War Begins

The true battlefield far exceeded Chen Yi's imagination.

Faced with Noxus's army, these kings had not simply surrendered.

There were now over 100,000 people on the battlefield: over 20,000 from Noxus and nearly 80,000 on the opposing side.

This was the number they had obtained through forced conscription by the Three Regimes.

Dense ranks of soldiers stood atop the towering City Wall, while even more waited behind the gates. They gripped their Martial Tools tightly, sweat somehow creeping onto their foreheads.

Noxus had fewer men, yet it was the other side that was afraid.

Darius had no intention of continuing the conversation and directly gave the order to advance!

"Kill!"

Ding! War has begun. War Merit viewing function unlocked.

Current War Merit: 0

The vanguard raised their heavy shields one after another, each step leaving deep footprints in the ground.

Lightly armored soldiers stood behind every shield bearer, carrying either spears or blades with ferocious grins on their faces. Hundred-meter-long Wall-Scaling Ladders were hidden amid the crowd.

The Archers were not among the formation. The towering City Wall limited what they could do.

The mages waited for Darius's command.

Chen Yi's hands trembled slightly. It was not fear, but the instinctive reaction of encountering such a battlefield for the first time.

Once an army numbered over ten thousand, it looked endless. And there were over 100,000 people here!

"Looks like this is your first time on the battlefield."

Darius still had the leisure to speak with Chen Yi.

In his life experience, a war like this was no more than a tiny ripple.

If he did not need to fulfill his duties as a General, he would already have been standing at the very front, leading the troops in a charge.

Chen Yi nodded. "I believe it won't be the last time."

As they spoke, the distance between the two armies rapidly closed.

On a battlefield of the supernatural, two thousand meters was no longer a safe distance.

A sky full of arrows shot toward the front-line shield bearers.

"Raise shields!"

"Hah!"

The arrows struck the shields with crisp clangs. Their force made the shield bearers' hands stiffen slightly, but that was all.

What truly threatened shield bearers had never been Archers, but the Magic Turrets atop the enemy's City Wall.

They had already entered the turrets' attack range, and purple Energy Bombs exploded amid the crowd.

Centered on the Energy Bombs, Noxian soldiers within a hundred-meter radius were hit by the violent impacts and fell one after another.

The first casualties of the battlefield had appeared!

Chen Yi estimated that a single blast dealt several thousand damage. Even with his shield active, he would not be able to withstand one shot.

After firing, the three Magic Turrets atop the City Wall entered another charging cycle.

"Advance!"

The Steel Torrent pushed toward the enemy.

When the distance narrowed to one thousand meters, the lightly armored soldiers prepared to charge.

Darius had thought the enemy would keep defending the city, but they unexpectedly opened the gates at this moment. Soldiers flooded out from within, stretching beyond sight.

"Kill!"

The clash of cold weapons began.

Darius continuously issued commands according to the battle situation.

The battlefield quickly became a meat grinder, blood staining the ground red.

Every attack from the Magic Turrets killed over a hundred Noxian soldiers.

Yet many enemies were also cut down by the Noxian soldiers.

Relying on the geographical advantage provided by the Magic Turrets and City Wall, the two sides unexpectedly fell into a temporary stalemate.

Darius looked toward the mage formation. "It's time for you mages to take the field. I need the situation to change."

All the mages, Chen Yi included, obeyed at once.

"Come out, Fire Dragon."

"Roar!"

Chen Yi rode atop Fire Dragon and flew away under everyone's gaze.

"Fire Dragon, keep climbing."

The Magic Turrets could not fire directly overhead, but arrows could.

To make the enemy arrows lose their force, Fire Dragon carried Chen Yi to an altitude of over a thousand meters.

"Then let's begin."

This time, Chen Yi did not use his self-created spells. Instead, he played with explosions like an ordinary Fire Mage.

A massive fireball appeared high in the sky and plummeted downward at tremendous speed.

The soldiers atop the City Wall quickly noticed the fireball.

"Air raid!"

The fireball exploded on the City Wall. Enhanced by gravity, the explosion's power rose enormously.

Player Yi dealt 247 damage to xx. (177 Impact Damage, 70 Burn Damage)

Player Yi dealt 325 damage to xx. (145 Impact Damage, 180 Burn Damage)

...

