Apocalypse: Hero of Potato Fields-Chapter 377 - 362: Striking from Sky to Earth

The soldiers in the shelter did not attempt to kill the enemy, only wanting to injure them and force them to consume their magic value.

Soon, their aura barriers and magic were depleted, and the injured giants lost their ability to move, beginning to hinder other troops.

In this chaotic battle alone, the enemy lost 96 giants, 700 chimera guards, about 30 vampires, and 2000 suicide squad members.

The vampires also consumed a large amount of magic value, so some of them had to drink potions.

All the giants had many bleeding wounds, and their armor was completely scrapped.

The knee injuries made them completely unable to move.

Once the enemy’s main force began approaching the steel walls, the soldiers fired cannons and mortars, striving to eliminate the mages.

Forcing the enemy to accelerate their actions.

A hundred second-level aura users could not withstand a magic-enhanced shell, and all the artillerymen possessed third-level "Precise Shooting" skills, so 90% of their shells hit the target.

As expected, the vampires began dispatching flying units, including 5000 various winged monsters and 200 vampires riding pegasus.

The final helicopter in the shelter, UH-60L, flew out to confront them alongside the dragon.

Near the city walls, three insect men and nearly 700 devourers were responsible for air defense.

If the enemy dared to fly low, they would be shot down by infantry, but sooner or later, they would have to lower altitude to launch an attack.

The enemy cautiously advanced.

At the forefront were the remnants of the giant squads, followed by giants that were about five meters shorter but twice as stout.

These thirteen-meter-tall behemoths carried shields. No, they rolled the shields.

They could lift the shields and jump over the tracks left on the ground. Behind them were mage squads surrounded by aura users.

The enemy was attacked by gunners, archers, and mages.

The enemy’s mages counterattacked with their own magic, one vampire noticed the defenders were not using rockets or fire magic.

So he decided to release a fireball.

After flying for 18, the fireball exploded, covering the entire battlefield in soil, and the vampires realized they’d fallen into a trap, immediately began retreating.

According to the human plan, the enemy should have detonated at their triggering point.

But due to a careful vampire mage, the enemy discovered the trap when they had only traveled halfway.

Rockets flew out, followed by an unprecedented explosion, half the battlefield ignited in flames, roasting every creature that couldn’t escape.

Mages and aura users persisted for a while, some even escaped from fires hot enough to melt metal.

Meanwhile, a fierce battle raged in the sky.

Da Chuan spewed flames, scorching henchmen while resisting the vampire’s attacks.

While Mira distracted the enemy, she drew their fire towards herself.

She was extremely fast and agile, flames couldn’t hit her at all, and she didn’t fear lightning or wind spells, earth mages couldn’t hit the aerial target.

The helicopter usually used for transporting paratroopers fired its two 20mm guns at the weaker enemies, while the infantry on board shot at the enemy group with laser rifles.

Any enemy attempting to approach the helicopter, as well as any attempting to invade the shelter’s airspace, would be attacked by devourers.

In fact, the enemy didn’t particularly care about conquering the city, their goal was to destroy the dragon and the aircraft that was annihilating vampires and their barriers.

Despite having the numerical advantage, Da Chuan gradually became physically exhausted.

Even though the ground was chaotic, the vampires in the sky didn’t stop attacking.

Instead, they intensified the offensive, and the golden dragon was finally surrounded by enemies from all sides, who clung to it tightly, tearing off its scales, biting its flesh.

Mira and the devourers had to rescue them, Lin Yi teleported Da Chuan to the lake, and sent the crew members to the hospital.

The helicopter could no longer continue fighting, vampires immediately became bold, launching more fierce attacks.

The enemy’s main attack force was the chimera.

Vampires only led them and used magic to support them as much as possible, while protecting their flying units, resisting the silver dragon.

Airborne mages were the vampire’s elite units, all at level 30 or above.

Equipped with top-tier gear made by the capital’s finest craftsmen.

Along with various potions that temporarily boost magic ability, heal wounds, even restore magic value.

The vampires resisted Mira’s attacks.

The dragon realized it couldn’t confront these enemies head-on, so it swiftly dove towards the city walls.

The enemy began pursuing their prey—if they could eliminate the dragon, the sky would belong to them!

The massive insects were indeed annoying, but they were no match for the vampires and their troops.

At this moment, fireballs and lightning poured down from the sky, bullets and counter-attacking magic also shot at the enemy.

The battle lightly pulled back to the ground.

Fierce fighting erupted on the city walls.

