Zhuojiu and the Fire Crow Archer Corps were fortunate. Of the more than ten thousand demons, aside from warriors, there were only mages, and all of them had wings that allowed short-distance flight.
They could have launched a forced attack against any other legion of the Iron Blood Brotherhood, but they had run into an archer corps.
Thanks to information from the traitorous imp, the three demon leaders knew that the archers used Starsteel arrowheads coated with venom from the Hydra Emperor and other poisonous creatures. Anyone struck was certain to die.
Within the rocky forest, Zhuojiu led a thousand archers as they slowly retreated while watching the forest ahead. All the other brothers had already withdrawn into Wild Wolf Valley. Only they remained, while the enemy demon warriors and mages hid in the woods five hundred meters away.
Under the influence of magical elements, trees that normally grew to ten meters could exceed fifty meters in height. Their trunks were exceptionally thick. Earlier, these trees had blocked countless green fireballs for Zhuojiu and the archer corps, but now they had become cover for the demons.
Zhuojiu could only vaguely make out the demons within the forest. He shouted, "Retreat in turns. We're falling back into Wild Wolf Valley. Brothers carrying shields, hold the valley entrance with me."
"Yes!" everyone shouted.
The thousand archers split into two groups and alternated their retreat, gradually falling back toward the entrance of Wild Wolf Valley, two kilometers behind them. It was a natural chokepoint, with cliffs hundreds of meters high on both sides and a passage less than ten meters wide in the middle.
Zhuojiu had a hundred elite archers at his side. Not only were they superb marksmen, but they were also powerfully built and could switch to close combat with sword