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A tough fight.
After taking just one look at the battle beyond Princess's Forest, Gu Xi had already made his judgment.
The undead beasts were evenly matched against Gu Xi's Regular Army.
Aside from their combat strength, there was one subtle difference: their life force was remarkably strong.
Even if their heads were cut off, the undead beasts could not be killed immediately.
They had to be chopped to pieces before the attack could be considered complete.
But these undead beasts were rather crazed by nature. To step forward and chop them apart required four or five undead pinning them down and attacking together.
It could be said that, for the moment, Gu Xi's Undead Army had no real advantage.
At that moment, the Gargoyles happened to fly back to the Troop Stockade City Gate.
The Gargoyles that had returned knew the situation before them as well. Rather than flying over to Gu Xi, they threw what they were carrying onto the ground and retreated to one side to wait.
Without needing Gu Xi's orders, undead immediately stepped forward to inspect the Gargoyles' condition.
Quite a few arrows were embedded in them, but their injuries were not particularly severe.
What left Gu Xi rather speechless was what they had carried back.
They were small devices resembling automatic Ballistae. They required no one to operate them; as long as an enemy entered their attack range, they would attack automatically.
Seeing this, Gu Xi narrowed his eyes.
This arrangement differed from what Shadow Wraith had described before.
It was possible that Shadow Wraith's movement speed had been so fast that the arrangements in Princess's Forest had been unable to affect it.
It was also possible that these had simply been