Chapter 2789: Yuan Jue

The city guards on the walls raised their chins slightly. They had long heard the name of the Wolf Cavalry Legion, but after engaging today, they didn't feel much pressure. Rumors could not be fully trusted.

The eldest prince, sitting majestically on the city wall, felt some disappointment. He had waited for an opponent for too long, but the current battle had failed to pique his interest.

Just as the city guard units were preparing to throw the second round of war spears, a huge black shadow dived straight down from the sky.

This black shadow first broke through the clouds, then relied on the power of flapping its wings, plus its own weight, to fall straight toward the front city wall.

Seeing this situation, a soldier captain on the wall raised one arm and made a gesture that was both concise and powerful.

As soon as the soldier captain's order was given, the flag bearers on the observation deck waved their command flags sideways. A neat sound of armor clashing appeared, and the city guards raised their war spears, preparing to shoot the black shadow from the high sky down.

With a thud, a wind pressure spread. Barbatos, which had been diving vertically, suddenly spread its wings. Because its downward momentum was too strong, the bones in its wings made a clicking sound.

Barbatos stopped urgently a hundred meters above the city wall. It had long since accumulated dragon flames, and with a 'whoosh', the dragon flames were breathed toward the city wall.

A series of crackling sounds spread. The city guards within the dragon flames wailed, their armor melted, and their bodies quickly turned to ashes. Barbatos was only good at breathing dragon flames. It seemed to have a single ability, but the more singular the ability, the more powerful it was.

"Quick throw!"

Shouts spread across the city wall. The city guards gave up gathering strength, and all the war spears were thrown toward Barbatos.

Pfft, pfft...

Dragon blood splattered everywhere. At this moment, Barbatos could only endure it hard. Hundreds of war spears were nailed into its lower abdomen, and its dragon wings were shot through with many holes. Its health dropped sharply to 6.23%. Barbatos was almost killed in one round.

Barbatos had completed what it was supposed to do. It spread its wings and flew high again, a large amount of dragon blood spilling in mid-air.

Taking advantage of Barbatos attracting the city guards on the wall, the Wolf Cavalry army had already rushed to the vicinity of the city wall. One of the Wolf Cavalry urged his mount wolf to leap, intending to climb the city wall.

After a muffled sound, the Gray Orc on the wolf's back and the mount wolf beneath him were sent flying backward, blood spraying from their entire bodies. This was the "Duke of Justice" ritual. Once this ritual was activated, anyone touching the city wall, except for city guards whose armor had corresponding rituals, would be pierced by the impact force.

Even the city walls couldn't be touched. This kind of siege battle left the battle-hardened Warpole and Yuya in a moment of bewilderment. But the two soon thought of a way; even if they threw the weapons in their hands, they couldn't just wait to die. As for retreating, without an order, they could not retreat.

Barbatos's whimpering sound came from mid-air. Having fought so many campaigns, the life stones in its body were exhausted, and its injury recovery speed was slow. But it could hold on until now, which was enough.

Su Xiao stood on the dragon's back. At this moment, black chains spread out from the air behind him, wrapping around his left arm. Just over ten seconds ago, he had activated the ultimate ability of the 【War Lord】 title: Ancient War Beast.

【Hint: The Hunter has activated the Ancient War Beast ability.】

【Checking the strongest tier of large creatures in this world...】

【Successfully selected war beast: Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue (This is a giant creature from the ancient era of this world, died 4,759 years ago, original habitat: Eastern Marsh, once caused the destruction of the "Sun-Worshipping Dynasty").】

【War spirit reviving...】

【** forming...】

【Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, will exist for 30 seconds, during which it will assist the Hunter in battle.】

【Own morale is at peak (100 points).】

【Hunter is currently commanding soldier-type units, 498,560 (already exceeded 400,000).】

【The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue's true strength and true stamina attributes have reached the extreme value of this world.】

The War Lord's Ancient War Beast ability was not to summon a specific ancient war beast. In different worlds, different war beasts would be summoned. Although it could only exist for 30 seconds, this ability was also extremely powerful.

If it could only summon the same kind of war beast, then as Su Xiao's strength increased, this ability would gradually become weak and eventually become useless.

