Chapter 24
Chapter 24 A Siege Battle
Before Flowing Light and Bluegreen-Clad began planning details for their future, they were told that their gang finally got permitted to fight a siege battle. Thus Han Meimei was required that she could not get pregnant before the end of this week.
The most prosperous place on the map of Shiny Sky was the domain of the Celestial Dynasty. The Celestial Dynasty was surrounded by four cities: Azure Dragon City of the east, White Tiger City of the west, Black Tortoise City of the north and Vermilion Bird City of the south. A gang had to apply two days in advance to get permission to attack a city. Once the gang succeeded in seizing the city, its gang boss would become the city governor, and the gang would receive a lot of rewards.
A gang could choose to attack an unowned city, which had never been occupied by any gang before, by defeating the garrison government there. It could also choose to take another gang’s city by defeating that gang.
Bluegreen-Clad chose Vermilion Bird City as his target, which was currently occupied by the Sacred Temple.
The Sacred Temple was the common enemy of the Matchless and the League of Strong Families now. They had been at loggerheads since Bluegreen-Clad and Blooming Pear Tree had been ambushed by the Sacred Temple.
The first city that the Sacred Temple had seized was Azure Dragon City, which was occupied by Blooming Pear Tree’s gang now. The Sacred Temple had tried twice to recapture Azure Dragon City but failed. After that, the left to occupy Vermilion Bird City. They thought they could finally enjoy some peace as the Matchless had to guard Azure Dragon City and did not have time to attack them now.
To their surprise, Bluegreen-Clad, gang boss of the League of Strong Families, challenged them to a battle again. It would be super humiliating for their gang boss Sacred TempleメCloud to fail to defend his city again. As such, he required all his gang members to defend the city, and if any of them refuse to join the battle, he would kick them out of his gang.
When Bluegreen-Clad told his gang members that they were going to siege the Sacred Temple’s city this weekend, everybody was thrilled. They had fought against the members of the Sacred Temple for many times and felt very confident of winning the siege battle. Besides, most of them were free during the weekend and could focus on fighting this battle.
They had only two days to get prepared for the siege battle. As Bluegreen-Clad was not often online, Li Lei was put in charge of the pre-war preparation and busy collecting pills everywhere. As the gang was afraid that some spies would be planted in the gang before the battle, it stopped recruiting new members during these two days.
On the weekend, when Bluegreen-Clad brought all his gang members to his gang channel on YY, the chatroom became very noisy with voices. After quieting his gang member down, Bluegreen-Clad began to deploy his troops. According to the strengths of different professions, Bluegreen-Clad put them into different teams to make sure that each team had strong magical and non-magical offensive forces and at least a doctor to take care of the entire team.
As doctors were not endowed with great offensive forces, most of the time, they just assisted their teammates in battles. As Flowing Light had reached level 95, she was put on Bluegreen-Clad’s team to heal and add blood for Bluegreen-Clad, Han Meimei, Li Lei and Son of Heaven.
When Bluegreen-Clad finished deploying the troops, Li Lei gave each team some pills, which could be used to improve the team members’ health, magic power upper limits, defensive and offensive magics, and non-magical defensive and offensive forces.
Vermilion Bird City had three city gates, which led to three different Vermilion Bird Terraces. Once the attacking troops captured a terrace, they would be able to unlock a key. When they gathered three keys, they would be able to open the gate leading to the main hall of the Vermilion Bird City. Once they entered the main hall and drove all the defending troops out of it, their gang boss would occupy the city through the NPC in the hall.
As Bluegreen-Clad’s team was the main strength of the troops, it was put in charge of breaking through the front gate of the city and attracting the attention of the Sacred Temple members. As every player knew the strengths and weaknesses of different professions very well, every team placed the fragile summoners and doctors at the rear of its formation, magicians in the middle and warriors and archers at the front. Assassins would usually lie in wait near their teams. In this way, members of a team could protect and cooperate with one another well.
