Chapter 233: The Battle Begins, the First Volley

The Black Sphere War Room had already locked onto the targets, ready to order the Artillery Position to fire at any moment.

“Reporting to Miss Kamiyu, the enemy’s first wave of 50,000 Fruit Ability Users has fully entered the range of the Magic Cannon. Should we open fire?” Xiao Zhong asked.

Kamiyu shook her head, looking up at the large screen. “It’s still too early. The Magic Cannon’s range is only 100 kilometers. We should wait until their entire army of 300,000 enters the range before we encircle them and wipe them out completely.”

Hearing Kamiyu’s confident words, the previously tense atmosphere in the War Room quickly settled. Meanwhile, the Players on the frontlines at the first, second, and third City Walls were all eager and ready, following instructions to update coordinates at any moment. Since they were beyond visual range, they relied on the provided coordinates to prepare for firing.

The experts from the Kite Squad on the Tree Branches saw that Kamiyu was holding back and not making a move. They shook their heads and said, “The overall strategy is wrong. I remember the Invincible Guild has those War Horse vehicles. Why aren’t they Summoning them to delay the Ability User Army? I really don’t know what the Commander is doing. It seems Kamiyu’s skill level is just about that.”

“Exactly. Cavalry has a natural advantage over Infantry. The Invincible Guild is famous for vehicle-based warfare. Why would they abandon their advantage to engage in positional warfare? I give this so-called Sanctuary less than three minutes before it’s flattened,” another person added, even more pessimistic.

Lin Fan, the Captain of the Kite Squad, snorted and said, “The Invincible Guild only has a few hundred people left. A few hundred against hundreds of thousands—the numerical gap is too large. No matter how advantageous cavalry is, it’s useless. Charging in would just be suicide. Hiding in the Sanctuary only delays the inevitable death. Still, whether they die now or later, this group is truly cowardly.”

Meanwhile, on the Ability Users’ side.

The Fifth-Tier Ability User, Hungry Ghost Shara, saw that Kamiyu had not led the Players out to engage and wear down the first wave of Fruit Ability Users. He muttered to himself, “What spineless people. My arrangement of ten Fourth-Tier Ability Users to Protect the advance of the first wave of Fruit Ability Users was wasted. It seems unnecessary after all.”

It turned out that Hungry Ghost Shara was worried about Kamiyu’s strength and feared she would lead the Players out. That’s why he had arranged ten Fourth-Tier Ability Users to Protect the advance of the first wave of Fruit Ability Users.

Therefore, Hungry Ghost Shara waved his hand grandly. “No need to hide our strength.”

Control the slave array, Speed Up the advance.

Immediately, the 300,000 Fruit Ability Users began sprinting forward at an accelerated pace, faster than zombies in an apocalypse film, almost reaching the speed of a motorcycle. After all, Fruit Ability Users possessed Fourth-Tier strength, and their physical abilities were formidable.

Hungry Ghost Shara didn’t even notify the leading Fourth-Tier Ability Users at the front. They watched as the Fruit Ability Users below surged forward like a swarm of locusts, flattening all obstacles in their path—buildings, streetlights, vehicles—everything was crushed and trampled, kicking up clouds of dust.

“Oh? Fruit Ability Users can move this fast?”

“Lord Shara is amazing! He can command an army of 300,000 like this?”

“We can’t fall behind either. Let’s attack first and cut down the Players’ heads to exchange for Ability Fruits,” one Ability User said.

The Black Sphere War Room observed the unusual movement.

“The enemy’s three hundred thousand strong army has now fully entered the 100-kilometer range,” one intelligence officer reported.

“Lady Kamiyu, the enemy is accelerating and will reach the outermost first line of defense within 10 minutes,” another intelligence officer added.

“It’s time for us to make our entrance, Jack,” Kamiyu said, turning her head.

Jack stood up, the humming of his sword serving as his response.

Kamiyu walked onto the balcony and took out a brand-new horn. “Next, it’s time to sound the horn of victory.”

She took a deep breath, and the horn emitted a distant, resonant sound.

Immediately, a complex golden Magic Circle appeared in the sky. A white horse with wings stepped through the circle, emerging from the dimensional space into reality. With each step it took in mid-air, sparkling magical effects appeared.

The team members on the City Wall erupted in cheers: “Wow, it’s Miss Kamiyu’s Royal Pegasus!”

“Are we about to launch an attack?”

“I can’t hold back anymore.”

Kamiyu and Jack leaped lightly onto the Flying Horse. Jack, clad entirely in black Heavy Armor, took the reins of the Royal Pegasus like a proper knight and took off with Kamiyu. A shooting star streaked across the Sanctuary, heading straight for the Battlefield.

Kamiyu stared intently ahead and said, “Slow down, don’t fly so fast. Let the enemy army come within visual range of our Sanctuary’s Players. I want everyone to see just how severe the consequences are for provoking me and our Sanctuary.”

Jack knew Kamiyu was up to her Flexing antics again and smirked. “You really do have a twisted sense of fun.”

Kamiyu gave him a light elbow jab and retorted, “See through it, but don’t say it out loud. You always have to point it out.”

On the Ability Users’ side, “Look, that Player named Kamiyu has flown out.”

“She actually has a flying ability? This complicates things. Her Lightning Element attacks are incredibly powerful, and this is a wide-open plain. She can strike us from the sky.”

“What’s there to fear? Her flying speed is so slow. I can shoot her down in two or three moves,” a Hornet Ability User said.

“Exactly, we have five Flying Ability Users, and she’s just one. There’s no way she can beat us. Besides, the fact that they sent out their Great General right from the start proves they have no one else to use. We’re definitely going to win this,” another Locust Ability User reasoned convincingly.

Kamiyu’s deliberate mischief, slowing down her speed, once again confused those Ability Users whose brain capacity was no larger than a walnut.

Kamiyu stopped at the 30-kilometer mark, waiting there “well-rested for the weary enemy.”

“Hmph, too scared to come any closer?”

“Hahaha, this Player isn’t nearly as formidable as Men San made her out to be. It seems she’s nothing special after all.”

“Of course, that’s to be expected. We have three hundred thousand troops, while they don’t even have a thousand people in total. Coming here is just asking to die.”

“Brothers, let’s charge! Cut off her head and take it back to claim a reward from Lord Shara.”

“Wait for me.”

“I’m coming too.”

With that, the five Flying Ability Users rushed toward Kamiyu at high speed.

“Damn it, you Flying Ability Users are really shameless,” a crawling-type Ability User grumbled resentfully.

On Kamiyu’s side, she had already set up the Barrett Cannon, its 2-meter-long Gun Barrel extending past the head of the Royal Pegasus.

She said calmly, “Only five? That means I’ll have to waste two more Magic Bullets.”

However, this time was different. Kamiyu returned to her true nature as a sniper and decided to challenge herself by adopting a burst-fire mode.

She pulled the trigger directly.

Load: Thunderstorm Bullet, Select: Frenzied Lightning Arrow, Stack: Armor-Piercing Bullet.

Choose Core Skill: Super-Phase Energy Cannon.

With a “Zii-wuu~biu~” sound, a platinum-colored light-speed cannon with a diameter of five meters instantly vaporized the Hornet Ability User who had charged forward the fastest.

“Down,” Kamiyu shouted, just like the player Xi Ai Fu.