Chapter 97: The Prelude to the Decisive Battle

  McDonald's, Sixth Avenue Night.

  The soldiers solemnly buried the bodies of their comrades in a temporary cemetery outside the west city wall, although they did not speak, but from the crystal tears in the corners of their eyes, it can be seen that they are suffering internally.

  Aikes sat in front of this grave land and asked Hongpao Fashi in a low voice: "How many people died this morning?"

  The red-robed Taoist lowered his head and said: "Not less than thirty thousand people."

  "What a huge loss! How many of us are left now?" Egas muttered to himself as he drew circle after circle on the ground.

  "There are many people coming and going every day. Now we should still have over 200,000 people." The red-robed monk's mood was also somewhat downcast.

  Aegys stood up and bowed respectfully towards the tombstones, saying: "Is Bedi's funeral over?"

  "Ah, yes, Colonel Aegis, Prince Bedi has seen off. By my reckoning, they should be arriving at God's Decree City soon."

  Aegys looked up at a building inside the third city wall and said, "Where is Master Arthur? What's his current situation?"

  "I don't know, when I went to knock on the door, all I heard was the sound of the alchemy furnace buzzing nonstop, and nothing else." The red-robed master's expression was very solemn, he knew that the thing this young Broken Mirror-level alchemist was refining might be the only thing that could save Maple City now.

  Aegisthus did not speak. He stood respectfully in front of the tombstone and said loudly, "I'm Aegisthus! Sorry to you all, because my incompetence led to your sacrifice! Now I can do little, only continue to die-defend our place together! If I unfortunately die in battle, then let me go down to be a cow and horse for you!"

  "Hold on to Machtburg! We will never retreat!" At some point, a large group of soldiers gathered behind Eggers. They expressed their wishes after Eggers spoke out his oath.

  Eggs old tears flowed, he said loudly: "Soldiers! Reinforcements are still four days away! As long as we can hold on for these four days! We will be victorious!"

  "We must win! We must win!"

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  In the desolate forest, Long Yan dragged his heavy footsteps to the place where Bi Xi was resting.

  Beach leaned back and fell asleep, he didn't turn around to look at Long Yan. He said leisurely: "Long Yan, how did you spend your day today? Are you trying to experience the joy of walking? Didn't you always mock creatures that walk as being lowly?"

  Long Wan did not speak; after making a snorting sound, he stopped making any further noise.

  Beach's tone rose: "Longmo, tell me, that city wall must have been broken today, how many treasures did you get?"

  Long Xiao is very tired now, but he's not so tired that he can't speak. He glared at Beiqi and said: "Those humans have a second layer of turtle shell, and I've been calculated!"

  Beach heard this and suddenly sat up, looking at Long Wei with a surprised face, saying: "What's going on? The second layer of the turtle shell? Being calculated? They are defending, you are attacking, how can you be calculated?"

  Long Wanjiao spat out hot air and said, "You, this Bimon, although you've mutated, but please still have some semblance of a Bimon. Look at your kin, they're all like dumb melons, but when they come to you, they become chatterboxes."

  Beach said proudly: "Of course, otherwise how can I show off the superiority of my mutation?"

  Long Yan closed his eyes and said, "Alright, alright! I'll say them one by one."

  "The first problem, the second layer of turtle shell. Originally, I thought that with those flying insects scouting out the entire layout, the walls on the second floor would be less than 50 meters, and I thought this thing could be broken through in one go. But I didn't think that this seemingly decorative thing would be so hard to beat. Have you ever seen a five-kilometer radius filled with nothing but alchemy traps? I really suspect that all the goblins on the continent gathered there when they built that thing!"

  Beachy clutched himself below and said excitedly, "A five-kilometer range full of alchemy traps? This idea is great! I want to go see it for myself."

  Long Wei said helplessly: "If you want to go and try, just go by yourself, don't drag me along."

  Beach smiled stupidly.

  Long Yan spread his wings open, and that hideous wound was suddenly exposed in the air.

