MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1488: 7 Inches

Chapter 1488: Chapter 1488: 7 Inches

Then came an even bigger shock, causing several members of the group to lose their balance and fall to the ground, along with many soldiers, instantly dispersing the formation.

However, those who were still standing had no intention to attend to the fallen ones; they were just staring dazedly at the training grounds’ defensive walls used for attack and defense training, crumbling and collapsing like dominoes.

Dust flew everywhere, everyone’s mouths agape, unaware of the dust entering their mouths.

Following that, the team members began to cough violently, yet the shock in their hearts was not easily dismissed.

And the new recruits from Uldaman on the outskirts, apart from the combat soldiers who were buried by the collapsing walls, also had blank expressions on their faces.

As new recruits here, they knew the fortress well, indestructible; its destruction was not impossible, but to collapse the extremely sturdy walls with just nine barrels seemed like a fantastical tale.

They simply couldn’t believe their eyes, and not just them, many viewers watching Li Yao’s side through the screen also rubbed their eyes.

Those who didn’t understand might think the walls were made of paper, but seeing the combat soldiers screaming and getting buried under the collapsing walls quickly dispelled that thought.

As the dust settled, the armies of both Shadow Tide and Uldaman did not rush to continue the battle but instead all turned their gaze towards Li Yao still at the central command tower.

Li Yao was indifferent to their gazes, as if he was waiting for them all along, "Friends of Shadow Tide, I’ll be a good guy to the end, and this is all the help I can offer you."

With that, he threw explosive barrels in two different directions.

"Damn, stop him," the leader of the Shadow Tide guild team’s eyes nearly popped out as he intently watched one of the explosive barrels.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts, the defense officers were equally shocked, "Damn it, how could an outsider know this secret."

Boom, boom...

Two explosions, the first explosive barrel destroyed a rotating crystal, the second a nondescript warrior statue; both powerful but neither causing significant casualties.

However, these two explosions still drastically changed the color of both groups’ faces.

"Leader, could this be real?" a team member said with an ugly expression.

But the leader’s face was no longer relaxed and at ease, now it was pale, his eyes fixed on Li Yao like a wild animal, as if ready to attack at any moment.

"Impossible, other than the leader we have no idea which of these transfer crystals is the real one."

Seeing the leader’s expression, they instantly realized, their faces turning ashen.

Their ability to penetrate the fortress, confidently entering this magma-isolated fortress, relied on what if not this crystal?

With this crystal, they could attack or defend, happily progressing as they continually did. If they didn’t want to grind anymore, had enough, or if the opposite side deployed a powerful legion, they could simply leave.

However, activating the teleport crystal was difficult, activation required charging, it dimmed if kept in a backpack; even if fully charged and then placed back into a backpack, it required several hours to recharge, so it could only be protected within the army, and also a duplicate was made to confuse.

Even their own team members did not know which set was real, and now Prairie Fire had destroyed the real one.

This attack, although it did not cause many casualties, essentially cornered them into a desperate situation.

"Damn it, summon and assemble the army, we’ll break out and find a new defense point," the commander suppressed the urge to order a chase after Li Yao and instead made the most rational decision.

Even though he hated Li Yao to the marrow, for the sake of preserving the team, he couldn’t afford to get entangled with Li Yao; without the city walls, the place was completely defenseless, like an open plain, and even if the enemy didn’t deploy elite troops, their casualties would still be huge.

The most urgent task now was to find a safe, temporary defensive position, and then plan a breakout route.

Originally, with the Transfer Crystal, they had utterly disregarded this heavily fortified stronghold, never considering the idea of fighting their way out from inside the fortress—such an idea was simply suicidal, but now it had become the only way.

More crucially, with slim hope, the frustration and distress nearly caused the commander internal injuries.

And the Defense Officer who had just rushed over, seeing the corrupted War God phantom that only race-level leaders could see dissipating slowly over the entire training field, felt like his temples were about to explode.

He was also puzzled, wondering how someone could find the Array nodes so quickly, managing to intercept the flow of the Array, and directly cause the Array to collapse.

Li Yao’s actions were interlinked; if Li Yao had not destroyed the city wall, the Array would have shown no fluctuations or vulnerabilities, and he wouldn’t have been able to destroy the Warrior Statue first.

However, Li Yao precisely found the critical nodes in the city wall, starting with the destruction of the defense nodes.

Clearly, the opponent knew this and deliberately targeted the nodes, and the city wall itself, while being the least conspicuous, was also the most crucial protection of the Array.

With the wall’s collapse, the Array was left utterly unprotected.

Normally, this might not matter, but now that both sides had clashed for a time, the Array had absorbed an excessive amount of energy from souls and corpses, becoming volatile and unguarded.

Li Yao essentially ignited the Explosive barrels, naturally causing the Array to collapse immediately, creating a perfect opportunity that he himself had orchestrated.

This was the most efficient Array for training elite Legions; reconstructing it was not just a matter of time, but also a matter of whether there were enough resources, especially faced with a massive siege, they simply couldn’t afford to restructure the Array now.

"These scum are useless, call up the elite, clear these trash out."

After speaking, the Defense Officer’s eyes locked tightly onto Li Yao, the twin Hand Cannons in his hands emanating a faint golden light, as if ready to launch at any moment, yet he realized he couldn’t lock onto the person at the top of the tower.

A clear instinct told him that his shots would definitely miss their target. Having experienced countless life-and-death situations, he blindly trusted this keen sixth sense, so instead of firing the Dragon Strike Cannon right away, he continued searching for the vulnerabilities and opportunities to eliminate the guy at the top of the tower.

Their sole purpose of existence was to train elite troops, and their army’s bodies, including their souls, were used as fuel; now that the Array was destroyed, the team’s army naturally became an obtrusive obstacle for Uldaman without any value of existence.

In fact, there had always been elite troops on the periphery, and now that they had received orders, they instantly charged the team’s lines.

The Shadow Tide team’s army was somewhat caught off guard, never expecting such a substantial gap between new recruits and elites; although the commander had a premonition and tried to coordinate as much as possible.

But it was too late; they were directly caught off guard, and although it wasn’t enough to cause their line to collapse, their casualties were several times what they had originally been.

"Friends of the Shadow Tide, I have helped you so much, now it’s time for some reciprocation..."