The chimeras made from mutated animals attempted to grab humans and throw them off the city walls, or directly choke them with their claws.

They have used this strategy in many previous battles.

However, this time-tested strategy still failed.

Lin Yi’s sharp gaze saved the shelter soldiers time and again.

The soldiers greeted the enemy with dense gunfire and magic spells.

Humans quickly erected a siege barrier to protect the mages from enemy attacks.

The Hellfire Compound created extremely intense flames, enough to melt steel, but didn’t last long.

Except for the enemies who managed to escape and a few hundred charred "statues," the troops trapped in the fire trap were obliterated.

But some "statues" started to move again, slowly walking toward the walls, though most died before taking ten steps.

Even their giant shields had melted into a pool of molten iron and ash, yet their bodies somehow managed to remain partially intact.

Azaroth once said, the enemy’s greatest advantage is their adaptability...

Before the attack, the vampires tried to scout the enemy’s territory to locate more fire traps, and it proved to be a wise move.

When the burning compound ignited, it seemed the entire battlefield was about to explode, but with no victims as fuel, the flames quickly extinguished.

The chimeras carried ropes, wood ladders, planks, wall debris, sacks of dirt, corpses, and other various items.

Upon seeing the moat, the first thing the vampires did was attempt to fill it in.

Having encountered this situation many times before, they knew ignoring the moat could result in heavy casualties.

Arrows, bullets, crossbow bolts, boomerangs, and long spears rained down on the enemy.

Though the flying chimeras learned lessons from close combat with humans, the vampires didn’t anticipate the defenders possessing such formidable firepower.

The vampires used air and earth to create stairs, and the chimeras began to climb toward the top of the wall, while others actively filled in the moat or attempted to climb the walls with ropes and hooks.

However, beastmen, knights, and members of the Child of the Sun organization in power armor were already waiting at the top of the walls.

The gunners tried to eliminate the aerial chimeras and ground mages, while archers aimed for the magical stairs, and human mages held back the vampire mages.

The battlefield seemed chaotic, but in reality, everything was under control.

Lin Yi carefully watched his soldiers; if anyone was thrown off the wall, he teleported them to the lakeside and then back to the wall.

If a fireball struck and a soldier couldn’t dodge in time, he would teleport them a few meters away.

Of course, he couldn’t see and control every situation, but the soldiers were fearless.

All civilian volunteers and warriors in simple armor were inside the walls, shooting out through the embrasures.

The aerial chimeras and vampires soon realized they had severely underestimated the enemy.

When attacking other arks, they usually easily crushed any resistance, but now...

Almost every enemy could conduct ranged attacks, and they were extremely powerful; the flying chimeras fell from the sky like raindrops.

Moreover, the vampire elite squads could not inflict significant damage on the enemy.

Their attempt to eliminate the dragon ended in failure; the dragon was protected by several siege barriers, with professors and a group of healers actively treating it.

Humans did not hesitate to use the expensive healing potions and magic potions they looted after the last vampire attack.

After abandoning the idea of killing the dragon, the vampire flying mages turned to attack the defenders.

But no matter which direction they attacked from, human mages would always suddenly appear to block their magic.

They couldn’t fly too low, or they’d be shot down by assault rifles, while magic launched from higher altitudes was less effective and easily obstructed.

The vampires were in a stalemate.

All they could do was draw the human mages’ fire, but their magic value was depleting, and each had already consumed two bottles of magic potion...

The ground battle also turned chaotic.

The moat was filled with bodies.

At this moment, Boria and his stinger worms, known as "Stingers," joined the battle, starting to emerge from beneath the protective dome of the enemy squads.

Using their fangs, they bit the mages, fired spikes at unreachable enemies, and dragged prey back underground.

They caused chaos within the enemy ranks.

Tanks appeared from the south, firing shells enhanced by magic to increase the blast radius.

The next minute was a nightmare for the enemy.

gunners loaded AP-4 rifles with magic-enhanced bullets, augmented with armor-piercing and explosive capabilities.

If a small bullet hit the body of a ten-meter-tall chimera, it would penetrate and explode, leaving a fist-sized hole on the monster’s body...

And humans seemed to have endless supplies of such bullets!

The enemy’s aura barriers and shields shattered one by one.

Chimeras protecting the mages were blasted to pieces along with the mages.

After approximately one minute of continuous firing, over 300 vampire mages were eliminated.

The cannons continued to harvest the lives of enemies farther from the walls. Mortars also joined the fight as those flying monsters finally stopped harassing them...