Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 31: Snakes Attacking the City
After Qin Xiaonan and Qingning got off the bus in Nanlin City, they still had to walk some distance to reach the Tengger Desert.

Qingning then returned to his fox form and quickly set off with Qin Xiaonan.

As they got closer to the Tengger Desert, Qin Xiaonan felt that the situation was not as simple as what was said in the news, that the trade route was simply blocked.

After walking for a while, he smelled a strong smell of blood, mixed with the scent of rotten meat and sulfur.
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Security is on the line.

When the first blood moon rose in the night sky of the Tengger Desert, the sentinels on the Anjie city wall finally saw the horror on the horizon - the black tide, a wave of death composed of tens of thousands of snake demons rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed.

The twenty-meter-long body of the sand anaconda rolled in the sand sea, the poisonous vipers connected head to tail to form a mobile meat grinder, and the flying snakes with transparent wing membranes on their backs were like dark clouds pressing down, and the sound of their flapping wings made the bricks and stones of the city wall fall down.

"Everyone, get in position!" Chen Ming, the commander of the garrisoned military magic division, roared, veins bulging on his neck.

Then the first batch of sand anacondas hit the barrier.

These giant beasts, weighing more than 30 tons, used their heads covered with bone spurs to madly smash into the light blue film, and sticky poisonous saliva splashed with every collision.

When the eleventh sand anaconda exploded and died under the recoil force, the barrier generator in the southeast corner finally overloaded and exploded.

"Ice Lock Array!" Following Chen Li's roar, twelve high-level ice mages simultaneously waved their star maps. Iron chains as thick as bowls shot out from the battlements of the city wall, tightly entangling the three sand boas that had entered the breach.

But before everyone had time to catch their breath, hundreds of red-chain snakes suddenly jumped out from the snake tide behind them. These monsters, which were only as thick as arms, climbed down the ice chains and rushed towards the mages at a rapid speed.

The supporting wizards in the rear wanted to intercept them, but these red-chain snakes were too fast and they rushed over before the magic could be cast.

"Ah!!" Amidst screams, the entire arms of the three bitten people turned into black water within five seconds.

One side of the uncontrolled ice lock was about to break. After the sand boa broke free from the restraints, it swung its tail, and the 15-meter-long tail directly broke the northwest corner watchtower in half.

Then Chen Ming took action personally, and the huge ice formation filled the gap.

Just when everyone thought the situation had temporarily stabilized, a horrifying roar suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.

The second wave of snakes came surging in with an even more terrifying posture - they were a group of demons covered with purple-black pustules, and smelly mucus kept oozing out from between the pustules. Wherever they crawled, the ground was corroded and wisps of green smoke were emitted.

These terrifying snake demons suddenly stopped two hundred meters away from the city wall, and then their snake heads were raised high at the same time, and their necks covered with barbs swelled exaggeratedly.

With a teeth-grinding "gurgling" sound, the venom glands on their backs contracted violently. In an instant, the dark green poisonous fog that covered the sky and the sun rushed towards the city wall like a tsunami.

"laugh--"

The moment the poisonous fog came into contact with the barrier, the entire defensive light film vibrated violently, emitting a heart-pounding hissing sound.

The originally glittering protective shield dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and festering bubbles continued to appear on the surface, just like skin that had been splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid.

"Earth element! Intercept immediately! Strengthen the defense in the eastern section!" Deputy Commander Zhao Lan's roar pierced through the poisonous fog.

As the ground shook violently, several ochre-colored barriers rose from the ground, only to be corroded and riddled with holes the moment they came into contact with the toxic mist. Chaos reigned on the city walls. The medical team, their white robes stained a strange green, carried stretchers through the choking toxic mist, only to find themselves hopelessly outmatched by the surging casualties.

What was even more terrifying was that among those seemingly intact mages defending the city, some of them suddenly vomited mouthfuls of black blood without any warning - in fact, their internal organs had already been corroded by the infiltrating poisonous fog and were riddled with holes.

"boom!"

A young wizard suddenly froze in the middle of casting a spell, and purple-black mucus oozed out of his seven orifices.

When he fell face down from the city wall, the snakes below hissed excitedly. When his body fell to the ground, countless little snake monsters instantly submerged it.

When the snake tide receded a little, only half a leg bone was left, with half a piece of the standard robe that had not been eaten clean hanging on it. The scene was very tragic.

Just as the city walls were on the verge of collapse, a violent dust storm suddenly swirled up from the rear of the battlefield. Yellow sand surged like a raging wave as a figure stepped onto the wind—it was none other than Qingning, the nine-tailed fox demon!
Its nine fox tails stretched out behind it, and as its demonic power surged, a dark yellow sand curtain rose from the ground like a huge wave, instantly building a towering barrier in front of the barrier.

The poisonous fog hit the sand wall, but it was like a drop in the ocean. It was swallowed up and purified by countless layers of flowing sand and gravel, and could no longer erode it in the slightest.

Then it jumped off the city wall without hesitation, and plunged straight into the heart of the snake group like a yellow lightning!
The nine-tailed beast swept across, its demonic power bursting forth! Wherever it passed, snake demons exploded and died. Before the foul-smelling pus and blood could even splatter, the raging sandstorm twisted them into a bloody mist.

Her movements were so fast that she almost turned into an afterimage. Every time she swung her claws, it brought about a bloody storm. Every time her fox tail swept by, dozens of snake demons were cut in half!

The snakes finally sensed fear and began to retreat frantically.

But how could Qingning give them a break? He slapped his claws downward, and the ground suddenly collapsed. Countless quicksands, like living creatures, entangled the snake demons and dragged them into the abyss. Sharp sand spikes erupted from the ground, piercing the fleeing snake demons and pinning them to death in mid-air!
On the city wall, the defenders watched this scene in amazement. The snake tide that was unstoppable just now was now being harvested in batches like wheat straw.

Qingning stood in a sea of ​​corpses and blood. His nine tails were like blades and the sandstorm was like a prison. He killed all the snakes without leaving a single one alive.

Qin Xiaonan stood on a cliff in the distance, his pupils suddenly contracting.

The Anjie city wall in the distance was shrouded in poisonous fog, the dark green miasma rolled like a tide, and countless snake shadows were wriggling in it.

On the city wall, the bodies of human mages were lying all over the place, some even corroded to the point where only skeletons remained. The surviving defenders were still fighting desperately, but they were like a lone boat in a storm, and could be swallowed up at any time.

This scene is ten times more tragic than the Bo City disaster!
So Qin Xiaonan can ask Qingning to go for support.

Qin Xiaonan clenched his fists unconsciously as he watched Qing Ning's receding figure. His gaze was fixed on the depths of the snake tide, as if he wanted to penetrate the layers of poisonous fog and see the true face of the mastermind behind the scenes.

"If this is really the work of the Viper Monarch."

Qin Xiaonan's Adam's apple rolled unconsciously. This sentence was like a piece of ice, weighing heavily on his heart, and his heart was pounding violently in his chest.

So how is he going to deal with this matter? This is equivalent to him indirectly killing so many people.

(End of this chapter)