark clouds of war, suddenly became tense and solemn.

In the distant sky, an ominous “black cloud” was sweeping toward them at an alarming speed.

Lin Tian's army of a hundred thousand, like a pack of wolves that had planned for a long time, completed the encirclement of this area from all directions with startling efficiency and silence.

Banners were not unfurled, and war drums were not beaten.

Only the slight sound of steel armor rubbing together and the heavy, rhythmic footsteps converged into a suffocating, murderous torrent, slowly tightening the encirclement.

Almost at the same time as the army's encirclement was completed, above the open ground in the center of the hills.

The light of that massive crimson teleportation gate twisted violently. The last batch of Black Dragons struggled to squeeze out of the spatial vortex, and the teleportation gate then flickered a few times as if its energy was exhausted, gradually dimming and disappearing.

Long Ao rode on the neck of his most magnificent Gold 8-star Black Dragon leader.

Before the slight dizziness from just leaving the teleportation had completely faded, his pupils shrank in shock at the sight before him.

Looking around, in every direction of the hills, as far as the eye could see.

It was packed with dense, well-equipped, and strictly arrayed human soldiers!

Spears and halberds were like a forest, reflecting cold, hard glints. The points of the arrows converged into a sea of death that made one's scalp tingle.

Further away, dust rose slightly, indicating that even more troops were moving and adjusting their formations.

This scale, at a rough glance, definitely exceeded a hundred thousand!

“One... one hundred thousand troops?”

Long Ao's heart jolted violently, as a sense of absurdity and unease suddenly enveloped him.

Lords summoning soldiers have cooldowns and quantity limits—this was common knowledge!

To be able to pull out an army of a hundred thousand at this stage.

The only explanation was that the opponent had mass-produced nothing but the lowest-level common Militia!

A paper tiger built out of numbers!

Thinking of this, his uncertain heart settled a bit, and even a hint of contempt surfaced.

“Hmph, all show and no substance. Trying to scare me with human wave tactics? Naive!”

He calmed his restless Black Dragon. Instead of launching an immediate attack.

He hovered leisurely in mid-air, striking a condescending posture of inspection.

Waiting to see what kind of tricks this “army of a hundred thousand paper-mache soldiers” could actually pull off.

He even had the leisure to start calculating whether to let the Black Dragons use a wave of dragon breath to scorch the earth first, or to just dive down and tear through the opponent's array to bring about the greatest shock and fear.

The encirclement tightened steadily.

When the front-most heavy armor phalanx entered a distance of about five hundred meters, coming within the effective range of the Detection Spell.

Long Ao still had a trace of a mocking curve on his lips as he unhurriedly channeled his energy, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.

The Detection Spell swept like invisible radar waves toward the figures in the opposing army who looked like generals, as well as the troops behind them.

The next second.

The expression on Long Ao's face was as if it had been hit head-on by the crudest ice magic—it instantly froze, solidified, and then shattered inch by inch!

Gold 7-star!

That young girl surrounded by many soldiers, dressed in moon-white and holding a strange longbow, was actually Gold 7-star!

That wasn't even the scariest part. What made his soul tremble most was the information about the opponent's quality that the Detection Spell fed back.

Legendary!

The martial general next to her, holding the crimson gold coiling dragon spear with a fierce aura, was Gold 4-star, Legendary quality!

The general next to him, steady as a mountain, was Gold 2-star, Legendary!

Further back, those soldiers in strict arrays with condensed auras showed a large area of dazzling epic light, mixed with quite a few excellence grades.

And the lowest-level soldiers detected were actually of excellence quality as well!

With a rough scan, there were at least four phalanxes emitting epic-level fluctuations, and each phalanx looked to have no fewer than two thousand people!

That was nearly ten thousand epic-grade troops! And that wasn't even counting the more numerous excellence-grade elites!

“Legend... Legendary... epic... Ten thousand epic troops... An army of a hundred thousand that are at least excellence grade...”

This information was like a heavy hammer, slamming into Long Ao's heart and forehead one blow after another.

It made his head spin and his ears ring. His hand holding the dragon reins trembled uncontrollably, instantly soaked in cold sweat.

The color drained completely from his face in an instant, leaving only a deathly paleness and unbelievable horror.

What kind of monster territory is this?

This setup—let alone seeing it, he hadn't even heard of it!