Chapter 1229 - The Heavenly Dog Appears and No One Will Be Spared
The Heavenly Fighter Demon Emperor?
What was that? No one had ever heard of such a creature.
Xuan Tian and several other noblemen military officers looked at each other in dismay. No one had heard of such a title and normally, only Martial Emperors would choose a title that had the word 'emperor' in it but no one that matched this title had even appeared in history.
"Capture it," Xuan Tian said temperamentally as he finally issued a command.
Immediately, four peak Great Saint noblemen experts ripped through the air and rushed toward the large white dog. This large white dog looked very odd but they couldn't detect any yuan qi aura from it; they didn't feel threatened by it.
"Woof ha ha, I had been waiting for you idiots to attack me. Now, I can finally test out my new toy... Immortal-trapping rope, go!" the large white dog said excitedly. Obviously, it had been waiting for his opponents to make the first move. If they were so terrified by it that they surrendered, how was he going to have his fill of fun?
It stood upright in the void and its limbs were like human hands as they dug around its waist, then produced a strange short gun. It pointed the gun at the charging experts and opened fire four times.
Four rays of light burst out of the gun barrel.
The four Great Saint experts laughed coldly since these four rays of light had absolutely no yuan qi energy waves and were like cold light that didn't contain any mystery. They treated these rays of light like small toys. How could these items even be worthy of the name 'Immortal-trapping rope'?"
The next moment, those rays of light suddenly exploded and transformed into wisps of dark blue light that resembled a large web. It moved so quickly that before these men could react, the light web formed from the four rays of light had already captured them.
"What?"
"Destroy!"
"Open!"
The four Great Saint experts yelled angrily and their terrifying yuan qi burst forth as they tried to tear the blue light web apart. However, they soon discovered to their horror that they couldn't even leave a mark on the Immortal-trapping rope, no matter how hard they tried. Instead, the web tightened around them and would even branch off into tinier threads that tightened their hold on them.
"Hahaha, interesting. That old man wasn't lying after all," the large white dog said excitedly.
It flew over and put the gun back into the holster on its back. Then, it grabbed one Great Saint expert on each paw and reappeared back near the large silver warship in the distance, as though it had teleported and threw the four hostages it had captured.
As Xuan Tian and the other experts on the city wall watched, the silver warship shot down a milky white splendor that enveloped the four hostages like fiery flames. The four hostages screamed in terror before they disappeared bit by bit.
"What exactly was that monster?"
On the city walls of the east gate, the same question popped into the minds of countless people.
Those experts had been Great Saint realm experts and although they weren't the top-level experts in the military, they were definitely a major part of the attacking force. However, they had been captured instantly by that large white dog and sent to the silver warship where they had been burned alive... Instantly, everyone realized how dangerous that silver warship and the large white dog were.
"Woof hahaha, have you finally realized how powerful I am? Why aren't you withdrawing the formation to welcome me into your city?" the large white dog returned, looking extremely pleased with itself as it threw its head back and laughed loudly with its paws at its hips. Its stance was extremely odd and since it looked like something that a human would do, so there was an unintended comedic effect.
"Open fire!" Xuan Tian commanded. He felt that this large white dog was up to no good.
Loud rumbles rang out instantly!
Hundreds of large cannons located on the east gate opened fire loudly and shot out countless light beams from their barrels. As one of the regular defensive weapons of Royal City, each giant cannon was powerful enough to instantly kill a peak Great Saint expert. It was incredibly terrifying and as hundreds of giant cannons were fired in unison, even a Quasi-emperor would find it hard to defend against these attacks, and one moment of negligence could cause death or serious injury.
"Woof.. Damn it, you're not following the rules. How dare you attack me, the Demon Emperor?" the large white dog that had looked so proud of itself earlier immediately looked annoyed.
After it had displayed such powerful strength earlier, shouldn't those idiotic guards be falling over themselves to greet him respectfully?
"Aegis shield, open!"
The large dog who was now annoyed used its left paw to press on something that looked like a silver wrist guard on its right paw. Then, six rays of dark blue light beams burst forth and emitted strange sizzling sounds as the dark light in those light beams spread out and combined to form a strange six-pointed blue light shield that had a diameter of one hundred meters.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
The large cannons crashed against the six-pointed shield like a roaring tempest against a banana leaf but this only caused layers of ripples to spread across the shield without actually breaching its defenses. Thus, it was even more impossible for these cannons to have sent the large white dog flying.
"Aegis divine sword, the force of light, the authority of the Demon Emperor lies within me," the large white dog muttered a string of nonsensical words as though it was singing a string of curses. Then, it pulled out the gun that it had stuffed back into its holster earlier and with a flick of its wrist, a dazzling dark blue light pillar that was six meters tall shot out from the gun barrel and it resembled a large sword.
It held the light shield in its left paw and the light sword in its right paw as it stood on its hind feet and ran wildly in the void. Two rays of dark light flames shot out from the back of its buttocks and it moved like a flowing light, charging toward the city wall.
"Stop him!" Xuan Tian said and his expression changed significantly.
The large white dog had already proved how terrifying it was after it managed to survive the joint attacks of the large white formation cannons earlier. He couldn't figure out where this freak could have come from nor what those strange weapons it possessed were, but as a commander, Xuan Tian immediately sensed danger.
Moreover, there was still a large silver warship behind this dog that moved silently but was full of danger.
Hundreds of soldiers charged from the top of the city wall to face-off against the large white dog.
