Chapter 377: Attack, Radiant City!

On the way, he casually wiped out more than thirty groups of patrol soldiers.

Each time after killing them, while their corpses were still warm, he used the Imperial Seal to absorb the Source of Life within them and injected it into the Scroll.

The facts proved: The seal on the Scroll was indeed not that easy to undo.

Each monster could provide 1% progress.

When the Source of Life absorption progress bar of the Scroll reached 100%, another overlapping progress bar suddenly appeared.

However, Zhang Yue didn't take it seriously.

Even if this progress bar could stack ten times, a hundred times.

For him, it was just a flick of the fingers.

At present, there were around seven to eight hundred attackers.

They were all seasoned professionals from one or two years ago.

Most were at level 93 or 94, and quite a few had already reached the sixteenth realm level cap: level 95 professionals.

They were attacking the eastern gate of Radiant City.

A large number of level 94 and 95 soldiers, riding dark warhorses, surged out of the city and engaged in fierce battle with the attacking professionals.

At the same time, countless archers stood atop the city walls, launching fierce ranged attacks on the professionals below!

The opposing side held the advantage of the city's defenses, coupled with the numerous garrisoned troops inside.

Clearly, the current situation was somewhat unfavorable for the professionals.

"KNIGHTS! FRONTLINE KNIGHTS, HOLD THE LINE! DON'T LET THEM BREAK THROUGH THE DEFENSES!"

"Archers, mages, watch your positioning! Take out the archers on the city walls first, they're too much of a threat."

"It's not working! They have the walls as cover, we can't aim properly!"

"Damn it! This is way too hard! Hate value is already at 60%, and it's still this tough!"

"Screw you! What are you doing here at 60% hate value? You dare to attack a city before reaching 100%? No wonder it's so difficult!"

"No, I have 60% hate value, what does that have to do with your difficulty…?"

On the battlefield, as the siege continued, agonized screams echoed through the crowd, with flashes of white light appearing one after another.

The remaining players all wore expressions of sheer misery.

Clearly, if this situation continued, their siege attempt was bound to fail.

"Sigh! This is the third time this month, and we're gonna lose again."

"If we fail the siege, all the hate value accumulated from the previous missions will be reset to zero, and we'll have to start all over again."

"This is too hard! If someone can carry me through this, I'll introduce my wife to him as his girlfriend." [T/N: 🤦🏻]

Just as everyone was lamenting—

Suddenly, a battle notification rang in everyone's ears—

[Ding~ Attention: 13 minutes remain in this siege attempt. All professionals, please speed up your progress!]

[Ding~ Professional [Zero] has joined the siege team!]

"Who? Who just joined?"

In an instant, everyone was reinvigorated.

"Holy shit! Zero God!"

"Zero God is attacking Radiant City! Damn, this is a guaranteed victory!"

"Our luck is insane! We actually ran into Zero God carrying the team!"

At the rear of the crowd, a necromancer cloaked in golden radiance, Zhang Yue, was strolling toward the eastern gate of Radiant City.

The crowd immediately parted, making way for Zhang Yue.

At this moment, hope ignited in everyone's eyes.

However, a small number of people remained worried.

Of course, they weren't concerned about Zhang Yue's strength.

"But there's only 13 minutes left. If we started fresh with the full three-hour window, Zero God could definitely do it, but with this little time, even he might not be able to break through Radiant City, right?"

"Yeah, maybe Zero God should wait. Once this attempt fails, we can wait for Radiant City's three-hour siege cooldown to reset and try again?"

Zhang Yue didn't care: "No need."

"Three minutes is enough."

With that—

ROAR—

A thunderous dragon's roar erupted.

A colossal figure, shrouding the sky in darkness, the Mythic-tier Thirty-Six-Winged Armageddon Black Dragon, soared overhead.

At the same time, the Legendary-tier Phantom Predator and the Purgatory Skeleton King charged straight at the eastern gate.

Cherry, meanwhile, followed closely at her master's side.

As expected, girls were more gentle and refined. Not as wild as the Skeleton King and the Predator.

———

Outside the city—

Under the relentless assault of a massive horde of level 95 Dark Beasts, the professionals' defensive line was breached.

Like a tidal wave, the beasts surged toward the rear-line professionals.

Just as they were about to be swallowed by the horde—

BOOM!

A blazing dragon's breath rained down from the skies, engulfing the beasts.

A vast sea of damage numbers, over 2,000,000+, rose from the beasts' heads.

The next second, the Phantom Predator and its shadow army charged into the beast horde. With single strikes dealing upwards of 2,000,000 damage, it ruthlessly stabbed into the already-wounded beasts that had been ravaged by the Armageddon Black Dragon.

Compared to the professionals around them, whose average damage was only around 300,000, the Black Dragon and Phantom Predator's output was absurdly high.

However, even with 1,200,000 HP, these level 95 beasts weren't easily one-shot.

The Skeleton King focused on tanking (causing chaos), while the Predator and the Armageddon Black Dragon wiped out the beasts rushing out from the city.

At this moment, more Radiant City soldiers and beasts stormed out from within.

Their imposing presence made the professionals outside instinctively recoil.

At this moment, Zhang Yue used Blink and appeared at the city gate.

He waved his staff—

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

SS-Rank, Thunderstorm!

A massive storm of lightning engulfed the entire eastern gate. Every soldier and beast attempting to exit was instantly caught in the tempest, perishing under continuous lightning strikes dealing upwards of 15,000,000 damage each.

Thunderstorm's damage came in three waves.

Yet even the first wave was enough to instantly kill these level 95 monsters.

As the three-second Thunderstorm dissipated—

At the eastern gate, mountains of enemy corpses piled up!

The crowd was utterly dumbfounded.

Beside him, Cherry wobbled a bit, "Master, can I go fight too?"

Zhang Yue glanced at her, "I have a more important task for you."

"What task?", Cherry gazed at Zhang Yue with eager anticipation.

Zhang Yue handed the Imperial Seal and Scroll to Cherry, "Help me absorb Source of Life."

"Got it!", Cherry was happy to do anything.

She held the Scroll in her left hand and the Imperial Seal in her right.

Reaching the city gate, she raised the Imperial Seal and began extracting Source of Life from the fallen enemies killed by Zhang Yue and her three 'brothers.'

Then, following Zhang Yue's instructions, she injected the Source of Life into the Scroll.

Honestly—

This job really suited Cherry's dexterous hands.

The clumsy Skeleton King probably wouldn't have managed.

He was better off collecting loot.

Enemies kept pouring out of the city.

The moment they killed one wave, another surged out.

Zhang Yue didn't even need to enter the city.

His sheer damage output drew the hatred of the entire Radiant City.

Finally, the leader of the Radiant Empire, the Level 95, 16-Star final boss, Radiant Emperor, personally led an army out of the city.

"WHO DARES TO RUN RAMPANT IN MY IMPERIAL LAND?"

The moment Radiant Emperor finished speaking—

Zhang Yue bombarded him with attacks.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Thunder Might!

Shattering Thunder!

Thunder • Lightning Spirit Dance!

Voidless • God Slayer Curse!

-36,701,000!

-3,923,000! -3,923,000…

-90,099,000 CRIT!

-64,074,000!

The next second—

[Map Announcement]:

["Ding~ Congratulations, Professional [Zero] for slaying [Radiant Emperor] and conquering the Radiance Empire!"]

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