The Era of Gods - Chapter 156

Chapter 156: Chapter 156 News of God’s Tomb

Translator: 549690339

The city’s defenders on the square quickly moved forward, ready for combat. Hundreds of arrows rained down, alongside the shrieking of a dozen bed crossbows. The Whale Hunter Knight, just emerging from the alley gate, was suddenly flung backward, riddled with dozens of thick fine steel crossbow arrows and a smattering of ordinary arrows stuck at awkward angles.

“Keep firing!”

The commander of the defenders waved his hand and roared, as the second volley of arrows shot out, accompanied by the creaking of the bed crossbows being wound.

This Transcendent-level Supreme Naga stoically endured the second volley of arrows as it crawled out of the gate to clear the entrance. The second Whale Hunter Knight charged through the alley gate, its muscular serpentine tail swiftly swishing to clear away the ground arrows and pebbles, scattering them in all directions as it charged towards the enemy formations awaiting on the square.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth, followed by swarms of Fishman cannon fodder and Forest Lizardmen cannon fodder, which flooded in, and the square was instantly thrown into chaos.

When a large group of Fishman Naga made their attack through the river into the city and the gates were breached, it was only a matter of time before the city fell. The question was when the enemy would be completely routed, and how great the losses would be.

After all, there was too great a disparity in strength. They had not even fully exerted themselves yet; at least, the heroes under the command of the three of them had not yet joined the battle. Shen Yue Xin had not only kept The Lord of Wrath out of the fight, but also her seventy-odd Sky Wrath Magicians had yet to participate.

Moreover, they had practically reached the city walls in a surprise attack, leaving the Duke of Vampires, Afonso, utterly unprepared. His forces were not concentrated, with only less than twenty thousand of his own guards present, the rest were not there.

One must know that when Lin Xiao faced the invasion of the Blood Count, his enemy had ready a Blood Legion of thirty to forty thousand strong. The Duke was more powerful than the Count and it made no sense for him to have only so few troops.

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes as he sized up the Duke of Vampires, who was shrouded by an invisible and twisted veil. He could already sense a formidable pressure not belonging to the Duke of Vampires, Afonso, gradually surfacing. It was clear that the Semi-god Vampire took this legendary Fanatic Believer seriously and was preparing to descend in an Incarnation.

In a state of frenzy, Afonso didn’t even care about his own territory. Without this Legendary Vampire to intercept them, the city’s defenders could not hold them back on their own.

Even if there were a considerable number of Transcendent Vampires within the city, it was futile.

Without the advantage of city walls, the numerous Supreme Nagas, utilizing their Dominator’s Body, charged unopposed, making two devastating sweeps at the gate and collapsing the defenders.

A fully armored Transcendent Blood Knight raised his blood-colored greatsword and pointed forward. A shadow of blood flashed as he covered hundreds of meters and collided with a Transcendent-level Supreme Naga from behind. The blood sword, over two meters long, pierced through the thick scales and the incredibly tough muscles and penetrated entirely through the body, with the tip emerging from the other side.

The impaled Whale Hunter Knight, as if unharmed, twisted its body and slashed with two dual hand greatswords. The Blood Knight, gripping the hilt tightly, attempted to pull the blade out but failed, as the Supreme Naga’s twisting movements and formidable muscles clamped the blood sword, preventing immediate extraction.

This momentary error was fatal in Transcendent-level combat, especially since the Whale Hunter Knight was stronger than the Blood Knight. In that brief moment, the two dual hand greatswords cut down the hapless Blood Knight and his mount, who had no time to abandon the sword and escape.

Two grating sounds of splitting flesh and the anguished cries of “xi lululu” were heard, as the Blood Knight and his horse were cleaved in two, the thick armor sundered apart.

However, the moment the Whale Hunter Knight slew the Blood Knight, a raging pillar of fire several meters in diameter shot out from the central tower in the city, striking the Whale Hunter Knight. The terrifying power of this strategic Spell incinerated the lower half of the Whale Hunter Knight to ash. The dark red flames from the explosion covered hundreds of meters, blasting a huge crater at the city gate, killing countless Fishman Supreme Nagas and enemies in the process.

Yet this devastating power of the strategic Spell did not affect Lin Xiao’s Clan members, whose faith and morale were high. Those who had already entered the city continued their attack, while more poured through the breach.

Whale Hunter Knights, strong in build and vitality, adopted a damage-for-damage combat style and pushed forward irresistibly. They were already stronger than the Blood Knights and fought even more fiercely, leaving the enemy powerless to fight back.

In less than five minutes, over a dozen Transcendent Blood Knights were killed or severely wounded. The remaining ones led their troops to abandon the outer areas of the city and retreated to the three Magic High Towers within the city, defending from their positions.

These three Magic High Towers were manned by Duke Alfonso’s Mage team, not akin to the fabled Mage Towers. These structures were designed for war—not as powerful as Mage Towers—but they did possess the capability to greatly amplify the magic power of the casters inside and cast powerful war Spells.

In the mere teens of minutes since the siege began, these three Magic High Towers had already cast five volleys of terrifying war-level Spells, resulting in the death of two Transcendent Supreme Nagas and the serious injury of four others who had to withdraw from the fight.