But the current summoning method meant that depending on the world, the strength of the war beast would also be different. Although the prerequisites were high and the duration was short, this growth potential without the need for resources was a very precious point.

A sound of breaking through the air came from above. An indescribable sense of oppression appeared in the sky, as if everything had returned to the savage era. That was the era of giant beasts, where the weak were prey to the strong and only the fittest survived. The best among them had descended at this moment.

All the city guards on the walls and the Wolf Cavalry who had just stopped their charge almost all looked up at the sky. The originally tragic siege battle stopped at this moment.

With a boom, a behemoth fell from the sky. It was the Ancient War Beast, Yuan Jue. It had black coarse hair all over its body, and a sharp tooth several meters long was embedded in its thick upper arm. This was the honor of the Ancient War Beast, Yuan Jue; it was the fang of its mortal enemy from thousands of years ago.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, stood up from the giant crater it had smashed. It looked like a giant ape overall, with armor layers growing on its arms and hands, and curved bone spurs on its shoulders, its chest covered in scars.

After the Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, stood up, it was actually taller than the city walls of the Royal Capital. Even inside the city, one could see its head and shoulders.

On the city wall, the eldest prince, who was sitting majestically, looked at the Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, a few dozen meters away. There was disbelief in his eyes. Clearly, in his cognition, there were no such giant beasts on the continent.

The city wall went silent. A city guard looked at the war spear in his hand and then at the Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue. He felt that the weapon in his hand was too short even to be used as a toothpick for this giant beast.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, moved its neck and raised its huge palm to touch the back of its head. When it saw Su Xiao on the dragon's back, it lowered its head slightly, but its respect for the summoner was limited to this.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, moved its body to face the city wall. Just at this moment, a war spear attacked.

Pfft~

The war spear nailed itself under the Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue's eye. It felt a bit bewildered, unable to understand why such a weak little thing dared to attack it. The world seemed to have changed.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, raised its hand, pressed its thick thumb against its index finger, and flicked it at the war spear below its eye. After a crisp sound, the war spear reinforced with rituals exploded into metal powder.

The city guard's attack was very effective; he had successfully angered the Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, straightened its upper body and began to inhale. As it inhaled, the surrounding air gathered toward its mouth in a vortex shape.

On the city wall in front of it, the guards all leaned backward, their war spears nailed into the ground. If they didn't do this, they would be pulled away by the suction force. Under these circumstances, other than resisting this suction force, they could do nothing.

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue's abdomen bulged slightly, and it tilted its head slightly. The surrounding suction force stopped abruptly.

"Could it be..."

The face under the eldest prince's head armor twitched. While lunging backward, he tore off his metal helmet and covered his ears with both hands.

"ROAR!!!"

The Ancient Giant Ape, Yuan Jue, let out a roar at the city wall in front. With a boom! The stone layer on the outside of the city wall was shattered.

The city guards on the wall swayed, and the armor on their bodies seemed to soften. The surface rippled with layers of patterns due to the vibration of the strong sound waves, and then it completely collapsed, the rituals on it appearing exceptionally powerless.

As the layers of sound waves spread, the tens of thousands of city guards on the city wall all exploded into large clouds of blood mist. The "Duke of Justice" ritual on the front of the city wall collapsed, turning into large particles of light and dissipating.

"Cough, cough~"

Amidst the large clouds of blood mist, the eldest prince, whose armor was already broken, stood up trembling. Blood flowed from all over his body, quickly staining the ground beneath his feet.

After an ape roar, all the city guards on the front wall of the Royal Capital were wiped out.

A dozen kilometers away, on a cliff, the Gray Gentleman wearing a top hat put away the monocular telescope in his hand. He walked silently into the forest behind him.

"Gray Gentleman, are we not looking for an opportunity to seize the Void Tree Fruit?"

A long-haired imperial sister spoke. She was a reinforcement hired by the Gray Gentleman. Having arrived in this world not long ago, even among the violators, she was notorious.

"Seize the Void Tree Fruit? No, I don't want to die yet."

Leaving this sentence behind, the Gray Gentleman disappeared into the dense forest. ===== CHAPTER 2790 =====