90: Chapter 90 The Twelve Golden Towers

Qin Ce hovered in the air, looking at the apocalyptic scene below, cold sweat seeping from his forehead.

Is it over?

Is Fengling City finished?

At that very instant—

“Dong—!”

A dull drumbeat echoed from deep within the Inner City.

The drumbeat was low and powerful, piercing through all the clamor on the battlefield and reaching everyone's ears clearly.

Immediately following—

“Dong!” “Dong!” “Dong!”

The drumbeats merged into one, rapid and passionate, like war drums, like bugle calls, like—

Hope.

Qin Ce suddenly turned his head, looking toward the Inner City.

Then, his pupils constricted violently.

Twelve golden rays of light slowly rose from the depths of the Inner City.

They were twelve massive towers, cast entirely from a special metal, their surfaces flowing with complex runic patterns.

They rose from underground, slowly ascending to a height of a hundred meters, and then—

They lit up with a roar!

The golden light was so blinding that it was almost impossible to look at directly.

Those were Gold Rank crystal core weapons.

Gold Rank crystal core attack systems!

The term flashed through Qin Ce's mind.

He had heard Wei Ming talk about them—

They were one of Fengling City's trump cards.

Each of the twelve golden towers was equipped with a Gold Rank crystal core weapon.

They were usually in standby mode, consuming very little power. They would only be activated at critical moments like this.

And the energy to activate them came from—

The Inner City core Power Hub.

As large sections of the Main City District's electronic network were paralyzed, the power that was originally scattered and consumed was now all concentrated into the Power Hub.

Now, all that excess power was being injected into these twelve golden towers!

Boom!!!

The first beam of golden light shot out from the tower on the far left!

The light was dazzling, like a golden spear piercing through heaven and earth, shooting straight toward the edge of the West District where the loss of control was most severe!

The light hit the ground...

There was no explosion, no roar.

Only a vast silence.

Then, within that area, for hundreds of meters around, everything was frozen!

Fierce beasts, buildings, the ground, the air...

Everything turned into ice sculptures!

That was an ice-attribute Gold Rank attack!

Boom!!!

The second beam of golden light shot out!

This time, the target was the East District.

The light hit the ground, and the earth trembled.

A stone wall dozens of meters high rose from the ground with a roar, like a natural chasm, forcefully cutting off the beast tide that was frantically pouring out!

An earth-attribute Gold Rank defense!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One golden beam after another shot out from the twelve towers!

There was fire-attribute, which turned into a sea of flames upon landing, plowing a burning trench!

There was lightning-attribute, which turned into countless bolts of lightning, charring all the fierce beasts in an area!

There was wind-attribute, which turned into countless Wind Blades, like a storm of death, shredding the fierce beasts in an area into mincemeat!

There was metal-attribute, which turned into countless metal spears, falling from the sky and pinning the fierce beasts on the ground like hedgehogs!

Twelve attacks, twelve different elemental effects!

Each one was enough to change the tide of battle in an area!

Within a short minute, those out-of-control areas that were frantically spreading were all contained!

Countless fierce beasts that were frantically charging were killed or injured!

The defenders who had been suppressed to the point of being unable to breathe finally got a chance to catch their breath!

“The golden towers!”

“The golden towers have opened!”

“Hold the line! It's stabilized!”

“Great! We're saved!”

On the battlefield, countless Beast Tamers let out cheers of survival!

Those low-level soldiers fighting a bloody battle, those desperate defenders, those people who thought they were certainly dead.

At this moment, they were all moved to tears, shouting with all their might!

“Long live the City Lord!”

“Long live Fengling City!”

The cheers shook the heavens and earth, and morale soared!

However—

Qin Ce did not cheer.

He hovered in the air, looking at those twelve golden towers, his brow tightly furrowed.

Because he noticed that the expressions of the battlefield commanders had not relaxed; instead, they had become even more solemn.

Over at the City Lord's Mansion, not a single one of those Star-Glow Rank Beast Tamers showed any joy.

They just stared fixedly at those twelve towers, then looked up at the Raven Flock that still covered the sky, their eyes full of worry.

Qin Ce's heart stirred as he quickly analyzed the situation.

The golden towers were indeed strong.

But there were two fatal problems.

First, the consumption was too high.

Gold Rank crystal cores were themselves extremely precious strategic resources.

Every twelve attacks consumed a complete Gold Rank crystal core.

For twelve golden towers, twelve rounds of attacks would be twelve cores.

How many rounds could such an attack last?

Second, and most fatal, was the Raven King.

Qin Ce looked up at the sky.

In that black cloud, there was an exceptionally massive figure slowly moving.

The Raven King.

The Gold Rank Raven King.

From the beginning, it had not participated in harassing the city defense facilities, but had instead remained hovering high in the sky, coldly overlooking the entire battlefield.

It was waiting.

Waiting for what?

Waiting for the golden towers to appear?

No, it was waiting for the location of the Power Hub.

When the Inner City activated the crystal core towers, the Power Hub would reveal itself once due to the convergence of energy.

This gave the Raven King a chance to locate it.

With the activation of the twelve Gold Rank crystal core towers just now,

Although the military had tried to be as discreet as possible,

The Raven King still knew the general area now.

Now, if the twelve golden crystal core towers were destroyed, would Fengling City activate other crystal core towers?

At that time, would it be possible to accurately locate the Power Hub?

Qin Ce didn't dare think any further.

But what he feared most was exactly what happened.

“Roar—!!!”

A world-shaking bear roar came from the direction of the Inner City.

It was the Lava Bear.

It was the Beast King of this wave of beast tides.

It forced back the Jade-Horned Flying Tiger with a single palm strike and roared toward the sky, the sound vibrating through the nine heavens.

That roar carried an unquestionable command—

Raven King!

Attack!

Target—

The Twelve golden towers!

The Lava Bear's roar shook the sky and earth, the sound piercing through the entire battlefield like a thunderclap, exploding in everyone's hearts.

Qin Ce's gaze was fixed on that black flood.

He saw—

The Raven King's body shuddered violently.

It was an instinctive reaction, an obedience carved deep into its bloodline. Faced with the Beast King's command, even if it was a Gold Rank fierce beast, even if it was the king of tens of thousands of ravens, it did not dare to disobey in the slightest.

It turned its head, its blood-red eyes looking toward the twelve towers deep in the Inner City that were spewing golden light.

Then—

“Ga—!!!”

A sharp, ear-piercing raven cry resounded through the sky!

The cry carried anger, madness, and even more, a resolute killing intent.

In the next moment, the entire Raven Flock moved.

But they didn't all charge toward the golden towers.

The Raven King left behind half of its forces—roughly five thousand ravens—to continue tangling with the crystal core defense systems above the Main City. Those ravens frantically lunged at the turrets, fortresses, and arrow towers below, releasing Ink Feathers and creating black mist at the cost of their own lives.

As for itself—

Taking the other half of the forces, including all the elites of Silver Rank and above, it charged like a black arrow straight toward those twelve golden towers!

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