Chen Yi's Damage Panel was flooded with notifications.

However, the second fireball was intercepted by a shrieking monstrous bird and exploded in midair.

The Three Kingdoms Alliance had retaliated against Chen Yi.

These birds were not large, less than half a meter in size.

Yet their wings and long beaks accounted for most of their bodies.

Some of the monstrous birds fell toward the ground in flames, but even more charged toward Fire Dragon.

Chen Yi hurriedly scanned the birds' attributes.

Wasp Bird

LV: 14

Constitution: 16

Strength: 14

Intelligence: 8

Agility: 32

Mental: 9

Wasp Call: The wasp emits a piercing cry targeting Mental power, dealing Mental ×1.2 damage. This damage can stack and decreases with distance.

Chen Yi made a rough estimate.

With his resistance, one Wasp Bird could at most deal around 6 damage to him.

But if he were surrounded by hundreds of them, neither he nor Fire Dragon could last four seconds!

If there were even more...

"Fire Dragon!"

No words were needed. Fire Dragon unleashed a Fire Blast downward and rapidly pulled away.

Fireballs continuously formed before Chen Yi. Under the control of his Mental power, they precisely exploded amid the wasp swarm.

The wasps did not have high Constitution. The fireballs' area damage often dealt considerable damage to several wasps at once.

But it could not stop them from letting out mournful cries before death!

Wasp Bird dealt 6 Mental Damage to Player Yi.

Wasp Bird dealt 9 Mental Damage to Fire Dragon.

Dozens of such Damage Log entries appeared at once.

Blood seeped from the corners of Chen Yi's and Fire Dragon's eyes and nostrils.

Ignoring the blood, Chen Yi gently patted Fire Dragon. "Fire Dragon, shake them off as much as possible."

Fire Dragon's speed utterly overwhelmed the wasps, but its flying speed still could not surpass the speed of sound.

It could only widen the distance as much as possible.

Meanwhile, Chen Yi continued attacking without pause.

For a time, flames continuously fell from the sky toward the ground, creating a spectacular sight.

Blood Mage Carol had appeared within the city at some point. Because his skin was so pale, Chen Yi had repeatedly suspected that this guy's race was a vampire.

Carol was very satisfied with Chen Yi's performance. He had not only drawn their attention, but also their firepower.

"But why play with fire?... Only blood is the true essence!"

After saying that, he turned into a mass of blood and exploded.

Soldiers passed through the area without noticing anything, unaware that blood was constantly crawling onto their bodies and silently entering them.

Before long, bloodshot veins appeared in their eyes and continued spreading.

"Nawen, what are you doing?! The enemy is over there!"

"Botele, have you gone mad?!"

The soldiers who had stepped on the blood raised their blades at their own comrades. Caught unprepared, those comrades fell straight from the City Wall.

Amid the fierce battle, no one noticed that a few soldiers had "defected."

"Hehehe~ We are all little drops of blood, little drops of blood~ little drops of blood~"

When Carol appeared again, his complexion had become much rosier, as though he had just received a great tonic.

Several enemy soldiers with vacant eyes stood behind him.

"What do you think of my singing?"

"It's completely master-level, right?"

Carol pretended to listen to the soldiers speak before answering himself.

Then he shook his head regretfully. "Unfortunately, singing is only a tiny hobby of mine."

Lightning Mage Yuchizona could cast spells over extreme distances through thunderclouds.

The other two mages assisted him from the side. A miniature sand table of the City Wall appeared before Yuchizona, even reproducing the dark clouds drifting through the sky.

Lightning flashed precisely across the City Wall.

Every strike dealt at least a thousand damage, though the clouds needed time to recover after each attack. It was practically a miniature Magic Turret.

The other mages, who had no clear specialization, were trying to tunnel underground.

Not a single mage who behaved properly before Darius was harmless!

And that was why Swain wanted to cultivate mages.

Not every mage, like Chen Yi, had a "great tree" to lean on. Most mages only truly came into their own after level twenty.

By then, they had accumulated vast amounts of knowledge, and they no longer had to scrimp on mana.

Perhaps their strength in a one-on-one fight could not compare to that of many soldiers, but on the battlefield, they could play a role far beyond that of ordinary soldiers.

After the mages joined the battle, the Noxian battle line kept advancing.

However, Darius was not satisfied with this pace.