Chapter 404 - Glory To The Empire!
"Make way!"
Solitary Tempest yelled as she and the rest were almost upon the troops fighting against the undead ahead of them.
While on horseback, the commander of the unit stationed here immediately saw the newcomers and quickly recognized them as the people he saw during their short strategic meeting. So he quickly ordered his unit and yelled, "Move your asses and make way if you don't want to be stomp to death!"
Following his shout, the soldiers quickly and orderly rearranged their formation and just made enough path for the small unit of cavalry to pass through their formation.
Followed by another command saying, "Hold the line!"
[Lv. 35 Skeleton Soldier]
Crash!
His command was quickly swallowed by the collision of the mounted players against the undead vanguard!
Solitary Tempest and the others even had their mounts jumping over the skeletons that were holding large rectangular shields before them, and arrived at the back and started wreaking havoc on the undead archers and wizards!
The unit commander saw the opportunity and quickly yelled, "Push forward in their direction and don't let up! The formation of the undead army is slowly crumbling and this is our chance to shine!"
""UOOHHH!""
The soldiers and players alike increased their offensive intensity as backliners bombarded the undead with attacks as they wanted to provide a cover to the raiding party so that they would have an easier time, and at the same time, made the players delighted as they could see an obvious increase on their EXP bar and rejoice internally.
'NPCs are really the greatest bus!'
On the other hand, Solitary Tempest and the others are already deep inside enemy lines as their route of escape is already blocked off by the undead behind them, and all of them would have perished by now if it wasn't for them having mounts with great resilience as it loyally kept them from waking up to their room ceiling or the inside of their dim gaming capsules.
[Lv. 36 Skeleton Wizards]
[Lv. 37 Skeleton Archers]
[Magic Missile!]
[Starfall!]
[Fireball!]
[Wind Blade!]
[Great Healing!]
[Rock Spike!]
[Purification!]
The players kept throwing skills after skills, along while crazily swinging their weapons when their skills were on cooldown, even the Wizards, Healers, and Archers weren't spared from using their weapons as blunt weapons.
"Don't stop moving! Keep up with Black Genesis!" Solitary Tempest yelled as she and the others are running behind Black Genesis who is mounted on a large monster as big as a Mercedes G Wagon.
The game developers must have based the monster from a Rhino as it has its similarities, with the only difference is that its body is covered in body armor made of rocks with horns on its upper part of its head like a real life rhino and the other two are located on both shoulders of its front limbs.
A monster called Triple Horned Rhino.
It's basically a bulldozer in a monster form as it sent everything on its path flying with no mercy.
From Skeleton Soldiers, Wizards, and Archers, every single one of these monsters was broken into pieces as they tried to stop its charge, only to end up dead!
Double dead!
It's because they are already dead, but then they died a second time!
Lucky b*tches!
"Hadouken!" A Wizard said excitedly as he threw a Fireball towards a Skeleton Wizard who on the other hand was chanting a skill but got blasted by the attack, interrupting whatever Skill it was trying to use.
[Hawk Eyes]
Solitary Tempest silently activated a skill used for observation as her eyes slowly took on the shape of the eyes of a Hawk.
Her head kept darting around the battlefield until she spotted the large monster charging towards them in the distance on top of a barren hill that had been dried of its lifeforce.
"Brace yourselves! A Death Knight is coming!"
Wearing a solemn look on her face, Solitary Tempest quickly turned her attention to her raid party members and warned them.
Hearing her yell, the expressions on the faces of everyone became even more serious as they knew that a Death Knight is a whole nother level than the Skeletons they have been fighting until now.
After all, the undead army around them are on the weaker side and couldn't really give them a hard time because of a difference on their levels with most of them ranging around Level 38 and Level 39, while the others like Solitary Tempest are already in their 40s.
Of course, this raid wasn't planned carelessly, because if there was a drone flying in the sky.
Anyone would be able to spot a charging human cavalry heading towards their direction and cutting through the army of undead with unstoppable momentum!
But it would still be a while before the human cavalry arrives, so Solitary Tempest and the others had to stall the Death Knight for as long as possible!
At another corner of the battlefield, and few seconds earlier.
An adult Eagle suddenly swooped down from the skies and hovered near the Human General leading the charge. It's sudden appearance startled the Human General and his men before they quickly recognized what it was.
The Eagle hovered around the General and suddenly opened its mouth and started speaking like a human, "General! The Death Knight had set its sight upon us!"
Hearing the Eagle, The General's eyes quickly lit up and said, "Good, lead the way!"
"Yes!"
The General took a deep breath and roared like a megaphone, "Men! Our prey is here! Let's show these undead bastards what happens when they mess with our Sunrise Empire! Ride to ruin, and glory to our Empire!!"
""GLORY TO OUR EMPIRE! KILL!""
The imperial cavalry gave a powerful battle cry as they quickly activated their mount's charging skills and made a short turn and charged out after the Eagle flying ahead of them.
This time, their charge from earlier that had slowly eased up was once again ignited as they slowly gained momentum before it turned into an even more powerful charge than the previous one!
Like an ocean wave that kept smashing through all obstacles, which are the undead army before them!