"Woof hahaha, you ignorant fools, you should tremble under my sword and shield..." the strange white dog was extremely excited, as though it was a dog who reveled in war.
Rumble!
It moved haphazardly and its six-pointed light shield sent dozens of soldiers flying.
Swish!
It slashed out with its light sword.
Another few dozen figures' armors were slashed from their bodies and they were sent flying.
Xuan Tian immediately gasped.
He noticed that this strange white dog's sword techniques were incredibly intricate and it wasn't something that he'd be able to emulate. Moreover, it wasn't just the dark blue light shield that was impregnable, its dark blue light sword also seemed capable of penetrating through anything. The divine armor used by the regular forces weren't able to withstand one stroke from its light sword and a gentle touch could cause the divine armor to fall apart as easily as paper.
Instantly, the hundreds of experts who had attacked earlier were all defeated.
"Watch as my Immortal-trapping rope does its trick," the strange white dog's light sword transformed back into a light gun. Then, it fired several hundred shots with the light gun like an autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves away, and these experts were all captured by the dark light web without fail.
A milky white splendor burst forth from the silver warship, enveloped these hundred-odd hostages and burned them alive.
At the same time, a large door suddenly opened from the bottom of this silver warship and soon, several hundreds of thousands of silver figures appeared from the door, as though they were the spawn of this warship.
A ten-thousand strong army instantly appeared.
They swarmed toward the city gates howling like a swarm of bees.
Everyone who stood on top of the east gate turned pale. By this point in time, even an idiot could tell that the silver warship was an enemy invasion. However, they no longer had time to speculate what kind of forces had dared to attack Royal City in such a maniacal fashion.
"Exert the formation with everything you've got and activate the killing array. We've got to kill them all," Xuan Tian yelled angrily.
As the main commander of the troops stationed at the city gates, he felt that this had been a huge blow to his pride. There had been no other instances of forces that weren't the Invaders attacking the city walls along Royal City's mountain range. Now that he lost several hundred men in an instant, he would have to bear responsibility in this breach of defenses. Thus, he would only be able to get a pardon if he killed every single one of the enemy troops.
Soon, something happened that left him in utter despair.
The defensive and killing formations of the city gates that had been in operation for millions of years suddenly malfunctioned. To his utter disbelief, his men weren't able to activate these formations. It hadn't shown any signs of malfunctioning earlier but this problem was only discovered after the formation operators received the orders to activate the formations. By that time, it was too late.
"What's going on?" Xuan Tian bellowed in anger.
The ten-thousand strong white figures were already at the city wall.
"Are they all large white dogs?"
The soldiers standing guard only realized when the army approached, that these ten thousand figures were all strange white dogs that stood on their hind legs.
These white dogs were all around four or five meters tall and extremely large. However, unlike the strange white dog that called himself the 'Heavenly Fighter Demon Emperor', these ten thousand strange dogs' bodies all glowed with metallic silver light. Their bodies weren't made of flesh and blood. Instead, their bodies were cast from a mysterious and powerful metal that similarly didn't give off any yuan qi energy waves, but their bodies could change in shape and were extremely nimble. Every single one of them carried a standard light shield and light sword; they looked like exact replicas of each other. However, their combat strength was extremely powerful and they also carried a myriad of weapons on them. They didn't give off any yuan qi energy waves, but they seemed incredibly powerful and were no weaker compared to experts of the martial way.
"What are those monstrous creatures?"
"Ah..."
"My god, is it the puppet army from the Immortal Domain?"
"They are puppets with no life but they are incredibly powerful and seem to possess a mind of their own. They respond extremely quickly... and even know how to work together..."
"An army of ten thousand strange dogs working together as smoothly as a well-oiled machine. uh..."
All kinds of shocked exclamations could be heard from the battlefield on the city walls. These Guardians were used to the formation martial way and they were unable to get used to the strange style of fighting their strange opponents were using. On the contrary, the strange metallic white dog army was extremely familiar with the combat techniques of the formation martial way and easily managed to overcome them. When these two armies clashed, the Guardians' army were immediately defeated.
Xuan Tian was dumbfounded as he took in this sight.
"Woof hahaha... My Grand Heavenly Dog Army is extremely powerful, so how could morons like yourselves even hope to defeat them?" the large white dog made of flesh and blood stood in the void, throwing its head back and letting out a long howl. It was incredibly proud of itself as it said, "Once the heavenly dog has entered the battlefield, no one will be spared. Wa ha ha ha!"
It hurtled down from the void with a hearty chuckle and headed straight for Xuan Tian.
Xuan Tian was defeated after exchanging several blows with the large white dog. The white dog shot its gun at him and the Immortal-trapping rope wrapped itself tightly around him, landing at the top of the city wall.
The large white dog grabbed Xuan Tian with its paw and rushed up into the sky. It stood at a thousand meters above ground and growled loudly, "Your commander has already been captured by me. Morons, why aren't you surrendering? Do you really want to force me to kill every single one of you?"
The guards along the city wall suddenly lost the will to fight when they saw what had happened.
The large white dog's maniacal laughter echoed in the heavens and earth.
Soon, its strange laughter suddenly stopped and it changed to a different tune altogether as it looked in the distance and said with a tinge of pride, "Hey, Human Pet, you've finally arrived. Ha ha, did you see that? My Grand Heavenly Dog Army was invincible. I didn't even need your help to take down this city wall."