Survival Queen of the Frozen Wastes novel Chapter 512

Chapter 512 The Tide Turns

Riley bolted straight for the second battista.

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This was when the outpost guards truly fell into chaos.

The Hope Guild team had already torn open their front barricade. Gust Light Crossbows and long blades pinned down their left and right flanks. Up on the high platform, one ballista was out of control, a second was tied down by LoneWolf, and the third never even finished rotating.

Riley hurled one of her axes and slammed it straight into its arm.

Her Storm Splitter Dual Axes spun through the air with a heavy whoosh. The blade crashed into the ballista’s edge. It did not destroy the weapon completely, but the impact scared the operator badly enough that he stumbled backward.

That single flinch cost them their perfect firing window.

RedBean seized the moment. She stepped into the broken barricade gap and raised her voice.

“What are you all waiting for?! They can’t hold this line! Charge now!”

Her shout cut sharply through the tunnel’s noise.

Every survivor hiding in the shadows lifted their heads at once.

RedBean kept yelling, “They’ve robbed all of us! If you want into the central hall, move now! Once they reset those ballistas, your chance is gone!”

Her voice was not overly loud, but it rang clear enough for everyone to hear.

The woman hiding behind the broken wall clenched her fists and locked her eyes on the outpost.

She watched the cocky guard clutching his wounded wrist and stumbling back.

She watched the shattered barricade.

She watched the heavy ballistas fail to mow everyone down like they’d all feared.

She watched Riley, dual axes in hand, push the guards back step by step.

Her chest heaved. She suddenly stood up and gripped her dull, bent dagger tight.

“Let’s go,” she said.

The injured man sitting beside her stared in shock. “Go where?”

“Inside,” she gritted out.

She was the first to burst out from behind the broken wall.

One person quickly turned into two.

At first, only a handful moved forward. Their charge was messy, almost shaky. Some wore broken gear. Some had no shields at all,

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only basic green–quality weapons in their hands.

But their appearance drained the color from the outpost raiders‘ faces,

More and more survivors poured out of hiding.

A dozen emerged from the left shadows. Another group rushed from the right–side ruins. These players had been too terrified to approach the outpost before… Now they finally saw that the brutal blockade had a fatal crack.

They did not need perfect fighting skills.

All they had to do was push forward, and the raiders would be trapped fighting on two fronts.

“Stop them!”

“Rear enemy incoming!”

“Who’s covering the right flank?! Where is everyone?!”

“Call for backup! Now!”

Chaos shattered all command structure at the outpost.

These raiders only looked strong when they bullied weak, isolated survivors with their numbers and ballistas. Now that a coordinated team had blindsided them and hordes of trapped players swarmed in from all sides, their flaws showed instantly.

Their formation broke apart.

No one was willing to stand on the front line and die for the others.

After securing the second ballista, Riley kicked a survivor off the platform before he could light an molotov cocktail.

She grabbed the ballista’s rear end and quickly read its simple, clunky mechanism.

There was no time for fine adjustments. She forced the heavy weapon to aim straight at the open ground behind the outpost.

The operator manning the third ballista went pale the second he saw what she was doing.

“Retreat! Fall back into the central hall! We regroup and fight back later!” someone shouted in panic.

That single sentence crushed the raiders‘ remaining morale.

The defenders who’d barely held their ground stopped fighting. Instead of forming a retreat formation, they spun and ran straight

for the hall entrance.

The Hope Guild members never let them get away clean.

Ketchup led her team past the broken barricade, picking off anyone who tried to counterattack with rapid fire.

LoneWolf jumped down from the platform, targeting every raider stupid enough to stop and grab the looted backpacks on the ground.

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