Overwhelming Force

Yang Feng thought for a moment, then had the artillery and riflemen hide themselves while placing all 400 blade soldiers directly on the main road. Unless necessary, he did not intend to deploy either the artillery or riflemen in this battle.

On the Durando Subcontinent, warlocks possessed mysterious and powerful supernatural abilities. The Black Hut warlock faction was already a colossal presence within the Fein Deluo Principality, yet there were still many warlock factions stronger than the Black Hut. Keeping another card up his sleeve might produce unexpected results should he face other warlock factions in the future.

About ten minutes later, a group of mounted scouts appeared on the main road.

Upon seeing the 400 blade soldiers standing in neat ranks in the middle of the road, the scouts swiftly turned around and galloped back toward the rear.

Lu Ke, the Giant Stone City commander leading this army, questioned the scout in disbelief, "What? You're saying the bandits from Black Rock Town are standing in neat formation, blocking the middle of the road?"

Giant Stone City had mobilized all its elite forces, including fifty heavily armored knights and more than ten warlock apprentices. Even if a bandit force of over ten thousand men attacked, Lu Ke was confident he could crush them. In his mind, the most troublesome scenario would have been the bandits defending Black Rock Town from behind its walls. Yet those bandits had actually come out to fight, openly standing in the middle of the road. It was simply idiotic beyond belief. He seriously suspected that the scouts had seen wrong.

The scout captain quickly said, "Yes, Commander! If you don't believe me, you can ask my brothers!"

Lu Ke frowned slightly and sank into thought. Relying on his many years of combat instincts, he vaguely sensed that something was amiss.

Lu Ni, who stood nearly two meters tall and resembled a human bear, gave a disdainful smile. "Lu Ke, he's just an idiot who happened to obtain some warlock inheritance! With us here, he can't stir up any trouble. Idiots like this pop up every so often. They're like weeds—you can never kill them all."

Lu Ke nodded slightly and waved his hand. "Continue forward!"

Only then did Giant Stone City's army continue onward, soon catching sight of the 400 blade soldiers standing in neat ranks in the middle of the road.

The moment Lu Ke saw those 400 blade soldiers standing so orderly, he frowned slightly. An army with such strict discipline was the most troublesome kind of opponent.

"Giant Stone Heavy Cavalry! Charge!" Lu Ke ordered.

Heavy cavalry charging in to tear open the enemy's lines, splitting them apart before infantry moved in to slaughter them, was the most basic tactic. Once infantry lines were torn apart by heavily armored knights like tanks, the only fate awaiting them was slaughter.

The fifty heavily armored knights, both men and horses covered in heavy armor, wielded three-meter-long steel lances as they rode out like fifty humanoid tanks. Gradually accelerating while maintaining a neat formation, they charged toward the 400 blade soldiers.

The full-body heavy knight armor worn by those fifty knights weighed more than a hundred kilograms. Their mounts were no ordinary horses either, but Black Demon Horned Horses possessing a trace of demonic blood. Only Black Demon Horned Horses with demonic blood could bear a heavily armored knight weighing nearly two hundred kilograms while also wearing a layer of heavy armor themselves.

On the battlefield, heavily armored knights clad head to toe in armor were virtually invincible unless they encountered warlocks. They were extraordinarily powerful, but also extremely costly to maintain. Giant Stone City possessed only one hundred of them in total. Fifty heavily armored knights were fully capable of crushing an elite force of a thousand men.

Facing the fifty heavily armored knights who had launched their charge, the 400 blade soldiers also charged directly at them.

"Have they gone mad?"

Seeing the 400 blade soldiers charge the fifty heavily armored knights, everyone from Giant Stone City had disbelief flash through their eyes.

Even an Earth Knight would not dare withstand the charge of a heavily armored knight head-on.

Under everyone's incredulous gaze, the two armies collided violently.

The fifty heavily armored knights grinned savagely as their three-meter lances brutally pierced through the steel bodies of one blade soldier after another.

The next instant, however, their smiles froze. Almost none of the blade soldiers whose bodies had been pierced died. Without any expression, they swung their long Alloy Battle Blades and viciously hacked at the heavily armored knights.

One heavily armored knight after another had their heavy armor split apart by the Level-4 blade soldiers. Both man and horse were cleaved open, blood spraying everywhere. In less than a minute, all fifty of Giant Stone City's heavily armored knights had been slain by the Level-4 blade soldiers. Not one survived.

Seeing Giant Stone City's fifty heavily armored knights so easily hacked into pieces by those Level-4 blade soldiers, the Giant Stone City soldiers felt their bodies turn cold. Some of the recruits even had trembling legs and pale faces.

Lu Ke's face turned pale as he looked at the 400 blade soldiers, terror flashing in his eyes.

Zhan Mu, who was somewhat thin and appeared refined and scholarly, stared at the various metal wires exposed from the chests of the pierced Level-4 blade soldiers. His expression abruptly changed as he shouted, "Golem Puppets! These aren't humans—they're Golem Puppets! Damn it! There are actually 400 Golem Puppets! Fuck, this isn't something we can resist! Retreat!!"

Golem Puppets were combat weapons refined by alchemists. Every Golem Puppet possessed combat strength comparable to a human Knight-level expert, and they were even more fearless of death and difficult to deal with than human knights.

In a one-on-one fight, Zhan Mu, a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice, could easily destroy a Golem Puppet. But 400 Golem Puppets could easily chop a warlock apprentice like Zhan Mu into countless pieces.

The moment Zhan Mu finished speaking, he waved his hand. A flash of black light appeared, and a giant black locust three meters long, fitted with reins, appeared before him. He flipped himself onto the giant black locust's back.

The giant black locust leaped with all its strength, vaulting more than ten meters in a single bound. Carrying Zhan Mu, it fled into the distance at a terrifying speed of more than 120 kilometers per hour.

After Zhan Mu fled so decisively, the other Black Hut warlock apprentices also released giant black locusts one after another, mounted them, and escaped into the distance.

As long as they advanced to become warlock apprentices, they would be recruited by nobles wherever they went on the Durando Subcontinent and could live comfortable, prosperous lives. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, those warlock apprentices naturally had no intention of risking their lives for Giant Stone City.

Seeing the warlock apprentices flee, the five thousand auxiliary soldiers in the rear also collapsed and scattered in all directions.

"A bunch of useless fools who ruin everything!" Commander Locke muttered. Then he saw the 400 blade soldiers, their bodies covered in bloodstains, charging toward them without expression or killing intent—yet chilling everyone to the bone.