Volume 5, Chapter 55 – Fire Rain

He knew very well what the NPC defenders on the wall were trying to do. Even though he could ignore these losses, if there was a way to counter it, then why not fight back?

“Everyone, get your scrolls ready!”

With that thought in mind, the Legendary player gave this order with a cold expression.

If Tianyin had been here, the moment she heard those words she would definitely have understood this player’s intention at once.

Scrolls.

A long time ago, in a certain canyon, a player named Yunchou had used the same method to wipe out a Paladin NPC army.

Now, in different players’ hands, a similar method was being used again.

As the player’s command was relayed, the Mage players within the vast army all pulled out scrolls that radiated a dangerous aura.

With the appearance of those scrolls and the aura they released, Julius, far away on the city wall, felt a surge of alarm erupt in his heart.

Relying on the experience he had accumulated over the years in one life-and-death battle after another, Julius made his judgment in an instant.

“Everyone, get off the wall!”

The other soldiers on the wall were bewildered, but a commander’s order was not something they could ignore.

So, after Julius gave the order, the soldiers present all obediently began to withdraw from the wall.

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However, having several thousand people leave the wall also took time. So at that moment, high above the wall, a strange change suddenly occurred…

Flames appeared out of nowhere in midair. As they dyed the sky a fiery red, they also burned quietly above.

But as the fire appeared, more and more flames began to spread and, as they spread, streams of fire started to fall from the sky toward the ground.

Blazing clusters of flame seemed as if they were going to rip the heavens apart and, as those fires descended, the NPCs below could not help being stunned for a moment.

“Th-this… what is this?”

“Divine punishment, divine wrath from the heavens?”

“…”

Faced with such a scene, it was not just the ordinary NPC soldiers. Even with Julius’ level of experience, he too was shaken for a moment by the sudden rain of fire falling from the sky.

“It’s those scrolls…”

Although he was shaken, Julius quickly gathered himself. Forcing himself to calm down, he finally understood that this firestorm descending from above was actually the siege method chosen by the outsider commander.

“Magic scrolls… so they can be used like this too?”

Magic scrolls were very expensive things.

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They could store magic and the higher the level of magic stored, the more expensive that scroll would be.

As the faction that exported magic scrolls, the Academy Faction kept a very tight grip on both the quantity of magic scrolls it exported and their prices.

So in theory, magic scrolls could be used in war, but that was only in theory.

Julius himself had never seen, nor even heard of, anyone using magic scrolls like this in an actual war.

It was not hard to see that the fire raining down from the sky was a B-rank spell, Fire Rain. Yet with the power of Fire Rain, it should not have been possible to dye half the sky red like this.

After all, the area covered by a B-rank spell was not this outrageous. Even so, Julius understood that the spell overhead was Fire Rain.

If Julius was not mistaken, to create Fire Rain on this scale, it had to have been cast no fewer than ten times at once.

And it was very likely… that all the scrolls those outsiders had taken out… were Fire Rain scrolls.

“…Opening with a one-shot kill, is it? These outsiders really don’t play by any common logic…”

At this point, what else could he do?

With Julius’ Legendary strength, it would be very difficult for these Fire Rain spells to injure him. But aside from Julius, there were ten thousand defending soldiers on the walls…

Fire Rain looked incredibly overwhelming, but its damage was actually not that high.

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However, with so many Fire Rain spells overlapping like this, Julius did not even want to imagine how many soldiers would end up dying under that rain of fire.

“We can only get everyone hidden as fast as possible… and if nothing unexpected happens, once this wave of Fire Rain is over, the enemy will definitely start the siege…”

Thinking of this, Julius could not help clenching his hands.

While Julius was directing the soldiers on the wall to retreat and hide, the player army that had just finished using their Fire Rain scrolls once again slowly advanced toward the city wall.

As time passed, an almost endless fire rain fell upon the opposite city wall and the town enclosed by those walls.

“Boss Yunchou’s pay-to-win tactic really never fails. Before the siege starts, hit them with a wave of overlapping magic attacks. That way the NPCs on the other side get scared and scramble around in a panic, and their morale drops a notch… Just like now, these NPCs actually abandoned the wall! Hahaha, did they get scared out of their minds already, that’s pathetic!!”

Besides the Legendary player commanding the army, there were also several dozen players around him whose aura was Epic-tier or higher.

These dozens of players were precisely the ones Yunchou had sent earlier as reinforcements.

“NPCs are NPCs. No matter how smart they get, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re just a lump of data. In the end they only have fixed logic templates. As long as you do something outside of what they’re set up for, even if the NPC on the other side is a Throne-tier… they’ll be left staring like idiots, right?”

“If you ask me, those NPCs have already given up the wall. Once this wave of Fire Rain is over, they might just open the gates and surrender.”

“Surrender? Surrender’s good. Once they surrender, we can take our time killing them. And I heard the NPC in charge of defending the city is a Legendary. If we kill that guy, he’ll drop a Legendary Template.”

“What, feeling tempted…? Heh, Boss Yunchou said it himself, a Legendary NPC isn’t something you kill just because you feel like it. We have to keep those NPCs around.”

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“Tsk…”

While these players were discussing how they should deal with the NPCs in this city next, the area-of-effect bombardment from the Fire Rain finally ended.

With the disappearance of Fire Rain, the player army had already advanced to a point not far from the city wall.

“Pass the word. Assassin squad, scale the wall. Get up there and open the city gates as fast as you can.”

The Legendary player in charge of command, who had not taken part in their chatter, gave the order coldly.

After this order was given, within the vast player army, a squad of players wielding either short swords or daggers began sprinting toward the city wall.

When these players reached the base of the wall, all they did was give a light leap and in an instant they were halfway up its height.

Then, with a light push off the wall, they shot up as if performing qinggong from a wuxia novel, landing on top of the battlements in one move.

However, just as the Assassin players climbed up onto the wall one after another.

A sudden change occurred.