If someone chose to flee at this moment, then the Lei Family’s invasion plan would be a complete failure.
As the commanders of this battle, they would surely be torn apart alive by Lei Aotian.
Absolutely not!
They must block this wave of impact!
“Everyone, move it!!!”
“The Family Head isn’t dead yet; we still have hope!!!”
“This is a real war!! As long as we persevere, victory will surely be ours, the Lei Family!!!”
The Lei Family Awakener closest to Demon Metropolis finally stabilized the chaotic situation under the frantic roars of their various commanders.
Everyone’s morale improved slightly at this moment; they no longer thought of fleeing but instead vigorously activated their Source Power to begin defending.
Layer after layer of solid stone walls, condensed from earth-attribute Source Power, instantly formed in front of them, with countless ice armors condensing behind the stone walls.
These two skills were the most powerful defensive skills for mages below the Fourth Stage.
After the stone walls and ice armor blocked their front, the Lei Family powerhouses who had specialized as Heavy-Armored Knights and Shield Warriors each raised their shields.
They quickly formed a defensive line, blocking in front of the weaker mages, archers, and warlocks.
“Bang!!!”
“Rumble...”
Almost in an instant.
The stone walls were the first to collide with countless fireballs, wind blades, ice shuttles, and thorns.
The crashing roar echoed continuously through the space.
The stone walls hastily condensed by the Lei Family powerhouses were shattered by the countless spells before they could fully stabilize.
Layer after layer of stone walls were almost incinerated into ash by the flames.
The many ice armors that followed were not spared either; they instantly shattered into pieces under the onslaught of countless wind blades.
The exploding fragments of ice armor almost all landed in the hands of the Heavy-Armored Knights and Shield Warriors behind them.
“Not good!”
“We can’t hold them off! My arm is completely frozen and numb!”
“What should we do? If this continues, our hands will be completely crippled.”
“Hold on, don’t retreat!”
“Priests! Where are the Priests! And the Paladins! Hurry and heal them, what are you standing around for?!”
A hint of panic flashed in the eyes of the Heavy-Armored Knights and Shield Warriors as they shouted out their situations.
However, the commanders hiding behind them let out a reprimand, strictly forbidding them from retreating.
They glared at the Priests and Paladins who were standing dumbfounded in the crowd.
Were they all seeking death by being distracted during battle?
“Crash...”
The fireballs and wind blades were successively depleted by the stone walls and ice armor, followed by the Ice Shuttles and Thorns from the Su Family Awakener!
These Ice Shuttles landed on the shields of the Lei Family powerhouses, then exploded into frost, freezing the Lei Family members’ arms through their shields.
Thorn vines, nobody knew when, had spread onto their arms, wrapping around them and instantly tightening!
The sharp barbs on the thorn vines suddenly pierced into their flesh, and the twisting vines almost broke their arms.
Their originally robust arms immediately became a bloody mess, with fresh red blood dripping down the vines.
The intense pain caused their hands to contract instantly, and the sturdy shields they had been gripping tightly slipped from their grasp at that moment.
“Whoosh whoosh!!”
The sound of rushing wind suddenly rang in their ears.
The scorching flames coming at them, the sharp arrowheads, instantly pierced through their hearts.
“No!!!”
“They’re dead, they’re all dead!”
“The Su Family Awakener army’s cultivation realm is more than just a bit stronger than ours overall, and their numbers are several times ours—how can we possibly hold them off?!”
“No, if we leave here, there might still be a glimmer of Vitality.”
More and more Heavy-Armored Knights and Shield Warriors were pierced by the constantly falling fiery arrows from the sky, the scorching flames burning most of their bodies to ash.
Seeing this scene, the Shield Warriors and Heavy-Armored Knights, who had stronger defensive physiques, couldn’t help but feel terrified.
The thought of fleeing once again arose in their minds.
Several bolder Shield Warriors unhesitatingly abandoned their comrades, hiding behind them and rapidly fleeing towards the direction where the arrows were relatively sparse.
These Shield Warriors and Heavy-Armored Knights who survived the arrow rain had relatively higher cultivation realms and completely ignored the archers, mages, warlocks, and a very small number of Taoists.
They just focused on their frantic escape.
Now, they only had one thought in their minds: to escape this terrifying battlefield.
The Lei Family’s action this time would definitely fail!
“Hold on!”
“Don’t let go of your shields, don’t!!!”
“How dare you...”
The commander’s voice in the crowd had just begun to ring out, but before he could finish, it abruptly stopped midway.
The defensive line of Heavy-Armored Warriors and Shield Warriors that had originally blocked in front of the Lei Family members actually collapsed in an instant!
The most crucial thing was that the reason this group disintegrated so quickly was entirely because someone chose to flee.
As soon as one person took the lead in fleeing, the others around them blindly followed, causing the originally stable formation of the legion to simultaneously begin to rout.
A large amount of murderous aura permeated the air.
“Ah ah ah!!!”
“I can’t die!!! My family is still waiting for me to return, I absolutely cannot die!!”
“Everyone get out of my way! I’m going back!!”
The Lei Family’s Awakener army became increasingly chaotic, with the physically strong melee professions, eyes red, pushing away all the surrounding mages and warlocks.
In their eyes, these people were obstacles preventing their escape.
Some even grabbed others, using them as human shields to block the fiery arrows constantly falling from the sky.
“Whoever dares to flee will be killed without mercy!!!”
Just then.
A sharp golden blade light suddenly appeared in the chaotic crowd; the first few Shield Warriors and Heavy-Armored Knights who began to flee had their heads instantly severed by this blade light.
Lei Xuanli appeared in the crowd with a somber expression, his Furious Battle Blade in hand emitting golden light, and a powerful killing intent covered the surrounding space.
Behind him, several thousand Three-Realm Origin Stage powerhouses appeared simultaneously, quickly rushing into the crowd and beginning to slaughter the Awakener who were still fleeing.
If they didn’t kill all these people as a warning, they wouldn’t need to continue fighting the Su Family now; they could just surrender directly.
“Lei Xuanmu, is this the army you command?”
“How exactly do you command it?” Lei Xuanli said coldly.
A hint of anger flashed in Lei Xuanmu’s eyes, “Who told you to give orders over me? Why send those new recruits, who are only at First Stage Three-Star or Four-Star cultivation, to teleport here as well?”
“If they weren’t mixed in with the legion, the legion’s morale would never have weakened to this extent!”
“Now, we haven’t even touched a single Su Family member, but because of your idiotic order, our Lei Family army has directly lost one-tenth of its Awakener in the Su Family’s first wave of attack!!!”
The more Lei Xuanmu thought about it, the angrier he got, standing in place and roaring uncontrollably.
“You...” Lei Xuanli’s eyes widened, and the Furious Golden Blade in his hand shone even brighter.
“Enough!!!”
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(PS: What?! I seem to have been released! It seems going too fast sometimes really isn’t good!)
