Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There were also hundreds and thousands of rat soldiers who rushed out at the same time as Iron Head.
After more than two months of death trials, the outstanding ones who were selected from the tens of millions of rat rebels naturally had their own ways of survival.
Some rat soldiers were as fast as lightning. With a few leaps and bounds, they swallowed a distance of hundreds of arms. Changing directions at a high-frequency and high-speed within a small area, they continuously dodged the attacks of dozens of arrows.
Some of the rat soldiers were as strong as Iron Head. They held huge wooden shields that were embedded with several layers of bone fragments and shells. The thickness of the shield exceeded the width of their hands. Each shield was densely covered with arrows, but they were still able to carry it. With the shield in front of them, they were able to run as fast as they could.
Some of the rat soldiers’ hands and feet were extremely long. They waved catapults made of beast tendons and threw sharp projectiles with cutting edges, accurately aiming them at the battlements on the city wall.
In the prosperous era, there were two main ways for the rat people to pick mandrake fruits.
They could either climb onto the mandrake tree and harvest the fruit with their nimble hands and feet like Leaf, or…
There were also some rat people who liked to use the catapults to aim at the branches full of mandrake fruits and shoot the fruits down with precision.
The latter often practiced the catapult technique of shooting with precision in one hundred steps.
The range of the catapult could not be compared to the bow and crossbow from above.
However, after crossing five trenches in a row, the distance between the rat soldiers and Hundred Blade City was less than a hundred arms.
The sharp-eyed rat soldiers could even see the panicked expressions of the wolves, tigers, and leopards inside the battlements on the city walls.
They aimed at the eye sockets of the wolves, tigers, and leopards, throwing stones like rain.
Whether or not they could hit their target, they could still effectively suppress the firing from the battlements.
The rat soldiers charged at full speed and took the opportunity to rush to the foot of Hundred Blade City, where the archers on the battlements had blind spots.
They also used the mandrake tree trunks that had been temporarily cut and roughly trimmed in the past few days to knock over the hundreds of barricades set up under the battlements.
Then, the rat soldiers worked together and raised the mandrake tree trunk high up on the city wall as a simple ladder.
Such a ladder, of course, was not stable at all.
However, as advanced orcs who had experienced the tempering of blood and steel, the rat soldiers who were able to rush there were not like ordinary soldiers on the cold-weapon battlefield on ancient Earth.
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
They were as agile as monkeys. On the “ladder” that was almost parallel to the city wall and perpendicular to the ground, they could climb up quickly as if they were walking on flat ground.
Some of them even shouted and expanded their legs suddenly. When they jumped high, they were able to jump onto half of a tree trunk.
Some of the rat soldiers from the Dark Moon Clan’s territory had the talent of crawling. Tiny scales grew on their palms and soles, which could be raised high through the contraction of their muscle fibers. They were like small barbs that hooked onto the seemingly smooth wall.
With that, there was no need for a ladder. They could just climb up the wall like giant geckos.
In a short while, the city wall to the south of Hundred Blade City was filled with rat soldiers who had shown their abilities.
There were ten times more rat soldiers who shouted the battle cry of the “Rat God’s protection” and followed behind like a burning tide.
Of course, the defending soldiers on the city wall were not going to just sit there and wait for their deaths.
On the city wall of Hundred Blade City, there were already a lot of sharp blades made of metalized mandrake branches.
Many of the sharp blades not only contained rare metal elements, they also contained trace elements of crystals. The oracles of the Gold Clan had carved ancient runes on them and used the sound frequency of blessings. They had basically implanted offensive rune arrays.
When they sensed that the vitality magnetic field of the approaching carbon-based creatures, they would automatically activate the offensive rune arrays and release destructive forces such as frost, fire, lightning, and high-frequency oscillation.
The unique defense system was also the origin of Hundred Blade City’s name.
By the time a large number of rat soldiers climbed on the ladder and tried to rush toward the city tower, the city wall was already covered in thorns.
The sharp blades that were like thorns suddenly emitted an extremely dangerous glow.
Some of the sharp blades were burning with raging flames.
Others emitted an ice fog that caused people to freeze instantly…
While some of the sharp blades emitted dazzling electric arcs that drilled into the gaps between the shields and armor of the rat soldiers like translucent vipers. They directly electrocuted the rat soldiers until their skin and flesh were charred and their bones exploded. They fell down the ladder as they screamed in pain.
Some of the sharp blades spun rapidly like the blades of a meat grinder, crushing the half of the ladder and the seven or eight rat soldiers that were attached to it.
These sharp blades effectively slowed down their climbing.
However, it was not the impregnable defense system of Hundred Blade City that was comparable to that of Red-gold City three thousand years ago.
