103: Chapter 103 Besieged on All Sides

Murong Xue's cavalry squad had already charged and fought through three rounds.

Her silver armor was covered in the blood of Savage Beasts. The deep crimson blood on the silver armor looked like blooming red plums; from the shoulder guards to the breastplate, it was as if a silver canvas had been splashed with the wildest red.

Her Barbarian Horned Horse had also sustained minor injuries, with several bloody scratches from Savage Beast claws on its grayish-brown coat, but the Holy Light Knight did not retreat.

The Beast Tide was like an endless black torrent, with wave after wave coming even as one was slaughtered. Murong Xue's Holy Light Spear flashed through the Savage Beast blood like silver lightning.

Thrusting, parrying, sweeping, and slashing—every movement was clean and decisive.

But after three rounds of charging, her breathing was noticeably heavy. Drenched in sweat, her athletic body beneath the silver armor was like a furnace encased in silver.

Heat radiated from the gaps in her armor, and sweat slid down her slender neck, dripping into the hollow of her collarbone like dew on silver petals.

Her breastplate rose and fell sharply, each breath like silver mountains undulating in the morning breeze.

The Savage Horn Rhino King charged!

The terrifying Savage Horn Rhino King spotted Murong Xue. It turned around, charging toward the silver-armored knight like a moving hill.

The earth shook, and the Barbarian Horned Horse neighed in fear. Murong Xue pulled the reins, and her mount dodged nimbly, the Savage Horn Rhino King's charge brushing past her silver armor.

The blast of air kicked up by the immense brute force blew her brown ponytail like a flag, fluttering wildly in the air, while the Savage Beast blood on her silver armor turned into a red mist in the gust.

In the draft, her silver armor was like a silver curtain lifted by the wind, and her athletic waist beneath the faulds was like a silver bowstring violently plucked.

The leg guards hugged her long, powerful legs. As the Barbarian Horned Horse made a sharp turn, her thighs clamped the horse's flanks like silver iron pincers, the curves of her silver armor resembling flowing silver in her speed.

"A Level 5 Barbarian Warrior is not something I can handle right now,"

her voice was calm, like the shaft of her silver spear—hard, sharp, and without a single tremor.

Her Holy Light Spear drew a silver trail of light across the Savage Horn Rhino King's flank, leaving only a shallow wound.

But it successfully enraged the Savage Horn Rhino King. It turned in a fury, while Murong Xue's horse was already rushing toward Frost Mage Lin Shiyun's Frost Trap zone.

Chasing the silver lightning, the Savage Horn Rhino King stepped into the Frost Trap zone.

"Frost Mage Lin Shiyun!"

The Frost Mage raised her hands above the defensive wall. Ice-blue spiritual energy surged like a wave, and the freezing deceleration zone was activated.

The Savage Horn Rhino King's speed plummeted, but its rampaging brute force still allowed it to crash forward on the ice, only slower now.

It was enough.

Murong Xue turned her Barbarian Horned Horse around, her silver armor like flowing silver in her speed as she dashed out of the trap zone.

Looking back, the Savage Horn Rhino King was struggling on the ice, temporarily pinned down.

Just as the battle on the western front was deadlocked, Zhao Linger's Spirit Sound Affinity picked up a new movement.

"The north! A pack of Savage Beasts has bypassed the western defense line and is coming around from the upper reaches of the Lingxi River!"

To the north, there was no defensive wall, only the Lingxi River as a natural barrier. However, the Water-type Barbarian Beasts within the Beast Tide could cross the river directly.

Wang Sheng stood at the highest point of the defensive wall. His gaze shifted from the Beast Tide in the west to the north, and then to the east.

Three sides.

The Beast Tide was pressing from the west and north, while in the east...

"The east..." Zhao Linger's voice trembled. "Chief Shi Ba is leading forty Black Stone Tribe Barbarian Warriors to attack the gate!"

A crisis on two fronts.

In the west: over three hundred Savage Beasts from the Beast Tide were battering the defense line. Murong Xue's cavalry squad had already charged for three rounds, with over half their spiritual energy depleted, and Lin

Shiyun's Frost Traps were half depleted, while Su Mengyao's natural defense line had developed several breaches.

In the east: Chief Shi Ba and forty Barbarian Warriors were attacking the gate. Those Black Stone Barbarian Warriors, all at Rank 2 Barbarian Warrior and above, were even harder to deal with than the elite beasts of the Beast Tide.

Heavenly Strategist Shangguan Xuan's voice was more urgent than ever, a flash of determination passing through the beautiful eyes of the Heavenly Strategist.

"We are being pinched from both sides. We cannot withdraw from the west; once the Beast Tide breaks through the defense line, it will be a massacre... As for the east,"

she looked at Wang Sheng. "The east needs stronger combat power, or else Chief Shi Ba might break through the gate directly."

