After taking stock, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Some had been wounded in battle, but thankfully no snake demons had died. The armor had been meticulously forged and was all good stuff. Ironball knew perfectly well how much Boss Bai valued these little snake demons. Losing even one would make it hard to answer to her.
Ironball looked over the neatly lined-up demon soldiers and nodded in satisfaction, though something even better came to mind.
"Boss Bai once said there was a kind of gunpowder weapon that was the strongest, able to kill enemies from a hundred zhang away. Who knew when we'd manage to cobble one together? And there's another thing called egg-smashing that's even more powerful. Strange—could smashing chicken eggs really kill enemies...?"
The pangolin could not puzzle it out no matter how hard he thought.
Lu Gui sat on a rock, staring at the Demonic Beasts that had been taken down, his expression dark. He idly tore at blades of grass before finally spitting hard at the pile of mangled corpses.
"Pah! Damnable things!"
"Oh? So even you, Old Turtle, know how to curse. I remember you used to lecture me every day about benevolence, righteousness, and morality. I almost believed your nonsense." Ironball teased.
Lu Gui did not care. He was teased every day and had long since gotten used to it. If they suddenly became polite one day, that would be what felt wrong.
"Look at these Demonic Beasts. Are they any different from the ones you've seen before?"
Hearing Lu Gui's words, Ironball stepped forward to inspect them. Looking carefully, he really did spot something. How should he put it? Compared to that powerful Demonic Beast they had fought before, these had more human traits. Clearly, these Demonic Beasts were not the