Metal Giant Crocodile

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The Chen Family Allied Forces tore through Iron Jaw Fortress's gate defenses with thunderous force, and their main land combat force surged through that huge breach like a burst dam, carrying rubble, flames, and the stench of blood with it!

However, the battle was not over. Instead, it entered an even crueler phase of street fighting.

The area by the entrance was narrow. The several hundred guards the Bone Excavation Group had stationed there earlier had almost been wiped out under the allied forces' initial assault, but the space inside the entire fortress was enormous.

The moment the allied forces broke in, they spread out like a fan, pushing hard toward the central area along the fortress's broad main road, the passages on either side, and the platforms.

Leaders such as Chen Zhang, Ximen Wenye, and Yang Zhicheng personally held the line as well, commanding their respective men.

But as the battle line lengthened and the space widened, the intensity of the resistance the allied forces faced also soared sharply!

The Bone Excavation Group's more than two thousand true desperadoes, old bandits who had lived on the edge of the blade for decades, finally unleashed their ferocious nature at this moment.

Relying on the fortress's complex terrain—stone houses, high platforms, narrow alleys, and piles of wrecked mining carts—they launched a crazed counterattack.

It was no longer a large-scale clash of military formations, but bloody close-quarters slaughter and hidden arrows from every direction.

In an instant, blood and gore flew everywhere!

At the front of the allied forces, a Yang Family melee Soul Master had just run an enemy through with his spear when a poisoned crossbow bolt shot out from the shadows at his side and pinned through his neck. He clutched his throat and collapsed;

A Ximen Family Blade Soul Master roared as he hacked off the heads of two fierce bandits, only to be smashed into pulp, shield and all, by a huge boulder wreathed in burning, scalding oil that came crashing down from the platform above;

The Bone Excavation Group's desperadoes suddenly burst out from broken windows, collapsed corners of walls, and even underground tunnels, clutching lit explosive packs or waving poisoned bone blades. They howled as they lunged at the allied forces' ranks, and even if they were hacked to pieces, they still used their last bit of strength to drag one or two down with them.

In the air, the pressure on the Flying Soul Masters led by Ma Zhibin also increased sharply.

Aside from the dense counterattacks from below, filled with soul skills of various attributes and crossbow bolts, there were also swarms of Venomous Giant Bats raised by the Bone Excavation Group. With wingspans of nearly two meters, they shrieked as they dived down from the dark dome, using sharp claws, fangs, and spat acid to entangle the flying troops.

At the center of the battlefield, the high-level Soul Sage Jian Hezhi wore a grave expression.

Above his head floated an Ink Crystal Bottle radiating a deep, eerie glow, and his seventh soul ring shone brilliantly.

"Seventh Soul Skill · Martial Soul True Body!"

The huge phantom of the Ink Crystal Bottle enveloped him, and its mouth continuously poured out black ink mist as tangible as substance.

With repeated sweeps of his hands, the ink mist sometimes turned into tough "Ink Rope Cages," winding around more than ten Agility Attack Soul Masters from the Bone Excavation Group who were attempting to ambush the allied forces' flank, making every step difficult and their movements slow as if they had sunk into a mire;

At other times, it condensed into one "Pure Heart Bright Mirror" after another, each flowing with a glassy luster. They were cast with precision onto the core members of his side who were locked in bitter battle, dispelling negative statuses such as poison and fear while slightly boosting their Soul Power and the speed at which their injuries recovered.

One of those mirror lights happened to fall on Xia Yun not far away, instantly reinvigorating her heavily depleted Soul Power.

With support, Xia Yun's eyes sharpened. As a powerful control-type illusionist, she knew full well that what was needed now was large-scale disruption of the enemy's morale.

"Fifth Soul Skill · Illusory Moon Maze Realm!"

The phantom of a hazy crescent moon radiating a bewitching halo rose behind her, enveloping a large area ahead.

The Bone Excavation Group's fierce bandits only felt the scenery before their eyes distort. Their comrades' figures became blurred and indistinct, as if countless enemies were charging in from every direction. Fear and chaos spread in an instant!

Immediately after, Xia Yun's Sixth Soul Ring blazed with light.

