Chapter 811 - 806: Seven Demon Generals
Profound Water Palace.
Seven Demon Generals, leading over ten thousand of the Demon Legion, lay in silent ambush.
"Melt Heart, are you sure the intel is accurate?"
A Demon General with a five-meter-tall ox head and human body spoke, his voice rumbling like an earthquake, "I vouched for you before Lord Black Emperor and pulled most of the Shadow Island Chain’s forces here. If the intel is wrong, I’ll eat you alive!"
"Melt Heart" was Bron’s alias in this World.
The massive ox-headed, human-bodied Demon General in front of him was called "Earth-shaking," his whole body like cast Bronze, iron chains wrapped around the Giant Axe on his arm. Every step he took made the ground seem to tremble.
Demon General Earth-shaking was the Commander of the Demon side in this war. With the Black Emperor not appearing, he was the highest-ranking commander.
Of course, the other six Demon Generals weren’t easy to deal with either. Each had brought their own elite Demon Tribe along, essentially as allied forces participating in the war.
If Earth-shaking wanted to use the other Demon Generals’ troops as cannon fodder to preserve his own army of fifteen hundred Ox Demons behind him, the other Demon Generals would definitely not agree.
Bron nodded heavily. "Lord Earth-shaking, what I said is absolutely true!"
Given the current situation, Bron couldn’t afford hesitation; he had to act utterly confident.
These past days, the Bron Team, with other allies cooperating, had been working hard to grind Reputation with the Black Emperor Camp.
Now their Reputation had reached Respectful, so they could finally talk directly with Demon Generals and make suggestions. But influencing the Black Emperor himself was still a long way off.
To persuade the Black Emperor to mass heavy troops in ambush at Profound Water Palace, Bron had paid a hefty price to bribe Demon General Earth-shaking and have him speak to the Black Emperor.
Only then had they achieved the outcome of heavy forces assembling at Profound Water Palace.
Soon, a blood-colored bat flew over lightly and swiftly, landing and transforming into a thin, small Demon with a human body and membranous wings.
After landing, this Demon emitted a sharp cry with rising and falling tones.
Bron could understand it—it was the Demons’ unique language. After defecting to the Demon side, he had spent some Merit Points to redeem the language ability for seamless communication with Demons.
"Report! A Turtle Ship spotted outside the island!" (sharp cry)
"Why are you the only one back? Where are the other lads?" At the front of the Demon Army, another Demon General, "Blood Bat," spoke, likewise using sharp cries to question him.
At the same time, Demon General Earth-shaking used roars of differing rhythm to bark, "You only saw the Turtle Ship—how many people are on it? What’s their strength like? Report at once!"
The Bat Demon reporting military intel was still shaken, responding with a hissing sound. Bron heard clearly; it said:
"Lord Blood Bat, Lord Earth-shaking, the humans on that Turtle Ship were extremely vigilant. We had just tried to approach when a barrage of Remote Spell attacks tore our formation apart. Only I managed to escape back..."
After a pause, the Bat Demon’s next sentence made Bron’s face change.
"My lords, that Turtle Ship did not stop to dock and land outside the island—it headed straight north!"
Bron lunged forward, grabbing the Bat Demon’s neck. "You’re serious?"
The Bat Demon was caught in Bron’s hand, which carried Fighting Qi from the Immortal Melting Core; its eyes rolled back.
A sinister chill came from the back of Bron’s neck. A pale, emaciated skeletal claw pressed down on his shoulder.
Demon General Blood Bat exhaled like a venomous snake, laughing coldly. "Melt Heart, your intel was wrong, and now you want to kill my lad to silence him?"
A Demon General in mantis form rasped, "The Turtle Ship heading north—are they going to the Spider Demon Cave? Earth-shaking, how do we decide?"
"The Guardian Demon General Blood Weave of the Spider Demon Cave is dead; it’s the perfect time of weakness. If the human Martial Artists destroy the Spider Demon Cave, Lord Black Emperor will lose the Swamp Demon Spider as a crucial force."
