Joker sneered and said, "You're right. I really don't dare show my face. Since the ambush failed, I'm leaving. You can continue this battle—I'm done playing."
The moment Joker's men died in the light of the Annihilation Heavy Cannon, they all chose to revive in the main city before the light even faded, not even leaving their corpses for Lu Yang to see.
Joker took out a rare instant teleportation scroll. Relying on his invincibility effect, he activated it, and with a flash of light, vanished without a trace as well.
Lu Yang snorted coldly. He had no time to care who Joker was. All he knew was that this battle had become increasingly twisted, and he had to end it quickly.
"Phantom Flame—activate!"
Lu Yang entered the middle of the archer squad in a streak of light and said, "Archers, protect me for ten seconds."
He took out potions and rapidly consumed them. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground, took out a fast-recovery dish, and began restoring his mana.
Three-Faced Devil immediately led his men in unleashing countless arrows, buying Lu Yang ten precious seconds.
When the ten seconds ended, Lu Yang had recovered one-third of his mana. Added to the one-third he had remaining, his total mana had returned to two-thirds.
Lu Yang looked toward the battlefield. The Iron Blood Brotherhood's main force was still locked in a chaotic melee. Han Ying, Han Yu, and others like him had broken away from their original teams and charged into the enemy ranks, relying on their superior equipment to fight amidst the enemy.
The enemy still had more than a hundred thousand people, while the Iron Blood Brotherhood had fewer than fifteen thousand left. Both sides were fighting viciously.
"We have to break through this defensive line. Only if