Xiao Jie didn’t care much now. The lives of players matter, NPCs can die if they have to.
Upon hearing Xiao Jie’s words, no one was willing to stay. They all used Qinggong and jumped down the city wall.
Even the two masters took their mages and retreated down the city.
When the players retreated, the two Colonels leading the soldiers immediately panicked. The tower was the main attack point of the enemy, especially the Bone Bridge, where the undead continuously attacked. It was all thanks to Xiao Jie, who transformed into a Jiao Long to cover the breach. If Xiao Jie retreated, the place would fall immediately, and the hundred or so soldiers of the Colonels wouldn’t hold up.
"Please, hero, hold the line here, delay them for a bit to give the soldiers on the tower time to retreat!"
"Sorry, I don’t want to die here." Although Xiao Jie’s combat power surged after transforming into a Jiao Long, he wasn’t invincible. To provide the soldiers on both sides of the city wall with time to retreat, at least two or three minutes were needed. Without teammates’ assistance, it was extremely dangerous, even in Jiao Long form.
Xiao Jie felt responsible for the players, but not much pressure for these NPCs. He turned around, ready to retreat too.
At this moment, suddenly, a figure flipped up from the bottom of the city wall and landed on the tower.
"Leader, you retreat, I’ll cover the rear—You guys, quickly inform the soldiers to retreat, I’ll do my best to delay here."
Xiao Jie saw it was Xia Yi the Unrivaled.
"Damn, Brother Xia, you are crazy?"
Xia Yi the Unrivaled declared righteously, "I’m not crazy. The true sense of heroism is to serve the country and the people. Someone must stay behind for the lives of the soldiers and the civilians of the entire province. Such a sacrifice for righteousness, at this moment, no one but me."
After speaking, he swept his sword horizontally and blocked the bridgehead of the Bone Bridge.
The two Colonels, hearing this, were immediately filled with respect. "Thank you, hero, for your great righteousness." They immediately went off separately to gather the soldiers.
Xiao Jie couldn’t help but feel speechless, thinking to himself, you are really risking it all to unlock the Demon Slaying Sword.
Well, everyone has their own fate. He knew that the other party had made up his mind.
With a Golden Flame Breath, he swept the Bone Bridge, clearing out the last wave of little monsters.
A retreating move gave way, and Xia Yi the Unrivaled immediately stepped up.
Another Jiao Long Sweep Tail knocked the charging Duan Zui off the city wall. Xiao Jie thought to himself, brother, this is as much as I can help.
He turned around, leaped, and jumped off the city wall, landing in the middle of a horde of corpses.
In an instant, he was surrounded.
Golden Scale Protection! A layer of golden scales instantly covered his body, and he charged towards the city.
With Xiao Jie’s departure, the two Colonels also began gathering soldiers to retreat down the city. The tower completely lost its defense. Only Xia Yi the Unrivaled stood firmly at the bridgehead of the Bone Bridge, buying time for the soldiers on both sides of the city wall to retreat.
"You guys leave too." Xia Yi the Unrivaled shouted to the last few soldiers. Those soldiers, feeling like a great burden was lifted, clasped their fists and fled. Seeing no one else around, only himself facing the countless incoming undead army, Xia Yi the Unrivaled laughed heartily.
A heroic spirit arose in his heart. He was not brainless bravado. Since he dared to stay and gamble, he naturally had a well-calculated battle plan in mind.
He took out a jar of wine and poured it into his mouth.
Epic Talent: Great Drunken Hero—Activated.
A group of undead rushed forward.
Legendary Talent: Lonely Brave Hero—Activated!
Great Drunken Hero: When you enter a drunken state, for each layer of drunken state you gain, your main attributes increase by 5%, and your evasion rate increases by 10%, stackable up to ten layers.
Lonely Brave Hero: When there are no friendly units around you and you are surrounded by a large (more than five) number of enemy units, you gain a 5% damage boost and a 5% tenacity boost. The more enemies, the higher the attribute and tenacity boost, up to a max of 100%.
At 50 layers, you enter Long Battle State, reducing skill consumption by 50% and increasing skill power by 25%.
At 100 layers, you enter the Fearless State, immune to all mental control skills, and reduce the power of all negative effects by 33%.
Not only that, but Xia Yi the Unrivaled also had two other passive states.
Swordman’s Core Skill—Killing Intent: For every enemy or player killed that grants you experience, you accumulate one layer of Killing Intent, increasing attack power by 5% for 60 seconds, stackable up to ten layers.
Swordsman’s Core Skill—Sword Heart: After entering battle, your vital strike probability increases by 1% per second, up to 50%. This effect disappears 20 seconds after leaving battle.
Sky Opening Sword Energy LV10: Adds 50 points of Sword Qi damage to attacks and increases attack range by 100%.
With so many status BUFFs stacked, Xia Yi the Unrivaled had reached the physical system’s damage limit.
Like a secret technique spin top, he swept through the monster crowd, mowing them down like wheat, truly a slaughter game.
Wind Roll Cloud! Wind Roll Cloud! Wind Roll Cloud!
At this moment, Xia Yi the Unrivaled directly entered the Unrivaled mode.
In a blink, the city wall was filled with corpses, and the two Colonels successfully gathered the majority of the soldiers on the city head, retreating down the stairs on both sides of the city tower.
Xia Yi the Unrivaled had no time to see whether those NPCs had retreated or not. He was completely berserk at this moment, fully focused on the fight, with no time to observe the battlefield.
Damn, why hasn’t it unlocked yet?
Xia Yi the Unrivaled wasn’t just staying for the soldiers to retreat; unlocking the Demon Slaying Sword was his real goal. But after doing so much, why was there still no movement with the sword?