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Golden Royal City.

Shams' true form sat on a throne deep within the pyramid, surrounded by flickering dark red will-o'-the-wisps.

A huge light screen floated in front of him, displaying a real-time view of the area outside the city—in the northeast, the vampire army was gathering, a dark, dense mass that sent chills down one's spine.

"They're here..." Shams murmured. "This time, the old bat should be... Dracono."

His fingers tapped on the armrest, making a metallic "thump-thump" sound.

"Pass down the order: activate the city's defensive array, and put all troops into combat readiness. Send those seventeen level 999 adventurers to the city walls as well, and give them a quest where the more kills they get, the greater the reward!"

"Yes!" Kafte acknowledged the order and withdrew.

Shams glanced at the light screen again, and the dark red will-o'-the-wisp in his eyes flickered.

His gaze fell on a tall figure in front of the vampire army.

It was a dragon-man general, riding a small fire dragon, hovering in front of the vampire formation, seemingly talking to Valard.

Shams roared in fury: "Hmph! Just as I thought, a spy sent by the enemy!"

He couldn't help but feel a little smug about his foresight.

These adventurers are all opportunists; they won't act without personal gain!

But he didn't think much of it.

He's just a level 999 player; he can't cause any trouble at all.

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The vampire army surged in from the northeast like a tidal wave, covering the sky and blotting out the sun.

The vampire mage players were the first to launch an attack, bombarding the shield with various blood spells and creating ripples.

A vast amount of blood mist spread out, connecting and covering the vampire army.

The gargoyles charged toward the city wall shield through the blood mist, ignoring the rain of arrows and spells on the wall, and pounced directly at the hexagonal grid-like energy shield of the city's defensive array, tearing at it frantically with their claws and fangs.

Each bite creates a ripple on the protective shield.

A large number of blood servants and blood slaves rode on giant bats and circled over, their blood-red longswords constantly slashing out streaks of blood-red sword energy that bombarded the protective barrier, exploding into bursts of blood-red sparks.

The Bloodbat Dragons flew higher into the sky, spewing out countless wind blades as they swooped down, ramming their massive bodies into the shield.

On the city wall, the undead's defensive firepower was also fully activated.

After acquiring the technology of the Starry Night Gnomes, this level eight main city indeed possesses astonishing defensive capabilities.

Various weapons opened fire, and a large number of dark purple energy shells exploded in the vampire army, each one capable of taking down more than a dozen vampires.

Some powerful main guns can even kill a level 999 elite with a single shot!

In addition to these city defense weapons, the signature Bone Dragon Legion also charged out.

A large number of spider demons began to spew webs, trapping the enemy troops in mid-air...

"Hurry! Hurry! The Dark Spear strikes!!" Antoine roared.

He was an undead commander in charge of the defense line in the East 4th district. In this direction, large numbers of ghost bats and nightmare crows were frantically attacking the defensive barrier, with some vampire players wielding bizarre shooting weapons on their backs.

Under Antoine's command, a modified cyborg undead cavalry charged out on what looked like airships. The airships were armed with dark spear-like weapons on their sides, but they were not spears at all. Instead, they were projectile weapons that could fire dark rays with extremely high penetrating power.

Both sides simultaneously launched a firefight...

On the other side, the undead commander of the South 6th District was a female fear mage. She was waving her staff, releasing swarms of swirling, flying evil spirits, and frantically attacking the black bone griffins outside while screaming, "Prepare the Extinction Beam! Tell me immediately!!"

"yes!"

Similar scenes were playing out simultaneously in all directions of the Golden City.

In North District 2, the undead commander Nubija was leading a flying warship out of a hidden door on the side of the city wall, where it was engaged in a fierce battle with the gargoyles attacking the city.

In West District 7, a team of Spider Hunters were frantically spraying spider webs from behind the city wall crenellations. The sticky white silk threads covered the sky and wrapped the swooping Bloodbat Dragons into cocoons, which were then shot down one by one by the city's ballistae.

In the South 3rd District, a dozen or so level 999 undead players formed an elite squad to hunt down high-ranking vampire units.

One player, transformed into a giant bone dragon, unleashed a breath that burned an entire squad of black bone griffins, along with their mounts, to ashes; another undead assassin wielding dual swords appeared and disappeared on the battlefield, each time he appeared, a vampire elite was beheaded.

But there are too many vampires.

There are too many to kill.

For every one that falls, two more take its place. With each shell that shatters a section, new vampires emerge from the blood mist behind.

Under the continuous attacks, the hexagonal shield of the city's defensive formation dimmed, and more and more cracks appeared on the grid.

The defending troops are under immense pressure.

Just then, a low, mechanical roar suddenly came from the platform at the base of the pyramid.

The sound was like the roar of an ancient behemoth, or like hundreds of engines starting up at the same time, shaking the entire city.

Everyone instinctively looked in that direction.

On the platform at the very top of the inverted pyramid, the ground slowly cracked open, and a colossal cannon of astonishing size rose from the crack.

The cannon's barrel was over a thousand meters long! The diameter of the barrel was an astonishing hundred meters! Its entire body was cast from a starry blue metal, and the cannon body was so exquisite that it looked like a piece of art cast in one piece. However, the huge gear structure at the end, which was obviously different from its style, was slowly turning and making a "click-click" sound.

At the muzzle, dark purple energy was frantically gathering, like a collapsing purple star, exuding a chilling aura of death.

"What is that thing?" Liu Nian, riding on the back of the little fire dragon, saw the giant cannon in the distance and his eyelids twitched.

Valard's expression changed.

"Damn it... scatter!"

Before the words were even finished, the giant cannon fired.

There was no deafening explosion, only a muffled "whoosh~~~~~~".

A dark purple beam of light, over a hundred meters in diameter, shot out from the cannon muzzle at an incredible speed, piercing through the entire battlefield almost instantly upon being fired.

Wherever the beam of light passed, everything was annihilated!

Bloodbat Dragons, Gargoyles, Ghost Ravens, Blackbone Griffins—all vampire units that blocked the path of the beam, regardless of their level or rank, were reduced to nothingness in the purple light before they could even scream.

Even the vampires that were grazed by the beam of light were burned like pieces of paper and turned to ashes within seconds.

The beam of light lasted for a full five seconds.

Five seconds later, the beam of light disappeared.

A straight vacuum zone, more than 100 meters wide, appeared on the battlefield.

The massive vampire army that had been swarming along that line had completely vanished.

One shot wiped out at least a thousand high-level vampire units.