Mandin was the same. Although his 40,000 Dark Demon Warriors were more resistant to the cold than the Flower Demons and Flame Imps, they still could not withstand such bitter cold. Many Dark Demon Warriors at the center of the attack range had been frozen into ice sculptures, while the rest trembled all over in the snow and ice, struggling even to run.
"Everyone, prepare to attack~!" Lu Yang's voice rang out from the mountaintop.
At the entrance to Maple Leaf Valley, large numbers of Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors clad in thick coats of bear, tiger, fox, and wolf fur charged in with long spears and great shields, their formations perfectly orderly.
These furs had been made from the magical beasts hunted by Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors over the past year or so. They actually had far more than this, but one set per person was enough. Wrapped in thick fur, even in minus-forty-degree weather, their skin sweated from the heat. Aside from their faces being painfully cold, nowhere else felt chilled.
The valley was roughly two hundred meters wide. Zhuojiu, Bai Shi, and the others formed ranks of four hundred men each. Once they reached the Dark Demons, a thrust of their spears was enough to send them falling dead to the ground.
This time, they did not even need a full charge. They simply thrust, withdrew, thrust again, and withdrew again, harvesting their way forward.
Whenever the terrain widened, the men in the rear ranks moved up to fill the gaps. They advanced with such simple attacks that they did not encounter any meaningful resistance.
Great numbers of Dark Demons, Flower Demon Warriors, and Flame Imps fell beneath the spears of the Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors.
Despair filled the eyes of Flandre, Mandin, and Abrez. They had never