chapter 1753 the god rank (1)
in the previous fight, there were 1750 skeleton knights, which was a lot compared to their number. yet the second scenario had more armies than the previous fight.
if he had to estimate their number, it should be around six to seven thousand skeleton knights. there was one thing that zhang mengyao predicted correctly, the boss was weaker than the previous boss. the boss for the second scenario was demi-god rank.
the problem was not the boss, but the guard next to the boss. the boss was guarded by two god rank skeleton knights. while he could not confirm it with his detection, he could tell by their auras.
"i think i have to step up for this scenario," tang shaoyang muttered.
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michalina and her vice leaders were standing behind the portal, lining up with the others. her eyes were at the portal, but her mind was somewhere else. the wonder of the tang empire.
the first day they officially became the tang empire's vassals, they were invited to join a dungeon raid. the invitation did not mention anything about the god realm until they heard it directly from supreme general zhang.
they arrived in the god realm. there was nothing special about the god realm at first. she expected to see a bunch of god ranks, but she was disappointed until the first boss.
when the boss was so close to her, she could feel the terrifying aura. it was just an aura, but it was enough to suppress her, a demi-god rank. she froze, having a hard time breathing. her body was shaking, and she could not think rationally. she thought she would die for sure until the two kids in their party transformed into a black dragon and smashed the god rank.
the terrifying and intimidating boss died pathetically right before her eyes. that made her realize that the god rank in the tang empire might be stronger than the average god rank monster.
'i want to see how strong the emperor is...'
the thought remained as thought, she was not stupid enough to question it.
'i made the right choice instead of forming an alliance with the other big factions.'
back then her people disagreed with her decision to be the tang empire's vassal. not only would they lower their status as a big faction, but also because of the weird conditions where they were not allowed to expand their territory. it was for sure a weird condition, but she persisted in being the vassal. she was relieved that it was the right choice because the tang empire was stronger than all the big factions combined.
if she made an alliance with the united sovereign and the other big factions. there was still a chance that the north federation would still try to take over their territory. there was still a chance that she would lose, but it would be different with the tang empire. even if the north federation attacked them, the tang empire would defend them.
"we are entering the portal gate!"
as soon as they entered the gate, zhang mengyao called them over to brief the situation.
the second gate was totally different from the first one. the first gate was a straightforward clash, but the second gate was a siege. they must take down the fort and the army inside to reach the boss.
the bad news was the enemy's number. the scout team snuck into the fort and returned with an estimated number, around seven thousand skeleton knights. it might be more than seven thousand, but could not be less than that.
that meant they had to take down the fort in an hour with just a hundred people. even though most of the army was primordial skeleton knights, they still had the advantage of number also the fort.
she did not see hemlin and forlan. they disappeared from her vision along with the explosion.
"pull your weapon and get ready to engage!"
michalina did not have the time to look for the two god ranks. the primordial skeleton knights were lining up at the blown gate. they created a formation to block the charge.
"charge!"
carried away with the atmosphere, michalina also screamed as she pulled out the shield from her back. her shield was glowing in blue as she screamed, "charge!"
she did not realize it, but she passed through the barrier. she smashed herself into the row of spears. the spears broke apart when they hit the shield. the skeleton knights were blasted away as well as she charged into the middle of the skeleton knight army.
"one hour! we only have one hour! kill them all!"
michalina had forgotten about her purpose to watch god rank's fight. she charged at the skeleton near her and killed them, getting carried by the atmosphere. she based her shield on the skeleton knight, she swung her sword toward the skeleton, and she also screamed "die" each time she killed one skeleton knight.
it was a chaotic battle, but there was one strong voice that commanded the battlefield. each time she got away from the formation, the voice would call her back and remind her position.
[you have defeated the fifth tomb guardian, tomb guardian francio!]
michalina stopped when he heard the notification. she breathed heavily, and only then she could see her surroundings, thinking they had beaten the army.
"we failed to kill all the soldiers. we only managed to kill half of them."
zhang mengyao announced, and she sounded disappointed. she hoped to kill all the skeleton knights, but the time was up. a minute before the time was up, tang shaoyang killed the boss under her instruction. the army would fall along with the boss.
"that's not too bad even if we can't kill them all before the time is up. we also gained a few levels," kang xue, who noticed the disappointment, tried to cheer zhang mengyao up.
michalina tunnel focused on the battle in front of her and she ignored the level-up notification. she checked her notification, and it was not just a few levels. she gained 21 levels from this fight. it was a big gain considering her rank, but kang xue mentioned that she only gained a few levels. that meant kang xue's level was higher than hers.
'even the quality of the demi-god rank is different.'
she thought she had pushed herself harder than most, but there were always people ahead of her.
"what about the god ranks? did you kill them?" zhang mengyao turned toward the twins, hemlin, and forlan.
"we killed them as soon as we caught him. that skeleton is too weak!" the twins answered cheerfully.
"it took us around fifteen minutes to kill the second god rank..." hemlin was quite embarrassed that the kids did better than him and forlan.
michalina smiled widely hearing that, "how is it, my vice leaders? do you think i still made the wrong choice?"