Beast Taming: Slaughter Atlas

The battle didn't consume much of Nirvana and Lei Yao's energy, and the consumption for the Angry Wind Elf and the other Guardian Beasts was even less.

Therefore, they didn't stop and continued to hurry forward.

Soon, they encountered several Mud Swamp Pythons again.

However, having had previous experience, the battle this time was much easier.

Often, before the Mud Swamp Python could use the Mud Swamp Bomb, it was interrupted by several Guardian Beasts, while Lei Yao and Nirvana directly rushed up for melee combat.

As Chu Chen and the others fought, the sky had completely darkened.

The city guards on the walls were not relaxing at all but rather became more vigilant.

As time passed, the forest became exceptionally quiet, even the sounds of insects and birds were gone.

Before long, several flying Guardian Beasts flew out of the forest.

"Lord City Lord, look, those are the scouts we sent out."

Upon hearing this, Wang Haichuan quickly looked outside the city.

At this time, a roar came from the forest, followed by several beams of black energy shooting towards those scouts.

The speed of these black energy beams was very fast, appearing before the scouts in the blink of an eye.

Before these scouts could react, they were killed by the black energy, along with their Guardian Beasts.

Seeing this, Wang Haichuan's face immediately turned gloomy, with anger rising in his eyes.

However, he quickly suppressed his anger, and then said to the messenger beside him, "Give the order, the Beast Tide is coming, everyone prepare for battle."

The messenger's expression changed drastically upon hearing these words, and without delay, he passed on the orders.

In only a few breaths, the sound of the messenger continued to echo throughout the city walls.

Everyone's expression turned serious upon hearing the news, and all eyes focused on the distant forest.

Celestial Star City's east, west, and south sides were all forests, while the north side was a sheer cliff a thousand zhang high, with the city built near the cliff.

The main defensive forces were stationed at the southern wall, with eastern and western being secondary, and the northern defenses being weaker since only flying Star Beasts could attack from there.

At this time, the trees in the southern forest began to shake violently, and roars of Star Beasts occasionally erupted.

Roars of Star Beasts also sounded from the eastern and western forests.

Upon hearing the cries of Star Beasts, Wang Haichuan couldn't help but smirk.

"The surprise attack failed, they're preparing for a full-scale assault."

"Humph, the Star Core Cannon is fully charged; if they dare to come, they'll surely pay the price." An older man said coldly.

"Feiyang, I've brought out all my resources this time; I hope we can hold the defenses."

The older man named Ye Feiyang was the Grand Commander of the City Defense Army, his power second only to Wang Haichuan.

"Rest assured, as long as the city stands, there will be no defeat," Ye Feiyang said firmly.

Wang Haichuan nodded gravely and patted Ye Feiyang's shoulder, speaking deeply, "We are brothers, this time let us fight well together."

As the two talked, the Beast Tide was already forming. This time, it was commanded by the Beast King, with groups organized by species, gathering neatly.

From afar, they looked like a well-trained army.

At the forefront of the Beast Tide were the Servant Level Star Beasts; about twenty thousand in number, similar to the formation on the east and west sides, with slightly fewer numbers around fifteen thousand.

These Star Beasts were cannon fodder; they attacked the city every year, and they had some understanding of the humans' tactics.

Traps of various kinds were abundant, causing the Beast Tide great suffering each year during the attack.

At this time, a majestic roar sounded from the back of the south Beast Tide.

All Star Beasts trembled upon hearing it, a fear stemming from their being.

With the roar echoing, the Servant Level Beast pack at the front began charging.

Ye Feiyang saw this and said gravely, "Transmit the order, do not let them within ten zhang of the city wall."

The Beast Tide was only about a thousand zhang from the city wall, the first wave of the Beast Tide could reach the city walls in just a few minutes.

As the beast pack drew closer, everyone's tension increased.

"Prepare the City Defense Crossbows for attack," Ye Feiyang commanded.

The City Defense Crossbows were large-scale city defense weapons, about a zhang in height and two zhang in length, equipped with arrows about a zhang long, resembling long spears.

The materials required to forge the City Defense Crossbows came from High-Rank Star Beasts and some Star Treasure-grade minerals.

The crossbow soldiers from the City Defense Army operated the City Defense Crossbows, with Barbaric Strength Apes as their Guardian Beasts provided by the City Lord's Mansion.

These humanoid Guardian Beasts had an advantage when using large crossbow weapons compared to other Guardian Beasts, needing only two Barbaric Strength Apes to easily control a City Defense Crossbow under the Beast Master's command.

The maximum range of the City Defense Crossbows reached a thousand meters, and its power was no weaker than a full-force strike from a Peak War General Level Guardian Beast.

When the beast pack was a hundred zhang from the wall, Ye Feiyang decisively ordered an attack.

With his orders echoing, a sharp piercing sound followed as hundreds of arrows, seemingly like spears, shot straight into the beast pack.

The beast pack did not show the slightest intention to retreat, instead increasing their charge speed.

The heavy pressure from the Beast King was too overwhelming; the Servant Level Star Beasts dared not rebel, for retreating would mean their whole species would be exterminated by the Beast King.

"Whoosh whoosh"

The arrows fell like raindrops, directly killing the Star Beasts at the front, some arrows even piercing multiple Star Beast corpses.

One round of attack claimed over a thousand Star Beasts.

And this was just the south side; adding up the numbers from the other sides, nearly four thousand Star Beasts were killed in this round of attack.

However, in front of the fifty thousand Beast pack, the number of four thousand was not enough to instill fear.

Wang Haichuan's expression remained unchanged; these were just starters, the real battle had yet to begin.

"Reload," Ye Feiyang again ordered.

Three breaths later, all arrows were loaded and another round of rain of arrows shot out.

At this time, the Beast pack was eighty zhang from the wall.

With each rain of arrows falling, the number of Star Beasts dying had already exceeded half.

Yet the speed of the charging beast pack did not slow at all, and they quickly reached the fifty zhang range outside the city.

Ye Feiyang's face turned grim upon seeing this; the beast pack's madness far surpassed his imagination.

After defending the city for so many years, he had never seen such a death charge before.

Once the beast pack crossed the fifty zhang range, the ground in front suddenly collapsed, forming a huge pit two zhang wide and three zhang deep, with arrows sticking out a zhang long within, the Star Beasts at the front fell directly into the pit.

The sharp arrows pierced directly through their bodies, with screams echoing continuously within the pit.