About a hundred li south of Demon Star City.
What had once been rolling hills and sparse woodland had now been completely transformed into a defensive front.
The earth had been brutally excavated into crisscrossing earthen walls several hundred zhang high.
Simple trigger traps had been buried atop the walls.
Farther away, several natural hills had been hollowed out and converted into concealed spell-casting positions.
The air was steeped in an utterly oppressive, murderous atmosphere.
This was the first line of southern defenses hastily constructed by the Demon Star City coalition.
It was crude and rough, yet covered an enormous area, like an ugly scar stretched across the only road leading to Demon Star City.
Once the Heavenely Star Alliance army arrived, this place would become the first—and surely the most brutal—grinder of flesh and blood.
At this moment, a busy yet grim scene filled both the inside and outside of the fortifications.
Large numbers of high-level Demonic Beasts tamed by the Demon Race prowled uneasily through the buffer zone beyond the defenses under the shouts and whips of Demon Race warriors.
There were many kinds of Demonic Beasts: Earthshaking Barbarian Oxen with thick hides and halberd-like fangs, Shadow Panthers swift as the wind with venom-coated claws and teeth.
There were also Corrosive Poison Flying Lizards with wings growing from their ribs, capable of spewing acid...
Most of them had bloodshot eyes and violent auras. They had been force-fed drugs that stimulated their savagery, waiting only for the war to begin before becoming the first cannon fodder and expendable forces to smash through the enemy formation.
Meanwhile, atop the fortification walls and within concealed positions, the Demon Race warriors of the Demon Star City coalition had already taken their places.
Demons from different tribes and regions had been forcibly mixed