Wang Sheng's fists clenched within his Holy Light Battle Armor, golden light spilling from between his fingers like a suppressed flame licking out hot tongues from the cracks.

His gaze swept over the west. Murong Xue, her silver armor stained with blood, was repeatedly charging and slashing through the Beast Tide like a silver blade.

The depletion from three rounds of charging had pushed her close to her limit, yet her spear was still like silver lightning.

His gaze swept over the north, where a dark purple shimmer gleamed on the Lingxi River as Water-type Barbarian Beasts crossed the river at the section without a defensive wall.

His gaze finally landed on the east, where Chief Shi Ba's brute force was hammering the defensive wall. Every punch made the runes on the wall flash once, like a dying heartbeat.

"Murong Xue, keep holding the west!"

"Frost Mage Lin Shiyun, do not retreat from the western frost defense line!"

"Shen Xuner, maintain the Moonlight Blessing!"

"Zhao Linger, keep monitoring the Shadow Clan!"

He turned to face the east, the golden shoulder guards of his Holy Light Battle Armor shining in the dawn like a golden shield.

"I'll handle the east."

East Front · Outside the Defensive Wall.

Chief Shi Ba led forty Black Stone Tribe Barbarian Warriors, charging from the east side of Guangming Village.

Chief Shi Ba's Brute Force Warrior body was like a moving mountain of rock, his grayish-brown stone skin appearing as hard as rock in the morning light.

His turbid, earthy-yellow eyes were filled with greed and killing intent. He stood two heads taller than Wang Sheng, his muscles piled up like stones.

His fists were larger than an ordinary person's head. The Brute Force Warrior passive skill [Rock Body] hardened the skin of his entire body like rock,

with the grayish-brown stone skin covering every inch of his flesh like armor.

"Hahaha!" Chief Shi Ba's laughter echoed outside the eastern defensive wall like thunder.

"You little brats of Guangming Village, the Beast Tide is just an appetizer. I, Shi Ba... am the main course!"

Behind him, forty Black Stone Barbarian Warriors, each at Rank 2 Barbarian Warrior and above, were even harder to deal with than the elite beasts of the Beast Tide.

Holding stone axes and bone spears, they formed the most primitive siege formation. The grayish-brown stone-skinned Barbarian Warriors were like a torrent of rock, resembling a moving gray mountain range in the morning light.

Wang Sheng rushed toward the eastern defensive wall alone, the Power of Holy Light inside him like a sun about to explode.

Golden light spread from his shoulder guards to his forearm guards, as if Holy Light was flowing through his entire body.

The ice-blue frost flower circuit in his undergarment acted like invisible armor, boosting his spiritual energy conduction efficiency to the limit.

Standing on top of the wall, he saw Chief Shi Ba.

Chief Shi Ba was hammering the defensive wall with his stone-skinned fists. With each strike, another crack appeared on the wall's surface.

Broken stones splattered like shrapnel, and the runes on the defensive wall flashed with their final light within the cracks, like dying stars burning their last.

"So it's you..." Chief Shi Ba looked up and saw Wang Sheng on top of the wall. His mouth curled into a grin, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

"The kid who shattered a giant boulder with a single punch. You put on quite a show at the market last time, but today... let's see what you'll use... to shatter me!"

His voice was like rolling thunder, and the forty Black Stone Barbarian Warriors shouted in unison, their sound waves striking like a battering ram.

Wang Sheng stood on the cracked top of the wall, the golden Holy Light gathering on his fist like a condensing sun.

Chief Shi Ba gave him no time to react. He raised his fist, his Level 6 Barbarian Warrior brute force like a mountain as he smashed it toward the defensive wall.

Spiritual energy surged like magma on his grayish-brown stone skin as he channeled the charged skill [Mountain Fist],

"Boom!"

The defensive wall cracked!

Cracks spread in all directions from Chief Shi Ba's fist imprint like a spiderweb spreading over stone, with shattered rocks flying like a barrage.

The runes on the defensive wall flashed with their final light within the cracks, like dying stars, and the en-

tire eastern defensive wall, under the violent brute force, was like ice struck by a giant hammer; cracks radiated from the center, and the shattered stones turned to dust.

Wang Sheng stood on the shattered top of the wall, the golden Holy Light gathering on his fist like a condensing sun.

His heartbeat was like two war drums beating simultaneously—one was his Level 5 Barbarian Warrior Holy Light spiritual energy, and the other was the resonance of his four wives' power transmitted through their marital link.

Chief Shi Ba looked up from below the wall, the golden light reflected in his turbid, earthy-yellow eyes like a setting sun shining on rock.

A cruel smile hung on his lips, like a hunter examining prey about to fall into a trap.

"Golden light..." He licked his lips. "Bright. I like it..."

Wang Sheng's fist slowly clenched, the golden light like a compressed sun.

Under the roars of the Beast Tide and Chief Shi Ba's brute force, the eastern defensive wall, like the final line of defense for Guangming Village, was...

shattering...