A sudden noise from outside interrupted their discussion. Hao Ren turned his head and looked at the exit of the palace. "Is Lanina here with her men?"
But the next second, he knew he was wrong. What followed was a series of ear-piercing screeches and continuous explosions!
"Enemy attack!" A demon hunter suddenly appeared in the hall, shrouded in a magic mist. "The East Tower is under attack!"
Teuton had already sensed the noise from outside and looked at the weapon rack not far away. When the alarm sounded, he disappeared in a flash. The next second, he appeared more than ten meters away, carrying a huge, warhammer-like cross as he strode toward the palace gate. He shouted, "Harel, take your men to the Rune Hall. Zooey, take your men to the East Tower. The rest of you, follow me!"
Hao Ren, Vivian, and the others exchanged a look and followed White Flame out of the palace.
The new wave of attack from the Council of Elders came earlier than expected, and it was extremely fierce. When Hao Ren and the others rushed out of the palace, the outside was already boiling with the flames of war, explosions, and war cries. In the dark void, demon hunters from the Council of Elders kept appearing. They were very easy to recognize. Ordinary demon hunters wore black, but the elite soldiers of the Council of Elders had two bright silver rims on the collar of their black armor. This was the glory of their elite combat team, but it was also the best feature to identify the enemy in this chaotic battle.
Several triangular flying machines flew out of the darkness. These flying machines looked like giant skateboards with heavy ballistae and enchanted guns mounted on both sides. As they flew over the palace, they constantly fired bright lightning lances and explosive enchanted arrows. After a series of bombardments, the heavily armed soldiers of the Council of Elders jumped out of the flying machines and rushed toward the palace gate like a herd of beasts. At this moment, the palace guards had organized a resistance. They rushed toward the ballistae and runestones closest to them and launched a fierce counterattack with these defensive weapons fixed on the ground. Teuton's elite soldiers rushed out from the side of the defense line and directly engaged the Council of Elders who appeared out of the darkness in hand-to-hand combat!
The sacred silver blades danced in the darkness, and the enchanted arrows tore through the air with a whistling sound of death. Sacred flames burned, and Letta runes glowed under the surge of magic. The demon hunters launched a grand melee with exquisite and complicated combat skills. The entire square around the palace and the void outside the square were engulfed in a gorgeous and deadly storm of firepower. In the center of the melee, Hao Ren was dazzled by the scene in front of him. For the first time, he saw how the most powerful supernatural race on the planet displayed their deadly combat skills.
Every demon hunter was a seasoned warrior, a skilled killer, and a master of dozens of weapons and hundreds of combat skills. No one in this world put all their energy and talent into honing their combat ability like them, and no one was born with so many combat skills like them. At this moment, the battlefield was filled with flashing hunters and dazzling runic imprints. They were like a swarm of bees in a storm. Everyone had become the hunter, and everyone had become the prey!
After a brief moment of amazement, Hao Ren quickly got into the groove. He took out his guns from his Dimensional Pocket and ran with White Flame to the place where the battle was the fiercest. "Let's go and help!"
The demon hunters of the Council of Elders were obviously much stronger than ordinary soldiers in terms of individual combat effectiveness. They were not only skilled in all kinds of demon hunter equipment, but also extraordinarily powerful rune power. At first, Hao Ren thought that these soldiers had been stationed in Coldpath for years and had become rusty in their combat skills. But after fighting with them, he found that these people were just as experienced and skillful. He rushed into the battle with a layer of Steel Membrane Shield and was immediately greeted by at least a dozen magic bullets. Even in the midst of the melee, the soldiers of the Council of Elders immediately locked on to him, a stranger who had suddenly broken in. It was not realistic for Hao Ren to sneak up on them and take advantage of them.
The crossbow bolts hit and created a series of sparks on the Steel Membrane Shield. From time to time, the ghostly enemy appeared close at hand and stabbed at him from all kinds of tricky angles. Hao Ren concentrated and dodged the enemy's attacks. He dodged 20 times and was hit more than 70 times in a row.
He thought for a moment and felt that it was not suitable for him to compete with these weapon masters.
So he had to continue to play what he was good at, which was to open his Steel Membrane Shield and stand in the crowd. "Bastard!"