"Sixth Soul Skill · Illusion Space · Heart Demons Arise!"

Invisible mental fluctuations spread out, expanding and deepening the range of the Illusory Moon Maze Realm once again.

What appeared before the covered enemies was no longer simple illusion, but the deepest fears in their hearts—their dead loved ones coming to claim their lives, scenes of defeat and death, betrayal by their companions... Those with slightly weaker minds instantly fell into madness, either clutching their heads and screaming or swinging their blades at the "phantoms" beside them, which were actually their own comrades!

Under the cover of the two great illusions, Xia Yun's Right Arm Bone flashed.

"Right Arm Bone · Falling Flowers in Profusion!"

Countless flower petals condensed from Soul Power, their edges sharp as blades, appeared out of thin air. They spun and sliced at high speed like a pink storm of death, sweeping toward the enemies who had lost their guard or fallen into confusion because of the illusions, bringing up sprays of blood and severed limbs!

This Underground Dark City in Huagai District was an underground hub in the Heaven Dou Empire's Northeast Region, connected to the empire's richest and most prosperous aboveground regions. The depth of its waters went far beyond what appeared on the surface.

For the Bone Excavation Group to dominate this place, its strength was absolutely no empty reputation.

Even though the allied forces had broken through the gate, and even though they had suffered such a fierce surprise attack and illusion assault, the remaining backbone members still resisted madly, displaying extremely high combat quality.

By the time the Chen Family Allied Forces had advanced with difficulty for five or six hundred meters and penetrated deep into the middle region of the fortress, the battlefield space became even more open. But that also meant the allied forces' high-end combat power was inevitably scattered, each of them facing the strongest core forces of the Bone Excavation Group.

BOOM!!!

A muffled explosion like a giant hammer smashing into a mountain rang out. Zhu Yanfeng's several-dozen-meter-tall Rock Giant Avatar suddenly shuddered, and a deep pit was actually blasted into the huge Stone Armor Shield, spiderweb cracks spreading across it.

The immense impact made even the rock giant unable to stop itself from taking one step back.

Blocking him was an exceptionally tall, burly figure clad in heavy metal armor.

Most eye-catching of all was his lower jaw—it was tightly wrapped and covered by a savage jaw guard that shimmered with a dark, sunken metallic sheen, extending all the way to both sides of his neck and radiating a chilling aura of solidity and brutality.

It was the leader of the Bone Excavation Group—"Iron Jaw" Barton!

His eyes were as ice-cold as blades as they swept over the devastated battlefield and his subordinates who kept falling. There was not the slightest trace of grief on his face, only a pure, steel-like coldness.

A soft heart could not command soldiers!

He had not acted at all when the gate was breached. Instead, he had calmly waited until the main force of the allied army had fully penetrated the fortress and sunk into the quagmire of street fighting before intercepting the enemy's strongest defensive pillar and advancing weapon at the most critical moment.

"Hmph!" Barton's voice came from beneath that metal jaw-guard, carrying the buzzing rasp of grinding metal, brimming with savagery. "A bunch of pampered surface Masters dare come run wild on my turf? You killed so many of my brothers—then pay with your bones!"

Zhu Yanfeng's huge stone head let out a dull roar, his voice like rolling boulders. "Barton! Your Bone Excavation Group has committed every evil and poisoned the underground. Today is the day you meet your end! Surrender now, and I'll leave you with an intact corpse!"

"An intact corpse?" Barton gave a piercing, crazed laugh. "The greatest mercy I've ever shown in my life is leaving someone an intact corpse! Sixth Soul Skill: Iron Crocodile Crushing Bite!"

A heavy earth-yellow soul light erupted from his entire body, transforming into the phantom of an enormous metal crocodile, its jaws packed with saw-toothed fangs. With a terrifying force that could shatter mountains and split the earth, it savagely bit down toward Zhu Yanfeng's Rock Colossus!

Zhu Yanfeng roared, and his massive stone arm, along with his shield, thundered up to meet it. "Secret Art: Immovable as a Mountain!"

The two tyrannical forces crashed violently together, and the shockwave instantly swept the surrounding rubble and debris clean!