As Zheng Xiaoguang had fought many battles together with her big brother Blooming Pear Tree before, she was experienced and knew for sure what she should do in a battle. To win a battle, the gang members had to trust and cooperate with one another. As a doctor, she would have to run around to add blood for her fellow gang members and help them combat Negative Effects. Once she had a chance, she could use one of her Area Effect skills to slay some enemies with poison.
Soon enough, the gang channel on YY was filled with exciting news.
In order to let everyone hear Bluegreen-Clad’s orders clearly, only he could use the mic of the channel. The other gang members could only send out text messages.
A warrior named Beating War Drums in Spring Breeze reported on the situation of the left city gate: Boss, we’ve reached the left Vermilion Bird Terrace. The Sacred Temple’s deputy gang boss Sacred TempleメEmpty City is defending the terrace. They keep us away from the key by launching Area Effect attacks on us repeatedly.
“Try to disarm that Empty City and ask your doctor to unlock the key under the ‘eggshell’①,” Bluegreen-Clad said calmly. “How is everything going with you guys on the right terrace?”
An assassin named One-inch Monk reported: Still fighting, f*ck, that summoner has so many Negative Effect skills.
“Ask your magician to transform that summoner into a fox②, and you guys have to take this chance to slay their doctor.” Bluegreen-Clad remained collected and composed while instructing his gang members to unlock the keys at the Vermilion Bird Terraces. Soon enough, they received a game message which said, “The left Vermilion Bird Terrace is captured. The right Vermilion Bird Terrace is captured.”
Now, only the middle Vermilion Bird Terrace was still in the hands of the Sacred Temple, so the Sacred Temple members flocked to the middle terrace to defend it. Members of the League of Strong Families also gathered in the middle terrace to fight against the Sacred Temple. As there were so many players gather together, the images began to stutter. During this melee, many doctors got killed and kicked out of the city.
One-inch Monk: F*ck, our doctor is slain. We need a doctor to help us combat the Negative Effects. It’ll cost a summoner so much magical power to do so.
Zheng Xiaoguang: Give me your coordinates.
A female doctor named Nine-Tailed Red Fox: What should we do now? Once we get kicked out of the city, it’ll be hard for us to enter the city again.
Flowing Light: Don’t worry. Doctors who got kicked out don’t enter the city through the front gate. Most of us gather at the left Vermilion Bird Terrace now. Try your best to break into the city through the left gate. We will receive you guys at the left gate.
Upon seeing that, Bluegreen-Clad said, “All the doctors outside the city follow Flowing Light’s lead.”
Venus Will Cry had gotten killed and kicked out just now. When she was trying to break into the city again with the other doctors, an assassin named Shallow Sleep lying in wait nearby ambushed her. She lost one third of her blood and was muted by the assassin. Within the next five seconds, she could not use any of her skills.
When she thought she was going to die again, Flowing Light popped out and emitted a beam of green light toward her to give her 2,500 points of blood.
Upon seeing that, Shallow Sleep came at Flowing Light.
As Flowing Light was well-equipped now, even a doctor’s nemesis, an assassin, could hardly slay her with one strike. She used her skill to batter Shallow Sleep unconscious the moment she met the assassin. As the unconscious assassin could not move, Shallow Sleep quickly got slain by the members of the League of Strong Families.
In the meantime, Bluegreen-Clad finally got the third key inside the city and opened the gate of the main hall. A game message was automatically sent out to inform everyone of this event. Most members of the League of Strong Families rushed into the main hall together with their gang boss, and Beating War Drums in Spring Breeze led a few teams to guard the gate. Li Lei and Han Meimei used their Area Effect skills to slay all the Sacred Temple’s assassins who were hiding inside the hall. The wife of the Sacred Temple’s gang boss was really useless. She even failed to break through the gate of the hall. As such, the Sacred Temple’s gang boss Sacred TempleメCloud Top was left alone in the hall.
Note:
①Eggshell: Eggshell is a nickname for the doctor’s defensive cover “Moonlight”.
②To transform someone into a fox: A magician can transform a character into a small animal to stop him or her from using any skill, and this transformation will increase the character’s speed and defensive force.