84: Chapter 84 Current Battlefield Situation

Then, as the Azure Phoenix flew closer, the full scope of the battlefield finally came into view.

Qin Ce was a thousand meters up in the sky, so he had an unobstructed view of Fengling City below.

And it was because of this perspective that Qin Ce's breath hitched.

It was tragic!

Fengling City had a total of three major defensive lines.

They were the Outer City's Denial Wall, the Main City's Thick Rock Wall, and the Inner City's Core Wall.

At this moment.

The first defensive line, the Denial Wall, had in fact already been breached.

A section of the western wall in the Outer City, nearly one and a half kilometers long, had been broken through.

No, it wasn't breached; it was blown apart by sheer force.

Qin Ce wasn't on the scene, so he could only see a massive deep crater at the collapsed one-and-a-half-kilometer section of the wall.

It was as if a giant beast had exploded right at that spot. The crystallized traces of the explosion were still clearly visible, and even the hardened ground within the city had been blasted into a mass of muddy ground, with the upturned earth and rubble piled up like mountains everywhere.

A massive number of ferocious beasts were pouring frantically through this gap like a black torrent, surging and powerful.

And another five kilometers into the city was the second defensive line—the Main City's Thick Rock Wall.

This place had also been broken through, with a gap of nearly one kilometer.

But that gap was clearly different from the collapsed wall in the Outer City.

On the ground, a longitudinal deep trench extended all the way from the Outer City, pierced through the Main City's Thick Rock Wall, and continued toward the Inner City. The trench was ten meters deep, and its edges were smooth as a mirror, as if it had been plowed out by some extraordinary attack.

Qin Ce's pupils contracted slightly.

This is...

A Star-Glow Rank, or even Bright Moon Level attack.

A high-tier ferocious beast, under the cover of the beast tide, had launched a fatal blow against the Main City wall.

Qin Ce followed the traces down.

At the end of the traces was the western gate of the Inner City.

And at this moment, at the western gate of the third defensive line in the Inner City, two figures with surging energy were locked in a fierce battle.

One figure was familiar to Qin Ce; it was City Lord Jiang Tianzong and his Pet Beast, the Jade-Horned Flying Tiger, whom he had seen countless times on television since childhood.

The Jade-Horned Flying Tiger!

A Bright Moon Level Pet Beast, snowy white all over, with a jade horn on its forehead.

At this moment, it was covered in blood. Every pounce brought screeches that tore through the air, and its jade horn gathered a radiant light that blasted toward the opponent below.

And its opponent—

A ten-meter-tall Lava Bear.

It was also the Beast King of this beast tide, also at the Bright Moon Level.

It was a giant bear like a small mountain, its body covered in a thick hide flowing with lava.

With every step it took, it left burning footprints on the ground, and the surrounding air was distorted into blurry ripples by the intense heat.

It roared, swinging its massive bear paws to clash head-on with the Jade-Horned Flying Tiger.

The two behemoths fought together, and every collision sounded like a clap of thunder; within a radius of several hundred meters, no living creature dared to approach.

Their might left Qin Ce profoundly shaken.

But what Qin Ce focused on the most was not them.

It was the tens of thousands of ferocious beasts that had already poured into the city.

They poured in from the gap in the Outer City, passed through the breached Main City wall, and fought their way toward the Inner City. If allowed to run rampant, Fengling City would surely be devastated.

But the city's defenders did not let them have their way.

All the encroaching beasts were firmly suppressed by Fengling City's defenders within a triangular area.

The apex of this triangular area was the City Lord and the Lava Bear who were currently fighting. The other two corners of the triangle were controlled within one kilometer on either side of the collapsed wall section in the Outer City.

In the city, the encroaching beast tide looked like a pizza with a slice missing.

In other words, although the beast tide had already poured into the city, they were controlled within a limited range by a dense network of fortresses, countless city defense weapons, various arrow towers, and crystal core towers forming an interweaving fire network.

This layout even had a hint of trapping a turtle in a jar. It was extremely beneficial for clearing out the beast tide!

Although that triangular area occupied by the ferocious beasts was still expanding,

it was doing so very slowly—so slow it was almost imperceptible.

Correspondingly, the number of ferocious beasts dying in the beast tide was enormous.

The defenders were using their bodies of flesh and blood to stubbornly wear down the numbers of the beast tide.

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Qin Ce's gaze began to scan every corner of the battlefield in detail—

On the Outer City wall, several Bronze Rank squads were fighting hard.

Their Pet Beasts clashed with the ferocious beasts, and the glow of skills rose and fell one after another.

A fiery red fox spat out scorching flames, burning three black iron rank ferocious beasts to charcoal;

A rocky giant bear roared as it charged, smashing a Bronze Rank ferocious beast to pieces;

A vibrant green vine plant waved dozens of tentacles, firmly entangling the ferocious beasts in one area.

But there were too many ferocious beasts.

One batch was killed, and another poured in.

The members of those Bronze Rank squads were covered in blood, yet their eyes were full of determination.

No one retreated; no one fled.

Because behind them were their homes and their loved ones.

At the gap in the Main City wall, several Gold Rank squads were desperately blocking the way.

The fighting there was even more tragic.

A Gold Rank Sky-Rending Eagle dove down from high above, its sharp claws tearing through the body of a Bronze ferocious beast, but it was immediately besieged by three flying beasts of the same rank.

Its master desperately commanded it to dodge, but it was still struck in the wing by a Wind Blade and plummeted with a scream.

Another Gold Rank squad coordinated perfectly, their six Pet Beasts releasing skills simultaneously—fire, frost, lightning, Wind Blade, earth spikes, and vines—interweaving into a net of death that instantly slaughtered dozens of ferocious beasts charging at the front.

But before they could catch their breath, the next wave of ferocious beasts had already surged up.

Their Pet Beasts could take several beasts' lives with every strike, but the beast tide was endless.

Stamina and energy were being consumed rapidly, yet no one dared to stop.

And amidst this, a large number of artillery and crystal core cannons bombarded the middle of the beast tide, dealing even greater damage.

Compared to this, Qin Ce felt that the number of ferocious beasts he had killed before really didn't amount to much!

The truly core battlefield, the Inner City battlefield, was instead relatively "quiet."

There were no earth-shattering battle cries, no dense explosions of skills.

There were only figures darting through the high sky, with each collision bringing dull booms.

A Star-Glow Rank Ice Crystal Phoenix spread its wings and flew high; every time it flapped its wings, it showered down a sky full of ice crystals.

Those ice crystals fell to the ground, instantly freezing the ferocious beasts in that area into ice sculptures.

But its opponent—a Star-Glow Rank Dark Spotted Python—was staring intently at it, watching for the right moment. Its gaping maw opened, and a highly corrosive dark energy was spat out.

Elsewhere, a white-haired old man was facing off against a massive Golden-Armored Centipede.

The old man's Pet Beast was a Mystic Turtle, also of the Star-Glow Rank, its shell covered in ancient patterns.

The Golden-Armored Centipede attacked the Mystic Turtle frantically, but all the attacks were blocked by that indestructible shell.

The old man kept his eyes closed, seemingly waiting for something—then, the Mystic Turtle suddenly extended its head and bit into the centipede's neck!

The battle's aftershocks alone could cause buildings below to collapse in swaths, yet no one dared to approach that area.

And further away, in places Qin Ce couldn't see clearly, there were faint signs of even stronger auras clashing—that was the Bright Moon Level battlefield, and not just at the City Lord's location.

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