Chapter 229: Bombard the Rock-Armored Rhinoceros! The Wall Must Not Fall!

"Mom, look, such beautiful flowers on the city wall!"

A little girl pointed to the blood-red flowers blooming along the southern wall of Jiacheng.

"Hide quickly!"

A black-gold armored spider leapt into the city district, but before it could begin its slaughter, it was killed by a golden-rank flying beast in the sky.

Survivors were rare indeed.

The Jiacheng military had long experience resisting beast tides and had long anticipated the possibility of beasts breaching the city.

Within the city, golden-rank flying beast defenses had also been deployed.

Moreover, every high point in the city housed well-trained sharpshooters from the military, holding sniper rifles to precisely eliminate beasts.

Though the energy rifles had limited power, they were confident they could hit a beast's vital eye area within three shots.

When the offshoots of the Hellblood Vine spread across the southern wall, the black-gold armored spiders that leapt onto it met their doom.

Black-gold armored spiders were skilled at leaping, true enough, but they lacked the ability to rotate midair.

Their landing points were entirely predictable.

Combined with the deliberate coordination of golden-rank beast tamers, the Hellblood Vine always easily entangled each black-gold armored spider.

The casualty rate among golden-rank beast tamers and their beasts participating in the defense began to plummet.

Mu Yuankai, seeing this, couldn't help but grin at Zhu Xiaoshuang: "Your emergency squad really is brimming with talent!"

Su Yang punched one black-gold armored spider into pulp and looked down from the wall.

Beneath the wall, the ground was blanketed in Hellblood Vine tendrils, forming a tangle of vines that stretched all the way to two hundred meters from the wall.

The Hellblood Vine possessed a mythic-tier talent—Blessing of the Earth.

It could move freely through the soil layer, and its offshoots inherited partial traits from the mother plant.

They too could burrow underground, though not as effortlessly as the mother plant—they required energy expenditure.

Thus, all the Hellblood Vines beneath the wall had buried their main bodies in the stratum, extending only their tendrils outward.

For black-gold armored spiders to leap onto the wall, they first had to face the dense thicket of vines.

Half of the black-gold armored spiders were entangled by countless tendrils before they could even leap.

Even though their armor was extremely tough, if enough vines wrapped around them, they could still be crushed to death…

Su Yang's ears were filled with a constant barrage of system alerts!

"Ding~ Your beast, Hellblood Vine, has leveled up to Gold Mid-Grade!"

"Ding~ Your beast, Seven-Colored Illusory Butterfly, has leveled up to Silver High-Grade!"

The number of black-gold armored spiders dwindled; some began to bypass Jiacheng entirely.

Yet the beast tamers defending the wall were not overly joyful.

The vibrations on the wall were growing increasingly severe.

The section of wall where Su Yang stood was swaying, as if they were standing on a ship!

But Jiacheng's wall was incredibly sturdy; even this shaking had not caused it to collapse.

All residents of Jiacheng felt the tremors, as if an earthquake were coming.

The civilians of Jiacheng stared toward the southern wall, their eyes filled with dread.

Those civilians who had evacuated from outside Jiacheng and now lived in alleyways huddled together along the edges of the streets, clinging to their loved ones, silently praying for the city's defenders to hold back the beast tide.

At that moment, Su Yang received a system mission alert:

"Ding~ Mission released: Stop the Rock-Armored Rhinoceros, defend Jiacheng."

"Mission reward: Randomly upgrade one talent of each beast participating in the defense; beasts with no upgradeable talent will receive a matching common-tier talent!"

Su Yang turned to look—his Seven-Colored Illusory Butterfly was safe, quietly resting behind Zhu's squad leader…

Of course, the safest spot on the entire southern wall was behind the five platinum-rank beast tamers.

So Su Yang shamelessly placed his fragile Seven-Colored Illusory Butterfly behind Zhu Xiaoshuang, who, even in battle, kept watch over it.