First Battle, Complete Victory (Seeking Support)

As Liang Ji's Retainer Half-Dragonfolk warriors began to develop distinct troop classifications, their training, skills, and equipment gradually specialized.

The scout team, prioritizing mobility, primarily carried and used flying spears, focusing their training on the 'Flying Snake Spear' skill.

Currently, five hundred scouts, organized into five teams, surrounded the Spotted Demon Snake. Following commands, they took turns attacking to draw the demon snake's attention, continuously launching flying spears from their hands to strike it.

The scout team's Half-Dragonfolk warriors also practiced the 'Snake Barbarian Scripture,' cultivating the Hegemonic Body. Each possessed unparalleled, overbearing strength, and their launched flying spears were powerful and heavy. Furthermore, the flying spears were carved with runes, granting effects like hardness, increased weight, power, and sharpness.

Perhaps the only drawback was the lack of elemental damage, such as poison, ice, or fire.

It wasn't that the Retainer Half-Dragonfolk's Rune Masters couldn't inscribe runes for such elemental damage, but rather that the Half-Dragonfolk warriors' bloodline power couldn't activate them.

This might be a weakness of the Retainer Half-Dragonfolk's Hegemonic Body cultivation.

The Hegemonic Body granted them overbearing, unparalleled strength and nigh-invulnerable defense with resistance to all attributes, but it also prevented them from mastering elemental damage.

At least, at this current first-tier bloodline stage, Half-Dragonfolk who had cultivated the Hegemonic Body were unable to wield elemental power, and naturally, they couldn't use runes that dealt elemental damage.

What they could do now was 'overcome all techniques with sheer force'!

Clang! Clang! Clang...

At this moment, flying spears rained down, striking the Spotted Demon Snake and producing sounds of metal clashing against metal.

These Void Demon Race creatures lived in the black hole field, surviving by consuming starlight and the power of stars. The higher their tier, the larger their bodies, all indicative of their powerful physical strength.

Even this most common, first-tier demon snake, barely over ten zhang long, possessed impenetrable, spotted scale armor for defense.

With the unparalleled power of the Half-Dragonfolk's Hegemonic Body, augmented by the power and sharpness runes on the flying spears, the scout team warriors attacked with all their might. The flying spears they launched could only pierce the Spotted Demon Snake's scale armor defense, unable to penetrate its flesh and blood.

Hiss! Roar...

The Spotted Demon Snake, pierced by numerous flying spears, felt stinging pain all over its body even though they couldn't penetrate deeply. It hissed and roared, thrashing on the ground, its tail sweeping out continuously, its head lunging, attempting to drive away and kill the Half-Dragonfolk surrounding it.

However, the Half-Dragonfolk teams now possessed mature tactical methods. The five teams cooperated seamlessly, advancing and retreating, mutually attracting the demon snake's attention, making it impossible for it to attack them effectively.

When the Spotted Demon Snake was sufficiently provoked, it would open its mouth and spew large amounts of venom and poisonous gas towards the scout warriors.

Some scout Half-Dragonfolk, unable to dodge in time, were enveloped by the poisonous gas and drenched in venom. They discovered that the toxicity of this first-tier Spotted Demon Snake was not as potent as the venom found in the 'Myriad Poison Grotto' on Dragon Soul Star.

In other words, the Hegemonic Body's poison resistance cultivated by Liang Ji's Retainer Half-Dragonfolk could basically immunize them against the Spotted Demon Snake's poisonous attacks.

With this, the Half-Dragonfolk teams naturally feared it even less. Several teams moved like a pack of wolves hunting a beast, attacking in a crisscrossing manner. Although the damage inflicted was not significant, this prolonged entanglement was like a dull knife cutting flesh, capable of grinding the Spotted Demon Snake to death.

Even though the Spotted Demon Snake had low intelligence, it sensed something was wrong. After lunging again, it ignored the flying spears from the scout team behind it. Instead, it opened its massive maw and pursued the retreating team ahead, seemingly determined to devour this group of Half-Dragonfolk.

At this moment, the warrior leader 'Chi the Fourteenth' had arrived with the main force. After observing for a while, he had a basic understanding of this first-tier Spotted Demon Snake's abilities and strength.

Seeing this, he immediately ordered, "Shield team, advance and block the demon snake's attack!"

"Yes!"

From the army behind him, another team of three thousand Half-Dragonfolk stepped forward.

These Half-Dragonfolk warriors carried specially enlarged, thickened, and reinforced shields, resembling massive stones. They were also carved with runes for sturdiness, hardness, defense, weight, and so on, all to make these giant shields even more robust and powerful.

Naturally, these shield team Half-Dragonfolk warriors had also specialized in the 'Bedrock Shield' skill. Combined with their Hegemonic strength, they were most adept at controlling their giant shields to block and defend at the forefront of the battle.

They advanced in formation, supporting each other, like pushing several towering iron walls that directly collided with the Spotted Demon Snake, blocking its charge and almost knocking it over.

Hiss... Roar!

The Spotted Demon Snake grew even angrier, roaring and twisting its body, charging to overturn the iron wall formed by the Half-Dragonfolk shield team.

With its brute force and scaled armor, it slammed against the massive, sturdy shields, producing a series of clanging explosions. The shield wall formed by the shield team was shaken violently by the impacts.

However, it ultimately did not fall or break.

Roar!

The Spotted Serpentfolk grew even more ferocious, even opening its massive maw and directly biting at the iron wall shields and the Half-Dragonfolk warriors behind them.

At this point, even these massive, hard, rune-carved iron shields could not withstand it. Some were directly bitten and flung away by the demon snake, while others were even cracked by its sharp teeth.

Even the Half-Dragonfolk warriors behind the giant shields, controlling them to form the iron wall, suffered injuries on the spot. If not for their comrades protecting them, they might have been swallowed by the demon snake.

"Kill!"

At this moment, 'Chi the Fourteenth' led the axe team into the fray. Everyone was equipped with rune-carved giant axes, inscribed with numerous runes for hardness, sharpness, and weight, unleashing the axes' full power.

And these axe team Half-Dragonfolk warriors had undoubtedly specialized in the Mountain Splitting Axe skill, excelling at attacking and killing with giant axes.

Under the leadership and command of 'Chi the Fourteenth,' thousands of Half-Dragonfolk in the axe teams formed several rotating squads. Their giant axes struck the Spotted Demon Snake.

The power of the Mountain Splitting Axe was far superior to the Flying Snake Spear. It could not only pierce the demon snake's scale armor but also cut through its flesh and even its bones.

In just one round of attacks from thousands of Half-Dragonfolk in the axe teams, the Spotted Demon Snake was cut into several sections and killed on the spot.

The first battle between Liang Ji's Retainer Half-Dragonfolk teams and the Void Demon Race was a complete victory!

The entire process was under control. Only a few individuals were injured, and no Half-Dragonfolk warriors were killed!

The warrior leader 'Chi the Fourteenth' was clearly quite satisfied with this. He ordered his subordinates to immediately dismantle the Spotted Demon Snake's corpse. Its scales, flesh, bones, and venom glands were all sellable materials.

However, he was somewhat disappointed that no Demon Core was found within this first-tier Spotted Demon Snake.

Low-tier Void Demon Race creatures did not necessarily form Demon Cores within their bodies.

In fact, the lower the tier of the Void Demon Race creature, the lower the probability of forming a Demon Core, and the higher the tier, the greater the chance.

However, because the number of low-tier Void Demon Race creatures was also much greater, the overall output of low-tier Demon Cores far exceeded that of high-tier Demon Cores.

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