Today's fourth update: Chapter 2764! 4/4!
This was destined to be a protracted battle. The total forces committed by the Huang Race numbered over two hundred million, yet every single one of them would have been an absolute elite among the Rat Race.
On the Rat Race's side, there were still over twenty-four billion on the surface, but those truly capable of fighting the Huang Race amounted to only several hundred thousand Rat Race powerhouses, 2.3 billion Rat Race elites, and several billion ordinary Rat Race warriors—cannon fodder...
As for the remaining sixteen-plus billion lower-class rats, they were not even qualified to serve as cannon fodder. Most of them had not even reached the Third Realm. Compared to the Huang Race members flying about at the level of Three Realm War Kings and above, all they could do was squeak anxiously in place or hide.
Yet the more one feared something, the more likely one was to encounter it.
Their purpose was to serve as food. They had originally lived securely behind the Rat Race elites, offering themselves up as supplies whenever the front lines needed them. But as the Huang Army pushed deeper on a massive scale, the Rat Race's original formation was cut cleanly in half.
As a result, the Rat Race powerhouses had entered the battlefield, and the flames of war were ignited right above their heads.
No one deliberately slaughtered them, including the Huang Race, but once war began, necessary replenishment was unavoidable.
Not only did the Rat Race's main forces need these lower-class rats as food, the Huang Race members also needed them as supplies.
Both sides fought while drawing replenishment from them. The losses suffered by the true main forces remained within controllable limits, while these lower-class Rat Race members were the first