MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

There were not many skills that could be called Forbidden Curses in King of Pantheon, but most of these curses had one thing in common, which was that they were very complicated to cast. The stronger the Forbidden Curse, the harder it was to cast.

Smaller-scale Forbidden Curses like Raging Inferno could be cast by one Wizard alone, but it was relatively weaker and chanting the incantation took quite a long time as well. When it was about to be activated, there would be a visible change in the weather, so it was rather easy to defend against. All the targets had to do was find the Wizard chanting the spell and hit him. Problem solved.

Of course, be it a large-scale Forbidden Curse cast by several people in tandem or a small-scale Forbidden Curse cast solo, once it was cast, the caster(s) would suffer a penalty to some extent. The punishment could range from being Weak for a few days to permanently losing attribute points. Regardless, it was a steep price to pay.

When Li Yi saw the lightning amidst the clouds, he could already guess which Forbidden Curse this was. It was cast by a Lightning Wizard with the support of the others, a super powerful Forbidden Curse that took more than five hours to cast—Lightning Apocalypse.

The conditions required to cast Lightning Apocalypse were extremely stringent. Not only was the incantation very long, the caster also needed to prepare many materials to cast the spell. There was no way normal players could afford it, because it was simply too expensive, with a single cast costing at least thirty to fifty million Gold Coins.

However, if they could fulfill the conditions, Lightning Apocalypse definitely had the power to satisfy its caster. This was because the attack covered an extremely wide AoE, and once activated, thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts would rain down indiscriminately for up to ten minutes. In order to survive the barrage of lightning, luck was not enough. It required true skill.

“Retreat! Retreat! Everyone, retreat!”

Li Yi kept spamming the National Channel. The situation was so urgent that he even used the Chief Executive’s ability to pay for an announcement.

The fighting was just getting good, with the players hunting and killing each other. Although many of them heard Li Yi’s summons, they were helpless to advance or retreat at the moment. Their movements were no longer in their hands; after all, even though they wanted to retreat, would their opponents let them?

Just as the Invincible Continent players were retreating like the tide, Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut and Bai Xiaoya surrounded them with their troops, stopping the retreating players in their tracks.

“Barrooom…”

The lightning bolts dancing amongst the waves, each as thick as a bucket, began to pelt down on them…

The tens of thousands of lightning bolts attacked the crowd indiscriminately, and each hit dealt tens of thousands in damage.

Li Yi was also within range of the attack, so when he saw the lightning come raining down, all he could do release his Territory to block it.

The lightning entered his Territory light barrier and immediately slowed down, but the situation was not looking good. More lightning bolts entered the light barrier, one after the other, but then they slowed down in unison, approaching the players slowly. The resulting pressure was even worse than if they had all fallen down at once.

The sky above them was covered with lightning bolts. Although the lightning did not move quickly, it would still land eventually, so how would they be able to dodge it then?

“Guild Master, what do we do?”

“Guild Master, f*ck, what the heck is all this…?”

The players who had ducked into Li Yi’s Territory began to yell and shout. In their three years of playing Pantheon, this was their first time encountering such a situation.

“Just sit there until you die!”

Li Yi replied calmly before downing a bottle of Sacred Hope and striding quickly toward the city wall.

Several thousand Iron Ballistae were still firing rapidly, but since he was going to die anyway, he might as well use this chance to destroy a few more ballistae. Otherwise, he would not be able to live with the losses.

“Overlord Arrow!”

“Bam-bam-bam-bam-bam…”

Ten thousand lightning bolts rained down on his head, but Li Yi ignored them, shooting at the Iron Ballistae single-mindedly.

“Booooom!”

“Crack crack crack crack crack!”

The lightning kept coming down, and several hundred or thousand players died every second. Once the Forbidden Curse was activated, there was no stopping it. There was no point even if they located the caster now. The only way to survive was to leave the Forbidden Curse’s attack range.

Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut and Bai Xiaoya led a host of melee class players with high HP and DEF to stand in their way. They did not fight, as they only had one aim, which was to prevent anyone from leaving the Forbidden Curse’s attack range.

Although many Invincible Continent players were still fighting, and plenty of Fluttering Continent players had already died by their hand, now that the Forbidden Curse was hanging over them, their end result seemed inevitable…

Death!

They had already lost!

While Li Yi was desperately shooting at the Iron Ballistae, Unending Unmatched rushed up to him and helped him fend off the attacks coming from all sides.

One ballista, two ballistae, ten, twenty, a hundred…

When Li Yi destroyed the 125th Iron Ballista, the ten thousand lightning bolts above his head rained down on him, killing him in an instant…

When he looked back now, he saw that barely any Invincible Continent players were left standing in the Forbidden Curse’s attack range.

Their army of millions had been wiped out…

Bai Xiaoya pointed with her flute and declared loudly, “Anyone who dares to cross our Fluttering Snow Kingdom will pay for it, no matter how far they’ve come from!”

“F*ck you in the mouth…”

“Motherf*cker…”

“B*tch, how dare you trick us! Just wait and see…”

“Bai Xiaoya, I’ll make you regret this.”

The players lying on the ground swore loudly. The defeat frustrated them endlessly.

“Everyone, there’s no need to resurrect here. Let’s just go back to the city.”

Li Yi sent a message to the National Channel.

“Why must we go back? Let’s get up and fight again, I don’t believe we can’t beat them.”

“Exactly, exactly. We only died once, right? I ain’t scared, let’s all get up at once and retaliate!”

The crowd was in an uproar, ignoring Li Yi’s words completely.

Li Yi sighed and sent a message to the Iron Alliance. “Anyone who doesn’t intend to lose it all, return to the city now!”

Li Yi was the first to choose to resurrect back home.

It had been almost three years since King of Pantheon started running, and the Invincible Continent players had never suffered such a loss. They had been too pampered, believing themselves to be better than the others. Now, they had fallen straight into their opponents’ trap, and yet they refused to admit defeat.

Jiaojiao resurrected back in their country, as did Unending Unmatched, closely followed by Confused Fox, Flower Underpants and the other leaders in the Alliance.

“Bzzt… bzzt… bzzt…”

The yellow-robed Priest Ah Ye and several thousand Light Priests were now standing on the city walls, chanting an incantation in unison. Amidst the ten thousand lightning bolts, the image of a six-winged slowly rose into the sky…

It was a Light Forbidden Curse, Angelic Prayer!

Casting Angelic Prayer also required stringent conditions as well as several times more materials than Lightning Apocalypse did. If casting Lightning Apocalypse once cost around 30,000,000 Gold Coins, casting Angelic Prayer once would cost 100,000,000 at the very least.

Angelic Prayer only had one use, and that was while the angel sang the hymn, there was a chance it would resurrect a dead player. Since Holy Light was kind and loving, these resurrections transcended factions. It did not work on monsters, but it could revive any players.

Starting from the six-winged angel’s first note, several thousand Invincible Continent players who had been lying on the floor resurrected and stood up despite themselves, before they were immediately struck dead by Lightning Apocalypse again…

There was an endless stream of players being resurrected and then immediately killed, only to resurrect again, and die again…

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