The power of Corpse Explosion was extraordinary. Even Black Knight Two was caught off guard, a shard of bone piercing his left arm and leaving a thumb-sized hole that bled nonstop. Even his body, fortified with Dou Qi, could not withstand it. His face twisted in pain, and if he had not been wearing a black mask, the soldiers would have seen how deathly pale it had turned.
They had no idea why the corpse had suddenly exploded, and their ranks fell into chaos.
On the other side, Sun Fei charged forward without breaking stride.
With that done, he instantly switched from Necromancer Mode to Barbarian Mode.
Fierce, primal physical strength surged back into his body. Sun Fei roared and kicked off the ground with both feet. Boom! Stone fragments flew from the hard surface of the bridge as the barbarian skill Leap activated.
Whoosh!
Like a towering mountain suddenly rising from the ground, Sun Fei leaped at least five meters into the air, casting a shadow beneath the blazing sun. Light as a feather, he easily cleared the three-meter-tall tower shields and the forest of lances that bristled like an iron hedgehog, plunging toward the black-armored soldiers behind them.
"You're asking for death!"
Black Knight Two saw his opponent fly over the tower shields without a weapon in hand. Realizing this was a good opportunity, he ignored his injured arm and drove the Dou Qi through his body at full force. He leaped into the air to meet Sun Fei, his two-handed broadsword flashing with cold light.
He intended to use his exquisite swordsmanship to kill this fellow who had nothing but brute strength.
Black Knight Two firmly believed that in a fight in midair, he, who had mastered Dou Qi, would be far more agile than an opponent with nothing but brute strength. What was more, his opponent had no weapon and wore heavy steel armor... As he leaped, he had every reason to believe he knew at least a hundred sword techniques that could pierce that heavy armor and stab this beastlike fellow through the heart.
But-
"Get back!"
Still in the air, Sun Fei shouted and kicked the flat of the sword.
Black Knight Two saw a blur before his eyes and could not track his opponent's movement at all. Then his whole body tingled and went numb as if struck by lightning. Unable to keep hold of his sword, he watched it get kicked away, flying up and down into the sky like a scrap of straw in a storm.
Pfft!
Blood spurted from the web of Black Knight Two's hand, which had been split open by the force of the kick.
But the nightmare was not over.
Before he could land, Sun Fei kicked him again in midair.
The kick landed squarely on Black Knight Two's chest. Bones cracked and splintered, and his chest caved in, forming a shocking footprint. In an instant, he fell back faster than he had leaped up, slamming into the black-armored soldiers below. Amid screams, the crowd toppled like dominoes...
The kick instantly shattered all of Black Knight Two's internal organs into bloody chunks, leaving no trace of life in him. He lay on his back without so much as a groan, stone dead.
His eyes were wide with disbelief. He simply could not understand how he, a One-Star Warrior with every advantage of timing and terrain, had died such a humiliating death, so easily kicked to death like a chick by a brute who had not even mastered Dou Qi.
Of course, if Black Knight Two had known that the man he had so confidently leaped into the air to intercept was the "beast" who had instantly killed two One-Star Warrior black knights in succession during yesterday's battle on the city wall, his first reaction would surely have been to hurry back behind the crowd rather than rush forward to fight for the glory.
Unfortunately, life never gave anyone a second chance.
When Sun Fei had been a level-five barbarian, he could already kill a One-Star Warrior in an instant. Now that he had reached level twelve, he could sweep aside the likes of Black Knight Two with a casual move.
Seeing their commanding officer kicked to death by their opponent, the black-armored soldiers fell into chaos. Sun Fei landed steadily in a gap in the crowd and gently pulled his hands apart in the air. A white gleam flashed, and he summoned the barbarian's fearsome mountain-cleaving giant axe once again.
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
He spun a full three hundred and sixty degrees on the spot without any finesse, raising a storm of axe blades that chopped the approaching enemies and their swords and spears to pieces. Amid the spraying blood, Sun Fei quickly turned and came to the base of the tower shields. He put all his immense strength into several more chops. Silver light flashed, and the steel spikes supporting the shields, along with the lances, were all chopped into strips of iron. Even the tower shields, wrapped in three layers of refined iron, were split in two beneath Sun Fei's axe. They tumbled off the bridge, throwing up enormous columns of water in the river below.
The tower-shield and lance formation, which many had thought impregnable, was once again easily pierced by Sun Fei, who tore a huge gap through it as if ripping apart a soft, fragile slice of bread.
It was like a tearful young married woman who had finally escaped a thug's abuse and struggled to put her clothes back on with what little strength she had left, only to be stripped stark naked again under Sun Fei's unstoppable assault.
