Luo Lin had only 30,000 Dark Demons under his command. At the start of the battle, at least seven or eight thousand had been killed by three volleys of arrows. Another three or four thousand had been slain by the mages during their charge, and this latest charge had killed roughly five thousand more.
At this point, the Dark Demon formation had visibly thinned out. Altogether, only around 15,000 remained.
Lu Yang felt somewhat reassured. He knew victory was assured this time, and he shouted, "Archers, move to the positions on both slopes! Hurry!"
Xia Yuwei and Cute Queen swiftly led 4,000 archers to the slopes on either side of the valley entrance. Although the Dark Demons and the Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors had already clashed, a large number of Dark Demons remained blocked behind the front line, unable to advance.
Without needing Lu Yang's command, Xia Yuwei and Cute Queen immediately directed their archers to attack those Dark Demons.
The Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors fighting on the front lines were not worried about being accidentally struck by arrows. They wore large amounts of beast-bone armor, while some were covered head to toe in heavy steel armor. Such armor would have severely hindered an ordinary person, but to second-tier warriors, it was nothing.
At the peak of the first tier, their strength had already reached 1,000 kilograms. This set of armor weighed only a little over 100 kilograms, so they barely felt it.
This was when the advantage of heavy armor became clear. The Dark Demons' claws and bone spikes simply could not pierce the steel armor. Meanwhile, any target struck by the Serpentbone Swords held in the heavy armor warriors' hands died from poison.
"Rednight!"
Lu Yang shouted. Rednight flew back from high in the distance, then suddenly dove.