Chapter 182 - 124: The Vanishing United Tribes (Part 2)
"Yeah, looks like we’re dead for sure today!"
"Looks like we’re about to use up our first failure chance here. I hope the other two don’t get used up so quickly."
"Aren’t you guys going up to see?"
"See what? It’s a lost cause anyway, why go up there just to die? Even if we can revive, the feeling of death isn’t pleasant."
"Ha, I’m actually kind of interested. I wonder what death really feels like."
"Should we report this to the superior races?"
"Report what? It’s obvious we’re being used as test subjects. The attackers have gathered their army to test our strength!"
...
「Outside the command chamber. Outside the United Tribes’ encampment.」
The main force of Lin Yu’s legion arrived outside the city walls.
Leading the charge was a group of Demon Race heroes who had reverted to their original forms. They rampaged forward, smashing through layer after layer of traps as they rushed toward the city walls.
Explosions, pits, poison, spikes... No matter the trap, none of them slowed their advance in the slightest.
Niu Hong, running at the very front, even had a look of pleasure on his face, as if the attacks from the traps were giving him a massage.
"A beast horde! There’s a beast horde attacking!"
"Archers, prepare to fire!"
"Why is it a beast horde? Weren’t we told it was an Otherworld lord attacking today?"
"Aren’t we going to wait for the commander-in-chief’s orders?"
"It looks like the central camp has been breached by the enemy’s airborne troops. The commander-in-chief has no time for us now. We can’t just wait for the enemy to attack, can we?"
"True!"
"They’re so strong! The traps are completely useless against them. And the one in the lead is from our Ox Race! The Ox Race is the strongest!"
...
On the city walls, the Beastmen were in disarray as they faced the attack from the Divine Wood Territory’s ground forces. However, under the command of a captain on the wall, they still launched an attack against the enemies leading the charge.
"Fire!"
Arrows imbued with various skills flew at extreme speed toward the Demon Race heroes in the lead.
TING! TING! TING!
After several volleys, broken arrows littered the ground, having done no damage whatsoever to the Demon Race heroes.
BOOM!
Niu Hong charged ahead of the rest and slammed headfirst into the stone city wall. The ten-meter-thick wall collapsed instantly, sending the surrounding Beastmen staggering from the shock.
Niu Hong’s charge came to a halt.
MOO~
He shook his head, let out a long bellow, raised a front hoof, and stomped it violently on the ground. A shockwave erupted from where he stomped, spreading out in all directions.
RUMBLE...
The city walls and other buildings within a hundred-meter radius all shook violently before collapsing with a deafening roar. Countless Beastmen were buried directly under the rubble, and the survivors all fled, trying to get away from Niu Hong.
"Hahaha, exhilarating!"
Niu Hong roared with laughter. Aside from his time in the Cosmic Arena, this was the first time he had ever fully unleashed his power in the outside world, and the feeling was vastly different from being in the arena.
In the arena, his matched opponents were all heroes, and most of them were quite strong. Especially after he was lucky enough to enter the second level of the arena, most of his opponents were formidable. This was the first time he’d ever experienced such a satisfying curb-stomp. The novel sensation was incredibly exciting.
Still not satisfied, Niu Hong turned toward the other buildings and began charging again.
Seeing Niu Hong’s display, the other heroes also charged recklessly past the wall.
Some leaped directly over the wall, while others followed Niu Hong’s example and started tearing it down.
The whole scene reached its climax when the Elephant Race heroes, led by Xiangli, arrived.
To the Beastmen, the forms displayed by these Demon Race heroes were already massive. The original forms of the Elephant Race, however, were absurdly large to them.
To get past the wall, most of the Demon Race had to leap over the obstacle. A smaller portion attacked the wall directly, smashing a section down before entering the encampment behind it.
But the members of the Elephant Race were even taller than the wall itself. They simply had to walk past it calmly. Before the Elephant Race heroes, these sturdy city walls were like tofu, shattering on contact. The fallen stones were either trampled into dust or pressed deep into the ground.
"Help!!"
"Run!"
"So powerful! The Elephant Race truly is a superior race!"
...
As Niu Hong, Xiangli, and the other Demon Race members broke into the United Tribes’ city, the Demon Race who had been wreaking havoc in the center also revealed their original forms. One by one, enormous beast bodies appeared, scaring the hunted Beastmen out of their wits. Even the sporadic resistance ceased as they fled toward the other encampments that had not yet been attacked.
The Demon Race naturally pursued them. Chaos spread from one tribal camp to the others, and before long, all the encampments had descended into turmoil.
When the legion’s regular soldiers arrived outside the united encampment, they were met with a scene of utter ruin. As far as the eye could see, all the buildings had been torn to pieces, and fires blazed everywhere.
The Demon Race heroes were gleefully hunting the remaining Beastmen across the ruins, haphazardly throwing all sorts of skills across the ravaged land.
"Ha! Looks like we won’t be needed on the field, right?"
Phantom watched the scene before her and said with a smile to her adjutant.
"No point in going in now. There are hardly any enemies left!"
"Hahaha, I’ll have to give the Master a suggestion when we get back. This won’t do. The heroes wiped out all the enemies, so the soldiers didn’t get any experience. Didn’t they come all this way for nothing?"
...
Once all the commotion had died down, several Demon Race heroes approached Phantom, each holding an Elemental Core.
"Excellent. All five Elemental Cores have been secured. Clean up the battlefield. We’re packing up and heading back to the territory!"