My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World-Chapter 456 - 393: Hamelin’s Piper

"Quickly advance to the ramparts!" a player shouted, breaking free from the restraints of the ratmen behind.

Another explosion sounded, and that player was blasted away on the spot. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The continuous explosions made people's ears buzz loudly.

The shape of the walled city was arched, protruding from a section of the wall, enveloping an area within, serving as a buffer zone after the enemy army had stormed the gates. They were currently in such a section, with cannon fire simultaneously activated from both sides of the city walls, crazily bombarding their direction.

"Don't scatter, try to gather together." Xu Xiaoyou issued the command. "Holy Professionals, prepare to resist the next round of bombardment!"

At the same time, she used Silent Hand to quickly clear the monsters flooding around, her mind racing, contemplating the next strategy.

The chaos was overwhelming, every visible gap almost filled with distorted faces, the scattered players could only rely on their instincts to break through towards the direction of the golden-haired girl.

Deep amidst the monsters, a female swordswoman roared, drawing her blade to sever the monster in front of her, grabbing another ratman's face and throwing it far away. But the number of monsters surging up was too many, and she was soon submerged.

The burly man was similarly swarmed by ratmen, his body covered in horrifying rips, eventually collapsing into the monster pile from exhaustion, and within a blink, was reduced to bones.

"You guys, stay away, argh!"

A small priest fell down in panic, torn into pieces by ratmen.

"Careful..." A player coming to assist was shot by a ratman's flintlock gun, half of his body festering and oozing.

The number of players visibly decreased, as the monsters entered a berserk state, the battle situation almost one-sided, with tragic scenes unfolding incessantly.

"Save... save me..."

A girl, nearly reduced to a skeleton from being devoured, crawled towards her direction in struggle, the light in her pupils briefly flickering before dimming.

Xu Xiaoyou's strength alone was far from enough to rescue this situation, her Silent Hand having consumed an unknown number of ratmen, dragging heavily on the ground, movements becoming sluggish.

When the players finally regrouped together, the total was almost reduced by a quarter, as the Commander-in-Chief, Xu Xiaoyou was naturally unable to shirk responsibility. Moans, accusations, and grievances echoed around her.

"Commander, think of a way!"

"Quickly call those people back to assist, if this continues, we'll be annihilated!"

"What kind of command are you doing, our people died because of you!" a King Race player pointed at Xu Xiaoyou's nose and cursed, yet was pushed back calmly by the latter mid-word.

Speaking words that shake military morale on the battlefield is indeed a taboo.

Xu Xiaoyou immediately named that person, directing him along with a few other complainers to withstand the pressure from the monsters upfront.

"Members of the Light Chasing Garden, whoever dares say anything to lower morale again, either I personally deal with them or they roll out of the battle team willingly!"

The heroic shout preserved some of the previously low morale, although the words seemed geared toward the members of the Light Chasing Garden, any wise person could see it was warning all present.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The cannon barrage arrived again, a series of cannonballs exploded against the golden barrier, deafening.

With the gathering command, despite the painful price, the remaining players gathered again, with Holy Professionals setting up the line of defense, successfully resisting the next round of cannon barrage without any large-scale casualties.

"If you have better ideas, feel free to propose them, swallow your grievances! Anyone can voice dissatisfaction with me, but not now, understood?"

Everyone lowered their heads, no longer speaking, silently resisting the monster's attacks while slowly advancing.

"President, do you need to defend?" Shadow Weaving Poem's voice came to her ears.

"No, keep advancing with your Black Blade."

"Chichu Chun, likewise."

Monsters surged like an undefined ocean from every corner, from above, the players' gathered formation was like a small solitary boat amidst the ocean, turbulent waves crashing against it, causing the lone boat to sway unsteadily, ready to capsize at any time.

"Roar!"

Seeing the players huddled into a hedgehog formation, the distant female general roared, forcefully striking the bell with her double-bladed spear, the halting bell sound echoing through the entire dark night.

The artillerymen received orders, ceasing the volleys, switching to waves of bombardment against the players' lines, with the echoes of one cannonball not yet dissipated, the next followed closely!

This forced the Holy Professionals to change their strategy, originally able to recover spiritual power during the volleys' intervals, now they could only maintain the barrier for extended periods. At this rate, once anyone could no longer sustain the spiritual power consumption, soon the line would be forcibly breached.

Even a momentary oversight in this situation could be extremely fatal.

Conservatively estimated, the total number of monsters within the barricade exceeded thirty thousand, continuously converging towards their position, if dragged here any longer, not to mention whether the players' physical and spiritual power could withstand long-term consumption.

Once the enemy's main force successfully converges, it would be their doom.

The members of the Black Blade and Red Glow teams were currently deep within the barricade, constantly expanding their view, most of the monsters attracted to their direction, obviously attempting to break through the heavy monster blockade for support would be suicidal for these stealth professions.

Should Angelina's team retreat for defense?

Those main attackers with outstanding combat capabilities could possibly support them in time before the enemy's main force converges, however, such action would mean declaring the decapitation plan against the enemy's elite creatures a failure.

She was aware that the elite creatures opposing them head-on were just heavy ones like the Vomiting Monster and Swollen Giant Demon, it was because of Angelina's team's restraint on more elite creature firepower that they weren't facing greater pressure.

Currently, two paths lay before her.

Immediately seek assistance from Angelina, letting Yan Ze and Angelina lead their people in support, doing so would lead to deep entry into the city ramparts, but after that, they would simultaneously face the bombardment of countless elite creatures, with immense uncertainty.

Unknown often implies potentially greater risk.

Or rely on the players around her to fight their way out, entering the city ramparts before the enemy's main force converges, utilizing the complex terrain within the barricade to shake off enemy pursuit.

Which choice to make?

The few short minutes felt agonizingly long and drawn out for the golden-haired girl.

Players' faces of battling, numbness, and despair deeply imprinted into her eyes.

Just as Xu Xiaoyou's mind raced, judging how to make a decision, the ground suddenly began trembling violently.

The constant bombardment finally weakened their line, exhausted Holy Professionals swayed precariously, being swallowed by the hordes of ratmen, some even falling down directly.

Cannonballs exploded at the center of the players, instantly blasting several players off the high walls.

The surging ratmen once again breached the players' line, vicious faces biting down on flesh, roaring loudly.

The earlier violent shaking was caused by the simultaneously charging Swollen Giant Demon and Vomiting Monster.

These two elite creatures were far larger than they had seen before, like mountains charging crazily towards their direction, each running step causing the earth to tremble.

Seeing them about to crash into the players' lines, with the frontline about to collapse entirely, time seemed to be pressed pause, everything in the world froze at that moment.

The towering monstrous figures suddenly stopped.

The players' fierce shouts halted.

The monsters' roars stopped as well, their twisted forms frozen in space.

A mysterious flute melody floated from somewhere, seemingly carrying away all pain in the world, stripping away all mundane emotions, bringing tranquility into everyone's hearts.

A girl draped in a gray cloak lightly stepped on the blue water moon, as light as a feather, gazing at her mirrored self, with all things blurring in the rippling wave, and only the girl appearing ethereal and unreachable on the water moon...

The beautiful eyes slightly closed, light-colored lips gently parted.

The hair tied up floated from under the gray cap, slender white wrist emerging from her sleeve.

Her fingertips placed on the carved pure white flute mouth.

She had deep, tranquil eyes.

She had hair as vast as the stars.

Her hands were as delicate as porcelain.

Her waist was more graceful and beautiful than the moon's plate.

She was playing the long flute "Popeya's Coronation"

——"Hamelin's Piper"