A whirlwind-like white shadow rushed past Hao Ren and stopped after a few rounds. Lily emerged from the whirlwind, holding her Frostfire Claws, her hair flying in the air. She looked majestic. A soldier of the Council of Elders suddenly emerged from behind Lily and slashed at her neck with a sacred silver dagger. But Lily did not even look at him. She instinctively turned around and kicked the enemy back. She even had the time to complain about Hao Ren. "Mr. Landlord, why haven't you improved your combat skills?"
"Nonsense, I don't have your beastly intuition!" Hao Ren yelled as he looked around. The number of demon hunters from the Council of Elders had increased. Fierce fighting was everywhere on the platform outside the palace. Apparently, the enemy's target was not just this palace. He saw a fierce battle breaking out at the top of the Stellar Spire, which was the entrance to the spire.
However, the entrance of the Stellar Spire was protected by a translucent light barrier, and the floating stone platform in front of the exit was heavily guarded. The Council of Elders could not break through the defense line in a short time.
Hao Ren finally found White Flame amidst the chaos. Only then did he realize that there was a question he did not ask. "How did they get so close? Didn't they say that the defense line near the spire is very stable? "
"Because the situation has worsened in the two days I was away!" White Flame replied loudly. "How long will it take for the reinforcements to arrive?"
"They should be here by now," Y 'zaks' rough voice came from the side. He had transformed into his demon form, and his body was burning with burning flames. The ordinary soldiers of the Council of Elders could not get close to him. Y 'lisabet was sitting on Y' zaks' head, constantly throwing huge lava fireballs around as if she was an auxiliary cannon on the old demon's head. Y 'zaks looked in the direction of the Stellar Spire. "Lanina is leading the team … Wait a minute, I actually let Lanina lead the team?"
Hao Ren did not understand what Y 'zaks was shouting about at first. But after a while, he suddenly remembered that the succubus had a godlike sense of direction. He suddenly exclaimed, "What the heck! Could she have gotten lost and reached the South Pole? "
Lily did not know where she came from, but she happened to run to Hao Ren's side. "No way! There's only one way to Coldfrost Citadel, and it's a straight line! "
"It's not like she didn't get lost when she walked in a straight line in Helcrown," Y 'zaks said bitterly. "Can you believe that she went the wrong way?"
White Flame listened to their discussion. The more she listened, the more she broke into a cold sweat. But the situation in front of her left her with no time to think about other things. "Anyway, we have to stabilize the defense line first! These enemies are just here to exhaust us. The sentinels have not found any reinforcements. They will retreat if they can't hold out any longer! "
Hao Ren could only trust White Flame's judgment. He continued to play the role of the main tank in the chaos and threw various explosives at the densest part of the Council of Elders. For the demon hunters who had unlimited teleportation skills, the various grenades with a delay in the explosion were not much of a threat. But this kind of area-of-effect weapon could disrupt their rhythm and formation. After the attack rhythm was disrupted, it would be difficult for the demon hunters to launch more powerful joint magic or rune weapons.
The melee continued, and it seemed that as White Flame said, the enemy did not have reinforcements. Since the first batch of the Council of Elders had landed in the aircrafts, they had not seen any more enemy reinforcements.
But Hao Ren felt something was wrong. The battle had been going on for a while. Why had the enemy not retreated?
He looked up in the direction of the Stellar Spire and suddenly found that the focus of the enemy's attack had shifted from the command post to the exit platform of the Stellar Spire. A large number of soldiers of the Council of Elders had gathered in the void outside the platform. They did not participate in the battle as if they were waiting for an opportunity.
Half of the defenders of the spire were pinned down by the palace. Almost no one noticed these subtle changes.
"Oh no!" Hao Ren's heart tightened. "Their target is still the platform over there!"
White Flame's figure flashed to his side. "But the gate of the Stellar Spire has a screen —"
Before White Flame's voice trailed off, a beam of white light shot out from the distant void and interrupted her.
The white light bombarded the platform at the exit of the Stellar Spire. Accompanied by the crisp sound of shattering glass and a large amount of distorted electric light, the platform was directly split into two, and the protective barrier that originally covered the gate of the spire was shattered like brittle glass.
Even a third of the top of the spire was blown off.
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