"Charge! Clear out these bastards!"
Sun Fei had repeatedly switched power modes, using the powers of the necromancer and barbarian to break the tower-shield and lance formation the black-armored soldiers had assembled for a second time with a few casual moves. It had taken only a few dozen seconds, and the whole process had happened in a flash, leaving countless people dumbstruck. He turned and waved, signaling the strongmen three or four meters away, who had just finished drinking water mixed with diluted Stamina Potion and regained their strength, to charge at once.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!
More than twenty burly men, each clad in sixty or seventy jin of heavy metal armor, ran forward like a charging heavy cavalry regiment. It gave the impression that the entire stone bridge was trembling beneath their feet and might collapse at any moment.
Blood ran down the more than twenty suits of armor. They looked like bloodthirsty asuras straight out of hell.
Boom.
The two sides clashed at close quarters. Waves of blood surged again, and severed limbs and broken weapons went flying.
The armored strongmen charged into the disordered black-armored formation, their outrageously heavy weapons swinging up and down. The black-armored soldiers were smashed off the bridge like kites sent flying, then dropped into the river like dumplings into a pot, where the waves swept them away...
Seeing this, Sun Fei wasted no more time. He turned back, the giant axe in his hands becoming the summons of the reaper's scythe. Wherever he passed, he left an empty space behind, sweeping the black-armored soldiers from the gray stone bridge as cleanly as a broom swept away snow.
This time, Sun Fei deliberately sped up his assault.
To advance faster, he no longer divided his attention as before to look after the steel-helmeted strongmen behind him. Relying on the savage strength of a level-twelve barbarian, he threw the black-armored soldiers' formation into disarray, killing every enemy he could see in front of him at the first opportunity and leaving those who slipped past on either side to the strongmen behind him.
Sure enough, their advance became much faster.
But the pressure on the steel-helmeted strongmen behind him increased considerably.
The black-armored soldiers were well-trained professional troops who had fought in countless battles. Among them were quite a few experts who had gained a rudimentary grasp of crude Dou Qi. In the fighting, their swords could threaten the strongmen in steel armor. Even when they could not pierce the armor, the violent impacts could leave a man's body numb and stiff. Before long, several of the strongmen had suffered minor injuries. But they also knew they could not retreat in the slightest at this moment. Without trying to kill the enemy, they stayed close behind King Alexander, gritting their teeth and fighting desperately to hold on no matter how severe their injuries were.
Sun Fei noticed the situation as well.
A thought occurred to him, and the power in his body suddenly burst forth. The enormous mountain-cleaving axe in his hands became a storm of silver blades that no one could withstand. Amid a series of clangs and the sound of metal and bone shattering, he shredded the black-armored soldiers pressing in around him into a mist of blood, then seized the chance to switch power modes.
Barbarian Mode disappeared.
Paladin Mode activated.
In an instant, a noble, holy power flowed from Sun Fei and enveloped the metal-armored strongmen following close behind him. He stamped his foot, and a golden halo flashed and spread out from his body. Wherever it passed, the strongmen felt their wounds healing rapidly and their depleted strength returning at an astonishing rate. Even their confidence and courage soared at that moment!
The paladin skill Prayer activated.
"Long live the king!"
Seeing this, the white-haired strongman Pierce felt as if the blood in his entire body were burning. He shouted as he swept his giant hammer out like the arm of a war god. The sharp clang of breaking metal rang out as rapidly as firecrackers, and four or five black-armored soldiers screamed like pigs being slaughtered as his hammer lifted them off their feet and sent them flying off the bridge...
"Long live His Majesty Alexander!"
The burly, loose-haired Didier Drogba roared as well. He fiercely trapped an enemy's thrusting sword under his left arm and swung his axe backhanded with his right. It whistled through the air, and with a crack, sent the sword's owner's head flying into the sky...
"Long live the king!!!!"
More than twenty strongmen shouted as one and charged into the enemy ranks like fierce tigers, advancing rapidly with their fighting strength soaring. Even Oleg, the cowardly jailer who had been following at the very back in fear and trepidation, seemed caught up in the atmosphere. He finally displayed the strength of a One-Star Warrior as he should, striking down three black-armored soldiers in succession with his giant saber.
"Damn it, that guy's a knight!"
"Oh! It's a Battle Aura, that's a Battle Aura... Heaven! It's the Song of Life Battle Aura..."
"Fall back, quickly... Get an expert over here to kill that knight... Damn it, they have a high-ranking knight who has mastered Song of Life. Even throwing masses of men at them won't work..."
As soon as the golden aura appeared beneath Sun Fei's feet, cries of alarm erupted among the black-armored soldiers.
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