Another Demon General in skeletal form, with Netherworld Flames burning in his eye sockets, spoke in a hoarse voice, "We should immediately deploy troops to reinforce."
"Earth-shaking, this is getting interesting. I want to see how you’ll plead guilty before Lord Black Emperor." The speaker was a Demon General with a human torso and serpent tail.
Demon General Earth-shaking glared with his bull eyes, coarse breath blasting from his nostrils as he stared at Bron.
Bron gritted his teeth and said, "No. That Turtle Ship going north is just a feint! I stated clearly when I submitted the intel that the human Martial Artists would feign an attack on the Spider Demon Cave—their true target is still Profound Water Palace!"
The group of Demon Generals fell into Silence.
Bron kept pressing. "I can guarantee the human Martial Artists have definitely left their main force outside the island of Profound Water Palace. They might already have snuck ashore by now. If we keep our ambush, we’re sure to catch them!"
"What you say does make some sense. That Turtle Ship might just be empty." Earth-shaking rubbed his bull nose, speaking in a muffled voice.
"And if it’s not? Who’s going to shoulder the responsibility?" the mantis Demon General said, expressionless.
"We must dispatch a force north to reinforce."
"There’s still ’White Swamp’ on the northern islands, guarding the Yellow Springs Belt. We can send an order to White Swamp to save the Spider Demon Cave."
"The Yellow Springs Belt is also a vital area."
For a moment, everyone was talking at once.
"Boom!"
Demon General Earth-shaking stomped the ground suddenly, a thunderous crash cutting off the discussion.
"Shadow Scythe, Nether Fire, each of you take your own elite forces north and latch onto that ship! As long as Beiming Jihu and Dong Bochengzhi are not on that ship, the Shadow Scythe and Nether Fire forces are enough to guard any strongpoint north of Profound Water Palace!"
Demon General Earth-shaking said coldly, "The intel provided by Melt Heart has not yet shown any obvious errors. According to Melt Heart’s statement, that ship being a human feint also makes sense. We five Demon Generals will stay here with several thousand elites to continue ambushing the human Martial Artists’ main force."
Shadow Scythe was the mantis-form Demon General, while Nether Fire was the skeletal Demon General.
The two Demon Generals themselves were inclined to go reinforce the Spider Demon Cave; hearing Earth-shaking’s assignment, they had no objections.
The female Demon General with a human torso, serpent tail, and a Sanshin cradled in her arms curled her cherry lips slightly in a mocking smile. "If the humans’ main force is on that ship... then Shadow Scythe’s and Nether Fire’s troops are doomed."
"Xianlv! If you keep shaking Morale, don’t blame me for getting rough with you."
Earth-shaking glared with his Copper Bell Eyes, saying coldly, "Even if the human main force is on that ship, with so many under Shadow Scythe and Nether Fire, they can delay them. Then we’ll rush to the battlefield to reinforce, attack front and back, and it’ll be enough to annihilate the human main force in one stroke!"
Shadow Scythe’s Demon Tribe—the Demon Scythe Mantis—were few in number, only a few hundred, but even the weakest were Enhanced Elite Template, and there were plenty of Warriors and Enhanced Warriors! Nether Fire, as a Skeleton Demon, had troops of slightly lower quality, but their numbers reached two thousand!
The Demons were fighting on home ground; sheer numbers were their greatest advantage. Even splitting their forces, the two Demon General troops being sent out were enough to pin down the main force of two Expedition Teams, while the five Demon General troops remaining here were more than strong enough to annihilate the main force of two Expedition Teams.
"Blood Bat, this is a critical moment; don’t be stingy with your lads. Send more troops on patrol to pass military intel!" Earth-shaking scratched his massive, rock-like buttocks, speaking in a muffled tone.
The other Demon Generals were all silent. Earth-shaking’s arrangements appeared to be the best possible plan.