Overwhelming Force

Yang Feng pondered for a moment, had the artillery and Spearmen hide, then placed 400 Blade Soldiers directly on the main road. Unless necessary, he did not intend to deploy either the artillery or Spearmen in this battle.

On the Durando Subcontinent, warlocks possessed mysterious and powerful supernatural forces. The Black Hut Warlock Group was already a colossal presence within the Fein Deluo Principality, yet there were no shortage of warlock groups stronger than Black Hut. Having one more trump card could produce unexpected effects should he face other warlock groups in the future.

About ten minutes later, a squad of scouts on horseback appeared on the road.

After seeing the 400 Blade Soldiers standing in neat ranks in the middle of the road, the scouts swiftly turned around and galloped toward the rear.

Lu Ke, the Giant Stone City commander leading this army, could hardly believe his ears as he questioned the scout, "What? You're saying the bandits from Black Rock Town have lined up neatly and blocked the middle of the road?"

Giant Stone City had dispatched all its elites, along with fifty heavily armored cavalrymen and more than ten Wizard Apprentices. Even if a bandit force of over ten thousand men came to attack, Lu Ke was confident he could crush them. In his imagination, the most troublesome scenario would have been for the bandits of Black Rock Town to hold the city in defense. Yet those bandits had actually come out to fight, and were openly standing in the middle of the road. It was simply stupidity beyond measure. He strongly suspected the scouts had seen wrong.

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

Lu Ke's brows furrowed slightly as he sank into thought. His years of battlefield instincts faintly told him that something was amiss.

Lu Ni, nearly two meters tall and built like a man-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 great waves. Idiots like this pop up every now and then, like weeds that can never be killed clean."

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 perfect formation in the middle of the road.

The moment Lu Ke saw the 400 Blade Soldiers standing in such orderly ranks, his brows drew together 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 line, splitting the enemy apart before the infantry moved in to finish them off, was the most basic tactic. Once infantry had their line ripped apart by those tank-like heavy cavalrymen, slaughter was the only fate awaiting them.

The fifty heavily armored cavalrymen, both riders and mounts encased in heavy armor, held three-meter steel lances as they rode out like fifty humanoid tanks. They gradually accelerated, charging toward the 400 Blade Soldiers in neat formation.

The full-body knight armor worn by those fifty heavily armored cavalrymen weighed over one hundred kilograms. Their mounts were no ordinary horses either, but Black Demon Horned Horses with a trace of Demon bloodline. Only Black Demon Horned Horses with Demon bloodlines could carry a heavily armored cavalryman weighing nearly two hundred kilograms while also wearing a layer of heavy armor themselves.

On the battlefield, those heavily armored cavalrymen clad head to toe in armor were practically invincible unless they encountered warlocks. They were incredibly powerful, but also extremely difficult to maintain. Giant Stone City possessed only one hundred of them in total. Fifty heavily armored cavalrymen could easily rout an elite force of a thousand men.

Facing the fifty heavily armored cavalrymen charging at them, the 400 Blade Soldiers also directly launched a charge toward the fifty cavalrymen.

"Have they gone mad?"

Seeing the 400 Blade Soldiers charge toward the fifty heavily armored cavalrymen, everyone from Giant Stone City had disbelief flash through their eyes.

Even an Earth Knight would not dare withstand a heavily armored cavalryman's charge head-on.

Under everyone's incredulous gazes, the two armies crashed brutally together.

The fifty heavily armored cavalrymen wore savage grins as their three-meter lances violently pierced through the steel bodies of one Blade Soldier after another.

The next moment, the smiles on those heavily armored cavalrymen froze. Nearly none of the Blade Soldiers whose bodies had been pierced died. Expressionless, they swung their long Alloy Battle Blades and viciously hacked at the heavily armored cavalrymen.

One heavily armored cavalryman after another had his heavy armor split apart by the Level-4 Blade Soldiers, horse and rider alike cleaved open as blood sprayed everywhere. In less than a minute, all fifty heavily armored cavalrymen of Giant Stone City had been slain by the Level-4 Blade Soldiers. Not one survived.

Seeing Giant Stone City's fifty heavily armored cavalrymen effortlessly chopped into pieces by those Level-4 Blade Soldiers, the soldiers of Giant Stone City felt ice run through their bodies. Some of the recruits even had trembling legs and pale faces.

Lu Ke's face turned white as he stared at the 400 Blade Soldiers, fear flashing through his eyes.

Zhan Mu, slender and scholarly-looking, stared at the various metal wires exposed through the chests of the pierced Level-4 Blade Soldiers. His expression suddenly changed drastically as he shouted, "Golem Puppets! These aren't humans—they're Golem Puppets! Damn it! There are actually four hundred Golem Puppets! Damn it, this isn't something we can resist! Retreat!!"

Golem Puppets were combat weapons crafted 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 handle than human knights.

In a one-on-one fight, Zhan Mu, a Level-3 Warlock Apprentice, could easily crush a Golem Puppet. But four hundred Golem Puppets could effortlessly chop Wizard Apprentices like Zhan Mu into countless pieces.

The instant Zhan Mu finished speaking, he waved his hand. A flash of black light passed, and a giant black locust three meters long, fitted with reins, appeared before him. He flipped his body and leaped directly onto the giant black locust.

The giant black locust pushed off fiercely, leaping more than ten meters in a single bound. At a terrifying speed exceeding 120 kilometers per hour, it carried Zhan Mu fleeing into the distance.

After Zhan Mu decisively fled, the other Wizard Apprentices from Black Hut also released giant black locusts one after another, mounted them, and fled into the distance.

Once they advanced into Wizard Apprentices, no matter where they went on the Durando Subcontinent, nobles would recruit them and offer them comfortable, prosperous lives. Seeing that the situation had gone bad, those Wizard Apprentices naturally had no intention of giving their lives for Giant Stone City.

Seeing the Wizard Apprentices flee, the five thousand auxiliary troops at the rear also immediately collapsed, scattering and fleeing in all directions.

"A pack of fools who ruined more than they accomplished!" Commander Locke cursed under his breath. Then he saw the 400 Blade Soldiers, covered head to toe in blood, expressionless and without murderous intent, yet chilling to the bone, charging toward them.