Chapter 127: First Wave

Swish~

The first to launch the attack were the ranged professionals on the city wall.

City wall defense:

The effective attack range of ranged professionals doubled.

All ranged professionals on the city wall received this buff.

Thus, when those mutated beasts approached, a large swath of splendid magical light and arrows rained down.

Even many of the Fangshi's talismans flew out.

To some extent, Fangshi are actually ranged professionals, though they can be far or near; truly, not many Fangshi players go out with the melee players beyond the city.

Perhaps a single spell or arrow attack cannot instantly kill these mutated beasts, but the ranged professionals gathered on Wutong Town's city wall number over two hundred thousand.

Also thanks to Wutong Town's city wall being spacious enough, and divided into three sides, with one side adjacent to a mountain range lacking a wall, the steep mountain terrain there also does not spawn monster sieges.

The black tide of mutated beasts was clearly cleared in a small area.

The scene was very shocking.

Swish swish swish~

The dense attacks were unleashed one after another.

The charge speed of the 'Black Line' was immediately restrained.

And the bed crossbows and inscription cannons on the city wall's towers remained still; evidently the NPCs thought it was not yet time to use the city's defensive equipment, after all this is only the first wave.

As players attacked, some monsters' attributes were also posted on the public screen.

Dense and varied, the monsters' strange types and levels were uneven, with the lowest being level 10-11 and the highest reaching level 25.

The first wave of monsters was temporarily restrained by the ranged professionals unleashing full firepower, while the melee players beneath the city wall could only watch eagerly.

But soon some solo players couldn't hold out, after all these monsters' experience points had increased by thirty percent.

"Kill!"

"Charge and grab the monsters!"

Thus, those solo players swarmed out.

The total number of Huaxia players in the Zhu Lu Game is 9.7 billion, approaching 10 billion.

Under the Four Great Main Cities, each main city has 1,000 towns.

Altogether that's 4,000 towns, averaging 250,000 occupants per town.

But this is under relatively average conditions.

Don't forget, Wutong Town's player count nearly doubled because of Hui Long Zhai.

Even if later some players moved away due to being unable to bear the high competition from the large population.

At this time, Wutong Town's player count is still around 400,000+.

Besides the ranged players making up nearly half, the other half are melee professionals numbering close to 200,000, distributed beneath the three walls.

Beneath each wall, there are roughly fifty to sixty thousand.

The dense charge of players made the scene nothing short of spectacular!

"Kill!"

The noisy player crowd immediately collided with the mutated beasts, and at once the momentum of the 'Black Line' charge was completely restrained.

However, the players who rushed forward were all solo players; the elite teams of many guilds did not follow in the noisy rush.

Although such a noisy rush looks spectacular, the actual monster-killing efficiency is indeed limited.

Su Sheng also didn't rush up; this is only the first wave, merely an appetizer.

Most importantly, the highest-level of these monsters is only level 25.

Now Su Sheng is already level thirty; even if these monsters' experience gain increased by thirty percent, Su Sheng still looks down on them.

So Su Sheng did not rush to act.

After glancing at Qiancheng Muxue beside him, Su Sheng pursed his lips; although he found him unpleasant, having Qiancheng Muxue on this side of the wall should mean no big problem.

Subsequently, Su Sheng turned and walked toward the right wall.

Su Sheng noticed that the front was Qiancheng Muxue, while the left side was a medium-sized guild similar to the Red Spider Lily.

And on the right side there were only some small guilds like Fairy Tail.

The first wave of siege monsters was practically an experience-point feast for Wutong Town's players!

Frenzied slaughter! Everyone showed smiles; this experience reward is truly exhilarating.

Meanwhile, outside, almost all players gazed longingly at this scene, drooling with envy.

They also wanted to kill monsters like that.

Although, they were all forcibly teleported away.

However, Wutong Town seized the opportunity, and not a few players opened live streams.

At this time, the live-stream content on the game forum is almost entirely about this Wutong Town siege.

Although the impact of the 'Black Line' was immediately restrained, the players here did suffer losses.

Mainly because it was too chaotic; from time to time one could see a couple of unlucky souls being turned into white light within the monster tide.

However, after respawning, they appeared inside the town, and could only climb onto the city wall to watch longingly.

And Su Sheng, watching this, slightly furrowed his brow; it was too chaotic.

But there's no way; in Wutong Town, nobody can command all players—not even Qiancheng Muxue's guild or the game's celebrity figure Su Sheng; in this situation players simply can't be bothered with you.

Just the first wave of the siege already caused this degree of player attrition; who knows what changes may come later.

As time passed.

In the blink of an eye, twenty minutes passed.

Although the "black line" was restrained, it also couldn't be pushed forward.

The densely packed wild monsters seemed like endless successive waves.

Even because the scene was chaotic, after many players died, the demonized beasts' offensive even showed a tendency to advance.

However, it's still okay; after the solo players' group suffered losses from the initial chaos, the remaining players basically all had some skill, so although the line was slowly retreating, the players' death frequency actually decreased.

Hey, priestesses on the walls, please give some heals to the guys below; your healing amount also counts toward defense contribution.

A line of golden text lit up on the world channel.

Mo Wen, Qian Chen!

Exactly, Su Sheng spent gold coins to issue a global server announcement.

Su Sheng noticed that those priest players were almost all using skill attacks, and aside from a few who should be in parties, almost no one cared about the casualties of the melee players below.

Although the damage they could leech wasn't much, if they could leech any, they could share experience.

When not in a party, their healing of others couldn't leech experience from the monster kills.

Perhaps it was to give Su Sheng, the current "number one player," face.

Some players saw Su Sheng's global server announcement and indeed gave healing techniques to some of the melee players below.

Soon after, Su Sheng noticed that Qiancheng Muxue didn't attack the monsters, but the priests on the wall all stepped forward to heal the players below.

As the priests' healing technique took effect, the result was almost immediate.

Those solo players hardly ever died.