219: Forbidden City VS Strong Control

Tie Shengnan looked at Huang Chen's message and was about to open the video when the announcement informed them that the seventh round of guild battles had begun.

After seeing their opponents clearly, Huang Chen's jaw dropped in surprise.

Could Star Abyss read the Trial Takers' thoughts? He had just been wondering how an ordinary clan would deal with the Dida and Locke Clans, and now Forbidden City was randomly matched with the Locke Clan.

Huang Chen glanced indifferently at Tie Shengnan, believing that in the extremely short time available, Tie Shengnan probably hadn't watched the video yet.

He would see how Tie Shengnan would break the deadlock.

Huang Chen did not remind Tie Shengnan, but slowly floated into the air, quietly waiting for the match to begin.

As soon as the countdown ended, the Locke Clan launched their charge first. To Huang Chen's surprise, unlike when facing the Dida Clan, this time the Locke Clan's arrangement was to have two professions with large-scale magical damage, Fire Element Users and Earth Element Users, as the front line.

Water Element users were in the middle, and the Metal Element Users, who had higher health, were surprisingly at the very back of the team.

And their Wood Elementals all entered stealth the moment the battle began.

After a slight surprise, Huang Chen understood their plan: they wanted to use Owen's petrification skill to petrify Forbidden City's front line first, and then have the highest damage-dealing Earth and Fire Element Users strike immediately to catch Forbidden City off guard.

The moment the Locke Clan charged, Tie Shengnan also ordered a charge.

However, Forbidden City's formation was more conventional, with Metal Element Users at the front, followed by Fire, Earth, and Water Element users. The Wood Elementals also went into stealth immediately, circling towards the enemy's rear.

Tie Shengnan was in the middle of the army, and when she clearly saw the opponent's formation, she suddenly frowned, and then her panel immediately displayed her new command.

[Tie Shengnan: Wood Elementals, cut the opponent's front line from both sides.]

Soon, the two armies charged within skill range.

[Tie Shengnan: First row Metal Element Users, activate Black Yellow, Soul Severing Stab... Second row, third row... one-second attack interval. Earth Element Users, Fire Element Users, prepare to attack!]

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh~"

As the command was given, the Metal Element Users in the front row simultaneously cast Soul Severing Stab, instantly charging towards the Locke Clan's army.

At the same time, countless lightning bolts and karmic fires appeared in front of the Locke Clan's formation, completely engulfing the path ahead.

"Kill!"

As soon as the one-second interval was over, the second row of Metal Element Users also activated Black Yellow's magic immunity, charging straight into the enemy formation.

Tie Shengnan's tactic was simple: if the opponent's mages led the charge, then no matter what tactics followed, the Metal Element Users would activate magic immunity and charge first, directly targeting the mages, while the subsequent mages would follow the main force to output damage.

Although the tactic was simple, it was extremely brutal.

However, just as the second row of Metal Element Users charged halfway, suddenly, the first two rows of Forbidden City's Metal Element Users charging into the formation were all petrified.

As soon as the magic immunity duration ended, under the overwhelming skills, the health of the two rows of Metal Element Users plummeted.

"Pure Sound Chanting!"

Without waiting for Tie Shengnan's command, Forbidden City's Water Element users all took a step forward at this moment and unleashed their strongest group healing, barely pulling back the health of the two rows of Metal Element Users.

However, what followed was that 200 Water Element users were also petrified because they took that step forward.

As the distance between the two armies closed, two more rows of Metal Element Users in the Forbidden City Legion's front line were petrified.

All these changes happened in an instant.

To train the Forbidden City Legion, Huang Chen did not activate any of his domains or Halos, nor did Bai Zhaoning's or Chen Yichun's sacred artifacts, in every match.

Seeing the battlefield change rapidly, Tie Shengnan did not panic.

After all, Forbidden City had encountered guilds with Child of Destiny in the first two matches, and all sorts of strange "cheats" always brought some trouble.

[Tie Shengnan: Split! Three teams feign attack, teams one and two go left, teams four and five go right, target the front line, cross attack! Wood Elementals, cut the opponent's Water Element users.]

As the command was given, Forbidden City's stealthy Wood Elementals suddenly appeared, directly attacking the Water Element users in the middle and rear of the opponent's formation.