Due to the lack of numbers, there was a huge gap between the sharp blades. As long as one observed carefully, it was possible to find a route to bypass the dangerous area.
Since the curse of light had sealed the totem power in the depths of the underground, the mandrake branches that had grown back contained rare metals and tiny amounts of crystal elements. Therefore, the mandrake branches were far from what they had been three thousand years ago.
The sharp blades polished by such mandrake branches would not be able to withstand the full-force stimulation of the destructive power for a few times.
As a result, after several rounds of fire, frost, and lightning eruptions, while a large number of rat soldiers were swept down the ladder, the sharp blades also lost their chilling luster and the firmness that could cut iron like mud. They either drooped down like molten steel, or transformed into real twigs that were quickly burned into black charcoal.
“The Rat God’s blessing!”
“The Rat God cast a curse and helped us destroy the defense on the city wall!”
The rat soldiers did not understand the principle behind it.
However, it did not stop them from using the craziest thought process to come up with the most perfect explanation.
After dropping hundreds of broken corpses, they once again charged forward in an imposing manner.
This time, among the rat warriors charging at the front, Iron Head was surprisingly there, wielding two huge axes.
Meng Chao and Ice Storm were there as well, silently following him from behind to protect him.
In fact, Iron Head was almost the first rat warrior to charge at Hundred Blade City.
However, because he came from the Blood Hoof Clan’s territory, he had the bloodline of a barbarian elephant and the head of a bull. His body was huge, and he was not naturally good at climbing.
After several attempts, he slid down the simple ladder.
Of course, Meng Chao and Ice Storm made some small moves in the dark.
It was not easy to lead the battle.
Before the sharp blades on the city wall reached the limit of fatigue and failed one after another, the first batch of rat warriors who tried to climb up the city wall had a high chance of being killed or injured.
Even Meng Chao and Ice Storm were not confident that Iron Head would be safe with thousands of blades on him.
Besides, it was too exaggerated for the first person to climb up the city wall to be able to climb down in one go. It would inevitably arouse the suspicion of the experienced officers and priests.
Right then, the rat tide had already waded through several bloody paths on the city wall.
With Iron Head’s thick skin and a little “luck,” it was reasonable for him to make the first move.
“The Rat God is helping me, and I’m invulnerable!”
The simple-minded boorish man did not understand why his limbs were numb and his muscles were twitching inexplicably when the sharp blades on the city wall shot flames, frost, and electric arcs at him at critical moments. Then, he fell down the ladder again and again. Although he fell on all fours and was in a sorry state, he narrowly avoided several fatal blows. What exactly was going on?
He did not have a string in his brain, so he did not want to understand at all.
‘In any case, don’t ask. If you ask, it’s be the blessing of the Rat God, then it’ll be over.’
He only felt that his luck on this climb was exceptionally good.
He did not know who had knocked down the simple ladder that he was climbing, but it just happened to be leaning against another ladder.
Around the two ladders, the sharp blades, which were originally shining, dimmed and drooped down as if they had all gone ineffective.
They had actually accidentally opened up a green passage that went straight to the top of the city wall!
When he climbed up to the height of twenty to thirty arms in one go, and was only half a step away from the battlements on the city wall, the heads of several wolves, tigers, and leopards stuck out from the battlements. They were holding huge metal claws with long poles in their hands, and they tried to grab his ladder so that they could flip him and the ladder to the ground.
However, behind him, a few catapults flew out from nowhere and accurately hit the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards in the eye sockets, glabella, nasal cavity, and Adam’s apple. The city guards were immediately knocked to the ground and even fainted on the spot. They fell directly from the battlements and into the squirming tide of rats.
Before Iron Head, the door was opened.
This boorish man, who thought that he had received the Rat God’s blessing and that he was invulnerable to weapons roared, jumped onto Hundred Blade City’s wall.
“He’s charging up!”
“Someone’s charging up the city wall!”
In a siege war during the era of cold weapons, it was symbolic when the attacking side could climb up the city wall and start a war with the defending side.
Before the attacker climbed up the city wall, the casualty exchange ratio between the two sides would likely to reach ten to one.
The defending army could easily wait on the city wall and slowly use arrows, rolling oil, and falling rocks to deplete the number and morale of the attacking side.
However, the moment both sides started a battle on the city wall…
The casualty exchange ratio would change from ten to one to one at a shocking speed.
If they could not immediately and resolutely chase the attackers on the city wall down and block the gap…
It would only be a matter of time before the defending army, which was isolated and helpless, was completely exhausted by the attackers.
All of a sudden, all the rat soldiers seemed to hear the Rat God’s call once again.
Their blood that was already boiling started to burn, injecting surging power into their muscles and fibers.
It made them climb faster and faster, leaping onto the city wall in one go. They closed in on Iron Head at all costs, forming an invincible arrowhead..