"We have to kill those Ogre Chieftains, or else we won't be able to hold on!" Gui One thought popped into his mind, and he immediately began to give orders.
"Everyone, gather your Swordmaidens together, then charge out of the Dimensional Barrier and kill those Ogre Chieftains. Do you understand?"
Gui One had no choice but to use the Swordmaidens to fight. However, once the Swordmaidens were used, it meant that the Swordmaidens could not recover their Sword Essence within a short period of time.
The 40 Swordmaidens received their orders, and they charged out in front of one of the Ogre Chieftains. All of their skills were used on the unfortunate Ogre Chieftain.
The Ogre Chieftain screamed. Even though he was a Dragon Yuan Kou, he could not survive after being hit by 40 Swordmaidens' skills. He returned to the Dimensional Vortex.
After killing the Ogre Chieftain, the Swordmaidens quickly retreated into the Dimensional Barrier to prevent the other Yuan Kou from destroying their shields. They still had 12 Ogre Chieftains to deal with.
Very quickly, the Swordmaidens chose their next target. Unfortunately, most of their skills were on cooldown, so they could only use their swords to fight the Ogre Chieftain.
Naturally, normal attacks dealt much less damage than skill attacks. Even after three or four rounds of attacks, the Ogre Chieftain still failed to kill it. Meanwhile, the other Primordial Souls surrounding the Ogre Chieftain were no pushovers, either.
Two or three Diabolo monsters simultaneously attacked an Ancient sword rank Swordmistress next to them.
Diabolo Monsters were typical Yuan Kou with high Attack and low Defense. Their Attack Power exceeded the standard of a Tiger-Class Yuan Kou, reaching the standard of a Ghost-Class Yuan Kou.
After a few rounds of attacks, the Ancient Swordmaiden's shields were broken. The Swordmaidens' sword-wielders seemed to wake up from a dream. They hurriedly ordered their Swordmaidens to retreat back into the Dimensional Barrier.
Although the Swordmaiden did not suffer much damage in terms of Durability, her shields had been broken. It would take about 10 minutes for them to recover. In other words, they could not send their Swordmaidens out to fight for the next 10 minutes.
The same thing happened to the other Swordmaidens, but their Swordmaidens were vigilant enough to retreat before their shields were broken.
By the time the second Ogre Chieftain was killed, three Ancient Sword Maidens had already lost their ability to fight. They needed to recover the energy of their personal shields before they could continue fighting … And the sword elemental energy in their bodies could no longer be supplied to the Dimensional Barrier, so they had to be used to repair the Sword Maidens' personal shields.
Fortunately, they had only lost three Ancient Swordmaidens. By the time they killed the seventh Ogre Chieftain, 20 of the Swordmaidens had already lost their shields. Without their shields, going out to kill the Ogre Chieftain would be suicidal … But similarly, if they ordered the remaining 20 Swordmaidens to attack, they would also be suicidal. The attacks of 20 Swordmaidens could not guarantee that they could kill the Ogre Chieftain in a short period of time. If they could not kill it in a short period of time, they would be killed by the massive Yuan Kou.
For a moment, Gui Yi was at a loss. He had no idea how he should continue to defend this place.
At the end of the day, there were too few Swordbearers. Under normal circumstances, Fort Yue Yang, which had a few hundred Swordbearers, would have been incredibly easy to defend.
He would not be as confused as he was right now, not knowing what to do.
However, Gui Yi soon stopped worrying about the Ogre Chieftain, because something even more troublesome had happened.
In the distance, a few large beasts had appeared in the Yuan Kou horde. They were as tall as a three-story building, and they looked like giant rhinoceroses. A few Beastmen sat on their backs, and they had placed two large drums in front of them. These Beastmen were using bone mallets in their hands to beat the drums madly. When the Yuan Kou heard the drumming, their eyes turned bloodshot, and their attacks on the Dimensional Barrier became even more powerful.
These were Kodo Behemoths, a rare support type of Western Daemons. Their own combat strength was not high, but they had an amazing ability. The roar that came from their backs could increase the attack power of the Yuan Hou by about 20%. In a large-scale battle, this kind of power was practically a god-like ability. The most obvious change was that the energy of the Dimensional Barrier was decreasing at a rate that left Gui Yi in despair!
"Heavens!
The energy is dropping by more than 700,000 per minute! "
Gui Yi stared in horror at the change in the dimensional barrier's energy value. The appearance of these large demonic beasts had actually caused the entire demonic beast horde's attack power to rise. The dimensional barrier's energy had already fallen to less than 2 million, and it had only been less than 8 minutes since the demonic beasts had started attacking!
With 2 million left, they wanted to hold on for 12 minutes?
No matter how he thought about it, it was impossible.
"Looks like I have to prepare for the gate battle."
Gui Yi thought to himself. The Dimensional Barrier's destruction was inevitable. He had already begun to plan for the next gate battle. Just like how they defended against the wave of Yuan Kou that Guhan had chased away, as long as they could defend the gate and prevent the Yuan Kou from attacking, then he still had a chance!
