778: Quack, I Really Am a Martial Arts Genius! Monthly-Pass Bonus 1130

The "Gaia's Wrath" operation marked the Transians' final counterattack in the Barren Mountains, but it wasn't their only one.

Besides the "foreigners" causing a ruckus at the gnoll stronghold, nearly every tunnel system still held by the gnolls and seeing conflict was attacked by the Transians at almost the same time.

Even the Nord positions far away in Baphomet Canyon, along with the player groups roaming near Blackflame Pass, lent their support to this wide-ranging, multi-pronged assault.

One objective was to cover the Shadowvale defenders' retreat through the tunnels. As the front line continued to fall back toward Baphomet Canyon, some fighters wouldn't retreat with them. They would stay in the Barren Mountains and continue waging guerrilla warfare. So reclaiming control of some important tunnels tonight was also crucial.

For this, Murphy had thrown almost all the forces he currently had in the area into the fight.

As it turned out, with the gnolls' attention fixed on their struggle for Shadowvale, the weakness of their command structure—which was practically nonexistent—made it impossible for them to coordinate a flexible, multi-pronged defense. Tonight, there were at least eleven battlefields with more than five hundred fighters, and countless smaller skirmishes with fewer than five hundred.

The gnolls' high warlords couldn't adjust in time, and could only rely on the lesser warlords in the attacked areas to act on their own.

But there was a terrifying problem: few of the gnolls who had fought the Transians at Blackflame Pass were Razorclaws. And since entering the Barren Mountains, the Transians hadn't fought any large-scale frontal battles. They had stuck to flanking maneuvers and surprise attacks. The Bloodscar Clan's warlords simply couldn't imagine the insane ways the Transians would fight them head-on.

Sure, they'd heard that when these lunatics were at a disadvantage, they'd willingly sacrifice