Sword Among Us

Chapter 706: The Marshall’s Army

If the advantage of numbers could allow players to get eighty million taels of silver and eighty demon vessels, then it would seem as if an important treasure like Eunuch Yang’s Warehouse was not important, and that getting it was really just child’s play.

The marshall’s army used their actions to verify their strength and determination to defend Eunuch Yang’s Warehouse when they faced the charge from nearly two thousand elite players from Towering Palace and Class One Hall.

Whoosh!

The elite cavaliers on the sides of the port switched their weapons at the same time!

A dull and neat sound rose, and they put away their crossbows to bring out their bronze spears and form a formation, instantly shifting from an immovable shooting fortress into a steel monster filled with savagery, murderous intent, and aggression.

The marshall’s army switched their formation and battle tactics incredibly quickly!

The group of martial artists who charged ahead of the others went straight up against the spears standing tall before them.

The soldiers lowered them horizontally, thrust diagonally, and lifted the spears!

The dense spear forest caused the martial artists who rushed forward to suddenly find it hard to attack, and they were stuck in an awkward situation where it was difficult for them to stop the charge.

The people behind them urged them forward, so they had no possibility of slowing and avoiding the piercing of the spears.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

They braced themselves and activated their body fortifications while they shouted to face the spears. The result of it was that they used their physical bodies to dye the spear tips red.

The marshall’s elite heavy-armored cavaliers moved incredibly orderly and quickly.

Usually, there were at least two spear tips that pierced the enemy right in front of the crowd. Then, the cavaliers would lift them up high and force back the martial artists at the back with the spears serving as shields. Then, they would throw away the corpses with great force.

Splash! Splash!

The sounds of people falling into water was heard nonstop. Then, the spears returned to their original positions and pierced the next enemy.

The longspears were just six and a half feet or ten feet away from the players.

But even though that distance was very short, it turned into a distance that separated them from life and death! It was a line of death that could not be crossed.

The spears took turns on what they were doing. They complemented each other, and their teamwork was impeccable. They did give the players any chance to take advantage of them.

Even if they occasionally revealed some weaknesses, the steel beasts remained standing in front of the players, and those who charged forward as vanguards found it hard to do anything. They were like insects trying to shake a vehicle. They went marching into their own deaths.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Plomp!

The elite heavy-armored cavaliers were like a fighting machine in perpetual motion. They stood outside the port like a steel fortress that no one could cross, and they continuously sent the elites from the two sects into the river behind them.

“Let me!”

When Grim Green saw that more than one hundred of his friends from the palace were instantly killed, he gritted his teeth and charged to the front with Vast Heaven. One of them had sword light shining everywhere, and his attacks were as sharp as lightning, while the other stood outside the attack range. In an instant, he executed four Six Pulses Divine Swords, and their momentum was astonishing.

However, the heavy armor the elite cavaliers wore had pictures of fierce beasts, and they had all sorts of curves. That armor was different from the standard heavy armor of normal armies.

Besides, the people who wore the heavy armors that weighed hundreds of pounds were clearly the elites of the marshall’s army. They were an army with astonishing Affinity and Arm Strength.

Grim Green’s expression changed slightly once he executed all sorts of attacks.

He felt as if his longsword had struck iron pillars, and the shock made his purlicue numb!

His body froze, and the spear forest released a few bloody sparks in the air. His body fortification shattered on the spot, and he staggered backward.

“Protect Vice Palace Master Grim!” A group of Towering Palace elites quickly surrounded Grim Green while they retreated to the back.

Vast Heaven was in a slightly better condition.

Since he relied on using sword qi to damage others from the distance, he did not suffer any damage dealt to him from rebounds. But his attacks with Six Pulses Divine Sword did not manage to cause any obvious damage to the heavy armor either.

He only managed to leave behind white gashes on the heavy armor.

“Isn’t this too strange?!”

Class One Hall did not have smooth progress either.

Even though Blood Robes fought in front of his team and managed to affect one elite heavy-armored cavalier by using Star Sucking Great Skill, he soon faced the crazed attack and hate from the entire team, and he nearly died on the frontlines.

“This isn’t easy to deal with.”

“Nearly two hundred of our people died. The strength of these cavaliers is too terrifying. Their defense is even higher than that of Inaction Realm martial artists! When their attacks gather together, they aren’t any inferior to Inaction Realm martial artists.”

“Yeah, it’s like we’re facing a group of Inaction Realm martial artists. There’s no way we can fight against them.”

When they saw that they were sending more of their own to die while the elites’ formation remained as perfect as ever and they did not even take half a step back, the people from the two top-class sects standing at the back sent orders to stop attacking.

The black mass of people retreated like a wave, leaving behind an area covered in corpses, along with two hundred longspears dyed in blood, as well as the elite heavy-armored cavaliers who looked even more murderous than before. Their presences had only grown.

When they were further away from the port, both groups stared at the battle that had come to an end with solemn expressions. They scowled, and no one knew what they were thinking about.

*****

A woman with a white veil over her face moved her red lips slightly to speak in a light and echaning voice. “Looks like we can give up on our operation for Eunuch Yang’s Warehouse.”

The people behind her fell silent together.

Even Towering Palace and Class One Hall’s hundreds of elites died when they attacked together, but they were still unable to make the cavaliers take even a step back. Wind Assault Tower was just a first-class sect, spo they would definitely suffer a worse fate if they went up against the elite group of heavy-armored cavaliers.

“They’re too insane.” Wu Kuo smiled in anguish and shook his head vigorously.

Right when he finished speaking, Phantasmal Shadow, who stared at the port in the distance, spoke in a slightly dazed fashion. “Perhaps this isn’t a group quest at all…”

The people around her looked over with surprised expressions. “No matter how powerful a sect is, they won’t be able to fight against an army!”

Phantasmal Shadow explained as if she had come to a realization. “At any period of time, regardless of which sect was at its greatest, they would never fight against the army, because the fighting power and unity of an army has always been head and shoulders above those of a normal sect. This is why the imperial courts in the past were able to suppress so many martial artists as well as the ambitious sects in the world of wanderers!”

“But there are quite a lot of imperial courts that were threatened by martial artists and destroyed in the end, right?” Wu Kuo remembered that he had seen a lot of shows that had this sort of plot.

“That’s because the imperial court can become incredibly corrupted. Besides, the martial artists have always only served to provide assistance to the real leaders of the rebellion.”

“That’s true as well.”

“But, tower master, are you saying that there is just no way to complete this quest?”

“It’s not impossible, but when I think about the difficulty of Sky Demon Secret Cave and compare it to Eunuch Yang’s Warehouse… In truth, even if so many people challenged Sky Demon Secret Cave, they would surely die.

“The problem is, we haven’t gotten a hold over the key to the weaknesses of the elite cavaliers’ attacks.” A profound light shone in Phantasmal Shadow’s eyes.

“There are plenty of traps in Sky Demon Secret Cave. If we take even one wrong step, we might end up with a party wipe. These people just used brute force to charge blindly, so they will naturally not be able to get the treasures.”

“The key weakness? What key weakness? This army doesn’t have any weakness.”

“That’s not necessarily true.” Phantasmal Shadow cast a glance at the lively port and said faintly, “If we attack from the port, our attacks will be limited by the terrain, and the fighting power of the elite heavy-armored cavaliers will also face incredibly great limitations.

“The situation will also become vastly different. But a pity, the chests have already been transferred on the boats. If we change our strategy now, it will be too late.”

By the end of her speech, a faint black figure stepped on the water and flew over. He charged over to the army’s transportation fleet.