"But, what about those things in the sky?"
Gui Yi raised his head, and looked at the hundreds of Blazing Phoenixes that were spewing fire at the Dimensional Barrier. They were all flying units, so once the Dimensional Barrier was destroyed, they would be able to directly appear inside Fort Yue Yang. Once they attacked from both sides, Gui Yi could almost imagine himself being burnt to a crisp.
"It would be great if Gu Han was here!
With him here, we might be able to kill those damned Kodo Beasts! "
Gui Yi instinctively thought of Guhan. When Guhan fought against the Underworld Yuan Kou, and the Yuan Kou of Fort Yue Yang, that terrifying battle prowess had been carved into Gui Yi's heart. In his heart, Guhan was already someone who could not be defeated.
"But Guhan is currently resting, if I call him over now, will he … … Forget it, I can't care so much, holding on to Fort Yue Yang is the most important thing!"
Gui Yi was just about to send someone to call Guhan over, but when he turned around, Guhan had already appeared behind him.
"Brother Guhan, that's great!
That's great! "
Seeing Guhan appear, Gui Yi was so excited that he couldn't even speak properly. All he could say was, "That's great, that's great!" This made Gui Yi extremely happy.
"What's so great about that?" Guhan smiled bitterly. "What's the situation now?
Can we hold on? "
"It's terrible!"
Gui Yi smiled bitterly at Guhan as well. "The dimensional barrier has been reactivated, but there's only 1,800,000 energy left. It can probably only hold on for another three minutes.
But we're still eight minutes short of the time we promised Sword Immortal Cloudsky. I'm already preparing for the gate battle! "
"Only 1,800,000 energy left?"
Guhan looked down at the monitor, then placed his palm on the sword essence harvester. A few seconds later, the number on the monitor jumped from 1,800,000 energy to 2,400,000 energy.
Just now, Gu Han had directly injected 10,000 quarks of sword essence into the dimensional barrier.
"Brother Guhan, you're already a Famed Sword-tier swordsman?" Gui Yi was shocked when he saw this.
"It's just that I have enough sword essence. Don't forget, I just killed a Nether Yuan Kou and obtained quite a lot of sword essence from its dimensional vortex. It's just enough for me to break through the limit between a treasure-sword and a Famed Sword-tier swordsman," Guhan said calmly.
In fact, the Nether Yuan Kou had not given Guhan a lot of sword essence. It was only about 1,000 quarks.
Gui Yi forced a smile when he saw the additional 600,000 energy points. "Unfortunately, this can only help us hold on for another minute at most."
"The real problem is those Kodos!"
Guhan looked at the Kodos in the Yuan Kou group that were drumming crazily. "If we kill them, I think the 2,400,000 energy points should be able to hold on for another minute or two!"
"That makes sense, but these Kodos are protected by the Yuan Kou army in the middle. Our swordmaidens will probably be devoured by those Yuan Kou before they can even reach them."
From Gui Yi's tone, one could tell that in his eyes, this was yet another impossible mission.
"Leave it to me!
I happen to have a bellyful of anger that I can't vent … "Guhan laughed.
"Are you kidding me? You just transferred 10,000 quarks of sword essence …" Before Gui Yi could finish, Guhan leaped down from the city wall and jumped into the endless Yuan Kou army.
"Be careful, Brother Guhan!" What else could Gui Yi do? He could only pray weakly on the city wall.
… …
Seeing that there were humans jumping down to their deaths, the Yuan Silhouettes near Gu Han's landing point all jumped with joy. They wanted to eat this delicious meal, but what they got was a cold longsword. Wherever Gu Han's sword went, the heads of all the Yuan Silhouettes were chopped off. These were only some tiger-class Yuan Silhouettes that were equivalent to ancient sword wielders, so they were not enough for Gu Han to kill.
However, if one took a closer look at the Yuan Kou's wounds, one would find a surprising discovery. The wounds were covered in a thin layer of frost, as if they had just been taken out of a freezer.
The surrounding Yuan Kou continued to charge at Guhan, but none of them were a match for Guhan. Guhan walked among the Yuan Kou like he was taking a leisurely stroll. Before he knew it, he had already reached the side of the Kodo Beast.
This kind of Dragon Yuan Kou would only take a bit of effort and time for Guhan. But when Guhan raised his Heavenly Sword to finish off the unlucky Kodo Beast, the entire Yuan Kou group suddenly stopped moving. After a second of daze, all the Yuan Kou began to flee in all directions. The Yuan Kou that had not been able to touch the Yueyang Stronghold before suddenly ran away as if they had encountered something terrifying. Guhan only had time to kill a few Yuan Kou before the rest of the Yuan Kou fled.
"Could it be …?"
Guhan raised his head and saw a weary old man hovering above him. Behind him was a human army that was slowly marching towards the Yueyang Stronghold.