Novel Full Chapter 297: The Siege King Falls
Chapter 297: Chapter 297: The Siege King Falls
The Thunder Herd Siege King without command nodes became more violent, not weaker in raw strength.
It no longer held back to coordinate the army. It no longer preserved beast formations. It no longer waited for optimal timing. It wanted to crush the thing that had broken its storm network.
Qin Yuheng.
The beast charged.
This time, Qin Yuheng did not ask the fortress to turn it. The walls were too damaged, the defenders too exhausted, and the Unyielding Wall Pulse had already been used.
The battlefield had to move away from the fortress.
"Draw it south!" Qin Yuheng ordered.
Qin Mo nearly screamed.
"South has mud pits and broken storm rods!"
"Exactly."
Qin Yuheng sprinted across the battlefield, deliberately releasing enough thunder aura to keep the Siege King’s attention. The beast followed, smashing through fleeing thunder wolves and shattered node roots.
Qin Yuchen limped after them with a strike group.
Qin Lian moved ahead to prepare shadow cuts.
Qin Mo, from the fortress wall, activated remaining storm rods in the southern mudfield.
Commander Lei Shuo ordered artillery to cease near the fortress and redirect south.
The fight became a moving disaster.
The Siege King’s lightning roots lashed across the ground. Every step sent shockwaves. Qin Yuheng dodged with Void Thunder Shadow Step, but the beast’s storm sense followed afterimages better than expected.
One lightning root caught his leg.
Pain tore through him.
He cut the root before it fully locked, but his movement slowed.
The Siege King lowered its horns.
Qin Yuchen arrived just in time, throwing a grounding chain around one horn with three fortress champions. The chain snapped, but changed the horn angle.
Qin Yuheng avoided death by a breath.
Qin Yuchen coughed blood from the strain.
"You are terrible at resting," Qin Yuheng said.
Qin Yuchen replied, "You first."
No time for more.
The southern mudfield was ready.
Qin Mo’s voice came through.
"Lead it across the broken storm rods. If it stomps hard enough, I can overload its leg armor."
Qin Yuheng moved.
The Siege King followed.
Qin Lian cut the mudfield’s shadow cover at the right moment, exposing false solid ground. The Siege King stepped onto the weakened zone.
Qin Mo activated the rods.
Lightning reversed.
Instead of empowering the beast, the rods grounded its own storm armor into the mud.
The Siege King roared and stumbled.
[Siege King Storm Armor Stability: 100% → 73%]
Good.
Not enough.
Qin Yuheng charged its left foreleg again, targeting the crack from earlier. Qin Yuchen and fortress champions attacked the right. Qin Lian cut storm threads near the tail. Artillery struck from the wall.
The Siege King’s armor dropped further.
[Storm Armor Stability: 73% → 51%]
Then it adapted.
It stopped using lightning roots and switched to physical force.
It slammed its body sideways, crushing two storm rods and throwing Qin Yuheng backward. One fortress champion was hit directly and died instantly.
The battlefield froze for half a breath.
Then Commander Lei Shuo’s voice came through the wall horn, hoarse but steady.
"Continue!"
The dead could not be saved.
The living still needed the beast stopped.
Qin Yuheng rose again.
His body ached. His thunder channels burned. His level was still not high enough to treat a Level 76 equivalent beast casually.
That was good.
It reminded him this was battle, not theory.
He took out one item from his hidden inventory: the SSS Grade Sovereign War Rhythm Crystal obtained long ago from Thunder Drum Battlefield.
He had not used its full resonance often because it could push battlefield momentum too sharply. Now, under controlled command and with willing allies, it was appropriate.
"Willing rhythm only," he said through the field. "Do not overdraw."
The crystal pulsed.
A deep war rhythm spread through the strike group.
Not frenzy.
Coordination.
The defenders’ attacks began landing in sequence. Qin Yuchen struck after artillery. Qin Lian cut after Qin Yuchen. Qin Yuheng hit after the beast shifted weight. Even wounded soldiers found timing.
The Siege King’s armor dropped.
[Storm Armor Stability: 51% → 29%]
The beast entered berserk state.
[Warning:
Thunder Herd Siege King activating Wall-Breaking Final Charge.]
It turned toward Stormbreak Fortress.
Even without nodes, it still remembered its main purpose.
If it reached the eastern wall now, the fortress might fall.
Qin Yuheng saw the line of charge.
No time for complex traps.
He had to stop it.
Not alone.
"Everyone, final anchor!"
Grounding chains flew from riders.
Qin Mo activated every remaining storm rod.
Qin Yuchen drove his sword into the mud and held a chain with both hands.
Qin Lian cut the beast’s tail-guiding thread.
Qin Yuheng stood before the beast’s path.
The Siege King charged.
Qin Yuheng did not intend to take the full collision. He intended to break the last storm armor at the moment of contact.
He gathered thunder into his sword, then compressed it inward. Primordial Thunder Emperor Body, War Thunder Advance, Gate Thunder Command Field, Sovereign War Rhythm Crystal—all aligned for one strike.
The beast reached him.
At the final instant, Qin Yuheng stepped aside by half a body width and struck upward into the cracked throat pulse where the Node Death Seal had burned earlier.
The sword entered.
Thunder exploded inside the Siege King.
Storm armor shattered.
The beast’s charge collapsed.
Its huge body crashed into the mud, sliding hundreds of meters and stopping just short of the final trench before the fortress.
For a moment, silence.
Then the Siege King tried to rise.
Qin Yuheng stood on its neck, sword still embedded.
He looked into its storm-white eye.
This beast was not evil like Blood Sun.
It was the floor’s siege king.
A force of destruction.
A wall-breaker.
A warrior could respect a beast and still kill it.
"Fall."
He drove thunder into the core.
The Siege King roared once more.
Then its body dissolved into storm light.
[Thunder Herd Siege King defeated.]
[Thunder beast siege broken.]
[Stormbreak Fortress defended.]
[Final Evaluation greatly increased.]
Across the battlefield, the remaining thunder beasts fled.
Stormbreak Fortress erupted in exhausted cheers.
Qin Yuheng stepped down from the fading beast and almost fell.
Qin Yuchen caught his arm.
"You first," Qin Yuchen said again.
This time, Qin Yuheng did not argue.