Free Web NovelChapter 477: Chapter 275: Make a Deal
Being cautious, Fang Zhen decided against using the strange stone immediately. He put it away, planning to get it properly appraised after the instance concluded.
Moon’s body had completely disintegrated. The force of the gas canister explosion had been immense, shattering all his other Extraordinary Items and leaving nothing behind.
Fang Zhen only managed to collect the diamond-shaped metal pieces Moon had used for his attacks.
Fang Zhen gave the area a quick check. Seeing nothing else of value, he decided to leave.
He summoned his Red Hare Warhorse and left the area.
Fang Zhen returned to the combat zone, heading to a high slope near the earlier fight that offered a view of the battlefield below.
When Fang Zhen arrived, he found that the Curse Sealers on the battlefield were losing.
Without Fang Zhen’s Crystal Bone Crow providing a bird’s-eye view of the battlefield, finding the leaders among the nearly identical corrupted soldiers was a difficult task.
The three hundred or so Curse Sealers who had charged out of the city were quickly being overwhelmed by the corrupted soldiers.
The Curse Sealers fought to break through left and right, trying to secure some room to maneuver, but they were steadily losing ground and had already suffered dozens of casualties.
Fang Zhen was on the high slope by the dam. He found a spot with a clear line of sight, dismounted, and pulled out his AWP sniper rifle. Crouching down, he aimed below while his Crystal Bone Crow swooped down toward the battle.
With the Crystal Bone Crow there, Fang Zhen could sense the situation below from almost five hundred meters away.
He quickly scanned the crowd and locked onto a corrupted soldier leader wearing a white mask. freёwebnovel.com
BANG!
BANG! BANG!
Every seven or eight seconds, Fang Zhen locked onto a corrupted soldier leader and blew their head apart with a single shot.
With every shot, over a hundred of the black-masked corrupted soldiers collapsed, their Spirit connection severed, leaving them as nothing more than piles of inert flesh.
Fang Zhen reloaded four times, killing more than forty of the corrupted soldier leaders. Down in the valley, over four thousand corrupted soldiers had collapsed.
By this point, the Curse Sealers had noticed Fang Zhen on the high slope, sniping the corrupted soldier leaders.
The pressure on them eased tremendously. Freed from the threat of death, they elatedly waved their weapons and cheered in Fang Zhen’s direction.
Fang Zhen trained the scope of his AWP sniper rifle on the battlefield, locking onto several high-ranking members of the Eternal Night Council.
Alexander, West, and the others were locked in a stalemate with the councilors from the Eternal Night Council.
The Curse Sealers who had disengaged from the main fight quickly realized what was happening and charged toward the councilors of the Eternal Night Council.
The death of the corrupted soldiers had already made the few councilors from the Eternal Night Council sense that something was wrong. They wanted to retreat unscathed, but they couldn’t get away.
Among the Curse Sealers bogging down the Eternal Night Council, Alexander was obviously the strongest; he already had a portly councilor completely on the defensive.
The other high-ranking members of the Whig Society, West and Anglo, were evenly matched with the councilors from the Eternal Night Council, with neither side gaining the upper hand.
It would have been difficult for West and the others to win quickly, but bogging down their opponents was easy.
When the corrupted soldiers were besieging them, the battlefield had been very unfavorable for the members of the Whig Society. But now that the corrupted soldiers had been completely cleared out, the Curse Sealers were free to act.
The tables had turned. The battlefield was now extremely disadvantageous for the councilors of the Eternal Night Council.
Fang Zhen looked down through his scope. In each smaller skirmish, dozens of Curse Sealers had a councilor from the Eternal Night Council completely surrounded.
One councilor tried to flee, launching a fierce assault in an attempt to break away, but he was instantly controlled by Anglo’s Kun Sha Seal.
At the same time, the Whig Society’s Curse Sealers began taking turns.
The Whig Society’s Curse Sealers were a type of Warrior whose individual combat abilities were formidable. However, they tended to be at a disadvantage in large-scale battles due to their limited numbers.
But when dozens of Curse Sealers surrounded a single councilor from the Eternal Night Council, even though the councilor’s power far exceeded that of a normal Curse Sealer, they could still be controlled by the Kun Sha Seal.
The Kun Sha Seal was the basic curse seal for all Curse Sealers. Even a Tier One Curse Sealer could use it, though the duration of its effect on a target was relatively short.
With dozens of Curse Sealers surrounding each Eternal Night Council councilor and repeatedly using the Kun Sha Seal, the battlefield fell into a peculiar state.
The councilors of the Eternal Night Council were fine as long as they weren’t bogged down or trapped, but the moment one of them was struck by a Kun Sha Seal, they would be controlled by dozens of Curse Sealers until they were dead.
The four councilors from the Eternal Night Council were hit one after another. The portly councilor was already being restrained by Alexander, and was then continuously controlled by the surrounding Curse Sealers.
While the portly councilor’s Spirit was in a daze, Alexander used his Saber to cut off the man’s legs.
The portly councilor let out a bloodcurdling scream and fell to the ground.
In the other skirmishes, a female councilor and a tall, thin councilor were also hit. They were controlled in turn by the Kun Sha Seal, after which their limbs were crippled. West bound them with the same kind of Alchemy Net Fang Zhen had seen before, and they were captured alive.
Another councilor from the Eternal Night Council was wearing some alchemical equipment and managed to resist the Kun Sha Seal’s attacks several times. He tried to escape, violently breaking out of the battle group in a desperate attempt to flee.
And at that exact moment, a gunshot rang out. BANG! Fang Zhen, who had been aiming down from the high slope, fired his rifle once more.
He hadn’t aimed this shot visually, but by instinct—after all, the councilor was moving incredibly fast.
The bullet struck the Eternal Night Council councilor’s left leg with pinpoint accuracy. The immense kinetic energy of the AWP sniper rifle blew the councilor’s left leg clean off at the thigh.
