The Riot Control Corps was still quite formidable. The three thousand Inspectors led by Lu Yu suffered the moment they entered the fray. Their opponents were superbly equipped, and their armor possessed a certain resistance to spells. The Inspectors wore ordinary black clothes and knew a few minor spells, but the Riot Control Corps had armor, so they were simply no match—like farmers with clubs running into a regular army and collapsing at the first touch!
The other side had also entered the battle in a relaxed mood. Fortunately, I had said beforehand that they were to turn back immediately if they could not win, so their impact was not as great as imagined. The moment they realized they could not prevail, they wheeled around, but they still lost three to five hundred soldiers. Blood covered the ground, truly forming a river of blood.
My blood surged. I had witnessed countless great battles in the underworld, but those had been ghosts fighting ghosts. Now it was humans fighting humans, and the scene was still terrifying. Some had blood spatter seven paces; others had their heads cleaved clean off!
But clearly, I could not worry about what was behind me while neglecting what was ahead. Such scenes were unavoidable in a great battle, and there would only be more of them in the future. Yet just as I turned around, our Inspectors suddenly changed direction and slipped into the city. This caught me somewhat off guard. I had no idea who was leading them, but once inside the city, they could rely on its terrain to scatter and escape.
Under the spell attacks, the opposing patrols suffered heavy losses. With transformed immortal bodies and spells combined, the troops' strength was still quite impressive. Before transforming my body, I had already been