Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

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The once prosperous Pan Shi City was now filled with silence, its noble clans long gone, leaving behind deserted estates.

Within the city, the abandoned included the subjects, alien races, small families, merchants, and the stationed troops.

Apart from the three hundred thousand professional army and over five thousand fifth-tier epics stationed by the Old Witch, the rest of the locals were merely the exploited lower class.

At this moment, in the sky, the Ghost King summoned by the Artifact Spirit Long Banner was still entangled with the Three-Clawed Blood Dragon.

Meanwhile, the Blood River covering the entire city began to increase its corrosive intensity.

As time passed, the city defense barrier upheld in the sky started to show countless cracks, crawling over the protective barrier like a spider web.

Bit by bit, the power of blood seeped through the cracks, transforming into wisps of red mist, slowly dyeing the barrier blood red.

The pungent scent of blood spread slowly and persistently throughout the entire city.

"Roar!"

At this moment, a more than three-meter-tall Demon Soul emerged from the Artifact Spirit Long Banner.

With a human body and beast face, it wielded a massive axe exuding chilling ghostly qi.

The aura at the peak of the sixth tier, combined with terrifying strength, slashed the axe onto the barrier with violent energy.

Under the enhancement of the Blood River, the terrible energy erupted with extreme power.

The sound of "crack" resounded where the axe struck.

A gash over ten meters long tore apart the already crack-filled city defense barrier, blasting open a breach.

In the next moment, countless Demon Souls whistled out from the Artifact Spirit Long Banner.

The dense swarm of Demon Souls, carrying terrifying ghostly and chilling qi, poured into the breach.

Ultimately, the Demon Souls broke into Pan Shi City.

At this time, in a small courtyard of a family in the southeast of the city, a group of mercenaries gathered there.

"The surroundings have been cleared, and an illusionary formation has been set up; outsiders can’t see our actions."

"Good, then let’s start releasing the portal now. Brothers, success or failure is decided in one move, so please guard the entrance vigilantly."

The mercenary leader glanced over the members of the mercenary group, then took out the pre-prepared array plate from the inventory.

"Don’t worry, boss, the three hundred thousand professional army and the vast majority of fifth-tier epics have been distracted, as for the twenty or so guards, they’re just silver spears in appearance."

"Exactly, boss, rest assured to proceed, since we’ve also prepared, even if ten fifth-tier epics came at once, they wouldn’t easily pass our blockade."

"Ninth is right, success or failure hinges on this, winning means glory and luxury, becoming a lord, losing, well, we’d just start over!"

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Looking at his mercenary subordinates, the leader smiled reassuringly, and then without hesitation, he injected his spiritual power into the array plate.

Instantly, a silvery-white glow with a hint of pale blue spread from the array plate.

Almost in an instant, the space sealed earlier was slowly pried open by a powerful spatial force, tearing it bit by bit.

The entire space fluctuated, changing from stable to turbulent, until spatial rifts appeared.

The pitch-black spatial cracks gradually fragmented the surrounding space, and then a tall, pale-blue portal slowly condensed in this fragmented space.

With the activation of the array plate, the space fluctuations nearby became extremely intense, naturally sensed by the fifth-tier epic warriors in the distance.

Without hesitation, five fifth-tier epics not integrated into the formation rushed towards the southeast of the city like long rainbows.

Seeing this area unchanged, yet sensing intense spatial fluctuations, the five immediately knew this area had an illusion laid out long ago.

A massive flame was released by one person, crashing into the southeast district.

The fire spread, transforming into a sea of fire descending from the sky.

The surrounding buildings were ignited instantly, quickly spreading in all directions.

Yet in this section of the southeast district, there was no flame burn.

Apparently, some defensive formation was set up here, thus shielding it from the high-temperature flames released by the Flame Burn skill.

The five exchanged glances, then launched powerful skills toward this flame-free area.

Explosions of "boom! boom!" resounded in this area, yet no smoke or dust rose.

Instead, this area seemed out of place with the world.

All around, everything burned in flames, but not a single red glow appeared in this area, adding to its strangeness.

And at this moment, the mercenaries guarding the site had long set up their battle formation, using the power of a protective array plate to barely uphold a small barrier.

The flames from above burned the small barrier, merely consuming part of the barrier’s energy before being forcibly extinguished by a force.

Subsequent combined attacks by the five bombarded the small barrier, causing it to totter and develop many cracks.

Meanwhile, the powerful energy affected the surrounding structures, collapsing many of them.

As for whether any people existed in the collapsed buildings, that was not the concern of these mercenaries at all.

They had started evacuating people or alien races around to this side since they prepared to act, even offering some incentives.

Most people simply ran away once they got the benefit.

Unfortunately, some stubborn idiots liked to haggle, trying to extort more benefits.

So, whether those fools died or not was of no concern to these mercenaries!

The war had now started, they, the [Land of the Dead], had sent troops to invade the whole of Pan Shi City, sweeping across it like dry weeds.

At this point, if there were still those courting death, would it not be fulfilling their wishes to let them perish; doing otherwise would hurt one’s conscience!

The five epic warriors saw that a round of attacks had no effect and had even failed to break the illusion.

Exchanging glances, they began more frequent attacks, using skills with three times more power.

Regarding the option of directly entering to check, none of the five even mentioned it.

What if something terrifying was lurking within the illusion? If they rushed in, wouldn’t that be the same as seeking death?

Having become old hands under the Old Witch, they naturally put their own lives first at all times.

Risk-taking was impossible, they would only dare to perform long-range attacks from afar and conduct a covering strike.

As for whether the covering strike might diminish the attack, that was unavoidable.

At this moment, the mercenary leader had successfully opened the portal and was cautiously maintaining its stability.

Seated outside the city, Zi Liyuan immediately reached the temporary parade ground in the military camp.

The Dread Knight King Lord’s team had long assembled, and seeing the portal open, they immediately rode into it on their skeletal horse mounts clad in heavy armor.

The entry of the Black Cavalry into the city unleashed combat power beyond what any ordinary fourth-tier corps could withstand.

Moreover, each horse of the Dread Knight King bore a Wraith Mage clad in a black robe!

With these wraiths, various enhancing spells, curse spells, and protective spells naturally stacked upon the Dread Knight King.

This could increase their combat power by at least fifty percent!

With a complement of five thousand, along with the replicas, this comprised a cavalry unit of thirty thousand!

Able to fully contend with over a hundred fifth-tier epic warriors of the Human Race.

Even if they couldn’t defeat a hundred such riders surrounding one fifth-tier, they could still hold their ground without a hitch!

As the Dread Knight King entered the city, especially with the Nightmare Knights joining, the terrifying black-armored heavy cavalry charged directly from the southeast district.

Where they passed, they wielded their slaughtering blades high, mercilessly cutting down the stationed army soldiers around them.

In no time, those second-tier stationed troops transformed into bloody fragments under the hooves.

The five fifth-tier epics were blocked by the Nightmare Knights leading a hundred trusted black cavalry.

The Nightmare Knight, at the peak of the fifth tier, single-handedly blocked three epic warriors of the Human Race, while the other two were surrounded by the hundred trusted black cavalry.

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