Chapter 159

On the city wall, when Meng Ying saw the female tiger-person Winnie approach the great pit, she finally ceased her spellcasting.

After becoming a Magister, her mana was abundant, and her mental strength was formidable, but continuous spellcasting for so long had drained her greatly.

Moreover, she had swallowed a "Cold Flame" to replenish her energy!

Aldington was indeed powerful—bombarded like a target for nearly half an hour, yet he still lived.

Of course, this relied largely on his special shield and the divine armor on his body.

Otherwise, even as a Sixth Rank warrior, prolonged immersion in magma while deflecting fireballs from above would have killed him long ago.

A warrior's strength depends not only on personal ability, but also heavily on equipment.

Unfortunately, his shield ultimately could not hold.

As a result, Aldington suffered severe injuries.

When he sensed the attacks from above had finally stopped, Aldington roared loudly and leapt upward, soaring over twenty meters high.

He then kicked off the pit's wall with all his strength and landed on the ground.

The immense power of a Sixth Rank warrior was displayed fully on his person.

Without Meng Ying, he could have leapt directly onto the walls of the Miracle City.

Hmm, after witnessing his astonishing leap, the fox-woman Sister Qing Ling had already decided to raise the Miracle City's walls even higher.

The original builders had been limited.

Now it was different—the Miracle City had a large population, sufficient to further raise and thicken the walls, and even install extensive magical defenses!

Red magma slid off Aldington's body.

Then he noticed the person before him.

"It's you!"

Aldington recognized Winnie!

Remember, he had hunted her relentlessly for over ten days.

At that time, Winnie was still at the peak of Fifth Rank.

Winnie had escaped him repeatedly, only because Aldington had ulterior motives.

He hoped that after Winnie broke through to Sixth Rank, she would retaliate against the incompetent princes of the Old Lion King.

He wished for her to kill all the Old Lion King's princes—then his own opportunity would arrive.

Thus, Aldington chose to let the tiger return to the mountains!

And Winnie had not disappointed his hopes.

Upon her debut, Winnie killed ten Lion Clan princes.

But now, Winnie's gaze of hatred fixed upon Aldington.

If Aldington had been at full strength, he would have feared nothing from Winnie; otherwise, knowing she was about to break through to Sixth Rank and posed a threat to him, why would he have let her go?

Aldington was an old-established Sixth Rank warrior.

Winnie was merely newly entered into Sixth Rank—not a threat.

But now…

Aldington had been severely wounded by Meng Ying's magic, reduced to less than half his strength.

He had gone from letting the tiger return to the mountains to raising a tiger that would devour him!

A bitter smile appeared on Aldington's lips: "Come then!"

Winnie did not hesitate—she charged forward, dual weapons in hand.

Ten minutes later, Aldington's lion head fell to the ground.

The fox-woman Sister Qing Ling and Meng Ying stepped forward and approached Winnie's side.

This was a dangerously close distance.

If a Magister allowed a hostile Sixth Rank warrior to enter within ten meters, that Magister was essentially finished!

Because the Magister's spells capable of effectively defending against a Sixth Rank warrior's attack required at least half a second to cast.

And the Sixth Rank warrior's strike would land on the Magister before that!

But Meng Ying was not afraid.

Instant-cast spells were no joke.

Besides, Winnie had no hostility toward them.

"Thank you for letting me avenge my family myself!"

Winnie said to Meng Ying.

"Auntie Winnie!"

Princess Luo Di emerged.

"Luo Di!"

Winnie actually recognized Luo Di.

Winnie's entire family had been slaughtered by the Lion Clan; seeing Luo Di, she felt a deep sense of kinship.

"You are very powerful. I wish to join you—together, we will avenge the Lion Clan!"

After chatting with Luo Di for a while, Winnie said.

"I've learned from Luo Di that your strength comes from the Great Flame Lord. I am willing to believe in the Flame Lord and become his follower!"

Winnie added.

The fox-woman Sister Qing Ling nodded.

With a powerful Sixth Rank warrior joining, the Miracle City's strength had increased significantly.

Of course, Winnie was already quite old and had a fierce appearance—she would never become Lin Yan's Sacred Maiden.

Still, she had become the commander of the Temple Warriors.

From now on, the Temple Warriors would be led and trained by her!

A One Sixth-Rank warrior's faith certainly wouldn't reach the most devout stage so quickly, but the fox-woman Sister Qing Ling believed that once Winnie had witnessed the many wonders of the Lord of Flames, she would surely become the Lord of Flames's most faithful follower in the future!

Large numbers of fox-tribe warriors emerged to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, the lion tribe's casualties had been far too heavy.

On the side of the City of Divine Wonders, there had been virtually no losses!

After the lion-tribe warriors reached the foot of the City of Divine Wonders, they tried throwing spears, but throwing from below to above was far too ineffective.

The fox-tribe archers certainly hadn't positioned themselves at the battlements on top of the wall, but had fired from the middle of the wall in a high-arcing manner; spears travel in a straight line—if you can't see the enemy, how can you throw?

At the base of the City of Divine Wonders, the corpses of lion-tribe warriors lay scattered everywhere across Manshan.

These corpses were all gathered together, and then Meng Ying prayed to obtain flames that burned them all in one go.

The cleanup of the entire Divine Wonder Wastes took a day or two.

Further out, fifteen thousand cavalry were still in pursuit of the lion tribe's main force.

These lion-tribe warriors fled madly, and the cavalry chased them madly all the way.

When lion-tribe warriors fled for their lives, they really were fast—many lion-tribe warriors threw away their weapons, tossed off their armor, all just to escape a little faster.

But the cavalry were also enjoying the chase.

On top of that, the cavalry were more familiar with the terrain in this area, and could always take shortcuts to catch up to the lion-tribe warriors ahead, so as the lion-tribe warriors fled the whole way, the cavalry slaughtered them the whole way.

These lion-tribe warriors finally got to taste the feeling the tiger tribe had experienced when they themselves had been hunted down.

No, it was even worse than that.

The tiger tribe had fought them for over a month, with battles great and small constantly, but in truth there had never been a great rout like this one.

This time the lion tribe's defeat was utterly terrible.

The cavalry chased the lion tribe for a full day and night.

They only stopped when they reached the vicinity of Lion Pass.

This great thousand-mile pursuit slaughtered the lion-tribe warriors until blood flowed like rivers; in the end, fewer than ten thousand lion-tribe warriors made it back to lion-tribe territory!

Of an army of sixty thousand, over fifty thousand had died!

And even the Sixth-Rank Oldington had been taken care of.

The Fifth-Rank Grand General Reed likewise met his end beneath the gates of Chengdecheng Sect.