Chapter 482: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind
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Sword light and axe shadow, blood and corpses.
Always the theme on the battlefield.
When narrow paths meet, the brave win: at this moment, for his own life, the Lord of Zhenhai City also showed his true skills.
A fifth-tier epic strength, facing these fourth-tier orcs, truly was a sword and a stance, carrying a strong sense of killing intent.
Not a single orc could withstand even one of his moves.
Of course, it wasn't about killing orcs with a single strike; it was merely knocking them away or toppling them to the ground.
Do you really think orcs are so easy to deal with?
The innate advantage of higher-ranked races is a notch above humans; otherwise, why would the siege of Zhenhai City see such an exaggerated ten-to-one casualty ratio between orcs and humans?
One orc to ten humans is bad enough, but the defenders were also humans!
Even if it was a surprise attack by the orcs, launching war suddenly, the first wave of attack was withstood due to the City Defense Barrier!
Unfortunately, withstanding it was of no use.
A bunch of cowards still thinking of various schemes, the defense, though partially complete, was nowhere near perfect.
This is why, after the outbreak of the great battle, there were only more than one hundred thousand troops on the city walls.
More than one hundred thousand people, guarding four city walls, averaging twenty-five thousand per wall, while outside the city, an army of a million orcs came charging.
Is there any justice if they weren't beaten up?
The force of the counterattack was extremely limited, which is one of the reasons why orc casualties were very low.
With the City Defense Barrier and the advantage of the city walls not utilized to inflict a massive first strike on the orcs, instead, they engaged in a head-on fight with the orcs inside the city.
Only a real idiot would do such a dumb thing!
The army of one million professionals and ten thousand Epic Corps supporting the entire Tianxiang City district were truly courting death, deserved to be buried by the orcs within this Zhenhai City!
At this moment, the Lord of Zhenhai City was extremely clear-headed; he just wanted to break out.
Therefore, any killing moves or not were of no significance, as long as he could quickly knock down this intercepting orc team so that they no longer had the power to intercept, then they could swiftly escape.
On the contrary, the human soldiers following his steps, each burst out with their most formidable strength, launching a fierce assault on this hundred-orc squad.
To be fair, the desire to survive triggered their body's instincts, and each cultivation technique was pushed to the extreme.
With just one encounter, this extremely strong-willed corps for survival knocked down the orcs.
About half were killed or wounded, while the other half suffered various degrees of injuries.
However, their mission to delay was also considered accomplished.
For, even if it was only a few minutes' delay, two fifth-tier epic orcs had already caught up behind!
Not to mention, they brought with them their personal guard of over a hundred!
The Lord of Zhenhai City didn't look back, and the Array Master, his trusted aide following him, flung an activated Array Plate back.
The Array Plate was still in the sky when it abruptly burst forth with a hint of black light, and the ground quaked, as bone walls rose to the heavens on all sides, seamlessly connecting and trapping the human soldiers and orc warriors behind within!
This was just a fourth-tier Bone Prison skill, but it had been inscribed on the Array Plate.
Originally, it could be endlessly used just by replacing the energy crystal stone in the Array Plate core, but now, with minor modifications by the Array Master, it had become a one-time-use Array Plate.
Therefore, its power was increased by thirty percent, and its prison became more robust.
The human soldiers trapped in the Bone Prison cursed, frantically attacking this bony cage layer by layer.
Bone fragments flew everywhere under the assault.
But the orc soldiers behind, seeing themselves trapped in the Bone Prison, immediately flew into a rage and brutally set upon the human soldiers.
The axes in their hands chopped wildly. Explore more adventures at My Virtual Library Empire
The number of human soldiers trapped in the Bone Prison was not many; altogether, they weren't even two hundred, so how could they stand against the epic orcs and over two hundred orc warriors?
In just a few minutes, these human soldiers were utterly wiped out.
The two trapped epic orcs had unsightly expressions, their large axes unleashing powerful attacks, taking ten hacks to chop open a gap more than ten meters wide.
This delay directly cost a few minutes, and those human deserters had already run over a thousand meters away.
"Leader, should we continue the pursuit?"
"No need, these deserters will soon be out of the blockade range."
The leading epic orc spat, eyes filled with killing intent and a fierce look as he watched the escaping human soldiers, secretly annoyed.
They truly had not expected that these humans had planned their escape from the very beginning.
In the western corner of the city, an area of four or five square kilometers was directly destroyed, becoming a huge pit, leaving only several underground chambers with a total size of nearly two hundred meters; the rest was obliterated.
The void distortion explosion killed over three thousand orcs, including five epic orc leaders.
What's more, the orcs sent to check those remaining chambers experienced another huge explosion.
This time the affected area was also not small, reaching over three kilometers.
And what detonated was actually the City's defense energy core crystal stone of Zhenhai City!
So, the slightly smarter orcs immediately understood where the deserters came from.
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