Unfortunately, Mao Qiu did not know Koster. To humans, all Scorpion Men looked the same, impossible to distinguish at a glance. So Mao Qiu took Koster for a Scorpion Men squad captain. After cutting off his head with one stroke, he did not think much of it and continued swinging his sword at the charging Scorpion Men.
The Scorpion Men wore no armor anywhere on their bodies. They had to climb mountains, so heavy armor was impossible, and besides, they mainly relied on their shells for defense. Their venom also kept enemies from getting close.
But now both of those advantages had been broken. The Scorpion Men's venom was ineffective against humans, while their shells could not withstand Starsteel swords or arrows fitted with Starsteel arrowheads.
Large numbers of Scorpion Men who reached the mountaintop were killed. Caught off guard when the humans were not poisoned, the Scorpion Men were gripped by instinctive fear, their morale plummeting. They could not even display half their usual strength in battle and were slaughtered as they retreated, gradually driven to the cliff's edge.
The same was happening atop Lu Yang's mountain. Xia Yuwei led the other half of the archers in an ambush, shooting dead the first few Scorpion Men elders to reach the summit. The poison needles launched by the Scorpion Men were also completely ineffective against the Iron Blood Brotherhood's warriors.
Under the weight of their fear, the Scorpion Men Legion collapsed!
"Retreat! Humans are immune to our venom, and they have huge numbers of Starsteel weapons! Retreat! We can't win!" No one knew which Scorpion Man shouted it first, but it immediately triggered a chain reaction. The Scorpion Men still climbing toward the summit quickly scrambled backward down the mountain, trying to flee.
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