Candlelight Shadow, God’s Dance, Transient Smoke and Clouds, and Blue Sky Scar quickly retreated from the city walls. The offensive firepower of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’ contingent of fighters was too overwhelming now that Blazing Hot Lips were backing them up with long-range support. Even a super guild that was as strong as Candle Dragon wasn’t able to hold out against all of that at the end of the day. Their players started scattering down the city walls like a wave.

Gui Guzi, Diamond Dust, and Heaven’s Rain started rampaging through the city walls with hundreds of Cyan Tiger Cavalrymen. As they swept across the enemy lines, their flashing blades took away the lives of another twelve of the vaunted Seventy-two Earthly Demons. There were less than twenty of those Earthly Demons left and the sight of their ragged formation sent a chill down the spines of every Candle Dragon player nearby.

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The remaining four siege towers finally reached the walls and a huge amount of players surged out of them. The players of Baidicheng and Blazing Hot Lips had occupied the walls as well. This had been a splendid victory for our side. We managed to break through the enemy’s defenses despite the stalwart efforts of Candle Dragon. Half of the eastern city walls now belonged to us.

There were stone stairways that led down to the city built into the city walls and they were spaced a hundred meters apart. However, the bottom of those staircases...