Nie Ping’s backup plan

On the battlefield in the sky above the Northern City, Bai Yun, after burning her magic essence, was entangled with the weakest of the attacking Sequence Six vampires.

Leng, who had just been injured head-on, didn’t dare to get close to Bai Yun after she ignited her magic essence.

He could only use vampire magic to try and create distance between them.

But how could Bai Yun, who was burning her magic essence, give him such an opportunity?

Using her speed advantage, she wanted to quickly close in on Leng, hoping to inflict more injuries on him, or better yet, keep him here.

By making an example of him, she would give the other two vampire Earls a warning and try to drag out the time until the defensive rotation was complete.

Bai Yun could see the battlefield on the defensive line below clearly.

However, facing the breached defensive line, she had no extra strength to help the defenders below stabilize it.

The real deciding factor for the entire city’s victory or defeat now was not whether the Northern City’s defensive line was breached by the enemy, but the five figures appearing in the sky, including herself.

‘I have to be faster, I can’t give him space to cast his blood magic.’

Bai Yun’s speed in the sky suddenly increased.

Taking advantage of the gap while Leng was casting his blood magic, she caught up with him.

The fleeting opportunity was seized by Bai Yun.

At this moment, all the functions of Bai Yun’s body had reached their limit.

Every piece of her flesh and blood was operating in overload, bearing the flow of too much magic essence.

She didn’t have many choices: either condense all the magic essence in her body for a final blow, trying to heavily injure the vampire, or maintain the status quo and drag it out further, until she lost her combat power and the three vampires ganged up on Nie Ping.

Without any hesitation, Bai Yun chose the former, wanting to gamble for a chance to reduce the enemy’s numbers.

Seeing the fiercely burning magic essence gather on Bai Yun’s fists, a faint light flickered in the air.

Someone was attracted by the light and unconsciously looked up at the mid-air, where the outcome of the battle would be decided.

An unadorned punch was thrown straight at Leng’s face.

With a prepared mind against an unprepared one, this was already Bai Yun’s full-power strike at the moment.

Splat.

Leng’s body, which took the punch, was directly affected by the magic essence and exploded, scattering a localized blood rain in the mid-air above the Northern City.

After exhausting all the magic essence in her body, she had already lost the qualification to act again.

She had even squeezed out the last bit of magic essence in her body, not even leaving enough to stay afloat, letting herself drift down from mid-air.

At this time, Bai Yun’s beautiful hair faded from raven black, instead to a lifeless white like withered branches.

The side effects of burning magic essence were quickly revealed after Bai Yun lost its support.

Nie Ping, who had been dividing his attention three ways, saw Bai Yun falling and hurriedly let go of his opponent, finally catching her before she hit the ground.

Since the two sides had engaged, this was the first time they had pulled apart, standing and facing each other from opposite sides.

Not far from where Leng’s body had exploded, Leng, who had retreated more than ten meters, reappeared in the sky.

His condition was not good at the moment.

His face was pale, and his clothes were in disarray from Bai Yun’s direct hit.

Bai Yun’s punch just now had given him a feeling that his life was threatened, as if reminding him that the other party had already given it their all.

‘For a Sequence Five human to be able to threaten me, she has enough to be proud of.’

Due to Bai Yun, as a warrior, having a speed advantage, after burning her magic essence, she had closed the distance too quickly.

Leng had no choice but to use the only defensive magic scroll he had on him.

“Fortunately, I had a magic scroll on me, otherwise I would have lost my life here.”

With that, Leng pulled out the remaining half of a Blood Body Scroll from his clothes.

It was this scroll that had blocked the final blow for Leng.

However, without the protection of the Blood Body Scroll, Leng’s face was not looking good.

This was his only life-saving scroll.

If such a life-threatening situation were to occur again, he wouldn’t be able to pull out a second magic scroll to protect his life.

“Earl Fol, Earl Tate? Aren’t you two going to take this opportunity to finish them off?”

Leng’s resentment towards Earl Fol was not that great, because the other party was, after all, entangled with a true Sequence Six, so it was understandable that he couldn’t lend a hand.

But towards Earl Tate, who had not moved from the beginning, Leng was quite resentful.

Although Leng knew that their relationships were not close, and they would surely hold back…

If the other party had made a move, then he wouldn’t have had to waste a precious magic scroll.

One had to know that among the current vampires, there were not many who had mastered the art of making magic scrolls, and the production steps for most high-level magic scrolls were lost.

A magic scroll like the Blood Body Scroll was one where every use meant one less.

How could Leng not feel heartbroken?

At this moment, Tate, who was locked onto by the third person on the field, was suffering in silence.

If he showed any sign of rash movement, the first to die would definitely be him.

Under the lock of two different forces, he couldn’t even open his mouth to explain.

The one who stood up to smooth things over was Fol, “Now the other side only has one person left. As long as we attack together, we can definitely take him down.”

Seeing that the initially set goal was about to be achieved, Fol’s words made Leng feel a little better.

However, as a Sequence Six, a sense of crisis from his subconscious suddenly appeared, making it impossible for him to ignore.

Just behind Nie Ping, concealed by his back, a rocket launcher loaded with a magic essence crystal as its warhead was aiming at the just-reappeared Leng in the sky.

From the very beginning of the battle, Nie Ping had already set a tactic: they must reduce the enemy’s top-level combat power.

Whether it was the initial sneak attack or Bai Yun’s actions, both were aimed at achieving this goal.

After forcing out Leng’s life-saving trump card, now was the time to use this rocket launcher hidden in the Northern City.

All the magic essence crystals saved up before had been invested in it.

The aiming and firing of the rocket launcher were completed in one go, within a short ten seconds, not giving the vampires much time to react.

When Leng’s sixth sense was telling him he needed to dodge, the shell loaded with a magic essence crystal warhead had already arrived in front of him.

The mid-air of the Northern City was illuminated.

The surroundings were filled with the high temperature and pressure produced by the explosion.

The detonated magic essence crystal caused the free magic essence to fall into a state of agitation.

The explosion even affected the vampires still outside the city, the high temperature carrying magic essence scorching the skin of who knows how many vampires.

Miserable screams sounded continuously from outside the city.

The smoke gradually dispersed.

Leng, at the center of the explosion, now looked even more miserable than before.

His clothes were gone without a trace, and several visible wounds had appeared.

If it weren’t for the other two vampire Earls beside him taking part of the explosion’s force for him, he wouldn’t have died in the explosion, but he was now seriously injured and unable to fight again.

But now, all three Earls had suffered varying degrees of injury.

When Tate acted, he had emitted the aura of a Sequence Five, which was also caught by the other two.

“Retreat first!”

The three Earls looked at each other, their eyes revealing their shared thought.

‘We cannot die here!’