These humans weren't afraid. They were worried that if their Soul Guidance Cannon Shells rained down, they would damage the Soul Tools they had hidden beneath the ground!
The Beast Tide had retreated—or rather, the first wave of the Beast Tide had retreated.
Beneath Shrek City, those densely packed ground traps, those low-grade Soul Tools that had perhaps cost only a few million Gold Soul Coins in total, had brought death to nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts in this meat grinder of a war. The number of injured Soul Beasts was impossible to count.
A great many corpses had been abandoned by the Beast Tide army, left beneath the city walls.
Those dead Soul Beasts had all been poisoned and were utterly unsuitable as food to be taken back—unless some Soul Beast believed it could withstand the terrifying toxicity of the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers.
Thus, the rout of the first wave of the Beast Tide instantly crushed the Soul Beasts' morale. What they faced was not an enemy in the true sense, but cold steel and all manner of terrifying elemental reactions.
This was completely different from the law of the jungle, where the weak were prey to the strong. This style of warfare, where they could not even see their enemy, made many Soul Beasts wish to retreat.
In stark contrast to the dispirited Soul Beasts was Shrek's side.
If Shi Xing's military orders had not been forcefully restraining them, the Shrek City Guard would already have begun celebrating.
From the start of the Beast Tide to its end, the entire Shrek City Guard had not fired a single shot, yet they had repelled the Beast Tide that had once inflicted incomparably grievous losses upon humanity!
Nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts had shed their blood here, while