Two days later,
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Arrows and bone spears tore through the air with sharp, shrill hums, striking the flying monsters trying to leap over the walls with pinpoint accuracy. They crashed to the ground with wet thuds like dumplings, plunging into the monster tide surging from the distance. Sometimes they struck monsters sprinting past, sending both tumbling into a heap; sometimes the monsters behind them ran around them, or simply trampled them beneath the charge of the horde.
Clusters of flame exploded one after another within two hundred meters of the walls.
The booming continued without pause.
The few flying monsters that managed to cross layer after layer of defenses and reach the walls were also taken care of by Deathbone, the arrow towers controlled by Lu Liu, and the Thunder Magnetic Coil Towers, each killed with a precise strike.
The monsters in the tide were generally not very high-level. Just as the number of third- and fourth-grade players had sharply declined, most monsters were only Apprentice Grade, Common Star, or Elite Grade.
Unfortunately, there were simply too many monsters.
Even with the advantage of terrain, how many Common-grade monsters could an Elite Grade Skeleton Warlord eliminate?
At most, a few dozen.
And that was assuming they lined up obediently to be slaughtered.
Yet in many cases, the ratio between the monsters and the human troops was far more than several dozen to one.
Tian Yuan Territory currently had only 1,234 Professional Grade troops and 269 Elite Grade troops, yet it had to face tens or even hundreds of thousands of monsters.
These monsters were not lambs waiting to be slaughtered, either.
They were not like a zombie tide, all packed together so that one Blazing Sun could wipe them out in a single blast. They ran swiftly,