108: Chapter 108 Wang Zhuo's Fall

"Retreat! Quickly!"

Wang Zhuo let out a crazed roar, his spiritual power surging wildly within him as he tried to shake off the ice sealing his arms.

Lightning exploded! Flames gushed forth! Shadows churned!

These three forces erupted simultaneously, with a power sufficient to tear a beast of the same rank to shreds.

But that layer of ice crystals did not move in the slightest.

And even more terrifying was that as his energy exploded, the incoming Ice Soul Spirit-Devouring Insects seemed to be stimulated, their speed suddenly increasing!

They swarmed up, instantly covering his entire body!

"Ahhh!!!" Wang Zhuo let out a shrill, miserable scream.

Those Ice Soul Spirit-Devouring Insects were frantically gnawing at the spiritual power shield on the surface of his body, devouring the energy within him!

His spiritual power was draining away rapidly. His energy was gushing out crazily.

He struggled desperately, fighting back with all his might, but there were too many of those bugs—so many that he couldn't kill them all, so many that they drove him to despair.

The Silver-Patterned Peacock rushed up in terror, wanting to save him, but it was surrounded by even more Ice Soul Spirit-Devouring Insects. Those bugs burrowed into its feathers, burrowed into its flesh, frantically gnawing at its energy.

It screamed and struggled, but was powerless to do anything.

Wang Zhuo's body began to lose its balance. His legs began to weaken. His consciousness began to blur.

He looked down and saw that his hands had already turned a bluish-purple. That was the mark of frostbite. It was also a sign of energy depletion.

No. It couldn't end like this. He couldn't die here.

He was Wang Zhuo. The number one person below the Starlight rank. The pride of the Deputy City Lord Wang family. A twenty-five-year-old quasi-Starlight rank.

He still had a bright future, and countless glories waiting for him to claim. How could he die here?

He struggled desperately, roared desperately, and tried desperately to break free from those damned bugs. But everything was in vain.

There were too many Ice Soul Spirit-Devouring Insects. So many that his struggles were like a clay ox entering the sea.

Finally, his legs gave way, and he could no longer maintain his flight, falling straight down from the sky!

"No!!!" The shrill, miserable scream dragged out a long tail in the air.

The Silver-Patterned Peacock tried desperately to grab him, but those bugs had also entangled it. It could only watch helplessly as its master, like a kite with a broken string, fell straight down from thousands of meters in the air!

Below, those Beast Tamers who were still struggling in bitter battle were all stunned. They watched helplessly as the figure they regarded as their hope screamed and fell, their eyes filled with despair and fear.

Wang Zhuo. He had lost. That number one person below the Starlight rank had lost. Lost so thoroughly, so tragically, and so inexplicably.

Those who had just been excitedly discussing how "the situation is about to turn around" were now like people who had had all their strength drained, collapsing to the ground one by one.

It was over. Everything was over. This was the thought in everyone's mind at this moment.

The soldiers watching the battle through monitoring screens all looked ashen. Those Beast Tamers still fighting bitterly on the city walls slowed their actions for a beat, nearly allowing the beasts to take the opportunity to pounce on them.

Those civilians hiding in safe houses, although they couldn't see the battlefield, could feel the aura of despair permeating the air, which was enough to make them tremble all over.

And in fact, when Wang Zhuo was schemed against and fell, the disaster had only just begun. All the traps and snares were only just beginning to close.

From the very beginning, what the beasts wanted to strike was the morale of the entire city. And as it happened, this Wang Zhuo cooperated so well.

Otherwise, how could a mere hundred-person Gold Rank team, foolishly splitting their forces and deliberately creating one-on-one situations, have broken through a defensive circle of thousands of ravens, thousands of Silver Rank beasts, and dozens of Gold Rank beasts?

Let me say it again: the intelligence of beasts that have broken through to the Starlight rank is no worse than that of humans!

The next moment! Roar! On the City Lord's side, a roar from the Bear-King Beast rang out. The beast tide across the entire city, as if boiling, surged again.

Directly below the Raven King, the central open residential area that the third echelon was defending to secure the team's retreat was suddenly attacked by an even more surging beast tide.

"Roar!!!" Earth-shaking beast roars rang out from all directions. More beasts swarmed in from all sides.

These were no longer the Bronze Rank and Silver Rank cannon fodder from before, but true elites. Gold Rank beasts!

Gold Rank Iron-Armored Rhinoceroses were frantically ramming their defensive lines. Gold Rank Shadow Demon Wolves wove through the shadows like assassins. Gold Rank Lava Giant Lizards spat out scorching lava, turning everything into a sea of fire.

The beast tide that had originally been only Bronze and Silver suddenly saw a large number of Gold Rank beasts appear. This was not hard to understand; if even the flying beasts could spare dozens more to protect the Raven King, why would the more numerous ground beasts lack Gold Rank ones? They hadn't appeared before; they were just paralyzing the humans.

In an instant, the pressure on the third echelon increased sharply. And those Gold Rank flying beasts that had originally been held back by the first echelon seemed to receive some kind of signal at this moment. They unleashed even more crazed attacks.

A Sky-Rending Demon Eagle tore off the wing of a Gold Griffin, blood gushing out. A Lava Fire Sparrow spat out scorching flames, burning the antennae of an Ice Crystal Butterfly into charcoal. A Thunderbird unleashed a sky full of lightning in a sneak attack, blasting three Beast Tamers down simultaneously. Screams rose one after another.

And the most miserable were the second echelon who had flown into the sky to protect Wang Zhuo. Originally, when they sent Wang Zhuo up, they were already braving the attacks of thousands of Silver Rank beasts. In order to protect him, they often had to endure damage while charging forward. They were the ones with the most severe damage among the three echelons.

And now, they were facing the siege of the Raven Flock and thousands of Silver Rank beasts, and the direction of the siege was the Gold Rank battle group below. They had been completely surrounded.

Everything was a trap. From the very beginning, the beasts had been designing this against this team. What they wanted was not to repel them. It was total annihilation. By eating these hundred-plus Gold Rank Beast Tamers, the core combat power of the main battlefield in Fengling City would suffer heavy losses, and there would be no way to turn the tide.

Fengling City General Staff Headquarters. On the huge electronic screen, data was jumping crazily. The integrity percentage of the main power supply hub had already fallen from sixty percent just a moment ago to below fifty. 49%... 48%... 47%... It was still falling.

The staff officers gathered in front of the screen, their faces pale. "It's at forty-five..." "If this goes on, it will fall below thirty in less than ten minutes!" "Once it falls below thirty, all city defense facilities will collectively shut down due to power overload!" "By then..." No one dared to continue.

By then, Fengling City would truly be finished. The tens of thousands of beasts pouring into the city would face no further obstruction and would drown every corner of the city like a tide. Out of three million people, who knew how many would survive.

The white-haired Chief of Staff sat slumped in his chair, muttering: "Could it be... is Fengling City destined to be annihilated?" No one answered him. Because no one knew the answer.

However, just at this moment when everyone was in despair and the Chief of Staff had given up, an exclamation rang through the General Staff Headquarters! "Wait!" A young staff officer, excited, pointed fiercely at the screen in front of him. "You, you, you... look!"