Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 425: Island Assault

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Joymount City was a steel fortress established on Joymount Island.

The enormous city walls, made from steel and stone, ringed the entire island and stood around forty meters tall. The walls had arrow towers and were wide enough for horses to gallop upon. Rock debris covered the base of the wall, carpeting the shore like caltrops.

Besides the city wall, there were also parapet walls, gate walls, inner walls, and many other defensive fortifications. From a historical point of view, such a fortress would be considered a famous stronghold.

For Immortals, all steel fortresses were simply the best that mortals could do, and only formations could be considered true high-class defenses. But even they would admit that, when paired with suitable weaponry, these "primitive" defenses could still be very useful.

Today, Joymount Island was besieged by fire and water.

Hundreds of sea fiends were attacking the city from all sides. Arrows cast shadows all across the ground, with the occasional spell art mixed in.

The western side of Joymount City was where the approach to the city was the flattest, a flat stretch all the way from the shore to the city walls. At high tide, the sea waters could even get to almost thirty meters of the walls.

As the area with the least defensible terrain, it was also the target of the fiercest attacks.

Several hundred fiends had come up to the shore to attack the walls.

This didn't sound like a lot, but when they were all together, they exhibited a strength more shocking than an army of tens of thousands.

A massive Clawed Octopus stood right between the sea and the city, its huge appendages flailing like steel ropes, constantly hammering the walls. Occasionally, an arm would wrap around a human. The screaming human would be brought up to the octopus's eyes and then be thrown into its mouth, where the screams would gradually die away as the octopus broke down its food.

An enormous sea turtle stood next to the walls, using its head like a ba

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