At the same time, Forbidden City's charging formation suddenly changed from a square to five rectangular arrays.

The central team remained in place, while the four teams on both sides attacked laterally.

Moreover, if you looked closely, you would notice that in this attack, there was a time difference in the speed of the two teams attacking the flanks.

Forbidden City's three teams of mages threw out their skills at the farthest range in front, then immediately retreated.

The teams on the left and right flanks, respectively, crossed forward and released skills into the Locke Clan's formation, retreating after one strike, and then advancing again to release skills after their health was restored.

"Kill!"

Just then, the Metal Element Users at the very back of the Locke Clan moved. They roared and cast Soul Severing Stab, charging towards the two wings.

However, under the immense equipment and bone structure suppression, these Metal Element Users screamed amidst the overwhelming skills and were sent out of the arena.

"Owen, it's not working! The two wings can't hold on!"

A middle-aged man shouted at Owen beside him.

Owen frowned, looking at the more than three hundred Forbidden City Legion members in front of him. Over a hundred of them had already been petrified, and they were just a little short of eliminating them.

However, the two wings could no longer hold, and he had to immediately support them.

He thought that even if these low-health individuals broke free from petrification, they could still be dealt with quickly.

So, with a fierce expression, he roared and immediately turned to the left flank.

"Petrifying Gaze!"

"Buzz~"

An invisible wave radiated outwards in a fan shape from him, directly in front of him.

Immediately, dozens of Forbidden City Fire Element Users on the left and right, who were about to charge forward and release skills, were instantly petrified on the spot.

However, those who broke free from Owen's Petrifying Gaze immediately had the grayish-white color on their bodies recede.

Seeing their Water Element users break free from control, Tie Shengnan immediately issued the healing command.

"Shing-a-ling~"

The healing from the Water Element users with Diamond-rank equipment was not to be underestimated. In just an instant, the three teams whose health had been in the red saw their health bars rise steadily under Pure Sound Chanting.

"How is their healing so strong!"

The middle-aged man roared in horror, "Attack! Attack! Increase firepower! Finish them off!"

However, looking at the Forbidden City Legion, whose health deductions were only one or two thousand, while their healing was tens of thousands, the middle-aged man realized that the attack power that could deal ten to twenty thousand damage against the Dida Clan was now barely tickling Forbidden City.

[Tie Shengnan: Left flank, kite... Middle and right flanks, full attack!]

Seeing that people on the left flank were starting to get petrified, Tie Shengnan immediately gave the order.

Teams one and two received the order and immediately retreated, only skirmishing at the edge of their attack range.

"Kill!"

The right flank received the order, and the Metal Element Users directly plunged Soul Severing Stab into the Locke Clan's "heart," followed by an overwhelming barrage of Earth and Fire Element skills.

Meanwhile, the central route, which was already nearly in contact with the enemy, charged directly into the opponent's main force after the petrification was lifted, with unstoppable momentum.

However, the most brutal scene was in the middle-rear of the Locke Clan's formation, where two hundred Wood Elementals appeared simultaneously, striking from stealth. The opponent's two hundred Water Element users were instantly slit at the throat and killed.

In an instant, the Locke Clan suffered heavy casualties, with an 80% reduction in personnel.

At this point, the battle was decided. Owen, facing the wolf-like Forbidden City Legion, was ultimately powerless to turn the tide.

Thirty seconds later.

[Ding! Congratulations to Forbidden City Guild for defeating the Strong Control Guild. Guild points +2]

Hearing the system's victory notification, Tie Shengnan felt no joy; instead, she felt very frustrated.

This was the first time Forbidden City had suffered casualties in an arena match, and nearly a hundred people were lost in one go.

It was important to note that the Dragon Rider Army's individual strength far exceeded that of their opponents, yet they still paid the price of nearly a hundred lives.

Returning to the villa, Tie Shengnan sat alone in a chair, constantly replaying the battle in her mind.

If Forbidden City hadn't overwhelmingly suppressed the opponent in terms of attributes, this battle would have been fraught with peril.

If she could have obtained information about the opponent beforehand, then with equal strength, she was confident she could still win through tactics.

"Intelligence!"

These two words kept echoing in her mind.

"A comprehensive intelligence system must be established!"

Thinking this, she rushed out the door like a flash and headed straight for the villa's conference hall.