Today's fourth update: Chapter 3000! 4/4!
On the horizon, clouds of dust billowed like an earth-yellow dragon charging forward. It was a force of one million elite Centipede Race warriors and vanguards dispatched by the other two races, surging toward this "corridor" that guarded the vital passage with the urgency of men rushing to put out a fire.
Logically speaking, War Kings and above possessed the ability to fly. Defensive fortifications erected on the spot like these should have served little purpose.
But in reality, that was not the case at all!
An army's march was not determined by its fastest soldiers, but by accommodating the slowest, much like the Bucket Effect. Therefore, unless the entire army could fly, stragglers were bound to appear!
Furthermore, after completing the ultimate challenge of Upside-Down Mountain, those in the War King Realm and above indeed gained the ability to fly. However, War Kings who did not belong to avian races were generally not very fast in the War King Realm.
Not only were they slow, but they also flew at low altitudes. Rather than flying through the air, it would be more accurate to say they floated.
This was especially obvious among sea and aquatic races such as the Black Tortoise Race and the crocodile race. The Black Tortoise Race in particular was naturally massive. Most of them flew more slowly than they crawled on the ground, and flying at low altitude turned them completely into living targets.
Thus, advancing obediently on the ground was an inevitable choice for the armies of most races.
At this moment...
The Centipede Race general at the very front spotted, from afar, more than a hundred camps scattered densely across the mountainsides on both sides of the open ground. He was startled at first, then overwhelmed