Flame Ripper’s attack literally ripped through all the restraints that had been placed on the Lion Mantises, including their ties to life. Ifrit had answered Flame Ripper’s call for more power and blessed him with another increase in terms of his speed, allowing him to reach a high enough velocity to pierce through the Lion Mantises armour.
However, speed was nothing when there was no precision. Were it not for the combined teamwork of Jin’s minions, Flame Ripper could not have steadily aimed for the necks of the Lion Mantises. By the end of his Destruction Dagger Dash, the cultivators around him would remember him as a monster not to mess around with in the future when they saw all the decapitated heads slowly sliding off Shu’s spikes.
Instead of consuming the bodies, as usual, he now grew more roots to cover the rest of the bodies and even secreted some corrosive poison from his root spikes. This caused the Lion Mantises to melt to prevent them from have the slightest chance of regenerating.
At that moment, Jin had already led the charge forward with his band of cultivators towards the sky bridge while Qiu Yue ordered the rest to divert their fights aside to create a path for the Pandapolis Cavalry to push on.
However, the Demon Horde was not about to give any quarters for this newly formed band of humans to charge through their hard-earned progress. In record speed, they had already formed a defensive formation at the edge of the sky bridge awaiting Jin’s group.
“Those insolent demons.” Sandy cursed as she unveiled the Sand Dome for Ke Mi to take in some fresh air. In the meantime, she also used the materials from the Sand Dome to create an upward gradient over the Demon Horde’s defences, allowing Jin’s Cavalry to charge forward without any impedance.
“Guys, I don’t see any ground after that point?! ARE WE JUMPING OFF THE SLOPE?!!” Yue Han questioned even though his Bat mount was already hovering along with the rest of the group. They all felt that they could exert control on the mount with some chi manipulation, but that particular idea did not really register to Yue Han as anxiety got the better of him first.
“YES, WE ARE!” Jin shouted as he placed more Maqi into his Black Sludge Panda while preparing Green Panda Wind energy to allow the entire cavalry to safely land further on the sky bridge.
“Stalingrad, commence bombardment on the sky bridge! Take note of our allies!” Hou Fei ordered as he watched the progress of Jin and Captain Gan Yang quickly acknowledged, relaying the command given by his general.
“Wyrstriker, prepare to sortie a flyby to clear any pesky remnants from the bridge!” Qiu Yue complemented Hou Fei’s tactics with aerial units so that the threat on the sky bridge could be minimised when Jin’s Cavalry moved through it. Wyrstriker and his knights gladly took the mission with pleasure. He had already been worried that they would be out of commission after returning from their fight against the Dragon Devils and Bat Bottleflies.
Though the Goblin Clerics and Mages complained about needing a rest, some nearly vomited out the mana potions they had been drinking like water. All just so they could heal Wyrstriker and his knights in time. Mostly because they were very adamant about going back to the field because they believed that the situation could change with their presence.
“On my command… JUMP!!!” Jin shouted as he released his Green Panda Wind energy to his whole group, allowing the cavalry unit to soar into the skies as well as giving them an easier time to manipulate their chi onto their mounts.
From their elevated position, they had the perfect view of the last wave of Stalingrad’s punishing bombardment clearing the masses of demons off the bridge. And as if that was not enough for, the Wyvern Goblin Knights were swooping in from their sides not a moment later, blowing wyvern fire into any remaining survivors.
“Holy shit, if this is not a massacre, I do not know what is.” Mad Monkey Cultivator Shi Zuo said as he looked down from his soaring mount.
“Stay sharp! We are landing soon, so convert some of your chi into a forward point barrier.” Jin reminded them and then realised some of the lower grade cultivators like Si Fang and Ke Ru might not catch on to this rapid development.
Even the seasoned Pandawans were confused about hearing such a term for the very first time. Noticing the strange silence, Jin finally recalled that he was only able to do such a thing because his chi had combined with magic. The same, however, could not be said about his group.
“It’s alright, don’t mind what I’ve said. Just stay behind me. We are going to charge without stopping. We’ll only halt when we are in front of the final boss!” Jin then looked back at his shoulder. Right inside the hoodie of the jacket, Moloch popped out of it and was already aware of what Jin wanted.
“I will assist with the barrier, but it will be flashy. King Baal or Kiva will immediately realise that it would be my doing.” Moloch said, making Jin grin.
“Isn’t that the whole point of this counterattack assault?”
“Depends on whether or not you mind getting greeted with a giant fireball for sheltering your enemies’ greatest enemy. Fine then, since we aren’t going to hold back, I will also prepare some off-hand offensive spells to hurl at enemies while reinforcing your shields.” Moloch agreed as he checked his ‘seat belt’ on Jin’s hoodie to ensure that he was still appropriately secured.
“You sure you want to waste your strength on these rascals?”
“No worries about that. I left my puppet behind, which basically frees up my mana, so I should have more than enough to go by.” Moloch said as he magically popped out his deck of cards (the look of the minotaur plushie with a mini-sized deck of cards was so cute, it gave Jin the idea for a celebratory plushie if they came out alive)
“Besides, I believe more help is coming in, so I should be fine.”
“If you say so- Oh Shit!” Jin barely landed on the sky bridge, he suddenly saw a giant fireball coming his way and he quickly put up a Maqi Barrier to stop the attack (Did Moloch jinx them or was he just aware of his former king’s characteristics?).
“Maintain position!” Jin shouted as the fireball splattered itself onto his barrier and subsequently spilt over to the sides of the barrier. The System detected that it was coming from the Safe Zone and specifically from their VIP.
There was no need for Moloch to show off his magic tricks. It appeared as if he had already managed to grab the attention of King Baal.
The Pandawans were impressed that Jin was able to stop a fireball head-on when all of them would have just attempted to evade it with fear in them. “Oh gosh, Boss. You are awesome!” Luo Bo sang him praises as she took out her bow and arrow.
“But I think you should not waste too much of your chi protecting us. You are, after all our lead!” She commented as she nocked her bow and this time there were three equally large fireballs incoming. Jia Le and Jing Ru also took out their weapons and prepared to intercept the attack.
“Thank you,” Jin said as he concentrated on leading and protecting the front.
