Douluo Continent: Ultimate Ice Light, Starting with God-Level Dual Martial Souls

Chapter 163 The Martial Soul Empire's army is at the city gates! They're here! The enemy is attacking!

Tensions and unease have already set in at the border city of Barak. The hundreds of thousands of defending troops are already hesitant before the battle even begins, and the soldiers are uncertain and their morale is quite low.

"Report!!!"

"The army of the Spirit Empire is attacking!!!"

The generals in the city hurriedly asked, "Who is the commander-in-chief of the Martial Soul Empire!"

"It's Emperor Guangyu of the Spirit Empire!!"

"What! Guangyu is actually leading the troops personally?! This!!" The generals' faces showed horror upon hearing this; just hearing Guangyu's name made them somewhat terrified.

"So what if he's the Emperor Guangyu of the Spirit Empire?!"

"Our border town is garrisoned by 400,000 troops, which is twice the size of the enemy's forces. Moreover, the border town has already invested a lot of money to build and strengthen the city walls for defense."

"Furthermore, the defensive formation taught to us by the Heaven Dou Empire has made our border city's defenses impregnable. Even a Title Douluo powerhouse cannot break through our city gates!"

"Even if Guangyu himself comes, he won't be able to easily break through the city gates and storm in! Defend the border city with all your might! They can't get in!!"

One of the generals boosted morale.

"That's right! The border town is already impregnable, so what do we have to fear!"

"Let's go! Head to the city gate and meet the enemy!!"

The generals in the city quickly regained their confidence and headed towards the city gate.

The city walls and gates in the Douluo Continent world are exceptionally well-defended. According to official data from the original novel, the gates of Jialing Pass are five meters thick and weigh over 100,000 jin (50,000 kg), and the city walls are incredibly thick.

As is well known, there are also great differences in the world's metal minerals and other resources and materials. For example, there are very strong and hard high-quality materials such as black iron, copper ore, sunken silver, black steel, extraterrestrial meteorite iron, cold iron, etc.

The city gates made of different materials have different defensive effects on the city walls.

Take the defense of Jialing Pass as an example; ordinary titled Douluo powerhouses simply cannot break through it.

Barak Border City has been reinforced and upgraded, although its defenses are not as strong as those of Jialing Pass.

However, with the coordination of the entire defense system and the protection provided by the collective formation of multiple people, ordinary title seals are indeed difficult to break through easily.

However, a titled Douluo-level powerhouse is not truly invincible without the support of an army.

It's not as simple as just having an official title and randomly charging into an army to slaughter a wave, then running away when you're almost out of soul power. A titled player facing an attack from tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people is not just a matter of numbers.

The army possessed a variety of heavy military machinery and weapons, such as heavy crossbows, crossbow carts, catapults, and other different types of powerful military weapons and machinery.

Soldiers can also throw spears wildly, archers can fire arrows, and most importantly, the enemy army includes not only soldiers but also soul masters.

With a multitude of soul skills bombarding the field, and with so many soul masters, there are countless bizarre and varied skills.

Sometimes, what's frightening isn't the sheer power of these Soul Masters, but rather their bizarre and unique skills, such as reducing the five senses, confusing vision, or various highly unusual control and restriction abilities. Besides these, the military's use of large-scale, collective formations is the most widespread application.

Take, for example, the Heavenly Dou Royal Knights.

In the original novel, when Tang San and his companions were ambushed on their way to Wuhun City for the finals, the five hundred knights activated a hundred-person collective formation, a powerful defensive collective formation skill that even a group of people with low strength could unleash.

Within the military, there exist various collective formation skills, including attack, defense, and control, which can combine the power of multiple people to unleash powerful abilities.

This kind of large-scale mobilization formation only requires ordinary soldiers; even those who are not Soul Masters can activate it, because ordinary people who cannot become Soul Masters also possess Soul Power. (It must be mentioned that while Douluo Continent I did not explicitly state whether ordinary people possess Soul Power, Douluo Continent II clearly states that ordinary people who cannot cultivate into Soul Masters also possess a certain amount of Soul Power.)
Moreover, facing such a large-scale attack and the combined assault of the army using various methods, the battle would be extremely taxing on a titled Soul Master.

Therefore, if a Title Douluo dares to charge into the army alone, he may not be able to get out.

Of course, this also varies depending on the title and the abilities or soul skills associated with it. For example, Dugu Bo can poison hundreds of thousands of soldiers when he finds an opportunity, while Guang Ling can kill large numbers of enemies from a distance.

Or it could be a title that grants control over a significant number of group attack capabilities, which would pose a considerable threat to the military.

However, for a Title Douluo like Serpent Spear Douluo, who almost exclusively relies on single-target attacks and whose soul skills have a very small range, the mortality rate is quite high if he charges into the enemy ranks alone.

Therefore, titles are not the absolute factor in determining victory in war; quantity and military strength are equally important. (In the early parts of the original work, it's said that a Soul Saint can wreak havoc amidst a vast army, but later in the battles, these Soul Saints, Soul Douluos, and even lower-ranking titles perform rather poorly on the battlefield. So what I'm trying to say is that much of the original work's setting is a contradiction between the left and right brains, resulting in a confusing and disorganized system.)
(I only know that if a Soul Saint could slaughter thousands of soldiers, the Spirit Hall could easily unify the continent. So what I want to emphasize is that in this book, ordinary titled warriors are not that powerful in front of the army.)
At this moment, the generals in the border town had already arrived at the top of the high wall.

Outside the city gate.

The 200,000-strong army of the Martial Soul Empire was imposing and vast, lined up in neat rows.

Guangyu rode his warhorse at the very front of the army. After about 500 meters away, our army stopped advancing.

The Serpent Spear Douluo standing to the side said respectfully, "Your Majesty, our army is fully prepared. We can attack the city at any time with your command."

"This is the first battle of our Martial Soul Empire's Northern Expedition against Heaven Dou. We should crush their defenses with overwhelming force."

"I will personally break down the city gates and shatter their self-proclaimed impregnable border city." Guangyu's words were filled with absolute confidence.

His voice echoed throughout the battlefield: "Listen up, people in the city! I'm giving you only ten seconds. If you open the city gates and surrender, I will spare your lives."

"If you insist on resisting the 200,000-strong army of my Martial Soul Empire, I will surely raze your Barak Border City to the ground!!"

"Hahahaha! Guangyu, do you think you can just take over our Barak Border City as you please!"

"You underestimate the defenses of our border city! Our city walls and gates are made with top-quality mineral resources and have been completely renovated and upgraded. Even a titled Douluo would find it difficult to break through them!"

"You think it's that easy to take my border city?" the enemy general shouted arrogantly.

Guangyu remained calm: "To destroy your city, I only need one strike."

"Hahaha! Ridiculous! Guangyu, I know you are an unparalleled genius, and now you even possess the strength of a Title Douluo, but you still can't break through the gates of my Border City!!"

(End of this chapter)