  Beich was shocked, this was the first time he had seen Long Ya suffer such a severe injury.

  "Those humans, in the first turtle shell, sold a lot of magic crystals. All our subordinates who entered the first layer of the turtle shell were annihilated. A full 200,000 subordinates died on the spot, and those lucky enough to escape had less than 10,000."

  Beach fell silent for a moment before saying, "Want your father to send some people over to support us?"

  Long Yan said with disdain: "I've already gone, do you still need to say? Rest well tonight, our reinforcements will arrive tomorrow. According to my father, this time the reinforcements also include a part of the underground tribe that he has subdued."

  Beach's interest was piqued: "Underground? Alright, alright! I quite like the underground races, and that evil eye of yours is pretty interesting."

  Long Yan was getting impatient and shouted: "Stop it! Go to sleep!"

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  Inside McPhee's Castle, Chen Le Zheng stared solemnly at the hot, crimson and trembling alchemy furnace.

  The Dragon-Slaying Pill is now in its final stages of refinement, and this stage can be said to be the most difficult part of the entire Dragon-Slaying Pill. Chen Le has been refining the Dragon-Slaying Pill for over twenty hours, with bloodshot eyes.

  "Baimon's fingernails and the granite puppet's heart have been fully refined, now all that's left is to surround them with the vengeful spirit crystal's vengeful spirits and then form a physical body, and this medicine will be complete." Chen Le said to himself, his voice slightly trembling with excitement.

  "Aegis! You must hold on, at most till morning! By morning I will have finished refining it!"

  "Perhaps my sin was ended early this morning!"

  Flames danced about, the alchemy furnace shook incessantly, and the vengeful spirits' voices grew fainter. Then a thunderclap echoed through the sky.

  "Here it is!" Chen Le Meng's eyes snapped open, the divine medicine was born and would inevitably bring about a heavenly tribulation. The size of the heavenly tribulation would indicate just how powerful the medicinal properties of this divine medicine were.

  The roof of the small house where Chen Le was located is controllable. Chen Le gently tapped a button next to his seat and looked up at the sky.

  Because it was nighttime, I couldn't tell how thick the cloud layer above us was, but I could distinctly feel the power of lightning flashing back and forth within it.

  "Hahaha! Dragon Tribulation! Are you dragons who have become gods also afraid?" Chen Le laughed loudly towards the sky, and at the same time, he strengthened his control over his spiritual power.

  (Dragon Tribulation: Whenever a heaven-defying medicine is about to be successfully refined, different degrees of heavenly tribulations will appear. Heavenly tribulations are generally divided into thunder tribulations and heart demon tribulations. Dragon tribulation belongs to the category of thunder tribulations, which is the power of lightning left by dragons who have become gods. Because the thunder of dragon tribulation generally possesses dragon might, it is also one of the more troublesome tribulations among thunder tribulations.)

  The elixir in the crucible gradually turned into a sphere, and Chen Le could sense its immense power.

  "Roar!" The alchemy furnace actually let out a roar.

  The lightning that was raging in the sky seemed to be frightened, and its flashing frequency decreased significantly.

  However, soon the flash seemed to realize that this captive was not fully formed, so it restored its original state again, and Chen Le could sense that the clouds were gathering strength, they wanted to make a decisive blow to disrupt the alchemy rate and make this terrible thing fail.

  Chen Le sneered and muttered: "Is it because you're afraid that you want to destroy it? It seems that this heavenly calamity is nothing more than bullying the weak and fearing the strong!"

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  Long Yan felt that breath of death once again at this time, his whole body trembling, and the ground around him also shook with a loud noise due to his enormous size.

  Long Yan had never thought that he was so close to death. Although he didn't know what it was, just from this premonition, he knew how terrifying the thing was.

  Beach felt something was wrong with Long Wei, he jumped up and looked at Long Wei. At the same time, he stared at the dark clouds above McPhee's castle in astonishment.