However, his Clan’s resolve remained firm, facing such terrifying magic with unstoppable morale. Instead, it was the city’s defenders who couldn’t withstand this indiscriminate terror and began to collapse first, with a few even abandoning their resistance and fleeing into the city.

Above in the Vault of Heaven, numerous Wingmen had already crossed over the walls into the city, dozens of Thunder Wings in their midst.

These Transcendent-level Thunder Wings inherently possessed the Talent to control lightning, and with the Magician profession specially conferred by Shen Yue Xin, their synergy became particularly formidable.

They clenched thin air with both hands, as lightning condensed into arm-thick, blazing blue lightning javelins that were fiercely hurled down.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

Every forearm-thick, two- to three-meter-long lightning bolt struck its target like a missile, exploding on impact. Countless bolts of lightning shot out, annihilating everything within range.

The damage radius isn’t as wide as the Kobold Dragonvein Magician’s Dragon Breath Flame Explosion, but the direct killing power within its range is horrendous, and the lightning also inflicts massive additional damage on evil creatures like undead demons.

And Vampires are exactly the kind of evil creatures that suffer under the onslaught of lightning, finding themselves squarely in the blast zone. A single lightning javelin thrown down can instantly kill any Vampire that isn’t at the Transcendent Level, and even a Transcendent Level Blood Knight would be injured if hit.

Dozens of Thunder Magicians bombarded violently, reducing all buildings around the three Magic High Towers to rubble. Countless soldiers were killed by the shockwaves and scattered in all directions, only to be intercepted and wiped out by the encircling Fishman Great Naga.

Lin Xiao and his two companions stood quietly in the Void outside the city, looking towards Duke Alfonso, but their gaze wasn’t fixed on the battle within the city. They didn’t even care about the three Magic High Towers; these war structures with immense power but long cooldowns are useless without allied forces buying time. Currently besieged by the ceaseless attacks of the dozens of Thunder Magicians, the Blood Mages within the towers were too busy defending to consider launching their war spells in the next round.

Their focus was on the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, who after completing his prayers, along with the deaths of numerous Fanatic Believers, finally received a response from the Semi-god Vampire who had begun to descend.

In their perception, a potent and malevolent will was manifesting in this space, gathering its strength.

If they were to strike now, they’d manage to disrupt it before its descent, as a Legendary Vampire stands no chance of stopping them.

But there was no ‘if’ for them, as this was precisely the opportunity they had longed for. Why would they interrupt it? They would rather the Semi-god Vampire sent a few more incarnations their way.

While the Blood God had yet to descend, Lin Xiao and Lin Xu Shen Yue Xin simultaneously ordered their troops to retreat, to avoid their subordinates being caught in the aftermath of a battle exceeding the Legendary level.

Compared to their anticipation, the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, was snapped out of his fervent state when his worshipped Blood God responded to his prayers and began to descend. It took him several seconds to recover after witnessing how the situation below had been decisively settled in just a short ten minutes or so.

If he wasn’t a Legendary Vampire himself, he might have thought he’d been ensnared by an illusion.

How could his city have fallen so quickly?

Where is my army?

Where are my numerous forces?

Somehow, Alfonso had a sense of foreboding, but then he felt the divine might radiating from the Blood God Incarnate that was about to emerge from the Twisted Void above him, and the slight unease in his heart quickly dissipated, replaced by renewed confidence.

From afar, Lin Xiao found the changing expressions on Alfonso’s face quite amusing and felt a tinge of envy.

For a Demigod to have a Legendary level Fanatic Believer was truly enviable.

The Power of Faith offered by a Legendary level Fanatic Believer was significant. In theory, a hundred Legendary Fanatic Believers could sustain a new Deity from falling from their God Level. According to the information Lin Xiao had obtained, the Vampire Kingdom contained several Duke of Vampires, and dozens of Marquis and Earl level Big Nobles, plus a large number of Transcendent level believers. The quality of this Semi-god Vampire’s believers was quite high, theoretically enough to maintain a True God.

But having lived for so long, this Semi-god Vampire was still just a demi-god, not even a High-Level Demigod…

Well, Lin Xiao now had some doubts about this point, suspecting that this Vampire Semi-god might be more than just a Normal Demigod, but he had no evidence.

Regardless of being a Normal Demigod or a High-Level Demigod, one thing was certain: Divine Enthronement was truly not an easy feat.

After all, if there were a guaranteed way to Ignite the Divine Fire and ascend to godhood, anyone would seize the opportunity. That this Vampire Semi-god had lived for so long without ascending only suggested that they were uncertain of Divine Enthronement, or the conditions were still insufficient.

It was unclear what the Vampire Semi-god was doing; the descent was very slow. Their subordinates steadily retreated from the city, yet this Divine Incarnation had yet to fully manifest. However, they could clearly sense that the will of the Demigod had indeed arrived, only that the pace was unreasonably slow.

It seemed…

It seemed as though this Semi-god Vampire was too far away from here, unable to descend swiftly.

Alfonso stood alone in the Void, feeling that something was off. Why had his enemies stopped their assault? What were they waiting for?

Lin Xiao and the others also didn’t dare to advance; they feared they might scare away the Blood God Incarnate. So there they both stood, at a standoff.

Fortunately, after such a long wait, as a vast will appeared in this space, the Twisted Void above Alfonso parted, and stepping out from within was a silver-haired, handsome figure that Lin Xiao found…